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Chapter three: Explanations

Mishouri woke up in a warm room.

Her first thought was that she was in heaven. She didn't open her eyes, listening peacefully to the two soft voices conversing.

"Is she awake?"

"Maybe. We shouldn't disturb her either way! Meow!"

"What animal makes that sound, Botan?"

"A cat. See, she's a cat demon."

"How do you know?"

"Kurama told me."

"When Mr. Hiei carried her in, she scared me."

"Yes, Hiei hit the poor girl on the head with his katana."

"Oh, my!"

Mishouri couldn't wait anymore, and she sat up.

"Oh, dear! Are you all right?"

"I guess so…"

There were two girls sitting beside her bed, one with pink eyes and blue hair, and the other shorter girl had red eyes and turquoise hair.

Red eyes… Mishouri recalled that the short man in the bathroom had red eyes, too. And he was also short.

"You're awake! I'll go call Koenma. Yukina, you stay here and make sure that Mishouri's comfy!"

Giggling, the girl ran off, leaving Yukina with Mishouri. She seemed rather scared.

"I-is it true that you kicked Mr. Hiei in the face?" Yukina asked in a trembling voice.

"One, he attacked me. Two, he let his guard down."

"B-but I thought that Mr. Hiei was very strong! Not as strong as Mr. Yusuke, but still…"

"Everyone makes mistakes. That's okay."

Just then, the door burst open. The blue haired girl walked in, followed by Suichi, a guy that looked as if he used up bottles of gel on his hair every day, a carrot top, a teen with a pacifier in his mouth, and the short man that was called Hiei. Mishouri was pleased to see that his face still bore marks of her shoe. He avoided looking at her.

Pacifier spoke first: "Hello, Miss Kimara. I am Koenma; this is Botan, Kurama, Yusuke, Kuwabara and Hiei. I am here to give you the reason of your rather sudden kidnapping. "

"I suppose you don't know that there are demons that live in Human world. Actually, I suppose that you don't know about demons at all."

"Let me explain to you about—"

Yusuke interrupted。"If you keep on droning about demons, we'll never finish this. How 'bout I do it?"

And so, Mishouri listened with great interest as Yusuke explained efficiently about humans, demons and the Spirit Detectives.

He finished with:"And so that's what you need to know about us and everything else. Pacifier will tell you about the new mission."

Koenma looked very pissed off, but he started talking. "Right. There's a suspect who has stolen something very valuable from Demon world. A very powerful sword. It can cause mass damage if used correctly."

"And our suspect is very mysterious. She promised to negotiate with us on Hanging Neck Island, in the ruins of the old Dark Stadium."

"She asked us to send five of our people; we only have four since Master Genkai died. That's where you come in. You'll need some training, of course."

Mishouri had been listening quietly the whole time. She suddenly said:"Tell me what's happening inside my head."

Koenma seemed to be caught off guard."Um… I think that Kurama's better on that issue than I am." Having successfully saving himself, Koenma shut up.

Kurama/Suichi said:"There is a cat demon inside you. She only came in recently, just to have fun. But I believe you can use her powers to help."

Without warning, Kurama whipped something out of his hair, and lashed it at Mishouri.

Alarmed, she slashed at it instinctively, expecting to find her fingers broken.

Instead, the thorned whip snapped, and Mishouri found that her fingernails had grown into claws, only to turn back after the threat was gone.

"You can't control it well enough yet, but we'll teach you."

Mishouri looked up from her hands. "When?"

Kurama chuckled. "Tomorrow."