Love In December...
HI!!! Guess what?! There's gonna be lots of fluff in this here chapter!! Well I hope there is...at least I tried to put in fluff...Oh well! Oh and I'm glad you guys liked the last chapter! I feel so honored...(wipes away tear) Oh TuathaFaerie, I feel so bad for you, you have to be home all alone during Jeanne...I hope you'll be safe... I also hope you and everyone else will like this chapter too! Anyway please move on and read!!
P.S.
I do not own Yu Yu Hakusho...my life...sucks. LoL
Chapter seven: Squirrels and Cloud Nine?
Botan snuggled into Hiei's warm body, hiding her face within his long black duster. She couldn't believe it!
Here she was in the arms of the man...er...Demon that she'd pined for, for over at least several months.
It made her head swim with dizziness.... She blushed feeling him tighten his hold around her small frame. He was jumping from tree to tree.
Botan was protected from the wind by having his...well what used to be his cloak, around her upper half. "Hiei...? Where are we going?" She inquired softly.
He shifted her around a bit then answered. "To your apartment." She blushed again. So many things had happened there. So many memories she'd cherish all her life.
For now she thought...for now she'd just enjoy and indulge herself with being in his arms, his intoxicating scent crowded her senses.
"Hiei...?" She began quietly, "Hn?" Botan hid her face in deeper and blushed a brilliant scarlet.
"You smell...like...spices and cinnamon...I...you-you really smell good. I...like it,...the way you smell...and um...uh..."
Hiei stopped moving completely and looked down; she was hiding within his trench coat fiercely.
He frowned, slipping his fingers under her chin gently lifting her head. Their eyes locked and her breath became a rapid pant.
Hiei tried. Tried so hard, but the attempt was fruitless. He blushed. Absentmindedly brushing his fingers over her cheeks, until his thumb lightly rested against her full; and ripe lips.
Slowly. Ever so slowly. They inched closer. Eye-lids drooping, their breath mingling as their lips barely skimmed one another.
Then...
"Hey! Big brother? Look at those birds!!" Cried a squealing child like voice, immediately the Fire Demon fell backwards...falling off the tree branch and plummeting towards the hard snow covered earth.
He however had very fast reflexes and twisted to reach out his left leg and pushed down hard. In return he was sprinting into the air, going faster and faster from tree to tree.
Botan in the mean time had hidden herself with in his duster once again. She couldn't believe it! They were...it...it almost happened again! They had almost kissed again.
Her heart was beating at a thunderous pace. Bump-bump.... Bump-bump. Her cheeks were particularly glowing.
To most it might have seemed like no big deal, but...it was different somehow...
Hiei was just beyond himself. He couldn't seem to slow down as his body thrummed with taut and zinging adrenaline.
He had to move! He couldn't stop moving! He pushed himself beyond normal. Everything around them was nothing but a blur.
His cheeks if you could even see them were a radiant hue of scarlet. He tried to frown and tried to be pissed.
But...he just couldn't bring himself to be that way. The fact that he'd almost kissed her again made shivers of delight and anticipation run through him.
He felt...what was it that humans would call such an emotion? Being on cloud nine...? Like he was weightless in the sky; yet drowning in the pools that were pastel...the pools that were her soul, her life, her heart, her eyes...
Botan...
When would he?
When would he wrap up enough courage to utter her true name? Was he truly that much of a coward?
So many questions ran through his mind he could hardly grasp one long enough to contemplate it.
"Come on Keiko why do I have to be up this early?" Whined a very irritated and grumpy, Spirit Detective.
Keiko frowned at her Fiancé disapprovingly. "Yusuke! Quite whining." She huffed grasping his arm and yanking him down the cold and snow covered sidewalk.
The bemused raven headed man growled lightly letting her drag him around the city. When they stepped closer to the park a sudden gust of wind whooshed by.
Causing skirts, hair, and many other objects to fly upward, leaves flew about as well. Keiko blinked large pools of cinnamon curiously, until she felt a light tugging at her arm.
Turning slowly Keiko faced... "Hahaha!!! Yusuke! You-you have...hahahaha!!!" Yes ladies and gentlemen.
Yusuke Urameshi had leaves...wait let me rephrase that. Had huge and lots of leaves stuffed in his mouth.
Brown eyes glared darkly. Suddenly his eyes widened, and he tried to scream but the leaves muffled any noise which protruded forth from his mouth.
Keiko tilted her head in wonder. "What's the matter Yusuke?" He had pinpricks of tears streaming down his cheeks.
Then she noticed that a large movement set off in his closed mouth. Yusuke looked sick, and nauseous.
He then had the look of choking, immediately Keiko ran forward and smacked him hard on the back. "Yusuke here! Open your mouth!"
With one swift and fluid motion she slammed her fist as hard as she could against his back. When a large ball of brown fur; flew to the ground.
People eyed the scene with minor disgust and amusement. "Yusuke! You had a squirrel in your mouth." The little ball of brown fur unfurled itself and lifted its head, tail twitching behind.
It eyed Yusuke with a furious glare and made that angry squeaking sound. Yusuke in the mean time clawed at his tongue as if it had...no it really did bite him.
"Keiko...! It bit me!" He cried; Keiko rolled her eyes in annoyance with hidden amusement sparking in her cinnamon orbs.
"I can't believe you! You're always fighting these really tough and scary monsters yet you can't handle a simple bite from a harmless and adorable squirrel?"
Yusuke whimpered turning away as if he'd been struck; he pointed his finger at the squirrel accusingly.
"That-that thing is no normal squirrel! It's working for them...Keiko...never mess with." He stopped looking left then right, and then slowly inched towards his Fiancé, whispering into her ear.
"The squirrels..." Keiko again rolled her eyes and started to walk away arms crossed and folded before her chest.
"Wait Keiko!" When he ran to catch up with her, a muffled "oww!" was heard. "Keiko they're all against me! They are now throwing acorns!!"
Keiko slumped her shoulders, letting a sigh hang on her lips. "Why me...?"
Hiei panted lightly stopping in front of Botan's apartment door. "Hn. Woman open the door."
Botan stifled a yawn and blinked large pools of amethyst tiredly. She blushed. She'd fallen asleep in his arms!!
Slowly shifting about she dropped to the ground landing on her feet, which if Hiei hadn't been there to stable her, she would've fallen right on her butt.
Looking to his hands steadying her shoulders then up to his face... she gasped lightly seeing...
His eyes...
Holding that one emotion...
So precious.
So beautiful.
But had she seen it right?
Shaking her head azure rivulets waving about she stepped back reluctantly and just remembered her sprained ankle and bloody knee causing her body to stumble onto Hiei's strong and firm chest.
How many times had she and him ended up this way...?
He ended up carrying her again while she fished into her jean pockets getting out her keys.
Then...they stepped inside.
Inside that apartment which held so many funny, sad, fluffy, and weird memories.
Okay...that chappy is over... I'll try to get another one up tomorrow...unless the power goes out... Oh and Pocky-and-Fred I read Love Is In The Air and I loved it!! I also wrote you a review as well! And I would like to thank everyone for their endless amounts of support! I also would like to say how funny it is to look at my reviews and see how everyone always says a lot of the same thing...especially after I leave you hanging on a cliffy and stuff! Well I'll probably end up under the table or in my closet during this storm so bare with the wait and I hope that everyone is safe and sound wherever they are! I love all of my reviewers!! Please don't forget to review and hugs and kisses and love to all of ya!
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