Nuema had reached the corner again. She paused and looked around before walking down the street. When she reached her house, Nuema shifted her book bag on her shoulder and walked inside.
Hiei, Kurama, and Shiei had gone into Nuema's house, courtesy of Shiei's thievery skills. Kurama had wanted to search for Nuema when she had been deemed missing, however Hiei and Shiei hadn't felt like it, and wouldn't say why he wanted to, so he had just joined them inside the house.
When Nuema had opened the door to her house, a tabby cat jumped off the couch it had been resting on and raced over to her, climbing onto her shoulder. Nuema scratched the brown, black, and white kitten between the ears.
"Hey, girl. Anything interesting happen today?"
The cat purred and then jumped to the floor, turning her head to look up at Nuema. She laid her ears back on her head and raced off, Nuema following.
The door to Nuema's room was open slightly and the kitten slipped in through the crack. Nuema pushed the door open and stood in the doorway staring at Hiei, Kurama, and Shiei.
"Hello. What are you doing in my room?" Nuema had crossed her arms and she was glaring at the boys.
The three other occupants of the room looked up at her, Kurama and Hiei flinched slightly at her glare. After a second Kurama's green eyes flashed in concern.
"Are you okay?"
The glare left Nuema's eyes as she looked at Kurama oddly, "Yes, I am fine. Why do you ask?"
Kurama shook his head and pointed to the only mirror in the room, which was barely big enough to show her face. Nuema cocked her eyebrow and walked over to the mirror and studied her face. She was shocked to see that she had paled a lot, and there were dark rings under her eyes, but she didn't show it. "Heh, your eyes are fooling you, I look fine." She closed her eyes and concentrated and looked back at the other three, she now looked fine. "Still, I would appreciate it if you all left."
"But the p-"
"We have a week to do it, come back tomorrow, 'kay?"
Kurama nodded and walked out of the room, Hiei tossed Shiei a glare and left as well. Shiei leaned against the wall of the room and watched Nuema. Nuema sighed and sat on the edge of her bed and rest her head in her hands, when she lifted her head to look at Shiei, she looked as she had a few minutes previous. Shiei smirked.
"I knew you were covering it. So tell me, what happened to you?"
"And what about you? I can see the energy traces around your face, you're masking something."
Shiei glared at Nuema and several threads of black and red energy lashed out from Shiei's face and faded away in less than a second. Shiei looked almost as bad as Nuema, but a bit better.
"I see...well, I don't know what happened to me...and why are you still here? I thought I said I wanted everyone to leave."
Shiei reached into the pocket of her cloak and pulled out a small flashy object. She tossed it to Nuema. "I thought you might like to see this."
Nuema caught the object and studied it. The object was a diamond shaped fiery red crystal with black threads clustered in the center. It felt icy cold in Nuema's hands.
"How interesting." Nuema tossed it back to Shiei. "I trust you remember how to 'open' it."
Shiei glared at Nuema and placed the elongated tips of the crystal between her index fingers and closed her eyes. She muttered something under her breath and the crystal started to glow. A voice filled the room, each word was echoed as the message was said.
"Shiei...let us see the phoenix...die."
Nuema held back a laugh. "That was incredibly stupid." She snapped her fingers, "Wait, I got something as well." She pulled a crystal similar in shape to Shiei's out of her pocket. This crystal was mainly clear, but it had a rainbow color of threads in it and felt burning hot in her hands.
She put the tips of the crystal between her fingertips and muttered a chant under her breath. The same voice filled the room with the same effect.
"...Delis...true form...or...a painful death."
Shiei scoffed, "That was even stupider."
Nuema shook her head, "Play yours again."
Shiei got ready to play her crystal again as did Nuema. When they were played together, the pauses were filled.
"Shiei, Delis, let us see the phoenix true form or die a painful death."
Nuema and Shiei looked at each other and Shiei left Nuema's house via the window in the room. 'Should I let Koenma know about this?'
'No, Shiei, I'm tired of moving all the time...'
When they had gotten far from Nuema's house, Kurama sighed. "I didn't want to say this in front of other person and Nuema, but...Koenma said we need to watch a Nuema, and a fire demon called Shiei."
Hiei stopped and looked up at Kurama. "What!" He closed his eyes and sighed, "I thought the detective still had to find that demon Delis."
"He does, but Koenma said we have to do these two cases now. I was supposed to tell you when I saw you and Yusuke is going to tell Kuwabara."
"Hn, like I care about the idiots. Did he say why we had to watch the ningen and that demon?"
"Yes he did..."
Yusuke and Kurama walked into a clearing, there was only one other person in the clearing, Koenma.
"Shouldn't Hiei and Kuwabara be here was well?" Yusuke asked as he looked around the clearing, expecting to see the other two jump out of a tree or something.
"You can tell them next time you see them."
"Okay, whatever, what's the deal?"
"I have a new case for you Yusuke. There's a human girl with fierce spirit abilities in the area, rivaling some of the lower B class demons in power, don't let that fool you though, she could probably beat you two up. Some of the lower ranking demon's have recently escaped Makai and have been hunting her and her family since she was six. I've never had the ability to send a spirit detective out to help her, until now. I'd like you to make sure she stays safe and alive, her life is very important to the survival of all three worlds."
"Really, and what is her name?"
"Nuema, I believe you have already met her under the name of Zaira. There is another demon I told to help out, but things are starting to get beyond even her and Nuema's control. You two are to help this demon out as needed."
"And her name is?"
"Shiei, she looks a lot like Hiei, they could actually be mistaken for twins, even in personality."
"Great, another Hiei...just what I needed."
"I'm counting on you Yusuke, don't mess this up, and find Delis soon, I don't want my father to find out I let an S class demon into human world."