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Hiei caught me this time before I fell to the ground while the others joined up with him. They were about to ask a question when Koenma runs out wildly, flailing his arms around like a bird ready for take off. "What in the world just happened out here?" he kept on screaming, demanding an answer. He looked at Yusuke, then to Kurama and Kuwabara, but they just had as blank looks as Koenma had.

"What does it look like?" Hiei asked.

Koenma sighed and tried to regain his calm. He should be happy that Spirit World is saved and not in a billion pieces. Before he answered Hiei, he took in the scene of the crime. Ikuro and Shiku, dead not far from them, Ikuro had a giant, real, shuriken half way in his back. A gross sight to behold that was. Then there were Yusuke and Kuwabara who were beaten up somewhat, and their opponents still unconscious on the ground, one of them twitching but made no signs of awakening. Then there was Hiei, beaten badly from two fights and a bleeding shoulder. His other battle wound had already healed up, all that was left was a small little scar that would soon vanish. Finally, he looked at me, blacked out, beaten as badly as Hiei and my arm bleeding, on top of my own battle scars from the vault.

Koenma needed not to ask again, he knew what had happened, Shiku's death proved fact enough. The atmosphere went as silent as the grave, and no one was about to break the silence.

Koenma gathered up his courage and coughed, then said, "Well... Let's take Sana to her room and get someone to look at her injuries shall we? I'll... uh, get someone to clean up here..."

"What about Shiku?" Kuwabara suddenly asked. "What's going to happen to her?"

Koenma raised an eyebrow, confused, and replied, "Well, she's dead isn't she? She'll be buried as well as Ikuro in Demon World."

"What?" Yusuke and Kurama asked. "What? No bringing her back to life after all she did?"

"I don't work miracles," was all Koenma replied.

- A Few Days Later -

Koenma was sitting at his desk, reviewing some papers that Botan had just handed over to him. The Spirit Detectives were in the room, eyes away from Koenma, who they were angry at again. Here he was, giving them more jobs to do when they should be recovering from battle. Here he was, acting as if nothing had just happened when they should be waiting for me to wake up.

"Okay, does everyone understand what they're supposed to be doing?" Koenma asked.

"Yeah, sleep," Yusuke said and yawned in Koenma's face.

"Relax and see my kitty. She must be scared all alone," Kuwabara muttered, petting an invisible kitty on his lap.

Silence. Koenma grunted something and Botan just smiled at him before leaving. "Fine then. Go do whatever you want."

The Detectives jumped to their feet and ran out of the room without another word to Koenma. They rushed down the corridors, pushing ogres out of the way and flew up the flight of stairs, and skidded to a halt in front of the door that leads into my room. The door opened and they all tried to enter the room at the same time, except Hiei and Kurama, who just waited for Yusuke and Kuwabara to battle it out before entering.

I sat on my desk chair, a watch lay in pieces on the desk, with screws and tools all about. I had a little light near the corner of the desk turned on to light up the gears of the watch, which had holes and gaps where the gears had been taken out.

"Hey Sana!" Yusuke said. "Up and running again I see."

I nodded my head but did not look at them. I didn't want to see Hiei. Instead, I focused even harder on the watch, grabbing a tiny screwdriver and put in a new gear in one of the holes. "What are you doing?" Kurama asked, he liked looking at the stuff I made, but he made sure to stay far away for he did not know what would suddenly jump and attack someone or blow up or something. The shelves around the walls of my room were very unstable in the means of what was stored on them.

"It's Shiku's watch. Well, it was mine to begin with. I'm trying to make it better," I replied.

"And how's that working out?" Kurama asked.

I sighed, put the screwdriver down a little harder then I should have. Gears and tiny watch parts jumped up into the air and tumbled everywhere. "I can't work miracles," I said, imitating Koenma's voice. When I woke up yesterday, I had asked Koenma the same thing they had asked him, but Shiku would never come back, she was dead as a anything.

"Well then, you wanna do something with us instead? We got the day to ourselves," Kuwabara suggested.

Hiei grunted and walked over to the windows, staring down. From them you could see the entrance gate of Spirit World, which were shinning and oblivious to everything that had and would happen around them. They caused more trouble then they were worth. Hiei's eyes darted from the window to something that glittered on the night table next to the bed.

"I'd rather be alone again today," I turned Kuwabara down.

"Eh?" Kuwabara asked, disappointed.

Yusuke crossed his arms and twirled my chair around so that I look straight at him. I was pale looking and seemed like I had walked out of a grave. My arm was bandaged, but thank god, it was no longer bleeding. It was times like these I wish I had demon blood in my veins, I sure wish my wounds would heal in a matter of hours.

"This isn't the first time this happened okay? When will you stop being this... stranger after everytime time you see someone die?" Yusuke suddenly lost all his control. "When you act like this, it really just makes us want to hit you and leave you by yourself. Feel sorry for yourself after you die, not when someone else dies. Get on with your life!"

I just stared at Yusuke, I knew that everything he said was true. I was being a pain to everyone, and they were trying to cheer me up. I just threw them aside like trash, and yet they keep on trying, I don't deserve all this attention right now.

Yusuke grumbled something and rounded off onto Hiei, who quickly hid something in his pocket when Yusuke looked at him. "And you! Say something!" he yelled at Hiei.

I stood up, saving Hiei from answering Yusuke's call. "Look, I know exactly what you all mean. Don't think I don't know how I'm acting. I'm the one at fault, okay? I sure do wish Shiku was back, but face it, I know she's not coming back, I got over it as you say... But I'm the one who turned on you guys and attacked you!"

"No, you attacked Hiei," Yusuke corrected.

I rolled my eyes, "Thank you for pointing that fact out! Now, leave me alone for a minute, okay? I'll join you guys at whatever you want to do today."

Yusuke was about to point out something more when Kurama cut him off with a stern look. Yusuke sighed but said nothing more and he left with the others. I was left alone in my room again, and the silence, I just realized now, was thicker than usual, it made me uncomfortable.

Outside the door in the hallway, Kurama and Hiei were talking in low voices, but Yusuke and Kuwabara were busy with their own conversation to overhear. Kurama's eyes widened in shock when Hiei finished whatever he was saying. "Isn't that a bit too harsh?" But Hiei shook his head and said nothing more as the door opened once more and I came out, "Uh..."

"Okay, let's go," Kuwabara said, pumping his fist into the air.

"But... I lost-" I cut myself off as I looked at Hiei briefly, who stared blankly back. "-something I uh... need."

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