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Chapter 16 – Piecing it Together

Crying it doesn't matter anymore. The past creeps through my skin. I try to run and hide, but I can't. "As I sit here in this hallow darkness, I remember my past so willingly. Sometimes I try not to remember, but forgetting is only drowning your soul in guilt….."

They all looked up at Syria waiting for her explanation. She sighed and began, "I grew up pretty normal until the time my mother died when I was 5. Sashi was his name. He murdered her on that night, I remember it clearly. After she died, well things weren't the same for me. Later on in my life I learned Sashi had been after my parents for quite sometime, but nothing more. Later my brother Sakio was murdered by him as well as I watched him stab him and push him into the river and down the waterfall, the same one I survived when Kurama and Hiei found me. Things in general sucked shit and many people hated me because I hardly talked. Couple times my school sent me to a councilor thinking I needed serious help. Several rumors were created about me, especially about me murdering my brother due to insane madness. I got jumped several times by various people for stupid reasons and ended up spending most of my time wishing someone would actually kill me one of these times. Until the day you all found me when Sashi tried to kill me after finding me in Voir Park. I jumped into the river and then all of this happened and now I'm a demon living in a mansion with freaks. We all live happily ever after." Syria finished.

A deep voice came out of nowhere, "But you forgot to mention her dad who always found a way to get to her."

Syria gasped, she knew that voice, she knew it! She whipped around to see her dad standing there smiling at her as he set down his suit cases. "DAD!" Syria screamed as she jumped up and ran over to him tackling him in a hug. Tears leaked from her eyes.

Her dad knelt down to her height and whipped her face, "Ay, don't start a rainstorm on me!" She laughed/hiccupped and hugged him tightly. He dad held her in his arms smiling as a sense of joy filled his face.

Syria buried her face in his chest as she muttered, "I missed you so much."

"I know, I know." He soothed as her ran his fingers through her hair gently like he always did when she was little.

Kurama beamed at the two. Everyone smiled as they watch Syria and her dad. They could see every bit of worry that she had carried released through every tear that fell from her eyes. Kurama was glad to see her joyous to the matter of her father being ok.

Knowing her father was safe was all she could ask for. He was alive. Rio was all she had and Syria was overjoyed, thankful she was able to hold him again. After a while Syria let go of him. Her dad then lifted her up on spun her around, "Wow, you've grown, not as short now!" She smiled. It had only become visible now that her father was really tall. He had reached the height of 6'2" Syria had grown to 5'5".

Suddenly, she had realized everyone was still in the room, "Oh!" She turned to face everyone had laughed slightly whipping the tear completely off of her face. An embarrassed look over came her expression. "This is my dad, Rio, and ummm….that's Kurama, Hiei, Shiro, Hirina, Kemiko, Mika, Kuwabara, Yusuke, Botan, Kiyoshi…and…that's it!" She said pointing everyone out to her dad. Another flash came in from the window. Rio Sighed, "Still going at it, damn bakas."

Botan stated happily, "Ummm…sir-"

"Call me Rio." Syria's dad stated with a smile.

Botan smiled back continuing, "Sure….ummmm….you can come with me and I'll take you up to Koenma's office to see if he can find you a room."

"Room?" Syria questioned.

Rio stated, "Ummm….I attempted to convince Koenma to allow me to stay for at least a few days to see you."

Botan nervously laughed, "More like threatened…"

Rio shrugged, "Eh well the toddler's lucky I didn't shove anything up his ass. Yep, well shall we be off Botan?"

She nodded unsurely. Syria sweat dropped.

Botan stated, "Well this way, follow me."

Syria watched Botan take him upstairs and then plopped on the ground.

"Did she faint?" Kemiko questioned. They all looked over the couch and then down on the ground to see Syria just staring up at the ceiling.

Without a word Syria shot up and walked into the kitchen. They all sat in silence not sure on what to say. After some time Kurama asked, "Should I go…"

"Yea that might be a good idea." Kiyoshi stated.

Kurama left the room and walked into the kitchen, "Syria?" She didn't respond. He look across the room to find her sticking her head in the sink as the faucet was still running dumping water all over her face. As he walked over to her he turned off the water and asked, "What are you doing?"

Syria sighed and shook some of the water off of her as she pulled her head out of the sink. He handed her a towel as she took it and whipped her face and then her hair since it was dripping water everywhere. She slid to the floor and covered her face with the towel.

"What's wrong?" Kurama asked her as he crouched down in front of her.

"This is all a running joke isn't it?" Syria asked.

Kurama questioned, "What?"

Syria explained, "All of this random shit! It's like some stupid freak show is writing out my life and having a laugh at it!" (A/N: (sweat drop) well, that wasn't very nice.)

Kurama shook his head and chuckled a little.

"What?" Syria asked miserably.

"Why so dramatic, I thought you wanted to see him." Kurama stated.

Syria exclaimed, "I am! It's just…I don't know, it doesn't all make sense!"

"What doesn't make sense? You're making a big deal out of nothing Syria. You're father came back, what's not to understand about that?"

"I still don't get everything that's going on here! Why is Sashi running after us anyway? None of this should've happened, it doesn't make sense. There's just a-"

"Huge gap between it all."

Both Kurama and Syria looked up seeing Rio standing in the doorway. "I guess I owe you the full truth…"

Syria smiled.

CRASH

Both Syria and Kurama got up. They all look towards the door.

BAM

"What the-" Syria questioned.

Suddenly they heard someone screaming from the other room, "YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS! I'M FREEEEEEEEEEE!"

They opened the kitchen door to see two BIG fuzz balls running down the stairs. As they both landed on their feet, Kurama noticed the fox as Mika and the wolf…Hirina.

Syria smirked, "She must have gotten her powers back."

Hirina tackled Mika and started biting on her tails. Mika glared and clawed at her. The wolf barked loudly and threw the fox into the wall. Rio noticed the fox's shimmering tan coat with blood red tips on the ears and tail. Detailed were the blood red eyes with a black lining around the. The wolf had thick fur mixed between various browns. Its eyes had a gold lining filled in with turquoise. Golden tips were found on the ears and extremely fuzzy tail. Small noticeable streaks of black were seen in the fur along with tiny golden tips as well.

Rio questioned, "Who are these two?"

Syria laughed, "The fox is Mika, and the wolf is Hirina. You know come to think of it, does Mika have a smaller fox form, because I've seen Hirina and Kemiko, but not Mika."

Hirina barked in response to Syria questioned she had over heard and nudged Mika. Mika nodded and then transformed into her baby fox form. She had looked adorable with her beady fox eyes that were now a light brown with a maroon mixture. Her tails were bigger then her body and her ears were fuzzy. Hirina quickly changed into her puppy form and continued the fun tackling Mika again. Mika escaped her grasp and ran under the couch and shot out underneath Hiei's feet and then through the next couch, Hirina followed. Kemiko smiled and as Mika came back again, she grabbed her by her tails stopping her. Mika tried to keep moving and attempted to pull her tails from Kemiko's grasp, but she wouldn't let go. Hirina skidded to a stop and tilted her head curious to why Mika didn't just bite her. She grew amused to Mika's never ending attempts as her tail wagged furiously. Kemiko laughed and quickly transformed into her kitten form chasing Mika as well, Rina quickly followed behind.

Kiyoshi questioned, "What is this? A fox hunt?"

"Damn straight." Shiro stated as he too quickly transformed into a puppy, though he was smaller then Hirina. The three of them chased Mika furiously; Mika turned her head and noticed that Shiro had joined the chase too. Her eyes had widened as she ran even fast darting around the room at extremely fast speed. They zipped past the end tables so fast it fell over knocking the glass tray to the ground smashing it to pieces. None of them stopped though, they just kept running. Mika hopped into Kiyoshi's lap and ran under his shirt.

Shiro clawed the floor to stop himself from running into Kiyoshi, Hirina ran into him sending them both flying across the room. Kurama caught Hirina as Rio casually grabbed Shiro keeping him from flying into the kitchen. Kemiko, however, wasn't giving up that easily, she too went under Kiyoshi's shirt and chased Mika out. Hiei glared at her. Mika crawled on top on Kiyoshi's head trying to escape Kemiko. Kemiko hissed and then jumped up talking her onto the floor behind. Hirina barked continuously cheering Kemiko on. Shiro joined in. Kemiko then dragged Mika away by biting her tails. Mika clawed the floor trying to get away as she growled, "KIYOSHI!"

Kiyoshi sighed. He got up and picked Mika up. Kemiko meowed at him and then turned back into her half demon form. "NO FAIR!"

Mika stuck her tongue out at her and crawled into Kiyoshi's shirt. Shiro hoped off of Rio and pissed on Kemiko's leg. Kemiko stared at him in shock and yelled, "YOU STUPID LITTLE!"

Shiro turned back into his regular form and asked, "What's wrong? I was just cooling you off!" A smirk came across his face. Kemiko stormed off upstairs to change her clothes.

Rio gave them all looks. But was brought back when Syria patted his back.

"Yea, that's what I thought too...when I first came here." Syria said smiling.

Everyone looked up. "HEY! WE ARE NOT FREAKS!"

"Yea...maybe if you all keep saying that to yourself...it'll come true." Syria said.

Kurama put Syria in a head lock and gave her a nuggie messing up her hair, "And you're one of us now!"

Syria yelled, "Noooo! Stop! You're messing up my hair!" Kurama chuckled.

Hiei "Hned" at all of them.

Rio gave Syria and Kurama questioning looks.

"Kurama...stop...please." Syria whispered to Kurama.

Rio began to laugh. Kurama let go of her as she asked and looked at her with a why-what's-wrong expression until he noticed her nudging towards her dad. Kurama smirked and walked over by the couch and sat down next to Kiyoshi. Syria fixed her hair up. She smiled nervously at her father.

"Kids these days." He said, walking over to an empty couch.

Syria walked over to him.

"Is he someone special?" Her dad quietly asked.

Syria couldn't stop the blush that was creeping over her cheeks.

Mika popped out of nowhere with Hirina behind the couch.

"OOOH! Is he?" Mika asked.

"I wanna know! DAMN IT MIKA DON'T BITE MY TAIL!" Hirina yelled.

"Huh?" Mika asked.

Hirina and her looked down and her tail, to see Kemiko chewing on it happily.

"GET OFF OF ME!" Hirina yelled as she began to chase Kemiko.

"I'll stay here if you don't mind me." Mika said quietly.

"Are you going to answer my question, Syria?" Rio asked.

Syria began to freak out, "Umm…"

Just then Kuwabara tripped over Kemiko and fell sending his drink flying across the room as it landed all over Rio. Everyone quickly stopped what they were doing and stared at him shocked. Kemiko nervously laughed.

Rio sighed. Suddenly he started laughing, "You all have too much fun." He smiled reassuringly. "I'll be right back; don't want to get all sticky." He then whispered to Syria, "Don't think you won't have to tell me." A smirk came across his face as he then went up the stairs. Syria sighed in relief, "Saved by the idiot."

Mika laughed, "You know he's going to be back." Syria let out a childish whine and dropped herself off the couch and stuck her head under it.

Mika turned into her baby fox form and crawled under the couch. "You like Kurama?" She asked though Syria completely understood her.

"Don't know." Syria sighed.

"Do you feel a woozy feeling in your stomach when he's near you?" Mika asked.

"Uh…-" Syria began.

"Did you feel a little jealous when you heard about Kuraji being Kurama's ex?" Mika continued.

"Umm.-" Syria began again.

"Do you-" Mika began, but was cut off.

"Alright alright! Quit with the questions let me think!" Syria said.

"What are you doing?" Shiro asked.

Syria pulled her head out from under the couch and questioned, "You talking to me?"

"Yea…" he stated slowly. "Who are you talking to?"

"Mika, she's under here!" Syria explained.

Shrio looked at her questioningly, "Sure, are you feeling alright Syria?"

"Yea! Of course I am! What? You think I'm lying! Take a look for yourself!" She pointed under the couch.

Shiro sighed and looked under there and saw nothing, "Maybe you should lie down or something." He then left the room.

"What?" Syria questioned. She looked under the couch and saw Mika wasn't there anymore!" She shook her head confused and then sat on the couch. She then noticed Mika sitting next to her and jumped.

"Don't do that!" Syria complained.

Mika was next to her chuckling. Syria glared at her. "That's not funny Mika, now he think I'm really crazy. " Syria stated.

"Yea yea…now you'll feel welcome here. You'll fit in perfectly!" Mika said laughing before she got up and too walked away. Syria glared at her.

-Night Time in Syria's Room-

There was a knock on the door. "You can come in." Syria stated. The door opened revealing her father.

"So this is your room now?" He asked.

"Yea, not permanently though." She reassured. Silence fell as he walked over to her. Gently he put his hand on her shoulders and turned her around to face him. He looked at her smiling.

"You truly have grown." He muttered. "Look even more like your mother."

She sighed, "So what really is the truth about mom?"

Rio thought for a moment and then stated, "It started a while back, long before you were born. Sashi had fallen in love with your mother some time ago. They were friends and always spent time together, but when he grew older, he got caught up into a gang and trouble started. You're mom wanted nothing to do with his gang business. Eventually it got to a point where he had to leave because several people were after him, but he swore to come back to see your mom again. Well, I later met up with her and we fell in love and that was that. When he did eventually come back he found out about me and swore to kill me. After several failed attempts to kill me, he decided to go after her to make her pay for "betraying" him. We moved when your mother was pregnant with your brother into the human world. Later, he found us after you and your brother was born. He had kidnapped you when you were 3, but I don't think you can remember. He threatened to kill you if I did not give up your mother. Your brother had saved your life. He later killed your mom stating that if he couldn't have her, no one could, and…"

"What else?" Syria demanded.

"Your brother…a long time ago made a deal with him…" He dad slowly stated.

"What do you mean deal?" Syria questioned.

Rio sighed, "Sashi is supposed to take you once you gain your powers; you have some magical bond with your mother through something only she knew. You have the power to bring her back to life. And Sashi will kill you after you do. In a way, he owns you. Your brother made the deal that he could have you as long as he let you and I live, but I know he'll break that deal; he wants you dead for your mother. I have a feeling that's how things will go. The power you share with her might kill you if you try and bring her back. And there's another thing…Who killed your boyfriend in 8th grade…Sashi did. Apparently he had you betrothed to his son."

Syria protested right away, "You can't do that to me! You can't let him just take me like that! How the hell does he even have a son anyways if he only loved mom! That still doesn't make any sense!"

Rio stated, "You have a step-brother. Your mom had a kid with him before you and Sakio were born, his name is Kumito."

She grew raged, "YOU'RE SENDING ME OFF TO GET MARRIED TO MY STEP BROTHER! YOU'LL HAVE TO KILL ME FIRST!"

Rio stated loudly to shut her up, "I NEVER said I was just letting him take you. That was the deal your brother had made. Don't yell at me for it. I had no idea of it until after Sakio died. You're too protected to be taken anyways."

Tears swelled her eyes out of frustration, "Sakio never did that, and he wouldn't have. He never would."

Rio hugged her, "He did Syria; his signature is even on the paper. Don't worry though; I won't let him take you. I never would."

-Hirina's Room-

"Kemiko what are we going to do!" Hirina said seriously.

Kemiko sighed, "I don't know, I don't see why you're making everything such a big deal. Koenma already knows I'm a criminal in ways, why are you so paranoid?

"I'M NOT PARINOID!" Hirina yelled. Kemiko raised an eyebrow at her. "Fine, maybe a little, but you're missing my point! Kemiko, they could take us away, we could be locked away forever for something that's not your fault."

Kemiko stared at her suspiciously as her ear twitched, "What do you mean us?"

Hirina just realized what she had said, "I meant to say you."

Kemiko tackled Hirina pinning her to the ground, "Not really good at lying to me Rina. You did something didn't you?"

Hirina growled at her, "What would possibly make you think that?"

"There are some untold parts of your life that no one knows about and I'm curious if those involved thievery?" Kemiko smirked.

"Get off of me." Hirina demanded.

Kemiko stated now serious, "No, I know you have answers to a lot of secrets around here and it's about time you cough them up."

Hirina glared, "You assume a lot."

Kemiko thought for a moment and then smiled brightly, "I think we should go back to the first time we met. When we both were attacking the Blood Stained Shadow group, I found it hard to believe you were after them because you….well…supposedly ran into them before and they tried killed a friend of yours? Who's the friend?"

"Shrio." Hirina growled.

Kemiko suspiciously glared at her, "But why would they pick Shiro?" Hirina said nothing. "Looks like I found the jack pot."

Kurama was listening from outside the hallway, 'Blood Stained Shadows? That's the group we attacked before….and there were two females there as well...they both wanted revenge on them. Were Kemiko and Hirina once thieves!'

Ok, that's it for now, sorry it seems a bit short and sorry for the long wait, computer broke down and all. I'll be writing more later on. I'm having difficulties remembering what I was gonna write, so I'm might have to read my story over again. I'm taking notes down this time though (Smiles) Yep, well hope you enjoy this chapter! Until next time ja ne! O yea, poll thingy, ummm well, I can't think of one right now so we'll skip it for this chapter, SHOUT OUTS!

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