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Yuri dropped the girl at the sound of Botan's scream. The thump the body made startled Botan, she nonetheless didn't stop screaming. Botan backed away from the body as she continued to scream until tears stained her hot face. Yuri, who had no idea as to what was wrong with Botan, tried her best to calm the horrified girl. Once she got Botan to calm down a little she had Botan try to explain to her what had her so shaken up. Between sobs, Botan tried her best to speak. "T-that body......the huh, girl, is, huh, me!" (Huh, is basically the sound of Botan taking a deep breathe in.) "Botan we are making you with the girl, she isn't REALLY you." Botan shook her head quickly as she tried to explain better. "No.....no.....huh, it's me. Or, huh, what I used to be." Yuri still didn't understand fully, but did her best to calm Botan down some more.
While Botan sat down by a tree, trying to overcome her sobbing, Yuri was busy trying to figure out how to get the body to her hotel room. After about 5 minutes Yuri knelt next to Botan and began, "Now Botan, I can't carry the body on my own. I need you to calm down until we reach the hotel, ok? There, you can grieve all you want." Yuri finished thoughtfully. Botan wiped her eyes with her wrist and nodded. Botan stood up and helped carry HER body with Yuri.
The rest of the trip was silent. The only noises heard were an occasional sniff or muffled cry from Botan, or the occasional cough from Yuri, due to the smell. When the two reached the edge of the forest, Yuri glanced back at Botan as she put her half of the body on the ground. "How are we going to walk into the hotel with a dead body?" Yuri mumbled. Yuri looked left and right and saw no one outside the hotel. Just as she felt Botan, gently place her half of the body down, Yuri then roughly picked it up again, and hoisted her over her shoulders and ran. Botan figured Yuri used her amazing speed, due to the fact that, one second she was there and the next Yuri and the vessel were gone. Botan carelessly left the forest and walked straight into the hotel, not caring who saw her red eyes.
Botan knew that Yuri's room was the one above hers due the previous night, so she was in no hurry. Up the stairs Botan strolled until she made her way to Yuri's room. She opened the door and saw Yuri stripping the body of the remains of, if they could even be called, clothes it still had on. Once her body was completely naked, Botan immediately noticed scars she once had, including the one scar, that was once the wound that ended her previous life. 'It's been so long..I almost forgot how big the wound was.'
Botan, didn't know Yuri had already started the spell, due to her deep thoughts. "Botan, this is your part." Yuri said, her eyes closed, still concentrating very hard. "Place your hand on the forehead of the vessel, and give it your energy." Botan did as she was told, and watched as she and her old body both glowed pale pink, the color of her energy.
Just as the vessel glowed, all the cuts and bruises on her body disappeared. Her face didn't seem so pale and white. Her cheeks even became redder. Botan watched as the vessel's chest started moving up and down, and only when Yuri signaled her to stop did she let go. Just as Botan's hand left her forehead, the vessel's eyes shot open. But her eyes......were dead. Sure, they had Botan's rosy pink color, but they held no emotion. They didn't hold the mystery and cheerfulness Botan's did. They were.....dull. Glazed over as if she was hypnotized.
The vessel sat up on the bed. She looked at Botan and breathed out heavily, as if questioning her, what is going on. "Hhhhhuhhhhhh....." she breathed again as she looked left and right. Not confused, for she held no curiosity in her eyes, not scared, for they held no fear either. When she gazed at Botan, her eyes didn't even show desire. Desire to be able to think for herself, laugh, cry, shout. Anything. But all she had, was nothing.
"Lemme go, uh, get my robes." Botan said to Yuri, all the while gazing at herself. "No," Yuri began as she stood up and put a hand on Botan's shoulder. "I'll get them." Botan nodded and kept her attention to her vessel, who, seemed very distracted. Botan sat next to herself ( . . , sat next to herself? O.o) and gazed at the face her vessel held. Her eyes, held, once again, no emotion, and her mouth, partly open, as if amused, but not really. Botan then followed her vessel's gaze, and landed, upon a very, unwelcome guest. Hayate.
Hanging upside down from outside the window, Hayate laughed hysterically, and said between laughs, "So, baby sister, how's it feel to be looking at yourself?" Botan just glared in response, hoping Hayate couldn't hear how loud and fast her heart was beating. "Go away Hayate!" Botan warned, hoping Hayate didn't heard her voice tremble a bit as she warned him. Hayate snickered as he jumped down from the spot he was hanging and immediately showed up next to Botan and the vessel. "Well," Hayate started, "I must say, you did a splendid job on disguising yourself, I could barely guess you two were the same person at all." Hayate remarked sarcastically. "You know Hikari I-" Botan than cut Hayate off, "My name is Botan. Hikari doesn't exist.....not anymore..." Botan said sadly, looking the other way. "Alright, BOTAN, but, the last time I checked....Hikari was sitting right next to you." Hayate replied, eyeing the vessel.
"That thing is not Hikari!" Botan shouted in defense. "Hikari is dead! Dead! Dead! DEAD!" Botan shrieked at the top of her lungs, while Hayate paid no attention to her tantrum what so ever. "You know," Hayate said ignoring Botan's outburst, and putting all of his attention toward the vessel, "I don't see why you're blaming your death on me. It was an honest to god accident. I was only fooling around and you took it so seriously." Botan, who was now fuming, got up and shouted, "So I suppose your sword just ACCIDENTALLY jumped into your hand and DECIDED to PLAY SWORDS and ACCIDENTALLY STAB ME THROUGH THE CHEST?!" Hayate laughed lightly as he replied, "Oh Kari (Nickname), Kari, Kari. I guess deep down you really are a child. Let's not bicker about who killed who! I came here for an entirely different purpose. I came here, to tell you and your team to surrender, Hi-chan. (Hi-chan, Kari, and Kari-chan, are all just nicknames Hayate calls Hikari, or Botan if you will.) You don't want to get mixed up in this. I'm warning you, my team is not to be taken lightly, they are all serious fighters, and we intend on winning, whether that be killing all of our opponents, or even teammates, so, backout now...........................and you won't have to die a second time."
Botan listened to the gentle tone Hayate had in his voice. Was he sorry for what he had done to her? Did he actually care? Is the reason why he had all those girls who looked like her, because he missed her so much? Well, Botan wanted to know all the answers, and just as she turned around to get them, Hayate was gone. The only thing in the room moving, was the yellow curtain to the balcony door, swaying ripples along the bottom of the material.
Botan heard the doorknob turn, and the soft click of the door closing. "Hey." Botan said softly, facing the balcony, her back towards Yuri. "Hiya." Yuri replied. "You know," Yuri began, "It was pretty hard getting in there without wakin' your roomie. Oh, and another thing, is his forehead SUPPOSE to be glowin'?" Botan turned around in confusion and blinked at Yuri. "You mean, his jagan? But....what would he be doing with his jagan if he was sleeping...?" Botan asked curiously. "Well, he didn't see me, but that's because I broke in from the bathroom balcony, but I was curious so I peeped my head out and there he was, sleeping, but his forehead glowing, and I thought you could only use a jagan if you were awake."
"Maybe he was awake, but only using it to check up on his sister. Oh well, at least he didn't see you, right?" Yuri nodded while she began to dress the vessel in Botan's pink kimono. "Hey Botan..." Yuri started cautiously, "What do you think about, you know, your roommate?" Botan poked her head out from behind the vessel and blinked as she said, "Hiei?"Yuri nodded, as Botan sat down, putting her finger on her chin as she said, "Well...what do you mean?" Yuri sighed and said, "Well, do you think he's cute, ugly, hot, his personality, you know, do you like him?" Botan managed to hide her blush as she replied, "Well, he is kinda cute, especially when he sleeps, but, from all the times I remember being with Hiei, he was always so mean, and especially to me. He would always go out of his way, just to put me down, and he doesn't even call me by my name. But of COURSE he calls Yukina by HER name." Botan said the last part with a tinge of jealousy, and unknowingly spilling her feelings and thoughts out, exactly to the person she was talking about.
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Hiei, lay motionless on his bed in his hotel room, his eyes closed, almost as if he were asleep. The curtains closed, blocking out, whatever sunlight was left in the late afternoon sky. The only light in the room being the ever color changing glow of the jagan on Hiei's forehead. Hiei couldn't believe what his eye was showing him. Was the onna jealous of Yukina, because he showed more affection toward her than anybody else? Hiei felt strange, his stomach felt as though he was nervous, yet there was nothing to be nervous about. Was it anticipation? Whatever it was, Hiei didn't like it.......or did he?
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"Just tie here and done!" Botan said happily as she tied the obi on the vessel, and stood up. "Ok Botan stand the vessel up." Botan pulled the vessel to her feet, and just as she let go of her hand, the vessel fell over sideways and hit the floor. 'She didn't even blink when she hit the floor...!' Yuri then began her explanation. "Now Botan, the vessel fell over, because you did not tell her to do anything. She will do what you, and only you tell her. That is the good thing about vessels. In her world, you are god. You gave her life, so she gives you herself in return." Botan looked sadly at the ground where the vessel lay. 'But...,' Botan thought, 'what do vessels really think? Do they like being ordered around? Being mindless zombies? What if.....being dead, is better?' "Now," Yuri said, directing Botan, "you two, now have a link. You can speak to her, and tell her what to do telepathically, and she will obey. She can speak Botan, but only when you tell her to. Tell her commands and she will do them. She will speak only when told to speak, and when she speaks to you, her master, she will usually reply either yes or no. now, Botan, tell her to get off of the floor, and stand."
Botan took a breathe in and thought of what to tell the vessel.
Botan: 'S-stand please.'
The vessel's head then quickly jolted up and looked Botan straight in the eye, and replied telepathically, in a voice that sounded much better than Botan's. It was soft, like Yukina's, and calm and carefree like Shizuru's, it sounded so velvety, Botan wished it were her own. 'Yes.' The vessel slowly got up, and stood, not moving at all, still staring at Botan, her mouth open just a bit.
'Smile.' Botan commanded. And just as Botan said the command, the vessel obeyed it. Her eyes became bigger and alive, it was like her face lit up. She actually looked real. Botan couldn't help but smile back at the smiling, confused vessel. She looked to Botan, smiling, and then to Yuri, smiling. "I think," Yuri smirked evilly, "that this plan, is going to work."
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