Disclaimer: I do not own the characters in the Yu Yu Hakusho series. I wish I did, but I don't. This story is a sequel to the Fifty Shades of a Youko story that I wrote recently. I will be introducing several characters, mainly family members of Hiei. There will be several other pairings in this story, but the Hiei and Kurama pairings will stay in place.

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Shura sighed heavily from atop her perch in one of the tallest trees in the valley. Being a fire demon was great, but the winters were too long in her opinion. The great white blanket of snow that enveloped the valley around her glistened in the early morning sun. Being at the highest point in the area helped warm her skin, but it wasn't enough. Even though she was a fire demon, that didn't make her immune to the cold. Her long fur lined coat didn't seem to be of much help either as she snuggled in deeper. She had tried to convince her father to relocate to a warmer climate, but his fondness for the snow was greater than his love for the heat and he simply refused. She had thought about relocating by herself, but then she thought about how much she would miss her family. Her thoughts drifted to her cousins and she thought about how lucky they were. They lived in a desert climate, where everyday was sunshine and balmy weather. She groaned at the thought. She missed the sun, she missed the warm days of spring and summer. Hell, she would even take the cooling days of Autumn... but winter... she hated it.

Shura suddenly heard someone yelling up to her from the base of the tree. She looked down and seen her cousin Martina standing there with her hands cupped around her mouth, trying to amplify the sound of her voice. Shura smirked and wondered if she should go down, or ignore her. But then she did hear the threat of burning down the tree. Shura sighed heavily again and stood up from where she was perched. She jumped from tree branch to tree branch until she was only about six feet above her younger cousin.

"What do you want, Martina?" she asked as she leaned against the bark of the tree. She crossed her arms as her cousin looked up to her.

"Your father wants to see you," the younger girl said. She was only about three or four years younger than Shura but Shura's experience made the difference much greater than it really was.

"If he wanted to see me bad enough, he would have come himself," Shura said sarcastically. "Why did he send you?"

Martina reached into her outer jacket and pulled out a rolled up parchment. "He wanted me to give this to you. Said that it was something that he was sure you would be excited about."

Shura blinked. Her father was sending her a message via parchment? This must be big... he only did that when he knew that she wouldn't come home once she received the message. Shura was interested and jumped the remaining six feet to the ground. The velocity in which she landed sent snow flying in every different direction. Martina shook the snow from her coat as she looked at her cousin. She held out the parchment and Shura took it and opened it instantly. Shura read the words that were written and stopped about halfway through. She shook her head and restarted from the top, sure that she had read the words wrong. She finished reading the parchment and turned to Martina who was the nosiest of all her cousins. She folded the parchment in half and held it up to the younger woman.

"Is this real?" she asked, the tone of her voice a mixture of shock and awe.

Martina smiled lightly and shrugged her shoulders. "He said that it was, and that you might need some company when you go."

"You mean that my brother is alive?" Shura asked as she opened the parchment again and reread the paper, once again sure that her eyes were playing tricks on her.

"Niel said that it was one hundred percent true," she said softly. "He also said that he had gotten word from Koenma himself. Hiei is alive, and he is looking for his family."

Shura's smile grew brighter, almost melting the remaining snow from the ground at her feet. She took a few steps forward and looked at her cousin. "Let's go."

Martina smiled and held out her arm, on it was Shura's satchel. The satchel was given to her long ago by a mage demon that she had saved. It was a bottomless pit in the eyes of others. To Shura, it held everything that she could possibly need for long trips. Shura smiled as she took the satchel from Martina's arm and threw it over her shoulder. Within a few minutes the two women were ready to go, but to Shura's surprise, they were joined by her two step brothers as well. Markus and Miguel were twins, but polar opposites. She was grateful that they had joined them, but always feared that they would get hurt along the way. She always had to keep an eye on them because they were too mischievous. They seemed to love poison oak even though they were both allergic to it. She had almost lost them the last time because Markus had been stupid enough to use it as a napkin. She shook her head and the four of them headed out of the small town. They took to the higher grounds that were almost a direct shot to the Demon world where Hiei was residing. Within a week, Shura would finally get to lay eyes upon her little brother. She had searched high and low to find him. When his trail went cold about four or five years ago, she thought that he had died. But now, after all this time, she would finally meet him.

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Hiei woke up to the early morning sun, stretching lightly as he recognized his surroundings. They were home, in the demon world where they both belonged. However, Kurama's return home was anything but cheerful. His mother had died in a powerful earthquake that had killed over three hundred people in the human world. Kurama and Hiei had to fake their deaths as well and their fake bodies were found in the car that had fallen into a sinkhole. Hiei glanced around the room and didn't find Kurama anywhere. He could hear the radio on in the other room and figured that he had gotten up before him. So with a yawn, Hiei stood up and got dressed for the day. He walked out into the living room of the apartment that they had rented until they could find another place. He looked around and seen that Kurama was sitting on the deck that overlooked the forest. Hiei frowned as he felt the sorrow that was surrounding the once energetic fox. Hiei made his coffee and walked out into the bright sun. Kurama looked up at him and cast him a small smile.

"How did you sleep?" he asked the fire demon as he sat at the table across from him.

"Don't do that, Kurama," Hiei said as he sat his cup on the iron table. "Don't act like everything is okay. You are the one that I am worried about."

Kurama smirked and knew that his facade gave him away too easily. "You don't have to worry about me, Hiei. I knew that the end would come for Shiori. I had prepared for it for many years... but..."

"It still hurts," Hiei finished. "I know, Kurama. I miss her too. She was a wonderful woman, and I actually grew fond of her myself."

Before Kurama could say anything in response, Hiei stood up and took his cup out of his hands. He placed it on the table and then took his hands into his own. Hiei gently pulled Kurama to his feet and then sat in the chair himself. He pulled Kurama into his lap and wrapped his arms around his mate. He knew the gesture was futile in an attempt to comfort the fox, but he had to try. He had been trying for three days, but he almost seemed to make it worse.

"No..." Kurama said. "You aren't making things worse."

Hiei smirked. Once they had mated, Kurama had gained his ability to read minds and for once, Hiei was glad. There were times that Hiei didn't know how to put things into words, and having Kurama there to read his mind made things easier. But Hiei sighed lightly as Kurama leaned his head on his shoulder. Kurama slowly pulled his knees up until he was curled into a ball in his lap. Hiei didn't mind, in fact, it made him smile. That the fox would trust him enough to place his entire body on him. Kurama buried his face into Hiei's shoulder and sighed heavily.

"I love you, Hiei," Kurama said softly as he seemed to fall into a light sleep.

Hiei smiled brightly at the fox's statement. It had been four months since they had mated and the simple three words made him beam every time he heard them. Hiei brushed the hair from Kurama's face and leaned in to kiss his cheek. "I love you too, fox."

They sat there like that for hours. Each day began like this, Hiei holding onto his love while he sulked. He knew what it was like to lose a loved one. He knew how hard it was when that pain seemed to tear you into a thousand pieces. But he also knew that the pain wouldn't last.

Kurama woke an hour later and stood up. He knew that Hiei had to be numb but Hiei refused to show it in any way. He sat in the chair next to him and sighed lightly. The sun was high in the sky by then and Kurama knew that there were things that needed to be done.

"Kurama, please, let me tell you something," Hiei said as Kurama started to think about all the things that needed to be done. "That stuff doesn't matter right now. You are the only thing that does matter to me right now. We can stay here until we find a place, but that doesn't mean that we have to find that place today. I need you to do something for me."

Kurama looked at him. "What?"

"I need you to heal for now," Hiei said and took Kurama's hand into his own. "I promise you that things will work out in the end. But we need to focus on you and me right now. Not my family, not our future, just us. The right here and now is what I need you to focus on."

"Easier said than done, my love," Kurama said softly. "Every where I turn... I see things that need to be tended to, Hiei, I can't help it. That is just me. You know how I am."

"I do know how you are, Kurama," Hiei said and squeezed his hand. "And that is what is worrying me. You are trying to tend to everything and everyone else, but you. You need time to grieve. That is a part of loosing someone, fox. I still miss my mother, even though I never knew her. That pain is still there, but it drives me everyday to find a new way to cope with that loss. I cannot promise you that the pain will be gone overnight, or even in a week or a month, but there will be a time that you will be able to wake up and know that she died, thinking about how much she loved you."

Kurama blinked at Hiei's words. He had never known his mate could be so insightful. He barely knew his mother, but the fact that he still missed her showed that he did care that she was gone. He still grieved the fact that he didn't know who she was before she died. Hiei had always been a strong man, but never could Kurama imagine that he still grieved. He could see why though. He still felt numb. Like the pain was eating him from the inside out, but he knew that Hiei was right. She did die, but he knew that he was one of the last thoughts that crossed her mind. He had to have been. But there was no way to know that for sure, he just had to believe that Hiei was right.

"Have you been reading those reverse psychology books again?" Kurama asked sarcastically as he returned to the situation at hand.

Hiei smirked at the fox's attempt at humor. "No, just speaking from experience."

"I was being sarcastic, Hiei," Kurama said bluntly and frowned as he seen that shit eating grin cross Hiei's face.

"So was I," Hiei said.

Kurama frowned. "You HAVE been reading them!"

Hiei chuckled lightly and shrugged his shoulders. "What? I thought they would come in handy one day."

Kurama smirked and shook his head. He couldn't be sure if Hiei was telling him the truth, but at the moment he really didn't care. That was the first time in the last few days that he had been able to think about something else for two seconds that didn't involve the incident in the human world. He smiled lightly at the thought that maybe Hiei really was right, that a time would come when he could wake up and not instantly think about the loss that he had suffered but look back on the love that he had been given.

The rest of the day seemed to fly by for the two lovers. Hiei had convinced Kurama to read a book and get some rest, much to his voiced disappointments. Kurama had settled into the couch in the living room with a large leather bound book. He was reading the book just fine, until he seen Hiei start to cook dinner. Over the past few months, he had learned that Hiei was in fact a REALLY good cook. He would prefer Hiei's cooking to his mother's and that was no understatement. The thought of the way she could easily burn a cake made him chuckle lightly. Hiei had given her his secret to baking the perfect cake, but to this day, Kurama still didn't know it. But that was fine, Hiei and his mother had bonded in the kitchen and that was all that had mattered to him. The thought of her laughing with him while he cooked around her made him smile.

Hiei looked up from peeling potatoes and seen that Kurama was smiling while staring off into space. Perhaps the fox was finally taking his advise on thinking about the good instead of the bad. He could occasionally hear a soft chuckle come from the fox and that alone was enough to make him smile. At that moment, Kurama had focused on the real world and looked up at Hiei in the kitchen. He had a smile on his face and knew that he had been busted while staring into la la land. Kurama shook his head lightly and retraced his place on the page in his book. Hiei continued cooking until he had nothing else to do but put it into the oven and walk away for forty five minutes.

"What were you smiling about in there, Hiei?" Kurama asked not looking up from his book as Hiei sat down on the foot of the couch.

Hiei smirked. "You were remembering good times, chuckling about something. I can't help that it makes me smile."

Kurama looked up and smiled lightly. "I was remembering the good times. And you were right, once again. It does seem to help."

"Every now and again I do know what I am talking about," Hiei said and picked up Kurama's feet. He laid them on his lap and leaned his head back against the soft couch. "Koenma sent word to my father about our return to the demon world."

Kurama blinked. "He did? He said that part was up to you."

Hiei shrugged his shoulders and glanced at his partner. "What can I say, I needed a little help when it came to that situation."

Kurama frowned. "You could have asked me, ya know."

Hiei looked at him and instantly Kurama wished he could take the statement back. "I didn't want to bother you with any more than you could take. But he did say that I had to know that as soon as they knew of our return, they would most likely show up here. Soon, according to Koenma."

Kurama smiled about that. He was eager to meet Hiei's family. To know the other half of him that Hiei didn't even know was there. He thought back to the night when they were reading the files on his family. Hiei's sister came to mind.

"Do you think that Shura found out about what happened to you when you were a teenager? If so, do you think that is why she killed those men?" Kurama asked. Talking about other things was difficult, but this subject was really interesting and the curious fox couldn't help himself.

Hiei smirked. "The names of the deceased were two of the men that HAD hurt me when I was young. Perhaps she did. Like I said, I couldn't get revenge for what they did to me, but my sister seemed to get the job done. Quite well too, if you ask me."

Kurama laughed. He too agreed with Hiei's statement. Hiei looked over at him and smiled. "I miss your laugh, fox."

Kurama smiled lightly and looked back to the book in his lap, it was suddenly the most boring thing in the world. He sighed lightly and closed it, not even marking his page. He reached over and sat it on the table next to them and looked back down the couch to Hiei. "Meeting your family must bring back a lot of memories."

Hiei shook his head. "Not really. I have always wanted to know them... just never got the chance. But I will get that chance, and I am glad that you will be with me when it happens."

"But there is something else, something that I have to ask you to do for me," Kurama said. He knew that he wasn't going to get far but he had to try. "I want to move out of this apartment. It reminds me too much of the apartment in the human world."

Hiei frowned and had a feeling that this conversation was going to resurface one day or another. But that last part was new. He sighed lightly. He leaned forward a tiny bit and reached behind him. He pulled out a magazine from his back pocket and handed it to Kurama. Kurama frowned but then smiled as he opened it. It was a house hunter's magazine. He seen that several pages had been folded at the corner and looked at his partner.

"I glanced through it yesterday," Hiei explained. "It was just a thought, but I figured a house would suit us better."

Kurama smiled. "My thoughts exactly."

He quickly opened to the first page that Hiei had marked. It was a two bedroom one and a half bath and a sizable back yard. He considered the thought and shook his head. Hiei smirked for he had one marked that he really liked. He also had a feeling that Kurama would pick that one, but he wasn't going to tell him which one. Kurama glanced through the pages and shook his head to several of them, but stopped and stared at one in particular. It was a four bedroom three bathroom colonial style house. It had Victorian accents and pillars that surrounded the house. It had pictures of the backyard and Kurama swooned. A thirteen foot pool surrounded by a rose wall. He looked around the pictures and seen that there was a sauna, a sun room, spacious kitchen and living area, and most of all, a deluxe master bedroom. Hiei smiled lightly, he knew which one Kurama was looking at, for he was studying EVERY detail that was listed. He looked at the location and again swooned. It was outside of the Makai. He loved it and turned the magazine to Hiei. But Hiei was already smiling at him.

"What?" Kurama asked. "You already had your pick of them... what are you smiling about?"

Hiei again reached into his back pocket, pulling out his cellphone. He flipped it open and then touched the screen several times. He then handed the phone to Kurama. Kurama smiled as it was actual inside pictures of the very house that he was looking at in the magazine. There was over thirty pictures. Hiei had been very thorough. That only meant one thing.

"We have to call the realtor," Kurama said. "It's beautiful!"

"There is one more picture, Kurama," Hiei said and took the phone. He changed the screen and then handed the phone back to Kurama.

It was his homescreen... but the background picture was Hiei standing next to the for sale sign. In his hand was the for sale sign and right above it, there was a sold sign that rested where the for sale sign had been. Kurama's eyes widened. "But... How..."

"Koenma owed me a favor," Hiei said simply. "He had no choice but to demolish the home that I had bought when I was younger... soooo..."

When Kurama looked up at him again, Hiei was holding up a set of keys. Kurama felt tears build in his eyes. He quickly tossed the magazine to the side and sat up, lunging into Hiei's arms. He was kissing him on the face and thanking him, kissing him again in between cheerful laughs. Hiei smiled as he took the assault of kisses. He wrapped his arms around Kurama's shoulders when he buried his face into Hiei's chest. With a gleam in his heart, Hiei kissed the top of Kurama's head and hugged him tight.

"When can we move in?" Kurama's voice was muffled but Hiei knew what he wanted to know.

"Whenever you want," Hiei said and watched as Kurama looked at him. "The house is ours. Completely paid off, ready to move in, and slightly furnished."

Kurama beamed and vowed that he was going to go pack. Hiei smiled at the thought. He never imagined that telling Kurama about the house would put him in such a good mood. He had been nervous about the thought. He watched as he could see Kurama moving around in the bedroom as he packed some of the items that they were able to recover from the devastating earthquake. Home. He was finally home, with his mate, with his family coming to meet him soon.

But Hiei had no clue that his sister and his cousin and his two step brothers were barreling towards him at that very moment. He had expected to hear from them in a week or two... but never did he think that they would meet withing a few days.

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The End of Chapter One. I hope that you are all enjoying so far. I can't stand it when my favorite characters are sad so I had to end that quickly. But this is going to be a very long story... I don't know just how long, but I promise... it will be heartwarming and a few other things. I don't want to give anything away soo I am going to shut up now. Leave me a Private Message if you have a request. Please give me your comments, reviews and requests. I look forward to hearing from all of you. Until next time.