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Chapter eight
"Botan, you're back…"
Botan walked to him when she stopped.
flash
Come back to me…
End flash
"Botan? Are you okay?" Koenma ask as he looked at him.
"Uh?" Botan blinked and confront him. "Koenma… did you give me a flower this week?"
"Uhhhmm… no, are you angry because I didn't gave you flowers?"
"NO!" too loud Botan… "Uhhmm…. I mean it's okay. Did you gave me any jewelry?"
"No, only your engagement ring, why? Do you want a bracelet?"
"only the ring?" it's weird… did I have a secret admirer? If so, I'll not include the rose and necklace to my treasures? It can be that I love that admirer? The scent of roses… that's only Kurama. Is he the one? "Koenma, did we kiss sometime?"
Koenma thinked, "Yes, the time you agreed to marry me… did you forgot it? Why are you asking so many questions?"
At what she can remember, it's in his office… not on a lake.
"I'm just trying to know if you can remember…" she said plastering a fake smile.
"Koenma walked near her. "Why would I forget? You know that I love you…"
Botan's eyes widened, it seems like she heard it somewhere else
I love you…
"I know, I just walked here because its boring in my room and I don't have anything to do… so I'll go now…"
Genkai's temple…
"Kurama? Did you kill him?" Yusuke asks as Kurama came to view.
"No." with that he walked inside. His friends followed him when he stopped them. "I'll just get my things and go home. I want to be alone." Yusuke and the others looked at the friend they learned to love. Each of them wanting to know what will happen the next week.
That night… (BOTAN"S ROOM)
Botan's dreams are still full of mischief…
flash
"Just a welcome for you," then gave the rose to her
end flash
Botan's hand clenched her blanket
Flash
"I love you," he said as a sheen of tears formed in her eyes, "I love everything about you, you're my life, my world, if you will leave, I'll be dead inside, my life will be nothing,"
end flash
Botan's hand clenchen and unclenched…
Flash
"if anything will happen, you'll come back to me…"
end flash
Botan moaned
flash
"and I'll wait for you, Botan…" he said to her, tightening his embrace. "if it takes forever to wait, then I'll wait for you forever, until you come back to me…"
end flash
another flash
"Love you too, Botan…"
end Flash
Botan woke up and sat. "Damn You! You're always coming back. Why can't I see your face, why don't you show yourself? Pls. I want to understand! Who are you!" she said to no one in particular as a sob broke to her. She didn't slept again.
"Aren't you going to do something? Kurama, two days had passed! Koenma doesn't want us to go there at Reikai! Botan's nowhere to be found! I think Koenma's making her workload larger so that she can't meet us! C'mon Kurama, do something! You're going to mess up your own stupid life!" Yusuke can't help but to shout. They had done everything, but they can't go through. There had been many guards and an order from Koenma. He planned this, he should have known. Kurama's getting miserable each day, he knows it, he can feel it, the loneliness, the grief, the loss. He's afraid of what will happen to Kurama when Botan will marry Koenma.
"Sneaking again, Botan?" Botan heard the voice of Ayame.
"I'll just find something to eat, Ayame,"
"is that so?"
"Yes." Botan looked at her. She wishes Ayame had all the answers to her questions. "Ayame, did I sneak out without Koenma's permission lately?"
"Yes, two times,"
"When?"
"At the Tournament, Koenma doesn't want you to go there…"
"Why?"
"Don't know…"
"So that's why I sneak out?"
"Yes."
"Thanks."
"Welcome. Now go eat, I don't wanna the future queen of reikai suffer longer."
She smiled. but it seems like she doesn't want to be a queen. "Wish you're here Keiko," she said to herself, missing her friend. Then it happened again…
Flash
She saw Keiko's face…
"Follow you heart and you'll never be lost"
end flash
Botan eyes narrowed, "Follow your heart and you'll never be lost…" am I lost? If so, where's my true destination? Every evening the same flashes came and bother her, leaving her sobbing and having no sleep at all. "what's wrong, botan? Why can't you figure out your own self?" she said as pain constricted her heart, making her touch it. "I miss my friends…" she touched the pendant that she had seen on her hiding place. She had wore it since the day she had those dreams. "Follow your heart and you'll never be lost," she repeated, trying to know the answers to all her question.
Chapter eight
Botan decided to talk to Kurama, she will ask him everything. "Follow your heart and you'll never be lost. I suppose I should ask you those questions I want to have some answers but then you implied to follow my heart, and my heart brought me here," Botan said as she near Kurama's house. "Maybe, it is because I feel safe with his presence," she said again, when it happened again.
Flash
Her body's trembling, because of the near death she had faced, the fire ball almost hit her. Then she heard his voice… "Don't worry Botan, he can't hurt you now…"
End flash.
The flash made her stop, made her hand slip in her oar, the lack of rest and sleep came to her body. All she saw is Kurama's house, then she felt herself falling, her body succumbing to fatigue.
Kurama neared his home, silently debating what he would do next to make Botan remember. Then he caught her scent, he looked up as he saw her. "Something's wrong…" he said. Botan is staying in up there, she's not moving. Then her hand touched her head. His eyes widened as he saw her falling. Running, he was in time to catch her. "Botan?" he said his voice full of concern. But her eyes didn't open. Hurrying, he opened his door and run to his room, gently putting her on his bed. Tucking her, he run to the kitchen, he poured water on a basin. He came back to his room then he put the basin on the side table. Walking to his drawer, he get a towel. He place it on the water, then get it again and pressed for the excess water. Then he gently wipe it to Botan's face, brushing aside the curls that escape her ponytail. he noticed the weary looked in her face. Judging by her eyes, she isn't sleeping enough. He take his fill, looking at her as long as he could. After some time, he got up and walked to the phone, he'll call Keiko since his mother's not there, she's on a vacation. He knows that Keiko isn't the only one going to check on Botan but his other friends also.
"tell her after she wake up, Kurama, it is the only way." Yusuke said as he looked at the man who didn't move from his place at the side of the bed. He's clinging to his life, Yusuke said to himself as he saw the hand holding Botan's hand. "Kurama, you can't lose her."
"I know Yusuke, believe me, I know. I'll try to talk to her. But we need to think of Koenma, he'll look for her."
"I'm willing to lie," Yusuke said as he asks he other friends, they all nodded. "he'll not find her for at least a day. I just wished that she'll wake up before it."
"I really want her to make up. But she needs her rest, she's tired, very tired,"
"I agree."
They all stayed for a while, then as darkness begin to fall on the sky, they decided to go home, leaving Botan to Kurama.
The flashes came again in Botan's dream, but the isn't the same as before. A body embraced her, giving her comfort. In those arms, she felt safety, she felt protected. With that, the flashes disappered, her mind only aware of the body beside her. With that, the undisturbed sleep she had wanted came.
That Morning…
Botan snuggled deeper on her bed, sighing as she made a comfortable position. Then she realize her bed is hard. And there's something heavy draped on her waist. She opened her eyes, eyes that widened more when she saw that Kurama's on the bed, actually holding her. She swallowed as she saw his face. It's angelic, as if he can't do something wrong. She didn't know that she'd been staring for a long time. Realizing that she needed to go back to Reikai, she tried to gently pushed aside his arm. But his hold tightened, not allowing her to go. She pushed harder when he spoke in his sleep. "Botan…" she looked at him, he want to touch his face. She let her palm cup it, touching his hair and his cheeks. Then he spoke again, making her inside froze. "Come back to me…"
Flash
"If you can come back to me,"
end flash
tears formed in her eyes. That voice. It's his. She chewed her lips, she had to make sure, but how? Kurama's hold tightened, then spoke again, "I love you, Botan…" at those words, her tears spilled from her eyes. Then the memories came.
Flash
He touched his forehead on hers, breathing hard because of the kiss they shared. Then he said. "I miss you, you don't know how I miss you…"
Then she opened her eyes and looked at the face of the man she loves…
End flash
"Kurama, it's Kurama," all came back, the memories, the lake. He loves her and the feeling's mutual. But how could she forget it? Unless… "Koenma, why?"
then a memory came…
"I can't risk you falling in love with Kurama,"
"I think he loves you Botan" (Keiko said that)
She'll go to Koenma. She'll let him know that his stupid plan is mass of trash. Then she'll go back to the one she truly loves, to the place where her heart had told her to go to. Keiko had been right, she was lost and found the way home. She smiled, "thank you, Keiko." She looked at her man, then touched his cheek, pressing her forehead to his, she kissed him lightly on his lips. "Thank you for waiting, my love. Wait a little more, you did promise me forever, I'll just go and have a little talk with Koenma. After that, that's the time I'll come back to you, as I promised you." She kissed him again. "I'll always come back to you."
Kurama knows he must now wake up. Botan will need him when she wake up. looking for the woman beside him, he tried to reach her with his hand.
His hand encountered space.
He abruptly sat up, "Botan?" he looked around, she's not there. He noticed the opened window. "No…" knowing that she may had gone, he still stood up and walked out, calling her name. he looked around the house, admitting defeat, he walked again to his room and wearily sat on the bed. His hand came to his face. "When will this nightmare end?" three days is left, three agonizing days. He must think of a way… fast. He stood up, determination in his eyes, he will call his friends, he'll think with them a plan to get the woman he loves.
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