The mysterious girl did not wake for a few days, giving the group some time to analyze her without restraint. Kurama explained the situation, citing again the feeling Kuwabara had the day they found her body.

"Her energy felt like your's, Yusuke, but only because there were both demon and human elements. Upon heaving her-"

"We had to cut her hair from the ground!" Kuwabara interrupted, making a sword slashing motion with his hands, "With my sword!"

Kurama raised his hand to his mouth, coughing slightly to gather the attention that had been ripped away from him, "Heaving her out of the ground, yes. After that, I felt the demonic energy withdrawal, and my conclusion is that a demon from the forest was feeding off of this girl. However," His eyes narrowed a bit, and he let out a sigh, "there is little explanation for why the energy was feeding her. Without proper knowledge of the demon, we'll assume one in Genkai's forest, we cannot be sure why there was a give and take."

Everyone was quiet for a moment before Yusuke spoke up, "So, you're saying that this plant chick is a half demon? Or…?"

"Not quite. The demonic energy, in my theory, is from the demon who was using the plants to feed off her life energy," replied the fox, standing from his place at the long table. "As the demon was also giving her energy."

"Her energy has been weakening these past few days," Yukina spoke up softly, her lips tighter than normal. "Her hair was vibrant when she was brought here, now it seems to be…. wilting, if that is appropriate."

The girl's hair, which had resembled tree bark brown, was now shriveled and brittle, lightening to become an off cream. Her body was not dying as it had been in the hold of the roots, but there was a noticeable weakening of her energy. As the girl had yet to eat, her frail body was beginning to become a concern as well.

At this point, the team deemed that she was not a threat.

With the discussion seeming to go nowhere, as no one had answers for the questions lingering, the group decided disperse and go about their individual activities.

Everything felt slow. As clouded eyes opened, the world seemed to sway and pain prodded at her skull. She felt disconnected above all, despite an insistent pain gnawing at her.

She wasn't alone for long, as she heard shuffling followed but hands touching her. For the first time, she felt. And for the first time, she jerked away and sat up quickly, her head spinning and her instincts crying to get away. Her eyes met with a blurred figure, and it was then that she realized she couldn't see. Not properly.

"Oh my god, look at her eyes…" a soft voice fluttered to her ears, and she brought her hands up slowly to her face, noticing that they, too, were blurry.

"Give her space, Yukina." A stern, rough voice caused her to jump, and one of the figures seemed to move, although to where, she couldn't tell. The distance between herself and the blurs was hard to calculate.

She listened to the hushed voices, wondering what was happening, where she was, and finally a thought sprang to her.

"Sorry," her voice sounded cracked and small, not to mention foreign, "do know me?"

Kurama looked up from his hushed concerns back and forth with Genkai about the girl's very clearly dead (or so it looked) eyes. The girl, who was sitting up, one leg beneath her and one propped up as if ready to spring back, squinted her eyes at them. He figured she wasn't able to see well, as no one would be able to with cataracts at that stage. Her hair was as Yukina had voiced, dull and wilting. Everything about her screamed weak, but her body movements and language showed instinct that went beyond that of a simple human.

Yusuke was unusually quiet, and Kuwabara's eyes held sympathy and concern, much did Yukina's, but Genkai was the one to step forward.

"Know you?" She replied, taking another cautious step forward, knowing not what this girl was capable of. "We found you on my property, girl."

This was not unlike Genkai, who was giving a rough exterior and was careful not to get too close or too friendly with the unknown. However, the words that she said only seemed to confuse and alarm the girl even more, and in a slur of broken language she sputtered,

"I know not, property is your belong, sorry."

It was a silent moment before Yusuke spoke up, and he pointed a finger to his temple and whispered to the others, "Does she have, like, an issue?"

"Yusuke!" Kuwabara exclaimed, slapping the other's hand down heatedly. "Don't say mean things like that, we don't even know her!"

At the sound of new voices, the girl narrowed her eyes, trying her hardest to see anything other than blurs and blobs. How many people were in the room? Where was this room? She couldn't feel hostility from these people, but she wasn't sure what situation she was in at the moment. She wished she could convey her concerns with words, but when she opened her mouth all that slipped out was, "Who?"

Genkai's eyes watched the reaction coming from the girl, and slowly she turned to the other's behind her. "She seems to understand us, but can't speak well. Before we do anything, we have to get information out of her. I'm not going to take this lightly, especially if this is some ploy by the demon to gain trust."

At Genkai's reasoning, Yukina protested quickly, "But she is weak and needs to eat, please reconsider."

Although Genkai felt a pang of guilt after seeing the koorime's glistening eyes, she held stern. It was decided that there would be thorough questioning before making any kind of moves with this girl.

"Come." Genkai motioned for the girl to stand, and although the girl could not see the motion, she stood slowly, her legs shaking at the sudden movement. However, the girl gritted her teeth and stood even straighter, not allowing herself to falter so easily.

Kurama and Yusuke both watched her movements carefully, but Yusuke was the first to say, "I mean, at least she's got some spunk. Now all she needs is some clothes."

"Yukina, please get this girl some clothes. Also, if you could, help lead her. Her eyes are lame."

"Yes, Genkai." Yukina replied, turning to face the girl, who was still standing very straight and looking into the void.

"Please, let me get you some clothes, um…" At the pause, she expected the girl to give her name, but to Yukina's dismay the social cue was lost. She hurried off.

Kuwabara was intentionally looking away from the girl now that clothes had been mentioned, but he still called out, "So, what is your name?"

"Dimwit, the questioning has yet to begin and you're already opening your mouth," Genkai sighed, but looked over to the girl with expectant eyes.

"Name?" Lips dipped downwards, and the girl's posture loosened a bit. She stood silent for a few moments before announcing, "Name, not know."

It was like that simple phrase has broken a dam, and suddenly the girl's eyes widened and she whispered to herself, "name…. not know…?"

"Name, what is?"

Yukina returned to find the girl on the floor once again, Genkai at her side as she pried at the hands that scratched at their owner's face. It took mere seconds before the girl had over exerted herself and she fell limp against the floor, blood dripping from her open wounds inflicted by her own hands.

As Yukina rushed over to help heal the wounds, Kurama stood at the back with Yusuke and Kuwabara, both looking more surprised than he as he muttered, "That could have went better."

(me, the author)

OK wow it's been a while since I've updated, but here we are! I noticed myself giving too much of a shit about how I wrote this and decided that hey, it's my story and I'm 21 and can do what I WANT! So here it is, chapter three!

This mysterious girl was even sort of mysterious to me before I had a breakthrough about this plot, and I'm seeing a lot into the future of this story. Hopefully I can continue, but I'm having trouble filling in mundane parts where you get to know her and learn what happened and stuff, I only have a few concrete ideas so far about those parts. Hopefully I can continue easily! I've been working a lot and school starts next week, and I think I'm going to be teaching Japanese to elementary students again! if it fits into my schedule, hopefully!

thanks for reading! you are all the best and I love you!

if you see any mistakes please let me know! (or even shit that doesn't fit with what I said before, I reread all the chapters before I write another one as to not have many plot holes or things that contradict, but im only human and I have a very forgetful brain!)