CHAPTER 7

Suddenly there was a knock on Botan's door. "Miss Pure," the voice of one of the house maids said through the door. "Are you in there?"

Botan looked at Hiei. "Get out of here!" she hissed.

He was up and moving before the words were all the way out of her mouth. He dashed back over to the window and hopped outside, landing in the garden below.

"Miss Pure?" the maid called again.

"Coming!" Botan called running to the door and opening it. An annoyed looking maid stood in the hall. "Yes?"

"Master Donovan wants to see you," the maid said. She turned to go. "Please come this way."

Botan hesitated a moment, glancing back at the window. Hiei had returned to the window sill and was watching her. When their eyes met he cocked his head at her. He seemed to know what this was about even if she didn't. What he'd said came to mind and she felt her heart beginning to pound.

"Miss Pure?" the maid said looking back at her. "Is there anything wrong?"

"Uh um... no," Botan said getting a move on. "I'm coming." she followed the maid down the hall.

What does Donovan want now? she wondered. Is he going to ask me something? I hope he doesn't want to sleep with me. I don't do stuff like that anymore... Onceagain Hiei's words came to mind. "He's using you." His words didn't make her feel any better. If Donovan was just using her to get to Koemna what was she going to do? How was she going to stop him? What if Hiei was lying because he was jealous?

She didn't have anymore time to wonder because at that moment the maid stopped in front of a door and opened it. "You can go in," she said, looking at Botan.

"Oh uh yes, thank you," Botan said, walking into the room.

When she was inside the maid shut the door and it clanged with a final sound. Botan's heart started to pound even faster and louder and she took a deep breath to calm herself down. "Don't worry," she said to herself. "It'll be okay."

"Botan," Donovan's voice said in front of her.

The girl looked up and saw Donovan standing by a long dining room table. The table was set and platters of food rested on it. "Have a seat, my dear," he said offering one to her.

The blue haired girl walked over to the table and slowly sat down on the chair he offered her. He slowly pushed it in for her then went to the opposite end of the table and sat down in her own seat. Now they were sitting eye to eye and Botan's nervousness got even worse.

Hiei had watched Botan follow the maid out of the bedroom then had jumped back down into the garden. He had a bad feeling about this but what could he do? If Donovan was from the Spirit World and did want to kill Koemna, Botan was in great danger. Danger Hiei couldn't deal with at the moment. "This is stupid," he said to himself, looking back up at the open bedroom window. "Why am I worried about the baka onna anyway?" That question still had no answer. This whole ordeal was just making him ask it more than he would have. Why was he helping this baka ferry onna? He knew he had to deal with dumb Donovan before the man dealt with him but he could have done it in his own time. He didn't have to agree to help or go with Botan to do it. Unless...

He shook his head. "Now that is impossible," he told himself. "I wouldn't do that for any reason. I don't care about her. At least I don't think I do..." he looked up at the sky. He remembered her face, the tears streaming down her cheeks. "I only agreed to this so she wouldn't cry anymore," he said to himself. "there wasn't any other reason." Suddenly he heard a noise close by and took his eyes off the stars. He spotted a shadow moving in some bushes close by. "Who's there?" he demanded, glaring at the shadow. "Show yourself or I'll be forced to make you."

The movement continued but nothing came out.

Hiei watched it then quickly reacted, unsheathing his sword and dashing toward the movement. He jumped into the air and brought his sword down on the thing. "AAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!"

His sword landed in the ground an inch from a pale face. "YIIIIIEEEEEY!" a female voice screamed. "Mercy!"

"Huh?" Hiei stared at the person he'd almost killed. The pale face had huge scared yellow eyes and pale blue hair. She was staring at him in terror.

"Who are you?" he demanded.

"I'm Yuri!" the girl exclaimed. "I'm Donovan's sister!"

"His sister!" Hiei exclaimed. "Then you're working for him aren't you?!"

"No!" the girl exclaimed. "I don't want anything to do with him! "

"Then why are you here?" he asked, pulling his sword away from her face.

"I heard he found his old girlfriend," Yuri replied. "I came here to warn her about what he was planning."

"What is he planning?"

"He wants to use her to create a path that will lead up to the Spirit World," the girl replied, sitting up. "He knows she has the power to do it and that's why he's always going after her when she tries to leave him."

"So that's why he needs her so much," Hiei said. "I thought he was going to use her another way but how's he going to get her to make this path? She doesn't have that much power."

"Yes she does," Yuri corrected him.

"What do you mean?"

"If she can tap into the Spirit World's energy she can use her powers as the Grim Reaper to create the path," the girl replied. "He knows she can do that but he doesn't know how to make her do it so he'll try anything to get her to use that power."

Then the ferry onna's in more danger than I realized, he thought. He stood up. "I'd better go find her." he turned to go.

"Wait!" Yuri exclaimed, grabbing his sleeve.

"You'd better let me go if you want to keep that hand," he said, looking back at her.

"Let me come with you," she said. "Maybe I can help you."

"How can you help me?" he demanded. "You'd better just stay out of this girl."

"No!" she exclaimed, standing up. She dwarfed him by three inches. "He's my brother and I won't let him get away with this. Maybe I can make him come to his senses." she grabbed his hands. "Please let me come with you!"

Hiei saw she was about to cry. "All right," he said, looking away. "Just don't cry. I can't stand it."

"Thank you," she said, pulling him along. "Now let's go."

A/N

ARGH!!!!!!!!!!! I cannot believe it! I knew I shouldn't have started watching Pokemon again! Now all I think about is Pokemon! POKEMON WON'T HELP ME WITH THIS FIC:dies: All well. I guess I'll just have to think of some more things and try to not think about Pokemon when I write.