The room was just a room at the end of the hall of rooms where Genai kept his students occupied. It wasn't much, but it was something she could use to her own desires. She smiled as she found a sleeping robe in the slim closet, and changed into it. When she was a pure spirit, she didn't need rest, but when she became a solid, living being, rest became something she needed.
The blue hair was let down from the ponytail, to fall around her lower back as she slid into the bed, between the sheets to just sleep and dream. She hated to do it, but she needed to do it. She hated it, because when she closed her eyes... She was there at the battle field again, shouts and screams and roars making it a living terror...
The mission was supposed to be harder, harder then usual, but it wasn't supposed to be this hard. It took the demons they'd befriended from all over, and some they didn't even know to stand against this horrible demon named Akakabuto, who towered over the rest of them with a terrible roar. He was higher then any S Class Botan had ever seen, as she kept focused on making portals to get their warriors to the battle.
Rinku, Chu, Toya, Jin, Mukuro, Yomi and his son Shura, all of them came to join Yusuke, Hiei, Kurama, and Kuwabara for the final task of the Spirit Detectives.
Botan's eyes just stared up at the demon who towered over herself and all of the others, not that size mattered to any of them. They were unafraid, as they went to fight, and fight, and fight until they were dead.
The demon Akakabuto was a giant bear demon, who dwarfed all the other bear demons Botan had ever seen by nearly 2 tons. The bear was on a rampage, and being stopped by their group, before it made it's way into the human world. Black fur covered feet caught anything underneath them aflame, and so they were not only fighting against the bear, but trying to avoid all of the flames and destruction the bear caused as well.
Hiei had stood on a rock in the path of the bear, and unleashed the Dragon of the Darkness Flame, scoring a direct hit on the bear, who reared back in pain, releasing a huge bellow of anger as the dragon attack actually dissolve against the armor like fur of the beast.
Chu, the master of the Drunken fist was the one to point out that if they could damage the back bone, right below the shoulder blades then youkai would fall to their attacks. It was a good plan, and soon they were trying to get an attack to cut past such a strong bear demon's thick fur.
Hiei, having fought all over the Makai, he understood the best of what was going to happen. When the bear demon finally fell, the real enemy came out. A four armed demon, who was able to slice Jin across his back from shoulder to hip, sending the wind master crashing to the ground but before the four armed demon could finish him off, Hiei was there using his Jaou Ensatsu Rengoku Shou (swift demon pergatory wound) to get the focus off of the wounded wind master.
This battle unfurled slowly, and Botan watched in horror at what began to happen... This demon was too much for them after that bear demon, and they were being over powered slowly.
The book in her hand pulsed, and with a fearful look at the little black book, she looked up to see it truly transpire.
Hiei had rushed forward, and distracted the demon with himself, leaving the demon's back open to a Double Barrel shot gun from Yusuke, but then it happened. The Fire and ice demon was cut in half by the claws of the four armed demon... he was smashed to the ground, as the Grim Reaper cried out in sorrow. She could see Hiei's Spirit floating above his body as he watched the Double Barreled shot gun hit it's target...
But red eyes went wide when the shot gun had next to no effect and everyone had cried out Hiei's name. Then they had started to fall like flies before a flame.
Kurama's forest of Rose whips had been turned back upon him, and the demon slaughtered him with his own attack, and Kuwabara's head was grasped after the male took off one of the arms, and crushed between the powerful claws...
So much death in such a short time, and when the demon finally died, Botan had much more to tend to. Each of her fallen friends, she had to give a ride to Spirit World, where they would either go to heaven or hell.
The hardest one for her was that of Kuwabara and Yusuke, they both had children that everyone of them knew and loved, she knew Youko Kurama had children, as did Hiei, but in the end knowing she would have to tell Yukina and Kieko that their husbands, their lovers were dead was something terrible for the blue haired grim reaper.
The grim reaper sat up in bed, bringing her knees up to her chest as she cried. She could remember all of their smiles, the warmth of their hands, and the fire in their eyes. She could see the first time she met them all, when she thought Yusuke was a lost cause, Kuwabara was idiotic, Hiei was frightful, Kurama was a dreadful dream boat, and yet... as time passed, they all learned to work together.
She had never fought with them, she was a Spirit, a healer... a grim reaper. She knew she annoyed Hiei, and Kurama and Kuwabara even thought she was ditzy, but even so she knew they fought to protect the entire world, and she took a little bit of heart in that she was included in those that they had protected.
It still hurt, 5 years later, 5 years after the fact, that she would never see Yusuke act like an idiot in front of his wife, or fall on his ass just to be funny. She would never see Hiei going crazy for 'sweet snow' or Kurama in his rose garden. She wouldn't see Kuwabara holding his twins close, with Yukina smiling happily...
Yukina and Keiko didn't laugh anymore either, they didn't care about themselves, only about what was. They cared for their children as best they could, but still... they wanted something more.
Botan understood that full heartedly, she wanted something more too. She wanted her boys back...
A sound from outside caught her attention, as she stood up and opened the large window to look out towards the training grounds.
Light and L were showing what they knew about fighting, kicking and punching with some style, but nothing like what they would have when time went on. Botan smiled softly, wiping her tears on the sleeping robe, before closing the window and changing into her bright pink kimono and took a deep breath.
The time for tears was over, she had two new intellegent idiots to take care of. As she came out to watch the two train, she almost laughed. A cat demon she knew as Piper, daughter of Hiei and a fierce Jaguar demon, was just teasing the boys as she jumped from one place to another avoiding all of their attacks with expert ease while Genai watched on with mirthful eyes.
"Alright Piper, enough using the two as a scratching post..." Genai said as Piper backed off, and Light and L both fell onto their butts, their clothes torn up like a cat had just attacked them or something of the sort. The teacher walked over to the boys who were just about his age, "On your feet, we've got a lot of work left to do." He said, as he smirked down at the both of them.
"You've got to be kidding... we can only take so much of this type of thing..." Light said as he pulled himself up to his feet. If he lived through this training... just if, just maybe... He could save the human world from themselves once more. He could take the training that made him strong as demons, and save the human race by destroying all the evil in them...
He would do this, he would survive and destroy the evils in the human world, and rule over it just as he had planned to in the past. It was perfect, the heavens themselves had given him the perfect opportunity... and he wasn't fool enough to let it go.
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Aniue: Ok, two updates in less then four hours, I feel good.
Light:... You turned me evil again.
Aniue+L+Piper: So?
Light: -Vein pop- I wasn't completely evil...
Aniue: And you may not be by the time the stories done!
Next time on Light, the next Spirit Detective!
The training begins, like Genkai, Genai is not about to go easy on Light or L, nor any of his other students.
... Wait, what's this?
Is BOTAN TRYING TO TRAIN? Nope, just a typo. Ok, good.