Lost Squirrel: This is getting weirder and weirder. I really want to add more OCs, but they just don't seem to fit.

Dragonfly: Plus it wouldn't be a good Fan fiction if all it had was OCs.

Lost Squirrel: Yeah, but I still wanted to add someone that was different.

Dragonfly: Oh well, the story must be told in the proper way.

Lost Squirrel: Oh and I have some good news though! I have been freed from my splint! Whoop! I will now be able to move about freely!


Lying to Live

Aiko awoke to the feeling of a woman's hand on her forehead. "Her temperature has gone down and the wounds are healing extremely quickly." There was a rummaging of supplies next to her head. Aiko opened her eyes to see that the blood had been washed away from her face. The woman who was feeling her forehead gasped with a bit of shock and then smiled.

"I am so glad you are finally awake," The woman tilted her head in a questioning manner. "Are you feeling better?"

"Yes," Aiko looked down at herself. The voice that had come out wasn't her own. This new voice sounded higher and more childlike than her original voice. She also noticed that her legs were about 5 inches shorter. The biggest surprise came when she found her hair to have grown to the length of her waist and had become a dark purple color, matching her eyes. 'No wonder it hurt so much, my bones were being compressed.'

"Girl?" The woman raised her voice a little as if trying to get Aiko's attention.

"Um, yes?" Aiko blushed, throughout trying to figure out what had changed, she entirely ignored the woman trying to ask her a question.

"What's your name?" The woman's question was not an easy one. If Aiko feigned amnesia then she wouldn't have to answer many questions, but that would attract attention. If she gave a real name then the woman would report her to the police under missing person case and Aiko would be found before the game was over. There was only one option, lie like a dog.

"Oki, my name is Oki." Aiko sat up.

"What a lovely name. Mine is Avarielle, so how did you end up so badly hurt?" Aiko then proceeded to tell Avarielle of a false family that she had to get back to and the fall from a tree she took before they had found her.

"Oh, then let us escort you back to your house. We wouldn't want you to reopen those wounds you got." Avarielle got up to get some clothes for Aiko, but was stopped by a shout.

"No! My…my family is out of town, you can't see them." Aiko mentally hit herself. If she were in her original body she could have passed for 18, but in this one, she looked 14. There was no way this woman would let her live by herself.

Avarielle kneeled down next to the bed, a worried look on her face. "Oki, it's ok to tell me if you don't have anywhere to go. I won't take you to the cops, ok?"

Aiko slid down in her bed a little, the longer she spent here would make it easier for them to find her. 'Oh well, it really is better than stealing to survive here.' Aiko nodded her head in Avarielle's direction and watched as the woman left the room with a little haste.

Let's hope she keeps good to her word, or I might have to make a run for it. Aiko hit herself again; having the cops and the spirit detectives after you isn't good. She almost couldn't stand going through another physical change again. Well all I need to do after this is convince them to let me go to camp in three days.


Kurama explained the confusing details to an already bewildered spirit detective.

"So, You do know where she is though, right?" Yusuke asked in a desperate tone. This case was becoming more and more annoying. If he had to follow the two humans around for another day he would go insane. He didn't mind the added perk of being able to miss high school without being reproached by Kurama.

Hiei was sent on an investigation mission of the area that Kurama had last seen Aiko's tracks. The blood had dried and there was almost no trace of her foot steps due to the shore wind. It would be hard to find her by scent alone, due to the fact that the area of her last steps had three scents. The area Kurama told him about was only two miles off, so Hiei decided to try and find her the old fashioned way.

This wasn't Hiei's strong point as he soon found out. Kurama told him to ask the people if they had seen her before trying to break into the house. He didn't see the point if it was just going to waste time. Then again, the actions he chooses to take are always being monitored, so he thought it better to stick with Kurama's logic on this one. That didn't do anything to stop the awkwardness of knocking on someone's door.

"Hello?" An extremely large woman opened the door. Her tiny dog bounced from behind her to see who dare to knock on the door.

"Have you seen a 17 year old girl with red hair?" Hiei tried to remember what it was that Kurama said about talking to humans, but it was all being dissolved by this mutt's whining barks. The tiny dog crawled out of the doorway and started to growl at Hiei. He gave it a death stare and it only proceeded to crouch.

"Oh, um, now that you mention it, I might have seen someone…" The woman kept talking about when she might have seen a brown haired old woman. Hiei turned away to leave, but the dog leapt at that exact moment to bite his cloak. He, of course kicked the dog in the side and it just wouldn't let go of him. He then got out his katana. The woman screamed and waddled to the phone. In just a few seconds, he heard screams of "Police! He's going to kill Woofles!"

That's when Hiei kicked the dog off and made a run for it.

Hiei's next try wasn't any more pleasing than the last, but at least the man wasn't as annoying as the woman's dog.

"Well, I might have seen a girl…" The old man held his chin and looked sharply at Hiei. "Why are you looking for someone in your family?"

Hiei hadn't known whether to lie or just use torture to get the strait answer out of this man. He went with the easier of the two choices.


"And you still haven't found out anything!" Yusuke, in an exhausted tone, screamed at him.

"Shut up, Detective." Hiei sat on the window sill and watched from Kurama's room the evening sun over the city.

"By the way," Yusuke sighed, stretching out on Kurama's bed. "Why are you here early? I thought we agreed you would be out until 9 questioning the people."

"Well--" Hiei started but the TV, which had been turned on by Yusuke's stretching arm hitting the remote, interrupted him.

"We have an emergency report." The reporter looked gravely into the camera. "There has been a rash of several threats of people's lives this evening. It seems to be the work of a madman searching for girls to kidnap. He goes to houses, seeming to be searching for his next victim. When the information he seeks is not given, he immediately threatens their very lives with a sword. The police have only allowed the release of two of the cases. In one, the madman pulled the sword on a dog. The other case was crueler; the police had found an old man hanging in the top of a 40 foot tree. The bizarre man is said to be in his late teens, wearing all black in the form of a cloak and pants. Our sketch artist has depicted what he may look like."

A picture that looked somewhat like Hiei flashed on to the screen. Hiei went over and turned it off.

"They overreact. It was only a 30 foot tree." He then walked out of the room.


Lost Squirrel: I got it! YAY! I knew putting Hiei in the story would liven it up!

Dragonfly: I don't know how that makes much sense, but YAY!

Lost Squirrel: Right, well, I really love you all for reviewing! Thank you for putting me on your story alert list! I feel so loved!

Dragonfly: Don't get too big of a head! You might just be on a lucky streak.

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