Chapter Zehn

Botan waited jadedly in the kitchen, dinner went unheeded by the boys. Botan felt lonely but hopeful taking the hours that past by, a sign that the boys were on the road to rediscovery.

Her ears began to ring; it wasn't the type of ringing to be heard on a phone or a doorbell but a silvery whistle. The beauty of the chime danced with her eyelashes lulling her to close her eyes.

She had to find the source of the echoed shadow of the sound so Botan opened her eyes and began listening. The ringing was soft and swift causing invisible waves of beauty to vibrate through the air.

Following her ears, Botan was lead through the hallway and to a door. Hiei's door. She crept toward it and peeked in through a small crack in the door and saw him. Botan Pushed the door open lightly to see more of him without being noticed and gasped at the sight before her.

Hiei swung his sword; Cutting through the wind, Blood of clear air coated the sharp blade causing the whistle. Botan followed his swift dance with death with her bright magenta eyes.

Never had she seen such a beautiful dance of poise, balance and agility. His body was flawless as he weaved with his Katana in hand. His eyes were closed as if he were fighting invisible enemies, his mind lost in a haze of Memories.

"Hiei." Botan breathed as she reluctantly ripped her eyes away from his Ballet of shadows. Shadows Botan wished he didn't have to find again. She never knew what kind of pain he had been through but she knew that it must have been very painful. And not long from now he would find that his sister, Yukina, was dead.

A Week Earlier

Botan ran as fast as she could with the only thing she could find of the boys. Tears stung her eyes once more. How would she tell the girls that their loved ones had died in the fight? How could she tell them that she was the one who could have saved them but failed because she just wasn't fast enough? They would never understand, but she had to try.

She came to a stop, a sudden Aura of shivers ran through her body: another warning of danger. "What now?" Botan ran up the steps of the temple and paused. It was too quiet. Then she saw him, a tall dark man with pitch black sleek hair and deep violet eyes, he was no taller than Yusuke but was as built like Kurama. He was strikingly handsome, though Botan could tell he was really and ugly soul.

"Something's not right, I can feel it. What was he doing at the temple?" Botan asked herself aloud but gasped as her eyes ran down his cloaked body and to his hands. He held a long knife that was drenched in blood. Blood?!!?!?

No. Botan Ran into the trees as he came closer to her he paused as he looked around for a presents he knew was there. From the brush Botan held her breath and closed her eyes.

"One more to go. I will find that last survivor " He said and walked down the steps of the temple and left.

Botan's eyes widened, who was the dark lord looking for? Botan shook her head ignoring it and turned her attention back to the temple. The girls.

A Week Later (The Present)

Botan gasped and flinched when she felt a hand on her shoulder breaking her away from her memory. "Wha!"

"Whoa, Botan, its just me? Are you okay? What's Hiei doing?" Yusuke asked "or do you have a little crush on him?"

"Yusuke?! You know I do not have a crush on Hiei." She stood up and walked back to the kitchen and he followed her. "What are you following me for?"

Yusuke took a step back and frowned, "Well I thought you would be happy to see that I got my memory back." He turned and closed one eye awaiting her reaction.

"You Did?!?!?" She ran to him and wrapped her arms around him. "I knew it would work, I just knew it would." She squeezed him tighter.

"Ugh, B-Botan let me go, I cant breath." Yusuke turned in her arms and puffed in air only to release it upon seeing her tears. "Hey what's wrong?" He asked

"I thought, I would never see you again." she hugged him, lightly this time. "I missed the four of you something terrible.

"Hey nothing could keep up down, remember that?" He said and she nodded, "Yeah, so stop crying okay." he smiled and made her face him, "So what we got to eat?"

Botan smiled and bound off to the kitchen to reheat the meal she had made earlier. "You just sit down and I will get it for you okay?"

Yusuke sat down in one of the ten chairs and waited, leaning back in his chair with his hands behind his head, "I could get used to this." all of a sudden Yusuke was looking up at the ceiling and was hearing a ragged laugh.

"Hey, Urameshi, that's what you get for not sitting in your chair right." Kuwabara said, "it makes it easy for someone to knock you over." He laughed

Yusuke Quickly stood up, flushed with anger and embarrassment, "Kuwabara!" Yusuke threatened to chase his best friend.

"Now Boys, come on now, you just got your memories back, you don't need them knocked out of you again." Botan came in and handed Yusuke and Kuwabara a plate, she had fixed him one when she first heard his voice.

"Thanks Botan." Kuwabara said taking his plate from her and sitting to the left of Yusuke. "Aren't you hungry?"

"No, I already eat." She lied as her eyes slid to the hall that still held Hiei and Kurama and sighed,

"Hey don't worry about them, they will get their memories back, remember that they have harder memories than we do so it will take them a little more time." Yusuke said and took a bit of his rice ball getting lost in his meal.

"Yeah, I know, you're right. I just hope they will be ready to accept the truth and be the same. It did take them years to suppress those memories in the first place." Botan said taking on of Kuwabara's rice balls as he offered her one.