Don't own Yu Yu Hakusho
"Speech"
'Thought'
Mission Madness
The young couple had been married for about four months. They had made it so, that whenever Botan got a day off or the night off she would stay in Kurama's room with Kurama. But that also meant a lot of close calls with his parents.
During one night, Botan had arrived with a message from Koenma saying he wanted to speak with them. Cautiously they both went, since it had been, until just recently there had been a law that prohibit the dating/ marring/ mating between demons and ferry girls. Scared that Koenma might have had decided to reinstate it, they entered his office.
"AHHH!" Don't scare me like that you two." Koenma shouted, Botan and Kurama sweatdropped. "Good to see you finally made it now," Koenma said taking a deep breath. "Kurama, I know that ever since you took a human form, you have restrained yourself from stealing right? Well, IneedyouandBotantostealajewelthatwillbeauctioningatabanquetinthreedays." (Translation: I need you and Botan to steal a jewel that will be auctioning at a banquet in three days)
"What?" Kurama blinked, whatever Koenma had said had gotten muttered up.
"I need you to steal a jewel back for me. A thief stole it 200 years ago and we have just recently tracked it down to the banquet. The banquet will be held in three days so I want you to be prepared." Koenma said calmly.
Kurama who had just heard he was aloud to steal and not get in trouble was curious. "What does Botan have to do with this?"
"She will be your date, also if worse comes to worse and you mess up, she can transport both you and the jewel out of there with her oar. And just so you know, there is an automatic alarm, and it'll sound as soon as you touch it. So you will have about 10 seconds to get out of there after it sounds. And remember. You CANNOT kill anyone." Kurama nodded thinking 'well, there goes that plan' "Good, now here are your invitations." Koenma handed them the envelope. "It also has some money you can use." Taking the envelope they left.
Botan and Kurama returned home in silence. They each had to think of the mission they were given. Kurama thinking of various plans to retrieve the jewel, while Botan hoped she wouldn't mess up. But little did they know that retrieving the jewel would be the easy part of the banquet.
Three days later
Kurama and Botan made their way to the banquet hall. Botan was wearing a silvery lavender dress that glittered. It had a slit to one side and was tided around her neck, exposing her back. Her blue hair was up in a bun with a few strands falling down. .
Kurama had semi-transformed himself into his Yoko form. His hair had changed to silver, but kept a few strands red. He tied it down at the base of his neck. He wore a black tux with a tie and the tux had tails so he could hide his tail, which he couldn't retract. His eyes remained green, but they now carried streaks of gold. He kept his human ears but grew fangs and claws.
Arm in arm they made their way towards the banquet. Immediately Kurama noticed that there were no demons around, so he wouldn't have to fight. Botan and Kurama went around saying hello to everyone and acted as if they were a normal couple at a normal affair. Not a couple on a mission to steal something, and are was looking for escape routes. On this part of the mission they discovered that the auction would be held after dinner. They would have continued looking around the hall if a laugh hadn't caught Kurama ears. Kurama looked over his shoulder and paled.
"Kurama?" Botan whispered looking over at him.
"It true, some one is truly out to get me." Kurama smiled sadly. "My family is here?"
"Again?" Botan asked, " How do they do it?"
"I do not know Botan, but we will continue on our original plan. If we panic we'll mess up." Botan nodded as they looked for their table. When they found it they nearly cried, they would be sitting right next to Kurama's parents.
"Hello, what's your names? Mine is Shiori." Shiori said, "This is my husband, Kazuya Hatanaka and our son Shuiichi"
"Hi my name is um…" Botan looked at Kurama, out of everything they talked about, they didn't think of names. "Tsuki and this is my husband Kurama." Kurama nodded at the names.
"Your married? My, you look so young." Shiori exclaimed
"Well, we have only been married for about 4 months." Botan replied with a smile.
"So tell me Tsuki, what do you do?" Kazuya asked
"I am a messenger for a company. So what you do Mr. Hatanaka?"
"I'm a computer technician for the guy hosting the banquet." Kazuya replied
"That seems so cool." Kazuya just shrugged
"What do you do Mr. Kurama?" Shuiichi asked
"Oh, I am a detective, and I mange a green house, on the side."
"Wow, my brother Shuuichi wants to open a flower shop also, maybe you can help him?"
"Maybe."
"So have you thought of having children?" Shiori asked. Kurama and Botan choked on their drinks and started coughing. That was definably not what they were thinking.
"Maybe later…"
"When we are older…"
They both spoke at the same time.
"I take that as a no." Shiori giggled. "But if you decide to have a kid what would you name him?"
Kurama turned her gazed towards Her,
"If it is a boy, then I'll name him Kourone" Kurama stated, "If it is a girl, then Tuski could name her."
Botan's eyes soften as she heard what Kurama wanted to name their son if they had one. She also knew how much he missed his old partner and still blamed himself for his death.
They spent the remained of dinner talking about one thing or another. Finally they had announced that the auction was about to begin. Kurama quickly excused himself from the table and left. Once outside the hall he waited until the coast was clear and changed into his fox form; then ran towards the backstage to wait. He quickly found the jewel he had been sent to steal. The gem itself was beautiful, it held a sapphire color and glimmer in the dark. A true treasure. He grinned as he went as close as he dared before the time to steal came. The plan was simple, all he had to do was wait for them to show the gem jump up and steal it. Then run like hell. Botan would leave just before the jewel was shown and wait outside the hall for him. If there was time, he would give her the jewel before leaving himself.
He waited about half an hour before they final turned towards the jewel. .
Botan had excused herself a little earlier than she had been supposed to, she went outside and changed into her spirit form. Flying on her oar she looked around for Kurama. She had to look carefully to catch a glimpse of his silver coat, which somehow blended so easily with the background. She left the hall and waited just outside of it.
Kurama spotted Botan flying, he guess she had wanted to see how he was doing, smirking he crouched. Just a few more minutes. Botan had just turned and landed outside when he attacked. The auctioneers had taken off the glass case and it was out in the open. Kurama bit it and started to run. Some people tried to catch him, but he zigzagged causing them to run into tables. All in all, People were screaming, tables were falling and some how a cake hit him before he made it out.
Botan nearly laughed when she saw the once silver, now slightly pinkish frosted cover, fox run out of the hall. She took the gem from him and summoned her oar. She once again changed into her spirit form.
"I'll meet you at home Kurama." Botan said as she flew away.
A crash from the hall caused the fox to return to reality. Proud with his three steals; the jewel, a diamond necklace and a ruby pendent; he ran home.
Once he arrived he went straight to the shower, and spent an hour getting cake out of his hair. Once he finished and changed he came downstairs and saw his parents and his stepbrother had arrived.
Mentally smirking he asked, "How was the banquet?"
"It was amazing, there was this huge silver Fox that stole some of the jewels and a very rare diamond. It was so cool… We also met this really nice couple. You would have liked them, other then that it was boring." Shuiichi exclaimed.
"Yes, the couple. You know, I could have swore I've seen Tuski somewhere, and her husband Kurama reminded me so much of you Shuuichi." Shiori replied. "It's a shame they both disappeared so quickly, I wouldn't have minded talking with them some more. So, How was your night?"
"Well, it was… interesting, but to put it simply, it was madness, to and utter Madness." Kurama sighed "Well, I'm off to bed. Goodnight all."
"Good night." With that he kissed his mother goodnight and went back upstairs.
Shiori looked confused for a moment. "I wonder why he smells like Cake?"
Upstairs Kurama flopped down on the bd. Kurama then turned towards the window. Botan was coming through, signing, she lay down next to him and hugged him, and Kurama placed his arm around her.
"Tonight was fun, for the most." Kurama murmured.
"You still smell like cake," Botan giggled and close her eyes.
"Ha ha." Kurama replied sarcastically. "Since you are being so mean I won't give you what else I stole." He smirked as he held out a necklace. It was gold and there were diamonds around it.
Botan's eyes snapped open. "Oh, it's beautiful. I love it. You shouldn't have."
"I though that we also should get something out of the mission." Kurama said as he held his item. The ruby pendent. I also stole a few diamonds off some ladies necklace. I'll pawn them." Botan laughed.
"You are such a thief Fox."
"That are what we are know for." Kurama replied with a smile.
"But you're my fox right?"
"Right."
"So Kurama how would you describe tonight?" Botan asked looking up at him.
"The same way I said earlier, it was madness, complete and utter madness."
I hope you like. This is part three of my K+B series as; I have so lovingly called it. I will have one or two more parts before this part is closed. So stay tuned for the next one; when Kurama finally introduce Botan to his family and they all have dinner. Will Shiori recognize her, will all of Kurama's secrets be revealed. Will it all be a disaster? Stay tuned for 'Dinner Disaster.' So until next time.
C-ya
