Disclaimer- Check my previous chapter. I'm way to lazy to type the same things again and again…

I woke up dazed in a prison. The prison of the Spirit World. I felt betrayal lance through me. A criminal? Fucking assholes. She had done nothing a normal demon wouldn't do. Stealing and killing were more common than eating. They were called demons for a reason. Did people think they shat rainbows and ate love or something? So what if she stole a few things in the custody of the Spirit World? So what if she saved a few demons from the prison? The prison she was in. That she knew for a fact could not be opened from the inside.

She was stuck. Stuck here like a common criminal. All because of a girl she had thought was her friend. All because she revealed herself to someone. She leaned against the cold wall. She was really stupid. To reveal herself to someone she found herself close to just because she was naïve enough to think they wouldn't mind. Of course, its not like the demon part bothered her. It was the part where she revealed who she was. Her history. And she betrayed her.

No. No, she wasn't betrayed. She had never been trusted in the first place. Midori had suspected her. Then she worked with the spirit world to capture her. They had never been friends. Midori was just that good a liar. Even when Midori had told her the truth, she had denied it.

How low she had fallen. From the great Yoko Kurama to a mere half-demon, who wasn't even strong. She sighed. She was lying to herself. Midori had been a good friend to her. But Midori probably hadn't considered them friends. But that was fine. But she had enjoyed their time. Midori was her own person. She had done what she felt was right. There was no point contemplating it. She would stay in prison for a few decades, and maybe she would do a few tasks given by the Spirit world, then she would be released into the demon world or maybe the human world. Who knew? She was put a low level prison instead of the higher level one where people who fought back were kept. She shook her head. That wasn't very important.

Midori had given her information. Information that she was sure no one was supposed to know just yet. Plus there was the fact that her body was a partial demon. Since the demon gene was activated, she had two bodies to transform to and back from. She needed to talk to Kurama about that.

But there was one thing she could do now. A gentle wind whipped around her and she smirked. She was so going to knock Kurama on his ass! A blast of hot air hit her face. Okay, maybe not…

…wait. Did the air just…?

A gentle gust ran through her hair teasingly.

She shifted. That didn't happen.

A tinkling sound reached her. She paled.

Nothing happened. Nothing happened. A wind spirit did not just respond to her.

Nothing happened. She sighed in relief.

A huge gust of wind pushed her flat against the wall. She felt a bubbling panic. A mini-cyclone seemed to form in front of her. She heard the cracking sound of the door breaking as a strong power came inside the cell. The wind slowed down and she paled a bit more.

"Zera?"

-x-

"Koenma, sir!" An ogre barged in Koenma's office while he was telling Yusuke and his team about the Dark Tournament. "There is an escape from the lower prison, the prisoner 16-"

"Which one was it?" Koenma interrupted with an uninterested tone.

"The girl we caught earlier today, sir."

Koenma was instantly alert, making Kurama become suspicious. There were never any important prisoners in the lower prison.

"Make sure she does not e-"

"Kuraaaamaaa!" A familiar almost sobbing tone to the unfamiliar voice make Kurama blink in surprise before the ogre was run over and someone jumped towards him in a very familiar way. He dodged. The girl landed behind him just as he was turning. The girl jumped on his back.

"Kuraaamaaa! Zera is here!" He compartmentalized and gave the incoming tornado more priority than the outwardly unfamiliar girl.

"You can run but you can't hide!" An eerie chuckle echoed mysteriously. Yusuke shot a weak spirit gun at the centre of the tornado. "Hey!"

A small almost-transparent girl formed a shield of the churning wind from the raw concentration of power.

"Come on, Noriko! Stop whining."

The girl behind Kurama tightened her grip around him. He put a hand on her wrist on his stomach to calm her down. She clutched onto his tighter and he rolled his eyes at the familiar action even as he hid a smile. She was caught by the Spirit World. Of course.

"Zera, I think you've teased her enough." The wind spirit gave a tinkling laugh.

"It's never enough, Kurama. She's such a child." A gust of air blew though his hair. "My, my Kurama. I see she followed you again, and this time to a different world. Such a nice change…" The wind spirit spoke seductively. Wove her power though her words.

Kurama smiled. "You really shouldn't forget who you're trying that on. That doesn't work on me any more than it did a century ago."

"Well, damn. Here I was, hoping your human body would decrease your immunity."

"Who the hell are you anyway?" Zera gave a disgusted glance.

"Human." Before she looked at Yusuke. "Oh ho. Nice." She circled Yusuke. "Hello handsome."

Kurama's eyebrow shot up. High praise from a wind spirit. Yusuke spluttered.

"Who the-" She waved her hand and the wind compressed and shut his mouth.

"So much better." She drifted towards Hiei, who glared at the wind spirit.

"Such a hostile child." She looked at him from top to bottom. "You'll be a good mate." Hiei practically jerked back.

"Wind spirit. Do not chain me to a future I have no interest in." Yusuke shot a slightly weirded out expression at Hiei. He never spoke…like that. With respect.

Zera released a calming aura. "You will chain yourself to it." Hiei growled lowly in warning and Kurama gave the wind spirit a searching look before biting his tongue. He wouldn't get anything from her that she didn't want him to know.

"Now, be a dear and don't put her back, would you?" The ancient wind spirit told Koenma cheerfully. "I would rather not see her in that dump of a prison again. And she needs to be trained to use my element."

Zera nodded at Kurama and Noriko was extracted from Kurama's back and placed in his arms. She gave a soft snore at the new position and Kurama sweat dropped. He had forgotten about her ability to sleep anytime and at anyplace.

"You have a resident psychic, don't you? You should ask her to teach her control. She will do the rest herself." She gave a fond look at Noriko before coming towards her and giving her a light kiss on her forehead. She lightly touched Kurama's cheek before disappearing.

Koenma paled into a sheet white at the action, before collapsing in his chair in relief.

"Hey! What just happened?" Yusuke interrupted, annoyed at being shut up so easily by an unknown creature.

"The favor of the Wind." Koenma looked at the sleeping girl with a worried expression.

"Zera is a wind spirit, Yusuke." Kurama started.

"I heard that. But what is a wind spirit?"

"A wind spirit is a servant of the Wind God. Each element has a God, and each God has five spirits. The Gods let the spirits bless, curse or do nothing at all, to a child, a demon, with their element. Unlike them, I have been cursed by the Fire God." Hiei said. Kurama gave him a suspicious glance. Hiei never spoke about himself.

"Wait, wait. Didn't you just say the Gods let their spirits curse a child?"

"Yes," Kurama admitted slowly, glancing at Hiei again. He just looked away. "Hiei is a different case. This is the reason why he is called the cursed child. The element fire opposes water. Or ice, as they are. When Hiei was born a fire demon and male, the water spirits cursed him. But Hiei is primarily a fire demon and therefore in the Fire God's territory. The Fire God himself cursed him. Or at least, that's what people have assumed for the last half a century." Hiei glared at Kurama.

"There is no 'assumption', fox."

"Actually, it is. People assumed that the Fire God cursed you. Rejected you, as you were of the Water due to your dual nature. But other than the God's presence and your mother's reaction-" Hiei became painfully still. "-it is assumed to be a curse. But the darkest flame has never been summoned by you. The flames you wield has not eaten your mind-"

Hiei contemplated saying that his Jaganashi was blocking the harmful effects of the flames.

"-and while your third eye is strong, even you cannot stop a God's curse."

Nevermind.

"Mind your own business, fox." Hiei left.

"Were you just arguing about Hiei being cursed?"

"Ah, yes. He generally doesn't like talking about it, but perhaps the wind spirit influenced him some way…" Kurama's voice faded as he thought about this new development.

"Wait. They can do that?"

"Oh yes. They are under the direct command of their God. And are, therefore, very strong. They can see the future, you can say, or act like fates. They know your thoughts and who you are, inside out. But they rarely appear in front of humans. Or demons, in fact. Maybe, once every millennia."

"Wow. They're really old then." Kurama hid a chuckle.

"Yes. They are."

"Kurama, please keep her with you." Koenma suddenly spoke up. He looked at Kurama with authority and slightly pleadingly. Kurama nodded as he skipped through his reasons for bringing an unknown girl home and his mother's reaction.

"Of course, Koenma."

With that he left, glancing at the girl who caused another complication in their already complicated situation. Plus, there was Hiei to contemplate…

"Favor of the Wind, huh? Your strange luck is acting up again." He gave the girl a fond smile.

A tinkling laughter, heard by no one, echoed in the halls.