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     Kurama felt as though he couldn't breathe. He held a limp hand in his. Her hand. The other hand was covered with blood. Her blood. He heard Keiko's crying and Kuwabara's yelling, but all he cared about was the body beside him. Yuusuke cleared his throat.

     "What were those things?"

     'Ah. Yes. The monsters.' He couldn't get a grip on his thoughts. They flowed and changed direction too fast.

     "I have never seen anything like them in all my years as a demon." Hiei's voice drifted. Kurama thought he heard the tiniest bit of sadness.

     "Why were we ambushed like that, anyways?" Keiko's frightened voice drifted through the silence.

     Yuusuke hugged her. "Maybe…because we're Spirit Detectives?"

     Another long silence. "What…what will we do with Botan?" Kuwabara came forward.

     "I'll take her." But as he approached, Kurama stood up and picked the body up, blue hair spilling against his torn red jacket. His eyes brooked no argument.

     Yuusuke was surprised, to say the least. He had always seen their closeness in battles and missions, but he had never suspected that they were anything more than good friends. Sure, Kurama talked to all the girls politely, but he talked more to Botan than any other girls, but Yuusuke had just figured that it was because they had more in common. Now he started to doubt himself. He looked at Kuwabara whose face mirrored his own confusion and regret.

     They walked out, Keiko having to lean on Yuusuke. Kuwabara had his head down while Hiei just walked with his head slightly bowed.

     Kurama started as he looked down. "Botan!" Everyone's head whipped around. Keiko screamed, Yuusuke and Kuwabara gasped and Hiei raised an eyebrow.

     Botan's body was shimmering. As they inched closer, they could see that she was disappearing! After a minute had passed, she was gone from Kurama's arms. Everyone was staring at each before Yuusuke let out a low growl. "I'm gonna get some answers. Who else is coming?" Hiei and Kurama indicated that they would. "Great. Kuwabara, get Keiko home and cover for us." Kuwabara nodded and took off with Keiko. Yuusuke got a funny look on his face. "Umm, guys, how do we get to Reika? I mean, cause Botan usually takes us…" Kurama and Hiei sweatdropped.

~*~*~*~*~

     "10…9…8…7…6…5…4…3…2…1…" Baby Koenma said. Right as he said "1…" his doors were slammed open and Yuusuke came striding in, flanked by Kurama and Hiei.

     Yuusuke slammed his hands down on the desk, knocking a few papers down. "Botan dying is enough! But when her body fades away, there is something freaky going on!" Koenma remained silent.

     Kurama spoke up. "It is in your best interest to tell us, Koenma." His voice was deadly smooth, emphasis on 'deadly'. Yuusuke smirked and cracked his knuckles. Hiei fingered his sword. And Kurama just looked at him. Koenma started to get nervous.

     "Okay, no need to get hasty. Listen, I can't tell you much, but, Botan, she's, well, a special case. And the person who's controlling her, well, she knows what she's doing."

     "Who is 'she'?" Hiei asked.

     "My, uh, my mom." At that piece of news the guys minus Hiei leaned forward

     "What does your mom want with Botan?"

     "Where is your mom?"

     "You have a mom?" Everyone sweatdropped at Yuusuke's question.

     "Of course I have a mom you baka! As for want she wants with Botan, I don't know. But no one questions my mom. It is rare for her to take someone, but when she does, she has a darn good reason. I can't tell you where she is, she wouldn't like it. The only thing you can do is go back to your world and live your lives. There's nothing any of us can do." With that, Koenma turned back to his paperwork.

~*~A week later~*~

     Kurama sighed as he entered his school, and rolled his eyes in regards to the girls-and occasional guy-who made up his fan club. Normally they would amuse him, but it had only been a week since she died. He ignored them and went to his first class of the day: Advanced Creative Writing.

      Kurama was very good at writing. He never showed any one else his stories, simply because they would recognize the names. See, Kurama wrote his stories based on his past experiences as a youko (sp?) and the Makai (sp?). He took a seat and waited for the class to begin. The professor came in.

     Halfway through, a knock resided on the door. The professor stopped his lecture and answered it. He talked to someone in the hallway briefly, then stepped aside as he said. "Class, the university has a new student. Please welcome Botan Reika."

     Kurama gasped as a blue-haired, pink-eyed girl stepped into the classroom.

-Looks over the chapter- Well, I'm not too happy with it, but oh well.

Oh, and how do you spell Kurama's human name? If someone could tell me, I'd be grateful.

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