Disclaimer: I don't own YYH or the characters. Just my OCs and the plot

To the readers: This is the third part to the story Raising a Family. It takes place after Trial by Fire and is based off the song "Perhaps Love" by John Denver which I don't own. I will only be using the lines of the songs as chapter titles anyway. It's by far my favorite song by him and it totally true. I hope you enjoy.


Four years have passed since the incident with the demon disguised as Pyrius had turned everyone's lives upside down. Since then Yusuke and Keiko have been married and had a son, Haruko, around the same time Yukina had twins, a boy and a girl, Ai and Asame. The three of them now were two years old.

Kuwabara graduated high school and was now pursuing a career in engineering. Yusuke still worked his ramen stand, and Hiei and Kurama still worked at the flower shop. Hiei also helped out at the kids' high school from time to time, if only to look out for them.

Pyrius, Pyre, and Trinten stayed in Human World. Pyrius taught martial arts while Pyre and Trinten stayed in the entertainment business and opened up a nightclub in the downtown area. Sometimes Kiyoshi and Emiko would sneak over there to talk with their uncle about school. Hiei knew, but he didn't mind since the two of them got done with everything they needed to do ahead of time.

Spirit World assisted Kenta and Dana in relocating to Human World. They became Hiei's next door neighbors and had become mates, the demon version of married, and were engaged to get married the human way sometime in the spring.

Ayame and Julia got jobs as secretaries at some high-class companies while Ayame worked on graduate school courses in botany. Hana was now eight years old and in the fifth grade. She inherited her father's intelligence. Sometimes one would forget they were talking to a child.

Kiyoshi joined the karate team at school and Emiko got involved with the art club. Both of them were good students taking honors and AP courses. Kiyoshi spent pretty much all of middle school and high school crushing on a girl named, Hintai, but he was always afraid to tell her. His mother's words rang in his head every time he tried to ask her out. He would have talked to Hiei about it, but he convinced himself he was okay. Emiko became friends with a boy named Makoto Hagiri (Does that last name seem familiar? Just wait until the parents meet XD)

Everything seemed to be going well for everyone…well, almost everyone.