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For a minute there, he thought that fighting the fool of a miko would be challenging.

He could feel the shards residing within many areas of his body reacting. Reacting to be united with the miko's share of shards.

And with that desperation of the shards it unfortunately gave him the power he need, he practically felt himself consumed the power that was never meant to be for him.

But it was his nonetheless.

In one instant that the miko, in all her might, her hands poised to release the purity arrow, her body from afar practically was burning with passion to defeat him;

In that one instant he was god.

With speed that left the miko speechless, he force his hand and pushed through her heart.

He smirked as the miko's eyes dilated from shock and she knew that she was dying.

"Dear miko," he purred, reveling in the shudder from her body as her spirit began to leave, "we should have done this along time ago."

It was then that his brows furrowed in suspicion when the miko gurgled out thick red liquid. It slowly dripped down her chin and he felt content to wipe it away.

She started hacking – laughing mirthlessly.

She sharply raised her head to meet his. The beautiful miko smirked at him.

"For a minute there Naraku," she softly whispered, their lips were mere inches from each other, "I thought fighting you would be challenging."

~

Somewhere between his boredom and Youko's thoughts running excessively wild, his attention was suddenly perked up with the teacher introducing a new student.

And Youko felt compelled to appreciatively run his eyes over the new student's body.

Shuuchi wanted to hide when Youko thought of a million things he could do to her body, but the fact remains, he couldn't deny Youko's urges. Even he couldn't argue, she was very pretty, long black hair, and startling blue eyes…those eyes were very expressive too and it seemed like it had a story to tell.

Said new girl suddenly bowed and introduced herself stiffly.

"My name is Higurashi Kagome, I am a transfer student from Cherry Blossoms."

And that was all she said as she quickly pass Shuuchi Minamino and settled down her assigned seat.

Shuuchi blinked feeling the slight breeze of wind as she passed him.

The class blinked at the rather brief introduction, which is saying something because their curiosity was heightening. Everybody loved a puzzle and this Higurashi was indeed a puzzle. It was simply unfair, she was very beautiful and apparently very sharp and highly intelligent and with just the fact that she was a new student simply brightened up everybody's interest. But of course, like everything else, they all fade to obscurity.

But of course, Youko couldn't pass of scoring one with her.

Whispers suddenly broke out like a wildfire, all eyes staring at the new student who easily ignored them and attentively listened to the teacher whom looked mildly annoyed at the rest of the class lack of attention but continued nonetheless.

Math class was easy and it took all his willpower for Shuuchi to force himself not to turn around and observe the new student, Kagome.

This is quite interesting don't you think?

'I thought you were in a mission?' Shuuchi calmly replied, sensing for his friend's distinct aura. He felt his friend shrug.

Just finished.

'I see…' then moments later, 'What are you doing here?'

Watching the new girl.

'Why?'

Why are you asking questions when you already know the answers to?

~

Kurama was distracted.

Yes, yes, that was the most definitive conclusions that he can come up with.

Despite Kurama's calm and quiet personality, Yusuke couldn't help but see the change in his aura and the change in atmosphere. Looking at the direction that Kamura was staring, he had to do a double take.

It's a girl.

Yeah? So what? It's a girl…hmmm…pretty and looking like she came from a tragedy book…but there are other pretty girls in this school too, what would Kurama find so interesting in this one?

So he decided to ask him.

"What the hell is wrong with you?"

Oops…that came out wrong.

Kurama tilted his head and stared at him unperturbedly and Yusuke scratched his head in confusion. This caught the attention of the rest of his friends and expectantly looked at Kurama.

"I'm fine Yusuke," said Kurama as he drew his eyes back towards the new girl.

"Then why are you looking at the new girl so much?"

It was decidedly so that Yusuke began to realize the possibility of Kamura liking the girl…but it's impossible, well, not in the case for Youko, the kitsune, but for Shuuchi; for Shuuchi to stay interest in girl, granted a pretty girl far more than the rest of the student population was…different. Shuuchi never really had any interest, other than his mother, but his mother could be counted out, but a girl his age (that is Shuuchi's age).

Now the kitsune was another matter altogether and while he don't doubt a single breath the kitsune's passionate lust for the pretty girl, the scene was just wrong. Very wrong.

"Huh?" Kuwabara suddenly exclaimed, snickering, "what girl? Who are you talking about?"

Keiko smiled thoughtfully and glanced at the girl in question, "Higurashi Kagome, class B-1 transferred from Cherry Blossoms, but that's about all I could gather about her. It seems that that's all she wants to tell."

Kurama droned out their conversations and continued to stare at Kagome with so much interest. He himself began to wonder why he has so much fascination with her. He hasn't even had a chance to talk with her much less know other interesting tidbits that Keiko could gather. But…she was interesting.

Two weeks ago, a sixteen-year-old girl was abruptly sent to the hospital suffering major injuries, broken ribs, fractured skull, ruptured heart and lungs, ripped tendons…the list went on. To everyone's amazement, she still managed to make a pulse, weak albeit but it was still there. It was even more surprising to find her with a steady heartbeat the next morning, most wounds healed and the bigger ones closed from bleeding.

It was simply a miracle.

The mother, grandfather and little brother brought her in, who was just as shock and scared of what had happened to her. But they did not know what had happen to her; they simply found her lying beside the shack of their home at the initial injured state.

Kurama, that sixteen-year-old girl is her, the Higurashi girl.

For a human…it's simply impossible. She can't have healed so quickly from those heavy injuries or awaken just two days prior. Those wounds were very raw when the family brought her in and something had happen to her. Something unnatural. Koenma felt slight traces of youkai in her aura. Plus her aura is very powerful, much more powerful than Kuwabara.

"So what do you want me to do?"

Koenma said just observed and investigate, for now. But if the girl shows any responses in knowing about the spirit and youkai world, report back to him and from there he'll figure out something.

"Erase her memory I expect."

Hn…

Yes, she was very pretty indeed looking at the tree in front of her serenely. She sat under the cherry blossom tree, free from the sun's heat, her hands holding her lunch. But she wasn't noticing her lunch at all as it was left untouched.

It was then under much speculation that Kurama realized that she was glaring. Glaring rather angrily at the tree that Hiei was occupying.

Kurama chuckled, "Now this is interesting."

Yusuke looked up from his lunch, "What's interesting?"

"Do you know where Hiei is as we speak?"

Yusuke's head bobbed up and down in response, Kurama smiled.

"It seems that Kagome noticed he's blocking her scenery."

"WHAT?!" Yusuke bursted out loudly, the idea seemed fresh on Keiko and Kuwabara as they too chorused the same questioned.

I have a perfectly good explanation for this…it's 3 in the morning.

I only have two wishes;

That Sylvannastar update her Strongest Ties as well as goijh's Golden Gaze. Please…I think I'm going to die if they don't finish it…This story is an inspiration based on their stories so all credits go to them. It seems like it's the same but trust me; it's far from the same.

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Revised and Edited: December 10, 2003