Hi everyone!!!! I know it has been a long time since the last time I update the story.. but I decided to finish this chapter!!!
I hope you like it!!! Please review it!!! Please, please, please!! I need to know what you guys are thinking about it!!! Please!!! I'm not asking much!!!
Kisses!!!!!!
A warning from the darkness
"What are thinking about?"
Botan jumped frightened when she listened to Kurama's tone of voice in close proximity to her ear. She turned her head around straight away, and faced the red haired lad, who was sitting alongside her during the entire train voyage. The ferry guide had been in a extended silence for the last half hour, anxious by Kurama's company next to her, and just stood there, looking out the skylight, seeing the world go by hurriedly, as they remained waiting to disembark at Genkai's treasured sanctuary.
"Nothing… and everything" Botan answered, looking inside Kurama's attractive emerald eyes. She gave him a small smile, and looked away, until she remembered something that was disquieting her for an elongated time. She faced Kurama again, who looked her with questioning eyes. "In reality, Kurama… I really wanted to ask you something"
"Go on them"
"What truly happened that instant, when the part of that edifice fell on our heads?" Botan asked, and for a split second she saw Kurama's smile fade a slight. Even so, he didn't take his eyes of her, and didn't vacillate on answering her inquiry.
"You don't have to be concerned about nothing, Botan" Kurama said, as Yusuke´s words came to his mind. They need to act as if everything was alright around them. The girls shouldn't perceive anything. However, that was hard job, having someone so smart like Botan near him. "It's everything alright"
Botan gave a deep breath a turned around, facing the window again. Kurama waited for a moment, but she kept saying nothing.
"What is it, Botan?" The red haired boy asked, touching her arm gently.
"You are doing that again" Botan answered still not facing Kurama.
"Doing what?"
"Cheating me out!" Botan exclaimed, facing him with a fuming countenance "Hiding something from me! I'm not brainless, Kurama. I'm Death. You can't cheat Death, don't you know that?"
Kurama smiled. Yes, he couldn't cheat Death. Not when she was so beautiful, gentle, sweet…
Stop
"Alright" Kurama said, shaking his thoughts away from his mind. He would let her know the truth. Well, at least part of it. He didn't like lying to Botan, but he agreed with Yusuke when he said that the blue haired girl didn't need that kind of disturbance at the moment. "Well… I really thought that something was going on. I though that I had felt a strange energy when the part of that building fell on us"
"You thought?" Botan asked apprehensive.
"I thought, but I didn't" Kurama alleged. Botan faced him suspiciously for a moment, but Kurama didn't looked away. After all, he wanted Botan to forget everything about that problem. Finally, after a minute, Botan took a deep breath and looked away, recovering some of the alarm in her tone of voice.
"I comprehend, but… Don't you think it's better investigate and explore that subject? Don't you want me to call Lord Koenma? I can see if has been detecting anything erroneous. Perhaps-"
"Botan!" Kurama exclaimed, cutting her off. "You just came back to the human world! You are resting here remember?"
"Ok!!! All right!" Botan said. "But you should have told me what was going on when I asked you for the first time, don't you think?"
"I'm sorry" Kurama said honestly. "I won't do that again, alright?"
"Do you promise me?" Botan asked smiling. "Do you promise that you are going to be a good boy, and that you won't lie to me again?" She finished saying as Kurama raised an eyebrow.
"Promise or… I will tell your mother" Botan said evilly and Kurama couldn't stop himself but blurting out in laugh. That was the kind of things that he appreciated on Botan. The way she made him feel good.
"Alright" Kurama said after he stopped laughing. "Since I have no alternative…" the red haired boy put a hand over his heart, as he closed his eyes. "… I promise that I will be a good boy and that I won't lie anymore"
"Great" Botan said smiling. She around the train and saw Keiko and Yusuke sitting a few seats away from them, kissing each other passionately. Botan tried to pretend she hadn't saw anything, but Kurama followed her gaze and saw the same scene that Botan was watching. The red head's mind immediately became full of images of himself kissing the blue haired girl sitting next to him.
"Hey!!! Kurama!!" Yusuke called from his place, once he realized Kurama and Botan had been watching them for the last seconds. "If want to do that with Botan too… you only have to ask her!!"
"YUSUKE!!!" Keiko screamed at him, as she hit him on his face, making him fall on the train's floor. Every single person on the train looked at the couple, as Botan looked to the window with her face almost purple. She could fell Kurama beside her, acting in an uncomfortable way, but they just stood in silence, as Keiko and Yusuke argued with each other.
Botan just continued to look outside the train during ten long minutes, when a familiar song started playing. It was almost imperceptible with all the noise, but Botan, who started living so much time between the humans, listening this song as she thought about Kurama, could hear it very well. And she loved it. She loved it because this song was for her. For her and for the love she felt for Kurama.
And so it is
Just like you said it would be
Life goes easy on me
Most of the time
And so it is
The shorter story
No love no glory
No hero in her skies
I can't take my eyes of you
I can't take my eyes of you
I can't take my eyes of you
I can't take my eyes of you
Botan started to fell her eyes heavy, as everything outside passed very speedily. She tried to sing it very silently, but she was so tired. So much tired. "I can't take my eyes off of you… I can't take my eyes of you"
And so it is
Just like you said it should be
We'll both forget the breeze
Most of the time
And so it is
The colder water
The blower's daughter
The pupil in denial
I can't take my eyes of you
I can't take my eyes of you
I can't take my eyes of you
I can't take my eyes of you
Botan closed her eyes, finally giving up of staying awake; her body giving himself to exhaustion and to the world of dreams…
"Why did you take so long?"
He couldn't wait anymore. He couldn't wait any second at all. He didn't want to wait. He wanted to start everything as soon as possible. His dearly loved and waited vengeance. He wanted to make his little game with that unbearable Urameshi Team. Decide his and the spirit detective's fortune once for all. End this as soon as possible, with his terrible wrath, and his swift retribution.
He would break Yusuke Urameshi and his friends.
"Forgive us, master" Mitsurai responded, when he and the other two demons arrived at the top of the same building that they had visited in the early hours of that morning. "However, I believe that our late has its merit. We all have news for you, sir. We found out what you have inquired us"
"Really?" Ituski asked finally contented. At least they could start their plan at the present moment. "You can put it in the picture now"
"I have been watching Yusuke Urameshi and Youko Kurama throughout this morning." Mitsurai alleged. "They appear to feel deep fondness for with two brainless girls"
"Are you sure about what you are saying?" Itsuki asked. They couldn't have any uncertainty about this essential information. The things that were being risked by them were too much. "We can't allow us do anything wrong"
"I'm totally clear in mind they are profoundly in love with those girls, master" Mitsurai said quickly. "I'm sure about that"
"Who are they?" Yazokei asked curiously.
"Silence. I'm the one who makes the questions" Itsuki shouted impatiently. "Tell me about them"
"Keiko Yukimura lives with Yusuke Urameshi for some time and she is his fiancée. She is going to start collage now and she works at her parents' restaurant" Mitsurai said. "The other one, the kitsune's girl, is named Botan, and she lives at the spirit world and works for that stupid Koenma"
"A servant of Koenma?!" Samatsu asked anxiously.
"Yes."
"I have already seen her" Itsuki said deviously. "She is a…… Well… she is ferry guide and Yusuke's assistant when he works as spirit detective"
"A ferry guide?!" Mitsurai asked angrily. It couldn't be…. Was she… No. It couldn't be. Mitsurai look to his master with his eyes wide, as his mind worked refusing to accept the apparent truth. "Did she…?"
"Yes" Itsuki said satisfied. One last thing to let his new servant with more hate inside his evil soul. That was exactly what he needed now. "She was the one who interrupted your chances of restoring the Netherworld: your world. She was the ferry guide who stole the power sphere, the resource of the supremacy"
Mitsurai gritted his teeth, as his mind burned entirely. Was that the ferry guide that ruined the life of every demon from the Netherworld? Was that the futile ferry guide that helped the Spirits Detectives when they killed King Yakumo? Was that cerulean haired girl the one he had hated all the time?!
"Calm down, Mitsurai" Itsuki said. "I will let you have your revenge. I will let will torture her with your own hands. But the opportune time to do that is not now"
"Yes, master" Mitsurai said, his blood beating inside his body in fast way. The demon couldn't stop felling hate, however… he was now laughing for in his interior. That girl would desire soon that she had never stopped King Yakumo and the Netherworld.
She would desire to be fucking dead.
"Let's go on…. What did you find out about Yazokei?"
"I spied that moron and idiot Kazuma Kuwabara" The demon answered back. "He also has a lover. She is called by him as Yukina, and I'm confident that she is an ice maiden"
"I have heard about her" Itsuki said exploring all the thoughts that were inside his mind. "She left her territory a long time ago, and she started an investigation about something. Something extremely vital to her, since it made her leave her life and friends of the iced land. I don't know what it was…. All I know from there is that she was kidnapped by Tarukane, an rich and maniac human who sought after her tear gems and exposed her to all bad dealings… How sad isn't it?"
"She will have to get used to bad dealing again, I think" Mitsurai said, grinning.
"She lives at a old temple and is constantly visited by Kazuma Kuwabara"
"Great. Well done you" Itsuki spoke, turning around and facing the shortest demon now. "What about you Samatsu? What did you discovered about?"
"Well…." Samatsu said, not knowing how to start and what to say. "Well …The truth is that Hiei is hiding himself very well-"
"I didn't asked that" Itsuki said coldly, cutting him off.
"I…. I mean, my lord… But Hiei's energy-"
"Answer - my - question!" Itsuki asked angrily when he realized that Samatsu hadn't been successful on his assignment. He grabbed the demon by his neck, pressed him against the wall of roof that they had been talking, and faced him inside his eyes with a wild and cruel expression on his face. "WHAT - DID - YOU - FIND - OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?"
"I…. couldn't ….find…him!!!" Samatsu cried, as the other two demons watched the situation without thinking about interrupting that powerful and fanatical demon. Finally, Itsuki let Samatsu go off his strong grip, letting a cry of disturbance come out of his mouth, as the pathetic demon fell on the floor. "I looked everywhere, master!! I swear!!"
The green haired demon looked to the insignificant creature on the ground with repugnance, as his exasperation ran all the way through his blood. Even wanting that one and all would be triumphant on that effortless commission, he knew that Hiei didn't have too much significance for the first attack. Above and beyond, there was no meaning on killing Samatsu because of that, after all, he would assist him on the fight that was about to come, after all, even being such an unintelligent demon, he was also very physically powerful.
"You're good fortuned that I'm in a good humor today, Samatsu, and I have decided not to exterminate you" he said, and Samatsu got up shaking, his knees trembling and his breath fast. He knew that he could have been killed a just moment ago. Itsuki was a strong and pitiless demon that should to be taken seriously, and Samatsu knew about all that. "We will find out about Hiei later. However, I don't want you to be unsuccessful anymore. If you do that again…. I will KILL you. Am I understandable?"
"Yes, master" Samatsu replied, bounding himself to Itsuki, still thinking about how lucky had been at that moment.
"We have work to do today" Itsuki said. "We will give them our warning. Tonight"
The demon looked to the metropolis in front of them. Sooner or later, everything would be theirs. Every single breathing space. That world would go down beyond destruction and malevolence. Each human being was going to plead for their living days. And no one would be able to stop them this time.
No one.
You should have killed me when you had the chance Urameshi.
You should have.
"Botan!!!"
And there she was.
After so much time gone, after so much silence, after so much obscurity and the nonexistence of the words of that blue haired girl, she was at the present moment back to them. Yes, one of the admirable friends that had won throughout these precedent days of true life, of true experiences, was there with them once more.
And the green haired girl was so much happy for that.
Yukina went down the front stairs of the sanctuary, as her beautiful hair trembled in wind, a happy smile on her stunning features and her crimson and gorgeous eyes broad because she couldn't accept as true what she was seeing.
"Botan!! I missed you so much!!!" she said, as the two girls hugged each other strongly and friendly, as Kurama, Keiko and Yusuke watched the two friends with joy.
"Yukina!!!" Botan shouted laughing, her sonorous laugh echoing through the air of the beautiful temple that was surrounding them. Even the birds seemed to notice the moment of joy that was taking place there, since they started singing a symphony with their sounds. Botan was so happy for seeing one of her best friends again, and everything looked the same way it was before she left. "I also missed you much!!!!
"My good!! Where have you been all this time? We were so worried about you!" The ice maiden shouted as expected when they broke away from each other, not noticing the alert looks Yusuke and Kurama were giving her behind Botan.
"I…. hum… I…. was at the Spirit World… you know… having some rest" Botan said avoiding Yukina's soft eyes. The green haired girl immediately noticed something wrong on the way she whispered her words, but she didn't inquire about that. She wasn't going to trouble her friend with such questions. Botan needed to enjoy her back.
"Hum…. Liked the surprise, Yukina?" Kurama asked courteously, trying instantaneously to change the subject matter from the reason that Botan had been disappeared so much time.
"Of course I did!!" Yukina said, giving Botan a peaceful smile, assuring her that all she had in her mind was her happiness about her back. "Keiko!! You fooled me without any difficulty!!!!" She said giggling, as she hugged Keiko.
"See Botan?" Keiko started. "Didn't I said tha---"
"BOTAN!!!!!!" Someone screamed hardly, as everybody looked frightened to the temple's front entrance to see who it was. A famous carrot haired boy, followed by a calm and serene Genkai, was coming down the stairs, running breathless, and tripping on his own legs three times, as a big smile formed on his expression. "BOTAN!!! Botan!!!!"
"Calm down, Kuwabara!!!" Yusuke said. "She is not going anywhere!!!"
"Shut up Urameshi!!!!" Kuwabara screamed just before he grabbed a terrified, but happy Botan in the air, and gave her such a gigantic squeeze that made her air get out of her lungs. "Botan! You're back!!!!!! YOU ARE BACK!!!!
"Kuwabara!! Wait!!! You're going to asphyxiate her!!!" Kurama said when he realized that Botan's was getting blue just like her hair. Better…she was purple.
"I'm sorry, Botan!!!" Kuwabara said, putting the blue haired girl on the ground, as she tried to get her air back. "But, you know, I'm really happy that you are back!!!"
"I…. can…see…that" Botan said, smiling with difficult. Kuwabara looked to her old and dearly loved friend, the one he hadn't seen for a long time. She looked much better than when she left, after the fight against Yakumo. Kuwabara never had the chance to say how he admired her, the lady of death with blue her and vivid lavender eyes, after all, she left with such big urgency that he barely said farewell. And now, that she was back, joyful and positive, the moment had passed. He would tell her someday. Because now, he just wanted give her a great welcome.
His friend deserved that.
"Welcome back, Botan" Kuwabara said more peacefully now, smiling to her.
"Kuwabara is right" Genkai said, now coming closer to them with serenity. She looked to Botan like if she was studying her, exploring her facial appearance, her smile and her mind. "Welcome home"
"I hope this will be the start of a party!" Yusuke said, caressing his stomach, making clear to everyone there that he was hungry, as they agreed with the idea of a celebration.
"But wait…. Where is Shizuka?!" Botan asked in the middle of the laughs and agreements, as she looked around and faced her friends.
"She has traveled" Kuwabara replied. "She went to the USA, because of her job"
"Oh…" Botan spoke sadly. She wanted everyone to be there and spend that week collectively. She also missed Shizuka very much, although the brown haired girl had always been older and more hesitant than the others. However, she was feeling happy about this information. That was a great opportunity for carrier.
"When will she come back?" Botan asked.
"Well…. Actually…" Kuwabara started, hesitating a little. "She is not… going to come back so soon, Botan"
"Oh…." Botan said looking to the ground. "It's OK."
"Botan?" Kurama asked, making the deity get out of her thoughts. He smiled to her an offered his arm. "Let's go inside?"
Botan smiled to the red haired boy.
Gentle as usual.
"Yes"
"When will you guys get married?" Botan asked to Keiko and Yusuke. It was by the moment eleven o'clock. The night had already fallen over the city, and they were still celebrating Botan's back. The floor was full of snacks, and food, and soda, which the boys and girls had been eating for the past hours. They had already had lunch and dinner, and for what they were seeing, the chat would only stoop in the morning, when they wouldn't be able to be wake anymore.
"Later" Keiko replied after she took some of her soda, as she was lying on Yusuke's lap. "I have to have some time at college, and then I will think about that"
"But did already though about anything?" Kurama asked curious. He knew how girls were. They used to plan that date since when they started learning how to give their firsts steps. "The place or something like that"
"To tell you the truth…not yet" Keiko said thinking. Then she smiled. Of course she had though about something already. She and Yusuke had discussed that not a long time ago. "I mean…. We have decide that you and Botan will be my best man, while Kuwabara and Yukina will be Yusuke's"
Botan was taken back.
She couldn't believe that Keiko was just asking her to be that. Botan looked to Kurama, who was sitting next to her, and they faced each other. She would be there, on the altar, next to him. Would she still be hiding her feelings for the red haired boy by that time?
She probably would.
Unfortunately.
"Do you guys accept?" Yusuke asked to them, since they hadn't spoke anything.
"Of course we do, Yusuke" Yukina said cheerfully. "I've never been on a wedding. I can hardly wait!!"
"Me neither, Urameshi!!!!" Kuwabara replied, before turning to Yukina, holding her hands. "Imagine us there Yukina, my sweet lady!! Just like a couple!!!" He said, making everyone one sweet drop. Everyone but Yukina, who started giggling as usual, blushing a sight of red.
Kurama looked to the blue haired girl next to him. A long time ago, he had thought about them getting married. However, he realized they were living in entire different reality. Things wouldn't be as he imagined. There was always something to be on his way. On his and Botan's way.
Suddenly, Kurama felt something. He was felling some energy coming from outside. However, this time, he wasn't worried. After all, he knew that energy for many years. Its owner had been his companion through many fights and hard moments. Almost certainly, that was one of the situations he didn't want to appear. He liked staying away of his friends.
Unsocial as usual.
"I'm going outside to have some fresh air" Kurama said, and Botan watched as he got up from the floor and walked trough the door. He didn't even answered to Yusuke's propose. Didn't he want to be there, on the altar, next to her? She faced the ground. He was always so mysterious, and Botan saw he go way trough the door, her thoughts uncertain as usual. "I will be right back"
The kitsune boy glanced in the direction of the temple's garden. He went down the stairs of the sanctuary, before stopping and looking around. He gave a small and imperceptible smirk to himself, as he shook his head.
Always the same. He hadn't changed at all. Still, the trees were the places he liked the most to hide himself from everything and everyone else.
Kurama walked calmly to a group of tall sakura trees that were nearby to where he was. When the red hair finally came close to them, he stopped and looked up.
There he was.
"Are you hiding yourself from someone?" Kurama inquired to the short man that was sitting on a branch that was closer to the ground. He looked pretty much the same since the last they had seen each other. He was dressing his usual black coat, and was leaning against the tree with a bothered face. "Kuwabara will be glad that you are here"
"Shut up, Kurama" Hiei said coldly. "If I can avoid that moron for the rest of my life, I will be glad"
"If you avoid him, you will avoid Yukina too" Kurama said. He didn't take the animosity between the two guys too serious. He knew that it was nothing more than jealousy for Hiei's part. Well, at least, this was some of the reasons.
"Then it will be better if I wish him to die" Hiei said. "It will solve my problems"
"Why? I doubt you would stop to pretend that Yukina is not you're sister" Kurama replied. "The only thing I can hope is that some day you won't be afraid of coming near her anymore"
"I'm not afraid of getting closer to her, you idiot" Hiei said. How dare Kurama say something like that? He didn't fear Yukina. He just…. Shit. Forget it. "I didn't come here to discuss that anyway"
"Right… Did you come to say that you have been felling a strange energy around?" Kurama said and Hiei finally faced him. The red hair knew that Hiei sooner or later would fell that. There were only two reasons Hiei had come back: see Yukina or because he knew that she was in danger.
"Did you fell it too?"
"Yes" Kurama replied. "Yusuke felt it too. I visited him today and we had and small conversation about this problem. We only have to know if Kuwaba-"
"He didn't felt it" Hiei said, cutting him off. If that stupid carrot haired man hadn't felt it in the moment that Hiei had been watching, the fire demon knew he hadn't been able to feel any other time. "I was here when a strange and dark energy came closer to him and Yukina and he didn't felt a shit!"
"Are you worried because the energy came after him, or because he was with Yukina in that moment?" Kurama said facing his friend and giving him an eyebrow. He knew that he could be very emphatic about Yukina safety, even if he had to mind himself just with that. However, he couldn't blame him. He was just like that when the business was Botan's safety.
"It doesn't matter, your insupportable kitsune" Hiei said facing him. "I'm worried because it was evil. And that is not good for us, as you know it"
"I know that" Kurama said, shaking his head. "I felt it when it came after me. It made the part of a build in construction to fell on our heads"
"Our heads?" Hiei asked. "You and Yusuke?
"No" Kurama said, facing Hiei coldly, ready to what he was going to say. "Me and Botan"
"Oh" Hiei shouted smirking. He faced Kurama, who was thinking that he could pass undetectable to what Hiei could see in his mind. His feelings over the death keeper. The fire demon had noticed for a long time, the stupid way he preceded around that annoying Botan girl. It was worse than Kuwabara over his sister. After all, the moron didn't pretend that he wasn't feeling anything. Differently of Kurama.
"What is it?" Kurama asked.
"So… do you think you can give advices when you hide it too?" Hiei inquired.
"What do I hide?" Kurama spoke.
"You know what" Hiei replied smirking. "Your feelings for the annoying blue haired girl"
"She is not annoying, Hiei. You shouldn't talk like that. She saved your life last fight. She saved the three words" Kurama said, as flash of gold came to become visible in the interior of his eyes. He did felt uncomfortable when people talked about Botan like that, even it the person was Hiei, who had been his best friend for all these years.
"Alright, Yoko" Hiei said. At least he could see know that Botan was very well protected. She had a cold and devious thief watching over her head. He would do anything for her. "You're right, I guess. She truly proved her valor on the last fight. I never though that she could be that inflexible."
"Yes, she did prove her valor… Although…" Kurama started alleging relaxed, as he smiled and laid against the tree. "Although… I already knew about this valor a log time ago."
"Indeed, fox" Hiei spoke. The fire demon considered on mentioning that he hadn't denied yet the fact that he had feelings for the blue haired girl, but Hiei changed his mind. They had more important things to decide. "So, what do you think it is?"
"I knew that energy from somewhere, I'm sure of it, Hiei" Kurama said honestly. He had already fought against someone who had energy related to the one he felt with Botan. He had fought against it, and it had been an unbreakable and easier said than done confrontation. "But I don't know where… We should argue about that inside"
"Kurama, don't make want to punch you" Hiei said angrily. "I'm not going in there!"
"Fine." Kurama said unenthusiastically. He wouldn't encourage Hiei now that he should waste a little more of time with his sister. "I'm going to get inside and talk to Yusuke about the fact that you felt the energy around Kuwabara and Yukina"
Hiei looked at the red haired man in front of him, but the fired demon didn't say a word and looked away. Insisting to ignore Hiei's animosity over sentimentalism, Kurama lay over the tree and sighed profoundly.
"I'm glad you're back, Hiei"
Hiei didn't answer to his old friend's words. However, thinking about Yukina, he smirked as he looked away with his eyes closed.
So I am, Kurama.
So I am.
"OK, Botan!" Yukina said, giggling softly, like she always did when she heard something humorous. The girls were now sitting separately from the others on the room. Botan had already checked the doors five times to see if Kurama was back from outside, but, since Yusuke and Kuwabara were playing videogame, and since Master Genkai had already gone to sleep, she forgot about Kurama for a second, and decided to have a small chat with her friends. "Now tell me something new!"
"Yukina!!!" Botan exclaimed shocked. However, at the same time, she had a small smile on her lips. She had just said to Yukina, as Keiko demanded, her feelings about Kurama to the light green haired girl. And now, both Keiko and Yukina were laughing of her… with reason of course. "What do mean by saying that?!"
"I'm sorry, Botan" Yukina said, gently smiling. "But I already knew that a long time ago"
"See, Botan!!! I told you!!!" Keiko yelled triumphantly. "I told that everybody knew that you like Kurama!!!"
"Keiko!! For God's sake, don't speak so stridently!!!" Botan panicked, looking around to see if Yusuke and Kuwabara were paying attention to their conversation. However, she relaxed when she saw that the two boys had been involved in fight because of the video game.
"Botan, I'm sorry, but I think everybody know that" Yukina said innocently.
"Everybody?!!" Botan panicked again, her eyes so wide, that she couldn't even blink. "What do you mean by EVERYBODY?!"
"Botan, calm yourself down!!!" Keiko said, giving Botan some water that was inside a glass next to them. "I think that what Yukina wanted to say is that the way you act around him, is the way of some one that's deeply in love"
Botan throw up the water that she had inside her mouth, as her heart started betting fast. She looked like she was deeply in love? How could that be? "Deeply in love? Do I like I'm deeply in love?!!"
"Botan, calm down" The ice maiden said. "No one will talk about that until you and Kurama admit your feelings for each other"
Botan instantly got up from the ground when she heard Yukina's words. She had to be kidding.
"Wha…Wha…What did you say?" The blue haired girl asked alarmed, looking from Keiko's face to Yukina's face. "Tell him?"
"Yes…. Why?" Yukina asked facing Botan uncertainly. "You are pretending to not tell him?"
"I've already told her that she should tell him as soon as possible, but she won't listen to me, Yukina!!!" Keiko said angrily, point a finger in the direction of Botan's face.
"Yes! But I've already said that this is a complete madness!!!" Botan said, sitting and whispering angrily. She had already told Keiko that it was impossible. She couldn't imagine Kurama reacting appropriately; she could only think about him saying atrocious things to her, and this was too much unbearable. Think about this made her fell dreadful.
"But why, Botan?" Yukina asked confused. "I don't understand! Kurama would certainly be pleased with what you would say…"
"I'm sorry, Yukina, but how can you know that?" Botan asked. She was the second person that was saying this: That Kurama would like if she told him her feelings. However, she couldn't believe this as probable, after all, she never noticed anything about him!! Many times she tried to go trough his barriers and his mask, but she had never been victorious.
"Botan, I've already said that is too obvious!!" Keiko said irritably to her blue haired friend. "You're closing your eyes because you're afraid of involving you're self!! He likes you, Botan!!"
"What?!!! I'm not afraid of involving myself! I just don't want to cry about this anymore!!!!" Botan muttered angrily, like she was ending the discussion. Keiko and Yukina looked stunned at her after the last words. The blue haired girl could feel the looks of pity and sympathy that her friends were giving her. Yes, she had been crying about him lately. Her fear of being rejected, her loneliness, and her fear of being replaced by someone in his life… every bad thought had been commanding her mind for the last months. Terrible thoughts that were bring her the grief, until the love for Kurama was just poison in her veins. And she had been catching herself wishing that her love for Kurama had never existed… so that she would be speared of her pain.
"I'm… so… sad for you Botan" Yukina said desolately. "Because I know that you surfing without a reason"
"What are you girls talking about?" A curious voice came from Botan's side, making her jump and drop the glass of water that she was still holding. Yusuke had stopped playing video games with Kuwabara for a moment and was now standing nest to the girls with a grinning on his face.
"This is nothing of your business, Yusuke!" Keiko said angrily. "This is a girl's talk!"
"Girls talk?!!!" Yusuke replied rising his eyebrow. "This is called…. GOSSIP!!!"
"Shut up, Yusuke!!!!!!" Keiko screamed getting to her feet and pointing a finger to his face. "Go back to your video games!!!"
"Yeah, Urameshi!!!" Kuwabara called from the other side of the room. "Let's continue the game!!!"
"I already said that I want to eat something" Yusuke said. "And I need Keiko to help me bring the food here, because I only have two hands!!!"
"I won't help, OK?!" Keiko said. "Go get yourself!!!"
"If you help me, I will let you girls finish your talk"
Keiko sighed and faced Botan and Yukina. She knew Botan was very stubborn, and she wasn't going to give up and stop trying to convince her that she needed to struggle what really represented the love that she felt for Kurama. She faced Yusuke with a fuming feature once more, and made her way to the kitchen, pursued by a grinning Yusuke.
"Were you girls talking about Kurama?" Yusuke asked smirking to Keiko, but she just remained in silence and ignored him. She opened the fridge and got the soda without saying a word to the boyfriend. Yusuke just watched the brown haired girl, as she got some chips that were next to sink, before hitting Yusuke with its package.
"You are such a jerk, Yusuke!" Keiko finally shouted, giving him her back, when he got the package with a quick movement. "That was important"
"I know" Yusuke said. He started getting closer to Keiko and hugged her from behind. "It was just an excuse for being alone with you"
Keiko closed her eyes. He always did that. He always tried to conquer her after she was mad him. Somehow she liked, of course. She turned around, putting her hands around his neck, her face so close to his that their noses could touch each other. "Really?"
"Really" Yusuke answered. He leaned down and his lips touched hers gently. His tongue came inside her mouth, as his hands apprehended her waist in a lovely way. Keiko moaned something inside her lover's mouth before their kiss of passion, love, and care broke apart. The brow haired girl looked inside Yusuke's beautiful dark eyes, trying to look inside his mind, his thoughts, but she kept seeing nothing. Her hand caressed his face, as his hand did the same to her check, this movements showing how much their loved each other.
"All I want is your love, Yusuke" Keiko said facing him.
"You already have it, Keiko" Yusuke replied hugging her tightly. Then he noticed something wrong on her. Her breath was just as labored and an agitation passed through her heart.
"Keiko, what's wrong?" Yusuke asked worried about his girl. She looked at him, her deep eyes shocking him with the tiny disturbance inside them. She was apprehensive about something. Could be possible that she was sensing that something wasn't right in the three Worlds?
"It's nothing, Yusuke" Keiko said giving a small smile. Of course she was lying. She was terribly concerned about what was happening around. She was afraid that could start another fight involving Yusuke and her friends. A fight that could unleash more suffering and pain to their lives. She just wanted to be happy. That was all she wanted.
"Keiko, you-"
"It's nothing, your jerk!!" Keiko exclaimed smiling, cutting him off and getting free of his grip. "It's nothing, Yusuke"
Yusuke didn't believe on her. But considering the stubborn girl standing before him, the spirit detective decided not to say anything.
"Come on" Keiko said, grabbing the chips and soda. "Everyone is waiting for us"
Keiko had always been like that. She was always asking Yusuke to open himself to her, tell her his feeling, his mind... However, every time he asked her that, she closed herself as rock. He knew something was wrong. He knew her better then anyone. And he was going to find out what was disturbing her.
"Yusuke! Let's go!!" Keiko said, as she stood waiting for him on the kitchen's door. She gave him a smile and turned around, going trough the hallway, as Yusuke followed her. Then, he stooped. The spirit detective felt something terrible coming closer.
"Keiko" Yusuke called. The brown haired girl didn't even have time to turn around. When the entire hallway started to glow with a blue and strange light, Yusuke jumped over Keiko's body without a second thought, pushing her to the ground, protecting her with his strong body, as a ball of energy hit the end of the hallway, blowing and destroying everything around. He heard screams: the energy had hit the room where Botan, Yukina and Kuwabara were.
In just on second, everything was happening again.
"Have you talked to Mukuro about that?"
"Of course I have" Hiei said arrogantly. "She is not stupid. She realized that something was wrong as soon as the energy was surrounding the place"
"I imagined that-" Kurama started saying, but he suddenly stopped talking.
"I felt it too" Hiei completed, and both looked around them, prepared themselves and started looking for something. When a feeling of extreme darkness surrounded Kurama, the red haired boy, without hesitation, started running in the temple's direction, worried with Botan's safety, and only stopped when he heard Hiei's voice, which followed him quickly.
"Kurama, watch out!!!!" The fire demon's voice echoed and Kurama only had time to jump aside, lying on the grass, as a ball of blue and terrible energy passed close to his head, went in the direction of the temple and finally hit it.
"Botan!!!!"