Nika: hey everyone, this is my first Yu Yu Hakusho Fanfic, so please bare with me.

I do not own Yu Yu Hakusho, but I do own Ami and the demon Nushi.

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Chapter One: Foxes and flashbacks

A young girl about the age of sixteen was wandering about in the soft rain. She wore a black tank top with ties half way up, a pair of black pants and a big jean jacket. She had black hair down to her shoulder blades, pulled back in a low pony tail, and dark eyes.

"So Botan has another mission for us Yusuke?" Kurama was following Yusuke.

"Yeah, the others are going to met us there. Botan says that it is big time demon this time, and that it should be a challenge." Yusuke knocked the girl in the shoulder on an accident, "Sorry about that," Yusuke smiled at her.

" A Spirit detective?" She thought to herself, "No prob," She smiled back and covered her right wrist with her hand, pushing up a belt style bracelet.

"Hello," Kurama stepped out from behind Yusuke.

"A demon?" She thought, "Hello," she bowed to be respectful and tightened her grip on her wrist. "I need to go," She bowed once again then ran off.

"You're late Yusuke," Botan was sitting in a tree.

"Well I don't see the others here," Yusuke leaned against the tree.

"I explained to them what the mission was then sent them home." Botan jumped down, "Hello Kurama,"

"Hello," Kurama smiled at her, "Sorry we are late,"

"Well what is the mission? I've got other things to do," Yusuke crossed his arms.

"There is a Demon by the name of Nushi in this world, we aren't quit sure of what he wants yet. It is said that Nushi has a spy out looking for any signs of threats, namely spirit detectives." Botan looked at Yusuke.

"So he has some ugly demon out looking for me eh? It can't be that hard to handle, if I destroy the spy then he won't know what's coming when I find him." Yusuke did a serious of punches.

"I'm afraid it won't be that easy Yusuke, his spy is not a demon. It is a human that he has convinced to join him." Botan started to walk off, "Find this spy before it finds you, or destroy Nushi first."

"Nushi!" Kurama suddenly looked up.

"What about him?" Yusuke looked at Kurama.

"I've heard of him from other demons. It is said that he takes in kids as slaves after he kills their parents. So the spy could be anyone, that's the problem," Kurama looked around and covered up what he really was thinking about.

"Yeah, we'll meet again tomorrow to devise some type of plan." Yusuke walked off.

Kurama walked off in another direction; a few minutes later he was walking down a busy street towards his apartment.

"Nushi is the name that was burned into that girl's wrist," Kurama thought; he had caught a glance at the girl's wrist when she moved the bracelet up. "That girl is the spy, but why does she seem so familiar?" Kurama stopped across the street of a park, "That's her!" He waited to cross the street.

The girl was sitting on the ground looking at her wrist, tracing the letters, but she stopped as she saw a fox walk up to her. "Fox, you came back." She picked it up.

This caught Kurama's eye as he approached the girl.

"Hello," Kurama sat down next to her.

"Hello, again," She smiled as she put the fox in her lap.

"You have a wonderful ability with foxes," Kurama went to pet the fox.

"Thank you, it seems you do too, but that is to be expected when you are a fox spirit." She looked up as Kurama went to pet the fox, "Yoko," she whispered.

"How did you know that?" Kurama looked at her in surprise.

"When you are owned by a demon, you come to find some very interesting information about others." She gave a slight laugh as the fox started to fall asleep in her lap.

"I see, so I was right in my suspicions." Kurama looked at her again, "What is your name?"

"Ami," She picked up the fox and stood up.

"Ami, those burns on your wrist are those from Nushi?" Kurama stood up also.

"Yes," She looked at her wrist, "I know you from some where, don't I?"

"I was just about to ask you that same question." Kurama looked at Ami; she seemed to have sadness in her eyes. "Would you like to sit down and talk? You look like you need someone to talk to."

"Yes, I would," She started walking to a fox whole and placed the fox in the hole.

"Alright, come on I know a perfect place to sit and talk. If it is alright with you, I need to stop by my apartment to check in with my mother." Kurama watched as Ami picked up her jacket from where they had been sitting.

"That's fine," Ami followed Kurama.

"This is where I like to sit at." Kurama lead Ami up to the roof of the apartment building. "Oh and thank you for letting me stop in at my apartment, my mother worries about me. I tend to be gone a lot." Kurama sat on a chair that he had set up on the roof top, "Come on sit down, it's alright." He motioned to another chair across from him.

"Thank you," Ami sat down.

"So how old are you?" Kurama looked at Ami's wrist noticing that her bracelet was no longer over it.

"I'm sixteen," She moved her hand over her wrist.

"Really, so how. why are. I don't know how to put it." Kurama looked away.

"How did I become a slave for Nushi?" Ami smiled and gave a slight laugh.

"Yes," Kurama looked back; he eyes followed a white fox that some how gotten on the roof.

"I was young when it happened, so what happened is not very clear to me. Nushi had taken my family, mom and dad, not just me. My mom and dad had served Nushi in threat of him killing me, but when he thought the time was right he killed them right in front of me." Ami's hand moved from her wrist and tightened into a fist.

"I'm sorry, I shouldn't of have asked. It is not with in my business." Kurama watched the fox walk towards them.

"Nushi slaughtered them with out mercy! He had someone hold me back while it happened." Ami almost had tears in her eyes, "After that, after all the blood had been spilt, after my parents were lying lifelessly, I received this damn thing!" Ami held up her wrist as tears fell freely down her cheeks.

"I'm sorry," Kurama became quiet but place a reassuring hand on Ami shoulder as she cried.

Ami looked up and saw the white fox, "I've seen that fox before," Ami thought as she started to experience a flashback. (God don't you hate that?)

*******flash back***********

(A/N flash back is in Ami's POV)

I was sitting in a crib someone was there with me, I don't know who it was.

"I can't find Ami!" I heard a lady yell.

"She's only one; she couldn't have gotten too far." I heard a man's voice yell back.

"I still can't find her! You don't think that he has gotten to her do?" The lady had fear in her voice.

"No, we would have heard if some one came in." The man seemed to be further away now.

Something happened that was just one big blur to me. I was thrown out of the security of my house and my crib and ended up on the ground. I could here people screaming and I could see fire and destruction as I started to cry. I remember something starting to fall on me, and then I blacked out. I woke up when I felt something wet gliding across my cheek. I opened my eyes to find a snow white fox licking me, and a fox like man looking over me. (Yoko Kurama)

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Nika: and that was the end of chapter one so please R&R or I might not write anymore.