Yo! What's up my readers? I hope you are enjoying my fanfic. - It makes me so happy to know that so many of you like my writing. Well summer's out and so is my marriage. We weren't even graded on that project!! I did all than work for nothing! Err…anyway, I'll try to update faster. I've written up to chapter 10 in my notebook. Things are finally heating up. We're getting somewhere now. So enjoy mina!

Disclaimer: I don't own Yu Yu hakusho.

Chapter 8

Enter Mirror World!

"B-Botan!" stuttered Kurama, barely able to speak the words because of the fear in his heart. 'Why is she screaming?' he thought to himself. 'Unless…'

"No!" he said out loud, ignoring the shouts of the people in line behind him telling him it's his turn and to move forward. He hurried out of line and dashed over to the other side of the ice covered lake yelling, "Botan! Botan!"

As he got closer he saw the young girl screaming her head off in pain. Something about the scene seemed strange to Kurama though. Here was this hysterical girl and not one person was taking any notice. They just continued to skate, oblivious to the racket.

Kurama looked around as he cautiously made his way nearer to Botan. The sky above seemed to swirl and there was no noise at all, as if someone had suddenly pushed the mute button on the television. It was complete and utter silence; Botan's screams were the only heard noises. Not even the shaving sound of the skates' blades against the ice floor as people skated to and fro was heard. One woman skated past Kurama as he made his way to Botan, a big smile on her face, she also seemed not to notice Botan's screams.

At first nothing seemed odd about this woman, except her unnerving silence and her obliviousness of Botan. But the brand name that was labeled on her sweater soon caught his eye. On it was the brand name 'Roxy' but it was written backwards, mirror like.

Kurama stood still for a moment thinking this over but a scream from Botan quickly broke his train of thought. He swiftly dashed nearer but stopped abruptly when he saw that the ice surrounding Botan had melted away into a pool of blood. The bottom portion of her body was submerged in the pool while the top half struggled to stay a float. She grabbed the ice wall that was around her trying desperately to get a good hold. She clawed at the ice chunks, screaming.

Kurama rushed over to her. "Don't worry Botan," he said though he sounded quite worried himself. "I-I'll get you out." he grabbed both her arms, got a tight grip and pulled.

The girl moved up a bit but stopped with a jerk, letting out a cry of pain. Fresh blood bubbled to the surface of the already red puddle. Kurama tried again, but just received the same results.

"No! Stop!" Botan cried, tears trickling down her cheeks. "It has my foot!"

"What has your foot?" he asked worried.

"Her…" was all Botan said before she collapsed from the blood lost into Kurama's arms and the pool of blood.

"Her? What do you mean?" he asked her, only to receive no answer. "Botan! Botan!" he yelled and shook her limp body. "…she's past out."

'Who's her?' he asked himself. For a moment he thought. "No!" he shouted suddenly as the answer came to him. Bloody Mary.

"Could Bloody Mary really have reappeared?!" he said out loud.

"Why don't you say that name again?" said a feminine voice from below. "Or better yet two more times."

Botan's body rose from where it lay. A wicked grin was on the girl's face. "Why don't you, Kurama?"

"What? Botan why are you saying this?" Kurama asked a bit of fear in his voice.

She laughed an evil laugh. "Botan no longer wills this body."

Kurama backed away. "If your not Botan than who are you?"

Once again she laughed. I go by many names…but I think you know me best as Bloody Mary." Fear shot up Kurama's spine and his eyes widened.

Suddenly large objects shot out of the ground around them. The objects were crystal-like and reflected Kurama's and Botan's on them. Kurama stared around, bewildered at the objects. "Welcome to Mirror World, Kurama."

To be continued…….

There! None! I hoped you liked that chapter. I'll update soon. -