Authors Note: OMG I'm so sorry for the long time for the updates... please don't hate me :( I've been going through some emotional problems and needed some time to myself. Anyways here's the new chapter, and I assume there will be one more upload before I start focusing on the Christmas special. I love all you guys :) And remember... no suing me cause I only own the plot.
Chapter 11 – I Promise
"Well that does it I think." Botan said as she finished hanging the curtains up in her room. She stood back by the door to take a look over the room once more to make sure it was how she wanted it to be. "Hey Yusuke... could you come here real quick? I want to move the bed over just a little bit more." She waited a few seconds and didn't get a reply. "Yusuke?" She walked out of the room to go find him. She checked the living room and kitchen and he wasn't in there. "Strange... he said he was going to watch TV." She walked back towards the bedrooms, she peeked in his room and there he was, he had fallen asleep at his desk. "Oh Yusuke..."
She couldn't blame him for sleeping. It was a little past 1 in the morning now, they had stayed up to fix Botan's new room, and he spent most of the time moving furniture around until she was happy with where it was. She grabbed a blanket out of Yusuke's closet and draped it over him. She didn't dare move him out of fear of waking up, even though she knew he would be sore in the morning from sleeping hunched over the desk. "I guess... I'll go to sleep also." She said as she turned the light off in Yusuke's room.
The next morning Yusuke awoke sitting at his desk. "Ah, what the hell, my back hurts." He looked at his phone. 5:42A.M "Its early, I'll just get in bed and go back to sleep." He sat on his bed, and felt a large lump under the blankets. "Strange... I don't remember putting anything here last night."
He poked it a couple times, and heard a soft moaning coming from the bed. "Ah, who's there." He demanded. "Yusuke... stop poking me... I'm tired I wanna sleep."
"Botan is that you?" Yusuke asked.
"Of course silly... *yawn* Who else would it be?" Botan replied half asleep. "Oh... by the way what are you doing in my room?"
"Your room? Hey Botan this is my room."
"Oh..." She pulled her head out from the covers, and sat up in bed, she remembered now when she turned the lights out last night, that she had gone back to sit by Yusuke for a few minutes. "I must have fallen asleep after I gave you a blanket last night. I'll go to my room now."
"I don't mind Botan. You... you can stay if you want." Yusuke said... glad that it was pitch black so that he wouldn't be showing off his blush.
"That... sounds good..." Botan said, as she moved over to the side to make room for Yusuke. She laid her head down on his chest when he laid down. "Hold me tightly... please?"
"Haha, OK Botan, anything you want." He replied.
"Anything I want?" Botan asked.
"Sure." "Yusuke said."
"Well... how about a kiss?" She asked.
"Oh your hopeless Botan." Yusuke leaned down and gave her a small kiss as he placed his arms around her back and held her as they drifted back to sleep.
A few hours later they had been up, and Atsuko had already left for work. Botan and Yusuke had spent the time finishing up arranging Botan's room, and watching TV. "You know... we should go to Spirit World soon Botan... and let Koenma know you're staying here."
"Yeah your right, I have an easier way though." Botan went into her makeup kit and pulled out her old communication mirror.
"Hey, I remember that thing." Yusuke stated.
"Well you should... you broke yours." Botan opened it, and pressed the connect button, and in a matter of seconds Koenma appeared on the screen.
"Botan, how was your birthday?" Koenma asked.
"It was good sir, how have you been?"
"Just great, but I need to know when you plan on coming back, there are a few cases here for you to start on." Koenma stated.
"Well... that's just it Koenma... I don't plan on coming back, I think I want to stay here... with Yusuke." Botan told him. Koenma didn't look pleased, especially because Botan noticed George in the back trying to sneak away.
"What do you mean you want to stay there? You belong here... you work for me."
"I'm sorry sir... But I must stay here... for my own happiness... and for Yusuke's as well." She replied.
"What do you mean for his happiness? You said you were going to the living world to spend your birthday with your friends... not to stay and live there."
"Well sir, some things happened that I didn't plan on happening." Botan replied.
"What kind of things?"
Yusuke walked behind Botan and wrapped his arms around her, and rested his chin on her shoulder. "Well sir... Yusuke and I... we're dating. And I couldn't be any happier."
"Well... that sure is a problem Botan... and a serious one too... you know it's forbidden for a ferry girl to fall in love with a human." Koenma added.
"Yes sir... and I'm quite aware of that..."
"But she's staying Koenma, like it or not... look you're my friend too don't get me wrong... but I won't let anyone keep Botan from doing what makes her happy... and I will not let you make her cry today giving her all your bullshit about the laws and rules and whatnot of Spirit World. Botan belongs here with us... she deserves a chance at a real life, she deserves the privilege of being able to love... and be loved in return. Don't get me wrong... I think your a great guy when you not in your diaper state... but if you stand in the way of us, and you make her upset... you will answer to me... do I make myself clear?" Yusuke said into the mirror, placing emphasis on the last part.
"Well Yusuke I'm afraid the rules of Spirit World don't cater to your personal desires, I bent the rules to make you Spirit Detective, and I had my behind beat on several occasions due to it. I won't allow it to be spanked again." Koenma said.
"Then sir... you leave me no choice." Botan reached into her pocket and pulled out a small orb, and an ID. "I will be returning these to you via Teleportation... with this I will be sending my resignation letter. I'm sorry sir... but I am resigning..."
"Yeah and there's nothing you can do about that." Yusuke added in.
"I was afraid this would happen." Koenma said. "I knew you had feelings for him this entire time... and against my better judgment I let you go off to the living world... I'm afraid I must alert my father, and... I will be sending out the SDF to retrieve you, and bring you into custody."
"You what? If you... or anyone else from Spirit World attempt to come here and take her away... I wont hesitate to kill you... or anyone else who stands in our way." As Yusuke said this, the mazaku markings came forth on his body, and his eyes had a silent red glow to them. "I'm sure you are well aware of what I can do Koenma... and quite frankly... the SDF will most defiantly refuse that request... They know they cannot stand up to me. You leave us alone... I love Botan... and I will do anything to protect her and to keep her happy... including giving up my own life." And with that Yusuke took the mirror from Botan and smashed it on the floor.
"Yusuke, what did you do that for?" Botan asked, kind of irritated. "That's two of them now."
"I don't want him being able to find us, you know as well as I do that there is a tracking device in there. Koenma has never been to my house before, so there's a chance he doesn't know where it is yet... it will give us a little more time to plan."
"Plan for what Yusuke? What's going to happen to us?" Botan asked, as she turned around and buried her head into his chest.
"Don't cry... I'm gonna make sure everything is alright. I think... we need to go to Genkai's old temple."
"What for Yusuke?" Botan asked.
"We will probably be safer there for the time being, the old hag taught me one more thing before she passed away this time, and that is how to make a barrier to prevent anyone with spirit energy from entering, and I can set it to the lowest level so that not even a human could pass... it would only appear as an empty field."
"But... we will be alone like that... do you think the others would come? And why not just go to Demon World?" Botan asked.
"I don't want to expose you to danger in Demon World. And... we can see if anyone wants to come... it will be a hell of a lot better than being alone all the time... don't get me wrong I love our alone time... but it would get boring fast without other people there. Let's see... maybe Kuwabara would come... and I'm sure Yukina wouldn't mind... Kurama and Hiei... they don't need to stay there... they are demons and don't possess spirit energy... so they can come and go as they please... I guess the same with Yukina... so she would be one to do our grocery shopping."
"Oh Yusuke... what is your mother going to say about this?" Botan asked.
"Don't worry about her... we're not going there forever... just until Koenma gets of his little temper tantrum he is throwing. He has no right to bring you back."
"Actually Yusuke... he does. As a ferry girl... we don't really have a choice to resign... if we do wish to quit our task... then the only thing we are allowed to do is to be reincarnated as a normal human and live once again with no memories of anything they have gone through... I don't want that to happen to me..."
"Don't worry it won't. It might sound bad to you, and I'm not proud to say it... but I'll kill Koenma if I have to."
She didn't say anything... not even nod her head in disagreement. She didn't want Yusuke to do that... but... she didn't want to leave him either... it was time for her to do something for herself. "I'm so sad Yusuke... we finally got my room set up... and now we have to tear it apart again."
"Don't worry... we will get our own room when we get to the temple. And we'll decorate it anyway that you want to." Yusuke said.
"Sounds good." Botan said.
"Things sure are going to get complicated... but then again when have they not been. You'll be safe."
"I promise."
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