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*Na ni means 'What' in Japanese.
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"This can't be! I can't be pregnant!" Hiei snarled at her, "You lie!" He didn't want to be saying such harsh words to his baby sister, but it couldn't be helped. He was having a terrible day, and now tack on a BABY that him and Kurama didn't NEED.
"Hiei, think about what you're saying! Since when has Yukina lied?" Kurama said, putting a hand gently on the fire demon's shoulder.
Hiei looked over at his boyfriend and stared into his eyes and then he sighed and looked at Yukina, and just gave her a look that said 'I'm sorry' and looked away.
She gave a small smile, "It's okay brother." He jumped when the word came out of her mouth and looked at her with wide eyes.
"Na ni*?" He wondered if Yusuke had made a slipup…he was gonna kill that detective if he had!
"Hiei, did you think I didn't honestly know? You left so many clues, it's too obvious." She smiled at him, sitting before him. "But enough about that, how are you pregnant you ask? It's easy enough, you are from a race of females that produce asexually. You have gotten the female attributes to have a baby, but you must have a male lover, and you must have a C-section when the time comes."
Hiei looked at Kurama and then looked at Yukina and sighed, "Hn. Thank you. You may leave now. I want to talk to Kurama." He said and with a respectful nod she hurried from the room.
She ran into the others who were hanging outside the room, listening in. "Shame on you!" She whispered so Hiei didn't hear, knowing if he did, there would be some heads lost.
"Aww come on! We wanna know what's going on!" Yusuke whispered back and Yukina sighed, she had to admit she was curious too. She leaned in and listened in as well.
"Hiei-koi?" Kurama asked softly when Hiei didn't say anything right away. He jumped when Hiei slammed his fist onto the floor, making a huge dent.
Before Hiei said anything he glared at the door. "If you don't get away from there, I'm going to come out and slit your throats!" He said and was satisfied when he heard them scrambling away. Then he turned to Kurama.
"How the hell could this happen fox? First I get paralyzed and now this? A baby! We live in a tiny house as it is, fox. We don't need an extra mouth to feed." Hiei's voice had slowly softened when he saw Kurama's hurt expression.
"If you don't want my baby, we can get rid of it." Kurama removed his hand from Hiei's shoulder.
Hiei grabbed his arm, "Kurama, I'm sorry. I didn't mean it to come out that way. How are we going to handle it?" Hiei knew immediately that he should have handled it differently, but there was nothing he could now but apologize.
"We'll manage." Kurama said, looking at Hiei's face, searching his eyes through the truth. "Are you sure you want it?" He asked, slipping his hand in Hiei's.
Hiei squeezed his hand gently and sighed in defeat, giving a tiny smile. "Truth be told, I think I already love this baby." Hiei admitted making the fox give his brilliant and beautiful smile.
"Good!" Kurama said and then said, "Hiei, can I bring the others in? We need to talk about something really quick and I want you to be there." He sure didn't want Hiei to be uncomfortable in this situation.
"Hn. I'm alright now fox." Hiei said, knowing his previous fear had been stupid. He wasn't weak at all, Kurama had assured him of that. He still had power and could easily handle himself.
Kurama stood up and went over to the door and invited them, "I think Hiei has a few words to say to you all." Kurama winked at Hiei and smiled when Hiei smirked up at him.
"I can't keep anything from you, can I fox?" Hiei leaned back on his hands and looked up at him with admiration.
"Nope." He admitted all-to-happily, Hiei gave a lone chuckle and then turned to the others with a severe look on his face.
"I should kill you all for the incident at the door, but I won't. But what I want to tell you is this. If I hear one of you giving pity for me, or say you're sorry for me, I'll slice your heads off and burn your body. I don't want pity. I can still take you all on if I had to." Hiei gave a lone sigh and then looked at them, "But I can't be totally independent. I will need your help. I won't be able to do everything by myself, and I know this is foolish and weak to ask, but if I need something, I'll need you to help me get it. I'm not making Kurama do everything. It's bad enough he has to quit school for me." Hiei said, glancing at Kurama.
Yusuke and the others nodded, "Not a problem Hiei, we'll be glad to help." Yusuke said.
Yukina approached her brother and Kurama. "Um, I actually had an idea…if you are interested." She looked between the two of them.
"Go ahead," Kurama gave her a smile, as Yukina gave a shy smile back.
"Well…down a little trail from here, there is a small house. It's a one story and it has all the rooms you will need and has 2 bedrooms in it. It's got electricity and water, and you've got your own private spring and the ground around it is relatively flat and it's only 5 minutes from the temple." She said slowly, knowing that they were getting her idea.
"Hn. You want us to move in there." Hiei said glancing at Kurama who looked at Hiei. "I think that would be wise Hiei, it'll keep us away from the city and you will have someone around at all times to help and you could easily visit with Yukina every day." Kurama smiled at him and Hiei nodded.
"In that case," Kurama turned to Yusuke and Kuwabara. "I'll need your help. I'll need a ramp installed on the porch for Hiei to be able to get up and down easily. I'll be purchasing him a scooter to use. Could you help me move our furniture here?"
"No problem man, we'll be glad to help." Kuwabara said as Kurama smiled in thanks and then gave Hiei a small look.
"Hn. Thanks." Hiei looked out the window, playing it cool which made Kurama chuckle.
"If I may?" Keiko said stepping forward. "My parents know this lovely couple, they're elderly. Well recently, one got too sick to be able to live in the house and they are selling her electric scooter. It's customized for her small stature. I think it might be good for Hiei. They're selling it real cheap, and it looks to be in good condition. If you give me the money, I can go pick it up." She said looking between the two demons.
Kurama glanced at Hiei who sighed and said, "Since I have no idea what the hell a scooter is, I'll have to trust my fox's judgment on this one."
Kurama gave a brilliant smile and handed her the money but it was WAY too much. "Kurama…?" she looked at him.
Kurama gave a gentle smile at her. "Give that to them. Tell them to use it to help with the hospital bills." With that, him, Yusuke and Kuwabara left to go prepare the house and get the items.
-Later-
Hiei was officially pissed when his eyes landed on the scooter and refused to let the women put him in. "Hell no! I'm not riding around on that thing." Hiei crossed his arm stubbornly and looked out the window, frustrated.
"Please Hiei? Kurama would want you too." Botan begged as they tried to entice him.
"NO means NO you baka! When I say no, listen to me! If Kurama wants me in that ningen contraption, he'll just have to come home and put me in there himself." Hiei said firmly.
"Don't mind if I do." Kurama said coming into the room, sweaty, and tired from carrying such heavy items. He went over to Hiei and picked him up, despite the protesting, he dumped Hiei into the chair.
"Kurama! This isn't fair! I hate this thing." Hiei pouted and crossed his arms. Kurama looked down at him and then sighed.
"Oh that's too bad Hiei, if you would have been a good boy and did what they wanted, and not complained, I was going to go and buy you some ice cream for dessert today. But since you don't want to listen." Kurama shrugged.
The girls giggled and watched as Kurama worked his magic of persuasion upon the stubborn demon.
"…Sweet snow?" He looked up at Kurama then narrowed his eyes, "Really fox? If I behave the rest of the day you'll buy me some sweet snow?" Hiei demanded.
"I promise. But you have to behave and listen to these lovely ladies and do what they ask." Kurama said, smiling down at the demon.
"You'd better keep your promise." It wasn't often Hiei got sweet snow, since Kurama was such a health freak. And he had a feeling that he would get it even less now, because being unable to move meant he would pack on the pounds, especially thanks to a baby.
Kurama turned and smiled to the girls, "There you go. He should listen now." Kurama left the room.
What Kurama didn't realize about Hiei, was that he was beyond upset. Hiei was still insecure, and very frightened of what may happen. Sure, he had confidence around others, but that still didn't make up for his emotions.
Hiei looked out the window and the girl's noticed his distant look and decided to let him be as Hiei closed his eyes and tried to control his raging emotions.
"How can you still love me fox? I can't even give you pleasure." Hiei looked down at his legs and knew that one day the inevitable words that he had been waiting for would come. The whole 'I don't love you anymore' speech. It was only a matter of time.
Hiei couldn't help but feel that the fox was just playing with him now, using his emotions, playing with his trust and one day, he would break it all. He would shatter Hiei's trust, destroy his emotions and tear apart his heart.
Hiei hadn't realized it but he had fallen asleep, he must have been more tired than everyone thought.
Hiei looked around and didn't know why, but he felt horrible. Like his heart was aching. He was laying on a soft bed of furs, in a cave in the Makai…one of his old homes.
Why was he here? Why wasn't he home? Why wasn't he with…Kurama? A pang shot through his body at the mention of the name and Kurama's voice filled his head.
"I'm tired of taking care of someone! You claim to not want pity but you act like it! I'm sick of it! I've been slaving for weeks over you!"
Hiei heard a soft wailing, much like a baby's cry…why did he want to reach out and comfort the baby? Why did he want to reach out and take the baby and soothe it back to sleep?
"GET OUT! If you think you can handle living on your own like this then get out!" Kurama's voice sounded so painfully angry, and so sad.
Hiei couldn't think of why the fox would say something like that to him, but he knew that he was crying. There were tear gems everywhere. Hiei looked around and then felt a sudden pang of missing his fox.
"Kurama…" Hiei whimpered in his dreams, "Kurama…Kaida…." Who the hell was Kaida? Why was he crying her name? Maybe it was the baby's…Hiei continued to whimper the names, wanting the pain to end in this horrid nightmare.
"Hiei!" Kurama gently shook the whimpering fire demon, Hiei's eyes popped open and he blinked and then stared at Kurama.
"You're still here?" Hiei said and then hugged Kurama, not sure what the hell the dream had been about, but he had a bad feeling about it and it really frightened him.
"Of course I'm still here, where would I go?" Kurama hugged the demon, looking confused. "Did you have a nightmare Hiei?" Kurama nuzzled his face into Hiei's hair.
"It felt more like a premonition fox, not a nightmare. The pain was too real to be a nightmare." Hiei said, trusting the fox to understand what he meant and Kurama nodded.
"Well, I think you just had a very severe nightmare. Don't worry about it Hiei, I won't be leaving you until the day I die. I promise." Kurama smiled and sealed his promise with a kiss.
Hiei smiled a little under the kiss, really wanting to trust his fox, but…why was it that he still had a very bad feeling? Was that really a premonition?
Was he really going to lose Kurama?
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A.N. Believe it or not, I had to write this chapter 4 different times before getting the outcome I wanted. I hope this one is good. I tried not to make it boring by adding the dream part. I hope you enjoyed, review please!
