Chapter 5 of

Love Just Is…

"Suichi! Kirei! Some of your friends are here!" Their mother called for them.

"Yukina!" Kirei ran up to her new found best friend and hugged her while Yukina giggled.

"Hello Kirei," Botan greeted, "Hiei and Yukina told me what happened yesterday and I'm going to fix it all up!"

"But how… you don't really know all of what happened, do you?" Kirei questioned her. Kirei wasn't quite sure what happened herself.

"Yes well that's why Hiei's here. He's going to read your mind… Is that okay?" Botan asked but was answered by Kirei's confusing look.

"Huh?" Kirei looked at Botan blankly.

"Let's go somewhere private." Kurama proposed as they all followed him to his room.

"Now, what are you doing to me?" Kirei look at Hiei then Botan.

"Well…" Botan started but was cut off by Hiei as he took off the white band over his forehead to reveal the third eye he kept hidden.

"Ohhh… now it makes scene Hiei's going to read my mind because he's a Jagan." She was enlightened but everyone else was confused now.

"Kirei, how do you know this?" Kurama questioned his sister.

"Because…" She looked down at her hands on her lap, "I just do… I don't know." But she looked up as she could "feel" her mind being read by Hiei.

Kirei knew what he was going to see so she braced herself for another argument but he stopped. He didn't see her kiss him but he saw more that even he wanted to. She stood up as she too stopped.

"Why did you read my mind too?" He asked as she was trying to leave.

"Goes both ways…" Was all she said as she ran out the door and out the front door before her mother could question where she was going.

"Hiei what's the matter with Kirei?" Kurama raised his voice for the first time. All he ever knew of his sister is that she volunteered to go to a boarder school far away but that was it. She never told him stories of what happened, if she liked moving away from her family, but she never did like their step-father or her real father.

"She… is running away again. Go catch her." Was all Hiei could say. He had seen some dark memories in his life time but he had never seen this.

"Kirei! Kirei! Stop!" Kurama yelled as his sister continued to run.

"No!" She screamed as she collapsed on to the ground. She managed to sit on her knees to get up but Kurama kept her where she was.

"Why… why do you want to run again? I thought you wanted to stay home this time." Kurama begged his little sister.

"You don't know much about me but I know much about you." She looked away from his face. "When you were born you left "demon energy" in mother and I got when I was born. I'm not quite sure what my power is but I have a feeling that what happened yesterday was a small part of it. I don't know though… I just don't know Suichi!" Tears streamed down her face as Kurama took her into his arms.

"Kirei, why did you hide this for so long?" Kurama ran his fingers through her hair as if she were a child not two years younger.

"Because she was scared you would reject her like the kids at school or from the world she loved so much." Hiei bent down to look into Kirei's eyes. "And to tell you now I hate cherry."

Kirei dried her eyes as the make up she put on for no reason ran down her face. "So you found out? You're not going to argue?" She sighed.

"No but never do it again." Hiei stood up and so did Kirei with the help of Kurama.

"Yes." Kirei answered and Kurama could see the love that his sister once had was gone and she was growing up. But what Kurama didn't know is that she too saw into Hiei's mind. She saw the woman that had his heart.

"Kirei…" Yukina stood to the side with that same sad face she had given her many times before and again Kirei gave her the same smile but a different answer.

"Yukina… I'm not okay." The corners of both their lips raised a little.

"I might have some answers for you." Botan blurted in, "You're a rare breed of demon, but really you're not a demon at all. You are actually a…"

"I know what I am. I'm a mix between everything. I'm a Jagan like Hiei. I can control the earth like Suichi and a Koorime like Yukina. I have a six scene like Kuwabara and a spirit a sometimes. I learned it painfully at the boarding school…"

"Yes Hiei told us about that… The thing is finding "demons" like you is rare and well…"

"I'll protect you!" Yukina said confidently.

"Ummm… Yukina… I'm not quite sure if that'll work…"

"Yes… Maybe it should be the other way around…" Yukina blushed but Kirei giggled.

"No!" The girls turned around to see the boys had been listening, "We'll protect you two." Kurama bowed as a knight in shining armor.

"Yes dear brother" Kirei said in an accent, "We'll be the princesses." Yukina giggled while Hiei rolled his eyes.

"The princesses!" Yukina announced.

"Come on Yukina let's go back home." Hiei took Yukina's hand and lead her away.

"Goodbye Kirei!" Yukina yelled back at Kirei waving.

"Goodbye Yukina!" Kirei called back with a smile on her tear stained face.

"Goodbye Botan, Suichi and I should go home too." Kirei waved goodbye.

"Goodbye Kirei and Kurama, if I can I'll report our new discovery to Koenma." Botan flipped out her flying oar and flew away.

"Yes very well…"

"Come along Kirei," Kurama was already 10 paces ahead of her, "Mother must be worried."

"Oh no! I ran out with out…!" Kirei ran to Kurama grab his hand and ran off with him following but Kurama was laughing.

"Yes ran while you can 'princess'," That familiar voice from the darkness called to Kirei…