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Chapter 1: Shitashii Shiranai Hito

Kurama looked out the window and then glanced at Hiei curiously. "Hiei, don't you think it odd for it to be this quiet?" Hiei turned to Kurama, the usual serious expression across his face. "So you noticed it, too." Yusuke had just woke up and had heard their conversation. He had noticed it. Seven auras were heading towards their humble abode. But two of the auras were different; they felt slightly human. Yusuke started to walk down the stairs towards the living room. He smirked slightly when he saw Hiei, katana at the ready and Kurama, with a small rosebud in hand. But something strange caught Yusuke's eye. Kurama looked as if in deep thought as he fiddled with one of the leaves on the rosebud. "So, I guess we're all ready to kick some demon a**," Yusuke said with a smile as he finished walking down the stairs. Kurama looked up from the leaf he was carelessly playing with and looked at Yusuke still as if in deep thought. "Yes, we are quite content with fighting these demons, but there's just one problem." Kurama said. "Yusuke, you sensed it too, didn't you?" "Yeah, I sensed it alright the auras of two humans, but not quite human," Yusuke replied firing up his battle aura. "They're getting closer," Hiei said calmly, now in fighting stance. The room was now very tense with silence.

As the front door broke open, Hiei was gone in a flash and already head to head with one of the demons. "Kurama, you take the two human ones!" yelled Yusuke over all the fighting. Kurama just simply nodded in reply and focused on the two human auras. 'But something about one of the auras in particular bothers me,' he thought. 'It's strangely familiar.' While he was thinking, the human's scent had changed to a calm demonic aura, but it was still mixed with the smell of human. 'An ainoko?' Kurama questioned. He was now running outside towards the forest when he was stopped by one of the ainokos. She was a cat demon and she was slender, about 5'8". She had long black hair and piercing orange eyes. She glared at him viciously, and then started to attack. "Stay away from her!" she hissed as she tried to claw him. "Stay away from who?" Kurama asked as he parried the cat demon's attacks. He then saw an opening and used his rose whip to knock the cat demon out. She hit the ground unconscious and a black cloud engulfed her.

When the cloud cleared Kurama was staring at a human girl with pale skin; she had long black hair with red streaks, and on the left side of her face there was a very long piece of hair that covered her eye. "I wonder why she attacked me the way she did?" he said to himself. "And stay away from who?" her words nagged at him, as did the strangely familiar aura up ahead. He picked up the unconscious girl and carried her piggyback style, then started a sprint towards the strange aura. As he felt quite close to the aura, it vanished. 'What the?' Kurama thought. 'It's gone?' But just as this thought passed through his mind the aura reappeared, but now it was inside the house. He began running back to the house as he felt Hiei's battle aura rise.

When he got inside, he saw Hiei, his fist flaming, ready to deal the finishing blow on what appeared to be a young fox demon. Kurama's eyes widened as he saw Hiei start in for the kill. "Hiei, no!" Kurama screamed as he gently dropped the girl he was carrying and ran towards Hiei. Kurama quickly grabbed Hiei, as his punch was about to connect and held him back. "Kurama, are you insane?! She tried to kill me!" Hiei growled as he glared at the young fox demon before him. "Let me go!" Hiei said. "I'll take care of the fox Hiei. You go see to that girl over by the door." Kurama let Hiei go and Hiei just glared at Kurama as he picked up his katana and sheathed it then walked over towards the girl Kurama had carefully dropped by the door.

Kurama looked at the young fox demon before him, confused. He didn't know why he had stopped Hiei from killing her, but for some reason he felt compelled to fight her himself. His thoughts were cut short as the fox demon got up and threw a blue fire bolt at him. 'She's a fire demon?' Kurama thought as he dodged once and then again as she threw another one. Questions started racing through his mind as he fought the young fox. 'She seems so familiar,' he thought briefly, as he parried yet another fire bolt. He released his rose whip and as he ran, he tripped her and then used his whip to bind her.

She was now on the floor tangled in his whip, struggling in earnest to get free, thorns gashing her, tearing her skin and clothes apart. Kurama just looked at her a little amused. "You can struggle all you want it will just get tighter," he said with a slight smile. "Anata Bakayaro!" the fox screamed. "Who are you?" Kurama asked as he got lost in her golden eyes, which were now fluctuating between the colors red and green. "Why do you want to know?" she said smugly giving up her struggle. "You seem familiar." Kurama said still in a daze. "Look, pretty boy, I'll tell you who I am if you let me go," she said with an evil grin. Kurama snapped out of his daze as he felt maliciousness in the girl's aura. 'She's going to attack me if I let her go. Fine, I'll play her game,' he thought to himself as he released her from the bonds.

Right as she was free, she was gone in a flash and was behind Kurama in an instant, ready to snap his neck, or so she thought. As she went in to grab it, he quickly turned around grabbed her arm and twisted it behind her back, then hit the back of her head with his free elbow, knocking her out. She started to fall, but he quickly grabbed her. As she lay unconscious in his arms, a purple smoke surrounded her and as it cleared, there lay a human girl.

She looked about 16 with long, wavy, reddish-brown hair and pale skin. He just looked at her curiously. 'Who is she?' he thought. "This place sure is a mess, eh Kurama?" Yusuke said as he came downstairs. Kurama looked around the room and noticed that the girl from earlier and Hiei were both gone. There was nothing there besides some lowlife demon corpses. He looked back up at Yusuke. "Where's the girl?" "She's upstairs with Hiei, he's tending to her wound. He's not happy about it, either; he keeps muttering something about 'stupid fox' this and that. Heh" Yusuke replied with a grin. "Wound?" Kurama said a little surprised. "Yeah, she had a gash on her back..." Yusuke trailed off, as he looked in Kurama's arms to see the girl. "Hey, Kurama, who's the babe?" "The fox demon I was fighting just moments ago; turns out she's part Ningen." Kurama said in reply. He looked down at the girl and looked back at Yusuke. "Yusuke, can you clean up while I take her to my room?" "Yeah, sure." Yusuke shrugged as he started to pick up the couch pillows and broken glass.

Kurama started to walk up the stairs. "Hey, Kurama." "Yes Yusuke." Kurama replied. "What do I do with the five idiot demons who got killed." Yusuke said with a slight grin as he looked at the five ogres' corpses. Kurama just looked at Yusuke a little funny for a second, then smiled and said, "Throw them outside. I'll have Hiei incinerate them later." He then continued walking up the stairs to his room. He laid the girl on his bed and then just stared at her. His thoughts went wild with questions. 'Who is she?' he thought. "Hn. So you let her live?" said a very ticked-off Hiei with a dangerous calmness. "Yes." Kurama said simply in reply. Hiei just turned around and as he walked down the stairs Kurama heard him say. "The girl's in Yusuke's room. I'm going to go incinerate some demon corpses." Kurama just smiled and went to go check on the other girl. He shut the door and walked down the hall to Yusuke's room.