A/N: Thanks for the last persons who reviewed the first chapter. You mean the ffnet world to me!Mwah!

Malo: My buddy usually is the first to review my fic. I appreciate it dude! Thanks so much. Love ya always!

Innocent-Guardian: It's a combination of the two B&B movies. Hehe. U got most of the characters right although Koenma would be a Chip older than the prince, Keiko's Angelique (whatever the spelling of her name is, Im talking about that Xmas angel girl) and Kuwabara's someone I just made up!Haha. I'm thinking of introducing more characters like Yukina or Hiei or Kuroune...Depends on my mood. Lolz!XD Thanks for reading btw!

Miss Siela: Ohhh...Yea, I wanted an editor for myself. And I am still looking until now...anyway, here's the KB interaction u want, its in the last part actually, what's here in this chappy is more of an introduction about Botan and her family.

midnight 1987: Oh yea. More descriptions. Im sorry about the last chappie, I was too lazy to type more descriptions. I don't know about this chapter but I hope ull like this.

Enigma: -sly grin- there's a real twist on the last part of this chapter. And I think it might be lemon. WHA!

Shenhui Yea I know everyone's OOC. But its needed in the story...hahaha even kurama's OOC! SHUX! But believe me...Youko will always never be OOC...hehe

khryz chuaERrrr...hello khryz.

elven-faerie.aerowin: heres the update hun! Enjoy reading!

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A creaking sound from the steam engine startled Botan out from her silent moments of reading. She stood up, closed her book and brought it with her toward the oven. The aroma of freshly baked cupcake lingered through her olfactory senses and she grinned with satisfaction, mentally handshaking herself for a job well done.

As she opened the glassed oven door, an ovenful of smoke emerged from the inside and Botan coughed several times before taking her cupcakes out. She held the iron tray with kitchen gloves and smelled the delicious aroma of the cupcake again before placing it carefully on the table.

One by one, she picked each cupcake with kitchen forceps and placed it on a bigger plastic tray carpeted with a checkered red and white cloth. Botan smiled, imagining her older sister's tired face lighten seeing her baked cupcakes. Her sister always adored Botan's cooking. And her obaasan would be delighted to see her cupcakes as well. Then she can ask her older sister to buy her another storybook after their next hunting escapade.

With that thought, Botan cant help but grin to herself. She covered her cupcakes with a protective plastic cover and placed it inside a closed cabinet where all the other foods are stored. She clasped her hands twice, dusting off the remaining floor in her hands and she slid her apron off her, hanging it carefully on the hook near the food cabinet.

She started cleaning the kitchen and just after she was putting newly picked flowers on the dining table's vase, a knock was heard from the front door, followed by another two consecutive knocks. Botan immediately inserted the flower on the vase and she fixed her hair while running to the door. It's them! They're back!

"Botan! Were back. Come and open the door!" Shizuru, a woman with auburn hair, continuously bumped the door with her fist as she called out.

"Coming!" Botan from the other side, happily leaped towards the oak door. She unlocked the three iron doorlocks from inside and blithely sprang the door open. Two amused faces stared at her blankly but she didn't mind those. Aside from the book she wanted to request later, she haven't seen her family for three days and she missed the two of them so much.

"Shizuru! Obaasan!" she hugged the both of them together and wiped the sting of tears coming out from her eyes.

Obaasan just smiled at her. "It seems like you haven't change bit, Botan. You just turned fatter than the last time I saw you,"

"Wha?!" Botan pouted. "You always say I look fatter than before, but I checked my waistline last night and its still the same!" her brows furrowed at the accusation.

Genkai chuckled and asked Botan to come closer to her. Then she patted her granddaughter's head as though she's still the same old sniffing and crying Botan ten years ago. Botan pouted once more. "Obaasan!"

Shizuru laughed at her little sister's cries of escape, but then she knew her stomach was also crying for an appetizer and so she slowly entered the house saying "We better have lunch now before my stomach eats all the organs inside me," she said with a chuckle, throwing the remains of her cigarette out from the door.

Genkai nodded and stepped foot on Shizuru's cigar, killing the smoke out of it.

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"And now for dessert!" Botan stood up after everyone finished eating her lunch. She marched to the nearby cabinet and took something from inside it. She placed the tray on the table and took the covering off.

"Hmmm. It smells good, Botan," her obaasan remarked. Botan beamed.

"Well, what are we waiting for? Let's go eat this," Shizuru said and everyone's fork was digging on her respective cupcake.

Botan sat near her oneechan and batted her eyelashes beautifully. "Do you like it Shizuru?" she said sweetly.

Shizuru looked at her with an I-know-what-you're-up-to stare. She sighed and smirked a little. She knew she cant resist her little sis's puppy dog eyes. She's a huntress but she's a sucker for cuteness, that's why she never go for the young forest animals. She's immune to those adorable big eyes.

"I know there's something fishy out from these cupcakes," Shizuru rolled her eyes as she chuckled. "Don't worry, I already brought you one," she added and dug her hands in her bag, searching for something.

Botan's smile reached her ears, turning it into a very wide grin. Can you imagine a grinning bobcat? Yea, imagine her looking like that. Horrific, isn't it?

Shizuru caught it and shoved it on the table, ignoring Botan's rhapsodic stare on the thick hard-bound storybook. You can imagine her practically drooling on her skirt. Shizuru held the book tightly while talking to Botan. "I spent a giant boar just for this so take very good care of this, do you understand Botan?"

"Yes, maam!" Botan snapped, placing her hand above her eyebrow as though saluting.

"Good." Was all Shizuru said and she handed the book to her sister.

Botan clamped the book excitedly and stood up, giving soft pecks on her sister and granny's cheeks before hopping to her room.

Shizuru sweatdropped. "Wow. She seems hyper today," she commented.

The old woman chortled. "She's ALWAYS hyper," she said and the two of them laughed heartily.

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Botan laid on her stomach while reading the first few pages of her new storybook. She was delighted to see pictures in it.

"The Fox Prince..." she read the title softly. She flipped to the next page and saw a picture of the most beautiful creature she had ever seen. Her eyes wandered on his face and she lifted her fingers to touch his silver mane. Her index finger touched the paper like it was a very delicate easy-to-tear paper.

"He is beautiful..." she heard herself sighed in contentment. The man on the picture was partly human, Botan thought. He had white fury ears on each side of his head and a tail on his back. He was sitting on a stone near a pond of waterlillies. He wore a white sash and white pants, also with white shoes. He seemed to like the color white so much one would mistake him for an angel if only he's not wearing an arrogant devious smile on his fair face. Beside him was a very beautiful princess with a golden ball and she was wearing a very fluffy pink gown with big white ribbons. She's pretty but what caught Botan's attention was the princess's sky locks, almost the same as hers.

"Cool! The princess looks like me!" she squealed in delight. In this way, she can easily imagine herself as the princess and this fox boy beside her would certainly be her prince. Who cares if he's not human, right? She thought excitedly and flipped the next page to read the first chapter.

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Botan was reading all afternoon and time flew so quickly that she didn't even notice that it was time to cook dinner. Snow was starting to fall from outside, filling the whole town with cold whiteness from the roof to the ground. Botan felt the chills and stood up from her cozy bed to close the window curtains, smiling softly at the ton of snowflakes occupying the environment. Then she turned around and her eyes met her big clock silently hanging on her wall. "It's 5:32!! Oh my God, I should be fixing supper!" she panicked.

Botan put her book on her bookshelf before hurrying herself downstairs and to the kitchen. Her family wasn't there, she just noticed. "Shizuru!" she slowly walked to the kitchen entrance. "Obaasan?" she called out. No one answered. "Well, they're probably on the backyard readying to sell the animals they hunted," Botan felt relieved with that thought.

But when she was near the dining table, a paper caught the bluette's attention. She held it and read its contents.

Botan,

Shizuru and I are going back to the forest to get something we carelessly forgot. Don't worry, we'll be back at supper time so just cook anything you like. I already cleaned the meat and its stored in the cabinet.

"It's from obaasan," she whispered to herself. "Well, I guess I should really be cooking now," Botan said and got her apron to start.

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Four Hours Later.

Botan woke up and yawned. She carelessly slept on the diner table waiting for her family. She rubbed her sleepy eyes and turned her head everywhere. Her eyes snapped.

"They're still not here?" she said to herself and glanced at the wall clock in the dining room. "But it's already 8:30," she looked around the table and found out that a single plate wasn't even touched. Nor the food she prepared was not moved from its container, there wasn't even a single bite mark.

Botan stood up, her brows arching downward in anxiety. She marched to her sister's room but there was no Shizuru in it. The same in Genkai's bedroom. Botan went to the living room to open the front door. A wild cold wind attempted to enter her house so Botan shut the door close immediately.

"Oh lord. They're out there with this deadly weather! Something might happen to them!" her brain cried out in panic. "Or worse, something already happened to them!" she thought and her eyes widened.

She scrambled towards her bedroom and quickly got her thick wardrobe to protect her from the coldness. She had to hurry up and find them as soon as possible or they'll be stuck somewhere out there and frost. Botan ran to the backyard and immediately rode on her grandma's mustang. The horse ran and ran until Botan found herself running in the darkest part of the forest.

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Botan was in the heart and the darkest part of the forest. With the wind blowing against her, she felt her face getting numb with coldness. She had searched for more than two hours and her horse was famished and thirsty. She, too, was already getting her throat dry and aching from calling her sister and granny's name too much earlier. Her light blue hair, which was usually tied up in a ponytail, was all mess up and had become a nest for the falling snowflakes.

Unfortunately, they even met wild wolves earlier, almost killing her and tearing her thick robe in their process of escape with her horse. It was an exhausting night and yet she still hasn't found her family. Botan was feeling forlorn and hopeless, she went here to find her family and there wasn't even a slight hope of finding them. No trace of them, or marks or any object from them. What if they already got home and found out she wasn't there? It means she brought her way here just to kill herself. Great, just great. She came here to save her family and not them saving her. Come to think of it, if they have already been there and found out she's not home, they'll probably be looking for her and put themselves into a greater danger. Especially now that the weather doesn't seem to want to calm down.

Botan was feeling her tears starting to pour out from her sockets and she pulled her horse towards the foggy side of the forest, attempting to hide behind it and cry her heart out.

The horse seemed to sympathy her, with his head bowed down like a horse of a coward knight. He let himself be pulled by the teary-eyed Botan and they both passed by the thick fog.

"Oh Louie, I'm so sorry to bring you in this state," Botan sniffed and sent an apologetic face to the horse.

As an answer, the horse stopped, making Botan sadder. "You don't want to go with me anymore?" she sniffed once more. "Oh I promise I'll make it up to you, just stay beside me Louie," Botan cried. But to her surprise, the horse just passed beside her and ran towards somewhere. She followed the horse's lead and saw a giant metal gate in front of her.

"O my gosh, Louie! Look!" she turned her head to the animal and saw that the horse was gawking at the huge gate. Botan began to beam, her spirit lifting inside her. There is still hope after all.

"Shhh," she placed her index finger on her mouth, signaling silence. The horse seemed to have understood her and both of them discreetly sneaked inside.

After successfully passing the gate, a long way ran towards what seemed to be an abandon palace. They're probably staying inside for the night, she thought and mutely walked the way, passing bushes and every kind of flowers.

"Well, that's weird. How could there be flowers in here when it's winter season?" Botan said bemusedly. She passed to a garden of roses in every shade and color, it was uncanny and yet she liked seeing the flowers smiling at her. She smiled back, continuing her trails, and she was nearing the door. But suddenly, she noticed something. Something very peculiar...enough to catch her attention. Botan slowly turned her head behind her, her vision fuzy because of the blowing snow but she can still see the image laid in front of her. Even her horse noticed and carefully backed off.

The thing standing near her was all white and pale. His silver hair swooshing back and forth behind him and his ears twitched slightly. His INHUMAN ears. Botan gasped, her hands immediately clung on her mouth. Her eyes as wide as saucers and she felt herself rigid and pale at the sight before her.

"Who are you?!" she heard him growl and Botan immediately ran towards the door, her heart beating too fast she felt like it will come out of her ribs any minute. She reached the door and held the doorknob, quickly twisted it open and turned her head to look at the beast.

She saw him jumped on her, just in time when the door opened and both of them were stumbled on the floor. Botan lied on her back, panting and gasping. The beast was on top of her, eyes so fierce and furious that Botan couldn't help but imagine herself being slaughtered by him any minute.

The beast trapped her inside him, his legs rested on each side of her thigh and his hands were both beside her face.

"Please spare me, I—I don't mean to intrude! I was—" she was cut off when he clamped on of his hands on her mouth.

"So you came here to stare at the beast?!" he hissed, bowing his head towards her ear.

Botan shook her head promptly. Her cries of "No" left unspoken because of the tight grasp of the beast on her mouth. Her eyes now completely stung with tears and she was sure she will be killed in a minute or two.

"Oh really?" he whispered on her ears, startling Botan with the immediate change of his tone. His hand freed her mouth but was lurking down to Botan's neck and down more. He raised his head to see her terrified expression and he couldn't help but plaster a wide grin on his face. Beautiful... Youko thought, seeing the girl's pale lips and flushed cheeks mixed with her frightened amethyst eyes.

Botan was so scared she wasn't able to find her voice and all she could do was to shake her head, silently screaming the word "No" and "Please". Her tears were threatening to flow heavily down the side of her face as the creature on top her slowly brought his hands to her throat down to her bosom.

But all her hopes gone in a heartbeat as she saw the sly smirk and the glinting eyes of the creature. His hand grasped the white obi of her pink kimono and threw it out of nowhere, exposing something she always kept hidden.

"NOOOOOOOooooooooooo!!!"

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A/N: Wow. That's mean of me to end it up like that. Poor Botan, Bad Youko! Hmm, I wonder what happens next. Want to know?

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