He walked along the side of the waterfront and then he suddenly stopped. He looked out into the shallow water over to the otherside and sighed. His long red hair blew along side of his face as the winds started to pick up. "Maa naa." he said to himself. "There's nothing I can do." He sat there thinking of everything they've all been through in the last five years. Out of everyone in the group he felt alone. "Yusuke has Keiko, Hiei has Yukina and Kuwabara... well he has his sister, who do I have? Mother?" he thought to himself but to him that didn't count for much they all had mothers living or not. He sat there quietly hoping maybe he could come up with another reason for being in the human world other than his mother. He loved her no matter if he wasn't human.

A little across the way down the waterfront a red haired girl was running. She was being chased by low life demons. "What are you?" she yelled at them.
"Come on little girl we just wanna play it's not like we're gonna EAT ya or anything." There were about four of them all from the Demon World.

The girl ran as fast as she could she even through rocks and whatever else she could find to hit them with. "Dame da, this isn't going to work." As she ran she tripped on a rock but lucky for her she caught herself and jumped to avoid falling on her face. She stood face to face with them and stared at them. "Bakemono da! What do you want from me? You want me come and get me." They all stared at her with that 'invitation' she just gave them. "Dame." And she continued to run this time one of them caught up to her.

"Don't be afraid this will only hurt for maybe even two seconds" one of the demons told her.
"IYYYAAAAAAA!"
"What was that?" Kurama got up on this feet and sprinted to where he saw the demons hovering over the girl.
"LET GO OF ME YOU FUCKING MONSTER!" she yelled. But they just laughed at her.
"Let her go," a voice called out to them. Kurama stood there looking caviler and smiled. "You should let her go. Harming girls isn't what demons do is it?"
"Ehh? What? Who are you?" they asked him.

He snickered and smiled, "You don't need to know my name." and he whipped out his whip, "Rose Whip!" and knocked off the head two of the demons. Kurama stood there with his whip in his hand, the girl looked at him.
"What... Wha..." she looked at Kurama and she saw the outline of another form. He has silver long streaks mixed with his red hair, a tail and ears. "What... is that?"
Kurama was fighting with the other two, "Ahh... you two aren't as weak as those two."
"Shut yup you fucking human."
"Human...ka..." he thought to himself.
The girl was on the ground looking at him. The two monsters jumped in the air toward her.
Kurama, "Yamai." he ran and jumped in front of her, "Rose whip!" and they he vanquished the two monsters. He looked down at the girl who was on the ground. "Daijoubu kai?" she looked at him.
"His eyes..." she thought to herself, "his eyes are so kind". Kurama helped her up. "What were those things?" she asked him.
"They're lower class demons from another Realm."
"Demons?" She looked at him again and saw a completely another form. He stuck his hand out, "I'm Kuram..."
She slapped it away, "I don't care. You could have gotton yourself killed and it would have been my fault." she snapped at him.
"Oi oi... I don't look that weak do I?" He said laughing.
"Hmp." she sneered at him but looked back at him, "Demo... Arigatou. I'm Anemone Kurenai. But you can call me either name." The girl stood up straight. Her hair was bright red like his but you can see about an inch of black roots coming out. She wore a long skirt with slits on the sides that went all the way up to the end of her hips but she had black short shorts underneath. Her top was a cut off fishnet long-sleeve with a black halter top on top. She brushed her hair to the side and she had four earrings on one ear and three on the other.

"Anemone Kurenai?" he laughed.
"It's not like Kurama is a normal name."
"Gomen gomen." "This girl... is strange." he thought to himself as he started laughing to himself too.
She stood there with her arms crossed, "And what's so funny."
"Nothing." he coughed and caught himself together. "Well I'll be going."
"Wait." She yelled back at him as he turned and started to walk away.
"What?" he turned back at her.
"Ano... nevermind. Thank you." A sad facial expression ran across her face.
He looked at her, "Where are you headed?"
"Eh?"
"Well if you don't mind hanging with a guy named Kurama..."
She smiled and walked toward him. "Ii kanjirou." she said to herself.

They walked over to the bridge and stood on it looking at the horizon of the sun going down. They stood there quietly nothing being said.
Kurama spoke, "Do you know why those demons were after you?"
"No. I didn't even know there was a realm like that. I mean you hear legends, stories but that's all I thought of them," "...well not really...."
 Just then two of her friends came up running toward her. "Kurenai! Oi Kurenai!" they stood before them all out of breath.
"Yuukochan? Asukachan?"
"Where did you go? You ran out of the ice cream parlor so fast. Where did you go?" They both looked behind her and saw Kurama. "Minamino Shuichi-senpai?"
"Minamino Shuichi-senpai?" she turned around and looked at him looked at him and started laughing.
"Maa..."
"You don't know him Kurenai?" she nodded her head no. "Mou..." they pulled her over to the side. "How can you not? He's in your class."
"Maji? I never noticed."
"Remember Yuuko she doesn't attend class that often and when she does it's not like she's actually there."
"Hey!" and they all laughed. They walked back over to him.
"How do you know Kurenai, Minamino-senpai?"
"Aa. I remember seeing her vaguely in class from time to time." actually he didn't he just has good hearing since he isn't really human.
"Are you two..." Asuka nudged Kurenai.
"Sou na koto nai." she said.
"Ehh?"
"Senpai?"
"Ehh?? maa..."
"Oi! Daho!" and she hit him.
"Sugoii." he said to himself. "I feel a strange every coming from her." he said to himself.
"Well we just wanted to make sure your ok. It looks like you just ran off to meet with him." they both giggled.
"Omae ga!" she yelled.
"Ja na Kurenai. Mata yoru denwa suru ne!!" they both waved and ran off the other direction.
They both stared at them and then looked at each other and looked away from each other.
"Too close" she thought.
Just then three figures walked toward them. She jumped and turned around.
"Oi! Kurama!" Yusuke, Hiei and Kuwabara walked up to them.
Yusuke, "Kurama! Where ya been? We've been looking for you." They looked next to him to see the girl. "Who's the girl?"
She looked at him, "Hmp. Girl? I'm more of a woman than you can handle that's for sure you puney boy. Shoo shoo." shooing him off.
"Hey!"
"Maa maaa." Kurama waved his hand. "This is..."
"Anemone Kurenai dayona" she stood in front of them. She was taller than Hiei, about the same height as Yusuke, a little shorter than Kuwabara and Kurama. "Yoroshune" she smiled.
"What's with this girl? She can't even speak proper Japanese" Yusuke said with a sarcastic tone.
"Some of us didn't grow up here."
Hiei stepped in front. "What are you doing with Kurama?" he asked her abruptly.
"Eh?"
"Oi oi. This is Hiei, the other one is Urameshi Yusuke and the tall one is Kuwabara."
"Kuwabara?"
"You know me?" he pointed to himself as if it was a good thing.
"You always get beat up by Yusuke-kun and some of the teachers don't like you."
"Ehh?? NA... NANI!!??" They all laughed.

They all walked off the bridge, "We should go somewhere else." Kurama suggested.
"I'm going home." she told them.
"Wait. I want to talk to you." Kurama stopped her. She couldn't say no because she already knew what he was going to talk about. She followed them to Kuwabara's apartment.

"Neechan! Inai no ka?" Kuwabara yelled her name but no answer. "She's not here."
"You think?" Kurenai smirked.
"Why you!" Kuwabara darted toward her but Hiei got in front of him.
"Stop it" he turned to her, "So?"
"So...? Kurama was the one who wanted to talk."
"Aa." They four guys sat in front of her while she sat on the other side of the table. "Kurenai-san, Asukachan said she didn't know why you ran off. But you were clearly being chased by demons."
"Demons?" Yusuke blurted out spitting out his soda.
"Aa. Four of them. Two of them were lower ranking while the other two actually gave me a little work out."
Hiei, "What happens when you don't fight for a long time."
"Tashikani..." he looked back at her.
"Shiraneza" she told them looking down. She was holding her cup of tea, "I don't know. I ran because I saw them coming, I don't know why they didn't see them."
"Only you saw them?" Hiei asked.
"Un." she nodded, she looked up at him and saw his 3rd eye and other eyes all over his body. "What? What is that? Where did they come from?" she had a spooked out look on her face.
"Nani?" Hiei said. They all looked at him but he was still dressed in his black clothing.
"Naze? Why are all those eyes staring at me??" she asked, she looked terrified, she covered her eyes. She opened them again and looked at Yusuke and Kurama. Yusuke had the tattoo's and she could see his long black hair with blond streaks running down it. Kurama had taken Youko's form. "What are all of you?"
"What?" they all looked at each other.
"Masaka!" Kurama went toward her and grabbed her arms. "Kurenai! Anemone!! Oi!" her eyes cleared and they were all back to normal.
"You can see us?"
She backed away. "Your monsters. You're all monsters." She said. "I want to go." as she got up she fell back down and grabbed her chest. "My chest it hurts. What's this feeling??" thoughts raced through her head but she passed out.

The guys sat around Kuwabara's room while Kurenai lay in his bed sleeping.
Yusuke, "Kurama what did you mean when you asked her if she could see us?"
"I think she can see our true forms. You as your father Raizon, Hiei with his 3rd eyes and me as Kurama Youko."
"What?" exclaimed Kuwabara and Yusuke. "How?" Hiei sat quietly.
"I don't know but it would explain why she could see the demons chasing her and no one else could." They all looked at her.

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'dream'
"Youko-sama!!" a girl with long black hair ran toward him. "Youko-sama!"
"Kurenai" Youko held her. "You should go back before you get in trouble again"
She nodded no, "I don't care. I want to be with you."
"Oi oi. What if they all found out us?"
"I don't care."
Two guards came out and spotted them, "There they are!"
"Run Kurenai!"
"No!" she stood there and this glow came from her body.
"NO!! KURENAI!!"
"Youko-sama, aishiteru, anata ha wasurenai de, ne? watashi ha wasurenai..." she smiled
"KURENAI!!"
'end dream'

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"Youko-sama!" she yelled out and shot up. "Youko-sama??"
They all looked at her.
"She said 'Youko-sama'" Yusuke repeated.
She looked at them and looked at Kurama, "Youko-sama..." tears came from her eyes. He went over to her. "Youko-sama, gomennsai gomennasai." she hugged Kurama.
"Kurenai? What are you talking about?"
"Oi Kurama you sure you don't know her?" asked Kuwabara "Maybe your denying it because of the way she looks. I mean she looks great but maybe..."
"Baka" Hiei hit him over the head.
"Hiei temee" he scrowled at him.
He turned back to Kurama and Kurenai.
Yusuke, "Kurenai," she said to her, "You called him Youko-sama."
She looked at him and then at Kurama. "Yume no naka he, yume wa mita ka."
"Eh?"
"In my dream, I saw you in my dream." she put her hand on his face, "Your face... your eyes they were different from right now," she ran her fingers through his hair and she saw the silver streaks run through his red hair, "your hair... it was long and silver too." Tears started to run down her face, "Kurama Youko-sama is what I called you. But it wasn't me at least I don't think. It was me but I had long black hair, my eyes were different." She looked over to the other three. "Omaetachi. Earlier you," she pointed to Yusuke, "You had all these tattoos and your hair was long and brown with blond streaks and you," pointing to Hiei, "You have all these eyes all over your body. That's why I freaked out before. It scared me." Then she looked back at Kurama, "and you... your hair was all silver and long, you had golden eyes, a tail and were wearing a white outfit just like in my dream."

They all sat in silence.