Yes, Kai is girly. Yes, Kai loves pink. Not her fave color, which is blue, but it's up there on the list. It's only surface deep though. She loves her trendy, girly, outward appearance, but part of that is so anyone who would harm her will automatically consider her an average, helpless girl, meaning an easy kill when she shows them otherwise. Kai is physically weak and by no means a real "fighter," not by Demon standards anyway, so she has to have something to fall back on, but that will all be explained later. For now though, please don't dismiss her as a bimbo, I promise she isn't!

This chappie starts out slow, but please give it a chance. This is what the Human World looks like through a demon's POV.

For those who haven't already (if anyone) you might want to read A Little Misunderstanding right about now. You're about to find out why these two were set at about the same time... That should be coming up within the next chappie or 2 of these 2 stories.

The streets were filled with noisy humans going about their daily routines. A human child, about 3 Kairi guessed, was screaming something incomprehensible to his mother as the poor woman dragged him out of the toy store. There were many human children around here. Some with their mothers, some with older children. There was a group of them playing a game Kairi thought was called "hopscotch" on the sidewalk. The sight of these children made her smile. She liked them. They were cute. It was the older humans she worried about...

Kairi hated being around all of these grown humans. She was an old pro at the art of survival, and one of the top rules of that was to avoid humans at all costs. Every demon knew what humans liked to kill. A demon should never walk into a scenario where they were outnumbered by those creatures unless they knew they were powerful enough to kill them all. Kairi, however, knew that she wasn't powerful enough to compete with one human, she didn't have a prayer of fighting this many!

Normal humans didn't bother her. They had strength in numbers, but that was all. She was a siren, and even though her attacks were limited, she wouldn't need to do much after she'd sang her siren song. No ordinary human was strong enough to resist the love spell that song would place on them, and once the spell was cast, the target would be left as a drooling idiot, her's to do what she pleased with. She still had to fear the female humans, a siren's spell would only work on the opposite sex, leaving her defenseless if one of these women found her out. They'd sound the alarm and Yama knows how many humans would come running to kill the "evil demon" that was walking their streets.

'Just let me blend in, at least halfway, until I get to that mountain!' she silently prayed. Her friends back home had heard of the place. A famous psychic by the name of Genkai lived there. The mountains around her home were virtually free of all life, with the exception of the animals that inhabited the woodlands surrounding it. She would be safe there. No humans to kill her just for being what she was.

She continued to try and "blend in." This being her first time in the Human World, she assumed she was doing pretty good. Just a few glances from the human boys and a couple glares from the girls. That was common even back home. Reading all those human books had prepared her, somewhat, for what this place would be like.

Human things had a way of traveling back to the Demon World. Books, which were Kairi's personal favorite, clothing, technology of any kind, providing the demons didn't already have something similar that surpassed it; just about anything they could get their hands on. Demons who could find ways to get back and forth between the worlds made a pretty good living off said items, selling them to those who were not so blessed with travel options, but still wanted to know what that world was like.

Kairi had read many books from the humans. She would read anything, actually. Books could travel with a person, not like TV or billiard tables, so that had become her hobby of choice. She had read many stories by one particular human, King, Stephen King. She found him a very likable human. To her, he was as close to a God as any human could ever hope to be. She found herself wishing that this place more resembled one of his novels than it did the text books she'd read on it. It would be a lot more like home that way...

A couple hours later...

The mountain trail was getting rougher and rougher, but, she supposed she should expect that. She had been warned, after all.

Her map only went as far as the bottom of the trail. Getting to that trail, from the city she'd been transported to, was her problem. The human man that she had asked for directions had told her that the way to Master Genkai's compound was quite a journey. After hearing all the directions and seeing the mountains he'd made reference to, she had asked if it would be quicker to just hike up the backside of that mountain, making gestures to the tall, forest covered, mass of land that stood off to the east of the city.

"You're not from around here are you?" the man had asked her with wide eyes.

"Now what makes you say a thing like that?" She tried to keep as innocent a face as she could while asking this. She didn't mind telling him she was from far away, she just didn't want to admit how far away.

"Nobody could tackle that trail, miss."

"I could. Hiking is an old hobby of mine." That little hill was nothing compared to the ones back home.

"It's not just the hike you gotta worry about," the man informed, though looking at the dainty figure standing before him, he doubted that she could handle that part either. "It's the inhabitants that make it impossible."

"Inhabitants?" Her friends hadn't mentioned any of those. More humans?

"Well," he leaned in closer, lowering his voice as if what he was about to say would frighten the passersby who might overhear, in fact, he looked as if he was afraid to say the words himself, "they say that forest is infested with...demons!" With this whispered word his eyes began to search frantically around him, as if speaking of these creatures might invoke them to come down and gobble him up for telling their secrets.

"Oh really?" Kairi said, in her most skeptical voice, as she folded her arms across her chest. She was fighting the urge to say "is that all?" A grin worked it's way over her pale face. This man thought that grin meant that she considered him a superstitious fool. If he only knew...

"You think I'm crazy don't you?"

The reply came in the form of stifled giggles and a "course not," in between.

"They call that place The Dark Forest, and it's chock full of all kinds of evil things. No one who's been stupid enough to wander in has ever came back out. There's demons and ghosts and all kinds of things that wanna rip your throat out!" The man continued to try and convince the girl in front of him, but was seeming to do nothing but worsen his own fear of the place, at least that's what it looked like to him.

"So if no one ever came back, just how do people know what's in there?" She looked at the man with a very smug grin. She hated humans, but they were fun to play with.

He puzzled over this for a minute, looking at the girl's "gotcha there" expression. "Look, I don't know how to explain this to ya but everyone knows that there's bad stuff in that forest. Any idiot can tell that. Just lookin' at the place gives ya weird feelings, and don't ever walk near it at night! You can hear noises coming out of that place that would make a war vet wet his pants!"

He was right about one thing, looking at it definitely set off some weird feelings. Anyone with spirit awareness could've picked up on this strange vibe. To a human, it would seem downright horrifying, but to Kairi, it merely heightened her looming feelings of being homesick.

"So just what do these demons look like?" she asked, no longer trying to hide her amusement.

"I've never seen a real demon before, you should know that since I'm standing here!" 'Pal, you've got nooooo idea' "But they say that they're huge! They've got black, beady eyes, they say you can look in those eyes and see a stairway to Hell! And they've got claws! Like butcher knives on the end of their fingers! If one of those things grazed you it'd cut you like a sword through hot butter!" 'Keep it together, girl, you don't want to completely lose it right in his face! Just keep breathing! Don't laugh!' "And their teeth! Rows upon rows of razor sharp teeth! And they're strong enough to crunch your bones into powder! And they all eat...," Gulp "humans!"

After teasing the man a little longer about these creatures with razor teeth and those beady eyes, she had decided to get going. She had promised him she wouldn't take that shortcut through the Dark Forest, but that was only so he'd shut up and let her get going. At the foot of the mountain, there had been a fork in the road. Well, not really a fork, since there was only one road, but Kairi had seen two. The beaten path, or the shortcut.

"Ah, what the hell? I haven't got to play today," she had thought aloud as she'd started up the side of the hill that led to the forest. She was anxious to see her big brother, and that other path would've taken and additional 5 hours easy with all the twists and turns she saw on the map her pals back home had supplied her with. For a human, it would've been easy, but one giving off demon energy would have to work for it with all the traps that old lady had set for any demons that might want to build a reputation by being the one to "off" her.

She was tired of this damned mountain. She'd been hiking forever it seemed like. Although her body, well accustomed to long trips through the backwoods, wasn't tired, she wanted off this trail. She needed a change of scenery. This place was so... dull. Aside from the occasional hissing in the treetops, and whispering in the bushes, there hadn't been any excitement since she'd got here. The other demons must've sensed that she was one of them, or decided that she was too bony for them to waste their time trying to eat her. Either way, no playmates...

Until...

"Look little ones," a shrill voice said. Kairi looked around to see a pair of red lights in the trees above. No. Not lights. Eyes.

"A lost girl has been found by Baldok. Baldok shall have dinner, he shall!"

Okie dokie. A familiar face for the cartoon network watchers. What will happen when Kai runs into Yusuke's old "Pal" Baldok? Don't remember him? He's the man-bat in one of the Genkai tournament episodes. Pull out those DVDs and start rewatching...Don't be embarrassed about it lol, I had to so I could make sure to get his dialogue right. Next chappie will prolly be the end of this story so if ya like it review !