Botan couldn't hear anyone, she took a deep breath. She cleared her throat and both teams turned to her. "I'll take it on." She said.
Pause.
"That's not necessary." Miko said. Botan raised an eyebrow, Miko pointed behind her. Botan turned. Hiei and Samara was already walking up to the enormous rock which was about to break from its prison of trees. "We've all decided that one person from each team shall face it."
Botan bit her lip. "Why does it have to be Hiei?" She asked.
"He offered." Yusuke answered. Mai stepped in.
"Yeah and how do you expect him to become any stronger if you keep pulling him out of a great challenge?" She said wisely. "Samara has back up for Hiei so don't worry."
Botan thought for a moment, Mai was right. Hiei won't get any stronger with having her around.
Hiei felt his right arm burst to life. Samara had wished him good luck and stopped walking a while ago. He stopped and took a breath. He was all up for it.
"GOOD LUCK HIEI!!" He heard Botan's voice yell. The whipped around. Botan and everyone else were smiling, cheering him on. He gave a small smile that no one could see and turned back to the rock.
"He needs to shoot the end of that tree to get that rock down." Kurama said, shielding his eyes from the sunlight so he can get a better view. Yusuke held up a finger.
"That's my call!" Yusuke held his hand like a gun and squinted. a blue light emitted from his finger and hit the tree, making it bend. The rock started rolling, thundering down the hill.
Hiei froze; the rock was MUCH larger up close. Only chance, now or never, he thought. Baka onna, why did he have to love her so much?
"Dragon of the darkness flame!" Hiei roared, holding his hands up. He watched in amazement and the black dragon curled itself around the rock, as if to squeeze it to the end. His arm felt tired-he was tired-but he kept standing and rising his arm, who knew how long it was going to take?
"DON'T GIVE UP, HIEI! YOU CAN DO THIS AND YOU DAMN STRAIGHT KNOW YOU CAN TOO! YOU'RE THERE!" Botan screamed, making her throat hurt.
"She's right, I WON'T GIVE UP!" Hiei screamed. He started to pull out all his energy; he seriously wanted to sit down. He sent another wave after another, until-
BOOM.
Hiei was thrown backwards as the rock blew up, dropping smaller rocks from the air. Hiei dodged them, running back to Botan and the others, he was grinning. He've single-handed blew up a rock a thousand times bigger then him. Botan watched as Hiei grew closer and closer, she jumped once he was close enough and the both fell to the ground, hugging each other madly. The teams were all greeting the worn out Hiei, laughing and discussing Hiei's great move. Botan couldn't help but smile as Hiei laid his head in her lap and closed his eyes, panting like a dog.
"Great job, Hiei." She said.
"Hn..."
Botan gave him a kiss on his hand. "Your the best there is."
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"Just be glad, if Kurama didn't trip over the cord and shut the game down, you wouldn't have to see your player die!"
"I, Yusuke Urameshi, never lose!"
"Whatever!"
"Hello Hiei, not sick are you?"
Hiei opened his eyes, all three of them and looked around. Botan was looking at him, he was in her lap, but this time they were inside the big house, and looking at the way everything was either blue or pink, it was the women's side of the house. He groaned and closed his eyes again.
"That was a great blast dude." Spirit's voice said.
"Of course, seeing that I've been hearing about him in Spirit world. He use to be a criminal." stated Miko.
"Keyword, Use to." said Botan in Hiei's defense.
"I know." Miko said. "Every once and a while everyone is a criminal. Like me for example, was a robber for a few days when I was alive and was never caught."
Samara snorted. "A few days!? That's nothing. Like me, went to jail five times because I was part of a robbery gang."
Yusuke puffed out his chest. "Pwsh, I use to smoke, drink, and skip school. Not to mention steal, beat up Kuwabara for fun, and cuss."
Hiei opened his eyes and looked up. Spirit was smiling. "Big deal, Yusuke Urameshi. Thousands of years ago I was feared by so many people. I use to do drugs, smoke, drink, fight, get into gangs, steal, cuss, go to jail. Leader in a big gang and then I stopped once I found my spirit, which was at the age of 14. Then I started to care."
Yusuke looked impressed. Kurama looked shocked. Hiei and Botan remained motionless while Tenshi smiled. "Junk. I'm a wanted man. If I'm caught, the person who caught me gets one million yen."
"That's almost like me, but I was wanted in the spirit world." Inform Kurama.
"And like me." Mai interrupted.
"Let's see," Samara said. "We've got four fugitives, four criminals. That only leaves Botan and Kuwabara-"
"Kuwabara ain't anything to worry about." Yusuke said calmly. Kuwabara scowled at him.
"So that only leaves Botan." Every pair of eyes turned to Botan. Hiei gave her his attention too. She was lost in thought.
"I remember," She spoke suddenly that they jumped. "I remember a time in my life when I use to live on the streets. My mum and dad just died in a car accident and I ran anyway from the orphan people. So I live on the streets. And as I grew, I started to steal more and one day, I sold enough of the valuables I stole to buy a gun. So of course I bought one and almost killed a man with it. I was sent to jail and I tired to get myself into one piece. Once I got out, I met some guys and then I met Tenshi." Botan drifted off and there was a silence.
"That makes four fugitives, four criminals, one useless, and one murder." Samara counted, breaking the ice.
"I didn't kill her." Botan said.
"You shot a girl?" Tenshi laughed.
Botan shrugged. Spirit piped up, in a misty faraway voice. "Everyone is made of bad. No one and can be so pure...."
"Except this guy I saw on TV. He looks so cute..." Mai joked. Spirit didn't seem to hear.
"Dinner time, Kurama will make sandwiches." demanded Yusuke. Everyone except Botan and Hiei stood up and left for the kitchen. Hiei got off of Botan's lap so both of them could stand up.
"Hiei?" Botan asked quietly. Hiei looked at her. Her eye's seemed far away.
"Hn?"
"When Spirit said that thing about pure. I think she is wrong." Hiei looked clueless. "I think there is one pure person. And that is always going to be you, Hiei."
"Hn."
Botan smiled. They both pulled into a kiss, out of breath once they parted. Botan took his hand and they both walked into the kitchen.
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"Three months already, Koenma." Genkai said, flapping her blue wings. Koenma nodded.
"Yes it is." He frowned. "They have better not touch my video games."
Yukina caught Genkai into her hands, Keiko looked around in awe. "Hello Koenma." Yukina said softly.
Koenma nodded to them and exited his office and left them to follow him. They reached the same door and Koenma pulled out a key. He stuck it into the hole and turned it. He opened the door and they entered.
"Yusuke never told me about this." Keiko said in wonderment.
"Well that's becau-"
"CHARGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!" They jumped at the sound of the war cry. Koenma started to run, there where surprised at what they saw at the "hill".
"SPIRIT GUN!" Botan and Yusuke yelled, taking on a even bigger rock then what Hiei had. The rest of the where eating chips. Rocks rained from the sky and everyone jumped up to dodge them.
"Another yell?" Yusuke asked, wiping sweat form his forehead.
"YUSUKE!"
"Ahh!" Yusuke hit the floor as Keiko tackled him. "Keiko!?!"
"Keiko?" Everyone chorused together.
"Don't forget us." said Koenma.
"It's been three months already?!" Samara asked. Keiko frowned.
"Who are these people?" She asked, her eyes narrowing.
Mai butted in. "Yes, how rude of us. Hello there Keiko! I'm Tumai, Mai for short. Yusuke's been telling us much about you."
Tenshi knocked Mai to the side and smiled. "Hi, I'm Tenshi. This is Spirit, that's Samara, and last one is Miko."
"Ready to get out?" Yukina asked cheerfully. Kuwabara already begun his impressions and Hiei was about ready to chop his head off. Everyone nodded.
Koenma gave a nod. Spirit, whose hair was now a light blue, shook her head. "Wait, we've forgotten the last rock. This will only take a minute."
She made her hand into a gun and her silver energy shot out, at once blowing up the big rock still on the "hill". "Alright let's go."
Keiko mouth was hanging open. They exited the training chamber and Koenma once again locked it. Then it was back into his office.
"So now what, Koenma?" Tenshi asked, sitting in Koenma's own chair.
"Your ship leaves in 2 days. At midnight, you have to be on that ship or your out." Koenma said sharply and seriously.
"So we only have two days of rest?" Asked Mai. Koenma nodded.
"But not for you five." Koenma pointed to the Owari team members. "You have some large shipments to be made. Best if you go now."
"Aww god." Spirit grumbled. In a blink, they all were sitting on their transportations. With a last wave good-bye to Hiei, Botan raced out of the office, leading her team and leaving her other friends.
"Alright, Miko takes the East, Samara take the West, Mai takes the North, and Spirit and myself takes the South. We should be done in time to have some comfort." Everyone nodded and went separate ways. Botan got into pace with Spirit and they nodded.
Botan lowered down first, knowing she couldn't be seen by anyone but the dead, she pulled out her black book.
"Hmm...Mika Onitsuka, Tokyo game shop." Botan was lucky, it was only a block away. Once Botan went inside, she could see Mika's sleeping ghost floating above her real body, which was under a arcade game. "Ugh, ouch." Botan muttered. She tapped it lightly and a mass of black hair lifted up.
"Oh hello. Who ar-AHH! I'M FLYING!?!?" Mika screamed in her ear. Botan grabbed her and set her on the oar. "W-w-who are you?!!"
"I am Botan, the ferry girl. I'm here to ship you to Rekai or as I call it, Spirit world." Botan explained.
"Is that hell?" Mika whispered. She started to cry.
"Oh no, Mika it's not hell! It's where everyone goes...."
It took Botan fifteen minutes to calm down Mika. She was behind time and met up with Spirit once, She was going to take half of Botan's. The rest of them went by easily and When Botan was finish, Spirit was waiting for her. "Ready?"
Botan nodded. Spirit continued. "Just before you came, I was talking to the rest of us. We all agreed to meet in Mai's Coffee shop, in human form."
"She has a coffee shop?" Asked Botan. Spirit nodded.
"Stone Roses. We all own it, even you." Spirit explained cheerfully. "It's for us Owari."
They lowered into an alley and got off their transporters. In a faint pop, Spirit and Botan were walking on the streets, wearing stylish clothes and alive. Spirit led the way to a cafe in the corner of a busy street. A hanging door sign said in bright letters, STONE ROSES. Spirit opened the door. People were everywhere, sitting down in soft chairs or egg chairs that hung from the roof. A song was on and Mai, Samara, and Miko where walking around chatting with customers. Mai looked up from talking.
"Botan! Spirit! Grab a cup and join us!" She said and continued with chatting. Botan and Spirit made it to the back of the counter and both got a cup of coffee.
"One minute. We have to change the song." Spirit said, smiling. She entered a room and Botan slipped in with her before Spirit shutted the door.
Inside was like another cafe. Egg chairs where hanging and a counter with coffee was in the back. Spirit made her way to a desk with 3 computers on it. She scanned it quickly and clicked on something twice. She pulled on a head set. She gave one to Botan. Botan pulled it on and sat on the egg chair next to Spirit. The song that was on faded away and Spirit started to speak, watching the TV monitors showing every angle of the cafe. "Welcome to Stone Roses, the strangest Cafe you'll find! This is Spark, greeting you with our other coffee girl, Botan!"
Spirit gestured for Botan to start talking. "Hi everyone, this is Botan," Spirit mouth the words 'Nickname!' and Botan gave a nod. "known and only will be known as Boba!"
Botan smiled as she heard cheers. "I'll take this back to Spark."
Spirit gave a thumb up. "Yo, in honor of Boba, Stone roses!" Spirit clicked something two times and the song Stone roses started up. Spirit and Botan pulled off their head phones and Spirit smiled. "Good job, you don't want them to call you by your real name because who knows how long this cafe will be open."
Botan nodded. "Got it." Botan picked up her cup and followed Spirit outside. Mai and Samara had retreated to swinging in a egg chair and Miko was behind the counter, making bubble tea. Spirit joined Mai and Samara, leave Miko with Botan.
"Hey Boba, wanna help me make some Tapioca?" Miko asked, smiling.
"Some what?" Botan asked, puzzled.Miko held up the clear cup she was working on. It was filled with green slushie and at the bottom were brown small balls and small green strips.
"The brown stuff is pearls, they are great with Tapioca. The green strips are jello; they go great with the green apple slushie, which is what I am showing you right now." Miko explained. Miko handed it to a teenage girl and the girl handed her seven dollars, Miko took two dollars and put it in her pants pocket and put the rest into the cash register.
"Okay, next." Miko said. A man and a girl stepped up.
"Strawberry slushie." said the girl. Miko nodded. "Two?"
"Yes."
"Alright, Boba. Take a cup over there. Ma'am, would you like some boba in it?" The girl nodded again. "Okay. First thing we do is take one scoop of boba from here."
Botan followed Miko. She took a spoon from a hot can of water and scooped out some black balls. She dropped the balls into her cup and Botan copied her. "Next, you pour two splashes of this into it."
Miko took a bottle and dipped it in two times, enough to give the boba a bright surface. Botan, again, copied her. Miko pulled out a blender. "Okay next we fill this blender a few inches from the top. Then, pour this bottle into it until the ice turns red to this mark." She pointed to a black mark on the blender. "Then blend it and fill these two to the top and drop them into the slot and that it."
"Got ya." said Botan and She did exactly what Miko told her. Botan dropped the filled cups into two machines and watched as the slots disappeared under the machine and appeared a few seconds later with a lid saying; STONE ROSES...The strangest cafe. Ever.
Miko beamed at Botan as got a three dollar tip. "Great Job, Boba." she said as Botan slipped the three dollars into her jean pocket. There was a sound of a door being opened and Botan looked up.
"Urameshi!" greeted Miko and Botan as The Urameshi Team enter the cafe. Hiei raised an eyebrow. It WAS the strangest cafe He has seen. Botan smiled.
"What would you like?" asked Botan.
"Err..." Tenshi trailed off.
"Just give them Green apple." said Samara, walking behind the counter. Miko nodded and she got to work. "So what do you think of the cafe?"
"Definitely strange." Kurama said.
"Good!" Samara smiled. Miko handed Hiei his cup. "We are closing early for a rest, and then we can go back to Genkai's."
Hiei took a taste of his drink. He choked on a boba. Spirit giggled from behind him. "You drink it slowly."
The rest of the boys started to cough and Spirit had to go around, patting them furiously on the back. Botan held back a loud laugh and picked up her own cup, which she had filled with the leftover green apple slushie in the blender. Everyone took a seat in the now deserted cafe. Botan and Hiei awkwardly sat in an egg chair.
"Two day's away." Mumbled Mai.
"Feels like forever." Kuwabara said. Spirit nodded.
"Yep."
"So, what's up for tomorrow?" Asked Yusuke.
"I'm going." Samara said. "I'm going to visit a few dead cousins."
"I'm going to stay here." Spirit said, leaning back into her chair.
"I'll keep her company." Kurama offered.
"I'm sleeping." said Yusuke.
"Video games." said Kuwabara.
"Hn."
"Movies." Tenshi said
"Comic shop." Mai announced.
"Mall!" Miko beamed.
"Tuguro's Grave." Botan said bravely. Everyone looked at her.
"Why?" Hiei asked.
"Because, tomorrow is the day I killed him."
"But he was a pain in the arse!" Yusuke snapped.
"True. But one day I'm going have to ferry him to Koenma's office."
Samara stood up. "Whatever you want dear. Now everyone beat it if you are not gonna help with the cleaning."
Hiei shook his head as he jumped out of the chair and dumped his drink into the trash can. Typical Botan, leaving them in mystery.
No wonder he loves her.
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"That's not necessary." Miko said. Botan raised an eyebrow, Miko pointed behind her. Botan turned. Hiei and Samara was already walking up to the enormous rock which was about to break from its prison of trees. "We've all decided that one person from each team shall face it."
Botan bit her lip. "Why does it have to be Hiei?" She asked.
"He offered." Yusuke answered. Mai stepped in.
"Yeah and how do you expect him to become any stronger if you keep pulling him out of a great challenge?" She said wisely. "Samara has back up for Hiei so don't worry."
Botan thought for a moment, Mai was right. Hiei won't get any stronger with having her around.
Hiei felt his right arm burst to life. Samara had wished him good luck and stopped walking a while ago. He stopped and took a breath. He was all up for it.
"GOOD LUCK HIEI!!" He heard Botan's voice yell. The whipped around. Botan and everyone else were smiling, cheering him on. He gave a small smile that no one could see and turned back to the rock.
"He needs to shoot the end of that tree to get that rock down." Kurama said, shielding his eyes from the sunlight so he can get a better view. Yusuke held up a finger.
"That's my call!" Yusuke held his hand like a gun and squinted. a blue light emitted from his finger and hit the tree, making it bend. The rock started rolling, thundering down the hill.
Hiei froze; the rock was MUCH larger up close. Only chance, now or never, he thought. Baka onna, why did he have to love her so much?
"Dragon of the darkness flame!" Hiei roared, holding his hands up. He watched in amazement and the black dragon curled itself around the rock, as if to squeeze it to the end. His arm felt tired-he was tired-but he kept standing and rising his arm, who knew how long it was going to take?
"DON'T GIVE UP, HIEI! YOU CAN DO THIS AND YOU DAMN STRAIGHT KNOW YOU CAN TOO! YOU'RE THERE!" Botan screamed, making her throat hurt.
"She's right, I WON'T GIVE UP!" Hiei screamed. He started to pull out all his energy; he seriously wanted to sit down. He sent another wave after another, until-
BOOM.
Hiei was thrown backwards as the rock blew up, dropping smaller rocks from the air. Hiei dodged them, running back to Botan and the others, he was grinning. He've single-handed blew up a rock a thousand times bigger then him. Botan watched as Hiei grew closer and closer, she jumped once he was close enough and the both fell to the ground, hugging each other madly. The teams were all greeting the worn out Hiei, laughing and discussing Hiei's great move. Botan couldn't help but smile as Hiei laid his head in her lap and closed his eyes, panting like a dog.
"Great job, Hiei." She said.
"Hn..."
Botan gave him a kiss on his hand. "Your the best there is."
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"Just be glad, if Kurama didn't trip over the cord and shut the game down, you wouldn't have to see your player die!"
"I, Yusuke Urameshi, never lose!"
"Whatever!"
"Hello Hiei, not sick are you?"
Hiei opened his eyes, all three of them and looked around. Botan was looking at him, he was in her lap, but this time they were inside the big house, and looking at the way everything was either blue or pink, it was the women's side of the house. He groaned and closed his eyes again.
"That was a great blast dude." Spirit's voice said.
"Of course, seeing that I've been hearing about him in Spirit world. He use to be a criminal." stated Miko.
"Keyword, Use to." said Botan in Hiei's defense.
"I know." Miko said. "Every once and a while everyone is a criminal. Like me for example, was a robber for a few days when I was alive and was never caught."
Samara snorted. "A few days!? That's nothing. Like me, went to jail five times because I was part of a robbery gang."
Yusuke puffed out his chest. "Pwsh, I use to smoke, drink, and skip school. Not to mention steal, beat up Kuwabara for fun, and cuss."
Hiei opened his eyes and looked up. Spirit was smiling. "Big deal, Yusuke Urameshi. Thousands of years ago I was feared by so many people. I use to do drugs, smoke, drink, fight, get into gangs, steal, cuss, go to jail. Leader in a big gang and then I stopped once I found my spirit, which was at the age of 14. Then I started to care."
Yusuke looked impressed. Kurama looked shocked. Hiei and Botan remained motionless while Tenshi smiled. "Junk. I'm a wanted man. If I'm caught, the person who caught me gets one million yen."
"That's almost like me, but I was wanted in the spirit world." Inform Kurama.
"And like me." Mai interrupted.
"Let's see," Samara said. "We've got four fugitives, four criminals. That only leaves Botan and Kuwabara-"
"Kuwabara ain't anything to worry about." Yusuke said calmly. Kuwabara scowled at him.
"So that only leaves Botan." Every pair of eyes turned to Botan. Hiei gave her his attention too. She was lost in thought.
"I remember," She spoke suddenly that they jumped. "I remember a time in my life when I use to live on the streets. My mum and dad just died in a car accident and I ran anyway from the orphan people. So I live on the streets. And as I grew, I started to steal more and one day, I sold enough of the valuables I stole to buy a gun. So of course I bought one and almost killed a man with it. I was sent to jail and I tired to get myself into one piece. Once I got out, I met some guys and then I met Tenshi." Botan drifted off and there was a silence.
"That makes four fugitives, four criminals, one useless, and one murder." Samara counted, breaking the ice.
"I didn't kill her." Botan said.
"You shot a girl?" Tenshi laughed.
Botan shrugged. Spirit piped up, in a misty faraway voice. "Everyone is made of bad. No one and can be so pure...."
"Except this guy I saw on TV. He looks so cute..." Mai joked. Spirit didn't seem to hear.
"Dinner time, Kurama will make sandwiches." demanded Yusuke. Everyone except Botan and Hiei stood up and left for the kitchen. Hiei got off of Botan's lap so both of them could stand up.
"Hiei?" Botan asked quietly. Hiei looked at her. Her eye's seemed far away.
"Hn?"
"When Spirit said that thing about pure. I think she is wrong." Hiei looked clueless. "I think there is one pure person. And that is always going to be you, Hiei."
"Hn."
Botan smiled. They both pulled into a kiss, out of breath once they parted. Botan took his hand and they both walked into the kitchen.
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"Three months already, Koenma." Genkai said, flapping her blue wings. Koenma nodded.
"Yes it is." He frowned. "They have better not touch my video games."
Yukina caught Genkai into her hands, Keiko looked around in awe. "Hello Koenma." Yukina said softly.
Koenma nodded to them and exited his office and left them to follow him. They reached the same door and Koenma pulled out a key. He stuck it into the hole and turned it. He opened the door and they entered.
"Yusuke never told me about this." Keiko said in wonderment.
"Well that's becau-"
"CHARGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!" They jumped at the sound of the war cry. Koenma started to run, there where surprised at what they saw at the "hill".
"SPIRIT GUN!" Botan and Yusuke yelled, taking on a even bigger rock then what Hiei had. The rest of the where eating chips. Rocks rained from the sky and everyone jumped up to dodge them.
"Another yell?" Yusuke asked, wiping sweat form his forehead.
"YUSUKE!"
"Ahh!" Yusuke hit the floor as Keiko tackled him. "Keiko!?!"
"Keiko?" Everyone chorused together.
"Don't forget us." said Koenma.
"It's been three months already?!" Samara asked. Keiko frowned.
"Who are these people?" She asked, her eyes narrowing.
Mai butted in. "Yes, how rude of us. Hello there Keiko! I'm Tumai, Mai for short. Yusuke's been telling us much about you."
Tenshi knocked Mai to the side and smiled. "Hi, I'm Tenshi. This is Spirit, that's Samara, and last one is Miko."
"Ready to get out?" Yukina asked cheerfully. Kuwabara already begun his impressions and Hiei was about ready to chop his head off. Everyone nodded.
Koenma gave a nod. Spirit, whose hair was now a light blue, shook her head. "Wait, we've forgotten the last rock. This will only take a minute."
She made her hand into a gun and her silver energy shot out, at once blowing up the big rock still on the "hill". "Alright let's go."
Keiko mouth was hanging open. They exited the training chamber and Koenma once again locked it. Then it was back into his office.
"So now what, Koenma?" Tenshi asked, sitting in Koenma's own chair.
"Your ship leaves in 2 days. At midnight, you have to be on that ship or your out." Koenma said sharply and seriously.
"So we only have two days of rest?" Asked Mai. Koenma nodded.
"But not for you five." Koenma pointed to the Owari team members. "You have some large shipments to be made. Best if you go now."
"Aww god." Spirit grumbled. In a blink, they all were sitting on their transportations. With a last wave good-bye to Hiei, Botan raced out of the office, leading her team and leaving her other friends.
"Alright, Miko takes the East, Samara take the West, Mai takes the North, and Spirit and myself takes the South. We should be done in time to have some comfort." Everyone nodded and went separate ways. Botan got into pace with Spirit and they nodded.
Botan lowered down first, knowing she couldn't be seen by anyone but the dead, she pulled out her black book.
"Hmm...Mika Onitsuka, Tokyo game shop." Botan was lucky, it was only a block away. Once Botan went inside, she could see Mika's sleeping ghost floating above her real body, which was under a arcade game. "Ugh, ouch." Botan muttered. She tapped it lightly and a mass of black hair lifted up.
"Oh hello. Who ar-AHH! I'M FLYING!?!?" Mika screamed in her ear. Botan grabbed her and set her on the oar. "W-w-who are you?!!"
"I am Botan, the ferry girl. I'm here to ship you to Rekai or as I call it, Spirit world." Botan explained.
"Is that hell?" Mika whispered. She started to cry.
"Oh no, Mika it's not hell! It's where everyone goes...."
It took Botan fifteen minutes to calm down Mika. She was behind time and met up with Spirit once, She was going to take half of Botan's. The rest of them went by easily and When Botan was finish, Spirit was waiting for her. "Ready?"
Botan nodded. Spirit continued. "Just before you came, I was talking to the rest of us. We all agreed to meet in Mai's Coffee shop, in human form."
"She has a coffee shop?" Asked Botan. Spirit nodded.
"Stone Roses. We all own it, even you." Spirit explained cheerfully. "It's for us Owari."
They lowered into an alley and got off their transporters. In a faint pop, Spirit and Botan were walking on the streets, wearing stylish clothes and alive. Spirit led the way to a cafe in the corner of a busy street. A hanging door sign said in bright letters, STONE ROSES. Spirit opened the door. People were everywhere, sitting down in soft chairs or egg chairs that hung from the roof. A song was on and Mai, Samara, and Miko where walking around chatting with customers. Mai looked up from talking.
"Botan! Spirit! Grab a cup and join us!" She said and continued with chatting. Botan and Spirit made it to the back of the counter and both got a cup of coffee.
"One minute. We have to change the song." Spirit said, smiling. She entered a room and Botan slipped in with her before Spirit shutted the door.
Inside was like another cafe. Egg chairs where hanging and a counter with coffee was in the back. Spirit made her way to a desk with 3 computers on it. She scanned it quickly and clicked on something twice. She pulled on a head set. She gave one to Botan. Botan pulled it on and sat on the egg chair next to Spirit. The song that was on faded away and Spirit started to speak, watching the TV monitors showing every angle of the cafe. "Welcome to Stone Roses, the strangest Cafe you'll find! This is Spark, greeting you with our other coffee girl, Botan!"
Spirit gestured for Botan to start talking. "Hi everyone, this is Botan," Spirit mouth the words 'Nickname!' and Botan gave a nod. "known and only will be known as Boba!"
Botan smiled as she heard cheers. "I'll take this back to Spark."
Spirit gave a thumb up. "Yo, in honor of Boba, Stone roses!" Spirit clicked something two times and the song Stone roses started up. Spirit and Botan pulled off their head phones and Spirit smiled. "Good job, you don't want them to call you by your real name because who knows how long this cafe will be open."
Botan nodded. "Got it." Botan picked up her cup and followed Spirit outside. Mai and Samara had retreated to swinging in a egg chair and Miko was behind the counter, making bubble tea. Spirit joined Mai and Samara, leave Miko with Botan.
"Hey Boba, wanna help me make some Tapioca?" Miko asked, smiling.
"Some what?" Botan asked, puzzled.Miko held up the clear cup she was working on. It was filled with green slushie and at the bottom were brown small balls and small green strips.
"The brown stuff is pearls, they are great with Tapioca. The green strips are jello; they go great with the green apple slushie, which is what I am showing you right now." Miko explained. Miko handed it to a teenage girl and the girl handed her seven dollars, Miko took two dollars and put it in her pants pocket and put the rest into the cash register.
"Okay, next." Miko said. A man and a girl stepped up.
"Strawberry slushie." said the girl. Miko nodded. "Two?"
"Yes."
"Alright, Boba. Take a cup over there. Ma'am, would you like some boba in it?" The girl nodded again. "Okay. First thing we do is take one scoop of boba from here."
Botan followed Miko. She took a spoon from a hot can of water and scooped out some black balls. She dropped the balls into her cup and Botan copied her. "Next, you pour two splashes of this into it."
Miko took a bottle and dipped it in two times, enough to give the boba a bright surface. Botan, again, copied her. Miko pulled out a blender. "Okay next we fill this blender a few inches from the top. Then, pour this bottle into it until the ice turns red to this mark." She pointed to a black mark on the blender. "Then blend it and fill these two to the top and drop them into the slot and that it."
"Got ya." said Botan and She did exactly what Miko told her. Botan dropped the filled cups into two machines and watched as the slots disappeared under the machine and appeared a few seconds later with a lid saying; STONE ROSES...The strangest cafe. Ever.
Miko beamed at Botan as got a three dollar tip. "Great Job, Boba." she said as Botan slipped the three dollars into her jean pocket. There was a sound of a door being opened and Botan looked up.
"Urameshi!" greeted Miko and Botan as The Urameshi Team enter the cafe. Hiei raised an eyebrow. It WAS the strangest cafe He has seen. Botan smiled.
"What would you like?" asked Botan.
"Err..." Tenshi trailed off.
"Just give them Green apple." said Samara, walking behind the counter. Miko nodded and she got to work. "So what do you think of the cafe?"
"Definitely strange." Kurama said.
"Good!" Samara smiled. Miko handed Hiei his cup. "We are closing early for a rest, and then we can go back to Genkai's."
Hiei took a taste of his drink. He choked on a boba. Spirit giggled from behind him. "You drink it slowly."
The rest of the boys started to cough and Spirit had to go around, patting them furiously on the back. Botan held back a loud laugh and picked up her own cup, which she had filled with the leftover green apple slushie in the blender. Everyone took a seat in the now deserted cafe. Botan and Hiei awkwardly sat in an egg chair.
"Two day's away." Mumbled Mai.
"Feels like forever." Kuwabara said. Spirit nodded.
"Yep."
"So, what's up for tomorrow?" Asked Yusuke.
"I'm going." Samara said. "I'm going to visit a few dead cousins."
"I'm going to stay here." Spirit said, leaning back into her chair.
"I'll keep her company." Kurama offered.
"I'm sleeping." said Yusuke.
"Video games." said Kuwabara.
"Hn."
"Movies." Tenshi said
"Comic shop." Mai announced.
"Mall!" Miko beamed.
"Tuguro's Grave." Botan said bravely. Everyone looked at her.
"Why?" Hiei asked.
"Because, tomorrow is the day I killed him."
"But he was a pain in the arse!" Yusuke snapped.
"True. But one day I'm going have to ferry him to Koenma's office."
Samara stood up. "Whatever you want dear. Now everyone beat it if you are not gonna help with the cleaning."
Hiei shook his head as he jumped out of the chair and dumped his drink into the trash can. Typical Botan, leaving them in mystery.
No wonder he loves her.
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WEEE! Whoo hoo me! I thought I'll never finish! Sorry everyone for the long wait. Homework and all. *sighs* Anyhow please read and review!