Oh Captain my Captain
Botan's BOV
I had only moments left; I licked my lips in anticipation, as I looked at the second hand tick away, at one point I could have sworn that the hand went counterclockwise. In and act of evil I pulled off my watch and threw it into a tree, not knowing who it would land on. "Ouch!" he said, "Damn it!" said the voice of a not too happy Hiei.
"Oh sorry, Hiei." I said, "I didn't know you were in a tree..." I said, and blinked 'Hiei is always in trees,' "I mean in that tree." I said
"Hn, that's the last time I come and get you." Hiei said and I knew what he meant and smiled "why are you smiling, am I funny to you?" he asked jumping from the tree to land next to me.
"Huh? No." I stopped smiling but then noticed a few twigs and leaves stuck in his hair and prickles too. I started to laugh so hard that I fell over. "Hiei, you look..." I paused "Funny."
"Hn, Onna?" He held up his fists. "What is so funny about me?"
"The tree verses Hiei, the tree is winning." I laughed and stood up, to find him growling darkly with his hand on the hilt of his katana. I stopped laughing, not wanting to die on my death day...again. I walked over to him with calm hands a brushed the leaves out, and pulled the prickles free.
To my amazement, Hiei's hair was soft. I thought I would have been hard and filled with hairspray of something. "What shampoo do you use?" I asked
"Hn." He turned away and started walking, "follow me." He said and I did just that.
Oki Ran's house Normal POV
"So Hiei why are we here? At a house I don't know?" she asked in a fake tone.
"Hn." Hiei shook his head and pushed the door open. Botan and Hiei walked into the dark house and Botan looked around.
"Um, Hiei, it's dark in here." She said
"Hn are you afraid of the dark?" he asked
"N-no." lied as Hiei flipped on the lights.
"SURPRISE!!!!!!" Everyone with the exception of Hiei yelled popping out of hiding places. Botan screamed and held a hand to her heart for effect.
"Oh my, what is this for." She said
"It's your death day." Kuwabara said and Botan walked deeper into the room. Everyone was there, Yusuke, Kaiko, Kuwabara, Yukina and Hiei of course, Genkai, and...wait where was he? Botan asked and searched the room once more. Then a pair of hands came up behind her and held her eyes closed.
"Guess who?" his velvet voice danced through her mind and to her heart.
"Kurama." She said and he let go, giving her sight once more. She turned around to see him and gave him a hug. "So glad you showed up." She smiled and turned "thank you all." Botan smiled as Kurama lead her to the living room. "Whose house is this?" she asked
"She's someone new, she couldn't join us today but she said it was okay to use her house." Yusuke winked which went unseen by the others.
"Oh, so what are we going to do first?" I asked
"It's your day you decide." Kaiko said
"I want to have a water balloon fight." Botan yelled pulling balloons form her kimono.
O.O "you carry those around with you?" Kuwabara asked and Botan nodded
"You never know." Botan shrugged and tossed the balloons to Yusuke. "There are a hundred, so fifty each, two teams." Botan said
"Okay I'm captain!" Yusuke said "you pick first." He said to Botan
"I call Kurama." She said
"Hiei." Yusuke said
"I don't want to play." Hiei said
"Ha! Hiei is afraid of water." Kuwabara said "oh well I would have creamed ya anyway." he said and Hiei had a sudden change of heart.
"I pick Yukina." Botan said
"And I get Kaiko."
"Okay then I get Kuwabara, which works out since he wanted to "get" Hiei anyway." Botan smiled, "Okay there is a hose in the front and one in the back," Botan said
"How did you know?" O.o Kurama asked taking a bag of fifty balloons from Genkai, as she had counted them.
"I guessed" Botan sighed inwardly "okay I call the back." Botan said knowing that there were plenty of bushes in the garden, in case of an emergency, plus she never did get to see what Kurama thought about the garden.
Botan and her team ran off behind the house with a small basket. Botan assigned Yukina water fill up as Kuwabara kept an eye out for and ambush. "Okay they have Hiei on their team he is fast."
"I know." Kurama said
"I know you know I was just playing the part of the captain and you are my first mate." Botan smiled.
'That smile, where have I seen it?' Kurama asked himself
Kuwabara: hey why didn't you finish the balloon fight?
Star: I'll save it for the next chapter
Black Rose: when are you going to have the bad guys strike? And what happened to the gift on the doorstep?
Star: you'll just have to wait. :P