Disclaimer: I don't own YYH or any of it's characters. I do own Katrina, Lisa, Serena, Marissa, Alex, and Cassandra. And I own Garn Roak.

AN: Okay folks, I'm sorry that this one is going to be soo short. I've literally run outa steam and have stopped liking this stupid story. I'll finish it someday, but definately not soon. The same goes with all my stories. If you want to know how my story line up is, just look on my profile. There will be a big notice up soon about my hiatus. I'm just too stressed out about life to care much and college is sorta dragging.

Bewitching Ties

Legend

-Thought-

-Telepathy-

Noise

"Ghost speach"

'Ghost thought'

'Ghost Telepathy'

Part Two

Chapter Sixteen: Distancing Protection

To: EmeraldLies, YellowCries, FireNeverDies,OceanSighs

From: GoldenAmethystEyes

Subject: The Truth

Hi guys. I have something to tell you. Remember how me and Cass always wondered where we got our powers from? I found out...I'm not sure how you're going to take this...I'm not sure if I'm allowed to tell you this...Where to start...

Katrina paused in typing, unsure what to tell them and how to go about it. Finally she sighed and resumed typing.

I learned from Hiei that there are two other worlds besides ours, sort of like other dimensions, yet connected to Earth. There's Ningenkai (Our world), Reikai (The Spirit World), and Makai (Demon World). Reikai is like Heaven and is ruled by two gods, King Enma and Prince Koenma, and actually 'Heaven' and 'Hell' are both in Reikai. What we think of as 'Hell' would be Makai.

Okay, now that that's over, here's where it get's bad. I actually met Koenma. He had something important to tell me. This is out of order...Remember that the storm youkai had opened a portal. Well the portal was to summon a mega baddie that'll destroy the worlds. The next week I met a new boy named Garn Roak. It turns out that he was the baddie. His name rearranged is Ragnarok. Though we found that out later. Now...here's the other thing I learned from Koenma. It's where me and Cass came from...We're apparitions. Seirei tsuin apparitions, Spirit Twins. Which is why we had such a strong tie to the element of Spirit and had such strong psychic abilities...

...There's one more thing...Thanks to our being seirei tsuin...Cass was able to live on as a spirit and protect me. She didn't really die in the sense that her soul went to heaven...

Katrina paused again, not wanting to tell them this part but she knew they had a right to know.

...There's even more bad news. Remember Ragnarok? There's a prophecy about him in Makai. It goes...

In the six hundreth and sixty sixth year of his birth, the child of destruction will come in a demon spawned storm. Born to bring fire and death to the worlds, the child shall not have the power to destroy souls. Only through the Sacrificial Gate of one entwined with the Spirits shall the Destroyer gain the power. Only through the greatest power of the living, shall the Destroyer be destroyed. Great sorrow and pain shall be in the wake of his destruction, yet hope shall again grace the worlds.

...Note the Sacrificial Gate part. The Gate is someone with strong ties to the world of spirits. Even if he destroys Ningenkai and Makai, if Reikai is still there the other two worlds can be restored. Should Ragnarok destroy Reikai, then all hope is lost. Guess who the Sacrificial Gate is...Me. Already being a seirei tsuin I have strong ties. But since my twin is in the world of spirits, (Seirei tsuin are actually one apparition with two entities, in the form of twins. Normally the twins are on the same plane.) my power and tie is magnified like ten fold. Kurama, (Shuichi, who's actually a kitsune, demon fox) says that I'm already like a gate. I'm the reason that Cass is able to go through the two worlds of Reikai and Ningenkai without aid of a portal or some people that ferry dead souls across the river Styx. I'm now training to fight Ragnarok. But...

...But if the worst should come, I'll also be trained to totally obliterate mine and Cass's souls to prevent him from even using our souls to open the portal to Reikai...What I mean is that it'll be like our souls never existed. I'm sorry if it comes down to that. Know that I love all of you. Forever and eternally. This will be the last time you hear from me until it is safe. And then it will be face to face so that you know it isn't a trick. Remember our secret sign. That's something that Ragnarok cannot imitate, even if he stole the information from my mind. I know he can't get you, he doesn't know of you. I promise.

Goodbye, may you be safe from harm.

Katrina Raine Lee

Katrina clicked the 'send' button hesitantly. She waited awhile before doing what she knew she had to do to protect her loved ones in America. She deleted her email account. Next she went through everything in her possession that could possibly lead Ragnarok to them. Pictures, notes, tapes, drawings, friendship lockets and her friendship braid made of lockets of their hairs. One of the first things she learned in magick was that anything close to one's person, such as a close item or a peice of hair, could be used to track and manipulate that person. When her parents asked her what she was doing she lied, claiming that her friends had abandoned her. She was glad that for once her time in the theatre field early in her high school career could be put to good use, other than convincing her parents to let her get out of the house to do something, when in fact she was going to do something that she knew her parents wouldn't have approved of. The lie worked and her parents left her alone, wanting to give her space, knowing that she would more than likely recede into herself for awhile.

After she finished her work she laid down on her bed and cried into her pillow. What she had done was one of the hardest things she had ever done and believed that she would ever do. After Cass had died the only people that she had truely had for support were her friends. Her parents hadn't really known what to do, they were as torn up as she. Eventually, giving up on trying to sort out their loss on their own they had gone to a family counciler. Katrina had hated the woman; she had felt alienated with the woman's constant questions, how she felt about the death, her parents, her sister, if she had had any resentment towards her sister or parents, constantly asked about how she felt. Her parents had finally decided to quit going, since Katrina pointed out that they were getting no where and the counciler was getting paid to go around in circles with her questions. After that experience she had distanced herself from her parents for awhile and gone to her friends for support and guidance. She and Cass had always looked towards them as sisters, particularly Alex and Lisa as older sisters, and as guides through their chaotic world. They had accepted her and her twin when others wouldn't. They had been her pillar of strength when Cass had died and she had relied on them even more for guidance and help. Now she couldn't reach them anymore, and probably would never see or hear from them again.

She sat up and sniffed, hugging her pillow to her. -But I had to do it. I have to protect them,- she thought firmly, trying to ease the ache in her chest with reason. -I won't be able to protect my parents fully, I can't make them go back to America and erase any signs of them ever being here or even being connected to me. Ragnarok met them and knows they're here,- she thought regretfully and fearfully as she realized how much danger that put her parents in. She shook her head to dispell the fear. -We'll protect them. Kurama said we'll have to tell them and then we'll take them to Reikai. That should protect them.-

"Don't worry, it will," Hiei said from her window. He had watched her go through her task and had felt her depression and fear.

Katrina looked at him through teary eyes, "What will happen..." she started hesitantly then changed her mind, "How long will I have to wait before I get to see my friends and family again after Ragnarok is destroyed?"

Hiei's eyes softened, he knew what she was originally going to ask. "Just long enough to make sure he's truely gone and no minions of his still exist," he answered her second question aloud. -I don't know what will happen,- he said to himself in answer to her first question. "Go to sleep now, we start training early tomorrow," he told her gently.

Katrina nodded and followed his orders, though she doubted that sleep would claim her. However sleep did claim her as soon as her head hit the pillow, partially because she was exhausted from the stressful work of that day and from crying and partially because of Hiei's adept hypnotism.

"Goodnight Katrina," Hiei said softly as he took his usual perch on the tree branch outside her window, on high alert for Ragnarok.