They finally reached the lab; the other three were already inside waiting for them. Kurama was studying the samples from the skin carefully and Keiko was sleeping in the corner.

"Hey Yusuke, I didn't know your girlfriend snores."

"Well, I didn't know you had a boyfriend named Hiei. You learn something new everyday huh?"

"Hey, I-"

"Will you two stop arguing, I'm trying to figure out what's in this sample here!" the kitsune spoke up.

Neither of them said a word from there on.

"What are you trying to do fox?" Hiei asked questionly.

"I'm trying to figure out if this corpse the same sickness or what ever it is, as Keiko."

"So what you're saying is that Keiko's life, and a buncha other peoples' lives are in danger?" Yusuke asked with concern.

"If it leads to that conclusion, yes."

"We'll find out pretty soon huh?"

"…."

"Hmm…Sorry Yusuke, I hate to say it, but, it's the same. They match."

"…THAT'S IT, I'M GONNA KILL WHOEVER DID THIS, KILLING INNOCENT PEOPLE LIKE THIS….."

"Do you believe his lil act?"

"Nope, oviously he's more concerned about Keiko's well being, more than he is about everyone else's."

"Baka nigen."

"Maybe we should get Keiko to a safe place and figure this out before this spreads."

The others nodded and Yusuke stopped talking to, what he though, everyone.

"Alright, where should she stay? Maybe she can stay at my place, my mom's never home anyways. She's too busy getting drunk so no one will be home to get sick too."

"Good idea."

A while later, after dropping Keiko off, they headed to Ume's place to discuss the problem.

"This should be a good place to discuss the problem, no one ever comes when there are no lessons going on."

"HELLO! UME! WHERE ARE YOU DEAR! I NEED HELP IN THE KITCHEN!"

Ume fell to the floor having sweat drops fall from her head. "I stand corrected."

She got up to help her mother and the guys started to converse.

"What do we do about this problem, if we fail Kurama and I will be sent back to Makai Jail, and I'm not going back there."

Right outside, Ume's father was listening.

"Don't you think you should wait for Ume before you start talking about all this nonsense. I was expecting you people to be up to something but I wasn't expecting THIS."

"What are you talking old man!" Yusuke shouted out.

"I sent Ume away with the help of her mother so I can eavesdrop. If Ume was here, she'd notice me in a second."

"NANI ( meaning "WHAT)!" they shouted.

Ume was carried in, her collar of her shirt held up by her mother.

"This is way past the line, if you talk about demons and stuff, I'd be worried as is, but with all these things happening, and what happened…"

"?"

"I mean-"

"It's ok, we had to tell her sometime, you see, we are not really your parents."

"WHAT!"

"It's true, we found you under the arms of your REAL parents. They were dying and they reached out, grabbed your…uh…"father" here by the collar and told him to take care of his child. Your REAL father said he was a demon and he wanted us to take good care of you. Your fath-….this man here, was quite mad at such a request, especially trying to take care of a demon, the same thing that had given him that wound on his hand. Since then he was never able to hold a sword again. Well-."

"Let me explain the rest."

The wife did not disagree.

"After that I trained in martial arts but that's not the point. I started to see that you were innocent of such charges, not all demons are bad like how all humans are not angels. I saw the potential in your abilities and thought you, I guess we can say that you kinda grown on us. Anyways, your parents were from Makai, they seemed to be running from something, to protect you maybe, but they were hurt to save you and they let you into our hands. That's why you were never allowed to use the computer, someone kept on trying to "help" you learn this all. We are not sure who that person is."

"Are you sure that's not a lie too?" she mumbled. "…..What kind of demon am I? ..."

"You're a wolf demon."

"I always wondered why she liked wolves so much when she was younger…and still does for that matter and why her hearing is so well." Yusuke whispered to his friends.

"…."

"You think she heard me?"

"…."

"Why did you keep this from her all these years Mr. and Mrs. Eto?" Kurama asked, reminding Ume's parent that their daughter's friends were still in the room.

"…We didn't think she was ready to know…"

"I wish you would've told me sooner, maybe I would have known why I had all these strange dreams of demons that were bleeding, why I wanted to save them. It would have stopped the dreams…."

Ume turned to the door, she turned her heels and ran for it. She didn't know where she was going, but she did know one thing, she wanted to get away as far as possible, from her so called "parents," away from the lies. She ran away from the fear of her friends rejecting her and she ran away from everything she had ever believed in.