Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Found In The Dark ❯ The Steps ( Chapter 2 )

[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]

Here you all go! Chapter two. Hope you like it and thanks if you reviewed, or read it and are reading this chapter as well. I love to please the reviews. Truly!

Give me some time and I will get good at this…writing thing. I promise.

Summery: Botan starts to think about her life, or what it once was, and goes into depression and no one seems to notice, except one person. This is going to be a Hiei/Botan story.

Disclaimer-I do not own Yu Yu Hakusho, never had, and never will.

Title: Found in the Darkness

Chapter two: The Steps

Botan woke up in a dark room surrounded by small black clouds. Smelling the air could tell you that death was everywhere. She tried to get up only to find herself tied down with chains to the floor. She looked over at the window and prayed that she wasn't were she thought she was. She looked out at the dark green clouds and she sighed.

"Nilo's castle…again." She said.

Nilo once was a good man. He was human and acted as a good person. Then he had dead and he met Botan. Instead of going to heaven, as intended, he was captured by a demon that turned him into one himself. He had blamed Botan for that and had wanted his revenge on her. He was one of the few that wished to die.

Botan looked around once her eyes had adjusted to the darkness. She didn't like the dark, there was always something bad in it. For her at least. With a huff she tried to focus on a destination to escape, like she did last time.

"Do you really believe that, that will work like it did last time?" Nilo said as he squatted next to her. "I am not as stupid as many demons you have met." He said cupping her chin and making her look at him. He inhaled the air around her and smirked. "You smell quiet good. To bad that smell will be gone soon." He said as he pulled out some kind of sword. The room grew brighter as the sword got bigger. Electricity flying around the room everywhere.

"I will make sure that you are tortured so much that you will be begging for death." Botan let out a chuckle at the irony. She wished to die, but she felt a need to live for something. As a bolt of electricity stuck her she let out a loud and long scream.

"That's what I want to hear." Nilo said as he did it again. And every time he did, she would scream louder.

-Hours later-

"I do believe that is enough for today. See you later." Nilo told her as he left the room through the shadows. Botan was bleeding all over and she could barely breathe. She felt her mind slowly drifting away to another place, which she soon joined.

Little did she know that back at Keiko's the group was assembled.

"I TOLD YOU TO WATCH HER HIEI!" Someone yelled in the room that she had been in.

"Nothing was happening at the time Kurama! I didn't sense anything at the time so I assumed that she would be ok!" Hiei yelled back at him. With a huff they would hear more shouting.

"Would you two SHUT UP!!" an angry Yuskue yelled. "We need to find out where she is!" He said. Kurama nodded and Hiei `hn'ed. "Now, Hiei use your eye and see if you can find her. Me and the rest are going to look around the room for any clues." He said. Hiei nodded and jumped out the window and onto the roof. He pulled the cloth off of his head and looked out into the night, or early morning. He looked to the west and saw nothing. To the north he got the same. Once he got to the east he jumped down with a scowl on his face.

Yuskue looked at him. "What?"

"I know where she is…"

"WHERE!" Yuskue shouted. Hiei narrowed his eyes at them. Looking at them all.

"This is personal. I will bring her back later," he barked and he was gone.

"Damn you Hiei!" Yuskue shouted into the room. "DAMN YOU!!!"

Botan felt a presence in the room and moaned. `Please don't be Nilo,' her mind shouted.

"I'm not that fool," she heard a deep voice say. Her eyes opened up wide as she looked at the fire demon at the window.

"H-Hiei?" she whispered.

"Hn," he said as he jumped down and looked at her chains. "Let me guess. Nilo?" he said.

"Yeah, how did you know?" she asked hoarsely.

"I have…dealt with him before," he said as he put the chains down. He walked over to the far wall and into the shadows.

"You're not leaving me! Are you?" she asked feeling like she was going to cry again.

"Not yet." Was all he said as he waited for Nilo to return.

Not disappointed, moments later, Nilo walked in the door with his sword at hand. "Ah. Botan, you seem to cling to life quiet well," He said with a sneer. His head jumped up as he looked over at the fire demon in the corner. "Hiei!?" he snarled.

"Nilo," He answered calmly. The room's temperature dropped a bit as he stared at Hiei. "I do believe you are trying to get yourself hurt, threatening people like this," He said gesturing at Botan. Nilo growled at the demon and spit at him.

"Yea, I am," He said. "And it is both of your faults for that!" he said. Botan looked confused at the two but soon she let out a painful scream. She had tears running down her cheeks and her body was shaking all over. She looked up to see Nilo's sword at her throat. Her eyes got wide as she saw the room go deep yellow, almost gold. "And now I can at least get part on my revenge." He hissed as he pulled the sword back and brought it down.

Kurama jumped with a start as he looked to the East. Something was going on and he needed to go. "Yuskue, we should go and find them," He said.

"I wish we could, but we don't know where to go. We can only hope and pray that they will be ok," He said. Kuwabara sat on the bad looking at the sheet with a look of concentration on his face.

"Hey guys?"

"Huh?" Yuskue replied.

"What if they need our help? How could we help them?"

"I don't know. We can only hope. Now get off the bed and go comfort the girls. I can still hear them crying downstairs," He said. Kuwabara nodded and exited the room, walking downstairs and to the girls who all sat at the table.

Keiko looked up at him with red puffy eyes and her hands gripping the table tightly. "Any news?" she asked in her soft voice. He nodded and sat with them at the table next to her.

"And there is nothing we can do! I hate feeling helpless!" he yelled.

"Now you know how we felt when you guys always went out to fight." She said as she let a new batch of tears fall. Kuwabara frowned and looked at the tabled top. "Do any of you want something to drink? I'll get it," No one said anything and she sighed getting up and going to the kitchen.

She poured herself a cup of tea and let the smell and flavor help her feel better. She sniffed and walked back into the other room and sat back down.

"How are the boys doing?" she asked.

Back upstairs Yuskue and Kurama were cleaning up the room a bit, trying to distract themselves from the problem. Yuskue sighed as he pulled away the bloody sheets and put them in the basket by the door. "Why didn't we patch her up before we brought her back?" he asked Kurama.

"I didn't think it would matter. She usually healed in her sleep if she got hurt." He said as he fixed a broken lamp by the window. "My question is why we didn't sense when he was here. What if we contacted Koenma?" He said.

"I don't know, but his spirit energy was well hidden from us. What do you think he wants with Botan, and how Hiei knew him? And do you think that Koenma could help us in any way?" he asked.

"I guess we can ask when they return. And contacting him would be pointless," Kurama said trying to sound sure of himself but not really sounding it.

Botan waited for the blow to hit her but all she felt was wind and a huge pain in her shoulder. She opened her eyes to see the sword on the ground and the end had hit her in the shoulder with enough force to leave a mark. She looked up and saw Hiei and Nilo fighting in the background. She tried to reach for the sword to cut away the chains. As she got the sword a sharp pain shot through her body. She dropped it and looked at her now scorched hand. She looked back up at the two fighting and shut her eyes. They were moving at such a fast speed that it hurt her eyes to watch.

She once again grabbed it and cut the chain at her foot. She dropped it and let her legs stretch with the cuffs of the chain still on her feet, under her now torn pajama bottoms. She grabbed the sword one last time and tried to get the top chains. She got the chain, but also got some of her hand. She dropped the sword and grabbed her now bleeding hand and put it in her mouth sucking on the blood and swallowing.

She looked up to see Hiei standing over Nilo with his hand gripping his neck. She tried to stand only to fall back down. She winced as she heard the breaking of bones at his neck. "Rest in peace," Hiei said sarcastically as he slashed him in half with his sword.

Unexpectedly Nilo got up and his body reattached. "You will pay for this!" he hissed before he disappeared into the shadows.

Hiei turned to find Botan at the wall, her eyes barely open and slowly loosing consciousness. He walked over to the sword and grabbed it before throwing it out the window and into the storm that was outside. The rain fell heavily and lightning was flashing all over. He leaned down and looked at Botan before he sighed and hoisted her up and into his arms bridal style.

"Thanks," She said. He simply hned in reply and went over to the window. Looking outside they saw giant winged birds at the top of the castle. He sighed and jumped out into the storm. He landed on the large tree near the castle and looked around his eye closed up in the rain and he winced as he realized he couldn't find his way back at the moment. He looked down at Botan, who was currently not with them and sleeping.

With a sigh he jumped from tree to tree, frustrated that he had to help her. He jumped until he came upon a large cave filled with bats. He sat her down and jumped up scaring the bats and making them all panic, thus flying around aimlessly. With a smirk he sat down on a rock near the entrance so he could watch the rain and know if she woke. He stared at her out in the darkness and he huffed.

Nilo, had always caused him problems. He was a filthy human who got in his way once. He was there when he was turned into a demon and he had always blamed him for that, because he didn't help him. He was a soul longing to escape the life of a demon. He guessed Botan had escorted him to heaven, before he was captured. The life of a demon wasn't always good. There were…problems.

Botan stirred in her sleep a bit and turned onto her side, facing the place where Hiei sat. She opened her eyes slightly and groaned as the world around her spun around. Her fist grabbed a nearby rock and it broke at the force she had. She tried to push herself off the ground but she fell back down after a while.

"I wouldn't get up just yet if I were you. Your blood loss is going to affect you soon," Hiei said as he stared over at her. Botan felt the urge to hit him, but didn't have the strength to lift a finger.

"How long…are we going to be here?" she said after catching her breath.

"When the rain stops," he told her. Botan sighed and tried to get some rest. The ground wasn't much better than the ground at Nilo's castle, but it was better. She opened her eyes back up when she heard a bird singing. She looked over at the cave entrance and saw a blue bird with yellow wings singing on the small tree by the cave. Looking to the left she saw Hiei listening as well.

The birds small chest expanded at every note that flew through the air, making the world seem to soften for a moment. And just as soon as it started it ended. The bird flew away off into the rainy weather, to some other place. Botan smiled and curled up in a ball slowly gathering some warmth from her body. She blew out a breath and held her stomach once she heard it growl. Hiei looked over at her, slightly annoyed.

"Sorry," she muttered. She put her head to her knees and sighed. She was hungry, hurt, bleeding in some places, shocked, and she wanted to go home. `Where every that may be,' she thought. Hiei grunted as he heard her thoughts and her emotions.

`She thinks too much,' he thought annoyed. He tied the bandana back around his head to stop his eye from looking around. He leaned against the wall and watched as the rain continued to fall. He heard her mumble something in her sleep, but he ignored it.

Somehow over the years, he had become somewhat, her keeper. He knew everywhere she was, saved her all the time, watched to make sure she didn't get hurt. He looked over at her and saw her blue hair sprawled around her head. He wondered if that really was her real hair color. He looked over her shoulder and into the shadows. He knew that Nilo was out and about somewhere, once again plotting his revenge.

Nilo had been on his way to heaven when they met. He was a promising person, or so his sensei told him. So, they kidnapped him from the girl who escorted him and…wait! The girl! He looked over at Botan. `She was the girl escorting him to Heaven! So that is why he hates her.' He realized. Now he knew why he hated her. She could have stopped them, but gotten herself killed.

Botan wasn't sleeping, but she felt better with her eyes closed. Sometimes it is better to not know what is going on around you. She knew Hiei was watching her; she could fell his eyes on her. She open one eye and looked back at him. He didn't flinch or look away. He seemed to be thinking about something. She used her energy to push herself up on her elbows. "Hiei," she said.

He blinked and looked at her not saying anything, but letting her know he was listening.

"It has stopped raining," she told him looking out into the woods. He looked out and got up walking over to her, still not saying anything.

`Once again I am going to have to constantly watch her, now that I know she is connected to Nilo,' he thought as he picked her up and settled her on his back, (Think Inuyasha) and started to run off in the direction of Keiko's. Botan pushed his hair aside from her face, so she could see ahead of them. All she could see was blurs as he ran. She put her head on his back and sighed. Abruptly they stopped and she started flying forward, only to be caught by his arm hold onto her shoulder. "Hey!" she yelped as she fell onto the ground by his feet. She rubbed her now sore arm from where he had caught her and she looked up at him. "Thanks," she said sarcastically.

She looked at the house and recognized it as Keiko's home. She got to her feet and stood on them as they shook. She was still weak and needed to heal. Her spirit energy was low and she didn't have the energy to do it herself. She clung to Hiei's shoulder as he walked by. He sighed and lifted her up in his arms bridal style and carried her into the house.

When they entered Keiko jumped up and rushed to Botan. Yukina joined her next and they both started to fuss over her. Botan blushed at all the attention and smiled as Yukina started to thank Hiei for helping. She started to wonder if he had told her that he was the brother she was looking for. She felt Hiei put her down and she clung to the closest thing to her, who happened to be Kuwabara. He smiled down at her, and in his loud voice he greeted her. "Hi Botan. Are you ok now?" he asked as he lifted her up into his arms. She smiled and nodded as Yuskue and Kurama came down the stairs.

"What happened?" Yuskue asked as Kurama and Yukina started to tend to her wombs. Botan didn't say anything so Hiei spoke for her.

"If you wish to know, then you will wait until she tells you," he said. "And I don't want to tell you," he finished. Botan felt a sting as Yukina healed her arms. She closed her eyes and looked at the ground.

"Koenma told us to report back to him as soon as we got Botan back and safe." Kurama said as he took her from Kuwabara and in his arms. Botan started to feel like a sack of potatoes as she was passed around. She sighed when she once again ended up in Hiei's arms.

"Are you all done passing me around like some potatoes?" she asked annoyed. Keiko smiled and nodded, soon everyone else did. "So, lets go see Koenma, eh?" she said.

And soon after they all left in the direction of the spirit world. Keiko and Yukina staying behind.

To Be Continued

Well, did you like it? I hope so. Please review, they encourage me to update and write sooner. I would like to thank the few of you who have reviewed this story, it was nice. And no flames too. You all rock! Well, I would like some ideas, and if you know about the show a lot, please tell me about all the demons, spirit energy stuff, and ect. I would really appreciate it. Thanks.

Next time:

Botan and the rest are sent on another mission.

Nilo is up to something and this time he is stronger.

Hiei is starting to think about telling Yukina that he is her brother.

And Monks?!

Well review please. Thanks.

Melimea