Risika had disappeared into the crowd. Kuwabara tried to catch her but she lost him in seconds. He fumbled around for a few minutes trying to find her but to no avail. He returned the group who was still standing in front of the theater.

"I lost her." He huffed.

"You know where she's going, idiot!" Yusuke yelled.

"If I can't catch her before she gets there, I'm not gonna be able to stop her anyway." He replied defensively.

Hiei made a sound of disgust. "She's just a normal ningen and you can't even keep up with her!" Kuwabara opened his mouth to retort, but paused and stood there with his mouth hanging open. Then he grabbed Hiei roughly by the shoulders. "Hey, you can catch her!" he cried earnestly. Hiei threw Kuwabara's hands off. "No way, baka. This is your problem. Besides, I can't just disappear in front of all these people. Koenma would have a tantrum."

"He doesn't have to know! And you can just go back behind the theater! No one's back there!" He pleaded, looking pained.

"No."

"Please?"

"No."

"Fine!" Kuwabara yelled, "See if I ever help you!"

Hiei snorted. "I'll never need you help."

"I'm sure it'll be alright Kuwabara. She probably won't even be able to get inside. Don't worry." Kurama reasoned.

- - -

"Well, that was easy." Risika said to herself as she walked into Kuwabara's room. His sister had let her in as soon as she said she was a friend of her brother's. Shizuru said she was suppose to be working tonight but had got called off early. Risika told Shizuru they'd gone to a movie but she had lost the rest of the group and had come back here to wait for them. Easy as pie.

Risika rubbed her hands together. "Now. Where should I start?"

She rummaged through some of the drawers but didn't find much. She thought of some fun things she could to with Kuwabara's underwear, but she didn't dare touch it. Nothing much on the desk either, except for some freaky looking cat figurines. Risika stood in the middle of the room, trying to spot something she hadn't noticed. She looked around and stopped when she saw the bed. She smiled, walked over to it, and lifted up the mattress a little. "Jackpot!"

There were a couple of dirty magazines and a small notebook hidden underneath. She grabbed the notebook and let the mattress fall back down. She sat down on the floor and look at the cover. "Diary" was written across the front. She smirked and opened to the first page. The first couple of pages weren't very interesting. Just about school and getting beat up by Yusuke. Kuwabara didn't write it that way, but Risika could read between the lines. After a few more pages, something caught her eye.

Dear Diary,

Yusuke's dead. He got hit by a car saving some kid. Stupid jerk died before I could beat him! Keiko and Ms. Urameshi are really upset. But he'll be back. I have to beat him! He'll be back...

'Yusuke dead?' Risika thought. He looked very much alive the last time she'd seen him. She kept scanning and stopped again when another entry caught her attention.

Dear Diary,

Yusuke's coming back! Keiko said we have to keep his body save for him. I knew the jerk would come back!...

Dear Diary,

Yusuke's some sort of detective for the Spirit World! He fights demons and stuff. I had to help him at this tournament at this old lady Genkai's. That's where I found out...

Dear Diary,

Yusuke told me about these two demons he just fought. One's not really a demon. He's a demon inside a human. His name's Kumara or something like that. He turned out to be a good guy but the other demon was really bad. He tried to turn Keiko into a demon! He almost beat Yusuke but I guess that Kumara guy came to help. Too bad I wasn't there. I woulda beat that Hiei guy into the ground!...

This was getting interesting...

- - -

"Can we go back now please?" Kuwabara whined.

"If you're that worried about it, go back yourself!" Yusuke yelled.

"I can't leave my darling Yukina!" Kuwabara argued. More than one pairs of eyes rolled at that comment. After Risika had vanished, they had gone to get ice cream and had been hanging out in the arcade for the past hour. Hiei had stayed for the lack of anything better to do. And he had rather liked the ice cream. But he was starting to get pissed. The teenage ningens were obnoxious. One girl had approached him and tried to flirt with him. He blew her off kind of harshly, so she told her boyfriend he'd been hitting on her. That fight ended very quickly but it still annoyed Hiei that he had to deal with such stupidity, and it wasn't getting any better.

"The baka may be right for once. This place is ridiculous and I'm getting sick of it." Hiei said dryly.

Kurama glanced at his watch. "It is getting late."

Yusuke scowled. "Ya bunch of party poopers." But he quit the game he was playing and they left the arcade.

No one had left the group by the time they got to Kuwabara's. They were all curious to see if Risika had managed to get inside and what kind of damage she'd done if she had. Hiei was pretty sure she had gotten in somehow. He figured if she hadn't she would have come back looking for them. He wasn't worried about Kuwabara's possessions however. The baka deserved whatever he got.

Shizuru was sitting on the couch watching TV when they came in.

"Sis! What are you doing home?" Kuwabara exclaimed.

"I got off early." she answered without turning around. "One of your friends came by. I don't know if she left or not."

Kuwabara paled. "You let her in?"

"Yeah. She was waiting in your room I think."

Kuwabara turned and headed towards his room with everyone hot on his heels. He opened the door, quickly stepping inside and everyone filed in behind him, Hiei standing in the doorway. And there was Risika, sitting on the floor, just reading an innocent book! Everything was fine! Nothing looked terrorized! And then, one by one, they saw what was written across the front and what she was reading. Keiko gasped.

Risika had kept on reading when they had all come in, but at this noise she looked up directly at Hiei. "Just a regular high school student, huh?" She stood up, placed the diary on the bed, and pushed past him. He didn't try to stop her. The front door snapped shut through the silence. After a moment Kurama spoke up.

"Kuwabara, is that your..."

Kuwabara nodded.

"Did you write down..."

He nodded again. Another moment of silence. Kurama ran his hand through his hair and cleared his throat. "OK. Hiei, you and I will go talk to her and explain what-"

"No." Hiei cut in.

"What?"

"No. It's her own fault she found out this way. She's not blaming me when she was sticking her nose where it doesn't belong."

"But-"

"I won't do it Kurama."

"This isn't about your pride Hiei," Kurama said in annoyance, "If she tells someone..."

"She won't say anything. And no one would believe her if she did."

"If she says something to Nanba? What about Koenma?"

"She may be crazy, but she's not dumb. And Koenma's dealt with it before, he can deal with it again."

"He's not gonna be happy." Kurama warned.

"He's never happy." Hiei grumbled.

Kurama almost smiled. "True enough. Alright Hiei. We'll leave it to you." Everyone relaxed.

"Hey!" Yusuke yelled from his perch on Kuwabara's bed, "I'm not a stupid punk, you bastard!"

- - -

The rest of the weekend past by very quickly and very quietly. Hiei checked on Nanba a couple of times, but he wasn't doing anything too suspicious. Hiei spent most of his time lounging around and trying not to think about the only thing he could think about.

What was he going to do now?

This whole situation was totally ridiculus. He hadn't wanted this case from the beginning, and now he might possibly have to apoligize to a ningen for something that was really her own fault. Not that he had thought of the apoligizing stuff himself, that had been Kurama's idea. Kurama had said it might be the only way to smooth things over, that girls liked when you swallowed your pride and admitted they were right. Well, that may not have been exactly what the fox had said, but that's what Hiei had gathered from the conversation.

'Stupid fox, can never just come out and say what he means.' Hiei grumbled to himself Monday morning as he was walking to school. Grumblings increased as Hiei got closer to the school building.

'What could she even be mad about? She was right the I'm not a regular student, shouldn't she be happy she was right? Then she could gloat. Grrrrr. I bet sh'ed really love that. She'd probably try to blackmail me too.' Before he knew it, Hiei was sitting in first period. He was actually early today. As the warning bell rang, kids filed into the classroom, but no Risika. The late bell rang and a few more wandered in, but Risika was still MIA. Hiei sighed in relief and growled in frustration. At least he got out of talking to her for the moment but that just meant he would have to do it later.

By sixth periond, Hiei was almost worried. 'What if she did say someting to Nanba or someone else? She couldn't be that stupid, could she?' Hiei decided he was going to end this case today, one way or another. So, after class, he headed to Nanba's classroom to stakeout the disgused demon. He hid in the classroom across the hall. Nanba kept his door open so Hiei could easily see inside. After the 60th graded paper, He was bored out of his mind. Suddenly he heard footsteps. He leaned out of the door way and saw Kazuya pass by the hallway. He glanced back at Nanba. 'Well, he's not going anywhere' Hiei sprinted down the hall.

"Hey! Kazuya!" The girl turned around, looking starteld. "Uh, hi. what's up?"

"Do you know where Risika was today?"

She looked at him quizzically. "No. Why? Is something wrong?"

"No. She just wasn't here and I was...wondering if you knew why. Later." he turned and headed back to his post.

"Bye." Kazuya called after him. She stared after him for a second then turned and headed down the maintance hallway.She paused in front of a door that said NO ADMITTANCE. After checking to make sure no one was around, she opened the door and headed down a rusty, metal staircase. When she reached the bottom, she pulled a flashlight out of her backpack. Rats scurried away when she switched it on. She started to head down a maze of corridors. It would be easy to get lost down her if you didn't know where you were going. But Kazuya knew. She stopped, having finally reached her destination, and opened a door.

Had anybody seen her when she stepped inside that room, they wouldn't of recognized her. Her face, which was usually timid and nervous, looked vicious and determined. She also seemed to have grown in stature. Her shoulders seemed broader and her stance betrayed a confidence that had not been there before. "I just saw your boyfriend." she said to a squirming figure tied up on the floor behind her. She flipped a switch and the room was bathed in light. She pulled a few itmes out of her backpack placing them on a already covered table. Then she knelt down next to her prisioner.

"He asked about you." She said, pushing a piece of hair out of Risika's face. The she put on a innocent face and said in a squeky vioce."Of course, poor little Kazuya didn't know a thing about where you could be." Grinning like a madwoman, she stood. "I can't believe I fooled the great Hiei Jaganshi. He must be getting lazy. But don't worry, the only thing he'll be getting soon is a first class ticket to the Reikai."

- - -

(FLASHBACK)

Risika ran out of Kuwabara's apartment, down the stairs, and out of the building. She kept running past the arcade and the movie theater, never stopping for a breathe. When she finally stopped, she stood at the entrance of school. She stood there panting, just staring at the building. Suddenly she noticed a light on in the science wing. "That's strange," she said to herself, putting recent events to the back of her mind, "Who would be here this late?"

Still catching her breathe, Risika headed into the building. The hallways were dark and her footsteps echoed off the linoleum. Deciding it would be safer armed, she stopped by her locker and took out the nunchuks she had stored there. She also took off her shoes and put those in her locker so her footfalls wouldn't be heard.

As she approached the science wing, she heard clanging, like the sound of glasses being tapped. "Must be coming from the chemistry room." she whispered to no one. Light spilled into the hallway from an open door. Risika stood just beside the entry. 'It's probably Nanba. That's who Hiei was stalking.' she thought, adjusting her stance. 'Take this Hiei!' she smirked and stepped into the doorway.

"Freeze!" she shouted.

"Risika?"

"Kazuya? What are you doing here?" Risika asked, lowering her weapon. Then she noticed what was on the table in front of her. Mercury, Solanum, and Mandrogora. Quicksilver, Nightshade, and Mandrake. Those were ingredients used for...Risika's eyes widened. "You're-"

But before she could finish her sentence, she was knocked down face first onto the floor.