Chapter 8
Turning for the Worst
The next morning Botan awoke to the feeling of someone once again on top of her. She sweat dropped. Opening her eyes her gaze fell upon the crimson-eyed fire demon. She smiled and reached her hand up to push away one of his locks out of his face. His eyes slowly and lazily opened. "Hey." He said slowly trying to register where he was.
I hear every word they sayThey tell me to stay away
"Why do you always somehow appear after something good has happened?" Botan asked as her and Hiei sat up on the bed. Hiei's katana was in the corner of the room and his cloak was on the floor.
"I don't know it's like when I walk over towards you when you're sleeping I'm drawn to you."
"What do you think it means?"
"Hn." Hiei got up and remembered where he was and whom he was talking to and got his cloak on attaching his katana to his waist on his way to the door.
'Great just when you think you can make conversation…he gets all…HIM.' She thought with growling irritation.
"I'm going to train." Hiei said as he walked out of the door leaving Botan to herself. Botan hopped off the bed and ran over to her bathroom. She took a cold shower and then got on a black fighting outfit her mother used to wear.
She put her hair in a ponytail and her whip and ninja stars and ran out the apartment door. Buttercup came out as she walked by.
They say I'm better off without you, baby
You've caused me nothin' but pain
"So how are things between you and Hiei?" Buttercup asked with a scowl leaning against the doorframe. Botan turned and sneered.
"Fine thanks. Now if you'll excuse me I must go."
"In that?" Buttercup said unaware of Botan's abilities.
"Yes in this!" Botan ran down the stairs not earning another word for the orange haired idiot. Reminded her too much of Kuwabara.
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When Botan arrived to where she was going she sighed heavily. She was in a clearing…her clearing. She used to come here all the time when she was younger. It was her place to get away from…from whatever...
"I mine as well learn to be a thief while I'm at it. If I plan on going after my dragon…then I must learn to sneak around the Rekai grounds to enter the Dragon Realm." Botan murmured to herself.
Botan took out her whip and placed her ninja stars on her belt buckle. She then started running and jumping of trees, throwing her stars at invisible opponents.
Heartache's your middle nameBut seems I never see it coming
She landed on the ground and immediately took out her whip and slashed a tree in half. "Looks like I haven't lost it!" Botan shouted happily.
Unknownst to her, a crimson-eyed koorime was watching her every move. He had just finished his training when he heard heavy breathing not too far away.
Hiei watched as she swung her whip and shot her ninja stars out at trees and any shadow that came into view. Hiei chuckled. 'Still the same onna.' Hiei thought and was about to turn and leave when the whip landed right next to him.
"Just what do you think you are doing here, Hiei?" Botan said with the all-famous Hiei smirk. Hiei slowly turned with fire glowing in his eyes.
"ONNA! YOU COULD OF HIT ME WITH THAT DAMN THING!" Hiei shouted fist balled at the side.
"Well sorry." Botan said sarcastically. She was about to turn and resume her training if it weren't for a sudden weight on her back making her fall to the ground.
"No one!" Hiei hissed. "No one uses sarcasm on me and almost hits me with a whip and gets away with it."
I'll just admit it baby
You really drive me crazy"Well what are you gonna do Mr.-I'm-so-big-and-bad-I-can-do-anything!" Botan shouted in his face causing him to flinch a bit. Botan voice was a bit muffled from the ground and dirt she was currently eating.
Hiei grabbed her shoulders and turned her upright to where he was on top and she was on the bottom. "Don't toy with me onna." He settled himself against her lower hips.
"Or what?" Botan said with that same smirk that Hiei felt himself loose half control. If she could do that with a single smirk...boy was he in trouble.
"Don't push me onna." Hiei said more warningly and Botan didn't seem to get the hint.
"Or what? You'll kill me? Pul-ease!" Botan started moving her hips to try and get out of his grip but to no avail.
There she went again. She was doing it and she didn't even know. She started moving underneath him and she hit something and it was driving him crazy. Her scent was enough…mixed with the morning frost and the smell of pine trees. And her stubborness...
"Hiei?" She blinked when she noted he wasn't paying attention, but seemed lost in a daze. "HIEI!" That got his attention. He snapped his gaze down to her petite form. "Did you even hear a word I said? Well I SAID GET OFF OF ME!" Something inside him snapped.
He leaned down and crushed his lips with hers in a long passionate kiss.
Let go of my heart'Cause every time you're near me,
"Damn." Someone muttered from the bushes behind the two. "Its not working and that is getting on my last nerves."
I can't think clearly
Defenses fall apart
Hiei's left hand traveled up and down Botan's thigh slowly...teasingly.Her arms were wrapped around his neck as she moaned at his touch. It was driving Hiei over the top.
They soon pulled away for air and Hiei rested his head in the crook of her neck and smelt her scent. If he didn't get away now…things were going to get out of control. He could start the ritual...
Botan slowly opened her eyes and felt Hiei get up. He then disappeared in line of black and went on his way to who knows where. Botan sighed. 'I'll never understand him.'
Botan resumed her training as she slashed the bush where Buttercup was currently hiding. She sweat dropped.
"Just what are you doing there?" Botan said folding her whip in one swing and placing her hands on her hips. Buttercup laughed nervously.
"Just passing by and well seeing if something of mine was working…hehe." With that said she took off into the forest. Botan stared after the girl and tilted her head to the side.
She started where she left off as if it never happened. "I'm never going to get this done."
I keep livin' and lovin' and learnin', the hard way
You're the hardest lesson, baby, of my life
Hiei ran and ran ignoring the pain in his entire body. He had to get away from her as far as possible for the time being. She was going to drive him to do things that she and he would later regret. They hadn't even confessed anything to each other. It was only…only…
Everything went black for Hiei as he fell to the ground unconscious.
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Buttercup eventually slowed down and stopped in a clearing with her hands on her knees breathing heavily.
She caught her breath and then looked around where she was. She saw something in the middle of the clearing. 'What on the…' Her thoughts were ended as she saw three different shades of hair color.
I keep livin' and lovin' and learning', the hard way
Someday baby, I will get right
"Hiei?" Buttercup shouted running over to the koorime and sitting by his side. She turned him over to where his head was on her lap. "Hiei?" She said softly into his ear, which caused his eyes to twitch. Soon red met green. She smiled. He smirked and sat up.
"What happened?" He asked as all his memories of Botan and himself twisted into lies. When he kissed her the first time it turned into her kissing him. And when he kissed her the second time turned to her kissing him once again and playing mind games on him. As if she made all the wrong first moves. But what he didn't understand...was why he didn't seem to push her off. Not once.
"I have to go and protect the brat…I'll see you later." Hiei said walking off after kissing Buttercup softly on the lips, he flittered away into the darkness of the forest.
I never will understand, why I let you think you can
Treat me any way you please, baby
I guess I hope someday,
You'll settle down and say
Botan ran back to her apartment from training. She opened the door to her apartment and stepped in turning the light on to her right. It started raining while she ran home and she forced herself to run faster.
She went into her bedroom shutting the door behind her. She took a long hot shower. "This feel so good." She said as the heat hit her back like the waterfall she trained under last week. It was softly beating against her. She felt a lot more comfortable.
She took the shampoo and squirted some into her hand. She then started to wash her hair rubbing the cold liquid in her longcerulean locks. She then rinsed and did the same with her conditioner. She washed her hair out and turned off the water. She pulled the curtains back and grabbed the towel off the sink and wrapped it around herself.
She was about to brush her hair when she stopped mid-way. She would be leaving soon. What would Hiei think?
Give me all the love I need, baby
Time and time I've found
You always let me down
Always ends the same way
Would he attempt to make her stay? Would he let her go? Would he go with her? Yeah-right Botan…like Hiei would even think…
She turned around suddenly feeling another pressence in the room and screamed.
You'd think that I could see
The way you're treatin' me
Won't ever change
Hiei was leaning against her bedroom door. Botan had her hand over her heart and was breathing heavily. "H…Hiei…d…don't do that again!" Botan scowled. Hiei only growled rolling his eyes. "Can you leave so I can change?"
"Hn."
'Great once again were back to this.' Botan threw her arms in the air giving an irritated sigh and walked over to her dresser. He didn't leave. "Are you going to leave or not?" He was looking at the picture that was placed on her night stand.
I keep livin' and lovin' and learnin' the hard way
You're the hardest lesson, baby, of my life
I keep livin' and lovin' learnin' the hard way
Someday baby, I will get it right
Botan walked over to the fire demon and sat next to him looking at the picture that kept his gaze. Botan blushed and noticed what he was looking at as well as noticing that she was still wearing only a towel.
It was the picture from the Christmas party. When Hiei kissed Botan. Kurama decided it was funny and took the picture, giving it to Botan the next day. She kept it...it was a good memory.
'Why…why is there a picture of us?' Hiei thought. 'I thought she kissed me…but I looked like I'm…I'm enjoying it…'
"Can I confess something?" Hiei half expected her to say that she changed the picture to mess up his memory…but he got a whole different sentence.
"That was the night I was sooo jealous that Buttercup took you to the Party and I brought Sniper." Hiei smirked when she told him about Buttercup…but for some reason it vanished when she said Sniper.
If I could just hold on
If I could just be strong
My heart would see it's wrong
Lovin' you, lovin you
"Buttercup sang her song at the karaoke and then kissed you…" Botan had tears in her eyes. "And then I sang…and ran out crying to Kurama. Then you sang your song and it was for me…" She turned to Hiei. "Then you finished and walked up to me and kissed me." Botan smiled and felt herself being pushed hard onto the mattress a sudden weight on top of her.
"Don't lie to me! I didn't kiss you! And even if I did, it meant nothing to me!" Hieihissed as he held her arms abover her head as she screamed slightly and wriggled to get free.
"W…what…?" Botan said wondering if she heard right. What was wrong with him?
I keep livin' and lovin' and learnin' the hard way
You're you hardest lesson, baby, of my life
I keep livin' and lovin' and learnin' the hard way
Someday baby, I will get it right
"You heard me!" Hiei said.
"Nothing you did mattered! Not the kiss…not anything?"
"Hn. No." He was staring at her for her reaction now. He smiled as the tears formed in her eyes. He leaned down to her lips and brushed them lightly across hers. He grabbed both her wrists with his left hand and left his right hand to travel around the rest of her body. She struggled more now. He grabbed the top of the towel and started to move it aside completely crashing his lips with hers.
She would have moaned if she knew it was the real Hiei. Botan's eyes were growing a deep red and she pushed Hiei off of her body. "Don't touch me you bastard!"
Hiei smirked and walked over to the door as Botan fell to the ground in a heap.
"Oh and Hiei." Botan said as he turned and she walked over to the door placing her hand on the side. "I'm leaving in a few days. I have to prepare and then I'm leaving for the Dragon Realm to find Aritha. I suggest you start remembering things before you hurt me again. I never want you here again. I don't need your protection and I don't need you." She narrowed her eyes. "You can have Buttercup if you want her so bad! If I die…I don't want you at my funeral." With that said Botan slammed the door in Hiei's face before the real koorime could protest.
Botan ran and slammed herself on her bed. She eventually cried herself into and uneasy sleep.
Hiei slumped against Botan's bedroom door. He had turned back to himself as when Botan pushed him off of her the necklace fell off. He had hurt her…not knowing at the time.
He would have to pretend for Buttercup and try to save Botan from her heart. She would never survive in the Dragon Realm and he too had some unfinished business to attend to. He leaned his head against the door and listened to Botan's soft breathing.
How would he face her again. He heard every word she said and it hurt him. But she was hurt even more. He didn't know what he was going to do. He would have to make it up to her somehow...sometime soon. He placed his head on his knees fell into a troubled sleep.
Livin' and lovin' the hard way
You're the hardest lesson baby of my life
Livin and lovin' the hard way
Someday, I will get it right
To be continued...