Chapter 12: losing bad habits
"You can go outside Karuka but I'm putting up a force field to make sure you don't run." Koenma said after the brief scare from Karuka and her mood swing.
"Fine, just as long as I can get some fresh air away from all this gas being passed in here... pigs." Karuka said while swiping air in front of her nose with her hand as to push bad smells away.
"Hey! We aren't doing that!" Kuwa proclaimed.
"You may not hear it but I can and I can smell it. I'm leaving." Karuka said before exiting through the door.
*~ outside ~*
'This is bull crap. Never before have I been captured and now when I do it's by a human with a one track mind and he got lucky. Now I have to work with those two humans and two traitors. I hate karma.'
Karuka was walking in the forest seemingly to no where but stopped in front of a tree and jumped. She landed on a branch near the middle of the tall trunk and jumped again till she was as close to the top as she could be. She looked out at her surroundings of spirit world in front of her and many emotions stirred around in her gut about her previous dream and the sad situation she was in.
"Have I really sunk this low?" She asked herself out loud and to her surprise she got an answer.
"With your life, yes you have." Hiei appeared on the same branch as she was but didn't look at her.
"What? Can't I get one moment of my own before I continue my newly sad life? I already lost to a lowly ningen, now are you going to rub that in my face?" She asked him as she sat down.
"I would, if he hadn't beaten me also." Hiei said glancing down at her and watching her emotionless face.
"Obviously, since I beat you."
"If I hadn't underestimated your real power I would have won." Hiei told her.
"Well you did, and that's a weakness. You should have felt my power when I took off my cloak and I'm pretty sure that you did. You underestimated me because I'm a woman and that is sexist you stump." Karuka said proudly in his face showing him how she can fend for herself.
"Don't call me stump, you're shorter then I am. And I didn't underestimate you because you were a woman." Hiei retorted.
Karuka stood up, "then why did you lose?" She disappeared to leave Hiei with his thoughts. He looked down and watched her walk away for a new place to think. This time, he didn't follow.
*~ next day ~*
"Oh for Kami's sake! Where did Karuka sleep?" Botan said in Koenma's office with the four boys inside.
"I'm right here."
"AH!" Botan, Yusuke and Kuwabara said in unison.
"Don't do that! You're like Koenma!" Yusuke said.
Karuka huffed, "Why are we all here? If it's only for tea and conversation I'm leaving." She said in a sarcastic voice.
"Actually Karuka I have a new mission." Koenma answered.
"By the way, I didn't get a chance to ask you this before because of the horrid smells." Karuka said.
"Hey!" Kuwa yelled.
"How many of these 'missions' am I going to have to go on?"
"Well let's look at your record. Hm, plenty is all I can tell you." Koenma answered.
"Crap."
"Excuse me?"
"What do you want me to say? 'Great I can't wait'?" Karuka sneered at all the others in the room.
"What's the mission Koenma?" Yusuke finally asked.
"Hold on sir!" Botan said.
"What?"
"We never got the Santifugi Gem from Karuka!"
"Oh yes! Of course! Karuka."
"I hope you enjoy your long and painful death you ferry, because it's coming soon." Karuka said.
*Gulp*
"Karuka?"
"Here." Karuka held out her hand and a green gem appeared. She threw it to the baby Koenma.
"And the others?"
"Hmph." Karuka held out her arms to the side and a lot of artifacts fell from them.
"AH! GO CATCH THOSE!" Suddenly Ogre ran into the room trying to catch all the priceless items from hitting the floor.
"Whew." Koenma wiped the sweat from his forehead when ogre had caught all the items.
"Now! Your mission. Well, your mission is to go and kill a demon by the name of Garu. He has gone into the human world and is killing innocent civilians and stealing their money. The only problem is that he is taking their bodies so your job will be a bit harder." Koenma said.
"If that's all we have to do then fine, let's go." Karuka said.
"But you don't even know where in the human world he is." Botan reminded her.
"I don't need to with this nose."
"Aren't you going to need an eye?" Yusuke said.
"Those are my back ups. Now let's go." Karuka said while she walked out of the room caring less if anyone was following her.
*~ human world ~*
"Hm, I was right, you humans are all pigs." Karuka said while standing near a trash can in the heart of Tokyo.
"Come on, if we're gonna work together we're going to have to be nice to each others species." Kuwabara said aloud.
"I never did but I'm still here." Hiei said.
"Well if trash talking isn't going to get me out of this I don't know what will." Karuka said.
"Come on you guys, the tracker Botan gave me isn't going off so we can do whatever we want until it does. Let's have some fun!" Yusuke exclaimed while pumping his arms into the air.
Hiei and Karuka just stared.
"If you think that I'm going to follow the advice of a piece of plastic that beeps you have another thing coming. I'm going to scan the area, don't wait up." Karuka said.
"But how are you going to know who it is? He'll probably be in a human body." Kuwa asked.
"I don't give." Karuka leapt to the top of a tall building and disappeared from their sight.
"Party-pooper!" Yusuke yelled at the top of his lungs. "Come on Kuwabara! Let's go to the arcade." Yusuke and Kuwa ran off.
"Hn, stupid humans. The girl shows the first sign of intelligence and they're off wasting their small brains on 50 cents and 5 minutes of waste hazards united. I'm searching for the guy." Then Hiei disappeared and Kurama was left alone.
"Well, I guess I should be looking too." Kurama walked off to look for Garu.
*~ 20 minutes later ~*
Karuka stood atop a building at which she stopped for a moment to smell.
'If there's another demon in this city besides the three I know about I should have found him by now. His human body is covering his scent well, but one break and I'm on it. Hm, it feels interesting to have a drive like this besides stealing or murder, where I have to find the guy first. I sort of... like it. Wait! What the hell am I saying! This is probation it shouldn't be fun!' Karuka cut short her thoughts when an odd smell entered her nose.
'That's him.' Karuka went into shadow form and scaled the side of the building.
*~ about a mile away ~*
'There! I found him.' Hiei thought to himself, he leapt from his high perch at which he stood and went off in the same direction as Karuka.
*~ a little ways away ~*
'Yes, I can sense his odd demon energy. Defiantly not Hiei's or Karuka's.' Kurama sped off.
*~ arcade (a bit after Karuka, Hiei and Kurama felt the energy) ~*
*beep, beep*
"Oh, crap! I'm on the highest level and now the tracker finds him!" Yusuke yelled over all the noise in the arcade.
"Come on Kuwabara let's go!" He yelled.
"But Urameshi! I'm having fun!" Kuwabara's voice was slightly muffled since he was yelling through the window as he was riding the little mechanical horse just outside.
"That's what you've been doin' for the past half hour?!" Yusuke yelled.
He grabbed Kuwa and ran with the tracker in hand.
*~ with Karuka ~*
Karuka was walking the streets of Tokyo following the weird smell. Once she locked who it came from, she ran. Karuka chased after a woman with pearls around her neck and the woman ran into an alley so no one could see.
"Who are you? Help! Help!" The woman shouted.
"Give it a rest Garu, I know it's you." Karuka said.
"Hm, you must be a demon if you've found me then." The 'woman' said.
Then, the woman's body fell to the ground and what was produced was a tall demon with scales all over his arms and slender yellow eyes much like Karuka's when she's mad except these were reptile eyes.
"If you want to fight I'm all for it." He said.
"Good, because I've been itching for killing something since a few days ago." Karuka said while getting into a fighting stance.
Garu leapt at Karuka and she dodged quickly and appeared behind him and gave him a good kick. Garu fell forward and landed on his chest and screamed in agony as he landed on some of his spoilings tucked under his shirt.
"It seems the placement of your jewels has caused you a bit of pain huh? That's why it's better for a shadow demon, you can do this." Karuka walked over and picked up a diamond that fell from Garu's pocket and morphed it into its shadow form to hide on her body.
"Now you die." Karuka summoned her claws and began to slash at Garu till he bled to death, or so Karuka thought. Karuka began to walk off as Garu stood up ready to attack, and he did.
Garu leapt towards Karuka but before he could land a punch on her she dodged.
"So, you're still alive."
"Barely, you're stronger then I thought, I under-"
"Estimated me, of course. Dammit! Why can't anyone take me seriously?!" She outbursted.
"Maybe it's because of your short temper." A shadowy figure walked into the alley.
"Good timing Hiei. What'd you do? Start playing with the humans or get lost in a crowd of tall people?" Karuka said.
"There are more of you? Great, I was barely holding my own with the girl." Garu said.
"Couldn't take him by yourself? I expected more from you." Hiei said just to annoy her.
"I'm not done yet apparently. Though I did scratch him up pretty good, maybe you can take him now Hiei." Karuka said just to annoy him.
Karuka produced her claws again but this time she threw them at Garu and he couldn't dodge them.
"You can throw your claws?" Hiei asked.
"Actually it's more of a fling then a throw." She said before producing more. She looked to Garu who was staggering with ten claws embedded into him self.
"You're such a weak opponent, I have nothing to gain from killing you." Karuka said.
'That's why murdering and stealing was better. I had things to benefit from.'
"Did I miss all the fun?" Kurama strolled into the alley looking completely cool even though he missed half the fight.
"Okay, I see a pattern. Since you guys aren't helping any I'm going to kill this guy my self." Karuka said. She retracted her claws and leapt towards Garu at a lightning fast speed.
Karuka stopped just in front of him and punched him straight in the stomach which sent him flying into the wall behind him. His bloody body slid down the wall and his yellow eyes were wide enough to cover tehm with the palm of your hand.
"I hope you had fun watching since I had to do this all by my self. I thought you were spirit detectives or something. Don't make me do your job or you'll get too cozy and when I leave you'll be totally clueless." Then two quarreling voices came into earshot.
"Ha! We're here so Garu you better watch out or the great Kazuma Kuwabara will take you down! Huh?" Kuwabara asked as he ran into the alley to see Kurama, Hiei and a slightly bloody Karuka in front of a two dead bodies. (A/N remember the rich woman's body is there too)
"What happened?" He asked.
"You were late." Hiei said.
"And Karuka had to take care of Garu all by her self." Kurama added.
"Don't make me sound like a child Kurama." Karuka said.
"Come on, let's get back with the jewels." Kurama said as he walked over to Garu's body to take all the jewels.
*~ outside of Koenma's office ~*
"We did good didn't we?" Yusuke asked.
"We? Since when was there a 'we' in this mission? You guys were off playing your stupid human videogames." Karuka said angrily.
"Hey! I wasn't." Kuwa defended.
"Yeah, you were on the little horse outside!" Yusuke shouted as he and Kuwabara began another fight.
"Let's go inside." Kurama said while opening the door.
"Ah, done already are we? Did Karuka get a chance to help?" Koenma asked sitting behind his desk.
"Oh, I had a large chance. I was the only one fighting." Karuka answered him.
"What? You mean you took Garu all by your self?" He asked again.
"Yes, I caught his scent way before the stupid tracker caught his signal. Maybe you should consider getting new equipment Koenma." Karuka said while flipping her brown hair out of her face to look at the baby.
"Well, since the job is done we shouldn't fight over who helped or not. What is important is that Garu is dead and you have all the jewels correct?" Koenma asked once again.
"Yes Koenma, all right here." Kurama held out his hands to show many gems such as rubies and sapphires and diamonds.
"Good." Koenma took out an eye magnifier thingy to check that they were all real.
"Am I done now? I would like to leave." Karuka said.
"Yes, yes sure you can go." Karuka turned around as Koenma's hoarse voice filled her tiger sensitive ears.
"Wait! One diamond is missing!" Koenma exclaimed.
"But where could it be? I know I picked up all of the jewels he had." Kurama wondered of what could have happened but turned his head towards Hiei and Karuka.
"Guys? You didn't steal it did you?" He asked.
"I didn't which means that she did." Hiei said glaring at Karuka.
"Karuka? Did you steal the diamond?" Koenma asked.
"Well aren't we all quick to judge." She said in defense.
"Karuka?" Koenma said in more of a scornful father way.
"Humph, fine, here." A shadow moved up Karuka's arm and to her palm till a diamond was shown inside of it.
"Karuka! I can't believe you!" Koenma yelled as he ran around his desk to go retrieve the diamond.
"Why not? I mean, it was only a few days ago that I was trying to steal the Santifugi gem. You should have known better then to put me on a mission including diamonds." She said in defense again.
"You should have known better then to steal on your first mission where you knew that you were going to get caught!" Koenma yelled back.
"If I knew that I was going to get caught then why in the hell would I have stolen it? Obviously I'm not stupid, how was I to know you were counting how many diamonds had been stolen?" She said before storming out of the room.
"Well that little trick is going to cost her five more missions." He said.
"What? Five more? We could barely live through one with her. She keeps making fun of us and making the job harder." Yusuke said.
"How in the world could she make it harder to work when she was the one who was working? And besides, Hiei makes fun of you every time, you'll get used to her." Koenma said.
"How do you know?" Kuwa asked.
"Because I'll make you."
Karuka stormed back into the room with a question.
"Where the hell is my amulet?" She said. (A/N now her eyes are yellow)
"In the vault where it belongs." Koenma answered.
"It does not belong in there! The shadow amulet is supposed to be with me." Then a black and red light formed around Karuka's neck and the shadow amulet appeared.
"Oh yeah, I forgot it does that." She said looking down at it.
"What the heck! How did it escape the vaults force fields?" Koenma asked.
"When ever I lose the amulet and think of it not being there it reforms around my neck. Why? I'm not sure." Karuka answered, "The amulet belongs with me until I die. I may not like that, but that's what happens."
"Well that's a new thing about the amulet that I didn't know. Ogre? Write that down right after 'if killed all shadow demons die'." Koenma told the blue man thing.
"What? What's 'if killed all shadow demons die'?" Karuka said.
"Shouldn't you know? If you ever die and you have no offspring to give the amulet to then all the shadow demons would die." Koenma said.
"Oh that? That's not true."
"What?!"
"It's not true. That myth was made up so if a child ever gets the amulet like I did the shadow demons would lay off. They made that up to keep the amulet safe because if I die the amulet is destroyed along with the power it holds plus they wanted it to stay in the family of course. The other shadow demons would be fine if I died." The whole room went bug eyed at that.
"Uh? Sir? Should I uh... write that down?" The ogre asked.
"Yes, erase the other thing and replace it with that."
"Weird, it seems the myth carried on to everyone except the shadows." Karuka said.
"What does that mean?" Kuwa asked.
"I've been in several fights for the amulet before with demons who didn't know of the true way to fight a shadow fight so they didn't know the myth."
"Well, at least we don't have to worry about killing a whole demon race now." Hiei said from his spot at the window sill.
"Now, since all of that is cleared up I'm leaving... again." Karuka said mentally laughing at all of them for believing the myth that was originally created to fool her shadow brethren.
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"You can go outside Karuka but I'm putting up a force field to make sure you don't run." Koenma said after the brief scare from Karuka and her mood swing.
"Fine, just as long as I can get some fresh air away from all this gas being passed in here... pigs." Karuka said while swiping air in front of her nose with her hand as to push bad smells away.
"Hey! We aren't doing that!" Kuwa proclaimed.
"You may not hear it but I can and I can smell it. I'm leaving." Karuka said before exiting through the door.
*~ outside ~*
'This is bull crap. Never before have I been captured and now when I do it's by a human with a one track mind and he got lucky. Now I have to work with those two humans and two traitors. I hate karma.'
Karuka was walking in the forest seemingly to no where but stopped in front of a tree and jumped. She landed on a branch near the middle of the tall trunk and jumped again till she was as close to the top as she could be. She looked out at her surroundings of spirit world in front of her and many emotions stirred around in her gut about her previous dream and the sad situation she was in.
"Have I really sunk this low?" She asked herself out loud and to her surprise she got an answer.
"With your life, yes you have." Hiei appeared on the same branch as she was but didn't look at her.
"What? Can't I get one moment of my own before I continue my newly sad life? I already lost to a lowly ningen, now are you going to rub that in my face?" She asked him as she sat down.
"I would, if he hadn't beaten me also." Hiei said glancing down at her and watching her emotionless face.
"Obviously, since I beat you."
"If I hadn't underestimated your real power I would have won." Hiei told her.
"Well you did, and that's a weakness. You should have felt my power when I took off my cloak and I'm pretty sure that you did. You underestimated me because I'm a woman and that is sexist you stump." Karuka said proudly in his face showing him how she can fend for herself.
"Don't call me stump, you're shorter then I am. And I didn't underestimate you because you were a woman." Hiei retorted.
Karuka stood up, "then why did you lose?" She disappeared to leave Hiei with his thoughts. He looked down and watched her walk away for a new place to think. This time, he didn't follow.
*~ next day ~*
"Oh for Kami's sake! Where did Karuka sleep?" Botan said in Koenma's office with the four boys inside.
"I'm right here."
"AH!" Botan, Yusuke and Kuwabara said in unison.
"Don't do that! You're like Koenma!" Yusuke said.
Karuka huffed, "Why are we all here? If it's only for tea and conversation I'm leaving." She said in a sarcastic voice.
"Actually Karuka I have a new mission." Koenma answered.
"By the way, I didn't get a chance to ask you this before because of the horrid smells." Karuka said.
"Hey!" Kuwa yelled.
"How many of these 'missions' am I going to have to go on?"
"Well let's look at your record. Hm, plenty is all I can tell you." Koenma answered.
"Crap."
"Excuse me?"
"What do you want me to say? 'Great I can't wait'?" Karuka sneered at all the others in the room.
"What's the mission Koenma?" Yusuke finally asked.
"Hold on sir!" Botan said.
"What?"
"We never got the Santifugi Gem from Karuka!"
"Oh yes! Of course! Karuka."
"I hope you enjoy your long and painful death you ferry, because it's coming soon." Karuka said.
*Gulp*
"Karuka?"
"Here." Karuka held out her hand and a green gem appeared. She threw it to the baby Koenma.
"And the others?"
"Hmph." Karuka held out her arms to the side and a lot of artifacts fell from them.
"AH! GO CATCH THOSE!" Suddenly Ogre ran into the room trying to catch all the priceless items from hitting the floor.
"Whew." Koenma wiped the sweat from his forehead when ogre had caught all the items.
"Now! Your mission. Well, your mission is to go and kill a demon by the name of Garu. He has gone into the human world and is killing innocent civilians and stealing their money. The only problem is that he is taking their bodies so your job will be a bit harder." Koenma said.
"If that's all we have to do then fine, let's go." Karuka said.
"But you don't even know where in the human world he is." Botan reminded her.
"I don't need to with this nose."
"Aren't you going to need an eye?" Yusuke said.
"Those are my back ups. Now let's go." Karuka said while she walked out of the room caring less if anyone was following her.
*~ human world ~*
"Hm, I was right, you humans are all pigs." Karuka said while standing near a trash can in the heart of Tokyo.
"Come on, if we're gonna work together we're going to have to be nice to each others species." Kuwabara said aloud.
"I never did but I'm still here." Hiei said.
"Well if trash talking isn't going to get me out of this I don't know what will." Karuka said.
"Come on you guys, the tracker Botan gave me isn't going off so we can do whatever we want until it does. Let's have some fun!" Yusuke exclaimed while pumping his arms into the air.
Hiei and Karuka just stared.
"If you think that I'm going to follow the advice of a piece of plastic that beeps you have another thing coming. I'm going to scan the area, don't wait up." Karuka said.
"But how are you going to know who it is? He'll probably be in a human body." Kuwa asked.
"I don't give." Karuka leapt to the top of a tall building and disappeared from their sight.
"Party-pooper!" Yusuke yelled at the top of his lungs. "Come on Kuwabara! Let's go to the arcade." Yusuke and Kuwa ran off.
"Hn, stupid humans. The girl shows the first sign of intelligence and they're off wasting their small brains on 50 cents and 5 minutes of waste hazards united. I'm searching for the guy." Then Hiei disappeared and Kurama was left alone.
"Well, I guess I should be looking too." Kurama walked off to look for Garu.
*~ 20 minutes later ~*
Karuka stood atop a building at which she stopped for a moment to smell.
'If there's another demon in this city besides the three I know about I should have found him by now. His human body is covering his scent well, but one break and I'm on it. Hm, it feels interesting to have a drive like this besides stealing or murder, where I have to find the guy first. I sort of... like it. Wait! What the hell am I saying! This is probation it shouldn't be fun!' Karuka cut short her thoughts when an odd smell entered her nose.
'That's him.' Karuka went into shadow form and scaled the side of the building.
*~ about a mile away ~*
'There! I found him.' Hiei thought to himself, he leapt from his high perch at which he stood and went off in the same direction as Karuka.
*~ a little ways away ~*
'Yes, I can sense his odd demon energy. Defiantly not Hiei's or Karuka's.' Kurama sped off.
*~ arcade (a bit after Karuka, Hiei and Kurama felt the energy) ~*
*beep, beep*
"Oh, crap! I'm on the highest level and now the tracker finds him!" Yusuke yelled over all the noise in the arcade.
"Come on Kuwabara let's go!" He yelled.
"But Urameshi! I'm having fun!" Kuwabara's voice was slightly muffled since he was yelling through the window as he was riding the little mechanical horse just outside.
"That's what you've been doin' for the past half hour?!" Yusuke yelled.
He grabbed Kuwa and ran with the tracker in hand.
*~ with Karuka ~*
Karuka was walking the streets of Tokyo following the weird smell. Once she locked who it came from, she ran. Karuka chased after a woman with pearls around her neck and the woman ran into an alley so no one could see.
"Who are you? Help! Help!" The woman shouted.
"Give it a rest Garu, I know it's you." Karuka said.
"Hm, you must be a demon if you've found me then." The 'woman' said.
Then, the woman's body fell to the ground and what was produced was a tall demon with scales all over his arms and slender yellow eyes much like Karuka's when she's mad except these were reptile eyes.
"If you want to fight I'm all for it." He said.
"Good, because I've been itching for killing something since a few days ago." Karuka said while getting into a fighting stance.
Garu leapt at Karuka and she dodged quickly and appeared behind him and gave him a good kick. Garu fell forward and landed on his chest and screamed in agony as he landed on some of his spoilings tucked under his shirt.
"It seems the placement of your jewels has caused you a bit of pain huh? That's why it's better for a shadow demon, you can do this." Karuka walked over and picked up a diamond that fell from Garu's pocket and morphed it into its shadow form to hide on her body.
"Now you die." Karuka summoned her claws and began to slash at Garu till he bled to death, or so Karuka thought. Karuka began to walk off as Garu stood up ready to attack, and he did.
Garu leapt towards Karuka but before he could land a punch on her she dodged.
"So, you're still alive."
"Barely, you're stronger then I thought, I under-"
"Estimated me, of course. Dammit! Why can't anyone take me seriously?!" She outbursted.
"Maybe it's because of your short temper." A shadowy figure walked into the alley.
"Good timing Hiei. What'd you do? Start playing with the humans or get lost in a crowd of tall people?" Karuka said.
"There are more of you? Great, I was barely holding my own with the girl." Garu said.
"Couldn't take him by yourself? I expected more from you." Hiei said just to annoy her.
"I'm not done yet apparently. Though I did scratch him up pretty good, maybe you can take him now Hiei." Karuka said just to annoy him.
Karuka produced her claws again but this time she threw them at Garu and he couldn't dodge them.
"You can throw your claws?" Hiei asked.
"Actually it's more of a fling then a throw." She said before producing more. She looked to Garu who was staggering with ten claws embedded into him self.
"You're such a weak opponent, I have nothing to gain from killing you." Karuka said.
'That's why murdering and stealing was better. I had things to benefit from.'
"Did I miss all the fun?" Kurama strolled into the alley looking completely cool even though he missed half the fight.
"Okay, I see a pattern. Since you guys aren't helping any I'm going to kill this guy my self." Karuka said. She retracted her claws and leapt towards Garu at a lightning fast speed.
Karuka stopped just in front of him and punched him straight in the stomach which sent him flying into the wall behind him. His bloody body slid down the wall and his yellow eyes were wide enough to cover tehm with the palm of your hand.
"I hope you had fun watching since I had to do this all by my self. I thought you were spirit detectives or something. Don't make me do your job or you'll get too cozy and when I leave you'll be totally clueless." Then two quarreling voices came into earshot.
"Ha! We're here so Garu you better watch out or the great Kazuma Kuwabara will take you down! Huh?" Kuwabara asked as he ran into the alley to see Kurama, Hiei and a slightly bloody Karuka in front of a two dead bodies. (A/N remember the rich woman's body is there too)
"What happened?" He asked.
"You were late." Hiei said.
"And Karuka had to take care of Garu all by her self." Kurama added.
"Don't make me sound like a child Kurama." Karuka said.
"Come on, let's get back with the jewels." Kurama said as he walked over to Garu's body to take all the jewels.
*~ outside of Koenma's office ~*
"We did good didn't we?" Yusuke asked.
"We? Since when was there a 'we' in this mission? You guys were off playing your stupid human videogames." Karuka said angrily.
"Hey! I wasn't." Kuwa defended.
"Yeah, you were on the little horse outside!" Yusuke shouted as he and Kuwabara began another fight.
"Let's go inside." Kurama said while opening the door.
"Ah, done already are we? Did Karuka get a chance to help?" Koenma asked sitting behind his desk.
"Oh, I had a large chance. I was the only one fighting." Karuka answered him.
"What? You mean you took Garu all by your self?" He asked again.
"Yes, I caught his scent way before the stupid tracker caught his signal. Maybe you should consider getting new equipment Koenma." Karuka said while flipping her brown hair out of her face to look at the baby.
"Well, since the job is done we shouldn't fight over who helped or not. What is important is that Garu is dead and you have all the jewels correct?" Koenma asked once again.
"Yes Koenma, all right here." Kurama held out his hands to show many gems such as rubies and sapphires and diamonds.
"Good." Koenma took out an eye magnifier thingy to check that they were all real.
"Am I done now? I would like to leave." Karuka said.
"Yes, yes sure you can go." Karuka turned around as Koenma's hoarse voice filled her tiger sensitive ears.
"Wait! One diamond is missing!" Koenma exclaimed.
"But where could it be? I know I picked up all of the jewels he had." Kurama wondered of what could have happened but turned his head towards Hiei and Karuka.
"Guys? You didn't steal it did you?" He asked.
"I didn't which means that she did." Hiei said glaring at Karuka.
"Karuka? Did you steal the diamond?" Koenma asked.
"Well aren't we all quick to judge." She said in defense.
"Karuka?" Koenma said in more of a scornful father way.
"Humph, fine, here." A shadow moved up Karuka's arm and to her palm till a diamond was shown inside of it.
"Karuka! I can't believe you!" Koenma yelled as he ran around his desk to go retrieve the diamond.
"Why not? I mean, it was only a few days ago that I was trying to steal the Santifugi gem. You should have known better then to put me on a mission including diamonds." She said in defense again.
"You should have known better then to steal on your first mission where you knew that you were going to get caught!" Koenma yelled back.
"If I knew that I was going to get caught then why in the hell would I have stolen it? Obviously I'm not stupid, how was I to know you were counting how many diamonds had been stolen?" She said before storming out of the room.
"Well that little trick is going to cost her five more missions." He said.
"What? Five more? We could barely live through one with her. She keeps making fun of us and making the job harder." Yusuke said.
"How in the world could she make it harder to work when she was the one who was working? And besides, Hiei makes fun of you every time, you'll get used to her." Koenma said.
"How do you know?" Kuwa asked.
"Because I'll make you."
Karuka stormed back into the room with a question.
"Where the hell is my amulet?" She said. (A/N now her eyes are yellow)
"In the vault where it belongs." Koenma answered.
"It does not belong in there! The shadow amulet is supposed to be with me." Then a black and red light formed around Karuka's neck and the shadow amulet appeared.
"Oh yeah, I forgot it does that." She said looking down at it.
"What the heck! How did it escape the vaults force fields?" Koenma asked.
"When ever I lose the amulet and think of it not being there it reforms around my neck. Why? I'm not sure." Karuka answered, "The amulet belongs with me until I die. I may not like that, but that's what happens."
"Well that's a new thing about the amulet that I didn't know. Ogre? Write that down right after 'if killed all shadow demons die'." Koenma told the blue man thing.
"What? What's 'if killed all shadow demons die'?" Karuka said.
"Shouldn't you know? If you ever die and you have no offspring to give the amulet to then all the shadow demons would die." Koenma said.
"Oh that? That's not true."
"What?!"
"It's not true. That myth was made up so if a child ever gets the amulet like I did the shadow demons would lay off. They made that up to keep the amulet safe because if I die the amulet is destroyed along with the power it holds plus they wanted it to stay in the family of course. The other shadow demons would be fine if I died." The whole room went bug eyed at that.
"Uh? Sir? Should I uh... write that down?" The ogre asked.
"Yes, erase the other thing and replace it with that."
"Weird, it seems the myth carried on to everyone except the shadows." Karuka said.
"What does that mean?" Kuwa asked.
"I've been in several fights for the amulet before with demons who didn't know of the true way to fight a shadow fight so they didn't know the myth."
"Well, at least we don't have to worry about killing a whole demon race now." Hiei said from his spot at the window sill.
"Now, since all of that is cleared up I'm leaving... again." Karuka said mentally laughing at all of them for believing the myth that was originally created to fool her shadow brethren.
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