(A/N: if ya forgot, Saru just walked off meeting with her brother Kyo, and now we begin...)
"So that's one of her brothers?" Kurama asked himself out loud, getting everybody's attention.
"One of, meaning she has more than two I'm guessing?" Yusuke shot the redhead a quizzical glance.
Kurama nodded, "She has seven."
"SEVEN!" Kuwabara's voice sounded dumbly, "How do you know this?"
"Obviously she told to him, idiot," Hiei answered more than plenty annoyed.
"Shut it, shrimp! Didn't you know? It would have been easy for you to read her mind wouldn't it?"
"Would have been, yes, if she didn't have ESP of her own and put a blockade on her mind." The short demon glared at Kuwabara. Yusuke got tired of their relentless arguing and called it off, and they walked back to their homes, but since Hiei didn't technically have a home in the human world, he decided to investigate more of this Saru Nishizawa.
"SARU-CHAN! What's for dinner? When's dinner?" Matosha whined walking in the kitchen, standing over her shoulder smelling the aroma of food.
"Don't ask me! You know I can't cook, Hitomi asked me to watch it so you don't eat it all before!" She managed to fend off her brother, just as Hitomi walked in to finish.
That night Saru was lying face up on her bed sighing, after finishing the stupid easy homework, and thinking about her plans for murdering her father. It wasn't long before she got the feeling of being watched, and doing a quick scan with her mind the moment she picked it up, the foreign mind disappeared. Saru sat up thinking about this 'stalker', because for the brief moment she was in his mind, she recognized it as Hiei as a memory flowed in her head. . .
"What is that?" a very young Saru asked a black dot falling in the sky, "oh shit!" That was no dot, but a boy falling, and Saru quickly changed into a White dragon and flew up to rescue the boy.
Back on the ground he opened his eyes to reveal big, frightened, red eyes and in self defense burned Saru's massive paw and tried to run. With ease Saru landed in front of him, then changed back to her regular appearance, "Please stop. I didn't mean to scare you."
"What the hell are you?" The boy was definitely scared, and Saru felt a little hurt to be yelled at like that.
"My name is Saru," She smiled, "and I've got two dragon spirits living inside me because my parents were two different dragons! What's your name?" The boy seemed to be less frightened at Saru friendly tone and smile, and he looked down at the ground feeling an odd rush of blood to his cheeks, "My name's--"
Beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, turned off "Saru wake up, you're going to be late for school." the voice of a wise, elderly brother named Shigure said shaking the sleeping girl, who mumbled rolling away from the hand, "Uhm, Saru..." Shigure's face became blank when Saru rolled off the edge of the bed, which woke her immediately.
"Shigure? What time 'sit?" She mumbled yawning.
"Time enough for you to be late for school," Shigure smiled at her, "In about 2 minutes." Then were sounds of a panicing girl and an amused brother walking out of her room to give her privacy.
"Saru, here's your--" "Lunch!" Saru finished Hitomi's sentence as she raced past him taking the box lunch from his hand, "Bye!" Running one block she checker her watch, "Damnit! I'm not gunna make it, unless..." Saru then ducked into an abandoned alley way, and made sure no human was around to see, as she sprouted one white, one black dragon wing. With a few quick pumps of the massive wings she flew to the school with no trouble, and as for any mortal who did she her in the air, she would trace their mind, erase that memory and replace it with one of a bird or airplane.
She landed on the roof easily and headed for the stair exit, and was going to make it on time if not for a demon standing in her way. 'It's him...' Saru's mind froze as did her body when her eyes fell upon this demon. bing bong Saru was snapped out of her trance when the bell went, signalling the fact she's now late, and her only entrance to the school was behind the demon.
"We'll meet later." He said simply then seemed to vanish in a blur. All she managed to do was stand there until she came to her sense, "damnit!"
"Saru-chan, take this slip and have the secretary sign for it," The teacher said holding a yellow slip of paper, while the students in her class were trying hard not to laugh. "Yes, sensei." Saru replied grabbing the paper and head hung in humiliation she turned and walked tot he office the laughter following her.
"Late on the second day?" Shuichi asked biting at his lunch, "That doesn't sound too off for a student here."
"Well, you can thank your good friend Hiei-kun for that." Saru grumbled, glaring daggers at the air in front of her face, and then remembered what he said. In a spit of rage at him, she shouted, "Of coarse we'll meet again! I have to meet with Koenma-san to talk about the demon I helped kill!"
Shuichi was surprised by her outburst and looked around with a half worried half amused expression, as the passer by's were concerned for her mental well being. Shuichi then timidly turned back to the girl, "Are you done now?"
"Yeah." Saru sighed, and continued to consume the yumminess of Hitomi's cooking. She sighed again, feeling content and satisfied after finishing the food, and leaned back in the grass under a tree on the school grounds. Letting the breeze carry the scent of autumn, Saru felt that she could get used to humans in this place, and she sighed closing her eyes.
"Saru-chan, can I ask you two questions?" Shuichi's voice said from her left.
"What's the second?"
"How do you know Hiei-kun, and about the Spirit Detectives?"
Her eyes opened becoming unusually serious, "That's more like two questions in one." She sat up, "I'll asnwer if you answer this one: How many people--demons included--actually know how Hiei-kun survived the fall from the Koorime City?"
"I've heard rumors that--" Shuichi started to say but Saru interrupted him. "Rumors aren't actually knowing the truth, remember that." She smirked at him when the lunch bell went, and she stood up gathering her empty lunch box, "I'll see you after school, Shuichi-kun."
Shuichi sat there, watching her back disappear into the building, thinking to himself; 'how much does she actually know about Hiei and the Spirit Detectives?'
"Hiei..." Shuichi said as he saw his friend standing under a tree at the end of school, "What are you doing here?"
"You know why I'm here, Kurama," Hiei said turning to walk in the direction of Yusuke Uremashi and Kuwabara Kazuma's school. He took two steps when he realized Kurama wasn't following, "Aren't you coming?"
"Hiei," Kurama said, but he didn't kow if he should actually ask him, "Have you met Saru-chan before?"
"No." The fire demon answered coldly, "Now let's go pick up Uremashi and Kazuma, and retreive Saru-chan for Koenma-san. And a word of advice, sometimes the past should stay in the past." Kurama nodded solonmly and followed his friend to meet his other friends. Yet something tuggeed at the fox spirit's mind, 'If Hiei said "the past should stay in the past", then wouldn't that mean he has met her before? But then why would he-'
"Hey! Kurama-kun, Hiei-kun!" a female voice cut through his thoughts as the two reached the other's school.
"Hello, Keiko-chan," Kurama smiled pleasantly, "Where's Yusuke-kun?"
"He'll get here eventually," Keiko answered as Kuwabara walked up.
"It's been over an hour, what could be taking him?" Kuwabara asked out loud.
"Not sure, but we can ask when he gets here.." Kurama said, knowing that he would indeed come soon, and he was right, "There he comes. Yusuke-kun, what took you?"
"Dumb teachers..." The teen grumbled pressing on ward, "Well let's get this over with." The others nodded and followed after him.
Saru had just finished eating dinner with her brothers and placed her dishes in the sink, when she sensed the four boys' minds approaching, and upon reading the two humans' she knew she had to get out of the house for that encounter. "Saru-chan! Go pick up the trash that's been blown into our backyard!" Hatsuharu called from the back door. This was the oppurtinity she needed, "Okay!" She called back passing him and made sure her brothers couldn't see.
'Turn around, and go through the alley way, then come to my house from the back yard.' Saru's message to the boys played in all their head's, which only got a small indescicive conversation, untill Kurama convinced them otherwise.
"Saru-chan?" Kurama's voice came from beyond her fence, when the four boys and girlwandered to her house only to see her completely unfazed by their arrival.
"I know I have to meet Koenma-sama, but there's the issue of leaving my house undetected," Saru said before any of them could even say anything related to that subject, which sparked shocked and confused looks on the humans. "But how did you--" Keiko started to ask, but Saru interrupted her, "Easy, I can read your minds much like Hiei-kun there. Also, there's a difference between human and demon minds, which is how easily they can be read. Normally demons would have a small barrier or have developed that skill completely, while humans have little to no barrier, or they train themselves the same as demons to master that skill."
She smirked as the humans looked shocked, and then shock followed quickly by worry came to her expressions, "we have to leave now!"
"Why?" Yusuke asked as she quickly walked to the boys and girl, "What's with this attitude?"
"Because, one of my brother's saw you here, and soon you'll be beaten to a pulp unless we move now." Saru explained, "NOW!" Without further question the four boys and girl walked through the gate they came through leaving the seven brothers. Saru gave a breath of releif when she couldn't sense any of her brothers' minds following, "shall we get this over with?"
"The sooner this is finished the sooner we can forget about her," Hiei muttered to himself as a portal opened for them, and when they walked through they were greeted by Botan.
"So this is Saru-chan?" Botan said looking at the girl like a hawk circling its prey.
"I'm not going to eat anyone," Saru sighed reading Botan's mind, "and there's no shock in Koenma-sama having a body similar to a toddlers."
"Great! Then let's go!" the blue haired girl smiled and grabbed Saru's hand dragging her through two gigantic doors, "Koenma-san! Saru-chan is here!"
"Excellent," The ruler said behind a mountain of paperwork, "I'll talk to her from here, dismissed Botan-chan." The ferry-woman bowed and left. However the ruler stayed quiet and a feeling of uneasiness came to Saru's mind.
"I was impressed with your work on that demon Saru-chan," Koenma's voice said cutting the silence like a knife through pea soup, "AndI suppose you know why I called you here?"
"Actually no, Koenma-sama," Saru said politely, "I don't read the mind of my superiors, like yourself."
"Oh? Well then, have a seat and I shall explain..."
Outside the door, Yusuke and Kuwabara tried to listen through the key hole of the gigantic doors, but it was in vain for there was a simple charm cast that wouldn't allow sounds to leave the room. "Shut up Yusuke-kun, I can't hear anything!" Kuwabara whispered hoarsely. "You shut up, you're making more noise than me!" Yusuke whispered back starting a pointless argument between the friends.
Kurama sighed as Hiei huffed looking away from the door, then glanced from the corner of his eyes sensing Saru walking towards the door, "You two might want to get away from the door." However, the two didn't even hear his advice as Saru opened the door causing the humans to fall on top of her with a loud thump.
"See, now we can hear, I told you to be quiet!" Yusuke bellowed unaware of what had happened. The event didn't come to Kuwabara's mind either as he yelled back at Yusuke right in Saru's face.
W-H-A-C-K--W-H-A-C-K! Yusuke and Kuwabara then rolled opposite sides clutching the backs of their heads in pain, "Botan-chan, what the hell was that for?"
"Because you two are so thick," The blue-haired ferry woman answered helping Saru off the ground, "that you didn't even realize that you were squishing Saru-chan!" They both stopped arguing as they recalled the inccident, "Sumimasen.." Both said as an apology, embarressment on their cheeks.
"What did Koenma-san want?" Kurama's ever so sharp mind questioned Saru, who avoided eye contact with everyone, "He wanted me to help with the next mission."
"A girl can't help us!" Yusuke dumbly stated, causing another whack across the head with an ore from Botan, "I mean, how can you help us Saru-chan?"
Saru smirked, giving Yusuke a piece of paper with the details for their mission, "But in return, Koenma-sama said that you guys have to leave me the hell alone after this." She then walked off getting Botan to show her the way out.
Okay! this will continue in next chappie! ttfn! I think this has gotten long enough...