Author notes : Hmm what can I say here? I really wanna change my name to Botan :3 such a wonderful name huh? lol anyways I don't own the characters...only the plot hehe.

Chapter 4 – You'll find out soon enough

Botan and Yukina were on a lower level of the mall looking around the various clothes shops. They were now in an oriental style shop that dealt with feudal era style clothing. "Oh Yukina look look!" Botan said, while pointing a finger towards a clay statue of a Chinese man on the wall, with a rather plump face.

"Hehe, he looks funny Botan, almost like he ate something very spicy and can't spit it out hee!" Yukina picked a older style kimono up off the shelf and looked at it.

"Why not try it on?" Botan asked. Botan had her eyes fixed on a pair of straw webbed zori that were on the shelf.

"Ah... I'll pass Botan, this really isn't my color. Then again... I can't imagine myself wearing anything ancient like most of what's in this store."

Botan picked up the zori off the shelf, "Well Hun what do you think about these? I think they would look wonderful with the baby blue kimono you used to wear."

Yukina took them from her, indeed they would look nice. And the straw felt like it might be really comfortable. She tried them on, and they really WERE comfortable. "I'm gonna get these Botan! They're wonderful."

"Glad to hear it Yukina, I knew you would love them." Botan said, with a catlike grin on her face.

"They are 6000 yen, a little bit expensive, but they are comfy enough so it's worth the price. Yukina took them to the cashier so she could pay for them.

Back in the mall lobby, Botan was looking at the directory and seeing what other types of stores there was. "Well it looks like all of this floor is clothes, while the next floor up is jewelry, more clothes, music stores, and other places like pharmacies and small electronics stores. Then the top floor is more clothes, the Imax theater, and the food court. I wonder what the Imax theater is... I've never heard of such a thing in spirit world before."

"Oh! I've been there with Shizuru before. You watch movies there on a really big screen, it's quite amazing!" Yukina said while looking up towards the food court. "Hey look at the second floor Botan! I see Kazuma... and I think that's Shizuru with him. Where did Yusuke go? And what's Shizuru doing here?"

"Hmm I can only wonder.." Botan hopped on the escalator to go up stairs. "Let's go see her, and see what she's doing." Yukina nodded and followed Botan onto the escalator.

meanwhile upstairs in the foodcourt

"Gee I wonder what's taking Shizuru so long. She said she would be right up." Keiko said, taking a sip from her milkshake she bought a few minutes ago.

"Hey you got room for one more?" Yusuke walked up, and took a seat across from Keiko at the table.

"Yusuke? I thought you were with Kuwabara today.

"I am... he's talking to his sister right now. She met us over by the jewelry store." He said, constantly thinking of a way to break up with her, while going easy... he knew that wasn't going to happen.

"Oh so that's why she stayed behind... to make sure you guys weren't stealing I guess, there's no reason for you to be at a jewely store."

"Yeah, like I'd stoop that low to stealing... and Kuwabara has that honor code, he would never steal."

"So why are you up here Yusuke? Did Shizuru tell you I was here?" Keiko asked.

"Yeah she told me, I asked her. And I really don't know how to say this Keiko..."

"Don't know how to say what? Half the time I don't think you know what your saying anyways, it's always gibberish" She tried her best to hide a giggle, but wasn't doing a very good job at it.

"No, I know what I'm saying... it's just... I don't think we're going to work out... there I said it... please don't hate me!"

"Yusuke what the hell are you talking about? Wait... ARE YOU BREAKING UP WITH ME!" She shouted furiously.

"No, Yes... maybe... argh I don't know Keiko... it doesn't even feel like we're dating."

"So... all those things you told me before... that you loved me... and want to marry me... it was all lies?" Keiko said, trying to keep the sobs from overpowering her words.

"NO! They weren't lies. I was stupid. I couldn't honestly ask you to marry me back then... we were 15. And I did love you Keiko... it's just... I've done some thinking... and I do still love you... I'm just not... IN love with you... you understand?" he asked. He felt terrible saying all this... but he knew deep down he had to.

"No I don't understand you jerk! I should have just gone and found a boyfriend when you went off to demon world! I shouldn't have promised you that I would wait for you to come back! So who is she Yusuke? She must be really important to you!"

"I can't tell you that yet Keiko... cause I'm not completely positive that I'm in love with her... I think I am though. I just thought... that even tho I knew it would hurt you... I thought it would be best for me to tell you myself... then you to find out the hard way and think I was cheating on you." Yusuke said, his head facing the floor. He couldn't bear to look at her, he couldn't stand to see the girl he once loved there before him, crying her heart out, because he couldn't love her the same way she loved him.

"Yusuke you jerk! You could have waited until tomorrow when I'm not out trying to have a good day." after that, she stood up and ran away and left him sitting at the table alone.

"But... I couldn't wait for tomorrow... it needed to be today." he said... sitting there alone.

Botan and Yukina had just finished reaching the second floor of the mall, and were on their way walking over to Shizuru. "Hey Shizuru!" Botan said, only a few meters from her.

"Shit... bad timing" Shizuru mumbled. She knew any minute now Keiko would be looking for her... and she didn't want Botan asking her what's wrong, it would just lead to trouble. "Hey Botan what's up?"

"Not much, just shopping with Yukina and the boys."

Shizuru punched Kuwabara in the back of his head. "You didn't tell me you brought her with you!" Shizuru yelled.

"Hey I didn't know I needed your permission to bring my love with me." Kuwabara said.

"Hehe, Kazuma says the funniest things sometimes right Botan?" Yukina said.

Shizuru saw Keiko on the escalators coming down from the third floor. "Shit gotta think fast." She thought to herself, and before allowing Botan to answer Yukina's question. "Hey I'm sorry about this, but I gotta run Botan... I'll catch up with you soon I promise ok? And with that she took off, and gave a wink to Kuwabara... he knew what this meant.

"O...K" Botan said.

"Hey lets go check out this store over here!" Kuwabara said, trying to distract the girls attention away from Shizuru, so that they wouldn't notice her with a crying Keiko.

"Ok Kazuma that sounds good." Yukina said, allowing Kuwabara to lead the way. They walked into an electronics store, and spent some time looking around the MP3 players and cellphones.

"Ok Kuwabara enlighten me... I know what these are." Botan said while pointing at the cellphones. "But what are these... M...P...3 players? What do they do?

"Ok well basically you hook it to a computer and put music on it, and you can listen to music wherever you go." Kuwabara told her, trying to keep it simple. He knew the spirit world didn't have all the fancy luxuries that they have in the human world.

"Oh that sounds fascinating. I wish I had one, but I highly doubt Koenma would approve of me spending my time listening to music." She looked at Kuwabara who had been staring out the window of the store, and noticed that Keiko and his sister had taken the escalator down to the first floor. They must have left already. "Kuwabara what's wrong?"

"Oh nothing Botan I was just thinking about what Yusuke's doing." He replied.

"Oh now that I think about it, I kinda WAS wondering where he went." She said.

"If you take that escalator to the third floor, he's probably up at the food court."

"Oh that Yusuke, if he wanted food he could have invited all of us too." Botan said.

Kuwabara looked at the ground. "He's not up there to eat Botan... why don't you go see him... he should have been back by now."

Botan wondered what would be wrong with Yusuke that he hadn't returned yet. It was so unlike him. "Ok, I'm going to go look for him. I'll be back with him soon." She started walking out the door of the store, and started sprinting to the escalator. She was worried about Yusuke... she didn't know why she was worrying... obviously he wasn't in trouble, but he hadn't come back yet. Upon reaching the food court, she saw him sitting alone at a table, with his head down. She walked up behind him... he heard her and turned around facing her, revealing tear filled eyes. She bent down and wrapped her arms around him. "Oh sweetie what happened?" she said, tears were forming in her eyes now too. She didn't want to see him like this.

"I... I don't know Botan... I thought it would be... easier than this..." he said, between sobs.

"What happened?" She pulled a chair next to him and sat down, and kept one arm around him.

"I broke up... with Keiko." he said... dropping his head to the ground.

"Why hun? Why would you do that?" She asked in shock.

"Because..." he wiped his eyes with the sleeve of his jacket. "I'm not in love with her... I don't think I ever was to begin with... I realized I'm in love with someone else."

"Hey... try and cheer up Yusuke... for me?"

He tried his best to fake a smile for her.. he couldn't do it tho. "I'm sorry Botan, it just hurts... Breaking up with her wasn't what hurt me... it was seeing the tears in her eyes... that's what did it."

"Oh sweetie, I know it can't possibly be easy to do what you did... but I'm sure you had a good intention behind it didn't you?" She wrapped her other arm around him, and held him for a few minutes while he sat there... he was at a loss for words. He was sad that he hurt Keiko... but he was happy... kind of... just because Botan was holding him the way she was. A few more minutes passed and she let him go and just stared into his eyes. "So... who's the lucky girl that you're in love with now?" She had this feeling that she knew who it was, she knew deep down that it was her... but she wanted to hear it from him.

He stood up, and brushed his hair back. The tears that had covered his eyes before were now gone. "Well... I'll tell you who she is later Botan"

She stood up now, and playfully pushed him back. "Oh I know who she is. Why don't you just tell me." Botan was laughing.

Yusuke was laughing too.

"You'll find out soon enough."

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