The sound of happy chatter filled the air as the students of a local high school began to leave for their homes. The sun was high in the brilliant blue sky as cloud gently floated about. Kurama, who was known as Suichi Minamino to his class mates and other human acquaintances, walked down the street unaware that he was being fallowed by a human girl.
"Bloody bastards deaf…" Natalie muttered as she pushed her way though the crowd, "Suichi will you wait!"
Natalie Bishop, an American foreign exchange student, was a small pale girl with short black hair that ran along her jaw line and ice blue eyes. She sighed as she brushed her straight hair out of her face.
"Suichi! You dropped your book!" She called again to the unhearing red head.
Natalie growled as she clamped the thin book in her mouth and riffled through her school bag for her head band. She slid the red band across her bangs and on to her head. Natalie watched Kurama turn the corner as she pulled the book out of her mouth,
"This is what I get for trying to be nice."
Natalie ran passed the crowd and slid to a stop at the corner Kurama had turned. Expecting Kurama to be around the corner Natalie kept running, only she didn't see Kurama. Instead she accidentally ran head first into a blue swirling portal. Natalie's eyes widened as she felt a swirling, numbing sensation surround her; her eyes shut tight as her mouth opened in a muted scream. Only when she felt the hard firmness of the ground did she open her eyes. Slowly, Natalie's eyes focused on her surroundings.
A blood red sky hung over her, the land smelt of blood and death; everything around her seemed to be dead. Natalie shivered as a mixed feeling of paranoia, fear, and loneliness swept over her.
"Where the hell am I?" She asked aloud.
A bush rustled behind her, making her jump. The human girl turned to see a small creature with several violet eyes staring at her.
"Nice thing…" The human tried to coo.
The creature opened its mouth in a low hiss. Green slime oozed from the large fangs as the creature began to step forward.
Natalie stepped back as she felt her body shiver. Without warning the creature lunged at her, mouth opened wide as the pale yellow fangs gleamed.
The human girls scream rang through the air.
"Did you hear that?" Kurama asked as he turned toward the sound.
"That sounded like a human scream." Hiei replied, "I thought you said that spirit detective was going to maze castle."
"He is. But that was a human girl's scream." Kurama said as he scanned the horizon.
"Do you suppose he was dumb enough to bring a girl with him?" asked Hiei
"No." Kurama answered as he began to wander towards the screams origin.
"Where are you going?" Hiei growled, "I thought we were supposed to 'help Yusuke' and we would be rid of that stupid charge from spirit world."
"We are, but I need to make sure another human didn't come into the portal before it closed." Kurama answered over his shoulder as he continued to walk.
"Do what you wish." Hiei said, "I'm not here to baby-sit."
"Have it your way." Kurama replied.
Something about Kurama's tone seemed to nag Hiei.
"If we get some kind of sentence from spirit world for this I'm holding you responsible." The fire apparition growled.
"Thank you." Kurama said, referring to Hiei's help.
When the two demons found the human girl the first thing they noticed was the small unconscious demon on the ground.
"Natalie?" Kurama starred at the American girl in her ripped up school uniform.
She looked over at him.
"There you are!" Natalie growled, "Do you know what I went through just to give you your stupid book back!"
Natalie slammed the book to his chest as she went on, "Honestly! I decided I'd be nice and save you from having one of your giddy little fan girls take it to your house and bug you to no end. But no, you mister deaf decide to keep on walking while I fallow you- screaming my lungs out- and you come to this… place where I get attacked by god know what that thing is!"
Natalie was breathing heavily from her shouting as she lowered her finger that had been pointing at the small demon.
"Oh, um… thank you?" Kurama felt confused at why she would even offer to bring him his book; he didn't even know her very well.
Natalie ran her hand down her face as she groaned, "This is what I get for trying to be nice to one of the popular kids…"
"Did you honestly knock that demon unconscious?" Hiei asked as he looked at the demon
"So what..?" Natalie growled, "I'm out of here. If there's one way here there's got to be a way back."
Kurama stepped in front of Natalie before she could walk away,
"Natalie, we're in the demon world, you can't just wander around. It's too dangerous for humans."
"Gee, thanks for the advise Suichi, but I think I already learned that!" Natalie slowly realized what Kurama had said, "What do you mean demon world?"
"That detective should be here by now." Hiei stated, "So Kurama, the human know you as Suichi?"
"What do you mean?" Natalie asked as she turned to Hiei.
"I'll explain later Natalie; it's too dangerous for you here." Kurama explained.
"Damn right you'll explain." She growled.
"Hiei," Kurama said, "Will you take Natalie back to the human world?"
"Why should I be the one to take your human friend back?" Hiei eyed the red head.
"Because you're faster than I am and I cannot create a portal to the human world."
"Fine..." Hiei grunted as he threw Natalie onto his shoulder.
"Put me down!" Natalie exclaimed as she began to slam her fists onto his back.
The next thing Natalie knew, she was in the human world again. Hiei dropped her where he stood.
"Next time I won't be so tolerant." He warned.
"See if I care." Natalie spat.
"Humans are so annoying." Natalie heard Hiei mutter before he left.
"Now I remember why I never helped the popular kids." Natalie grumbled as she brushed herself off.
Natalie was walking up the stairs to her apartment when she notice people were starting to act weird. Every one seemed to have a blue town to their skin.
"That's odd." Natalie muttered as she unlocked the door.
She walked into the small, one room apartment and dropped her bag by the door. Natalie walked into her room as she began to peel off her ripped uniform.
"Well this will be lovely to explain." She said to herself as she rummaged through her drawer, "I can se it now, 'oh teacher I'm sorry I don't have my uniform, I was attacked by a creature with little eyes and my uniform got ripped up while I was defending myself.' Oh yea, they'll believe that."
Natalie slipped a pair of shorts on and had begun to open her drawer when she felt something crawling up her neck and towards her ear.
"Yuck!" She exclaimed as she smacked it off her neck.
She looked at the long brown, winged bug.
"What the-"
A loud banging noise made her jump.
"What now?" She groaned as she picked up a base ball bat.
Wandering around in her living room were three men. Natalie gripped the bat as she mad her way to sneak up behind them. Unfortunately for her, one of the men saw her. He groaned and the closest one grabbed her and threw her across the room.
"What the hell?" Natalie shouted as she picked herself up, "First I'm taken to a demon world, then I'm attacked by a demon, and now I'm being attacked by guys I don't even know!"
Natalie ran passed the men and into her room. She frantically looked around for anything heavy. She grabbed the lamp from off of her desk as one of the men came up behind her.
"Didn't your mother ever teach you to knock bozo?" She shouted as she slammed the glass lamp against the side of the man's face.
He hit the floor with a loud thud as the other two came into the room bearing their teeth at Natalie.
"Come on then!" Natalie growled as she jumped onto her bed.
Both men rushed forward at the girl. Natalie's eyes flashed with a certain fire as she jumped and used one of the men's faces as a spring board then kicked the second mans neck.
Only one man was left standing as Natalie ran into the living room once more. Her heart was pounding as she waited for the last man to fallow her. Sure enough, the man charged down the hall and grabbed Natalie by her hair. Natalie yelped as the man slammed her into the wall. He hit her hard in the gut, making her cough up blood.
"Get away…" Natalie muttered as she tried to catch her breath.
The man hit her again and sent her flying across the room. Natalie suppressed a whimper as she tried to scurry away. The room seemed to spin as it shifted from focused to blurry. The man advanced, coming closer and closer to the young girl.
"Get away!" Natalie shouted, putting her hand up to block him.
A warm, tingling sensation formed in her palm as a burst of magenta colored light sent the man flying into the wall.
When the room stopped spinning and refocused Natalie sat up and looked at her hand.
"Did I just do that?" She asked aloud.