CHAPTER 8

"So my dear," Donovan began eyeing the girl strangely from across the table. "What do you think of an outdoor wedding?"

"Uh," Botan began, her nervousness showing in her voice. "I-I think it sounds all right, I guess."

"You guess?" he said, looking a little confused. "Don't you know?"

"Well," she started again, looking at her hands and everywhere else in the room except at him. "it sounds nice but what if it rains or something and I wasn't expecting to get married so soon after returning to your house and..."

"But we've been together for so long," he protested. "The next step for us is marriage."

"I know but, Donovan," she took a deep breath. "The reason I left you was because it's over. It's been over for years. I don't know why you keep on insisting this isn't over. I don't want to marry you. Dop you understand that?"

Donovan frowned at her. "I don't understand you at all," he said coldly. "I do everything for you I ever got you off the streets where you would still be if it hadn't of been for me and this is how you repay me?!"

"I don't mean to sound rude but, I think you're a bit confused," she said. "You didn't find me on the streets nor did you help me get off them. I was living a nice normal life before I met you."

"That's a lie!" he insisted, standing up and glaring at her. 'That's a lie and you know it!"

"No it's not," she said feeling scared. "We both know it isn't! I don't know why you keep insisting it is. I don't understand you at all. Why do you care so much where I came from? Why do you insist on pursuing this relationship when you know it's over? Why don't you try and find someone else? There are plenty of over girls out there who would love to marry you, I'm sure."

"I don't want any other girls!" he shouted, getting out of his seat. "I want you! Do you understand?!"

"No," she said.

"No?!" he exploded.

"I know why you're so desperate to bring me back every time I leave," she said. "You know who I am and what I can do."

"How do you know that?" he asked.

Botan couldn't think of anything to say to that.

"Were you listening in on me?" he demanded, putting his hands on the sides of her chair.

"I..." she began. "I was..."

"You were weren't you?"

Botan didn't say anything but she had a feeling she'd just said the wrong thing.

Yuri, who knew her way around the house, led Hiei through the building toward the dining room. She had a feeling the two would be there so that's where she went right away. Hiei still wasn't sure he could trust this girl but there wasn't anything else he could do at the moment so he let her lead him down the many halls.

"How are you even sure they will be there?" he asked.

"I just know," Yuri told him, not looking back at him.

"How?"

She didn't answer.

"Has he done this sort of thing before?" he asked.

"I don't know," she replied. "Botan is the only ferry girl he ever got his hands on but I know he's been planning this sort of thing for years."

"Why?"

"He wants to rule the Spirit World."

"But how? He's a human."

"Half human," she corrected. "His mother was a ferry girl."

"Is that why he wants to rule the Spirit World?"

"He thinks he belongs there."

"What about you?"

"I'm half human too," she replied. "But I don't want to rule anything. I just want a normal life here."

"Oh."

"But I don't expect you to believe me," she said, finally looking back at him.

"I never said I didn't," he told her.

"I know. But it felt like you didn't."

"How much farther do we have to go?" he asked.

"Not much farther," she said and rounded another corner. At the end of the hall was a door. "In there." she pointed toward the door.

They ran toward the door. Yuri would have opened it the easy way but Hiei was in a hurry and didn't give her a chance to. He slammed his body into the door and it fell forward, breaking off its hinges.

"I could have opened that," Yuri said to him.

He ignored her comment and stepped inside. He stopped short when he saw Donovan holding Botan by the throat.

A/N

Okay. This fic isn't going to be much longer because I realized it's kinda lame. :shrug: All well. I'm gonna finish it anyway because some of you seem to like it. I'm glad. So ya I'm finishing it for you all.