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Pen Name: sarahh86

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Oh and by the way there might be a small change in the rating for this. Right now its rated T but it might go to M if I add another scene. If you're wondering if it's gonna be a lemon, I doubt it will, but if it is it won't be all that graphic. I might not even add a sexual scene but I'll see. Feel free to comment about if I should add a scene to make this story M rated.

CHAPTER THREE

Botan was in front of the handsome Spirit detective and his exceptionally cold assistant. She hated to drop the bomb on them so early into the freaking morning but it couldn't be helped.

"Listen up you two, there's been a prison break in the Demon World and the demons have come here into the Human World. I need for you two to find them and bring them down so that I can take them back to Demon World." Botan said.

Kurama nodded. "Who are they?"

Botan bit her lip. This had been the main reason Keonma said Kurama was a better Spirit Detective than Yusuke. Yusuke complained and grudgingly went along without even bothering to know how strong his opponents were. Kurama took the time to develop a strategy, but she doubted that even Kurama would be very glad once he found out who his felons were.

Nevertheless she told him.

"What?" Kurama's voice would almost be called a yell except that such a voice wasn't made for yelling at Grim Reapers who were girls.

"I may be wrong of course but the Sulivian brothers seem tough. Don't tell me that they're one of the most looked for demons in the entire Demon World!" Relli complained. Her heart was almost beating out of her chest. She was only faking the naiveness of not knowing who those brothers were. In fact, she knew them very well. Those brothers had were the men Tekkan sent after Relli and they had taken her to Spirit World. Luckily Botan and Genkai had saved her but she had to run away afterward. It was bad luck that it had occurred to her to open her mouth. It had gone very badly for her. Relli's gaze dropped to the floor as the remembered those empty and dark nights at the asylum that still caused her to have nightmares.

"The Sulivian brothers are, in fact, one of the most looked for demons at this moment and they're even stronger than the last time you saw them." Botan said to Relli, ignoring for a moment that Kurama didn't know a thing about Relli's past.

It was too late for her to realize her mistake. Relli was glaring at her with a look that would make the Terminator scream in fear. Botan thought even Hiei would cringe at that look.

Kurama noticed. He glanced at both of them and said "This is getting tiresome Relli, would you please tell me who you found out about us demons?"

Relli tensed and looked away from both of them. "That's none of you business Suichi." she said in a low voice. The last thing she wanted from Kurama was hate and she was going to get hate if she told him about her past. She started to feel friendship towards Kurama now that she had been living with him close to a month now. He was a different man from his buddies. Kurama was more sincere and he had morals that couldn't be held by even Kuwabara. And there was also the fact that the red hair and green eyes looked very good on him.

Kurama sighed and once more turned to Botan. "Do they have to be alive?" Botan shivered at the mere thought of the killing attempt and shrugged. "It would be best if they returned alive but-if you want you can take them down, but only if they have the killing intention."

"They always have the killing intention." Relli muttered, turning her face away. It was either the killing intention or the rape attempt…

Kurama tried desperately to stop the train of thought that was overpowering him. How would a human know so much about the Spirit and Demon World?

"Where are they in hiding?" Kurama asked, looking at Botan. She grimaced. "All I know is that they're hiding somewhere in the outskirts of Tokyo, in the forest I believe. That's my best guess."

"Why would they escape?" Relli asked her. "I mean, Genkai and you put them both in jail, so why would they want to come back out and risk death?"

Botan bit her lower lip as she remembered what Koenma had told her…

"Those boys are never going to give up. Once they get something in their thick heads it's absurd to even think about getting it out. My best guess is that they escaped so that they can finish what they started."

"Finish what they started? But…what would they want to finish?"

Koenma looked up at his beloved assistant. "Relli."

Botan simply couldn't make Relli afraid like this. She couldn't tell Relli that they were coming after her, knowing perfectly that she would make an excellent candidate for the prostitution ring they still had. The mere idea of what would happen to Relli if she was caught sickened Botan. Those brothers came to finish the job their they had pending. They would lead Relli Darau back to the Demon World so that their boss, Tekkan could hand her to the customers. The Sulivian brothers would bring her at any cost, even at the cost of their lives.

"They must want freedom although I agree with you Relli, it is quite foolish to escape to a place where there is a Spirit Detective." she said, being careful to keep the nonchalance in her tone.

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Two days later…

"Shh, did you hear that?" Kurama asked, Relli as they both stopped walking. Above them birds were chanting and the forest leaves were rustling with the wind. There was no other sound.

"I didn't hear anything." Relli told him and started to take a step forward.

A knife came flying towards Relli and Kurama pulled her back roughly as she knife engraved itself on a tree. They stood back to back as one brother faced Kurama and the other faced Relli.

"Relli dear it's been a while, hasn't it?" the demon facing Relli, Oriyuki, said, smiling. From the outside he looked human but he was less of a human than a snake was.

"Stop chatting and let's get her already. She's the whole damn reason we came back anyway." the other, Miruyuki, grumbled. He faced Kurama and growled. "It's just luck that I had to face Youko Kurama on this mission. Damn!"

Kurama calmly grabbed Relli's hand. "I would love to see you try and take her from me." he said in his curiously polite voice. In spite of the danger Relli's heart seemed to take those words as having a double meaning.

Oriyuki shrugged. "Suit yourself." he said, grabbing his sword and attacked Kurama with it.

Kurama swung Relli out of the way, almost getting cut himself, and tried to defend her as best as he could. Miruyuki reached for Relli and she gathered as much Spirit Energy as she could in her hand. This was the first time she had ever been in battle and she was going to test her ability to kill.

She gathered her energy into a purple orb and threw it at Miruyuki. He easily dodged it. "Is that the best you got?" he asked, wondrously. Relli shrugged and smiled. She watched as her Spirit Bomb returned and exploded right into Miruyuki's back.

Kurama slit Oriyuki's throat with his Rose Whip and turned in time to see Miruyuki fall to the ground.

Kurama stood over Miruyuki as he struggled to stand up. "Tell me now, who sent you?" he asked, seriously, grabbing Miruyuki by his shirt.

Miruyuki glared at Kurama with hatred and smiled in a sickening way. "Relli call off your boyfriend Kurama, or I swear I'll get the boss to show him the videos."

Relli began to shake and she grabbed a nearby tree for support. The videos… They were yet, another cause for her terrible nightmares. To remember that the Sulivian brothers had touched her, undressed her in front of a camera was repulsive. It made her want to throw up and cry and never see herself again. The shame she felt was overpowering.

Kurama grabbed Miruyuki with a stronger death grip. "What videos is he talking about Relli?"

Relli's voice was quiet as she answered him. "Kill him Kurama."

Miruyuki's voice was louder and angrier. "You stupid whore! Why'd you think we filmed you that night with us! As much as you hate it you can't change what you are! So let me go and you won't have to live with another shame on your shoulders!"

Kurama's face tightened. It didn't take a genius to figure out what those videos were. "If I kill you right now how will you tell your boss to show me those videos?"

Miruyuki grinned and pulled his hand out of his pocket. A panel was in front of him with a large red button and several green ones. "All I have to do is push a little green button and the boss will get the signal all the way in the Demon World. He'll just have to make some arrangements so that your videos are distributed everywhere, including to your curious boyfriend here. Would you want that Relli?"

Miruyuki enjoyed watching the pretty girl's anxious face, thick with fear. Creating those vids had been the best idea Oriyuki had come up with. No-it had been the only best thing he had come up with.

Just to torture her, he threw out another line that would assure him his life for good. "Relli does Kurama here know about…us?"

The color drained from Relli's face as she looked at Kurama's angry face. "You damn bastard! You stupid crappy son of a bitch! Go straight to hell!" she screamed at him and dropped to the floor, sobbing.

Kurama was furious. Whatever Relli wanted to hide form him, it had to do with this man and killing him would let Kurama know about his history but Relli's history wasn't pure and he wasn't sure he wanted to know.

For a strange unexplainable reason it hurt him badly to know that Relli had been a…prostitute who had worked in the Demon World. It was awful to know this about her but he just kept his hostile expression against Miruyuki. She wouldn't know how much it hurt him.

The pieces of the puzzle started to fall in place. No wonder she knew so much about the supernatural. She had worked there and in turn found out about all the criminals and gangsters of that place. No wonder she knew Botan and Koenma so well. It all made sense that it was idiotic the way Relli had managed to fool him.

"Please let him go Kurama." Relli pleaded, with tears running down her face.

As angry as he was, and as hurt as he was that Relli hadn't trusted him he didn't let go of Miruyuki immediately.

"Please Kurama! Do it for yourself so you won't have this bastard's blood on your hands!" she pleaded. She wanted to stay clean in his eyes although by this time he must be thinking the worst of her.

"You heard the girl. Now let me go now…or do you have an interest in the videos I want to show you?"

Kurama threw Miruyuki on the ground and tried to contain his composure. "Leave before I change my mind. I'm sure you value your life but I wouldn't hesitate in killing you." Kurama threatened seriously. There was no laughter in his voice and Miruyuki sensed that.

I better get my ass out of here before that Youko demon changes his mind he thought and scurried away.

Relli and Kurama both saw Miruyuki race into the forest and none of them spoke.

"Let's go." Kurama said roughly, as he jerked Relli behind him, grabbing her wrist tightly. She didn't complain. She was the only one to blame after all.

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Nothing could've made her feel worse than Kurama's glare at that moment.

She shuffled uncomfortably in her seat and she finally couldn't stand the silence any longer. "I'm sorry for what I did Kurama but you just can't-"

"Why can't I find out about your past? Not that I can't guess but it's a little disconcerting when your enemy knows more about your allies than you do."

Relli winced and for a moment Kurama felt ashamed of himself. Realeza already felt bad but she had purposefully chosen to save her own skin instead of taking a stand. She was too afraid of what Miruyuki had to say than to face him.

"I feel too ashamed of what happened to me." She said in a small voice.

Kurama opened his mouth to speak but stopped, thinking of the phrase she had just said.

I feel too ashamed of what happened to me…

Kurama frowned as he thought of those words. Relli had said she felt ashamed of what had happened to her-not what she had done. If she truly had been a hooker on the Demon World streets then she would've said that she felt ashamed for what she did. But she didn't.

A huge weight was lifted off Kurama as he realized that she hadn't been a prostitute. It had all been a strange turn of his ridiculous imagination.

He tried not to let his stupidity show.

"If you told me what happened to you then maybe I could help." Kurama said softly, speaking politely as always, but trying desperately not to sound too curious.

Relli looked up at him with her lips trembling slightly Kurama seemed so trusting. He seemed completely interested in her past. She almost wanted to tell him. Almost…but what would he think of her? Would he think of her as the victim of countless disasters or as the cause of her own pain? In a way she had caused her own suffering but she hadn't wanted it to go this way. She never would have opened her mouth if she had known that the demons were going to come after her.

Relli looked up at Kurama's face and swallowed hard. She wanted so badly to tell him, to know his reaction but she was too much a wimp to say the truth to his face.

Kurama bent to eye level with Relli and held her hands. "Just trust me for once Relli! You know how I am. I would never insult somebody for something that they couldn't help."

"I know." Relli whispered. Her heart seemed to warm up and she felt more willing to tell him the truth than to anybody. But would he understand? Would he understand what happened to her when she went to live with her uncles? Would he understand about the Spirit World rape attempt? But most of all, would he understand about her getting locked in an asylum because of her own mouth?

There were so many questions in her mind that she only looked down at Kurama's hands to clear her head. She felt his warm, strong, rough hands hold her small ones in a slight grip. He was the kindest person she had ever met and she trusted him but there was a war going on in her body and for now, the secret of her past had to be kept just that, a secret.

"I wish I could tell you Suichi. I wish that I had the bravery to tell you about the stupid things that I did but I can't. I just can't. Not now anyway," she looked up at him with an expression of pure hope. "But I promise that one day I'll tell you everything but…give me time okay? I've never trusted anybody enough to tell them anything about my past and I guess I need a little mental preparation." she finished shamefully.

At least she had promised to tell him, that was the good thing.

Kurama sighed. "I can wait."

Relli stood up at the same time that Kurama stood up. She hesitated, wondering if he would take what she was about to do the wrong way. She finally decided she didn't care and pressed herself to Kurama.

"Thank you." she whispered and half-ran back to her room.

Kurama was warm where Relli had pressed herself to him. Apart from the time Youko had taken over, this was the first time he had felt this strange. When Youko had pressed Relli to him he had felt strange but now he felt even stranger. He felt like he had been struck by lightening and he was still in shock (This pun was so not intentional but that was how it came out.) The feelings that Relli managed to stir in him were unbelievable. He had never felt so warm. He had never felt so trusted. And he had absolutely never felt this feeling of live fire in his heart. Kurama had been with plenty of women but none of them had made him feel like a hero, like a true savior, like a loved person.

Kurama wasn't an idiot. He knew exactly what was happening.

Kurama was falling in love with Relli.

So how did it turn out? Good? Bad? Too much romance? Not enough action? Reviews will be appreciated!