Hey there again...I never expected 10 reviews for any of my stories. Thanks!!! If your ever bored just got to my profile and I have a short list of authors that I'm reading and their stories. Check them out if you want to.

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Thanks to the Reviewers::

Ryuu le Mizishi- I'm glad you liked it. By the way your story doesn't suck. But u better update it soon again.

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Anyways on with the story-

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Yusuke made sure that every step was heard as he trudged to Koenma's office. Botan had resorted to covering her ears in hopes of keeping her pounding headache down. She had had the headache ever sense Koenma had talked to her in private. Right now it was pounding ferociously and Yusuke's footsteps were not helping any. Botan lifted her eyes up to the ceiling and silently pleaded for the pounding to stop soon.

As the sound echoed throughout the hall it sounded like a 20 foot monster was walking through the empty halls. Ogres that were still in their offices peered out of doors to see what all the commotion was about. All they saw was an angry boy walking down the hall. Shrugging they went back to work.

Koenma sat at his desk stamping the last of his papers. Bang, bang. He looked at the stamp. Since when did it echo so loud when he stamped. Cautiously he grabbed another paper and stamped it. Bang. Terrified he threw the stamp across the room. The stamp ended up stamping the wall. As it landed another bang echoed. Koenma meeped and flew under his desk. The only logical response that he could come up with the sound was that the stamp was haunted.

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Thrilled to see Koenma's door Botan raced over to it. She only knocked once then threw the door open. Forget formalities, Botan was done with this sour puss. Her headache was going into a full blown migraine.

She looked towards the desk with expectant eyes. Her eyes widened as she stared ahead. There was his stack of papers, chair and desk. Everything was in the same spot as it was when she went to get Yusuke. Well everything but Koenma.

'Wait where's Koenma. Oh this is going to help my headache.' Botan scowled as she heard Yusuke's earth shattering foot steps. 'If he slams his foot down one more time I'm going to whack him into next Wednesday.' (A/n this is what my mom says all the time )

Bang went Yusuke's foot. Botan's left eye twitched as her grip on the oar handle tightened.

'Why that little-.' Her words stopped as she saw Koenma's stamper on the floor next to her foot. Botan picked it up and stared at it. Why was this on the ground, she wondered as she stared at it.

As she stared at it Botan heard something whimper. It sounded as though it was coming from under the desk. Tiptoeing she walked over to the desk. Botan signaled to Yusuke to stay still and she lifted her oar. Silently she counted to three and jumped around the desk. There on the floor was Koenma sucking both a pacifier and his thumb. Botan let the oar fall to her side as she stared at the babbling ruler. Her left eye brow twitched some more as she stared at him.

"Uh, Koenma are you ok?" Botan asked while trying to not go running up and down the halls screaming about how crazy her boss was.

Koenma looked up at Botan with huge, puppy dog eyes. "The stamper is haunted. Every time I stamp it pounds and echoes."

Ok by now Botan had had enough. She glanced at Koenma, then to the stamp, then to Yusuke, then back to Koenma. Without even saying a word Botan grabbed the ruler and threw him into his chair. Then she took a piece of paper and handed him the rubber stamp. "Here show me how it sounds when you stamp." While she said that she handed it to him and waited.

Koenma stared at the stamp then at the paper. He held it in his tiny hand as though it was going to bite him at any second. He carefully took the stamp and stamped a piece of paper. There was no noise at all. Koenma stared at it as he stamped the paper again and again and again.

Botan smiled as she watched him stamp away. 'Well that's one problem down.' With every thing that was going on a psychotic boss was the last thing that she needed.

Yusuke watched with a growing impatience. First there was an important mission that needed top priority. It was so important to wake him up at midnight for. He was waken up so he could do what?! Watch his boss the toddler have stamp issues!! Mad, Yusuke stomped over and grabbed the stamp from the stamp happy toddler.

"Is there something important you wanted to tell me, or am I supposed to watch you have stamping issues all night?" Yusuke glared into Koenma's eyes.

Koenma gave a blank look at Yusuke as he tried to remember what Yusuke was talking about. "Oh yes. I wanted to see how it was going with Kanna. Have you made any improvements?"

Yusuke stared dumfounded at Koenma. A midnight wakeup call just to see how he was doing. That was why telephones and emails were invented. Not midnight wake up calls.

In a strained voice Yusuke answered, "Ok I guess. You didn't tell me she was so screwed up. Now I'm going to BED!!" Yusuke turned and headed for the oversized red doors.

"Wait that's not it Yusuke. I need to tell you something else." That made Yusuke stop and turn back around. It seemed safe so he continued, "We need to hurry Yusuke. You need to get her to trust you faster. It is vital that you get her to trust you one way or another."

Yusuke threw up a hand as he walked back to the portal. "Yep no problem. I'll get her to trust me whatever. Good luck on your stamp issues."

Koenma just stared at the stamp. 'Did Yusuke just bewitch it?' He set it down carefully and pushed his chair away.

Botan let out a moan of frustration and ran out of the office. That was it, she was taking a long trip far far away from everyone.

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The next day the weather was perfect as Yusuke, Kurama, and Hiei looked for Kanna. Yusuke had relayed the whole scene to them as soon as he had gotten to school. Kurama had laughed when Yusuke mentioned that Koenma had stamp issues that needed to be worked out.

Yusuke had tried to explain it to Kuwabara too. But Kuwabara was too busy trying to convince the girls that he would be their protector. So far five girls had ran off screaming when he held their hands, ten had bashed him and two had kissed him in thanks.

Shaking his head Yusuke motioned for the rest to follow him and leave Kuwabara behind. Hiei seemed overjoyed by this. He raised his hands in the air and took a couple of happy half-dance, half-running steps. Shaking his head again Yusuke started to wonder if he was the only sane one left in the group.

Kurama's voice interrupted Yusuke's thoughts. "Hey Yusuke look over there." Kurama raised his hand and pointed over to a huge sakura tree.

Yusuke looked up and was relieved to see Kanna. He started to race over to her. At least that was until he was blind sighted by Yuki.

"What are you guys doing here?" Yuki had her right hand clinched into a fist and threw a warning punch in front of Yusuke.

"Yusuke wanted to see if Kanna could help him with something." Hiei said thinking quickly. Silently Yusuke thanked him. He was going to have to get Hiei some chocolate sweet snow later on.

Yuki studied their faces before nodding. "Fine, but if you hurt her you'll be sorry." As if to show that she was serious Yuki shook her fist as she walked away.

Carefully they walked towards the wary girl. Not once had Yusuke seen the poor girl smile. Smiling as sweetly as he could he took the lead walking over to Kanna.

Kanna's large blue eyes studied the boys. "Hi" she said weakly as she stared at the new boy.

Yusuke sensing Kanna's fears put a hand on Hiei's shoulder. "This is my pal Hiei. He goes to school across town. But today school's out so he decided to follow me. Hiei this is Kanna." As he turned away to look behind him he hissed to Hiei, "be nice or Yukina finds out."

Kanna bowed politely as she looked at the tiny person in front of her. His eyes showed hurt and mistrust. When she stared at his eyes it was as though she was looking into a mirror into her own. Kanna secretly wondered what had caused the hurt that she saw in his eyes.

"Hey Kanna your on the top ten in science, right?" Yusuke asked with his brown eyes glowing.

Kanna walked towards the trunk of the sakura tree before nodding her head. Trees always seemed to give her comfort. They never laughed at you when you did something new. No matter how much force was placed on them they always stood straight and tall. She always admired trees for how strong they could be when they needed to.

"Great" Yusuke beamed. "Would you be able to help me and Hiei then? I, uh..., don't want to fail it." Yusuke tried to give his best sincere look as Kanna studied him. Hiei just raised an eyebrow at Yusuke. Since when did he care about failing or passing? Heck half the time he skipped or fell asleep at the desk.

Kanna smiled an empty smile as she agreed. "We can go to my house after school." For some unknown reason Kanna felt as though she could trust Yusuke. There was something about his eyes. It was weird when she looked into them she would get lost. It was as if he knew and felt more then what he let on.

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The last bell rang for the day. Triumphant with himself, Yusuke followed Kanna to her home. Of course he had to deal with the wrath of Yuki and sign his life away if he was to hurt her.

Yusuke had to drag Hiei however. Hiei just could not see why he had to follow this stupid, pathic, little girl around. So what with this stupid mission. All Hiei wanted to do was follow the dimwit around and keep him from Yukina. To Hiei keeping Kuwabara away from her was more important then this weakling. Following this girl was at the bottom of his list of things that he wanted to do today.

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As they came close to Kanna's house Yusuke stared. It was an ordinary looking two story house but what made it unbelievable was the front yard. The front yard looked like something that Kurama would have died for. There were roses, carnations, sakura trees, and geraniums with grass lining the rest of the yard. Everything looked so lush. Kanna opened the front door to a nice little two story house and invited the boys in.

Now some say that you can tell a lot from a person's bedroom. It is one of the rare places where no one can dictate on how it should look. You can be yourself in your bedroom. If someone has a lot of stuffed animals and cute little trinkets then they are said that they listen to their inner child more then others. If someone has black with voodoo such trinkets then they are label 'gothic.' You can hide your true self from others but not from your bedroom.

Kanna led the boys into her room. Her bare room. The only thing that made this room a bedroom was the bed and dresser that sat in it. There were no posters or such luxury items. On the small bed sat only a stuffed bear. It looked like the type that you had mercilessly drug throughout the house when only two.

Hearing the phone ring, Kanna excused herself and ran to answer it. Yusuke looked towards the dresser. On the top were a few small pictures. One was of Kanna and a woman that Yusuke guessed to be her mother, another was of Kanna and her dog and a third was just Kanna sitting in a tree. In all these pictures Kanna looked so happy, so alive. Her smile was bright and big. But most amazing was her eyes. Yusuke longed to see those eyes again on the girl. They were so bright almost as though the blue was shinning its own light.

Yusuke turned his eyes away from the pictures. Towards the back there was another one. Kanna still looked as happy as could be. Behind her was a man with his face scratched off. As he looked closer Yusuke could tell that care had been taken to scratch off every last part of the face. He wondered who the man was and if he had caused Kanna's pain. He gently put the picture back and walked away puzzled about the picture.

Hiei stood at the door disgusted at being here. Ever since when did he need a ningen's help? Heck he would destroy all ningens in the world and then they would need his help. A smirk came to his face as he thought about this.

Hiei looked towards the dresser and saw a statue. It was beyond beautiful. Entranced Hiei walked over to it and gently picked it up. Awe filled his face. It was a Makai crafted sculpture and Hiei could only think of one person that made such beautiful ones. But why would she have it? Of course she was a demon but still this was not something that you would buy yourself. It was more of a gift but who gave it to her? Defiantly not her mother so who else was there?

He held the statue up a little higher. It was just so beautiful. By the weight he could tell that it was blown glass. The beautiful statue was of a red eyed fox holding a blue flower in its mouth. Hiei stared at it closer and did not see the small frail hand grab it from him.

"This was given to me by someone that died a while ago so I'm just a little protective of it. Sorry." Kanna gave the statue a slight kiss as she gently placed it back in its original place.

For the next two hours Yusuke and a reluctant Hiei learned everything that they would need to know for the next test.

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"Do what I ask of you Damasu and I'll give you whatever you desire. Treasure or whatever you name." The dark figure awaited the answer.

A tall thin fox demon's eyes glowed. "Just give me one thing. Freedom."

The man mockingly put a finger on his lips as though deep in thought. "Fine your freedom. But do all that I ask of you or you will die." With that he turned and disappeared into the darkness once again.

The demon who was called Damasu hung his head. Freedom was the one thing he wanted the most, but did he dare do what was wanted of him.

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Yusuke yawned as he stared at the teacher. Couldn't he see that the didn't want to learn this crap? Half of the was asleep while the other half doodled. Yusuke looked over at Kurama. Kurama leaned on one hand and was carefully drawing a fox. Heck even the best student wasn't paying attention anymore.

Yusuke's eyes diverted over to Kanna. In the front right hand corner she slept with her head in her arms. The dream seemed to be a good one; there was a slight smile on her face. Suddenly the smile turned into a grimace. The grimace was followed by tiny screams. Kanna suddenly stood and screamed a loud "NO!!!" She turned and ran out of the room.

Yusuke jumped out of his seat and ran after the girl. Looking behind him he saw that Kurama was hot on his heels. Yusuke rounded the corner and ran out of the doors. He gasped at the sight before him.

Kanna tried franticly to escape the tall, lanky demon that grasped her arm. His iron clad grip was starting to hurt her arm. She hissed out in pain. There was no way that she would be taken again. 'Never again' coursed through her mind as she felt her anger rise.

Kanna's strawberry hair slowly changed to black and her blue eyes to violet. Damasu stared at amazement as her energy rose. Never had he seen such a frail half-pint with so much energy. No wonder why she was wanted so.

Yusuke and Kurama stopped running. They stared at the transformation that took place in front of them. Kurama shivered and took an involuntary step back as he felt the energy that she was putting off. It was almost stronger then Karasu and Togoro put together. Yusuke could do nothing but just stare at the girl. So this was why she was wanted. It was no wonder why demons were after her.

Damasu had had enough. He raised his right arm and hit Kanna swiftly on the back of her head. As she fell her eyes rolled back into her head. Down she went right into the waiting arms of the thin demon. He glanced over at the two boys. Though his mouth was curved in a cruel smile his eyes seemed to betray him. His tiny eyes seemed to have hurt and sorrow within them. Keeping his cruel smile steady he shouted towards the two boys, "Kanna's no longer your problem. Ask Koenma if you have any questions. Bye."

"Damn you get back here with her." Yusuke was mad at his mocking tone. He spoke to them with such ease. It was as though they had just sold him a puppy. How dare he make it sound so casual? Yusuke watched as Damasu opened a portal and jumped though. Angered Yusuke jumped towards the portal. He watched with hurt in his heart as it closed up. Yusuke fell onto the soft green grass. He muttered curses as he stood and stared at where the portal had been.

Kurama walked over and placed a hand on Yusuke's shoulder. "Let's take the demon up on his offer. Let's see what Koenma knows. Getting angry won't help Kanna. We need to keep our heads and hearts clear."

All Yusuke could do was nod numbly. Kanna was really gone. He had failed to protect her. His mind was numb to everything else. How could he have failed her? Two silver tears fell and hit the green grass below.

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Ok I found a song that seemed perfect for this story. It seems to tell how Kanna is feeling perfectly. It's called Concrete Angel by Martina McBride. If you haven't heard it yet the website where you can find it is on my bio along with the lyrics.

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