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Summary: Sequel to "Grave of Roses". Yusuke has found a way to resurrect Kurama, but it requires him being the carrier of the baby Kurama... And how does Hiei fit into all of this? YusukexHiei, mpreg
Talk about a total turn around from "Grave of Roses"! If you've read it, "Grave of Roses" was extremely angsty and sad, but this fic is actually humorous! And, the reason I've paired Hiei with Yusuke instead of the usual YusKur is because that I thought it weird that Yusuke had a baby, a.k.a. Kurama, and then fell in love with him. A little strange at the least, ne?
So, I hope you enjoy this fic! And if you haven't read "Grave of Roses", then you might want to. It'll help clear up some stuff.
Baby of Mine
Chapter One: An Unusual Solution
It was a very strange day for Yusuke Urameshi, who was busy trudging his way through the light powdered snow that sprinkled around him. He sighed and lifted a hand to brush away some stray pieces of hair from his eyes. It was strange, yes, for the fact that out of nowhere, Botan had popped by his apartment, smiling like an idiot, saying something like, "Oh, Yusuke, you'll be so delighted!" Yusuke recalled the unexpected conversation with the Grim Reaper. "Koenma wants to see you. He says he has a surprise!"
"What is it?" The Spirit Detective had said dully, leaning against the doorframe of his apartment.
"You'll have to find out!" Botan had giggled in a very happy way and literally skipped down the stairs and into the lobby.
So, here he was, stupidly making his way through the soft snow and to the designated meeting place that Botan said to go to. "Stupid Botan...it's so damn cold and she's making me go all the way over here, knowing that I don't have a car or anything."He sighed once more and turned the corner to the coffee house.
As he opened the door to the coffee shop, a light ringing of the bell tied to the door let everyone know that someone had entered. Yusuke marched his way over to the counter and slapped down a five dollar bill. "Give me a large coffee. Black." He said, as coolly as someone could say.
The girl waiting on him was a definite moron. She twirled a lock of honey blonde hair with her finger. "Would you like fries with that?" She said, smacking her gum in the most annoying way possible.
Yusuke glared, "This is a coffee place, not McDonalds."
The blonde sighed and handed him a cup of coffee, "Whatever. Here's your change." She handed him his leftover money and went back to the latest issue of Cosmo or whatever the hell it was.
Sending one final death glare in her direction, Yusuke stormed back to the booth in the corner of the small place. As he was about to sit down, a man dressed in all black, with sunglasses on, waved him over from another table. Resisting the urge to roll his eyes, he walked over to the table and sat down across from the man, who looked very suspicious.
"Koenma, what the hell are you wearing?" Yusuke asked as he took a sip of his warm coffee. He took off his jacket, revealing that he only wore a white t-shirt underneath it. "Sunshades? In the middle of winter? Come on."
The man, now identified as Koenma, sighed as he pulled his sunglasses off slowly. "You never let me have any fun, do you, Yusuke?"
"It's my job," Yusuke replied sarcastically. "Now, what is this about a surprise?"
Koenma smiled lightly as he took a bite of his doughnut, Yusuke assumed he had ordered it earlier, while waiting for him to get here. Koenma seemed to contemplate telling him something for at least five minutes, until Yusuke finally lost patience with him.
"Well, are you gonna say something or not!" Yusuke slammed his coffee down on the table and looked Koenma straight in his eyes. "So...?"
Koenma finally sighed, "Fine...do you remember what happened a couple of months ago?"
Yusuke quirked a dark eyebrow. Did he mean...? Kurama? Was he talking about Kurama's death? "Oh...are you talking about what happened to Kurama?" Yusuke's dark orbs suddenly took on a sad look.
Koenma nodded.
"What about him?" Yusuke suddenly jumped up, out of his chair. Grabbing Koenma's shirt collar, he said dangerously, "Did something happen to him? Did you send him to Hell on an accident and now you can't get him back! Huh!" The brunette started laughing unexpectedly, causing Yusuke to grab his collar even tighter. "What the hell's the matter with you!"
"It's just amazing to me how much you care for him." Koenma gave a small smile, not wanting to rattle the young man's nerves any more than he already had.
Yusuke was silent for a while, "So, what is the matter?" He lowered himself slowly into the seat and looking at the man with a mixture of curiosity and worry.
"We might have found a way to bring him back."
Yusuke dropped his beverage, "Wh...what?"
Koenma looked at the Detective and managed a slight smile. Yusuke looked like he had just found out a shocking piece of news, which he had. His large, almond eyes were widened with visible disbelief. His mouth was slightly agape, trying to form words. Oh, yeah, he's not shocked at all... Koenma thought sarcastically. "Well, we can bring him back, but we'll need your help."
The shock seemed to wear off. "My help? Why do you need my help?"
"Because we need someone to carry the baby."
"Carry the what!"
Yusuke was again in shock. He had no idea that this was possible. How could a man have a baby! It was physically impossible for a man to have a baby! Well, unless he got a sex-change operation, and that sure as hell wasn't happening! The dark haired man's chocolate brown eyes glared at the brunette sitting across from him.
"The baby." Koenma stated, as if it were no big deal. "We need you to carry the baby."
"The baby! What do you mean?" Yusuke jabbed his thumb towards his chest, "If you haven't noticed, I'm a man."
"People are staring, idiot." Koenma scolded. "Quit yelling at me."
Yusuke flushed slightly, then whispered harshly to Koenma, "If you would tell me what you mean by baby, I wouldn't have to yell."
"Let me explain," Koenma said in a calming manner, "Since you were one of the people who cared most about Kurama, then you are the prime candidate for this..." Koenma paused for a second and took a bite out of his doughnut. "...just to tell you, we aren't going to be changing your gender or anything, you'll be the same old Yusuke...just with a few extra features - mood-swings, weird food cravings, and, of course, a larger-than-normal stomach."
"Why didn't you get his real mom, Shiori, or Hiei or Botan or...someone else besides me?" Yusuke tried to weasel his way out of this odd situation.
"It would be strange for Shiori to get pregnant, especially when she hasn't been seeing anyone ever since Kurama's father left." Koenma explained. "Hiei just plain out won't do it. And Botan is flying on her oar every day, and look how crazily she maneuvers that thing! Think of the health of the child, Yusuke..."
"What the hell!" Yusuke exclaimed, more a statement than a question. "So you mean because Botan's a bad driver - err flyer, I have to carry a baby and look like a woman!"
"I forgot to mention the most important reason..."
"And what would that be?"
"You loved him, Yusuke."
Yusuke was speechless. Koenma really had him now. What was he supposed to say to that? My life is a bitch... Yusuke thought in exasperation. It wasn't as if he hadn't loved Kurama, it's just that he hated being reminded about it after what all had happened. He sighed once more and said the words he knew he just might regret later... "Fine. I'll - "
Before he could get the words out, Koenma pulled out a small needle that looked like one a doctor might use when he was giving his patients shots. As he jabbed it into Yusuke's forearm, he smiled in happiness, "I knew you'd say yes!"
"OW! Damn it, what'd you do to me?" Yusuke shouted through clenched teeth, clamping a large hand over the mark where the injection pierced his skin.
"What I just injected in you will make you have Kurama." Koenma grinned.
Yusuke cocked his head, "Do you know how weird that sounded?"
"Somewhat, yes."
Sighing for what seemed like the thousandth time that day, Yusuke put his coat on and pushed his chair in. "Thanks a lot, Koenma." He added crassly as he made his way to the door. He opened it and the annoying ringing sounded through the air once again. The chilly air rushed at Yusuke's frame as he walked through the snow, which had gotten slightly deeper since his chat with Koenma, the man who ruined his "manliness".
What has that bastard gotten me into this time?
He arrived at his apartment a few minutes later, and was not pleased with what he saw. As far as he knew, he had left his door locked, but he opened it and saw a familiar blue haired deity of death cleaning, dusting, and making sure his room was as neat and tidy as it could be. "Botan, may I ask what you are doing in my apartment?"
The girl's eyes sparkled as she smiled over at him, "I'm making sure your apartment is baby friendly!"
Yusuke shot Botan a skeptical look, "You know?"
"Of course!" She said, her smile brightening, "Koenma told me about you and your little baby Kurama!" Botan reached out a slender hand and began rubbing the dark haired man's stomach slowly. "I find it so sweet that you're doing this."
"You can stop rubbing my stomach now." Yusuke stated blatantly. Botan blushed and quickly took her hand away from his mid-section. She then got a very strange look in her eyes and grabbed a giant trash bag, which was full to bursting with random things.
"Yusuke, do you expect to raise a child with such reading materials as this lying around your apartment!" Botan reached into the bag and pulled out a magazine. It featured two scantily clad girls making out. She pulled out another, this one had a woman with no top on, and with her hands covering her breasts. "Porn! Why do you have porn!"
"Hey, you can't take those!" Yusuke grabbed the two magazines from the deity's hands and snatched the bag as well, "What! These are all of my mags!"
"Babies don't need to be brought into a home where porn is the essential thrill provider for their caretaker." Botan said, matter-of-factly as she stomped over to the refrigerator.
Yusuke looked over at Botan, who had pulled out several bottles. Beer bottles. Damn...she got to the beer...
"What are these doing here!" Botan nearly smashed the bottle in Yusuke's face. "You know pregnant people can't have alcoholic beverages!" She also pulled out many more beer bottles from the fridge. "Kami, I can't believe Kurama is going to be raised by a booze hound."
"I am not a booze hound!"
"It sure looks like it." Botan said, a smirk making its way across her delicate features.
Yusuke sighed once more as Botan yanked a DVD out of the player, "What's this? 'Girls Gone Wild In Vegas'?" She opened the small cabinet under the television stand. "Oh, what a selection of classics, 'Girls Gone Wild With Nuns', 'Girls Gone Wild In Hawaii', 'Girls Gone Wild In A Jacuzzi'..." Botan looked in disgust at all the Girls Gone Wild videos and quickly disposed of them in another trash bag.
"Hey! I paid good money for those."
"Babies are innocent! The don't need to have chicks flashing people engraved in their minds!"
Yusuke rolled his eyes as the blue haired girl rushed over to a cabinet and yanked out a couple of packs of Marlboro cigarettes. "You can't smoke while you are with child!" She threw the packs of cigarettes on the floor and began stomping on them repeatedly.
A mad woman...a total and complete mad woman Botan has become... Yusuke thought as he stared at Botan's foot crushing his cigarettes.
The ferry girl marched over to him and slapped something on his shoulder, "Nicotine patch." Botan stated. "Use it. Befriend it. It will help you through these rough times."
Yusuke growled gutturally as he saw Botan ravage and rampage through the rest of his so-called "peaceful" apartment.
A few hours later, the cheerful girl stood in front of his window, carrying three full trash bags. "Okay. Now, remember, do not do anything to harm yourself in any way while you are with child, alright, Mr. Urameshi?"
"Yeah, yeah," Yusuke waved his hand in a shooing motion. "You can go now."
"I will be back for an inspection later!" Botan smiled happily as she formed her oar and flew off through the open window.
Yusuke gave a small, almost inaudible sigh as he walked over to the couch and slumped down into the soft cushions. Turning on the television, he selected a movie to watch and got a blanket to cover himself with. He didn't feel like changing clothes, so he just stayed in his white t-shirt and blue jeans. It had gotten darker outside and he looked at the clock on the DVD player. Its red letters read: 10:57. Almost eleven and I'm exhausted... The Detective thought as his chocolate colored eyes began to flutter open and closed. He gave a final yawn and dozed off.
His large eyes snapped open at the early hour of three o'clock in the morning. He felt nauseous and his stomach started churning. What...the hell...? He rose out of his seat fairly quickly, one hand clenching his stomach, the other clamped over his mouth.
Yusuke rushed to the bathroom. With shaking hands, he jerked open the wooden door and threw himself over the toilet. He emptied the contents of his stomach into it.
What is this? Yusuke thought as he lifted his head up, only to be overcome with the sickening feeling once again. Why do I suddenly feel so - ?
Yusuke hung his head over the toilet once again and threw up. Again and again, the shaking in his stomach wouldn't stop.
When he was sure the wave of nausea was gone, he slowly lifted himself to his feet and, trembling, he made his way back to the sofa.
This is what I get for saying yes, huh?
End of chapter one! I hope y'all liked it. It was very fun for me to write. I hope you read and review, or I might not continue this story. The plot bunny has been stuck in my head forever and I have just now had the chance to write it. And I really know I should be concentrating on my other stories, but I really couldn't help but write this one. So, I hope you review with your opinions and give me constructive criticism. Flames will be ignored or shot at with my water gun! Haha.
Okay, so thanks for reading!