I got impatient and needed to write something on the side next to Hidden Heart. So here it is!

It was a normal, late autumn day, well, at least normal for Hiei, a member of the Reikai tantei. As he walked down the park walkways. He got strange looks, from parents, and some children even ran away, seeing as he had his katana on his belt for the whole world to see. Not appreciating the stares and the whispers, he walked to a vacant part of the very big park. 'Hn, damn ningens, I help save their sad excuse for a world, and what do they give me back in thanks, glares and crying children! Ungrateful bastards...' Hiei thought. While caught up in thought, Hiei walked past a garbage can, he looked at it. It was lying on the ground, it's contents spilled everywhere, 'Sometimes I wonder why I chose to help this world, when it should be put out of it's misery, instead of being polluted by those conniving ningens...'

Hiei looked at the garbage can, staring coldly at it. He was about to walk away, when he heard a noise come from inside the barrel. He stopped dead in his tracks, thinking the noise came from some sort of small demon. He scowled as he looked inside the barrel to find a bundle of blankets moving. Finding the culprit, he quickly yanked the bundle from the barrel. He glared at it for a split second, until his glare turned into confusion.

Hiei was expecting to be looking into snake-like yellow eyes, only, he was gazing into night sky blue colored orbs. He knew what it was immediately. It was a ningen infant. The baby gazed at Hiei, and blinked. Hiei cringed at the face the infant made, noticing he was holding the poor baby by it's feet, her turned it around, and grasped the baby under it's armpits. The baby had dark blue eyes, and pale blue hair. (Think Botan except a little bit paler.)

Hiei looked left and right, to see if the mother was near by. Noone. He was all by himself, with a motherless baby. 'Think Hiei. Ok, first find out, if this thing is male or female...' He looked in the diaper, and thought to himself, 'Female.' He paced back and forth, now holding the baby properly. 'I would never live it down if the fox ever found out I left a baby to die.......so, I'll.....give it to someone else!'

He put his hand to his chin, 'The detective? No, he forgets to feed himself, let alone another being. Kurama? No, how would he explain a baby to his mom? Detective's mate? No, she has a mother too. The oaf and his sister? No, the child would die of lung cancer, or the oaf would drop it. Yukina? No, I won't let her take care her own children if she had them, let alone someone else's! The Onna?.......Well, she IS human now, no mother, no toddler, no company, nothing tying her down.....yes, the onna will take the baby.'

Hiei covered the baby with the blanket he found it in, and sped off to the ferry girl's apartment. Within a few moments he was outside the building. He read the names, and read the label: Midorikawa, Botan, Apartment No. 624. He walked up to the third floor, and halfway down the hallway. He read the number, and walked in. He spotted Botan washing the dishes, her back to him and the baby.

Just as he walked in, she finished her last dish and put it in the cabinet above her. Botan's eyes narrowed as she felt someone's ki present. She pretended to be wiping the counter off as she swiftly grabbed a knife off the counter, turned around, and - "AAAH! OH MY GOD!" Hiei's face was about 2 inches away from hers. (He got a littler taller than her.) Not expecting someone to be that close, she dropped the knife. As it hit the floor, Botan heard the clang and opened her eyes. She stared for a second, and then glared, "Hiei!!! What are you in MY apartment?! And how did you get in here?!"

Hiei snickered and replied, "You left your door unlocked, foolish woman. Keep it locked from now on. Oh. Yes, back to business..." Hiei stared down at something he was holding, Botan followed his gaze, to something wrapped up, not noticing it until now, "Hiei....if that's a dead animal...I'll kill you..." Hiei glared at her and replied, "One, it's not an animal, unless you consider yourself one as well, and two, it is most certainly, NOT dead.....or, it's not supposed to be....and THREE, I'd like to see you TRY and lay a FINGER on ME!"

Botan 'hmphed." as Hiei nudged the blanket a little off the little body in his arms. Botan stared intently at what was in the blanket, as she stared a little head emerged from the top of the blanket. Botan gasped and shouted, "It's not yours is it?!" Hiei blushed and shouted back in anger, "Of course not! I would never, EVER mate with NINGEN!"

Botan looked at the little baby. She held her arms out to Hiei as he handed her the baby. "She would be better off with a female." Botan stared at him and said, "Better off? What do you mean?" Hiei sighed out of her daftness and replied, "I was walking in the park, when I found her inside of garbage can." Botan gasped as she looked down, sadly at the little baby, "Who would do such a thing, to a poor defenseless baby?"

Hiei leaned on the door frame that separated the kitchen from the living room, "I suspect, the mother was a teen, she child is very small, probably premature. I also sense....she was not wanted, the scent of hate, is all over her, she was left in that barrel to freeze to death." Botan's eyes watered a bit, as she rocked the baby in her arms. As Hiei was about to leave through the front door, Botan said, "Hiei where are you going, you have to take the baby."

Hiei rolled his eyes and clenched his teeth, "Did you not listen to what I said, she would be BETTER OFF WITH A FEMALE!!" Botan winced at his shouting and said, "Oh no, no no no no no! Hiei! I can't take care of a baby! I don't know a thing about them!" Hiei approached her and looked right into her pale pink eyes and said, "Onna. Botan. You have to take care of this child. Kurama, has a mother, the detective's mate has one, the detective does too, but he can barely decide on what he wants for lunch. I would never trust the oaf with a baby, and his sister, she'd burn it. I wouldn't allow Yukina to take care of a ningen child so that leaves you."

"So you dump the baby on me?!" Botan shouted. Hiei looked at her, then to the baby in her arms. "Do you think, it would be better dumping her in another trash can, or in the care of someone capable of taking care of her?" Botan stopped talking and looked down. Hiei left the apartment, leaving Botan....with a baby.