Did You Miss Me?
By Kiara Jaganshi and Leiko Hikaru
Chapter 1 – What A Waste of a Perfect Morning – by Kiara
"NO!" Kagome shouted at her friends. They were all lying on the ground, even Inuyasha, who was spread eagle, before her. Shippo, the little kitsune demon she had taken under her wing, was unconscious about 10 feet away from her, blood trickling down his forehead. Sango, her Taijiya best friend, and her demon cat, Kirara, were both struggling to get up by the far wall. Miroku, the perverted, yet handsome and sometimes sweet, monk, was trying his best to not fall down as he tried to clear the ringing from his ears that Naraku had left from his devastating blow that had completely left them all undecided as to their next move.
"Ku, ku, ku, ku!" Kagome turned her head sharply as she regained her own balance and stood up. "As I have told you, miko, I am invincible. Look at your fragile friends. They have all fallen under my attack. But you, you stood against it. Join me. You are not like the others. You have charisma and powers I have never even detected on the face of this worthless chunk of dirt we call Earth! Join me, and be my queen."
Kagome struggled to take a deep breath, letting her ki quietly fuel her body to help along the healing she had already begun. Then, as suddenly as Naraku's blow its self, the full implication of what he said hit her completely off guard. Naraku had offered her a seat of power almost equal to him. This could only mean but one thing.
"You are afraid of me." Naraku threw a surprised look her way. "Yes, and you know it too. You only offer me power so I would be on your side instead of against her. You are afraid of me!" Kagome's eyes darkened from her naturally bright and cheerful eyes to a pair full of hatred and despise. "I won't join you Naraku! I won't marry you! I won't help you destroy what I've helped restore!"
"Restored? What have you restored? The one house in the Taijiya village? A monk's prestige? A hanyou's restoration to our world once again? A family that a kitsune never should have had in the first place? You disgust me with your reasons! So be it then. If you do not wish to join me, you must take the fall, like your comrades have already felt!"
Kagome summoned up the last of her miko ki. Even to Naraku, her powers swelled up before him. A blue aura surrounded her body, slowly changing into the shape of a bow and a single arrow. Kagome was even awed with the power she now held in her hands. Then, letting the arrow fly pure and true, she let go of the taut string. The mark was true, and had gone through Naraku's heart, the shards in it scattering to the floor. Before Naraku had even touched the ground in his fall, Kagome had scooped up all the shards, completing the Shikon-no-tama. A white light suddenly illuminated the room, a single shaft of light. A few moments later, no one was left in the room.
"Just cut the crap Koenma! Just say you want us to do your dirty work, then get it over with!" Yuseke argued back.
'Any chance that you can shut him up?' Youko mentally asked Kurama. An image of Yuseke duck taped together crossed his mind.
Sorry Youko, we can't. He's a Rei Kai detective, and you wouldn't want to ruin our almost perfect record and get our punishment elongated, do we? Kurama chided.
'Goody-two-shoes.'
"As I was saying Yuseke, all you have to do is ask the girl why she was in the vault, what she took out of there, and what she would want with it. Also ask her why she was just standing in the vault smirking when we found her and wouldn't even fight the guards. Then, you just have to take her to the high security prison! And you get help from Kuwabara, Kurama, and Hiei at that!"
"Fine, but don't expect to be on my Christmas List!" Yuseke shouted back as he walked out of the office, followed by Kurama, Hiei, and Kuwabara.
It only took a minute for them to be admitted into the thief's prison. As soon as they got there, they realized just what the problem was. All of Koenma's guards were standing outside, not in side the vault as they were instructed to.
"What's the big id-." Kuwabara stopped mid sentence as he looked upon the young thief sitting in the corner of her concrete cell. "Pretty girl!" She had black hair with blue tips, red, almost glazed eyes, and she happened to have a set of black fox ears with blue tips along with a foxtail that was matching. She had on a Chinese dress, reaching before her knees, like a mini skirt, that was all black except for a blue outline and blue dragon scaling up one side of her outfit. The skirt also had a slit on each side, making the skirt shorter, as well as the fact that it had no sleeves.
"So, this is the famous Rei Kai Tantei's everyone's been talking about. You all don't look so tough to me. I can bet you I win against all of you in less then 5 minutes, in a match to the death. Wanna try me?" she taunted flipping her long hair to add a touch of elegance to her remark. "C'mon. Come closer. I don't bite, much..." She displayed her fangs in a charming style as she continued to smirk at them..
"Dammit Koenma! Why does the really strong one's have to be girls! Genkai was, Keiko was, and now this girl! I can't take it!" Yuseke groaned, banging his head against the wall of the small cell.
"Might I introduce myself?" the young kitsune asked seducingly. "It was very rude of me to not introduce myself in the first place."
"Go ahead," Kurama spat, unlike his usual gentleman ways. "Tell us your name and about you as well."
'My, my Kurama. You've never acted like this before. What are you thinking?' Youko chided Kurama back, taking the chance to get even.
I'm not particularly thinking anything, Youko. Just that I don't like this girl. Even if she seems to be one of us, Kurama answered back with a snap and growl. "And also tell us why a youko of such power and charisma is still in her first form. Shouldn't you have been a silver by now? How embarrassing."
"For one, I chose to stay in this shape. I don't like the color silver. It clashes with my skin," the girl answered Kurama calmly, "unlike some other kitsune's that I know of." A growl escaped Kurama's throat. "My, my. Don't get upset, dear master. I am but a kit compared to your greatness anyhow!"
"Name," Yuseke ordered the girl, a hint of malice escaping him. "Tell us your name."
"I got sidetracked was all. My name is Kiara Jaganshi. You might have heard about my brother. He was on the Rei Kai top priority list, or so I heard."
"Stop lying. You can't be my sister, so say your real name." They all looked over their shoulders to see Hiei glaring at the girl.
"Oh, so you're Hiei Jaganshi. Nice to meet you. I'm your half sister, Kiara. We have different mothers. Sorry about the confusion, but I was not killed. It was a miracle I survived, but I didn't get killed at least. Now, if you don't believe me, I'm not talking." Kiara gave them an evil, yet charming smile. Her smile increased in evilness when she saw the frustration on Kurama's face. "Go ahead, fox. Hit me. I've been through it before. Hit me. You know you want to, so just do it. I won't mind, until I get my revenge on the whole freakin' planet, that is." She smirked as she saw the frustration grow on his face. "Now, on with it. What if I tell you all that I know where Leiko Hikaru is? Yes, I do know your own sister, Youko Kurama."
