March 6, 1895; Human Realm
Dearest Hiei,
The month we spent together was the best of my life. It is, and always will be, burned into my memory. And it only made me love you even more. It also made it harder to say goodbye. I miss you. Please come home. Please. Without you, my world lacks meaning. Without you, I feel like nothing. I am nothing without you; you mean everything to me.
I still have not figured out what the bracelet you gave me does. I put it on and nothing happens. But I just cannot fathom you giving me some human trinket. The bracelet has deeper meaning or amazing powers, I know that much. Because you are like me in believing that humans are vile, despicable creatures. Please tell me what it does.
My brother will return at the end of next month. I just thought that you should know. Should I confront him about the things he stole? They are, after all, mine. I think I will. Or at least I will try to do so.
I miss you more than I can say, and love you dearly.
Your depressed forest child,
Moriko
The first thing Yusuke registered was that this letter was shorter than the others. Kurama, obviously the faster reader, paled continuously with every word he read off the page Yusuke was holding.
When Yusuke was done, he looked at Kurama. Kurama was much better at evaluating, assessing, and analyzing things like this. Kurama just shook his head disbelieving. Finally, in a voice so quiet he could have been talking to himself, he whispered, "This is what I was afraid of. This girl, this Moriko, is the same Moriko I knew."
"You knew her well?"
"Yes. Few people knew more about her than I did. Hiei, apparently, was one of those few. I never knew she had this many problems with her brother. I didn't know she was this terrified of him." Kurama exhaled slowly, trying to soak all the information in.
"Well, other than telling Hiei she loves him I don't think that there is anything important in the letter." Yusuke said after a few moments of silence.
"No. The bracelet. At one point, I was there at her house and saw a bracelet. It had an aura of its own, but I could not figure out what it did. The next time I picked it up, however, it tried to tell me something. I think the bracelet had a partner, was part of a two-piece set. Each perfectly worthless without the other, but ultimately useful because the two owners could communicate with one another over any distance. But she obviously doesn't know that yet. So let's read the next one."