Author's Notes: There are sometimes reviews I get that say that
they're kinda like the characters that I created. Some say that I describe
the feelings of a person quite well because they have felt the feeling
before. I try my best to put a lot of detail and reality into the emotion
and personality of a person. My older stories are very exaggerated
personalities, so I tried to improve a bit.
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It was the next day after school and Hikari was about to go home when she felt a hand on her shoulder. She turned around and it was Kurama. She then said turning around " Kurama! Did Hiei give you the picture?" Kurama smiled and said " Yeah, he gave me the picture. Um... I know I told you my name was Kurama, but could you call me Suichi? That's what most people call me." Hikari smiled back and said " Sure... Suichi." Suichi then asked Hikari " Where are you going?" Hikari responded with " I'm going home. What else would I be doing?" Suichi said " On a Friday!? Come on." Suichi pulled her the opposite way. Hikari asked " Where are we going?" Suichi then said " We're going to hang out at my house with Yusuke, Kuwabara and Hiei." Hikari didn't ask questions. She just went with him.
When they got to Kurama's house, Hiei, Yusuke and Kuwabara were standing in front of the house, waiting for him to let them in the house. He then let them in and they headed to his room. Kurama then said " I'll be right back with pizza." He then closed the door behind him.
Yusuke then said " Ok ex-spirit detective, we want to know why you taken off the spirit detective team." Hikari's smile then sunk into a frown. She then said with a disgusted glare " I don't have to tell you anything. This is between me and King Yama." Yusuke slammed her against the wall and yelled " I'm not giving you choice!" Hikari then said with a smirk " Wanna know why I got fired off the team? I discovered my sixth sense then. All the demons I killed were haunting me. They were making me go crazy. I was a safety hazard to all spirit detectives who have killed a demon. They could get into my head and control my actions and mind." Yusuke let go of her shoulder and said " You can control your power better now right?" Hikari then said "Yeah, but it doesn't make a difference. It's possible I am still vulnerable to their hauntings." Kurama accidentally turned the knob, revealing his eves dropping as he fell into the room. He then got up from the floor and said " I might have something to help you with your hauntings." He dug in his pocket for something and pulled a necklace with a silver rose on it and put it in Hikari's hand saying with a warm smile " I always carry it with me. It's suppose to keep evil spirits away." He then folded her hand over the necklace. Hikari smiled back and said " Thank you Suichi." Hiei then broke their eye contact by saying " It doesn't mean she can still become a spirit detective. King Yama might not reaccept her." Kurama responded to his negative comment with "We'll put in a good word for her. I'm sure it won't be hard since she has more control over her power."
A thunder came upon the room and King Yama appeared. King Yama then said " I don't need any of your excuses to rehire her to her post. I have a job for her. Ms. Tsuki, I am assigning help from Hiei, Kurama and Yusuke. Your mission is to go to the Dark Forest. You have to arrest a phantom demon called Kage." Hikari then said with a smirk " Tell me why exactly you need me for this particular mission." King Yama then answered her with " He has the ability to change forms. He has been disguising himself as other people and things to avoid his capture. You are able to see ghosts, so it would help tremendously if you could use your sixth sense to help find him." She nodded her head yes. King Yama then said " I'll send you there now since I need this done as soon as possible." King Yama then sent them to the edge of the Dark Forest.
Yusuke then said scratching his head " I wish he would have said which part of the forest we're suppose to look in." Hikari then said " There are ghosts every where, but a phantom usually has evil intentions. A phantom is usually just a ghost with evil intentions. Few can be visible to the human eye or anyone else for that matter. The number of them that can change forms are quite rare." Hiei walked ahead of the tree and said " We wont be able to find it if we stand here all day." The three followed Hiei Hikari started walking next to Hiei. Hiei felt like he had to say something. He then said " Was this what you did when you were a spirit detective, or were you a decoy?" He tried making it sound sarcastic, but she answered with " I did a lot more than this. I helped King Yama do the paper work. I went on special missions. I got things for him. From what he said earlier, I'm going back to my old post and I'll be working a lot more often. I might not be able to have you model for me as often anymore." Hikari's pupils grew smaller as she sensed the presence of a ghost. There a very old Cherry blossom tree stood. It was sure to have seen the phantom. Hikari ran to the tree and touched her hand two it. She then used her mind to speak to it's ghost. She said " Have you seen a shape shifting phantom in this forest recently?" The tree responded with " Ah... let me see dear. Yes, I think I have, he was a mean one he was. He threatened to cut me down when he tripped over my long and old roots. I believe he went south in the form of a young boy. Be careful dear, I wouldn't want you to loose your pure soul." Hikari then said " Thank you for the information. May I ask your name?" The old tree then responded with " You may call me what you like. I have no permanent name." Hikari then said " I shall name you Ruka then. Your blossoms are truly beautiful enough for an earned name such as that. We can be friends if you like. The trees' ghost then said " I would like that." When Hikari took her hand off of the tree she turned around and said " The phantom is in the form of a young boy and went south, but be on guard. He might have changed by now." There was a sound behind Hikari. Hikari looked behind her and saw the ghost of the tree in a younger state. Her hair long and red. Ruka then said " I was to be reborn soon anyway. I would like to journey with you to find the phantom before I am reborn as a human and become useless in information." Hikari nodded her head.
They started walking south. They saw a couple of animals, but none of them triggered as a phantom to Hikari's senses. A longer ways south they found a house. Hikari knocked on the door to the large mansion. A young man answered the door and said " Hello, may I help you?" Hikari then said " Yes, we are looking for a phantom that might have taken the form of a young boy. Have you seen anything strange or a little boy around?" The young man then said " No, I have not seen such a thing around. Sorry I couldn't help." Hikari then said " Thanks anyway. we should be off." She turned around about to leave when she felt the young man's hand fall upon her shoulder. she turned around as he said " It is getting quite dark my lady. Would you like to spend the night with your comrades?" Hikari responded by saying " I suppose it would be all right." She then turned back to the group and said " Is it all right if we spend the night you guys? It is getting dark." Kurama nodded his head yes as the others made no gesture to disagree. As Hikari walked into the door way the young man took her hand and kissed it saying afterwards " You may call me Tomokazu my lady." Hikari blushed a bright red. Hiei grew jealous and broke them up saying " I will share a room with Hikari if it makes less trouble. The young man said with an annoyed stare " Actually, I only have two guest rooms, so you'll have to share."
The young man then showed them to their rooms. Hiei was sharing a room with Hikari as he said he would. Hiei took his shirt off and put it on the night stand. The young man had given Hikari a night dress to put on. She walked out of the bathroom connected to the guest bed room in her night dress. She was holding the back of her night dress because she couldn't button the last six buttons. Hikari then asked Hiei " Hiei, could you button the rest of this? I couldn't reach back there." Hiei walked over to Hikari and pulled her hair over her shoulder. He slowly buttoned the last six buttons. He paused as he finished buttoning the last button. He visualized himself sliding his hands around Hikari and holding her against his chest, breathing down her neck as she blushed and let him kiss her neck. He then came back to reality and let go of the last button. When Hikari turned around Hiei saw her blushing. His heart burned with a certain feeling. He did know what it was. It was making him have visions of her and him. He didn't know why he was though. Hikari then said " I want to thank you for posing for my pictures again." She then gave him a hug. Hiei paused as he was shocked at her open personality. He then returned the hug, staring at the ground thinking to himself. He wasn't sure at all what this meant. This feeling was quite new to Hiei. Was he sick? There was only one person who might know. Kurama specialized in sicknesses. He probably would know what was wrong with him. Hikari released her hug from Hiei and said " I've been hearing people say you're negative, but I still think you're a god person." She gave him a large smile and then turned around to her bed and slipped under the covers. Hiei then opened the door and said " I'll be right back. I'm just going to see Kurama."
Hiei then walked to Yusuke and Kurama's room. He opened the door and said " Kurama, may I speak to you outside the room for a minute please?" Kurama nodded his head yes and stepped outside the door closing it behind him. Kurama then asked " What is it you wanted to talk to me about?" Hiei then said " I think I'm sick. I've been getting this feeling around Hikari." Kurama then stared down with a thinking face and said " Were their any side effects to your sickness. You could have an allergy. Possibly something in her clothes or her shampoo or something." Hiei then said " I've been having visions of her and me." Kurama then asked " Of you and her doing what?" Hiei blushed a bright red and was about to tell Kurama when Kurama realized his blushing and said " Oh...Hiei. You're not sick." Hiei then said with irritation " What do you mean I'm not sick?! I have all these symptoms. You can't tell me that I'm not sick." Kurama then said " Well I suppose humans call it love sick, but it isn't sickness. You have discovered a human emotion. It's called love." Hiei then said with a questioning look " Love?! What is that?" Kurama put his thinking face trying to find out how to explain love to a demon who hasn't heard or discovered the feeling till now. His face then lit up as he thought of a way to explain. He then said " It's a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person." Hiei's pupils grew smaller in his realization of his crush on Hikari. He wasn't sure quite how he was going to be able to act normal around Hikari. Kurama then chuckled and said " Hiei, I hope she feels the same way about you." Kurama thought it was cute that Hiei had a crush on someone, but Hiei responded to his floaty behavior by grunting and crossing his arms with annoyance.
Hiei finally went back to his room. He saw Hikari on the bed. He wasn't sure if she was sleeping or not, but she was facing the opposite way from the door. He enjoyed his moments starting at her beautiful face and her silky hair wildly scattered about the pillow she lay on. Her hair gave her and ominous look. He thought it was ridiculous that he had fallen in love with one of the humans that he hated so much, yet he thought she was particularly wonderful. Her presence was so quiet, so ghostly. She had ignored the friendship of every person in her new school for a month. Her voice was ever-changing. Ominous and dark at one moment, soft-spoken the next. Her blue eyes revealed her mystical properties. Black hair and blue eyes were quite rare. Her delicate hands showed graceful touches. Her damaged and bloody feet were not visible no, but they once were when she didn't lie in the bed. They revealed her harsh footwork. When he saw her kendo practice she was like a ballerina. Every step graceful and yet she showed fierceness in battle as a warrior. She was like a graceful beast.
Hiei stopped glaring at her beautiful features and decides to go to bed. When Hiei turned the light off and fell asleep Hikari's eyes snapped open as she got out of bed and went into the hall. She made sure she didn't wake Hiei up. She walked to the master of the house holds' room and then slammed the door open as her ominously blank face put a smirk on the owners' face. Hikari's pupils became very small. It looked like she was possessed by an evil spirit. The young man ran at her attempting to strike her with a ghostly soul taking spell, but she stuck him first. A sword sliced through the phantom as a a ray of light and disappeared as she finished what she started. The phantom then turned into his true form and asked her " How... how did you... it's a solid object." Hikari explained to him with an ominous blank look on her face as if she didn't care much for his life " You are just a shadow left behind by a person who kept his shadow of revenge behind in this world. In the presence of light there can be no darkness. As a shadow the sword accepted itself as your weakness. As one who can see ghosts I should also have the right and power to hack ghosts who do not accept life as it is. I can feel the pain that humans gave you with their unreasonable ways of greed and judging. You should let it go to rest so you don't spend the rest of your life becoming the humans you hate." The phantoms' pupils grew smaller as he disappeared. When Hikari turned around to exit the room she saw Kurama and Hiei in the door way. Kurama then walked into the room and right up to Hikari " You could have told us it was him. I would have appreciated it." Hikari then said coldly walking to the door as she didn't pay any attention to looking at his face " It was dark and I didn't want you to stay up because a phantom was having us sleep in a house that he was pretending to own. When she walked up to Hiei she opened her eyes as she looked at him. She then smiled at him and said " Another ghost to add to my collection." She then walked past him as she walked down hall and stairs. Kurama then smirked and said "I suppose we should get Yusuke and..." Kurama looked at Hiei staring to the floor knowing what he was thinking about and said continuing his sentence "...Hikari's clothes. It seems she was the only one to get something to wear tonight. I'll get Yusuke and Hikari's clothes while you meet Hikari outside." Kurama saw that Hiei still wasn't paying any attention and then said with a chuckle before his next sentence " I'll be sure to get your shirt too." Hiei then looked up finally realizing that Kurama was talking to him. He then said " Oh, uh, yeah." Hiei then walked down the hall and down the steps.
He walked outside and saw Hikari sitting on one of the chairs on the porch. He walked over to her and sat in the chair next to Hikari. Hikari was holding her legs against her chest as she said " There's just too much that time can't erase. The phantom was the revenge of a person who couldn't forgive the way humans treated him. He hated humans because of their desire to reject a person for who they are. I'm not saying you need to like every person, but the humans he dealt with judged him too quickly and left him with nothing to love on the earth. Humans sometimes don't realize how selfish they really are. I could feel his past seeping through him. Everything was pain for him. He was an artist too,but e felt the need to keep his soul here for revenge. He believed that an eye for an eye worked in the world, but I believe that an eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind. It would be chaos." Hiei was looking at her with worried face when he was not worried. Her paintings were wonderful because she could feel what the person in the picture could feel. She didn't need the person to stay in their place for lighting or color, because she could feel the colors swirl and stay in her mind. Hiei then said " Do you think you could get King Yama to have you work less often." Hikari then said " I doubt it." Hiei then said " I'll come with you." Kurama finally came out with Yusuke and their clothes.
King Yama then teleport them to the office. He gave them their rewards. King Yama then said " Now, Ms. Tsuki, about your schedule. You'll be quite busy for a couple of months. Hiei then stormed up to the desk and said slamming his hand on the desk " Wait just a minute. Can't you get someone else ot do all of these jobs? If you work her half to death she won't be as useful to you later when you've got her all tired from working all the time." King Yama then said " I'm afraid I can get a replacement." Hiei got furious as King Yama made no effort to look in any files. Hiei then yelled " Why the hell not?! I won't allow it!" King Yama then said starting to get mad " You have no authority over me young man." Hiei wasn't happy. He wasn't going to "not" see her for "a couple" months. Not after he found a person who he had created a crush on. He became furious and yelled " As you have noticed, I am not happy about this. I don't care what authority you think I don't have over you! I have the authority to do whatever I want!" King Yama was about to say something when he looked at Hiei's furious face and then at Hikari's clueless, sweet face. He then looked at Kurama smirking. Kurama then opened one of his eyes and nodded his head yes. King Yama then said " Ahhh... I suppose I could find a replacement." Yusuke looked at Kurama's smirk and King Yama's smirk and then whispered to Kurama " Did I miss something?" Kurama nodded his head no
__________________________________________________________________ Author's Notes: Too lazy to type here, but I would appreciate reviews from those of you who read the story, or liked it. Thanks!
It was the next day after school and Hikari was about to go home when she felt a hand on her shoulder. She turned around and it was Kurama. She then said turning around " Kurama! Did Hiei give you the picture?" Kurama smiled and said " Yeah, he gave me the picture. Um... I know I told you my name was Kurama, but could you call me Suichi? That's what most people call me." Hikari smiled back and said " Sure... Suichi." Suichi then asked Hikari " Where are you going?" Hikari responded with " I'm going home. What else would I be doing?" Suichi said " On a Friday!? Come on." Suichi pulled her the opposite way. Hikari asked " Where are we going?" Suichi then said " We're going to hang out at my house with Yusuke, Kuwabara and Hiei." Hikari didn't ask questions. She just went with him.
When they got to Kurama's house, Hiei, Yusuke and Kuwabara were standing in front of the house, waiting for him to let them in the house. He then let them in and they headed to his room. Kurama then said " I'll be right back with pizza." He then closed the door behind him.
Yusuke then said " Ok ex-spirit detective, we want to know why you taken off the spirit detective team." Hikari's smile then sunk into a frown. She then said with a disgusted glare " I don't have to tell you anything. This is between me and King Yama." Yusuke slammed her against the wall and yelled " I'm not giving you choice!" Hikari then said with a smirk " Wanna know why I got fired off the team? I discovered my sixth sense then. All the demons I killed were haunting me. They were making me go crazy. I was a safety hazard to all spirit detectives who have killed a demon. They could get into my head and control my actions and mind." Yusuke let go of her shoulder and said " You can control your power better now right?" Hikari then said "Yeah, but it doesn't make a difference. It's possible I am still vulnerable to their hauntings." Kurama accidentally turned the knob, revealing his eves dropping as he fell into the room. He then got up from the floor and said " I might have something to help you with your hauntings." He dug in his pocket for something and pulled a necklace with a silver rose on it and put it in Hikari's hand saying with a warm smile " I always carry it with me. It's suppose to keep evil spirits away." He then folded her hand over the necklace. Hikari smiled back and said " Thank you Suichi." Hiei then broke their eye contact by saying " It doesn't mean she can still become a spirit detective. King Yama might not reaccept her." Kurama responded to his negative comment with "We'll put in a good word for her. I'm sure it won't be hard since she has more control over her power."
A thunder came upon the room and King Yama appeared. King Yama then said " I don't need any of your excuses to rehire her to her post. I have a job for her. Ms. Tsuki, I am assigning help from Hiei, Kurama and Yusuke. Your mission is to go to the Dark Forest. You have to arrest a phantom demon called Kage." Hikari then said with a smirk " Tell me why exactly you need me for this particular mission." King Yama then answered her with " He has the ability to change forms. He has been disguising himself as other people and things to avoid his capture. You are able to see ghosts, so it would help tremendously if you could use your sixth sense to help find him." She nodded her head yes. King Yama then said " I'll send you there now since I need this done as soon as possible." King Yama then sent them to the edge of the Dark Forest.
Yusuke then said scratching his head " I wish he would have said which part of the forest we're suppose to look in." Hikari then said " There are ghosts every where, but a phantom usually has evil intentions. A phantom is usually just a ghost with evil intentions. Few can be visible to the human eye or anyone else for that matter. The number of them that can change forms are quite rare." Hiei walked ahead of the tree and said " We wont be able to find it if we stand here all day." The three followed Hiei Hikari started walking next to Hiei. Hiei felt like he had to say something. He then said " Was this what you did when you were a spirit detective, or were you a decoy?" He tried making it sound sarcastic, but she answered with " I did a lot more than this. I helped King Yama do the paper work. I went on special missions. I got things for him. From what he said earlier, I'm going back to my old post and I'll be working a lot more often. I might not be able to have you model for me as often anymore." Hikari's pupils grew smaller as she sensed the presence of a ghost. There a very old Cherry blossom tree stood. It was sure to have seen the phantom. Hikari ran to the tree and touched her hand two it. She then used her mind to speak to it's ghost. She said " Have you seen a shape shifting phantom in this forest recently?" The tree responded with " Ah... let me see dear. Yes, I think I have, he was a mean one he was. He threatened to cut me down when he tripped over my long and old roots. I believe he went south in the form of a young boy. Be careful dear, I wouldn't want you to loose your pure soul." Hikari then said " Thank you for the information. May I ask your name?" The old tree then responded with " You may call me what you like. I have no permanent name." Hikari then said " I shall name you Ruka then. Your blossoms are truly beautiful enough for an earned name such as that. We can be friends if you like. The trees' ghost then said " I would like that." When Hikari took her hand off of the tree she turned around and said " The phantom is in the form of a young boy and went south, but be on guard. He might have changed by now." There was a sound behind Hikari. Hikari looked behind her and saw the ghost of the tree in a younger state. Her hair long and red. Ruka then said " I was to be reborn soon anyway. I would like to journey with you to find the phantom before I am reborn as a human and become useless in information." Hikari nodded her head.
They started walking south. They saw a couple of animals, but none of them triggered as a phantom to Hikari's senses. A longer ways south they found a house. Hikari knocked on the door to the large mansion. A young man answered the door and said " Hello, may I help you?" Hikari then said " Yes, we are looking for a phantom that might have taken the form of a young boy. Have you seen anything strange or a little boy around?" The young man then said " No, I have not seen such a thing around. Sorry I couldn't help." Hikari then said " Thanks anyway. we should be off." She turned around about to leave when she felt the young man's hand fall upon her shoulder. she turned around as he said " It is getting quite dark my lady. Would you like to spend the night with your comrades?" Hikari responded by saying " I suppose it would be all right." She then turned back to the group and said " Is it all right if we spend the night you guys? It is getting dark." Kurama nodded his head yes as the others made no gesture to disagree. As Hikari walked into the door way the young man took her hand and kissed it saying afterwards " You may call me Tomokazu my lady." Hikari blushed a bright red. Hiei grew jealous and broke them up saying " I will share a room with Hikari if it makes less trouble. The young man said with an annoyed stare " Actually, I only have two guest rooms, so you'll have to share."
The young man then showed them to their rooms. Hiei was sharing a room with Hikari as he said he would. Hiei took his shirt off and put it on the night stand. The young man had given Hikari a night dress to put on. She walked out of the bathroom connected to the guest bed room in her night dress. She was holding the back of her night dress because she couldn't button the last six buttons. Hikari then asked Hiei " Hiei, could you button the rest of this? I couldn't reach back there." Hiei walked over to Hikari and pulled her hair over her shoulder. He slowly buttoned the last six buttons. He paused as he finished buttoning the last button. He visualized himself sliding his hands around Hikari and holding her against his chest, breathing down her neck as she blushed and let him kiss her neck. He then came back to reality and let go of the last button. When Hikari turned around Hiei saw her blushing. His heart burned with a certain feeling. He did know what it was. It was making him have visions of her and him. He didn't know why he was though. Hikari then said " I want to thank you for posing for my pictures again." She then gave him a hug. Hiei paused as he was shocked at her open personality. He then returned the hug, staring at the ground thinking to himself. He wasn't sure at all what this meant. This feeling was quite new to Hiei. Was he sick? There was only one person who might know. Kurama specialized in sicknesses. He probably would know what was wrong with him. Hikari released her hug from Hiei and said " I've been hearing people say you're negative, but I still think you're a god person." She gave him a large smile and then turned around to her bed and slipped under the covers. Hiei then opened the door and said " I'll be right back. I'm just going to see Kurama."
Hiei then walked to Yusuke and Kurama's room. He opened the door and said " Kurama, may I speak to you outside the room for a minute please?" Kurama nodded his head yes and stepped outside the door closing it behind him. Kurama then asked " What is it you wanted to talk to me about?" Hiei then said " I think I'm sick. I've been getting this feeling around Hikari." Kurama then stared down with a thinking face and said " Were their any side effects to your sickness. You could have an allergy. Possibly something in her clothes or her shampoo or something." Hiei then said " I've been having visions of her and me." Kurama then asked " Of you and her doing what?" Hiei blushed a bright red and was about to tell Kurama when Kurama realized his blushing and said " Oh...Hiei. You're not sick." Hiei then said with irritation " What do you mean I'm not sick?! I have all these symptoms. You can't tell me that I'm not sick." Kurama then said " Well I suppose humans call it love sick, but it isn't sickness. You have discovered a human emotion. It's called love." Hiei then said with a questioning look " Love?! What is that?" Kurama put his thinking face trying to find out how to explain love to a demon who hasn't heard or discovered the feeling till now. His face then lit up as he thought of a way to explain. He then said " It's a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person." Hiei's pupils grew smaller in his realization of his crush on Hikari. He wasn't sure quite how he was going to be able to act normal around Hikari. Kurama then chuckled and said " Hiei, I hope she feels the same way about you." Kurama thought it was cute that Hiei had a crush on someone, but Hiei responded to his floaty behavior by grunting and crossing his arms with annoyance.
Hiei finally went back to his room. He saw Hikari on the bed. He wasn't sure if she was sleeping or not, but she was facing the opposite way from the door. He enjoyed his moments starting at her beautiful face and her silky hair wildly scattered about the pillow she lay on. Her hair gave her and ominous look. He thought it was ridiculous that he had fallen in love with one of the humans that he hated so much, yet he thought she was particularly wonderful. Her presence was so quiet, so ghostly. She had ignored the friendship of every person in her new school for a month. Her voice was ever-changing. Ominous and dark at one moment, soft-spoken the next. Her blue eyes revealed her mystical properties. Black hair and blue eyes were quite rare. Her delicate hands showed graceful touches. Her damaged and bloody feet were not visible no, but they once were when she didn't lie in the bed. They revealed her harsh footwork. When he saw her kendo practice she was like a ballerina. Every step graceful and yet she showed fierceness in battle as a warrior. She was like a graceful beast.
Hiei stopped glaring at her beautiful features and decides to go to bed. When Hiei turned the light off and fell asleep Hikari's eyes snapped open as she got out of bed and went into the hall. She made sure she didn't wake Hiei up. She walked to the master of the house holds' room and then slammed the door open as her ominously blank face put a smirk on the owners' face. Hikari's pupils became very small. It looked like she was possessed by an evil spirit. The young man ran at her attempting to strike her with a ghostly soul taking spell, but she stuck him first. A sword sliced through the phantom as a a ray of light and disappeared as she finished what she started. The phantom then turned into his true form and asked her " How... how did you... it's a solid object." Hikari explained to him with an ominous blank look on her face as if she didn't care much for his life " You are just a shadow left behind by a person who kept his shadow of revenge behind in this world. In the presence of light there can be no darkness. As a shadow the sword accepted itself as your weakness. As one who can see ghosts I should also have the right and power to hack ghosts who do not accept life as it is. I can feel the pain that humans gave you with their unreasonable ways of greed and judging. You should let it go to rest so you don't spend the rest of your life becoming the humans you hate." The phantoms' pupils grew smaller as he disappeared. When Hikari turned around to exit the room she saw Kurama and Hiei in the door way. Kurama then walked into the room and right up to Hikari " You could have told us it was him. I would have appreciated it." Hikari then said coldly walking to the door as she didn't pay any attention to looking at his face " It was dark and I didn't want you to stay up because a phantom was having us sleep in a house that he was pretending to own. When she walked up to Hiei she opened her eyes as she looked at him. She then smiled at him and said " Another ghost to add to my collection." She then walked past him as she walked down hall and stairs. Kurama then smirked and said "I suppose we should get Yusuke and..." Kurama looked at Hiei staring to the floor knowing what he was thinking about and said continuing his sentence "...Hikari's clothes. It seems she was the only one to get something to wear tonight. I'll get Yusuke and Hikari's clothes while you meet Hikari outside." Kurama saw that Hiei still wasn't paying any attention and then said with a chuckle before his next sentence " I'll be sure to get your shirt too." Hiei then looked up finally realizing that Kurama was talking to him. He then said " Oh, uh, yeah." Hiei then walked down the hall and down the steps.
He walked outside and saw Hikari sitting on one of the chairs on the porch. He walked over to her and sat in the chair next to Hikari. Hikari was holding her legs against her chest as she said " There's just too much that time can't erase. The phantom was the revenge of a person who couldn't forgive the way humans treated him. He hated humans because of their desire to reject a person for who they are. I'm not saying you need to like every person, but the humans he dealt with judged him too quickly and left him with nothing to love on the earth. Humans sometimes don't realize how selfish they really are. I could feel his past seeping through him. Everything was pain for him. He was an artist too,but e felt the need to keep his soul here for revenge. He believed that an eye for an eye worked in the world, but I believe that an eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind. It would be chaos." Hiei was looking at her with worried face when he was not worried. Her paintings were wonderful because she could feel what the person in the picture could feel. She didn't need the person to stay in their place for lighting or color, because she could feel the colors swirl and stay in her mind. Hiei then said " Do you think you could get King Yama to have you work less often." Hikari then said " I doubt it." Hiei then said " I'll come with you." Kurama finally came out with Yusuke and their clothes.
King Yama then teleport them to the office. He gave them their rewards. King Yama then said " Now, Ms. Tsuki, about your schedule. You'll be quite busy for a couple of months. Hiei then stormed up to the desk and said slamming his hand on the desk " Wait just a minute. Can't you get someone else ot do all of these jobs? If you work her half to death she won't be as useful to you later when you've got her all tired from working all the time." King Yama then said " I'm afraid I can get a replacement." Hiei got furious as King Yama made no effort to look in any files. Hiei then yelled " Why the hell not?! I won't allow it!" King Yama then said starting to get mad " You have no authority over me young man." Hiei wasn't happy. He wasn't going to "not" see her for "a couple" months. Not after he found a person who he had created a crush on. He became furious and yelled " As you have noticed, I am not happy about this. I don't care what authority you think I don't have over you! I have the authority to do whatever I want!" King Yama was about to say something when he looked at Hiei's furious face and then at Hikari's clueless, sweet face. He then looked at Kurama smirking. Kurama then opened one of his eyes and nodded his head yes. King Yama then said " Ahhh... I suppose I could find a replacement." Yusuke looked at Kurama's smirk and King Yama's smirk and then whispered to Kurama " Did I miss something?" Kurama nodded his head no
__________________________________________________________________ Author's Notes: Too lazy to type here, but I would appreciate reviews from those of you who read the story, or liked it. Thanks!
