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"A spirit what?" I stared at Yusuke in confusion.
"A spirit detect-"Kuwabara then slapped Yusuke in the head. Yusuke spun around with a pissed off look on his face.
"What the hell Kuwabara! Why'd ya do that?"
"Urameshi," Kuwabara whispered, "She's not suppose to know about us. Remember what Kurama said" They were both extremely bad at keeping quiet.
"Oh yeah your right." Yusuke whispered back and turned his attention to me. "Forget everything you just saw and heard." He had a goofy grin on his face and laughed nervously, "We'll just be leaving now."
"No, wait. You can't leave I have some questions." I reached out for them as they walked by. "You must know something about the missing people right?"
They both looked at each other than to me. Yusuke sighed, "Geez, I didn't know Kurama's girl was so nosy. I swear she's worst than Keiko." His face softened. "Look, if you want you can come with us. But, I can't say that your life won't be so quiet anymore."
I wanted to tell Yusuke that my life was already crazy, but I just nodded. Kuwabara didn't seem to like the idea of me going with them.
"What do you think your doing!?! If Kurama finds out that we blew our cover and she saw stuff he'll-"
"He'll just have to deal with it. We're not the girlfriendsitters here. He'll have to deal with this mess when he gets back, now let's go." Yusuke walked out with an upset Kuwabara and confused me watching his retreating back.
"Who's Kurama?" I asked.
"That's um a long story. We better get going before Urameshi leaves without us." Kuwabara made his way to the door.
Was I really going to follow some random dudes somewhere? I unconsciously felt myself moving after them. I was willing to do anything to clear up the fog around the disappearances. I had to find my answers and these guys were my next chance.
We made our way through the crowded first floor. I could have sworn I heard Noriko call my name. I just ignored it. Outside there were at least a dozen cars around the front of the house. I followed Kuwabara to a blue Volkswagen. Yusuke was already in the passenger seat waiting impatiently for Kuwabara and me. I slipped in to the back seat and Kuwabara took the wheel.
Yusuke and Kuwabara were whispering again this time I couldn't depict what they were saying. At first it seemed like they were arguing again, but then they just seemed to be discussing something. After what seemed like twenty minutes they stopped talking. Kuwabara started the car and drove away into the night.
Yusuke glanced back at me. "Hope you're hungry."
We arrived at a pleasant Ramen Shop. The car ride was nothing exciting besides Yusuke and Kuwabara fighting over random stuff like boxing and food. We went inside to be met with the aroma of ramen. They had a bar and some booths for seating. We took the seats at the bar and waited. My stomach growled. I wasn't sure how long ago I had eaten; all I knew was that I was starving.
"Hey!" shouted Kuwabara.
"Hello?"
Out from the curtains in the back came a girl around my age with a white apron on. She was pretty with long chestnut hair and matching eyes. She looked at me curiously then I noticed she began to glare. I looked in the direction of the death glare to find that it was Yusuke being stared down.
"Hey Keiko can we have something on the house?" Yusuke said sheepishly.
Keiko walked over and slapped Yusuke across the face. I looked in shock. Kuwabara put his hand on my shoulder. "Don't worry, this always happens."
"Hey!" yelled Keiko "Is that all you have to say! You don't talk to me for a week and then you just show up here with another girl and asking for a free meal! You're so unbelievable!"
Yusuke rubbed his swore cheek. "Chill out Keiko! I'm sorry alright. This girl here is Maya, she's a friend. She's kinda our new mission."
Keiko seemed to get stiff. "New mission? I thought you were done…"
"I thought so too but some things are getting really messed up now. I promise after I finish the mission we'll go back to living a normal life." He grabbed Keiko's hand and I noticed a ring on her left hand. I had just stepped into a whole different life. I could tell that I wasn't the only one having some problems.
"So how 'bout that food." said Kuwabara.
"Geez Kuwabara, you really know how to ruin the moment don't you."
"I'll make something special for you guys, on the house." Keiko gave Yusuke a peck on the cheek and started working on our food.
I sat and listened to the three having conversations. It ranged from college too some girl named Yukina (who I think is Kuwabara's girl) to future goals in life. Keiko didn't take long with the ramen. It was the best I had ever had. We made small talk between bites. I learned that Kuwabara was living with his older sister named Shizuru who was working on becoming a beautician. Kuwabara was attending a really prestigious and expensive college that was almost impossible to get into. Yusuke lives with his mom in an apartment a couple blocks away. He said something like "Who needs college when you got muscle" so I assumed he wasn't attending college. Instead he was working here at the shop with Keiko and her family. Keiko and he were engaged and I couldn't help but smile. Keiko was attending college to major in teaching. She told me stories about how should would love to teach little kids. I told them that I was majoring in journalism. I was hoping to become a star journalist. I definitely had the strive for gaining information.
I drifted away from their conversation and got lost in my own thoughts. I was wondering what Shuichi was doing and what he was thinking. I missed my old friend and the time we spent with each other just laughing. Yusuke, Keiko, and Kuwabara reminded me of those times. They all seem to have happy lives with each other, just listening to each others stories. That's what I wanted, to be happy and normal and not have to watch my back for monsters. I'm sure they had a lot of struggles but they seemed to be passing them and heading to new futures. I wanted to head there with them.
"Maya?" I snapped out of my thoughts to see Keiko looking at me worriedly.
"Yes?" I asked
"I called your name like ten times. I was just checking to see if you were still hungry?" I looked down at my empty bowl of ramen.
"No I'm fine" I looked around to notice Yusuke and Kuwabara missing, "Where are Kuwabara and Yusuke?"
"Well while you were spaced out they said they had to go visit their boss." Keiko picked up my bowl and began cleaning it.
"Their boss?"
"Yeah, they work for a man named Koenma," she sounded sad, "they're always out getting into trouble." I knew she was saying the last part to herself.
"So when are they coming back?" I asked.
"They wanted me to tell you that they called a cab for you and said you should go home. They also said they would talk to you tomorrow."
I sat there in silence. I didn't try asking Keiko anymore questions. They said they would talk to me tomorrow so I would just have to wait. I sighed and got up. I stretched out my arms and stifled a yawn. There always has to be something. Maybe I'll find more about the Kurama and Koenma guys.
"Keiko, tell them that if they don't talk to me tomorrow I'm going to be very upset."