AN: Wow thanks for that really detailed review Kewla! Most of your questions about the story will be answered shortly... most of them I hope. The one I thought I had already answered sorta kinda but not really, was that Holly wanted to make an 'ally' of sorts out of one of the demons she had just met and since Hiei was running all over the place Kurama was easier to catch. She didn't strip him of his power but she has tapped them so that he cannot use them against her. Yes, she is the escaped Sirine. That I wasn't trying to hide from the reader, even if I haven't come out and said it yet. And as to why she has escaped... that's my little secret... ^_^;; sorry!

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"I know in the United States of America you go to you're different classes," Keiko was saying as they walked into the school building. "But here the teachers move to classes. Understand?"

Holly nodded happily and opened her mouth to reply when a gash spontaneously opened across palm of her right hand and she yelped in shock. 'Shit!' Her mind raced with the sudden knowledge that Kurama must has left this world for one of the others. 'Oh by the Lady this hurts!'

"What happened to you're hand!" Keiko screamed as she rushed to bandage the wound with the scarf of her uniform. "What did you catch it on?"

"I uh... don't know," Holly lied. 'Stupid youko, where did he go? He couldn't have gone to the Makai, could he?' "Thanks for the scarf, Keiko. I think I'll um... go to the restroom and wash this up."

"Sure, I'll show you the way," Keiko gently pulled the other girl in the direction of the bathroom. "Come on."

Once they were there Holly clenched her bag nervously. 'I need Keiko to leave for a second... what to do?'

"Come over here to the sink," Keiko instructed.

Holly did so, taking the now bloody scarf off and placing her hand under the warm water. It stung at first but then started to feel better.

Keiko frowned, "That's deeper then I thought, Holly. We should take you to the nurse."

Inspiration struck, "Can you bring the nurse here?"

"We'll have to take you to the nurse's office," Keiko tried to explain.

"But my hand really hurts if I take it back out of the water!" Holly did her best pout.

Keiko chewed on her bottom lip a moment before nodding. "Don't go anywhere I'll be right back!"

Once the girl was gone Holly sighed and took her hand out of the water and winced. It really did hurt to take her hand back out. "Oh I wish I could just kick that stupid fox's ass!" She said as she knelt down and opened her bag.

"We need him too much," came the soft playful giggle of the bells.

Holly sighed regretfully, "True." She began to hum a soft tune and the bells dutifully sang back to her. Keeping up the tune Holly picked one of the bells out of the mass and held it in her uninjured hand. The bell grew and streched, changing it's color from silver to yellow. Within the blink of an eye Holly held a new clean scarf.

She stopped the tune and looked over her handiwork. This would do just nicely, she didn't want to get the other girl in trouble for not following the dress code.

She winced again, putting her hand back under the water sounded like a really good idea again.


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When Keiko had come back Holly handed her the 'extra' scarf. The other girl's eyes lit up and she gave Holly a hug in thanks. The nurse had then sent Keiko to classes and Holly was to spend at least a few hours in the nurse's office.

Holly sighed at the quiet of the room. It reminded her too much... too much of home. The feeling of dread quickly vanished when she turned to look around her and found a huge window that over looked a huge field, right behind her. "How pretty..." Holly breathed just as the nurse walked in.

"It's just a field, kiddo," the elderly woman laughed. "Don't tell me they don't have fields of grass where you come from."

"We don't actually," Holly replied before remembering that she was impersonating a human girl from 'America'. "I uh... lived in a really big city without much room for fields."

The nurse shook her head, "So I see." She ended the conversation as she picked up Holly's hand and began to rebandage the wound in proper gauze.

While she did that Holly found herself staring back out the window. 'Grandmother always told me stories about the light. Nothing she ever said could have compared to the sheer beauty of daylight. I lived in the dark for far too long... and I'm NOT going back. To HELL with what the Gods think.'


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AN: I was planning on this chapter to be a little longer. But I did a ton of editing to it cause it is kinda slow. But it's important for everyone to sorta understand Holly a little better.

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