Disclaimer: I don't own anything.! All of the character, except for Mari, belong to someone else, that sadly isn't me. ^__^ By the way this story takes place after the series has ended so it may contain spoilers. Warning: The boy's mouths are very fowl. So the rating is R for that.

Chapter 3 The End of the Fight

Mari crashed against the youkai. He took hold of her shirt and flung her away from him. She flew until she crashed into the trunk of the tree that she had been sleeping in just moments ago. The youkai loomed over her and smirked. He raised his foot to kick her and she covered her head with her hands.

The smirk died from his lips as Hiei's sword plunged into his heart and he collapsed into the ground in a heap.

"What the hell was that all about?" Hiei snarled at Mari as he helped her to her feet.

"I think a scythe is too large of a weapon for me to hold. I don't have the power now to keep it materialized long enough." she said and looked down, her bangs covering her eyes.

"Interesting" Kurama thought and filled the small slip into his memory.

"So you can make stuff, huh?" Yusuke asked sounding impressed.

"Yeah" Mari said looking up at Yusuke.

"Hey, make something!"

"Okay." Mari held her hand and a flower materialized out of nowhere to float above her hand. The flower was a white lily, looking very fragile in the moons light.

"Wow!" even as Yusuke breathed those words the flower started to whither and Mari plucked it out of the air. She crushed it in her hand and let it fall, before it reached the ground it had disintegrated into nothing.

"I can't keep it alive for long. That's why it's easier to make solid weapons and other non-living things, then something living", she said.

Botan had revived at this point. She looked around confused. As she spotted the three boys standing near Mari she bounced up and elbowed the guys away from her.

"Sorry, but I need to talk to Mari for a second". Botan took hold of Mari's even more torn up sleeve and pulled her out of hearing range.

Yusuke and the others just shrugged and went to wake up Kuwabara.

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"What do you think you're doing? I thought that we had gone over this!" Botan said pulling Mari into a crouch.

"Well I never thought that defending myself would be considered a crime", Mari said deliberately ignoring the real meaning of Botan's words.

"You know what I mean!" Botan said seething.

"Yes, like I could do nothing else", Mari said and pulled her shirt collar down revealing a dog-collar seeming thing, with a bell.

"Put that away right now!" Botan said suddenly terrified.

"As you wish", Mari grinned toothily and pulled her shirt collar up.

Botan relaxed and let go of Mari's sleeve.

"You know perfectly well that Kurama could recognize you and then our cover could be blown!" Botan said.

"I don't see the point of all this secrecy, or this collar. It's not like I would ask him to escape or something".

Botan looked at her sideways.

"You never said how well you knew him", Botan said turning around about to walk off.

"We where thieves, we worked together. and you can use you're imagination from there", smirking Mari turned and started to walk toward the camp. Botan paled and tried to grab hold of Mari again. She evaded her easily and kept on walking.

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"What do you think that they are talking bout?" Yusuke asked while he kicked Kuwabara.

"How should I know?" Hiei said and jumped into a tree.

"I'll try to get some rest, finally" he stated and was quiet.

"What do you think, Kurama?"

"I don't think that it is any of our business. They can talk about what they want", Kurama said trying to get a new fire going. It would still be a couple of hours till dawn.

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Hiei took the white cloth hiding his third eye and concentrated on the two figures that where walking towards the other side of camp. He wasn't afraid that Yusuke or Kuwabara would suspect anything, Kurama would see to that.

"There is something wrong with that girl.no normal girl could have used her spirit energy to conjure up something like that without braking into a sweat" he thought while listening to their conversation.

"'.you wish'" he heard the girl say.

"'You know perfectly well that Kurama could recognize you and then our cover could.'" the words faded out.

"What?" Hiei tried to concentrate again. Nothing happened.

"She couldn't be blocking my Jagan eye!" Hiei said grinding his teeth.

He looked towards the two girls. Mari was looking at his tree. Their eyes met and then Mari converted her eyes on Kurama who had gotten a fire going by this time. She smiled while walking towards him, crouching next to him grinning.

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"Hey, Kurama! You think that we could get something to eat in this place? I'm starved!" Mari said.

Kurama looked at her.

"Why is she suddenly so friendly?" he thought.

"Yes. We could get something. Botan! You have that pack of yours?" Kurama said to Botan's figure coming closer.

"Right here!" Botan said grinning a very convincing grin and conjured a pack out of nowhere.

"Wow! I'm starved! Give it here!" Yusuke said and he started to go through the pack getting out sandwiches and drinks all around.

Hiei jumped down from his tree and even Kuwabara got up hearing that there would be food.

"Yum! This is great!" Kuwabara said stuffing his face.

"What do you think, Mari?" Kurama said smiling.

"It's okay", she answered eating her sandwich.

"How did you do that anyways?" Yusuke asked Botan.

"Do what?" Botan said eating her sandwich, sulking.

"Just make these pack out of nowhere?".

"Spirit Detective gadget number 23, the instant lunch pack! Never leave without it!" Botan said reverting to her old-self again holding up a small round object in the air.

"Okay", Yusuke sweatdropped and smiled.

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A/N: I remembered to but the a/n this time.*sweatdrop*. No one really reads this stuff but I'd just like to say that:

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I almost spilled the beans in this chapter and told you peoples who Mari is. but then I didn't. Well, you can guess.^___^

Go read my bio if you want to know what kind of person Sessha is *points at herself, and gets knocked out by a wall that randomly falls on her*

Sessha.thinks..that...is.all.@__@

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