Disclaimer: I do not own Yu Yu Hakusho or it's characters. I do not own the music. I do own Angela.

AN: So what do you think of the story so far? Is it not going to fast?

REVISED AN: Egads! I've been going through it and revising the formating and found so many grammatical errors and such. I'm like sooo sorry. And hear I am, I hate to read stuff with that kinda crap and I'm making those same mistakes. Damn, I wish I had spell and grammor check. I need something better than word pad...

Legend:

Music

Noise

-Telepathy-

-Thought-

/Flashbacks/

/Visions/

Chapter Seven

"Yukina, is there anyway that you can convince the Elders to give us the records?" Koenma asked Yukina. He, Yukina, Yusuke, Kurama, and Kuwabara were sitting in the big room. Shizuru had taken Kurama's place beside Angela when she came home. The other guys were asleep in their shared room. Hiei was off in the woods as usual.

Yukina thought for a second. "Umm...I don't think so. If I go back, I doubt they'll let me leave again, let alone with the records."

Koenma thought for a few seconds. Kuwabara stood up. "Koenma! You can't be thinking of sending Yukina back! You just heard her say that they wouldn't allow her to come back!"

"Calm down Kuwabara! If you'll give me a moment I'm trying to think up another way!" Koenma snapped.

"Well...?" Kuwabara asked.

Yusuke rolled his eyes. "C'mon Kuwabara. Give the man a break, he's trying to think up a plan. It's not as easy as going up there and asking for the records."

"That's it!" Koenma exclaimed. "We'll go up there and ask for the records."

The other three men fell over while Yukina politely stated. "But they won't allow it. You're men."

Koenma rubbed his head. "I kinda forgot that...Maybe we could send Botan?"

Yukina shook her head. "No. She would be considered an outsider too, she would be welcomed but not allowed access to the records."

"Maybe if we told them why we need them?" Koenma tried again.

Yukina shook her head again. "No, they would reply that they have nothing to do with the outside world."

"Not even if we told them that Angels have returned?" Koenma persisted.

"They wouldn't beleive you," was her simple reply.

"Damn," Koenma said, giving up.

"Then why not take an Angel to them." Angela said, walking into the room, Shizuru at her side.

Shizuru shrugged when Kurama gave her a stern look. "She said she was fine, besides," Shizuru grinned, "She threatened to not let me experiment on her anymore."

Kurama rolled his eyes. "You're in no condition to go to the Land of Ice," he said to Angela as she sat between him and Yusuke.

"I'm fine, it just spooked me a bit, is all," she replied.

Yusuke looked at Angela. -So stubborn. Like Keiko...- he thought, eyes darkening.

"Well...would it work Yukina?" Koenma asked.

Yukina looked closely at Angela, then shook her head regretfully, saying "Not in her current state. She needs to heal and train her power. No offense, but in your current state, your energy still feels human."

"Oh..." Angela said.

"Argh! Dammit!" Koenma gripped. "There's got to be some way!" He paused, a thought coming to him. "Hey...you said that they periodicaly go to the surface to keep up with events, right?" Koenma asked Yukina.

"Well..in a sense," she said hesitantly.

"Then they surely must know who the higer ups of all the worlds are," Koenma continued.

Yukina nodded, understanding coming to her eyes. "I think they might..."

"Well, it's a shot. If this doesn't work, then we can wait for Angela to heal and train her powers," he said.

Yusuke shook his head. "Wait wait, what are you talking about?"

"Well, I think maybe they might listen to me," Koenma said. "Now, Yukina, how do I get to the Land of Ice?"

Yukina looked at the others. "Could the rest of you please leave, I'd prefer not to give the location to everyone." The others got up and left out the side door.

"Well, like Koenma said, it's a shot," Yusuke said, his arms behind his head. Kurama and Kuwabara nodded, while Angela tried to hide a yawn. She guessed she had failed, because the next thing she knew, she was being herded to her room by Kurama and Shizuru.

Yusuke watched the three head to the house addition. "Well, I guess I'll head home" he said.

Kuwabara shook his head. "Maybe it'd be safer if you stayed here and helped keep an eye on her," he suggested, sensing that Yusuke wanted to stay. "Your room's still open."

"You sure? After all you already got alot of company," Yusuke asked.

"It's okay," Kuwabara assured him.

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The next day Koenma left for Demon World, escorted by the DT gang, as Yusuke called them. Angela, Yukina, Shizuru, Yusuke and Hiei watched them leave.

"How long do you think it'll take them?" Angela asked.

"I don't know," Yukina replied. "The Land of Ice is like a floating island. It's on an eliptical orbit, so even if you know the general area, it's still hard to predict where it's going to be." Yukina turned to Hiei. "But you could find it with your gifted eye. Why didn't you go?"

"Hn, I was ordered to stay here with Angela for the time being," Hiei said, turning his face away.

Angela quirked an eyebrow. -He always acts odd when Yukina talks to him...Does he have a crush on her or something?- Hiei walked off. Yusuke, a weird grinning look on his face, followed him.

"Well kidos," Shizuru said, puffing on a cigarette. "Wanna go to the store and get groceries?"

Yukina nodded, but Angela shook her head, saying "I think I'll train some more with Yusuke and Hiei."

"Suit yourself. C'mon Yukina." They walked into the big room. Shizuru and Yukina grabbed their purses and left, while Angela started to walk out the side door. Before she slid open the door she stopped. Outside she heard Yusuke and Hiei talking.

"...C'mon Hiei, you already know where the Land of Ice is," Yusuke teased.

"Hn," was Hiei's angry reply.

"Oh, don't be that way. After all your sister has so much faith in your 'gifted eye'." Yusuke chuckled.

Angela gasped. -Hiei is Yukina's brother!-

"Hn, did you hear that?" Hiei asked, his voice coming closer.

Angela scrambled, trying to hide before Hiei opened the door. Too late. "You were listening?" he accused, a statement more than a question. "How much did you hear?"

Angela was against outright lying, so she told the truth. "Enough to learn that you're Yukina's long lost brother."

"If you tell her, I'll kill you," Hiei threatened, glaring.

"Alright alright," Angela said, throwing her hands up. "But why don't you want her to know?"

"That's none of your concern," was his cold answer.

"Sheesh, it was just a question, don't get so touchy."

"Hn" he said and stormed into the woods.

"Now you're officialy one of us," Yusuke said, grinning. "All of us except Kuwabara and the DT gang know." Yusuke stretched. "Well, lets get started." He then proceeded to continue Angela's training.

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The rest of the week went smoothly. Angela trained with Yusuke and Hiei most of the time, when she wasn't training she was hanging with Shizuru and Yukina. She hardly saw Kuwabara since he was at work all day and she didn't see Kurama at all.

When Saturday came around, Kurama showed up, dressed in a green button up shirt and blue jeans.

"Well, I see you're looking better," he said to Angela as she sat on the porch smoking. "Ready for your training?"

"As long as it doesn't involve me getting knocked on my butt," she replied. Hiei had kept his word. Once she had healed and he was sure she could take a tumble, he had stopped catching her after she fell. Now her backside was very sore from all the falls.

Kurama smiled. "No, nothing like that. Come with me."

She stood up, brushing her jeans off where ashes had fallen. He led her through the woods to an open glade. "This will do quite nicely," he said. He sat down in the middle, motioning Angela to sit in front of him. "First things first, you have to clear your mind. It doesn't have to be 'totally empty', just calm, with other thoughts pushed to the back of your mind," he said, closing his eyes.

Angela closed hers, and tried hard to clear her mind, but the more she tried to clear her mind, the more she thought about stuff. She sighed and complained "It's hard."

Kurama smiled. "Then think about one thing." He reached into his hair and pulled out a rose. He handed it to her. "Here, concentrate on this. When you're concentrating on one thing, the rest of your thoughts are pushed to the back of your mind. I know it's practicaly impossible for someone who hasn't meditated before to not think about something, so concentrating on one thing pretty much gets close to clearing your thoughts. And we'll be using this rose in our training for the next few days. Now look closely at it, keep looking until you can see it clearly in your minds eye without looking at it."

Angela concentrated on the rose, tracing it's outline, noting it's many shades of red, counting the thorns, looking at it from different angles. Finally she closed her eyes. She could see the rose, but not clearly. She concentrated for a long time until she could see the tiny details that she had studied. "Got it," she said happily.

"Good, now with that in your mind, all the other thoughts are pushed back. Now we can begin..."

Kurama first taught her to concentrate on trying to find her power. After several hours, she managed to find it. "It makes me feel all warm inside," she giggled.

Kurama smiled. "Now, try to concentrate it into the rose and change it's color."

"What color?" she asked.

"Whatever color you choose," he replied.

She opened her eyes and concentrated her power into the rose. After an hour she had managed to turn the base of the petals to purple.

"That's pretty good. It'll take several more days of concentration before you can turn it totaly purple," he said, chuckling at the look of frustration on her face.

"Actually, I was going for blue," she sighed, exasperated.

Kurama laughed a little more. "Like I said, a few more days of concentration." He got up and stretched. "Well I say its about time for dinner." He held out his hand to help her up.

"Oof. I'm stiff," she grunted as she stretched.

When they got back, Hiei was gone. "Is he prowling the woods again?" Angela asked Yusuke.

"Nah, Mukuro called him back to Demon World," he answered.

"Oh...For what?"

Yusuke shrugged, "Dunno."

Yukina came out, calling "Dinner!"

"Finally!" Yusuke said.

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Sunday went much the same. Angela meditated with Kurama in the glade, then concentrated on turning the rose blue. This time she managed to turn most of the rose purple. They kept at it until Kurama said he had to leave to make his lesson plans for next week. Before he left, he grew a rose bush so that she'd have plenty of roses to practice on through out the week.

The routine for the next few weeks had Angela training in fighting by Yusuke, and practice on changing the color of various plants and learning to grow them with Kurama. Soon she could block almost anything Yusuke threw at her, though she knew he was holding his power back for her, and she was growing blue rose bushes on her own. She was very proud of herself.

One Saturday, as Kurama started his way up the long stairs he felt something wrong in the woods. -Is it a demon? But that's impossible. Only a select few demons are allowed in past Genkai's force field. And this aura is definately not one of the invited. The only ones that have been able to penetrate the force field were the Mekai gods. And since then she had strengthened the force field until she died. The only demons that could penetrate it now would be A-class and S-class.-

He finished climbing the stairs. "Angela, Yusuke," he called.

"Yeah!" Yusuke hollered. He and Angela were practicing by the pond.

"I need you two to come with me," Kurama said heading into the woods. "Be prepared for a fight," he said as the other two followed him.

They walked deep into the woods for nearly an hour before they found a thick unnatural fog ladened with an overpowering stench.

"Ugh...What the hell is this?" Angela said, covering her nose and mouth.

"I fear I know what it is," Kurama said, also covering his sensitive nose.

"Then tell us fox-boy," Yusuke said, gagging.

"Just wait, I want to be sure," Kurama said.

They walked a little more until they came to a small glade with a large tree in the middle. The tree was the source of the fog and stench, and it looked like it was rotting.

"Just as I feared, a Tree-Eater demon," Kurama said.

"A what?" Yusuke and Angela said together.

"A Tree-Eater demon," Kurama repeated.

"But I thought demons couldn't get in here if they meant harm," Angela said.

"A Tree-Eater is not exactly a demon. Not at first," Kurama started to explain. "At first it's a parasite, that's why it could get through the force field. It then attaches itself to a tree that has deep roots that are connected to several other trees, and this tree is connected to most of the forest. By connecting with such trees it can suck the life and energy of most of the forest. As it feeds off the energy, it grows into a demon. If left alone, it can destroy a whole forest and become very powerful." Kurama inspected the trees around them. "From the looks, its been here for several weeks. It's very hard to sense, because it hides it's energy inside the energy of the trees. Luckily some of the trees this old one was connected to were close to the shrine so I could sense it."

Kurama looked at Angela. "Can you sense where the parasite is? You're more attuned to nature than I, considering it's practically in your blood." He smiled behind his hand. "Consider this your first real test in your powers."

Angela looked at him then nodded. She studied the tree, concentrating until she could feel it's energy. She then tried to connect her earth power to it. When she connected, she was able to quickly find where it was being drained. "The third branch on the upper right branch coming from the trunk."

Kurama turned to Yusuke, taking a rose out of his hair. "Let's go, and be ready, it's at least a B-class." He then turned to Angela. "Can you trap it in something?"

"I'll try sap and vines," she said helpfully.

"Good," Kurama nodded at her idea.

As the men approached the tree, Angela concentrated on growing vines around the Tree-Eater and caused the tree to spill sap all over the demon. The thing screeched and started to struggle. Angela managed to hold it a few more seconds so that the men could find it and strike.

"Rose Whip!" Kurama shouted, lashing out at the thing. The Tree-Eater barely dodged the whip. It flew up into the air and started to spit a substance akin to sap at them, but it smoked and sizzled when it hit the ground. "Watch it Yusuke! It's acid!" Kurama shouted, lashing another strike. "Angela, get behind the tree line!" he shouted at her. She quickly obeyed.

Yusuke held up his right hand like a gun and waited till he had the flying demon in his sights. "Spirit Gun!" he shouted, a bright blue blast errupting from his finger. Direct hit. The thing gave one last shreik and dissolved into ash. "Whoohoo! Take that you son of a bitch!" Yusuke shouted.

Kurama paused. "That was weaker than I expected. It shouldn't have been lower than B-class. It's been feeding off half of the forest for several weeks now..."

Angela saw something dive out of the tree. "Kurama! Yusuke!" she shouted, panicking. A surge of power went through her and then several vines flew from out of the ground like spears, peircing the Tree-Eater in the gut as it sprang towards Kurama and Yusuke. The men just stared at it, then at her.

"Wow... that was near A-class level energy you just displayed," Yusuke said, mouth agape. Angela didn't reply, a wave of dizzyness overcoming her. Kurama saw her eyes roll back and ran to catch her.

Yusuke ran to him. "What happened!" Yusuke asked, concerned.

Kurama stood up, carrying Angela. "I think it's like when Hiei uses the Dragon, she used so much energy that she couldn't control it and it drained her. She just needs to rest is all. Lets go." They started the long walk home.