Kurama could not sense any demons around, yet the spirit energy he had sensed was that of a demon. The spirit energy seemed so familiar to him, but he could not figure out whose it was. He snapped out of his thoughts as Yusuke and Kuwabara ran over to the large hole in the wall. Yusuke's gaze fell upon Cheza. "Are you alright!" Cheza didn't say anything , her heart was racing in her chest and she seemed to not be fully aware of where she was. Kurama ran over joining his comrades, Hiei appearing by his side. Alice cocked her head to the side her blue eyes locked onto Hiei, WOOF! She wagged her tail playfully and jumped out of the large hole in the wall running over to him. Hiei placed a hand on the hilt of his katana just as the dog stopped abruptly at his feet and flopped over exposing her belly. "I think she likes you half pint!"Kuwabara said. Hiei's eye twitched, "shut up oaf before I.."

"WOOOF WOOF WOOOOOF!" Alice interrupted.

Kurama had drowned the others out, a millions thoughts were racing through his head. He had figured it out…the spirit energy that seemed so familiar to him…Kuronue..he said in his head. He shook the thought from his mind, it was impossible and he knew it. Kurama stared into Cheza's eyes, he was taken aback when her eyes flickered that all to familiar indigo color. Hiei turned his attention to Kurama he knew something was up with him, his normal calm composure was gone. He appeared on edge, panicky, something wasn't right. Hiei glared over at Cheza, it had something to do with this human girl. "Hey red you alright! You look like you just saw a ghost!" Yusuke said, but Kurama was unresponsive. Their attention turned to Cheza as she stumbled out of bed, she didn't know what to say. A million questions ran through her head, should she play dumb? Pretend she had no memory still…should she tell them about Kuronue? Hiei had decided to probe the foxes mind, images of kuronue is what he saw. He had entered the foxes mind before, he knew of Kuronue. The two had never once spoken about him, but Hiei knew the two were once very close friends. He had seen what happened to Kuronue as well, he could see the pain in Kurama's eyes, he almost felt…pity for the fox. Hiei decided to probe Cheza's mind next, but there appeared to be some kind of barrier keeping him from entering her mind. He growled at the sudden surge of pain in his head, the barrier was powerful…to powerful for any human to poses.

"What the hell happened!" Yusuke asked Cheza. "umm…I…I was attacked by something…some weird looking creature…but…umm.. it was frightened away by my dog and it umm…disappeared through the wall" Hiei's eyes narrowed, he knew the girl was lying. Kurama knew this as well, but Yusuke and Kuwabara bought it. "What should we do? We already erased her memory once…" Yusuke whispered to Kurama. "I don't think it is wise to continuously erase her memory …we need to speak to Koenma.. " Cheza couldn't hear what the two were whispering about, but she knew it had to do with her. "Kuwabara, please take the girl to Yusuke's while we speak with Koenma" Kurama whispered. Kuwabara nodded, "sure thing!". Cheza watched as Yusuke and Kurama ran off, she hadn't even seen the mysterious crimson eyed man leave..but he was nowhere in sight. "Hey, why don't you come next door with me. That de…whatever it was might come back and you wont have anyone to protect you" Kuwabara said holding his hand out for Cheza to take.

30 minutes later

Cheza had dozed off on the couch watching Kuwabara play street fighter. Kuwabara had informed her Yusuke had broken the other controller because he was mad that he(Kuwabara) had won 9 times in a row. Before Cheza had left she had slipped the pendant in her pocket , Kuwabara hadn't noticed. Kuwabara paused the game to make sure Cheza was okay, she hadn't really said much to him. He stared at her noticing she had fallen asleep. "Woof!" Alice nuzzled Kuwabara's hand. He chuckled while patting her on the head.

\\/\/\/\/\\/Dream/\/\/\/\/\/\\/\/

Once again she awoke on the all to familiar cold stoney surface. "Hey" she sat up to see Kuronue kneeling down beside her. He looked excited, "I'm going to teach you how to use some of your new powers!" "I learned one of them already…" she muttered. He raised his eyebrow, "what power was that?" "Well..when I woke up I shot some weird ball of light out of my hand" He nodded, "yeah..it comes in handy..lets practice it some" He stood up holding out his hand for her to take, she took it and he pulled her to her feet. "Its pretty simple really..just place your hand straight in front of you and….

10 minutes had past and Cheza had gotten the hang of it. "Ka me ha me ha!" she said and a ball of energy much smaller than the one that went through her wall earlier came whizzing by Kuronue. He gave her a strange look as if to say "what the hell does that mean". Cheza giggled, "its just that this reminds me of dragon ball Z". He had no idea what she was talking about. "Why does the ball keep getting smaller and smaller? She asked. "You only have so much spirit energy before you run dry" he responded. "Oh yeah, there's another move I want to teach you..I can't exactly show you while your asleep..but you can practice it when you awake" she nodded. "just hold the pendant in front of you and move it side to side in front of..whoevers face and you can hypnotize them" she smiled, "really? can I make them do whatever I want once their hypnotized? "no, they'll just fall asleep" he grinned, "you'll have fun with this though". After awhile the two had sat down and began to talk, Cheza had so many questions she wanted answers to.

"tell me…why…why did you go back for the pendant? Why's it so important to you?" to be honest, she was kind of scared to ask this question..it was a touchy subject after all. Kuronue's normal icey stare softened a bit, she could see so much pain in those eyes. "I…I understand if you don't want to talk about it…sorry" she whispered. Silence…" we….we made a pact..we would always have each others back no matter what happened.." Cheza assumed the "we" was Kurama and Kuronue. " the pendant…it was formed by the merging of part of my soul with Kurama's. Cheza watched Kuronue's every movement, he seemed very distant at the moment, lost in memories of the past. "we had gone on a raid and stolen a weird crystal ball, I didn't know what it did at the time..but it glowed so bright it lit up the night sky for miles" The next day we met with a friend that knew everything about everything, he told us that if the two of us merged part of our souls with the crystal a pendant would be created. If one of us were to die…we would be able to bring the other back..by breaking the pendant and releasing the soul trapped inside, of course there would be more to it than just that..but Kurama never brought me back…" Cheza was at a loss of words, so she remained silent. "Something happened to him..I know it…he would have brought me back if he could" Kuronue said clinching his fist. "That's why…I need you to find him for me…" "I…I promise I'll find him…I don't know how, but I will" she felt so much sympathy towards the bat, she was determined to help him.

Cheza awoke to the sounds of sirens. Kuwabara was watching a movie now, Alice in his lap. She sat up remembering what Kuronue had said about the pendant. She was eager to try this hypnotizing thing out. "Hey umm…I want to show you a magic trick" Kuwabara looked over at Cheza, "Huh?" "yeah..umm a magic trick!" "Okay!" he said while pushing Alice off of his lap. She pulled the pendant out of her pocket, "just keep your eyes on the pendant" He nodded and did what he was told. After about a minute nothing had happened, "am I doing it wrong?" she thought in her head. All of a sudden a loud thump was heard and she looked down to see Kuwabara had fallen face first onto the floor, snoring like a foghorn. Cheza grinned, "Yes, I will defiantly have fun with this!"