Hoi, hoi, minna, Kreuz4eva a.k.a mi-chan. Minna-san, ogenki desu ka? Wow, see so many k+b fanfics flyin here and there oledi, I'm so envious. Gomen ne, I was not able to finish the fics that I wrote previously. But I'll try me best to accomplish it, but right now; please read me new fics, it's call..

Standard Disclaimer: I don't own YYH, Togashi-sensei has all the credits.

Pairings: Kurama x Botan

Warning: KB centrics. Please do not continue if you're not a KB fans! Readers had been warned, buahahaha…

Title: Kimochi (Feelings)

Chapter 1 - New Assignments

"What!" Botan cried. "But..but…Koenma-sama! How could you arrange such an assignment to me, knowing that I wouldn't like to take it!"

"AaaStop crying out loud for shinigami's sake! Now that Ayame is on leave and Hinageshi is still following up on other important assignment, it only left you alone to take up this assignment…" the Reikai Prince sighed whilst laying a lazy gaze at his blue haired ferry girl who's still protesting that she'll she would not accept such assignment.

"All you have to do is to help me to gather information on this man, who's going to die very soon. We will then file a judgment on where he should be after dead. I personally don't think that this is neither a tough nor a risky job" he explained.

"NOT RISKY, what do you mean not R.I.S.K.Y! Don't you know who is he? The leader of the most atrocious gang in Tokyo! And god! You assigned me to investigate on him, gather information on him, and stay near him! Do you want my soul to fizzle out? AhI know, I know, from the very beginning, you've already dislike me, so...so you try to find a way to get rid of me" she sobbed when she imagined some distorted ways she might use in order to get near the target. Most of her imaginations include seduction and self betrayal. Worst come to worst, she might need to sacrifice herself in order to collect information.

"Okay, I know that you would protest and so I've asked someone a favor to take this assignment with you" he said nonchalantly while resting his back on his armrest chair.

"Who?" she asked intriguingly while concerning she'll be in big trouble if her boss were to ask George to go with her knowing well that this would only cause her more trouble. 'Who could be the unfortunate one?'

"Good day, Koenma-sama, you're looking for me?" a familiar voice drew everyone's attentions to glimpse towards the entrance of Koenma's office.

The red haired good looking man walked forward and stand beside Botan. He then greeted her, Botan returned with a bow. She couldn't believe to see Kurama here.

"Botan, I've asked Kurama to carry out this assignment with you coz I know that you don't even know how to write a proper report.

Botan suddenly felt a huge "Stupid" sculptured in kanji dropped down from seventh level of heaven striking directly towards her head.

"What do you mean by that? I'm not a fool who doesn't know anything. Fine I'll do it alone!" she then angrily stomps out of the office.

"See, I told you, she's too uncomplicated. I'm having so much fun when it comes to teasing her" Koenma stated faintly while laughing hysterically.

"Shall I go after her, she might be on her way to Ningenkai right now!" he asked tentatively.

Koenma still couldn't control his laughter not even realizing that Kurama had already left his office.

He looked around the Reikai Palace and couldn't see Botan. He then walks towards the window and look out from the top of the palace's viewing tower just to find her. Finally he found her sitting at the side of a nearby the cliff.

He then rushed to the place where she sat. He stopped by a few distance from her just to recuperate his breath due to the fatigue after rushing down from the palace tower.

Mellow wind blew towards her, causing the two soft tendrils caressing her clean pinkish face. The expression of her eyes looks cheerless, compared to those she used to have.

Perhaps she was hurt by those words from Koenma. Maybe the rumors of Botan's liking Koenma is true. Otherwise she wouldn't be so sad now.

"Kurama-kun? What are you doing here?" she exclaimed with initial shock; she didn't expect him to come out so suddenly.

"You've noticed me?" he asked surprisingly without noticing that he had unconsciously walked came forth and stood in front of her.

"Coz you are not invisible, so I can see you. Unless you've learnt some black magic that could turn you transparent" she replied jokingly.

"Right…and what are you doing sitting near the cliff, it's dangerous, what if something happened, like plunging into it!" he asked hesitantly.

She then looked at him sadly and then slowly turned her focus towards the bottom of the cliff.

"I must apologize to you of what happened just now. I shouldn't storm out the office like that. It's just that I couldn't control my anger. I should face the facts that he always enjoys teasing me, making me mad…but; partly; it also that fool's fault that I got so mad. He never understands my feeling at all. I'm not a clown to be fool by his foolish jokes. I do have pride in some other ways. I do like to be praised by him whenever I've done the right things, but this never happened" trickle of tears rolled down her cheek.

"That's why…I have to become strong, I cannot let him see my weakness in me, otherwise he'll bullied and laugh at me for being so immature and he might send me back to the Shinigami's Academy" she then quickly dried up the tears and stand up.

"Shinigami's Acdemy?" Kurama pondered inaudibly.

As she was about to make a step forward, some rocks fell off from the cliff causing losing her body balance. Just as she thought that she would definitely plunge into the hollow cliff, she felt that there's a warm hand holding hers, and pulling her towards the surface, securing her waist to avoid her from falling down.

"Daijyobu ka?" she heard Kurama asking her with concern, while she could feel that her head was resting on his warm chest, while his hands were still securing her slim waist.

"Yes…" she looked embarrassingly at him "Thank you…"

"Great…" he smiled tenderly at her. He then gently let loose of both of his hands from Botan's waist.

He could sense that Botan acted uneasily of being embraced by him.

"I'm sorry…I guess that's the only way to save you from falling into the cliff, I can't use my rose whip, those thorns would perhaps hurt you delicate skin" he commented.

"Oh no…I was supposed to thank you instead, if not that you've saved me, I'll end up falling into the other world or Reikai!"

"Other world?" Kurama blinked curiously at first but soon it was replaced with one of his trademark smile "As long as you're unharm right now" he continued.

Both of them look at each other benevolently. Although they would have not noticed that they have eventually laid a deep ardent gazes on each others eyes but part of their hearts are still reluctant to admit the fact that there's a certain feelings at the moment the hugged each other. Charms and perplexing thoughts came to them. They broke free from each other's gaze.

Kurama directed towards the enormous palace's gate, and gestured Botan to follow him which she enthusiastically did so.

While Botan was following him from behind, she could sense the unfamiliar and yet comfortable vibes surrounding them. She tried to convince herself that she's only being over sensitive.

On the other hand, Kurama is trying hard to settle his intricate feelings towards Botan. He knew those are the feelings of fondness; however, knowing that he couldn't be with her for her heart belongs to Koenma, he immediately chafed it away. He also cursed himself for taking advantage on her when she was vulnerable.

"I suggest we should be going Ningenkai now, so that we could arrange your stay at Genkai's place once we reach there. Moreover we have to tell Yusuke and others about our new assignment so that they would not get overwhelm when seeing us together" he commended.

"Hai, please do" she bowed at Kurama, to thank him for being so considerate. With that, they walked back into the palace and get ready for their trip to Ningenkai.

TBC…

Re-edited on 21/3/06. Haha, that's me. Though I've always owe many people an apologies for not updating the story. Gomenasaiminna-san!

mi-chan yori