Five "Kurama's strange friend."

I stayed in bed for the next few days. It was if all the energy was drained from my very soul. Actully that was it. The only diffrence was that I still had a small spark left, strange as it sounds, it is true. All of that power, but yet it was still there. So imposable to exsplain........

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"Hey Uramushi! Is Do you know if that Karen girl still in bed?"

"Yeah Kuwabara,I checked in earlyer. She's out like a light."

"Gee Uramushi,Hard to belive huh? I mean all that, from her?"

"Who would have thought right? Who knows, I bet with a little training she could be one heck of a warrior, eh Kuwabara?"

"Gess. Maybe."

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Meanwhile............

"Is that all sir?"

"Yes Kurama, That is all for today. You are welcome to go now."

Kurama bowed to Koinma and started out the door. Kurama was stoped when Koinma called to him agin.

"OH WAIT! I ALMOST FORGOT! I got a letter the other conserning a girl that had uncanny powers. I need you to go check it out to see how strong she is. Her name was Carin or something. Anyhow the adress is on this small card." Koinma takes a peice of paper from his pocket. It had my adress written on it, along with my name, age, birthdate, bloodtype, everything! Kurama took it and looked over it carefully.

"Fine." he said,"I'll be more then happy to test this child."

"Great! Ya know, uselly i'd send Yusuke out to do this but he's to buff, Kuwabara's to stupid and Hiei's just way to out there. Ya know what I mean? I'm leaving this all up to you Kurama. Don't fail me! I want it on camara too! Get Hiei to record it. I don't want Yusuke or Kuwabara to be involved in this one!"

"Why, May I ask?"

"I'll exsplain everything once you bring me the footage. Now go! Don't fail me Kurama!"

"Don't worry. I do not intend to fail........"

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"Oooooooooooooowwwww.........OOOOooooooooWWWWwwww...........OOOOOOOOOOOOOWWW WWWWWWWW...............OOOOOWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!"

"Gesss Karen! What the heck happened to your hands? I mean, what's with the bandages?"

"Tyler..... you have absalotly no idea.....OW!"

I blew on my hands and rubed them togather. "Uh, The pain!"

"Well look on the bright side."

"WHAT BRIGHT SIDE?!"

"Uhh.....Gee I....Don't know. But let's just play Pacman intill Taylor and the gang get's here. How many quarters did you bring?"

"Enoph for one person. What about you?"

"Enoph for three people."

"Tuh. Well we better hope the others bring some extra coins then. After all, were exspecting at least three new people right?"

"Three meaning Jessica, Dustain and Crissy!! Oh man! I love meeting new people!"

"Wait A sec! Tyler. That's You,me, Taylor, Dustain, Crissy, Jessica, Morgan and Noah right? That's eight people! Three more then Usell!"

"Well duh! That's what what we've been saying sense like four lines ago!"

"Yeah but that's a lot of money!"

"Karen, Shut up!"

I put a quarter into the machine and me and Tyler went at it for a while. I was never really good at pacman to begain with and the point that my hands were practicly unmoveable..... Didn't help much at all. It was like only half of me was playing. Half of me didn't really care. It wasn'nt going to help anything at all, just..... Sitting there.....Doing......absalotly nothing.

"Man Karen, You totally reak today"!

"I know, I know.....Gezz!"

"Exscuse me."

"Huh? DAHH! KURAMA?!?!"

"Hi. I was looking for you."

"Who's this? Friend of yours Karen?" Tyler asked.

"Tyler i'd like you to meet Kurama. Kurama meet Tyler."

"A pleasure to meet you Tyler."

"Yeah.......You...too.....I think......No offense...but'a what kind of name is Kurama?"

"A fine one."

"Yeeeah.....Suuree....."

"Look Kurama", I scowed, "What do you OW! Like, Ow! Want?"

"There's somebody I'd like for you to meet."

"..............Ohhhhh.......Do I have to?"

"It is withen your best intrest."

"Ohhhh......Fine, okay.....But ahh.....What about my friends? There saposeta be here shortly. I can't just walk out on em with out a really good exsplanation."

"But you have one."

"Oh.....Fine." I leaned over in Tyler's ear and wispered something to him. "Hey um Tyler, Just so you know and incase I don't come back.....I....I didn't steal your Blue Eyes Toon Dragon card okay?"

"WHAT???"

"Uh, Nothing! Nothing! Absalotly nothing!"

Kurama: "Shall we leave?"

"Umm....Bathroom! I've gotta use the bathroom first!"

"Uhh....Make it quick. He is rather stubborn and dosen't like to stay anywere for long."

I scampered through the store. You see there is three set's of bathroom through out the store. One near the front, One near the middle and, One near the back. We were closest to the one in the front, I used the one in the back. I yanked open the door and ran to the mirror. I was parshely worried, As you can tell by my previous action. It's not only his friend that conserned me, But how did he know I was at the arcade? I mean, It's not like he has a card that list's everything about me....Right? I looked in the mirror and unraped the bandaid's off of my hands. They were blood red and burnt like fire. I thought about the other day and recalled every detail of everything that happened. "So all of that really came from me"? This stinks........ Somehow I knew that the second I left, Would be one of the most pain exsperinces I would ever face. One of the most painful....... But something still conserned me.......What about Tucker? What about Tucker?? What about Tucker?!?? There was still a peice missing of this puzzle. Something was a miss. Something didn't add up. Something had rung false...... But what? "There has to be something eles". I said. "There must be. And I'm going to find out. But i'm not going to find anything here by just hiding. Everything happens for a reason." Everything. I thought about that word for a minute. Everything.....That's a lot of stuff. But what reason is this? "What a stupid question. What reason is this! Give me a break!" I've got to go face my fears...... I've got to find corrage. I've got to find strengh. But what is it I was afraid of in the first place? Oh boy.....This could take a while...... I took a deep breath. "Well here I go".......I took another deep breath....And I left.

I walked slowly to the front. I felt a tramendous weight on my shoulders for some paranoid reason, And I was without a dout scared. I walked past the Adult Games, The Educational Games, and Dinning sections of the store. I passed two guys playing pool. I paused for a moment to observe there game. Judging from there exsprations, I'd say the one on the right was winning. I watched the left guy take a shot, miss and through down his stick. He said a few things he should'nt have, took one long drag of A ciggerrat and slowly drifted from my site. Afterwards I continued the slugish walk back torwd the front. Finaly I arived and Kurama and Tyler were playing a game of chess on a table. Judging from there exsprations I could tell there was no dout Kurama was creaming him. "THAT'S SEVEN GAMES IN A ROW! HOW CAN YOU BEAT SOMEONE SEVEN TIMES IN EIGHT MINUTES!?!?"

"One minute for each game."

"YOU CAN'T BE HUMAN!!!"

"More alike then you know."

"GESSS!"

"Hey! Yo i'm ah back....."

Tyler: "Well if it is'nt miss take forever in the bathroom! Can you belive this guy? He beat me in chess seven times in eight minutes!"

"That's nothing. He beat me in checkers nine times in six minutes."

"WHAT?!"

Kurama: "Well anyways, Shall we go?"

"Yeah sure, Why not?"

We left and I took one final look at the arcade and I must say......It looked the same as it did five minutes ago. Go figure.

"Kurama.....This friend of yours.....Umm what's he like?"

"You will see once we get there."

"How did I know you were gonna say that?"

"You must have gotten to know me quite well."

"Pretty much, Your not that hard to fidgure out."

We took a short wallk throught the woods and a shortcut up the street. And well wouldn't you know it? We ended up right back were we started, at Hantuck park.

"NO! NO NO NO NO! KURAMA! THERE IS NO WAY......I MEAN......NO EXSPLANATION......I'M NOT GOING IN THERE! COUNT ME OUT!!!!!"

"Don't worry. There is nothing to worry about. Hanna is no longer here."

"But....."

"Follow me." I slaped my forhead.

"OOWW! THAT HURT"!

"Well what did you exspect"?

"Uhh.....Ohhhhh.....Tuh...Tuh tuh tuh......Awwwwhhawwww......*Sigh* Fineeeeee let's just go so I can come back." He lauphed and started walking. I tried to dump'em and escape but he just griped my shirt collor and draged me the rest of the way.

"HEY! LET ME GO! LET ME GO! LET ME GO!"

"Sorry. But i'm afraid I can not just let you go. Not now. I wish to show you something."

"Really? What?"

"You will see."

*Grumble *Grumble* *Grumble*

"Well it seems we are here."

"Great, Can you put me down now."

"But of course."

He let go of my shirt and I landed on a sharp pinecone.

"OUCH! MAN! THAT HURT! NOW I GOT PINE NEEDLES IN MY BUTT THANKS TO YOU! I bet you did that on purpose!"

"Belive as you will."

"Belive as you will? This isn't medievil times bub, Learn to speack Amarican. Or at least Japanese. I know a little bit of that at least."

"Oh really? Japan......I use to live there."

"WHAT???? ; GIVE ME A BREAK MAN..... YOU ARE FROM JAPAN??? DUHH.........GGGGRRRR............Well I guess you do look it. Anyway that friend of yours dosen't apper to be here, So.....Does that mean I can go home now?"

"Be paient. We are early."

"How early?"

"Hmm....About ten minutes I guess."

"Ten minutes? Well I gotta go to the bathroom."

"You just went."

"Well I gotta go agin."

"There's plenty of space."

"............Errrmmmmm....Darn it! Okay i'll be back in five minutes tops!"

"Sorry but you need to be back in four."

"How bout three."

"Two."

"Seven."

"Fine."

So I went to do my bussniss and came back in six.

*SWOOSHH*!

"Sorry i'm late. Some fools got in my way so I had to kill'em off to get through."

"Not a problem."

"Now tell me. Where is this kid you've told me about? The one who made the exsplosion? I'm dieing to met him".

"Actully it's a she."

"WHAT???"

Kurama smiles and steps sideways. "Karen this is Hiei. Hiei this is Karen."

"EPP!"

I ducked behind Kurama agin.

"Kurama this guy's scary looking! Ka....Keep him away from me!"

"Grrrahhh.....Kurama it hasn't even been 30 seconds and she's already on last nerve!!!"

Hate to say but he did have A scary outlook. Hiei was short, And had tall, pointy black hair. He was wearing A pair of black jeans with two white belts and no shirt. (Yeah! Half naked people!) He had A small nose and blood red emeralds for eyes gazed in A shadowy outlook. Eyes so dark, that would make even the touphest warriors' blood run cold. To top off his demon like outlook, He had A sword sheath straped to his back. Oh boy, I could just imagen how sharp the sword was. But what I couldn't imagen was how many people he's killed with it. I don't even want to imagen. I just knew that his blade was rusty from countless humans' blood. Like I said, No telling how many. (Why would Kurama wanta hang out with someone like that???)

Karen: "Hey wait A second Kurama, I thought you said we were ten minutes early."

"Uh what do you mean?"

"You said we were ten minutes early and Hiei said he was sorry that he was late."

"Oh. Did I really say that?" Kurama smiled. "Sorry, You must have misunderstood. I am cirten that I said we were ten minutes late."

Hiei: "No use lying Kurama. The girl is thickheaded as a mule. She's not going to take your word for it."

Kurama: "Ah hah. Okay, So maybe I did tell A lite fib. It was the only way I could insure your cooparation. If you knew you were late, there is now dout you would have tooken flight and left dispite my words."

"Grrrrr.....KURAMA YOU BUTTHEAD!! That's not very nice!"

"Sorry, Like I said. Your cooperation was slim."

Hiei: "Kurama can I pleassseee kill her?"

Kurama: "Very funny Hiei. But i'm afraid you'll need to wait awhile before you try."

"Tuh."

"Mehhhuhhh"! I pulled down an eyelid and stuck out my tounge. But then three forths of A millsecond later Hiei had his hand around my neck and heald me about ten inchs away from his face. "DID YOU JUST STICK YOU TOUNGE OUT AT ME"???

It was kinda hard to breathe consitering the type of grip he heald. So it made my awnser kinda squeaky. "Yes, sorry."

"THAT'S YES SIR!!!"

I tryed to catch my breath to reply, But I couldn't. He then tightened his grip and forced a clear reply from me. "Yes sir."

"Good."

He then released his grip and I pumbled on the ground. I then put my right arm on my neck and tryed my best to catch my breath. My face was blue as a blue berry and my neck had five, red rings on it. I was painting like a dog left out in the desert for a week. I quickly became dissy and nazeated. Not only did my neck hurt but my head was pounding too.

"You'll have to exscuse her Hiei. She likes to joke."

"Tuh,So i've noticed..... Kurama I fail to belive that this girly girl could posable tooken the life of a spirit. Tuh, This fool couldn't hurt the ghost of a fly."

Karen: "Girly girl????"

"Time is of the essense Hiei. You must be paient."

"Paients is for fools! Girls Kurama, Are meant to stay home, Wash the dishs and play with Barbies. Boy's on the other hand are made to fight. Why do you think there isn't any woman who fight in the army?"

"Karen: {"Barbies? Uh. That's it, He is sooo like totaly dead!"}

"I'm sorry Kurama but you can train her by yourself. Even if it was Koinma's order's for me to asist you, I am leaving anyway. I don't have time to baby sit such an upstart. Hear that Karen? You need to just stay home and clean the house. You'll never be good for anything eles. Fool." He then turns around and starts to walk off.

"Hey and just where do you think your going? You super baer chest stud! Nobody calls me a girly girl and gets away with it. I hope you have some darn good health insurense cause when I get through with you.....Your going to half to sneak up on a glass of water to get a drink."

"You really are an ideiot aren't you?"

"Darn right." I hacked and spit on the ground. "I may be an ideiot but I am a smart one." He looked at me and smiled.

"Actully Kurama I think I just reconsitered. How lucky for both you and Koinma that I've just found time in my ultra busy scedule to deal with this amature." Kurama noded. "Karen, do you like the taste of blood?"

"Uhhhh. Well....I havn't ever really drank any blood...but i've bitten my tounge before. So I guess I tasted blood then. Well actully it didn't taste that good...."

"That's to bad. BECAUSE THAT'S ALL YOU'LL TASTE FOR THE NEXT FOURTYSEVEN WEEKS! AND I GARENTEE, THAT BY THAT TIME, YOU WILL LIKE THE TASTE OF BLOOD! BECAUSE IF YOU DONT, YOU LIFE IS GOING TO BE A LIVING HECK!!!"

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Hiei: "This next part's the best. I LOVE the gore! To bad that couldn't have been the aurthor. But she died A bloody death anyway. Good for her."

Bakura: "STOP SAYING THAT! SHUT UP!!!"

"You wanta go vist her?"

"There's A way?"

"Come closer and i'll show you." *Bakura gets up close to Hiei. Hiei reachs for his Katana when....* "HOLD IT HIEI!!!" Hiei turns around and much to his surprise Yoko Kurama was standing there. {Why in blazes would Yoko stop me form.....Wait!} "Your not Yoko. Your that other demon fox Shippo, Inuyasha's friend."

Shipo: "WHAT? How did you know it was me?" *Transforms back into normal form*

"Simple. That's not Yoko's tail."

(Underbreath) "Sense when does he pay attention to what Yoko's tail would look like?"

"I can hear you!"

"AH! HURRY AND REVIEW BEFORE HIEI HURTS ME!!!"

Hiei: "By then it'll be to late."