AN: Welcome back to why Alyssa wants to see a psychiatrist. I'm writing this because my internet connections down and my TV isn't working. Aren't rain storms fun! I don't think anyone has even read the first chapter yet, but I'll post this once my connections back up anyway.

And I don't own Yu Yu Hakusho. I guess I own Alyssa, though I wouldn't see the point in suing if anyone "stole" her.

When Alyssa woke up again she had difficulty collecting her thoughts. Pretty much all that was going through her mind was a steady string of curses at her captors, her own stupidity, and the window for being so hard to get through. While at any other time it would have seemed irrational to her to blame an inanimate object right now was not time to be rational. She closed her eyes again and took a few deep breaths trying to clear her head. She took a moment to reassess the situation.

"Okay," She thought, "So far I've been drugged, kidnapped, and sneered at by four insane teenage cultists who seem to think I'm a demon. I have no idea where I am, no methods of escape, my head hurts like hell and I feel like I've sprained every bone in my body. All I can do is await an inescapable and horrendous fate. There are no words to describe how fucked up this is."

Alyssa continued to wallow in well deserved self pity until one of her captors, the long haired one, walked into her room. Her pulse quickened with fear, she was completely defenseless! If he tried to hurt, rape, or kill her there was absolutely nothing she could do except scream, and she doubted that would help much. She sat up in bed as her eyes darted around the room for something, anything she could use as a weapon, but to no avail. Everything in the room was the same as before, except now the stool had been removed.

The boy noticed the panicked look in her eyes. "Don't worry, I'm not going to hurt you. I just wanted to explain," He assured in a soothing tone.

"Damn right you better explain," She thought, but she kept the sentiment to herself. Even though she felt that she was verging on hysteria she knew better to aggravate a kidnapper. So she just stared at him with cold, distrusting eyes, trying to conceal her fear with little success. She was shivering all over.

"I'm sure all of this will sound very strange to you, but I promise this is no ruse," He looked completely sincere, and gravely serious. She began to shiver even more, whatever he was going to tell her she would bet that it wasn't good news. She just wanted to plug her ears, close her eyes and sleep until all of this just went away. It was a similar feeling to the one she had during Algebra, except this time she wouldn't be able to indulge it.

The boy continued talking as he took a seat on the floor, "My name is Kurama. I will try my best to explain things slowly but there's a lot to you need to know, so please ask any questions if you get lost. Do you understand?" She nodded, though she was still to terrified to speak, no matter how lost she got.

"I will begin at the beginning. There are two other worlds besides the world you live in. The Spirit World and the Demon World…" He went on to explain about the two realms, focusing mostly on demon world and it's inhabitants. Telling her about the three kingdoms, each ruled by a powerful demon, and about the barrier that separated it from the Living World. She listened closely, but was almost positive he was lying, almost. A small part of her rather wanted to believe him. The childish part that loved anything fantastic and impossible. It was like something out of the fantasy novels that she checked out in bulk from the library, and it gave her a small thrill just to listen to it all. She couldn't begin to trust him though, she had to focus on getting out of here alive. Perhaps she should play along with him though, make him think she believed him. Eventually she got up the courage to ask him a question.

"Is that what you think I am? One of those demons?"

"Yes, and that may just be the most complicated part. You lived in demon world until 16 years ago. You were the leader of a rebel band against the demon lord Yomi. In a battle against his top soldiers you were fatally wounded. Your company retreated and attempted to heal you. When they saw that you wouldn't make it they all worked together and managed to change you into your spirit form and guide you here, to the human realm to take over the body of an unborn child and live as a human until you could return once again to lead them."

She stared at him, not knowing what to think. The story sounded somewhat familiar. What was it? She guessed the returning part sounded something like the Bible, and the whole not actually being human scenario sounded a bit like the book she had just finished last week. What was it again? Oh yeah, Tithe. He had to be making this up. Had she been told this under different circumstances she would have laughed and walked off. But she couldn't walk off, and she didn't want to anger him.

"Normally you would have remembered your past and been able to use some demonic powers, but for unknown reasons this is not the case. We believe that they were suppressed by the human part of you somehow, possibly because your soul was not entirely compatible with your body."

"Who's we?" The question came out of her mouth before she had thought about it. Again, she feared his reaction.

"Those who work for the Spirit World. I'm sorry I didn't make that clear earlier."

"You work for Spirit World? So would that make you an angel?"

Kurama let out a slight chuckle, "No, no. Actually I'm a demon." He noticed Alyssa's surprised look. "My situation is similar to your own. Except I escaped on my own, and I remembered my life in the other realms. This is my human form."

"All these different "forms"," Though Alyssa, "What are they? Transformers?"

"Perhaps if I showed you my demon form it would make more sense to you, and help alleviate the doubt you are undoubtedly feeling. Would that help?" She was afraid of what he might look like as a demon. Would he have horns and a tail like a Halloween costume? Would it be something so terribly frightening that one glance would drive her insane? Images of all of the monsters that had ever scared flashed before her eyes. But she had to see it, how else could she know he was telling the truth? So she nodded a yes.

The boy got up off the floor, and in a blink of an eye he had completely changed his appearance. She'd expected something a bit more. Maybe some sort of spell, or flashing lights, a cloud of smoke, but perhaps that was only on television. She was relieved to see that he was not terrifying at all, in fact he was rather handsome. His long silver hair reaching down past his back, and his yellow eyes gazing calmly at her. In fact the only thing that made him seem un-human was the silver fox ears and tail. She felt a capricious impulse to tug at them, to make sure that they were real, but she resisted it. She was convinced. Though she found it odd that his clothes had also changed, from a pink suit to a white toga-like ensemble.

She was slightly disappointed when he changed back. Suddenly hundreds of questions came speeding into her mind. Her first was probably the most trivial.

"So what do I look like as a demon?"

"I do not know, but I believe your name then was Kane. I heard it mentioned a few times in the demon world. You were a spider demon, and I'm afraid to say not many of them are very…. Becoming."

"Damn." She muttered, and Kurama laughed quietly. She'd rather been hoping for a trim physique, long flowing hair, ect. It seemed that it was just not to be. She still had more questions though.

"Did you kidnap me just because I'm a demon?"

"No, if left on your own you would have most likely lived in ignorance of you past for your entire life," She noticed something in Kurama's gaze. It was a look of longing, as if he were wishing for something that could never be, but it quickly passed. "There is a demon the just escaped into the human world with the motive to kill you. We had to bring you here to protect you." She had just begun to hope that maybe nothing horrible would happen, and that maybe, just maybe, they had just wanted to tell her about her past. Now, once again, the situation looked desolate.

"Where exactly is here?"

"You are currently in Japan, about fifty kilometers outside of Tokyo, in a shrine belonging to a human psychic name Genkai."

"Japan! How did I get to Japan!" She really doubted that airport security would let anybody one the plane carrying an unconscious body.

"Magic," Kurama gave her a bit of a smile. Did he actually look a bit mischievous?

"This is nuts," Alyssa said, lying back down in the bed.

Kurama smiled slightly as he quietly left the room.

AN: Want to know how they actually got to Japan? They went through the Demon World. Why didn't Kurama mention this? He was afraid it would prompt many unnecessary questions that might have required him to tell how the trip went, which wasn't good. They were attacked by a band of demons who got frighteningly close to cutting off Alyssa's neck. They managed to defeat the demons, but while Kuwabara was carrying her he accidentally dropped her on her head, three times. Kuwabara, Yusuke, and Hiei's constant bickering didn't help matters either. It was not a trip anyone would want to relive.

Other then that I'd just like to say that Tithe is a pretty good book, with sexy/scary Fae Folk. It's a quick summer read so pick it up if you have the chance.