Hello again! This is the chapter... where you finally get to Arisa's powers! YAY!! Let's get straight to this chase!

Arisa lay in her bed. She knew she wouldn't be able to sleep. For some reason, she felt so by Kurama and his constant hopefulness. She paced around her small room fitfully, until she resumed to staring out the window. She moaned, and in her frustration, and she vented it by hitting her head constantly on the window, the rhythmic beating of her head hitting the window echoed throughout her dingy room.

Kurama lay in his bed, when he heard the thump, thump, thump, of what, he did not know. He looked around. Sighing, he thought to himself silently, he was never going to get to sleep with that noise flooding around in his room.

He pushed his window open to see the thumping was coming from the window on his right. Kurama pushed his head out the window, and noticed the banging was coming from Arisa hitting her head against the window. He climbed silently onto the tree outside his window, and he knocked softly against her window. She looked up, and shoved the window open.

"What are you doing?" she asked, her voice cold.

"If you keep banging your head like that I won't be able to get any sleep. I just want you to stop," Kurama replied, his voice matching hers on the cold factor (brr....)

"Make me," she spat back glaring at him through red rimmed eyes.

"Have you been crying??" Kurama asked, suddenly worried, as he noticed her red eyes.

"Maybe I have, why do you want to know anyway, huh, brat??" she asked, glaring at him.

"Stop calling me brat. I was just wondering," he replied, his voice annoyed.

"I can call you whatever I want!" she shot back, glaring at him.

(Arisa's pov!!)

"Please just calm down, all I want you to do is to stop hitting your head against the window, or your wounds will open up again, and then you'll start bleeding again," Kurama told me, his voice annoyingly calm.

"It doesn't matter if my wounds open and I bleed forever, I can't die, trust me, I've tried!" I yelled back, fresh tears rolled down my face. I walked away from the window for an instant, and when I turned around, Kurama was standing in my room, brushing leaves out of his hair.

"AH, what are you doing in here?" I asked, my voice rising in slightly.

"Calm down, why are you like this?? Tell me, you said so yourself it helps," he said, his voice smooth like butter.

That's when I felt it again. I longed to over to him, and go into his embrace. Why did I feel this?? My mind tugged at me to go and tell him. I shook my head slightly. I can't do this! He may think he can take it, but I know he couldn't. He'd just be like my parents, or my friends... I don't want to be left alone again.

"What? Come on, Arisa, you won't get to sleep the way you are, and you'll need all the rest you can get," he said, his large green eyes pleading with me.

"No... I... I don't..."

"You don't what??"

"I....don't want to be...." I said, and in a quite whisper, I said, "Alone..."

"What? You don't want to be.... What??" Kurama asked me, as I turned my back to him.

That's just it, I just said it. I didn't want to be alone... was that really true?? I mean, I should be used to it, I've been like that forever, but... do I really want to be alone?? I fell slowly to my knees as the realization of what I said came rushing to my head.

"It was a hit and run," I said softly, as it replayed in my head.

That fateful day kept rushing through my head, just like in my dreams.

"What do you mean?" Kurama asked, and I could hear him walk closer to me. I closed my eyes tightly, and somehow, my tears managed to still pour out.

Instantly, I wished I hadn't closed my eyes, this always happened when I let my guard down!

Sound crashed into my ears. I could hear each tear drop hit the ground, and it crashed into my ears, deafening me. The sound of Kurama's footsteps pounded through my head like a drill. The sound of the room overwhelmed me. I screamed out in pain as I grabbed my ears, in a vain attempt to keep the sound out. I struggled to breathe and gain control.

(Normal POV)

Kurama stood shocked to see Arisa screaming in pain as she covered her ears. He couldn't hear anything. That's when it happened, light. Light seemed to emanate from Arisa and it a flash, it disappeared.

"Arisa's what wrong??" he asked, worried about her, as her form still remained hunched over on the ground.

"Leave... just... please..." she moaned, as she gasped for breath, her hair wet from sweat.

"No! You need to tell me what is wrong, maybe I can help! And what do you mean when you say it was a hit and run??" Kurama demanded.

"Nothing..." Arisa muttered as she stood up slowly.

(Arisa's POV)

I steadied my self on unsure legs and I grasped the door frame for support. The noise had diminished slowly, and it finally returned back to normal. I wished I could run into his arms and let him hold me.

"Please, tell me what's going on. You said it yourself, it can really help if you do so," Kurama's voice hit my ears, and his voice seemed to plead with me.

"I can't tell you, someone like you wouldn't understand!" I yelled back glaring at him. My temper started to rise, but in my sadness, I couldn't stop it. Rage flowed up in me, and it overflowed, and the moment it did, the window's glass panes exploded, sending glass flying everywhere.

"What the!?!" Kurama yelled out in surprise as he rushed to the window, "What did that?!?" he asked as he picked up one of the shards of glass.

I placed a hand over my heart, steadying myself, as I breathed in slowly. I hadn't made anything explode in about 20 years. What was going on with me??

"Must have been fragile glass," I said, hoping he wouldn't figure out that I did it.

"It's bullet proof glass," Kurama said, looking at me curiously.

"So?" I asked in a defending tone.

"Did you do this?" he asked, getting a odd look on his face.

"Wha... what?!?! As if I could do THAT!" I scoffed pointing at the window with a shaking hand. My long dormant temper started to flare up again, and I prayed it wouldn't overflow.

"You're keeping something from me, please, just tell me!" Kurama pleaded at me, looking at me with sad eyes.

"NO! Why... why should I?!? You'd be just like the others!!" I screamed, my rage boiling up again, and just as my voice hit 'I' the vase, mirror, pitcher, and any other glass or ceramic item in my room exploded. I stared around, and as I stepped back, shocked at my outburst, it hit me again.

I was suddenly out of the room. I saw a young girl of about 5 years old with curly auburn hair smiling as she walked across a dirt road. I heard the roar of an engine, and I looked down the road to see a large Range Rover barrel down the road. I tried to scream to the girl, but my voice seemed to not work. I stared, horrified as I saw the crash, and I felt pain bristled through out my body, like a fire. I screamed, and I suddenly was back in my room. All my wounds had re-opened, and were quickly sealing again.

"ARISA!" Kurama yelled out, and I could sense he was ready to run over to me.

"No.... stay away!" I cried out, and Kurama yelled out in pain.

(Normal POV)

Kurama was thrown against the wall of the room by some unseen force, and he slid down the wall. He steadied himself, and watched as Arisa crumpled on the ground...

(What Arisa Sees)

The little girl's spirit slowly left its body and slowly drifted off to the spirit world. Arisa felt herself following it, and soon she saw the young girl wandering in the underworld palace.

'What are you doing here?' a voice asked the young girl, and she looked up, smiling that innocent kid smile at seeing Koenma standing there, looking at her.

'Hi, mister,' she said in a sweet voice as she looked at him with large eyes.

'You shouldn't be here; you should be waiting to be sorted!' Koenma exclaimed.

'But I don't want to be in there, there's yucky looking things in there... they scare me...' the girl said, pouting cutely and looking at Koenma with large tearful eyes.

'Hm, well, what do you want?' he asked, placing his hands on his hips.

'I want to go back to my parents, I don't want them to be sad,' she replied, looking at him, tears rolling down her cubby cheeks.

'Hmm... Well, normally I wouldn't do this to someone you age, but I was looking for someone with your... ahem... heritage. Well, follow me,' Koenma said as he walked to his office. The girl followed him, walking in that unsure fashion that kids have. As soon as they were in the office, Arisa watched Koenma summon a man who appeared to be around 25 years old. He had shaggy blond hair and dirty blue eyes.

'Koenma, you want me to pass it on to... her??" he asked, raising an eyebrow.

'Yes, unless you want your sentence to go on for another thousand years. She's ideal,' Koenma said, pointing at the girl, who was sucking her thumb. The man walked over to her.

'What's your name, sweetie?" he asked, looking into the girl's mismatched eyes.

'Arisa, and what's yours, mister??' she asked, smiling at him.

'Kai, now I want you to close your eyes, and this may hurt,' he instructed softly, and the little girl followed, squeezing her eyes shut.

Arisa watched as the young man muttered something in a language she knew all too well, and there was a light, and the little girl started to bawl in pain as a green light shot out of the man's hand, and was sucked into the girl's.

'There, Arisa, now, if you need anything, say this incantation, and I'll come to do whatever I can to help you. Think of it as my way of saying I'm sorry,' he said and he whisper something into the girl's ear, and as he got up, he suddenly noticed Arisa.

'Well, this is new, usually they can't see me in my memories,' she thought to herself.

'Remember, you don't have to be alone,' he said out loud to her, winked, and he disappeared. Arisa stood there, shocked, when the girl's bawling brought her back to reality. The girl stopped crying, and looked up at Koenma with different eyes. Her once innocent eyes now held a sort of shadow behind them, and she seemed less childish as she pulled herself off the ground, wiped off her tears, and returned to her body, now completely healed. Arisa cried at seeing this, wishing that it had never happened. Time zoomed forward, and now the girl was 15, and she had forgotten about what had happen in Koenma's palace as she sat in her room. Suddenly, a portal opened, and Koenma walked in, in teenage form.

'Arisa Katakana?' Koenma asked and the girl looked up from a book she was reading in her room.

'Uh, yeah, how did you get here??' she asked, grabbing the baseball bat that was leaning against her table.

'I'm sorry for having to do this, but at the age of 5, you died,' Koenma stated.

'No, I didn't, cause I'm still here,' she said, scoffing at him.

'I sealed those memories away when you were 6. You need to remember now though, it's time,' he said, looking at her gravely.

'What?' she asked, tightening her grip on her baseball bat as he stepped closer.

'Remember,' He said, then muttered an incantation, and the girl was hit by a wave of memories, as she fell to the floor, holding her head.

'You are no longer just Arisa, you are Gaia, and it your job to protect this Earth,' Koenma said.

'No...I can't... please...' the girl begged him as she fell to her knees, crying.

'I must go, you now know everything you need to know about your new status. You can choose to tell or not to tell your parents. Your body will no longer age though, side affect of being immortal,' Koenma explained, and she watched as he disappeared through the portal, and it closed up behind him.

Time zoomed by again, to when she told her parents, who stared at her like she was some sort of abomination, and asked her so many questions. She ran out of her house, and went to a friends house, a young man, who smiled at her, and when she told him the news about her, he nodded, and then said, 'It doesn't matter, you're still Arisa, right??' he asked, and he threw a arm around her shoulder. She smiled.

Arisa stood there, watching all of this, tears flowing down her face, and she watched time fly by again, and there she was, watching her friends die, and her parents.

"STOP IT!! Just... make it stop...." Arisa screamed she fell to the floor, the salt of her tears burning on her cuts. The memories faded, and she was in a forest clearing, and someone walked out to meet her.

"Arisa, it's been along time," the young man called out, and as he stepped out into the clearing he turned out to be Kai...

Okie dokie, sorry, there wasn't much of fight, and it's pretty long. It also is confusing, and I don't know what I think of this chapter... too much listening to gothic music! laughs Well, please, tell me what you think, and review, it'll help me out tons, cuz I think I can't write, and this fan fic is a lot more serious than I usually write!

Next chapter's preview: Arisa talks to Kai; while Kurama attempts to awake her body from what he thinks is a coma. Arisa explains about whom she really is to Kurama, will he accept her? And Arisa realizes that she loves Kurama, but she won't tell him... why?? Find out in Chapter 8... forest of my dreams