Hello and here's
the next chapter! I'm glad to hear that you liked the last chapter,
hope I can get the same results for this one. Just a little note
about this chapter, the beginning half was done on a car ride to LA (been going go LA A LOT),
in the dark, with a laptop as I looked out the window at moon hiding
behind the clouds and yeah. Hope you enjoy! And OH, if anyone else was confused by the last chapter, go reread it because I reformatted it so it should make more sense now.
Chapter 2: Setting the motion
The waning moon outside the moving vehicle disappeared behind shadows of buildings and hid under the protective cover of the slow drifting clouds. The steady rocking of the car caused a false sense of security to emerge as she hid in the shadows of the night. In the background the soft melody of a song filled the loneliness in the car.
She could be nearly a thousand miles away but the closer she got to her destination the farther she felt from it. Of course she didn't choose to leave, rather it just happened. The insistence of her family and approval of uncle forced her to leave everything behind and start anew. Memories in these conditions were best forgotten, but that didn't help make the situation any easier.
No one wanted to leave behind close friends, memories, and security behind to live in a life that she only had brief glimpses of. She was always living behind the pretense that she was living "abroad" and going to school in the England. But those, of course, were lies. Nearly her whole existence revolve around lies spun to keep her secretes.
Lies were what made up her life. Because of the lies that she shouldn't be able to call her friends that title. Rather she should call them her acquaintances, not quite friends but never crossing the line of stranger. She knew them, knew that they were the closest thing she was ever going to get to have true friends. Because of these lies and false truths she shouldn't have the right to love the person who has stolen her heart. But alas she does, more than anything.
Slowly as time and the distance seem to blend together her memories seem to be willing to betray her. Every thought she had felt and the memories about her life as the assistant to the detectives began to fade.
All that she was able to hold on to were the twinkling of amusement of bottle green eyes framed by the purest hair of scarlet she's ever saw in her life and even that seem to send a pang of sadness and regret into her heart.
"Who was he?" was the final thought that occurred in her mind before the car pulled into a well-manicured estate.
"He's Kurama." Somewhere in the remote space of her mind she was able to answer the simple question with that heartfelt reply.
He stepped into the hallway of Reikai, narrowing his emerald eyes as a thought occurred him, something in the current atmosphere didn't feel right. The hustle and bustle of the area still was there, but it lacked the more pleasant atmosphere of before. The air was strained with the feeling of something he couldn't describe, but it lingered and nagged him.
Pushing away at those thoughts he forced his way toward Koenma's office, questioning on the behalf of the entire spirit detective gang and company where the where about of their favorite spirit guide was. He of coursed nearly jumped at the chance of volunteering to do the deed; it was nearly a whole business week since they last saw her. And well they, more like he and the other girls, were worried about her disappearance from the last time they saw her.
Of course the last time he saw her didn't notice her disappearance until a while after she left because he was ambushed by questions on his unexpected betrothed. Which, to most of their utter disappointment, he couldn't answer due to the fact the he never meant her. He politely answered the questions that were on his level of knowledge, but that was it.
His eyes looked at the huge wooden door before him, sighing, he pushed it open. The first thing in his sight of vision was the cartons of empty or melted ice cream and cans of discarded whipped cream. Scanning the disarrayed area in hope of spotting the purple cap that Koenma usually attired, but he was surprised to see the bent over brown hair of the godling.
"Koenma, are you alright?"
Koenma lifted up his head, hazel eyes sadden with grief, and his forehead had an imprint from the spoon that he rested his head on. "If you're looking for Botan, she's gone."
Shocked emerald eyes gazed openly in confusion at the untidiness that Koenma showed, and the fact that he said something about her being gone. "Gone? What do you mean gone, Koenma?"
The godling picked up his spoon, and reached for a carton of untouched ice cream, dipping his spoon into the frozen chocolate substance and moving it toward his mouth. Opening his mouth, he allowed the familiar cold substance to slide down his throat before he spoke again. "Gone as in not here anymore; as in she doesn't work here any longer. As in you're never going to see her again."
Kurama just stood there for few minutes, trying to comprehend the shock of the information that as so rudely given to him. In those brief instances Koenma was drowning his sorrow in the one of the seemly endless cartons of ice cream. Shaking himself away from the shock, he allowed the rational part of his mind to take over, "Where did she go?"
"She went to live."
A frown marred Kurama's flawless face; that answered sent endless speculations into his mind. Before he could even open his mouth to question what Koenma meant by his answer, the godling interrupted with his own statement.
"I heard that you're engaged now,"
The frown on Kurama's face deepen, "Yes, it was an arranged engagement."
"I see." There was a brief moment of uncomfortable silence between the two; finally Koenma broke it again with a sigh. "Kurama, just leave and let me wallow in my misery with the comfort of my ice cream."
Kurama opened his mouth to protest but was dismissed with a wave of Koenma's silver spoon that indicated toward the door. Glaring at the godling, he turned and moved toward the entrance.
"Besides Kurama, you two can't be together. Your family has plans for your life, and she has plans for own. The chances of those two paths ever crossing again are moderately down to nothing. Just forget her and try to make your fiancé happy."
That was the last thing Kurama heard before he silently closed the door and stormed across the corridors that lead toward the entrance of Nigenkai. Something inside him truly wanted to believe that he was going to be with her again, but than he thought of his pre-planned life.
The image of the beautiful azure haired girl smiling at him, with both her amethyst eyes and rose-colored mouth, sent a string of longing through his veins. The thought of never seeing her again caused his heart to ache.
Sighing he locked the image of her away in his heart and in his mind. His betrothed didn't need to be compared to her, because he was sure that she would never be able to live up to his azure haired deity.
Progressing toward the door that leads to Nigenkai, he opened it and moved forward through the portal. As remerged on the other end, he looked up at the sky briefly before he started to walk in the direction of Genkai's temple.
Would he ever be able to forget her?
"Never…" Somewhere in his mind and his heart answered the question that he unconsciously asked. He knew that that answer wasn't going to change, no matter whoever his fiancé is.
Remember to review! If you have any questions or confusions please don't' hesitate to ask! OH sorry for grammar, spelling mistakes and things about my story that doesn't make sense. Remember to help Rosy over come her writter's block why contributing ideas and reviewing (really helps, MORE THAN 5 WOULD IN COURAGE ME TO UPDATE FASTER!). Once again: THANK YOU!
Alright, here are just SOME responses to the reviews from the 2 chapters, sorry if I didn't respond to your review but I would like to give everyone a heartfelt "THANK YOU!!" :
LeFoxy: Yeah...the formatting for the few paragraphs went all weird when I uploaded, so I'm going back to change the format. Sorry if it was too hard to understand for a while. Thank you for your review!
Master Keto: sigh Alright, I'm assuming that you read the 2nd chapter (because thats where I got your review from), so in this chapter I forgot to reformat it so it because all strange and confusing when it was uploaded. So I went back to fix it, so if you have any more confusions after this let me know. OH and you're probably a new reader so thats why you're asking if who Botan is in love with in this story, because if you were to read all my other stories, every single story is revolve around Botan and Kurama. Thank you for you're review!
