Hi readers, I know, I should be focusing on the stories I already have out there, I need to finnish some of them still, but I want to know what you think about this one!

Rock Bottom

When you feel like you've had all that you can take, that's rock bottom. When you want something enough to steel, that's rock bottom. When life makes you mad enough to kill, that's rock bottom.

We all hit rock bottom at some time, Hiei hit rock bottom at the tender age of seven, Yusuke hit rock bottom when his father left and his mother became a drunk, Kuwabara hit rock bottom when his parents left, Kurama hit rock bottom when he put his soul in the unborn Suichi, Botan hit rock bottom three days ago.

Three days before>

Botan was walking down the street, a smile on her face, a glimmer in her eyes and a bounce in her step. Yup she was definitely happy today, the sun was shinning, the birds were singing, and the cars were speeding along with a steady hum.

It seemed like nothing could wreck this wonderful day, and that was why she was smiling. Recently she had been hurting, not physically, but she had been hurting. She saw every one of her friends was happily in a relationship. Something she couldn't have because of her father's position.

Okay, so maybe things weren't perfect. And maybe it wasn't a happy-go-lucky day, but still.

"Watch out lady!" She spun around and saw a motorbike heading straight at her, the biker was the one who had yelled to her, but she couldn't move. She was frozen in fear, and there was only a millisecond to think before she acted. She threw her arms in front of her and a white barrier appeared.

The barrier emitted a light that stopped the motorcycle in its tracks. Every one on the streets, who had been watching in fear cheered as the man got off his motorbike, shocked as hell. "My girlfriend is gonna kill me if she finds out about this," was all he could say.

Every one in the city knew Botan, the priest's daughter, the mage, the 'child' prodigy. There was no doubt the whole city would find out he almost flattened her with his bike. Thank god she was who she was, other wise he'd be charged with murder, if he was still alive to be charged. "Sorry lady."

Botan blinked at him and frowned, "You don't tell, I don't tell. The priest doesn't know I'm out here." He pulled off his helmet; he had brown eyes and slicked back black hair, and smirked at her. "Oh, the priest's daughter is sneakin' around behind daddy's back?" She continued to frown at him and crossed her arms, "Yeah well at least I'm here on a gospel mission. You live in the slums."

He hissed and grabbed his chest through his worn jean jacket and white t-shirt, "Ohh, ouch. The mage has insulted me, how will I ever live with myself." She could tell he was mocking her and scowled. "Oh shut up." She turned and started walking away, heading for the run-down church half a block away. She should have just let him run her over. That would've taught him a lesson and solved her problem the easy way.

When she got to the decrepit church she saw the person she had come to meet, Shizuru, her best friend. She smirked and ran over to her friend, "Hey Shizuru, you wouldn't believe what just happened." Her friend raised an eyebrow at her and took a drag on her cigarette. "Some guy almost hit you on a motorcycle, you stopped him with holy powers, a bunch of people saw, and he was a jerk?"

Her eyes went wide with surprise and her jaw hit the ground, "How'd you know that?" Shizuru took another long drag and pointed behind her, "Your holy followers. They're dragging the local punk, carrying signs such as 'All hail Botan' and shouting, 'apology!'." Botan groaned and grabbed Shizuru's pack of cigarettes. "Gimme those. I need a smoke." She lit one and took a long drag, before she started coughing.

Shizuru chuckled and took the pack of smokes back, "Why do you need a smoke? Aren't you the leader of the non-smokers committee, or something?" Botan sighed, "Well, yeah. But you wouldn't believe the shit my dad's doing. He's claiming to have found the son of god, and he says I should marry him."

"But you're only seventeen." Botan took a long drag on the smoke, and blew the smoke out, "I know. What's worse is this guy really is the son of god. I can feel it when I stand in the same room as him. But he's also three fucking years younger than me." Her 'holy followers' were starring at her confused, wasn't Botan the holy one a non-smoker, non-swearer and daddy's girl?

"Lady Botan, are you smoking?" Botan turned and glared at them, "Stop calling me lady Botan. I am just Botan." She started walking away, with Shizuru walking beside her.

"So what now Botan? Are you marrying that fourteen year old son of god, or what?" Botan snorted at her, "Fuck no. Why do you think I came out here? I need a place to hide from my dad. He'd never step foot in the slums, priest or not."

"You can hide out at my place, but you gotta buy your own smokes." Botan pouted as she took another long drag on her smoke, damn this was addictive, "Awe, but I don't have any cash Shizuru. Can't I just bum them off you till I get a job?" Shizuru chuckled at her and nodded, "I guess, but dear lord. You haven't even finished your first one and you're already begging me for more. Maybe you were right about smokes being evil."

"Nah that was just a bunch of crap." She tucked some blonde hair behind her ear, "I gotta dye my hair if I don't want my dad to find me... and maybe get some new clothes. Some thing black." Shizuru nodded, taking one last drag on her smoke before putting it out, "Yeah. I got some hair dye, its permanent blue stuff, and I got this roommate who's about your size; you can steal some of his clothes till you get a job."

"Who's your roommate?" "That demon thief, Hiei, and his buddy Kurama." Botan smirked at her friend and dropped her cigarette, stepping on it to make sure it didn't start a fire, "Isn't your boyfriend's name Kurama?" "No! I don't have a boy friend." She continued to smirk and elbowed her friend, "Ah but you wish you did Shizuru."

Shizuru glared at her and muttered, "Stupid holy know-it-all." Botan giggled at her friend and put her hands in her pockets as they walked down the street, towards a run-down, graffiti covered, grey house. There was a boy; probably eighteen like Shizuru, out front, tending to a variety of vicious looking plants. He had red hair, and Botan could instantly tell he was a demon.

"Which one's that?" Shizuru blushed slightly, "Um, that's Kurama. Watch out for his plants." Botan rolled her eyes at her friend as they got closer to the house, "I already got that much. I can tell they're dangerous." They walked into the yard, and were pretty much ignored by Kurama until one of his purple vine-like plants tried to grab Botan's ankle.

She narrowed her eyes at the plant and it backed off, she didn't even have to zap it with her holy powers, Kurama sensed her aura and scowled. When he felt Shizuru's aura beside her he sighed, "Who's the guest Shizuru?"

She rolled her eyes; it was annoying when he knew some one was there without looking, "This is Botan. She's from the ritzy side of the city, and our new room mate. The basement has been empty for months." Botan frowned at her friend, "The basement? But it's so dank down there; no amount of white magic could salvage that place."

As soon as she said it, she wished she could take it back, Kurama had stood up, and one of his plants, this one was actually green, attempted to attack her. She set up wall of light and frowned when the plant broke through. "Stupid..." She felt something tug at her insides and doubled over in pain, "...Fucker...He know's I'm gone."

Ah...yeah, this is going to be like four chapters, because I already have two and a half done, so...R&R!