April 24th, 2011 (I started this on Independence Day and am now finishing it on Easter, I am so full of holiday joy lol)

A/N: Hey everyone! I'm not sure if this story has been completely forgotten about over the…years I haven't updated, but I figure for any loyal readers still left or new ones taking interest in the story I have decided to give you some kind of ending.

This story originated from a dream that I had probably somewhere in the vicinity of 2004 and was only half formed at that. Keeping this in mind, it has been too long to try to dig it back up and create the parts where holes resided in the dream, but here is what I have from my remembrances and from what I wanted to include. I apologize for it not being a real end, but I hope that it brings some sort of closure compared to the gaping black hole I previously left you with.

Closure a.k.a. Summation of the End!

I believe I had left off with Surjo and chibi Youko Kurama returning to their home in the old forest somewhere in the middle of the Makai. What follows was an interlude that I had to create and never got the inspiration or material to fill the holes in my dream. There would be some wandering around of the Reikai Tantei and another interaction between them and Surjo. This altercation would have no clear winner and Surjo would escape.

The next meet-up between the two groups would be the last. In the interim (of some substantial time, probably months) there would have been some exploration into Surjo's character in which he would exhibit some odd traits and we get to see him interact with Kurama. I had intended to portray him as having a mix of Schizophrenia and Dissociative Identity Disorder (multiple personalities) that had triggered as a coping mechanism for the traumas he suffered as a child and in the times where I do not show him. This mix would steadily gain control over Surjo's dominant personality and cause complications. This mix, or Second Identity as I am impromptu naming it, is the one that would be present for the final encounter with the Reikai Tantei. Second Identity is stronger and more powerful than Surjo's conscious personality.

Next would have been some epic fight scene where Second Identity practically trounces the Reikai Tantei but then we learn that Second Identity coming out of dormancy and using its specific abilities had some adverse effects on Surjo. Basically, Surjo's body could not handle Second Identity's powers and caused it to degrade and unable to further sustain Surjo's life. Once we have passed this point of no return Surjo is able to work through Second Identity and come to what would be his true self. We would have some speech on his feelings and what Kurama meant to him. Speaking of Kurama, he's …somewhere during all of this. One of those holes that never got filled in. I didn't know whether to have him present at the fight or to have the Reikai Tantei be told where to find him or to have Surjo magick him there somehow. I kind of like the idea of him being present at least at the end so he and Surjo could have some last words like hoping to be friends again in another life or something. Then Surjo passes on. Yes, it would have been a fight where nobody wins, but they got Kurama back. The problem is he is still chibi! So that would lead to:

Kurama is brought back to the Reikai where there is lots of research and stuff being done to see what can be done for his condition. He's there for some healthy amount of time but less than a month. Being of the toddler/kindergarten mentality he goes exploring and gets into some trouble. Most notable I had planned for him to get back on the human plane and have a run-in with his mother while he was in his chibi youko form. (It has always been my personal opinion that Shiori and Yukina are no where as oblivious as they are portrayed to be. It's more complicated than this, but that's all I really need to go into here.) Shiori would find him in the garden using his powers to help the flowers or something and she would look at him as if she wasn't sure if she saw it correctly or not. They both have the feeling that they should know each other, which is important since Kurama isn't supposed to know her or feel she's familiar to him at all. Yusuke would then catch up about this time while the two were talking and try to pass Kurama off as his little cousin who was too in love with his Halloween costume to take it off. (This is before I learned that Halloween is not generally a custom celebrated in Japan, but ah well it was a dream.) She would give him a lollipop and the two would leave.

Yusuke takes him to the park where the shrinking happened because everyone was gathered there since they found a way to reverse the spell. They had to go to the scene of the crime in order to perform the reversal spell which would have been something along the lines of the one to shrink him except backwards. Real original, I know. I debated having Shiori follow (motherly instinct maybe?) and stand off somewhere to watch this. She's going to know somehow. Her son just disappeared for a few months without anything to go off of, I'm sure she rose more than a few eyebrows and connected more than a few dots in that time frame. She would hang back and see the chibi transform into her son and get a kind of confirmation of something. She then sneaks back off without saying anything. (Some point was going to be expanded here, but in order to keep this a summary I will omit it to keep things short.)

Kurama is now back to normal. My dream didn't have much after this but I gave some thought about whether or not he should have any memory of when he was chibified or how it would work out if he did. My feeling is that there should be some sort of memory retention. As in something fuzzy yet definable, but not necessarily with a linear time frame. He doesn't know he was shrunk or what happens when. For example, he was little when the memory was made, but the new memories weren't there the first time he was little, so does a memory of Surjo v. Reikai Tantei place itself in a time frame from his real youko childhood? You can let me know what you think. :)

And that's about it. There would be some last minute thought from Kurama on Surjo and maybe some sort of lesson learned by one or all party members and a mentioning of the tapes and pictures that Shizuru took of the chibi and life goes on. The End.

A/N: And there you have it. I hope that this is at least satisfactory for anyone who was interested in the rest of the story. I apologize again for it never to be completed besides this. If anyone is ambitious and wants a writing exercise I encourage you to write it using the above as a guideline.

As always, please review and tell me what you think. :)

Thanks again to all who have read this!