A/N: Sorry... I was away from my computer for a whole month and I couldn't get a single idea in my head. Well I'm back on track, hopefully. And as soon as I got this finished wouldn't let me upload it.

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Botan sighed; it was so boring being locked up. The bubbly ferry girl had lost the happy gleam in her eyes and only held the look of boredom. She had been tied up for so long that she had forgotten she had even had fingers from the numbness she felt.

There was suddenly commotion in where ever she was being held. The ringing of Botan's communicator reached her ears as she realized they had taken it from her. Fear suddenly struck her heart. There was no way she could explain to her captor that she was from the future and was a ferry. That would only lead into chaos, not that it wasn't chaos already.

Crying echoed through out the place, followed by shouting and pleading. Botan could only guess that Rin had been scared by the ringing of her communicator.

Jaken suddenly came into the room.

"How do you turn off this wretched thing?!" he yelled holding out the communicator.

"Untie me and leave me be," Botan said.

"I will do no such thing." Jaken said. He turned his heels to leave, when Botan noticed he was still fidgeting with her communicator

"I doubt your master will be very happy when he finds out you can't turn off such a simple thing," Botan commented hoping to convince him to let her have the communicator.

Jaken froze in his spot. He slowly thought about his next move, and decided to untie Botan and give her the object. He quickly strode out as soon as he did, while Botan opened the communicator. Koenma was on the screen ready to yell at her.

"What took you so long on answering me?!" he yelled, but soon noticed the dim lighting of the room she was. "Where are you?"

"I have no current idea but I know I'm being held as hostage by a dog demon we encountered earlier," Botan answered grimly.

"So I'm too late to warn you," Koenma said.

"Too late warning us about what?" Botan shifted uncomfortably as she asked.

"The history books have changed and things aren't what they used to be in the present. You still have time to change the past but you must do it soon... or else everything is permanent," Koenma said grimly.

"How much time do we have?" Botan asked, things where not looking good.

"I don't know," Koenma said, knowing it was all he could say.

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Kuwabara shivered from the cold.

"It's freezing!" he complained.

"Odd," Miroku said, "we should be having warm weather right now."

"Apparitions, more than likely," Sango said, "they like to mess with the weather a lot."

Sango shifted her Hiraikotsu so it would be more comfortable for her, but it did not help her ease the slightest bit. Hiei should be back from his scouting right about now.

Kirara's head suddenly looked alert.

"What is it?" Sango asked.

She turned to the direction Kirara's alert was towards, to find a girl with strange blue hair like Botan's.

"Yukina, it's you!" Kuwabara said happily.

Sango sighed in relief for Kuwabara seemed familiar with the company that was suddenly brought to her attention.

"You're an ice apparition, are you not?" Miroku said sounding very interested in the girl.

"Um, yes," the girl answered.

"Then you must be the one that has been changing the weather."

"I-I don't mean to do that," she said. "It's just that the weather here is so easily manipulated."

"I have another question to ask you," he asked, for a moment Sango thought he was going to ask an important question. "Will you bear my child?"

Smack!

Oh how wrong she was. Sango and Kuwabara both hit him on the back of his causing him quite some pain to deal with.

"I'm sorry, but what?" Yukina asked looking rather embarrassed.

"You don't have o answer him," Sango said to the poor girl.

"Yukina, how did you get here?" A deep voice said. From all of the commotion they hadn't even noticed Hiei's arrival. "You're supposed to be in the future."

"Oh but, I know my brother is here and I must seek him out!" the girl answered with confidence.

"Go home," Hiei said plainly. "You don't belong here."

"But you will stay," Sango said, "for at least tomorrow. It must have been a long journey for you, and I will not have you leave so soon. Plus there is a storm coming. It would be dangerous for her to leave. It would be best if she waits out the storm."

"What she does, and what is best for her does not concern you," Hiei said annoyed at the human who dared to defy him.

"Neither is it yours," Sango retorted.

"I'm sorry," Yukina said. "I didn't mean to cause this much trouble, but if you don't mind, I would like to stay."

"Good!" Miroku said. "The more the merrier."

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"It's becoming humid," Inuyasha said suddenly. "There is bound to be a storm soon. We should find shelter."

"Do you think there is a city near by?" Kurama asked calmly.

"No, but if there was they wouldn't let us stay at an inn. We don't have the monk with us and we don't have Sango's money either," Inuyasha answered calmly not looking at all worried.

"So we have to stay in a cave, full of who-knows-what?" Kagome said not very fond of the idea.

"Yes, unless you somehow cough up some money, or you can magically find a hut that can fit all of us," Inuyasha said sarcastically.

"Well I'm sure Kagome can magically find a hut!" Shippou said happily. Apparently he couldn't tell that Inuyasha was being sarcastic.

Yusuke sighed.

"The kid's oblivious to everything," he said not sounding annoyed. In fact his tone had absolutely no feeling in it what so ever.

He was practically bored out of his mind, because the day been so uneventful.

"Alright," Kurama said taking full charge, "the fastest way for us to find a shelter is for us to split up."

"Who said you could be in charge?" Inuyasha asked annoyed.

"Inuyasha!" Kagome scolded waving a finger at him. "He did come up with the idea."

"And who said no body else thought of the same thing?"

"Well like I said; he did come up with the idea first."

Inuyasha growled and set off.

"Um, he doesn't know when and where to meet," Kurama said.

"It's okay his nose will tell him when to come back. After all we'll be cooking ramen by then," Kagome said not sound a bit worried. After all last time she was worried she was rewarded by a mouthful of curses.

"Okay then," Kurama said, "since Inuyasha took care of east, Yusuke can go west, I'll go north, and you two can go south. Meet back here to report in an hour."

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The news that Koenma told her was rather disturbing and she had been pacing for quite some time.

Jaken had forgotten to retie her but that was fine with her. She had the whole cellar to pace around as well as be in a more comfortable position. Botan was about to take her oar out and float around the room when the door suddenly opened revealing a very happy Rin.

"Does girl want to play with Rin?" she asked her tone very exited.

Botan looked delighted at what she asked. A chance to come out of the cell and be free! That would be wonderful, even if it would only last a while.

"I would love to!" Botan said just as happy as she was.

"Good!" Rin said and grabbed her hand. She started dragging her to only she knew where. Botan could smell fresh air from where they where heading, so they must have been heading outside.

A few seconds later she could feel fresh breeze on her face. Though it was a rather could outside she enjoyed it very much. Botan laughed at her freedom and started spinning in circles very fast. Rin copied her movements and laughed along.

Botan got dizzy quickly and toppled on the grass. Oh the grass, it felt so good!

"Thank you so much for letting me out!" Botan said.

"Girl don't need to thank Rin," Rin said smiling happily.

"I'm Botan," Botan said realizing that the girl still called her "Girl".

"I'm Rin," she answered.

"Oh yes, I know," Botan answered rather amused by her statements. "Why do you always talk in third person?"

"Third person? Rin don't know what Botan's talking about"

"Um, never mind I suppose."

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"Kagome," Shippou said sounding a bit concerned, "where do you think he is? I mean the storm clouds are right on top of us ready to start dropping heavy rain."

"Oh I'm sure he'll be back," she said with concern coating her words.

Yusuke and Kurama both entered the cave, one after the other, carrying armfuls of wood.

"This should be enough to last through the night," Kurama said.

"I'm really starting to miss the future," Yusuke commented. "When Koenma said challenging, I didn't think he meant 'Survivor' challenging."

Kurama and Kagome chuckled at his comment, while Shippou gave him a very questioning look.

"Kagome, what's 'Survivor?'" he asked curiously.

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A/N: there I did it! I'm so proud... actually no I'm not -- hope this was good enough chapter for you guys to review! ; I'm becoming even lazier than I usually am.