Falling into place
Summary : It is a completed story to be updated once a week. It's a Valentines Day that brought Botan and Hiei together for many years of happiness. Read along as they squabble and make up, and glimpse into their happy future together.
The chilly spring air swirled around her, making the sakura petals dance. Everything was so beautiful this time of year; of course, she couldn't help but feel bad she had to work on Valentines Day.
Poor St. Valentinus, his holiday caused many people, like her, a great deal of pain, some would even kill themselves to escape it. It was almost less painful when she could see happy couples walking in the street, knowing that at least some one was happy.
But it hurt just the same because she was alone, she was miserable just like the souls she ferried, albeit a different reason for her. She had died on Valentines Day, emotionally and physically; it was twenty years ago today...
\/\/\/\/\/\Flash Back/\/\/\/\/\/
Botan was walking down the street, snow still covering the ground, as she hummed her favourite tune. She was on her way to see Michael, he said he had a surprise for her, and she absolutely loved surprises. When she reached their meeting place, the coffee shop at the edge of town, she sat down and waited for him. And she waited, and waited, and waited some more. She waited for several hours, but he never came.
So she stood up, intent on finding him and beating the stuffing out of him, and stormed off towards his house. She knocked on the door, heard a click and his voice say 'come in'.
She opened the door and nearly screamed, she could see right into the living room from the doorway, and she didn't like what she saw! Michael, the love of her life, was screwing some blonde bimbo!
When he should have been with her, on Valentines Day...was she that horrible?
"How could you? I thought you loved me! I HATE YOU!" She turned and ran away, half praying that he would run out after her, and beg and plead for forgiveness.
But he never did, all she heard was that woman scream in pleasure as he continued to screw her. So she ran, she ran for hours, miles, she didn't stop till she was lost in the forest.
She spotted a cliff and gazed at it longingly, Lovers Leap. She stood up, determined, and walked up to the edge of the cliff, it must have been four hundred feet tall.
She looked back in the general direction of Michael's house, sighed and walked right off the cliff. No more would he hurt her...no more would anyone hurt her...
\/\/\/\/\/\End Flash Back/\/\/\/\/\/
...She felt the tears run down her face, she could see that cliff from here. Every Valentines day, she would take a walk and just remind herself of what Michael did, it was how she stopped herself from loving anyone.
She always acted happy because it was part of her deal, she didn't go to hell and she was as happy as happy can possibly be... too bad that happiness wasn't from her heart.
This was the twentieth Valentines Day alone, although many people had tried to be with her this year. Koenma always asked her out, but she would refuse and tell him to mind his own business when he pried into her problems.
Hiei was sitting in his tree, thinking of the conversation he'd just had with Kurama, that stupid nosey fox had figured out he had a crush on the baka ferry onna, and tried to get him to ask her out for a Valentines date. Like that would ever happen.
He stared off at the mountains and the cliffs, and saw something that made his heart stop. Botan was walking along the edge of the cliff, and she slipped on a rock. He saw her start to fall and ran to catch her.