Author's Notes: Hiiiiiiii! How are all of ya? I'm good" Holds up fingers and says "Well, accept the fact that I started the school year and get a lot of hework these days and I'm getting less e-mails from you guys... uh... besides that I'm pretty good. Hope you like this chapter. * * * * * * * * * * * * *

King Yama transported Hiei, Kurama, Yusuke and Hikari to his office. His voice sounded desperate when he said, "I want this demon caught no matter what! He's been putting death curses on the humans and I want him put away before I can say judgment day! He's in the city, armed and very dangerous." Yusuke then raised and eyebrow and said "What makes this demon so different from all the other idiots?! Don't all demons cast curses on things?!" King Yama turned to Hikari and said "He's a ghost." Hikari's pupils grew smaller in shock and said, "Yusuke, this is no ordinary demon! It is very rare that there is a demon that can cast curses, let alone find the counter curse when you don't know what curse was put of a person in the first place. People and demons and such who can cast curses are very rare now a days. The peole who learned how to counter curse curses are rare as well since there are very few who can cast curses. I only got through less than half my list of curses and I only know a few counter curses. King Yama, I'm not trained for this mission. Don't you know of anyone else who knows the cursatry magics better?" King Yama said closing his eyes in depression "I'm afraid you're the only one who can effectivly cast the spells. I ust have you become a part of this case." Hikari gave him a wide, put blank face that made her eyes glisten for just a second, and then she turned around and said with a sad looking face "I understand... I'm off then. I'll be patrolling the park." She then walked out of the office and disappeared back onto Earth.
Kurama then said "What was that about?" King Yama responded to Kurama's questian by saying "The first time she had to cast a curse on someone was on her father. that's why she talks more of her mother. Her father was abusive to her mother and she cast a death spell on him as soon as she came of age to learn the curse. She lost him at age ten. She's still very unstable even thought she seems fine." Kurama then said "Is the reason she didn't learn all the curses because she didn't want to learn anymore after the incodent?" King Yama then nodded his head yes.Hiei had then said "Why is it that you hadn't told us about the demon earlier!" King Yama responded with a high pitched voice "Don't rase your voice to me young man! I know that you have special feelings for Hikari, but some things can't be helped. I wasn't aware that this had started until the death book was getting unusually buisy! If I'm not mistaken, you were kissing Hikari before I summoned you here, so you shold be plenty happy!" Kurama's eyes lit up as he felt a jolt of electrizity go up his spine. He was excited to here that Hiei had finally kissed Hikari. They then walked out of the office and were sent back to Earth. Kurama nudged Hiei and whispered "So how was the kiss?" Hiei wasn't comfertable with the questian, so he said walking a little further than Kurama trying to make it easier to brush off the questian "Oh please, is this the first time you ever got this excited about something, or am I exagerating?" It was a hitorical questian, but Kurama could see where Hiei was trying to make this go. Kurama then said "Don't try to blow off the questian. It's not working with me." Hiei sighed in annoyance as he figured the questian wasn't worth running away for "She was actually incredible. I think she might have possibly had a boyfriend before me." Kurama then gave him a serious face and siad "Nope, I've been checking her files and it says she hasn't had any relationships with anybody for her whole life. There were a lot of boys at her old school that liked her, but she had never kissed any of them or hung out with them." Hiei then said "Did any of the boys kiss her?" Kurama then said "I'm not sure...I never looked into it the reverse way. I'll check for you. I haven't looked at her school files either, but I heard that she used to have a very stressful life. I hear she had to take drugs perscripted by her doctor to settle her nerves and skipped school a lot because it was so stressful. She used to have a best friend named Suyoung. I checked his file and he used to have huge crush on Hikari, but stood to the side as he listened to how Hikari's life got so messed up." Hiei said "Well, he missed his chance." Kurama then stopped Hiei and then said with a serious face "You don't know how far he went to impress her. He almost killed himself protecting her."
Hikari was walking in the park when she saw a mass of bodies. She hesitated to walk any further, but if she was going to do her job she had to check it out. She walked up to the mass of dead people and then was reilieved that the demon had gone. Usually she would be streight to the piont, but this was a flashback of what she had done to he father. She then lifted her hand in front of her and a large sphere of a type of energy. It was green-colored. Hiei and Kurama had reached the park and saw Hikari putting the large sphere of energy into herself. As soon as she was done her body fell on the ground and a ghostly figure of her rose from her body. Hiei and Kurama ran over to her. Hiei was shaking Hikari, but she wouldn't wake up. The ghost of Hikari then said "Don't worry about me, I have just performed a dangerous ritual. It has made me into a ghost. As long as my body stays unharmed then I will be fine. The demon is a sloppy amiture with curses. He can't control how many people the cuse is put on. He probably doesn't know any of the ghost curses.
In this form I can defy certain elements and use limitless power since I don't have body right now." Hikari sensed a presence in back of her and turned around to see what it was. It was the deomon that had taken a ghost form. The demon then said "Are you surprised that I could have done this to..." Hikari barely let him finish his sentance and cast a viration of sound throught the Earth making it crack. Black energy came up and captured the demon. Hikari then said "I don't believe in an opening statement in a fight. You shouldn't try to show off so much with your sloppy ways. Even I could do better than you at this job. Too bad for you that I'm not on your side. I could have become useful." the demos smirked and said "Who said I needed hands to use a curse. Curses come throught the lips in case you skipped that lesson." Hikari's pupils grew smaller in realization of her mistake. She should have used a silence curse. Instead she used a useless spell. The demon then said "Venganza." He then disappeared. Hikari's pupils grew even smaller in headacke. she then returned to her body without her own permission. When she returned to her body she opened her eyes and said to them "I made a large mistake. I might have to quit the force. I didn't learn the counter curse for that curse." Kurama then said "The counter curse for what? What does tohe curse do?" Hikari then looked up "It's a revenge curse. The old demons will come back to haunt me with or without the necklace. I might have to stay at one of your guys' house so that I don't have to explain anything at the orphanage."
Hiei blushed at the idea, plus rumors could spread. hiei then spoke up and said "I think it would be best of you stayed at Kurama's house. I don't know of any remadies, or couter curses, so Kurama's house would be more reasonable."

LATER AT KURAMA'S HOUSE

It had become late and Hikari was tired. Kurama had looked at her with worry of what could happen to her. He wanted to comfort her, but he knew that a girl like her knew that there was only a bad side to this situation. He had seen her worried face. he could see that she was worried about hurting him. Kurama then said "May I say that you look extremely beautiful we you ponder in worry like that?" Hikari looked up and gave him a relieved smile and said "I'm sorry, I was just thinking of people I might know who know the arts of cursitry. I haven't come up with any yet." Kurama then said "I'm sure there is a library in the spirit detective organization. You could look there untill you find something, although I do hear that it is quite large so it might take you a couple of weeks."
Hikari agreed to it, but she had Kurama come with to help. they had appeared in the library and, almost emediatly Hikari had found the book she was looking for. With the seed she had found it she could be a librarian. When Hikari opened the book the pages started to flip forward on their own and the light above Hikari was flickering on and off speeding up every time. the space around her and Kurama and become an ominous darkness. Wind started blowing Hikari's hair back. The blinking light had finally broke and Hikari started to get slices accross her face and body. She fell to her knees and then to the ground as she fainted from the sudden event. Kurama had ran over by Hikari to bick her up. He had no idea that something like that would happen to her. It might have been part of the curse or someone didn't want her to find the counter curse. Which meant that the demon who cast the curse must have broken into the organization and found out where the ghost deectives base is. when Kurama lifted her up, the pages to the book were all blank. He wasn't surprised. If the demon wanted the curse to stay on her for as long as he could withold the counter curse from her then he would have probably wanted to take the words from her too. When Kurama looked at her face his eyes memorized every feature of her face and yet he had no choice, but to leave the lips unmemorized, for the lips of Hikari were for Hiei to have. In fact, the feature that Kurama wanted from Hikari were her strong and delicate hands. He wanted her hands to touch his body so that he may have permission to touch her's, but as long as he knew that her hands also belonged to Hiei, he could not have them.
Kurama had brought her back to his house and laid her in his bed. He sat on the bed next to her and then held her in his arms. His attemp to look into her eyes wasn't working. Hiei would be pissed if he found out about Hikari's condition. Kurama was going to leave the room for a moment when he rheard a groan come from Hikari. He rushed over to the bed and supported her back as he started to get up. She forced his hand off of her and said,
"Go away! I want some time to myself!"
"But..." It didn't matter. She seem ed so angered that it felt like it wouldn't even matter if he said anything. He then got up and left the room. Hikari's mind was filled with thoughts of depression and confusion. She had decided to discontinue with the project. She would just bring danger to the rest of the people at the company. She was nothing, but a neusance. She had then teleported herself to King Yama's office. King Yama was surprised to see Hikari and started to smooth his hair and folded his hands on the desk like professional. He then asked Hikari,
"What is it that...."
"I want to quit. This investigation has gone beyond my need. I have weakened the ghost and made him touchable by your people. I would like to discontinue with your line of work or any other spirit detective activities. I choose to lead a normal life. I would like my where-abouts to be secret to everybody else." King Yama had then sighed and then nodded his head yes. He then pressed a button on his computer and Hikari was back home. Kurama had no idea that she had left the room. Tomorrow she was going to move to America and change her name. She could not take this job anymore...

__________________________________________________________________ Author's Notes: To be continued in the next chapter...