Winter: Hello everyone and welcome to the next revised chapter of Lioness. No one is around; I'm bored so I'm forcing myself to work on this even though I just posted a new chapter.

Hiei: The disclaimer stands the same.

Chapter Seventeen: Apologies:

Flash's eyes widened when she saw the crystal resting in her friend's hand.

"How were you able to get it?" she asked.

"Harmony did everything really," answered Autumn. "She said the humans had it coming."

Flash gave a short laugh at the fox's temper. Autumn turned and slipped it back into her bag then put her sketchbook and pencils back in there as well.

"Well, I'm gonna go downstairs now," she said getting up. "Go shower and change and come down when you're ready."

Flash nodded slowly and watched Autumn leave and close the door behind her. Slowly she got out of bed to realize she was still wearing the pants and shirt from the day before.

So she walked over to her dresser and pulled out a pair of cotton black Capri's with yellow stripes on the side of each leg, a new tank top and a zippered sweatshirt.

Once she had everything she went into her bathroom to take a shower. Once she was done she stepped out and grabbed her towel and dried herself off, combed and dried her hair then got dressed.

Once she was dressed she found her way into the basement to see everyone sitting either on or around the couch talking among themselves. When they noticed her standing by the stairs there all turned to look at her.

"Hey," said Yusuke. "How 'ya feeling?"

"Fine," said Flash find a spot between Yusuke and Hinote.

"We got you some coffee," said Kuwabara handing her the take out cup.

"Thanks," said Flash excepting the coffee.

Everyone hung out for the rest of the day playing DDR, watching TV among other games and such.

The next morning woke up to her alarm clock for school. She followed her morning schedule like she always did, shower, hair, get dressed, makeup and jewelry.

Once she was ready she once again realize she never did the homework that was due today. Sighing she grabbed her shoes and bag and headed downstairs for breakfast.

Both Mary and Hoshi were sitting at the table with the morning news in front of their faces. Flash sat down in her seat as Trish put a small plate of eggs and toast together.

Flash silently ate her food while Trish began to wash the dishes. Hoshi gave a small grunt.

"It seems the museum was robbed," he said look at an article in the paper.

"What?" asked Mary putting her part of the paper down.

"Right here," said Hoshi showing her the article. "Says a rare and precious crystal was stolen. The cameras were unable to get anything but a picture of two shadowed figures fighting with swords."

"Swords?" exclaimed Mary. "How odd."

Flash quickly finished her food and placed the empty dishes in the sink before quickly saying good-bye and rushing out the door.

"What has gotten into that girl lately?" asked Mary.

"She's a teenager," replied Trish. "It's only normal for them to act strange."

"I suppose," sighed Mary looking out the window to see Flash rush by down the block.

Flash ran down to the corner then slowed to a walk and crossed the street. She had gotten to the school before anyone else that she knew so she decided to sit along the wall and wait for them while she caught up on her English assignment.

A few moments later Flash was interrupted by her work when the newspaper was smacked into her lap over her notebook.

She was Yusuke, Kuwabara and Keiko standing there in their school uniforms with a cup of coffee with them. Yusuke had two.

"How does it feel to make the front page?" he asked a little annoyed handing Flash her coffee.

"I don't know why you're so annoyed," stated Flash taking the coffee.

"You don't understand the situation you put me in Flash," said Yusuke. "Koenma will kill me!"

"So tell him you had nothing to do with it," said Flash flatly.

"But that doesn't matter Flash!" shouted Yusuke. Near by students turned to see what the shouting was about.

Yusuke got frustrated and grabbed Flash's arm pulling her off the wall and around to an empty ally right outside the school. Kuwabara and Keiko followed close behind.

Flash put her stuff back into her bag and pulled out a cigarette and her lighter.

"You smoke?" asked Keiko a bit shocked.

"Not very much anymore," said Flash lighting it. "I've been cutting back to quit."

"You smoking isn't what we are talking about here!" hissed Yusuke.

Everyone looked at him; he sighed and held his hand out to Flash. Flash stared at him exhaling smoke.

"Give me the crystal," he demanded.

Flash took a drag on her cigarette then exhaled. "You see Yusuke, it would be easy for me to if I had it."

"Then where is it?" asked Kuwabara.

"How should I know?" asked Flash "I didn't steal it."

"You didn't?" asked the boys in union.

"Nope," said Flash flicking off ashes. "So next time you're going to accuse me of something why don't you actual look into the case detective."

Leaving them baffled she walked out of the ally taking one more drag before flicking the bad habit to the ground and walking up the school steps just in time for the first bell to ring.

Meanwhile:

Koenma's right hand man, Ogre walked into his office and handed him a newspaper.

"Today's news in Ningenkai sir," he said.

"Thank you," said Koenma taking it from him and began to scan over it. When he came upon the headlines on the first page his eyes widened. "What the! Ogre!"

"Yes sir?" asked Ogre walking back over to his desk.

"Get that good for nothing Capoon in here right now!" shouted the tiny ruler.

"Right away sir!" said Ogre and ran out of the room.

"Gr, I'm going to kill both him and Yusuke!" growled the ruler.

After a few moments of irritated waiting the same cloaked figure from the museum now stood in front of Koenma's desk.

"You have a lot of explaining to do!" said Koenma.

"So I see you read the paper," said Capoon.

"Gee, what was your first clue?" Koenma stated sarcastically. "Now explain to me what happened and why I shouldn't throw you in jail."

"Some teenage girl with gold eyes tried sealing the crystal," Capoon told him. "I was able to hold her off, but her friends came and I was forced to flee. I personally don't think she was able to steal due to the wound I gave her yet I could be wrong. And for why you shouldn't throw me in jail, is because I can get out and kill everyone in this palace."

Koenma gulped and gave a frightful stare at his visitor. "Well you can at least find it and get it back here."

"Very well," said Capoon as he bowed and vanished.

And I thought the crystal would be safe in Ningenkai. Koenma thought to himself.

Back in Ningenkai:

Yusuke slowly opened the door to the school's roof. Stepping onto it he looked around. Looking up onto a smaller platform he could see smoke slowly rise into the sky and disappear.

Stepping out more onto the roof he saw Flash sitting on the platform over the door smoking a cigarette.

"I thought you might be up here when you never showed up to lunch," he said talking up to her.

Flash looked down at him with her cigarette hanging limply in her mouth and gave him a cold stare as if to say 'what do you want now?'

"Look," said Yusuke. "I want to apologize. I had no right to accuse you like that."

Flash took the cigarette out of her mouth and held it between her fingers, "You're right, you didn't."

"Let me make it up to you," said Yusuke.

"How?"

"Let me go to Makai and help you save Kira," offered Yusuke.

"But you'll get in trouble," stated Flash coolly.

"Oh well," said Yusuke. "It's just Koenma anyway."

Flash put the cigarette out jumped down off the platform. "Well then, let's go. I'm meeting Autumn in an hour."

Yusuke grinned and they walked back down into the school.

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Winter: I'm so sorry, if this chapter was boring. But I'll be unable to update for a week so I wanted to get something up. So please review and I'll update as soon as I can.

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