Disclaimer: Hey you know you guys, instead of having the usual conversations with my friends to both begin and end a chapter, I feel like I should use a couple of song-lyrics instead. You know, something to make you get into just a LITTLE bit more. I felt like trying something different for once.

-It's like a face that I hold inside

A face that awakes when I close my eyes

A face watches everytime I lie

A face that laughs everytime I fall..

Linkin Park, Papercut.

Chapter 7: What you think is real.

Still Saturday, 12/11/04', 6:56 pm: ( Yusuke's apartment, downstairs, bottom-floor, base-level. ):

Oh great, I can't believe that I got myself into this. First, I decide I wanna' be a smartass, and piss-off Hiei. Then I don't ( think before I speak ), and make-up some bull about my friends being demons, kinda' funny. Ha, KRYSTA of all people being a demon, now I'd pay to see that one. And finally, they expect me to prove what I'm worth, by showing them what type of power I have. We all know that there's no way in hell that I could do that..this is messed-up..

"Hn, I still say this a complete waste of time", Hiei thought outloud, but I'm betting that he said that on purpose just to piss me off, which was WORKING nontheless.

"Well I believe that it was you who suggested that we 'see her worth', was it not?", Kurama smirked to himself while he said this, but only to meet the response of Hiei growling under his breath.

"So Kammy', mind telling us what type of powers you have, before we start?", Yusuke pressed, grinning ear-to-ear, and glancing a bit over his shoulder at me.

" You'll just have to wait and see, now won't you?", I smiled back at him to seal the deal, but deep inside, I already knew perfectly well that I was screwed, just a matter of playing it off was all I needed to do.

"Who do you wanna' fight first??", Kuwabara asked from the other side of me, striking me with that pathetic look of pure determination, and utter stupidity whenever he was trying to act CONFIDENT.

"Only one of us would suffice, I don't think that she would be able to handle us all at once", Hiei said with a smug look on his face, not bothering to look at me at all while he said it.

"Psh fine whatever, I'll take-on the weakest first, then work my way up to the top..starting with Kuwabara", Kammy' you fucking idiot, what the hell are you getting yourself into?! Well, it's been said and done, there's no way that I can back-out now..I'll try at least.

so I know that when it's time to sink or swim..

"Okay then you ready?..spirit-sword!!", then on cue', a bolt of electrical-energy was seen surging in front of me..aka. Kuwabara's sword..someone help me here!..

'C'mon Kammy you can do this, you can do this..man I am so st-..WHAT THE HELL??!!!', all this time I had been desperately trying to coach myself into calming down, hardly to any effect. But just then I felt something..(different). This feeling was strange, almost excilerating yet comforting at the same time..

It's like the face inside is right beneath my skin..

( Hey Kammy', you idiot, wake-up..), barked a voice from somewhere deep inside, which I'm hardly supprised wasn't even my own.

' Who are you?, and get the fuck out of my head!! ', I yelled back at the voice, and in doing so, instantly crossed-out the options of it might being Hiei off of my list.

( Ooh, touchy-touchy, aren't we?? ), she was clearly amused as to how I was reacting, and slowly becoming more and more of an annoyance.

' You still haven't answered my question. ', I retaliated and shot back at her, assuming that it had caught her a little off-guard..not.

( Now back to basics..you need to attack, or else you'll suffer a humiliating defeat to the baka, do you want that??, it'll completely ruin yours and MY reputation you know..), now she seemed to be trying to reason with me about whether or not to attack..plus she's still avoiding her answer.

' Um, lose to Kuwabara?, HELL NO!! and as fun as this all sounds..why the hell should I trust a voice that just happened to magically pop-up in my head, and tell me what to do??', I pressured her even more and more for a direct answer, which she deliberately chose to steer away from.

( Ha, looks like you're not as much of an idiot as I thought..now anywayz, if you expect to live til' the end of this fight without embarassing yourself in the process..you need to do EVE-RY-THING I say, got it?? ), hmm, seems like she's a little bossy isn't she?, and since when exactly have I taken orders from someone I just came in contact with?..sorry babe', not my style.

' Unfortunately that isn't my style, but since the situation seems critical..I'll give-in this time..so oh-so mysterious voice, what do I do?? ', I asked her, since she at this point, gave the impression that she knew what she was saying, and knew how to back it up..she had better be right.

( Hmm let's see, descisions, descisions..okay I've got it. Right now, he looks as though he's aiming for a direct-hit at a stationary target, that being you. So, back-flip behind you, just to give you 2 some much-needed space. ), she commanded, but one little detail that I purposely forgot to mention..I've never bothered to see the end of a gymnastics-class, so how the hell am I supposed to perform a freakin' back-flip??!!

' Hey did I forget to mention that I've never taken gymnastics?, so tell me..how the fuck am I supposed to do that??!! ', I yelled angrilly at her, I mean really come-on. The only form of athletics that I've seen the end of is being on a track-team that I was on in the 6th-grade. Which had absolutely NOTHING to do with complicated flips, dives, and somer-saults.

( Yea, well I assumed as much..but you see being in this world means that there are no boundries to what you can and can't do..take the detective and the baka for example. THEY never knew what the could do, until they actually tried it..now could they? So I merely ask you to give it a try..and see what happens when you do. ), her words held slight signs of doubt, yet confidence, and I may be desperate and new to this..but her words seem to give me just the boost I need right now.

I know I've got a face in me

Points out all my mistakes to me..

' Okay, I'll do it..', I said finally before I decided to take the chance, and did what she told me to. So, as Kuwabara was heading at me with full-force, sword positioned in front of him for a hit and run..I hesitated at first, then kicked-off the ground. And to my supprise, my body had did as commanded, and ascended a fair-bit over six-feet into the air, right that very moment when Kuwabara struck. So my body reacted my retreating back into the air, and landing softly and almost soundlessly onto the ground a good distance away from him.

( That'a girl..), her voice had cheered me on in delight, and I straightened-up a bit, so I wouldn't be hunching-over as much to where it wasn't needed.

' I-I did it..I can't believe I did that. ME of all people sucessfully accomplished a full-fledge back-flip..incredible', I said, taking a deep breath before continuing with the fight..but ofcoarse not before the "voice" rewarded with me with yet another string of commands.

"And me foolishly assuming that she would get hit, guess' she's worth more than she's cracked-up to be..", Hiei commented right after I had avoided Kuwbara's attack, but unfortunately, he STILL didn't seem like he was impressed.

( Good, now follow it up by drawing up a fraction of your spirit-energy, and channel it to your index finger, like Yusuke' does when he tries to power-up his spirit-gun. I bet that should make them take a second glance..), she ordered with her remaining bossy-tone, and now naturally I responded by listening to this command. Something had better come out of this, eventhough I am kinda' having fun.

' I have SPIRIT-ENERGY?, now when did that happen?? ', I asked idiotically, expecting once-again for some well thought of answer as well an explanation from her.

( You dumb-ass, OFCOARSE you have spirit-energy. I mean you did perform a backflip right?, so why doubt having spirit-energy? Breath-taking acrobatics, and tremendous amounts of power in any form go hand-in-hand. So just shut-up, and do it, you think WAY too much for your own good. ), she barked at me again, by insulting me so I would get the point.

' Okay..here goes nothing..', I thought to myself again as I hesitated once more. And as she instructed, I began to draw and lure-out fair-sized fragments of energy from my body. Which un-supprisingly, drained me a little, but not quite. So as time rapidly continued to creep by, the faster I drew out the last of what I wanted from my energy, and steadilly concentrated it all through my veins, my hand, then finally my left index-finger itself. That's all until it started to weigh a ton.

( Fire..), she said simply, as an electric-like, bluish-glow began to hastilly emit from my finger, to the point where I felt it's power surging throughout my entire body and then...I fired it.

"WHAT THE HECK??!!!!!!!", Kuwabara screamed in pure horror and shock and tried to scramble out of the way, as an enormous turquoise bomb shot like a cannon flew towards him. The bomb had been so huge, that some of it's electrical-powered energy had surged through almost all of the wires, causing sparks to erupt, marking it's path and it's final destination..Kuwabara.

"KUWA-BARA!!!, MOVE YOU IDIOT!!!!!!", Yusuke' desperately yelled for his friend to move the hell out of the way, or else my gun-shot would hit him. But it was already too-late, my last-minute attack had already marked it's target. And an incredibly loud BANG!!!!!!!!!! had been heard in it's wake.

I don't know what set me off first but I know what I can't stand

Everybody acts like the fact of the matter is

that I can't add up to what you can...

"Now THAT indeed, was something unexpected..", Kurama this time commented, with his gaze lingering in complete amazement and fascination. At Kuwabara's sillouette engraved deeply into the once back-wall of the basefloor.

( Aha, it seems as though both the fox AND the fire appirition have something to say about all of this. You have fought quite well for your first time Kammy', and that means a very lot coming from me. But you still have alot more to learn, so don't think that you can celebrate on your victory just yet..), she remarked both of amusement and with a fore-boding tone in her voice, which led me to believe that this was just only the beginning...

End Chapter 7..

-But everyone has a face that they hold inside

A face that awakes when they close their eyes

A face watches everytime they lie

A face that laughs everytime they fall

And watches everything

So you know that when it's time to sink or swim

That the face inside is watching you too, right inside you skin...