Kit peered around the corner. No sound or anything.

It was too easy.

She strode out into the center of the room. This was the one where all the big stuff was kept. But what she was here for a tiny thing. One that would be kept in a different room.

Kit looked around for security devices. A couple cameras, nothing she couldn't sneak past.

One ear twitched.

Someone was coming. Kit flattened herself against a wall and waited. Someone, a human by the smell of him, was coming into the room. His black hair was slicked back, and he was dressed in green. Did they change the uniform for security guards?

However, the human charged up his…finger?

"Come out, Shadow Vixen. I know you're here!"

Kit remained silent. He was well informed. But not well enough. She simply slipped behind him, still in the shadows.

"If you come out now, I won't have to hurt you."

He swerved around so he would be staring right at her. If he could see her.

"I know you are there. Come out."

Finally, tired of this, Kit surfaced from the shadows.

"You have been trained well. But not well enough. Darkness cloud!"

Most likely he'd recover soon enough, but in the mean time the darkness would confuse him so bad, he would probably break a few things in the process of trying to find a sufficient source of light to banish her cloud. Meanwhile, she'd be moving on.

With a smirk, she swept to the next room.

Break

Bash. Boom. Bing. CRASH!

Hiei and Kurama both stared at where the noise was coming from.

"Okay."

"Hn. A girl putting up that much of a fight? Unlikely. The baka is probably doing it himself."

"Yes, but why? Should we investigate?"

"Hn."

"I'll take that as a yes…"

Kurama flung himself over the rail gracefully, Hiei was following close behind. Both landed on their feet and they started into the open door. Inside, they found Yusuke fighting with…a cloud of darkness?

"Yusuke."

The human had been charging up his Spirit gun and at the sound of Hiei's voice had fired. Right at Hiei, of course. When the dust settled back onto the objects around them, the darkness was gone, and Hiei was sheathing the sword he'd used to protect himself.

"Hn."

"Yusuke, what happened?"

"Shadow Vixen! She threw this cloud at me and now she's gone."

"Yusuke, you can't throw a cloud…"

"I know that, but she can apparently."

"Are you sure?"

"Yes."

"How sure?" Hiei interrupted.

"Very!"

"Okay, we'll solve this later. In the meantime, we've got to find her."

Hiei and Yusuke nod, but look over at Kurama. "You stay here."

"What? Why?"

"No reason, someone has to stay here, and there's no reason you shouldn't."

"I'm sure."

But the other two left leaving him at the door of this room. Oh yes, what friends…

Break

Near her goal, Kit got more and more cautious. The Heart was near, she could feel it. Having taken part in its creation, she would know better than nearly anyone. Everything else dulled from her senses now, except for the pulsing energy of the Heart.

Oh yes, it was near. She could almost see it. It was just around this corner. With a smirk she dashed around the last corner and nearly ran into it. Sitting on a pedestal, somewhat over shadowed by the glow, glare, and glory of the objects around it, was a rose. Not a living one of course, but a rose made of glass, filled with silver and black mist, and shining in the center was small heart shaped piece of metal. She could feel its comforting aura from here.

Carefully treading toward it, Kit placed her hand gently on it. The warm feeling she had missed for so long reminded her terribly of him, but she ignored the hard pang of sadness as she lifted the Heart from the pedestal. It still felt the same as it had 17 years ago. And now it was hers again.

Pulling a piece of dark cloth from her pocket, she carefully begins to wrap her prize. But the sound of something charging up causes her to turn. She'd been so oblivious while handling her prize, she hadn't heard anything.

"Huh? Oh, human, you got out of my cloud. Congrats. Feel like getting out of another one? What the-"

The point of a katana was barely piercing the cloth on her back, but she knew it was there. Geez, this just wasn't her day.

"Alright, Shadow Vixen, Game's over, hand it over."

Her eyes narrow from behind her mask. "Over my dead body."

The person holding the katana scoffed. "If only that could be arranged…"

She glares over her shoulder though she couldn't see anything of him. "No comments from you, shorty."

When the katana pressed a little harder in, she wondered what it was she had said. She'd only called him shorty because he reminded her of a friend of hers she'd once called shorty much to his disamusment, but always to hers. She hadn't even meant to call him that.

The human with the gun like finger chuckled. "Hey, so Kuwabara isn't the only one who calls you that, Hi-"

"Focus, Spirit Detective!"

Beneath their covering, Kit's ears twitch. "So you're a Spirit Detective, eh? Huh…No wonder you aren't wearing the security uniform."

"Heck, Lady, don't even wear my school uniform."

"Ah, rebel wanna-be. Pity…you are failing you know? Taking orders from a three-year-old… "

The human shook with anger. "All right that's enough…"

"Oh I don't think so… You see…while we were having this lovely chat, I was charging a special attack of mine… you've already seen it… or have you? How well can you see the darkness?"

Expanding from her hands the darkness cloud came again, and encompassed the whole room. She pulled away quietly from the short one with the katana. She quickly left the room. She was low on ki, so the quicker she got to the door, the better.

She slowed near the exit. She was so close now, no one, no one, could stop her…

She stepped into view of the door way, when another figure stepped out in front of her.

She resisted the urge to curse. "Geez...you people really like getting in my way don't you?" Why don't you just step aside and save me the trouble of having to dispatch you?"

This appeared to be a red-headed human. "Sorry, Can't do that. Shadow Vixen, put the treasure down, and you don't have to get hurt"

"Wannabet? I'm not putting this down, not for anything in the world

The red head sighed. "I hate it when negotiations go sour."

In his hand, a rose burst into a vine. Kit skidded backwards in shock. Another plant user? Great.

"Huh. You're going to fight me? Fine, suit yourself."

A metal katana formed in her hands, out of nowhere. Her powers being over metal as well as darkness, she could from it into whatever shape she liked. However, as she was quickly reminded, her ki was low, and she wouldn't be able to hold it very long, putting aside making a second if the first was lost. The darkness around them seemed to pull in towards the blade, hiding it from view. Not one to waste time on words when actions were needed, Kit flipped over the male's head, only to have herself pulled back down to earth again by the vine whip.

The whip lashed out and made her drop her weapon. She had Kit been the cursing type, she would have then. But before she could do anything, even run, the whip wrapped around her, starting at her waist and continuing until it had locked her arms against her sides. She was still a good distance away, maybe she could break free

Even as she struggled, she knew it was hopeless. She'd struggled many times against a similar whip, and never won. Ever.

She watched as out of the corner of her eye, the boy pulled out a small fruit-like seed. Wary of such things, having been subdued by something like this before, Kit groaned. This didn't look good. However, he just placed it on the ground and stepped back. 10 seconds later, the seed split open releasing a pink and blue mist. Suddenly, Kit felt very sleepy.

"I hate…Lul…la…bi…see…" She yawned widely." …dzzzzzzzzzzz"

She collapsed in a heap on the floor, as a fox. That's the way she usually slept. So her system automatically switched to fox form when she slept. The gas would put her out for nearly a day. The whip fell limply to the floor.

Break

Kurama scooped the little fox up in one motion. She didn't even move.

-- Hey…she's still as susceptible to that as she was a long time ago… --

- You know her? -

-- Know her? I was her fiancée! As you humans would put it. I prefer to put it this way. She was my mate. Or, should I say, is. --

- Great… How are we going to tell Koenma that.-

-- We're not… --