"Uh oh, did I just slap Hiei?" Botan thought to herself, "that's scary, but I can't believe I wanted to kiss him!"

Hiei stopped crying when he felt the ferry girl's hand sting his face. Botan had succeeded in slapping him out of his grief. The flame koorime started to reach for the Bluettes hand, and then thought better of it.

"After all she could end up like Paulita did, It's best not to get to close." Hiei thought out loud.
"I don't know about that," Botan was fiddling with ther hair ribbon again. "It was hard enough to let go of Lily when I had loved her and knew her well. I don't think that I would have been willing to go home last time if I hadn't done all I could for her when we were alive." She paused to breathe before continuing, "Now in your case, we all know how well you protect Yukina. You have nothing to be guilty about there."
Hiei considered what Botan had just told him as he helped her tie her ribbon back in. He didn't think that he was good enough to his twin, but couldn't help being relieved that Botan hadn't realized that he had been talking about her.

"Thanks" she said surprised by how gentle Hiei's touch was.

"hn"

Hiei's icy mask had slipped back on. Botan recognized it immediatly, and asked him not to hide his feelings so much.

Well, to be honest she didin't exactly ask.
"HIEI, DONT HIDE YOUR FEELINGS SO MUCH!! IT IS NOT GOOD FOR YOU."

Hiei acted as if he hadn't heard, but he knew she was right. If The flame Koorime didn;t know better than to insult a mad Botan he would have retorted, "Yeah, from seeing what it did to you," Even thinking such a thought made Hiei feel guilty, so he lied to himself and thought, "But I don't hide my feelings, I destroy them."

He was still clinging ot his mask. Botan gave a heavy sigh, She had been enjoying Hiei's (unmasked) company, even if He was distraught over Paulita's death. "I think I will see if she got to the spirit world allright once we complete this misison." she said to herself.

Botan didn't mean to mask herself but when she heard Kuwabara saying that he sensed Hiei, Botan's cheery one slipped on.
Kazuma and the other humans turned towards the flame koorime and the ferry girl. Kurama was the first to speak. "What exactly are we looking for?"

"It's called the pendant of pleasantries, "If you look at it for any amount of time it makes the most unpleasant things seem to be nice."

"So, if we can't see it how do we know what we are looking for?"

"I don't know." Botan had put on her kitty ears, and the sunny dispostion that she had been stereotyped too.

"It's hidden around here" Kurama told the others, "or that's what the plants say"

"Well," Kazuma remarked while digging up the remains of Paulita's garden,"We have to find it." "I hate it when you're right." Hiei grumbled but his mask of ice hid the pain he felt at digging through his first friends home.