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LOL!! Shadow Sora, good job! I get a couple of reviews from a friend and it turns into like 2000 reviews. Oh, well...Happens I guess. My luck.

OK, Raenef and Eclipse will have more significant parts later..Just read you'll see.

Anywho this is what you've all been waiting for! There's a slight, slight Hiei/Crim part, and a Kia(Crimson)/Miko part. And of course, Kurama/Botan!!!

The Dark One


**Crimson's Dream/Flashback

"Come my dear Kianta, we have much to do, much to plan for."

"Who are these guys?" Kianta looked at the two before her. One of them resembled a girl, blue hair, his bangs hanging down over his eyes and pulled back into a ponytail, the other had long black hair, which he let fall out over his shoulders freely.

"I'm.." The one with blue hair started but was cut off by the other.

"He's is Lord Raenef, and I'm Eclipse." He said.

"Miko, why do we need these guys?" Kianta crossed her arms uncomfortably and slightly angered.

"I figured we could use their help, being that this is a very big job."

"Uh, you may, I can do better on my own." Kianta said.

Miko wasn't about to take no for an answer, he wrapped his arms around her waste and whispered in her ear. Although it was so soft it was inaudble even to her, it still sent shivers down her spine.

"F..Fine," She pulled away quickly, embarassed that he was having this affect on her, "But if they mess me up even once..."

Miko smiled and walked away feeling happy that he had won, Raenef and Eclipse close behind.

"So....What are we doing?" Raenef asked stupidly as they walked away.

Kianta just frowned, "How can he control me like that? Why do I let him?" She thought allowed. "He doesn't ever feel like I do, he's a true thief, yet..." Kianta smirked. "I'm his former apprentice and now his partner and I still beat him out."

Kianta's head suddenly began to spin as her surrounding swirled into a mass of colors. As she tried to stop herself from passing out the colors reformed and became yet another room. She found herself in the arms of Miko.

"Uh, Miko? But you're dead!"

"Kia, do you know why I brought you here?" He said ignoring her.

"No, not at all." She looked confused as Miko took his finger and touched the tip of her nose.

"I wanted to explain to you why I asked Raenef and Eclipse to help us that day, and why you aren't dead right now."

Kianta was speechless, she had never known there was an actual reason to his actions.

He trailed his finger down to her lips, "I didn't want you to get hurt."

Kianta's eyes widened in shock, and Miko just smiled.

"I hired them to keep you safe when I wasn't there." His smile faded slightly.

"I don't understand..."

"Kia, do you remember what really happened that day..."

"What do you mean?" Kianta suddenly got angry. "You went and got yourself caught..."

"To save you from myself."

"What are you talking about Miko?"

"Kia, there's something you should know. I'm not who you've always believe I was."

"Well duh, I figured that when you tried to kill me!" Kianta was starting to feel like she was talking to a child.

"Kia, I never would have killed you!" For a split second she thought she saw the old Miko, the cute eyes, the ones that told her he loved her. "I love you Kia."

Kianta looked ready to kill him. "No you don't!" She convered her ears expecting him to repeat himself.

"Why does that hurt you so much? Because you don't love me correct?"

"Remember when I got caught, your dreams, the way you'd scream my name in your sleep?" He smirked and kissed her on the forehead, "You felt something then right?"

Kianta opened her mouth but then felt Miko's lips upon hers. "What the hell are you doing?" She pulled away, although something in her didn't want to.

"Just saying goodbye, and I should give you something that is rightfully yours." Miko held out his hand and conjured his axe.

"Wha?" Kianta managed as he handed it to her.

"This is yours, I took it." Kianta looked up at him confused and he turned away looking weak. "I didn't want you to be involved in what I was, so I got myself caught and told Raenef and Eclipse to watch over you." He started to breath deeply, "When I pretended to try to kill you, it was just so I could get you away, but that boy...The one you're in love with..."

"Wait hold on, no!" Kianta tired to keep going but Miko's laughter silenced her.

"You cannot hide it, you love him. Which is why I had to die, when Eclipse blasted you he knew it wouldn't kill you." Miko fell to his knees quite suddenly. "There's something I must tell you." He gasped. "You're not who you think you are."

"Miko, shut up, you're an idiot! Be quiet! Please don't die." Kianta felt her arms wrap around his waste as he feel back.

"Kia, your...parents...you're...you're....not hum...a.." Before Miko could finish his body became limp and he feel into a deep sleep, called death.

"Miko, you will always be in my heart." Kianta smiled as the room around her began to fade, and the darkness closed in on her.

"It came from this way!" Botan's voice rang down the seemingly endless hall.

"Hiei!?" Kurama shouted into the darkness.

Hiei heard his name being called somewhere down the corridor, he tried to get up but realised he was being clung onto, not only that but he was also wrapped around...Crimson!? He tried to wriggle himself free, making the sleeping girl stir.

"She looks so innocent when she sleeps." He smirked. "Hn, wish that was the only time I had to look at her." Although inside it tore himself up to hear those words come from his mouth.

Suddenly Crimson gasped and began to squirm, Hiei still in wrapped tightly in her arms, "Mm, eh, Miko, no..."She moaned lightly, "No, I don't love him...".

Hiei watched as she began to break into a sweat, but that wasn't what caught his attention, it was her bracelets, they were being to glow.

"What is that?" Kuwabara's voice rang out down the now lit hall.

"Shadow's bracelets..." Botan said.

"Did you just say shadow?" Koenma said changing the subject, not seeming to care much for the light.

"Yea she said her name was Shadow Crimson when we first met." Yusuke answered for Botan.

"It's Kianta Crimson." Hiei said not taking his eyes off of sleeping girl and her glowing arms.

"You're kidding!" Koenma cried out making Hiei lift his gaze. "Kianta Crimson...She's...She's a legend, you can't tell me this girl, this thief..."

"Did you say thief?" Kuwabara asked.

"Yes, if you didn't realize it at first..."

"Why is she a legend?" Kurama spoke up.

"Ah yes. Let's see...My father told me once about a goddess who was very powerful and her love, who was a human. She bore his child, yet, if she were to have it, the child die, being that a human cannot survive in the god's living environment."

"But we're ok here..." Kuwabara once again interuppted.

"I'm a demi-god!" Koenma got angry. "As I was saying. The mother intrusted her child to the father, who guess what! Died!" Koenma said rather cheerfully. "Anyway, the child was then left to live on it's own. Her name was said to be Kianta Crimson. Who would have ever guessed the story was true, and a half-god would become a lowly thief!" Koenma laughed.

"Hn." Hiei turned back to the sleeping girl, her eyes suddenly popped open, shocking him a bit.

"Hello Kianta." Kurama said walking over to her and grabbing her hand, making Botan's stomach drop.

"Don't call me..." She began but stopped when she noticed that her braclets were glowing. "What? No, so it's true then...Miko..." She thought allowed and got up slowly, Kurama's hand falling away from her own. She turned to Hiei and met his eyes for a moment before turning again and walking away from everyone.

"Cri..." Botan said, wanting to run to her.

"Leave her." Hiei warned.

Kurama walked down the opposite end of the hall, not really knowing where he was going, being that he was too obsessed with Koenma's story. "How does it end?" He thought, his concentration suddenly being broken by footsteps behind him.

"Kurama?" Botan said.

"Hello Botan, something bothering you."

"Actually yes." Botan said shyly. "How do you feel about...."

"Yes?"

"Crimson."

"I like her as a friend, why?" Kurama asked sweetly, yes suspiciously.

"I there's something I need to tell you." Botan said.

"Yes?"

"Kurama, do you care for..." Botan paused again. "Me?"

"Botan?"

"I care for you!" Botan cried out, no longer able to hold back her feelings.

"Of course I care for you, I always have. But Botan you never told me, how you felt." Kurama walked over to her.

"I was afraid you liked Crimson, and that there was no hope for me, and I still wonder, is there?"

Kurama didn't answer her but instead placed his lips on her own.


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