Aaaaah! It's been so long, I'm so sorry. I meant to have at least gotten into the plot by now, I'm so bad. You've probably all gotten bored and stopped reading by now. I'm so selfish to make you wait just because I didn't feel like writing. I'M SOOOOORRRRRRRRRRRYYYY! To make up for it you get to see Alyssa's demon form this time!

The more I write the more I realize how overdone this idea is. I don't read a lot of fan fiction, but even I know that. I just hope that this is at least slightly different then normal, if only because of the author's uncertainty about whether or not it's a Mary Sue. So now Alyssa gets to go to the store with Hiei. It's her first excursion in a foreign country with a stranger. How will she handle it? (I love pointless questions.)

On yet another note I was thinking about a Fruits Basket/YYH crossover after this, but I wanted some input to know if it's a good idea or not. Hanajima (the psychic) would get kidnapped by a demon who wants to use her power.) I really would just like for Yusuke to meet Kyo. Now on with the show!

Allysa and Hiei walked silently down the street to the convenience store. It was a very uncomfortable silence. Alyssa wanted to say something, but she didn't know what. She wondered what made some silences so obviously awkward, or scary, or peaceful. Shouldn't all absences of sound be the same? She guessed that it was just how you felt at the time. Hiei might have taken the silence as a calm one. She didn't want to break the silence if he didn't feel like talking, but she also didn't want to seem unsocial. They reached the convenience store before she could make up her mind.

Hiei stood near the door as Alyssa went to the back to get the milk. It had been a few minutes and Hiei was beginning to wonder if the idiot had gotten herself lost when he heard a loud scream. He rushed to the sound; he knew the stupid girl would find a way to get herself in trouble.

When he reached her she was just starting to pick up a toppled display of Pocky.

"Look," She said with an embarrassed grin, "There's a cheesecake flavor!"

Hiei gave her a very annoyed glare, "What did you do?" His voice was flat.

Alyssa quickened her Pocky picking-up pace, "I was thinking and I wasn't really looking where I was going, so I bumped into it,"

Hiei only made a small "hn". So Alyssa asked, "Do you like Pocky? Or cheesecake?"

"Stupid human food," He scoffed.

"What?" Alyssa was confused for a second before she remembered Hiei was a demon. He looked so human it was easy to forget, "Oh, yeah. What kind of foods do demons eat?"

"Depends on the demon. Many eat souls or raw human flesh," He laughed slightly. Alyssa really hoped it was because he was joking.

She paid for the milk, carefully counting out the coins and bills, squinting at the little numbers to see which ones were which. In the end the cashier, a pleasant looking elderly woman, helped her out. A bell jingled as they left the store.

"That's odd," Voiced Alyssa, "I don't remember a bell when we came in."

Hiei suddenly seemed tense, "A demon," He explained as he grabbed his sword, "Get back inside," But it was already too late, the demon was blocking the door.

If it hadn't been for her pointy ears and the light green hair she wore pulled back into a bun Alyssa would never have guessed that she wasn't human. She was wearing jeans and a loose t-shirt with the name of a popular band emblazoned on the front. Around her neck was a collar with a small bell dangling loosely from it. She smiled widely at Alyssa.

"It's been quite a while Kane, though you seem so much weaker then before, it's disappointing," The stranger pretended to pout, "I suppose time among the humans does that to demons,"

"What do you want," Hiei shoved Alyssa out of the way to face the demon, though that was difficult as she was about two feet taller then him.

"Why to kill Kane of course. But I really can't see how I can do it now. It would be like murdering an infant, and even I'm above that," She spoke with the dramatic flair of someone who considers the world to be there for their private entertainment. "No, I'll definitely have to fix that," Then, with speed that even Hiei couldn't match she grabbed Alyssa by the jaw, shoved something down her throat, jumped up, and took off across the rooftops.

"Your body will return in a day and your mind in a week. No need to thank me." She yelled as she fled.

Hiei wanted to go after her but knew that he couldn't leave Alyssa alone. She'd probably find some way to get run over, even though the store was on the same side of the street as Genkai's temple. The demon would come back, and then he'd get his chance.

Alyssa seemed much shaken by the whole ordeal. What the woman had meant, her mind would return. She must have meant Kane's mind. Alyssa didn't want that. It had been okay knowing that she'd have a new body (she didn't much like the old one), but a whole new mind? Would she even be her anymore? She barely realized when they'd made it back to the temple.

Hiei left her in the doorway as he went to find someone. He wasn't sure what was wrong with her. Had the demon actually poisoned her? Even she couldn't be weak enough to be sent into shock by just seeing a demon, could she? Though he didn't see why he found it surprising. All these humans seemed to be paralyzed with fear. He could tell just be watching their news programs, always warning of one thing or another. They talked about making the world "safer", while condoning war. Why couldn't they just accept that their world was awful instead of trying to change things all the time? But… wasn't that what he was doing here, with the Spirit Detectives?

"Hn," He said to himself, banishing the thought from his mind, "It's not like I want to help them."

"What are you mumbling about Hiei?" Genkai called.

Meanwhile Alyssa was beginning to calm down. Maybe someone here would be able to stop her from changing. It was like a poison, wasn't it? Most poisons had antidotes, didn't they? She asked herself. Then she got an idea. It hadn't been so long since she'd swallowed it; couldn't she just puke it up?

Alyssa ran to the bathroom and looked through the medicine cabinet; she began looking at all the labels and realized that she couldn't read any of them. Well she'd just have to induce vomiting the old fashioned way. She stuck her finger down her throat and hoped that actually worked.

Hiei led Genkai to the spot where he had left Alyssa. To his annoyance she wasn't there.

"I can't believe you left her unattended like that." Genkai fumed at his oversight, "If she was a shaken by the experience as you said who knows where she could have gone!"

Luckily no grand search was needed for Alyssa soon made her location known, by way of some very sickening noises coming from the direction of the bathroom. The pair rushed to the noises and found Alyssa leaning over the toilet with tears running down her face.

"It won't work. It doesn't come up." She sobbed.

Hiei looked puzzled, so Genkai explained, "She must have tried to expel whatever it was that demon gave her. It was a good idea, pity it didn't work."

"But what do I do now?" She was hiccupping so bad they could barely make out her words. "I can't just become a different person in a week. It won't really work. How can it!"

"Hiei, fetch Kurama. He might be able to find an antidote. I'll stay here and look after the girl."

Hiei left immediately to find the fox. Genkai turned to the sobbing mess on the floor.

"Get up," She said coldly. Alyssa just stared at her.

"I said get up." There was an edge to her voice. "We're not helping you so you can drown yourself in pity like some nitwit adolescent who just got dumped on prom night. Now get up!"

This time Alyssa obeyed. Grasping the sink for balance she pulled herself up shakily. Tears were still streaming down her face.

"Now go to you room, dry off your face, and stop crying! We can't find a way to help you if your to busy with you pity party to help yourself."

Alyssa did what she was told, though with some difficulty. She stumbled on the way to her room, and could barely see enough through her tears to grab a dirty shirt off the ground. She tried to wipe away the tears, but more came. She felt so useless because of it, but she couldn't stop crying. She did eventually of course, and it was such an odd thought that even she didn't fully understand why it made her feel at peace.

It was something a girl had said to her in grade school, on Halloween when everyone came in their costumes. Alyssa had come as a little devil. One of the girls had made fun of her and called her a demon. Alyssa had said, "It's just a costume. Geez. Besides, I'm a devil, not a demon. So there."

It was a sad bit of irony that the girl had been right. Somehow this calmed her. This little bit of cosmic chance made of everything just a little easier to deal with. Alyssa took some deep breaths and decided that whatever happened, would happen. She'd try her best to keep from losing herself, but if she couldn't then she couldn't, and that was something she would just have to accept.

When Kurama came Alyssa gave him a feeble smile. Her face was splotchy, but one could tell that she was glad to see someone who might be able to help. Kurama smiled back warmly, but there was a hint of pity in his grin.

"I'm sorry. There's no way to reverse the drugs effects. The demon that gave it to you is known as Nesune. Her potions are legendary for there effectiveness, and her temperament just adds to her fame. I heard stories about her ever since I was a kit. Whatever she said that pill will do, it will do. If the legends are true then Nesune does not lie."

"Thank you very much for trying," Alyssa tried to sound sincere but the words were empty, as such niceties often are. She knew she should feel glad that he had tried to help, but she couldn't control how she felt.

"I just wish I could have done more," If Alyssa hadn't been so worried about the lack of sincerity in her own words she would have noticed that Kurama's words sounded just as empty as her own. While he felt some pity for the scared young girl he held no emotions guilt or sorrow at not being able to change the affects of Nesune's drug. There were much worse things that could happen to a person, and it would just be a return to her previous state. For all he knew Alyssa's current personality would still be predominate over her old demon personality. Though that seemed quite impossible. On the other hand, if anyone had asked him fifty years ago if he would ever work with humans, he would have called that impossible also. Maybe Alyssa would surprise them yet.

Immediately after Kurama left Alyssa flopped onto the bed and fell asleep. She didn't even care that she'd flopped the wrong way, so her feet were now on the pillows. She was emotionally spent after such a long cry, and a fragile calm washed over her as she slipped into a deep and dreamless sleep.

Alyssa yawned as she woke up the next morning and wondered why she was sleeping backwards. Before she could remember she saw the clock, it was 10:30. Why hadn't Genkai come to wake her up for training yet? Normally she made Alyssa get out of bed while it was still dark. Then she remembered the events of the previous day. It's nice of them to give me a chance to sleep in, she thought, surprised. Genkai didn't seem the type to let a personal crisis get in the way of training.

It wasn't until she looked into the mirror that she remembered the effects of the Nesune's pill. It wasn't her reflection staring back, or at least not the her she was used to. It was the new her, the old, old her, the demon her, Kane. She bit her tongue to fight back a scream and took several deep, deep breathes. The kind people do in yoga classes.

All in all it really wasn't so bad, some parts were a dream come true. Her muscles were perfectly toned and she had that beautiful mocha colored skin she'd always dreamed of, even though she knew she couldn't all the tanning in the world couldn't make her pale, Irish/English/other-European-countries-that-have-no-hope-of-ever-getting-a-decent-tan, skin that dark. She'd also grown at least a foot. This, combined with a smaller chest, made her old clothes fit very oddly. Clinging tightly in some places and hanging loosely in others.

Her face had also changed, but it wasn't any prettier or uglier then before, just different.

There was only one change that she really didn't like, that was the antennae on her head, and what looked like small legs coming from her back. All of these were black, double jointed, and twitched strangely when she touched them. The four legs extended as far as her elbow, but could comfortably fold up and rest against her back.

It really wasn't as bad as it could have been. Maybe Kurama, being rather stunning, had higher opinions on what was good looking then most people. (He'd said earlier that spider demons weren't very nice looking.) Or maybe that was just because of the antennae. Did spiders even have antennae. She didn't think so, but then she'd never really looked at them very hard. Maybe she would have paid more attention if she'd known that she was one.

This chapter was so hard to get all down on paper. I had to follow an actual plot and not just ramble on like I normally do. So know I'm going to tell you some behind the scenes info on Why Alyssa Needs a Psychiatrist. (Yeah, you don't care, but I feel like writing this down, so you can just skip it.)

1. The title is called The Grand Adventure for Milk because I call simple tasks that don't... go as planned (i.e. are horribly messed up) Grand Adventures. This is part of a futile attempt at being optimistic. Obviously it's not working very well.

2. There is actual cheesecake Pocky. I got the "going to the store" idea because I wanted to mention it in here. My friend got some when she visited Japan. She said it had a nutty flavor, which seems like an odd thing for cheesecake to taste like.

3. At first Genkai was going to comfort Alyssa, but then I realized that it didn't seem like something Genkai would do. While I was glad I caught this, I've probably made many similar mistakes with the characters before. sigh Well, I'm trying my best.

4. Nesune's appearance came effortlessly into my mind, but her name did not. Like Alyssa and Kane I didn't realize that she needed a name until it came time to write it. First I was going to call her Queen Mab, but I don't know anything about the legends of the fairy queen, so I nixed that idea. I ended up using a random word generator on the internet, came up with unseen, and messed with the letters to get Nesune. I googled the name and it appears to be a character in a fantasy book series called Wheel of Time. I wonder if the author came up with the name the same way. (I doubt it.)

5. No, spiders do not have antennae. I realized this soon after I thought up that design for Kane. (She went through a few before that.) However I thought that they were kind of needed, if for nothing else then for something for her to poke at when she gets bored. I'd also like to point out a few more things about the Alyssa-Kane change.

A. I took a route of traditional Mary -Sue fan-fics and had Alyssa live out a personal dream of mine with the change of skin color. But I think she's earned one dream fulfillment, because it's only going to get worse for her from here.

B. Alyssa's bra size actually went down when she turned into Kane. Making her an oddity among female, transforming, anime-style characters, though hopefully not alone.

Thank you for sitting through this boring, lecture on the creation of WAWAP. (If you didn't read it, that's okay also.) Please read and review with comment, constructive criticism, and maybe even praise if by some strange bit of fate you enjoyed the story. No flames, I know it's not that good, but they make Alyssa (and often me) cry.