AN: I probably won't be updating as much now that school has started again. Okay so technically isn't been on forever and I just haven't gotten to actually writing this, but still. Summer break starts next week and I'll try my hardest to update even more, but I have a lot of stuff going on this summer. Too bad I'm not going to Greece. Anyway, the only reason why I am updating is because I was trying to find a good story to read but I couldn't find one so I gave up. Oh, and because My friends all ditched me.

Yukina softly knocked on the door, then walked in anyway and looked in between Botan and Hiei. There was a silence before Yukina shook it off and stuck out her Left hand in excitement. "Looky!" She said.

Botan broke her eyes away from Hiei and looked down at Yukina's hand, her every famous 'fake' smile showing on her face. On Yukina's ring finger there lay a beautiful diamond that was surrounded by small aqua-marine stones, and it all was held on a silver band. "You're engaged!" She jumped up and hugged Yukina.

"So after you have the kid will you be moving back?" Botan asked a hint of sadness that only Hiei could tell was in her voice. Yukina nodded and hugged Botan back, then ran to Hiei and hugged him. She then ran out of the room.

Botan and Hiei followed her out.

Botan, Yukina, and Keiko sat around watching TV and waiting for the boys to finish cooking. There was silence between the girls, as they listened to the boys talking and laughing.

"Botan . . ." Yukina said, calmly getting her attention. Both the girls looked at her and waited for the answer. "My water just broke. Or whatever I'm supposed to say when this happened."

Everyone looked at Yukina wide eyed, and for a moment they were still. Then the chaos started and after a while they were all gathered around Yukina and her new born baby girl.

"What are you going to name her?" Keiko asked.

"Hum. . . Riin." Yukina smiled and hugged her baby. "I love her." Botan smiled and hugged Yukina, momentarily forgetting about her troubles with Kurama and Hiei, who were on opposite sides of the room.

"I love the name." Kuwabara smiled. "And we're a big happy. . ." He was cut off as the door slammed shut and they all turned to see Joe standing in the door way with a smirk.

"Family." Joe finished for Kuwabara. "No, because that child is mine, unless you want to give me Botan instead."

"In your dreams freak!" Keiko put her hand on her hips to challenge him. Yusuke rolled his eyes and then looked at the other three Spirit Detectives for conformation.

"We fight. If you win you get both, but if we win you die." Kurama said, stepping forward.

"Fine." Joe smirked even more. "Lead the way." Yusuke nodded and the four Detectives plus Joe walked out side. The girls waited for a moment, then all turned and looked out the window to see the boys outside, starting the fight.

"This is bad." Keiko said.

"Why, don't you trust them . . .? Okay I don't really trust them." Botan sighed and sat next to Yukina. "Why does he want the baby?"

"Because he's an evil man that like to leave destruction at his wake?" Yukina asked cutely. Botan and Keiko laughed and turned away from the fight. "They'll win, they always win, other then when they lose. But they mostly win! And I know that they know that this is so much more important then any other battle because people they really really really really care about are at stake, even if Riin has only been alive for an hour." She nodded and hummed softly to Riin.

"She's right." Keiko looked at Botan and smiled. "Kurama and Hiei love you to much to loose." Botan blushed and looked back out the window with out saying a word. Keiko laughed.

There was a really long silence as the girls continued to watch the battle.

"I'm going to stay here." Botan said after a while. Keiko and Yukina both looked at her questioningly. "When you all go back to Japan I want to stay here."

"Okay. Why?" Keiko asked.

"Because I like it here, it's pretty and it will let me figure out what to do with my life." Botan replied, with a slight smile. Keiko nodded and looked back at the window.

"This is going way to fast." Yukina stated.

"The battle?" Botan asked.

"No, this whole thing with Joe. It's going to fast. He's not one of those villains who talks too much." She sighed. Keiko shook her head with a slight laugh.

Outside the boys kept attacking Joe, trying to weaken him, yet instead getting the opposite effect. Every time they attacked he got stronger and they got weaker.

"Has anyone else noticed that this isn't doing anything?" Yusuke asked rhetorically. Kurama looked at him, and raised an eyebrow.

"Well I don't see you coming up with any brilliant ideas." Hiei grunted.

"Kurama what do you know about him?"

"Um . . . he's evil and he wants to marry Botan?" Kurama shrugged.

"Come on you have to know something." Yusuke Shot his spirit gun in a weak attempt to do anything. Kurama shook his head and looked at Hiei, passing the question up to him.

"All I know is that he's vulnerable to lightning and he sucks up spirit energy." Hiei said.

"And if this was an anime I would have fallen over." Yusuke said. "Hiei, we could use that you know." Hiei shrugged.

Kuwabara glared at Hiei pathetically. "But we have no lightning."

"Do we know anyone who does?" Yusuke was about to shoot the spirit gun again, then stopped. "Anyone who we haven't already killed." He added before Kuwabara could say anyone's name.

"Um . . . no one." Kurama hit Joe with his whip, Joe dodged again.

"You can not defeat me!" Joe yelled, hitting Kurama and Yusuke with some kind of spirit attack. Kurama winced as he tried to sit up, holding onto his stomach.

"Ow." Yusuke said unemotionally. "You know, I'm being to like fighting at hospitals."

"Ha ha." Kurama rolled his eyes. "What are we supposed to do? I . . . We can't let Joe take Bo . . . the girls."

Yusuke looked at Kurama suspiciously, then let it go since they were in the middle of a fight and stood up leaning on Kuwabara. "What we need is a way to make lightning." He faintly dodged Joe's next attack, which Kurama had to pathetically roll away from. Hiei rolled his eyes, and despite the fact that he was mad at Kurama, He helped him up.

"Generate a storm?" Kuwabara looked up at the sky. "Pretty cloudless day isn't it."

"I don't want to die again. There has to be some other way to kill the guy. "

"You mean instead of just sitting her and talking, while we try to dodge everything he throws at us?" Hiei asked.

"Which is the long way of calling all of us cowards." Kurama replied. Hiei gave Kurama a reprimanding looking, then tried to attack Joe. Sadly it didn't work and he went back to the group.

"Convoco coloro che รจ trapo del vais." Joe was muttering.

"What's he doing?" Kuwabara asked.

"Well he's just summoning up a bunch of demons from the darkest parts of Makai." Kurama shrugged absentmindedly.

Yusuke nodded and looked at the forest next to them. "Let's run?" He offered. Kurama nodded the four of them run into the forest until they found a little clearing with a stream.

"So now we're running cowards." Hiei said.

"There's a portal to Makai close by. Maybe we can lead them there. Since those kind of summons can't live in Makai." Kurama pointed up ahead to a little portal.

"What about Joe?" Yusuke asked, walking towards the portal.

"He'll follow and maybe we'll be lucky and either the weather will be different or we'll find someone that can play with lightning." Yusuke nodded and walked up to the Portal with the other three. They stood at the entrance and waited.

Botan stood up. "I'm going to help them fight. Keiko watch Yukina and Riin, I'll be back." She smiled and then climbed through the window and snuck past Joe and his minions, then into the forest. She smiled when she found the boys and saw their stunned faces when they saw her.

"You should be in the hospital!" Kurama said, stepping forward to Botan. Hiei glared at him for a moment, then turned away.

"And let my life be in your hands. Ha." Botan smiled. "Anyway, I know things you don't know. And I have connections in Makai that could help."

"But can you even fight?" Yusuke asked.

"Yeah, I have my own powers you know." Botan smirked and walked up to the portal. "So, I'll meet you there." Botan walked through, feeling pretty good again, now that she was doing something that she loved, something that she used to do that made her feel better about her life and happier.

Kurama looked at Yusuke and they both shrugged, then stood their ground as the demons and Joe came into view. "Once they get across the lake we jump through." Yusuke ordered, looking at Kuwabara. "One by one, you first, then Kurama, then Hiei, then me. Get back far away from the portal, and make tell Botan to shut it down the moment Joe comes through since he'll be in back." Kuwabara nodded and jumped through the Portal, since Yusuke's speech was just long enough.

"Close the Portal once Joe gets through." Kuwabara said running to the other side of the valley that they had landed in. Botan nodded and stayed where she was. "Aren't you coming?" Kuwabara asked.

"I can't close portals from too far away. Sorry." She waited as Kurama, Hiei and Yusuke ran through and got next to Kuwabara. Next the minions, who disappeared once they stepped through, and finally Joe. Once he was all the way through Botan zipped up the portal and ran back to the Spirit Detectives.

"So where are these 'connections' of yours?" Yusuke asked.

"Follow me." Botan smiled and turned to Joe. "Catch us if you can!" she yelled, then walked into the forest. "We'll have to run, keep up or you'll get lost." They four nodded. Botan smiled and started to run, Hiei right next to her, and the other four trailing them.

"I know this forest." Hiei said. Botan looked at him. "It's the one . . . your getting them aren't you."

"Don't tell Kurama."

"Why not? I know that you two have a past together, how come he can't know that we have a past together?" Hiei said threateningly. Botan looked at him pleadingly. Hiei stopped running, knowing that the other three were just following their footprints and were far behind. "Botan." Botan kept on running, and Hiei joined her again.

"I just . . ." Botan sighed. "Our past is really different." She was still looking at Hiei, and didn't notice that he had stopped, soon Botan ran into a wall and she was flung back and fell onto the ground. "Ow."

Hiei laughed and walked up to her. "Ditz." He leaned against the wall and smiled. Botan rolled her eyes and stood up. "I won't tell him."

"It's still beautiful." Botan said, looking up at the old Renaissance type castle. It was huge and old, but perfectly preserved. "I wonder if they kept my room the same."

"Well since they happen to be your best friends and not your family, I'm going to guess, yes." Hiei looked forward and erased his smile when he saw Kurama, Yusuke, and Kuwabara in sight. As soon as they got to the castle Botan smiled and knocked on the door of the castle. There was silence and Botan crossed her fingers hoping someone was home. After a while the door slowly creaked open and a figure appeared in the shadowed doorway.

"Botan?"

AN: Okay, I've been thinking, because I finally know the end of this story and it may or may not be coming up soon, decided upon how long the battles and stuff will last. Um, I lost my train of thought. So anyway, I want to write about Botan's past, the past that I have created in this story. So would anyone read it if I did do that?

And onto other news, who likes the story, I hope you all still like it! And I hope I get lots and lots of reviews. YAY! And now I'm bored again and will find a title and post this.