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The girls walked up the never ending staircase to the temple, bags weighing each one of them down. Even though Nara and Hotaru had only bought one bag worth of stuff they had somehow got roped into helping Keiko and Botan carry their stuff.

"Next time I say we make them carry their own stuff, no matter how much they beg us to help," Nara said tripping over her feet and almost falling back down the steps.

"That's what you always say, and do we ever do it? No," Hotaru said putting some bags aside to help her friend up.

"Come on you two, stop messing around, we're almost there!" Keiko yelled down at them.

Nara groaned and mumbled under her breath getting back up. Hotaru just sighed and retrieved the bags as they continued their way back up. In no time at all they reached the top.

"Finally!" Nara said sitting down at the top of the steps.

"Don't stop now Nara! We have to get the bags inside," Botan said cheerily.

"Come on the sooner we get these things inside the sooner we can sit," Hotaru said extending her hand and pulling Nara to her feet.

When they walked inside it was completely dark. Nara looked around for the light switch and found it. Turning it on she received the shock of her life, the room was decorated in red and blue streamers. Their was a table filled with every type of junk food imaginable and soda, in the middle of that table was a large cake decorated with red roses and written in blue was 'Happy Sweet 16 Nara.'

"Surprise!" everyone yelled at once.

"What's all this!?" Nara said still in shock.

"It's your surprise party!" Botan shrieked with glee.

"Don't worry Nara I didn't know either," Kuwabara said grumpily. Nara laughed and hugged everyone in thanks.

The party couldn't have been more perfect. Half the time they spent dancing to the sound system Koenma had provided, and the other everyone was either eating or having a conversation.

"CAKE TIME!" Botan yelled, magically pulling out candles and placing them into the cake. Once they had finished singing the traditional birthday song Nara blew out the candles and almost cried remembering how she had spent her past birthdays. She was so happy that she could finally enjoy her birthday with people who actually cared about her. After they had eaten their cake it was time for Nara to open her gifts. She received a CD from Kuwabara, a new pair of caprees and a tank-top from Botan, Koenma gave her a new stereo, Keiko gave her a beautiful pair of earrings and a bracelet, Yusuke got her a new TV set, Hotaru gave her a new laptop, Genkai gave her a tool to help improve her spiritual powers, and Hiei gave her a book he knew she wanted.

"I'll give you my present later," Kurama whispered in Nara's ear once she had finished opening all her other gifts. Nara smiled wondering what it could possibly be.

It was almost midnight when the party started to slow down, giving Kurama the chance to pull Nara off to the side.

"Follow me," he said leading her outside and to their garden.

"What are we doing here?" Nara asked looking around.

"Just stay right here," Kurama said leading Nara to the bench and having her sit down.

He walked away backwards towards a nearby rose bush and plucked one of the new buds off. It was a beautiful bud a dark red and would become a beautiful flower. Kurama brought it over to the bench and sat down next to Nara.

"Our love is just like this rose," Kurama said tracing the outline of the petals with his finger and the bud began to grow, "and like this rose it will grow until one day it blossoms into a beautiful flower," and at that moment the flowers petals opened up and revealed a beautiful ring sitting perfectly in the center.

"This is a promise ring, it's my promise to you that we will be together forever," picking up the ring and placing it on Nara's finger. It had a ruby in the middle with tiny diamonds on the out side.

"Kurama," Nara said breathlessly, "it's beautiful, I love it!"

Kurama smiled and placed a light kiss on Nara's lips.

"Happy birthday," he said quietly. They sat their for a while before they finally decided to head back to the temple. Just as they walked up the pathway the clock turned to 12 and the moon above their heads had light suddenly burst from it.

"Looks like the portals opened up," Nara said looking up at the blue moon.

"Hiei is going to have a hard time dealing with Hotaru now," Kurama said with a smile. Nara laughed at the thought of Hiei trying to control her.

They reached the door and entered the room to the last thing they expected. Hiei had his sword out, Kuwabara had his spirit sword out, Hotaru had flames surrounding her hands, and Yusuke had his spirit gun aimed at several dark figures in the corner of the room.

"What's going on?" Nara asked startled as one of the demons took a step forward taking off his hood. He was a tall man with cerulean eyes and long silver hair pulled into a low pony tail.

"I am Hideki, are you the daughter of Atsuko, Nara?"

"Why do you want to know?" Yusuke asked as everyone moved protectively in front of Nara. Hideki smiled

"I'll take that as a yes. We have traveled here from demon world in search of you."

"ME!? Why would you be looking for me?" Nara said gently pushing Yusuke to the side.

"Because it's your 16th birthday…"

Nara looked at Hideki confusion written all over her face. What did her 16th birthday have to do with these demons coming to see her? Nara looked at Hotaru.

"I thought these demons weren't going to affect us."