Chapter 8

"Then who is the father?" Koenma repeated looking at the sad eyed Genkai.

"It's unimportant," she replied looking at Abbey cheering for Alex from the railing.

"Well, then why," Koenma started.

"I know there are many questions to be asked Koenma but you have no right to ask them. The only person who has that right is Abbey," Genkai snapped at the young man in front of her.

"But the important question is, when are you going to tell her?"

Genkai started to reply but just sighed and shook her head, "I'm not sure. I don't even know if it would be a wise idea to tell her."

"She has a right to know," Koenma continued patiently. Genkai sighed and walked back over to the girls still yelling and cheering for Alex. The fight came to an end as Alex summoned up the last of her strength and knocked out her opponent sending him unconscious to the ground.

"Wow that was so awesome! She beat him!" Abbey started yelling, irritating Hiei who was standing right by her.

"Will you shut up? We know she won," he said aggravated.

"Oh stop being such a party pooper and lighten up," Abbey smiled.

"So who fights Alex?" Kairi asked.

"We will allow Alex to take a breather then we will decide who fights next. But the next round is going to be different. You have to fight Hiei here and whoever survives, er, I mean wins becomes detective," Koenma said in his superior tone.

Several hours later all four fighters and Hiei stood on the platform in the middle of the arena awaiting the decision on who would be the first to fight the fierce fire demon. Kairi looked anxiously at the crowd, a bit nervous that she had actually gotten this far with out many complications.

"There has been a change in the fight. Instead of only having to fight Hiei the four fighters have to fight Genkai and Kurama as well. All the fighters have to do is knock their opponent out of the ring. The person with the most wins becomes spirit detective," the announcers voice rang out through the stadium and Genkai and Kurama stepped up on to the platform.

'Great, now I have even less of a chance to win,' Kairi thought glumly as she looked at Genkai.

"Who's this Genkai?" abbey asked looking around.

"That would be me," Genkai spoke up walking forward. Abbey looked at her closely, there was something familiar about her but she couldn't quite put her finger on it, it was like she had met this woman before, in some previous life maybe?

"The first fighters are... Kurama and Kairi!" the announcer yelled out.

"YAY!" Kairi smiled and stayed on the platform with the fiery kitsune.

"It has been awhile since we have fought Kairi," Kurama commented as they took their places.

"Indeed it has. And as I remember I beat you back then too," Kairi laughed and charged at Kurama as the bell rang. Kurama smiled and dodged her easily as if she had been going in slow motion instead of the lightning fast pace she usually traveled.

"Wow, you've gotten faster I see. Not bad," Kairi said and charged again. They continued to dodge and charge at each other for a while, both of them gaining and losing advantages over the other. With their swift, intellectual minds they quickly learned each other's movements and weaknesses. Both of them fought to the best of their abilities, and both of them visibly starting to tire. Kairi showed more than Kurama but she was determined to win no matter what. After a strenuous amount of time Kairi decided to pull one of her final powers to win. She summoned all the energy she had left and created a ring of black energy around her body as she murmured out "Demons of hell rise to claim victory." At that moment demons floated out of the black energy shield and around Kairis form as the black wall disappeared.

"Ok that's a new trick," Kurama thought aloud. Kairi just smiled as the demons floated around the ring and randomly attacked Kurama cutting his skin with each pass.

"What the..." Kurama looked on shocked. Kairi just smiled and then closed her eyes summoning the demons into her body, making her ten times stronger than normal. She opened her eyes, which were pure black and attacked at kurama knocking him out of the ring.

"The winner is kairi!" the announcers voice yelled out.

"Yay! Go kairi!" abbey and Sakura cheered from the sidelines.

"What happened kurama?" Hiei asked as kurama came over to sit by the fire demon.

"Her attack took me off guard," kurama admitted. Hiei just frowned and looked over at kairi jumping up and down in joy.

"The next fighters are Alex and Genkai," the announcer called. Alex and Genkai walked to the arena. Both of them with high looks of confidence upon their determined faces. On the bell Alex charged forward at Genkai, but Genkai stuck out her hand and shot a force of energy at Alex and knocked her out of the ring into the stands. Abbeys, Sakuras, and Kairis faces suddenly went wide with shock as they watched Alex land in the grass twenty feet from the arena. None of them had expected Genkai to be that powerful even though kairi and Sakura had heard of the great psychic Genkai.

"Oh my god did you see that?" Abbey asked breathlessly.

"Yeah. How are we supposed to beat that?" kairi asked. Sakura stayed silent, her normal witty comment escaping from her mind as she stared at Genkai walking out of the arena.

"Not so confident are you now?" Hiei said smiling as he walked up to them, saying this specifically to abbey.

"Don't worry, I always find a way to win," abbey smiled mockingly back at him.

"Poor Alex, bet that hurt like hell," Sakura finally spoke up looking in the stands where the dust was settling.

"Yeah I bet it did," kairi agreed. Abbey normally would have agreed but she was still having a stare down competition with Hiei. Neither of them glancing away from the other lest they lose an announced battle.

"Next up is Sakura and Hiei," the announcer called out mono toned. Abbey smiled as Hiei looked away and cursed silently.

She leaned forward and whispered softly, "have a nice fight."