Chapter 9

What can you say about a person that doesn't have a reason to talk. Aminamari is the quietest person you'll ever meet. But give her a reason to talk and she would tell you every thing that came to mind. She was like a living encyclopedia. She had been raised different from every other Saint. She never really gave a reason to be a Saint.

Plainly, she was just crazy.

I love the girl to death, but some times… she scares me. She doesn't have to do anything. Just sits there and look out the window. You would never be able to tell if she was plotting to kill you or thinking about a book she had just finished reading.

But at the same time that was what you could admire about her. Just never ask her to play poker, you would always loose.

I sit back in the tree and look around. Yusuke had called me. It was stupid and I didn't want to go alone. Ami was the only one home with me, so I asked her to go with me. She came and I now I was wishing A) Yusuke would hurry up or B) Ami would say something. I sigh for the millionth time and look around the trees.

The park was empty and you could tell why in a second. It was late and not to mention a little creepy if you weren't used to these surroundings.

Kurama walks through the gate and I smile looking at Ami. Her face was as void as ever. I jump down in front of him and he jumps a little. He collects himself quickly and I stand up. He looks at me with sympathy, "Yusuke called you?" I nods and Ami jumps down next to me.

"What is this about?" He shrugs and shakes his head.

"With Yusuke you never know." I nods and look at Ami. She was looking at a bird that was flying around the area. Jin and Gwen walk into the park from the opposite way from Kurama. Jin's hands were stuck in his pockets and he was smiling. Gwen looked a lot along the lines that I knew Ami and myself looked. He smiles and walks over next to Kurama. Gwen walks over next to Ami and sits down on a bench. She sighs and I look around again.

Gwen whistles to herself and I close my eyes. I could see everything still except who Ami saw it. Her mind kept wondering, I could feel it, but to what was a mystery. She would look at Jin in his blue jeans and white shirt that was cut off at the sleeves. Then to Gwen in her red high cut halter top. That showed the tattoo around her bellybutton, that looked a lot like a sun, and her red skirt with the orange lace, and the most noticeable thing about Gwen, her hair. Though still black like the rest of us, it almost stuck straight up on her head and looked a little like a punk rocker in the stores around here. Then lastly, her matching orange lace arm bands that were perched on her upper arms.

We had all been given them. Armbands like that. They showed what you were capable of. She then looks at me. It was strange to see yourself through someone else's eyes. But there I was. Dressed in my black skirt with the emerald green stitching and black shirt that went three-fourths of the way down my arms and clung to me like glue.

But it was most amusing how her eyes kept going back to Kurama. Even just dressed in his school uniform she seemed unable to take her eyes off him. One though that kept popping up in her head was making me uncomfortable. I open my eyes and sit down on the other unoccupied bench. We sit there for a while before I feel it coming, the undead Nightmare. Hiei sits down on the back of the bench next to me and Kurama nods to him. He nods back and Gwen looks at me.

I refuse to meet her gaze. Ami leans on the tree near Gwen. A few minutes later Nails, Kuwabara, Yusuke, and Touya walk through the gate. I smirk and Nails walks over to stand by my side. Yusuke stays standing while everyone else pretty much just spreads out. Hiei looks around and I look at Yusuke. He smiles and looks at me.

"You're causing problems," He says in a blunt way and I smirk again.

"We always do… be specific." Nails smiles and Gwen laughs a little.

"Well, it would seem that… well to be blunt, there's a bounty on all four of yours' heads." I look around at the ex-Saints present.

"We seem not to care." Nails scoffs this time. Yusuke sighs and rolls his eyes.

"What I mean is that… I don't know what I mean." He looks at me and I know what he means. I scoff and look at the ground.

"So what? Koenma wants us to go? Just up and leave?" Yusuke shrugs.

"I don't know, I'm not Koenma." I smirk.

"We know what we have to do," I stand up, "Let him figure it out." I walk toward the gate and Ami, Nails and Gwen follow me. Ami stops just out side it.

"She's right, we do know what we have to do. Just none of us want to do it." She hangs her head and follows us. After we get so far I slow down and Nails walks up next to me.

"When are we going to do this?" I sigh.

"Soon. We have to." She nods and you didn't have to be a telepath to know that she was having some problems with this. We all knew with almost complete certainty that Nails wasn't a chosen. She had never demonstrated it in a fight or a kill. Her power was limited, even if I couldn't figure out how she still had it this far from the Saint.

"Kid," Gwen says, "I don't like it." I nod.

"I know."

"We're killing what made us. Isn't that, like… treason or something?" I smirk.

"Yeah Gwen, it is. Bu it's either that or we left the Saint go and it kills more like us."

"It wouldn't if we helped it." I stop walking and looks at her.

"Are you crazy!"

"Think about it! We help it and it kills less. Help it find the chosen. That's' the only reason it does this to begin with, to find the chosen. Call me crazy, I don't think we have to kill it." Nails was looking at her now too.

"Gwen, you're crazy! That would never work. The Saint is programmed to do one thing and that's all it knows. Do you understands that?" Gwen nods.

"But if we could reprogram it."

"No," Ami says, "It's impossible. The Saint created itself for that one purpose, find and protect the Saints. That's all it knows, Nails is right. Kid too. We have to kill it. There's no other way." Gwen hangs her head.

"I just, don't want to kill anymore."

"You aren't killing anything that will be missed," I say and Nails looks at me.

"You scare me when you do that."

"What?"

"Get that cold tone to your voice." I smirk.

"I hardly notice," I say and start back down the side walk. Nails follows me and Ami follows her. Gwen sighs and starts after Ami.

'Just wish there was another way,' I hear her think. And I know how that feels, wishing there was a way out of killing something that you used to cherish. But sometimes, you don't have any other choice.