My friend Cassie inspired me for this fic. I was looking out the window in my study hall room and saw a Cardinal. I was feeling a little depressed and I thought about a sad bird, then Cassie said something and I was like "BLUE CARDINAL!"

Though everyone looked at me weird it was a great idea. So I wrote my idea down on paper and stuck it in my pocket till I got home.

So...read and enjoy.

It may not exist to anyone, but I see it often. I sprint in dry scorching deserts, I walk in lush green forests, I run from ruthless killers who would do anything to get my head, out of all the things I do, its there.

Then I see it.

The Blue Cardinal.

That bird, which no one says exists, that no one claims to see but myself, and that sings the most beautiful song that ears could never comprehend, perches itself right in front of my face. Just starting at me, then it'll chirp or sing a little ballet and fly off into the blue sky where it blends in so good you would think it was never there.

Maybe that's why none see it but me.

But when it sits in a tree filled with bright green leaves or a dry dead one that is not even brown, it always stands out to me.

That Blue Cardinal.

I told him about it once. He said such animals didn't exist. I told him I saw it with my own eyes and my eyes never played tricks at me for they know better.

He just would give up his point. He said blue cardinals didn't exist. But they did, or at least, this one did. I watched it as it watched me. We were two things in a world where no on really saw us even if they tried to look.

So now I hold a book in my hands. I thumb through it and look for this red cardinal he tells me about.

Its not red, its blue. A dark beautiful blue.

I see a picture of the bird he had described to me. I looked at the picture to the bird and back at the picture again. They where exactly the same, just different colors.

He was wrong, for once.

I closed the book and threw it to the ground. "Kurama was wrong." I saw to the little bird. "You are a blue cardinal."

Everyday, at the dame time, it would come and sit by me. And I would watch it, it would flutter its wings and chirp at me, I wonder what its says at times or what its trying to say.

When its with me, I feel content. Like I need nothing more but to sit here and watch it. It's a calming color, blue, though I've always been found of black.

The bird hops to a branch closer to mine. Unconsciously I reach out and touch its breast. It chirps calmly and nudges my finger with its beak.

What does it want I wonder?

I touch the top of its head and then it flys again, disappearing into the blue sky. Did I do something wrong?

I sit in my tree for a few hours and the spirit detective finds my hiding place along with his baka friend.

"Hey Hiei, whats with you a trees?" Yusuke asks me.

"Yeah, are you a bird or something?" Asks Kuwabara, making me want to punch him hard then slice him into a million little pieces.

They both laugh and walk off.

"A bird?" I whisper to myself. I had never heard anyone describe me like that. A bird huh?

Who would ever what to be one of those pointless creatures?

I make myself comfortable and fall asleep in the tree. When I wake up, the blue cardinal is sitting on its usual branch, and like usual, I watch it.

This has to be my second chapter that is NOT a cliff-hanger. I mean, why would someone want to read the rest of this fic? I'll tell you why, because Blue Cardinals don't exist. .

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