AN: Welcome to Chapter 3! I'm so glad that you've made it this far. In fact I'm glad in general for many reasons. The 6th Harry Potter, and the movie Howl's Moving Castle (Based on a book by one of my favorite authors, done by the Spirited Away people. SQUEEE! It's a dream come true!) are coming out, and my friend finally found a copy of Ceres: Celestial Legend 4 (A manga, she'd been searching for it for over a year. Volumes 1-3 and 5-11 were out, but no one could find 4.) And it's summer! I'm not just happy, I'm ecstatic. WHEEEEEEE!

Thank you Alyssa, Spork111, and ficfan3484 for reviewing. I just picked the name Alyssa out of the blue when I started writing the story, the same with Kane (I had no idea what it would be until I wrote it down). By the way it's pronounced Kah (rhymes with la) - nay, not Kane like sugar cane. Mmm…. Sugar. I just looked up Kane in the dictionary and it seems it's a Hawaiian term for man. Oops.

Another odd coincidence, I am the unofficial leader of the spork revolution! With the mission to put sporks on the table of every table in the world! Starting with the USA, Canada and Mexico. (They're closest.)

And ficfan3484, I'm not telling what Kane looks like just yet, your going to have to wait until she actually transforms. (Plus, it's kind of…. under construction right now.)

Well, I've blabbed on more then my share, and I'm sure you care more about Alyssa then me, so let's return to her (increasingly twisted) life.

After Kurama left Alyssa noticed that it was night time, and tried to go to sleep, but it was no use, there was just to much on her mind. If she was a demon, and one strong enough to organize a rebellion, why was she such an awful athlete? The one time she'd gotten into a fight she only manage to land a single weak hit. It was in seventh grade and she had gotten into an argument with a girl who had cheated off her math test. She had confronted the girl at lunch time, and it had quickly escalated into a brawl. The other girl attacked first, punching her in the jaw, and Alyssa slapped her in the face. After that the girl punched her in the stomach and Alyssa collapsed. She quickly got up and rushed to the bathroom to hide her tears. She wasn't crying because she had been hurt badly, but because she had felt so helpless. Someone was using her to cheat and she couldn't do anything about it, she couldn't defend herself at all. After that she just pretended not to notice when she saw someone cheat off her.

It was actually rather exciting to think that maybe she hadn't always been so cowardly. That she had fought for a cause, had led a rebel band. Just thinking about it made adrenaline rush through her veins. There had even been people that depended on her so much that they would do anything to just keep her alive. She wondered if they were still waiting for her. This thought caused her to worry. Would they be disappointed in her now? That she couldn't even stand up for herself anymore, let alone any of them. She was sure they would be. How could they accept her as their leader when she wasn't even used to leading her own life. She was just sixteen for heaven's (or hell's) sake! Most of the important decisions, what school she'd go to (St. Mary's Private School), what classes she'd take (honor's everything), even the length of her uniforms' skirts (the longest available). Even now it felt like she was just being swept along by the current in a canoe without a paddle.

She felt depressed and worn out. She didn't even have the energy to panic anymore, but she still wasn't able to sleep, so she did what she'd normally do in a similar (if less exciting/insane) situation. She went over to her backpack, fished out her psychology book, plopped down on the bed and began to read. It was an interesting segment on Freud and psychoanalysis. As she read about the id (base desires), the ego (rationality), and the superego (morals), she wondered if the same basic principles were true for demons. Did they have less ego or superego the humans? In many stories demons seemed to be the embodiment of the id. Even the things Kurama had told her made demons seem to be very unpleasant characters.

He had seemed nice though, or at least polite. He had tried his best to comfort her even while saying the most disturbing things. Maybe she had been a demon like that. Maybe she had been fighting for a just cause against the Yomi. He did sound like a dictator. Of course now she wouldn't ever be able to fight him again, if she did she doubted that she'd be as lucky as the first time.

Or could she…. A thought had just occurred to her. From what Kurama had told her demons seemed to be much stronger then humans, maybe if she managed to change into her demon form she would be stronger! She concentrated hard on changing her body, but nothing happened. It was like the time she had tried to bend a spoon, all she ended up with was a perfectly straight spoon and a headache. It was no use, how had Kurama make it look so easy?

Trying to change forms did do one thing however, it cleared her mind, and then, with her book still clutched in her hands, she was finally able to sleep.

The next morning she was woken up by a loud knock at the door.

"You awake!" Shouted an unfamiliar voice, it sounded like that of an old woman. Alyssa groaned in reply.

"Good," The door slammed open to reveal a short old woman looking rather displeased, "Your training start today."

"Training?" Alyssa muttered sleepily, "What training?"

"Do you seriously expect to fight off one of Yomi's best warriors as you are now?" She said sternly, "Now get out of bed, clean yourself up and meet me in the central courtyard in fifteen minutes. Here's a change of clothes." The old woman through her what appeared to be some sort of karate uniform. "We can't have you fighting in that skirt." Alyssa hadn't noticed before but she was still wearing long black skirt and white blouse that was her school uniform.

"Damn," Muttered Alyssa, "I hoped this whole kidnapped thing would at least let me sleep in for once."

She sighed as she half-crawled out of bed and, for the first time since she had arrived in the house, changed clothes, and stepped out into the hallway. She had planned just to head over to the central courtyard since she had no idea where a bathroom was. However she didn't know where the courtyard was either. She took a moment to pick a direction and began heading off to the right, hoping to bump into something, and she did. She had reached another hall that went on to her left and right and after much deliberating (which went something like "eeny, meeny, miney, moe) had stepped into the center of the hall. She soon found herself lying on the floor across from boy-with-to-much-hair-gel.

"I'm sorry, I guess I'll have to remember to look both ways next time," She smiled a bit as she got up.

"Yeah, whatever. Are you lost or something?" He was certainly a rude one.

"Oh, do you know the way to the central courtyard? I promised that I'd meet someone there soon." She blushed a bit, as she always did when asking for help. It always made her feel embarrassed not to know such simple things.

"I was just going there to see Genkai. Is she starting to train you already?" He asked indifferently.

"Yes, I'm really nervous though. I've only been to one self-defense class before, and I was really bad at that. I can't see how I'd ever be able to really fight anybody, especially a demon soldier. But it's weird, I'm not feeling all that scared any more. I guess it all hasn't had a chance to sink in yet. Maybe.…" Alyssa caught herself, she was blathering on again. She always did that when she got nervous, even when (like now) she was talking to complete strangers. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to go on like that."

"No problem, I wasn't listening anyway," The boy gave her a small smile. Was he teasing her? "By the way the name's Yusuke."

"Nice to meet you, I'm Alyssa," She said the words automatically. Even though it had actually been an unpleasant meeting, for her anyway. She always hated meeting people, yet she always told them it was "nice".

It turned out that if she had gone the other way it would have been a straight walk to the central courtyard. They still managed to get there on time, at least Genkai didn't say anything about them being late. However she did yell at Alyssa for trouncing around her home with her shoes on, Alyssa quickly took them off and placed them neatly near the wall. Inside she was hitting herself, she knew enough about Japan not to make that mistake. She'd never been outside her own country before though, she wasn't used to changing her habits to match a different culture. That was what made her realize it…

"Wait…. I can understand you!"

"Very observant," Said the old lady sarcastically, but it wasn't just that which caused it to sound odd.

"But…. Well…. This is Japan, and when I listen really closely I realize that your not speaking English. Is it some sort of spell?" Demons did spells, didn't they? Kurama hadn't gone into to much detail about that. Or was that elves that did spells? They really did seem kind of similar once you thought about it.

"Close enough. Hiei, you may have met. He's the short one with a scared cat on his head…"

"Sneer-boy?" Alyssa asked before she realized what she was saying. Yuske laughed at Hiei's new nickname and she blushed at the slip.

"Yes, him. He's actually put you in a type of trance. It's currently tricking your mind to hear English instead of Japanese. The same to us. However this will wear off, and will be useless if you want to go outside, so you should start learning some Japanese. "

"How do I do that?" She knew that demon energy was a force in demons, in her, that could be used in different ways, like attacking or healing someone. Kurama hadn't mentioned anything about someone being able to raise it. She thought it would just get stronger as time went on.

"You're going to take lessons and study hard, like you would when learning any other language. I thought you were supposed to be at least tolerably intelligent,"

Alyssa looked at her blankly for a few moments until she realized that her question had been misunderstood.

"No, I mean about the demon energy, how do I raise it?"

"I'm going to train you. Now you don't look like you could win a fight with a flea in your current state but after this you'll either be able to fight anyone or be dead."

Alyssa feared that the latter was entirely more likely, but decided that it was probably just a joke as she listened closely while Genki explained a stretching exercise. Yuske sat in the back watching as the girl clumsily followed his teacher. Could she ever have been able to take on an army? At this rate her future looked bleak, what could have Koenma been thinking with this mission?

So sorry for the long time between updates, I was away this week, and I was having some trouble writing this chapter before that. But I hope you like it despite my difficulties. Next time you may actually learn what the mission is, and what the reason of Kane's rebellion was. I'll try to have it up faster then this one. Please review with you comments, questions, ect. Drive safely!