Don't own Yu Yu Hakusho
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Honeymoon Horror
The gang had been married for about a week now and they all were planning to go on their own separate honeymoon. Keiko and Yusuke were going to visit a lake; Yukina and Kuwabarra were going to a log cabin in the middle of a forest; Hiei and Hinageshi were going to the beach. Botan and Kurama had decided on the Mountains.
Flashback
It had been two weeks from Christmas, Shiori had planned a nice pre-Christmas vacation for her family and she was telling them about it.
"I've planned a vacation for us, we should leave in a few days." Shiori stated.
"Sorry, Mother" Kurama apologized, "But I have already made some plans with a few friends of mine. I am leaving the day after tomorrow."
"But Shuuichi, its Christmas!" Shuiichi exclaimed.
"I know, but I should be back the day before Christmas, so I can spend it with my family. If I had known sooner, I wouldn't have made plans. I am very sorry." Kurama lied.
End of Flashback
Botan and Kurama had just arrived at their room. Botan started to unpack.
"Don't feel so bad Kurama, You didn't know." Botan replied.
"I know, but Shuiichi was so upset." Kurama sighed, "I don't know Botan, Maybe I should tell them, I don't like lying."
"Kurama, I love you, but you can't worry about every little thing. This is your vacation, no detective work. Just you and me for two weeks. You can be whom you wish. You don't have to be Yoko Kurama or even Shuuichi Minamino. Just you. You can relax. If you don't you'll have white hair by the time you are twenty." Botan said, she gave him a hug and rested her head on his shoulder as she sat on his lap.
"Actually, It would be silver. " Kurama replied with a faint chuckle in his tone. Botan laughed.
"I guess your right."
"I love you my death" Kurama nuzzled her check.
"And I you my Fox." Botan said as she kissed him.
" Let's take a nap, then we can look around this place."
"Sure."
Sometime later
"Kurama, let's go skiing tomorrow." Botan giggled as they looked around the resort.
"My, My, Look what we have here, a ferry girl and a fox." A voice called out.
"Touya?" Kurama asked
"Don't forget me laddie." Jin said, "It's a pleasure to meet you again lassie."
"Hello, you two." Botan greeted.
"So, what brings you two here?" Kurama asked
"Exploring, we want to see everything form the green grass to the snowy mountain. " Jin said "You?"
"Oh… We're umm… Honeymooning" Botan replied blushing at their gaping faces.
"Damn, I never thought I see the day the Great Yoko Settled down" Touya stated.
"Will there be any little foxes running around here soon? Could I baby-sit? Please, please." Botan and Kurama blushed bright red.
"Maybe." Kurama mumbled.
"YaY!" Jin celebrated. The couple looked confused.
"He likes kids." Touya answered, the couple just nodded.
"So umm, would you like to join us for dinner?" Botan asked.
"Why sure lassie, It'll be a pleasure." Jin replied. And so the four of them walked off to a restaurant to have dinner, but unknown to them a family had checked into the room next to theirs.
The next day
Thee next day Botan and Kurama went skiing with Jin and Touya. It had turned out that Touya was an excellent skier; Jin on the other hand made an excellent snowball. It had turned out that the two Shinobi had the room right next to them. Around mid-day they all went their separate ways. Botan and Kurama went inside to sit by the fire. Drinking hot cocoa they started a game of Checkers.
A family walked in, and sat down at the table next to them.
"It's a shame Shuuichi couldn't come. He would have liked it here." Shiori stated.
"He's probably spending time with his girlfriend." Kazuya smirked.
"Kazuya! Shuuichi does NOT have a girlfriend. He said he was spending time with his friends and I believe him." Shiori exclaimed.
"He still should have come." Shuiichi stated. "We are his family after all."
Back to Kurama and Botan
"Damn, now I feel guilty." Kurama replied.
"Don't eat yourself over it." Botan said.
"Well, mother is partly right, I am not with my girlfriend." Kurama smirked. "Especially since I no longer have one.
"Stop! You're making me blush." Botan joked. Kurama laughed. Big mistake.
"Shuuichi?" Shiori, Kazuya and Shuiichi exclaimed.
"Hi?" Kurama replied as he looked at them. " I'm guessing this is where you guys came to visit."
"Yeah, Where are your friends? I only see you with this girl." Shuiichi asked glaring at Botan.
"We split up. Jin and Touya are skiing… or at least I believe Touya is, I still haven't figured out what Jin is doing thought." Kurama replied, "Besides she is a friend of mine." For once he was thankful that someone he knew where there to help him out with his story.
"Hello, it's nice to meet all you. Ku… Shuuichi has told me a lot about you all." Botan said, "by the way my name is Sakura."
"What a pretty name." Shiori stated. "My name is Shiori, this is my husband Kazuya Hatanaka, and my son Shuiichi, you already know my other son."
"Yes, and he is such a gentleman." Botan replied.
"How about you and your friends join us for dinner?" Kazuya asked, Botan and Kurama looked at each other.
"Umm, Touya and Jin have already made other plans, but I think we could join you." Kurama said slowly.
"Great, meet us here at 5:30." Kazuya said. "Sorry to make this quick, But I am going skiing. See you all later."
"Good bye" Kurama said. "Sakura, Didn't you want to explore? Well, we have to get going, See you tonight." Kurama and Botan then got up and started back for their room. On the way Kurama couldn't help but ask. "Why Sakura?"
"Well, you got a code name, why couldn't I?" Botan replied with a smile as they entered their room.
Dinner
"You late." Shuiichi said as Kurama and Botan arrived.
"We sort of lost track of the time." Kurama said with a small smirk.
"Alright then, Let's go. I'm hungry." Shuiichi said as he started to drag Kurama to the restaurant. Shiori, Kazuya and Botan followed. It was a short distance to the restaurant so they decide to walk. Kurama was wearing a red dress shirt and a pair of black dress pants. Botan wore a long sleeved, white shirt and a long black skirt. She had her hair in a long braid.
"So, Are you and Shuuichi dating?" Kazuya asked Botan. Shiori glared at him.
"No, Shuuichi isn't dating anyone, I think." Botan replied, a smile played on her lips.
"That's a relief, I though he came here with his girlfriend." Shiori stated. "I'm so glad my son doesn't keep secrets that big from me."
'Oh, boy, I hope Kurama didn't hear that he is already riddled with guilt, who knows what he would do if he got any more.' Botan thought to herself, 'But one thing is for sure he isn't here with his girlfriend.' Botan decide to also say, "Actually, another girl was supposed to come, but she decided to go to the beach with her… I mean instead. So Shuuichi and me ended up sharing a room.
"You two share a room?" Shiori asked shocked.
"Yeah, at first I thought it would be strange, since I've never shared a room with a guy before. But Shuuichi was a perfect gentleman, so it hasn't been that strange.
"Oh," Shiori said, she was clearly not happy with this arrangement.
Everyone sat down at the table. Kurama's family on one side, while Botan and Kurama on the other. Soon a waiter came by. Kurama ordered first.
"I'll have a Caesar Salad."
"I'll have the same." Botan replied. She looked over at Kurama. His eyes had narrowed slightly. That could only mean… Their eyes met and he nodded. Botan slumped down. Just great. This place was crawling with demons. Sure since they were on vacation they couldn't do anything, but at the first sign of trouble they would be pulled into their jobs once more. This was supposed to be a vacation, not a mission.
Throughout their silent communicating Kurama's family finished ordering.
"So Sakura… are you a vegetarian like Shuuichi?" Shuiichi asked trying to start a conversation.
"Yeah, I have this thing with eating things that are dead." Botan replied.
"Shuiichi, I'm not a full vegetarian, I still eat meat occasionally." Kurama corrected, 'yeah, only around the full moon, or sickle moon. When Yoko appears.'
"So Shuuichi why haven't you brought Sakura to the house before?" Shiori asked
"I never really thought about bringing her over. We go to different schools and we are always busy with one thing or another to really go to each other's home. Actually, have you met any of my friends besides Hiei and Yusuke?" Kurama replied, noticing how quiet it had gotten around them. Looking around he saw a few demons looking at them; there was the occasional whisper.
"I wonder why they are looking this way?" Kazuya asked as he moved closer to his wife. Just then the waiter came out with their food.
"I'm so sorry it took so long, please except our humble apologizes. Please don't kill us." The waiter begged.
Shuiichi looked confused at the waiter. "Why would we kill you?"
"Now I get it." Kurama said suddenly, he then went into the demonic language. "Let's make a deal. You don't bother any human or us forever. You also give us this meal for free. If you do this, I will let you live. If you don't well… I think you can picture it."
"Yes Sir." The waiter squeaked as he quickly left the table.
"I see you reputation proceeds you, Shuuichi" Botan smirked.
"Actually, I think it's more of Yusuke's reputation." Kurama replied.
"You belittle yourself. I believe it was 3 brushes with death during that tournament, two of which were in the same day." Botan replied.
"Really? I never kept count." Kurama stated surprised.
"Amazing isn't it? There was the fight with Touya, the fight after Touya. Both of which were in the same day."
"I don't remember that last one."
"You were unconscious, and then there was the Fight with Karasu." Botan finished
I definitely remember that one." Kurama said, his eyes grew unfocused as he remembered.
"I remember when Yusuke defeated Toguro. I think that was my third happiness moment." Botan smiled, "We were finally safe."
"Sorta, we still had to escape the stadium." Kurama replied.
"Yea, but you weren't able to receives your prize." Botan said.
"I beg to differ. I believe we all, including Hiei, no matter how much he wants to denies it, got a better prize." Kurama smirked almost lovingly towards Botan.
"Umm, I hate to interrupt this trip down memory lane, but what are you talking about?" Shuiichi asked.
The couple both jumped and blinked as if waking up from a dream.
"What?" They both asked.
"What were we just talking about?" Kurama asked, acting clueless. The waiter came and took away the plates. They talked about a few other things before they left. The waiter had told them the meal was on the house.
The family left the restaurant and returned to the Hotel.
For Kurama and Botan the night had been a nightmare once they returned to the hotel. It had turned out that Kurama's family had the room next to them, as well, neither of them could sleep. The days continued for a week. By then both the deity and the fox were exhausted. It seemed as if they spent every waking minute with Kurama's family. This particular day they had been skiing.
Shuiichi had been noticing the looks Botan had been giving his brother; curious he decided to investigate. Especially after he got the feeling Kurama was getting annoyed with them.
Shuiichi saw Botan fall down on her skis, this was one of the rare opportunities that Kurama wasn't around her. Shuiichi skied over to her and helped her up.
"Sakura, your not good at this are you?" Shuiichi asked.
"Thank you," Botan said "And not I'm not." Botan sighed.
"What's wrong? You seem sa…" Shuiichi started
"Ohy Botan!"
"Jin?" Botan asked as she turned towards the up coming Wind master.
"Botan?" Shuiichi asked, "Who's Botan?"
"It's a nickname of mine." Botan lied. She then turned back to Jin, "Where's Touya?"
"Aye, Touya and Kurama are in a fight, Sorta strange fight mind you. We Sorta need your help to stop em." Jin replied. Botan's eyes widen.
"Where?"
"Follow me lassie." Jin said as he started to lead her towards him as fast as he could down the slopes. Shuiichi followed. He was amazed at the grace and skill Botan showed know. Jin stopped at the top of a hill. Botan and Shuiichi copied his action. Both sweatdropped at the scene below them.
"I don't believe it." Botan stated. Beneath them were Touya throwing snowballs at a herd of low level fire ores. There was also a foxed-formed Kurama digging up fresh snow.
"Apparently, the only thing that harms them is snow. And we needed someone else to help make snowballs. " Jin explained. "We were lucky Kurama's parents had gone ahead, If not we would have been in a real dozy."
"Yeah." Botan agreed as she summoned her oar.
"Wait, where did that come from? What the hell is going on?" Shuiichi asked.
"Oh boy." Jin said.
"Sorry Shuiichi, but this is for your owns safety." Botan said as she hit him over the head with her oar; knocking him out. "Let's go." Botan said as she flew down and started to help.
"Right behind ya lassie." Jin said.
They had defeated the fire ogre easily, but not without casualties on their side.
"I can't believe you did that." Kurama said as he finished bandaging his hand. They had been severely frozen as he had dug the snow for the snowballs.
"I don't see why you are worried, he doesn't… achoo… remember" Botan sniffled. She was cocoon inside a warm blanket.
"NO, but he has a giant unexplained bump on the top of his head. That took a lot of lying to cover up." Kurama sighed as he looked at his hands. Botan followed his gaze.
"A little, they just need to warm up" Kurama answered.
"That's good." Botan said as she opened her blanket, motioning him to sit next to her. Kurama did so. Smiling Botan snuggled closer to him, laying her head on top of Kurama's chest; they stayed there together, alone for the first time in ages, enjoying each other's company.
The next few days went by quickly. Until they were on their last day on the trip. Botan and Kurama were packing; they had had the last couple of days in peace. Kurama's family, believing both were sick left them alone for a few days. Unfortunately it had turned out that they both had gotten sick.
"I don't believe it," Kurama stated, "I got sick"
"You? I'm death here mister, and I'm worse then you."
"Yeah, but me being sick is like Kuwabara being smart." Kurama growled, he wasn't a nice fox when he was sick. Botan just stuck out her tongue.
"We are meeting you family for dinner right?" Botan asked.
"Yeah. As well as Touya and Jin. Don't know how my parents got them. But they did." Botan sighed as Kurama spoke. "Oh no, Have you spoken to…."
"Them? Yes. Their room was an igloo. But they know to call me Sakura and you Shuuichi. Not to talk about demons, spirits or anything related. Plus Jin's wearing a hat." Botan finished for him.
"Good" Kurama sighed.
As if Fate had decided to give them a break that night; everything went perfectly, no mess-ups; no nothing that could give them away; that was until desert.
The family and demons walked out of the restaurant covered in cake and a vary of other dessert items. Kurama, Botan and Touya were glaring at Jin.
"I wonder where that gust of wind came from?" Shuiichi asked
"Yeah, I wonder," Kurama's eyes narrowed. "Do you know Jin?"
"No, but me and Touya better be going now. I hate to do this laddies and lassies. But we got to fly. Bye now." Jin said as he ran, just in time to dodge a tree falling on the exact spot he was standing at.
Kurama turned towards his mother. " Tonight's our last night. I'll see you when you return home." Kurama brushed some cake off his face.
Everyone said his or her good-byes and left.
Later that night
"This wasn't a very fun vacation Kurama" Botan sighed "That is, except for a few things." A smile played on her lips.
"I know, I wasn't able to relax. I was to worried about the demons around here, and my family to really relax." Kurama said as he hugged her from behind.
"Kurama?"
"Hmm?"
"We have to plan a second honeymoon. This one was a horror."
"I know Botan, my beautiful deity. I know." Kurama sighed.
I hope you like this. I believe it's now easier for those of you who liked the stories to find them quicker. I'm also in this big revise stage so there won't be any updates for a while longer, I think, depends on how I feel.
Thanks for all the reviews and I hope you won't mind to review this story again, so until next time
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