Ellen: Hi again. Oh, and for the person who signed in as "Fallen",

ewwwwww!!!!! I HATE HATE HATE HATE yaoi, ESPECIALLY KuramaxHiei!!! I really don't understand why people do that to my kitsune! Besides, he's mine!

Fwooshy: Calm down now. Don't give yourself a stroke.

Ellen: Oh fine. Hey, with this chapter everyone will actually meet

Malecasu!

Fwooshy: She's so awesome!

Ellen: Also, I'm gonna post another fic with these characters after I

get a little more into the story. I like it a lot, so...

Cheddar: Read and review!!

Disclaimer: I don't own YYH (hey Mr. Togashi! The only things I want

for Christmas are the rights to Kurama!).

As I regained consciousness, and opened my eyes, I couldn't see anything. This scared me for a moment, until my eyes adjusted to what I realized must be the darkness of night. I had been lying on the ground in the middle of a clearing, and Mitsky and Sakura were still sprawled out near me. I gently woke them, and wordlessly we explored the region in which we had materialized. As something appeared on the horizon in front of us, I cried out. "Hey! Look at that! Is it a stadium?"

"That's what it seems to be," Mitsky said thoughtfully.

"So let's go!" We ran toward the stadium, and as we got closer, we could hear the roar of demonic cheering. When we got to the entrance, however, a short, green, reptilian guard stopped our trio.

"Do you have your ticketsssss?" the creature hissed at us. I looked at him, and cocked my head slightly to one side.

"Tickets? We don't have any tickets," I stated innocently. I straightened up, clasped my hands together under my chin, and my face took on an appearance of pleading. "Couldn't you just let us in this once, please? Team Urameshi really needs us!"

The guard looked stunned. "I'm sorry little human girl, but rules are rules."

"Well, we're here to help Team Urameshi, so get out of our way!" I shouted, and Mitsky, Sakura and I proceeded to try to beat him up without using our powers, so he wouldn't remember us and recognize us while we were fighting in the tournament. However, he put up a good fight, even against three opponents.

"Don't you think that I've seen thisssss kind of thing before? I wouldn't sssstill be standing here if I wasn't tough!" I started to get a little ticked.

"I said, get out of our way!!" An aura of heat surrounded me, and I fired it at the guard by thrusting out my hands, my palms facing toward the unlucky demon. Sakura and Mitsky chuckled.

"Nerua, you sure have a way with words!" Sakura said jokingly.

My hands cooled down, and I placed them by my side, but a fiery red-orange hue blended with the azure in my eyes to create an eerie fluorescent purple. Orange ears sprouted from the top of my head. I looked down and gave the singed guard a look of cold unemotional glare. He was frozen with fear to the spot.

"N-no... no entry..." he sputtered, and collapsed on the ground, unconscious. Mitsky and Sakura were standing just behind me and to my right, and I turned my head to look at them in the same emotionless glare. They no longer joked, but instead gazed at me with fear and awe.

"Nerua... what's happened to you?!" Sakura inquired.

"Nerua? She is no longer here. My name is Malecasu. (A/N: It's pronounced Mahl-eh-CAHS-u!)" Malecasu's voice sounded almost like my voice, except it had lost most of its emotion, and had deepened slightly.

"Malecasu?!" Sakura and Mitsky seemed rooted to where they stood.

"Yes. I am the true Rainer demon, the one that should have appeared first in this world and fulfilled my purpose for being, instead of that human girl," she sneered at the mention of me, "but something happened..."

Suddenly, Malecasu's ears retracted, and her eyes purified to my natural cerulean hue. I looked around as I became normal, and blinked. "Hey Sakura, Mitsky? Where are we?" I gasped as I glimpsed the fried guard out of the corner of my eye, and ran over to him. "Oh my goodness! What happened to this poor guy?!" I looked questioningly at Mitsky and Sakura, who were staring at me in surprise.

As we looked around the stadium for our friends the demon sisters filled me in on the previous few minutes. I was horrified, and a little scared.

"You know, guys, I really can't remember anything from then except the feeling of... having somebody else in my body... Malecasu... hey, that was the name that I told you was really mine when we first met!"

"Whoa," Sakura breathed. "Can you remember any other time when something strange has happened to you?"

"Hmmm..." I tried to think and walk at the same time, but I kept running into other demons, and they were giving us weird looks, and saying mean things. This got me somewhat annoyed. Sakura and Mitsky knew what was going to happen, and they tried to calm me down, before...

"Hello again, you fools. Don't you realize that nothing can keep me away? As long as Nerua is breathing, then I, too, shall live within her. You see, I am Nerua. I am her life, her past, and her destiny. If you interfere with me, then Nerua will be the one who is punished." Malecasu turned away from them and strode down the corridor in the direction we were first heading. "I believe the ones you are searching for are this way."

Any demon that got in my way this time... well, let's just say it wasn't for very long. Apparently, now that I was aware of Malecasu's existence, I could sense her and fight with her mind, but her mind had much more skill and strength than mine. I could only look on helplessly as Malecasu used me for her own demonic purposes.

"Hey Mitsky," Sakura whispered as they quietly followed me. Malecasu's ears pricked up, but the giant demon acted like she hadn't heard. "Did Malecasu have a tail before?"

"No," Mitsky whispered back. Malecasu had apparently grown a beautiful orange fox's tail, and it stuck out from under my shirt. Our trio walked in silence for a while, until we came to a closed door to our right.

"Let's go. The one Nerua seeks is inside. She's practically yelling it at me in our mind. I'm only doing this to shut her up, so let's get this over with," Malecasu said, sounding bored and exasperated.

Mitsky hurriedly opened the door, and she and her sister walked through the door to see the four surviving members of Team Urameshi, plus Botan, a tall, brown-haired woman, a young, female, blue-haired demon, and another girl whom I had seen hanging around at school with Yusuke, when he actually bothered to show up. They turned as the door opened, and gasped to see the two. Hiei even glanced in our general direction, and Sakura stood up a little straighter.

"Sakura! Mitsky! How did you get here?" Kuwabara exclaimed. A rabble of questions and voices broke out, but Sakura quieted them all. Botan paid special attention.

"I think that there is someone who can explain that better than I can. Just please be careful around her. She's touchy!" she said worriedly and turned around to find...

"Hey everybody! Hahaha! It's so great to see you all!" Malecasu was gone, and I was just standing innocently in the doorframe, waving, slightly confused about where I was again but happy to see my friends. Yusuke spoke out.

"So Sakura, you think Nerua's touchy? You should see Yukina's brother... Oh, right, you guys don't know Keiko," he pointed at the girl he hung out with, who was standing right next to him, taking in the scene, "Yukina," the blue-haired demon bowed slightly, "and Shizuru." He gestured to the tall woman. "This is Nerua, Sakura, and Mitsky."

"It's a pleasure to meet you three. I'm Kazuma's sister," Shizuru explained.

"You came at the right time, girls. We need your help more than ever now." Kurama had stepped forward, and smiled at us. However, the smile contained no real happiness, except when he glanced at me. I was intrigued about that.

"Well then Kurama, when is your next match?" I asked, stepping a bit closer to him.

"I believe it's tomorrow. We're in the finals." He frowned. "However, we need another member, quickly, or else we will be disqualified."

"We know, Kurama." I sighed, then yawned. "Whew, I think it's getting late. We should head off to wherever you guys sleep here. We're going to need a good rest for tomorrow."

Ellen: Doo dee doo... Hee hee! Stupid reptile guard guy. I get all power-

high when I write these kinds of things!!

Fwooshy: Let's go destroy stuff!!

Ellen: Cool!! ...Wait, darn you Fwooshy! You're taking advantage of me again!

Fwooshy: Now we're even.

Ellen: Grrrr...

Cheddar: Read and review!