My Words...

Meh...I might be getting a little back in the game now...perhaps. But I'll try and add some spice into my chapters...but I'm trying to think of something really good.

Rivalries?

The next morning Botan woke up to Hiei getting up. She watched him as he rubbed his eyes and made his way over to the bathroom. She slowly made herself comfortable without making too much noise. She then heard Hiei a few minutes later coming back. She quickly positioned herself as she was before and breathed slowly as if she were still sleeping.

"I know you're awake, Botan." Hiei said as he sat at the end of the bed.

"How did you know?" Botan said without opening her eyes.

"Well...seeing as you aren't breathing as slowly before and it appeared as if you weren't having a nightmare...it's just a little obvious."

"Oh...is that true now?"

"Yes...you don't believe me now?"

"I believe you, Hiei...I just tried to make it not as obvious so I could see if you were going to leave or not."

"You needn't worry about that, if I was going to leave I'd wake you and tell you that."

"But what if I got angry at you for waking me from a dream?"

"Botan, I know you...and I know that you wouldn't do that."

Botan blushed and looked at Hiei, "you're right...I don't think it is possible for me to get angry at you."

Hiei smiled and lightly kissed Botan on the cheek. He got up and went out to the kitchen. Botan reluctantly got up and followed him. A few minutes after Botan began making breakfast, there was a knock at the door. Hiei frowned and walked towards the door. He opened it to see Kurama standing there.

"What do you want?" Hiei asked as he looked up at Kurama.

"Nothing much, Hiei, I see you've grown a bit?" Kurama replied while walking in.

Hiei frowned, "it doesn't matter, why are you here?"

"I apologize for intruding, but I need a place to stay for a bit."

"Well, our guest room is being filled by Yukina...but she hasn't come out for a while...I suppose she's working on something."

"Now Hiei, stop snapping at your friend." Botan said while turning the oven on.

Hiei growled quietly at Kurama and walked over to Botan, as if he were protecting her from Kurama.

"Now Hiei, you don't need to get all defensive over Botan, I'm not going to try and steal her from you." Kurama said while smirking.

At the moment Kurama said that, Hiei glared at him, "and if you tried I would have to kill you."

Botan's eyes went wide with shock, "Hiei..."

Hiei turned around to see the fright on Botan's face, but he couldn't comfort her over something that was true...he would kill anyone that would try to steal Botan from him.

"Well...I guess I'm going to have to take that off of my "To Do" list." Kurama laughed.

Hiei just glared at him, then Kurama quickly added, "I'm just kidding, Hiei."

Hiei still wasn't too sure, but he heard the door to Yukina's room open up.

"So, she finally decided to come out I guess." Botan said to herself as she walked to her friend.

"I apologize for not being out here more often, I was working on a new healing method Genkai has taught me." Yukina said while bowing.

"You don't need to bow to us, you have a good excuse." Hiei said while walking over to his sister.

Yukina smiled and sat down at the table. A few hours later, Kurama had made himself at home on the couch, which Hiei didn't mind at all.

"I need to go out for a while, I'll be back later on tonight." Hiei said while putting his cloak on.

"Be careful, please." Botan said while giving him a hug.

"I'm just going out to do a little bit of training, nothing too dangerous I presume?" Hiei hugged her back.

"No...but I still want you to be careful."

Hiei nodded and exited out the window. Later on that night, Kurama had ventured into Hiei and Botan's bedroom. He slowly opened the door and crept into the room as quiet as a mouse.

"She looks...beautiful. Perhaps Hiei won't find out if I give her a kiss on the cheek." Kurama said quietly to himself as he watched Botan sleep. He slowly began to bend over Botan's head to give her a kiss.

To be continued...

My Words...again

So...is this chapter better than my last one? I'm going to torment you and wait to update so you can think of what the outcome will be...but you'll find out the next time I update. But don't worry, I'm not going to wait a month to update or something, it could be later on this week, this weekend, or perhaps next week. But I won't keep you waiting for too long...that would be just too cruel.