(A/N- I do not own Yu Yu Hakusho, but I do own a.... a.... Bye..)

Binded Hearts

Rain of tears: In past and present

After Kurama finally settled Botan down enough for her to fall asleep he slowly lifted her up from his couch and took even steps towards the staircase so as not to wake her up. As Botan lied limply in his arms, he made his way up the staircase and towards the guestroom, all the way staring down at her sweet sleeping form. 'She is very beautiful when she sleeps' Kurama thought slowly losing his grip on reality. 'So beautiful' Kurama whispered bringing his face slowly down to Botan's and....

THUMP

He slammed his head into the hallway lamp. Ouch. Kurama let out a low yelp of pain trying not to make to much noise or Botan would wake up. 'Damn it!' He cursed loudly in his head.

Kurama then continued his journey to the guest room. When he was finally able to wrestle the door open while holding Botan he slowly stepped into the room and slipped Botan onto the guest bed. But she was reluctant. Even though Botan was asleep she still held on tightly to Kurama's white jacket. He tried to pry her hand off but she wouldn't give. "Fine then you win" Kurama mumbled. He took off his Jacket as easy as he could so he wouldn't tug on her arm. When he did, finally, get the whole jacket off of himself he lightly placed it onto Botan's sleeping figure.

'What if she gets cold?' Kurama thought as he remembered that she was wearing a dress. He ducked down and reached underneath the bed, after grabbing several things including a book, his cat Kiki's tail, and a rubber duck, he retrieved the green blanket with a rose delicately sewed on the front.

Kurama smiled to himself.

This was the blanket his sister, Mana, gave him for his 17th birthday, she had made it with great care for him, to bad 1 week later she was murdered. 'If I could find that bastard I swear that I would kill him right now' Kurama thought harshly. 'How could they just take her away from me like that? How, I ask you how?'

Tears slowly formed in his eyes as he remembered the day that he was told his sister had been murdered....

--------Flashback--------

....Kurama was happily walking home from school. The reason for why he was so happy was because he had been chosen to play as Romeo in the play Romeo And Juliet. But what made him even happier was that Botan was going to play Juliet.

He approached his home in happy strides. For some reason the neighbors were giving him odd looks. But he ignored it and continued on his happy way to his house. As he twisted the front door handle after popping the key in and turning it, he heard some sort of muffled noise, like crying, but he ignored it- because nothing could ruin such a great day or so he thought....

As soon as he opened the front door to his house his cat, Kiki immediately leapt into his arms. "Good girl" Kurama cooed to the cat as it snuggled into his navy blue T-shirt. And with a big smile on his face he walked into his house and straight into the source of the muffled crying. In the living room his mother had her face deeply buried into his fathers chest crying her eyes out.

"Father what is wrong with mother? Is everything ok? Did something happen that I should know about?" Kurama asked, even though he was fairly sure it couldn't be that bad, but sadly he was wrong....

"Son, Mana.... s- she...." He didn't get to finish his sentence as he broke into his own set of tears and sobs.

"Mana? What's wrong? Did something happen to her?" His pulse was quickening more and more by the second.

"Y- yes, son- n.... she.... w- w- was m- mu- murdered j- just an hour ag- g- go" He said in between his great sobs.

"No, no, no, no, no, no, no.... I- I do not believe you! She is alive I know it! She probably is.... just.... at soccer practice or.... or at the park or.... or.... or...." Kurama slowed down at the end of his sentence as his father came up to him and pulled him into a tight embrace.

"I am s-sorry son, but she is really.... really d-"

"SHE IS NOT TRULY DEAD UNTIL YOU SAY SHE IS AND SHE IS NOT DEAD!!!! DO YOU HEAR ME?!!!!" Kurama yelled as he grabbed his green jacket and ran out of the front door as quickly as his legs would allow.

The neighbors didn't stare at him this time, before they hadn't realized that he didn't know yet.

He didn't know that his sister was dead.

Kurama ran all the way to the park, he didn't stop until he was at Mana's favorite place to sit and sketch. He remembered that she could just sit here for hours and hours on the weekends and after school sketching the trees and the birds and the....

Tears slowly formed in his eyes as he recalled more and more wonderful memories of his sister.... like the time when he taught her how to ride a bike.... and the time when she fell from the same tree he was sitting at the base of now and he had caught her.... and.... and when she won that art award at school.... and.... and.... and....

It started to rain when his father came to pick him up at the park. There was silence for the whole entire call ride.... or at least Kurama was silent. He spent the whole car ride home staring at the car clock, which, at the time read 12:47 and recalled more and more wonderful moments of him and his sister....

--------Flashback End--------

Kurama was stirred from his thoughts when it started to hail outside. Botan slowly rose up from the guest bed. He noticed that some of his tears had fallen on her face. But, there were also tears of her own, on her face. Botan noticed that Kurama was staring at her face, probably wondering why she was crying.

"I- I didn't know that your sisters death was that hard on you Kurama. I'm, just so sorry that that happened to you"

"How did you know that I was thinking about...."

"You were speaking your thoughts"

"Oh.... It was very hard on me, yes, um.... thank you Botan, for caring"

"No problem" She smiled sweetly at him.

They both slowly leaned towards each other, their lips were only inches apart when....

CRASH

A loud crash of thunder, and a bright flash of lightening brought both of them back to reality.

"Well it looks like.... your going to have to spend the night Botan, I mean with the storm and all...." Kurama said nervously. 'It sounds dirty. She probably thinks that I am a pervert or something' Botan replied with a nod of her head and a blush of her face.

(A/N- There it is. Well, the next chapter will be up soon. Have a nice day. Bye..)