A/N: I'm so sorry for taking so long on getting this chapter out. Thank you Shadow Ice Maiden for reviewing. Now, on with the story!!

Chapter 5

Daichi didn't know what to think. Youko Kurama isn't dead, he's standing right in front of the door with a cocky smirk directed right at him. "Wait a minute, Youko Kurama...Youko Kurama?" Daichi felt like he could slap himself. "Dammit, I'm supposed to pick up on these things." he thought. His thoughts were interrupted by a sudden pressure on his shoulder. Daichi turned around and saw Yusuke staring at him with a concerned look.

"Hey, He's on our side."Yusuke said

Daichi shrugged Yusuke's hand off and glared at Kaytari. "When you're done playing we need to talk."

Kaytari squirmed out of Youko's grasp, intent on following Daichi upstairs and giving him a piece of her mind. But, Yusuke and Kuwabara blocked her path. She looked up at Yusuke. "Move."

Yusuke, who was about 6 inches taller than Kay, looked down at her. "You need to calm down before you talk to him. I don't wanna have to break up any fights."

She closed her eyes and took a couple of deep breaths before she nodded. "Fine, I'll talk to him a little later."

When Yusuke was satisfied that she wasn't going to run past them he shifted his gaze to Youko. "Now what the hell is up with Kurama?"

"Yeah," Kuwabara chimed in "he doesn't usually get violent with us."

"You were annoying him. He did what he thought was necessary." Youko explained

Kaytari really didn't want to interrupt them but she knew that she didn't want to continue this conversation in front of the door. "Uh...can we take this in Kurama's room?"

Youko looked down at her. "We? This has nothing to do with you"

Kaytari put her hands on her hips. "You are going to be living with me. I do believe I should know if you are unstable."

"As you wish." He replied walking in between Yusuke and Kuwabara up the stairs.

Kaytari, Kuwabara and Yusuke followed Youko to the room.

Daichi was sulking. He knew Kay would get angry at him for not telling her about her mother, but he had a reason. Before he even got to that reason, she slapped him. He wasn't expecting that. After they left Koenma's office, and Kay went off with the guys, he went to the house to leave a note in Kay's room letting her know that he would be going for a walk. During his walk he had time to think about what he was going to say to Kay. Yes, he was angry she slapped him, but he didn't want to blow up on her. If Koenma hadn't sent the Spirit Detectives out so soon, Daichi would have had the chance to tell her about her mother's plan. So Daichi decided, when he got back he would tell her exactly that. He didn't expect to see her in the arms of Youko Kurama. That was something he still was a little pissed about. Koenma rolled right over that little detail. He didn't have anything personal against Youko, but he knew what kind of demon he was. And he didn't want someone like that staying in the same house as Kay let alone holding her.

Daichi got up off his bed and went to stand in front of the window. "Life is so much easier as a bird." he mused. He opened the window and took a deep breath. An hour. After an hour, he was going to force her to listen weather she was calm or not.

Before Youko could explain his sudden appearance properly, Kaytari insisted they clarify how Kurama and Youko Kurama were sharing a body.. After she finally came to an understanding, the were able to get back to finding out what was going on with Kurama.

"So, you're saying is that this is a side effect of him being put under so much stress?" Kaytari questioned.

"That is correct." Youko answered

Kaytari sat on the bed in between Yusuke and Kuwabara. "If he's under so much stress, why did he agree to be my guard?"

Youko smirked. "It's not my place to answer that question."

"So...what do we do to uh...fix things?" Kuwabara asked.

Yusuke hit Kuwabara in the back of the head. "Idiot, we can't fix it. We just need to make sure he doesn't get too stressed out."

Kuwabara rubbed the back of his head. "How do we do that?"

"I don't know."

"I can try to keep him from getting too stressed out. I mean, he is gonna be staying here so it shouldn't be a problem." Kaytari suggested.

Yusuke looked at Kuwabara to see his reaction, but he just shrugged his shoulders. He then turned to Youko to find him smirking. "Kay are you sure you want to do this?"

She nodded her head "Positive."

He leaned over to whisper in her ear, "Don't let him in your room at night."

Kaytari's eyes widened briefly, but before she had a chance to respond to Yusuke's comment, Youko cut in. "I assure you, anything that may happen between us will be consensual."

Kaytari had to replay what he said to make sure she heard him correctly. She got off the bed "And I assure you, that nothing will happen between us."

Kuwabara got off the bed as well standing in between Kaytari and Youko before stretching. "Well I don't know about you guys, but I'm kinda hungry."

Yusuke took the hint and got up and stretched as well. "Me too, what about you Kay?"

"I'm fine. I think I should go talk to Daichi now, after we finish talking I'll go fix dinner." She said as she walked toward the door. Just as she reached the door she turned around to face them. "You guys are free to roam the house you know, get used to the layout, watch TV, entertain yourselves or something. You don't have to stay in here."

Yusuke and Kuwabara nodded and Kaytari smiled before she turned around and made her way towards Daichi's room.

Knock Knock

"Come in."

Kaytari opened the door and saw Daichi laying on the bed with his hands behind his head.

"I'm sorry, were you sleeping? If you want we can talk later."

Daichi sat up. "Close the door and come here."

"Alright.." She did as she was told and slowly walked over to the bed. They stared at each other for a minute, then Kaytari climbed onto the bed beside him. "I'm sorry about earlier. I shouldn't have slapped you."

Daichi turned to face her and smiled a little. "I know. I was going to tell you about what your mother had planned for you but, Koenma sent the Spirit Detectives out after you and that didn't really give me enough time."

"So...why didn't she want anyone to find me?"

Daichi saw that she was close to tears so he put his arm around her waist and she laid her head on his shoulder. "She knew that you would be a great goddess but, she wanted to make sure that you were going to be safe. She didn't know if your father was going to have people looking for you or not, so I was supposed to train you and work work with you until I thought you were able to protect the pendent well enough on your own. Then we were supposed to find a way to contact Koenma."

She looked up at Daichi, silver eyes gleaming with unshed tears. "Why did she want me to be alone for so long?"

"She wanted you to become strong and independent. She thought that if you had people falling at your feet because you were the future goddess of fire, you would become spoiled and eventually power hungry. She was worried you would turn out like..."

...my father."

Daichi nodded.

Kaytari sat up so that she didn't have to lean on Daichi, but his arm was still around her waist.

"I apologize. I didn't me-"

Kaytari held up a hand. "It's fine." She close her eyes and took a deep breath. "You know, I'm glad we talked. I understand why you did what you did, and I'm not angry anymore. My mom knew you would take care of me, and you did." Kaytari leaned into him and wrapped her arms around his neck. "Thank you, for everything."

Daichi returned the embrace. "Your welcome."

Yusuke opened the door. "Guys?... wow, am I interrupting?"

Daichi and Kaytari let go of each other and turned to face Yusuke.

"No." Kaytari noticed Yusuke's face was an interesting shade of red. "You did come in here for a reason right?"

"Oh yea, Kurama's back."

"Good." Daichi said.

Kaytari turned to Daichi, "I told them they could stay for dinner."

Daichi nodded his head. "Well don't you think you should start on it?"

"I'm going, I'm going." she said getting off the bed.

As Kay walked toward the door Yusuke noticed that Daichi wasn't getting off the bed. "Aren't you coming down with us?"

Daichi laid down and resumed the position he held before Kay came in. "Yeah, I'll be down later."

Kaytari turned around "Are you sure you're not tired?"

Daichi smiled "I'm fine, I just don't do the group thing. I'll be down later Kay, close the door on your way out."

"Fine." she said as she closed the door.

When they reached the stairs, Kaytari tapped Yusuke on the shoulder. "Yusuke, how did Kurama come back?"

Yusuke stopped, turned around to face her and scratched his head. "I really don't know. A couple of minutes after you left, Hiei came to the window. Youko let him in, then Hiei started glaring at us. I asked him what his problem was and he told me to take Kuwabara and get out, so we left."

"You didn't ask him why?"

"No, I knew that was his nice way of asking me and Kuwabara to leave so he could talk to Kur-- I mean Youko in private."

Kaytari nodded

Yusuke turned around and they continued down the stairs. Kaytari followed Yusuke down the hall and into the living room. Kuwabara was lounging on the couch watching the television until Yusuke jumped over the back and started wresting with him for the remote.

"Ok...well try not to break anything. I'm gonna go start dinner."

Yusuke and Kuwabara didn't even notice that Kaytari had left. Yusuke had Kuwabara in a headlock and was trying to take the remote from him, but Kuwabara was holding it away from him.

"Come on Urameshi, you can watch whatever you want as soon as this goes off."

"I don't want to wait for this to go off."

"It's just a couple of minutes."

"Just hand it over Kuwabara!"

Kaytari couldn't help but laugh at the yelling she was hearing in the next room. She had been in the kitchen for a good fifteen minutes, and they have been fighting the whole time. At first it was over the remote, then it was because Kuwabara didn't get to finish watching his show. After that one died down, from what Kaytari heard, Kuwabara messed up Yusuke's hair. What had surprised her the most was that she hadn't seen Hiei or Kurama, well she really didn't expect to see Hiei for a while but Kurama was a different story.

"I wonder where he is." Kaytari thought

"Kurama is a big boy, he doesn't need you to worry about him." Hiei said standing in the doorway.

Kaytari jumped and nearly dropped the spoon. She placed the spoon down on the counter and took a deep breath, before she turned to face Hiei. "Don't do that."

"Do what?"

"Don't sneak up on me, and stop listening to my thoughts."

"Hn."

Kaytari rolled her eyes, then turned around. She heard Hiei's footsteps as he walked over to where she was standing. Kaytari turned to look at him, "What?"

Hiei looked at Kaytari, then shifted his gaze to the side.

Kaytari noticed this and raised an eyebrow at him. But he stayed in place and began glaring at nothing. "The hell is his problem?" she thought. She was just about to return to cooking when she saw him put something on the counter behind her then he disappeared. Kaytari turned around to see just what the hell Hiei was doing. To say Kaytari was surprised when she found a rose on the counter, would be an understatement.

A/N: Where is Kurama? Why the hell did Hiei leave Kay a rose? You gotta read the next chapter to find out!!!