For some time after the "mind ripping incedent" (as Rika chose to call it), the boys discuss what to do with Rika. Finally it was decided that she should have an apartment of her own. The boys would stop by frequently and take turns watching her at night. Botan and a few other River Girls would help her during the day.

'In other words,' Rika thought, 'they have me under twenty-four hour servalence. What a splendid prison."

"So," Rika asks aloud, "Where am I giong to stay until we find a place?"

Koenma smiles, "With my Spirit World connections, I can have an apartment for you in a matter of hours."

Rika raises and eyebrow, "Oh really? How convienent."

Koenma smirks, "Not particularly. It's actually a ton of extra work for our regular people to do. I suppose that putting a few things on hold for a little while won't be a problem."

Rika smiles, but inwardly wonder why he's being so nice. Something here isn't matching up, andshe wants to know what.She can't use her truth-seer's abilities on him.Rika frowns mentally whenshe realizes that the wall Hiei constructed is somehow blocking those powers fromher now.

'Oh this isn't going to work,' Rika thinks. 'Something is going to have to be done about this, but it will just have to wait until I can get somewhere alone. If I can ever get somewhere alone.'

"Yusuke," Koenma's voice brings Rika from her reverie, "Why don't you take Rika back to the human world until we find something for her. You could show her around and everything."

Yusuke shrugs and takes Rika's good arm to lead her out, "You comin' Kuwabara?"

"Like I would leave you alone with a young lady!" Kuwabara challenges as he follows the other two.

Rika follows Yusuke around, only half listening to his description of the town and where everything is, and occasionally laughing at the stupid arguements he'd get into with Kuwabara.

"The fastest way to the arcade is through the park to the back alley!"

"Kuwabara," Yusuke grit through clenched teeth, "We need her to take the safest routes so she doesn't get attacked again!"

Kuwabara blinks for a moment, "Oh yeah. Ok then. So do you know how to get to the nearest grocery?"

Before Rika could respond, Kurama was standing beside Yusuke, "We found a place."

Kuwabara jumped into the air yelling, "Don't do that Kurama!"

Yusuke laughed, "Why didn't Koenma just use the communicator?"

"He wanted me to show you the way, since we're all going to have to know where it is. Surprisingly, it's close to Keiko's residence."

Yusuke blinked for a moment, "I need to go talk to her, she's going to be mad as it is..."

Rika sighs and gestures for Kurama to start walking as he turned his frighteningly calm gaze on her. Smiling, he turns and leads the group down the crowded streets. After a several blocks, he turns and walks up to a small house (much like the one Yusuke had before it burned down).

"Hm, nicer than I expected," Rika comments as she looks over the nicely furnished home. Everything was Japanese style, so there was no couch or recliner, but everything still looked very nice. Rika turns and smiles warmly at the boys, "Thank you very much. Everything that you've done for me...I don't know how to thank you properly."

"Don't destroy the world."

Rika looks over at Yusuke, shock written clearly on her features. She blushes when Yusuke starts laughing, telling her not to worry about it. Yusuke and Kuwabara quickly leave, each having their own things to attend to. Kurama lingers, however, as though he has something to say.

"Just say it," Rika advises.

Kurama chuckles, apparently amused, "Yes. Well, Hiei said that he would keep an eye on this house. The two of us will be here more often than anyone else because of everyone's schedules. I hope you don't mind?"

Rika shrugs, "I don't really care. I just want to get all this over with. Now if you'll excuse me, I'd like to take advantage of that beautiful bath."

Kurama shakes his head slightly as he again chuckles to himself. As he walks out, he turns back around, "Don't forget to lock the windows and door."

"Yes I know. I'm not a child. Goodnight fox." That said, Rika firmly closes and locks the door. Then she makes a quick round of the windows to make sure that they are also closed and locked. Afterward, she takes a long soak in her bath and tries to think about what she should do with the mess that's been handed to her.