Hiei checks Tora's pulse...

"Un... You..." Tora's eyes blinked once then shut again.

"Hm?"

"You just wait... I'll be up in a second..." she paused, "A few seconds..."

Hiei stood up then fell to his back next to Tora.

Aurora yawned, "Oiee... I think that's all you need to know. So..." her ears fluttered, "Oh, do you hear that? Hm. Gotta go!" she scampered away, leaving Kitsune with Kurama again.

"Aurora!" Kurama sighed then turned to Kitsune, who looked in the direction Aurora went, "It's getting late. Do you know where your mom will be staying?" Kitsune shook her head. "Well... I guess we can walk around for a while until she comes to find you."

Tora raised her head; feeling like her insides had been squished. She could see the feet of Hiei and she thought it'd be easy to attack him now but that just didn't seem very fun. Instead she stood up to see if she could even move. After a few minutes of shaking off the pain she turned her attention to Hiei once again. He was still out so she kicked the side of his leg.

"Wake up! It's time to finish this!" Hiei wiggled slightly, "Hey!!! Get up!"

Hiei opened his eyes to see Tora looking down on him, "Grr... Fine. Just step away and I'll stand up."

Tora stepped back a few feet, waiting for him to rise, "Okay then. Now, will you get up?"

"Alright! Just shut-up! Iee!" Hiei was up on his knees when Tora kicked his chin, forcing him back to the rock surface, "Dammit! Why the Hell did you do that!"

"That was for pulling me off the cliff!"

"You were going to fall anyway! Your arms would have given up pretty quickly!" Hiei rubbed his chin, getting back up.

"GRR! Get up now! So I can finish you!"

"Finish ME! I think you were the one who was about to be finished! Ow!" Tora punched his face then he sneered, and they were fighting once again.

Hiei did an uppercut and Tora was dropped into the water. She got up with the water at waste-high and let her fists glow. Hiei didn't hesitate to attack again. He jumped at her, kicking her face. That made her twirl almost sinking under the water. Then she shouted, "STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN!!!" and this commenced a combo attack as she threw three spheres of bright energy at Hiei's feet. He was lifted high into the air being hit three times, rising like stairs. Then Tora shouted, "HEAVENLY LIFT!!!" and she threw another sphere down but right at her own feet to bring her above Hiei's level, very high in the sky now. Hiei had an expression of pain, as Tora was emotionless when she shouted another attack, "HELL'S HAMMER!!!" and she straightened her body, locking her fists together then slamming them into Hiei's back. He fell a lot faster then when he came up. He thought to himself... Damn. This could actually be the end. What did I do!? No! I must live... I just have to... Of course he was coming closer and closer to the ground now.

Tora was falling; unusually slow with her arms crossed when she whispered, "Hmph. I guess his lesson should be learned now." Tora then vanished and reappeared a mile below Hiei. She hovered above the ground waiting for him. When he came to her level, she sliced her leg horizontally, knocking Hiei into the cliff wall.

"Argh!" He groaned then slid down the wall to the sandy beach.

Tora raised an eyebrow with a frown on her face, "You shouldn't have continued to infer me as weak," she looked at his headband. "You know..." she paused, walking over to Hiei, and he was still trying to catch his breath, "I get the feeling that there is something behind this..." He didn't say anything, mostly because he couldn't and just let Tora see his Jagan eye. "Wha-I knew it! A third eye-the Jagan eye-Why didn't you use it?"

Hiei took a moment to answer, "...Because... I didn't think I would have to..."

"Well, do you think you can change your mind?"

"...Maybe...later."

Kurama's eyes grew wary with Kitsune's arms rapped around his neck. She was perched on his shoulders, fast asleep. Kurama was just sitting on a bench, a different one now, overlooking the forest and the ocean. The sun was gone now and the sky was full of stars. He crossed his arms, trying to stay awake. Out of the corner of his eye he could see Yusuke and Kuwabara approaching. They both had their hands in their pockets and they also looked tired.

"What are you guys doing up so late? And why are you here?" Kurama asked keeping his voice soft.

"Oh, hi Kurama. We got kicked out of that hotel we were staying in because of a fight, this genius, chose to get into. Right in the hotel lobby," Yusuke mumbled.

Kuwabara snapped, "Hey, they should expect fights since they know that we are going to compete in the Flying Dragon Tournament!"

"Quiet! Kitsune's trying to sleep," Kurama quickly warned.

Kuwabara raised an eyebrow and scratched his head, "What kitsune? Wha- What's on your shoulder!?"

"Be quiet!" Kurama lowered his voice, "I'm watching Kitsune for a... for someone."

"Who?" Yusuke inquired, standing up straighter.

"Well, uh. A demon girl."

"Yeah, I guessed that much. This little kids got furry ears and a bushy tail..." Yusuke looked closer at Kitsune's twitching ears.

Kuwabara held his chin, "A girl, huh? A pretty girl Kurama? What's she like?"

Kurama thought about that, "...Hm... She's a fox demon and Kitsune is her daughter."

"Oh. So she's old then..."

Kurama snickered, remembering how old Aurora told him she was.

"What's so funny?" Yusuke shuffled his feet around in the dirt.

"Well, her appearance might tell you that she is around... maybe sixteen or seventeen but she is actually a little over seven hundred is what she told me."

"...Seven hundred???" both Yusuke and Kuwabara said.

"Yes. Aurora, that's her name, has quite a strange story. She is actually a past life of another girl named Tora who is also in this town somewhere..."

Now Yusuke scratched his head, "Wait... How could they BOTH be in the same time period?"

"That's what I asked her. She told me that she had come here through a time portal in Spirit World," Kurama paused when Kitsune squirmed a little, "...Koenma brought Aurora here when he had found out that she had a daughter who was suspended from life until recently. Kitsune. Aurora didn't know she had a daughter because her memories of Kitsune were completely erased by Akkei. He was actually the father and also the one who put Kitsune in animated suspension. She was kept in a crystal capsule made of a lot of stolen spirit energy."

"So, what the Hell does that mean?" Yusuke said.

"Is that guy still alive?" Kuwabara squealed.

Yusuke raised an eyebrow, looking over at Kuwabara, "Why? You scared?"

"NO!"

"Keep your voices down," Kurama warned again, "Aurora doesn't know if he is still alive but Koenma probably does and keeping a person in such a powerful environment for such a long time more than likely means that when Kitsune grows up more, she will be powerful..."

"Good powerful or bad powerful?" Yusuke's voice cracked at the thought of him having to be busy with another case.

Kuwabara leered at Yusuke, "Kitsune's father's name was Akkei. You know what it means. Like evil scheme; trick..."

"Shut up! I know what it means. Oh, well. At least it won't be for a few years before this little toddler grows up," Yusuke sighed in relief.

"I think, perhaps we should ask Koenma about this situation..." Kurama suggested.

"Why? If it really were that important, he would have come to us by now. Right?" Yusuke wined.

"Yeah, I guess he would have, huh?" Koenma piped up, walking towards them in his teenage form.

Yusuke whirled around, "Grr... Why the Hell do you have to sneak up on people like that?"

"I think you've rested enough, Hiei," Tora mumbled. She was sitting down on the beach, also regaining the energy she had lost.

Hiei stood up, "So, you want to fight with the Jagan eye..." Tora nodded, "You do realize that you will suffer painfully..."

"From what I've seen, I've come to the conclusion that you're all talk."

"Let's test that..." Hiei's Jagan eye opened and he and Tora took fighter stances, "You will regret what you have done."

They watched each other, waiting for some one to make a move. Finally Tora cocked her head and took two steps then disappeared. Hiei darted his eyes around, searching for her. Her spirit energy had vanished. She emerged from the wall behind him and called out, "Demon Dagger!" It was the attack she had used on the lower class demon. Hiei took the hard hit and slammed right through a bunch of the rocks in the water. They shattered to pieces when he reached the surface of the water. Quickly he got out of the water and stood on one of the flattened rocks. He began to gather spirit energy while he waited for Tora to come forth. She came up behind him again as Hiei had expected and he turned and shouted, "DRAGON OF THE DARKNESS FLAME!!!" Tora gasped and her only option to receive less damage was by forcing herself backwards for it was much too late to use the Heavenly Lift. Instead she yelled, "WINDS OF DOOM!" Then she realized that doing this could actually destroy both of them and Hiei also knew this but both of their attacks had already been released. Fear had overcome them. Both of them tried to do what they could to escape. The area exploded with all the energy and lit up brilliantly.

"Ah! What was that!?" Kuwabara squealed after they had felt the ground shake.

The three of them looked towards the ocean to see a flash wear down. The ocean surface seemed to turn a different color as well. Kitsune woke up after brief earthquake and her eyes widened along with the others.

Yusuke said, "She we go see what that was?"

Koenma settled back into a cool position, "You probably should... So get moving!"

"Aw... Fine! Let's go, Kuwabara..."

Kuwabara nervously laughed, "Oh. Heh. Heh. Yeah, okay."

--Should I make the chapters longer?--