Disclaimer: I do not own Yu Yu Hakusho, or any of its characters. They all belong to Yoshihiro Togashi.

With a Dash of Honey

Episode one: Boy meets girl?

"Botan-chan! Are you done getting dressed? You should get to school now or else you'll be late!" mom shouted from the kitchen. Wow, her voice was loud enough to reach my room. How cool!

I skipped down the stairs and grabbed my lunch bag of bread crusts that was sitting neatly on the table. So what? I love my bread crusts. You got a problem with that? I hear they're good for you, ya know?

As I sauntered in the kitchen, I hugged my mom from behind. She nearly jumped, but soon started laughing. She was making eggs for dad again.

"I'm going now, mom. It's still not too late to stop me." Ha-ha~! Just kidding! I'm just not in the mood for school.

She managed to flick my forehead with her finger. "What are you saying? You should get going."

"Aww~" I pouted. "You don't want to spend time with me?"

She laughed once again. The next thing I heard was the sound of the chair moving. I turned to look to see what made that noise and saw dad now sitting at the table and grabbing a newspaper.

"Is she trying that 'spend time with me' trick so she can skip school again?" he guessed, hitting the jackpot. Aww, man! There goes my chance of a free-school day!

"Don't worry, honey. I'm not falling for it," mom replied, giving dad a wink before smiling at the scowl I was now sporting on my face.

Darn it, now I have to go. Bleh. I loosened my grip on mom and walked over to where dad was.

"Well, dad. I gotta go." With that said, I placed a soft kiss on his forehead and he patted my head in return.

"Okay, but don't even plan on going to the arcade to skip, you hear? If you do that again, you're grounded. For real this time," dad warned. I just grinned.

Yeah, I tried skipping school by going to the arcade once. But hey, it's just once, okay! He wanted to ground me but fortunately for me, he didn't. It seems like he's not going to do the same thing this time though… Aww~! Dad loves me so much!

"Alright, daddy." I used the most angelic face I could manage to pull. "Bye, see you guys after school!" I told them and ran for the door, opening it and closing it behind me as I got out the house.


Oh my god! I must be blessed today.

"I'll take it!" I gladly accepted an offer. What offer you ask? It's a damn awesome offer that someone like me can't resist!

I was offered a skull.

Thank you so much, kind old lady who I don't know! Oh my god, oh my god, OH MY GOD! Now I have another one to add to my collections! What collections you ask? Oh wait, I forgot something.

I forgot to introduce myself, eh? He-he~! Well, my name's Botan Fukuyama, I'm fourteen and I have a great hobby of collecting things I think is unique. And as you can probably tell by now, my definition of unique is unlike others!

Hey! They might be weird to other people but my wonderful collections are unique and not to mention, gorgeous to me! Who cares what they think? I don't. Pfft, whatever.

The old lady smiled at me and handed me the stunning thing. Oh this is just splendid! Whoo-hoo for me!

"Thank you!" I said before prancing away. Wow, who would've thought I would get this… this spectacular skull before even reaching school? I'll tell you, I didn't!


I walked into my classroom, ignoring the weird looks my classmates were giving me. What? Never seen a girl carry a skull in her hands before? He-he~!

I took my seat and placed my skull on the wooden desk. I put my chin into my hands as I stared at it with my eyes sparkling. UWAHHH! You're so beautiful! Wait, what's the best name for me to give you? Let's see, let's see... Hmm... Ah, I got it! I'll name you Skully-chan!

My Skully-chan~! Come here! I grabbed a hold of Skully-chan and began rubbing my new pet against my cheek. "Oh, I love you~!" No, seriously. I do love Skully-chan. Ya-ha-ha~!

Heyyyyy, what's up with you guys? Yes, you! My so-called classmates! It's rude to stare!

Oh well, whatever. Let them stare. No one can get in the way of our love, right, Skully-chan? No one will ever separate us!

The classroom door suddenly slammed open, revealing the great, almighty… Ha-ha, kidding~! Genkai-sensei seems to be having a bad mood again today, huh? Oh, but don't let that lower our spirits, Skully-chan!

I put my cute Skully-chan on my desk again. I didn't care if Genkai-sensei saw it or not. She did.

"Fukuyama-san." My name sounded stern as it passed her lips. "What is that thing on your desk?" What? What thing? Oh, you mean Skully-chan?

I claimed Skully-chan in my hands once again and raised it proudly in the air, as if it was a trophy or something. "This is my Skully-chan! I just got it today~!" I sang.

I could see the vein popping dangerously at her head. Sheesh, she's in a really bad mood, isn't she? Heh~ "I don't care what its name is. I don't want it on your desk during my class, do you understand?"

What? Why not? Aww, man! No! I told Skully-chan earlier that nothing could separate us. And when I say nothing, I mean nothing! Especially not Genkai-sensei!

I shook my head stubbornly. "No, I don't understand." Uwahh, that's going to get on her nerves…

Genkai-sensei stomped angrily over to my desk. Wow, talk about anger issues… Oh no, she's grabbing Skully-chan! NOOOO! I swiftly took a hold of Skully-chan and tried to pull it from her grasp.

She was taken by surprise at this but her shock quickly died down and she started to pull, too. And when she did, I pulled again. Hold on, Skully-chan! Botan-chan's here to save you!

Me and Genkai-sensei were now engaged in battle of tugging at Skully-chan, both of us trying to let the other let go. No, I will not give up! Never!

I gave it a last tug, putting all my strength into this and Genkai-sensei's death grip on my dear Skully-chan was now gone. She almost felled back, but she immediately got to her feet.

Uwahhh! That was a hard fight! But everything's good, it's all worth it so I could rescue you, Skully-chan! And now you're back in my arms! Yee-hee~!

Genkai-sensei shot me a death glare and the happy grin that was on my face vanished into thin air, now replaced by a glare. What? You wanna fight again? Bring it on!

We glared at each other for what seemed like ages before she finally looked away with a 'hmph'. She began walking back to the teacher's desk and I blinked. What? That's it?

Oh well, who cares? I have you, Skully-chan! I rubbed Skully-chan against my cheek again with an ear-to-ear grin tugging at my lips and paid no attention to the weird stares my classmates were shooting my way. I told you nothing could break us apart! MUAHAHAHAHAHA!


UWAAAA! Skully-chan! Where are you? Where did you go?! Don't hide. I thought nothing could separate the two of us?

You see, I was now looking everywhere for Skully-chan. School had long ended, but I couldn't go without taking Skully-chan with me. It was gone! Where could it be?! Someone must have taken it and hid it somewhere! UWAAAA! I'm gonna cry if this keeps up!

No, no! I can't lose one of my collections! I've never lost any of them before! Oh my lovely Skully-chan… Where on earth are you? Please! Don't go away!

I looked into the garbage can. "Are you in there, Skully-chan?" Oh my god, no Skully-chan! Where, where? Where is it? Where is my Skully-chan?!

"What are you doing?" Someone asked and I turned to look at them. I saw a pretty redheaded bishounen with piercing emerald eyes frowning at me. I've never seen him before but he's a good-looking one~! Skully-chan would've been happy to see him! But then, it's not here…

"Looking for Skully-chan~!" I replied in a singing voice.

He blinked. "Oh," was his only answer. He looked around for a moment before looking back at me. "I take it it's a cat?"

What? A cat? So he was looking for signs of any cats passing by? No, no! Skully-chan is more wonderful than a cat is! I shook my head as a response.

He arched an eyebrow at this. "A dog then?" he guessed. Wow, he's so bad at this guessing game~!

I grinned and shook my head again. His brows furrowed. "So what is it?"

My grin widened. Oh, the confused look on his face was so FUNNY! But it's not really good to keep people guessing right? He-he~! I wonder how he'll act when he finds out… "Skully-chan is a skull~!" I answered in my usual sing-along voice.

There was silence. His frown was replaced by surprised expression but then it changed into a deep-in-thought kind of look. Uwahhh, how could he change expressions so quickly like that? So cool~!

He cocked his head to the side slightly. "I suppose you must be Botan Fukuyama-san."

Eh? How did he know my name? How, how, how, how, HOW?! Oh well, I'm going to find out! "Uh-huh, the one and only!" I proudly told him, sticking my nose up in the air in pride. Hey, who said I can't be proud of myself?

"But anyways, who are you? And how did you know who I am? I didn't accidentally you my name, right? I do that sometimes and I don't even realize it! But other people do that too, ya know? It's not so bad once you get used to it! But then again, you never get used to it 'cause it always happens without you even noticing it. Hmm…" I began my endless rambling but he cut me off. Heyyy, that's rudeee!

"No, you didn't. You just have quite a reputation, you see. Also, my name is Shuichi Minamino but most people call me Kurama. You can call me that too, if you want to. It's a pleasure to meet you."

Reputation? Oh, I know what he meant. "It's nice to meet you too, Ku-chan."

Ku-chan was taken aback. What? Why? Did I do something wrong? "Ku-chan…?" he echoed.

Oh, did he hate that nickname? Okay then, something else then! "Kura-chan?" I suggested and he almost jumped. Ehhhh~?

He saw my confusion and coughed slightly. "Sorry, I just… I'm not used to people giving me that kind of nicknames."

I made an "ohhh" sound. Oh, so he's the polite, formal type, huh? But I don't care! I will still call him Ku-chan! "Oh, it's okay, Ku-chan!" I giggled and Ku-chan looked away for a brief moment. Whaaaaaat?

"I've never seen you before, Ku-chan. Are you a new student?" I asked him. Ku-chan stared at me incredulously. Eh? Wha-? Why was he giving me that look? Did I say something strange? Ya-ha-ha~! Ku-chan's so weird. But no one can be weird as me, right?

"No. I think I've been a student here as long as you have, Botan-san. I'm quite… popular too." Eh? Reaaaallllyyy? Well, that explains why he's looking at me like that… He stared at me with that look for a few more moments before finally smiling and chuckling to himself.

Uwaahhh~! He's so gorgeous, Skully-chan! I wish you were here to meet Ku-chan… But Ku-chan's a bit weird. He changes his expressions too fast… Then again, that's what makes him interesting~!

"By the way, Ku-chan." He stopped chuckling at the nickname and once again pulled an uncomfortable expression on his face. Ha-ha~! He's so funny~!

"You said I have a reputation, I hope it isn't bad?" I asked him, despite knowing that it was bad. Well, who cares? I don't. I D-O N-O-T C-A-R-E!

And as expected, he didn't know what to say to that. "Err…" He scratched the back of his head for a moment and immediately changed the subject. "Want me to help you look for Skully-chan?"

I just gave him a toothy grin. I knew he was avoiding my question. Eh~ So stories about me really did spread fast… Not that I mind, they're true anyway. Ku-chan even knows who I am.

But Ku-chan's sooooo nice. He's offering to help. I doubt anyone would dare to help me. He-he~!

"Thank youuu, Ku-chan~!" Then I added, "Another thing, stop calling me Botan-san. Just call me Bo-chan."

Uwahh~! It doesn't look like he's going to be calling me that anytime soon. I saw Ku-chan shook his head slightly.

Ku-chan's great. Sure, he's a bit strange but he's really awesome. Oh, Skully-chan~! You would've loved to meet him. He's going to help me look for you, ya know? No one here has ever given me any help.

I am after all known to be the weirdo that scares everyone away. Heh~ Whatever!