Botan was terrified and sad, still when her friends came to her and Hiei she pasted on her cheery mask. She knew that hiding her feelings would lead to problems, but her role in the team was as the perky, slightly annoying person that everyone looked to when they needed to be cheered.

"Botan why is your hair down" Yusuke asked. Botan had been fiddling with her hair ribbon as she did when she was remembering Lily, but of course she wasn't going to tell him about her past life. She saw herself as the perky person, and thought that her friends would be freaked out to learn of what she had gone through. Not to mention that telling Hiei the circumstances of her death had been painful enough and she wasn't ready to tell her story again.

Hiei answered for her; "you took enough time getting here that she just wanted to fiddle with her hair while we were waiting for her.
Botan had just finished putting her hair back up, and smiled at the Koorime in thanks.

"Well we should be getting on our way" That comment came from Kurama who was always the most goal oriented of the group.

"Where are we going" Kuwabara asked.

Everyone sweatdropped. No one knew exactly where. Oopsies. Botan said, "I forgot to tell you that we have a demon tracking device." "According to it we are about an hour away.

The hour passed rather uneventfully with everyone teasing each other as friends do. (Well Hiei was silent as always) Botan was thinking about how much more pleasant this was than being the misfit Jenna had always been. These friends accepted her as she was, but still she didn't think they'd accept her if she didn't act like a happy ditz.

Her thoughts were interrupted rudely, when the group found the current cave that her killer was living in.