Hiei: okay Star is getting out of hand.

Star: whatcha talkin 'bout Hiei, dude?

Hiei: Dude? You with that damn German song.

Star: Oh you mean 99 red balloons? But I am singing the English version.

Kurama: ...

Kuwabara: I like that song (starts to dance)

Yusuke: I will kill both of you.

Star: on with the 99 red stories.

PART4 the search for Botan's soul

Hiei's fate and Vow

Botan woke up when she felt a numbing in her arms. Her hair was loose and flying in the wind. She looked up to see that her arms were tied up by rope and she was tied to a tree. Struggle as she might she just could not get free.

"You better stop moving." Murugu said (haha the birds name...Thanx Runaway Kogoro)

"Let me go! What do you want with me?" Botan yelled. "You can't kill me I'm already dead."

"But you can feel pain, and your friends can die." Suzaku said as Murugu landed on his shoulder. The other saint beasts were right behind him.

"Let me torture her first." Byakko said,

"No let me." Genbu said.

"I will freeze her very soul. Let me do it." Seiryu added.

"None of you will be touching her until we give them the ransom note." Suzaku said and hell a yellow envelope in the air that was tied together with a thorny weed.

"Oh, let me deliver it. Please." Murugu said and when Suzaku gave her the note she was off.
A little rewind

"Botan?" Hiei asked when he heard her yell his name. Hiei wanted to talk to her but he was confused. He loved her and yet he was not sure if her was ready to give the emotion that no one had the time to give him. But she did, she did give him that emotion. She gave him love. "What have I been thinking?" he asked himself and ran back to find Botan.

When he arrived at the spot where she yelled from he saw no one. He looked around and thought she had gone back to the shrine. Hiei changed his mind about that theory when he found Botan's hair tie on the ground.

Present

"You say that Botan was taken?" Yusuke was trying to clarify what Hiei was saying to him.

"We have to find her. We don't have much time left?" Kuwabara said, stating the obvious.

"Why would take Botan? What would that accomplish?" Kurama asked himself. "I know!" he exclaimed. "Some one who wants us to stay, someone who wants to get revenge..."

"The saint beasts." Everyone said and they were out the door in a matter of moments but stopped when Murugu flew by and dropped a note and was gone.

Hiei was the first one to pick you the note, he read:

Dear Urameshi team,

we have the girl and if you wish to see her again I suggest you drop by. (There was a map on the page leading to a forest (not a castle, for once))

PS: we will take good care of her...

The Four Saint beasts

Hiei held back the urge to rip the paper to shreds. Fate was against him at every turn, he was just about to tell her that he loved her, and she gets taken away. Hiei vowed that when he got Botan back, and he would, that he would never let her go.

And they set off to find Botan, to take her back home...
Botan felt tears of pain fall down her cheek as Byakko hit her again and again. She was bruised on her arms and legs, bloody but she stood tall with every blow, Because Botan's thoughts remained on her hero. Her Hiei.

"Master, she will not break." Byakko said,

"I shall break her." Seiryu said and he walked up the Botan. He slapped her across the face, causing her to hit the tree with such force that she almost blacked out. She still stood tall. Seiryu smiled at her, put his hand to her chest (not too low) and Botan felt cold enter her body. She could feel her heart literally freeze. The pain she felt was so great that she screamed.

"Just kill me now." She yelled. And Seiryu stopped.

"I told you I would break her." he said "that is enough torture for today." The saint beast's left her to rest.

When they were gone Botan was still shivering. The rope was cutting into her skin causing hot sticky blood to drip down her arms. She couldn't feel most of her limbs and her heart was beating harshly as the ice melted. Tears continued to flow from her eyes. She tried with her last ounce of energy to look for the moon, but the moon was gone. She could only see the lonely stars. "Hiei." She whispered in pain. 'Am sorry that I never got to tell you how much I love you.' Botan thought before she left sleep clam her.
Hiei: Hn

Botan: ouch that sounds like it hurts.

Star: 99 blue balloons

Kuwabara: 99 yellow balloons

Yusuke: I'm going to kill both of you.

Star: 99 good night peoples