Star: I guess I can see where the love story is going. It was unanimous.

Hiei: Hn.

Kurama: well?

BL: she's not going to tell you.

Star: Kurama wins! Sorry Hiei, my be next time

Hiei: like I care

BL: see he doesn't care

Star: oh I forgot the disclaimer thing...I don't anything you know I don't

Lost, Pursued and Found

I was still lost in thought and only a few blocks form my new house??? I looked around? Where was I? 'Oh great I'm lost.' I looked left and right for something familiar, anything that would tell me I was going the right way. I soon gave up and leaned back against a streetlight as its blinding yellowish light kissed my skin.

'What good am I?' I thought, beating myself up was all I could do. It was my first day on the job and I was lost. Great.

"Hey girly, you lost?" A ragged voice asked and I could smell the alcohol on his breath. "Come here and let me show you something." He said and stepped into the light. He looked to be about thirty with unkempt and dusty hair. And looked as if he hadn't seen a razor in weeks. He was repulsive and I found myself whishing I didn't have to go this alone.

I tried summoning my trusty metal bat but nothing came, Koenma must have suspended my powers. 'Note to self: kill Koenma.' "Just go away from me." was all I could think to say, but he kept coming.

"Now girly don't be that way." He said and was not at arms length, it was then that I decided to run. But where would I go? 'Who cares, Botan, Run.'

As I was running my legs began to tingle and burn along with my lungs but I knew that if I stopped he would catch me. I looked behind me, heartbeat ringing in my ears and he was gone so I stopped running. "Oh...good." I panted and looked around once more. "And now I'm even more lost than before." I said to myself and sat defeatedly on the curb of the road.

I looked down at the pavement; at least it knew where it was. But there were still loose pebbles, to me it looked as if they wanted to get away from what they were and move on. That's what I wanted, wasn't it? 'Well now that I have it I'm not so sure that this is what I really wanted.' There had to be more. I kicked at the pebbles granting their wishes of freedom and placed my head in my hands.

I was close to tears when a familiar scent filled my nostrils. "Come on girly, you though you could run from me?" oh no, it was that man again. When I stood to run the vulgar man yanked my hair and lifted my head up exposing my neck. He held a short knife to my throat. I was afraid to swallow for fear that I would be cut, but my mouth was fighting me. I swallowed hard and tried to scream but the man used his free hand to cover my mouth and nose with a cloth that was soaked with a liquid.

It smelled of rubbing alcohol and burned every inch of my throat and lungs. I tried my hardest to stay away but the inhuman concoction was lulling me to sleep but just before my world went black I saw four familiar silhouettes behind the man. I knew that I had nothing to worry about as my eyes shut.

---------------Normal POV---------------------

The shadows quietly fought to see who would be the one to punish the dirty old man for his actions. The shortest shadow was too annoyed with such games and went after the drunkard without warning. The man turned to see glowing red eyes of warning. The man smiled and threw Oki Ran to the ground as he heard the click and ring of a katana being drawn.

"So you what this girl for yourself." He said, "Go find your own she's mine."

"Hn. I wonder if you could talk without a tongue?" Hiei said and in an instant he held his sword to the man's throat.

At the same time as Kuwabara and Yusuke were yelling at Hiei for going without winning, Kurama ran to Oki Ran's aid. He brushed stray hairs form her face and held his ear near her mouth. Yusuke and Kuwabara were done yelling and were now looking down at Kurama with questioning eyes, "She's still breathing." He said and a loud roar filled the air and all eyes were on Hiei.

The man had transformed, what was dirty skin was now slimy green scales. His teeth were jagged and rotting as he smiled. Hiei was disgusted at such a sight but was happy, for now he could kill his prisoner. But what Hiei failed to see was the tail behind him. "Watch out Hiei!" Kurama yelled at his companion.

Luckily Hiei moved away from the demon's lizard tail, and it was a good thing too since his tail was sharp. They knew this from the way the demon stabbed himself in the abdomen. The lizard demon let out a cry of pain as Hiei smirked at the demons stupidity. The demon fell down dead and vanished in a cloud of smoke. (Clean up's a breeze...lol)

"I wonder what he wanted with her." Kuwabara asked as the others shrugged. Oki Ran began to cough in order to be rid of the fowl substance in her lungs.

-----------------Botan' s POV-------------------

I opened my eyes and I felt as if I was going to explode, everything hurt, my head mostly. I started to hear voices, the voices of my friends but I could not see them. Were my eyes open? I couldn't tell if they were. I was in a panic until I heard the comforting voice of Kurama. "Oki Ran, please open your eyes." He said. Okay open my eyes. That should be easy, right? Try as I might I just couldn't do it, I was in so much pain.

"Well, where should we take her?" The voice I identified as Yusuke's asked

"Hn. What was she doing out here anyway?" Hiei asked. I was mad by this comment; I had to prove that I didn't need them to baby me because I was a girl. This is how they treated me when I was Botan, but not Oki Ran.

"Where the hell am I?" I asked as I forced my eyes and mouth to work. The shadows form before were all standing around me, well all but Kurama who was holding my head up.

"Oki Ran! Don't you know it's not safe for a girl to be out here alone?" Kuwabara asked, "If you were lost you could have said something to us."

Ooh, sometimes he made me so mad. As much as it hurt to do so I jumped up and out of Kurama's loving arms and staggered away. "I can take care of my self." I said, "and I am not lost!" I yelled as I tried to take another step I fell backward in to Kurama's arms again. Hiei