Rei: Oi! I am very VERY sorry about the long wait for this chapter to come out! (It's been...what, MONTHS?) I have no excuse, other than the fact that I am a lazy...lazy...person. (bows) If you can forgive, here is the fifth chapter...(goes off to sulk in a corner)

Disclaimer: I don't own YYH, nope...

Chapter 5

"Koenma sir! Koenma sir!" The blue ogre burst into Koenma's office. Koenma looked up from where he sat, stamping endless amounts of paper.

"What is it now, ogre?"

The ogre waved his hands around frantically. "The wolf demon has been spotted on our radars, sir!" Koenma's eyes widened.

"Well, go on, tell me! Where was he? Do Yusuke and the others know?" Koenma leaned forward to hear the ogre's information.

"Well, no, we're working on that, but the wolf was last spotted somewhere over here." He handed a piece of paper that looked like a map into Koenma's hands. Koenma looked down and studied it.

"Apartment 34-B? What is this place?" Koenma shook his head.

"Beats me, sir…" The ogre sighed. "I'll alert Yusuke at once!"

Koenma sighed as he cleaned up a pile of papers, already stamped. He sighed and shook his head. "What are you planning, wolf…?"

It was around 9 o'clock when Kana finally awoke. She looked over to her alarm clock and saw something attached to it. What the hell? She wondered as she picked it up, rubbing the sleep out of her eyes.

"I'll be gone for a few days. –Aki"

She stared at the piece of paper, confused. Why the heck would Aki need to leave for a few days? Where would he go, anyways?

She sighed and placed the paper back down where it rested before and padded into the other room. She shouldn't worry; it was Aki…He's older than she is; he can handle himself…
She shook her head as she started heating up some water. She tapped her fingers impatiently as it warmed up, readying a bowl and a packet of ramen noodles.
Kana stirred the noodles, letting it sit for a little while before going to eat it.
I am definitely thinking too much, Kana thought to herself.

Yusuke ran down the sidewalks, looking frantically for Apartment 34-B. Whoever was in there, they must have known something about the wolf demon, and he was determined to figure out where the damned thing has gone off to. While in thought, he slammed into something rather red and a weird pinkish shade...

"Ouch," he mumbled, rubbing his head. He clenched his fists; he didn't have time to mess around. He started to get up and take off, but:

"Oh, Yusuke."

Yusuke looked up. The "wall" was actually Kurama, and Yusuke flushed, embarrassed. "Sorry," he muttered softly. He looked up. "Did you get the message...?"

"Yes, as a matter of fact I did, and I am rather...upset about it all." Looking closely, Yusuke noticed the worry in Kurama's eyes.

"And why is that?" Yusuke asked, terribly confused.

"Because...Apartment 34-B is where Kana lives."

Kana hummed to herself, completely unaware of the fact that the Rekai Tantei was racing to her door at his very moment. She sighed and ate some more of her ramen, thinking, when all of a sudden...

BAM!

Kana started; her fork clattered onto the floor, a few ramen noodles falling with it. She sighed. It was only the door, nothing more...She thought to herself as she picked up her fork.

Wait...the door?

Kana hastily ran to the door and opened it. "I'm very sorry, I wasn't paying attention...I hope you were waiting too--Yusuke?" Kana just realized that it wasn't just anyone at the door, it was Yusuke, Kurama, and the others. "Um, hi...?" Well, this is really confusing, she wondered. Why are they coming to visit this early in the morning? And...what was with their expressions? They looked like they were worried about something...like they knew something...

She let them in and they wandered around the small apartment, obviously searching for any traces of the demon that had, unknowingly to Kana, been there just a few hours ago.

"You guys? What's going on?" Kana asked them. Kuwabara looked at the ramen bowl on the table.

"You...eat ramen in the morning?" He asked, eyeing the bowl weirdly.

"Yes..." Kana said, her eyebrows raised. Kuwabara made a face and looked around.

"Kana, who left this?"Hiei asked, holding up the piece of paper that Aki had written on telling her about his absence.

"My brother. Why?" Kana asked. What is up with them? "Look, why are you guys here? And why are youwandering around looking through our stuff?"

"Because this was not written by your brother." Kurama said, appearing in the kitchen.

"What on Earth are you talking about, Kurama?" Kana studied their faces. Was this a joke?

"Kana...where did your brother go? Did he say anything on where he went?" Yusuke asked her.

Kana put her hands on her temples; thinking this through. "N-no...He didn't..." She looked at them suddenly. "Why would this matter to you all? Why is this such a big deal?"

They looked at each other; obviously wondering who would speak up. Neither of them, it seemed, wanted to.

Finally, Hiei stepped forward. He didn't care either way; it was just a stupid girl, he didn't care what she felt.
"Because there was a wolf demon here."

Kana paused. "A what!"

"You heard me, mortal. A wolf demon. We are tracking it down and we need to find it. It is extremely dangerous; extremely powerful, and we must do all we can to arrest it. Koenma told us that it was last seen here, and if you don't tell us anything, I will personally strangle you." Hiei said coldly.

"Hiei, that's enough of that," Kurama scolded. Hiei rolled his scarlet eyes and proceded to a corner of the room, where he crossed his arms. "Look, Kana, everything Hiei just said is true. There was a wolf demon here, and we are searching for it."

Kana stared at them in shock. "Are you guys...in some sort of...cult?"

Yusuke nearly burst out laughing, but remembering the situation, he kept quiet. "Of course not, Kana! We're Spirit Detectives!"

"And what's that?" Kana asked him, looking at them all as if in a new light.

"We'll need to explain this all later. For now, can you tell us where you think your brother may have gone off to? It may help us with finding the demon, seeing as your brother left and the demon was here..." Kurama said solemnly. "If our guesses are correct, then your brother is in grave danger."

"I can't tell you anything. My brother and I just moved in here, I can't imagine where he'd want to go...except..." Kana's yellow eyes widened. "He wouldn't have..."

"What is it, Kana?" Kuwabara asked her.

"I'm almost certain he went back...home, to Kyoto...but, it doesn't make sense, he hated--" Kurama put his hands on her shoulder. She stopped and looked at him, tears stinging the back of her eyes. "None of this makes sense..."

"Kana...you need to come with us. You need to show us where your old home was." Kurama said softly.

Kana bit her lip, her mind racing. Wasn't it just fifteen minutes ago that she was just sitting at the table, eating her breakfast? How did it all come down to wolf demons and...and Spirit whosits? "I...I don't want to go back there," she whispered, horrible memories running through her mind, making her tremble.

"Kana, you will be safe with us. You don't need to worry..." Kurama looked into her eyes, seeing the tears about to spill over her cheeks. "It's going to be fine; we need to find your brother. Trust us." Yusuke and the others watched nervously, waiting for her reaction.

Slowly, ever so slowly, she nodded.

The wolf demon arrived at a doorstep, running its tongue over its fangs impatiently. "Look where we are," he told his inner self, the being trapped inside of him.

"Don't..." The inner voice pleaded. "This isn't right."

"This isn't right? THIS isn't right? The treatmentwe have gotten from HIM isn't right, and I'm going to settle it. We'll teach him a lesson that will cost his life."

"I deserved it. You deserved it."

"No we didn't, don't you see? You have powers, ME, and that is why HE did that to you years ago. He feared you, don't you get that?"

The door opened and a man appeared, looking in his late 50's, with a mustache and a beard. His face was heavily lined with wrinkles, worry lines, and his teeth were yellowing. A cigarette hung from his hand, which dropped immediately when he saw the figure in the door. His eyes widened and his mouth dropped open in fear. He hurriedly tried to shut the door, but the demon's pale hand held it gently, but firmly, and entered.

"Hello, father dearest. Remember me?" The wolf demon grinned maliciously and advanced, slowly, onto his target.

"S-stay away from me!" The man grabbed a frying pan from the kitchen and held it out protectively, shielding his face.

"Do you think I'm going to do that? Do you think I'd really let you live after all that you've done to us?" The demon's eyes narrowed. "Or could it be...that you've forgotten?"

The man whimpered and tripped over the edge of a recliner, crying out, crawling fast to get away from the being. "Leave me alone!"

"You have, haven't you? Well, let me refresh your memory!" The demon struck the man across the cheek, snarling in fury. "You beat us, you shunned us...because you were afraid of us. Yes, you were afraid, and since we were young, we couldn't stop you. We haven't developed our powers yet...and you, always so angry, day in and day out hurt us mercilessly..." He struck the man again. "Well let's just say, we're back for revenge."

A few minutes later the group arrived at the house.

"It's...It's this one, this house right here." Kana lifted a finger and pointed to the house in view, a rather plain house.

"I can feel massive spirit energy here..." Hiei said, his hand reaching for his katana.

They knocked down the front door and Kana gasped. Her father lay on the ground, bleeding...dead. A tall being stood at his side, grinning evilly, licking the blood off his fingers. Her eyes hardened and her anger mounted.

"You...BEAST!" Kana screamed, and without warning, she hurtled towards the demon, grabbing a hold of its neck and was holding tightly with all her might.

"Kana!" Kurama cried out in warning.

The demon, however, remained impassive. "Are you mad, girl? Even after all that has happened to us, you still feel remorse for this sack of shit?"

"I don't know you, I'm not going to answer. You killed him! My father!" Kana cried angrily.

"You don't know me, you say? Ah, but I think you do..." And right before her very eyes, the body she held by the neck seemed to melt away, to show the obviously dyed purple hair...the yellow eyes, so much like her own...

"N-no..." Kana whispered in disbelief. Her eyes widened in shock and she dropped her hands to her sides, backing up, shaking her head. "Aki...?"

Rei: A bit of a cliffhanger, I suppose! Hehe...leave a review!