Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Found In The Dark ❯ Chapter 19 ( Chapter 19 )

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Yup; updating. You all shall hate me so…it is hard to believe that the last time I updated was this time last year.

Shout out time. I want to thank someone who I was talking to through e-mail for a bit who helped me out a lot with a certain scene below that I was stumped on. Without her I probably would still be working on this and hating how it came out. Thank you Miss Yukishiro18!

OMG! MY MUSES ARE DEAD! I must adopt new ones...

Chapter Nineteen: Missing you

Found In the Darkness

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Up, down, left, right. “Huff, huff” Up, down, left, right. “Huff, huff.” Up, down, left, right. Botan let out a loud gasp as she landed gently on the ground. She was so tired; she had been at this training for a long time now. She looked over to her left and saw another person jump down from a tree and landed far more gracefully then she did. She glared in her direction before turning to look in the direction of Hisho. The elderly woman looked bored of them and simply sat there looking annoyed. The elderly woman sat up and clapped her hands; over the time Botan had been there she learned that meant Hisho wanted to talk and to come to her. She looked over at Canna who looked at her with a smirk. A race. Again. Botan kicked off the ground and ran as fast as she could to Hisho.

Another loss. Botan panted as she stood there trying to one; gain her breath and two; not kill Canna. Hisho snapped her fingers in front of Botan's face bringing the girls attention to her.

“I want to take a break.” Hisho mumbled. “It is getting colder and a bit late; I want to sleep well tonight, besides.” She looked at the girls and frowned at Botan. “Tomorrow is Christmas.” Botan contained the pain that shot threw her heart and merely smiled meekly and nodded her head. Hisho said nothing more but turned and left, closely followed by Canna. Botan remained where she was and watched them go. She pulled together the red jacket she wore. It had snowed the night before and it was a bit chilly; though she had been doing these `exercises' for hours. The sun would go down soon, and she had been out here before it came up. She blew out a breath and watched the fog. She didn't want to stop though. She was content in this practice, it kept her warm and her mind on other things.

Now, though, her mind wondered. Hiei. She chewed on her lower lip. He was the whole reason she was here. The whole reason she wouldn't return. And since she was on the subject, what was going on with everyone else? What if another attack had occurred? Or if someone was sick? What were they doing for Christmas? She frowned. They where probably all huddled on a rug and talking about the past Christmas' that they all shared. The last Christmas she had was alone. She hadn't really ever celebrated with the others. And neither had Hiei. She wondered if that would change this year.

She realized she had been walking. She was surrounded by trees and lots and lots of snow on top of them. She liked snow. She admitted that. She loved how it was like an extremely cold blanket. She liked how it covered up all the death from fall, and proved that things would grow back shortly. She sat down on the ground and didn't care much as the snow melted through her layers and made her cold and wet. She simply started at a tree with her arms crossed and she looked extremely concentrated.

She hadn't ever been in a relationship like this. And personally it was really confusing. Now that he wasn't around she had no re-assurance. She sniffed and whipped her nose on her gloved hand before re-crossing her arms. Taking a breath she realized that sooner or later she would start to think on this. She loved him, yes she admitted it. Somehow she grew attached to how he pushed everyone out of his life, how he hated being asked too many questions, and commitment, other then to her, he couldn't do well.

Now the other questions remained, why did he love her, if he really meant it? She though on it. She ate loud, complained too much, asked many questions and wanted a commitment. Many of the things he hated she was. She snorted. Opposites attract maybe? Such an original idea, yet it happened far too often to not be real, or maybe it happened to often to be real. She rolled her eyes. The things you get from books these days.

She sneezed. Sniffing in deeply she let out a repulsed face and stood up dusting herself off. Men where confusing, what else to say. Especially when he was more or less a Demon then a man. She closed her eyes tightly. Don't think that Botan, don't think that.

Amy sat quietly in her chair outside watching as Nilgato ran around the yard like a chicken with his head cut off. He had recently had some of Yukina's `famous no Bake cookies'. And she loved them too, she just mellowed out when she had chocolate unlike Nilgato who went onto a sugar high. Nilgato has fallen into a heap in the snow and was throwing handfuls up into the air and letting them fall back onto him. Amy smiled to herself and started playing with her red hair and started braiding it. She wasn't to good at it, and she wasn't old enough or experienced enough to do it well, she would ask Yukina to do it for her later. She looked down at the snow from the patio chair and swung her little legs back and forth as one does when there is space between your feet and the ground.

Amy let out a loud squeal as she found herself on Nilgato's back with his hands holding onto her legs and being rushed of into the woods.

“Nilgato!” She screamed loudly as she clutched onto his shoulders. She shut her eyes tight as the cold wind hit her face as did his hair. He let out a loud laugh as he continued running and jumping over things. “Slow down!” She tried to beg hopping he would listen to her. “Nilgato!” She screamed as he tripped over something and sent her flying off his back and into a nearby tree knocking her out.

Nilgato slowly pushed himself up and shook his head getting the snow out of his hair with a huge smile on his face. “That was fun Amy, come on, say you enjoyed th-“ He finally saw her laying in the ground by the tree. His eyes widened and he pushed off the ground running to her. He got to his knees and picked up her head to see if she was ok. “Hiei is going to kill me…” he mumbled.

Amy didn't move for a good twenty minutes, and even after that. This worried Nilgato. Every now and then he would nudge her and say her name hopping she would wake up and he could say she was simply napping and that this wasn't his fault. After a good thirty minutes he picked her up and started a slow walk back to Genkai's. Amy didn't move once as he walked.

He was about halfway back when she mumbled something. He stopped and looked down at the little girl and shook her watching as her red hair swayed with the movement. He bit his lip worried. He wasn't going that fast was he? He closed his eyes and sniffed. She was probably sick now. She wasn't used to this kind of cold. And she recently had gotten better from the `battle'. He winced at the memory.

Botan was gone.

He shut his eyes tightly and tried to stop the tears. Wasn't it Hiei who told him only the weak cried? He swore and kicked some snow. What did Hiei know? He was the one that lost her! Wasn't he supposed to be her…what was he to her anyway? Nilgato didn't really know. Sometimes you could call them mates or soon-to-be mates at least. By now the testing period should be ending. He blamed Hiei for her disappearance. Yet, he had to admit, Hiei was the one to take it the hardest. He rarely saw Hiei around anymore. He sighed. Because Hiei was looking for her.

Amy made another noise pulling him back down to Earth and her. She snuggled into his chest a bit before going back out. Was she sleeping now? He shook her. “Amy.” He whispered.

No response.

“Amy?” he tried again. And again there was nothing.

He sighed louder this time and started walking again. Well, he would run with her again, maybe it was all the sugar that was pumping through his veins and still was. Sniffing he walked past a few birds eating. The flew away moments after. “Sorry about this Amy, I didn't mean to hurt you.” She continued to sleep and he continued to talk. “I guess I just needed a run to. I have stress too, I may be young but I have issues. I have a bad life and a bad future probably.” He passed a big boulder with an engraving Kuwabara had made in honor of his beloved Yukina. “I am lucky to have you as a friend, or whatever you are.” He bit his lip. “Don't leave me ok? I need your friendship more then you think. You're my first actually friend Amy, and my only. Thanks to you, I smile more and have someone who doesn't run from me because of what I am, or hate me because of what I am not.” He swore. “Curse you father, curse you mother, why couldn't I be a demon. Not a half-demon.”

Amy stirred. Nilgato looked down at her hoping and praying she woke.

“Nilgato?” She whispered looking up at him.

Botan hated days like this. She sat in the nice warm hut and ate lots of pork. Stupid pigs. Didn't they die or something in another land and stop dieing here, she was getting sick of the meat. She pulled her legs under her and sat on a mat looking into a fire.

The flap to the hut opened and in walked Hisho followed by Canna. Hisho nodded at Canna and then the young girl left with a small smile in Botan's direction. Well that was new.

“Your done.”

“What?”

“You are done here.” Hisho said sitting down slowly as to not break her already fragile bones.

“I am done? How? I haven't even been here that long and I have so much more to learn.” Botan said on the edge of the mat and her palms on the floor.

“You learn what you need as you need it. Not before and not after. You know how to use that bow, and how to shoot those arrows. Your powers are for you to master, but before then you must use yourself for other uses.”

Botan blinked a few times. “What?”

“When the time comes you can use your powers, but before that don't try to use them unless needed and don't master them either.” Hisho poked the fire with a stick. “When you return home,” Hisho smiled at Botan, “don't tell anyone what happened.” Botan let out a yell.

“I don't want to leave!”

“If I recall you are in a little stage called the mating period?” Hisho smirked and Botan turned bright red. “He needs to finish the test or he will kill to get to you, even if the person has nothing to do with you.”

“How did you kn-“

“I know things dear Botan.” Hisho pushed herself up slowly and walked to the door pulling the flap back. She stopped in the middle and looked back. “Be safe, and visit me ok?” She left.

Botan sat a moment looking at the fire. “Going home?” she mumbled.

“Yes you are.” Canna said sitting next to her gracefully.

Botan blinked at her and stopped asking how she got in without Botan noticing, they did this often. Botan smiled at her. “You going home to?”

Canna shook her head. “This is my home Botan. My life is here with my father.”

“But your mother-“

“She can wait until my father passes.” Canna said looking into the fire as Botan just was. Fire really was a mesmerizing thing. “She can wait longer.” Canna put her hand in her robe pocket and pulled a small parcel out. “Take this Botan, consider it a Christmas gift, but wait until Christmas to open it ok.” Botan smiled as tear ran down her cheek.

“But I have nothing for you-“

“Your friendship is enough.” Canna said embracing her. “That and traveling safely and bringing me some nicer shoes next time you visit.” With that she stood and left quickly. They did have a friendship didn't they? Though it was a bit odd.

Botan looked at the small parcel in her palm and slowly slipped it into a pocket of her robe. She stood and looked at the fire one last time before pushing dirt on it with her foot and putting it out.

Nami sat alone, in the cave far from the temple, crying. She was alone with the demons again. They took her. And Kurama did nothing to stop them. Didn't he love her? Didn't he know she didn't do this? She was a puppet? She groaned as the demon moved nearby. She was naked and shivering under the thinnest blanket they would give her. She looked down at her body and swallowed a sob. They had done so many things to her, but the stain of blood on her thigh was the worst thing.

Was no one going to save her?

To Be Continued

YESH! I updated fools! And another chapter coming soon! Hehe. I am so proud.

Please don't eat me.

Melimea

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