A/N: Chetara isn't mine. She belongs to someone else. Ari is my character, and so is Kiri, Artemis, Kazuka, and Ayla. Oh. And Kuro, Marla, and many, many assorted characters that don't even appear in this story. They're ALL mine.

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Ari and her friend, Chetara, were running for their lives amidst a huge line of youkai, who were unhappy about the two girls who kept pushing people aside.

"Get BACK here!" The person who was chasing them yelled loudly.

"Let's go!" Ari yelled. On her way passing a food court, her tail instinctively grabbed an orange. Ari looked around and her eyes met a boy on the other side of the square. It felt like she'd been electrocuted. She was stunned.

When they were finally able to stop running, Ari tossed the orange at Chetara and brought out the other food she'd grabbed.

"Whew." Ari sighed.

"We almost got caught there. That was too close for comfort." Chetara nodded, getting out the food she'd grabbed.

"Yup." Ari nodded.

Ariana Miyuki is a neko who has purple hair, green eyes and a cheerful disposition.

Chetara Kioke is a full blooded ookami with black hair, red tips, and an mischievous nature.

"Getting food each week is such an ordeal." Chetara muttered.

"Yeah, but it's that or starve."

"Yeah, I know." Chetara sighed. They both leaned against the tree that served as their home and thought, there has to be a better life for us.

Chetara Kioke is a lone wolf who's pack had been killed. Her only sister, Aya, was the only other survivor of that pack. But Chetara hadn't seen Aya in years.

Ariana Miyuki was a neko whose family had abandoned her when she was young. She had never known her family and had been raised by Chetara's ookami family until they were killed.

Rewind thirty minutes and go to the other side of Maikai...

"I'll send one of the generals to get the food for this months groceries." Hiei frowned.

"Father, that's rediculous." Hiei's son, Artemis, frowned with his eyes closed.

"What?" Hiei snapped.

"I said, that is unessissary. I will handle it myself, father." Artemis frowned.

"Hn."

Artemis collected the money and left to go to market. He started to buy the food for this month when he heard a commotion behind him.

Two girls were running down the street. They appeared to be holding food. The shopkeeper was screaming for them to stop. Appearently, they had stolen that food. As they passed him, the neko girl made eye contact with him and he felt sparks,

This girl is something else. But who on Maikai was she?

Later that night...

"I swear, Kiri, when she looked at me..." Artemis sighed. "It was incredible. I felt sparks, I felt dazed. The whole nine yards."

"You haven't been eating your mom's meatloaf again, have ya?" Kiri frowned.

"No!" Artemis snapped.

"Hm. Well, I hate to be the one to tell ya this but," Kiri sighed. "True love doesn't exist. It's been proven."

Artemis Jaganshi looks just like Hiei with the exception of his hairstyle.

Kiri Kurama has blonde hair, green eyes, and aside from that, looks just like his father.

"It has to!" Artemis blurted. "If the way I felt when I seen her wasn't true love...It has to be."

Kurama walked in.

"Hello Kiri, Artemis."

"Hey dad. Sup?" Kiri greeted.

"Hello Kurama." Artemis said.

"Sup?" Kurama asked with a raised eyebrow.

"What's up?" Kiri repeated.

Kurama looked up. "..."

"Very funny, dad. Anyway, what's going down?"

Kurama looked at the floor.

"Dad!"

"Your mother made dinner." Kurama smiled. "Artemis, Are you staying for dinner?"

"Yes!" Artemis was quick to reply. "Your mother's cooking is so much better than my mom's, Kiri."

"Hehe..." Kiri snickered. "Come on then."

Artemis followed them to the table.

"Hello, Artemis. Hello Kiri." Kiri's mother greeted them.

"Sup, mom?"

"Hello, ma'am." Artemis smiled.

"Kiri. Must you use that wretched slang?" Kiri's mother sighed.

"Yup. Picked it up from the boys at the pier." Kiri grinned.

Kurama and his wife exchanged amused glances.

"Come on people! It's chow time!" Kiri grinned.

Artemis groaned. He knew Kiri did this to annoy his family. Kurama raised an eyebrow.

"It's..."

Suddenly a boy and a girl barge in.

"Hey everybody. What's going on?" Kazuka greeted them.

"Hey, Kazuka. Sup?" Kiri greeted. "Sup, Ayla?"

"Hello." Ayla smiled.

Kuzuka Kuwabara is Kuwabara and poor Yukina's son. Sadly, he looks like Kuwabara's clone.

Ayla Urameshi is Kayko and Yusuke's daughter. She has Yusuke's black hair and Kayko's eyes and facial structure.

"Hello, everyone. Are you here to eat with Kiri's family too?"

"..." Ayla studied the floor.

"What?" Artemis asked.

"Hello, Kazuka. Hello Ayla." Kiri's mother greeted them. "Staying for supper?"

Ayla came alive then. "Oh, can we? Great!"

A/N: She didn't want to eat Kayko's cooking...

"Great! Thanks!" Kazuka cheered. A/N: For the same reason only it's with Yukina's cooking.

They all sat down to eat. Artemis wasn't really hungry, but he tried to eat the food anyway. As good as it was, he was having a hard time. He couldn't stop thinking about that neko girl.

"Artemis? Is the food alright?" Kiri's mother asked.

"Better than my mothers." Artemis answered instantly.

"Hehe..." Kiri snickered.

"It's good, but I'm not really all that hungry." Artemis frowned.

"Dude, you need to stop thinkin' about that neko chick from town today. You're never gonna see her again so chill." Kiri said, shoveling forkfuls of food into his mouth.

"Neko Chick?" Kurama asked.

Artemis opened his mouth but Kiri beat him to it.

"Oh, some girl Artemis saw runnin' in the market today." Kiri continued to shovel food. "He can't stop talkin' 'bout her."

"Kiri!" Artemis growled.

"YOU met a girl, Artemis?" Ayla blinked.

"No way," Kazuka blurted. "You're the most antigirl of us all, with the exception of Ayla for obvious reasons."

"Hehe..." Kiri snickered, shoveling more food. "That's it though. He never met her. He just...watched her for maybe, 10 seconds."

"So, Artemis fell in love with some girl he's never met?" Kazuka blurted.

"Yup." Kiri snickered.

Ayla began to snicker as well and that got Kazuka started. Soon, Kiri, Ayla, and Kazuka were in stitches. Kiri's mother was snickering as was Kurama. Artemis was the only one who didn't find it remotely funny.Once it quieted down, Kurama tried to talk to Artemis about it.

"Do you know anything about this mystic girl?" Kurama asked.

"No. Nothing." Artemis sighed. This was getting embarrassing.

"Maybe you should talk to Koenma." Kurama smiled. "I'm sure he could find her for you."

"I can find her myself!" Artemis got defensive. "I suppose I need to get back. Kurama, could you please not tell my father?"

"Don't worry." Kurama smiled.

"See ya lata, Artemis!" Kiri said, grabbing Artemis' almost full plate of food and disposing it's contents into his plate.

"Bye!" Ayla and Kazuka said.

As Artemis left, he heard Kiri's mother say, "Kiri. Don't eat the contents of other peoples plates. He could be sick. Worse, whether he eats it or not, it's bad manners."

Artemis sighed. Oh boy. Now, there would be no way to eat over here anymore. Kiri had found a new way to annoy his parents.

Artemis walked home the long way, thinking about that neko girl. When he got home, his mother was waiting for him.

"Where were you, Artemis?" Mukuro demanded.

"At Kiri's. I ate over."

Mukuro frowned.

"Good night, mom." Artemis said, as he yawned his way into bed. Before he fell asleep, however, he wondered, does that girl feel the same way about me as I do about her?