That week went by slowly for Kanade. It was uneventful after Karasu had left, but she was still on her toes. She watered Kurama's flowers and they grew back immediately. She went to Genkai's and training was intense but nothing she couldn't handle. Her mother had been more intoxicated than normal so she spent her time re reading her Lord of the Rings her father gave to her, keeping it hidden in a shelf she put under the flower box. She didn't know how to tell Kurama about Karasu. Even thinking about the demon made her want to cry. She put on her school uniform, Genkai letting her go to school today because her training has been going really well. She grabbed her bag and walk to out the door. "Girl, get me some smokes on the way home." A voice called. "Yes mother." Kanade said and slipped out the door and began her walk to school. As she reached the high school a few students went up to meet her. "Ms. Yurimora, where have you been? You are new to this school then disappear for a whole week?" "Come to think of it Shuichi's gone too." "Yeah but he's always had a habit of disappearing. But how can she be the same?" The students said more to themselves than Kanade, whose nose was buried in her Lord of the Rings book. "Hey why are you reading that? Isn't that American?" "No, it's English." "Doesn't matter, it isn't Japanese so it's weird." Said a boy, who grabbed it from her hands. "Hey give me that back!" Kanade yelled. The boy laughed at her angry expression and tossed the book over his shoulder and into a mud puddle. Kanade gasped as the other students laughed and pushed her into the mud as she knelt to retrieve her book. She groaned and tried to dry the pages but it was a paperback and was soaked through. Realizing the only thing that she had left of her father was now destroyed, Kanade unwillingly had tears falling down her face.
as the day went on people stopped asking why her cloths were wet and dirty and just supposed she was a filthy person, which she didn't care, her mind was nothing but sadness at the loss of her book. She saw Kurama still hadn't returned and wondered if he was alright, being that Karasu character was about, looking to kill him. She decided to go home earlier than normal, being that she couldn't go to the library anymore. She walked home, cradling her ruined book to her chest. "Kanade?" came a familiar voice. She looked up and saw Kuwabara running towards her. "Kuwabara?" she asked, tiredly, her body sleepy from crying. "What happened to you? You look like you got dumped. What's that in your hands?" he asked, coming up to her. She looked at the book in her hands and bit back a sob. "Some typical school thugs that had different beliefs than me." She said. Kuwabara glared at the solid book in her hands. "So they ruined your book and cloths?" he said angrily. When he saw her expression he put a hand on her shoulder. "That's not why I came here today. We need you over at Urameshi's place. Something big's happened."