Yes this chapter was resubmitted, I found errors and fixed them. Thank you to RitSuYue for reviewing.

Disclaimer: Don't own YYH, if I did then I wouldn't be sitting here in a hurricane ravaged house waiting for insurance to pay to fix it.

This is a multi chapter fic, written when I was bored! It's kinda angsty... and if you don't like Hiei/Botan pairing then don't continue to read.

.:story start:.

The mission had gone according to plan, the many demons on the get rid of list destroyed. Botan sat on her oar above the battle field congratulating two of the Reikai Tentai who stood before her. The lush green forest around the clearing quiet, no sound of animals about. An arrow in her neck cut her words short, blood poured from the wound staining her pink kimono a darker shade. She fell the few feet to the ground, the two Tentai's in shock. Hiei threw his katana at a tree, the scream and thump of a body hitting the ground his answer to his aim. Soon the other came out of his stupor and rushed to the ferry girl's side.

Botan's ki had all the while lowered, near death she hung on a thin thread. What kept her alive when most of her life source pooled around her body? Her friends? One last wish to say something meaningful?

Kurama knelt at her head, gently laying it in his lap. His hands softly touched her neck trying to find the wound. Botan opened her mouth to say something, but blood dribbled down her cheeks from pale lips. Her eyes rested on Hiei who stood a few feet away.

Hiei. Tell everyone bye for me? Blood began to flow into her lungs, slowly suffocating her. And please tell Yukina before you to pass from the living into the spirit. Her voice in his mind faded her lips now blue, her breathing and heart stopped. Kurama closed her eyes; tears streaking his face as sorrow overcame him. A mournful wail filled the air as the kitsune release his grief.

"Kitsune, we must leave before others come!" Hiei reached down and pulled the mirror communicator out of a pocket in Botan's kimono. "KOENMA!"

On the screen a toddler sat his eyes half opened and drool dripping from his mouth.

"No need to shout, Hiei! Where is Botan?" Worry woke the princeling up as his eyes searched the area behind Hiei.

"The onna was shot, her spirit has already left. Open up a portal!" Shock and grief filled the toddlers face as he unconsciously pressed the buttons to open a portal. Kurama stood the dead ferry girl in his arms limp. Tears silently ran down the Reikai Tentai's faces, except Hiei of course. A swirling mass opened a little ways away, the group slowly made their way towards it and entered.

Botan-

She stood watching the scene, wincing when Hiei yelled into the communicator.

"Do I really have that affect on them that they would cry when I left them?" All cheerfulness had left her face, replaced by a frown unseemly of Botan. A small hole in her neck showed the entrance of the arrow in her corpse showed on her soul. She lightly fingered the hole, wondering briefly why she hadn't been called to the Reikai yet.

"B-botan?" A choked voice full of sadness was heard behind the ghost Botan. She turned around to see her apprentice, Hinagenshi, standing before her. The younger girl hugged Botan tightly, afraid to let the truth sink in. "No, no, no! You can't be gone!"

Small tears fell through the ghost Botan held by Hinagenshi, as Botan tried to comfort the young girl. "Sh.. It's okay, it was my time. Please don't worry over me!"

"I-i guess I will take you to be judged now, then." Hinagenshi summoned her oar, a soft wind rustling the girls hair and the grass in the clearing. The duo silently climbed on the wooden oar, which soon left the scene flying higher into the sky.

: story ends:.

What will happen to the gang now that Botan has left the realms of the living? Find out next time on Lost to death.