lostmonchild: Okay, I said last chapter that this one would deal more with August and Kurama and I am keeping my promise. Thanks for the review! I don't own YYH or anything else unless I say otherwise.

CHAPTER TWENTY THREE

August groaned as she emptied her stomach's contents for the third time this week. She knew that in a few minutes Danielle would come into the bathroom and spend the morning taking care of her. What she didn't know, was why her friend mysteriously vanished for about three hours and came back with a small bag that she had taken great care to hide.

"You look like shit." A voice said sounding like the amusement was forced.

"I feel like it." August answered before shoving her face back down as she emptied the remaining bits of her stomach's contents.

Danielle's eyes looked pained as she grabbed a washcloth and filled the sink with some cold water before wetting the cloth. "See if Kurama has any seeds that'll help." Danielle said wiping her friend's face with the cloth.

"No, I don't want him to worry."

"Aug, I'm getting worried. Three times this week you've been sick, you've barely touched any food, you've been getting cravings for some of the WEIRDEST ningen food combinations and you can't tell me "bullshit" on the ningen food combos." Danielle said seeing the protesting look in her friend's eyes.

"Well, its been how long since Kurama and I first did it?"

"Hold on a minute."

August watched as her friend left the bathroom before dry heaving. A minute later Danielle came back with the same small bag August recognized as the one she came back with after vanishing for a few hours. "What's that." August questioned, her curiosity getting the best of her.

Danielle took a couple small boxes out of the bag and handed them to August. "Use these to see if your sickness and everything else is because of you and Kurama having sex and you're about to have a little addition to your family or if you're coming down with some viral infection." Danielle said grabbing the doorknob. "Now, do your business so we can find out."

"If I'm pregnant?"

"Then I'll sit with you when you tell Kurama. Hell, I'll even run around for your damn cravings if Kurama won't."

August smiled at her friend's devotion before saying, "Thanks, Danny. You know how to make a girl feel better."

"Yeah… don't go spreading that around or else every girl other than Genkai and me are gonna want to be pregnant so they can see my soft side."

Laughing, August watched as Danielle left the bathroom, closing the door behind her. Taking a deep breath and praying to everybody she knew, August took the tests out of the boxes,

"AUGUST! IT'S BEEN FIFTEEN MINUTES ALREADY!" Danielle shouted making sure to sound like she wanted to use the bathroom incase anybody was listening.

August slowly opened the door and pulled Danielle inside the bathroom, making the fire hanyou nearly yell in surprise. "Look at them." August whispered.

Danielle raised an eyebrow and looked at the tests, surprised when both held the same results. "OH MY FUCKING GOD!"

Kurama sat on the couch looking nervous. A very irritated fire hanyou had dragged him to the couch and told him to stay there or else. Right now, he was trying to figure out what he did wrong to be on the fire hanyou's bad side. "Just take deep breaths. You two marked each other so if he wants to high tail it, he's screwed." Kurama heard Danielle say in a reassuring voice.

"I dunno, Danny. Maybe I should have Genkai or Yukina…"

"C'mon, you've been showing the same symptoms my mother did when she got pregnant. Granted she drank the poor kid to death but oh well. I said I'd sit with you when you told him."

"yeah, but I didn't think it'd be today."

"Just tell him. Got him scared enough, it'd be funny to watch him realize he's..."

"He is with me if he tries to run."

Kurama watched as August and Danielle came into the room, August looking nervous and Danielle looking slightly irritated. "What's wrong?" Kurama questioned looking confused.

August sat down next to Kurama and grabbed his hands. "Uh, honey, what would you say about us, oh I don't know, having kids?" August questioned looking nervous.

"I'd say that'd be great! Why?"

"Well, I took a couple pregnancy tests earlier today and they said that I'm, well… pregnant." August said quietly.

Kurama looked at his mate in shock before looking at the now nodding fire hanyou. "I'm… going to be a father?" Kurama questioned, his green eyes widening.

"Yeah. I'm gonna have Genkai or Yukina check me out later on today just to be sure but miss sheds-light-on-everything decided to compare my symptoms to her mother's."

Kurama looked at Danielle and saw how she didn't like comparing August's symptoms with her mother's but from the look in her eyes, she didn't have anybody else to do a comparison to. "C'mon. We'll have Master Genkai look at you if she's not busy." Kurama said helping August up.

"Hey, Danny…" August started.

Danielle looked at her friend for a minute before tilting her head a little. "yeah?" Danielle questioned.

"If you're gonna be an aunt, I'm gonna laugh."

A couple days later the temple was decorated for Christmas, which was about a week away. "Should we get a tree?" August questioned lying down on the couch.

"I know you and trees." Danielle said, not looking up from her newest sketch. "I also know that you're not supposed to do too much for another two months."

That's right, August was pregnant and was getting annoyed by Kurama acting like she was fragile and was going to break if handled roughly. "Come on! I have to listen to Kurama tell me that shit all the time!" August said moaning as she kicked the couch in frustration.

"Okay, done. What'cha think?" Danielle questioned with a grin as she showed August the sketch.

"I think I'm going to kill you." August said looking at the sketch of her.

Danielle laughed and said, "Aw, c'mon! My best friend with a pregnant belly… kinda funny."

"When Hiei gets you pregnant, I'm gonna laugh and draw a picture of you with a pregnant belly."

"You'd draw a stick figure for me?" Danielle questioned unable to keep from laughing.

"SHUT UP!" August shouted throwing a pillow at the fire hanyou. "But yeah, I'd draw a stick figure with the belly sticking out and a little stick figure inside the belly."

Both girls started laughing before throwing in a movie and laughing at the kid managing to outsmart four international terrorists. "Remind me what this is?" August said laughing.

"Home Alone 3."

"Where's the others?"

"In my room."

"Go grab them. We'll have a comedy movie night." August said with a grin.

Laughing, Danielle jumped up and ran back to her room and grabbed the movies. Grabbing a bowl of popcorn, both girls sat on the couch and watched movies until they both fell asleep. Sometime during the night, Hiei and Kurama came into the living room wondering where the two girls were and smiled when they saw the two girls sound asleep. "You take Danielle, I'll take August." Kurama said waiting for Hiei to pick Danielle up.

Hiei nodded and carefully picked the fire hanyou up bridal style and blushed lightly when she nestled against him. "Mmm.. Hiei." Danielle murmured sleepily waking up a little.

"Go back to sleep. I'm taking you back to your room." Hiei answered quietly.

"Oh, okay. Night."

Kurama smiled as he watched the two fire demons. August was sleeping in his arms and wouldn't want to be left alone for more than a minute. He followed Hiei and carefully pushed the door open with one foot before setting his pregnant mate on their bed. Smiling, Kurama stuck his head outside the door and saw Hiei carefully get Danielle into her room to sleep. They both loved their mates, even if two of the four weren't mated quite yet. Hopefully, though, everybody would be paired off with someone else and they'd all live happily with their families.

Sighing in contentment, Kurama closed the door and laid down next to his mate, immediately greeted by a soft kiss and a whisper "I love you." along with "Goodnight." Smiling, Kurama closed his eyes and allowed himself to fall asleep.

lostmoonchild: Aw... Kurama's gonna be a daddy! Next chapter I'm thinking a bit of a surprise so be ready for the fun of insanity. read and review!