Kurama sat in class the next day.

No one gave him any strange looks.

No one noticed anything different about Shuiichi Minamino.

After all, to them, there was no difference between the Shuiichi of the day before and the Shuiichi sitting there now.

"You're actually going to school?" Yusuke asked as Kurama put his shoes on.

Kurama nodded without looking up. Yusuke wasn't even halfway ready for school. After all, he wasn't going himself. "There is no choice." Kurama explained. "If I do not go the school will call my mother. Even I can not think of an excuse to everything." Kurama, listening to the sound of his own voice, thought it sounded on edge, something more than just tired.

"Yeah, you could say that, but I have a few reasons you shouldn't go and one just twitched." Yusuke smiled. The offending ear suddenly stilled. As Kurama rose, his tail swept across the floor. The tail seemed impossible soft, the hair impossibly fine. Of course, it was also a seemingly impossible thing that his friend standing there was actually a spirit fox, but now Yusuke thought, he was just being picky.

Kurama still hadn't turned. "They won't see anything."

"And just how are you going to do that, Kurama?" Yusuke asked, sounding skeptical.

Kurama turned then and Yusuke started. "I have my ways." he said and pulled a small seed from his hair.

"Uh-huh." Yusuke said, but his eyes weren't on the seed. They were on Kurama's face and the two eyes that were staring out at him with an expression Yusuke had never seen before. Yusuke wasn't sure he liked that look...or the fact that it seemed, for just a second, those eyes had changed...

The answer was, of course, the seed.

More so, it was the nectar it produced which Kurama had coated his skin and hair with. It had worked and that was good, but it would have to be a temporary thing.

The scent made his head pound.

Kurama squeezed the brim of his nose as someone in class read a passage from a book.

"Yusuke...." Kurama asked as he stood in the doorway of the spirit detective's home. "I have a favor."

"Yeah?" Yusuke asked. It didn't escape Kurama's attention that the detective was casting him a strange look, like he was searching for something in Kurama's face.

"Hiei..." Kurama began, "Will you find him and...see if he is alright?"

Of course, there was no guarantee that the detective would find him. Hiei knew how to hide. He was a theif after all, he knew the art of invisibility in a crowd, in a city, under one's own nose. After school, Kurama would steal away and try himself to find the Jaganshii himself.

"Hey, Minamino? How's Higashii?" A classmate said, turning around in his desk as the teacher wrote something on the board. Kurama started and the classmate laughed.

"Tohru?" Kurama said.

"Yeah. You know. Higashii Tohru. Short bastard with lots of attitude."

Kurama paused at the description. "He is alright."

"I heard what happened."

"Yes."

"Do you want to come to see him after school today?"

Kurama's eyes widened. "I..." he hesitated. "I can't."

"But...didn't he save your life or something?"

"Yes..." Kurama said and knew he would have to go. He glanced at the clock and hoped that Yusuke would have found Hiei by now.

While he was at it, he hoped that class would be over soon. His head was pounding and he suddenly felt sick. His eyes squeezed shut on their own and before his eyes he saw the spell that Hiei had cast, looming up and around him in his memory.

"Minamino? Minamino?"

Someone touched his arm and Kurama started and pulled away.

"Hey..."

That's when Kurama opened his eyes. The classmate who had asked about Tohru was looking at him closely. The class around them had paused and turned their way.

Kurama actually blushed.

"I'm sorry." he said.

The class regarded him for another long second, then went back to their work. Kurama buried his nose in a book.

Everyone went back to their business except for one person.

The classmate that had called Kurama's name did not turn away for some time. He stared down at Kurama for a long time and even when he turned back in his chair, his thoughts were on the boy behind him.

For a second, just a tiny moment, he thought, although it must be impossible....

For a second, weren't those eyes, usually so green, suddenly gold...suddenly inhuman?

But that was impossible.

Impossible, right.

Wasn't it?

...to be contined...

Author's Note: Hi! Well! What can I say...it continues! I really wanted to write more this weekend, but I didn't have the time...I will try to write more during the week, but definately by the weekend! Don't worry! Tohru's coming back to the story and Hiei too....um...that might be a dangerous combination...As for Kurama...what'll happen to our favorite Kitsune? Whatever it is...I guarantee it'll be fun writing! (and hopefully fun reading, too :D ) See you next time and thank you guys for your reviews. A thousand hugs n' kisses! :)