Pure-thornless-rose: Hello there! Here's my 7th chapter! I'm so happy…
Blizzard: Yes… hi. (YAWN) Again…
Pure-thornless-rose: Well you seem a little out of it
Blizzard: So?
Pure-thornless-rose: Eh… Forget it. Listen reader person, lady/guy, person, you. As I said earlier, here's chapter 7! I hope you like this one. I'm introducing a new original character today, even though I was supposed to introduce her in the next chapter, but why not now? I've been typing sort of along with my writing for this story already anyway. I've noticed how I've taken a lot of things out from the original writing. I've also decided that maybe Kurama should stay single-minded for this story. But I'm willing to change that if you want, you just have to tell me. In fact, I won't mind any constructive criticism from any of you. (Remember: - Y. Destiny's Thoughts) Oh and this chapter's mainly dialogue, thought you might want to know, if not, oh well 'cause now you do and there's nothing anyne of you can do about it becau---
Blizzard: Just scroll down and read! sheesh...


Hope in Destiny, Merged Souls
Chapter 7: A Trusted Ex-Convict/Criminal/Fugitive…

By pure-thornless-rose (hi!)

---Koenma's Office---

It was another stressful day in Koenma's office. He had been stamping all kinds of papers non-stop and more were bound to appear out of thin air—or at least the blue ogre would have to bring in more himself.

"Arrgh! When will the flow of papers cease to arrive?!" Koenma scowled.

"Well, actually, sir, here's the last two for today…"

"Oh really?" Koenma's face lifted.

"Uh… yeah…"

"Oh good!"

KNOCK, KNOCK!

"I'll get that…"

So the ogre did so and one of the random assistants stepped up and loaded him with a stack of papers that was at least a meter high.

"Here's the last stack of the day sir…" she panted and took off.

Koenma stamped the last two he had before him and looked up.

"What the…!"

"Sorry, Koenma, sir, but it think these are the last ones…" He then placed the stack of papers on the desk.

"WHAT?! NO!" Koenma yelled and twitched. "But I thought—that…"

"That's what I thought too…"

"Well maybe you should think less and check more!"

"I'm sorry Koenma, sir! I'll make sure next time!" The ogre insisted as he dropped to the floor and bowed to the prince.

"No matter…" Koenma sighed and clamed down. "When I finish this up… will you send me one of the intelligence agents? You know… the new one I recently put up on the job."

"But of course sir, I'll look for her right now…" He said as he stood up. "Meilin right? The one with multiple jobs?"

"Yes… her. The former fugitive…"

---Destiny's Home---

Hiei had just stormed out of the kitchen, glaring at Destiny. No one could think of a reason why he did this out of the blue… except for the girl he was glaring at and her other mental half. Destiny looked a little nervous and he passed by.

"So…" Yusuke broke the growing silence. "What was that all about? No one said anything to him right?"

- "I sure did…"

"Not me…" Destiny replied.

"Kuwabara…" Yusuke turned to him as if he did say or do something.

"What?! Hey I didn't do anything! If I did, he would have threatened me or something like that!"

"You know he has a point there, Yusuke." Kurama agreed.

"Oh well…" Botan sighed. "He's always like that so why should we bother? I mean Hiei's just another one of—guh… err, never mind."

Hiei had poked his head back into the kitchen and mentally yelled/threatened her. Then he disappeared once again. Kurama and Yusuke both lowered and shook their heads.

"You, Botan, need to learn how to keep your mouth shut at the right time…"

"You know how Hiei's like…" Kurama added.

"Whatever, you two…!" She scowled and stuck her tongue out at them. "Nya…"

"So do we really have to go get Hiei ten containers of ice cream?"

- "Maybe…"

"Maybe…?"

- "Well the last time I bribed him, it was for an artifact, a very rare artifact that I owned that he wanted."

"What did you want for him to get it?"

- "Well… I said to him that if he wanted the artifact, he had to retrieve me one of the finest weapons made in the Makai, and it had to be a wakizashi too... my last one was broken so I took this chance to benefit from the exchange."

"So I guess Hiei doesn't like to have to submit to a bribe…?"

- "Actually, it was more of a trade rather than a bribe… to me that is. And plus, this is ice cream we're talking about, he won't expect something like that from someone like me…"

"So why did he really not say anything?"

- "Memories I guess..."

"Well… okay," Mrs. Kioko started, "I need you all to follow Hiei's example and leave the kitchen at once! Except for Botan and Destiny… You two will be helping me with allthis cooking."

"Yes ma'am." The two girls answered in unison.

Then Mrs. Kioko showed/shoved everyone else out of the kitchen but Botan and her daughter. They continued the cooking and finished it up. Then they had the table set and everyone was seated. Dinner followed and everyone ate their fill. There were also no leftovers since Yusuke, Kuwabara, and Mr. Roko practically stuffed their faces with just about all the food on the table. Mrs. Kioko nearly had to force them to stop eating so fast before they choked on a fish bone or something.

I guess the ladies' cooking was very good.

---Koenma's Office---

Koenma was still finishing up some of the last of the papers that had been stacked up on his desk. All the while, the blue ogre was still in search for one of the Spirit World Intelligence Agents (SWIAs, totaly made-up isn't it...?). The one named Meilin.

"There! I'm all done!" Koenma announced out loud to himself. "Now all I have to do is wait for that ogre to get back here with Meilin…"

Koenma sighed and sat back in his seat and looked over some of the papers for any flaws. There were none. He put the papers aside and continued to wait…

"Now I really wish I wasn't done yet… just how long will he take to find that girl?" He fidgeted with his fingers and spun around on his chair in hopes to entertain himself.
No such luck.
But a thought struck him and he decided to check up on the girl's file. He went and searched for the file and pulled it out. It was fairly thick and it had many pages in it, several of with were criminal records…

Wait. Criminal records and she works as one of the SWIAs? Something just doesn't seem to add up here…
But oh well… Koenma works in more ways than one, I guess.
He continued to shuffle through her papers until he noticed the door was opening.

They were finally here… It's about time.

A girl with mid-length deep black hair and hazel-red eyes entered. She had a fit feminine build and was also on the petite side; about Hiei's eye level was her eye level. She looked like a fifteen year old human girl and for some reason, she looked tough and delicate at the same time. Oh yeah, and she was wearing a hooded white robe, but she didn't have the hood on; a white scarf was also wrapped around her neck that she pulled down from covering half her face. Koenma raised an eyebrow; this wasn't her usual attire.
"You wanted me here sir?"

"Yes, I did. But firstly, why are you in those robes?"

"Because, Koenma, sir, I just got back from a mission… Remember? And if I didn't have some sort of disguise, I'd be here much later." A slight attitude was in her tone. "That's probably why blue over here had some trouble finding me…" She pointed to the blue ogre behind her.

"Mission? Oh yes! The Black Snake Society mission. That's one of the reasons why I wanted you here.What information were you able to retrieve?"

"Well… I've found out that Matsimoto -the leader- hates you, Makai's scum, its lesser demons, its mid-class demons, you, your father, bandits and thieves, and did I mention you?"

"Well that's been verified from the several threats he's given me in the past…"

"Oh and the whole society has been up to more things other than wiping up Makai's dirty ends. Six of their members will be joining the up-coming tournament. They're after that artifact. Yes… and do you remember Munoto? The wolf demon you sent your detectives to so they could rescue our top SWI agents?"

"Yes… I do, of course. He ended up putting our new member in the infirmary… But it was her first mission anyway… What about him?"

"Well… The Black Snake Society invited him into their association and he accepted. He's also one of the members who're entering the tournament."

"Hmm, another A-class in their team... that's no good. Do you know exactly which of the six are entering the tournament?"

"Yes… It's the leader, Matsimoto-the venomous snake, Munoto- the fire wolf, an ice dragon, a thunder dragon, an earth demon-a wolf or fox I think, and a winged wind demon… Sorry. I didn't get their names."

"Good enough. Well done."

"As usual." Meilin agreed and finally decided to sit down. Her facial expression changed and looked concerned as she leaned forward. "Say… weren't you entering the detectives in that tournament to retrieve the Giving Power?"

"Yes. Why?"

"Well if you weren't paying attention, the Black Snakes' are entering SIX of their members. Aren't you running short by one member? And doesn't the tournament require six members to enter?"

"I know."

"So… ...What're you planning to do about that?"

"No need to fret, Meilin."

"I'm not fretting." She said flatly.

"Ok… Well I'm the prince of Spirit World and I know these things and what to do about them… Remember that. I already have that covered anyway."

"So who's the new tournament entrée?"

"YOU."

"WHAT?!"

"Yes, you heard me. YOU are the new member."

"WHAT?!"

"Stop saying what, Meilin."

"Wha- But why? What about my other jobs? And that stupid human world school you put me in?"

"Meilin, you know as well as I do that those jobs are only in need on rare occasions. That's why I entrusted a couple of those to you. Furthermore..."

"I hate furthermore."

"FURTHERMORE… school won't be a problem, you go to the same one as the rest of them do and you're doing quite well there. They just don't know that you're enrolled in it."

"Well actually Kurama knows, he just doesn't know that I'm an SWIR, or a fire youkai… I've been suppressing my energy levels whenever I go to school. Everyone else thinks I'm a regular old human student…"

"Okay, well before I forget. Do you have their current test scores and grades?"

"Y' know, you really must love having the advantage over these guys by having me over there, right?"

"Yes, I do." He laughed. "I also want yours as well…"

"Huh?" she groaned. "Oh fine… I have theirs and mine. But I don't have the newbie's since she just transferred into that school."

Then she set her bag before her and pulled out a small stack of papers with each of their names on it, but Destiny's. She handed them to Koenma and he looked through them.

"I was able to sneak into each of their teachers' computers—including mine—to print out what I needed. I'm quite impressed with what we've been getting so far… Except for the two numbskulls' but I'm sure they're improving…"

"I see." Koenma agreed with a satisfied look on his face. "Good job, Meilin."

"I'm only following orders, sir."

"You know, I'm really glad I gave you a chance to change yourself. Responsibility for demons such as yourself should be enough inthis case…"

"That's the only down side of it. RESPONSIBILITY."

"Indeed." Koenma smiled smugly. "You will be up for the tournament right?"

"Yes, sir, I will. I don't have much of a choice anyway…"

"Very well. I will formerly introduce you to them soon. You're dismissed, Meilin."

"See ya, then."

She waved and made her way to the door. She stopped.

"Sir… I'd like to thank you for giving me that chance and turn a new leaf. Bye..."

Then she exited, Koenma smiling warmly.


Pure-thornless-rose: Wowie... this should probably fill in a couple gaps, if there are any. This chapter also brings that tournament back on into the stoy (I nearly forgot all about it). Things are really starting to link togeher now aren't they?
Bizzard: And we have ourselves a new member: Meilin, the S.W.I.A. and ex-convict.
pure-thornless-rose: You can tell an S.W.I.A. is a completely made-up job, I think,I guess I had nothing better to do. Anyway, technically, an S.W.I.A., or Spirit World Intelligence Agent, goes out on missions and gathers very important information and shares it with Koenma, they also check up on the bigger enemies like the Black Snakes. But what's important is, is that Meilin used to be a very bad demon and has made a complete change of heart and works as an S.W.I.A.
Blizz: Okie Dokie... readers, please review!
Pure-thornless-rose: Yes! And please come back for the next chapter okay? Bye!