No, I'm not dead. I am breathing and still writing, just not what I should be writing. This is a rewrite of my first ever story, Memories of Familiarity. Not really sure why I rewrote it but I did. I'll probably fall off the face of the planet with this, too, cuz the rewrite isn't done, but I'll try to keep it updated. This first chapter is longer than the other, too!

So, on to the "new" story.

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Makai

"That was the dullest thing we've ever had to do." Kori slammed her foot on a dead demon's rib cage.

"No kidding," Syd replied, stomping on a demon's skull and crushing it.

The two girls were the only living beings for at least two miles. They had just finished their most boring mission to date. Each wondered why Koenma gave Team Urameshi all the good missions.

Kori mumbled something under her breath. "Let's go home." She turned around and walked in the opposite direction of the portal that would take them home.

"Uhh… Kori?" Syd couldn't help but laugh at her shorter friend, who turned to glare at her. "We need to go in the other direction."

Kori's face went bright red. "I knew that…" Syd started laughing harder. "Shut up!!" She pulled her kunai out of her pocket and ran at her friend.

Still laughing, Syd bolted away. She really couldn't help but laugh. Kori's reactions had a tendency to amuse her, even if they could end in her death.

She dove through the portal when she reached it. Kori's kunai just missed hitting her head.

Reikai

Koenma yelped and ducked the kunai that came through the portal. The kunai was followed by Syd, who managed to flip herself over the chair instead of slamming into her toddler-sized boss. Syd was followed by Kori, who slammed into Koenma's desk, knocking over the tall piles of paperwork that covered most of it.

"KORI!!" the prince of Reikai exploded. His face was bright red with anger.

"That was her fault!!" Kori claimed, pointing at Syd, who was still laughing hysterically.

"I'm not the one who ran into the desk," the emerald-haired girl choked out, using Koenma's chair to pull herself to her feet. She had a cramp caused by her laughing.

Kori's gray eyes narrowed in a glare. "You made me!"

"I didn't make you do anything," Syd countered. "You're the one who lost her temper."

Kori growled at her taller friend. She took a step toward the other girl. Koenma stopped the coming fight before it started by yelling, "YOU TWO ARE NOT FIGHTING IN MY OFFICE!!"

"Anything else we hafta do before we go home?" Syd asked with a grin. She was being her normal cheery self.

Kori, on the other hand, was being sulky. She wanted to beat Syd's face in, but she couldn't get away with that in Ningenkai, where they lived as next door neighbors.

"I need you to wait here for a few minutes," Koenma replied with a sigh. When Kori looked hopeful, he added, "You're still not fighting in my office." Kori's face fell.

Syd shrugged and sat down on the floor against a wall. From her ever-present black messenger bag she pulled a white Nintendo DS lite and turned it on.

"Can I have mine?" Kori asked. Syd dug through her bag again and pulled out a black DS, which she handed to Kori, who sat down next to her friend.

They were both playing Children of Mana. Koenma was amazed yet again that the two girls were best friends. Half the time they seemed like enemies.

The toddler shrugged it off and started reorganizing his paperwork. He should have Kori do it, but he knew better than to think that she'd actually do it. He sighed.

A few minutes later, Botan entered the office. Following behind her was Team Urameshi. Syd and Kori looked at them then at each other.

"All right, whadda ya want from us?" The two girls said it together with identical looks of boredom on their faces.

Koenma looked at them then at the others. "I'm combining your teams." As one everyone from both teams asked why. They were too busy staring blankly at Koenma to realize how they had spoken. "I'm trying to cut down on my paperwork."

Syd and Kori stared. "Don't involve us in that," the latter demon said.

"Weren't you complaining about how boring your missions were?" Koenma asked. Both girls nodded agreement.

"So, you want us to shut up about that and are sticking us with them to make that happen?" Syd questioned. Koenma blinked, surprised. He had expected Kori to figure that out, not Syd. The emerald haired girl grinned. "See, I have a brain too. I just don't use it much."

"Riight…" Koenma said. He turned his attention to the boys. "These are Syd and Kori." He pointed to each in turn. "They should know who you are." He glared at the two girls, who grinned.

"We know who they are," Kori said. "So what now?"

"From here, you're going to Genkai's temple, then you're doing whatever Genkai tells you to."

"Oh, that sounds fun," Syd muttered sarcastically.

Koenma ignored her and opened a portal. They all went through, Syd and Kori glancing and shrugging at each other before they did so.

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