A/N: Okeday . . . I hope that this chapter will be a little longer. And better.

Disclaimer: Read the other disclaimer baka.

Chapter 3

The two fire demons searched all around for signs of Kurama.

"Baka, this is all your fault you know!'' Hiei snapped at Kizashi.

The girl shook her head. "I know, I should have seen it coming . . . I'm so sorry, Jaganshi."

"We need to look for him, whoever took him can't have taken him far."

"You think that he was kidnapped?"

"Yes."

Kizashi's grip tightened on her sword and muttered, "Yes, I agree. Let's go find him, this is all my fault, and I owe him one anyway."

They then turned away from each other and ran off, searching for signs of Kurama.

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Hiei ran immediately to Yuske's house. He didn't want to admit it, but he would need his help. After he had woken Yuske up and explained everything, the Spirit Detective nearly freaked.

"How fast would they have to be to snatch Kurama out from under the noses of two fire demons!?"

"Hn. Start looking for him."

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"That idiot girl." Hiei thought. "Because of her, a shadow of Kurama's fears has been created. Why can't that girl learn to control her power?"

He stood atop a building his Jagan revealed, hoping to find Kurama somehow. He turned his head and there was a devastated looking Kizashi.

"I couldn't find a single sign of Kurama anywhere." She whispered.

"Do you know what the fear shadow that you created for him is?"

Kizashi looked at Hiei, tears streaming down her face. "I don't really know . . . I only saw a crow flying over Hanging Neck Island."

Hiei thought for a moment then said. "You've created a shadow of Karasu."

Kizashi visibly stiffened. "Karasu? Damn. I have to go try and find and/or try and control it." In a flash the girl had jumped off the building and was running off.

"Hn."

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Kurama woke lying on a cold hard floor. His burned face felt good against the coolness of the cement floor.

He closed his eyes again to think. Someone had used those bombs to distract Hiei and Kizashi while whoever it was grabbed him. Kurama tried to think of all the logical explanations of who it could be, but the only one that he could think of was . . . Karasu. But that was impossible, he had killed Karasu himself.

Suddenly another thought drove Karasu out of his mind. He no longer even felt the burns on his face and arms. A slender female fire demon with long black and auburn hair. Her amber red eyes were filled with laughter. She wore blue jeans and a black tank top as well as a few shiny bracelets. A huge sword was slung across her back.

A smile crossed Kurama's face and he dropped back into sleep.

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Kizashi ran toward Kurama's house. She knew Hiei had probably already checked there, but you never knew. When she arrived, she saw and ambulance and several police cars; Suichi was being loaded into the ambulance.

A police officer walked over to her and said, "Miss, I need to ask you to leave this area."

"Wait, my friend, her son, is he here?" Kizashi asked, pointing to Shiori.

"Suichi, or Suuichi?" The officer asked.

"Suuichi." Kizashi conformed.

"I'm sorry Miss, but he is currently missing. He's the one that injured Suichi. We are starting a search for him."

Kizashi thanked him and walked away. "Curse it." She muttered. "Where do I even begin looking?"

Suddenly as she was walking, she felt as if liquid ice had been poured down her spine. Her eyes widened as she recognized the feeling from one of her shadows.

"Shadow of fire and mind, reveal yourself." She shouted spinning around. Out of the light of the street lamp a tall individual walked. He only seemed visible in the dark, but still one could not clearly make out derails of the personage.

"Master." The shadow said in an odd voice. Kizashi shook her head. It was foolish to show itself in its true form. It didn't have the power of the person that it copied.

"Shadow, return to your void, I didn't summon you."

"I will not." It said, the shadow seeming to deepen.

"Do not even dare to take a form." Kizashi said drawing her sword. "Because then I will be able to kill you."

"Master, do not hurt your slave." The shadow pleaded. "I will hurt no one."

"Then show me where you took Kurama." Kizashi said in a near scream. She felt so many emotions running through her, the main one being a fierce anger toward the shadow that she had been chosen to control.

A laugh issued forth from the shadow. "Fine, I will show you." Its hand suddenly wrapped around her wrist. Kizashi closed her eyes in pain from the touch of a wraith. When she opened her eyes again, Kurama was lying on the floor before her, his eyes barley open. She opened her mouth and started calling out when she was back in the street all alone.

"AAAAAAARRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHH!" She yelled. "YOU STUPID SHADOW! WHY THE HELL CANT I CONTROL YOU?!"

She then ran off to find Hiei to tell him what had happened.

(A/N: Sorry if that wasn't that good. It was mainly explaining things again. aahhhh kuso.)