A/N: Konichiwa readers… I'm back… and lucky for you I have a gorgeous kitsune in this chapter… cheers that means that my story is coming along very well. And I hope you all are enjoying reading it. Well I won't delay you any longer. Enjoy!

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Chapter 5

Kirana was excited when Botan told her that she knew her brother and was taking her to see him. She began getting ready right away. She ran a comb through her curls and put on her best jeans and her nicest shirt. She asked Botan what her brother looked like, but Botan told her that she would have to wait. Then Kirana said something Botan never expected.

"Botan, my brother doesn't know I'm alive does he?" she said calmly.

"Well, no honey he doesn't, but how did you know that he didn't know about you?" Botan asked amazed.

"My eye told me," she answered simply.

"Your eye?" Botan asked confused.

"Yes, the one in my forehead… it tells me things… I think it's really smart. Don't you?" she asked innocently.

"Well I guess it is," Botan answered.

Botan knew she would have to tell Koenma about this new development in Kirana's abilities. But first she would take the child to meet her brother. She only hoped that Youko would not be upset.

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In Ningenkai

Botan knocked on the door she knew belonged to Kurama's Mother. She really hoped Kurama would answer the door. She knew his mother would ask about Kirana, and Botan wasn't sure how she would answer her. But the door opened and a boy with red hair and beautiful green eyes answered it.

"Botan, what are you doing here?" Kurama asked the ferry girl. "And who is this pretty little girl?"

"Could we go somewhere where we can talk? It is kind of important," Botan said quietly.

"Of course we can Botan," he answered.

Kurama turned into the house and told his mother he would be going to the park with a friend and would be back later. Then he led the way to the park not asking questions until they were seated.

"What's the problem Botan?" he asked worriedly.

"Well, I'm not sure how to put this," she began.

"Let me tell him!" Kirana said excitedly.

Botan smiled and nodded. Kirana looked around carefully and then looked up at Kurama.

"You're my brother!" she said excitedly. "Youko Kurama is my brother. And that is you. My name is Youko Kirana. But I just go by Kirana."

Kurama did not know what to say. It did not make sense to him that this little girl was his little sister. She couldn't be more than maybe five or six, and he had been reborn in the human world for much longer than that. He knew his mother had died long before that.

"Sweetie, I don't know who you are, but you can't be my sister. My mother died long before you were born," he said calmly.

"Silly that's because we only have the same Daddy. My mommy wasn't the same as you're mommy," Kirana answered innocently.

"Botan… are you sure about this? I mean is she telling the truth? Not that I think she would lie, but maybe she has the wrong demon family," Kurama said quietly so that only the ferry girl would hear him.

"King Enma seemed pretty sure. Ask her to transform for you," Botan suggested.

Botan was hopping that by having Kirana transform Kurama would be more willing to accept the things they were telling him. She was hopping that there was enough silver fox in the little girl to convince Kurama. She was also hopping that the Jagan Eye would help the little girl figure out how best to convince the reluctant fox demon.

"Do you have another form?" Kurama began. "This one is only human, and my family are all silver fox's."

"Yes I have another form," Kirana said reluctantly.

"Will you show it to me?" Kurama asked.

"No," Kirana said quickly.

"Why not?" Kurama and Botan asked in unison.

"Because you will call me that too… you don't like me and I know it. You will call me the bad word too, and I don't want you to," she said quietly.

Botan suddenly realized what Kirana meant. Kirana had been more scarred than anyone realized by the outburst of her class and the name-calling she had endured. Botan hoped that Kurama would know what to do for the child because she did not.

"Kirana, what is the bad name?" Kurama asked gently kneeling beside Kirana.

"I don't want to say it. Botan knows maybe she will tell you," Kirana answered.

Kurama stood and took Botan's arm leading her away from the little girl enough so that she would not be able to hear the conversation. He asked her what the name was and when she told him he knew more than he had bargained for.

"You mean she's more than just fox demon?" He asked incredulously.

"Yes, quite a bit more, and King Enma is still unsure if he knows all of it," Botan answered truthfully.

"Hmmm… well maybe I can help her get over this little problem. She seems so sure of who she is. Maybe she is right. Maybe she is my half-sister," Kurama said thoughtfully.

Kurama walked over to Kirana and again kneeled beside her. He began talking to her about other things. He tried asking her what kind of demon she was but she wouldn't answer. Finally he found a topic she was willing to discuss.

"Have you ever been to Ningenkai before?" he asked the little girl.

"Yes, but I don't remember it. Botan brought me so I could meet you. King Enma didn't really want me to come, but Botan is smart and told him we needed to know each other," Kirana answered.

Botan was amazed she should not have known those things. Those things happened in King Enma's office and Kirana had been in her room nowhere near close enough to have heard what was going on.

"How do you know that, Kirana?" Botan asked.

"My eye told me," she answered simply.

That's when Botan realized something that Kurama did not know. She hoped he wouldn't ask her because she would not know how to say it being so young. Botan knew that Kirana did not realize how special her eye was, or how rare.

"You're eye told you?" Kurama asked. "How?"

"Yup it did. It's really smart. It lives in my forehead, and it tells me all kinds of things. It told me that you were my brother. Even though it's not sure now because you don't look like a demon. It tells me it thinks you smell ok so that's all that I care about. It says you are nice and you don't hate me. Sometimes when it tells me things it says it in someone else's voice. Like when it said that you don't hate me it sounded like you. And when it told me that King Enma didn't want me to meet you it sounded like Botan. It sure is smart, but I don't know how it knows all the stuff it does," she answered innocently.

"You have a… Kirana will you please let me see your other form. Let your eye tell you that I'm not lying when I tell you I will not use the bad word. I don't like that word either, it's not very nice and I would never use it on you," Kurama hoped this would work.

For a few minutes everything was silent. Botan and Kurama were afraid that Kirana would say no again. Kurama really wanted to see this eye and see if it was what he was thinking.

"Okay," she said simply.

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A/N: Well I hope you liked it. Things are starting to pick up… well at least I think they are. I would love to receive some reviews. I always love hearing what you all think after all you are the unbiased voice in my writing. Well gotta go later all.