AN: Here's the update I promised. I'm sorry about the raging hoard of rabid badgers, I had to use that deus es mahina (God is the machine) to tragically cut that chapter short but the dream would have gone on and on and been very boring to read, and, far more importantly, to write. But I shall refrain from continuing to bore you, on with the story!

Something is not quiet right…

Chapter 4: Three Different People, One Body

--- Later in Hiei's Dream Sequence ---

Leda tugged on my shoulder. She looked a bit sad. I sighed, it was time to go.

"I'm sorry." It was all I could think of to comfort this girl. She smiled sadly at me.

"I'm the one who kept you. Go. Kairos needs you." I nodded to her. Standing up, I began to head towards the cliff. I stood on the edge of heaven and reality. I spread my arms out and jumped. It might have been considered insane, but the sensation of flying was wonderful. As the rocks came within inches of my face I wondered if this is what it was like to fly around like Jin….

--- End of Dream Sequence ---

Hiei woke to the tugging on his shoulder. He had kept his Jagan shut after those idiots beamed light into it while he was sleeping. It stung horrendously and Hiei was in no mood to have be extra irritated by leaving it open. He sat up and rubbed his normal eyes.

"What is it?" Hiei half-yawned, stretching his arms.

"Its time to get up!" Kairos piped, "I didn't want to wake you, though. You were having such a peaceful dream…." She held out a hand to him and pulled him up.

"It was a good dream, you were in it." He smiled and brushed his finger across her cheek. It was a lie and Hiei felt a bit guilty about telling her that. Maybe someday Hiei could show Kairos Leda and her little paradise. But that would be another day.

"Is there something wrong with your Jagan?" She looked at it with worry.

"Some smart-ass pranksters shined light into it last night. It still stings." Hiei grumbled, silently planning to kill whoever was responsible.

"Well you're awake! Already complaining and cussing!" Kairos teased him. "Well, I have some good news for you and some bad news."

"Give me the bad news first."

"We have a group of six envoys here at the castle. One is a secretary and one is a translator." Kairos began. Hiei didn't particularly like the sound of that, it meant that he would have to entrain these people.

"And the other four?"

"One's an elderly woman, who's the only real envoy. You see, the rest are envoys-in-training as well as bodyguards for the old woman…." Kairos went on.

'Great, brainless thugs! Probably fencing obsessive royal morons! Ick!' Hiei thought to himself. "Oh that's nice…." was what he said.

"Time for the good news!" Kairos bumped the bottom of Hiei's chin, making him look up. "You are done with your health tutoring!"

"What!?"

"You got a perfect score on your final! You are done!" Kairos was smiling brightly.

"Well, we've got to celebrate!" He picked up his wife, threw her into the air, caught her, and spun her around in a kiss.

"Don't do that!" She bobbed him on the back of the head. The truth was that she enjoyed it.

"I can't help it and you like it!" He had a mischievous smile on his face.

"Not now!" She snapped at him seriously.

"Later?"

"Tonight, if you're not spent." He nodded happily. She smiled mischievously back at him. "I have another bit of good news for you."

"Really?" He raised an eyebrow.

"Yes, really." She leaned in closer to him. "I'm pregnant." He fell onto his rear, his eyes filled with shock.

"Pregnant!?"

"Mm-hmm! I checked with the doctor this morning. I have a good felling about this one…." She set her hand on her abdomen, beaming with pride. Hiei stood up and brushed himself off.

"Well that's an improvement to the last two!" Kairos became sad and so did Hiei at the memory. The pervious to pregnancies hadn't been as successful as their first.

"Don't worry, Koenma will have hell to pay if he takes another child from us." Hiei assured his wife, who had become watery-eyed. "Look at me!" He held her face so she could look him in the eye. "Fate deals us bad hands with children, but all that bad karma is gone now. So now we're going to be dealt some winning hands for all our losses. I trust your sixth sense, love. You of all people ought to have the most faith in it of all!" She smiled and cried a bit.

"You're right. This one is going to bless us with a happy, healthy child." She whipped her tears away.

"Though knowing our luck we'll have three happy, healthy children…." Hiei said absently.

"Oops! You have to get to your math class!" Kairos remembered.

"I'm skipping!" Hiei announced. "On the account that I am emotionally over-ridden at the moment and need some time alone with my wife!"

Kairos laughed at him. 'Well this day certainly started on the right foot!'

"This is the council room were you will be meeting with the Prince." Kairos opened the door to reveal the most normal-looking room the envoys had seen. It was a pastel yellow with a round crystal in the center of the ceiling, which let out a soft, white glow. There was a wood table with eight chairs. Seven of the chairs were made of wood and had comfortable navy blue cushions on them. The eighth must have belonged to the Prince because it was made of crystal. The table would have been round except that there were two small little cut-offs on opposite sides of one another. These cut-offs were just large enough to sit one person at. The Prince's chair was to the left of one of these notches.

"These," Kairos set her hand on one of the cut-offs, "are for the secretaries. The leading representative sits to the left of their secretary and the right of their translator. The Prince won't have a translator. So it would be of tasteful of your group to sit your translator next to him and someone charming and not intimidating next to the secretary." Kairos explained. "I'd like to see your set up before he arrives."

Kairos rearranged the set up twice before she decided it was okay. The arrangement was (starting from the Prince's chair and going left): the Prince, Keiko, Yusuke, Botan, Genkai, Kuwabara, Kurama, then the Prince's secretary.

"Excuse me Mrs. Skyeyes-" Kuwabara began.

"Call me Kairos."

"Would you mind if I asked you a personal question?"

"That depends on the question."

"I was just wondering what your husband's name was, since you always speak so fondly of him. I just wanted a name to associate, you know?" Kuwabara asked her.

"His name is Etric." Kairos had decided that she'd reefer to Hiei by his public name around officials a long time ago. Kuwabara nodded.

"Now I have other business to attend to, so please don't anger the Prince." Kairos warned before she left.

"Hello Tarra." Hiei kept his face neutral. She had a good reason to hate him, when Valia had been proven sterile, she proclaimed that the Mother Crystal[1] would find her an heir within ten years, and if not her heir would be Tarra. Three months after that, Tarra kidnapped Hiei. Six years later the Mother Crystal crowned him Prince. After that Tarra was to be Hiei's chief advisor, secretary, and wife. As we know, the wife bit didn't work out because at that point, Hiei was already madly in love with Kairos. And not even the Mother Crystal could persuade him otherwise.

"Hello Etric." She said to him just as neutral as when he told her. "What do you need?"

"I have a meeting with a group of foreign envoys and I need a secretary." He explained.

"Oh, and why can't you just have Kairos do it?"

"She's at parent-teacher conferences." He crossed his arms.

"Why must I do it?"

"I don't specifically need you to be my secretary, I just thought that you could do it, being my assigned secretary and all. Of course if you're too busy that's understandable, this is short notice after all. I just need someone to take notes for me and provide me with council; and if you are unable to do that at this moment then could you help me find someone who can." Hiei always had to convince her that he needed her to help him, but this was the way the Galen operated. They needed to be convinced that they were the only ones that were needed and that the job couldn't be done without them. This was to make up for the lack of physical battles in Crystila

"Why must you have my council?" Tarra asked him.

"Because you are the best when it comes to dealing with multiple foreign envoys (who are probably royal brats). You also have a greater wisdom of our people than you'd realize. And Kairos, well, she's good at persuading, taking illegible notes, and dealing with country bumpkins. And that's not what I'm asking for is it?" Hiei flattered her.

"Very well then, I have some time." She packed her briefcase with the precision of someone in the military who does this everyday, all day. Hiei lead her towards her destination. She glared at his back the entire time, attempting to make him uncomfortable.

Hiei stopped right in front of the door and turned to face Tarra, who stopped glaring the moment he begun to spin.

"We hate each other, there is no doubt about that in ether of our minds. I do not want this personal hatred to be present within the presence of those envoys. I want us to be respecting of one another, nothing more." Tarra nodded at his request, it wasn't unreasonable.

Hiei took a breath and opened the door.

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[1]- The Mother Crystal is the largest one in all of Crystila. It is so powerful that it can actually talk to the Galen, though it chooses not to most of the time. All the Crystals are connected to it in someway. It is also the oldest and has more authority than anyone else in Crystila.

AN: Cliffhanger! I feel evil! I know, but I'm double -er…more like quadruple- checking the meeting scene to make sure that its as great as I've been promising. But there's more than just finding Hiei! They have many things to discover about him and his life (like the fact that he's married). Anyway I've got an awesome surprise for everyone, if by chance you can guess what it is, I'll give you a preview of latter in the story! Good luck! R&R!!