Disclaimer: Parts of the story have been influenced by the books Head games and first helpings. I do not own YuYu Hakusho


Rei and Kurama followed the mysterious men for a while. The men seemed to drag them all over town, eventually they reached an alley. Instead of walking into the alley where they could have been easily seen, Kurama and Rei stood on the building overlooking it. Kurama stared intently as a man with Pink hair and orange eyes approached the men from the cafe. After a few minutes of listening Rei took out her phone. She decided to take a picture of the scene. SNAP! The pink-haired man looked up only to see some pigeons resting on the roof.

When Rei and Kurama returned to the Hotel, they found that Hiei and Yusuke had yet to arrive. They found this astonishing seeing how noghtfall was near. Kuwabara volunteered to search for them as he admitted to being quite bored with waiting in the hotel. Kurama and Rei decided to go upstairs to Kurama's room. That way they could talk without worrying about people eavesdropping.

When they arrived at the door Kurama allowed Rei first entry. She entered the room and sat down on the bed. Kurama entered there-after and closed the door behind him. He leaned against the wall and pulled a chair with his foot and rested his knee on it.

"let me see the picture" he said

Rei handed Kurama the phone and he began clicking various buttons... to enlarge ome parts and minimize others. As he was inspected the picture Rei stared at his luggage. She could see that niether He, nor Hiei had bothered to unpack. This bothered Rei. The carleess neatness into which it was all arranged brought back memories. Memories of her mother's tall and lean tan figure leaning over her luggage. "I can't wait to go to Taiwan" her mother would say as her green eyes lit up in exitement. It reminded Rei of how youg her mother really was and she suddently felt a sadness in her heart. She had never cried for her mother, even though Rei knew her fate and she suddenly felt guilty. She felt guilty of her non-chalant atitude toward her mother's so obvious passing and for the first time she felt anger towards her father and then shame in herself for exepting her reality for so long.

"Rei?" asked Kurama softly

Rei looked up and realized she had been crying the salty tears started to burn her eyes and dampen her cheeks. She looked up into Kurama's eyes beautiful green eyes, and she realized why she adored them so.


I was staring at the daisies the first time they fought. I pretended that I was in them, In my own minature daisy world where nobody ever argued and everybody got along ... but I couldn't drown them out.

"She has to be mine! She looks just like me" Said her father's voice unusually high-pitched.

"Of course she would look like you! She is your niece after all" said her mother

"how dare you? And in front of her no less!" exclaimed her father

"Well she should know" said her Mother

"Well, daughter or not she is still blood and I will always love her" said her father

"Oh what do you know about love, you said youloved me and that didn't stop you from messing with that barely legal young man did it!" exclaimed her mother

"hush!" said Rei's father

"why? Are you ashamed... well I'm not!...I'm glad that Rei will have a real father to look up to!" exclaimed Rei's mother

"I swear ... one of theese days...I'll...why i'll" started her father

"you won't do a damn thing you freaking fag" said Rei's mother starting to laugh.


"Rei, come on... what is wrong?" asked Kurama softly.

He had wrapped his arms around her waist and she was crying on his shoulder. He was patting her back softly and she was crying so much that she had begun to wet his shirt. After a few minutes of bawling her eys out Rei suddenly stopped. She pulled away from Kurama and looked into his eyes again...they were a different green than her mother's. Her mother's eyes were a sad and gloomy green and sadness lurked inside them. Kurama's eyes were green with the hope of life the beauty of nature and the contentment of life. They cheered her up.

"feeling better?" asked Kurama with the broghtest smile he could muster.

She nodded a yes.

"I'm glad" said Kurama sweetly

Rei smiled.

"do you need to talk about something?" asked Kurama

"...I..." Re started

"you don't have to if you don't want to" finished Kurama.

Rei suddenly felt like smiling and laughing... she wanted to leave the dim and go to a brighter one she wanted to go walking down the hall and greet every stranger she met. Kurama was taken aback by the new light in Rei's eyes. She looked happy. The happiest he had ever seen her. Her gold colored eyes lighted so brightly. It was then that Kurama noticed her rezemblence to the guy from the cafe. How many people were walking around with gold eyes anyway? Rei also had very dark long black hair. He suddenly felt the urge to run his fingers through it.

"Kurama?" asked Rei

"hey... had you seen that guy from the cafe before today?" asked Kurama

"which one?" asked Rei

"the one with the gold eyes" said Kurama

"oh... no... why?" asked Rei

"well don't you think he kind of looks like you?" asked Kurama

"well, I thought he looked like my father" said Rei

"So there is a chance you are related to him then?" asked Kurama

"well...I really doubt that... I just think he looks like him a little" said Rei

"a little can mean alot" said Kurama pulling Rei out of the room.