IMPORTANT: Hey, me again. I'm starting to get an idea. After I'm done with this fic, I'm thinking of making a sequel to Look to the Sky. If I do make one, the pairings would be.......H/B of course. But then again, my whole career is up to you guys so.............VOTE! When you review, just put yes or no and I'll understand what you're talking about. And, I was working on my profile, and I had no idea that I had the box for no anonymous reviews checked. SO IF YOU DON'T HAVE AN ACCOUNT YOU CAN NOW REVIEW MY STORY, AND IF YOUR JUST TOO LAZY TO LOG-IN, THEN DON'T! LAZINESS RULES!!!! Wow, that was an extremely long note, well, enjoy!

Chapter 6: M

The car stopped in Kurama's driveway. Luckily, his mother, step-father and little brother were on a vacation to America's Disney world. Kurama rushed into the house, and all the rest followed -save for Hiei and Botan. So naturally, Hiei was forced to carry her.

All around the house the gang was rummaging threw Kurama's room, looking for a book. When they found it, Kurama was up half the night-luckily, he found a useful piece of information.

"Out with it, kitsune." Hiei demanded.

"Well, I found out that, since Botan has spirit energy, it would take much more time to kill her than a regular human. Plus- I also found out that the healing power of an ice apparition can help delay the process by a few hours."

"So.....?" Hiei asked.

"So what?" Kurama raised an eyebrow.

"How long does she have?!" Yusuke, who came from nowhere asked.

Kurama explained grimly. "Well, if Yukina can keep healing her, about every six or seven hours, she might have two and a half days...." Kurama explained grimly.

"Kurama, don't give up so easily, it's not like we can't do anything to stop it." Yusuke said calmly. Kurama nodded and started to do more research threw his books to find a cure.

It was about four A.M., Hiei, Kurama and Yukina hadn't slept a wink. Hiei was supposed to watch Botan, despite his arguing. Kurama had left to go read some more about a cure, while Yukina had gone off to try and sleep in the other room.

Hiei sat in the corner, he noticed Botan move a little, and started to shake. Yukina's powers couldn't be wearing off, she had just been in there no less than an hour ago. He didn't want to rob Yukina of what little rest she could get, so he went to do what he could, although he didn't want to.

Botan's breathing became rapid, as she began to cough. But once she started she couldn't stop. They coughs only got harder, and louder. She was in a sitting position, due to the lack of air the coughing fit was causing her. Although he told himself he would regret this, he did it anyway he didn't know why, but yet he did know. Was it that love feeling he thought he felt for the ferry girl? He knew, but he didn't. But he followed his instincts and help the poor-little-ningen out.

He sat on the edge of the bed and rubbed her back a little to sooth her. Her eyes popped open, but her eyes were glazed, and it looked as if she was in a trance. As soon as they opened, they closed back up. Botan fell back, and lay there motionless for a few moments, until another coughing fit had interrupted her peace.

Kurama, disturbed by the noise came into the room silently, only to see Hiei rubbing her back. He smiled slyly, and closed the door and peeked through the crack.

He came back in during the second coughing fit. He looked to Hiei, who had no idea what to do. And then again, Botan's eyes popped open, blood escaping from her lips as she coughed.

Kurama and Hiei stood there wide-eyed, as the ferry girl's eyes rolled in the back of her head as she fell silently to the bed once again.

Kurama's eyes glistened as he looked down sadly at the ferry girl. "The second stage." And with that he grabbed all the books on the desk, walked- almost ran into the other room, which lay his slumbering partners. He chucked a book at each of them, obviously waking them up and demanded that each of them read the book they were assigned thoroughly.

Hiei was told to watch Botan, and make sure that if she does vomit blood, to make sure that if it is a lot than to get Yukina. And as the sun rose, Yusuke looked plainly at it and said, "What a hell on Earth the next day is gonna be." And with that, everyone buried their noses into a book and read.

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