Okie! Update time! Thanks to Megan and Fire of Death for reviewing and sorry for the short chapter!

She looked at Kurama, sighing. She didn't care if her sister saw if her face was covered in blood. She loved him and that was final.

She turned to the window and saw Yoko being dragged to the door with swirlies for eyes, and the goofy grin. Rian dragged him in and dropped his legs onto the ground. he woke up at this.

"Ow!" Yoko yelled. He looked up. "What's your problem! What do you want!"

"We are taking you to Makai, getting the Shiku and Shika spices and holy water, and you're going to kiss that cat!"

"...Is that it?" Yoko asked.

"Maybe. If we're not back here in two hours we're going to kill you." Yoko growled.

"And you," Rian said, 'are coming with us."

"Me?" Luna asked. "Why!"

"Because, we don't want you kissing a corpse again. It's bad for you."

Cristel grabbed her by the hand, Rian took Yoko, and he threw as smoke bomb down and they were gone.

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"Good job Rian," Cristel smiled. "You brought us to the right grove. This is the only plant found here, Shiku and Shika." she grabbed a red and a purple plant and stuffed them into her pocket. "It's going to be hell to grind though," she muttered.

'That's leaves the Holy Water. Harder to find." Rian said.

(I want to skip this part or I'd be going on for half an hour)

"FINALLY!" Cristel yelled after 45 minutes. She took a bottle from a pocket in her kimono, scooped some water into it and screwed the bottle shut.

"Okay, let's go."

Rian threw another smoke bomb and they were back at the store.

"Okay, I need a mallet," Cristel said. She opened several cabinets before heading into a supply closet. After a crash, a bang, and a short string of curses Cristel came put with a hammer.

"Close enough." she put a bag of spice on the table and pounded it mercilessly. After ten VERY strong whacks, she only had a few coarse crystals.

"Damnit..." she muttered.

Cristel turned around and saw Yoko and Rian were getting along. Yoko was telling him about his famous exploits with Kuronue. Rian was deep in Yoko's stories. Cristel narrowed her eyes.

After about 15 minutes of smashing she was ready. She splashed some holy water in Yoko's face.

"What the--"

Then she snuck up behind him, spices in hand, and smothered them all over his face, mainly his lips.

"What are you doing?"

She scrunched his face up, lifted him up and pulled him towards Ryoku.

"Kiss the kitty!" she yelled.

"What?" Yoko asked.

Kiss?...

Yoko realized what he was about to do and slapped Cristel's hand away.

"What are you trying to make me do!" he yelled out-of-characterly.

"...Kiss that cat," Cristel replied. She knew it was going to sound stupid.

Yoko's eye twitched. Twitch, twitch, twitch.

"Why!" he yelled, eye a-twitching.

"Because! You were with him before Kuronue!"

"What's that got to do with anything!"

"A LOT! We have to find a way to set off that priestess so she can come here, hypnotize you and I are not tellin' ypu the rest!"

"Why do you want to hypnotize me!"

"I JUST TOLD YOU I'm NOT TELLING YOU THE REST!"

"You WILL."

"What makes you say that?"

"...I can compell anyone into telling mean secrets..."

"You don't mean..." Cristel smirked.

Keeping a straight face Yoko nodded. "But I won't right now."

"Why not!" yelled Cristel.

As the two argued, Rian got up, walked over to where Ryoku was snoring, untied him, and walked over inbetween Yoko and Cristel.

"...What are you doing?" Yoko asked. Rian hoisted Ryoku from behind his back, pressing the cat's kitty mouth against Yoko's lips. Yoko's eyes widened in surprise, and he jumped back after a second. Unfortunately, he still had the water and spices on his lips, but he wiped it off too late. He tried wiping his mouth off on his wrist, but to no avail. He was blinded by a...blinding light that filled the room. Rian and Cristel jumped back, while Yoko just watched, mouth slowly opening.

"It's...it's him..." Yoko saw as the light cleared, revealing a young man of about 17 or 18 lying on the floor, snoring. He had brown hair in pretty much the same style as Suzaku's (think of the four Saint Beasts thing) and clothes very similar to Yoko's. He appeared to be very handsome, as Cristel was blushing very hard, clearly thiking 'He's so cute when he's asleep!'

After this little episode was done, his eyes snapped open. He looked around and the first thing that caught his attention was not Shuichi's pale, bloody body, but Yoko.

"Kurama?" he shouted in shock. "Wh-what are you doing here?"