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A/N: Why am I continuing this? That's a very good question, considering this was only supposed to be a two-shot!
But, then again, I didn't expect to get so many reviews... I suppose I could be happy continuing it for the reviews...Obvious glory whore... Heh.
Anyway, I'm wondering whether I should add romance to this to spice it up a bit. Any thoughts?
"I don't know why I agreed to this."
The day had come. It was Monday and Botan was somehow roped into going to the six demon warriors' house to answer more questions from Rinku and to "go out" later with the guys to Enma only knew where.
They lived relatively close to Genkai's temple, actually. Their backyard was the the forest and their residence was a temple not unlike Genkai's... only in slight disrepair, due to the various hazards of having a house full of men.
That being as it were, the deity had decided to just dress in her usual pink kimono. It wasn't as if they'd be going anywhere special.
Floating on her oar, she spotted the residence. Nestled in between a few dozen oak trees was the temple of six warriors. Shingles clinging to the roof desperately and veranda housing rainbow colored wind chimes. Yippee.
It didn't take too long for her to find the males, as Jin and Touya were training out front and Chu and Rinku were atop the roof "fixing" the shingles.
Noticing a gliding shadow moving along the ground, the ice master looked away from his Irish friend up towards the sky. Instead of finding an enemy, he found the ferry girl gliding on her oar. More of less irritated about something. He could guess why, but best not poke the bear.
"Hello, Botan-san." Touya called up, causing Jin, Chu and Rinku to look up to where the blue haired female was hovering.
"Hello, Touya-san." Botan called back, floating down.
Even if she was here without having any desire to be, the deity decided that she could, at the very least, be pleasant towards the more polite of this group of demons. It would set a good example for Rinku, more or less... supposing he noticed... Mmmm.
"Botan-san! Ya' made it without any problems, I hope?" Jin asked, flying up next to her, his usual smile set on and his wind, as usual, blowing her hair into her face.
"No, no problems at all, Jin. How goes the house repair?"
"Oh, it's comin' along a'right. We got half the shingles up an' Suzuki's fixing the inside with Shishi. They're paintin' the walls right now."
The thought of the two most narcissistic demons she had ever met, painting the inside of a house almost made Botan slip off her oar. Those two? Painting a house? Enma, help the other four males. They'd be lucky if Suzuki didn't turn the walls into rainbow central. They'd also be lucky if Shishi didn't have the same fascination for the color red as he did for blood. Could someone say "Sixth Sense"?
"Really? That's... nice of them."
"Don't worry, we took away all the red, purple, yellow and orange paint in the house." Jin said, noting the sweatdrop forming at the side of the Botan's head.
"Well, thank goodness for that. Anyway, why did you guys call me over?" Botan asked, finding solid ground while Jin still floated, only now he was upside down, enjoying the feel of the blood rushing to his head.
"Well, let's see, Rinku had some more questions for ya'," Jin began, counting off reasons on his fingers," Suzuki wanted to find out if he could borrow that book he read at your house when you gave Rinku 'the talk' and we wanted to take ya' for a night on the town since you've been such a good sport about this."
A look of slight dread formed upon Botan's face," Rinku has MORE questions?"
"Yep!" The young demon answered for himself, leaping off the roof and onto the porch with all the ease of an acrobat. However, he did manage to hit Jin's legs on the way down, making the wind master finally turn upright, looking dangerously dizzy.
"Easy there lad... hey, quit spinning."
Looking from Jin, who had then proceeded to crash land to earth, to Rinku, Botan knew that if she left without eternal shame tonight, she'd be one lucky girl.
"What was it you wanted to know, exactly?" Botan asked, keeping her eye on Jin as Touya proceeded to lug him off the ground.
"We'll get to that in a minute. You want to go in first? There's tea in there and Chu has a lot less likely chance of falling through the roof and onto us." Rinku suggested, opening the door for the deity.
"Thank you." Botan said, rushing in. The thought of being squished under planks of wood and one drunk Aussie boosting her speed a bit.
The inside of the house was a little better than the outside, but only in the respect that nothing appeared to be in shattered ruins and that there weren't dirty clothes or dishes spread out everywhere. 'Suzuki or Touya must do the cleaning.' Botan thought absently.
However, the sight that greeted her next was enough to knock her out. Well, it would have if she hadn't years experience with stuff like this, anyway...
Before her, was the front room. Everything covered in white sheets and drapes and the like. Protection, no doubt, from the paint that was being put on the walls by two nearly naked demon males.
Slapping her hands over her eyes, the deity quickly turned from the scene of Shishi and Suzuki discussing color patterns in their underwear. The tengu sporting a loincloth and the blonde ex-clown sporting rainbow boxers. Go figure.
"Oh. Hi, Botan. You're here early." Suzuki greeted, obviously not taking notice of the way Botan was trying hard not to look him in the eye.
"... Yeah, sorry. Didn't know you'd be... doing this." She stuttered, steadily turning a deeper shade of red by the second.
Why? Why did Enma never cut her a break? She'd never done anything to deserve this kind of treatment in past life. She'd never done anything to even remotely deserve this kind of perverted situation!
Before the little scene could get anymore uncomfortable for the blue haired reaper, Rinku decided to come in with the tea he had promised.
"Here ya' go Botan, I found the-- What the hell?! Suzuki! Shishi! Put some clothes on! What's wrong with you?!" The small demon demanded, pulling one of the many white sheets off the couch, tossing it on the two clueless adults.
Quickly steering the deity over to the now sheet-less couch, Rinku handed her the tea, tossing an occasional dirty look towards the now somewhat, but not so very, embarrassed narcissists. Honestly, you'd think after all their living years, they'd know that pants went on in the presence of girls... ladies... females! Yes!
"Sorry about that. They're not used to... being decent... at five in the afternoon..." Rinku apologized, grasping for a way not to sound like they did this every day. Although they kinda did. But, usually only at night and with a multitude of strange women. That wouldn't sound right.
"Okay... What was that question you had for me? I'd like to put the image of those two out of my head... NOW. Ask the question, it might help." The deity begged lightly, sipping her tea.
"Oh! Right. Well, the question kinda has to do with girls," Rinku began, a slight tint of pink forming on his cheeks.
Botan raised an eyebrow. Girls? This could go well... if fate didn't want to screw with her too badly tonight.
"Uh-huh. And...?"
"Well... Chu said that if I ever wanted to date a girl, I had to consider "that time of the month". What's "that time of the month"?"
In Botan's already totally shaky mind, she was aware of a high pitched ring. Maybe she should tune out of reality and save herself the possible medical bills that could result from this conversation? A bleeding ulcer could occur from this, for Enma's sake!
But then, the completely naive look that Rinku was giving her would turn to disapointment if she did that, so maybe... she could... attempt to answer this... horribly awkward question. She was so pathetic.
Setting her tea cup down, the deity considered her words. How could she put this? Maybe the 'Crimson Tide' example?... No, that was too confusing even for her. 'Curse of Eve'?... No, too many ethical problems. Technical terms?... Maybe.
Taking a deep breath, the words were barely out of Botan's mouth when a giant crash was heard from the front deck, shaking the house. Vibrations caused her cup to almost fall off the coffee table. Causing her to fall right off the couch in surprise, actually.
Lifting herself from where she landed on the floor Botan looked towards the front," What the hell was that?!"
Rinku just sat in his spot, looking disinterested," I guess Chu finally broke through the roof. Oh well, we can just fix it again later."
"That was Chu?! Is he going to be alright?" Botan asked, getting back on the couch.
"Oh yeah. He could jump off a ten story building and land on his head without feeling a thing. Don't worry about it. Now," Rinku looked back to the deity hopefully," You were saying?"
"... Uh... Well, you see, "that time of the month" is when females, demons and ningens, go through a certain process. Remember how I said that females carry eggs?"
"Yeah."
"Well, once a month, when the female's eggs have been in them for a little too long without receiving "mini fish" to make a baby and sort of... uh... rot... the female produces an extra amount of blood to clean them out to make room for new ones."
"How does the blood come out?"
"Um... well... do you remember how the female receives "mini fish" and produces a baby through a hole?"
"Uh-huh."
"It's the same with the blood. It lasts for... a week. Sometimes more."
"Does it hurt?"
"It can, but there's really nothing we can do about it. It's not terrible pain. It's... annoying pain."
"Oh." Rinku looked astounded. How could girls live through all this sucky gross stuff, anyway? He never could," That sounds... really hard to deal with. Your life must be so uncomfortable."
"Oh, not so much. It was really uncomfortable about one hundred years ago, before tampons, pads and the like. Now, it's at least tolerable." Botan explained, sipping from her tea again.
"Tampons?" Rinku asked, a totally interested expression written all over his face.
Botan almost spat out her tea. She did not just make this worse, did she?!
In the kitchen she could hear the cheerful laughter of a certain Aussie who was more or less eaves-dropping from behind the kitchen door. She suddenly wished she had brought her baseball bat with her.
"Chu, could you come in here a moment?" Botan called in the feral voice that females possess that scares that crap out of every living being. A talent that didn't involve actual violence. A warning, if you will.
From within the kitchen, though Chu was the only one leaning against the door, he was the only one that got caught. Jin and Touya were also eaves-dropping... more or less anyway. Jin was still seeing spinning objects and Touya didn't really care to eaves-drop when he was in the middle of making a snack. They were more like well hearing bystanders. Yes.
Sighing dejectedly, the Aussie opened the door and walked into the living room where he expected the deity of death would probably chew his ear off about butting into private conversations or something...
Boy, was he wrong.
"Chu maybe you can help me explain what tampons are to Rinku." Botan not so much suggested but demanded. A devious look crossing her grinning face. Like a Cheshire cat.
Yusuke had warned Chu about that look once, if the drunk was not mistaken.
TO BE CONTINUED...
Don't worry, I intend to up-date this... if I get a decent amount of reviews... Yes.
The next chapter will either be longer or shorter, depending on whether or not I decide to add some romance. But if I do, I'm not quite sure which pairing would be suitable.
'Til next time!
