AN: So I updated the day that I hoped I would. This chapter is really short, but to the point. I think. But what this really is a sort of side story for the gift that Hiei gave Botan.

Now, to clear things up, Kurama at first thought that he loved Hiei. But when he met Botan, he truly fell in love with her. And the reason why he seemed like he was a little insane was because he was a little OOC and he is deeply in love with Botan. But his feelings are one-sided. Botan doesn't know about his feelings. You won't be seeing him for the next few chapters. I'm actually surprised that no one said a thing about Yukina's change of personality.

This is slightly AU because in this fic, Koenma likes/loves Botan, not Ayame. I think I can try to squeeze her in this fic too. Koenma will make an appearance in the next chapter. He's also kind of important for the plot.

The Gift

Botan laughed in delight. There was a smudge of vanilla ice cream, or 'sweet snow' as he liked to call it, on his nose. She thought that it made him look adorable. She giggled when she heard him make a low growl underneath his breathe, most likely pointed at her. Hiei obviously didn't notice or feel what was being displayed on his nose. She giggled some more. He in returned, just looked at her strangely.

"What's so funny onna?" he asked.

"Nothing. Nothing at all," she said trying to act calm.

"Oh really?" he crawled over to the three feet from where he sat to where she sat on the grass.

Botan froze, watching him crawl closer to her. She was transfixed with his slow movements and confident posture. He gave her a sexy smirk which melted her bones. She thanked all that was good that she was already sitting down. If she was standing up while Hiei did this, she knew that she would have fallen down to her knees and then her butt. She felt her spine quiver slightly. Her eyes traveled from his still smirking mouth upwards. Intending to go up to his eyes, her own stopped at his nose.

The smudge was still there.

And Hiei still didn't know.

A fit of giggles came out again from Botan's mouth. The sudden change of mood made Hiei stop. An annoyed expression came onto his face. He was so close, right next to her. Then she suddenly started laughing. She was the weirdest woman that he ever met. Either that or the craziest.

"What's so funny this time?" he demanded.

Botan fought to control her giggles. After an attempt to tell what made her laugh, she found that she couldn't tell him without going into another state of giggles. So instead of telling him, she brought up a napkin that was lying next to her cup of ice cream and brought it up to his face. Hiei looked at the thing with question, wondering what the napkin had to do with anything. Then Botan wiped the smudge of ice cream off his nose.

She pulled the napkin away a bit to show him.

"You had sweet snow on your nose," she said. She smiled cheerfully.

Hiei gave a smile of his own. But his wasn't the happy kind like Botan's. It was more of seduction. He brought his face closer to hers. Botan felt herself letting go of the napkin, causing it to fall to the grass. When his face was less than an inch from hers, his head veered to the left.

Botan was surprised at the unexpected act and sadden by it. She thought he was going to kiss her. But the negative emotions soon turned into unexpected pleasantries when she felt something wet and warm touch her cheek. It moved up a bit and then the feeling was gone. She shivered in delight.

Hiei pulled away from just a little. His face still close to hers. Very close. He gave her a seductive smirk before licking his lips.

"You had sweet snow on your cheek."

Botan felt her cheeks turning red. Especially the one he had licked.

Hiei's face came closer. His nose touching hers. Their breaths mingling. He closed his eyes. Botan followed suite. Their mouths barely a centimeter apart. Botan's mouth anticipating his.

Her eyes opened slowly when she didn't feel his warm mouth against her. What she found instead was the darkness of her ceiling. It was a dream. It felt a little too real for her liking, but she knew that she enjoyed the dream very much. Recalling what was going to happen just before she awoke, Botan's face turned several shades of red. They were so close. She wanted to kiss him. Felt the need to kiss him. Her face became so red, that the color went down her neck as well. She never felt like that before. The desire to kiss someone was a new experience for her. Botan briefly wondered what it would be like if she actually had kissed him?

What would it feel like if she kissed him for real?

Botan's face flushed deeply. What was she thinking? Resting her forearm on her head, she immediately felt tired. When she came back to Genkai's, she showed Genkai, Yukina and Kuwabara her new gift, a wooden flute, and then after taking with them for about an hour or so, went to bed. She looked out the window and saw clouds covering the moon. She closed her eyes in attempt to fall back asleep, which failed miserably. With a frustrated sigh after about twenty minutes or so of trying, she opened her eyes, expecting to see the dark ceiling.

Instead, what he eyes found was the ceiling alit with colors. Confused, Botan sat up from her bed to look closely at the ceiling. She was sure that it wasn't morning yet. And even if it was morning, there wouldn't be any yellow, bright blue, pink, green, red, orange, and other bright colorful lights dancing merrily in her room. Looking to her window, she saw that her Aysel was opened in full bloom and was the one responsible for giving out all the strange bright colors that was dancing around her room. Looking closely, she saw that each petal made a bright color that glowed and shined through the dark. The buds inside the flower also shone with bright colors.

With a squeal of delight, she jumped from her bed and ran out the door. When she came back into her room, she was not alone.

"Look! Yukina-chan! Genkai-san! My flower is blooming! And its blooming lights!" she exclaimed cheerfully all the while pulling them inside and pointing at her flower at the same time excitedly.

"We see Botan. Now please let go, I would like to get a better look at it," Genkai said and went over to the flower.

"It is very pretty Botan," Yukina said. "I haven't seen one of these since I was last in Makai. Did Hiei give it to you?"

"Hai. Is it common in Makai?" Botan asked, a little dejected to find out that Hiei would give her a flower that one could find anywhere in Makai.

"Iie," Yukina shook her head. "You could only find these types of flower in few places. And even then, you'd have to wait until there is moonlight to make sure that it is the one you want. This is an Aysel, ne?"

"Hai."

"Well, I for one have never seen or heard of this flower before," Genkai said. "It needs moonlight to bloom, am I correct?" She looked out the window to see the moonlight shining down on the flower.

"Yes," Yukina replied.

"Its not a full moon, so any type of moonlight will do I suppose. This flower is very interesting. I think I'd like to have one myself. Maybe I'll go to Makai and get me one of these. Either that or have Kurama make one for me. He seems to have every kind of plant know at his disposal."

"If you are going to ask him, then I suggest that you go to him instead of wait for him to come here. He will not be coming here any time soon." Yukina's tone of voice caused Botan and Genkai to look at her shocked. Genkai recovered quickly and grunted something about going back to bed. Botan continued to look at Yukina with surprise.

There was slight anger and a sense of overprotect ness that Yukina's voice normally did not hold. It reminded Botan of Hiei. She was quickly reminded that they were twins, but they were as different as night and day. It was like they were night and day. Yukina was day and Hiei was night. Now their roles appeared to have switched. Yukina was talking darkly while Hiei was nothing but nice earlier that day. Well, as nice as Hiei could get.

Snapping out her thoughts, Yukina turned to Botan and smiled warmly at the ferry girl. "I'm sorry that I disturbed you. It is just I have recalled something that happened earlier today that got me in a bad mood. I'll leave you to your sleep."

And with that, Yukina left a still stunned Botan.

"I am so talking with her in the morning," she muttered to herself and turned back to her Aysel.

It was still showing off its colors in all its glory. Botan picked up her new flute and sat down on her bed and watched the colors move around her room. It was wonderful gift. She could not begin to thank Hiei for it. She just hoped that he like her gift to him and much as she like his gift to her. She started playing her flute softly for a few minutes. When she could not get the right melody for her current mood, she put her flute down. With a content sigh, she lied back down on her bed and fell asleep. This time there were no dreams of Hiei or of fire. Just of the flower that Hiei gave. Still glowing brightly.

Botan had the strangest dreams.