The group ran back towards Keiko's house. Keiko ran in and grabbed her
purse. Once she was ready to go, they continued to search for Yusuke and
Kuwabara.
"Perhaps they went to look at the park." Kurama Suggested. "Who knows, we may find them playing on the swing set!" He laughed, picturing in his mind the two teenagers swinging on the playground.
They all laughed as they walked towards the park, wondering what they would find.
"Oh, I forgot I had this in here!" Keiko exclaimed as she pulled a camera from her purse, "Maybe it will be of some use later, anyone want a breath mint?"
"A what?" Ayisa asked.
"A breath mint, it's sort of like that mint paste that you ate last night but solid and not quite as minty as three feet of toothpaste." She explained.
"Oh, no I think I'll pass."
I wonder what Hiei is doing right now. Suichi said that he contacted him with telepathy, but he didn't give us much information as to how to find him. What if he's in real trouble, that look on Suichi's face earlier, something must have happened to him. What if we can't get to him, what if he dies and I never get to see him again? I've had one person taken away from me and I don't want to be hurt again. I know I just met him, but there's just something about him that makes me feel safe, like someone out there loves me. I feel a special bond between us, like our jagan eyes link us together; I never want that bond to break. I know I pretend not to care about anyone, but I can't bring myself to act as if that I don't love him. Life would just be one big mess of loneliness and depression if you just hold yourself in and not express any feelings. I know, I've been there, after I lost Yoko, my heart became frozen and full of hatred. I've never opened myself to anyone since then. But when he fell out of that tree when we first met, I knew that he and I were meant to be, even if I didn't show it much. Ha, I can't believe that just within a few days, my heart has been melted by meeting these people, even if most of them are human. I want to forget my past, to move on to the future, I want to find my brother, to find happiness. That's all I want, just to be happy, to have somebody love me for who I am.
Her thoughts were cut short by the laughed and the clicking of the camera as the rest of the group was watching Yusuke and Kuwabara, not swinging on the swing set, but chasing each other around on the plastic toy equipment and racing to see who's pony on a spring could reach the finish line first. Botan, Yukina and Suichi were watching with baffled looks on their faces as if they were trying to figure out what could have brought the two junior high punks to act as if they were six. Keiko was clicking pictures of the two boys as they made complete fools of themselves.
"These are going in my scrapbook of everything stupid that Yusuke does." She laughed.
Ayisa looked at the Yusuke and Kuwabara's faces and saw their happy expressions.
Just look at how happy they are, they don't care if anyone sees them acting like this, they probably don't even know we are watching them. They're just having fun, that's what I want, to have fun, that's it, I'm going to do it, ok, take a deep breath, I'm about to do something that I would have never done in a million years, ok, here goes!
She ran over to where the boys were digging in the sand box. She started to dig a whole as well. The boys looked at here with shocked expressions, but saw how happy she was, and continued to dig. Without thinking, Botan ran over and joined them, and pretty soon the rest of the friends were playing in the sand. Meep transformed into a mere cat and began to dig tunnels. Ayisa used her glass making powers to create little people and glass houses to place around their holes. All of the kids who had been playing on the playground had stopped and was now staring at the group of teens playing in the sand. One boy's mother came up and grabbed him and glared at the reason for the disturbance in the children's playtime.
"We should really start to look for Hiei." Suichi Laughed.
"Yeah, you're right, let's get going." They all agreed, sad that they had to stop playing so soon.
"Wait, I want to get a picture of all of us for my scrapbook, ok." Keiko said. She walked over to the lady that had glared at them earlier. "Would you take our picture please?"
"Yeah, sure, as long as it gets you kids out of the sandbox and far from this park." She snapped.
The group got into a pose, not caring that they were covered in sand from head to toe, and the lady took the picture. Completely oblivious of how much she stood out; Ayisa ran up to the lady and shook her hand. "Oh, thank you for taking our picture! We've had so much fun and now I'm glad that we'll remember it."
"Oh, yes, well I'm so glad you kids had fun, now run along!" The lady said with a slight change in attitude. She looked at Ayisa and saw how happy she was and forgot to mention how strange she thought it was to wear ears and a tail out in the open when it's nowhere near Halloween.
The gang left the park and headed down by the lake where most of the warehouses were. As they walked past the docks, an old fisherman wearing a rain suit limped out towards them. He looked at Ayisa, his eyes were blood- shot and he wore a panicked expression on his face. Keiko thought that he looked, uh, interesting so she snapped a couple of pictures of him as he was screaming, "They're everywhere! Everywhere! Go away; turn back now before it's too late! If you keep going, it'll only bring you closer to him!" He staggered off yelling more about there being danger everywhere.
"Well, I think we know where Hiei's being held." Suichi assumed.
Ayisa turned back into her fox form and started to sniff out Hiei's scent. She walked slowly on the damp, wooden dock towards the warehouses. Just as she caught his scent, she sniffed out a completely different scent. It smelled like nothing she had ever smelled before. She walked towards the source of the smell and found a huge bag of ningen money hanging from a hook. She had never seen so much money in one place before. She turned around and looked at the others. They were looking through windows of various warehouses. She cautiously jumped up on the crates until she was close enough to touch the money. She put her front paws up against the pole attached to the hook and reached for the bag. Suddenly the crates began to shift and she fell to the ground and lay in a jumbled mess. She turned her head and looked over at where the others had been and noticed that they had moved on farther down the dock. She got back on all fours and all she heard was laughing as everything went dark.
"I thought I heard something back there!" Botan Yelled over to Kurama as she flew in on her oar, it sounded like something fell."
"Let's go check it out, it could have been Ayisa, she must have stayed back." He said. They walked back to where they had started and saw the crates on the ground. He sniffed the air around the fallen boxes and smelled not only Ayisa's scent but the scent of another along with a strong odor. He fell back and covered his nose.
"Kurama!" Botan exclaimed, "Kurama, what's wrong?"
"Something's wrong, there's the scent of a rare gas found only in the Makai hanging in the air around the crates. The smell is so powerful, it almost knocked me out and I only caught a whiff of it, Ayisa must have caught the scent head on."
"Well then, where is she?" Kuwabara asked.
"I don't know, I also smell the presence of another demon, she could have been captured just as Hiei was."
"Another demon? What do they want with Ayisa?" Yusuke asked.
"I'm not sure, but whatever happens, I will save her." Kurama promised. He thought, once we find her, I'll tell her the truth, about who I am and why I haven't told her yet. Then she can be happy, I hate to see her so sad, that moment in the park, she must have gone off the edge, all of her sadness must have built up to where it couldn't be held anymore. She used to do that when we still lived together, before all of the terror, getting all worked up about something one minute and cheerful and happy the next. Pretty soon, she'll go back to how she was before, isolated and full of sadness. I hope that if I can save both her and Hiei, that she can finally be happy with life. He looked up and said, "Let's go back and check through the warehouses and see if we can find them both."
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Ayisa opened her eyes, still in her fox form, she looked around. She saw a door on the opposite side of the room and she began to walk towards it. But without warning, as she took her first step, she fell forward, with a loud crash. She looked at her legs and saw large shackles binding her legs together.
Then, someone started to laugh. It was the same laugh she had heard right before she blacked-out. But what was strange was that almost as if the voice was laughing in her head. She frantically looked around to see as to where the laughter had come from, but there was no one around.
All of a sudden, a man appeared from out of the shadows. "At Last!" He triumphantly stated. "I have captured the legendary bandit: Yoko Kurama!" Fang, not knowing that this was Ayisa, kept right on gloating. "I've searched for years and always, I have come short of finding you. I can now kill to birds with one stone! You'll pay, just like Hiei, for what you did to me in the past. You've been missing for almost sixteen years now and it is I, Fang, who have finally captured you. What do you have to say to that? Come on; show me your true form." He pointed at the fox and demanded that she do as he says.
He thinks that I'm Yoko, what will I do when he finds out that I'm not? I can't believe I fell for such a simple trap. Well, I better do as he says, I may even find Hiei.
She began to transform back to her original state, her arms and legs still shackled together. "Are you happy now?" She asked with a hint of sarcasm.
"Wh wait, you're not Yoko Kurama."
"No Duh! Aren't you bright."
"This is all wrong; I have no use for you." He groaned, "Well, there's no use in letting you go, you'll just have to go to the storage room." He took out another canister or knock-out gas and through it at her. Again, everything went dark. "Sweet Dreams my dear."
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"Ayisa!" The voice seemed so far away. The captured kitsune tried to remember where she had heard the voice before. She had no idea where she was or what had just happened. "Ayisa! Ayisa, say something."
She opened her eyes and looked up. Hiei was kneeling next to her shaking her shoulders. She jumped up and without thinking, gave Hiei a hug and a kiss. "Oh, I missed you so much!" She cried still hugging the demon. She looked into his red eyes and suddenly started to blush and released him. "Oh, I'm so sorry."
"Don't worry about it. Where are the others?"
"I don't know, we were all outside looking for you and I saw a big bag of money and before I knew it, this guy is complaining to me because I'm not Yoko. She looked at her hands and realized that they had been unshackled.
"I released your hands, but he has an incredibly strong hold on the ones around our legs." He explained. "You need to be careful when you talk to Fang. He gets inside your head and enjoys playing with your memories. You also need to be alert and be sure not to do anything to upset him just yet, we need to create a plan to get out, but he won't hesitate to kill you, because to him, you're not needed, you're just someone he can't release because you know too much. So be careful."
She was surprised by how protective Hiei was being, but loved having someone worried about her. I'm so happy! He actually cares about me! What would I have done if I hadn't met him? I'm so glad he's safe. But what do we do now? Suichi and the others are bound to come sooner or later, right? I guess Hiei and I will just have to wait for them to come.
"So Hiei, why did Fang capture you in the first place? Did you do something to upset him in the past, and did Yoko do anything to him too?"
"Yes. When I was very young, I was near death lying close to the forest. A band of thieves found me. Their leader, Fang, took me in and made me one of their own. They were savage beings, but I learned to survive and fight under their careful watch. I used my katana and would attack demons, and loved to see them scream in agony. But I was considered weak by the other bandits who compared my strength to Fang's; he was strong and had no mercy. He could bring down a whole village of demons just by getting inside their minds and driving them insane. Fang became the most powerful demon thief and his reputation began to spread. Pretty soon, the Legendary Bandit sent an assassin to kill Fang because Yoko felt that Fang was becoming even more powerful and skilled than he was. The assassin failed and was killed by Fang, but not before the beaten assassin yelled, "I die in with the honor of trying to fulfill The Legendary Spirit Fox's orders." He fell silent and I saw it all. Fang, now furious at Yoko, declared that we attack your brother's lair and kill him. We wandered the Makai in search of the spirit fox and as they slept, I would train. I pushed my self to the limits and beyond. I soon believed that I was stronger than Fang himself. After many nights of training and days of walking, we came close to where we believed Yoko's lair to be. The night before we had planned to attack, I declared a win or lose fight with Fang confident that I would win and I desired more power. He accepted and we each chose a weapon. The fight began and I chose my katana and he decided to use his mind tricks. During my nights of training, I had increased my speed considerably and my sword skills were swifter than ever. But every time I would try to strike him, he would make it appear I was hitting him, but I was really just hitting a see-threw image of him while he escaped unharmed. Our fight went on and it was by chance that I was able to strike him. I asked him a single question and he suddenly lost all concentration and thought to much on the answer and less on his fight. I swung my katana and sliced through his rough skin. He fell to the ground and breathed the last words I heard come out of his mouth, "Please don't kill me, don't leave me alone." He blue eyes turned black and he didn't move. The other thieves backed away, too scared to say anything. They all ran leaving me standing next to their fallen leader lying in a pool of blood. I thought he was dead. I thought,"
"That's right, you though I was gone forever. Well, you were wrong." Fang sneered as he walked into the room, "I survived, and the wound you inflicted on me healed with time, but I still have the scar." He said as he lifted his shirt to reveal a long, thin scar slicing though his chest. "I searched for you for ages, I wanted my revenge, and now I'll get it. I had hoped that those elvin lizards to capture you, but the stupid low-class demons only got sliced up as I had. This time, you won't out-smart me, I will be victorious."
"Just who do you think you are?" Ayisa yelled out, "You couldn't even tell me from Yoko, any superior demon could tell the difference. I, Ayisa Kurama won't let you hurt any of my friends, they've helped me in so many ways that they don't even know. I won't let you take them away from me."
"Crap!" Hiei whispered.
"Kurama you say? Now this could get interesting." He smiled. "You wouldn't happen to be related to Yoko Kurama by any chance now would you, maybe his sister perhaps?"
"Uh, woops! Heh heh, forget I said anything."
"Oh, no, no, no, I was wrong before, you're more use to me than I thought. Yoko would for sure come to rescue his sister, would he not? I'll leave you two here for now." He looked at their unshackled wrists and muttered something under his breath and new, stronger cuffs bound their hands together.
"Perhaps they went to look at the park." Kurama Suggested. "Who knows, we may find them playing on the swing set!" He laughed, picturing in his mind the two teenagers swinging on the playground.
They all laughed as they walked towards the park, wondering what they would find.
"Oh, I forgot I had this in here!" Keiko exclaimed as she pulled a camera from her purse, "Maybe it will be of some use later, anyone want a breath mint?"
"A what?" Ayisa asked.
"A breath mint, it's sort of like that mint paste that you ate last night but solid and not quite as minty as three feet of toothpaste." She explained.
"Oh, no I think I'll pass."
I wonder what Hiei is doing right now. Suichi said that he contacted him with telepathy, but he didn't give us much information as to how to find him. What if he's in real trouble, that look on Suichi's face earlier, something must have happened to him. What if we can't get to him, what if he dies and I never get to see him again? I've had one person taken away from me and I don't want to be hurt again. I know I just met him, but there's just something about him that makes me feel safe, like someone out there loves me. I feel a special bond between us, like our jagan eyes link us together; I never want that bond to break. I know I pretend not to care about anyone, but I can't bring myself to act as if that I don't love him. Life would just be one big mess of loneliness and depression if you just hold yourself in and not express any feelings. I know, I've been there, after I lost Yoko, my heart became frozen and full of hatred. I've never opened myself to anyone since then. But when he fell out of that tree when we first met, I knew that he and I were meant to be, even if I didn't show it much. Ha, I can't believe that just within a few days, my heart has been melted by meeting these people, even if most of them are human. I want to forget my past, to move on to the future, I want to find my brother, to find happiness. That's all I want, just to be happy, to have somebody love me for who I am.
Her thoughts were cut short by the laughed and the clicking of the camera as the rest of the group was watching Yusuke and Kuwabara, not swinging on the swing set, but chasing each other around on the plastic toy equipment and racing to see who's pony on a spring could reach the finish line first. Botan, Yukina and Suichi were watching with baffled looks on their faces as if they were trying to figure out what could have brought the two junior high punks to act as if they were six. Keiko was clicking pictures of the two boys as they made complete fools of themselves.
"These are going in my scrapbook of everything stupid that Yusuke does." She laughed.
Ayisa looked at the Yusuke and Kuwabara's faces and saw their happy expressions.
Just look at how happy they are, they don't care if anyone sees them acting like this, they probably don't even know we are watching them. They're just having fun, that's what I want, to have fun, that's it, I'm going to do it, ok, take a deep breath, I'm about to do something that I would have never done in a million years, ok, here goes!
She ran over to where the boys were digging in the sand box. She started to dig a whole as well. The boys looked at here with shocked expressions, but saw how happy she was, and continued to dig. Without thinking, Botan ran over and joined them, and pretty soon the rest of the friends were playing in the sand. Meep transformed into a mere cat and began to dig tunnels. Ayisa used her glass making powers to create little people and glass houses to place around their holes. All of the kids who had been playing on the playground had stopped and was now staring at the group of teens playing in the sand. One boy's mother came up and grabbed him and glared at the reason for the disturbance in the children's playtime.
"We should really start to look for Hiei." Suichi Laughed.
"Yeah, you're right, let's get going." They all agreed, sad that they had to stop playing so soon.
"Wait, I want to get a picture of all of us for my scrapbook, ok." Keiko said. She walked over to the lady that had glared at them earlier. "Would you take our picture please?"
"Yeah, sure, as long as it gets you kids out of the sandbox and far from this park." She snapped.
The group got into a pose, not caring that they were covered in sand from head to toe, and the lady took the picture. Completely oblivious of how much she stood out; Ayisa ran up to the lady and shook her hand. "Oh, thank you for taking our picture! We've had so much fun and now I'm glad that we'll remember it."
"Oh, yes, well I'm so glad you kids had fun, now run along!" The lady said with a slight change in attitude. She looked at Ayisa and saw how happy she was and forgot to mention how strange she thought it was to wear ears and a tail out in the open when it's nowhere near Halloween.
The gang left the park and headed down by the lake where most of the warehouses were. As they walked past the docks, an old fisherman wearing a rain suit limped out towards them. He looked at Ayisa, his eyes were blood- shot and he wore a panicked expression on his face. Keiko thought that he looked, uh, interesting so she snapped a couple of pictures of him as he was screaming, "They're everywhere! Everywhere! Go away; turn back now before it's too late! If you keep going, it'll only bring you closer to him!" He staggered off yelling more about there being danger everywhere.
"Well, I think we know where Hiei's being held." Suichi assumed.
Ayisa turned back into her fox form and started to sniff out Hiei's scent. She walked slowly on the damp, wooden dock towards the warehouses. Just as she caught his scent, she sniffed out a completely different scent. It smelled like nothing she had ever smelled before. She walked towards the source of the smell and found a huge bag of ningen money hanging from a hook. She had never seen so much money in one place before. She turned around and looked at the others. They were looking through windows of various warehouses. She cautiously jumped up on the crates until she was close enough to touch the money. She put her front paws up against the pole attached to the hook and reached for the bag. Suddenly the crates began to shift and she fell to the ground and lay in a jumbled mess. She turned her head and looked over at where the others had been and noticed that they had moved on farther down the dock. She got back on all fours and all she heard was laughing as everything went dark.
"I thought I heard something back there!" Botan Yelled over to Kurama as she flew in on her oar, it sounded like something fell."
"Let's go check it out, it could have been Ayisa, she must have stayed back." He said. They walked back to where they had started and saw the crates on the ground. He sniffed the air around the fallen boxes and smelled not only Ayisa's scent but the scent of another along with a strong odor. He fell back and covered his nose.
"Kurama!" Botan exclaimed, "Kurama, what's wrong?"
"Something's wrong, there's the scent of a rare gas found only in the Makai hanging in the air around the crates. The smell is so powerful, it almost knocked me out and I only caught a whiff of it, Ayisa must have caught the scent head on."
"Well then, where is she?" Kuwabara asked.
"I don't know, I also smell the presence of another demon, she could have been captured just as Hiei was."
"Another demon? What do they want with Ayisa?" Yusuke asked.
"I'm not sure, but whatever happens, I will save her." Kurama promised. He thought, once we find her, I'll tell her the truth, about who I am and why I haven't told her yet. Then she can be happy, I hate to see her so sad, that moment in the park, she must have gone off the edge, all of her sadness must have built up to where it couldn't be held anymore. She used to do that when we still lived together, before all of the terror, getting all worked up about something one minute and cheerful and happy the next. Pretty soon, she'll go back to how she was before, isolated and full of sadness. I hope that if I can save both her and Hiei, that she can finally be happy with life. He looked up and said, "Let's go back and check through the warehouses and see if we can find them both."
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Ayisa opened her eyes, still in her fox form, she looked around. She saw a door on the opposite side of the room and she began to walk towards it. But without warning, as she took her first step, she fell forward, with a loud crash. She looked at her legs and saw large shackles binding her legs together.
Then, someone started to laugh. It was the same laugh she had heard right before she blacked-out. But what was strange was that almost as if the voice was laughing in her head. She frantically looked around to see as to where the laughter had come from, but there was no one around.
All of a sudden, a man appeared from out of the shadows. "At Last!" He triumphantly stated. "I have captured the legendary bandit: Yoko Kurama!" Fang, not knowing that this was Ayisa, kept right on gloating. "I've searched for years and always, I have come short of finding you. I can now kill to birds with one stone! You'll pay, just like Hiei, for what you did to me in the past. You've been missing for almost sixteen years now and it is I, Fang, who have finally captured you. What do you have to say to that? Come on; show me your true form." He pointed at the fox and demanded that she do as he says.
He thinks that I'm Yoko, what will I do when he finds out that I'm not? I can't believe I fell for such a simple trap. Well, I better do as he says, I may even find Hiei.
She began to transform back to her original state, her arms and legs still shackled together. "Are you happy now?" She asked with a hint of sarcasm.
"Wh wait, you're not Yoko Kurama."
"No Duh! Aren't you bright."
"This is all wrong; I have no use for you." He groaned, "Well, there's no use in letting you go, you'll just have to go to the storage room." He took out another canister or knock-out gas and through it at her. Again, everything went dark. "Sweet Dreams my dear."
*******************
"Ayisa!" The voice seemed so far away. The captured kitsune tried to remember where she had heard the voice before. She had no idea where she was or what had just happened. "Ayisa! Ayisa, say something."
She opened her eyes and looked up. Hiei was kneeling next to her shaking her shoulders. She jumped up and without thinking, gave Hiei a hug and a kiss. "Oh, I missed you so much!" She cried still hugging the demon. She looked into his red eyes and suddenly started to blush and released him. "Oh, I'm so sorry."
"Don't worry about it. Where are the others?"
"I don't know, we were all outside looking for you and I saw a big bag of money and before I knew it, this guy is complaining to me because I'm not Yoko. She looked at her hands and realized that they had been unshackled.
"I released your hands, but he has an incredibly strong hold on the ones around our legs." He explained. "You need to be careful when you talk to Fang. He gets inside your head and enjoys playing with your memories. You also need to be alert and be sure not to do anything to upset him just yet, we need to create a plan to get out, but he won't hesitate to kill you, because to him, you're not needed, you're just someone he can't release because you know too much. So be careful."
She was surprised by how protective Hiei was being, but loved having someone worried about her. I'm so happy! He actually cares about me! What would I have done if I hadn't met him? I'm so glad he's safe. But what do we do now? Suichi and the others are bound to come sooner or later, right? I guess Hiei and I will just have to wait for them to come.
"So Hiei, why did Fang capture you in the first place? Did you do something to upset him in the past, and did Yoko do anything to him too?"
"Yes. When I was very young, I was near death lying close to the forest. A band of thieves found me. Their leader, Fang, took me in and made me one of their own. They were savage beings, but I learned to survive and fight under their careful watch. I used my katana and would attack demons, and loved to see them scream in agony. But I was considered weak by the other bandits who compared my strength to Fang's; he was strong and had no mercy. He could bring down a whole village of demons just by getting inside their minds and driving them insane. Fang became the most powerful demon thief and his reputation began to spread. Pretty soon, the Legendary Bandit sent an assassin to kill Fang because Yoko felt that Fang was becoming even more powerful and skilled than he was. The assassin failed and was killed by Fang, but not before the beaten assassin yelled, "I die in with the honor of trying to fulfill The Legendary Spirit Fox's orders." He fell silent and I saw it all. Fang, now furious at Yoko, declared that we attack your brother's lair and kill him. We wandered the Makai in search of the spirit fox and as they slept, I would train. I pushed my self to the limits and beyond. I soon believed that I was stronger than Fang himself. After many nights of training and days of walking, we came close to where we believed Yoko's lair to be. The night before we had planned to attack, I declared a win or lose fight with Fang confident that I would win and I desired more power. He accepted and we each chose a weapon. The fight began and I chose my katana and he decided to use his mind tricks. During my nights of training, I had increased my speed considerably and my sword skills were swifter than ever. But every time I would try to strike him, he would make it appear I was hitting him, but I was really just hitting a see-threw image of him while he escaped unharmed. Our fight went on and it was by chance that I was able to strike him. I asked him a single question and he suddenly lost all concentration and thought to much on the answer and less on his fight. I swung my katana and sliced through his rough skin. He fell to the ground and breathed the last words I heard come out of his mouth, "Please don't kill me, don't leave me alone." He blue eyes turned black and he didn't move. The other thieves backed away, too scared to say anything. They all ran leaving me standing next to their fallen leader lying in a pool of blood. I thought he was dead. I thought,"
"That's right, you though I was gone forever. Well, you were wrong." Fang sneered as he walked into the room, "I survived, and the wound you inflicted on me healed with time, but I still have the scar." He said as he lifted his shirt to reveal a long, thin scar slicing though his chest. "I searched for you for ages, I wanted my revenge, and now I'll get it. I had hoped that those elvin lizards to capture you, but the stupid low-class demons only got sliced up as I had. This time, you won't out-smart me, I will be victorious."
"Just who do you think you are?" Ayisa yelled out, "You couldn't even tell me from Yoko, any superior demon could tell the difference. I, Ayisa Kurama won't let you hurt any of my friends, they've helped me in so many ways that they don't even know. I won't let you take them away from me."
"Crap!" Hiei whispered.
"Kurama you say? Now this could get interesting." He smiled. "You wouldn't happen to be related to Yoko Kurama by any chance now would you, maybe his sister perhaps?"
"Uh, woops! Heh heh, forget I said anything."
"Oh, no, no, no, I was wrong before, you're more use to me than I thought. Yoko would for sure come to rescue his sister, would he not? I'll leave you two here for now." He looked at their unshackled wrists and muttered something under his breath and new, stronger cuffs bound their hands together.
