Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Who Am I ❯ Chapter 1 ( Chapter 1 )

Prologue

Botan's wide amethyst eyes stared down at her trembling hands in shock and horror, not knowing, wondering what just happened. Her breathing remained fast and labored, her whole body still recovering from the attack. Strands of her blue silky hair struck out of her high pony tail, her clothes wrangled, and her cheeks flushed.

"Botan?" a gentle voice came from behind her, she knew that voice. The voice of whom she had loved and admired from the day she saw him. The voice that could easily ease her fears and worries away with a single utter, so calm, so soothing. It was the voice of the man she had vowed her heart to yet never informed him of it. The voice of the man whose mere presence could make her loose all conscious thoughts and cause butterflies in her stomach. It was Kurama.

She turned around and noticed that he looked even worse than her. His clothes were torn in places where attacks had hit him, deep cuts ran up and down his body blood pouring out of each wound and flowing to the ground unceasingly. His blood red hair now cladded together with the thick sticky blood from heavy wounds of his head.

He slowly walked up to her but stiffened when she suddenly rushed into his arms but relaxed as she buried her face in the crook of his neck. He calmly stroked her hair, "Are you alright?" he asked resting his cheek on her head. She only whimpered and nestled her face deeper into his neck. He softly whispered soothing words into her ear as he continued to slowly stroke her head trying to calm her down in the best way he could. Eventually he felt her breathing slow until it was a steady rate and when he held her face up to his he discovered that she had fainted from the shock.

He carefully picked her up into his arms and slowly walked away from the battle site to where Hiei, Yusuke, and Kuwabara lay unconscious ignoring the pile of ashes that lay in the spot where their foe had once stood along with the dead bodies of his followers.

Kurama gently placed her down on the ground beside the unconscious trio and checked over her body scanning for any serious wounds. Finding only a few he quickly set to the task of grinding some of his plants and mixing them with water to apply to her wounds to keep them from infection and allow them time to heal. He carefully applied some of the creamy mixture to a large cut on her right cheek massaging it softly onto the cut without hurting her in any way. After finishing he started at her pale face for a moment and unconsciously cupped her uninjured cheek with his left hand, reveling in the softness of her skin, then traced his thumb down her jaw line and around her slightly parted lips making him want to kiss her at that very moment threatening to undo all control that he managed to keep over his emotions. He quickly snapped to reality when he noticed a few silver locks of hair mixed with red fall into his view. He closed his eyes tightly trying to regain control and reverse his transformation back to his humanoid form. Taking one last look at her angelic face he set about to healing Hiei's then Yusuke's and Kuwabara's wounds.

After closing up their injuries Kurama settled himself onto the ground and began to take care of his own. Finally done, he sat there until Hiei began to stir an hour later. Kurama merely nodded his head towards him and reclosed his eyes.

"What happened," Hiei grunted weakly as tried to straighten himself up and moved to lean on the trunk of a nearby tree.

"You were knocked out by one of his attacks after he snuck up behind you and have been so for the last hour and a half."

"Hn. You killed him?" Kurama hung his head and weakly shook it in sadness and regret. "Well?"

"Botan did?" was his only reply.

"The baka ferry girl? Impossible!" he laughed at the thought of the ditzy Deity of Death defeating such a powerful enemy.

Shaking his head once more Kurama merely smiled at the amused fire demon, "Please refrain from calling her that Hiei, she saved your life after all. You should be thanking her. But I suppose it is hard to believe. Botan's energy surpassed even that of Yusuke's S class. What baffles me the most though is how she was able to obtain such power."

"Hn." Hiei looked over to his side and noticed the other three. He threw a disgusted sneer at Yusuke and Kwabara. "She fainted." It wasn't a question.

"The shock was too much." Hiei just nodded before standing up and stretching his sore limbs. He walked over to the two detectives and kicked them in their stomach's quickly jerking them awake.

"Hey shorty, what was that for!" Kuwabara yelled as sat up nursing his aching stomach. Hiei growled in annoyance. Yusuke also sat up cursing under his breath as he followed suit.

"What happened to Botan," Yusuke asked, concern plain on his features, as he pushed himself off the ground and tried to steady his legs.

Kurama shut shook his head again, "Later, right now we have to get home and get some rest."

He walked over to Botan and carefully picked her up off the ground and nestled her safely in his strong arms before starting the long walk back to the portal leading to Ningenkai. The others soon followed and eventually reached the portal half an hour later and passed through in the direction of Genkai's temple.

When they got there Yukina and Keiko immediately ran out to greet them but gasped when they saw how awful they looked and were shocked to see an unconscious Botan snuggled in Kurama's strong arms.

"Yusuke you idiot what happened!" Keiko demanded as she ran over to her boyfriend and hugging him fiercely.

Genkai slowly came out of the temple a few seconds later and studied the group for a moment. Keiko was still hugging a weary Yusuke who looked as though he was about to die from lack of air. Yukina had gone over to Kuwabara and given him a light embrace and offered Hiei a slight smile but was only offered an indifferent face as Hiei continued to glare at Kuwabara who was smiling as though there was no tomorrow. Kurama stood behind the group with an unconscious Botan in his arms looking as though he had been through hell and back again. All had torn clothing with dried blood on their skin and clothes yet all seemed fine if not tired.

"You fools hurry up and get inside. There are baths already set for you, Kurama take Botan to her bedroom, Yukina will be there in a moment to clean her up. You may go and rest. Well! What are you waiting for? Move it!"

Everyone immediately rushed to do their biding except Hiei who just disappeared from view.

'Dragon, snake, old hag,' Yusuke thought as he passed the old psychic but was immediately punched in the gut by the displeased master. Kuwabara snickered as Keiko and Yukina looked at him with a 'What did you do this time' look and Kurama merely shook his head in annoyance as he advanced onto the temple steeps and climbed into the interior heading strait for Botan's room.

As he laid her onto the bed he couldn't help but marvel at her beauty despite the paleness of her skin which only made her more radiant in his eyes. He watched her calm and relaxed expression with loving green eyes that still held the gold specks of his demon form. He stared at her pale but beautiful face that was adorned with wisps of blue silky hair that had fallen onto it through the journey, her small soft feather like lips, covered orbs of lilac pink, and perfectly curved angles that made her look like an angel of life and not the feared and abhorred messenger of death.

"Sleepy well my brave sweet peony." Taking one last look at her tranquil features he walked out of her room and to his own across the hall to bath and get some sleep.

Yup that went pretty well, just not the way I would have liked it to, ::shrugs:: oh well maybe the next chapter. If any of you have an suggestions as to fixing it and making it flow better or sound better I would love LOVE to hear them. Please help me this is my first Botan/Kurama fanfic and I haven't even been able to watch the whole series as to see what happens. But if it's one thing that I know for sure it's that Botan and Kurama are the cutest pair ever!!! I also know that Steph-chan, JDFielding, Raven-sin, firth, Mysticbluangel, angkat14, Lady Nightshade, Eunjung, Aya Kinamoto, Nadarelle, Thundercat, and Volpone are the best authors ever and should keep on writing more and updating their fics **Ravin-sin (Delusion)** hehe I love that fic and really hope to see it updated soon and also Mysticbluangel's "Tricked" and Thundercat's "Rakun A Romance For A Kitsune" I'm begging you all to update soon, you guys are great!

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