Star: just to let you know that I have school and I don't seem to have the time to update but just know that I will finish the story so don't give up on me...

The Door of Memory

Making it to the ice cream parlor was the first step, and would be what some considered a date. Though Kurama never thought of it that way, he wanted to be with the true Botan when he asked her on a date. After ordering the ice cream Kurama handed Botan hers, she licked the sprinkle coating and smiled.

"Thank you, Kurama." She smiled at him and took another lick. "Yummy!" she smiled showing the true Botan and Kurama couldn't help but laugh at her. "And what, may I ask, is so funny?" She frowned

"Nothing, it's just that you are the same Botan I remember and I thought that I would never see your optimism again, I love that about you." he smiled and Botan turned her head slightly to conceal her blush. "So, what shall we do today?" he asked

"I don't know, what do you think I would like? I'm not sure anymore." Botan said after taking another lick of her blizzardous treat.

"I might know of one place, not too far from here." Kurama said finishing his ice cream and motioning for her to follow him.

They walked along a path near a quite street just outside the ice cream parlor to the destination that seemed to be the park near the center of the city. Botan stopped in shock as she followed Kurama behind a few bushes, when they emerged she found herself in a familiar small area where the grass was a soft green.

It seemed to be was embracing the summer wind as it scuttled between each emerald blade. Butterflies and dragonflies danced on the pillowy fields of puffy white dandelions. Kurama pulled on from the grass and blew on the fluffy end causing the seeds to join the whispering in wind. 'I wish for my Botan to regain her memory of us...of me.'

"Why did you do that Kurama?" Botan asked, "You are going to make more weeds grow." Botan said

"Someone once told me that this flower this is much more than that of a weed. She told me that it was a wish maker." Kurama said and picked another dandelion and handed it to Botan.

She took it and smiled, not knowing why but she knew that he was talking about her. Botan started to remember the field and Kurama. She blew the flower and the seeds ran off into the field and twirled, feeling the sun on each of its soft umbrellas.

Botan made a wish for a time where she and Kurama could come back to this field and spend the day without distractions. She would have her memory and Kurama would be remembered, it was a nice feeling that the wish gave her. "Kurama this place is wonderful, I do love it. Have you taken me here before?" she asked

"I have, I guess I was hoping it might help you remember." Kurama said and heard a crash of thunder in the background. The clouds gathered above them as they watched the sky. "Looks like rain." He smiled

"Yeah." Botan smiled as a drop hit her nose. She giggled as the rain fell in a sheet that swept over the land, slowly coming toward them like a wall of water. The rain soon consumed them. Botan didn't run nor did Kurama, He knew that she loved the rain and this just might be the think to pull her from he memory loss.

Botan closed her eyes and opened her mouth to taste the rain. She spun around to feel the rain as it made the world a darker shade of gray. She spun so fast that she faltered a bit and was about to fall back, but Kurama was right there to catch her in his arms. She looked up at him...even in the rain did his hair stay perfect.

"Thank you." Botan smiled as a drop slipped from her slick blue hair to land on her nose. She giggled again. "Dance with me." She smiled but paused when she saw the look in Kurama's eyes. It was the look of want, the look of hope and love.

Botan POV

"Kurama?" I asked him as I stood up before him with my head tilted slightly so I could find a deeper meaning in his eyes. "Are you..." I paused, I couldn't speak anymore, he was holding me now, holding onto my mind. Some how I had given him this power over me.

He had this power that I knew I should have been careful not to give, and yet, her had it. This beautiful one before me. My heart stopped beating in an instant, I felt a pain but it was good thought is hurt at the same time. My thoughts were stopped when Kurama took my hand and pulled me into him.

The next moment I could hear the rain and the soft thumping of his heart. I sighed in comfort for it felt right. He was the one I needed forever. But could I love him like this, could I love him if I had forgotten him? No that would not be right, neither his nor my heart could handle that. So I knew it had to get away from him.

"Botan." Kurama's voice was smooth and calming as he ran his fingers over my wet hair. I shivered under his touch. I wanted it, I wanted him, and I never wanted to run from him. His hand then found its way to my chin where I was lifted up to meet Kurama's eyes. He pulled me closer and I closed my eyes and swallowed hard.

I wanted him to kiss me, but I wanted him to do it when I remembered him, I felt that it would have been more special that way, but my mind faltered as his lips hesitantly brushed my top lip then the bottom. He then pressed his soft petal like lips harder upon mine. I moaned and he brought his arms around me pulling us closer if that was possible.

The kiss only lasted a moment and I was gone just as fast, it was nothing but a simple kiss. But it also did more, because as Kurama pulled away I clamped my eyes closed, something was coming back to me.

'There is something here, something to remember.' My mind spoke, and then I heard another voice. I was pulling me away from what I was so close to finding. 'No just a few more seconds, my memory is right there.' And in my mind I saw an ordinary door, carved of wood that held a round bronze knob. I knew that I had to open that door but as I stepped up to it in my mind's eye a monster appeared.

A woman that looked exactly like me, only she had hair of while, lips of black and eyes of darkness. She held bow with an arrow placed in the shaft at the ready. The woman, I assumed was the guardian of the door, fired her arrow at me and my eyes flew open.

Kurama was looked at me with a concerned face. "Kurama..." I whispered, "I have to open that door. You can help me with it, Kurama."

"Botan are you okay?" Kurama asked, "I guess I should not have..." I cut him off with a finger to his lips.

"No. I almost found my memory, Kurama, I know where it is." I said and hugged him and he held me closer. "Thank you."

"Don't thank me just yet, for there are still things you don't know." He said

"Yes, but it is a step." I said and it was at that time that I wanted to utter the words I dare not speak, I wanted to tell him that I loved him that I wanted to spend the rest of eternity with him. But that would have to wait; I had to remember him I had to come back.