Kuri was on her first job with the police. She had had a vision that a man would be shot in front of the wrestling dome and she knew who it was: Peter's Uncle Ben.
Kuri sighed and realized she couldn't let Peter or anyone know about her true power. To that end, she had convinced the police to allow her to wear a strange get up. She wore a hakama, red traditional Japanese pants that came to her knees and white kimono dress top. She wore a Mardi Gras mask and a gold Pentacle necklace.
She knelt in front of Uncle Ben's body.
"Ashes to Ashes. Spirit to Spirit. I release you to the afterlife. Blessed Be." Miko said in Japanese.
Unseen to onlookers, his soul left his body and flew up and away. Miko paused. Peter was standing in front of her, fury on his face.
"What have you done to him?!" He demanded.
"It was a carjacking. He was shot." Miko said. "I was preforming last rites."
A struggle on his face, then belief registered. He turned as he heard the cops talk about where the carjacker was, and he was gone.
Miko sighed. Meddling with destiny was never something she made a practice. But she could not let Peter start on this path toward heroism, with a vengeful murder.
She shimmered and appeared in the shadows of the warehouse.
"DID YOU GIVE HIM A CHANCE!" Peter shouted.
The light revealed that the carjacker was the one he had let go before. In sheer accident, Peter knocked him out the window.
Miko was on him in an instant. "Catch him! Be the Hero you promised your Uncle Ben you would be!"
Peter shot out a web and caught the thief then put him down in front of the police. He then whirled on her.
"Who are you? How do you know all of this about me? What do you want?!" Peter demanded.
Miko smiled. "You know who I am."
"What?" Peter was confused.
"I'm Miko!" Miko shimmered and vanished.
Peter shot a web out to catch her, but only caught air.
Peter looked down at the police watching him from below. Surprised, he saw Kuri, in her plain clothes, talking to an officer. After a moment she turned and met his eyes.
Why was she crying? What had she seen