"I'm telling you now, Youko is hotter than Seto!"

I've been called sexy and hot by older people, but never.. have I been called hot by a thirteen-year-old human girl, Youko said in Kurama's mind.

Lyn scoffed her disagreeance. "Dude, Rea, Kurama's better looking than Youko! And Seto is just the hottest of hot, it's impossible to be hotter than him."

"Um, thank you," Kurama said, blushing, while Youko went off with ranting that only Kurama could hear.

"Karasu can kill him in a snap!" Reneey objected. "He makes a big, shiny, green bomb!"

"Who's Karasu?"

"A quest class demon," Reneey told Kurama.

"Wait," Lyn said slowly, "Karasu can kill who? Seto or Kurama?"

"Seto! Kurama kills Karasu."

"How?" Kurama asked.

"Ya'll see."

Lyn laughed. "Rea, you should've learned by now: it's impossible to kill Seto! He always has some awesome new invention at the last minute that saves him. Need I remind you of the awesome transforming blimp? Or the Blue-Eyes White Dragon jet? Or any of the virtual reality or hologram stuff, really, those are just awesome... And, he has awesome hacking skills! And virtual TNT to blow up virtual doors!"

"You can't hack these kinds of bombs, and if Youko takes out death tree plant and Ougji, then he's doomed! 'Cause in Ougji you can't move, but feath free plant, you have to move!"

I never thought about that, gotta try that out one time.

What am I gonna do with you? Kurama thought.

"Whoever said anything about hacking the bombs?" Lyn asked, grinning. "I was just making a point. Hacking skills are just an awesome plus. And anyway, how many explosions has he survived, and still looked so totally hot doing it? And he's been turned to stone, had people out after his soul, been possessed... I mean, come on, you just can't keep him down! Especially when he's being all uber protective, like the time he stole the motorcycle to save Mokuba, that was so awesome. And really, he's just so hot on a base hotness level, even without the awesome attitude and the hacking skills and all."

Then she paused for a breath and went ranting on: "And anyway, what kind of a retarded name is death tree plant? If it's a tree, of course it's a plant. It's like an idiom or an oxymoron or something. No, wait, those mean it's contradictory.. but whatever! Anyway, Blue-Eyes White Dragon sounds much cooler. Probably because it's a dragon."

"But none of those can kill them, all the ones I said could kill him!"

"That's what they all said," Lyn said with a smirk as she used Reneey's own line against her.

"Hey! My death tree plant has acid rain that could melt human bones!" a voice came out of Kurama that wasn't his.

Lyn just shrugged. "Still a stupid name," she said blandly. "Very redundant."

"Hey, that's my line, bitch!" Reneey snapped.

"Well, what kind of name is Blue-Eyes White Dragon?"

Lyn ignored Reneey's comment and said, "It's an awesome name, that's what kind of name it is. Although not entirely true. The actual dragon looks a lot more blue than white, to be honest."

"Well, fuck you," Reneey hmphed but grinned, and Kurama just shook his head.

Humans.. never did stop amazing me, Youko thought.

"Well, fine, then," Lyn said loftily, crossing her arms. "The next time you need help with your homework, you can find somebody else to supply you with awesome random facts about Jesse James and Doc Holliday."

"Eh, screw that shit."

"School is important," Kurama said.

"Ai, I swear, if you go all parenty on me, I'll shove ya rose whip down ya throat! I already got one parent..."

She glanced at Lyn, who had literally dragged her to school numerous times.

"Ah, but ain't that what friends are for?" Lyn asked, grinning. "Too bad that it'll be considered kidnapping when school starts again, though, since I won't be in high school anymore..."

"And you had to teach ya little demon kids ya grandma babysits to drag me out of bed and push me to school," Reneey growled at Lyn.

"You finished high school? I'm only fourteen, how old are you?"

"Sixteen," Lyn said, shrugging. "I skipped a couple grades..."

"Wow, so you're going to college when you're only sixteen?"

"Well, probably not now," Lyn grumbled, looking at the world around her disdainfully.

"So, like, where are we going?" Reneey asked randomly.

"To my house, there are extra guest rooms," Kurama informed Reneey.

"And it's taking this long?" she complained.

Lyn kicked Reneey and muttered, "Real grateful little jerk, aren't you? You could at least say thanks or something..."

"You never said thankies, bitch."

"There's no need, really," Kurama said, sweatdropping.

"AND I'M NOT FUCKING LITTLE!"

Lyn grabbed Reneey's arm to bring her to a stop, and stood up at her full height, which just happened to be right around half a foot greater than Reneey's.

"Not little?" she asked with a smirk.

Reneey sneered as she kicked Lyn in the shin, but walked off with a hmph and a grin.

"We're here," Kurama said, but Reneey kept on walking.

"Um.. Reneey..."

"Just let her alone," Lyn said, rolling her eyes. "She's a city slicker, she'll find her way back when she wants to."

"Is she mad?" Kurama asked. "And she does know it's dangerous out there?"

Lyn laughed. "Yeah, right. Nah, she ain't mad, and as for whether she knows it's dangerous -- I got news for you, hon, she probably knows better than you do. She has seen all the shows and knows what's gonna happen, after all."

"So she should know that demons could be lurking out there," he murmured, looking at Reneey's fading figure.

Eh, I've seen dumber humans, Youko thought.

Lyn's eyebrows twitched up and then back down noncommittedly. "Yeaaah, she can probably tell you their names and life stories. A bit obsessed with the bad guys, Reneey."

Kurama was worried. Even though he had only met these girls ten minutes earlier, he had a soft heart and cared for many people. "Well," he said, unlocking the door, "let's go inside and I'll show you your room."

Lyn shrugged and followed him, pulling her cell phone out of her pocket as she did so.

Kurama or however the heck you spell his name is freaking because he thinks you're gonna get eaten by demons or something.

She sent the message to Reneey and flipped her phone shut again, but didn't put it back in her pocket just yet. It wasn't like she was going to admit that she didn't want anything to happen to Reneey, either.

Meanwhile, Reneey was wandering around and hoping to meet Hiei when a beeping noise came from her cell. She opened it, read the message, and wrote back:

Ai, he cares too much, but its sooo hot well im...somewhere...looking for hiei or other hot ass demons

Lyn actually laughed when she got the text, and Kurama gave her a strange look that she didn't notice, because she was too busy muttering "Naturally," and texting back.

Oi, you do realize it's not a good plan to go LOOKING for demons, right? Regardless of how hot they are?

But Hiei doesnt stay all evil. He just evil in the begingin!

Reneey sent that text back to Lyn and muttered, "Wonder if Crowie is here...?"

Then she accidentally bumped into someone, looked up, and stared into a pair of indigo eyes. I swear I've seen those eyes before, she thought slowly.

"Sorry."

"Nah, my fault. Me ish Reneey or Rea."

---

Lyn whacked herself in the forehead when she got Reneey's text and replied quickly.

Idget, this IS the beginning! Or did you forget that in your hurry to find hot demons?

---

"I'm Rub. Are you sure you're all right?"

"Yeah! Trust me, I've been through worse --"

She was cut off by a beep and muttered, Hold on..."

She took out the cell and texted back quickly:

Hot guy leave me byeee 2

Then she sent the message and turned her cell off.

"So what are you doing here?" Rub asked.

"That's.. a funny story."

---

"Idget and a half!" Lyn yelled incredulously when she got Reneey's text and had to resist a desire to throw the phone against the wall. Instead, she contented herself with shoving it back into her pocket with unnecessary force and turning to walk back out the door, only to walk straight into Kurama.

"Sorry, dude," she said distractedly, "only I gotta go find Rea before she spills the beans..."

"What happened?" Kurama asked.

"She texted me back and said something about a hot guy and to leave her alone. Knowing her, a hot guy is probably nobody she should be talking to. She couldn't keep her mouth shut if her life depended on it."

Sounds like most humans, Youko thought.

Kurama did a sweatdrop and said, "Well then, I'm coming with you."

Just then it started to rain.

---

"Ah, fuck," Reneey grumbled. "Rain is no fun when there're no enemies around to splash puddles at them."

Rub laughed. "Here, don't want you to catch a cold."

And he gave her his jacket, but hanging on his neck was a necklace with a blood red pendant.

Reneey's mouth hung open.

"You like?" Rub asked.

Reneey grinned and announced, "Ya Kuroune who pulled a Youko!"

Rub blinked, and his voice changed. "Are you a demon? I don't sense any demonic energy from you."

"Oh, me human, I'll tell ya later."

"What do you mean by pulled a Youko?" he asked with narrowed eyes.

"Oh ya see --"

"Reneey, don't you dare tell anybody anything!" Lyn shouted as she and Kurama ran up.

"Oh, hi Lyn! Hi Kurama! This is Kuroune!"

"KUROUNE!?"

"KURAMA!?"

"Shhh, you have to say Suiichi!" Reneey said in a harsh voice that made Lyn smack her upside the head.