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Kirana's telepathy.

Hiei's telepathy.

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Chapter 15

"What are you not telling us?"

"What do you mean?"

"That tear gem… are youpart koorime too?"

"So what if I am?"

Kirana was about to set down her bags to pickup the gemwhen she saw Genkai pick itup and put it in her pocket. Kirana's eyes met Genkai's and pleaded with the older woman not to say anything. Genkai nodded and continued to walk behind the two demons.

"If you are a koorime, how come only one tear was a gem?"

"Hell if I know. I am different than most demons. As I am sure you can tell,"

"Why did they call you mutt?"

"It doesn't matter,"

"It does because they made you cry. Which I don't understand. Why does it matter what these people say they obviously don't mean anything to you,"

"You wouldn't understand. You are the most likely to even come close to understanding, considering your past, but even you wouldn't understand,"

Hiei finally gave up asking questions knowing he wouldn't get an answer. Genkai said that until the girl was trained she would live with her at the temple. So they went to the temple.

"You know you will have to train them. I will be immune, but they will not," Youko told his sister.

"Not now you fool. I don't want even more attention drawn to me,"

"What do you mean she will have to train us?" Yusuke asked.

"I mean she will have to train you because she is a –" Youko began.

"Nothing, it doesn't matter because I will never use that on anyone ever!" Kirana said angrily.

"You can't avoid that part of you forever Kirana!" Youko yelled.

"I can if I never use it!" she yelled back.

Suddenly silver hair turned red. Gold eyes turned green and Kurama was standing there instead of Youko.

"Kirana, you can't avoid the siren. She is there in you no matter what you do," Kurama said gently.

Everyone'seyes got huge and each one turned to Kirana. They knew now one of her biggest secrets. She had hoped no one would come to know of it. Ever since she had found out what it meant to be a siren she knew she would never tell. She was so afraid of never falling in love, or if she did for the man she fell in love with to accuse her of using the siren to get what she wanted.

"Yes, I am part siren, but no I will never use her on anyone ever! For any reason. I never sing and that is the reason. I will not! Ever!" Kirana said.

"So that is the reason you hide… you are afraid of her… you are not afraid of others you are afraid of what is in you."

"What do you know about it! No one will ever understand what it is like to have a siren in you… I will never use her on anyone."

"Why are you afraid of her?"

"I'm not afraid of her. I'm afraid of what she could do. I'm afraid that because of her I will never find… nothing! What are you doing to me! Stop it! I don't want to tell you!"

"Yes you do. I'm not sure why but you do want to tell me. This is something you have never shared with anyone, and yet for some reason you want to tell me. Why?"

"NO! I don't want to tell you I don't want to tell anyone!"

Suddenly a hand was laid on Kirana's arm. She looked up and saw Genkai. The older woman was looking at her curiously. That's when Kirana realized she had closed her eyes and was not paying attention to the people around her.

"I'm sorry what did you say?" Kirana asked.

"I said that your brother is right. You need to face the Siren. You need to be in control of her so that she does not control you," Genkai said kindly. "I will help you at first without the boys anywhere near, but eventually you will have to train them so that they get used to your voice."

Kirana closed her eyes, "Very well. I will face her."

Kirana then opened her eyes and summoned all her bags to her. She picked them all up and Genkai led her to the room she would be staying in. The girls followed and said that they would unpack for her while Genkai started her training. Kirana nodded and followed Genkai outside.

"Well get out of here! I told Kirana we would work up her courage without any of you near so get!" Genkai told the boys.

They scattered and Genkai and Kirana sat down outside underneath a tree. Genkai looked at Kirana carefully. She knew there was a lot more to this girl than meets the eye, and she planned to find out what lurked beneath her surface.

"First of all what is it about her that makes you so nervous? Why are you afraid to face her?" Genkai asked her pupil.

"I'm afraid that because of her men will accept me and I will never know if they love me or if they love her. I'm so afraid that when I finally fall in love the man I love will always doubt if he truly loves me or if the Siren did something to make him fall in love with me. I am also afraid that by accepting all the different forms of me I will be what they all called me… and no matter what I don't want to be that!" Kirana said trying not to cry.

"What do you mean what they all called you? Do you mean what all the spirits in Reikai called you when we were leaving? Are you truly afraid that the word mutt describes who you are?" Genkai asked.

Kirana cringed at the sound of that word coming out of Genkai's mouth. She knew it didn't make sense. She knew she would be laughed at, but since that day she had been more afraid of that word than anything else. There was nothing scarier than someone using that word to describe her.

"You should not give a word that kind of power over you," Genkai said to the younger girl. "But for now let us concentrate on your Siren. Bring her form out."

Kirana took a deep breath and concentrated. Slowly her siren form came out. Genkai went inside to get a mirror for the girl, knowing that she needed to face the face that scared her so much. When she came back out she told Kirana to look into the mirror.

Kirana gasped. She had not expected what she saw.

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Author: Ha ha! I will leave you hanging again. Sorry, but again I have a good place to stop. You see I want you all to keep reading and if I leave it like this you are more likely to come back and see what will happen next!

Hilu: You really should be nicer to your readers.

Author: I love my readers, I just want them to keep reading!

Hilu: I think most of them will keep reading anyway.

Author: Oh well. Ja ne!