Disclaimer: I don't own anything, except for Rumiko and Rika. Any names for parks or places that happen to belong to actual locations are accidental. So I apologize if I used someone's name or whatever. Yoshihiro Togashi owns all characters, places, and attacks familiar with Yu Yu Hakusho.

Rika puts the clothes in the dryer, always feeling the eyes of the two demons on her. Then she goes to the bathroom, to wash her hands. For some reason, they suddenly feel dirty; though she can't think of anything she had touched that would make it so. Rika looks up in the mirror and gasps. She looks just as she did in the dream. Her hair is no longer brown and straight, but is now black and slightly wavy. Her blue-gray eyes are now pure crystalline blue and her freckles are gone for the most part. Her skin is now a delicate tan color, and as she moves her sleeve, she finds that there is no tan line. Rika isn't any taller or shorter, but she feels as though she shrank. The energy inside her suddenly makes her body seem too small to contain it. She studies this new swirling aura that she has around herself. Light purple and blue gently twist around her body like mist. Rika closes her eyes for a moment to calm down and half way hoping the aura would go away. When she opens her eyes again, the mist is still there and Kurama is now standing behind her.

Rika turns away from the mirror and walks to the living room. Kurama follows and sits next to her on the couch.

"Can you conceal your energy at all?"

She stares at him blankly for a moment, "I do not know. I didn't have this much before I put on the bracelet."

Kurama narrows his eyes and takes her right hand, studying the bracelet.

"How did you get this on?"

Rika smiles at him, "Well it used to have a clasp. But that seems to have removed itself."

Kurama studies the bracelet a moment longer before he tries to actually touch it. When he does a strange pulling sensation tugs at her body and Kurama jerks back.

"What happened?" Rika asks.

"It shocked me, in a way."

She looks down at the bracelet and touches the moon charm. Thinking about how the energy only made itself known after the bracelet was on; she decides to take a wild leap. Rika gently takes the purple crystal in hand and pushes her energy into it. It is difficult at first, but when she closes her eyes and pictures the purple and blue mist moving into the stone and the crystal it became easier. Soon, Rika felt like she had before she ever thought of the bracelet, though with quick inspection she discovers that her appearance hasn't gone back to 'normal.'

"What did you do?" Kurama asks quietly.

"I used the stones to conceal the power."

The red head raises a delicate eyebrow and looks over to Hiei who had entered the room a few moments before.

Rika also glances at the short tempered man, and sees that if looks could kill she would be splattered all over the wall behind her. Confused, she decides to ignore it. Some things are just better left unknown.

Not long after Rika had concealed her power, Yusuke and Kuwabara came in the front door, laughing.

"I told you that dork couldn't beat the girl!" Kuwabara said shaking his head.

"I just can't believe he got beat that bad! A tough guy like him?" Yusuke started laughing all over again.

Just then, Kuwabara seemed to take notice of Rika, "Hey. Wow, what'd you do to yourself?"

She shakes her head, this question is getting tiresome. "When may I sleep?" Rika asks instead.

Kuwabara sort of has a blank expression as he looks at her, "Sleep? It's only 8."

Rika shakes her head again, "Still a little jet lagged."

"Oh right," Yusuke says, "Well, you can go to sleep now. We'll go to the kitchen or something."

Rika nods her head and goes to get some clothes to sleep in. Hiei shadows her, and closes the door. She turns around to see him right in front of her. Rika steps back to put a little space between them, but he pins her to the wall.

"You know nothing of us. Despite what you may believe. I am very protective of what is mine. Leave him alone."

Rika can only blink as it takes her a moment to understand what he means.

"I never had any thoughts of pursuing Shuichi. It is Kurama that hunts me. I know of nothing I can do to change that."

Hiei growls and then disappears, leaving the door open. Rika sighs as she picks out a pair of blue boy-shorts (you know, like those boxers for girls) and a white tank top. She closes the door and changes quickly, throws her dirty clothes into another pack and walks out into the living room. After lying down on the couch, Rika quickly falls asleep, wishing that all this was a terrible nightmare she could just wake up from.

Rika awakens in the hotel room, Rumi sitting on his bed watching TV.

"Jeez sis, I thought you were never going to wake up! It's 11 already! The day's halfway gone!"

Rika blinks and looks around, "Was it all a dream?" she wonders.

"Well come on sleeping booty! Get up!"

She laughs and climbs out of bed. Heading to the bathroom, she bumps into a dresser. Pain runs down her leg as a purplish bruise starts to appear. "Well, this certainly feels real enough; it must have all been a dream."

Rika takes a shower, and while she's washing her arm, she notices the bracelet is there. Cold shivers suddenly rack her body as she stares at the charms, the infinity sign cold against her skin and glowing slightly.

She shakes it off and climbs out of the shower stall to dry. Rika suddenly realizes that her skin is darker with less freckles, and her hair is darker; she ignores the horrible feeling that has now settled in her gut. Once she's dressed, she heads back into the room where her brother is.

"What are we doing today?" Rika asks.

"I thought we'd go to the park, ya know, so you could take pictures or something."

Again, shivers run up and down her spine, "No. I'd rather go to a market or something. Then I can get pictures of everyday life."

Rumi looks at her curiously, "The park was your idea. Remember? We argued about it last night."

Rika blinks for a moment, and suddenly, she does remember arguing with her brother. He had wanted to go to the market and she had wanted desperately to go to the park.

"I've had a change of heart," she murmurs.

Rumi shrugs as he checks his wallet to make sure he had the credit cards and the hotel key.

Rika check her camera pack, to make sure that she also has the two cards, and then walks out the door. The two of them head to the market and spend the better part of the day trying different foods and inspecting the goods and wares available. Using a nearby ATM, Rumi gets some cash. Many of the people at the market don't take cards, and there is something that Rumiko absolutely has to have, so he says.

Rika laughs lightly and shakes her head at her brother as he slips through the crowd to some unknown shop. She stands at the window to a shop selling swords.

"That one boy, he had a sword," Rika thinks to herself, "I wonder if it all really was a dream."

"There you are!"

She turns around to see her brother walking toward her with his hands behind his back. Rika tilts her head curiously, "What do you have?"

"Close your eyes." She looks nervously at her grinning brother, but did as he asked. Rika felt him lean over and move her hair, and a weight is on her neck. "Now open them," he commanded.

She opens her eyes to see a beautiful amethyst gem on a silver chain. Its color somehow matched the purple of the crystal on your bracelet, and this one was left in its more natural shape. A six sided pyramid hung upside down from the silver fastening and the purple faded to clear quartz.

"Wow." Rika feels stupid, but there isn't anything else she can say, this is just beautiful.

"I thought you'd like it. Come on sis let's head back to the room."

Rika nods and follows silently, still staring her new gift. She's so lost in thought, she doesn't notice the crowd thin out, and she fails to realize that she has just trailed her brother into an empty alley way. She glances up again to tell Rumi thanks when a man stepped out from behind the dumpster on the right side of the alley.

"Rika, stay behind me."

She mutely obeys as Rumi blocks her from the drunken looking man before him.

"I only want the woman. Come now, I'll give you a good price for her."

Rika's astounded that this man would even mention such a thing and her brother appears to be beyond pissed. He takes a threatening step forward, "You will not lay one hand on her."

Suddenly, Rika's grabbed from behind, one arm around her waist pinning your arms there, and one around her neck, choking her. Rika struggles, and the sound of her feet shuffling and man grunting as she stomps on his toes makes Rumi turn around. The man he had been confronting took this opportunity to attack him.

Rumiko saw the man move and countered his blow. Rika's captor starts dragging her down the alley and Rumi and the first man begin to fight. Another man steps out of the shadows, but this thing is far from human. His lizard like head is grinning wildly, displaying very sharp teeth. Its green skin and claws add to the lizard-like look, but its long scaled tail finishes the effect.

The guy holding Rika thrusts her toward him and runs for all he's worth. Rika hears a strangled yell and see that more of the creatures are attacking her brother, having already killed the first man.

"No!" she screams, "Not again!"

The lizard creature grabs her left arm, its claws breaking the skin, and attempts to lead her into the shadows. Rika plants her feet firmly into the ground and yanks back. She feels her shoulder shift, pulling against the creature, then pop. Rika screams as the muscles and tendons tear and stretch. Not thinking, she kicks at the creature. It then lets go, but she tumbles to the ground.

"Rika! Run!"

Rika looks over, horrified, and sees her brother backed into a corner with three of the things stalking him. The one that had been trying to drag her into the shadows starts to approach Rika again as she scrambles to her feet. Rika's left arm hangs uselessly to her side as she runs toward her brother.

"No Rika! Run! You have to…" Rumiko is cut off as the creatures pounce on him.

"No no no! This is a dream! This is the dream! I have to wake up!" The fourth creature grabs Rika again and starts pulling her back into the shadows, the pain is more than she thought she could ever handle. Rika fights him as she fights reality, a mantra taking precedence over all her thoughts, "This is not real. This is not real. This is the dream. This is not real." Even her mantra is lost, as she falls into unconsciousness.

"Rika! Rika are you alright?"

Rika opens her eyes, wearily and attempts to sit up. Her left shoulder screams in protest and she gasps, collapsing back onto the pillow.

"What happened?"

She looks over to see Yusuke standing over her with the rest of the boys. Kuwabara is leaning over the back of the couch, Yusuke stands by her side, Kurama is kneeling next to her head, and Hiei stands at the foot of the couch. Rika winces as she tries to move her left arm.

"What hurts you?"

She glares at Kurama, "I am not a child." Rika forces herself to a sitting position and cradles her left arm. The puncture wounds from the creature's claws are there, but they are small gashes probably from when Rika had tried to pull away. She guesses her shoulder is actually dislocated as well.

"Come on lady, we're only tryin' to help! What's wrong?"

Rika looks back up at Yusuke and sighs, "My shoulder is dislocated, I think."

Yusuke looks at her as though she's gone insane, Kurama merely raises an eyebrow, Hiei narrows his eyes, and Kuwabara just stares dumbfounded.

"How'd that happen?" Kuwa asks.

Rika sighs, "I'm not sure. I know it has something to do with the bracelet." She examines the bruise on her leg from when she had hit the dresser. As she leans forward to get a better look at it, something swings down in front of her. Rika grabs it to look at it and feels her face pale. She starts to shake violently as tears rush to her eyes.

"Rumiko," she whispers.

A/N: I would like to take this moment to answer your questions. Even if some of you forgot what you asked.

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