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"Where should I put this, Miss Yurika?" Kato staggered under the balance of her bag.
She took it from him. "Give that to me, and you go find something to do." She said stalely.
"Yes, Miss Yurika." Kato bounced out the door.
"You know you can't keep doing this to yourself." Reseph said when the door closed.
Yurika looked down. "I know. I just can't dump him somewhere- Ahh!" She dropped to her knees.
Reseph rolled his floating eyes. "Come here."
He commanded. Yurika numbly made her way over to the brick fireplace and stepped up the small step, sitting against the brick part of the wall. Reseph reached out a hand, which soon turned to look like a human arm and grasped her arm in his fiery fingers. As he tended to her, she looked about the room.
It was pretty much empty and colorless. The walls were off white with age and the carpet was brown and hard. There was a futon in the corner, with a thin gray blanket stretched across it. The lack of color suited Yurika perfectly, at least that's what she told herself.
The fireplace was across from the door and a few feet to the right. It was huge and seemed to not fit in with the room. The brickwork took up half the wall and went up to the ceiling, despite the floors above. A ledge extended from the base of the fireplace and out into the room, which is where Yurika sat now and planned to sleep.
"This is what I've been talking about. With that guy and the kid here…"
"I know. Stop lecturing me." Yurkia said quickly, trying not to be reminded.
"I'm just saying, maybe you'd be safer in the Maki."
"Can't leave Kato without saying anything. Can't live in Maki without powers." Yurika panted. She shook off Reseph and seemed to recover. "Oh well, might as well get this portal up." She started rummaging through the bag.
Yusuke stared as the small boy hopped into the room. "Hey kid, what kind of demon are you?"
Kato shrugged and pilled a cushion off the couch. "Reseph calls me a treeling."
"What the hell kind of demon it that?"
Kato shrugged again and started to move some pillows from the forest green couch to the floor around him. Genaki entered the room from the small kitchen.
"Treelings, hmm, Reseph must be an old demon. That's what the old fire demons called young earth demons."
"I'm in a fort!" Kato yelled out from underneath the pillows.
Yusuke grinned and lazily kicked the fort, which collapsed.
"Hey!" Kato's curly brown haired head popped out from underneath the fallen fort. He glared at Yusuke indignatly.
"Kato." The temperature in the room dropped a few degrees.
"Yes, Miss Yurika." Kato jumped up and stood to attention as Yukira entered the room.
"Don't bother the Spirit detectives past eight. Come, time for sleep."
"Past eight! How about never!" Yusuke yelled, a vein popping out of his head.
"Yes, Miss Yukina." Kato continued as if Yusuke didn't say anything at all.
As Kato left, Genkai seemed to smile a little. Then she glared at Yusuke. "Why aren't you that obedient?"
"Ahh… shut up, Grandma."
A hard blow to the head answered Yusuke.
"Come on! We're late!" Yusuke called impatiently.
Kurama had opted to walk back with Jun while Yurika walked ahead with Kuwabara and Yusuke as if nothing happened. Somewhere in the trees above Hiei was following them, though the humans did not know it.
"I believe we should hurry up, getting into trouble again would not be a good idea and Taki and his gang usually come late."
Jun's head bobbed. "I know, but the day is so beautiful, why not stop and enjoy it?" she became thoughtful. "How come Yurika doesn't enjoy the day? She is my cousin, right? So shouldn't we like the same things?"
Kurama felt a wash of cold come over him. Do not speak of things that you do not understand. "That is something you must ask her yourself."
"Okay!" Jun sped up and tapped Yurika on the shoulder.
Yurika did not stop. "What?"
"How come you don't stop and enjoy the day?" Jun asked innocently.
"I have my reasons." Yurika said coldly.
"Cold." Yusuke said. He slowed until Kurama drew level with him. "I'm starting to really not like that girl. It would be better is we could just let her go back to the Maki and take care of Jun."
"So it seems." Kurama responded, staring at the back of Yurika's messy ponytail.
"Ah! Don't tell me she's in detention again!" Yusuke cried.
Jun shook her head and stared at the group with childlike brown eyes. "Nope. She just said that she meet Taki after school."
"That is in no way good." Kurama stated. "Could you please tell us where they are meeting?"
"Of course, they are meeting right over there behind the school, but I don't understand why you nice guys bother with her. She can take care of herself and doesn't like anyone, not even that cute little kid she keeps around."
Kurama frowned, surprised to hear something so insensitive coming from Jun. "We take care of her because it is the right thing to do."
"And because Koenma is forcing us." Yusuke said loudly.
"I'm serious, though. She hates everyone and she threatened to kill you." Jun said, looking at Kurama.
"Whoa! When'd this happen?"
Kurama studied the girl in front of him. "How do you know that she threatened me?"
"Oh… um…."
Shouts of 'fight' could be heard from the yard. The boys looked up nervously.
"We will continue this conversation later." He muttered, walking quickly to the voices with Kuwabara, Yusuke, Hiei, and a very nervous looking Jun (though no one noticed her nervousness) trailing behind him.
A/N: sorry for the wait, but I'm trying as hard as I can to finish the entire LOTR book in four days, so I'm in trouble here. Review!