AN: Good graces, folks, I'm really really sorry about the wait on this one. I just ended up quitting my old job and starting a new one and the in between stage sucked up all my time. Again I'm sorry, if you all want to hurt me now I understand, but I will finish the story. I promise. We're very close... Oh and I'm taking a few liberties with the actual plot line of Yu Yu Hakusho and changing a few things, which should be pretty obvious.
Disclaimer: Holly Summers and the race of Sirine are mine. Yu Yu Hakusho is not.
Megumi was watching the Spirit World Sunset quietly, the last rays of light dancing in her red hair. She looked positively perfect Enma decided. Why had he even allowed the Sirine to be given to him as a second wife? He should have told Kami no then and there. But Murakami had such an appeal to him at first as well. Her voice, her huge silver eyes, the long gorgeous purple hair, and grace that none could match. It was a mistake that he had to correct...
"What are you thinking about?" Enma asked.
"I want to name him Koenma..." Megumi smiled brilliantly.
Enma looked at his wife in confusion for a moment before what she said sank in. "You're-?"
Megumi laughed sweetly, "Yes, and I want to name our son Koenma... what do you think?"
Enma was naturally overwhelmed all of a sudden. "I-"
"Come, let's talk this over with some tea." She grabbed his hand and tugged him down the hallway. Enma nodded to the guard as he passed.
Kurama nodded to the guard as he passed by his cell for exactly the thirty fourth time that day. He couldn't take much more of this. "When are they going to get to our trial?" He thought out loud.
"WE wouldn't even be in this mess if you hadn't betrayed me!" Hiei hissed from across the hall.
"It wasn't anything personal, Hiei," Kurama tried to explain once again. "The Spirit World would have caught us eventually."
Hiei just glared at him from the other cell, "No they wouldn't have and you know it, Kurama."
Kurama sighed; nothing was going to get through to Hiei when he was like this. Although... his stubbornness WAS the first thing that had attracted him to Hiei. Most shrunk away in fear when Hiei glared at them, but that pain and stubborn streak that Kurama saw in the demon, especially right now, was exactly what he loved about him. "I'm sorry..."
This only earned him a harder glare from the other. "I don-"
"On your feet the both of you!" The guard suddenly appeared slamming his nightstick into the bars of Kurama's cell. "The boss is taking time outta his schedule to complete your trial."
Kurama got up quietly, although the wards made it very hard to do much moving but it would have to do. In really no time at all the two of them were standing in front of a rather tall podium. The toddler-Koenma looked down on them with anger. Kurama prayed that Hiei wouldn't try to attack Koenma.
An oni began reading off their offenses. 'Stupid Oni we already know all that...'
Koenma sat silent a moment before speaking to them, "Kurama as you willingly turned yourself in AND had stolen your object in order to save a human, the Spirit World will grant you immediate Parole, you are required to aid Spirit Detective Yuusuke Urameshi in any task that I direct at you. As long as you do this you will be allowed also to remain in the Human World. Hiei-"
Kurama shook his head as Koenma began to speak to Hiei, "That I cannot accept Koenma-sama. I wish to accept whatever punishment you place upon Hiei."
Koenma stared at Kurama in shock, for a moment, "You want to stay in prison for eight thousand years?"
"If that is to be Hiei's punishment then yes."
Hiei stared at Kurama as if he had grown five heads, "Are you crazy as well as stupid?"
"No," Kurama stated flatly and smiled at Hiei sadly. Even if it meant giving up his mother, Kurama had to stay near Hiei... Just as he had begun to use the mirror Kurama had suddenly come to the conclusion that he had somewhere in the middle of his lust for the fire demon had fallen completely in love. Besides he owed the fire demon for betraying him the way he had.
All at once Kurama was jarred from his memory when he felt two new presences in the collection. 'HIEI! No don't! Please I said don't!'
Enma screamed as well, 'Damn it son!'
'Stay out of this all of you! It's not safe!' Holly continued to yell at them all.
'Father please don't continue this fight! We must talk this over, all of us,' Koenma's voice spoke.
'You don't understand this! You're just a child!' Enma bellowed.
'I do understand, father. Why didn't you ever tell me I had a sister?' As Koenma's mind adjusted to the collection it became very apparent that Koenma had seen many of the memories that had just been shared. 'More importantly... a niece.' Warmth began to fill the collection as Koenma tried to show how much he welcomed the newly discovered family.
Holly seemed shaken by the acceptance that Koenma expressed to her, 'You don't hate me?'
Enma's anger flared once again at this, 'No Sirine is family of MINE!'
'Who wants to be related to an ass like you?!' Holly's mind retorted all traces of warmth gone.
Kurama sighed, 'Stop it already...'
Hiei's and Koenma's presence wavered a little as the collection began to reject the addition, Kurama realized Hiei only had enough will to project Koenma into the mass of minds with the Jagan. He silently thanked Inari Hiei hadn't seen the memories he had been sharing.
Kurama felt a sudden sinking feeling, knowing it came from Holly, he tried to pin point her presence and realized that somehow two more presences were added to the collection. 'Keiko!'
'Please all of you this is madness!' Keiko began to scold all of them like tardy school boys. 'Not a single one of you has been listening to sense!'
'Fool girl! Don't categorize me with these children! They know nothing!' Enma snorted.
'Children? Do you even realize you sound more like a child right now then all of them put together? Besides you've seen what Holly has been through! Don't you think it's enough? Or is your nose so high in the air you can't see the cliff your about to walk off? Do you think Kurama has had it any easier then you? Yes your love was killed, murdered even. But at least you knew she loved you back!' Keiko began her tirade. 'And Holly! I love you dearly but damn what were you thinking? What happens to the Human world if you actually killed Enma?'
Everyone shrank away into their own corners as Keiko really got going. This woman was damn scary! No wonder Yuusuke was afraid of her.
'Don't think I've forgotten you Kurama!' Keiko turned her attention to him. 'First you had no right to get involved in this! You could have hurt yourself and for what?... Secondly you should be sharing these feelings of yours! You continue like this and I'll guarantee that you're going to break and it will not be pretty!'
'You humans don't know your places!' Enma growled at the girl.
'Neither do you gods! No your so high and mighty, mistakes are above you!' Keiko turned back to the god.
Enma's Will wavered a moment yet held. Kurama began to worry as Holl'y Will was falling. It seemed that with the multiple people involved Holly was less and less willing to do anything dangerous, especially if it meant hurting her uncle... Uncle Koenma had a nice ring to it... wait that was Holly's mind...
Kurama was finding it very difficult to tell the difference between his own mind and Holly's the longer this continued. Funny how she had never even thought about being related to Enma as well even though her grandmother had claimed she had gods blood in her... She hadn't even thought about the connection until she had seen Enma's memories...
Keiko rather obviously had to force herself to calm down, a mental picture of Yukina flashed through the mass, 'Come, let's talk this over with some tea.'
Without warning the mind merge dissipated and Kurama found himself falling to the floor landing rather painfully on a few of Holly's bells. His relief was short lived, as he looked for the others that had been involved. Hiei, Koenma and Enma all seemed fine if anything a little dazed.
But Holly was not moving and she was lying in a pool of blood.
AN: Another icky spot that I'm sure you all will flame me about ^_^
Oh well anyway I really wanted to make it apparent in this chapter that Keiko was the one who ended up reaching Enma, and Koenma had reached Holly… which was not what everyone expected was it? I liked it better this way because it makes all the characters grow more I think. Anyway…
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