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Kiraa's pov, Genkai's Temple

It had been about a week since the, um, situation, and it was almost like I had been grounded like an undisciplined teenager. All week I had don't nothing but sit around the old woman's temple, mostly on the roof, and do nothing. Kurama said it was because Toorima knows where my 'school' was so going back there was not an option, but I knew it was also because I acted alone last time I felt Toorima's energy. Luckily enough, I wasn't the only one stuck on the premises; Hiei was stuck watching me, just in case Toorima found where I was staying, or I ran off, which ever came first. I couldn't really complain; it was better than having to put up with the unearthly stench of all the ningen in the same building.

As I sat on the roof on particularly sunny morning, I couldn't help but notice that the weather was getting warmer, winter was loosing its hold on Japan and it was spreading through the air like a virus(1). It was one of the first times I was able to sit back and enjoy the transition from winter to spring. While I sat back and listened to the slowly awakening world, I could plainly hear the spirit detectives talking inside the temple, being a Sunday, they had the day off. At the moment I could barely make out their voices as the discussed something, trying hard not to be heard I could only get the occasionally word or phrase out of the discussion.

Giving up on trying to figure out what they were saying, I glanced over the garden below me to see the young ice apparition, Yukina I believe, chirping happily to the few birds that had sat out the harsh winter. Seeing me she happily waved, as I waved back Yusuke came out of the temple, obviously the discussion was over.

"Hey Kiraa, come on, were going to see if we can find any leads on Toorima!" He yelled up at me, smiling slightly at the chance to leave the temple, and at the chance to find Toorima.

"Give me a minute." I yelled back as I took a deep breath before jumping off the roof to the damp snow below, knowing that, that breath might be one of the last clean breaths of air I'll get for a while.

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Hiei's Pov, the City

We were sitting in the park while Kiraa searched for any hint of Toorima's spirit energy. Even though the place reeked of Ningen, I had to admit I was slightly glad that I was away from the temple. After Kiraa's ran off from school a while back, she's had to stay at the temple, and seeing as the others had school, I had been the one put in charge of watching her to make sure she doesn't run off again or incase Toorima or his minions attack the temple. I would be rather happy when this whole thing was over.

"I don't feel his energy anywhere near by," Kiraa spoke after a moment, her silver eyes closed in concentration, being the only one to know Toorima's energy signature, she was the one giving the job of finding him, "although, as you probably can already tell, there are other demons in the area, even though they feel like C or D-ranked, they seem to be darkness demons, they should probably be checked out." She opened her eyes to look at everyone.

"Alright," Kurama nodded, "we should split up so we can try and find them faster. Yusuke, you take the one to the north, Kuwabara, you take the one in the west, Hiei, you and Kiraa take the one towards the south, and I'll take the east." We all nodded at the separation.

"Let's go kick some ass!!" Yusuke yelled in excitement.

"Hn." We all broke up to go our separate ways with Kiraa and I heading to the south I could feel the pressure rise from a C or D-ranked to High B to Low A.

"I think we just got the short end of the stick." Kiraa joked unenthusiastically at the sudden rise in level as we began our search for the source of the source.

What ever demon we were after either didn't notice us coming, or it wanted us to find them, and from the level of the demon, my guess was on the second one, I felt myself tense up in preparation for a trap a waiting us at our destination. Next to me Kiraa seemed at ill ease, as if she was thinking the same thing, although her focus seemed to be else where, suggesting something else other then her preparing for a trap, almost as if she recognized the energy.

I knew it couldn't be Toorima, Kiraa would have said something by now, and when I had seen Toorima, his energy seemed to be at lest a high A-Rank, not high B. I, myself, was around a low A-Rank and Kiraa seemed to be around high B-Rank so this demon didn't seem like they'd be much of a problem.

We were soon standing in front of the same apartment complex that we had been where our first in counter with the hybrid next to me had been, where this whole thing had began.

"The source is coming from up there." Kiraa said pointing out the obvious.

"Hn." I nodded as we both started up towards the top where we found the demon sitting on the edge of roof much as Kiraa had done.

It was a female demon, but the similarities between her and Kiraa ended there. She looked a few years older than Kiraa and she had long black hair that seemed to be dancing in the light warm wind. Her eyes were black as coal standing out against her pale skin as she turned to look at us almost sadly. Besides me I felt Kiraa take in a swift breath as she tensed up.

"Kumori" Kiraa whispered in reorganization and astonishment, I got into fighting stance as Kiraa stood there staring at the demon in front of us.

"Kiraa." She replied sadly, "I'm not here to fight." She said almost as if she would make me get out of my stance.

"What do you want." I demanded glaring at the demon before us.

"What are you doing here Kumori?" Kiraa asked sounding suspicious.

"As I said, I'm not here to fight." The demon, Kumori, repeated, "I'm here to tell you, Toorima is making preparation, he's planning on attacking soon, and on having you help, whether you want to, or not."

"So what, you came here to threaten me?" Kiraa asked angrily, hatred laced her every word as she yelled at Kumori, every trace of caring and kindness in her voice had been lost.

"No, I came here on my own accord to ask you to join us willingly, if you don't, Toorima is willing to resort to force, and he wont care who gets hurt." A moment of silence past as Kumori spoke her last words, waiting for Kiraa to reply, as the time went on I started to question whether or not Kiraa would join them.

"Never." Finally Kiraa spoke, looking at her I saw her cold silver eyes filled with hatred and betrayal.

"Very well Kiraa, just know, the next time I see you, I will not give you the chance to decide, I will not be as courteous as I am today, be prepared." I could feel Kiraa flinch slightly at Kumori's words.

"You should leave now." I growled, closing her eyes, Kumori closed her eyes and disappeared into the limited shadows of midday, I turned as Kiraa glared downwards towards the ground angrily, her fists were clenched and her knuckles were already white.

"God, Damn It!" She yelled as she turned and punched the door that led from the stairs to the roof, releasing her anger until it folded inwards and fell down the stairs onto the landing below.

Kiraa stood there for a moment panting from releasing her angry before she turned to me, "Let's go back to the Temple." She said, her voice sounding slightly dead, leaving before I could say anything else. Sighing I followed her back to Genkai's Temple.

A.N. What did you think??? TELL ME!!! Oh, and for the 1.

(1) I don't mean swin flu.... read above.