"She's going to hurt herself if she keeps doing that," Yusuke said as he watched the wolf girl pound on the walls. They had her in one of the interrogation rooms, which was just a plain white-stone walled room. The girl was pounding so hard on the walls that her knuckles were actually starting to bleed. "Should I stop her?"
Koenma, standing beside him in his teen form, shook his head as he watched her intently through the two-way mirror. "No, she'll grow tired eventually."
"It's been an hour now!"
"She'll grow tired," he glanced just slightly at the detective. When the boy grew silent, he then looked back at the girl. She was growing tired, but she continued to run around the room and pound on the walls with either her fists or ramming her whole body against the door. Not once had she spoken since they brought her here. She only howled and snarled like some animal. The way she looked at them was with the eyes of an animal. "Just what is this girl?"
Kurama walked down the hall to them, a manila folder in his hand, "I haven't found any records on her yet. All we've got is that she's somewhere between the ages twelve and fourteen and the rumors and complaints of the neighboring towns of the forest she used to be living in." He looked through the window just as the girl threw her head back and howled. "When we saw her with those wolves, I thought for sure she was a-"
"Come on," Koenma cut him off. "Go get Kuwabara and Hiei. We've gotta get whatever we can out of her." The redhead's eyes widened just slightly as did Yusuke's. "You know what I mean! She's obviously an illegal resident from the Makai! I mean, look at her."
"Yes, but we have had cases of inbreeding going on in my world, Koenma," Yusuke edged in. He then looked over, saw the girl collapse to her knees, and yowl a long, mournful cry. It ached his heart to hear such a thing.
Kurama nodded, "When we found the girl, she was with those wolves as if they were her family. They even cried for her as we took her."
"Plus, we don't even know if she can speak."
Rubbing his temples from a growing migraine, he waved an idle, tired hand, "Fine, fine. Just get the two and we'll try and work something out."
"Thank you, sir," Kurama bowed half-heartedly then hurried down the hall. Yusuke said nothing as he ran off after his friend. Koenma stared back at the glass, wondering desperately on what he should do next.
"Hey guys!" Yusuke made it to the others first. They were in the library. The castle Koenma stayed in was huge! It was only natural there be a library. A tiny ruler such as Koenma needed to keep up on his reading just like anyone else. "Good news!"
"We get to kill Kuwabara? Awesome. I'll get my happy cap," Hiei replied with his usual nearly monotone voice. He was standing in the Self Help section of the room as Kuwabara stumped into the aisle with a bunch of cat books. Whatever Hiei was doing in the Self Help section didn't really boggle their minds as much as what he had just said.
Kurama blinked twice before answering in a drawn-out tone of partial confusion, "Nooo…"
"Not this time anyway!" Yusuke piped up as he snickered.
"We get to try and talk to the girl," he answered as he gave Yusuke a weird look. The teen just shrugged as he wandered over to Kuwabara.
Hiei's left eyebrow rose slightly and vanished under his white headband. His usual expression of half curiosity and half why-should-I-care? "The girl? Why do we need to talk to her?"
"Because Koenma said we can. There may be more to her than what we see."
Yusuke helped Kuwabara to his feet, "God you're heavy!"
Kuwabara looked over at Kurama, "Do we really get to talk to her?"
"Yes, why?"
"Do we have to be in the same room as her?" He had kind of a panicked look on his face.
"Again, yes. Why?"
Hiei bestowed a smug smirk as he answered for the orange-haired fool, "Because he's afraid of her."
Kuwabara glared at the petite demon, "I am not!"
"Fine, then let's go already!" Yusuke yelled with anticipation, which earned him a glare from the female, ogre librarian. He paid absolutely no mind to her as he ran out of the library.
Kurama watched him run with a puzzled expression, "He's quite enthusiastic."
"That's putting it lightly," Hiei said with a dull tone of his own.
"He's nuts. Let's leave it at that then," Kurama said with a tired sigh. "Come on, let's go after him." They did follow then teen, but with not as much enthusiasm.
Kurama didn't understand why Yusuke was so excited, because they worked with demons and half-breeds nearly everyday, and it wasn't as if she was going anywhere. Kuwabara wasn't as excited because he did rather fear the strange wolf girl. She wasn't normal to him and she wasn't as strange as the demons they usually bumped into. He couldn't figure her out like anyone else.
Hiei, well, let's just say he could give two-halves of a rat's ass. He's seen demons, spirits, half-breeds, rogue zombies, man, you name it and he may have seen it. Not much surprised him anymore, and if this did indeed peek his interest then there was probably still more out there that could.
Koenma was still standing there when they reached the room. He was still just staring through the window with a distant stare, and Yusuke was even standing next to him with a running motor mouth that would drive any sane person nuts. Maybe that's the bonus you get for working with bustling, rambling ogres for centuries.
He finally turned to acknowledge their presence and laid out what was going to happen, "All right, we have no idea what we're dealing with here. So far that we know, we're not picking any hostile demon signatures from her, but we're not picking up normal human signatures either."
"Yeah, even I could sense that," Kuwabara mumbled with a slightly freaked out glance at the window. "There's something not right about her."
Koenma continued, "I'm not sure if she can even speak, so if we can try and make her comfortable, we can try some tests to help her learn."
"We're not going to treat her like a criminal, are we?" Kurama asked. "After all, we did kidnap her from her family."
"I never said this job was going to be fair," the demi-god replied with little contempt. "I'm following orders just like you, and I'm not the one fully in control. If I were, I'd gladly help her anyway I could, but there are stronger beings than I in control here," he finished with a heavy breath. "You may go in, but be careful. I'll be out here." Hiei just stared as the rest of them nodded. He was more focused on the trapped girl in the room.
Yusuke went for the metal door with a small, rectangle window near the top. He peered in once to make sure she wasn't near the door. "Here goes nothing." Then he placed a shaking hand on the knob. With a worried glance at the group, he nodded with self-encouragement and finally turned then pushed the door open.
