Hello, guys! I'm happy to be getting this next chapter out this week. It's a bit long but I didn't want to cut the content into a third chapter

Prompt: Flow


All in Due Time: Girl Talk Continued

Botan blinked as she was shaken awake by a worried looking Keiko, rubbing her eyes to clear her vision and propping herself up on her elbows, "Oh, I had the worst dream! I dreamed I was telling you about Hiei and you actually thought I had a crush on him. What a nightmare! I'm so glad I woke up."

"Botan, you weren't dreaming. I did tell you that," Keiko replied, rolling her eyes and shifting back to the other side of the table so her airhead of a friend could get up. Tucking her air behind her ears, she readied herself for the denial that Botan was sure to be feeling.

"B-but that's impossible! Ludicrous! Me and Hiei? Not unless pigs fly and all three worlds freeze over. We would never work. I annoy him and I'm a blabbermouth, and the only thing he gets along with is his sword because it doesn't have a mouth and kills things. I'm tall and he's short. I'm happy and he's grumpy. I'm light and he's dark. It would just never work and that's final," the ferry girl huffed and turned her nose up before taking a sip of her lukewarm tea.

Shaking her head at the oblivious woman, Keiko smiled before telling her, "It doesn't matter if it wouldn't work. You still like him. That's why you miss him and keep thinking about him. It's pretty obvious and you just don't want to admit it to yourself. For a snoopy ferry girl who likes to meddle in everyone's relationships, you should know the signs. Why is it such a bad thing? He seems to have warmed up to you as far as Hiei goes, and he's not bad looking. For all we know he could feel the same way."

As Botan was about to protest some more, Yukina and Shizuru walked into the room with more tea and some snacks. Yukina's eyes lit up as she saw the other blue haired woman, she set her tea tray down and pulled a small box from her kimono, gently pushing it into Botan's hands, "Mr. Hiei left this a few weeks ago before returning to Demon World. He asked me to give it to you the next time you came by."

Her eyes wide as she looked down at the box in her hand, Botan blushed slightly as Keiko nudged her arm and told her to open it. Slowly pulling the top off of the small box, she gasped quietly as she stared at the contents. Inside was the communicator Hiei had crushed when she had been stuck in Demon World. But it wasn't crushed anymore, everything about it was perfectly in place. How had he managed to get it? And why had he given it back to her fixed? He would never pay anyone back for something he broke.

"See? Why don't you just stop fighting it and see what happens?" Keiko smirked as Botan continued to stare at the box in wonder.


Just for clarification, in chapter 44 Botan mentioned that Hiei still owed her a communicator after he broke her lock, and it was noted that he never paid anyone back for something he broke. And yet, here's her fixed communicator. Also, as for the prompt, in the chapter I interpretted it as 'go with the flow', which Keiko basically tells Botan to do at the end. Thanks for reading!