Forbidden Love

By: Miiru Kamishiro

Chapter Five

"Koenma-sama!" Mistress Sakura asked nervously, trembling touching her lips. "Wh--What are you doing here?! Your father Enma-sama…he will…" 

"Please don't…" 

"You're having an affair with a Ferry Girl like me," she shrieked, tears run down from her eyes. "You know it is forbidden!" 

"Please calmed down Mistress Sakura," Koenma anxiously begged. "Let me explain…" 

She pressed the Reikai emergency button located on Botan's door. 

Oops…too late… 

All the Reikai Onis, Ferry Girls and other workers panicked. Rumble and stampedes was heard everywhere. Moving towards Botan's room. 

Noise waked up Botan and she aroused from her deep slumber. "What's happening?" she yawned. The vision of Koenma and Sakura was first caught into her sight. 

"Koenma-sama!" she burst out. "Mistress Sakura-san!" 

"Botan!" 

Koenma gave a disappointed look. 

"Koenma-sama?" she nervously asked approaching him. "What is wrong?" 

"Everything is wrong!" Mistress Sakura abruptly responded, pointing towards her. "You are having an affair with a Reikai royalty! You know it banned! You must pay for it…" 

"I don't have a private concern with Koenma-sama I---" 

Mistress Sakura clapped her hands to her ears and shut her eyes. "Say no more! I saw him lying on your bedstead." She argued, screaming. "I saw it all! How can you explain that?" 

"I---" tears blurred her eyesight. 

"See? You have nothing to say!" 

"There's no way out now…" a drop of tear fell as he transformed to his teenage form. "We are apprehended…" 

"No this is not happening!" 

Subsequently, Reikai defenders reached Botan's room. They are all armed, carrying spears, shotguns and all sorts of weapons. 

"Mistress Sakura!" their leader asked anxiously. "What's the fuss?" 

"He slept on Botan's room." she regularly answered. 

"So?" he asked. "He just slept on her---wait a minute…they are having an affair! That's one of the biggest crimes of Reikai. Men get them and dump them to Enma-sama…" 

Six Reikai soldiers were determined to enter the room of Botan. The first three walked away with Koenma and handcuffed him. 

"Let me go you creeps!" Koenma cried. 

The first one cleared his throat and uttered: "I am sorry, Koenma-sama. But this things cannot change." 

Koenma gazed at Botan who was in hands of three other soldiers. She didn't speak a word but she went on weakly with them. On her eyes, tears blurred her vision but she went on through. She seemed so frail and helpless that even the heartless of all the troops affectionately pitied her and threw away Botan's handcuffs. Koenma shut his mouth too, seeing his beloved. Emptiness surrounded their hearts. 

Tremble

That is the thing I do whenever I see you

Fear

For I will loose your love so sweet and true

Heartache

A sickness which heeding you is the only cure

Coldness

Whenever I hear the word Aishiteru

Botan thought deeply as she walked carefully by the red carpets along Reikai. Whispers and pities those things are frequently heard as she walked by. Humiliated but she continue to move on straightly whenever she see Koenma.

Death is sweeter my dear

It maybe odd but truthful

All I can offer are tears

For this life is only pitiful

I can swim the deepest oceans

I can reach the highest mountains

If I can see you I'll sacrifice anything

Because angel you’re my everything

Koenma thought while he strolled quietly with Reikai soldiers. He might be the first royalty embarrassed. He might be the first royalty to go into like this…but in his heart he was the first to love deeply and sincerely. That is probably the greatest thing he has in his soul and he knows it and he was confidentially proud of it. 

Reaching Enma's forum of justice, heartaches no longer exist because their hearts are crashed and shattered but each time their stared at each mysterious face it was mended back. 

The room as disheartening and frigid by reason of people whom stayed there are very intelligent but they doesn't know the genuine significance of love. Their hearts are full of distress and hatred but they didn't want to speak about it. 

A gigantic man sat quietly on his throne but his enormous eyes gave a shot of glare. He too doesn't have a seat of passion. He married but he just kidnapped the girl from her mother, Ceres. It is more of lust than love. She stayed six months in his presence and six months to his mother. She got sick of this and died leaving him with a son. But he never loves him too. This is Enma, lord of Reikai. 

"Alright," he began, staring at each people on the forum. "What is it this time?" 

Mistress Sakura stepped in and cemented her knees on the floor. "I saw the Prince this morning he was…" she paused for a while not knowing to do whether she will continue or not. She glanced to Koenma, then to Botan then to Enma-Daioh. 

"I am listening Mistress Sakura…" 

"He was having an affair with Botan-chan!" she cried. "I saw him! I saw him in her room! If they are not having an affair what is he doing there!" 

Lord Enma gave a Koenma a dirty look. "So?" he spoke harshly. "Koenma, is Mistress Sakura's complain true?" 

"Yes, your highness," he replied calmly, descending his whole body. "Mistress Sakura said it well…" 

Mistress Sakura felt so guilty. Her body almost fainted. "I shouldn't say it," she thought sorrowfully. "This won't go this far if I didn't say it…" 

"He was so courageous," Botan and George who is one of the audiences thought. "To think before he was just a crybaby brat!" 

"He grown up a bit…" George weep candidly. "I never expect now." 

"YOU KNOW YOU ARE NOT SUPPOSE TO HAVE AN AFFAIR WITH A FERRY GIRL!" he roared louder than the wildest lion. Reikai shook again. "IS THIS DAMSEL THE REASON WHY YOU REFUSE TO MARRY PRINCESS MARINA?!" 

"Yes, your Grace," Koenma stood up and nodded. "And even if she didn't even exist, I still don't love Princess Marina. You don't understand this don't you? Because you don't know how to love! That's why mother died when I was very young. It's your entire fault!" 

Whoops…bad move she doesn't like to remember my mother Persephone, the goddess of flowers. I'll be killed for sure! 

"STOP IT!" he commanded. "GET THAT FERRY GIRL AND IMPRISON HER IN NINGENKAI…BE SURE SHE CAN'T REACH US! DISTINCTIVELY MY SON!" 

Well, Ningenkai isn't so bad. I can talk to Yusuke or Keiko-chan or…but it will just be the same as an ordinary prison cell. Maybe I can't see him ever again! 

At least she's safe there. I hope Yusuke guards her well… 

"The blue moon is coming," Enma announced. "It is earlier than expected. You will unite with Princess Marina…whether you like it or not. This case is FINISHED!"  

"This is a nightmare…" Botan declared.

Later…some Ferry girls dropped Botan to Ningenkai. 

"I don't want to leave you here Botan-chan but," a Ferry girl confessed. 

"It's okay Ran-chan," Botan weakly smiled. "I know it's your duty…" 

"You're now a Ningen," another Ferry girl uttered. "I'll miss you. But I promise to…watch over you constantly…" 

"Thank you, Momoko-chan," Botan bowed. "If I die again, will you promise to fetch me?" 

Momoko burst out with tears. "I will Botan!" she encircled her arms around her for the last time. 'I promise…I can't wait to rejoin you again! You are very kind and caring to all of the Ferry Girls like me. I hope you can be a ferry girl again!"  

"I don't know!" Botan cried. "But one thing is for sure…I'll yearn for you all." 

"Oh, Botan-chan!" Ran exclaimed as she joined to Momoko's farewell drama. "We'll wait for you…" 

"I guess Mistress Sakura is looking for both you now," Botan suggested, pushing them both away. "You know every three second, somebody die on this world. You better go now!" 

Botan looked way dashed as fast as she can with broken soul, heavy heart and confused mind as she bid her last farewell to her ferry girl friends. She knew that once she looked back from them, she would be a helpless human with no special power but her mind. She clearly knows it. But she must leave. She ran through the street to the corners and walls of Tokyo trying to find her fortunateness. As she strolled to the park she collapsed with tiredness. Luckily, a short man clothed with black picked her up. 

"Hn." he expressed, carrying her to a corner. "What is it with Botan again?" he thought. "Her chi is all missing. Wonder what happen…"

Later…

"Uh…" Botan woke up, rubbing her purplish red eyes. "Where am I?" She studied the location and found out she was on the top of a tree. "Whoa! How did I get here…" 

"I saw you lying helplessly on the ground dummy," the short man spoke up. 

She turned back and saw a man leaning on the tree. She remembered how she got scared of him often and how he powerfully controlled his Black Dragon. "Hiei-san! It's been a long time since I didn't see you!" 

"I know," he nodded in a crabby voice. "Tell me Botan…where is your power now?" 

"I…" and she narrated her story.

*****

"I wonder if she have eaten something now," Koenma sadly thought of Botan as he stared up downheartedly up the fluffy rolling clouds. "Oh, Botan-chan. I miss you so much…" 

Somebody knocked at his door. 

"Come in!" Koenma cried. 

He turned to the door and saw a gorgeous goddess standing. 

"Ma---Marina-hime!"

*****

"So that's what happened I was thrown in this world," Botan melancholy finished. "But I still miss him…" 

"Hn. Love…it's a killer…" 

"I know," Botan agreed. "But it feels so good too." 

They then both shut their mouths.

*****

"Marina-hime what are you doing here?" Koenma asked. 

"I was sent by your father, your highness," she quietly responded.

 "Just call me Koenma, please…"

 "Okay then Koenma," she smiled. "Please to meet you. Just call me Marine…it's quite shorter that way that Marina-hime…"

 "Right," Koenma chuckled as she shook hands with her.

*****

 "That is why I hate that love,"

 "What did you say Hiei-chan?" 

"Nothing…" 

"You know something about love, don't you?" 

"Nothing except it’s a killer," Hiei answered as he stared at the sun's colorful rays. "I remember Rui's story about my old woman. After I was thrown away when I was I an infant she killed herself because she loves me according to her. Sheesh! She shouldn't done that!" 

Botan didn't spoke a word comprehending Hiei's story. "It is hard," she meditated as she stared at the sunset. "To love another. Probably that's why Hiei is cold-hearted and hardheaded…Now I understood him…"

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