Emi: Alright, (She took out Boton ride of transportation out) This is called an Oar.

CS:… I know. I should have known that when I wrote the last chapter, but I was drawing a blank.

Emi: Saying it with me "OAR".

CS: Emi I get it.

Emi: It's spelled O, A, R-

CS: EMI! I GET IT!

Emi: (teary eyed) you don't have to yell.

CS: Yes… I do. Anyway, Welcome to Chapter 16, I am your author, Crazysally, here to bring you another eventful chapter of Copy Cat.

Yusuke: Um, why are you talking like a host on a game show?

CS: Shut up, I'm typing this at 1:00 in the morning.

Kurama:…. Why?

CS: Because I can.

[All]: …..

CS: anyway, sorry for the delay. Been working… well been trying to FINISH UP THE LAST CHAPTERS OF GAME OVER!

Kuwabara: Maybe you should start the chapter before you go off on to a rampage.

Hiei: wow, The meat shield made a valid point.

Kuwabara: Shut up!

CS: both shut up or I'll make that slash fic into reality!

[complete silence]

The Runaway

Koenma was busy in his office. The Oculus had been active for the past few days. They seemed to be searching for something. All over the world, members have been sighted at old tombs, haunted burial grounds, any place that showed supernatural energy. He was about to get Botan, when the doors burst open.

Emi came striding in with Botan right behind. Koenma noticed her lips were firmly straight, unlike the upward curve he usually saw.

"I don't want any bodyguards." She got straight to the point.

"Emi, The Oculus has shown interest in-"

"I don't care." She crossed her arms, "I can take care of myself. I have had no problem so far in going against them, all by myself might I add. You're just wasting Hiei time in watching me."

"Listen, you are a valuable member." Koenma crossed his arms, "I promised Mr. Baldwin I would take care of you and that's what I'm going to do."

"I don't think he meant by having a bodyguard at all time."

"Emi this is not up for debate. Hiei or any of the others will watch over you, whether you like it or not."

Emi's eyes harden. He was sure he saw them glowed for a split second. He also seemed to notice the room was getting chillier. Her face soften after ten seconds.

"Ok." She said before taking her leave.

"Ok?" Koenma didn't know Emi that well, but could tell she wasn't someone to rollover like that. What was she up to?

Hiei awoke just before the sun rose up. He sensed a familiar presence come close to the home and awoke. He couldn't help but frown when he saw it was Kurama.

Kurama noticed the demon as well and smiled. He walked over to the tree that was next to Emi's bedroom window.

"Good morning, Hiei." He said with a smiling.

"I don't know what's so good about this morning." Hiei jumped from out of the tree, "watching the girl all day and having to stand watch outside all night is a waste of my time."

"well if you like, I could watch over her."

"Hmm, I'm capable of watching over a teenage girl." he took the offensive.

"you know I didn't mean it like that." Kurama gave is innocent smile, "I was just saying we can switch off so you can take some time off watching her, that's all. You can go do other things."

The silence that fell may have seemed to some as if Hiei was considering it. But Kurama knew the demon wasn't considering it. Actually Hiei looked as if he hated the idea. He just didn't want to say that he did. Why he didn't want to speak was his opinion was because he didn't know why he hated the idea. It was a good idea, but found himself angry with it.

"Emi was pretty upset when she left, wasn't she?"

Kurama sighed, he was changing the subject. "Yes, she didn't like the fact of being babied. I sometimes wonder if she knows the danger she is in."

"Of course she does. She is not new to this whole thing. Though she may act childish and stupid, she's a lot clever then she lets us to believe. And a lot stronger."

"that is true." Kurama nodded in agreement, "But she can't take care of them all by herself."

Hiei grunted, "you underestimate her."

Kurama looked seriously at Hiei, "are you sure your not overestimating her?"

Hiei said nothing. No one in the group has seen the full extent of her powers. They knew she took down two demons to save Kurama's life and a bunch of weaker ones, but never saw it with their real eyes. How strong was she really? Hiei just knew that Emi's patience went thin yesterday. For the two months he has known her, her personality as been changing or he just seen different sides of her. His first thought she was just a cheerful girl with strange powers. He leaned she had some darks sides to her. her angry can come up without any warning notice. Emi seemed a totally different person when she was angry. When she came home late from visiting Koenma, he noticed she was off. There was no skip in her step nor a smile on her face. She walked only looking what was straight ahead. When she talked, it was always short sentences and monotone. She did not try to get him to kiss Brock goodnight or even said goodnight to him. In fact she spoke no words towards him. As if he wasn't there. Instead of leaving her window open (incase Hiei got cold or needed something), it was shut, locked, and the shades were pulled down.

The two found themselves at Ayane's doorsteps. Katsuro was the one who opened the door. He had two garbage bags in each hand.

"oh, it's you two again." Katuro grumbled, "If you're here for the brat, she's still asleep. Have fun waking her up."

Katsuro walked past them and threw each bag in the trunk of his small blank car.

"Katsuro! Don't forget to get milk!" Yelled Ayane from inside the home, "Or the butter!"

"yeah, yeah I won't forget! Stupid woman." He went into the car and drove off.

Kurama and Hiei decided to help themselves in and headed towards the kitchen where Ayane was washing the dishes, muttering how Katsuro better not buy anymore porn.

"Good morning Ayane-san."

"Yeah, yeah, morning." She grunted, "Emi may be in her room. I don't keep track of her."

The two demons looked at each other before going to her room. Kurama knocked at her door and no one answered. He opened it up to find the room clean and no Emi. There was also no Brock either.

The two looked through the house to find no sign of her.

"I know what your thinking so don't say it." Hiei said through his teeth.

The two went to find Ayane who was picking vegetables from her garden.

"Where is Emi?"

"Oh, she left already?" She whipped some sweat from her brow, "I thought she would at least say goodbye."

Kurama blinked, "Left? Goodbye?"

"Where is Emi."

"Who knows." She gave a sigh as she got up, "That girl knows how to leave without being noticed and not be found. It was one of her specialties. Even as a child she pulled these things all the time. Gave her parents such a fright. She is such a stubborn little brat."

"You mean she left without a word?"

"She did say she was going to leave because of a disagreement. I had no power capable of stopping her. When her mind is made up, there is no stopping her."

"She could be anywhere!"

"Well, I wouldn't say anywhere." she smiled, "I doubt she had time to get to an airport (and the fact that she's banned from going there ever again). So she is at least somewhere in this region. Good luck finding her, you're going to need it. That and maybe an army."

"She could have been Katsuro when she left." suggested Kurama.

"No, I had a feeling she may do that, again but when I used my eye It was just a normal human man."

The whole gang were all rounded up and told of the situation. They all set out to find her. Botan took to the skies to look above. Keiko came in and decided to look in the park. Kuwabara headed to Genkai place to see if she was hiding there (also to see Yukina). Yusuke staked out a train station near by. Hiei and Kurama split up to search on every street corner. Hiei looked around the housing district while Kurama searched in the city area.

Kurama looked among candy and toys stories, with no sign of her. He then spotted Emi's friend Mika carrying five large bags of groceries. She lost her grip on one bag and all the connects fell out. Shampoo, bag of rice, pet food, vegetables, and ice cream fell onto the ground. Kurama came over to help.

"Need a hand?" He came over picking up the bag of rice.

"Thanks." she smiled and placed all the stuff in the bag, "haven't seen you in awhile."

"been a bit busy." His smile turned into a frown, "do you know where Emi is?"

"Emi?" she looked puzzled, "I haven't talked to Emi for a few days now so I don't know where she is. Why, is something wrong?"

"well she ran off with out telling us where she is going." He sighed.

"Do you know why?"

"It's probably because she got mad because we're watching over her so much." He shook his head, "She should know this is for her own good. She tried to get Ko- Um our boss to get rid or the surveillance but he said no."

"Oh, yeah. Emi told me about that." she fixed the bags in her arms, " I can see how she feels. Though she may not look it, she is use to be independent. Also, after awhile it's nice to have some privacy and alone time. Even Emi doesn't want to be around friends ALL the time. Well, I got to go. I'm meeting a special someone today!"

She was then off.

Yusuke left the train station to look else where. On his search he saw Brock roaming around the area. He smiled, trying to tail the creature. But Brock was too smart for him and started to dash away. The thing was as fast as Hiei, zipping around objects and people. Yusuke couldn't catch up with it.

Kuwabara smiled goofily as he sat next to Yukina.

"I'm sorry, but Emi is not here." She placed some tea beside them, "She was here yesterday, but only for a few minutes before leaving."

"She was here?" He became serious, "Why was she here?"

"I don't know." Her innocent orb eyes looked up to him, "She was talking secretly with Genkai about something."

"Really… hmm.."

"If you really want to know," Kuwabara jumped when the old woman appeared next to him, "She was asking me about a way to track someone down."

"Track someone?"

"Yes," She took his untouched tea and took a sip, "sadly, I could not give her anyway to track the person. She said she would ask someone else."

"Who?"

"She did not say." She took another sip, "That girl is up to something, you know that right? And I think she is going to put herself in danger. Something she may not even get out alive with."

Hiei glared at everything; the bystanders, the houses, the trees, and even the adorable squirrels that was climbing those said trees. When he found Emi he was going to kill her. slowly. She is wasting more of his time.

"Hello Katsuro!"

The voice sounded familiar and he looked over to see Emi's human friend and the man that lives with her. He examined them closer, seeing they showed off any spirit energy. None of them did.

"Oh, hi." The man grumbled, "what do you want?"

"I was wondering if you would like to come over for dinner." She smirked, "it will be just you and me under candle light."

Katsuro liked the idea of a free meal. The old hag always took money out of his paycheck eating anything she made. "…fine. As long as there is no cats in the house."

"Don't worry, we don't have any pets." Mika smiled, "Mom loves animals a bit too much and… lets just say they don't last very long under her care."

Katsuro tried to get the disturbing animal abuse image out of his mind., "Whatever, where do you live?"

"an apartment complex a few blocks from the train station." She tried to hold her giggles of excitement, "You don't need to wear anything fancy on our first date. In fact, you can wear nothing if it makes you feel comfortable."

"N-naked! I-I.. wait this is not a date! W-why am I going to be naked!"

"Oh, are you self-conscious of yourself?" Mika tilted her head cutely, "well if it makes you feel better, I'll take my clothes off too."

Katsuro was at lost of words. His face was the same shade as his flaming hair. Mika smirked before giving him a peck on the cheek, "see ya at 6."

And then she left.

Hiei shook his head in disgust, "Humans."

The sun was setting and the group had no leads. They hoped anyone who would come and help-

"hey guys!" Mr. Baldwin and his assistance came in… a few seconds too early… damn idiots cut off my dialogue. "What's with you're sad faces?"

"you're still here?"

"yeah, just because I haven't been in like three chapters, doesn't mean I left!" He muttered about the author forgetting him before going back to the topic at hand, " anyway I was wondering if you seen Emi. I-"

"that's the reason why we are here." Explained Yusuke, "we have been searching for her for hours now."

"Sir, I told you we should have left early this morning." Thomas grumbled.

"hey, no one asked you." Mr. Baldwin pouted, "I guess we failed to stop her."

"you mean you failed to stop her."

"Hang on," cut them off before they started to squabble, "Do you know what Emi is up to?"

"I do." he gave a long sigh, "sometimes that girl can be so troublesome."

"just like you sir." Thomas retorted as the older man stuck out his tongue.

Hiei got up close to Mr. Baldwin, "Just explain what she is doing and why my third eye can not find her." Hiei snapped.

"alright, alright!" he straightened his suit, "what did Emi tell you on why she came here?"

"She said she was on vacation."

"Sadly, that was not the case. You see a demon is after her and wants her dead…. Or wants information from her.. I can't remember which."

Thomas shook his head.

"Anyway, the demon has contacts everywhere, even in the base! Without knowing who was his contact, I sent Emi here only telling her close family members. She was not safe back at base. Until the demon was taken care of, Emi had to stay in Japan, living under Ayane's roof."

"so what is she up to?"

"think about it for a second. You are detectives after all."

Kuwabara, surprisingly, was the first to figure it out, "She's going to find the demon and kill it!"

"Oh, come on!" Hiei said, "she's not that stupid."

"Yes, but she is a girl and hormones take over logic." explained Mr. Baldwin.

"what does that mean?" Keiko glared.

"um… nothing little girl." He gave a big toothy grin.

"It would makes sense." Kuwabara muttered to himself.

"what are you talking about Kuwabara?"

"When I went to Genkai's place-"

"To see Yukina." Yusuke grinned.

"to see if Emi was there." Kuwabara glared at him before continuing, "and they said she came over asking Genkai if there was a technique to track someone."

"…great."

"Why can't I find her?" Hiei asked.. .well demanded, Hiei never asks. Unless Emi maked him.

"that's sort of my fault." he rubbed the back of his head, "I sort of gave her a device to keep her out of radar from any magical way."

That would make sense, thought Hiei. But then why was he able to see her with his eye a month ago. Was she not wearing it when he decided to check up on her… wait, check up on her? That's not what he meant. Saying that made him sound concern towards the girl.

"…..We got to find her before she does something stupid."

"any places you think she would hid at?"

" what about that girl, Mika."

"No I talked to her, she said she hasn't talked to Emi in a few days…" A little light bulb clicked in Kurama's mind, "I'm so stupid."

"What?"

"I can't believe I believed her. I should have seen it."

"what?" Yusuke asked again.

"Mika said she hasn't talked to Emi for days, but knew about Emi being mad yesterday."

"where does she live?"

"I heard her talking to that guy that she lived near the train station." Hiei said.

"Near the train station?" A light bulb appeared over Yusuke's head also, "I saw her pet at the train station before It ran off."

It was clear. Emi was at Mika's house.

Mika hummed as she was finishing cooking dinner. Any minute now, the hot man meat would be here, and soon, she'll have him wrapped around her finger.

She heard a knock on the door and quickly opened it. Her smile fell when it was not Katsuro, but Kuwabara, Keiko, Yusuke, Hiei, Kurama, and two other men.

"Hello?"

"We know you're hiding Emi."

"….Well you came a bit sooner then I expected." She opened the door wider, "I thought maybe after dinner you would come. Not that I'm complaining, this actual helps with my plans for this evening."

"Where is she?"

Mika shrugged, "Who knows."

"stop this whole act, we know she's here."

"WAS here." Mika corrected, "she left over an hour ago."

"…what?"

"Yep." Mika took the apron that she had on, "She said she had a plane to catch."

"…..WHAT!"

"Anyway," Mika left a moment before bringing back Brock, "Emi wanted you to watch him while she is gone." She gave the creature to Hiei, "She said the little guy wouldn't be able to handle the plane ride there. Poor thing got sick in Katsuro's car when coming here."

The thing bore it's eyes into Hiei's, as if saying "good job moron. You did a fine job in watching her. Now, get me something to eat before I hack a hairball on ya."

Yusuke sighed, "looks like were going to the airport."

The gang stood in front of monitors. They all squished into the security room.

"How were you able to convince them to let us in here?" asked Keiko.

"I have my ways." Mr. Baldwin flashed her a smile. "Now lets look at the footage about.. Lets start from two hours ago."

They rewinded the tape. They watched searching for Emi, but no sign of her.

"I don't see her."

"That's because you're not looking for the right person." Mr. Baldwin smiled before stopping the tape, "Does that person look familiar?"

"Everyone moved closer to see a girl with purple hair with a luggage in one hand.

"Mika?"

"Emi turned into to Mika to get through security." muttered Thomas.

"so where is she going?"

"Isn't it obvious? She's going back home."

"to America?"

"that's not our only problem ?" Kurama moved closer to the screen, "who does that look like?"

Everyone moved closer to the scene again. They saw a woman in a long brown coat, long green hair trying to be hidden by a fedora hat.

"Ivory!"

"great, now the oculus knows where she is too."

Hiei shook his head, "that girl is more trouble then she's worth."

Cs: ok this chapter changed so much. It was suppose to be at least three different things before I finally stuck with this one. And sorry I actually finished this chapter a few weeks ago but never got the time to edit it and post it because of work and school. Hope you liked it. :) Please review!