Silverchild of the winds: Here is another chapter. Lily: that does not fit the title Silverchild of the winds: Has the story ever? Lily: not since I came in. Silverchild of the winds: So why are you bithering me about it now. Lily: You created me, Silver child of the winds: I don't own YYH, I do own Lily.

============================= ===================== ========= === "Who's Lily" Yusuke asked again.

"My sister" Botan answered. Then she told him the whole story. "I ran away form my birth village. The demon we went against on this mission took me in and stole my strength. I hadn't thought that anyone would care, but my sister found me two weeks later. Lily was better accepted then I was. She didn't look as odd, and she had skill at the loom. She wove my hair ribbon as a gift; I guess she was trying to bribe me to come back. By the time she found me, I knew that I didn't have much life left in me. I tried to get her to go, but a yelling match woke up the demon and he absorbed her in his necklace right after killing me."

Yusuke was shocked. Botan had felt the same way about her life as he had about his, before the ferry girl had shown him how much people cared for him.

"He drew off of her energy until I finished them both off. I crushed the necklace so that he couldn't get out. I know it killed him and Lily as well. I killed my own little sister." Botan's voice had dropped down to a whisper, and she fainted again as soon as her story was finished. Botan had told the whole story in a tone that clearly implied self loathing, but the boys she told it to were impressed by her strength.

"I don't think I would be strong enough to sacrifice Keiko for the good of the world." Yusuke said.

"Most of our group wouldn't kill our loved ones for the sake of all three worlds." Hiei agreed, moving closer to the unconscious ferry girl. He gave her hand a squeeze of comfort although he knew she wouldn't feel it. "I'm just glad that she didn't break down when we were in immediate danger. I would have been eaten by now if she had."

Yusuke's eyes widened in surprise, "You're admitting to some weakness?"
"Hn"
"Should have known I'd get that from you. How are we going to explain Why Botan didn't ferry the poor girls he killed to Koenma?" + + + ++= +++++++++++++ ++++++++++++++++= --------------------------- ======== I know Hiei is ooc, sorry bout that. Botan is also ooc but what do you expect from the streesful mission she's just been through.