After an hour of sorting things out, like how Kanade was not Kurama's girlfriend for one, and Kanade would be fine for a few days while Kurama was gone, Kanade ran home so she wouldn't get in trouble. When she got home she looked at the clock and sighed in relief. "Only 3:25." She breathed. She began to look over the house to see if she had to tidy anything but she couldn't find anything, so she started to cook lunch. That was when her mother stumbled down the stairs, in a drunken state. "Where's my food girl?" She slurred. "Right here Mother. Hold on a moment." Kanade said, pouring the miso into a bowl for her mother. "Here you are." She said, bowing a little as she presented her mother's food to her at the table. "I'm going to go do my homework now Mother." Kanade said and the woman waved a hand at her in response. Kanade ran up to her room and closed the door. The flowers Kurama had planted in her flower box were still present, moving slightly in the breeze. She smiled a bit and glanced down at the Dragon Band and frowned. How can such a small thing cause so much trouble? Then she laughed to herself. How long she had longed to be sucked into her Lord of the Rings books that she hadn't even noticed she was in a story so similar. This ring is also evil and has all the forces of evil longing to have it in their grasp. Suddenly the flowers in her window hissed, meaning, as Kurama explained, that a powerful demon was near. Kanade went to the window, her fingers ready to shoot a Spirit Arrow. A Demon with long black hair and a metal mask over his mouth was staring up at her, his eyes like ice that sent anger through her body because it made her afraid. From the way his eyes moved, she could tell he smirked up at her. "Who are you?" She demanded. He leapt up to the window and jumped into her room, causing her to fall back in surprise. Kurama's flowers shriveled up and died. The demon laughed. "He should know better than to put such a weak defense up to protect the bearer of the Dragon Band." He said in a dark voice. Kanade shot up to her feet and aimed her Spirit Bow and Arrow at him. "Be gone, or I'll shoot!" Kanade yelled. The demon chuckled darkly. "As if you could land a hit on me, half demon. You have hardly any power." He laughed. Suddenly he had Kanade by her throat and slammed her into the wall. "O don't fuss I'm not going to kill you yet. In fact, my intentions are to make you and Kurama suffer." He breathed into her face. "Kurama?" She gasped in question. "He's the one who defeated me, using his life energy to kill me that had everyone believing I was dead. In fact, I woke underground in a pine box; how insulting. So in my revenge, I want him to suffer a most painful death, and seeing you seem to be good friends with him, I think I found a way for that to happen." He said. Kanade was beginning to lose consciousness so he let her drop to the ground. "Until then, pet." He said, turning to leave. "W-who are you?" Kanade gasped, clutching her throat in pain. She heard a slight laugh from the demon. " Karasu" he said, then leapt out the window and disappeared.