Minna-san, ogenki-desu ka? (How's everyone doin?) Sorry for the delay. I'm suppose to complete chappie 3 ASAP; but somehow something stuck my brain from functioning. Gomen chai…

Mou, I've got to thank the following reviewers for their wonderful support as well and reviews and they are:

Botan and Kurama Lover - Thanks, I hope that you'll still carry on supporting me. I'll try me best not to give up and finish it till de end! Zettai iya.shindemo..iya

PassionateAngel - I'm glad to hear that you understand me story, coz it's my shortcoming after all and thanks for you support and wonderful compliments!

Em.this doesn't sounds like me.Omigosh, I'm goin crazy again.Wha.hahhahaha.

Phew let's get back to our story then...but before that..

Standard Disclaimer applied as. I don't own YYH characters, they all belong to Togashi-senpai, still very stingy not letting me have em, I only ask for two of his characters.!

Recap of Chapter 2:

"Thanks and we'll take care of ourselves during the assignment" Kurama assured him.

With that they left Genkai's Temple and headed to the place where their target stays.

Story Title: Kimochi (Feelings)

Chapter 3 - Absolutely Lovely

Kurama and Botan walked out from Genkai's temple. Although the weather is rather sunny, tons of snow could be found piling up the entire passage. Many people began clearing up the snow in front of their doorways as well as their surroundings.

They vigilantly walked down from the temple's staircase. Kurama guarded Botan as he wanted to assure that she would not slip her steps and topple down the stairs although he hate to admit that she could be a little clumsy sometimes.

He studied her every action and it seems quite amusing. He wondered how could she carried herself like that; making several wobbly moments and still maintaining great balancing, not slipping down the stairs. Maybe he's being too over-sensitive.

"Kurama-kun, come on; it's safe here.." Before she could say another word, she fortuitously slipped off her feet. Fortunately Kurama was fast enough to get hold of her but this time both of them rolled all the way down the stair.

"Ouch…" she stroked her bottom to ease the pain caused by the fall.

"Botan-san, are…you alright?" Kurama asked faintly.

"Kurama-kun, I'm fine, I can manage…uha…" she ended with a yelp when she realized that she was on top of Kurama.

"That's great" he chuckled upon hearing her assurance; but what amuse him most was her timid response.

She then quickly got off from Kurama.

"Ah…Ku…Kurama-kun, are you alright! Oh my, I've shouldn't have been fooling around, should have been more careful. Are you alright? Are you hurt? Did I hurt you, oh, I'm so sorry, I, I…" she paused when Kurama pressed a finger against her lip to stop her from babbling.

"I'm fine" he ensured and smiles gaily at her.

"I'm sorry…" she lowered her head and showed him a rather apologetic look.

"Like I said earlier, I'm fine…so please don't show me this kind of expression, you looks better when you're smiling" his hand moved over and gently caress her pinkish cheeks "Ne…"

"Kurama-kun…" she nodded

He steadily regained his posture and help Botan to regain hers as well. They dusted off the snow from their winter coat.

Botan's face was still very red. She could feel her cheek burning. She still couldn't get over the embarrassment she had caused earlier. That was the second time that Kurama had saved her.

"Come on, let's go…" he gestured and Botan gave another silent nod.

Kurama was taking the lead while Botan follows from behind. Botan could not even lift up head and look at Kurama directly and not even talking to him properly.

'What am I suppose to do? He must have thought that I'm such a clumsy freak' she thought inwardly with a frown.

They passed by few streets, many people are still clearing their own paths. Some people laid eyes on them.

They could hear some by-passer complimenting them. Then two guys out of somewhere and approached them.

"Hi, ladies, why wandering around the streets, care to have some hot chocolates with us?" with that, Guy X walked closer to Kurama.

"You look hot" Guy X complimented on Kurama. Botan sweat-drop when the guy complimented Kurama with the words 'hot'. As a matter of fact; Kurama looks furiously heating up.

He throws dead glare at Guy X. Guy X was frozen by his glare.

"My, she's mean!" Guy Y commented as he saw Kurama's terrible glares.

"Get Out…" those words were so harsh that it seems like piercing into their skins. Without further argumentation, Guy X and Y gave access to Kurama and Botan.

Kurama then furiously storm across the street while Botan followed him. She felt a terrible vibes that comes from red head. At any moment; he'll lose his usual composure.

"Ano…Kurama-kun, are you alright?" she asked. She knew that he's not about what happened just now.

"Huh, er..em…" Botan had never seen Kurama that downhearted before. Right now, he can't even speak properly. Her eyes widen when she realized that Kurama is attempting to take off his winter coat.

"What! What are you doing, Kurama-kun! Stop it! You'll definitely catch cold without this coat" she exclaimed.

"I felt humiliated by those two fools!" he retaliated.

"Eh! Didn't they just compliment you? Aren't you happy about that?"

"As a guy, being compliment by people as beautiful is very embarrassing; the worst thing is that I'm being mistaken as a woman. With this thick winter jacket, they don't even see that I'm flat!"

Botan face turns into tomatoes.

"Ano..ano sa, I don't think so" she shrugged.

"I'm not happy" Kurama grumbled.

"Iie..sonna, I think it great, isn't it" Botan continued to convince her friend from taking off the jacket.

"I'd felt the same way too and I also believe that you're very beautiful, eto..I mean, being praised and admired by people is a good thing, mou...I would definitely be very happy if someone told me that I'm beautiful, hah it's a gift to be beautiful, I loved beautiful things, eto--; I don't know what I'm saying now…" she sighed.

With those words, Kurama calmed down. He silently stood there. Botan worried even more.

"Kurama, I'm sorry; did I say something that hurt your feelings?"

"Not at all" He kept his emerald eyes on hers for quite sometimes before continuing what he had to say "I was a little upset that you were there when the two fools teased me, but after hearing your word, I feel better and also, Botan-san, would you do me a favor?"

"En…what is it?" Botan asked curiously.

"Could you help me to free the zip, it got stuck with my shirt, I'm feeling a little cold, but I couldn't manage to zip it up!"

"No problem! Botan-chan to the rescue!" she said gaily and then help Kurama to hold the jammed part so he could pull his zip up.

"Botan-san is a very kind person" he then complimented as she stoop in front of him; to help him with the zip.

"Really? I'm happy!" she chuckled. "It odd to hear people praising me"

"And…Botan-san, you're pretty, with that lovely face"

"Na?" this time Botan was the one who got jammed. She didn't realize their closeness.

Once again he caresses her cheek for the second time. She could felt the warmth of his hand that penetrates through his glove.

"Lovely, absolutely lovely" he whispered.

He moved closer, he wanted to be as close as possible so he could felt the warm of her breathe against his face; and her lips against his. That also reminds him of the incident where they were so close, she was unhappy because she was hurt by Koenma's criticism.

'What am I doing? I'm not supposed to do this, I'm only here to help out to complete this assignment' he thought deeply.

Kurama then moves his hand towards Botan's forehead. "This morning I wanted to ask you, but I forgot; you don't seem well, you seem to have slight fever…" he then moves away from her.

"Botan-san, let's keep going now" he said coldly this time.

Kurama's sudden cold shoulder makes Botan feels a little distress. A while ago; he had been totally different person. 'What's wrong with him?' she pondered. She felt as if she no longer could understand him anymore. Nevertheless, she wasn't supposed to think of such trivial matter. They still have an assignment to be carried out.

TBC…

Re-edited: After reading what I've written in the past; I'm mortified by my own work. I'm glad that I'd finally get sometimes to re-edit my past shortcomings.

Dewa minna-san; gokigenyo

mi-chan yori