Affirmation: True to Life

Disclaimer: I do not own Savage Garden nor YuYuHakusho or the song.

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Botan (Koenma)

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Humans were a strange lot, but they were a lot that were his charge along with the demon realm. Love was one of those things he didn't know how to explain. Botan had been by with Artemis, the noisy babe that she was, and the scary Sage.

Both were highly intelligent as far as he could tell though the girl had Botan's lungs for sure. The first second he held the red-headed child, the half-breed started wailing louder than a communicator on the highest volume ever. The mother of two looked nonchalant as he surmised it probably happened often. The child didn't stop until Botan, unceremoniously, took his pacifier out of his teenage mouth and pop it into the screaming infant's.

He had glared but only ended up sighing in defeat. He did love Botan but he was getting over her slowly. He kept her away most of the time because of the ache at just the sight of her made him feel. Botan knew he loved her, wishing she could reciporate those feelings but she knew her other half would always be Hiei.

"Botan, how did you know he was the one?" Koenma set down a glass of ice tea in front of her. The woman only looked up in thought, then smiled and blushed at the memory.

"Hiei………well, I knew….and I took care of him when we had all gotten that flu about a few years ago, and well……..he opened up……I knew then when he trusted me that he knew too…….OH! It's really weird to explain! I'm sorry….." Blushing, Botan only shook her head in thought. "There was also the fact that he could guess everything that I liked and then planted some peonies in my yard when he asked me to become his mate……..I think that was what really got to me, but he was really caring……and uh…..I really don't know! I just loved him."

She began stroking Sage's hair, soothing herself out of embarrassment, her smile radiating even more.

"But I really wouldn't have known if I hadn't got rejected by someone I loved as well…….I believe you can't know real love until you've been burned." Koenma stared at her, the wisdom she spoke was centuries old. He couldn't remember Botan when she'd ever been hopeful of someone else's feelings.

"Who was it?"

"Promise not to laugh?"

"I promise."

"Yusuke…….HEY! YOU PROMISED!"

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