Chap .2- Finding the Power

Natsuki woke around six. The room was still semi-dark. She looked around, remembering the events of last night. She walked out of her room and into the kitchen. Kurama and Hiei sat at the table. Hiei with a put-out expression on his face. Kurama with no expression on his face. She thought she hated Kurama's more. Why did they treat her like this? Why couldn't they trust her?

"I will be back later." Hiei said and left the kitchen. She watched him leave. He and Kurama were both very elegant in the way they moved. She looked back at Kurama who beckoned for her to sit down.

"Why does he hate me? Why do you hate me? What did I do except pop up in a wheat field and run into a human?" Natsuki realized how many questions she was asking and paused. Kurama closed his eyes for a moment, then looked at her.

"First of all, I don't hate you. I can't speak for Hiei though. And second of all, you told us your name. Your name is well known." Natsuki starred. Well known? How was that possible?

"I don't know if the sudô space gave you temporary amnesia or what, but after doing research on your name, I found that you have a horrible criminal record in the past. You served as hit men, spies, bearers of death, and many other horrible professions..." Kurama trailed off seeing the look of sheer horror on Natsuki's face. Hiei's words came into her head. ...It could be a spy or a hit man! How could he have known! Or was it dumb luck. For some reason, Natsuki didn't think it was.

"Listen, Hiei and I are going to escort you to a friend of ours who is a Reiki master and will surely be able to help you." Kurama looked doubtful. Natsuki looked up at him.

"I am not a criminal." she said, tears beginning to stream down her face.

"I am Not A CRIMINAL!!!" she screamed. Her hands were shaking. She crumpled into a sobbing mass on the floor. Kurama jumped up to comfort her.

"There there, common, I never said it was true. Don't worry, we'll find out how to get you back to demon world..."

"No," Natsuki's voice sounded cold and harsh. "I came to the human world for a reason, and I am not leaving until that reason is fulfilled!"

Hiei walked in and looked at her.

"What now?" he asked annoyed. All of a sudden Natsuki saw a flash of bright light and heard a deep voice yelling at her. DO NOT COME BACK UNTIL HE IS DESTROYED!!!! She screamed out in pain, then saw nothing but blackness.

"Whoa, what did you do Kurama?" Natsuki heard a strange voice ask.

"Absolutely nothing," Kurama replied.

"Yes, it's almost as if she had a seizure. She's really screwed if you asked me..." that was unmistakably Hiei.

"Well we can't leave her like that. Kurama, help me put her on the bed..." this time it was a woman's voice, very rough sounding.

"Yusuke, fetch me some water." She demanded

"Get it your self you old hag..."

"Now you nit wit!" she protested.

"Sheesh, okay okay!" she could hear his foot steps trail off.

"Hiei, fetch a blanket," one of Hiei's famous disapproving sounds sounded, but he did what he was told. Natsuki tried to open her eyes. She saw a blurred picture of an old woman with curly gray hair standing next to Kurama. "Nhnu......." She tried to speak but couldn't.

"Shh, lay still and close your eyes." The woman ordered. "This will only take a second..." She pushed her head back down on the pillow.

"Here's your water," the supposed Yusuke said. The sound of water splashing around slightly filled Natsuki's ears. All of a sudden a screen door slammed open and someone was heard running in very noisily.

"Hey! I heard you found a demo..."Natsuki's head throbbed. She made a small noise.

"SHH!" everyone coursed. The must have sensed her pain.

"Everyone be absolutely quiet." The woman ordered. Natsuki felt her lay her hands on her forehead. A blue light appeared inside her head and she saw the old woman. What was she doing inside her head?

"Now listen," she spoke. "No one else can hear us, I just want to talk about where you've come from..."

"I'm not a criminal!!!!" Natsuki yelled. The woman sighed.

"Looks like this will have to be done the hard way..."she started to disappear from Natsuki's thoughts. No. she thought. What is the hard way?

Genkai pressed down hard upon the girl's forehead. She was practically flying through her memory. She saw exactly what happened last night but before that was a total blank. Then something appeared. A long room. Very cold and damp. At the end of the room there was a desk. A man sat behind it. She could not make out who he was. The man spoke. I want you to travel to the human world and destroy...Genki was thrown back.

She hit the wall with a thud. Yusuke, Kuwabara, and Kurama ran over to her. Hiei did not move. He stood looking at the girl. No expression.

"Easy grandma! What happened?" Yusuke asked.

"I reached the end of her memory." Genkai said quietly "As far as I know, she doesn't even remember being born. She knows she's a demon, a strong one, but nothing else." every one went silent and looked over at the unconscious girl. Strong? She lay, eyes closed, her curly brown hair strung out over her face. Hiei still stood, not moving. Genkai looked towards him.

"Something wrong Hiei?" she asked annoyed.

"Nothing." He said blandly and went over to sit against the opposite wall.

"We can't really do anything until she wakes up. Since she has no memory besides lats night she does not remember any of her fighting techniques." Genkai said. "We could train her, bring her up ourselves. She is about an upper B class demon." Kurama spun around to look at her. He had no clue she was that powerful. Yusuke looked at her too. She had the same power level as Toguro!? Kuwabara looked at her. Wow, she's kind of hot!

The girl stirred. She slowly opened her eyes and sat up.

Natsuki slowly regained consciousness. She sat up and looked around the room. Kurama and two other boys were kneeling by the old woman. Hiei was sitting across from her bed leaned up against the wall. Kurama got up an walked over to her.

"Natsuki, this is Yusuke," the boy with slicked back black hair said "Yo!"

"Kuwabara," the boy with the orange hair who had been so loud waved.

"and Master Genkai." Genkai stood up.

"I believe we had already met, not formally though." Genkai smiled. Natsuki got up out of the bed and started to walk over to them, then stopped. She remembered how Kurama had reacted this morning and didn't know how these new people would react.

Genkai approached her. She was very short. Even Natsuki, who barely reached five foot, looked down at her.

"You are of no threat to us right now." She said looking into Natsuki's eyes. "But I think you know you are powerful." Genkai turned away walking towards Yusuke. "Your supposed fighting techniques were erased with you memory. We will have to retrain you. It would not be a bad thing to have a B class demon on our side." Genkai concluded. Natsuki stood stalk still. Was she really saying that? Did they really trust her?

"Master Genkai! That would be wonderful. I would be honored!" Natsuki went into a deep bow.

"Good. Glade you approve." Genkai said. "Now all we need to find out is what your strength and weaknesses are, what you are capable of or what weapon you can produce, and what your limit is." Her eye twinkled when she said that last part.

"The King of Brats hasn't given us any new cases lately....so I guess we could classify this as one." Yusuke said happily.

"More like and experimental project..." Kuwabara said. Natsuki wheeled on him.

"What do you take me for, a lab rat!? Besides those words are too big for you to handle." She said the sentence very cool without showing signs of anger, just annoyance. Hiei snickered off in the corner. Kuwabara looked confused.

"I....who...how...hey, since when does the shrimp have a twin!" Shrimp? What was the moron talking about? Kurama chuckled lightly.

"That did sound like something you would say Hiei," Hiei stood up, smiling slightly.

"She's right those words are suspiciously big. Have you been secretly tutored?" Hiei said, also sounding cool. Kuwabara was shaking in anger.

"Why you little..." Yusuke put his hand out in front of Kuwabara.

"Come on, we have more important things to do."

He looked at Genkai. "So how are we gonna find out what she capable of?" The thought of being able to train someone spiked Yusuke's interest.

"I am about to do that right now. Impatient little twit." Genkai walked over to Natsuki and started to circle her. Natsuki was going to ask her if she was a buzzard in her past like but thought that Genkai might not appreciate that. She came back around to her front.

"Give me your hands," she said, and Natsuki obeyed. She held out her hands, tan and smooth with long elegant fingers. Genkai took them in her wrinkly, worn hands.

Genkai closed her eyes and a light blue aura surrounded her. Natsuki watched a little frightened and looked over at Kurama. He gave her a reassuring smile.

"Good. You are very interesting," Genkai said suddenly, making Natsuki jump. "You are a cross breed of a fox demon," every one looked at Kurama. "No not a yôkô, a standard fox demon. Also, I found this interesting, a fire demon." Every one looked at Hiei.

"Whoa! It's like Hiei and Kurama had a baby!" Kuwabara said stupidly. Hiei was obviously disgusted at that statement. Kurama chuckled.

"She said she WASN"T a yôkô you idiot! Try to keep your attention span in the range of five seconds for once!" Natsuki found that very funny and started to laugh. This started a chain reaction. Kurama and Yusuke started to laugh because Natsuki's laugh made them laugh. The only two people who didn't laugh were Hiei and Kuwabara.

"I'm sorry, snicker, okay I'm done." Natsuki stood up straight. Genkai looked at her.

"Well anyway, due to you being mostly fire demon, most of your training will be with Hiei. Is that clear?" Natsuki answered yes even though she could tell the question was directed at Hiei.

"I don't really care." Hiei said.

For manifestation of weapons you will be working with Yusuke and Kuwabara." Yusuke made and approving whoop. "And since a fox demon is very similar to a yôkô, you will be working with Kurama to find out how you are with plants." Kurama bowed.

"It's almost like your sending her to school." Yusuke commented.

"We practically are..."

TBC

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