French Vanilla with Rainbow Sprinkles

Botan's POV

The air around me was empty and devoid of any feeling, I was beginning to think that I no longer existed. It was dark I could not tell if my eyes open and why did my body hurt, no not my body my heart. I had the feeling that I was missing something, like I had lost a whole lifetime.

I sighed when I heard the soft hum of a piano, it was the most beautiful sound I had ever heard and it seemed to bring life back into the air. Though the notes were filled with sadness. It was a sad sound, as if the very keys them selves were crying.

I pushed up from the ground and let the blanket that was lightly placed over me slip to my lap. I stood up for I had to find the music, I had to find the one with the hurt soul the one who played that sad music. I walked to the sliding door and pushed it open and followed the music, not bothering to close the door behind me.

The open air of the temple in which I now found myself in seemed so familiar, so right and still wrong that the same time, I needed to know what was going on in my life. Then the piano keys got lower bringing me back.

I followed the sound to another sliding door, the moonlight casting his silhouette on the wall. I pushed back the sliding door slowly not wanting the music to stop. I looked in and saw him, his red hair long and silky, his emerald eyes so very sad and beautiful. He was perfect in every way, and then I remembered, he was the one that tried to get me to remember him.

I couldn't remember him, who was he, why did I care for him so much? I was so caught up in my thoughts that I failed to notice that the music had stopped. I looked up and saw him standing in the middle of the room with his hands coolly placed in his pockets.

"Botan?" he mouthed

"Sorry I didn't mean to disturb you." I said softly

"I don't mind." He said, "I realize that we kind of came on too strong earlier and well I think you should have a little time to get your memories back." He smiled all the while taking steps toward me. "I am Kurama." He took a bow

"Oh, I am so sorry for forgetting you." I said with tears in the corners of my eyes.

"It's not your fault." He said taking my hand, "come lets do something fun, perhaps that will help you remember." He smiled and pulled me from the temple.

Normal POV

"Genkai, I just do understand it, how can she forget everything about us in such a short time?" Yusuke asked in his slightly pissed tone.

"Her kidnapper must have given her new memories, which means that her true memories are not erased but are only coated." Genkai said "something doesn't add up." She said

"Yeah, like why would the kidnapper, the man who wants the key, let her go?" Kuwabara asked

"Hn, that's easy." Hiei's voice came through the darkness, "she must willingly give up her soul to free that dark man." Hiei said

"Oh so by giving Botan new memories he can manipulate her into thinking that she would be doing the right thing by giving up her soul." Yusuke said

"We have to help her remember." Kuwabara said and stood up to leave.

"Kurama is already trying." Hiei said as-a-matter-of-factly.

On the top of an overpass

Botan and Kurama looked out over the city and at the cars as they passed by underneath. Botan's hands were tightly gripping the edges of walls.

"Are you afraid of heights?" Kurama asked

"Yeah, but something tells me that I should not be." She said, "I'm so confused, why would Haru give me a different memory. All I know is that I have to free my father from a prison.

"Free your father?" Kurama said, "no you cant do that." he said realizing what she was talking about, this all had to do with the mission she was given.

"What!" She said, "I knew it! You guys are trying to stop me, Haru was right you are the bad ones." Botan yelled and started off in the other direction. Kurama quickly pulled her to him in a tight hug. "Let me go..."

"I will never let you go, ever." Kurama said "not again, I have you now and I can't let you go." Kurama said, "we are not the bad ones, Botan you have to try and remember us. For the sake of all three worlds." He paused "for me and the others, your friends."

Botan's struggling stopped when she felt his hands in her hair. "Perhaps if we get you looking like your true self." He smiled and grabbed her wrist and ran from the overpass.

The hair salon

Botan's POV

I had been sitting in a chair for almost an hour as the women put goop in my hair. It felt like acid, and smelled to high heaven, I had to admit that this felt very familiar. Anyway to stuff they were putting in my hair was supposed to bring out the true color in my hair.

Waiting room.

Normal POV

Kurama sat in a chair trying to dodge glances from a few girls at the other end of the room. But they seemed to disappear when Botan stepped from the back room with her long blue hair as it was. They way Kurama loved it. Something about her was beautiful she was glowing. But from the look in her eyes he could tell that she still couldn't remember.

"Do I look okay?" she asked him

"Devine." He said, "how about we go and get some ice cream, French vanilla with rainbow sprinkles." He smiled

Botan paused, "how did you know that was my favorite ice cream?" she asked

"Botan, I know you, I know what makes you laugh, smiled, frown." He said softly, "there is nothing in this world that I wouldn't do for you... oh look I am rambling." Something Kurama never does. She made him thus and he would bring her back he vowed as he dragged her to Baskin Robins. (31 flavors)