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"She's got a smile that it seems to me
Reminds me of childhood memories
Where everything
was as fresh as the bright blue sky"

-Guns and Roses

'It can't be...' Kurama thought. "You're lying."

" 'I can smell when you're lying.' Was it not Youko Kurama who said that? I believe it was in the semi finals of the dark tournament. Yes, when Youko first appeared. You were fighting against the boy with the Idunn box. Uraurishima? Was it?"

"How?"

"I was watching from outside the ring. Ordinary demons couldn't see past the force field, but I could. I heard everything you said."

'She was there? At the tournament?' Kurama continued to stare at the crow demoness, in false belief. "So then, you have met me before. That answers one question. How you know me. I wish to ask you more. Why are you here?" The kitsune asked.

"Why do you think? Revenge." Kara answered cold eyes moving to the object in her hand. The Quest class has been after you for some time now. I was more than happy to track you down. You haven't changed sense the last time I saw you. Draining the blood from my father's corpse."

"I have no regrets for killing Karasu." Kurama stated. Eyes locking with the ravens, obviously redeeming his calm nature he was known for.

"I wouldn't expect you to. Just as I have no regrets for what I'm about to do." With that the crow disappeared.

"What?" Kurama saw a falling shadow from the moon's light. 'From behind!'

/Be cautious she is just like him/

Yes but Karasu did not have the fire of revenge coursing through his veins. Kurama told Youko dodging the assault.

/No she doesn't, look closer. She is not fighting for revenge/

"Faster in person are you?" Kara mused, withdrawing her hand from the earth the one that missed her target. "It's to be expected I suppose." The demon smirked. Taking the silver mask and placing it on her face. "However next time Kurama, I wont miss." The crow leaped beginning another assault.

'This fight is almost over. The fox is as good as dead.' A young crow demon stood near the top of the bleachers at the dark tournament, listening to Juri count. "He's actually getting up again? What a fool."

"You should have stayed down," Karasu said raising his hands. "But I guess it's not your style."

'I may die.' Kurama thought but at least it will end in a draw. "HUUAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!" Kurama released what he believed to be all his ki into the plant, draining the life out of Karasu.

"NO!" Kara's eyes widened from her spot. Watching her father's light fade, watching him fall to the ground, and not get up as the plant devoured him. "No..." She whispered.

"I believe this belongs to you." Violet eyes met sunglasses nearly ten hours later. "Shouldn't you be killing the spirit detective?"

"Sakyo has to make one last announcement to the public."

"I heard."

"Get stronger, Kara, and if you must then take revenge. Maybe one day you and I will fight together in this tournament."

"No. I didn't want him to fight here in the first place. I simply came to support, and watch the fall of weaker, foolish apparitions."

"If you say so." Tuguro said walking off dropping an object at her feet. Kara bent down to pick up the object. Her father's mask.

Kurama winced as Kara's talons contacted with the flesh on his shoulder.

"Did that hurt?" Kara's cold voiced echoed. "Does this?" Kurama flinched even more as Kara twisted her fingers and pulled out a lump of tissue. "How does it feel, Kurama? Having your life changed? Your security taken away? Everything that you have come accustomed to erased? How does it feel?"

Kurama crouched away, gripping his now bleeding shoulder. 'Block her out' He told himself.

"Why don't you answer? Are you not sure of your answer? Maybe I can help you." Kara smirked holding up her hand. "As you know my father belonged to the Quest class of demons, as do I now. It took him five years to prefect this attack, I learned it in three." Kurama watch as the green glow in her hands shaped itself into an object that resembled ten sticks of dynamite. "Bakuhatsu suru no bakugeki suru!" Kara yelled throwing the bomb toward Kurama.

'I can't doge it!' Kurama realized before the explosion hit him. Kurama couldn't help the yell that tore through his body. He felt the familiar feeling from last time. Parts of his clothing were already being burnt off, some of it meshing with his burned flesh. He fell to the ground with a large impact almost blacking out there. 'I can't let her defeat me.' He was drawn back to his situation by laughter. "How about now kitsune? Does it hurt? What do you think of my attack? Surely after fighting my father you must have formed some kind of opinion about me. Come now, tell me."

'Strong, she must be an near A-class level.' "You want my opinion?" Kurama asked standing. "It might hurt you."

Kara arched a brow. "Oh?"

"What I see before me, is sad to me. Someone as strong as you, fighting for a person such as him. You're faking all this, I see your true self, behind not the mask on your face, but your mask of personality. You are not fighting for revenge, you are fighting because you have to."

"Silence!" Kara shouted. "I am here to kill, why is not for you to know!" 'I AM here for revenge, the order was just convenient. Kurachi can't control me. I wouldn't be here if I didn't wish to. This is for revenge.'

"You may be here to kill Kara, but I am not here to die." Kurama said reaching into his hair. "Rose whip!" Kurama flung the vine at her grazing her neck slightly, as she dodged. Kara snapped her fingers watching the vine disintegrate. "Nice try."

Kurama leaped at her delivering a blow to her neck that knocked her back several feet. "Hm, It didn't work on him, and it wont work on me." Kara said digging a nail into her neck to pull out the death seed. "I'm almost disappointed. Have you no new tricks? If not I might have to speed this up, I don't want things to become so dull I fall asleep." Kara said pulling out a dagger. "Father was never fond of weapons that already existed. However, I have always been drawn to blades for some reason." Kara said sprinting toward the fox. Kurama pulled out another whip wrapping it around the dagger trying to pull it away from her. Kara used the whip, grabbing on to it to flip herself behind Kurama pulling the dagger out of reach attempting to stab his other shoulder. Kurama dodged to his left still causing Kara to graze his arm slightly.

Kara smirked watch the crimson sweetness drip from the blade, licking some off. "I love this feeling. The taste of blood from my prey, on my blade, the moon high lining my victim in its last light. It's beautiful, knowing that death is approaching soon."

Kurama continued to glare. 'Hurry soon, or I will end'

"Hurry up Kuwabara! Next time I'm leaving you behind." Yusuke yelled over his shoulder as he continued to run.

"Get off my back Urameshi, I'm going as fast as I can!"

"Well do better, that explosion went off almost 30 minutes ago, and we still don't know where it came from."

"Not my fault I'm human. Uh-hey shouldn't we get Kurama and the shrimp."

"My guess is they're already there. That thing woke ME up from my sleep, you know they must be there by now."

"I think I sense Kurama, it's faint though."

"Where's it coming from?"

"There," Kuwabara said point East. "Wait, isn't that were the portal to demon world is?"

"That's right." Yusuke sighed, "We better hurry, this doesn't seem right."

"Yeah." The orange haired teen agreed, both taking off towards the portal.

"Why are you not fighting back? Would you like me to end your life now?" Kurama locked eyes with Kara again. After almost stabbing his aorta, he found himself in the same situation as in the dark tournament, surrounded by bombs. 'Hurry' Kurama pleaded silently. "Shall I take your silence as a yes? In that case, I wish to tell you something. I enjoyed this very much. I've waited almost three years for this Kurama, and now it is time for you to go." Kara finished releasing a bomb near Kurama's torso. "AHHHHH!" Kurama couldn't control his cry. The pain was not what caused him to cry out; he endured it before, but the mental pain was what haunted him. Kara was as merciless as Karasu, 'Maybe they are the same...was I wrong? No I know...she's different.'

"Goodbye Kuram-ahhh!"

Kurama's eyes widened watching a katana make a slash across Kara's back. 'Hiei' Kurama thought. The figure landed on his feet next to Kurama. The bombs had disappeared during Kara's temporary weakness, allowing Kurama to move.

"Who is she?" Hiei asked.

"You wouldn't believe me now if I told you."

"I can venture a guess."

"Heh. I see you have no respect for your friends Kurama." Kara said correcting her posture from the attack. "You should have heeded the warning in my note. Now he too will die."

"Try it." Hiei said pulling himself into an offensive stance. "Don't." Kurama interrupted. "It should work now."

"What should work?" Hiei asked crimson orbs eyeing the kitsune.

Kara's hands formed a green glow once again. A silhouette of explosives appearing. "Bakuha-eh..." Kara stopped, green light fading from her hand as it went to grasp her neck. Her eyes widened fingering the gash from the rose whip. "How?" she whispered.

"My first attack." Kurama answered. "I implanted the seed, knowing you would destroy my rose whip right away. To distract you I imbedded another one, which you removed. However, as I planned you didn't notice the first one. I had to plant it lightly in your skin and wait for it to absorb into your system."

"...You're...certainly...full of...surprises." Kara gasped, knees failing her as she fell to the ground.

"You certainly struggled with this battle. Why didn't you invite me along for the fight?" The jaganashi asked.

"I'll explain later." The fox sighed.

"I see we missed the party." The two demons turned to see the other members of their team arriving. "You okay Kurama?" Yusuke asked eyeing the blood on his friend's body.

"Hm, not as bad as when I fought Karasu. However, I should get these treated."

"Karasu?!" The human and half-demon echoed.

"Hn. I figured as much." Hiei said eyeing the body.

"That can't be Karasu though!" Kuwabara yelled, "You killed him I saw it!"

"Yes, I killed him. However, his daughter lived on." Kurama said picking up the Kara bridal style, and walking out of the clearing.

"Uh, Kurama? Where you going with the dead chick who tried to kill you?" Yusuke asked.

"She's not dead, I only used the death seed to paralyze both her mind and body temporarily. I'm taking her to Genkai's. I too have questions." Kurama said continuing to walk.

Well for now that is it. Till next time, once again I hope you enjoy and please read and review! It helps a lot see how fast the chapters are coming up? Now I'm going to bed please may I wake up in the morning to find lots of little reviews, thank you very much! Neko.

What2callmyself, Well I'm updating, so here's more. As for what is going to happen next you'll just have to wait and see.

PunkShinigami, Glad you enjoyed it, Hope you keep reading koi.

Kuranga108, Yep Karasu has a daughter. And this shall prove to be interesting...sweat drop I hope ;

MariQ, Thank you, it is very important to me to keep the characters like they are. Well except in humor. I think in dramatic fics like this they should portray themselves. And yes Kara is just like Karasu even though Kurama doesn't want to admit it.