STRANDED!!
Taken
Jewls awoke to the sound of footsteps. Her eyes narrowed and stood quickly running over to the entrance of the cave staring out a bit waiting for the person to approach.
Jewls panicked a bit and looked around, spotting a tree branch; she held it high over her head and waited.
OoO"Will you walk faster!" Shouted an annoyed fire demon walking ahead of the young deity. He had a bag full of fruits and berries strung over his shoulder from their stop for food. 'I can't believe I got caught up in Botan and forgot about the food!'
Hiei scowled at himself.
Botan ran up to Hiei and fell into step as he started walking again. She fell into thought as Hiei stared straight ahead casting unknown glances at her now and then.
This area certainly was unfamiliar. They had to find a way off of this island and fast. He couldn't keep Botan in danger more than he had to. Come morning, he was going to go and find out who bombed them, and then find out how to get them off this island!
OoO"Yusuke…uh you do know you could get arrested for this!" Keiko shouted at the young spirit detective.
Yusuke, who was piloting the jet, used his right hand to brush a few bangs out of his face. He turned to Keiko. "So." Was all he said before turning back to his view of the ocean. "If it'll get Hiei and Botan back, then it won't matter. Besides, Koenma can just bail me out."
Kurama, who was sitting next to Yusuke piloting the other wheel, shook his head. Shizuru, Kuwabara, and Yukina were all sitting back and looking out the window.
Yukina suddenly stood and walked over to Kurama. "What is this we are in, if I may ask?"
Kurama looked up at her with a smile. "It's called a jet. The army uses it to destroy the enemy all the time, or people ride them for fun. In this case, they had these planes at the airport just in case something happened."
Yukina nodded in slight understanding. She took the seat next to Kurama and he started telling her about all that he learned about the planes and how they worked as she listened to the whole thing.
OoOJewls slammed the branch down hard on the intruder's head as the person stepped 'quietly' into the cave. As branch hit skull, the person fell unconscious.
Jewls knelt down and pulled the person deeper in the cave and then just dropped him. She turned him over and examined its face. She gasped. It was a man.
OoO'Is it only his instincts…? Or does he want me too? I'm so confused!' Botan was getting frustrated just thinking about the little koorime. Hiei seemed to sense her change in attitude. He turned to her. They were almost to the cave, could she at least wait til they got there. He swiped a hand over his face with an exasperated sigh.
"Girls…" Hiei muttered and unknown, Botan heard. She turned on him in a flash. Already was he complicating things. Now he goes and does the one thing to send her over the edge.
"Excuse me!" Hiei shrunk back…he knew her too well. "Here we are in the middle of the ocean, on some deserted and come to find out not so deserted island! Then we almost, well I do practically get blown up, and then I'm stuck with some hormoned raged fire demon who wants me! And now your giving me lip!" She exploded. The hormoned fire demon part…she probably went to far, because he looked pissed right about now. Even though it was true.
"Ya know what onna? You've been letting all your anger out on me lately and I've been thinking of upholding all those death promises and then my desires wouldn't be wasted on you!" Hiei also went to far. Wasted! Wasted! Is that what he thought of her! A waste!
Hiei dropped the food on the ground and pulled out his katana. Botan gulped tears starting to well up in her beautiful violet colored orbs. She angrily held them back. "That's what you think of me huh?" If she was going to die now, why not push it to the limit? "I'm a waste! A waste of time, a waste of space, not aloud to live, not aloud to die."
What was she saying?
"I'm in-between Hiei, I can't die!" At this point she was crying. A few tears fell to the ground and were quickly dissolved into the deep sand. Andto make matters worse, it started to rain. "I'm not alive and I'm not dead, but I can't die. I wish Koenma never revived me!" Hiei's sword started to lower, he stared at her in concern, that she didn't notice. This is the second time she's blown up.
"Cause then…cause then Hiei…" She laughed and then cried more. "Cause then, I never would have met you." Sword met ground as Hiei dropped his katana to the ground in stunned silence. Botan was left standing there with her head bowed and bright tears falling down her elegant face in the moonlight as the rain dampened their clothes. Her eyes were wide. She would have never ever said that to Hiei! This island was doing something to all of them.
A blow to the heart. Hiei continually felt pain in his chest at this moment and he had no idea why. Botan looked up and Hiei's heart broke more. Her face was that of a broken deity. She broke into a sob and turned and ran.
"Wait Botan!" She knew nothing of the dangers out there at this point. Before he could go after her, he was slammed to the ground by some huge impact.
OoOBotan ran blindly through the deep trestles of the unknown forest. She shouldn't have said that. Because it wasn't true. If she hadn't met Hiei, she probably would have died. She couldn't bear the look on his face. That stung…and it stung badly.
She……She fell in love with him…oh god…she fell in love with Hiei Jaganshi.
She fell to her knees. This was too much…h-how did this happen? She covered her face with her hands and cried. There was no taking back what she said. She wished she could ten fold, but she couldn't.
"Oh Hiei…I'm so sorry…I'm so sorry." She broke into more sobs as she bend forward felling like throwing up as she did so. There she sat…in the rain, bent forward crying her eyes out.
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Hiei punched the unknown man in the face sending him colliding into a near by tree. The man got up and somehow took a dagger out of his boot and threw it at Hiei. It landed square in the chest.
"Now that you're down demon, the girl is ours." Before Hiei could utter another word, or get up and fight again, darkness over took him and he collapsed.
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What was taking them so long? Being in a cave with a man who tried to sneak in their cave was not calming at all.
She stood up from the log, dropped the tree branch on the mans head, and ran out of the cave in search of Hiei and unfortunetly Botan.
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"Well, well, well, what do we have here? The little girl we've been looking for finally come to realize her feelings?"
Botan's head snapped up at the sound of the voice. "W-whose there?"
"You will come to know me soon my dear. You are a very powerful key my dear. Your feelings coming out make them all the more stronger."
Botan was confused. Who was this guy and where was Hiei? "W-who are y-you?"
The next thing Botan saw was darkness.
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"Botan…"
DREAM SEQUENCE
Botan was running in a field…a field of fire…no flowers. And he was watching her…he…he was smiling.
Smiling? Heh…he never did that before. It was…new. He watched the love of his life run happily through the flowers. Then it went back to their argument and her pain and his.
Then the field turned to nothing and Botan fell ingto a never-ending void calling out his name.
END DREAM
"Hiei…?"
"BOTAN!" He jolted upright. Jewls jumped back almost having her skull cracked open.
"Hiei…are you alright? Where's Botan?" He was already taken, it mattered no more, and she couldn't have him.
"Where is she! She wasn't with…" No she wasn't…she ran off. His eyes widened.
Now that you're down demon, the girl is ours.
"That bastard! He took Botan." Hiei shouted standing up and strutting towards the entrance of the cave.
"Wait Hiei…will he help?" Hiei turned to the man who was tied and gagged. Hiei smirked and the man cowered in fear. It very well may be fun getting information out of this guy.
To be continued...