Glossary:

Jubaan Shopping District. - A highly popular shopping area in Tokyo.

Ecomancer- One who has the ability to effect an aspect of the ecology around them.

In Kurama's case he has the ability to control plants.

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He was swiftly running along the River Styx panicking slightly, he only had two

hours to make it the entire way to the office of the "toddler" Koenma. He wasn't quite

certain if he was going to make it. It was then something snapped him out of his thoughts

and he looked up at a somewhat familiar sight.

The ferry girl, Botan was smiling down at him ridding her oar. She seemed to have a

passenger in the form of an elderly man. There was nothing overtly special about the

man, other than his hands were sliding up the blue haired pilots waist, only to be cut off

by a sharp elbow jab to the spirit's stomach. Kurama could only sigh and shake his head

then a thought hit him.

"Botan, would you transport me to Koenma.........please." He tried to feign a

Shuuichiesque smile, but his heart wasn't into deception at the moment, merely the

prospect of freedom. The Blue haired woman merely quirked a brow, and gained a look

of utter curiosity.

"Are you feeling alright Kurama?" Before she even realized it he was already

seated behind the spirit of the deceased senior citizen. Botan merely jumped from shock.

"Yes, but please hurry, I don't have much time." The fox sounded tired, the drain

on him to pull of this act of rebellion was wearing at him quickly and it didn't help him

that Shuuichi was furious.

Botan merely grumbles under her breath that she didn't agree, but decided to take

him anyway. It was only a short five-minute ride with her flying at full speed. Kurama

gripped the hand of the spirit as it held on to the oar for dear un-life, flapping in the

breeze with a look of utter fear in his eyes.

The fairy girl went through the tedious act of announcing herself at the two great

doors of the palace. Though these inside were baffled briefly at the rapid succession of

the announcements. What they didn't know was Kurama, not wanting to waste time had

grabbed both Botan and the spirit, and raced down the halls with them in tow. After all

was said and done, and paperwork having been filled out, he had a mere thirty-five

minutes left to plead his case with Koenma. He could only assume thirty-five, though he

was uncertain at how much longer he could keep the furious Shuuichi at bay.

"Ah Kurama, what brings you here? I'm quite busy." The toddler was rapidly

stamping individual sheets of paper, there were massive stacks to both sides of him and

he showed no sign of stopping anytime soon.

"I wish to either disembody Shuuichi from this body, or disembody myself from

this body and take one that isn't inhabited." Plain and to the point, he did not have time to

mess around with colorful language, his eyes were calm, but despite all of his control, the

golden hues hinted at desperation.

"WHAT?!" The toddler's eyes shone in pure shock, as his pacifier slowly drops

from his mouth his stamp stopped on the paper its on before a loud thud to the right of the

demi-god echoes throughout the room. Yes the mighty ogre has fainted upon hearing the

gingitsune's words.

The toddler takes a moment to recover before coughing and trying to keep a

professional appearance. There is a slight poof of fog around him before he reappears in

his older form. The fox's thoughts beamed in optimism at this, unlike his warden who

was quite irritated with the notion of being kicked out of a body that was his to begin with.

"I was under the assumption that this was a merger, and a merger cannot be undone.

Am I to understand this is in fact a duel inhabitation of souls?" The now teenage Koenma

inquired. This was very important, because if such was the case, Shuuichi had been lying

about all the times he transformed into the demon form, and perhaps other things

concerning the silver fox.

"Indeed......agh......." That was all he was able to get out before his mind

screamed in pain as Shuuichi began to wash over him. This was obvious as now he was

on the floor clutching his head, as his hair began to flicker from pure red, to silver once

more. His reversion back seemed perhaps a little more violent that what had been

witnessed priory by the demi-god, in his observation of the legendary thief.

Ever since these transformations had begun, Koenma had been keeping tabs on the

boy to be certain that he did not slip back to his prior life style. Mostly Koenma had spent

countless hours watching the silver fox think, keeping to himself, and on numerous

occasions mix various plants into potions and ingesting them. One time stuck out in the

demi-god's mind distinctly.

It had been a year ago, the silver fox had been out, but he seemed to have a look of

determination in his eyes before his image became a blur on his monitor. He had lost him,

though a half hour later he was able to relocate the youkai standing on the top of a tall

skyscraper in the middle of the Jubaan shopping district. He had peered over the edge

once, before stepping away silently strolling to the middle of the roof. He sat down,

without a word and took out a rather colorful seed from his hair, Koenma at the time had

no idea what type of seed it was, and it was at that moment Botan had entered his office.

He asked Botan what Kurama had in his hand, the blue haired girl to one glance at the

seed, screeched something about poison, and was out of his office before the toddler

could blink an eye. Kurama had stared at the seed for quite some time before the fox had

tried to eat the seed, only to have his had smacked with the oar. If Botan had gotten there

any later...

"What happened, where am I?" Shuuichi asked innocently enough, still dazed by

his hurried take over. He slowly sits up on the floor, his left hand drawn to his aching

head, still not having opened his eyes.

This was enough to snap the Teenage Koenma out of his thoughts. It all made sense

now, why Kurama's personality was completely different with both forms; why one form

could remember everything, but the other could not, and why the silver fox had tried to

become a permanent resident of the Rei-kai.

"Botan, detain Shuuichi. He is not to return to the Ningenkai without my consent."

Botan nervously nods her head and proceeds to walk towards Shuuichi, only to have him

run by her, push her down, and dash out the door.

"Damn it! Botan Go get Yusuke tell him what's going on! Kurama, no Shuuichi

must be apprehended!" He yelled at his errand girl before delivering a message over the

public announcement System.

"ATTENTION! KOENMA SPEAKING. WE HAVE AN ESCAPEE, RED HAIR GREEN EYES AVERAGE HEIGHT, HE MAY METAMORPH INTO A TALL MAN SILVER HAIR, GOLDEN EYES FOX EARS AND A TAIL OR A SILVER KITSUNE. THIS ECOMANCER IS CONSIDERED EXTREMLY DANGEROUS. APPREHEND AT ONCE. THAT IS ALL."

He closes the PA line, sighing softly before he goes back to his paper work stamping

away as the red alert sirens go off. This was not good the toddler thought.....not good at

all.

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Aikousha no Gingitsune.

Devoted Fan of the Silver Fox.

Konada Mikari