Chapter 3: A Secret Known

Gihiratou walked sadly on the forest path, "Why'd she have to be so insistent? Why'd I have to give in?"

"Yasu! Wait up!"

Gihiratou turned to see Toshimo running towards her. "Why are you asking me to wait up? You could outrun me, even if I had a ten second head start." Gihiratou asked, stopping.

"I don't know. I just didn't feel like running all out. Besides, this area is full of humans, remember? Oh, just to let you know, that other boy who came in,"

"Oh, you mean that other demon?"

"Of course. His name is Hiei."

"I don't care."

Toshimo sighed. "So where are you heading off to?"

"You don't need to know."

"Yes I do, I'm your friend."

"Fine. I'm not really heading anywhere. I am just trying to think. Can we really trust them? Urameshi, Hiei, and the idiot?"

"I don't know. But the only way we'll find out is by talking with them." Toshimo said brightly.

"I just want to be alone for awhile." Gihiratou said, looking away from her friend's face.

Toshimo looked sympathetic. "Alright. I'll just head home then. Come back before too late."

Toshimo walked on, leaving Gihiratou behind. Gihiratou sighed, sat on a tree stump, and looked at the ground in melancholy.

Toshimo walked out of the forest and on to a lonely street. "Man, I wish that Yasu would open up to more people. Oh well. If she did, she wouldn't be the Yasu I know and love."

The sound of fast movement stirred her from her thoughts. She turned and looked around her. No one. She narrowed her eyes, something or someone was following her. She shrugged and turned back towards her home.

More movement but closer, too close. She turned just in time to see someone pick her up and throw her over their shoulder and jump off again.

"Put me down!"

"No. You have to come with me and you won't be leaving until we get our answers." Her captor answered.

She recognized that voice. "Hiei! Put me down!"

He didn't answer this time.

He brought her through the forest she just left and up a flight of stairs to a dojo. He stopped running and continued by walking.

"You can put me down now. I am fully capable of walking by myself."

"Hn." He dropped her, and she landed on her butt. "I thought you said you were able to walk." He commented with a small smirk.

"You surprised me." She said standing up and wiping off her butt.

"Hn. Follow me." He said, starting to walk again. She looked at him for a second and shrugged, following him.

Inside the dojo were Urameshi, Kuwabara, and an old lady with pink hair.

"About time! I bet I could have done it faster."

"Sure, and get your butt kicked again while your at it."

"Say that again, shortie!"

"Alright-"

"Enough, boys. You don't need to go and start a fight." The lady interrupted them, "So this is one of the female demons you were talking about?"

"Yeah. Her name is Rei Toshimo. She has friend named Yasu Gihiratou." Urameshi told the lady.

"Pardon me, if you don't mind me asking, who are you?" Toshimo asked the pink haired lady.

"My name is Genkai. If you would sit down, we have some questions we need to ask you."

"I don't seem to have much of a choice, do I?"

"No." Hiei answered shortly.

Toshimo sighed and sat down. "What can I do for you?"

"First off, I would like to know why two young female demons are doing here?" Genkai asked, starting the questions.

"We're here because we're looking for an old 'friend' of Yasu's. It was rumored he was here."

"Who is this 'friend'?"

"His name is Himimura, another demon."

Genkai thought about this for a moment before moving on, "Why are you looking for him? He's very dangerous."

"We know. The reason we're looking for him is because of reasons personal to Yasu. I don't want to lose her trust. Her trust was very hard to gain."

"Where is she so we can find more out?"

"She wanted to be alone for awhile. She's very dangerous when she's cranky." Toshimo paused, "Oh crap! I was supposed to give her the sucker!" She stood up.

Everyone was quiet. Toshimo blushed slightly. "Um, I don't think that came out right."

Urameshi snickered. Toshimo was still blushing as she looked at the floor, "A sucker, you know, a lollipop?"

"Why does she need one?" Hiei asked.

"It's her favorite food in the worlds. She always likes to have one. She nearly killed the teacher when he took hers away during class." She paused again and sat down, "She probably has it already. So let's continue."

Genkai cleared her throat and began again, "Yes. What kind of demons are you?"

"I'm a lightning demon and she's a fire demon. We've known each other for a long time."

"You mean like Hiei over here?" Kuwabara asked.

"What do you mean? It's hard to answer your question if I don't really know anything about Hiei."

"Oh, the shrimp is a fire demon too."

"If so, then yeah, Yasu is like Hiei in that way. He seems to be like Yasu in some other ways too." She said smiling.

Hiei looked at her, "What do you mean by that?"

"You and Yasu have to same personality."

They were interrupted again. This time by the door. A boy with long, luxurious red hair and green eyes walked in. He wore a different red uniform than Kuwabara's blue and Urameshi's green uniforms. "Hello everyone."

"Hey Kurama. Glad to see you could make it." Urameshi greeting him standing up.

The boy they called Kurama smiled, "On the way here I saw a girl with death glare that could challenge Hiei's."

"Oh, that's means you saw Yasu. Don't worry, she's like that all the time." Kurama saw Toshimo sitting there.

He walked over and smiled, "What's your name?"

"I'm Rai Toshimo. What's yours?"

"I'm Shuichi Minamino, but everyone here calls me Kurama."

"Nice to meet you Kurama."

Genkai cleared her throat to get everyone's attention. "Now, on with our questions. How long have you been here?"

Toshimo thought about it, "We've been in this realm for about two months now."

"Okay. Those were all the questions I had for you." She stood up and left the room.

Her face light up as she remembered something, "Hey Kuwabara."

"What?"

"Don't forget that you're supposed to be Yasu's servant for two weeks since you lost the fight."

Urameshi burst out laughing, while Hiei smirked. Kurama looked lost. "Why does Kuwabara have to be her servant?" Kurama inquired.

"He lost the little bet they made over a fistfight. If Kuwabara won, she would have had to go out with him. And if she won the fight, he had to be her servant for two weeks. And Yasu won the fight."

"Yeah, Kuwabara lost to a girl!" "Shut up!"

The sound of someone clearing their throat sounded over Urameshi and Kuwabara's argument. This time it didn't come from Genkai. Everyone turned to see Gihiratou with a sucker in her mouth, leaning on the door.