A/N Another chapter for this story! YAY!throws confetti This was a hard chapter for me, and I really apologize if there are still mistakes in here. I tried my hardest to fix all the mistakes, but I guess I missed a few from the last review. blushes Really sorry about that! Hopefully, there aren't many mistakes in this one. And the thoughts are in italics, in case you didn't know already. .


I still don't know how I got here. Botan had awoken from her sleep some time earlier and was refusing to move no matter what, he was holding her. I will have to move sometime, but now is not it. That is what she had thought when she had first aroused. Now she started to think a bit differently. Staying in the same position for a long time gets rather boring after a little while. She sighed as she shifted and, finding no comfort, slowly and reluctantly moved his hand. She stood up, her blue hair flowing down her pink kimono. Where did my band go? Botan looked around, still half-way bent, because of the leaf dome, until she had an idea. Maybe I can get my oar in here and fly out of here! Some fresh air would really be nice. She deliberately put her hands through the hole at the top of the dome and called for her oar. Before it came into her hands, the hole started to close around her wrist. She tried to pull away from the dome, but she was too weak for it. It seemed like something stingy was being inserted into her blood and indirectly throughout her entire body.

"K..Ku..KURAMA!" She screamed for the only other person in the dome with her. He stirred for a moment and when he realized what happened, he jumped up and instantly went to her and slid his hand on to her arm, coming closer to the place where her hand was trapped. Tears were rolling down her face as instantly as the pain started. Her free hand was clutching onto Kurama's clothes as if for dear life. She felt his hand twirl into the one that was captured and as soon as she was free from the dome, she wrapped herself around him, sobbing into his clothes. He stood there for a moment before returning the hug she gave him.

"It's alright. You're still alive. It's alright." She stood there, just barely hearing his soothing words being repeated again and again to her. She sobbed into him, not having to care about anything since no one was here to watch. I nearly died! I nearly left this world! I nearly left Kurama! She sobbed harder after this thought, it being too much for her to handle.


This is so horrible. I have to make her stop. He grasped her shoulders and gently pulled her away from him. Her hair hugged her face, glistening with her constantly streaming tears. The light from outside reflected on her face, making it glow in a way it normally does not. She looks so delicately beautiful... He took a step towards her and felt his leg sting. He lost his balance and fell to the floor, clasping his legs.

"Kurama?" Botan barely had the room to say that between all her sobs. He was sitting in a dark space in the dome and she was unable to see why he fell. "Are you oka..." she moved a bit out of the light, allowing the light to show him. His pain made her cry even harder, her tears falling onto his legs. "I amsob so..sob so...sob sorry!" She erupted into even more tears, not caring if she actually drowned the people inside the dome. I can barely understand her. But it seems like she's apologizing..

He looked at his legs again, the pain was starting to go away?

"Botan." She was still wailing 'Sorry!' too loud for her to hear him."Botan?" She still was unable to hear him over herself. "Botan!" He nearly screamed, but being who he was, he couldn't yell. Especially at an innocent female. Luckily, before he got to that point, Botan stopped her sobbing. "It's alright, look at my leg!" She looked where he was indicating and nearly jumped... she remembered there was a roof above her. I never knew the tears of a healer could heal also.


How did that happen? Did I just heal him without knowing that I did? She stared at him with shock for a while before saying anything. "Did I just... heal you?" Duh! Why do I have to be so stupid? Of course I just healed him.

"Botan, how did you do that?" He seemed to be as shocked as her at the healing. In reply she just hugged him, and this time he didn't pull her away and she didn't pull herself away either.


Excuse the ending, please! That's all for this chapter, and hopefully less mistakes than the last one! Hope you enjoyed it, and don't' forget to review. They are very much appreciated!