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9 Months of Maternity

Chapter 12- Enlightened Hope

"Kurama!" Hiei woke up from his dream panting harshly, Hiei was holding his shirt trying to remember his dream detailed, it was in the middle of the night, and he was still in his room at Mukuro's palace. Recalling his dream, it was their previous fight during the dark tournament, where Kurama faced off with Gama the Master of Ritual Adornment.

"What was that all about? Is it something I should…" Hiei said to himself unsurely. "…I might be wrong…it's impossible…but still…" Hiei was reckless he gave his dream a huge thought. He tried to forget about it, it was too painful. He drifted to sleep slowly, hoping not to have those kinds of dreams again.

It was a full moon, the night was dark. Hiei drifted into slumber shortly…drifting to another dream.

'Hiei.' A warm familiar voice called.

'Wake up Hiei, it is late. I don't want you to miss me again.'

Slowly Hiei opened his eyes, to see…

'Err…Kurama?' Red eyes where staring directly at the red head.

The setting was in the old apartment of Kurama, Kurama was getting ready to go to the university. Hiei just woke up from his "sleep".

'Hello Hiei, it has been a long time.' Kurama gave him a gentle warm smile.

'Kurama, is that really you? Is this a dream? You are not dead.'

'No, Hiei I am not dead, not in your dreams nor in reality.' Kurama explained.

'What? But I thought…'

'What those elders told you earlier on was untrue. You see, my spirit energy is locked within me; Itsuki did it while I was in battle with him. Now I am an ordinary human, it can be sealed off…'

Before Kurama could end his sentence, Hiei launched to him embracing him tightly. 'Kurama, I don't want to leave your side ever again. If this is a dream or not, I'd rather not ever wake from it! What kind of life would it be if there were no you? Kurama stay with me!' Hiei began to sob.

Kurama embraced Hiei tightly as well 'Hiei what about our child? Right now we can't just think of ourselves, I am in your dreams right now because I am made up from your memories, Hiei I am not dead, and I will never be dead for my family.'

Suddenly the dream slowly began fading away.

'Kurama!'

'Hiei, I'll be waiting for you, until then, take care of our child. Never let anyone do anything bad to it. I'll be waiting…' Kurama began disappearing.

'Kurama! I promise…'

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"Hiei time to wake up."

Hiei was still asleep; blankets covered him in. It was almost noon. Hiei was sweating badly, but at the same time, he felt very cold.

"Hiei wake up! You need to take your breakfast, so that the psychic can see you, she can't see you with an empty stomach. Hiei, I order you to wake up!." Mukuro demanded. Hiei woke up, he was breathing quite harshly.

Mukuro was uncertain of what may have happened to Hiei, she raised her hand over Hiei's forehead. "Hiei! You have a fever! Just lay down and I'll ask the maids to get you some warm water." Mukuro said to Hiei worriedly. Mukuro was about to leave the room.

"Mukuro," Hiei went back to lay down and gripped on Mukuro's shirt.

"What is it?" Mukuro turned back to Hiei; she was practically in a bad mood in the same time worried about the fire demon. His fever just had to pick the best time to be sick.

"Mukuro, I had a dream." Hiei had a hard time talking, his face was red. He as burning up.

"Hiei, this is no time to tell me your dreams, right now you need medication." Mukuro said to Hiei in a dictatorial manner.

"But, it is about Kurama." Hiei said still not letting go of Mukuro.

Mukuro sighed she sat by Hiei's bed pretending she was patient enough to listen to Hiei. "Okay go on tell me what happened."

"Kurama isn't dead. His spirit energy is only locked in him, that's why here in the demon world we cannot sense him." Hiei said sheepishly.

"That's impossible Hiei." Mukuro said to him.

"Mukuro Kurama is alive! I know it in the bottom of my heart; I can still save my child."

"Then Hiei tell me, where can we find him?" Mukuro asked sadly looking down at the ground.

"I…I…don't know…"

"Hiei, Kurama is dead, just accept it. Maybe that is the reason behind your fever, you were too stressed out, you've through many things, and the death of Kurama is something hard for you to accept. Hiei I am sorry for saying this, but it is the truth." Mukuro avoided eye contact with him.

Silence filled the room.

"No, you wrong." Hiei said all of a sudden. "I know Kurama is not dead, I can feel it. My dream was too real for it to be untrue. I don't care about what you say, I believe in Kurama."

"Hiei, I…" Mukuro didn't want to cause Hiei much more pain, but Hiei was stubborn. "I'll ask for the maids to give you warm water, I'll call for a healer on the way. Just please rest, I beg you, don't think about Kurama for a while, you have to be healed soon, and Hiei the condition you are in gives much suffering to your child. Please have mercy on your child." Mukuro said softly, as she left the room.

Hiei started at her as she left the room. As the door closed, Hiei closed his eyes. "He is alive, I know he is." Hiei whispered to himself. Somehow, Hiei's abdomen started to feel light; warm.

Hiei smiled.

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Knock, Knock.

"Come in." Hiei said as a maid entered the room.

"Lord Hiei, Lady Mukuro told me to bring you some warm water and towels." She said to Hiei who can't practically stand up.

"Oh thank you." Hiei said.

The maid placed her hand over Hiei's forehead, just beside his Jagan. "Oh my lord! You're burning up." She wet the towels with the warm water; she slightly folded it and placed them over Hiei's forehead.

"Thanks very much." Hiei said.

"I hope that that helps, Lord Hiei, I will leave the will leave water here. Just get plenty of rest; I hope you get well soon." The main left the room, leaving Hiei again.

Hiei just got as much rest as he can. After a while, Mukuro entered the room with two people.

"There he is, can you help him?" Mukuro turned to the person beside him.

"It is merely a cold." An old short woman said to Mukuro.

"Yes, but I am worried. Will it affect the child?" Mukuro asked.

"If he has a strong spirit, his fever will be gone shortly. The child won't be affected by it, but it won't be enough to save his child." She said.

"But Genkai, can't we do anything? Even give the child some temporary spirit energy?" Mukuro asked.

"No, I am afraid it only needs Kurama's." She said.

"This is my entire fault; I should have not let those Koorime get to me. Now Hiei and Kurama's child will be dead because of me!"

"Toya…"

"No, you have to admit, it's my entire fault." Toya looked down.

They went towards Hiei, Genkai carefully examined Hiei's spirit energy. She was dumbfounded, she examined his energy again.

After examining Hiei Genkai turned to Toya and Mukuro "Hiei's energy seems to be high, but he still has a cold. I don't really know how it is possible, but that is what is going on with Hiei's body. Don't worry all he needs are rest and healthy foods, at the most in two days he will be back to normal. If his spirit energy stays same." Genkai smiled.

"That's good to hear." Mukuro said.

"Yeah, I hope he gets back to normal soon." Toya said.

"Now, we need to talk about Hiei's child Mukuro. It is in it's forth month in five days, by that time it will really need much sprit energy." Genkai said to the cyber demon.

"Hmph, lets proceed to the garden for tea, there we can have a proper discussion." Mukuro said to Genkai.

They all left the room, leaving Hiei as he sleeps.

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The three of them proceeded to the garden as instructed by Mukuro.

"Mukuro, Hiei's child needs Kurama now. Or else their child will die slowly." Genkai started as she drank her tea.

"But Kurama is dead, how can that be helped?" Mukuro asked.

Genkai ignored her question. "Kurama is consisted of two persons, Youko Kurama and Shuichi Minamino. Think carefully, if Shuichi dies Youko can transfer his spirit to another body or better, live on his on originally."

"Yes, but I know that Shuichi is Youko. How is that…" Mukuro asked.

"Even so, Youko is the demon that lives within Shuichi without Youko Shuichi would be a normal human, so in this case Kurama and Hiei's child needs the spirit energy of Youko. But it seems he is locked within Shuichi." Genkai took a sip of her tea.

"So you mean?" Mukuro said.

"Kurama is alive!" Toya said.

"Precisely. Either way of Shuichi dying or not, Youko still lives. However, here, Kurama's spirit energy is sealed in him, it seems Kurama is dead but he is not. At the moment he is an ordinary human, living in the Human world." Genkai said making a stern smile.

"That's good to hear. Therefore, Hiei was right after all. All we need it Kurama. They're child will be saved." Mukuro said happily.

"Yes, but there is a problem, Kurama may be alive, but as I said his spirit energy is locked within him, he cannot use it." Genkai turned things upside down.

"…"

"The only way to reverse the spell is to eliminate the demon who cursed Kurama." Genkai said.

"That means…we have to kill Itsuki…" Toya whispered.

"Itsuki? The spell caster?" Mukuro verified.

"Yes. The Koorime elders asked Itsuki to eliminate Kurama in exchange of Sensui's corps. Itsuki was desperate, was a coward, and accepted the deal. Itsuki had no plans of killing anyone, so instead he cursed Kurama to never again use his spirit energy, and so that led to the lockage of his aura." Toya explained.

"Is that so? So all we have to do is to find Itsuki, maybe we don't need to kill him, only ask him to reverse the spell." Mukuro stood up from her seat "Genkai thank you very much for all the help that you have given on behalf of Hiei." Mukuro said.

"Hn, that demon better gets well soon." Genkai said.

"Mukuro, uh…I have to help Hiei too, so would you be so kind enough to let me in, in your search for Itsuki and Kurama, its just fair after what I did to Hiei and Kurama." Toya asked.

Mukuro smiled at him. "Toya, you are more than welcome to join."

As new hope appeared, Hiei and Kurama's child can be saved.

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Inside the room of Hiei, Hiei was found resting. He was covered in blankets, but his abdomen seemed to glow gold and warm.

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BDT: Ah! Finally done with this chapter, it took about 2 hours and 10 minutes to do it…it was hard to think! (Sigh) Anyway, this chapter is kinda based on what my condition is now… (Sniffs) yup, I am sick. Actually what happened to Hiei happened to me last night…the whole sleeping thing then when he woke up he had a fever…But I've got not time to have fever, I am practically busy to have one, good thing it's the weekend…phew...I'll recover shortly…(no reason, I just wanted to share).

Oh yeah, I am sorry for updating it only now, well I am making a habit of updating it every weekend at least one chapter per week, but I really got busy last week, so I didn't get to update last week. Therefore, here is the chapter you've all been waiting for. I hope you (my audience) like it. O.o

Please Read and Review. Check on my grammar too…Thanks very much. (Sneezes then sniffs).