Himeno rested as she was told and in the end nothing was found wrong in her well being. The doctors pleaded with her mother to leave her in the hospital but her mother, Naoko, refused with huge doctor bills already to payoff and the fact Himeno had already missed a month of school. Himeno's father also made an appearance which was surprising. He and her mother had been divorced almost four years now and he hardly came to see her. He worked with one of the many computer companies in Japan and traveled often. His name was Ken.

Himeno glared at him as he entered her bedroom as she sat on her bed. "You gave us quite a scare there Himeno." He said

He was a stocky man aged man with black hair that was tinged with grey. His features were soft and round giving him a younger look then his late forties. Ken was ten years older then her mother.

"Well I'm better now." Himeno said

Ken sighed "Look Himeno now is not the time to be difficult you know I travel a lot but I keep in touch you're the one who stopped replying to my emails and my phone calls I still love you."

"Yeah I know." Was her only reply

"By the gods you are as stubborn as your mother."

"Thank you."

"Fine, I've had enough of arguing with you I'm glad your better but I have to fly out tomorrow morning."

Naoko stood in the doorway with a scowl on her face. "Call me if anything changes."

"Of course." Naoko replied

"Well at least you have enough frequent flyer miles to make it back." Himeno snapped

Ken froze turning back to look at his daughter who seemed so foreign to him. He opened his mouth but shut it. The years had been hard on all of them and he really had no right in the saying of how his daughter was raised he had purposely shut himself out. The past was the past and you couldn't change it no matter what. He was just glad she wasn't dead.

"I love you Himeno someday maybe you'll see that."

"I see a lot of things but never enough of you." Himeno was tearing now and Naoko grabbed Ken's shoulder

"All right enough its time for you to leave Ken."

"Fine." He said brushing her off and heading down the stairs

Himeno hugged her horse plushy hard. This was how it had been since she was thirteen. She understood the whole idea of divorce and why it happened. Parents just didn't get along; they fell out of love, etc. etc. etc. She wondered how many excuses they could come up with. She had never begged her father to stay or had been very close to him always being more of a mommy's girl so to speak but he was still her father. He was supposed to care. He was supposed to yell at her for bad grades and interrogate her boyfriends. He was supposed to tell her the clothes she wore were too much for a girl her age. Of course that was storybook wasn't it? Well Himeno had quit reading storybooks a long time ago.

She always appeared so happy and bouncy to everyone but of course she was just hiding her pain. Everyone did in different ways Himeno didn't just hide it though, she buried it and sealed it less than ten feet of concrete.

"Sorry honey but he insisted on seeing you."

"No problem Mom I understand."

Naoko sighed walking to her bedside and kissing her forehead. Himeno leaned into her instinct being very clingy to her mother the last couple of weeks. If she had died what would have happened to her mother? She would have been all alone.

Naoko sighed her thin face even thinner. "Are you sure you are up to going back to school tomorrow?"

"Yeah mom I'll be fine, I have to start my life again sometime right?"

"Right." Naoko said with a soft smile but worry still in her eyes, after all, it was her little girl.

Kurama settled into this body dormant for the time being. He had overwhelmed the girl last time in her weak and panicked period. Now she was better, home, and around her mother. Seeing her mother love and care for her so tenderly made him ache for his own. He felt so guilty at the hurt and worry his mother, Tanaka-san, and Shuuichi were going through right now. He had so many unanswered questions but lying dormant he had started to figure it out little by little. His body had become weak, the human body he possessed. Why had it become weak though?

He couldn't quite figure it out. It wouldn't be long though before his soul overwhelmed this girl's body. There could be only one soul in one body not two. So he had to contact her as soon as possible. He didn't know how long but the stronger his presence became the more danger this girl's soul was in. Until then he could just rest and obtain a little strength at a time. In his present state he offered no danger to her.

Himeno dressed the next morning in her schools traditional uniform. A blue and red plaid skirt and the light blue button up blouse with the navy blue knee highs. She was tying her sneakers when she decided to take one last look into her mirror to fix her hair. Himeno gasped for a split second she thought she saw her eyes reflect gold. However as soon as she blinked it was gone. She blinked several times before slowly turning away and heading out the door for school.

The worst part was the rumors. She walked into the school yard and she immediately felt the whispers and stares boring into her. She searched the crowed for Kayako. Thank god she found her standing with several other members of their gymnastics squad.

"Kayako!" Himeno called

Raven curls danced as Kayako turned her head and her hazel eyes settled on her friend. She smiled brightly at the girl. "Himeno! Oh my god you're O.K."

Himeno put on a bright smile and ran hugging her friend. Kayako laughed and her friends once again enveloped her in their embrace.

Himeno picked up as if she hadn't missed a beat. Many people questioned her about what had happened to her when she was in the hospital. She really had no answer for them. All she could tell them was something had happened to her but miraculously she had survived. Of course she was put on medical restriction and would have to go back for check ups once a week. The doctors were convinced she had an anomaly with her heart they had missed. Himeno was restricted from physical activity so she had to sit out on the gymnastics team. However, she didn't mind because she had never really been that good in the first place.

Himeno did volunteer to be a sort of manager for the team and help out with taping ankles and wrist, setting up equipment, etc. It was grunt work but at least it was something. A week had gone by and it was one day after practice when she was closing down the gym she stopped and stared at the balance beam. The beam had always been her strongest event. She sighed and suddenly felt nostalgic. She looked around and watched the last of the girl's leave the gym before she got and a grin on her face. She toed off her shoes and casually climbed up on the beam instead of using the spring board for an extravagant mount.

She was in her blouse and skirt but she didn't mind. She did a few stretches before doing a simple cartwheel. Upon landing something deep inside her seemed to come alive. A strange tingling over took her. Her heart pounded her blood rushed faster. She simply felt stronger faster. Her senses became sharper. She then did a cartwheel, back hand spring, and a dismount with three rotation layouts. She landed and stared breathlessly at the balance beam. She shook from head to toe before dropping on her knees. There seemed to be a buzzing in her body a remarkable amount of energy. Every molecule in her body was zipping around haphazardly. Her heart thundered in her ears.

Himeno panicked standing and running form the gym at a pace quicker then she had ever run. She seemed to cross it in three bounds but she hardly noticed. Streaking around a corner she sought a haven from the girl's restroom. Himeno collapsed shaking against the sink and hurriedly turned on the water to wash her face off in hopes to calm herself. She grimaced as the stream of water sounded like a pounding waterfall. She cried out clapping her hands to her ears. She caught sight of herself in the mirror and she gaped. Her eyes! Her eyes were gold! Everything went black after that.

Kurama hung back asleep deep in the recesses of the girl's mind when suddenly it was as if someone lit a fire beneath him. His demonic presence grew and mingled with that of the girl's until it took over completely. The next thing he knew he was looking through her eyes at her own reflection. In an instant he knew he had control of this body. How could this be? He looked down at the petite fingers and back up at the mirror his own gold gaze of his Youko form staring back at him.

He had been resting inside this girl when suddenly and his demonic aura in animal instinct had been awakened and pushed forwards dragging him along. As Youko alone he had been more animalistic in his existence as far as his Youki was concerned. However, when he became Shuuichi he gained a human presence that that mingled with his Youki actually giving him more accurate control if less power. Power had never been a question but his human conscious and awareness made it easier for him to battle.

He deducted that if he was in control of this body the girl had passed out. When she had been unconscious before he had reached her mind easier. The process to which he had come to be in control baffled him. To stir his basic instinct like that it had to have been an occurrence of some magnitude place. It was a trump card just like you act from sheer survival instinct when something threatens you or something you hold of value. He looked at his palms which were dirty. He was in this girl's school how dirty could her hands get? Also she smelled like sweat. He remembered she had been involved in gymnastics. Maybe her physical activity had triggered his demonic aura. It could be plausible that she may have access to his demonic abilities but not without waking him for certain. Obviously she had been overwhelmed by the magnitude of his power hitting her frail human body and fainted leaving his weak conscious unguarded and able to come forth.

This situation was becoming more and more disturbing by the moment. He was in her body lying dormant but if she was to become unconscious he could take over. How would he ever talk to her? If he became to strong he would push her soul out and claim this vessel as his own. It seemed hopeless.

He tried to calm himself to the point where he could think rationally. He could find Hiei, Yusuke, or Kuwabara. Hopefully his senses were not too dull in this form. However, he had to act quickly because he didn't have much time.

Hiei jumped from building to building scanning the city. He could not find Kurama. It had startled him to hear such news about his comrade. Weak in his human emotions he was but he held a respect for him and owed him. In Kurama he held a strange sort of companionship and was one of the only few in existence he trusted. Makuro had discharged him for the time being to help find the Youko's soul. Kurama's soul was strong and could last several days without a vessel but it wouldn't be long until it would cross over. They all had to act fast.

Yusuke was searching the streets and Kuwabara was keeping watch over his body. Even though there had been peace Kurama had enemies from this life and his last and if they heard his body was unguarded and soulless they might just take that to their advantage. Hiei used his regular senses at first until he knew it called time for his Jagan. He stopped atop a rooftop of a corporation building and untied the white cloth that kept it shielded from sight. The violet eye opened and instantly his mind was double its strength and his senses practically limitless.

Yes! There is was! Kurama's presence. He sensed it and it was growing stronger until it was prominent.

Kurama!

Hiei?

Yes you fool, what had happened to you?

I don't have much time…Hiei…come to me….

Hiei didn't like this. Kurama's energy was starting to become jumbled and his usually strong mental presence was quickly fading. Hiei used his infamous speed to track down the Youko in an alley outside of a human school. He looked down from the rooftop and his eyes widened as he saw the body of a human girl staring up at him with golden eyes.

"Hiei." Kurama called with a smile

Hiei jumped down from his perch and faced the girl bewildered. He could sense her energy mixed with that of Kurama's however Kurama's was more dominant at the moment.

"What has happened to you?" Hiei asked gaping

"My soul, my soul separated from my body as you know. When I awoke I was in this girl's."

"Why?"

"I don't exactly know why Hiei, I don't have much more time she is waking." Kurama said the girl's body dropped to its knees.

"I just needed to find someone to let them know." Kurama said the eyes fading back to brown as the body collapsed

Kurama fell back into the darkness but his panic was quelled for the moment and this time he voluntarily gave into sleep knowing his friends were there to help him.

Himeno felt a terrible migraine coming on. Her body also felt numb or was that the cold ground beneath her. Oh god, she'd fainted. Maybe she really was sick. She forced her eyes opened and everything was hazy for a few moments when she came aware of her surroundings. She was in a stupor as she sat up seeing she was in an alley way. It was getting dark and apparently she was not alone. She looked up at what appeared to be a young man but the glowing violet eye on his forehead told her otherwise. The scream stuck in her throat because it suddenly had become very dry.

Hiei sneered at her reaching down grabbing her collar and pulling her up. Himeno squeaked in surprise grabbing his wrist in retaliation.

"You human are in more trouble then you could ever know." He growled at her

"Wh-what! I-I, what are you talking about! Put me down!" She cried.

Hiei set her down but did not let go of her collar. Hiei felt know force in this girl physical or mystical that could have made her powerful enough to cast Kurama's soul from his body. However what made this girl's body attract Kurama's soul was beyond his knowing even with his Jagan. All he knew was that he needed to take this girl to the weakling prince and get this situation sorted out before it got even stranger.

"Please! Whatever you want take it!" Himeno cried desperately.

She didn't know what to do she was terrified. She wakes up in an alley and this man is here threatening her.

"Calm down girl."

"Let me go! Please let me go!" She struck out at him surprising Hiei

The woman was obviously tapping into Kurama's power because she actually knocked him back. She turned to run but he used his superior speed to subdue her. Himeno didn't run five feet before she ran into Hiei who grasped her once more.

"Calm down!" Hiei snarled fangs showing. He really hated dealing with humans especially females.

Himeno froze solid seeing he had fangs and a glowing violet eye on his forehead. He set her down but didn't let go of her arm just in case she tried to run again.

"I do not have the patience to explain this to you so be calm and do not speak." He ordered in a half growl

Himeno didn't have a chance to respond before her very eyes she saw that silver beast again. Psychically Hiei explained everything to her through his Jagan. A few minutes later he regained his main consciousness and looked down at the girl. Tears were streaming down her cheeks and she was trembling.

"Now you know girl." He said

Himeno just looked up at him a pitiful croak was all that came out of her throat before her eyes rolled in the back of her head and she promptly fainted. Hiei's mouth twisted up into a ferocious scowl.

"Kurama, you owe me." He said picking up Himeno's body and fazing off into the night.