Ivy Raine: Hello all.

Amel: Hi, Ivy!! I brought Catie and Skye. Skye brought Narada, Andrew, Grace, and Joseph.

Ivy Raine: I suspected she would. Thank you, Amel.

Amel: What, praytell, are you doing in Kurama's lap?

*Ivy Raine notes the soft tone in her friend's voice and correctly pins it to jealousy.*

Ivy Raine: I fell asleep a couple of chapters back and he placed me here?

Amel: Ok!

*Ivy Raine thinks 'Foolish girl.'*

Amel: I heard that! *glares*

Ivy Raine: Kurama, you'll protect me from the mad woman, right?

Kurama: Of course.

Ivy Raine: My hero.

Everyone else: *sweatdrop*

Hiei: This could prove interesting after all.

Michelle: QUIET ON THE SET!!! *slight pause* I always wanted to say that.

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"Koenma, we can't just swoop in and grab Hiei. If they're in love, Hiei's going to insist that she be allowed to accompany him! We will have to give him a damned good reason to leave her behind," Yusuke protested.

"Hiei's never had anyone. He deserves to love and be loved," Kurama added. "Hiei's been alone for over two hundred years."

"You have your father. Hiei's never had ANYONE. Please, Koenma?" Keiko pleaded. "Please let Quinneke come with us."

"Hasn't Hiei done his duties since his arrest?" Botan queried. "The Saint Beasts, Operation: Rescue Yukina, the Dark Tournament, everything! Let him have a little bit of happiness, Koenma-sama."

Kurama could tell that Koenma's resolve was weakening. However, who would deal the final blow was in the hand so of the Fates.

"He could have wished for a hundred different things at the end of the Dark Tournament. However, he chose to have Genkai revived. Koenma, he deserves this," Shizuru murmured.

"Indeed, Koenma," added Genkai. "Let us retrieve the both of them."

"All right!" Koenma roared. "If she will consent to come, you can bring her!"

There were cheers.

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Two long, boring days and three long, miraculous nights had passed since they had become lovers.

He was in the schoolroom, towards the very back . The students had bragged to their parents that they were learning with 'Miz 'Lyna's' cousin. Some of the parents had protested to there being a 'savage' in the room, but Allyna had planned for this.

'If you'll remember,' she had told one softly, 'I am one of those 'savages.' Anyone who comes to my classes to learn will be taught to the best of my abilities.'

-Allyna?-

-Yes, Hiei?-

-When's lunch break?-

He saw her smile. He heard her mental laughter. He repressed a shudder at the sound of it.

-Let me see what I can do.-

After Sarah Jane Morgan, Lucas Morgan's daughter by Maybelle Boothe, sat down from recitation, Allyna stood.

"Due to wonderful recitations and excellent behaviour by the entire class this morning, I am dismissing class early for lunch. You have an extra twenty minutes. Class dismissed."

Amidst cheers, the class filed out.

-How was that?-

-Absolutely ingenious.-

"Must you ruin it?" she queried, laughing. "Come up and get your dinner."

He retrieved the meal and retreated to his desk. She withdrew a little book from a drawer and began to write.

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'Were Mother alive, I don't know if she would be proud or angry. I've fallen in love with a demon.'

She looked at the demon in question, who was, at the moment, happily crunching on an apple.

'Hiei Jaganshi, fire youkai.

'Mother never even took me to Spirit World, as she called it.

'Worse yet, he's from the future! He will have to leave me one day.

'His wounds are healing nicely. Fortunately, infection did not set in.

'He is beginning to teach me how to use my powers. Well, the fire ones, anyway. I'm currently working on a Darkness Flame Sword with a hilt of his that channels Spirit Energy.

'There is more, diary.

'I think that I'm pregnant.'

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He saw her jerk away from the book and slam it closed.

-What is it, Allyna?-

-Nothing, Hiei. Just cut myself by accident.-

-Are you all right?-

-Yes. It's not that deep. It stung more than it bled.-

He nodded, though he didn't believe her. -Very well, then, Allyna. Be more careful next time.-

-I will.-

He knew that there was more on her mind than a cut finger.

'She'll tell me. Eventually.'

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*Amel and Kurama are fighting.*

Hiei: Kurama! I'm going to be a dad!

*Amel and Kurama break apart. Kurama sits and brings Ivy Raine to his lap.*

Kurama: You're going to be a father, Hiei?

Amel: I'll be a monkey's plaything!

Skye: Ivy, are you sure about this?

Grace: This is almost as good as that one RPG you're in where you and another girl are playing as Lord Voldemort's daughters.

Ivy Raine: Grace, this is a Yu Yu Hakusho story. Please don't mention Harry Potter.

Grace: Okay. Sorry.

Kurama: Congratulations, Hiei.

Allyna: I'm glad that you're happy about this, Hiei.

Yusuke: Hey! Ivy Raine! Guess who's here!

Ivy Raine: Yusuke! Idiot! Yukina! TOGURO!? I didn't invite Toguro!

Kurama: Shizuru, Jinn, Keiko, Botan, and SUZAKU!!? Who invited him?

Ivy Raine: This party's about to get really interesting, really quick.

*Kurama nods.*

Michelle: Fini!

Ivy Raine: *sigh and sweatdrop* No, Michelle. It's not 'Fini.' It's 'Fiddy.'

Michelle: What are you talking about?

Ivy Raine: You're favourite rapper, Fifty Cent. It's pronounced 'Fiddy Cent.'

Michelle: I wasn't talking about him. I said 'Fini!' as in the end of this chapter.

*Ivy Raine looks foolish.*

Ivy Raine: Right. Fini!