"Do you really have to leave already?" She asked quietly, so the others wouldn't hear.

"I said one week. That's all I had. My mother will get worried if I arrive later. Not that my grades would suffer or anything."

"I see."

"Don't be too disappointed. I'm sure we'll see each other again soon. Especially since you can teleport. You can always come visit me." He smiled.

"I just don't want you to go tomorrow," she whispered almost inaudibly.

"I heard that. Don't worry I'll be back eventually to check up on you."

"Oh Kurama why must you be leaving tomorrow? Can you not stay a while longer?" Starfire looked very disappointed. The others didn't look so happy either, not even Beast Boy.

"We'd really like it if you'd stay," Robin chimed in.

"I would really like to stay but unfortunately I do have school, and my mother back home. I wish I had long vacations like in American schools, but unfortunately I do not." All of her friends looked at him sadly. She was almost jealous of him, but it was difficult to stay mad at him. No matter how hard she tried, he kept creeping into her heart, and more often than not her mind as well. She didn't mind anymore, it was just more fun to argue with him than she would ever admit to herself.

"Do you really have to go?" He was laying on her bed as usual, while she levitated.

"It actually sounds like you're going to miss me." He smiled at her.

"You're the only one who really seems to enjoy talking to me."

"I understand you. They are just still getting used to you. They will learn to like you as much as I do."

"They don't really care about my needs like you do."

"Well they are all teenagers. I have had five hundred years to practice patience. And I'm marrying you. I do have to care about your needs, whereas they do not."

"Five hundred? You really are robbing the cradle aren't you?"

"Quiet a bit yes. But as a "human" I share the memories of my former self but have not experienced them. So technically, this form of myself has only experienced life for almost fifteen years, just like you."

"So it's your demon form I should be worried about."

"He doesn't often make an appearance, although I have never been in a position where he was needed."

"Well that's always good. He unnerves me in a way I can't explain."

"Hard to believe he's me?" She smiled a little.

"Very hard." Suddenly there was a large buzzing sound. Kurama looked towards it to see it was a handheld mirror that folded, like the one's from the spirit world. Before she could grab it, he opened it, and saw her mother's face appear in the screen.

"Oh hello Kurama. What a surprise to see that you are visiting my daughter already. May I please speak with her?" He handed over the mirror which Raven very reluctantly accepted.

"Raven! I have been calling you for months now and you have not answered me a single time. You could have been dead for all I knew! What on earth were you thinking scaring me half to death like that?"

"I've been avoiding you with purpose. And if Shuichi hadn't answered the damn mirror I would have continued to ignore you."

"Raven I tried to tell your father that you were too young. That he should wait. I wanted more time to convince him that you would fall in love on your own and that we don't need anymore political gain. But he simply wouldn't listen to me. So my only other option was to pick someone I knew you would get along with. You can't stay angry with me forever."

"Oh yes I can. It's not like we've talked much before now mother dearest. Why don't you pester your other children for a change? Hiei usually loves your company."

"Hiei has left for the human world. He is awaiting Kurama's return, if I'm not mistaken. And he refused to take a mirror with him, so of course I have no contact. As always Yukina refuses to speak with me. And your younger siblings are off with their grandmother, and she does not have a mirror of any kind. And I've been worried about you."

"There is nothing to fear mother. I'm just fine in my new living situation and your new spy is keeping an eye on me just fine. Is there anything else?"

"I wanted you to know that the drug we've been giving your father has been lasting much longer. He hasn't turned into his demon self in over three months now."

"That's amazing." Raven was completely in shock. Her father turned into his demon form so often she could never know when he was going to become violent. Her mother had been trying for the better half of the decade trying to figure something out.

"I just wanted you to know. In case you ever choose to come home, now you won't have to be afraid anymore."

"I'll always be afraid of him mother." Kurama looked at her pensively. He had heard stories and rumors about her father but nothing concrete.

"Well I was hoping you would feel a little bit safer. If nothing else."

"Thank you I will try to keep what you said in mind."

"Now please contact your brother. Try to make sure he made it alright."

"Okay mother."

"And Raven?"

"Yes?"

"I love you very much."

"I love you too." The screen went black and Raven looked very annoyed and upset. She and her mother hadn't been able to see eye to eye in her entire lifetime. Her mother had chosen her love for her father over the love she had for her children and that never sat right with Raven. Hiei had been raised by demons for seven years of his life before Raven found him and they went in search of their father together. They thought there mother had died, but she had not in fact. Once they found them they also realized how easily they could be replaced, as they had two younger siblings that seemed to be the pride and joy of the family. She had never seen Hiei so angry before or since that day. And Raven couldn't blame him.

'Ray it's Hiei'

Did you make it to the human would alright?

'Yeah tell Kurama to hurry the hell up. I need him'

I will be sure to inform him. Tell me next time you come visit. I can arrange to meet you somewhere.

'I won't be staying long. I just have some business to take care of.'

Alright be safe.

"So did you talk to him?" Kurama's voice cut through her last words.

"Yes he says to hurry the hell up."

"I'm sure he did. He knows when I'm returning."

"Why does he need you?"

"He didn't say last time we spoke. I hope it's not anything too serious."

"So do I."

And as she walked him right to the gate of the plane she looked up at him and couldn't help but feel some kind of odd feeling in the pit of her stomach. Like something was going to go horribly wrong.

"Stay safe." He looked down at her and smiled. He leaned in gently and kissed her cheek. She blushed, feeling the hotness of his lips against her flesh. He pulled away and looked into her blushing flesh, and her shy eyes.

"I always am. You be safe." She smiled.

"That's a promise." She shyly kissed his cheek and he blushed. She had never seen him blush before but it was a beautiful sight. And as he was on the plane, ready to take off, he could hear her thoughts whisper, without her even realizing it. And through the whisper carried the worried tone in her voice. He couldn't help but think that it was an omen of bad things to come. The whisper came through the wind as he heard her whisper once more. Stay safe.