Star: To Suma goddess of darkness, of course you can. If you let me read it. I don't mind, actually I am flattered that you were inspired by my crappy writing.

And to all my other reviewer's especially Alex. Thank you for taking time to read my crappy work. And on that note I will write another chapter. And Bare with me Hiei is OCC. Actually scratch that, he is as he should be, I mean how does anyone really know who he will act, right.

Chapter Sechs

Still A Week Earlier, the day of the "insolent"

Botan placed the pacifier in her pocket for Koenma had told her not to put it on until she was safe. She landed her oar at the front of her apartment complex and walked in. 'I wonder what is going on, Koenma would never do something like this.' She walked on to her apartment and opened the door walking in and sat on her couch as she pulled out the pacifier and looked at it.

Her women's intuition was telling her something. Telling her to keep the guys with her and not let them go. Telling her, like a whisper in the wind that she would be too late if she waited. She pushed her skepticism aside and looked back down at her charge.

"Well I guess…." She picked it up and put it on and when she did she began to feel Lightheaded, it came in a rush, a mix of fire and ice running up and down her veins. She shivered as her spirit energy was sucked from her and transported to the pacifier's core. It was a good thing she was sitting down because she felt weak and sick. She was Human.

From the corned over her living room, crimson eyes watched as she did this. Hiei walked forward and peered at her. Her eyes were closed and she was barely conscious and her forehead glistened with sheen of sweat. Hiei set the back of his right hand to it and felt the heat of her body rise. "Onna?" Hiei grew worried so he took her to her bed and tucked her in then pulled up a chair and sat next to her.

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Koenma walked into the temple looked at Yusuke, Kuwabara and Kurama who had finished training and were now spending their last moments before the fight with the girls. "Have any of you seen Botan?"

"Regrettably no." Kurama answered for all walking from the group and to the porch outside over looking the forest.

"Good." Koenma said

"What? What's wrong with you?" Kuwabara asked his sense of unity shattered by the fear that Koenma didn't care about Botan's wellness.

"Don't worry this just means that she is carrying out her mission." He said looking away as the sky and air became quiet.

"That's unsettling?" Kurama muttered from the outside

Yusuke nodded than took a closer look at Koenma, "where is your pacifier? You start teething?" Yusuke teased.

Koenma's face dropped and he shook his head with nothing to say. He walked into the temple and had a private meeting with Genkai.

"Where the heck is shorty? That stupid demon could be waiting for us now." Kuwabara said, "How did we get into the mess anyway?"

"Shut up Kuwabara." Yusuke said, "Hiei will show up, lets just go. Koenma are you coming?!" Yusuke yelled slightly irritated but the silence of the world.

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Botan peeled her eyes open and sat up, seeing Hiei next to her she gasped, " Hiei? Ugh…" She fell back onto her pillow, "What happened?" she asked bringing the back of her hand to her forehead

"Hn. you put on the pacifier and you got sick." He said as if it made sense.

"Oh Yeah. Koenma! Wait Hiei, Something bad is going to happen?" tears filled her eyes and she sat up once more with worry drenching her soul like a rain cloud that never wanted to dissipate.

"Hush, now, don't you cry. Everything will be alright." He said sitting next to her and pulling her head into his lap, His cold outer layer momentarily hidden.

"Hiei? Are you feeling okay?" She whispered up at him as her face flushed from the way he was holding her and they way he was breathing and the rhythmic beating of his heart.

"Hn, Baka. I am fine." He said, he didn't thing there would be anything wrong with showing her his soft side. I side that longed to be free and could be with her. "Close your eyes and drift in dream." He said

"But…" She stopped when he shook his head.

"Rest in peace. When you wake up everything will be better." He said pulling her closer as she closed her eyes.

"Why are you being so nice to me, Hiei?" she asked in a whisper as if they were the only ones in the world. In his arms like that, she was drifting on an island in a void of space where nothing mattered but the person, Demon, she was with.

"Botan, Every day you've given me light, there's one thing that you've shown me…" he stopped talking and looked away, he couldn't finish what he had to say.

"What?" she whispered

"Shhh, Just rest okay." he said and held her till she fell into a deep sleep. He then looked down at her slipping a ring onto her finger; it was a silver band with a Black Hiruseki stone in the center. He laid her back down and vanished, never knowing that it would be the last time her would see her.

Damn his tender heart, he had gotten close to her, though they were opposites he could not help but feel a small similarity to her. It didn't matter; he was okay with it. He finally had someone he could comfortably open up to.

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And there they were the group of five, Standing before a huge ring that sat in the middle of the forest. It was a battle for Earth as usual. But something was different; the wind seeped to sing a dark song of woe and worry. It traveled up and down the spines of each boy, One of which was not worried, he, after all knew what was to come.