Elf!

-Disclaimers and such in first chapter.

I am Terrible. Terrible. Terrible. I forgot to change something in that last chapter. *spaces things out too easily* Abigail sent Jordan away in fear of Neo Shobi laying a finger on him. So Imma update that last chapter. He's still in Japan, just not allowed near the temple. Abigail is very protective of her twin, and doesn't want to take the chance of losing him to an ass like Neo. Also, it explains why Jordan wasn't celebrating his birthday along with Abby. They are really twins, you know. In other words my little brain spaced that out. ^^; Further more, I was getting irritated having to write Jordan's speech in German and explaining every word that came out of his mouth. So if you've already read chapter 10 before I posted this chapter, please do go back and read it again [unless you already know most of that info up there]. Or at least skim through it if you'd like. I'm so sorry, guys.–

About two weeks went by with more training, intense moments with Hiei, and Abby's memory slowly coming back. She had learned that she got close to Neo Shobi in the first place because his mother ruled most of the Makai. During her attempts to get close to his mother, she ended up getting closer to Neo Shobi instead- more so then she ever imagined. She did love him. But as to why they got into a huge fight in the first place was still a huge blank in the woman's mind.

Abigail was now able to control her spirit power. She never formed it into an object such as a sword or gun or bow, but she channeled her energy in her fighting- whether it be with fists or swords- and made it all the more powerful. She had a hard time trying to direct her power away from herself or a close object- i.e. a sword. She had gotten so much stronger in the past couple weeks, that she was even able to battle Yusuke for a decent amount of time. However, most of the time Yusuke still came out on top because he wouldn't go easy on her. The few times that Abby did come out the winner, she felt even stronger- as she should.

As Abby sat on her bed facing her wall, she began to dwell on something that had been on her mind for the last two weeks. Finally deciding to do something about it, she asked to borrow some money from Kurama and went out to the town. It was Sunday: there was no training, and it was a decent day to go out shopping. After looking around for a while Abby walked into a store, grabbed 5 small boxes, paid for them, and walked out quickly. Once she got back to the temple she concealed the bag of mysterious boxes on the way to her room before hiding them under her bed. She then made her way to the kitchen and made herself a pitcher of tea. Taking the tea back to her room, she quickly drank as much of the liquid as she could. After about an hour of reading, she took one of the boxes from the bag and ran into the bathroom.

"Shit shit shit shit shit!" Abby whined as quietly as she could, pacing back in fourth in her bathroom, trying hard not to pull out her hair. She looked at the counter again and the five plastic sticks that lay on it, "Four out of five…" she muttered. Abby placed a cold hand over her mouth and took in a deep breath. –There's no way I could tell anyone. No way. I'll just have to wait and see how long I can get away with it…- she thought. Slowly, tears welded up in her eyes and her legs gave out from under her as her head began to spin. "Who am I kidding? I'm fucking pregnant…" She managed to mumble through the knot in her throat. She knocked the tests into her trash can and sat on her floor for a while until she was able to get a hold of herself. She stood and grabbed the now full bag, tied it, and walked out of her bathroom with it in hand. Quietly, she made her way outside and to the dumpster. She didn't want to take the chance of anyone finding it. [Okay, interjecting here. I don't know if Genkai has a dumpster outside of her temple, but what else would you do with all your trash? Jeeze.]

Once she got back in her room, she laid down in her bed looking at the ceiling in silence. Ideas to get rid of the child crossed her mind numerous times, but anytime she had a full plan, tears would stream down her cheeks. Sure, she had thought of killing Neo Shobi countless times and maybe even her twin brother every now and then. But killing something that had no say in it and had done nothing to her at all was not only heartless but impossible to do. The other impossible task was telling the man that was involved in this happening. Sure, she had strong feelings for Hiei but she also knew that he wasn't exactly the nicest of people on this planet. She had no idea how he would react to her being pregnant. And on top of that… what if he wanted her to get rid of it? To… kill it? At that thought more tears streamed down her face and she curled up on her side, holding her lower stomach.

"Well well… you finally did it, child!"

Abby sat up quickly and looked over at her door and the man leaning against it. It was none other than…

"Neo Shobi…" she hissed, glaring him down.

"You know… I must say that those ears and tail of yours are treating you quite nicely! I don't think white is really your color though. Blonde always looked the best." He smirked, showing a long white fang. Abigail stood up off her bed, fists clenched tight,

"What the fuck are you talking about?"

"Still haven't noticed those things?" he pointed at the top of her head, "I thought they'd be quite obvious." He shrugged nonchalantly.

"Not that, you sick bastard!" she growled.

"My, my. Feisty are we? Well then… what are you talking about?" he smirked again, showing that fang.

"What the fuck have I 'finally' done?" the tone in her voice became harsh, and sounded more like the Abigail in her dreams.

"Mmm… always loved that true demon in you, babe." He winked, before standing up straight and walking over to her. He placed a hand on her lower stomach and smiled down at her. As dearly as she wanted to smack his hand away, she knew she'd receive a much harder hit back. "Should I be the first to congratulate you?" he asked.

"None necessary." She sneered.

"Oh? Don't tell me you're planning on getting rid of it. Because I can't have that, now can I?" his voice deepened as he spoke those words, "See… I need you to have that kid. And if you disobey me I will have you suffer more then you can even imagine, darling."

"Quit calling me such names. I'm no longer yours." She swallowed hard before grabbing his wrist and moving it away from her stomach, "I'm his now. And I am going to have this child. However, you will be no where near me when that happens." She glared hard into his now angry blue eyes. He twisted his arm around to where he was grabbing her wrist now, and grabbed the other one along with it. He pinned her to the bed violently, his white hair brushing by her cheeks,

"You are still mine. And I will be there when that child comes into this twisted fucked up world. And you will not try to be so violent again, do you understand? You do as I say and you, your child, and that bastard will live. Got it?" the smell of blood filled her nostrils as he smirked one last time, showing the same fang. Somehow Abigail was able to get her right fist out of his grip and punch him hard in his cheek. She vividly saw that annoying fang fly across the room before completely slipping out from under him.

"I am not yours. And you will not trap me so easily again, got it?" she asked, mocking him, "If you prize your face, I suggest you leave now." she glared at him as he turned to face her, rubbing his face slightly. He was laughing.

"Wow, Abigail Beck. You have gotten much stronger. Not only that my love, but your true form is coming back. Your voice, your actions, your threats… my god, you even stopped time there for a split second. But of course you used to be much much better at that." He shook his head, a smile on his lips, "Let's see where you're at two and a half months from now." He turned on his heel and walked towards her balcony window. As she started to run after him, he disappeared. Abby fell to her knees with tears in her eyes,

"Fuck you Neo Shobi!!! I'll fucking kill you!!!" she slammed a fist into the ground before moving to where she sat on her butt with her knees up to her chest and her forehead on her knees.

"Abigail! Abigail are you okay?!" Kurama yelled as he ran into her room, after him a couple of the others followed. He looked over at her curled up form in front of the windows and slowly made his way over. He knelt down by her side and gently placed a hand on her shoulder. She slowly shook her head back and fourth before looking up at him with watery eyes.

"Why is he after me?" she sniffed, "Wasn't my fucking heart enough for him? Wasn't it?!" she stared hard into those green eyes of his, "I'm tired of playing his fucking games. I'm sick and fucking tired of it!" Kurama looked back into her cold blue eyes, his expression covered in shock.

"Abigail… what did he do?" Botan asked softly. The girl merely shook her head back and fourth again, looking away from Kurama.

"Abb. Listen. We're going to kick his ass, there's no need to worry so much." Yusuke said, pointing a thumb at himself with that cocky smile on his face. Abigail slowly stood and turned to face Yusuke, her eyes filled with anger and hatred. Yusuke's face slowly turned to worried rather then cocky.

"You can 'kick his ass' if you please. But I'm going to fucking kill him. Alright? His head is going to rest at the foot of my bed by the time all of this is over." She hissed before walking past him, Botan and Kuwabara. Kurama watched her walk away in confusion. She certainly wasn't acting like the Abigail they first met.

Abby made her way outside with a pounding headache. Something was wrong, and she could feel it. As she tormented herself trying to figure out what was going on, out of habit she walked to the usual place her and Hiei trained. She put her hands on the sides of her head and closed her eyes tight as her headache came on stronger, beginning to feel more like a migraine. She couldn't help but let out a loud yell as the pain got even worse. She fell to the ground and put her head in between her knees, trying to relieve some of the throbbing. –What the fuck is happening to me?!- She thought before letting out another yell.

-Time's running up. You're returning to yourself. Try not to fight it too much.- a deep, raspy, male voice entered her head.

-What's going on?!-

-I already told you.- the voice chimed again

After another scream the pain finally subsided and Abigail rose to her feet, looking at her hands with wide eyes, "I'm… back." She whispered to herself. She slowly began to smile as she felt the top her head and her hair. Her ears were now gone and her hair was back to the way it used to be. Her platinum blonde bangs lined the sides of her face delicately and the back stayed as short as it was before. Her tail, of course, was now gone as well. "Well, honestly, I can't believe it." She muttered. Her eyes snapped open wider, "Genkai! Got to talk to Genkai!" she turned and ran off quickly towards the temple.

"Genkai?! Genkai!" Abigail yelled through the halls.

"No need to shout, kid. I'm right here." The old woman's voice came clearly. Abby turned around and looked at Genkai, who was rubbing at her ear with her eyes closed. Once she opened them, they widened in shock. "What… happened?" she asked, trying to sound calm.

"I'm baaaack." She smiled, revealing a fang. Genkai blinked a few times, before returning to her normal expression.

"I mean how did this happen, smart ass?" she snapped, and walked into the room they were by, Abby following her.

"Long story short, my time ran up." She stated, "But you being Genkai, I guess that's not good enough for you." She smiled.

"You're certainly smarter." She sighed as she sat down on a pillow. Abby chuckled quietly and sat on the pillow across from her,

"The amnesia thing… I did that to myself." She started, "Once I got back on my feet and wasn't able to find that dirty bastard, I decided I should go into some sort of hiding. Mainly hiding from myself." She closed her eyes, "I disguised myself and my brother as average teenage twins. However, I went too far with his mind…" she muttered. She quickly shook the thought off and continued, "The family I was with took us in and raised us as their own. Well, in a sense. I had enough amnesia pills to last me a year- when I should have graduated from high school.

"I'm actually surprised you knew what they were. I was sure my 'heart condition' story was good enough. Even though you knew parts of my true story, I figured someone like you would at least think they were placebos or something. But that's what I get for underestimating people." Genkai smirked at this, "Anyways… I figured that once I got my memory back, Jordan would be back to normal as well, and I could continue my hunt for Neo Shobi. After 50 years, he had to have thought I was gone for good.

"But I didn't think about the crystal." As she spoke these words Genkai raised an eyebrow,

"So you remember." It wasn't a question.

"I took it from him once his mother died. It was his inheritance. I knew what he wanted it for… he wanted to take over the human world. Mind you, I wanted to at one point as well. That's why I befriended his mother in the first place. However, after watching the human race for so long in their environment… I guess you could say I actually started to sympathize most of them. They were so brainless… but so are half the demons out there. They lived their life, and we lived ours. Yeah, sure, we ate some of them here and there but what did it matter? They were reproducing like fucking rabbits." She shook her head quickly, getting back to the point, "I took the crystal from him, not wanting him to do such a sudden violent act that would change all three worlds forever. I didn't see any good coming out if it. We'd devour all the humans so quickly that eventually we'd run out of food, and only the ones that didn't feast on human flesh would continue to live. Eventually, we'd all die off. I believed that controlling our own world was difficult enough. Why try more?

"He found me rather quickly once I got a hold of his damn crystal. But I wasn't just going to give it back to him; no matter how much I loved him. I could stand by him with everything he did, but trying to have so much power over everything was just… retarded!" she yelled, punching the ground as gently as she could manage. Still, the wood cracked. "I fought him for as long as I could. I had to try. But he went cheap and… well he tore my heart from my chest.

"My memory stops for a while there. I guess I was actually dead. I woke several hours later in a lot of pain, but I was alive. I looked down at the hole in my chest and saw a red-yellow-orange orb looking object inside. A phoenix had turned itself into my heart, I guessed. With the color, power, feel, and voice of it, it seemed pretty obvious. The phoenix promised to heal me and keep me alive as long as it could, so long as I kept the real crystal away from Neo Shobi. Oh… that's what I forgot to mention… I wore a fake one around my neck as him and I fought. I guess he finally figured it out, as the human world never came into his hands." She took in a deep breath and let Genkai speak. Though it wasn't much,

"Where's the real crystal?" she asked curiously, "Maybe that's why it took him so long to track you down again. He was looking for the real one." She looked up to catch Abigail's gaze, "So where is it?" Abigail looked at her for a moment and sighed. She held a hand over her lower stomach and closed her eyes,

"I placed it in my uterus, with my spirit energy of course. I decided to keep it there until I bore a child. Then, it would be imbedded inside of it. Thus I will have kept my promise to the phoenix and it can let me die, and continue to live its long life, no longer having to be stuck in me and draining its energy to keep me going." Abby opened her eyes but continued to look down. It was silent for a long time; the only sound was the shishi odoshi outside.

"So… Neo Shobi wants you to be with a child so he can get that crystal." Genkai finally spoke. Abby nodded slowly,

"That's what I would assume. And… he'll be coming to get that in a few months." Genkai's head snapped up, her eyes stern. Abigail didn't even bother to look up into them, "It would be 8 months, but with this child being both demon, and embedded with a powerful crystal… its growth will be rather fast."

"You can't be allowing this to happen." Genkai said coldly, "You can't give up this easily."

"I'm not. He won't lay a hand on my child, trust me. He'll be dead before he gets to even look at it." She growled, "Pregnant or not, I am going to kill that man. My child will live its life knowing not what it holds. I may not be around to raise it, but I have enough faith and confidence that Hiei will, or will at least find somewhere safe for it." Abigail sighed; -He wouldn't dare do to our child, what his mothers' race did to him…- she thought. "Perhaps it'll live a normal life, aside from the rapid growing of course." Genkai looked at her, not sure what to make of all of this,

"Well if you've already made up your mind, I guess there's nothing better to do then to let you go about your plans." She said as serenely as she could. Abby half bowed in her current sitting position,

"Thank you, Mater Genkai, for your hospitality and devotion. It won't go unrecognized." She stood slowly and went to leave the room, but turned at the doorway, "I'll be out of your hair in a couple months. Please… don't mention this to anyone. I'll bring it up to the others when the time is right." She stated, and left the room.

Abby sat in her room that evening, messing with the fang she had knocked right out of Neo Shobi's mouth. She reached into her bedside table and pulled out a long strip of black cloth among a few other small things. After about twenty minutes, she had made herself a choker with the fang dangling off of it. She put it on with big smile.

"You're just going to let yourself die that easily?" Hiei's cold voice came from in front of her. She looked up and saw him sitting cross-legged on her bed in front of her about a foot away. Her expression saddened quickly,

"You heard Genkai and me talking?" she asked, "I thought I sensed you there. I didn't think your hearing had gotten that good over these years, Hiei." She said calmly. He merely glared at her, demanding an answer, "I've had it planned out for nearly forty years now. I can't just back out. And I'm certainly not killing your child if that's even a thought in that mind of yours." Hiei's eyes widened in shock for a mere second before he glowered at her,

"Don't be stupid, onna." He snapped, "Change your deal with the damn bird."

"I can't do that." She stated simply. Hiei looked away from her and to the side, a very very small hint of sadness in his face. "Hiei… please trust me. I have to do this." His direction didn't change, "It's not that I want to leave… you." She muttered, looking down into her lap. At least now he looked at her from the corner of his eye, before speaking again,

"Then don't." he said simply. She got his full attention when tears started to stream down her cheeks.

"I can try but… this bird can't last forever either, Hiei. I'm sure you saw him when Genkai extracted him from my body; his body is withering away… he doesn't even know how long he has." She sniffed and quickly wiped her tears from her cheeks, "I'm sorry I was blinded by my ambitions, Hiei. I knew you were there… I knew that there was more… I…" she stopped speaking as he let out a disbelieving 'hn'. Before Hiei knew it she had her arms wrapped around him and her face buried in his chest. She was… sobbing. Hiei blinked a few times, both in shock and confusion. Slowly he placed his hands- which somehow managed to be raised into the air as she latched herself to him- on her. One hand rested on her back and the other on the back of her head, his fingers laced in her hair.

"Your hormones are going mad…" he said simply.

"Shut up and hold me." Her muffled voice came from his cloak. In spite of his usual self, he lifted her off of him and lay her down on her bed correctly and straight before moving to lay by her, putting in arm behind her and holding her securely. He let her rest her head on his chest, and slowly slid a hand down to her stomach,

"Don't curl up like that anymore… you'll hurt the damn thing." He said quietly into her ear. She let out a small chuckle, before drifting into sleep.

Shishi odoshi- literally means "deer scarer" in Japanese, apparently. It's that bamboo water fountain that sits outside to scare away animals like scarecrows and deer that could damage the garden or whatnot. I think they sound pretty. And I'm pretty sure Genkai has one, though I couldn't tell you for sure.

Okay. So I hope Abigail and Neo Shobi's past makes a little bit more sense now. Long speech, I know. I had to write it. Haha.

In my eyes, demons grow faster then humans. Kind of makes sense in my head. And with that fact and the power of the crystal, the baby should come along when a human would only be 3-4 months along in their pregnancy.

Yes, prego-ness causes crazy hormone shit. I would know. I'm going through it myself. And yes, including demons breaking down randomly [in my mind]. Although she does have a lot of reason aside from hormones; she found out she was pregnant, turned back into her normal self, which came with all of her intense memories, and had to admit to her lover that she was pretty much going to kill herself for a bird after she gave birth to their child. Tough day for the poor woman.

And if you didn't catch it, Abigail and Hiei knew each other a long time ago. She was around him when she found out about Neo Shobi's mother. She abandoned Hiei for a shot at power. They weren't lovers or anything then… though she did want him.

Sorry that this chapter was mainly just explaining Abby's past and turning her back into herself, but I figured it was important.

-Blueberry134826