Hello! I´m really sorry that I took so much time to wirte this chapter... And there isn't a lot of action yet... Forgive me! Welll, this is a Botan-Kurama story, but there is also Keiko-Yusuke, etc. So please, be patience!
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Eyes of love
"Yusuke Urameshi"
"Kazuma Kuwabara"
"Youko Kurama"
"Hiei"
"The legendary Urameshi Team... winners of the renowned Dark Tournament three years ago. Two half-demons with incredible powers and a fame that will continue alive trough the ages. A full demon, owner of the Jagan that a long ago was a murderer and now is a Renkai helper. And, at last, a human that is absurdly powerful for his race." He finished saying looking to the river from the bridge of city. The cars were passing very fast, as the humans continued their usual life without enormous worries. They were coming and going, directing themselves to work, to their home, their families. Their wives, kids, husbands, friends, chiefs, were waiting then, spread around the city. "However, nothing of this matter. Soon, they will be all dead."
Mitsurai smirked to the scenery of the city in front of him. He would never imagine that it would be he the one that was finally having a chance to destroy the Renkai Tantei. When himself first found Lord Itsuki, his situation was miserable.
Mitsurai was lost in his own past.
Once, a long time ago, King Emma Dayo banished Lord Yakumo and the Netherworld to the darkness of the space, and he, Mitsurai, was one of Yakumo's principal servants. His spirit traveled between the nothing for years, together with other servants that parted this disgusting destiny with him. Mitsurai only could thing in hate, anger and despair. This feelings burn in his lost soul without his control. Hate was everything.
However, two months ago, something happened. His Lord Yakumo for a long time was reuniting power and power, without the knowing of the Spirit World. The Netherworld was going to be liberated as soon as Yakumo found the Power Sphere, that was hide by Emma Dayo in very secret place. The power sphere was the source of their energy, the source of the restoration of the Netherworld. But something got in their way…
Renkai Tantei.
Spirit detectives from the Renkai defeated the King Yakumo, to protect a weak and futile ferry guide that was with the possession of the Power Sphere. This idiot ferry guide used her body to hold the Power Sphere that could only be held and controlled by Lord Yakumo. The imminent menace to the Human and Spirit world made the Renkai Tantei, leaded by Yusuke Urameshi, fight, defeat and send the Netherworld once more to the darkness of the space.
Hate.
Hate grow strong in his mind during days. He hated the Spirits Detectives more then anything. And this hate showed useful for Mitsurai. His mind finally found a way out from the cold and dark prison that was the space. At a first though, he imagine that he had freedom himself alone, without anyone's help. But when he woke up in a strange place, with his old body, weak and helpless, he knew that wasn't true.
"You find your way back to life and to the power" A strange voice said, and he noticed that the voice was coming from a creature between the shadows existents in the place he was. Mitsurai instantly realized that the strange one was a demon. A powerful one. The demon emitted a diabolic aura that made Mitsurai fell small and vulnerable. And he knew what coming next.
Mitsurai had found a new master.
"Where Am I?" Mitsurai asked. The place where he was hadn't any windows, and it was dark and cold. The room was empty, except by a cradle that he was laying down moments ago.
"That is not important" The demon said in a cold tone. "We don't have time for this unnecessary questions. What really matters now, is that the time to you use your hate has came. Your anger leaded me to your soul, and that is why I brought you back."
"I don't understand" Mitsurai said. "With thousand of demons for you choose, why don't know why you chose me".
"Your hate is something that I need" The strange replied. "Between the darkness of the space, your feelings had a prominence from the others. None had so much anger as you had, and that's is the kind of help that I need."
"What do you want my help for?" Mitsurai asked. At that moment, he was feeling clearer the stranger's energy. It was more that strong. It was incredible.
"To destroy the Renkai Tantei, of course." The strange said. Every world he whispered, his energy got strong, as if he wanted to prove Mitsurai that he wasn't kidding. "If my help, you will finally make the Renkai Tantei pay for everything they have done"
"How is this going to be possible? I heard that these Spirit Detectives are very strong!" Mitsurai said.
"You don't have to worry with anything. It is all planed for me. You will receive a power beyond your imagination, Mitsurai" The strange said smirking evilly. "And as gratefulness, you will be my servant from this moment on."
"Who the hell are you?"
"My name is Itsuki, Mitsurai." The strange said, and he finally got out from the shadows. Mitsurai had a terrible sensation going up his spine when he laid his eyes on the strange. This Itsuki demon had green hair, and eyes that remembered a snake. And he also had a diabolic expression. It looked like he was thirst of victory. "Lord Itsuki for you, Mitsurai"
"Yes… Lord Itsuki" Without any other words, Mitsurai knelt in front of his new master. He wouldn't lament his situation. He had been saved and he would lastly got what he was wanting for a long time.
Revenge.
"We have work to do, Mitsurai"
That moment was the last breath before the diving. A new order was about to rise in the human world and its race would finally have their judgment day. As his last request, Lord Itsuki asked Mitsurai to choose two warriors in order to help them in their conquest of the Renkai and Ningenkai. And that was what Mitsurai did. With his new power, it was possible to him bring back two of his best demons from the Meikai.
Finally, they were ready. Ready for their revenge.
And them, it began.
Mitsurai looked to river under him. The human world was too much different from Makai. The Ningenkai didn't have the incredible smell of the Makai; the smell of fight. He couldn't fell the hate and horror that he felt in the most darkness parts inside the demon world. However, soon he would fell. In the next days, the human, demon, and spirit world, will become only one.
"Good morning" Mitsurai finally spoke when two strange shadows came closer and stopped next to him. Those strange new arrivers were two demons. Demons from Makai. "You both are late".
"Forgive us, Mitsurai" said the first demon. He had a strange body. His back was curved, but even so he looked strong, having a powerful aura around him. "We didn't imagine that we were going to attack so soon".
"Don't give foolish excuses, Yazokei" Mitsurai said. "I told you to be ready. Besides, you know that Lord Itsuki doesn't want any problems at this mission".
"Who are we going to kill first?" the second demon asked with a malicious tone. He was shorter that the other warrior, but it was possible to fell that he was stronger and was also knew in Meikai by his unbelievable velocity.
"Patience, Samatsu. You are not going to kill anyone now." Mitsurai answered. "Our first task is very easy. Lord Itsuki wants us to give a small spy on the Renkai Tantei. It is just to us find who our little friends love the most".
"What the hell is that for?" Samatsu asked, not liking the simplicity of their task. He was a killer after all. His desire was kill the spirit detectives with his own hands.
"Easy, Samatsu…We are going to do a very interesting job" Mitsurai said, smirking evilly to the water of the river under him. "The humans have a very unnecessary weakness. It is called…. Love.
"That is ridiculous" Samatsu said. Who needed love! Disgusting thing. The most important thing was power.
"I know it is" Mitsurai smirked. "But that will very helpful. The love they care for walks hand in with their doom. We will make… a mortal game. A game full of revenge for us. And full of despair for then. We will have a small fun with their love ones…. Then, after this torture, when they be wishing to be dead…we will make their wish come true.
"Well, I think it will be very fun, right, master?" Yazokei said.
"Don't worry, it will be" Mitsurai replied. "This world will be painted with the blood of Yusuke Urameshi and his friends and love ones".
"I will spy Hiei, the Jangan owner" Samatsu said.
"And I will take care of that stupid human" Yazokei said.
"All right. I will mind myself with Urameshi and Youko Kurama" Mitsurai completed at last. The other two demons nodded silently, and turned around walking away in different directions, until they couldn't be seen anymore, and only Mitsurai was left. He finally drove his look away from the river, smiling deviously.
"We came to it last. This will be the greatest battle of the millennium. And the victory will certainly be at our hands, as soon as the spirits detectives are dead".
Yes… as soon as they are dead.
"Kurama!"
At that moment, all they wanted was that the time could stop for them. To the young people that laid on the green grass of the park, the world could end, the sky could fall on their heads, and they wouldn't mind themselves not even a little. The other people one the park had their eyes on the young lady with pale blue hair that was locked in an ardent embrace with a handsome young gentleman who had his strong arms around the girl's waist, holding her determinedly as if he wasn't never going to let her go away from him. NEVER. Everyone who was watching the passionate drama before them since the beginning could comprehend the devotion that the two had for each other. A blend of emotions could be seeing passing through their eyes, echoing on their fast breaths and reflecting on their happiness. Fervent yearning, apprehension, and most of all…. LOVE. Yet, those unimportant people staring at them, with the sure that love was still alive at the current days, were aware of one thing. The love of the two youngsters in question was nothing more than a silence.
It was a secret.
Kurama glanced at the blue sky above him. It was sunnier than before and it looked as if the rays of the sun were just at him and Botan, as if her presence was a kind of heavenly intervention. Maybe, especially because she was a heavenly intervention in his life. Kurama gave him a mental shake. Although people were staring inquisitively at them, Kurama didn't cared at all. He wanted this moment, which he waited a long time to happen, last forever, and never let the ferry girl of his every night dreams go away again.
"Botan" Kurama said gently sitting up, Botan's face still hidden in his chest. Too much time, the ferry girl had waited to touch his slender form, to fell the warm of his body, which was now embracing her entire body while her heart started pounding hardly at the sweet sound of his voice. It looked like she had seen thousands of winters without hearing his voice before this moment. "Botan… I ….missed you"
At these words, Botan finally took enough courage to look inside his emerald eyes. They were so indecipherable, remembering Botan of a flower in the majesties gardens of Renkai. The blossom was called Solitude, and was as green as Kurama's eyes. Normally, it grew up alone, in the middle of nothing, without any similar blossom around it. It had a unique shining, as if the flower was made entirely of the most perfect diamond in whole spirit world.
Exactly as Kurama's eyes.
They were as perfect as Solitude, reveling a silent emotion and unspoken feelings. However, what formed on the kitsune's lips in that moment of understanding, made the old, cheerful and happy Botan suddenly come back to life again. He was smiling.
And that was enough.
"Kurama! I missed you so much!" Botan blurted out, hanging herself again on Kurama's neck. This time the red head was prepared, holding himself on the wet grass, avoiding a new fall on the ground. He slowly stop up, embracing the ferry girl and ignoring the feel people who were still staring at them. Who cares if they were staring? Kurama was too happy to mind himself. With a gentle touch on Botan's head, he broke their contact apart, making Botan look inside his eyes and instantly blushing for being so excited.
"Sorry" She said looking to her feet that were strangely interesting in the moment.
"Don't worry, but you should know that you can be very intimidating sometimes." Kurama said laughing, making Botan blush even harder than before, if that was possible.
"Kurama!" Botan shouted to the red head, giving a little punch on his arm and laughing too.
"I was kidding with you, Botan!" The red haired boy said smiling as the "couple" sat on the branch where Kurama was before Botan arrive. "You know… I was just imagining where you could be this moment"
"Really?" Botan asked still smiling. "I arrived here just a few moments ago… I didn't know where to go…. So I decided to visit the park first. I didn't even imagine that you would be here, Kurama!"
"It's lucky of you, Botan, since you don't know are living now. Everyone has moved to new places during this last month" Kurama said. "You have been gone for so long…"
Botan looked to the ground after he said this, feeling a little sad because she had lost so many moments with her friends. Moments that for sure were celebrated with all the gang together.
Important moments.
After that, they stood in silence for a long time, not having courage to speak to each other. As any girl that ever passed trough a situation like that, seeing the boy she liked for long time and knowing that she had broken a promise, she was nervous. She wrungher handsthat were rested on her thighs, as if Kurama was someone she had never talked and seen in her entire life. Botan rested her right hand on the branch, just as Kurama rested his on the same place. Their hands touched each other; only to quickly move away by the reflex. Their eyes met immediately, as their hearts started to beat faster and a shade of red appeared on their faces.
"Botan…where were you all this time?" Kurama asked to her with a hurt tone in his voice, making Botan somehow fell ashamed again. Her face frowned at this question, her worries about making her friends sad coming back to her mind.
"I'm so sorry" Botan said softly. "I'm sorry for worrying you but…everything happened so fast, you know? That fight with Yakumo made me…. made me…" She tried to finish her apologies, but a new feeling of sadness came to her heart. She moved her hand and placed it on her abdomen, as if the memories of that fight still brought her some pain. "I'm sorry".
"You don't need to apology" He said facing her. "I just…".
"You just what?" Botan whispered in a question, accidentally getting closer to the red head's face.
"I just…" Kurama said trying to content himself. All that he wanted was kiss her sweet lips. He leaned his head down, the proximity between their mouths getting smaller. Kurama could see himself reflected in her large magenta eyes and could fell her elaborated breath on his face. "I just want to say that I love you" Kurama though to in his own mind as the seconds got longer. "But I can't. Never." As if he had been awakening by his last reflection, Kurama slowly moved his head away. "I'm just happy you are back. All the rest of the gang will be".
"Oh". Botan felt disappointed and hurt somehow, and turned her head to the other side, after giving Kurama a small smile, thinking that he wasn't going to realize her deception. Well, she was being very stupid. What was she expecting? That Kurama was going to say that he loved her?
Well, that was exactly what she was expecting.
"I'm so idiot!" Botan though, not realizing the smirk that Kurama was trying to hide after he saw the small frustration on her features. What could that mean?
"Botan?"
"Yes, Kurama?"
"I went to Yusuke's and Keiko's place a moment ago visit then" Kurama said. He was fighting against the will of telling the blue haired girl that the reason of going there was only she. However, once more, he knew he couldn't. She would certainly imagine why did he do that. "They are missing you very much"
"Really?" Botan asked, and her face lifted up immediately, making Kurama realize once more how much she cared about her two best friends.
"Of course. Ah…Yusuke also wanted you to come back fast, because he was demanding that you escorted him to Renkai"
"Did happen anything to him?" Botan asked worried and with wide eyes when the mention of Yusuke being escorted came. "Is he ok?"
"Of course he is" Kurama said smiling. "Except for the fact that Keiko is about to kill him by slapping him everyday. Keiko is becoming a professional fighter… Believe me, she's better than Yusuke".
Botan blustered out in laugh. The last time that she felt so happy was a long time ago and was nothing more than a memory; during the last months Botan had too few reasons to celebrate.
Kurama looked down at Botan as she laughed. The difference was incredible and he finally recognized the Botan that had been with the gang during so much time.
"Botan… Yusuke and Keiko are leaving together not far from here" He said pointing in the direction of where he came from. "Do you want to visit them?"
"Yes! Of course I do!" She exclaimed happily. "There is a long time I don't see Yusuke. I miss him and Keiko a lot!"
"I know, Botan" Kurama stand up and reach out a hand to Botan that held it without thinking. "Come, it is time to you to act like someone of the gang again"
"I guess you are right" Botan said smiling to Kurama, who pulled Botan with him and they both started walking again trough the park, in the direction of Yusuke's and Keiko's place, receiving envy looks of the people that could see clearly their happiness in their eyes.
Eyes full of emotion.
Eyes of love.
He slowly and gently lowered his head down, and brushed his warm lips on the peach skin of her forehead, after drawing away some treads of hair from her face. Yusuke's arms were around Keiko's fragile body for the last entire hour that they were sitting on the couch of the living room watching TV. He simply loved staying closer to her, especially in such a beautiful and comfortable afternoon like that. But something still bothered him.
A scream between the silence. No one would answer him.
Only she would.
"Keiko…" Yusuke said caressing Keiko's face, making her look to him. "May I ask you something?"
"Of course, Yusuke" Keiko answered, sitting straight to face him. "What's bothering you again?"
"Keiko… Do you… do you swear that you are going to marry me?" He shouted avoiding Keiko's look. His voice sounded afflicted, almost desperate, and that somehow scared Keiko. It looked like Yusuke was pleading to her to not leave him, something that she would never do.
"Of course I do, Yusuke" she said, resting the palm of her hand on his cheek, forcing him to look inside her brown and deep eyes. "But you know that we have to save some money to pay our weeding, and that we have do a little more of college".
"I know… It's that… sometimes I think that you're going to leave me for all that I made you suffer, Keiko" Yusuke said in a tone of apologies. Keiko was just stunned. They had talked about the same subject just an hour ago. And yet, he hadn't forgiven himself! She faced him, looking trough his flesh and bones, trying to reach his soul. Something deep in Yusuke was telling her that he might never forgive himself. Was that the regard oh his life as a Spirit Detective? A wound that would never hale? An enormous guilt of everything that happened over his shoulders?
How do you go back to the path of an old life?
Without changing?
You don't.
"Keiko?"
"You made mistakes and so did I" The brown haired girl said determinate. "We are both humans. We are only blood, flesh and bone"
"I can't make mistakes, Keiko" Yusuke said holding her hand. "This is the curse I received when I accept this life. One mistake can cost the life of someone I love"
You. Genkai. Botan. All my friends.
"Yusuke, please, listen to me" Keiko cried, tears now freely going down her face. "You never failed with me. Never. Sometimes we, the ones who are able to love, make mistakes. But they just happen so that we can learn to stand before the problems in the future"
"But-"
"Don't argue with me" She said, interrupting him. "I have also done terrible mistake in my life… Do you remember when you died for the first time and revived?"
Keiko… Don't cry!
YUSUKEE!
"But if you didn't? If I had lost you forever? I would never be able to say to you how much you were important to me… So…I promised to myself that I would never loose another chance to say everything"
" But again I lost it… You fight in so many battles and left for three years. If I had said with all words that I loved you, everything could have been much easier. Even so, I forgave myself, because you are here with me, and these moments are for us"
Look for my coming after three years… When I come back, we will get married.
"That's why I make you know everyday how much I love you" Keiko said. "Be it by hugging you, by kissing you, or saying, with all words that I love you. And I will make you until my ending days" She finished saying, closing the gasp between their faces and planting a soft kiss on Yusuke's lips.
"Keiko… Thank you" Yusuke said, and these words were from his heart; he thanked her for her trust, for he love, compassion…. For being so perfect.
"I will marry you, Yusuke" Keiko said smirking. "Be it by your will or not"
"It is my will" Yusuke said smiling.
Our happiness doesn't last
Without warning, something strange happened right after Yusuke finished saying his last words: The lights of the entire apartment turned off, together with the television, air condition… everything.
"I can't believe it!" Keiko shouted looking around the dark room. "It is the third time this month!"
Yusuke stood up and look around too. He didn't know why, but he searched the entire room with his own eyes, looking for something. His feelings were telling him that something strange was working there. It wasn't an energy problem, he was sure of it, because trough the window he could see other apartments of the same building with the lights on.
And it wasn't only that.
The shine of the sun seemed to be fading behind the clouds and a cold wind suddenly passed around the room evolving the atmosphere with a dark aura.
"Yusuke…? Is there anything wrong?" Keiko asked just before a strong and violent wind came inside the apartment and a noise of glass breaking was heard from the kitchen.
"Oh my good!" Keiko exclaimed. "I hope it wasn't any of our new glasses!" she finished and turned around, going in the direction of the kitchen, but Yusuke held her arm.
"Wait" Yusuke said pulling Keiko closer to him. "There's something strange going on here"
"What do you mean… Yusuke?" Keiko asked holding his arm as she looked to his serious face.
"I don't know"
Then he felt something that worried him. A devious energy came from nowhere and now was closer and closer to the place where the couple was. He instantly brought Keiko to behind his back that faced that situation and Yusuke's action without understanding.
"Shit!" Yusuke murmured as if he realized what was coming next. Without warning, the apartment started to shake; the spirit detective pushed Keiko to the ground, protecting her with his body, when everything around then was coming down: The television, the dresser, pictures; the windows broke in million cutting pieces over their heads.
"WHAT IS HAPPENING HERE?" Keiko screamed under Yusuke's strong body, but the spirit detective didn't answer, his mind was concentrated in protecting the brown haired girl. Abruptly and again, he felt the same diabolic energy coming closer, surrounding then, like preparing to attack… He had to do something! Without really thinking about other thing than Keiko's safety, he quickly turned around, concentrated and shot some of his spirit energy in the window's direction.
"LEIGAN!"
The energy passed trough the window, but didn't hit anything; even so, right after that, the apartment stopped shaking and the mysterious energy that Yusuke could fell, disappeared. The spirit detective looked around, breathing fast, his heart pounding and face sweating, searching for something that could tell him what the hell had just happened there. Just when something moved behind him, he remembered of Keiko.
"Keiko! Are you OK?" Yusuke asked worried, helping her to sit up on the floor.
"I'm all right" Keiko said, but when she pushed her strand of hair away from her face, Yusuke saw a cut on her forehead, bleeding a little.
"I'm sorry, Keiko" Yusuke said examining the girl's wound. " I distracted myself for a moment…I'm sorry"
"It's OK. It is not your fault" She answered hugging him, before looking around to the completely mess in the room. "Was that an earthquake?"
"Yeah… I…suppose it was…" Yusuke answered avoiding Keiko's eyes. He couldn't tell her that for him, that wasn't only an earthquake… She would certainly be worried, and she didn't need that kind of problems on her mind right now. Yusuke looked around the room; the light was now back, not only of the apartment, but the light of the sun as well. But there was something more important to worry now… that energy he felt… it wasn't a mistake: he didn't fell it before, but it looked like another energy he fought a long time ago. He didn't remember wich one was, but Yusuke was sure that it had been decisive in moment of fight, either helping him and his friends or… against them. And Yusuke was sure… the second option was much more possible, since that new energy was dark, terrible and worse of all… strong. Powerful.
If something was disturbing the human world again, he to had talk to Kuwabara and Kurama immediately.
"Yusuke? Is there anything wrong?" Keiko asked with concerning on her voice.
"No, there isn't" Yusuke said, holding Keiko's hands. "There is nothing wrong" He completed, embracing her, but he didn't realized that Keiko, knowing him so well, comprehended by how he held her, ─ one way that he only did when he wanted to protect her from enemies ─ that something was not right.
"Please…. not again…"
"Minamino-san! Minamino-san!"
Kurama stopped walking and rolled his eyes. Not now. It was the same thing every time he went out. He looked to Botan beside him, who had already stopped walking and was looking from him to a group of girls that was a little far from then.
"Aren't you going to answer?" Botan asked silently to him, seeing that Kurama was quiet and wasn't turning around to respond to the girls that were closer now.
"Yes… unfortunately I'm" Kurama said in tone of who tells that those girls weren't the nicest people. Botan looked to the two girls and again to Kurama before she finally understood. Those girls were the ones that Yusuke and Kuwabara always said that seemed to be chasing Kurama everywhere he is. The ones that probably were members of the Minamino Fan Club.
"Oh... Sorry" Botan said silently, with a pit look on her face just as the girls stopped in front of them. Kurama took deep breath and turned around to face the girls.
"Minamino! How are you?" asked a blond girl with a nauseating voice that was able to make Botan's head explode. Beside her there was another girl, with dark short hair and scary red eyes. Her eyes flashed to Botan with a disgusting face, as if she was a very ugly mouse.
"I'm doing quite fine, Hagara-san" Kurama said politely as he risked a glance to Botan. He didn't want make her pass trough this situation, especially because he knew these girls were a lot of annoying.
"Minamino-san! I already told you call me Tomoyo!" she exclaimed smiling, giving a small touch on Kurama's arm. Botan looked to those stupid girls not believing how they could be so ridiculous. They were basically acting like she wasn't even there!
"Minamino-san is always so gentle and respectful!" The dark haired girl finally said laughing. Kurama looked to Botan that seemed completely frustrated with that conversation, but the girls didn't seem to realize even a little.
"Better this way, Sanakira-san" The red haired boy answered calmly to the girl.
"You know, Minamino-san… Komiko and me were just going to mall when we saw you" Tomoyo said point her finger to Kurama's chest. " And we were imagining what you were doing here around" she finished before she gave a small glance to Botan who was still standing silently next to Kurama. The ferry girl looked to ground uncomfortably, imaging if the girls were planning to kill her with their looks. Well, in any case, Botan would be able to use her oar to hit then on their faces. Self defense.
"Well, I just taking a walk with my dear friend Botan" Kurama said pointing to Botan. The blue haired girl looked to Kurama's face as she felt her head become a little hot, and saw his polite face looking to her with a small smile.
"Oh dear… They are not going to like it!" Botan though. "They are like fire. I shouldn't play with it!"
"Dear Botan?" Komiko repeated terrified. She and Tomoyo exchanged looks that Botan and Kurama could describe as a mix of hate of Botan, exasperation and hate of Botan again. Komiko looked to Botan with an assassin face before she turned again to Kurama, trying to plant a fake smile on her mouth. "Who is she Minamino-san?"
"I already said… she is a special friend of mine. A very special friend" Kurama said still tolerantly and courteously. The ferry girl blushed a sight of red at his words, but she still wasn't thinking his answers a good idea. She really didn't want to be murdered, so maybe it was better if he had said that she was a stupid cousin without any importance to his life. "We are going together to another friend's house" Kurama said feeling that Botan was uncomfortable. He didn't wanted her to fell this way, but maybe the Tomoyo and Komiko would able to realize now that there was already someone that he loved. The girl standing beside him.
"Ah… You have just met this girl, right, Shuuichi?" Tomoyo said. Botan didn't like the way she called him Shuuichi. Kurama was right; they were a lot of annoying… and poising, and stupid, and ugly, fat… they were just repulsive.
"Her name is Botan, Hagara-san" Kurama said, and his voice was a little less polite and a little more callously now. "And-"
"And he knows me for 3 years" Botan said quickly, realizing that Kurama was the one who was more uncomfortable with the conversation now. Tomoyo and Komiko dismayed with the impudence that Botan was having by interrupting their conversation with their dear Shuuichi and also looked exasperated with the idea that Botan was the closest girl to Kurama during the last three years. The two girls looked to Kurama who was still standing politely, but also serious.
"Minamino-san-"
"We should get going, right, Shuuichi?" Botan asked, audaciously interrupting Komiko, calling the red haired boy by his human name, since no one in the human world knew him by Kurama. "The time is passing"
"You are right, Botan" Kurama said nodding to her. He ended up forgetting how much Botan wanted to visit her friends with this conversation. "We have to go, Hagara-san, Sanakira-san… Excuse us" He said courteously looking to Tomoyo and Komiko, before grabbing Botan's wrist and turning around, walking far from the two girls that stood looking exasperated at their beloved Shuuichi Minamino and his…
…. Friend?
For now.
"I'm sorry for that, Botan… I didn't meant you to be uncomfortable" Kurama said, as they continued walking.
"It's OK, Kurama. I didn't imagine how much these girls were… well…annoying" Botan said, trying to hide the jealous that she felt when these girls kept trying to get Kurama's attention. "You are will have to be patiently with then soon, after all, your class is going to start next month, right?
"Not this time" Kurama said looking to Botan. "I'm not coming back to school, remember? I'm going to start college now"
"Oh right! I forgot that… Everyone is going to the same college? I mean…you, and the gang?" Botan asked.
"Yes… only Yusuke won't… He is only going to start college next year… Keiko found a way to him learn everything he missed during the time he was Makai in only one year… it's was a hard work convince him. You know how Yusuke is" Kurama said with a small smile on his face, but Botan didn't answer. She just stood walking in silence and Kurama realized something inside her mind. "What are you thinking, Botan?"
"Nothing bad… I was thinking… well… maybe it's going to be more difficult to me to visit you when you start college" Botan said blushing a little. She looked to Kurama who was staring at her with deep eyes that made her blush even hard.
"That's not true, Botan" Kurama said staring at her. She stood even more beautiful when she was embarrassed. In fact, she was always more beautiful. "There's still one month before we go to college, and I, I mean, everyone is going to be back home on weekends. And it's not forbidden to us to go out during the week. Everything is going to continue as it is now" He finished, comforting Botan. She looked at him, and gave him a cheerful smile. During this time she was with Kurama, she couldn't stop doing it. She felt happy again.
"I have something for you" Kurama said as he stopped walking near to building that was being reformed and put his hand inside his pocket. Botan realized that he was a little embarrassed as he took something out. "Well… I bought it for you when you were recovering from Yakumo's fight in Renkai. But I hadn't any chance to give to you…I didn't had any opportunity to visit you there… None of us had" He finished saying, as he held Botan's hand and put something small inside it. Botan shivered when Kurama's hand touched her hand and so did the red haired boy. Inside her hand there was a small and thin silver chain with a silver hoop pendant on it.
"Kurama… it's…beautiful!" Botan exclaimed. She cold fell her self a little hot as he looked at her. His look was intimidating, but at the same time soft and lovely. Kurama was just fascinated by her beauty… her eyes, skin and her fleshy mouth that for so long time he wanted to kiss. She was perfect.
"Do you now what the hoop means?" Kurama asked gently to her. Botan looked to necklace, and examined the pendant. She heard sometime that the circle had a sentimental signification, but she didn't know what was. Sentimental… what sentiment was that? Botan never blushed so much as that day. Kurama always made her feel like this.
"I don't know" Botan said. "What does that mean?"
"I'm not going to tell you, Botan" Kurama told her smiling. "Someday you will find out" He looked at her tenderly. He couldn't tell her. If someday she found out, it wouldn't mean anything for her… The circle was the curve that never ended, that would always continue. Circle meant the infinite. His love for Botan was infinite… it would never end.
"Kurama! Tell me!" Botan exclaimed.
"Turn around" Kurama said, and Botan looked at him questionably. "Let me put it around your neck" Botan gave him the collar and slowly turned around. Her heart was beating fast and she felt a strange sensation inside her stomach as she held her point tail in the air to facilitate Kurama's act. The red haired boy put the necklace around her neck, as he touched her with his strong and sweet hands, and Botan closed her eyes, as her checks became red and red.
"Control yourself, Youko" Kurama told himself, because all he wanted was lean down and kiss the tender and soft skin of her neck. He took a moment until his heart came down and he realized he had been resting his hand on Botan's shoulders for some time. He quickly took then away embarrassed, and passed one of his hands through his red hair, his face getting hot.
"What was I doing?" Kurama asked himself.
"You were doing what you should have done a long time ago" A voice said coldly.
"Shut up, Youko" Kurama replied. "I told you to control yourself!"
"Kurama?" Botan asked looking to her feet. Her heart almost jumped from her mouth in the last minutes. Kurama's touch was just… well…fascinating.
"I'm sorry" He said embarrassed. "My mind was else-"
"WATCH OUT!" The next things after this scream happened very fast. Kurama had already grabbed Botan by her waist and jumped with her aside. They fell on the ground, Botan under Kurama, who stood protecting the blue haired girl with his body and strong arms, just a few moments before a huge part of the building that was being reformed above them fell right in the place the couple was just a few moments ago. Kurama could hear the people around then screaming, and he also heard the small cried of Botan muffled against his body, since the blue haired maiden was pressing her face on Kurama's trunk. People near the place run away, as Botan and Kurama were totally covered by dusty and some excess of wood and metal of the immense part that almost hit then. Kurama continued protecting Botan with his arms until all the dust had been almost gone.
Silence.
"Botan…. Are… Are you OK?" Kurama asked as he felt her chest moving fast because of her breath. All around then he could hear gossip and worried screams of the people who were staring then, since they hadn't moved yet.
"What happened? Was anyone hit?
Are they all right? They are not moving!
"Yes… I'm all right, Kurama" Botan said with small voice. The red haired finally got up, coming from under the pieces of wood and metal, slowly helping Botan to do the same with him, who still had his own arms around her. The couple shook away all the dust on their clothes, as every person around stared at then to see if they were fine.
"Hey… Is everything fine with you, kids?" an old man asked coming a little closer to then.
"Yes… thanks, we are fine" Kurama said still holding Botan. He looked at her with concerning. Right in day she came back from Renkai something like this happen with then! However, despite she looked a little worried, she didn't looked scared. "Have you hurt yourself?"
"No, I'm fine" Botan said. In fact Kurama had protected her so much that there was no way she would get hurt.
"Were should have known that this part of the building would fall one time" the old man said to then. "The people that should be reforming it are not working here for months. It has passed through rain, wind… I think the wood started disintegrating it self"
Kurama didn't answered. He didn't think it had felt because it was disintegrating. Although he had been so fascinated by Botan the moment, the principal reason the red haired had quickly jumped away from the dangerous place they were, before the people around had warned him, it was because he had felt something strange. In a small moment that last two seconds he felt strange energy coming from somewhere above him. Someone or… something had prepared that accident to hurt them.
"Are you sure you don't want me to call the ambulance?" The old man asked again looking questionably to Kurama, who was still staring the building above him.
"Yes, we don't need that… we are fine. Thanks anyway" Botan answered. "Lets get out off here… please, Kurama? Hey… Kurama? Kurama?"
"Oh…I'm sorry" The red hair said. "Thanks for your concern" He finished turning to the old man. Right after he grabbed Botan's hand and quickly pulled her away from the disorder.
"Kurama? What are you thinking that let you so absentminded? What happened there?" Botan asked when finally started walking slowly. Kurama looked to her seriously but right after he smiled. He wouldn't let her to be worried after the pain she had two months ago. It wasn't fair.
"It's nothing. There is nothing to worry about, Botan" He said gently. Botan looked to his face with a determinate look and narrowed her eyes suspiciously to him.
"Don't you dare to do this, Kurama!" Botan said pushing him on his chest with her finger. "Don't cheat me out! Tell me what happened!"
"I'm not cheating you out, Botan" Kurama faced her big magenta eyes that showed him that she was not the right person to be deceived. But he wouldn't tell her. He couldn't. He believed that Koenma let Botan come back to the human world to have a good time. He couldn't plant intrigues inside her head, and he wouldn't, even against her will. Even knowing that she would imagine that something was wrong. "I'm being honesty, there is nothing wrong"
"Right then" The ferry girl said still looking at him suspiciously. She would even believe him if she didn't know him so well. But she knew him. Something misplaced had just happened there. If she was right, something bad.
"Shall we go then?"
"Humph… Fine" Botan said and they started walking again. If she wasn't so excited to meet Yusuke and Keiko, she would make him tell her the truth. But later she would. Beside her, Kurama walked in silence, knowing that she watching him. Botan wasn't going let that pass so inexplicable. Later she would ask him.
Something is happening.
A little slow...yeah... I know! Sorry, and I promise that the next chapter will be better... and I will thanks alll the reviews next chapter. Bye!