Thank for all the reviews, well school started, so I won't be able to update as often.
A lone figure, sat on an old, rusty, throne, in the castle where the tantei were, hours before. Two fingers on his forehead, his eyes closed, his foot tapping rapidly. Obviously agitated, his foot tapped harder and faster. "These two days are going slower than expected. Be patient, you will get your chance..." The figure whispered to himself in the damp, dark, and bloody castle, laughing maniacally.
Botan awoke to voices, and shaking. "WHAT?!" She screamed as she shot up from her bed. As she shot up, she noticed a smirking Hiei on top of her. She blushed and knocked him off of her, pulled the blankets up to her chin and screamed, "Why were you on my bed?!" Hiei glared and shot back, "Waking you up on-, uh fool!!" Kurama smiled and offered a hand to Botan and began, "You get to meet the girls today Sora. Come now, we are expected to meet them at the dock in ten minutes, so get ready."
Botan wore regular human clothes today, a wrinkled baggy black shirt, dark blue baggy pants, and a cute trucker hat (I think that's what it's called.) When they reached the dock, the boat had arrived. The girls, Shizuru, Keiko, and Yukina, came running off the boat and to the boys. Kuwabara and Yusuke, opened their arms, waiting for Keiko and Yukina to run to them, only to feel a gust of wind in their faces. Yusuke and Kuwabara, slowly turned their heads, to see the girl, fawning over Sora.
"Hi, I'm Keiko Ukimura!" Keiko said excitedly.
"Shizuru Kuwabara." Shizuru said in a seductive voice, making Kuwabara cringe.
"Hello, I'm Yukina." Yukina said as timidly as possible, giving Botan a wink a moment later, making Botan laugh a little. "Nice to meet you all. Sora Mizumoto at your service." Botan said, bowing as she did.
Shizuru looked at her, and said, "You're a cutie, Sunshine." Botan blushed and replied, "Y-yea?" Kuwabara jumped in front of his sister and screamed, "HEY SIS, YOU NEVER CALLED ME SUNSHINE!!!" Shizuru looked at him, then back to Botan, "One, you're my brother, I would NEVER EVER call YOU Sunshine, and two, you were never as cute as he is." Kuwabara glared and walked away, Yusuke, was roaring, while Kurama chuckled slightly, and Hiei, was just smirking. 'Well, Onna, according to their reactions, you make an attractive male and female....oh, god, I'm just going to stop thinking.'
During their walk to the hotel, all the girl did was flirt, and fawn, over Botan. All of a sudden, Keiko looked left and right and asked, "Hey, where's Botan?" Yusuke glanced back and said, "She came here yesterday, oh, oops, we were suppose to check on her." Kurama looked at Yusuke and said, "She never gave us her room number, we should check in at the front counter." Everyone agreed, EXCEPT, the person they were trying to find, Botan. 'Oh no, I didn't check into the hotel as Botan. Oh man, someone is bound to find out, it looks like this is the end.'
All eight of them approached the front desk as the man sitting behind it said, "Hello, how may I help you?" Kurama stepped forward and answered, "Yes, we would like to know which room a friend of ours is staying in." The man shook is head and said, "I'm afraid I can't do that, against our policy." Kurama was about to say something to the man before Yukina said, "Oh, that's right, uh, Botan-chan, told me, that she had a lot of work to do, and that she had to check in and out of the hotel, so she wouldn't waste any money."
The gang believed Yukina, and continued to the rooms the girls were given. Botan looked gratefully at Yukina, and Yukina gave her warm smile. Hiei watched the display in front of him and thought, 'So, she had Yukina in on this scam as well...if Yukina is hurt, because of her, I will tell her little secret to the others, ruining her plans, BEFORE she dies...again...' Hiei thought, the 'again' a little sympathetically. 'Would I really kill her? I doubted it, being killed by her brother was painful enough, but to be killed by a teammate...a friend....shit....I HAVE gone soft...damn fox, detective, oaf...onna.'
The girls were on the floor above them, and just as they were going up the stairs to the left, Botan turned right, to her bedroom. "Where are you going Sunshine?" Shizuru asked. "Uh, to...get something. I'll be up later." Shizuru nodded as Botan entered her room.
Botan changed from Sora, and back to herself, unaware, of a certain ruby-eyed someone, watching her from outside the room, reading her mind as well. 'I hate lying...' Botan thought to herself as her eyes watered. 'What...what if I don't make it..? I wasn't expecting to avenge my own death in this tournament, I.....I wanted to prove to myself, that I was worth something, but, I can't even do that, I'm fighting as Sora, not Botan. I'm proving SORA, is worth something, not Botan....' Botan thought to herself, as she fought tears back.
Hiei sat watching, reading her thoughts as he did. 'I do pity her, being murdered by her brother, but I do not understand, why, she of all people thinks of herself as nothing. Must she die, a second time, to find out? Hn, fool.' Botan lied down, feeling herself fall asleep. Hiei watched, the same, emotionless expression on. "Hn, it's getting late, I must as well, sleep, for the tournament begins tomorrow, as does the fun. We will find out, soon enough onna, if you are worthy enough, to live through this tournament." Hiei said to himself, disappearing into the darkness.
------Next day------
Botan woke up on the floor, but unusually, somewhat underneath the bed . She looked down and yelped, she looked left and right, noticing she was wearing her pink kimono. The room looked as it did the other night. 'Maybe Hiei didn't sleep inside the room last night...' Botan hopedShe opened up the closet, and took out the black and red Chinese fighting outfit, the one identical to the white and blue one, except for demon wings imprinted on the back. She exited the room, and saw Kurama, wearing something similar to her outfit, only it was a plain, white and yellow one. Yusuke, wore black, sweat pant like bottoms, and a green tanktop. Kuwabara wore bandages across his lower abdomen, a white cape, and white pants. Hiei, entered from the staircase, wearing a black tanktop, and black bottoms, he coldly stared and said, "Must I wait any longer?"
Kurama sighed, put his hands on his hips and began, "Hiei, where were you last night, same goes for you Sora, I came in and noone was there." Botan sighed in relief that Hiei didn't sleep in the room and then looked at Kurama, and remembered she woke up on the floor. "But, I was in the room all night Kurama, I woke up on the floor, so I guess I must have rolled off in my sleep, which is pretty unusual for me." Botan said sheepishly. "Hn, it is none of YOUR business where I spend my night, fox." Hiei barked. "Hiei..." Kurama said in a warning tone. Hiei looked the other way, and Kurama turned to Botan and began, "Just try not to fall off the bed anymore, ok Sora?" Kurama smiled toward her, and Botan nodded.
"Yea, if you fall off the bed again Sora, your mother here might have a heart attack." Yusuke snickered to Botan. Kurama looked at Yusuke and said in a womanly voice, "No dessert for you young man!" Kurama, Kuwabara, Botan, and Yusuke laughed, as they followed a cranky Hiei down the stairs and out the hotel door.
When they reached the arena, demons upon demons upon demons were cheering at the first battle going on. The team consisted of all lower class demons, who Botan obviously didn't need to worry about, they wouldn't make to fight Team Urameshi. (spelling?) There were so many demons it was a miracle the girls even found the guys. Keiko grabbed Yusuke's arm, obviously a little frightened by all the demons, while Yukina walked a little bit closer to Kuwabara. Botan's sight was blocked from the happy couples with Shizuru's grinning face. "How ya' feeling today Sunshine?"
Botan felt a bit nervous, Shizuru got a little flirty with her, hopefully, she didn't like Sora that much, or she would bi in for a rude awakening, when after the tournament, Sora disappears. "I'm g-good. How b-bout y...you?" Botan stuttered. Shizuru lowered her lids as she whispered, "I'm feeling great." Botan shuddered as she felt her breath on her ear. "That's good." Botan said underneath her breath. Shizuru giggled, seductively, obviously flirting. Botan and Shizuru turned their heads at a noise they heard from in front of them. It came from Kuwabara, who was trying to hold in his vomit, by gaging. Shizuru growled, and chucked a rock at his head, and walked over to the side, far from Kuwabara.
Botan sighed as she took her seat on a bench. The order they sat in was, Shizuru at the edge, Yusuke, Keiko, Kurama, Botan (Sora), Yukina, and Kuwabara. Botan looked to the big screen, to see which team was next. Her expression turned from bored, to pure fear, and pain. The name of the team, that was next, was Team Kanazaka , the last name, she and her brother shared, in her life. Hiei's eyes slowly turned from the screen, to Botan. He stared at her from the corner of his eyes, as he watched her struggle to look away from the screen, but keep on staring.
He watched as he saw the team members. The announcer, a female demon, different from Juri and Koto, was in the arena, introducing the team. "Hiroshi Toriyama!" The announcer exclaimed into the microphone, as she pointed to a boy in his late teens, his short black hair, spiked somewhat, his bangs, covering the lids of his dark blue eyes. He had a grin on his face, as he stepped back, which made half of the (demon) girls, faint. "Sho Motohashi!" Another boy, who looked a bit older than the one who was introduced before, stepped forward.
Sho, had short, stringy, silver locks, and blood red eyes. He stood next to the announcer, a peaceful look on his face as he stepped back into the line. "Hikaru Yokota!" This time, a boy, younger than the first two, with an emotionless look on his face, stepped up. His dark blue, almost purple hair, and light pink eyes, made the girl drool. His hair, about the length of Botan's hair as it was now, swayed, and shaped his face as he stared off into space, while the girls pointed out the beauty mark, underneath his left eye.
(Hajime is supposed to look like Nuriko from Fushigi Yugi, but I don't own that either, so I just described the character, cause he's so cute. )
"Touya.....uh...Touya!!" Everyone on the bench the spirit detectives were on froze. If Team Kanazaka advanced to go against them, they'd have to go against Touya again, which they certainly did not.. He stepped up and quickly glanced at Yusuke and the rest of them. He kept a plain look on his face as he stepped up, and then back. "And last but not least....the team leader....Hayate Kanazaka!!" He seemed to be the youngest on the team, yet the most popular. Literally every female stood up and screamed, he could practically have any woman he wanted. He kept a smug look on his face as he looked into the crowd and at his female fans. He winked, which on the big screen, made it look like he winked at everyone, which made most of them faint.
"It's that boy, from the castle." Kurama said hatefully. Yusuke scowled, as Kuwabara growled. "Let's just hope he makes it to go up against us, and we'll teach him a thing or two." Kuwabara spat. Yusuke and Kurama nodded, and watched as Hayate walked back to his team. Team Kanazaka, was up against a lower demon class team.
The match was over like that, the other team lost, in the first 15 minutes, Team Kanazaka was good, probably as good as Team Urameshi.
Hiroshi, was a psychic, and could predict his opponents next move, not to mention, he had a fan that had wind powers. Sho, was fast, and could control water. Hikaru, was part human, and demon, like Yusuke, and fought on the streets like Yusuke, but, his demon power, was fire, not to mention, his sword, which had powers, everyone was unaware of, but him. Touya's were obviously ice, but he had improved since the Dark Tournament. Hayate's powers were varied. Fire here, ice there, he had it all. Botan thought, if she would win this time, if she and Hayate, got to duel again. She shivered, which caught the eye of the ruby-eyed demon next to her. 'So the onna is scared, huh? Typical, foolish woman. We will see in time, if you are good enough onna, don't you worry.' Hiei left his thought as he went back to the next match, and thought deeply, if Botan would really make it through the tournament. Alive.
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