Haha yes, I've decided to get my lazy bottom up to write another story! Yay!
Chapter three.
My name is Botan. Around two years ago, I thought the world was coming to an end. I had just lost the perfect job. I assisted a lazy slob and everything was going great, until I made a mistake. I was switched to the most non-sociable man ever and given the powers to read his mind. However, he could read my mind too. As fate has it, I couldn't help change the way I thought about him. He's one of the guys, just a little silent and stiff around the edges. His two letter word may be the only thing he says, but once you get use to it it's not so bad.
He's the one I love.
Softly, very softly, a chuckle broke the tense silence. Botan reached up and pinched her cheek. "Oh my," she said, "these dreams are become too real."
"This isn't a dream." She had been so busy trying to wake herself up that Botan lost sight of what was happening around her. Hiei's rough calloused hands drew her hand away from her face. Botan looked at their hands touching each other, and Hiei didn't let go. Astounded, she turned to Koenma. Could he do this?
"Well," said Yusuke, crashing the special moment. "surprise, Botan! There is no mission and no suprise for Keiko. So, if you could tell her not to expect anything..."
"Actually..." Koenma said quietly.
"Koenma has a mission for us, listen up!" Tacky declared. Something in his voice killed the joy in the room. Hiei released Botan's hand, and she wrung her hands together. She was lost in emotion. What was going on? She felt Tacky's eyes on her, and she refused to look up. Hiei was watching Tacky, silently as always, as if studying him.
"Although Hiei's return is a celebration, we have a mission to complete. Everyone here has an important role to play." Koenma paused.
"Okay..." Kuwabara said, raising his eyebrow. "So what are we doing?"
Koenma hesitated for a slight second and Yusuke caught on quickly. "You can't do that, Koenma! Keiko is already mad at me for..." He drifted off, pondering if he should release such information. "Well, she's mad at me."
"How long do you expect us to leave?" asked Kurama, picking up the files on the edge of Koenma's desk.
"I can't say for sure. You're tracking four demons, as you can see." Slowly the files were passed around, opened, and skimmed through. Each file contained visuals and imformation about the demons.
"Everything is here, this should be easy."
"Hardly, Yusuke. Look at the information more closely."
Botan glanced upon the pictures, running across a image shot. "This one," She quickly said, holding it up. "This is the most recent one, taken six months ago. That's the inside of your father's vault, right?" The picture had caught the four demons in action.
"These demons, they're not your regular crowd." Yusuke said. "They got the human pyhsique, but they look like demons. They even got the colored skin."
"They're holding your crown, Koenma sir!" Botan gasped, her nose touching the paper. "Did they take it?"
Koenma nodded. "Of course, it's just the regular gold crown. There's nothing to worry about, it doesn't hold much power. They're just proving their point. Reikai walls are secure from head to toe-"
Yusuke began to sneeze, "Prison break!", turning his head away from Koenma's view.
"-yet they managed to break through." Koenma continued, glaring irritably at him. "Out of all the magical, rare, and dangerous things they could have stolen, they only chose the crown. My theory is that they didn't care for the treasures, but wanted to prove that they are rising to the top."
"And you have yet to find them since?"
"It's as if they disappeared from exsistance."
Botan shook her head. "That's not likely. If they were killed, one of the girls would have brought them here already. If they escaped to Nigenkai, they would easily be spotted by appearance and spirit energy."
"So I guess they're hiding," Kuwabara said.
"Where they are is what you're going to find out. I've given you all the information we know, so it's up to you to do the rest," Koenma said, eyeing each of them.
"Wait," Kuwabara said, glancing at Koenma. "you're not going to give us a plan?" Koenma shook his head. "Not even a hint of what we should do?"
"I honestly don't know what to myself," Koenma admitted. "There's not much I can do at this desk. After all, each one of you have more experience at this then me."
"This coming from the toddler who's only uh, I don't know, seven hundred years-old and beyond?" Yusuke grumbled, folding the file and placing it into his jacket.
Koenma leaped on to his desk, pouting slightly. "That's no fair. Kurama, Botan, and Hiei are way beyond my time!"
Botan glanced up. "Now hold on-" She snapped. "I am not older then you! You cannot count the time I was living either or the time before I was a ferry girl. I'll have you know I'm much younger then these two-" She jerked her thumb and Hiei and Kurama, who stood silently. "old timers."
"Please, Botan," Kurama said, unsure of what to make of this. "this really isn't a great time to discuss this at all," He paused. "but I'm actually near four-hundred years..."
"Really?" Botan asked, turning to him in suprise. "I actually thought you were older..."
"People!" yelled Koenma, sending the conversation back on topic. "I have made things easier for you. Reikai is already on heavy surveillance so you only have to take care of Maikai and Ningenkai. There are six of you, so choose your team and head out. Tacky, stay behind."
"Alright," said Yusuke once Tacky closed the door after them. "Being team leader, I immeadiately get a team. Who else wants to take charge?"
"Maikai is familiar grounds for me," Kurama said.
"Great, because I'm rather happy about staying on my own world!" Kuwabara said.
"Botan and Kuwabara will go with me, you two take on Maikai with Tacky. We'll all start tomorrow, alright?"
"I'll get you your weapon, Hiei." Botan said, leaving the men.
Hiei followed Botan while the others went another way. The bright corridors seemed unreal to the dark room he was adapted to, but then again, everything was unreal for him. Throughout the bustling agency, Botan led him into a silent corridor. Botan's shoes rang through the hall and her kimono rustled softly. The silence, it was almost like the prison halls, but more uncomfortable. There was nothing for the two to talk about. Everything was still in confusion. "Hiei?"
Hiei glanced at Botan, leaving his train of thoughts. She held his katana with both hands, placing it into his own hands like a gift. She wrung her hands together, watching him reunite with his passion. "I have to set everything up for tomorrow, but I'm sure Yukina would like a visit, By the time you're done, I'll probably be back home."
Home. Was the Ningen apartment complex really his home? Now unless she gave his room to that damn Turkey, or Tacky...whatever is name is. Hiei nodded and Botan looked relieved. "Well, I best leave now," She said, smiling at Hiei for the first time. "It's good to have you back, Hiei. It really is."
Yukina.
"Hiei, you're back!" Yukina rose from her spot, bowing respectfully. "I thought I would have to wait a hundred years until I saw you again."
"I'm back. I didn't mean to worry you." Hiei sat on the wooden halls outside the house as Yukina prepared a small lunch. He had made several attempts to help her, but she refused every one of them.
"I'm sure prision is harsh," Yukina has said before departing. "let me at least tend to your hunger."
The door beside him slid open, and Hiei glanced upon the old woman. "Oh," Genkai said, holding a hot cup of green tea. "It's just you. Came alone?"
"Yes," Hiei replied, still looking at her. "What of it?"
Genkai paused to drink. "Next time, bring Botan so we can all talk about how stupid you are." Hiei eyes widened, shocked at her words. She was talking to him as if she was talking to Yusuke, using the 'you jackass' tone of voice. "Did you really think going to prison was the wisest choice? Botan would mope for days around here, telling me about how she would try to talk to you. Why didn't you answer?"
Hiei turned away from Genkai, scowling. He had heard enough from her. "Because," He replied. "I had nothing to say."
"I have more then enough for all three of us," Yukina called, carrying a tray of rich food in her arms. "Would you like to join us, Genkai?"
Genkai reached for the door. "I'll pass," she said before sliding it shut.
"I've got space." Hiei assured her, reaching for a bowl of rice. Yukina was about to place it into his hands, when she suddenly stopped.
She looked at him, concerned. "Hiei," She asked, "are you well? Your hands are shaking slightly."
"I just have something to deal with."
"Deal with her soon please. I enjoyed her more when she was herself."
Hiei looked at Yukina from the edge of his bowl; she was eating. "Hn."
End.