Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Found In The Dark ❯ A New Mission ( Chapter 8 )

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Melimea and Jenly here! Hi all! Hope you liked the last chapter! Oh wait. You already said you did!! Sorry, but my good mood is not going away soon. Thank you all again for all the pleasant reviews. Hehe. They were very good. Um so yea… OH and sorry to say but Hiei's wish is still not to be reveled. I leave hints and you have to put it all together.

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. But I do own Nilgato.

Warning: FLUFF. The bag of fluff has exploded on Hiei and he can't help but share it! Woo and he shares it with Botan!!! Hehe. You where warned…so…be happy!

Title: Found in the Darkness

Chapter Eight: A New Mission

The walls we build around us to keep out the sadness also keep out all the joy.

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Botan and Hiei sat in Koenma's office waiting. As they had gotten there George, the blue ogre, said the Hiei should be there too for reasons Koenma wouldn't tell him. So now here they were sitting in Koenma's office waiting for the toddler to finish with a paper he was looking at.

Hiei finally lost all his patience. "WELL!?"

Koenma looked up at them and looked thoughtful for a moment. "OH Yea!" He jumped up on his desk and clicked a button on one of his remotes. "Recently there has some problems in a small demon town called Jaymane. The demons are all fighting amongst themselves and are starting to kill each other off.

"So, doesn't that get rid of the problem?"

"No. The nearby demon towns are starting to do the same after the influence."

"Why not let the detective and the others do it. Why me?"

"Well not just you, Botan too."

"WHAT?!" Botan and Hiei said at the same time both jumping up.

"Yes. Yuskue needs a break and school stuff and such and so do the others and so I picked the two who can fight and have nothing better to do."

"You think she can fight?!" Hiei said pointing at Botan and looking at Koenma as if he had just sprouted nine other heads. Botan glared at him then sat back down and looked at her hands.

"But I still haven't been able to control me powers." She told them as she looked up. Hiei stared at her confused. "Oh, I guess I should explain." She scratched the back of her head. "After being around you guys for so long I have pick a few things up. And over the years my spirit energy grew. And well I have some power now, but I barely use it unless in an extreme emergency." She then chose to boost his ego. "Anyway you are strong enough for the both of us."

Hiei smirked. "That is true." Botan looked back at Koenma.

"So when do we go, oh and before I forget, I need a new oar." Koenma nodded, got up and clapped. An oar appeared in the air and he through it at her. Botan caught it and snapped her fingers making it disappear till it came back when she summand it again.

"You leave as soon as possible." He said. Handing them a map from on his desk he wished them luck and pushed a button on his desk making the floor below them fall out and them fall through.

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Botan and Hiei landed a few minutes later in the forest of Ninuie. Botan had landed on a branch in a tall tree and Hiei had landed on the ground. Botan struggled trying to get out of the branch she had fallen in. "Um…Hiei?!" she called down trying to find him. When she found him land on the branch in front of her she sighed. "Can you help me out here?" she asked. Hiei looked at her a moment.

"Do it yourself." Botan growled at him before struggling to get out. After a few minutes of trying to get out and Hiei's snickering she got lose, only to fall about twenty feet to the ground. Hiei's eyes widened as he saw her fall and jumped down after her. He caught her quickly and landed roughly in a bush.

Botan looked at him with wide eyes before starting to shout. "YOU IDIOT! WHY DIDN'T YOU HELP ME?!" She yelled hitting him on the head with her fist.

Hiei rubbed his head where she hit him. "You need to learn to take care of yourself and not always rely on others." He said pushing her off of him. Botan looked up at him as he stood. `Oh.' "You really do need to rely less on others." Hiei said as he stretcher out his hand to her. Botan looked at it and smirked, getting up herself.

"Like you said, I need to learn to rely on myself." She said sticking out her tongue. Hiei smirked.

"You also need to learn to be less childish." He said as he took off his bandana to reveal his Jagan. "It is this way." He said pointing at a hill in the distance. Botan nodded and summoned her oar as he started running in the direction of the small town on the other side of the hill.

Botan enjoyed being able to fly around again, the wind in her hair instead of someone else's hair. She watched as Hiei ran up the hill and waited for her at the top. She knew she couldn't fly into the town, even if it was a demon one, they would panic. She landed by the tree he stood at and put away her oar till later.

"So…what do you plan on doing?" she asked him.

"Kill whoever started it and leave." He said as if that was the answer to everything. Botan paled.

"How about we negotiate?" she recommended.

Hiei shrugged. "I'll gut stand there and make sure none of them get out of line then." He said. Botan nodded and walked up to the entrance of the small town. The town was run down, yet had a large population of demons living there. A lot of them were crowding around a large building near the other side of the street from the entrance.

"What do you think they are doing?" she asked him as some looked up after sensing them. Hiei shrugged but kept an eye on them. Botan jumped when she felt something grab her leg. A small human boy stood there clinging to her.

"Miss? Are you here to help us?" He asked looking up at her with bright green eyes. Botan smiled and bent down.

"Hi there. Yes we are here to help. May I ask why there is a human boy in a demon village?" she asked him. He looked up at her and blushed.

"My mommy mated with a demon and she was human so here I am." He said blushing more. "The other demons got mad at my papa for mating with a human and killed them both after my birth. They still keep me around, giving me food and such now and then, but I don't know why." He said stretching out his arms asking to be picked up.

Botan smiled and picked him up. "What is your name and how old are you?" she asked the boy.

He smiled brightly at her. "I am seven!" he said proudly. "My name is Nilgato." He said smiling. Botan smiled and rubbed his hair making all of his black hair go in different directions.

"What kind of demon was he?" Hiei asked looking over at Nilgato. The kid looked thoughtful for a moment.

"I think he was a…um…what was it called again?" he sighed. "OH! I remember! He was a fire demon!" Hiei gave the kid a strange look.

"Hm." Botan looked between the two.

"Do you two know each other somehow?"

"No." They said. Botan shrugged and turned around to find the whole group of demons looking at them with menacing looks. Botan let out an `ep' and jumped behind Hiei while still holding Nilgato.

"Um…Hiei?" she started. He nodded and let her get on his back. Now that Nilgato was there they were heavier but he still could hold them up. He walked a bit closer to the group so Botan could talk but if anything went wrong he could dash off and they all would be safe.

"What do you want human?" a blue ice demon asked Botan. Botan paled a bit but regained her color soon.

"I am here to help stop this fighting among you all." She said proudly. The demon snickered and walked closer making Hiei stiffen a bit and glare at him making him stop.

"It seems you have a demon of your own." He said. "No matter, we do not need your help, we are about to eliminate the problem." He said with a sickening smirk. Botan shuttered and held Nilgato closer to her.

"Don't worry miss. This guy," he said gesturing at Hiei "can deal with them. He is strong enough." The kid said smiling brightly. Botan looked at the boy with admiration at his ability to trust someone who he barely knew, who really was a good, some what, guy. (Did that make since?)

"Hiei?" she asked meekly as he moved over to the side and out of the demons way. "What are you doing?"

"Watch," he said as he looked at the scene starting to unfold before them. The ice demon walked up to a green earth demon and started to say something in another language.

"What are they saying?" Botan asked Nilgato and Hiei.

"Just watch," Hiei said, and Nilgato nodded. Botan sighed and looked onto the clearing at which they stood and saw what happened next quiet pale. The ice demon let out a growl and lunged at the earth demon and ripped out his throat in on swing of his giant arm. Botan clung tighter to Nilgato and Hiei.

"EW." She whispered loudly. The ice demon looked back over at her with a smirk.

"See, the problem has been taken care of." Botan hid behind Hiei now scared. "Aw, is someone scared now?" he snickered as he took a step closer. Hiei put them down and drew his Katana letting his spirit energy strengthen him. The demon stopped in his tracks and looked at the katana surrounded by a dark aura. "Eh?" Hiei turned to Botan and Nilgato slightly not turning his back on the demon.

"Stay here and if anyone comes near you attack if you can, just protect yourself and the boy." He said as he lunged at the ice demon. Botan held Nilgato to her.

"Are they always this violent?" she asked the boy.

"No. Most of the time they are far worse." He told her as he clung to her leg. Botan paled and looked at the demons in the small group by the entrances that were looking at her.

"Stay behind me." She told the boy as she closed her eyes and tapped into her spirit energy to create a force field around the two so the demons couldn't get to her or the boy, soon after she was grateful, for they started to try to hurt her and Nilgato. She hugged the boy to her as she tried to focus to keep her energy up.

Hiei didn't have to much trouble as he had finished off the ice demon down as soon as he started. "Pathetic."

He turned around to find many demons surrounding something but none of them getting to it. "Botan!" he ran at the group and started slashing at them. Many scattered and some fell. He looked up to see a pink bubble around Botan and the boy. He let out a sigh then turned to the group of demons. "Unless you wish to die I recommend you run and never fight again or we will be back!" he spat at them as they scurried away.

Botan opened her eyes when she heard Hiei shout her name. She let the field drop once the demons were gone. She looked up at Hiei and smiled as she rubbed her head which now had a headache from all the energy she had used. Hiei looked down at her and scoped her up in his arms. Nilgato stood next to them. Botan looked down at him.

"Do you have a place to stay?"

"Yes, but the demons there aren't very nice." He said looking at his feet. Botan smiled and reached out for him.

"Come with us."

"WHAT!?" Hiei yelled.

"OK, come with me." She said blushing and looking back at Nilgato. The black haired boy looked up at her with bright green eyes. Botan opened her arms as well as she could only to have Hiei make them close and the boy nod.

"I can keep up." He said smiling as he hopped from foot to foot. Botan smiled at him before hanging on to Hiei.

"So…How do we get back?" she asked him. Hiei looked down at her before he looked at the sky.

"A portal is on top of that cliff up there that will lead us to the park by the detectives mates home." He said. Botan let out a chuckle.

"I wouldn't be so sure that they are `mates'."

"They might as well, they act like one."

"Really?"

"Well the emotions they show are the ones of mates and it is inevitable for them to someday. I can't see either of them with someone else."

"True. They fight, but always work it out. I envy them."

"Why?" Hiei said as he started to walk out of town.

"The fact that they did find each other is something that I would love to have." She let out a giggle. "They didn't even admit their feelings for the other for about five years." Hiei just nodded his head before looking back at the boy.

"Hope you can keep up." He said before he dashed off. Nilgato looked after them with a big smile before he shot off after them. Botan let out a laugh as the two started to race to the cliff. She looked over Hiei's shoulder at Nilgato who had a huge smile on his face and his hair was flying behind him. She shut her eyes and laughed some more when he came up beside them as they dodged trees and such on the ground. Botan winked at him and hugged onto Hiei as he jumped over a stump.

Suddenly they both came to a halt making Botan lunge forward in Hiei's arms. "That was fun!" she said as she looked at the two demons with extremely winded hair. She looked up at the cliff that they were going to have to climb. "That is high." She said looking strait up.

"Hope you can climb boy." Hiei said as he put Botan down. Botan looked at him with a frown. "What!? I can't carry you up that!" He exclaimed as he jumped up to one of the many ledges on the cliff. Botan looked at Nilgato and noticed he had already started to climb up like Hiei.

"Damn it I can't do that." She mumbled as she grabbed a rock sticking out of the side and started to slowly climb up the cliff. She groaned as her knee scraped against the rock and she had a feeling that her kimono would be in shreds by the time she go to the top. She heard a loud tear as she pulled herself up. She swore and looked down. From her left knee down there was a long tear. She swore again and grabbed the tear as well as she could and tore it the rest of the way around so that it only went down to her knee. She put the part she tore off on her shoulder in case she could somehow use it.

She looked back up to see Nilgato far ahead of her. `Was Hiei already to the top? Figures…he is fast.' She thought as she started to pull herself up slowly. She got about three more feet in the air so she was five feet up the cliff. She felt something cold run down her arm and she looked at it to notice that she was bleeding from a little below her wrist down to her elbow. She swore again and looked back up. Nilgato was looking down at her.

"Are you ok miss?" he yelled. Botan smiled. She still hadn't told him her name had she?

"I am fine. Just keep going don't worry about me." She yelled. He just nodded and continued up.

"Then why are you bleeding and half of your kimono is missing?" a voice said near her. Botan yelped and let go of the rock she was holding only to be caught by Hiei's hand. She looked up at him as he pulled her back up. "You need to be more careful too." He mumbled as he put her where she could grab the rock she had before.

"I thought you already made it to the top." She mumbled as she felt for another rock to grab. Hiei watched her before climbing above her.

"If I did you were up there I think you will have killed yourself by now." He said as he grabbed her arm and moved it up. Botan smiled and pulled herself up.

"What about Nilgato?" she asked as she looked back up at the boy.

"He is like me. He can take care of himself." He said as she pulled herself up a little above her. Hiei grabbed a rock and climbed above her again till his feet were level with her head. Botan grunted as she pulled herself up on occasions Hiei would catch her when she slipped and pulled her up.

"Thanks." She mumbled after he caught her for the hundredth time. Hiei just nodded and pulled her up.

"HEY!" Nilgato yelled from the top. "Will you two hurry up? I am tired of waiting."

Hiei glared up at the boy before he pulled Botan with one arm and climbed up with the other. Botan moaned as a rock scrapped against her leg. Hiei looked down at her. They were about two feet away from the top. Botan looked up at him with tears in her eyes. "Almost there." He mumbled as he pulled her up to next to him and let her grab a rock. Botan pulled herself up with the help of Hiei. She grabbed the ledge and felt Nilgato grab her arm and try to pull her up, or more like did pull her up.

Botan sat on the grass on the top and clutched her knee. Hiei pulled himself up next to them and looked at her knee. "Boy," he started getting Nilgato's attention "go and find some herbs that are red and have two leafs the same side. Bring me five." Nilgato nodded and ran off to find the herbs. Botan had tears in her eyes as Hiei touched her bleeding wound. "Does it hurt much?"

Botan swung her hair at him making it fan out around her. "What do you thing!? I cry for no reason?" she hissed as she tried to swallow her tears. Hiei glared at her.

"Don't question my intelligence." He hissed back as he grabbed her chin making her look at him as she started to turn away. "Don't turn away when I talk to you!" he said as she started to cry again. He loosened his grip and scolded himself for making her cry again. He whipped away her tears with his wrist and then turned back to her knee.

Botan smiled at his head as he started to clean her wound with part of his shirt with he had removed earlier. Hiei looked up as he heard Nilgato run back to them. He took the herbs and put them on his knee mashing them together making it turn to a liquid that he had heated with some fire he summoned. Botan started to think as he put it on her knee making the pain lessen. `I could have ridden on my oar up.' "Damn." She mumbled.

"What?" Hiei asked as he rubbed the herb into her skin.

"I could have ridden my oar up here."

"Yes. But you weren't thinking very well." He told her as he looked at his work. "Boy." He said making Nilgato look at him.

"Yes sir?"

"Good job. Go find the portal, it is a big green tear in the sky. I will carry her." He said pointing at Botan with his thumb. Botan glared at him.

"Yes sir."

"Oh wait." Botan said. Nilgato turned and waited. "I haven't introduced myself yet." She said as Hiei leaned down and picked her up. "My name is Botan. And he is Hiei." She said with a smile as she pointed at Hiei with her thumb and stuck her tongue out at him.

"Interesting names." He mumbled.

"You're one to talk." Hiei said as he started to look around. "Go find the portal." He told Nilgato.

"Yes Mr.Hiei." he said as he ran off.

"When he says that it sounds like I'm old." He muttered.

"Well how old are you?"

"A little over two hundred," He said as if it was no big deal. Botan had to remind herself that he was a demon, and they did live a long time. "I don't like to keep track." Botan nodded.

"How it is that you demons can live so long and look so young is beyond me!" she said as he jumped over a root sticking out the ground.

Hiei shrugged and then smirked. "No idea how, but it is nice." He said as he heard Nilgato yell.

"FOUND IT!" He yelled. Botan smiled as Hiei ran off in the direction of Nilgato. He stood in front of the tear. "Come on! I want to see your world." He said with a big smile.

"You do know that bringing him along is illegal." Hiei told her as they approached Nilgato.

"Yea. But I don't plan on telling others about him."

"It is hard to not notice him."

"I have some ways." She said with a smile. Hiei just stared at her. "OK!" she yelled as they all stood in front of the portal. "Let us go to the park!" She said as she hung on to Hiei as he walked through the portal, Nilgato by there side.

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Nilgato jumped around the park after they came through the portal.

"Why isn't the sky clearer?"

"Pollution."

"What are those things?"

"Cars."

"Who is that?"

"The ice cream man."

"What is ice cream?"

"God's gift to man."

"What does it taste like?"

"Heaven."

"What does that taste like?"

"Ice cream."

"Where do you live?"

"Not here."

"When do we leave?"

Hiei groaned and grabbed the boy with his empty hand. "Do you ever shut up?!" Botan smiled at him from his other arm and pat him on the head.

"We are going there now." She looked up at the sky to see the moon was there. "It's late. Do we go to Genkai's or Keiko's?" Hiei shrugged as he released his hold on Nilgato. The boy jumped up and down like a little boy filled with sugar.

"Who are they?" Hiei glared at the boy and Botan sighed.

"Let's go to Genkai's. Keiko would ask too many questions…I don't know about your sister." Hiei nodded and looked over at Nilgato.

"Keep up."

"K."

Hiei started running closely followed by Nilgato not far behind. Botan squealed as they stopped in front of the temple. "That was fast."

Hiei looked at her like she was crazy. "Of course it was!" Botan flushed and looked down as he put her on the ground. Botan winched as she tried walking on her knee. "Can you heal yourself yet?" Botan looked up at Hiei.

"I…Um, might be able to." She said as she closed her eyes and tried to focus on her energy. She sighed as noting happened. "I guess it will have to heal the old fashion way. On a bed over time," she said as Hiei sighed and picked her back up.

"Come with us." He told Nilgato who was looking up at the sky around there.

"It is different here. More…I don't know, real." He said as they walked into the temple.

"Yea. That's what I thought the first time I came here." Botan said as they walked into the living room area. Yukina was no where to be found. "Hiei? Where is she?" He shrugged. Reaching up he pulled his bandana off and looked around with his Jagan. He tensed and growled lowly.

"She is with the oaf." He hissed. Botan smiled.

"Anyone else with them?"

"No."

"Well looks like she has a date." Hiei glared down at her. Botan laughed nervously. "Or maybe not." He walked up the stairs and kicked her door open before throwing her on her bed.

"I'll come back later."

"You aren't going to hurt him are you?"

"I plan on making it so he cant lift a finger for a year, opening his eyes will make him feel like he has run nine miles, and his legs will be so broken he won't be able to dream of standing." He said coldly. Botan paled a bit.

"Yukina will be made at you if you hurt him."

Hiei glared in the direction of them. "Then I shall wait until she leaves." He said as he plopped down on the bed. "You. Sleep." He said. Botan laughed.

"You. No act like no monkey." She said in a mocking caveman voice. Hiei looked at he with a quizzed look. Botan laughed harder. "Ahh.." she said. "Why don't you go do something with Nilgato?" Hiei looked around to see that he hadn't come with them.

"Why?"

"Who knows? He could be a Hiei in the making." She said with a wide smile. Hiei grunted and got up leaving. "Where are you going?"

"Nilgato." He mumbled. Botan smiled.

"Don't take out you anger on him." She said before he left. He just `hn'ed and continued to leave after turning off her light. Botan smiled before she buried her head in her pillow.

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To Be Continued

Sorry to end it here but I need to do my homework. Sorry if you didn't find any hints, but they are there. Just dig into things more than you have to! Muhahahahahahahhahhahah!!!

Thank you for the reviews they are great! Oh that reminds me…Review, Review, Review, Review, Review, Review, Review! That is about it.

Next Chapter:

Botan rest for a while and Hiei helps the young fire demon learn to fight.

Hope you like it!

Melimea

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