Akonuto time! Left of with him bowing to Sana. (The gang must be shocked! A demon bowed to Sana!)
Akonuto Revealed and Grave Trip
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An odd and somewhat tense silence followed. Yusuke picked himself up from the ground and went back over to my side.

He whispered, "Do you know this guy?"

I shook my head, "I think I saw him a couple times in my past visits to Demon World."

Akonuto smiled, not bowing anymore. "You wouln't remember me Sana. You were only a child when you and I met."

I gave him a weird look, not understanding. "Look, I don't give a crap about whether we were friends or never saw each other once. You bugged my system, and you will suffer the concequenses now."

He smiled even more now, "How did my bug enjoy the vault's system? And I will suffer? How would you be able to make me suffer Sana? You don't even have enough Spirit Energy to kill an ant."

I flinched. I hated not having Spirit Energy. Hated it. Despised it. Loathed it.

"Won't you hear me out, Little Sana?" he asked innocently.

"I'm not little! I'm bigger than you are freak!" I growled.

Akonuto smiled once more. "Haven't changed one bit. I thought by my calling you Little Sana you would remember, guess not. Your mother did a nice job hiding the memories from you."

"What?" the boys asked.

"What are you talking about?" I asked. "My mother can't hide memories, she doesn't even know one tiny little fact about Spirit stuff or Demon stuff."

"But she does, though she doesn't know its Demon 'stuff' or Spirit 'stuff' as you call it. I'll tell you from the top then. When you moved back in with your mother after Vincent killed your father, she wasn't really happy was she? She thought she would never have to deal with anything that dealt with her ex-husband," he said.

The boys looked at me, I hadn't said much after my dad had been killed. I just told them a little bit about my Demon World trips and what I did after. Nothing about my mom really. I tended not to tell many things about my mother to anyone. Most likely because I had nothing to tell.

"You were pretty beat up when I found you in the most crowded and dangerous alley of Demon World. I had no idea why demons hadn't eaten you or taken you away somewhere yet. You told me everything after a little coaxing. Not the most pleasant bedtime story either. Who knew a human could be capable of all this violence," Akonuto continued.

They all looked at me, but I shrugged. This was new news to me. I have never heard of this before. And he still didn't tell me why he bugged my system. I didn't give a crap about what my mom might have done. What I wanted to do was know why he bugged my system and why he ain't paying for it!

"I took you to my house after that, you remember? I healed you, made you feel better. You left though, back to the Human World and that mother of yours. Wasn't long before I saw you again. Same condition as before, I wondered why though, you didn't remember me. Happened about five times," he continued. "I investigated on it though. It didn't take long for me to figure out that your memory had either been erased of modified. Surprised me as well that your mother could be capable od doing such horrors. But then, you suddenly disappeared, never showed up again, and if you did, you never stopped to say hello. Not even to an ant."

I figured that what he meant by suddenly. I had raided the vault and most likely turned myself in by the time he noticed I had gone missing. That would make me go on probation and be the guardian, which meant limited time for thieving, which I wasn't allowed to do anymore. I wasn't really to sure if I believed him though, I'd have to ask Koenma to verify.

Now that he's done talking, time for me to get my answers I came for.

"Tell me the reason why you bugged my system," I demanded.

"You want to know why? Because I wanted to. Simple as that. I had some pesky worthless demons under my control, so I thought, why not raid something in Spirit World?" Akonuto answered. "You could say I wanted to find out anything about you. I wanted to know where you ran off to, if you were still alive. But my little pesky demons didn't want to raid files, they wanted to do something more thrilling. Thus I sent them to the vault and made the smartest one there bug the vaults system. I programmed the vault to find out all information about you and to not let anyone get near the vault until it got what I wanted."

"Why the hell did you care whether or not I lived or died? Why the hell do you care if I suddenly disappeared?" I asked again.

"Because Sana, I always knew something incredible would erupt from you. I wanted to be there when it happened, see you evolve into what you have become. It's too late now though, everything I wanted to see with my own eyes happened and passed," he said.

"I don't get you," Yusuke said, Kurama agreeing.

"You don't have to. Afterall, I do only have the remainder of today to live. I'm not sure how long, but I don't really care. I've been waiting for this moment for ages now. I'm just glad I got to see you again Sana," Akonuto said.

"What are you talking about? Dying?" Hiei growled.

Akonuto backed up a few spaces. "Hiei? Oh my, how've you changed! Wouldn't expect any less from you, so tough and hard core."

Hiei's upper lip curled slightly in anger.

"Have you found Yukina? Of course you have. I hope you tell her the news someday," he said. "Now then, if you excuse me, I need to get rid of all those other demons that are udner my comand. Rid them of everything. I'll be seeing you in the afterlife."

With that said, he walked off, slaughtering the rest of his demons.

"You sure its wise to let him go like that Sana?" Kurama asked.

I had no idea why I left him go. "Doesn't matter I guess, he's going to die either way."

-In Front of a Portal-

I opened up a portal back to Spirit World on the outside of the hideout. Kurama and Yusuke had already stepped in, and Kuwabara disappeared after them as well. Hiei told me to go first. I told him to go first and to not argue about it.

"Hn. Like I can't see that you don't want to go back to Spirit World yet," Hiei said. "Written all over your mind."

"Shut it. I want to go visit a grave okay?" I told him.

"Really? I never thought your father would have his grave in Demon World," he said.

"He doesn't. It's another grave. That Demon's grave, the one that visited me and my dad with her little kid," I said, completely surprising myself as I never told anyone anything.

"Where's that?" Hiei asked.

"Up there," I pointed into the sky. "Far up there, that little place where no demon can find. I never found out the name of that place, but its where all the Ice Maidens live."

Hiei's eyes narrowed. "You care to tell me that the demon, who you said was a Maiden, was an Ice Maiden?"

I nodded my head. "Yeah. I haven't visited her grave in a while, she'd think something bad would've happened to me. You can go and tell the others if you want."

Hiei's eyes then went to his crystal on the necklace.

I sighed. "I never thought you'd want to ever return to that place again. If you really want to accompany me, I don't see how I could tell you no."

-In Front of the Grave-

I pointed the grave stone to Hiei. "That's her," I told him.

A silent pause. I wondered if he heard me say it. I was about to say it again when he cut me short, "That's impossible," he told me.

I raised an eyebrow. "How come?" I asked.

"That's my mother's grave," Hiei replied.

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