Disclaimer-I don't own YYH, but I own the plot and all the OCs coming up.
Chapter is done in Yuuseke's P.O.V.
"Kuwabara! Behind you!"
"I'm on it!"
"Rose Whip!"
"Where are Keiko and Botan?"
I look around, finally getting a small breather from the fighting. Me, Hiei, and Kuwabara are fighting in a triangle, guarding each other's back. I look around for Botan, Keiko, and Kurama. I look to my upper left, where Botan is crouched against a pile of crates. Kurama is in front of her, swinging his rose whip to keep these…these creatures…from getting too close. But I still don't know what happened with Keiko. Then I see her. She I backed against a all, frozen in fear, straight ahead of me, but oh so far away. I followed her gaze and hissed in anger and fear. Not for myself, but for her. A huge creature was standing in front of her. But something was out of place. My eyes traveled down.
The ancient creature had a modern gun. And the gun was pointing at Keiko.
"KEIKO! Move it!" I start running towards her, but the monsters close in. I know I am too far away, Kurama is the closest to her, but he has his hands full.
"Yuusuke!" Her voice calls out for me, but I cannot do anything. Kuwabara is at my back, Hiei is back behind me, and neither will make it to Keiko. I look at Kurama, but he is still fighting. I see a sudden movement behind him. An enemy? No, just Botan. She is looking from me to Keiko and has stopped cowering against the crates. She looks behind me for a minute probably at Hiei and Kuwabara. I can't really see her; my mind is focused on fighting forward and Keiko. Then, a flash of blue and pink. Blue collides with brown, as a gunshots ring out. "BOTAN!!"
It takes but a second to realize what happened. Botan saw an opening and pushed Keiko out of the way of the bullets, but was not fast enough to get herself out of the way.
As one, Hiei, Kuwabara, and I push forward. We have decimated the ones behind us. Now, only those between the others and us were left. Kurama had ran and taken out the one with the gun before attacking the monsters from the other side. With them being attacked from both sides, they didn't stand a chance.
As soon as the last one fell, we ran to Botan. However, Kurama was by her side in a flash.
Keiko is on her knees, supporting Botan's head and shoulder and putting pressure on as many wounds as she can. Kurama sinks to his knees beside her, grabbing her hand and also trying to stop the bleeding. But there's just too many. I know she's leaving us. I put my hand on Keiko's shoulder and crouched. Kuwabara and Hiei also crowds around. Botan looks around.
"Kei...ko? Is she alright?"
"I'm fine. One grazed my shoulder, but that's all." Botan smiles. I can't keep my mouth shut.
"Botan, why the hell did you do that?" Kurama beats it to me, and it hits me that this is the one time I've heard him curse. Botan looks at him and smiles weakly and looks back to me.
"Yuusuke…take car of her…" Her words are getting fainter. She tilts her head up to Keiko, who is crying, before shifting to me. She studies me and then looks at Kuwabara. Hiei nods as she looks at him. Then she looks at Kurama. She grins as much as she can, but then winces. I see him lift their hands, which he is still holding. I see her squeeze it as much as she can, which isn't much. Then she stares between Kuwabara and Hiei. I take it there's a ferrygirl to guide her soul. I wonder who it is briefly before looking back. Botan is staring at Kurama. She wheezes. Kuwabara is starting to plead with her not to go, but she smiles at him, returning her gaze to Kurama. Then it hits me! Botan likes Kurama. And from Kurama's behavior, he must return the feelings at least a little. Botan is struggling to say something and we all lean to hear it, even Hiei. "Gomen I wasn't fast enough, all of you. But at least you won't be bored." With that, she tilts her head in Kurama's direction and closes her eyes. Kurama's eyes widen and he starts shaking Botan. But she won't tell him. Kuwabara is yelling and cursing everyone and everything. Even Hiei turns his face away. Keiko slumps against me. I hug her. She is crying against my chest as I hold her. I just stare at Botan's body as Kurama shakes it, not roughly, but not gently either. Then he just stops and bends over the deity of death.
My friend Botan is dead.
Ok, just to let you know, this is not a one shot fic. And as much as I know you will hate me after killing Botan, let's just say, the gang might get a 'blast from the past' later ^_~
Also, please don't kill me for getting anything wrong. I have only seen a handful of episodes of YuYuHakusho, but my friend (you know who you are) got me hooked and if I don't write this story, then I'm gonna burst. Just kidding.
This takes place after the series, and since I don't know what happened at the end, I'm just gonna say that they are all spirit detectives still (because I heard that Yuusuke got fired?) And they are in their first year of college. Keiko, Kurama, and Kuwabara go to the same college. Yuusuke is at a night school cuz he never finished high school due to all the demon stuff. Well, that's all really. And go easy on my Japanese, please. I'm trying to add it into my writing.
