What is this image manager they speak of?
I'm currently browsing around for yummy Kurama pictures on google to add to this story, hehe.

I stared up at my ceiling, once again reflecting on my day.
Ughh, does that mean I have to apologize to Shuichi again...? I thought back when his mother and Yusuke caught us two at exactly the wrong moment. I squirmed under my blanket out of embarrassment. Ughh, I CAN'T BELIEVE THAT HAPPENED! Now I'll come across to his family and Yusuke as a horny teenage girl.

I went to make myself some hot chocolate to drown out my misery, and then slept soundly.

The following morning I got up and dressed in exercise clothes and sneakers. This is what I'm supposed to wear to kill demons, right?
Shuichi arranged another demon slaying session with Yusuke since apparently I didn't learn anything from being preoccupied. Well duh, my face fell between his legs.
It was the last place I wanted to stick my face near.

A while later, I was walking in silence, closely following Yusuke and Shuichi who were engrossed in their conversation about Kuwabara and Yukina. Imagine my surprise when I found out that Yukina and Shuichi aren't going out.
I guess his one true love is homework...
Actually I'm not so sure anymore, I've been so set on seeing him as a crazed nerd, but that was before I knew of the whole demon business.
I guess I should show more respect to him, seeing how Genkai spoke highly of him before. When I think about it, Shuichi has a whole other life, he's had a past that none of us quite know.

We were surrounded by shrubs and trees at the edge of a large nature reserve, overlooking a lake.
I looked ahead, at Shuichi's back. He was once again wearing a white shirt, outlining his defined back. Well that's a sight I wouldn't mind seeing more often. If he's always moving around and fighting apparitions, then I wouldn't mind seeing his abdominal muscles either.
"Reina" Yusuke and Shuichi both came to a stop, snapping me back into reality, "Watch out. There are a few demons here. "

As soon as Yusuke warned me, five small demons threw themselves out of a tree towards us.
Yusuke shot his spirit gun at the one closest to him and Shuichi cut down two with his rose whip.
I looked up as one flew towards me, and then instinctively slapped it hard with the back of my hand.

"BIIIITCH!" I yelled at it.

The demon sat up on the ground and jumped at me. I slapped it down again, "PIMP SLAP!"
I raised my hand, ready for round three.
The demon just sat on the ground, scowling at me. "Yeah that's right, you like that?"
Yusuke and Shuichi looked on, perplexed while I was taunting the tiny demon as I stood over it with my hand raised.
I think I'm enjoying this more than I should...
Yusuke sighed and hit it with his spirit gun.
"Hey that was supposed to be my first enemy!" I complained.
"You took too long talking down to the thing!" Yusuke shot back, "we're fighting demons, this isn't a thug fight!"
"Okay..."
I turned around and saw the last two demons flying towards me. Now would be a great time to make use of that force field. I concentrated hard and visualized one directly in front of me. A weak purple sphere appeared, but faded away within a second. "Oh, fu-" I didn't even have time to finish my sentence when Shuichi's rose whip struck them so fast, stray bits of demon body parts hit my face as they fell from mid air. Ewwwwww...

The three of us walked back to Shuichi's house, me feeling a tad disappointed that I couldn't form a force field to save my life. I mean, it's the only thing that I can do. If I could subconsciously make a couple in another world, how come I can't make one at will?

"It's alright Reina, you'll just require more training" Shuichi told me
"Hey at least you didn't train with the old hag" Yusuke recalled bad memories, "I had to sleep with snakes for a week"
Yeah I think I'd rather train with Shuichi, although my progress would be painstakingly slow, it sure beats intensively training for months.

I parted ways with Shuichi and Yusuke at my front door as they made their way to their own homes. I entered the door and saw my parents expecting me at the living room. Oh yeah, I forgot they'd be home today. "MY BABY!" my mother ran to hug me, "I missed you so much! DID YOU MISS ME?"
She stopped hugging me and looked me in the eyes, expecting an answer.
"Yes mom I missed you..." I replied.
"Who were those two boys with you?" my dad stood up from his seat
"Oh it's Shuichi and his friend"
"Shuichi, AYE?" my dad gave me a pat on the back and a thumbs up, "I knew you'd take my advice to seduce him!"
I face palmed.
"Seduce him and make him do your study notes and assignments for you!"
He smiled, feeling proud of his plan to get me higher grades.

I talked to my parents about how they've been the past couple of weeks then headed off to my room.
On my bed, I sat and practiced, visualizing a small sphere of energy in between my hands. Another feeble ball materialized but once again faded away quickly. I groaned in frustration, tried again and again. I don't want to rely on Shuichi or anyone to defend me; I want to fight my own battles.

Exasperated, I concentrated really hard to gather energy from my body to the space in front of me. A bright sphere of purple formed, then shrunk to form a dense energy ball. Dammit, I can't get the force field right. The energy ball flickered twice then exploded, covering my room in a blinding light for a second, then disappeared leaving wisps of purple smoke in my room. What the hell was that?
I looked around my room and saw that a couple of my furniture has been knocked back and my lamp has shattered.

I looked over to my window, at Shuichi's house and saw him looking towards my direction through his kitchen window. "What was that?" he mouthed to me.
"I dunno" I said and shrug my shoulders.
Guess I gotta practice manipulating energy more.

"REINA WHAT JUST HAPPENED? A BRIGHT LIGHT CAME FROM YOUR ROOM!" my mum yelled to me from downstairs
"The lamp exploded, but it's all good here" I made up an excuse and called back to her from my room.

I went back to the window and saw that Shuichi was still visible from his kitchen.
"Try again" I can make out what he said.
"Can't, I'm too scared" I replied, complete with hand gestures to make sure he understood.
He smiled and raised an eyebrow, "I'll help you out tomorrow?"
"Definitely"
The rest of the evening was spent on the two of us carrying out a silent conversation from our windows.