Koenma gave a bored sigh as he stamped his papers. Maybe he should go for a vacation…
"Koenma sir! A very important report just came in! I think you should read it!"
Koenma gave an indifferent look at the frantic blue ogre. Calmly snatching the piece of paper from the ogre, his eyes lazily scanned through the content.
The ogre watched as the young lord's mouth fell open. The bright blue pacifier hung at the edge of his mouth, threatening to fall any minute.
"Bu-but! Kira-" Koenma stuttered, unable to finish his sentence.
"Ogre! Get Botan to get me the spirit detectives!"
Kira grumbled angrily as she stomped out of the classroom. Shooting a death glare at the teacher behind her, she stuck her tongue out at his back when he turned.
"Stupid Katashi. The one day I decided to attend his class he decided to throw me out. Bloody hell." The annoyed girl cursed in several languages as she walked up to the roof.
Kira sighed in relief when she reached the roof. Settling down comfortably, her eyes lazily glanced at the courtyard below.
"Guess Hiei don't enjoy Katashi's classes either." She mused as she watched a black figure flitted through a couple of trees before landing before her.
"Hello Hiei." She said calmly and closed her eyes. A few seconds later, one eye peeked open when she felt his fingers traced the mark.
"…Are you regretting it?" Kira asked softly, her eyes searching his stoic face for an answer.
"Hn…"
Kira refrained the urge to growl with frustration. Damn him and his 'hn's! Couldn't he just give her a straight answer!
What he said next was nothing she expected, but the words shot straight through her heart.
"You should find a way to remove the mark. I'm not good enough for you. I'm a forbidden child, I don't deserve you as a mate." Getting ready to leap off, his head lowered slightly and he muttered softly, even though Kira heard it clearly.
"I understand if you don't share the feelings I have for you Kira…"
There was a loud smack as Kira brought her hand angrily across Hiei's face. Hiei's eyes filled with shock as he stared back at her, one hand slightly touching his stinging cheek.
"Idiot! You honestly think I will just let you go like that!" Kira glared at Hiei before leaping forward and hugging him tightly.
"You're stuck Hiei Jaganshi. I don't care if you are the forbidden child. I don't give a damn if you think you don't deserve me. Cause you're stuck, stuck with me. And you aren't escaping anytime soon."
Kira's lips curved slightly into a smile as she felt Hiei hesitantly returned the hug, bringing his arms around her. Her worries about a future with Hiei disappeared as she burrowed her head into his chest.
Hiei's feature took on a slightly content look before it turned into a skeptical look as he pulled Kira slightly away from him and looked at her in her eyes. "Hn. Do you mean it?"
Kira cocked her head slightly at him before pressing her lips against him. She broke the contact a few seconds later and smiled slightly at the dazed look in his eyes.
"Does that answer your question?"
"Hn." Hiei's face relaxed into a content look once more and he looked down at the smiling wolf in his arms.
"That was so touching!" Yusuke fake-bawled and pretended to dab at his eyes for tears.
Kuwabara didn't bother to hide his laughter; he started laughing at the two of them straight out, pointing and chuckling at them.
Keiko tried to hide her giggles behind her hands; her brown eyes twinkled with amusement at the two.
Hiei growled before disengaging himself from Kira. He slowly unsheathed his katana and muttered one word.
"Run."
Kira and Keiko watched in amusement as Kuwabara and Yusuke quickly took off, trying to escape the fire apparition's wrath.
"They really should try out for the track team." Kira mused out loud as she watched Yusuke and Kuwabara ran frantically.
"I'll say! Hello girls!" The bubbly grim reaper spoke up behind the two girls cheerfully.
"Hey Botan." Kira and Keiko spoke up simultaneously, eyes still kept on the three running figures.
"Kira, Koenma wants to see all of the detective. I need to go get Kurama, can you please round up these idiots for me?" Botan happily rattled on and opened a portal beside Kira. "This portal leads directly to Koenma's office. Thanks!" With that, Botan grinned at them before materializing her oar and flying off to find Kurama.
"…Right." Kira muttered after a short pause. "Hey children! Toddler wants to see us!"
The three of them abruptly stopped. Hiei immediately scowled at the thought of seeing Koenma, Yusuke gave an annoyed look while Kuwabara had an inquisitive look on his face.
"Who wants to bet it is another damn villain who wants to take over the world?" Yusuke grumbled as he passed Kira and walked into the portal.
"I bet he's partly insane like the others as well." Kuwabara muttered under his breath as he followed Yusuke into the portal.
"See you Keiko." Kira grinned before stepping into the portal.
"Bye." Keiko looked amusedly as the little wolf disappeared before her head poked out of the portal again.
"Hiei, get your ass in here."
"Hn" Hiei walked slowly over to the portal, taking his own sweet time. Reaching the portal, he calmly pushed the head of the annoyed girl in before stepping in himself.
"Jerk."
Keiko giggled softly to herself when she heard the word echoed out from the portal before it closed.
"And I thought the relationship between me and Yusuke was weird."
"Well, are you going to tell us what's up instead of sitting there and twitching like an idiot?" Kira spoke up, scrutinizing the fidgeting Koenma.
"How should I put this…" Koenma muttered as he nervously sucked loudly at his binky. Taking a deep breath, the young lord decided to make it clear to his detectives.
"Do you remember the previous small cases on the rips in the Kekkai barrier?" Receiving nods of assent, Koenma continued. "Well, the person isn't really trying to open a pathway for demons to pass through. It seemed he just wanted to get our attention."
Yusuke lifted an eyebrow at the nervous toddler. "I say he succeeded."
"Yes, but that is not the point!" Koenma looked extremely frustrated. "The point is who the person is!" Koenma threw a nervous glance at Kira as he said this.
Kira narrowed her eyes at Koenma, what does this have to do with her?
"You see…the person is none other than…Raiko." Koenma flinched at the sudden intensity of the glare from Kira.
"What?" The question came out more like a threat, as Kira growled it under her breath.
"You see, when you killed Raiko, his soul never did turn up at Reikai. We merely assumed you killed him together with his soul. But this report just came in, Raiko had followed Kurama's example. He has taken refuge in a human. But unlike Kurama, he took refuge in a teenager instead of a fetus. He only recently managed to overpower the soul of the teenager he took refuge in and took over his body, hence the recent rips in the Kekkai barrier."
Kira was silent for a moment, getting over the initial shock of the return of Raiko. Glancing up at the troubled prince, she finally spoke. "That still doesn't explain how he can rip open holes in the Kekkai barrier."
"He must have manipulated someone to do that for him." Koenma said firmly. "Since we have no idea whose body he took refuge in, I want all of you to be on alert of any human with especially high spirit energy."
"What if he attacks us? Do we…" Yusuke trailed off, his question went unfinished as the rest of the people in the office looked away when they realized the fate of the human Raiko had took refuge in.
"I'm sorry, but we have no choice. We have to sacrifice the human… There's nothing I can do for the human." Koenma said softly and start shuffling a pile of paper, desperate for something to do.
Silence reigned over the office except the shuffling of papers from Koenma's desk. Finally, Koenma broke the silence with a cough and held out a piece of paper towards his detectives.
"Here, I have listed a few people with unusual spirit energy who resides near you Kira. Raiko will probably want to be as close to you as possible."
Kira took the paper without a word. Her eyes scanned down the short list of names on the paper. The rest of the detectives watched as the blue eyes widened as they stared at a spot on the paper.
"No…"
A/N: I figured most people probably want me to update quicker instead of answering reviews ne? So i decided to stop replying, hope you guys don't mind. Anyway, sorry for the terribly slow update, hope you guys enjoy this lousy AND shortchapter.
-Lene