Authoress: You guys like this? Really!
Muse: That's surprising.
Authoress: Oh not you! Go away!
Muse: Why?
Authoress: Argh, anyhoo! Please read and find out more of Botan's adventures!

Disclaimer: I don't own Yu-Yu or any of the other animes in this story. I own two things in particular.

PS- This chappy has a surprise guest. Maybe two. You'll like it either way.

Chapter 5

Of Thieves and Things
(Part 1)

'This is more normal than usual,' Botan commented and looked around the alley she had landed in. A city, how….. regular. Bubble-gum colored eyes surveyed her surroundings as she exited the alley. 'Penny?'

'Tokyo dimension, 8th level,' Penny told her.

'How many Tokyo levels are there?' Botan asked.

'About twenty-three,' Penny told her. Botan sweatdroppped. She hadn't really wanted the answer.

'Um, thanks. So, are things ready here?' Botan asked the pendant.

'Yup, there's a room awaiting you at the hotel down the street to your left. Tell them your first name and they'll show you to your room,' the pendant explained to the deity.

"Right," the blunette said aloud and headed down the street. She stopped dead (excuse pun) when she saw the hotel. 'Uh, Penny, are you sure that's the right hotel?'

'Positive, why?'

'Um, just it looks like God himself made it,' Botan said, matter-of-factly. The hotel was tall, almost fifty stories with gold-trimmed sides and an ivory fountain in the front. The fountain figures were scantily clad women holding urns and cute chubby cherubs running around, frozen in time. 'The Diamond Water Hotel' the illuminated sign read.

"Holy crap," Botan muttered. She decided at that moment to look down at her attire. She wore a knee-length red A-skirt with a black halter top and a red wind-breaker. Red heals adorned her feet and she swore she saw a diamond encrusted toe-ring. Out of curiosity she reached up and touched the bejeweled earrings and gasped.

'Penny, I don't have pierced ears!' Botan exclaimed.

'Ya do now!' the pendant sang happily. The woman rolled her eyes and kept walking.

When she entered, the desk clerk seemed to come to attention and look her over. She didn't like the examining stare he was giving her and frankly was a little peeved at his disapproving snort. What more did he want? Gucci sunglasses and a Coach bag?

"May I help you?" he asked, raising his nose a bit. That was the last straw.

"Yeah, I'm supposed to have a room ready. Under the name Botan," she said with a growl. With a huff he looked on the list and Botan's grin grew when his eyes did.

"I'm so sorry miss! I had no idea. Please forgive me, and let me help you to your room. Your bags are already there! Again, I'm terribly sorry," he repeated. Botan waved her hand, telling him it didn't matter now. "Right this way."

The desk clerk led her to the elevator and they got off on the 45th floor. Botan knew, because she counted, bored out of her mind. When she looked around her boredom was gone. The 45th floor was her room.

"Wow," she breathed out and the clerk smiled with pride. "Thanks," she told him.

"Please call if you need anything," he said and bowed, leaving the girl to ogle at the room she had just been given.

There had to be at least six rooms. One was a large living room with three couches, a futon chair, and a beanbag. The master bedroom was as big as a school classroom with a crystal chandelier and a bathroom attached with a spa-sized bath tub equipped with six different types of bubble-bath. There was a study with a computer and reference books. There was an extra bedroom and bathroom. Lastly, there was a personal kitchen with black and white tiles and a fully stocked fridge.

'Penny, I love you,' she thought happily, wiping away a stray tear.

'You're welcome, Botan,' the pendant said.

Botan leaned on the balcony looking over the lit up city. It was beautiful, like a bunch of fire-flies stuck in the endless cycle of popping on and off throughout the city. A bridge was lit in the distance and near that a boat was floating through, lit by deck lights.

A content sigh left her lips and she smiled to herself. She had never lived this easily. Her vacations, which were very, very short never got this good.

"So, what exactly am I to do here?" Botan asked herself.

'Well, here I believe you are supposed to relax and-' the pendant was cut off when Botan gasped. 'What is it?' she asked.

"There's a note here," she told the pendant and picked up the note that had suddenly appeared on the small glass table that was on the balcony. Hesitantly she picked it up and unfolded it slowly. She read it over. "Tomorrow night I'll be stealing the Pendant of Travel." She read aloud. After reading over it about three more times, Botan groaned. "I knew there was a catch to this life-style!" she exclaimed unhappily.

'This is not good. Somebody knows about me and worse, wants to steal me,' Penny said nervously. 'Botan, if I'm stolen you can't travel through the dimensions.'

"Well that sucks. I'm here for about five hours and already I'm targeted for a theft by someone named 'Dark'." Botan muttered darkly and slumped into the chair.

'What are we going to do?' Penny asked. There was a long silence.

"There is no way in hell I'm leaving this place yet, so I think we'll just have to protect you, hm?" Botan said easily. Penny gave off a slightly skeptical aura.

'I'm doomed,' Penny muttered.

"I heard that," Botan growled and headed for bed. It was late already and if she wanted to be ready to protect herself from an expert thief she needed rest.

'So, what? You plan to enjoy ice cream all day and worry about my safety later?' came an annoyed voice. Botan rolled her eyes and continued to lick her ice cream cone.

'Penny, control yourself, everything's going to be fine,' she told the pendant, whom responded with a grunt of skepticism.

'What do you plan to do today, oh Miss Cool?' Penny asked. Botan smirked.

'I intend to explore this city,' Botan said with a grin and stood, finishing off her ice cream.

Ignoring the idle nervous chatter of the pendant Botan walked through the streets, looking in the various shops with a bright smile. Over the course of the day Botan had figured out two main things.

One, Botan was now considered Miss Botan, a famous heiress from Kyoto visiting friends in Tokyo. And two, the pendant she wore around her neck was a very old family heirloom that was rumored to have magical abilities. But those were just rumors, right?

Today Botan showed off her comfortable surroundings by sporting a long powder-blue skirt that went to her knees and a white Abercrombie blouse with a blue and yellow beaded string belt. On her feet were laced sandals and her diamond toe ring was in place too.
Her ears were adorned with sapphire studs and her corn-flower blue hair was down around her shoulders.

"Wow, that was a long day," she said and flopped down on one of the black couches of her hotel room.

'That was just a nerve-wracking day!' the pendant exclaimed, giving off an aura of nervousness and stress. Botan rolled her eyes and just flipped on the TV.

The deity had been watching a rather interesting show on old Japanese tea ceremonies when the power went out and her room was plunged into darkness.

"God, how cliché," Botan muttered and threw the remote down with a growl. "A black out? Cheesey!" she walked over to the balcony door and threw open the curtains. Moonlight flooded the room and she threw open the door and stepped outside.

'Time to play. Penny?' Botan asked.

'I'm still here!' Penny said, sounding very edgy.

'Alright, I'll never ask you this again, but talk! Whatever you do, don't stop talking,' she told the pendant. Penny did as she was instructed and started to babble like she was going to die if she stopped.

Botan had blocked her out easily, loosing her concentration on Penny's explanations of how pendants were made and focused on the steady shadow that neared the door. The door opened and a boy stepped out.

"So you're Dark? The thief I've heard so much about?" Botan asked. The boy hard dark purple wild hair and a small furball sat on his shoulder. He wore dark clothes and his red eyes focused on her pendant.

Botan had done a lot more than looking around today. While Penny was busy worrying about her own safety Botan had gathered information on a certain legendary thief that was famed to have never been caught and barely ever seen. He always got what he came for. The deity often sneered when she heard the rumors, because she could've named a certain ex-thief that could take him any day.

"You can hand it over easily," the boy said, the smirk in his voice told him that he was enjoying the hunt.

"I never do anything easily," Botan said and leaned backwards, throwing herself over the balcony.

"What the-!" she heard him as he ran after her and jumped also. The furball changed into a large creature with black wings.

'Oh, so that's how you fly,' she thought, but didn't dwell on it a second longer and summoned her oar. Veering out of Dark's hands as he was about to catch her she sped back upwards and past her hotel room.

Penny was still talking, reassuring the blunette that she still hung around her neck. The pendant had now switched to the topic of recycling and how so many less people were doing it today. Botan rolled her eyes and looked back, noticing that the boy, though greatly surprised, was tailing her. She thanked many gods that she had slipped on shorts under her skirt as she cleared the roof and landed softly, her oar disappearing.

Dark also landed the creature shrinking again and jumping off his shoulder. There was a long moment of silence as he stared at Botan, who was not a happy camper.

"I thought this would be an easy jewelry pinch from a valley girl," Dark commented, "But you are making it more fun than that."

"I'm tickled pink that you are enjoying this little game," she said, sarcasm dripping from every word. "But I need this pendant a lot more than your sorry behind does, so scram, Zorro wanna-be," Botan made the motion of getting out with her thumb.

"What are you?" he asked bluntly.

"Too much for you to handle," she responded.

"I highly doubt that," he said and ran towards her. With a sigh she danced out of his path and ran towards the side again. When he tried to corner her she tapped into the teachings she had gotten from the last week of training with a saiyan and pushed off the ground and over his head.

"Look, go away, I really don't have time for petty thieves," the deity told him and faced the master thief with a glare.

"I'm not petty if I scare you," he jabbed. She growled.

"I am not scared of you!" she yelled.

"You're shaking," he said and pointed. Botan gasped at her own astonishment. Her legs were shaking and there was a cold sweat on her forehead.

"That's not fear," she gained her ground again. "It's disgust."

"Just hand the pendant over and I'll be out of your hair," he said, holding out his hand. The blue-haired woman glared at the hand and clutched the pendant close to her chest.

"Like hell," she snapped and got ready to tell Penny to transport them to a different dimension.

Botan didn't need to say another word. Dark's hand had been retracted sharply with a wince and a startled yelp from the thief. A thorned vine had almost taken off his outstretched hand.

"That's no way to treat a lady," came a cultured voice.

"No freakin' way," Botan muttered and looked to her left, fearing what she might here. Her eyes widened.

"How many weird people are coming out tonight?" Dark yelled and then took off, the wings on his back spreading again. He jumped off the side of the building and out over the city, away form his prize.

"Hi, Botan!"

Authoress: HEHEHEHEHE YOU GET- CLIFFHANGER, though you guys probably already know who that is. That doesn't mean that I've chosen a couple at all! This is just Drama.
Couples- Hiei/Botan- 8
Kurama/Botan- 5
Sesshoumaru- 3
Harry Potter/Botan- 1

Authoress: Sorry Kurama, you lost your standings.
Kurama: HE GAINED THREE MORE VOTES IN ONE CHAPTER!
Hiei: Careful fox, you're losing your cool. (smirk)
Kurama: (Throws tantrum)
Hiei and Authoress: O-O
All: REVIEW! OR YOU DON'T GET NEXT CHAPTER!

PS- I'm sorry the chappy was short, but I'm short on time

PPS- If you don't know the series of DNAngel just look up the main story online and you'll get the jist, don't worry. I won't delve a lot into the DNAngel story.

PPPS- ANY BRAND I MENTIONED IN THIS FANFIC HAS NEVER BEEN WORN BY ME! I DON'T OWN THEM NOR DO I WEAR THEM! I WEAR HOT TOPIC STUFF! AND JEANS!