Hi! I'm sorry for not updating sooner. Those teachers are gonna kill me. Gee… I hate school. Anyway, here the next chapter. Enjoy it.

A lonely wolf (IV)

Kurama was speechless for the first time in his life. The love of his life was…a wolf youkai.

The Reikai Tanteis were staring at her blankly. Did they just heard it right? Botan was a wolf youkai? But…

"Botan, are you serious?" asked Yusuke. The poor detective was confused.

"Yes, I'm serious and Kuwabara, Koenma, would you shut your mouth? It makes you look stupid." She answered coldly. This tone sent shivers on everyone's spines. It seems like this day, they will be scared to death by the last person they thought would. Koenma and Kuwabara instantly shut their mouths.

"And why didn't you told us about this before?" asked the future ruler of Reikai. Botan let a smile appear on her face. Now this was strange. First she answers coldly and NOW she is smiling. STRANGE indeed. They thought that they didn't knew her at all. Bingo! They actually didn't knew her! But she was willing to tell them about her past.

"Well how did you want me to tell you? 'Hi guys! Maybe you are not interested in it, but I'm a wolf demon! Group hug!' Is that how you wanted me to tell you?" she asked smirking, with a hint of amusement and sarcasm. Hinageshi was smiling too. 'Now this is the real Botan I know." She sat in the corner, looking how the situation was progressing. Hiei was looking at Botan calmly, with his arms crossed, leaning against a wall. Koenma was near his desk, looking at Botan like it was the first time he saw her. Yusuke was a little bit smirking; maybe at Botan's idea how to tell them the truth. Kuwabara, poor Kuwabara was still confused. Well who wasn't? Kurama was looking at Botan with intently curiosity. Botan was looking at them, a little smiling and with her eyes soft, now.

"And besides…" she continued "I can't return in my wolf form nor can I use my powers, so I thought it was useless to tell somebody about this." She was looking at her right hand why telling this and her eyes were soft and saddened. "And don't think that I told everybody excluding you." She added. Botan was now looking at them with remorse. 'Maybe I should've told them…'

"The only person that knows about me is Hinageshi, but that's only because I met her before loosing my powers and…" she stopped turning her back at them, her bangs covering her eyes. "…before my friends were killed" She whispered loud enough for others to hear.

"…Botan…" whispered Hinageshi. She was the only person in all three worlds that knew how much Botan suffers and blames herself (Botan blames herself, not Hinageshi) for her friends death.

It was an unusual silence. Nobody dared to say something. They all felt sorry for Botan's lost. Kurama felt the urge to embrace her from behind, to tell her how much he loves her, that he will ever be by her side, will be her shoulder to cry on, but in the end controlled himself.

"How they died?" asked Hiei. His eyes were soft too. He was now standing near Kurama. Botan turned to them and took a long breath. It was hard to her to talk about this. Hinageshi and Botan never talked about the past because it always brought pain to the blue haired ferry girl. It became a taboo between them, but it seems that this rule will be broken for the first time after the incident.

"It happened one hundred years ago." She said, after she turned her head away from them, looking at a window. Her voice was soft and sad. Her eyes were looking outside, but in reality she was gazing at nothing. It was like her mind was in another place.

"I was living in Makai and wasn't working as a ferry girl. I traveled with Karan and Caleb, who were my best friends. When we were traveling, we were caught in the middle of a battle. Many soldiers from Reikai were fighting a demon." At this said, her eyes darkened and her voice changed from soft to angry.

"Don't let him escape!"

Screams were heard in the Makai forest. All the birds flew away and the animals were hiding. Some men, dressed in Reikai clothes, were running after a demon. Many of them were killed; the others were injured, but their captain was demanding that his men caught that mysterious demon. He himself was very tired and he was covered in dirt, sweat and blood. He had short blond hair with blue eyes and looked like a simple human. All his fighters departed immediately and he realized that he was in the forest alone…

"What the hell is going on here!?" (Goodbye loneliness.) a female voice asked, startling the guy. He made a step back. In front of him were standing three demons. A male and two females. He was looking at them from head till feet.

"Well? Are you gonna stare at us or you gonna answer my question?" the girl who asked had dark green hair and blue eyes. By her looks, the Reikai soldier thought that she was a cat youkai; she had cat-like ears on top of her head and a cat tail. The other female was very beautiful, so beautiful that she looked like an angel. She had sky blue hair and an unusual color of amethyst eyes. She also had wolf-like ears and a soft wolf tail. Yes, as you guessed she was a wolf demon. The male had short-not so short dark brown hair with green eyes. He hadn't any animal characteristics, but he had two scars on his left check and two on his right, but they weren't ruining his beauty, those scars were only adding at his features. He was indeed a very handsome man. After the Reikai warrior realized what they were, he nervously coughed two times and cleared his throat.

"It's none of your business." He said calm but inside was a little bit nervous. Even if he was a skillful fighter; he spent all his energy fighting that demon.

"Hmm. So you can talk after all." Said the cat demon amused. The other two demons were staying silently. The male was smirking along with his cat companion, but the wolf female was looking emotionless at the stranger. The green head continued:

"So that we know you can talk, how about saying what the Hell is happening here!? We saw some freaks dressed in clothes like you and we know you have the answer," she said stepping forward to the stranger and putting an arm around his shoulders in a 'friendly' way.

"It's a long story," muttered the blond guy who was a bit troubled. The cat sighed.

"Then make it shorter!" she shouted in his ear. Fear was taking control over the poor spirit fighter. The wolf youkai noticed this and stepped forward to them.

"Karan. Leave him." She said calmly to the cat demon by the name of Karan, who instantly backed off, but not before muttering some curses that the wolf was able to hear.

"Sorry for my friend's manners. My name is Botan and that girl …" she began, pointing at Karan "…is Karan. The guy over there is Caleb." She pointed at the male demon.

"It's me who's sorry. I shouldn't answer so rudely to your-"

"Of coarse you shouldn't!" commented Karan.

"Stop it. Please continue." Said Botan after she gave Karan a 'warning look'. The Reikai soldier continued:

"My name is Gatenmaru and I'm the captain of Reikai's Defense Force. And to answer your first question, me and my team are in the middle of a mission of catching a demon that escaped in Makai" he continued. The other three looked at him curiously. Gatenmaru wanted to continue when a piercing scream stopped him from releasing other information. Karan, Caleb and Botan covered their ears from the sound (they had keen hearing, duh!).

"HELP! HELP!" a woman was running toward them. She was covered in blood and here eyes brimmed with tears.

"You all right!? What happened!?" asked Botan hurrying to the woman after her ears stopped hurting. She was only a few steps away and the woman passed out. Botan, with her speed was able to catch her. The other three gathered around.

"Oi! Is she alive?" asked Karan looking at the passed out female.

"Yes, but she's wounded. Caleb, take her in a safe place," ordered Botan.

"Hai, hai, captain!" said Caleb (for the first time) after he took the woman in bridal style.

"Karan, you go with Caleb to check an eye on that womanizer, Ok?"

"Why do I always have to keep an eye on him?" complained Karan with a demanding voice.

"Because I'll go with our new friend to see what's happening," replayed Botan looking at the cat that became her best friend.

"Fine! Baka ookami. You better come back alive or I'll die of insanity with that-that-… Ah! Never mind!" with that said, Caleb and Karan went deep in the forest, carrying the unconscious woman with them. Botan turned her gaze to Gatenmaru who became a little nervous from the gaze she is giving him.

"I suppose that the person who attacked that woman was the one you were looking for," it was more a statement that a question. He nodded hesitating.

"Okay. Then lets go!" she said looking in the direction were the woman came from. Gatenmaru was looking at her confused.

"Where?" at this Botan looked at him.

"Do you need to ask? I'll help you catch that demon. Besides, I don't have anything better to do." She replayed with a smirk. Gatenmaru watched her curiously after what, he smiled.

"I'll greatly appreciate your help." He said sincerely and Botan smiled at this.

"Then let's go!" she ordered with amusement and then they took off deep into the forest.

The forest was dark and deep. Usually forests are a dark or light green, with animals playing and birds singing, but not in this case. The forest was literally RED! Blood and lifeless bodies were everywhere. Many soldiers died in, what seemed to be, a fight. Their legs, hands were missing and heads were literally ripped off. It was an awful sight. Every man was standing in his own pool of blood and their murderer was standing near the image, with a smirk playing on his lips; content with his masterpiece. His hands were covered in his victim's blood. His nails were red and his eyes were threatening. Every human/demon/spirit that would pass by would think that he (the murderer) is crazy, that is before whoever will pass by gets killed in a blink of an eye. Then, suddenly, two pair footsteps were heard. He turned to the direction where they were heard, looking curious whit a smirk on his face.' My next victims. It should be fun.' He thought and waited patiently for the intruders to come. He sensed a great amount of youki and reiki. 'Maybe a demon and another Reikai idiot. Hn. I'll make sure they'll suffer enough for any demon or spirit to fear Me.' he reasoned.

Botan and Gatenmaru came to a clearing and saw something disgusting. There, lying on the ground, were, like a hundred of cadavers. Their faces were missing, organs removed and heads ripped. Gatenmaru recognized his men and fell on his knees with a pained look on his face. Botan was a bit different. Her eyes showed mixed emotions of anger, hate and disgust. She was clenching and unclenching her fists. Her body was surrounded by a very powerful ki. Her eyes were now a dark violet. Gatenmaru looked at her surprised. The other demon was looking at her amused and let out a chuckle. At this, Botan's brow furrowed and her eyes darkened.

"What's so funny?" she asked silently, but deadly calm. Her voice didn't possess the softness that it had before and if looks could kill (of hatred) that 'amused' demon would be dead. But instead of being dead, he was more amused. It was all written on his face and in his eyes. He even started to laugh a little louder. Botan's ears were twitching from irritation.

"Bastard" she whispered more to herself. Then, after a second she disappeared (you know, like Hiei does). Gatenmaru and the demon were searching with their eyes the wolf, but she was nowhere. When the demon turned his head to left, all he saw was a fist flying with an unmeasured speed right in his face. The power that was in that kick was so strong that he fell on his back with a loud thud.

"Bastard! How dare you kill all those creatures?" she asked so cold that it send chills on Gatenmaru's spine.

"Missy, I don't think you know who I am and what's my name." he said after he recovered from the damage Botan caused on his face. When he stood still, Botan was able to see his features. He had long silver tresses in a low pony-tail, cold golden eyes, sharp ears and a smirk planted on his face. He was a bat youkai.

"I don't need to know your name to realize what kind of blood-lustful demon you are." She retorted with the same coldness as before.

"But anyway, my name is Nakamaru Kuranosu-"

"I don't care if you're the Hell master himself. All I care is that you kill people senseless and this pisses me of." She interrupted him and was about to kick him again with her fist, when Nakamaru was surrounded by a smoke that wasn't natural.

"I'm apologize to you little wolf, but I have some problems to attend. But don't worry, we'll meet soon. And then we'll have our fight, because no one escapes alive once they dared to touch me." Said a voice, after silence possessed the forest.

"Bastard." Was all that the wolf youkai could say, but she promised that she'll punish him for killing all those people and she'll make shure that no one will ever be hurt by the hands of that bat.

Well, how do you think? Today is 1 April and it's my birth day! Yay! I realy hope you'll review. Ja ne!