Just A Step between Life and Death

Chapter 4: Plan B.

It was early morning, the sun was just rising when Hiei trespassed the portal to Human World. He took off the bandana from his forehead and instantly after his evil eye was opened. Then he began his search for the spiritual guide. It was weird, he couldn't locate her. After some time searching for her, he could only spot a little amount of her spiritual energy. It looked like she was trying to hide herself. She did quite good, but it was still obvious the area where she was hiding in.

After knowing the area where she was located, he flew towards Kurama's apartment, he still needed to know some things. Even if it was too early, Kurama was already awake when he arrived. He was stretching himself.

Hiei opened the window without a warning, but Kurama had already sensed him presence. He just looked over him.

'Hi, Hiei. How's life?' He asked nonchalantly.

He just shrugged.

'What are you doing here? Another quarrel with Mukuro?' he asked funny while practicing some combat movements.

'No, stupid fox. Another mission. By Enki, well, Yusuke called him.' Hiei explained mumbling.

Kurama looked at him surprised and stopped his practice.

'I don't know anything about it. What's it?' There was a curious tone in his voice.

'I have to take a look at Botan.' He said annoyed. 'It looks like a bunch of demons are after her for whatever reason and the idiot doesn't know how to defend herself.' He told him with disgust, averting his eyes.

Kurama looked at him with hidden amusement.

'But why would they ask you?'

Hiei looked at him irritated, this was the part that infuriated him the most. And now even more, after knowing that Yusuka hadn't even mention the problem to Kurama or Kuwabara, so he had made the assumptions of their busy life by himself.

'He said you have jobs and studies to attend to, and this is a fulltime job.' He clucked and made a grimace. 'Enki also told me that being him the one to give me the patrol job and as Demon King, he had the power to put me to do this one.'

Kurama chuckled a little. It was always funny to see Hiei pissed off. But what was funnier was that he was able to read through him, and he saw that Hiei wasn't really against being a few days in Human World.

'Well, maybe this get up is truly a little unfair, but he has a point.' Kurama commented with a soft smile. 'I have to go to my mother's husband job, but after I'm finished, I could go to help you sorting the problem out.' This way Hiei looked more relaxed. 'It's indeed weird that Botan is being pursued by demons. Something must be off.'

Hiei looked at him thinking what he had said. It made sense. Since the moment Enki had put himself into the job, he could only think about how foolish was Botan for not being able to defend herself, but not even once did he think about what was attracting the demons to her.

'Hn' He nodded briefly and left the room.

After preparing herself for the day, Botan took the book of Enma. Well, maybe she had to call it Book of Koenma, since king Enma was in prison. She let out a breath and felt as her lungs vibrated. She was nervous. Would she have to deal again with those demons? She decided to be as accurate as she could. So she opened the book for the page of that same day and looked at the first dead in the listing. It was an old woman. She had died in a hospital. After years of diseases her body couldn't take it anymore and she died. This soul shouldn't be too difficult to take. So, she materialized her oar and jumped into the sky.

When he left her apartment she could feel it already. The presence of hundreds of demons. She flew towards the hospital so fast that the hair from her untied locks was hiting her face and shoulders like a whip. Her hands where gripping the wood with so much force that they were hurting, but she achieved to get to the hospital, though she was sure the demons had already followed her.

She set aside those thoughts from her mind and searched for the soul. She had to do her job, anyway. Entering a bedroom, there, on a bed, was the corpse of an old lady, and sleeping on the chair next to her, her daughter. It looked as if the daughter had been there all night. The soul was sitting in the bed, looking at her daughter. Her eyes were two pools of sadness. Botan gulped the bad feelings that were consuming her at the moment and put her happy, carefree face on her. This was a method to calm the souls.

'Hello! I'm Botan! The guide to the Spirit World!' She greeted the woman. 'Would you like me to ferry you?' She looked at the woman with a smile.

'I guess it's time.' The soul sighed. 'Yesterday I saw my sons and daughters, and my grandchildren. They were crying.'

Botan pouted a little but shook her head almost instantly.

'That's because they love you.' Botan told her with a smile. 'And they'll always love you. You're now in their hearts. I know you want to look for them, but after such a long life, a wonderful place awaits for you in the heavens.' Botan told the soul.

'But, if I could see them one last time…' She had a troubled look on her face.

Botan sighed and looked at the eyes of the old woman.

'You are a good person, Natsuko. They love you. Now, they are grieving because they won't see you smile again. When you go to the heavens, you will not only see one of your loved ones as a ghost, you'll feel every emotion of their heart in yourself. So, how do you prefer to go, after seeing their crying faces or remembering their happy ones, when they smiled at you?'

The old woman thought about it a little, and then kissed the forehead of her daughter.

'Ok, let's go, Botan.'

Botan nodded with a smile and signaled a place in her oar for the soul to sit.

'Grab to it strongly.' The woman advised.

The oar elevated from the ground and the soul looked to the bed once again. Her daughter was just waking up.

Natsuko grabbed stronger to the oar and then Botan flew right straight to the Spirit World. And that had made it. All those demons had noticed her. At first some were jumping to try to get her, she, zigzagging, managed to dodge them effectively. She was flying very diagonal towards the sky, so for safety the old woman had to take her by the waist.

'I'm sorry, Natsuko!' Botan shouted. 'Lately I've been in a little trouble during work. Normally I try to fly more steadily!'

Natsuko didn't complain to her, and when she saw a demon that came to near to them, she tried to kick him with her foot. Some others, Botan managed to avert with her bat.

Finally they arrived to Spirit World and Botan accompanied Natsuko to the Gates of Justice.

Botan bowed to the soul.

'I hope you have a happy afterlife and that you can meet your loved ones there.' Botan told her.

'Thank you, Botan. I hope you happiness too.' The woman said.

Botan smiled once more with tenderness and when Natsuko turned her step from her, her face fell.

Botan left the castle of Spirit World, and while she was walking through the sand paths that connected the two worlds, she whispered: 'Happiness…'

Then she opened the Book of Enma, and it opened just for Kuwabara's Death page. 'Damn it' She cursed. Her face was troubled. She closed her eyes and breathed deeply. She turned the pages and then opened her eyes. There was the information about the second soul of the day. She read it twice and jumped into the oar.

After being in a traffic accident where a girl had died and two of her friends were badly injured, she flew towards the third soul. It was in a big avenue. It had trees on the sides of the street and six tracks for the vehicles.

After some time flying through it, she spotted the corpse of a man at the side of the street. But, where was the soul?

Then a demon jumped from a tree and grabbed her. He embed her to the trunk of a tree and grabbed her by the wrists, putting them over her head. Then he inhaled her scent.

'It's you…' The demon said with a lewd voice.

Botan, scared, was trying to kick him with her feet, but the demon was too near that his body was too close to let her prepare the kicks. Then Botan materialized her bat on her hand. The demon grabbed her wrists with more force and that made her release the bat, which fell onto his head.

'Let me go!' Botan shouted angrily.

'No! I've been searching for you all night!' The demon shouted. He was now angry for the bump that was going to grow on his head. He took her two wrist with one arm and brought the other in front of her face. Then he showed her his fingernails, which looked like saws. 'Do you like them? They're my best trait.' He was grinning evilly. 'This nails can cut flesh and bones just with a slow movement. And if you try to draw them out, they will sink in your flesh and stay there.' He menaced. 'So be good, beauty, and they'll only be a trophy for you. You only have to be my mate.' He told her with a grave tone and sticking out his tongue.

Botan closed her eyes and gritted her teeth. Now the monster's hand was on her leg, and she couldn't move or she'd be cut by his nails. So, this was the end? This was what all those demons wanted of her? And why had to be this demon the one to take her? There were plenty of them, and this probably was one of the ugliest, stupidest, bad smelling and dumbest demons. It wasn't fair for her to be submissive to this demon. She was the top ferry girl of Spirit World!

When the anger and resignation were bringing tears to her eyes, the pressure disappeared. What had happened? She opened her eyes, the demon was like two meters from her with a scared look. It looked as if someone was pulling him from behind. She looked at him curious, but still troubled. Then a blade cut across his middle body and the demon's eyes fell from its orbits. He spilled some purple blood and fell to the ground with a loud thud. She looked to the ground. To her now dead mugger. Then remember how he had died and she lifted her head scared to see another unknown demon. And yes, there was another demon, but the sight of him lifted away her scary features. It was a short fire demon.

'…Hiei!' She whispered.

He had been whipping the blood from his katana until he heard her. He looked at her annoyed.

'What the heck were you doing?' Hiei asked her with an angry voice.

'I was just doing my job when that demon appeared!' Botan shouted to defend herself. She was going to thank him for saving her, but after him shouting at her, no, that was not going to do.

'And couldn't you have done something?' He asked looking at her with narrow eyes. His mouth making a revulsion grimace.

'I tried!' Botan shouted and make gestures to indicate how big the demon was and how she couldn't beat him. As Hiei was still looking at her with disgust, she groaned. 'They had to call you, right?' She asked shouting with exasperation. 'From all of the Reikai Tantei, it had to be you!' She shouted signaling at him. She was quite angry.

'Don't tell me as if it was my fault! Do you really think I would be here if it was for me?' he shouted back. His heated eyes where making Botan even more agitated.

'Then go to Demon World!' She shouted lifting her hand. 'I don't need you here!' She finished tightening her jaw.

He looked at her with disbelief. Was she really shooing him off? After what had happened with Stupid Botan!that demon? Was she that stupid? Well, he didn't have to waste time on stupid girls, anyway.

'Fine.' He turned on his heels and walked away.

He was walking with such a slow pace that was driving Botan mad. Couldn't he jump away with his super speed? Couldn't he just disappear? But no, the stupid demon had to walk away and then sit down in a very visible place some trees away to look how did she manage with the demons that were clearly going where she was.

Botan shouted out of anger. So, he was going to leave her alone but look at her to enjoy himself. Stupid, egocentric demon! Couldn't he return to Makai already? That way a lot of trouble would be lift off. Well, maybe her actual problem no, but the major problem for her, that was Kuwabara's life or death, would. But no, that was not going to happen. He was not going back to Makai, because Prince Koenma had managed to get him to work for him again. Now, she felt her blood boiling. She was pissed by a lot of people, at the moment.

But then that demon from the day before appeared. It was the handsome dude with a white bandana on his head and hypnotic powers. Botan was so angry that she didn't noticed him until she was looking straight into his eyes. Stupid Botan! Could she be more stupid already? You knew some demon was gonna appear! She cursed herself.

'Damn…' She muttered. She was frowning now.

'Yesterday I didn't find you, beauty…' the demon whispered to her. He caressed her cheek again.

'Go away.' She told him menacing.

If she had to take a thought about the situation, well, it was better than the one from before. This demon, at least, didn't look as he wanted to hurt her. But, sadly, she was still very angry.

'Really? What will you do to me?' The demon asked funny.

'I'll kick your ass.' She told him. She was breathing hardly and her eyes were dead serious. She would have scared someone if, well, if she wasn't a pretty ferry girl with gentle pink eyes.

The demon laughed. For a demon, she looked adorable. He wasn't sure of what had drown him to her, why he was attracted to a human soul, but now that he saw that fiery look on her, he became even more drawn to her, and understood a little more. She could have the fierce of a demon.

'But you can't move!' He smirked with seductive eyes. She looked at him with disgust, who did he think he was? But then his eyes darkened. His hands rested on her hips and he moved his mouth towards his neck.

Hiei, who was looking at the events from a distance with a bored look, at the look of those events, he narrowed his eyes. Was he really gonna…? Then, he sent a message to Botan's head.

'Move! Now!'

Botan, stunned, pushed him from her. 'He's not strong. His only powers are his hypnosis.' After receiving Hiei's message, Botan was no longer scared, so she materialized her bat and hit him straight to the head.

The demon was angry, now. He looked at Botan, but she closed her eyes and began to shift the bat to the sides to make somewhat like a shield of bat hits. Somehow, she managed to hit the stupid demon when he tried to go near her. The demon flew to the ground and she stepped on him. After noticing where was the demons head with the bat, she gave him a golf hit that made him unconscious.

Finally she opened her eyes.

'I told you, bastard.' She told him with disgust. But after seeing the demon unconscious, she grinned.

Hiei, who was looking from afar smirked. But then saw a bunch of 10 demons coming to where Botan was. 'What the hell does that woman to bring so many problems…?'

Then he jumped to where Botan was staying, unsheathed his katana and began to kill demons. There were weak demons and strong ones. But even if there were some A class demons, Hiei was still an S class demon, the 2n in command of Mukuro, so, well, they didn't really have a thing to do against him. When he had only one left to kill, he pushed him to the floor and pressed his katana into his throat.

'Tell me, why are you all going after her?' Hiei asked coldly.

'For the same reason as you.' He asked grinning with a lewd look. Hiei made a confused look. 'To mate with her.'

'What?' And, the surprise and revulsion that caused him the statement, he ripped the demon's head out of his body.

Hiei breathed soundly.

Botan came from behind.

'Hiei…?' she was embarrassed. 'Thank you.'

He just looked at her. She was the same ferry girl she knew from time ago. She was just a dead human soul. Why would all those demons want her? He looked at her frowning, didn't noticing he was doing so. He was disturbed.

'I… I have work to do…' She said looking at him ashamed. He understood that look as a demand for protection. Yes, she had been angry, but he was too. Even though, he hadn't left her alone, and that was Botan's place to ask for forgiveness.

He nodded at her and followed.

He saw as Botan took the Book of Enma from her kimono and opened the correct page at one. He could not see what was written in it.

Botan was troubled. She had had the opportunity to save Kuwabara, and what did she do? She asked Hiei for his protection. Absolutely a thing that was contrary to keep Kuwabara safe. How could she be so useless? She looked at the book. Yes, she had to find that lost soul, yet.

So the day went by for this troubled pair. Botan could take all the souls to Spirit World and Hiei could protect Botan from the demons. Both of them did their job. But sometimes, Botan would think about the consequences of her decision, and Hiei would be wondering if what the demon said implied him too.

At the Kuwabara household the inhabitants were having a peaceful day.

Kuwabara was in his room studying for the next exams. As he wasn't very smart, he had to study practically all day long.

In the kitchen there were Shizuru and Yukina. Shizuru was making the new dish she had learned from the family restaurant she was working at, she found it so good that she wanted her family to taste it. Yukina, apart from giving conversation to Shizuru, was experimenting with food, freezing it to discover which flavors were suited for an ice cream. She made ice creams of tuna, rice, vanilla, miso soup, yakisoba sauce, strawberries, chocolate and mint.
She was having the time of her life doing that. It had been a long time since she had used her powers. Shizuru was laughing at the choices the koorime was making, some were absurd. But she laughed even more with her, knowing both of them, that Kuwabara would end up eating all of those ice creams, even though they'd taste horrible.

'Kazuma! It's lunchtime!' Shizuru shouted half an hour later.

He changed clothes to look more elegant in front of Yukina end helped the two women to prepare the table. Kuwabara's father was not eating with them between the week, so it left the young guys alone.

When they seated on the table they looked at the new dish. It looked fabulous.

'Itadakimasu!' The three young people shouted, and began to eat.

'Mmh… I think it was a little bit more salty…' Shizuru commented on her food.

'I find it great, sis…' Kuwabara told her. He was devouring it. The food was good, but he knew his sister was very perfectionist.

'It's delicious, Shizuru!' Yukina complimented while munching the food.

Shizuru smiled at the little koorime and pinched her cheek.

'Thanks Yukina.' She smiled and then recalled a thing. 'Oh, true! This evening there's a movie I wanted to watch on TV!'

Kuwabara looked at her a little surprised.

'Which one?' he asked with food in his mouth.

'It was… 'My fated one' or 'My destined one' or something soppy like that.' She said a little embarrassed.

Kuwabara laughed at her.

'And why would you like to watch a movie like this? Romance comedy…?' he laughed with mischief. Her sister used to like wrestling movies.

'Well, I'm a girl, stupid brother!' She shouted and hit him in the head.

Yukina giggled at the quarrel between the brothers.

'Wanna watch it too, Yukina?' Shizuru asked.

'Yes, of course!' She replied amused. She didn't know what it was going to be about, but she was sure she would have a good time.

With enthusiasm, Kuwabara shouted. 'Then me too!' He was already mumbling about taking Yukina's hand while watching the movie and rehearse all the romantic things that the two main characters would do.

'You have to study!' Shizuru shouted at him and smacked him again.

'You monster…' He whispered grumbling.

Botan went to Koenma's office to deliver the reports at the right hour.

'Well, how was it today, Botan?' the Prince asked her with his closed eyes.

'It was good!' She said happily. 'Well, at the beginning troublesome but then Hiei appeared and helped me out.' She explained to him. It was true that she was still worried about the matter that he was in Human World, but that didn't mean that he wasn't useful.

'And wasn't he acting weird?' He asked as nothing happened.

'ugh?' She asked confused. 'No. Just like normal. Grumpy as always.' She told him.

He laughed a little but Botan just shrugged her shoulders. Botan looked at her boss. He was with a lot of paperwork. Maybe he was stressed and that's why he wasn't paying so much attention to her.

'Well, see you tomorrow, Prince Koenma!' She said with a smile.

'Bye, Botan! It's good to see you relaxed again!' Koenma said.

'Relaxed my ass' Botan thought.

When she was flying to earth again, another demon appeared jumping just towards her, as she was flying calmer, she heard his shout approaching her. So, she materialized her bat and hit him as a baseball player. 'Homerun!' She shouted to herself. She laughed at her occurrence. Maybe once she was used to this demon problem, she could have some kind of nasty fun with it.

Hiei had been watching at her since he sensed her appear again from Spirit World. When he saw her bating kick, he lifted an eyebrow in amusement. He decided to rest against a tree and close his eyes.

After giggling a little, she spotted Hiei resting in a tree trunk. She flew towards him and stood on her oar.

'Hi, Hiei' she greeted him.

He looked at her.

Then she fidgeted her fingers.

'So… are you taking the job?' she asked in a mix of trouble and demand.

'What option do I have?

She bit her lips. She wanted him in Demon World.

'And… how much time will you be staying?' she asked hopefully.

'Until this mess is finished.' He answered bored.

'And… when will it be?' she asked preoccupied. He looked at her as if she was stupid.

'When there are no demons going after you, or, in contrary, when you let a demon mark you as their mate.' His tone was bored.

Botan thought about it and the hairs on her neck crisped. But then she recalled one thing.

'Then, why didn't you let that demon mark me?'

He was a little surprised but he didn't let her see it. He shrugged downplaying the matter.

Botan thought about it. If he would have let that demon mark her, then he would be free. Well, free to continue his patrol job. To go back to Demon World. But, it could be that he didn't do it because he wanted to stay in human world a little longer. Because somehow he cherished his friends. And she was just the excuse for him to be here… But well, in fact, he was protecting her. The bad thing was that she didn't know why the demons were after her, so, she didn't know when this madness would end, and as she couldn't be sure that Hiei wouldn't be there in five days, she had to invent another way to avoid Kuwabara's death.

Botan had an idea, it possibly was stupid, but she had to try it.

'Well, anyways… thank you. I wouldn't like to be condemned to stay with a demon the rest of my days.' She told him. He breathed soundly. Maybe she was annoying him already.

'Will you… stay in this tree all night?' She asked kind of worried. He just looked at her, and she interpreted it as a nod. 'Ok… can I stay a little longer…?' She asked. If she wasn't with him, she had to be inside her apartment. She pursed her lips and looked at him with big eyes. He just rolled his eyes.

'Ok, you see!' She began with her newly found cheery voice. 'Today, when I was at job, I had to ferry one special soul, you see.' Hiei was just looking in front of him, but listening. 'Well, it was about this girl, she was 17 years old, died in a traffic incident. I had already read her file and saw that she was a good girl. This one could be a little difficult to bring to Spirit World because she had died young, but well, not that much of a problem. The fact is that in the way to Spirit World she told me that she didn't want to go to the Heavens.' She told him with a sigh. 'She explained to me that her older brother, who is still alive, four years ago abused on a child and then abandoned his family. She never saw him again. But she told me that she wants to go to hell, so in the moment her brother dies, she can ask him why did he did that to the child. I advised her that she didn't deserve the tortures of hell, but she told me that that didn't frighten her, because she would be with her brother, and she would feel safe.'

Hiei looked at her with narrowd eyes.

'Then I asked her: how can you be so sure that your brother will go to hell?' Botan continued.

'Are you comparing me with this human?' Hiei asked angry. 'Well, of course he'll go to hell because in your world raping a child is a very bad issue, and yes, I'll go too because I've done plenty worse things. So no, I'm not telling Yukina I'm her brother. Would you like to see Yukina in hell too? I know her, and she would do that.' He replied.

'But he can be redeemed. As you. I'm sure that…'

'Maybe he can, but not me. I'll always be a demon. Our worlds are different.' He replied.

'But you're a good person…' She whispered worried.

'I'm not.' He said with fury. 'Now leave me alone.'

'Ok, I'm sorry.' She looked down. 'Goodbye.' She whispered and flew straight to her apartment.

Hiei, angrier than before, had no problems killing with ferocity the new demons that had appeared in the path that Botan had traced.

Then he saw Kurama.

'Was that Botan?' he asked.

Hiei just looked at him with hate.

'What has happened to her?' Kurama continued mesmerized. 'She looks stunning.' He continued.

Hiei jumped and shivered, looking at Kurama with distrust. 'You too?'

The fox demon looked at him with innocent eyes. 'What? She somehow releases an intoxicating essence. It's unnerving. I have the urge to seek after her.' He explained. The last part in a whisper.

Hiei jumped to face the fox demon and hit him in the face. 'Stay away from her. That urge of yours is what's been creeping in the minds of all those demons going after her. And wanna know what they want? Mate her.' He said with anger and disgust.

'Well, I don't judge them…' He said with a smile. Hiei looked at him with hate.

'Don't go near her or I'll have to kill you too.' He advised.

Kurama smiled at his friend. 'Okay, okay, Hiei. Don't worry. I'll stay still.' He told him. Now his eyes kept the coldness and trust that was usual in him. 'But, aren't you affected by it?' He asked now curious and with a little smile.

Hiei looked at him now with a bored look. Another one?

'No.' He said with his eyelids covering half of his red irises.

'Woah, Shizuru, that was beautiful!' The koorime awed.

Shizuru looked at the screen a little bored. 'Well, I have seen better ones. But if this was the first love comedy that you've seen, yeah, I think it's pretty good.'

'Oh…' Yukina whispered. She had tear gems on her lap, but a sweet smile was on her face.

'Yukina! You're crying!' Shizuru exclaimed surprised. But she saw his face, she was blushed and happy.

'I don't know why…' the koorime told her confused. 'I found it beautiful. I was happy because of the ending. And I felt something in my belly. It was weird. It's like if I wanted to throw up, but it felt nice.'

Shizuru smiled warmly at her. 'It's the effects of love. We are sensitive to this kind of stories because a part of ourselves seeks for a story like this to happen to ours.' Shizuru explained. 'But, you may be prepared, because this feeling in your belly multiplies when you are with the person you love. So be prepared!' Shizuru winked at her.

Yukina looked at her surprised. So, this was related with what Botan explained her about love?

Just a second later the door to the living room opened and a lively Kuwabara jumped with lots of sheets in his hands.

'I've done for today! I've made the summaries and schemes of the two chapters of this damn book!' He cried.

Shizuru and Yukina looked at him a little stunned, well, not Shizuru.

Then Kuwabara saw the faces of the two girls and then Yukina's tear gems. He frown and kneeled in front of her.

'Yukina, my ice princess, what has happened?' he asked her worried, taking her hands in his.

Her eyes opened by the surprise of his concern, and she felt as a strange headache came to her. Then she noticed that her face was heated.

'N-no, nothing. I just… got moved over the film.' She explained and smiled weakily.

Kuwabara looked at her roused, his eyes full of tenderness. At the look of her eyes, Yukina felt nervous and diverted her gaze. Kuwabara was stunned. Yukina was blushing, and she was nervous. Was that possible? He… what could he do? And, was that because of him? Yukina was pursing her lips. He, steadily, let go of her soft hand and stood up. He took the book and the sheets that he had left on the table and stood on the doorway. 'I'm gonna summarize more chapters.' He said and closed the door behind him.

Shizuru looked at the door and then at Yukina. Could it be possible…?

When Botan got home, she noticed she was crying.

She didn't know what to do. Those creepy demons were the smallest of her problems. There it was, one of her friends thought poor of him and doomed himself to live out of happiness. And just because of his sad past. A past that he hadn't got a choice to choose.

And to kill it off, he was going to kill one of his friends. She opened the Book of Enma with hate and looked at Kuwabara's cheery face photo. She cried for him. She cried for Yukina, for Yusuke, for Keiko, for Kurama… then flipped the pages harshly, and then her heart stopped.

Name: Hiei Jaganshi

Age: 19 years old

Cause of death: Suicide

And the movie played alone inside her head. Yukina and Kuwabara would end up together by the end of the week, Hiei would know about it, and the rage that those events would cause him would make him kill Kuwabara. In the act, Yukina would know that Hiei was her lost brother, and all the group of friends would hate him. Hiei, for his part, with no love left for him, would go to demon world and let himself killed.

She cried for him. She didn't want that to happen. She had to do something. She was the only one who knew of that fate. There was an option to evade Kuwabara's death. Maybe it was a failure, but she had to insist in it. Maybe, she could safe both of them. No, she had to safe both of them. They were her friends. Yusuke would do that for them, or even more. She grabbed the pendant Yusuke gave her. She begged that Yusuke's strength would come to her, that his stupid but useful ideas would cross her mind. And that she will finish all the mess airy.

But she knew she was just Botan. And she didn't have Yusuke's laugh, nor Yusuke's strength. But well, she may be useless sometimes, but they needed her now. So she'd save them, Botan style. And the determination to save them, and the support of the love of her friends would gave her the strength to achieve her goal.