All righty…thanx to everyone who reviewed. Here's the next chapter. Remember it's all just memories and crap like that.
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( ) author's note
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Kurama, Keiko, Yuseke, Shizuru, Kuwabara are all at the ramen shop talking and eating together. "… so then she says she has to leave and ferry a soul. What do you think of that?" "Kurama you sly fox, why didn't you tell us earlier. We could just make Hiei protect her on the missions. If what you said is right, if Hiei truly does like Botan then maybe we should stick them together from now on." "But Urameshi. I don't think my Botan would be too happy. Maybe she should stay with me." "hn. I thought Yukina was yours?" "Hello Hiei, didn't see you there. We were just talking about Yukina." "Shaddup shrimp. We broke up. She said something about not loving me or something. at least there's always my dear Botan" Kuwabara starts getting dreamy eyes. [about time she broke up with him, if she didn't do it sooner I would have killed the baka myself. I should still kill him though.] Botan walks into the ramen shop. "Hello everyone!!" "Botan come into the back with me. I have something I want to ask you, but it's kind of a girl thing. You can come too Shizuru." Botan, Shizuru, and Keiko walk into the back.
"So Hiei, I'm kind of shocked. After all you and Botan both ran out last night within five minutes of each other, you both walk in late this morning for a meeting that you two picked the time for, and you both are sweating. Were you two doing something you shouldn't have?" Kurama had a mischievous glint in his eyes and he was smirking. Yuseke was gaping in shock at Kurama, and Kuwabara was staring wide-eyed at Hiei. "B-b-b-ut that's my Botan shorty. Why'd you have to steal her away from me? You know I love her." "Hn. Not my problem. If you love her so much, go court her, I don't care. You baka ningens should shut your mouths, you'll catch flies that way, and you look even stupider, if that's possible. Kitsune stop sticking your nose in my business. The onna and I were no where near each other last night or this morning." "Sure sure, whatever you say Hiei." Kurama's smirk left his face, but the mischievous glint did not leave his eyes. Yuseke finally recovered and realized this was the perfect time to ask the question he'd been wanting to ask since Kurama told the story. "Hey Hiei, why'd you say Botan was your deity?" Hiei's eyes bugged out and he looked mad enough to kill. "Where did you hear that? I know the onna wouldn't tell you because you said you hadn't seen her, it wasn't me because you haven't seen me, and the only other person it could have been would be the kitsune." Hiei's eyes widened even more, out of both shock and anger. "Kitsune, you just signed your death wish." "hehehe. Yuseke didn't hear it out of me, he heard it from somewhere else. He couldn't have heard it from me. I didn't say anything to anybody about yesterday." Kurama was extremely nervous, and didn't like being stuck in the position he was in, and Yuseke wasn't helping him out at all. "But Kurama, yes you did. You told us about you and Hiei talking and Botan coming over, and all that stuff." "Why don't we forget about all that and start over, what do you say?" Kurama looked hopeful, but Hiei wasn't letting him off that easy. "No way kitsune. If you want to play games, you better learn the rules." "Play games? What games am I playing." "Spirit detective, what did he say, his exact words. If you don't tell me, I might just accidentally chop the head of your little mate." "Well he said that you were talking about Botan because you were lusting after her and you told him to get rid of her so it would stop. And then he said that he could just sleep with her and that would take your mind off of sleeping with her because she slept with him. And you told him that she was your deity and he better not touch her." "Hn. You lying fox. You left out the part where you were lusting after her yourself. I've had enough of this." Hiei then left to go wherever he goes when the others can't find him. "Kurama?! You were lusting after my Botan too?!" "Shaddup Kuwabara. I'm sure Hiei was just lying to try and get the heat of him, right Kurama?" "Let's just say I would not think impure thoughts of Botan, Keiko, Shizuru, or Yukina. Ok?" "All right, come on, let's go see what the girls are talking about now. They've been back there for a while." "But Urameshi, what if they find out?" "Don't you want to know what is so personal that they have to go in the back and not just to another table for?" "All right Urameshi, but never again." Kurama, Yuseke, and Kuwabara snuck to the back and found spot so they could listen to what the girls were talking about.
"I can't believe you asked me that Shizuru!! Do I really have to answer?" "Yes, now do you or do you not like Hiei more than a friend?" "I…I…I…I dunno!! I'm not so sure anymore. I can't believe you guys pulled me back here to question me about things that may or may not have happened. This is no fair." "Quit acting like a baby Botan. I just can't wait. You can be the bride's maid at mine and Yuseke's wedding, and I'll be the bride's maid at yours and Hiei's. What do you say? Doesn't that sound like fun? Or maybe we could have a double wedding!! Wouldn't that be cool?!!" Botan's eyes widened and Shizuru was snickering at her. "Oh yeah, well what about you Shizuru, I know you have a thing for Kurama, and don't tell me you don't, cuz Kuwabara told me so!!" "OH MY GOSH!!! SHIZURU LIKES KURAMA!!!!" "I do not like Kurama. Keiko if you don't shout your mouth, the guys are going to come back here and try to find out what we're talking about, we don't want that, now do we?" "Right, sorry. So this is great, we could have a triple wedding!! There would be you two and me as brides, Yuseke, Kurama, and Hiei as grooms. Genkai and Yukina and Shiori would have to be there, and Kuwabara to. Koenma and Ayame and Hinageshi too. My family, atsuko, your family Shizuru, and the rest of Kurama's family. Oh and some of my extremely loyal customers!! And you could even bring your other friends. Oh this is going to be soo much fun!!" Shizuru and Botan looked at each, scared out of their minds about what Keiko was planning.
Still unnoticed by the girls Kurama, Yuseke, and Kuwabara snuck back out and went back to the table that they had all originally been sitting at. "I can't believe your sister likes Kurama!! Hahahaha!!!" "I can't believe you're standing there allowing Keiko to plan weddings for everybody, when no weddings should be happening. If my Okaasan gets word of this, then everybody in town is going to know. We have to find Hiei and warn him about what Keiko is planning." "Why the shrimp?" "Because Keiko is planning for him to get married to Botan. Do you really want Hiei to be dragged to a wedding, mind you he hates weddings, and then be told it's his? He might use his dragon on all of us. Do you really want that to happen?" "Ok, good point. Hey, if shorty is going to marry my Botan, Urameshi's going to marry Keiko, and you're going to marry my sis, who am I gonna marry?" "No one Kuwabaka. At least, according to Keiko. I still can't your sister actually likes fox boy over here." Yuseke was having a fit of laughter until he saw the girls coming back from their chitchat.
"Hey, where did Hiei go?" Kurama got that mischievous glint in his eyes again, but only Yuseke noticed. "Is there something important you need to tell him Botan? I'm sure I could find him for you." She turned bright red. "No it's ok. It's no problem. I don't need him. I was just wondering why he wasn't here anymore. No big deal. Well gotta go now. I'm sure there are more souls that I have to ferry. Bye everyone!!" Botan ran out, jumped on her oar and ran out. "Well Kurama looks like you were right, Botan does have feelings for Hiei." "Of course I was right Keiko. It's pretty obvious that Hiei has feelings for her too. Now all we have to do is get them to admit it to each other and get together. They both deserve it."
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