Kenji walked down into the dining hall, surprised to find that he was the first one at breakfast. Usually Kurama or Nara was already up enjoying a nice peaceful breakfast before the rest of the family interrupted. He smiled greedily to himself as he took in all the food that had been prepared for them, rubbing his hands together.

"Where to start?" he asked himself. He grabbed a plate and began to fill it to the point of overflow with a variety of breakfast food. He sat himself down in his usual comfy spot at the table and began to chow down, wondering why the parents weren't up yet. His cousins he could understand since they had worked themselves to exhaustion at the days training session. But the parents, he couldn't understand why they were sleeping in so late, what could they possibly be doing to make them so tired.

"Thanks for waiting," said a sarcastic voice. Kenji looked up, a piece of bacon hanging from his stuffed mouth. Akira gave him a disgusted look as Kaito came up behind her, rubbing the sleep from his eyes.

Kenji swallowed, "snooze ya lose." He said as he continued feasting.

"Save some for the others!" Kaito yelled as he made a plate for himself. Akira sat down in her seat and began to make her plate, noticing that the placemats and silverware were still in their parents spots.

"Did mom or dad ever come down?" she asked.

"No, everyone's still asleep; I was the first one up this morning."

"That's weird…"

"What's weird?"

All three teens looked up to see Yusuke and Kuwabara emerge from the doorway.

"Well you guys are up at least," Kaito said smiling up at his uncle.

"Yeah, why wouldn't we be? Where's Nara at I have a bone to pick with her."

"She's not up yet, neither is dad. That's what was so weird, they're usually up by now."

"Well maybe she's with Hideki or something," Yusuke suggested, sitting down and serving himself, "I'll have to talk to her later."

Later on in the day all the teens were gathered out in the gardens lying around in the sunlight. They had all mutually agreed it was too hot to be training. Akira and Nina were under a tree reading a book, Akira down at the base of the tree and Nina a few branches over her head. Kenji and Aya were looking at some plants as Kenji tried to impress her with his abilities. Kaito was under a tree napping. While Jiro sat under another tree across from Akira his eyes fixed on her, a sketch book in his hand and a pencil in the other. Akira looked up and saw him looking at her and blushed. Jiro often was scene drawing, a talent he discovered he had several years ago, and his favorite model was Akira.

"Why don't you stop starring and start doodling!!" Nina yelled, reading her friends mind as always.

"Just trying to make sure I got everything perfect." He said making Akira blush more.

"Stop harassing each other," Nara said walking out into the gardens and peering over Jiro's shoulder. "Not bad Jiro, you could become a great artist one day."

"Thanks but I don't think so." Jiro said hiding his picture a bit. Nara shrugged and walked over to sit next to Akira.

"Hey mom, did you just get up?"

"No I've been up for a while now."

"Where's dad?" Akira asked.

"He's still sleeping."

Akira was shocked at this and couldn't help but allow her mouth to open slightly.

"Is he sick?" she asked getting worried; she knew that her father ran himself on a tight schedule and never slept in.

"No, I think he just decided to sleep in today," Nara laughed, "He's been getting lazy lately."

"That doesn't sound like dad." Akira said, "Maybe we should have a healer give him a checkup."

"Oh no he's fine Akira, just let him rest, we are on vacation somewhat. Even your father deserves at least one day to slack off, don't you think?"

"I thought we came here 'cause grandfather needed to talk to you about something important?"

"Oh that? It's nothing you need to worry about; it was just your grandfather being a worry wart that's all."

Akira looked at her mother and was about to say something when Akio walked up, interrupting their conversation.

"Lady Nara, I need to speak with you a moment."

"All right I'll be right there," Nara said getting up and brushing off the back of the kimono she was forced to wear for the day, "I'll see you later at dinner Akira."

Nara walked into Hideki's room and glared at Akio who was sitting by Hideki's side, Hotaru and Hiei on his other.

"What is it?"

"We have a problem," Hotaru said.

"What is it?"

"Follow," Hiei said leading everyone but Hideki out of the room.

The walked down the hall and reached the door of Nara and Kurama's room. Hiei opened the door and ushered everyone in before closing and locking it behind him. Hotaru guided over to the side of the bed where Kurama was sleeping. One look at his face told Nara what the problem was, Kurama's face was contorted in pain, his face sweaty making his hair cling to his cheeks. He was resisting the change.

"So what do we do? Do we kill him?" the supposed Nara asked looking at her comrades.

"No, we need him in order to pull this off. But if we don't do something soon, he might as well be dead…" Akio said frustrated.

"We need you to give him another one since your body is closely related with his it might work." Hiei said.

"Right, leave it to me."

With those final words the others left the room, leaving Nara to her task.