Alone

Solitary, silent

Death

Eternal, ending

Peace

Unlasting, unreal

"Will someone please tell me that the hell happened down there?" Koenma demanded as he glared at the two in front of his desk. Coming from a toddler didn't make the glare very intimidating, Aaya was sitting on the floor calmly bandaging a nasty wound on her upper left arm, just below the shoulder, which could only have come from a spirit gun, and Yusuke was nursing a very large bruise on the left side of his face.

"She punched me." Yusuke complained, pointing at Aaya.

"You hit me with your spirit gun moron," Aaya said flatly, not to be deterred from her task. It was then that the rest of the team chose to walk in. "I told him not to get in my way."

"Why were you attacked at all?"

"The damn bastard called in a favor, his little friends cornered us."

"And then she went berserk"

"That's why I told you to stay back."

"Raven?" Kuwabara questioned

"Ya?" Aaya replied, tilting her head back to see who had spoken. "Ey, It's Kuwa-kun. How ya been?"

"uhh…" Yusuke tried to interrupt.

"Okay… I guess." Kuwabara answered uneasily.

"Ease up man, we're not in pre-school anymore, I only attack people who attack me first, like your little friend here." Aaya glared at Yusuke and returned to her task. "And I go by Aaya now, Raven was a long time ago, she doesn't exist anymore."

"Wait… you know Kuwabara?" Yusuke asked, temporarily forgetting about his bruise.

"Yeah, I used to beat him up." She answered calmly.

"Shut up." Kuwabara said, attempting to punch her. Aaya, however, grabbed his hand and in the next few moments had him on the floor, holding him down with one hand while the other was at his throat.

"You sure you want to do that, Ku-wa-kun." Aaya taunted, saying each syllable of his name slowly and delibrately.

"Y-yield" Kuwabara choked out.

"Thought so." She stood. "Good boy. So Koenma, why did you call me back."

"I thought you didn't hit girls" Yusuke helped his friend up.

"I wanted to save you" came Koenma's answer

"She's why" Kuwabara answered, standing.

"Damnit Koenma," Aaya slammed her hands down on his desk, causing both Yusuke and Kuwabara to jump and stopping all other conversations. "I told you when I left Japan, I resign myself to my fate." She turned and walked towards the door.

"Yes but-"

"I won't hear it Koenma." She half-turned her face. Only Hiei and Kurama, standing by the door, could shee the expression of increadable sadness and pain on her face. "I thank you for giving me an excuse to get away from that man, but I refuse. I have already made up my mind, I resign myself to my fate." And with that she left, walked out of the doors and away.

"Damnit, somebody go get her." Hiei and Kurama both left. "And you two are going to need medical treatment before it spreads."

"Why?"

"Looks like a bruise, doesn't it"

"Yeah…"

"It's not." Koenma started shuffling the papers on his desk, which had scattered when Aaya had slammed it.

"What? Kuwabara asked, confused.

"You've got one too Kuwabara, hight where her hand was. It's her curse. When she's wounded, anything she touches will die. It's slow, and excrucatingly painful. She doesn't show it, but it really hurts her, she's suffered quite a bit because of it."

"Wait, so she infected us on purpose?" Yusuke questioned.

"No."

"But-"

"She forgets sometimes. Now, out. We don't want our spirit detective team dying on us now do we?" They left, conversing between themselves.

"Koenma sir, if you don't mind me asking…"

"Yes, Botan?"

"How could she, I mean, something like that, how is it she can forget?"

"She makes hersef forget."

"What? Why? Isn't it important."

"Well, if you were always killing the people who were closest to you, wouldn't you want to forget?"

"Point"

"She's strong yes, but far from invincible."