I twitched.

"This isn’t fair! This is karma playing some sick ass joke on me! THE WORLD IS IN CONSPIRACY AGAINST ME!" I yelled out as I put my head in my hands. “Why, why, why, why? THERE IS A GOD AND HE HATES ME! EFF MY LIFE!!!!" Kirane and I were standing at the entrance to the forest, and all the other groups had already gone in.

"Come on, Kitten. We won’t get anywhere like this." Kirane soothed.

"NO." I firmly stated, turning my back to him. I heard him chuckle.

"What?" I asked. He chuckled a little louder. "What?!" I repeated.

"Rule number One: Never turn your back on me." Kirane whispered in my ear, making me jump.

"W-what?!" He wrapped his arms around my waist, and then he picked me up; throwing me over his shoulder. “H-HEY! Put me down!" I yelled.

"Will you behave?" He murmured.

"HELL NO!" I replied.

"Then I won’t let you go~" He sang. I kicked my legs in an attempt to get down.

"Let. Me. GO!" I yelled out.

"You know, I don’t think I will." He grinned. I gave up, laying limp on his shoulder, and sighed.

**********

"Are we there yet?" I muttered. Again.

"If you ask that one more time, I’m going to have to punish you." Kirane smirked.

"Oh?" I questioned. Suddenly a huge thing that looked like a bear demon with two heads jumped out. "Uhh… Hi." I said blankly. Kirane dropped me and summoned his whip.

"Shadow whip." He muttered, clearly irritated by the demon’s sudden appearance.

"I will have that cat! My wife has been complaining about wanting a new house pet to help out!" The bear growled. "Now, this can either go the easy way, or the hard way." The bear growled.

"No need to say another word. Now, which way is your home?" I went to walk towards the bear demon but Kirane held me back. "Lemmi go you damned Vamp!" I objected.

"I don’t think I will." He smirked. A quick flip of his whip and the bear demon was dead. I sighed.

"There goes my escape…" I muttered. Kirane chuckled and picked me up again.

"I can walk, you know!" I growled.

"Sorry, but I won’t let you down." He calmly stated. I twitched.

‘Well,’ I thought, ‘it worked the first time I was kidnapped, so…’

"This is the song that never ends; it just goes on and on my friends! Some people started singing it, not knowing what it was! And they’ll continue singing it forever just because: this is the song that never ends…" I sang out, struggling to get off of Kirane’s shoulder.

"I’m happy that you’ll sing for me. You have such a lovely voice." Kirane chuckled. I immediately stopped.

‘Well that backfired…’ I thought sadly.

"We’ll get the artefact now, so we have a few days to… entertain ourselves. Who knows, you might come to like my charms." Kirane grinned. I just huffed impatiently.

"Can I please walk?" I asked, annoyed. And besides that, my back was becoming sore. Kirane sighed, but put me down. "Finally…" I muttered. We walked forward in a somewhat awkward silence. "So… where is this temple place anyways?" I asked.

"It’s only a little farther." Kirane smiled. Suddenly Yusuke leaped out of the bushes, making me jump. He was carrying some old, VERY rusty sword.

"Where the hell did he get that piece of crap?" I muttered to myself. Kurama soon followed. "You’re not Mo-mo, but I still missed you guys!" I laughed out. I tried to run towards them for a hug, but was picked up by Kirane. AGAIN. "Put. ME. DOWN!" I yelled out kicking my legs.

"I refuse. This is MY opportunity to have you, and that damn demon isn’t going to screw it up." Kirane growled, extremely out of character. I blinked, somewhat surprised.

"What’s up with you?" I muttered, “Somebody’s p.m.…"

The bared his fangs possessively at my actual companions.

"It doesn’t appear that she wants to be with you very much, does it?" Kurama asked the vampire coldly, a strategic smile playing on his lips.

"Yusuke! Kurama! Get this damn vamp away from me! He's acting a little more possessive than usual!" I struggled to get away from my partner/captor. He let me go, but pushed me behind him.

"You’ll have to stay out of this one Kitten." Kirane growled. "This one is personal." He growled in an even lower tone.

"Damn it, he's serious! Yusuke, do something! If Kurama gets hurt I’m going to worry my ass off! It'll be better if you take him on!" I yelled out for assistance.

"Um, sorry but I can’t help you with this one..." Yusuke objected. "Y'see, I don't do well with these kinds of situations. I'm sure they can settle this themselves." Yusuke proceeded to step away, and then started to play around with the rusty artefact.

Stupid, useless detective! Now I've gotta try to break this up by myself! "You guys! Don’t fight! It’s a waste of time!" I tried, but to no avail. "That is it! Listen to me! We are doing things MY WAY! HELLO!?" I yelled out, irritated that they were ignoring me. "If you won’t give me your attention, I’ll have to TAKE it." I muttered. I walked around Kirane, who was still in front of me, and stared into his glaring eyes, "I’ll make you a deal. We go on ahead, you IGNORE THEM. Which means no fighting; no complaining; no killing; no NOTHING, and I’ll give you a treat." Kirane’s glare phased slightly and he looked at me curiously.

"What kind of treat?" He asked, raising an eyebrow.

"Aiyoku-san, what are you doing?" Kurama questioned. I twitched.

"I have a first name, use it!" I finally snapped at Kurama, who stared at me, slightly shocked by my outburst. I turned my back on him. "You’ll like it, trust me. But you have to accept first." Kirane looked me straight in the eyes, and smirked, as if knowing I was about to kill off my dignity to avoid this fight.

"Only on the condition that if I don’t like it, I can take something else." He smirked. I growled.

"Fine." I muttered, hasty to get it over with.

"Then I agree. Now what is this ‘treat’?” Kirane smiled down at me. I frowned, and sighed.

"Yusuke, you tell anybody. I mean ANYBODY. And I will make SURE you will never be able to be a father!" I stated bluntly. Then I quickly stretched onto my tiptoes, and kissed Kirane. It was just a swift kiss, but enough for his ego to grow considerably. I could see the condescending glance he sent to Kurama, and then he smiled down at me.

"You were right. I liked it." Kirane muttered into my hair.

"Now you have to uphold your side of the bargain." I growled.

"Aiyoku-san…" Kurama muttered.

"Didn’t she make it clear that she wanted to be called by her name? Tch. Looks like you don’t even care for her enough to do that." Kirane smirked, "Well, I keep my promises. Good bye." And without a sparing glance we walked forwards into the forest.