Botan threw her hands up and the snowballs stopped just inches from their faces, "Cool, I can stop the snow." She pushed her hand foreword and the snow flew back to the people who had thrown it. "That should come in handy during the battle, ne? I could just make a bunch of doplegangers out of snow, and sneak off."
She was enjoying this far too much, Hiei decided. Her powers weren't meant for finding ways to sneak off, although it would be interesting to see a dopleganger made of snow. "I'd like to see that." He whispered, not really aware that he'd said it out loud until Kurama started snickering at him.
"Me too, you should try it Botan! See how well it works, then maybe we'll have an easy fight tomorrow!" With Yukina's encouragement, and the demanding looks of everyone else, Botan sighed and concentrated her powers into making a dopleganger of herself.
"Oh wow! It looks exactly like you! Make another one!" Kuwabara's childish demands made Botan roll her eyes, and the dopleganger (now called d.g-Botan) giggled at him, "Sure thing Kazuma." The d.g-Botan raised her arms and a d.g-Hiei popped up out of the snow.
Hiei raised an eyebrow at the d.g-Hiei and gave d.g-Botan a questioning glance, which she responded to by smirking, "I'll have the doplegangers scout the woods incase there's any enemies." The real Botan grinned and bowed to d.g-Botan and grabbed onto Hiei's arm, leaving d.g-Hiei and d.g-Botan with the others as she made her way into the forest.
Once she was sure they were out of earshot, she burst out in a fit of giggles and turned to Hiei, "What do you think, how long can the doplegangers pass as us?" She wrapped her arms around his shoulders, taking him completely by surprise, and waited for him to respond. "Ah, how sweet. A moment alone for the lovers. But not quite I guess."
Hiei and Botan spun around, looking for the space where the voice had come from when a second voice greeted their ears with a chilly embrace. "Now you shut up. That's my daughter and she is not that fire demon's lover!"
Botan recognized the voice before it even refered to her as his daughter, it was of course, her father. "D-dad? Is that you!" Two figures stepped out of a bush on her left and she almost cried. It was her father!
"Botan, get away from that vile thing right now." He seemed so cold, not at all like she remembered, "What are you talking about dad? Hiei's not vil…" She was cut off by a sharp backhand to her left cheek, perhaps leaving Hiei's immediate side had been a less than intelligent idea. "Don't you touch her!"
Hiei was bursting with rage, how dare he hit Botan! No body touches his love and gets away with it, related or not. "No, Hiei, calm down…" Her voice sent shivers down his spine, how could she tell him to calm down? That man, her father, comes out of no where and backhands her and she expects him to do nothing about it? Well that was not gonna happen!
"No Botan! He won't get away with hitting you. I don't care if he's your father." Amidst their arguing, her father had begun to laugh. As had his companion. "Calm down you two! I was just testing your loyalties. I wasn't about to just watch my daughter make kissy faces with some random demon."
It's a preview of more to come! I promise I'll update again this month for you!