Hiei awoke to the ferry girls blue hair thrown across his naked chest. Her body, naked as well was lain across him. At first he rolled his eyes, this was not part of the rules. Botan just wanted to use this friendship with benefits to suck him into a real relationship. Botan thought he had no clue, but he knew. He felt naive for even allowing such a trap to begin. All he had to do was continue to turn her down and set firmer boundaries he thought. Unfortunately he couldn't bring himself to wake her and raise a fuss. Although he would never admit it aloud it was very comfortable to have another body against his, soft and warm. Even thinking such a thing made him cringe internally. Maybe this part of the broken rules could stay. What harm was it to sleep inside.

Botan began to slowly stir underneath him. Her once soft pillow now felt hard. It was then that she realized her hand was across a soft yet scarred body. She burst upwards "Oh dear I'm so sorry" she shouted, frowning "I know this isn't part of the game,..well the uhm the thing...I don't know".

"I don't care Botan" Hiei said doing his best to avoid her sorrowful glance. Since she was no longer on top of him he decided it was time to leave.

"What did you just call me" Botan asked pulling the sheets around her frame to shield herself from the cool morning air.

"Botan? That's your name isn't it." Hiei mocked.

"Well yes but,...you never call me that". Botan was perplexed and amazed. Was her plan working? Was the fire demon falling for her?

"Do you prefer stupid?" he said with a raising voice, obviously irritated she noticed, let alone called him out on it.

"No,...but I-"

"Then silence stupid" he insisted as he walked out of the room

The weeks passed by as their strange relationship continued to blossom. Slowly he began to spend every night in her room, whether they had sex or not. Hiei still spent the majority of the nights making fun of her but Botan grew to understand the humor behind it and often found herself laughing before shouting. Hiei usually remained in bed until she was awake, but was quick to jet out and usually remained out all day. Botan attributed it to an inability to connect.

The crackle of lightning and crashing of thunder was heard outside. The rain was coming down in sheets and Hiei was nowhere to be found. Botan began to find herself overwhelmed thinking of where he could be. She walked into the bathroom and began to wash her face and hunker down for the night. She cold water splashed her face with relief from the heat that had started to gather from what she thought was worry about Hiei. The more she thought about it, the worse she felt. The bile began to rise in her throat, she harshly swallowed it back. However, she lost the battle as she was forced into vomiting into their bathroom sink. Wow,...had she really just worried herself sick about him?

The door slammed against the wall behind it with a loud bang as Hiei walked into the house sopping wet from his hair to his toes.

"Oh Hiei,...I was beginning to wonder if you were alright" Botan whispered wiping her face trying to hide what had just happened. It seemed to work, mostly because Hiei just didn't care.

"I was training" Hiei said as she started stripping himself of his clothes leaving them soaking in the hallway. He gathered a towel and began to dry his hair.

"In the rain?" Botan asked.

"Mhm" he stated stepping into the shower and turning it on scalding.

Botan slid the glass door open and slipped in behind him. She wrapped her arms around his chest and laid her head on his back "I'm glad your back" she whispered. Hiei turned to face her, he didn't know what to say to her. He felt the urge to slam her against the wall of the shower but she just looked so damn vulnerable and scared, all because he was out in the rain. Botan leaned into him to kiss his lips, and for once Hiei didn't hesitate or scowl. He just kissed her, no tongue trying to make his way into her pants, no ulterior motives, just a kiss.

The shower shut off and Botan yawned heavily "I'm so tired" she said pulling on pajamas as Hiei threw her over his shoulder and walked towards the bedroom.

"Put me down you jerk!" Botan insisted as she was thrown onto the bed. Hiei approached her scantly dressed frame biting his way up her body.

"Ugh not right now Hiei" she said pushing his face away. "I was so worried earlier". This got her a pretty shocked face. Botan hadn't refused Hiei even once since this little game had started. "I was so worried that I-" she paused. Should she even tell him? He's just going to laugh at her. "that I-,...made myself really tired" said shrugging her shoulders. "I'm going to get a glass of water and I'll come back to bed okay?"

"Hn" Hiei said making himself comfortable.

Botan padded into the kitchen and poured herself a glass of water gazing out the window at the pouring rain. Her eyes began a last glance around the room as her eyes stopped upon the calendar. The 30th she thought to herself. Hm. Botan's eyes grew wide as she spit out her water and began to cough and gag heavily.

"You can't breathe and drink at the same time" Hiei taunted from the other room.

Botan didn't answer. She frantically threw her hands on top of the fridge and grasped the tiny blue package. She ripped it open and counted quietly to herself "One,...two,...three" she gasped. It was the end of the month how did she have three left? Had she really gotten so caught up in this stupid fling that she completely had forgotten three whole doses. "Oh Kami,..."