Chapter 8: Ano Shinjitsu

"Kurama, I would like top just come out and tell you the important stuff, but there is a lot I have to explain first. As you may have all noticed Kurama and Kizuna's auras are almost identical." Koenma rambled on, as that was being spoken Kurama knew what was going to be said next, he had already figured it out while Sakana had been talking, but for some odd reason he couldn't believe it himself. "Well this is not just a coincidence though her ningen name is. You see Kizuna was orphaned after she was kicked out of her clan in Makai and she ended up in an orphanage in Ningenkai, she was adopted a little before Kurama left to compete in the Dark Tournament with the Reikai Tantei by a very nice woman named Shiori Minamino." Koenma paused for a moment to let it all sink in.

Kurama stayed silent he glanced at the unconscious form of Kizuna on the couch, memories flashed back into his mind. "Shuichi I would like you to meet Anmari." Shiori said as she introduced the 13 year-old girl to him. Kurama shook the memory out of his head not knowing where exactly it had come from hew could of sworn he had never seen Kizuna before today.

"You were having a flashback weren't you?" Koenma asked, but before Kurama could say anything Koenma continued explaining. "Unfamiliar memories. Heh, to put it shortly you and Kizuna don't remember each other because your memories were erased for your own protection." Koenma stated.

"My own protection! You erased memories of my sister for my own protection!" Kurama yelled his eyes filled with anger. If there was one thing you didn't want to do to Kurama it was mess with his family or his memories and both of these things had been done, by someone he trusted no less, his boss. "Can you explain to me how messing with my memories and erasing my sister from them is to help protect me cause I just don't understand your reason and logic in this situation!" Kurama yelled his eyes filled with anger.

"Kurama you have to understand and let me finish explaining she's not just you sister by adoption, Anmari Minamino is your sister by blood. It was an unforeseen coincidence she was adopted by the same mother that you had. You and Kizuna were never to see each other again." Koenma explained as he slowly backed away from the once spirit kitsune.

"Why?!" Kurama said calming down a bit, but not by much.

"I was getting to that. Over 500 years ago when you were Yoko Kurama you learned you had a sister but naturally being already shunned by your tribe and family you didn't really care, but there were rumors being spread that she was particularly special I'm sure you heard them as well. You heard that her untamed fox spirit was immense and when she got older she actually did come after you. Well her fox spirit did anyway; at that time she had no control over her body. But she never succeeded and attempted several more times before you were almost killed by the Reikai Defense Force. I erased her memories yours were just suppressed. She knows she had a brother but has no memories of Suichi Minamino or Yoko Kurama." Koenma finished.

"So when exactly did you suppress my memories of her?" Kurama asked a little less angry. Koenma was hoping he wouldn't ask that because he didn't want Kurama not to trust him but technically the damage had already been done.

"I suppressed your memories of her while you asleep after you had surrendered yourself for stealing the Mirror of Darkness a little before we let you out and put you on house arrest. I'm sorry Kurama it was orders from higher up. I also suppressed them again after Anmari ran away from the Minamino house. We couldn't take a chance of you remembering her and you already had your suspicions she wasn't entirely human." Koenma said sincerely.

"But why?" Kurama asked. Koenma ignored Kurama's question. He couldn't go into the details about the Nazukego spirit that actually dwelled inside Kizuna and how dangerous she was and why she was after Kurama, he had order from King Yama his father not to say a word.

"Kurama I would like you to train Kizuna. I also have two specialists from Ningenkai coming to help you. You might know them, Kanone Hilbert & Eyes Rutherford." Koenma said with a smirk

"You mean the blade and sound specialists? I thought Reikai agreed they weren't going to use the specialists for anything, they said it wasn't a good idea to use them until they knew what caused them to develop their powers?" Kurama said his eyes wide wondering why Reikai had made an exception.

"We have decided to assign them to Reikai Tantei for training we think we can benefit from their abilities explained or not. These will not be the last of them either, more will probably be assigned here since you guys are our most experienced, unique, and trusted team of Tantei." Koenma stated simply. " I am also sending you a fire ainoko to keep a close watch on Kizuna and take notes on her behavior. He is one of my personal assistants, so I trust he will do a good job. Right now he is in the human world doing a mission under the alias of Ame Medetai, his real name is Shareko." Koenma explicated.

At this Sakana started to giggle. "The kids got one hell of a name." She said in between laughs.

"Where am I to keep these people there isn't enough room for them here, all the rooms are full." Kurama said in deep thought. "Koenma laughed. "So you haven't discovered it yet."

"Discovered what?" Kurama asked curious as to what he hadn't located in his house he had had for a year now.

"There are more rooms in this house than you think, Kurama." Koenma said mischievously.

Koenma had given this house to Kurama after he had decided to move out when he was seventeen because of how Yomi had possessed his stepbrother Shuichi Hatenaka to get Kurama to what he wanted. After that he decided to leave so he wouldn't put his family in danger any longer. Kurama had been surprised at how large the house was on the inside and how many rooms it held. Koenma had explained that he would need those rooms later on down the road. Koenma had been right that the Reikai Tantei would move in with Kurama so they could stay close together. Hiei was the first to move in, followed by Yusuke who brought Jin, and then Kuwabara after he graduated high school, he still goes to college. Of course all the girls have a room for when they come to visit. Chu moved in although he is hardly ever home.

"What?" Kurama asked interrupting Koenma's thoughts.

"Have you ever noticed the house is bigger on the outside than it is inside?" Koenma asked.

"I always wondered why that was." Yusuke said questioningly.

"Well, that's because if you open that door in the corner over there, there's a hallway with six extra rooms." Koenma said smirking.

"There's just one problem with that, we've never been able to get that stupid door open." Kuwabara said proudly like he had just shown someone up.

"That's because you don't have the key." Koenma replied. He then tossed Kurama a very small silver key.

"The rooms are already opened and prepared with everything they need. Shareko will be here later with the info on the two specialists as well as information on himself, also he has the info for your latest mission." Koenma finished then turned and looked at the blue-haired spirit guide. "Botan I want you to stay here to look out for Kizuna, see she gets some medicinal herbs to completely suppress her fox spirit." Koenma stated.

"But Lord Koenma we don't know how she'll react to that." Botan said worriedly.

"I don't care, these are my orders. Bye." He said as he got up and walked out the door only to disappear into thin air.

"Damn him, he just expects us to do stuff without knowing what will happen first. This is bull shit!" Yusuke said extremely ticked.

"You heard what he said they're his orders. There's more to this than he is letting on to us." Hiei said as he cleaned his katana with a cloth.

"I agree." Kurama said as he looked at the small key in his hand, then looked at the clock.

"It's almost morning." He said with a grin.

"Kurama is right if Lord Koenma said they're his orders, that must mean that there from King Enma." Botan stated.

"Well, I kinda figured that much out already." Yusuke said yawning. Kurama who had completely tuned himself out of the conversation looked around the room, which was mildly battered. 'I'll ask Kuwabara and Yusuke to patch this up later.' He sighed he could just imagine the argument he was going to get, Yusuke hated doing psychical labor. Kuwabara had collapsed on the floor sleeping, and Jin was sitting next to Sakana both of who were now fast asleep.

Kurama was still taking inventory of damages rendered when there was a knock at the door. "I'll get it." Kurama said as he, tucked the tiny key in his pocket, then got up to open the door. When the door was opened standing in front of him was a short haired blonde, with smoky blue eyes, he looked about 18 or 19 years of age, and he was extremely tall, he wore shiny rectangular spectacles and carried a clipboard.

The tall boy put out his hand. "Hi. I'm Shareko." He said less than enthused as Kurama shook his hand.

'He doesn't look like a fire ainoko.' Kurama thought to himself.

"That's because this is my human form." Shareko stated.

"You read minds." Kurama said as Shareko walked in and sat on the couch ignoring Kurama's statement. "Here is my info, as well as the info for the specialists and your next mission." Kurama sat down and picked up the papers. He looked at Shareko's first. It was as follows……