Hiyori entered her room happily, humming lightly to herself. She had just come back from hanging out with her friends at the arcade, and unlike what she had previously thought, she had had a lot of fun! She was wearing white jean shorts, a red and white Tiki flower tank top, and red tennis shoes. Her hair was down and wavy.

She walked up to her bed and fell down onto her back, letting her body go to rest, and letting her soul out of it's capsule.

She sat up and smiled happily as she jumped out of the window. She started humming again as she jumped across town on the telephone wires. She headed towards Kofuku's, but stopped suddenly, halfway there. She caught onto a weird scent, that almost stung her nose when she had sniffed it. She turned to were the smell came from, and she froze.

An Ayakashi.

On the building just below her, A woman in some sort of suit, started slowly making her way to the edge of the building. On her back, a small cat looking Ayakashi sat on top of her. It looked transparent, but with a galaxy like center, of different shades of a bright purple, with little stars twinkling inside of it. It had yellow and orange eyeballs spreading across the woman's back.

Hiyori didn't know what to do at first. She could have called Yato, Kofuku, or Bishamon, but she didn't have her phone with her. It was back home with her body. She would have ran towards Kofuku's to get Yato, but she didn't have time. The woman was just 4 steps away from plummeting to her death. Hiyori went with the next best option, and lunged towards the Ayakashi. She grabbed the Cat by its tail, and pulled it back, causing the woman to fall back as well. The woman laid unconscious on the ground, and the Ayakashi started to get up a few feet away from her. Hiyori sighed in relief, before glaring at the Ayakashi.

"Get out of here! Stop trying to kill people!"

Tha Ayakashi just stared at her for a moment before turning it's back to her and sitting down, as if to show it wouldn't leave. This was a problem.

If Hiyori left to get one of the gods, the Ayakashi would use that chance to its advantage and would kill the women then. She couldn't pick the woman up either, seeing as she wasn't in a physical form, and the woman was. She could wait for the woman to gain conscious, but that would most likely take a few hours, and Hiyori couldn't be away from her body for that long. She couldn't pick up the Ayakashi and bring it away either, cause… wait…

Couldn't she though?

Hiyori looked to her hands. She had grabbed the Ayakashis' tail before and had pulled it away form the woman, and yet her hands weren't blighted. Then she remembered that she had only before gotten blighted from touching Yato and Yukine when they had it. She was half Ayakashi, so she couldn't get it on her own. Using this fact to her advantage, she picked up the cat and hopped away.

The cat looked up to her in shock, but she didn't care. She needed to get it away from people. She could take it straight to Kofuku's, but she wasn't yet 100% percent sure if Yato and Yukine were there. She didn't want to risk asking Kofuku, because that just might make the situation worse. SO, she did the most idiotic thing she could have ever done.

She took it home.

At home, the cat Ayakashi sat on the swing inside of an old bird cage, inside of her room. Hiyori sat on her bed, on the phone with Yato, who seemed to be battling a large Ayakashi.

"Fine, could you at least give me Bashamons number then?"

"WHAT?! Why would I even have it, more or less give it to you?! I don't like her, and I don't want you anywhere near her!"

Hiyori sighed at this. Ever since Yato and Bishamon had made up and called a truce on each other, their rivalry had done nothing but grown. It was rather stupid actually. They had started a small competition over who could kill the mst Ayakashi in some small periods of times, and it didn't seem to Hiyori like they were going to give it up anytime soon.

"Well, then I guess I'll just have onto the thing until tomorrow, okay? I'll call you before I head of to school and-"

"WHAT?! No way! Have you lost your mind?! You can't sleep with that thing in your house! We can't let it out of our sights, which will happen, if your sights are closed off into La-La land!"

She rolled her eyes and looked towards the Ayakashi. It just stared back at her silently, which was starting to be rather odd to her. All Ayakashi had spoken before, and when they did, they often spoke in three high pitched voices that tended to pull an echo on themselves. So why was this one silent.

Hiyori glanced to her phone, only hearing the sounds of Yukine, in blaid form, hitting and tearing the goopy skin of Ayakashi. She sighed and shook her head.

"I'll call you tomorrow…"

"Oi! Hiyori, on't you dare ha-"

She hung up.

Hiyori stood up and walked up to the cat, giving it a strange look. It merely stared back at her. She opened up the cage, picked up the cat, and laid them oth onto her bed. She poked his cheek with minimal effort.

"Why aren't you saying anything? I know you can talk, so why don't you?"

The cat blinked at her once before speaking in the three-person voice,"You wish us to speak? We can speak. We listen to you. We obey wish."

Hiyori looked surprised at this. It almost ade t seem like it wanted to obey her. But that couldn't be the case, right? Why would an Ayakashi want to obey her, or follow her wishes?

She sat up, with the cat in her hands, and she held it high above her.

"What is your name?" she asked it,"Why do you try to harm people?"

"Name? No. Harm?" it's voices questioned each other,"Why? Harm Humans? Satisfaction. Humans harm, not us. We have yet to harm. We will harm humans, because humans harm us."

That's when Hiyori remembered that most Ayakashi were once human as well, and that they had died of some sort of suicide or torture from others that had been corrupted. Meaning that, if what the cat said was anything to go by, it had been tortured as a human before it had died. Hiyori sighed and slowly, ever so carefully, starte to pet its head. It closed its eyes, and pushed its head into her head, as a show of enjoying the pets. She smiled lightly at it.

"If you don't he a name, then would you like for me to give you one?"

It looked up to her in shock, but she looked up at her bedroom ceiling thoughtfully, failing to notice how the eyes on the cats back had stated to widen and vibrate.

"Now let's see… you are a cat, and you've got a bit of an iris kin of tint to your colors so… Oh! I know; Ayame!"

The Ayakashi looked up to her in surprise. "Ayame?"

Hiyori nodded happily,"It's the japanese cat name for Iris. Perfect, no?"

Hiyori looked down to the cat, and couldn't believe what she saw. Ayame looked the same, except for a few small details. One being that ll the tainted eyes on her back were all gone. Two being- that she was crying.

Ayame lifted her left paw and wiped away her tears, before looking up to Hiyori with pure happiness.

"Thank you Miss!"

Hiyori was in shock at this. Ayam's voice had now been turned into a singular feminine sound, and her scent-! It was no longer of belonging to an Ayakashi, but to a Shinki!

The scent had the warm and safe like tone of a Shinki, like Yukine or Daikoku, but still held that small little spike of heat to it, blending it into a mellow yet sweet smell. It reminded her of the faint smell she could pick off of the gods when they got tainted.

Just by getting a whiff of this smell, Hiyori made a grave decision, that became the starting point of the biggest roller coaster of her life. She made a decision right the and there, that she new would be the end of any sense of calm in her life. She knew that the god's and shinki wouldn't be happy with her, but she didn't even care to consider it in that moment, as she hugged Ayame close to her chest.

She wouldn't turn Ayame in to Yato, or any other god. She wouldn't let them kill her. She didn't know what she was thinking. It was definitely an insane decision.

But hey, what else could you call the situation, where you decided to basically adopt an recently reformed Ayakashi.