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Kurama and the Amulet of Truth

Yoshimi continued sobbing. She was so distraught; she didn't notice the gray forest around her changing. The ground, previously covered with grass, was now rocky and barren. The trees had become huge, jagged rocks, towering above the rock ground.

Yoshimi didn't notice until a rock hit her head. She stopped abruptly and looked up, rubbing her head where the rock had hit her. She stared at the sky, wondering where the rock had come from. There was no one here except her.

The landscape had begun to change again. The rocks close at hand faded, and the others became mountains in the distance. The ground grew grass again, gray as always, this time, with flowers, also gray. "Colorless flowers," Yoshimi mused aloud. This place was completely devoid of any happiness.

Suddenly, a beam of blue energy shot out of the sky. It still had color, at least for now. It hit the ground with such force; it left a gaping hole in the ground where it had hit. "Where the heck did that come from?" Yoshimi muttered, rubbing her head where another rock had hit her.

Then she had a thought. Maybe the rock and the blast of blue energy had come from the world above, where she had fallen from. "But how do I get out?" she wondered aloud, exasperated. She thought back to the items. Of course! She would use the teleporta cube to get back to the castle! She took out the cube and started to concentrate on the castle, squeezing as she thought, but nothing happened! She tried again with all her might but still nothing was happening! Concentrate! She tried, she really did, but as she thought and thought and squeezed the cube still nothing happened!

Her mind started to wander. She thought up and up the castle, picturing it in her mind, until she came to a room at the very top. She could see it perfectly clearly, even though she had never seen it before. Suddenly, there was a flash of light, and Yoshimi disappeared. The strange world was empty once more.

Yusuke and Kuwabara met up with Kurama and Hiei back in the place where they had divided. They both told the stories of the shimmering wall and the things that had disappeared into it. "So where do you think it goes?" Yusuke asked Kurama after he had told him about Yoshimi.

"I do not know. It could go anywhere or nowhere at all," Kurama said. "We need to decide what to do now."

"We're gonna save her!" Yusuke exclaimed. We're just gonna hafta go into the shimmery stuff and get her out!"

"We may get trapped there ourselves," Hiei said, finally speaking up. "Then we would all be stuck."

"Besides," Kurama said. "It may not even lead to the same place anymore."

Then Kuwabara spoke for the first time. "What we need to do is find a different way to the top of the castle and make the guy at the top tell us where to find her."

Kurama shook his head. "I don't think there is another way to the top of the castle."

"Wait!" Yusuke exclaimed suddenly. "What's that in the shadows?" Over to the right side of the corridor was a set of spiral staircases that wound up all the way to the top. The group started up the staircase, Yusuke first followed by Kuwabara, with Kurama behind him and Hiei bringing up the rear.

Yavanna was in the top chamber of the castle, waiting for the guests to arrive. She smiled at the ingenious plan the boss had. Yoshimi would walk into the mist, and remain trapped in there until she cracked and had to tell them the secrets of the amulet. She settled farther back into the gigantic chair she was sitting in. It was like a throne. She liked sitting there. It made her feel powerful. Maybe when this whole thing was over, she would be promoted.

There was suddenly a flash of light, interrupting her musings and illuminating the whole top of the tower. Yoshimi fell out of the burst of light and hit the floor. "Ow...," she said, staggering to her feet and rubbing her rear.

"What are you doing here?!" Yavanna exclaimed, jumping to her feet. "You were supposed to stay in the Gray Land of Dimensions!"

"Huh?" Yoshimi said, dazed. I mean, if you had just been magically teleported up a castle, and then yelled at, what would you say?

"How did you get here?!" Yavanna yelled.

"I teleported," she said, "With this cube." She held the cube up.

"Oh," said Yavanna. In case you haven't noticed, they were both pretty confused. They had been thrown off guard by the recent events. But Yavanna was first to recover.

"How did such a powerful tool as the amulet ever fall into your possession?" Yavanna asked.

"Why do you want to know?" Yoshimi asked, suddenly on her guard.

"Because our boss has been keeping track of the energy tag on this amulet for many years," Yavanna replied. "The first energy track of importance belonged to a kitsune thief. Not as famous as Youko Kurama, but still pretty good."

"Youko Kurama?" Yoshimi asked. Two Kurama's, it couldn't be a coincidence.

"Yes, the legendary thief," Yavanna dismissed with a wave of her hand. "But he is human now, one of the spirit detectives..."

"No way!" Yoshimi exclaimed. "You mean Kurama was a thief!"

"Yes, a demon kitsune," Yavanna said impatiently. "I'm surprised he didn't tell you that before, since you two seemed so close. Maybe he didn't trust you."

"He trusts me!" Yoshimi said, now angry. "Maybe he was just waiting for the right time!"

"Maybe," Yavanna said with a shrug. "Back to my question. After that, the energy signal switched to another, your mother's I think, then it changed again, when you had it. But the funny thing is that the first energy signal was identical to the last. Odd, isn't it?"

"Well, maybe it was just a mistake," Yoshimi said haughtily. "The detector could have made a mistake, you know."

Yavanna shook her head. "This detector doesn't make mistakes."

"So what are you implying?" Yoshimi said angrily.

"That you are not Yoshimi, but Kaori, a several-hundred-year-old kitsune thief."

A/N: dun dun daaaaaa! How do you like that? Changes every thing now, doesn't it. Oh yeah, and I got a review that asked why couldn't Hiei see through the stuff with his Jagan eye. Well I didn't think of that :$ the truth is that he could, he just saw the hallway on the other side, and not how to get through it. Review now!