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The Fire-Baby Grows Up
Shounen-Ai warning, and this really is Shounen-Ai by now.
PRI warning, that's Possible Random Insanity, but it might be saner than I thought.
Uncharacteristic Behavior warning, Hiei acts a little weird.
He watched with all three eyes as the little family walked up the steps. He watched as they entered the temple to be greeted by the old fossil. He watched through the window as the wife sat down to feed her newborn baby girl. And as he watched, a cold sadness filled his heart, the sadness of knowing that he, the Forbidden Child, could never have a family. Hiei jumped out of the tree and ran off faster than sight, leaving his twin sister Yukina alone with her carrottop husband, their Koorime baby, and the master of the temple, Genkai.
The fire demon didn't go far though, just into the city, to a small apartment where his koibito was waiting. Collapsing into his lover's arms, Hiei rested quietly with neither sob nor tears, though part of him did want to do both. Red locks drifted down from above him as the demon trapped inside of a human's body held the little youkai closely.
"What happened Hiei?" A light, feminine voice called to him.
"Saw Yukina and the baby. She's perfect."
"So nothing bad happened?"
"They're happy."
Kurama wasn't sure what to think, his lover seemed fragile today, but if nothing was wrong with his sister or his niece, then why was he acting like this. "What about with Mukuro, you two didn't have another fight did you?"
A flash of memory, Hiei's memory was the answer. He saw through Hiei's eyes as the most powerful female demon ever known gave him permission to go to Ningenkai. But before the memory ended, he heard the woman, who had scarred herself with acid, losing her limbs on the right side and an eye just to be free from slavery, say, "So Hiei, when are you and your mate going to have a child?" Her bitter, mocking laugh echoed in his mind.
"You're jealous?" The red haired young man was shocked.
"What, you think it's the first time I've ever been jealous of her?" Hiei snorted, "She was the one that didn't get thrown off a cliff for being born." Kurama didn't have a good response to that, so he just stayed quiet and held his little koibito until he felt like moving, which only took a few hours.
The next day, both Hiei and Kurama got to hold their precious little niece when they visited the temple with the rest of the Reikai Tantei. Yuusuke was busily congratulating his best friend Kuwabara on not being the father of the baby, which understandably began a small brawl as Yukina's husband was angry about the taunts. Yukina herself wasn't sure why he'd be angry, after all, it was their daughter even if they never had mated, but luckily for her she had Yuusuke's girlfriend Keiko, her sister in law Shizuru, and Kurama to explain it to her. While all this fighting was going on, Hiei sat cross-legged on the floor holding his niece. She was perfect, small wisps of blue hair, ice-blue eyes that were starting to make the change to crimson, a healthy youki of pure ice, and she made the oddest little noises as she struggled to look at him. Hina had cried when anybody other than her parents held her, but she could sense that Hiei was family. The fire demon felt quite guilty about the urges he had to steal the little treasure and keep it as his own. 'What the Mekai is wrong with me? I'm not a mother; I'm a bloodthirsty demon. I should want to eat the little thing, not take care of it.' But in his semi-frozen heart, Hiei knew he'd viciously torture, rip out eyes and internal organs, maim, and kill anyone who even suggested hurting the baby Koorime.
Half an hour later, Hiei sat out in his favorite tree, refusing to participate in the joy of the rest of the group. He wanted to be free of his emotions for a moment or two, and refused to allow the others to view any more of his weaknesses.
"Brother, what's wrong?" Yukina's soft voice came from below his branch.
She waited patiently for a response, "Nothing." She wasn't that good with emotions, but it was a sign of how oddly Hiei was feeling when she figured out exactly what was wrong from his tone.
"You want a baby too?" As innocent as those words were, the fire demon was still shocked into falling out of the tree. The Koorime ran over to her brother's side, checking for injuries but unsurprised when there weren't any. Her brother was strong, and he was always there to protect her.
When he was able to sit up and stare at her again, she gave him a hug and continued, "I know that the forbidden children of the Koorime are very unlike true Koorime. I know that you are truly male, and cannot reproduce without a female, which is impossible since you have Kurama. And I also know that you have a heart as cold as ice, that when it melts it freezes around the ones it loves and refuses to let go. I'm the opposite, something from our father, my heart has always been warmer than normal, and I find it easier to love and care about others. I want you to be happy, brother, and if you really want a child to take care of, I'd be more than happy to help."
"Nani?" The heart talk made sense, but did she really say what he thought she said?
"I can get you your own little daughter in ten months if you and Kurama want."
"Grlllggr?" The fire demon made choking sounds.
"Okay, we should all think about that first, but if you want to adopt one of your nieces, I'll let you."
It took three weeks for Hiei to get comfortable enough with the idea to tell Kurama about it. The fire demon sat down on the couch with a container of Ben and Jerry's ice-cream, why Kurama stole the sweet snow from those two guys, he didn't know. His koibito started nuzzling his neck and trying to play with the ice-cream when Hiei ruined the mood. "Do you want a child?"
"Um," Kurama sat up and looked at him questioningly, "My mom would love to have a grandchild, but she doesn't even know I have you, and there's no way to get one."
"That's not what I asked." Hiei had the cutest glares, those big red eyes were stunning.
"I don't know Hiei. I've never taken care of a child, and it really hasn't been that big in my thoughts."
"You don't want a child with me." Kurama glared as the fire demon turned his head away from him.
"Hiei, it's not like that. Why do you want one? Just because of Yukina?" He regretted those words almost immediately when he found Hiei's hurt crimson eyes.
"I just want one, and Yukina said I could adopt her next one."
"Nani?"
"I want one." The little demon growled.
"I know that, did she really say that?"
"Yeah, she wants us to have a kid if we want one."
Kurama growled in frustration, "Fine, whatever, I don't care! You're going insane over this jealousy thing, I'm sleeping alone tonight." The former fox demon stalked off to his bedroom, leaving Hiei alone on the couch with the ice-cream.
The red haired demon with a human body glared at everything as he walked down the familiar street. His koibito had left early that morning to go back to his boss in Makai; Hiei wouldn't be back for at least a week or two. Now what Kurama really needed was advice, but the one person he felt he could talk to, he couldn't, because his mother didn't know he was in love Hiei. Of course she didn't know that both her son and his lover were demons either. Oh well, he was already standing in front of his mother's house, he might as well talk to her anyways. But what would he say? 'My boyfriend wants a baby and I'm not sure about it at all, can you help me Mother?' Yeah, that would go over well.
His mother, a black haired aging but beautiful woman greeted him enthusiastically with a hug and offering of cookies. "Shuu-chan will be home from school soon, he's got some questions for you about his science project."
Kurama smiled, his little half-brother, Hatanaka Shuuichi, was coming to him for advice now, it was in its own way a nice thought. "I'd be glad to help, Mother. Actually though, I came for some advice."
"Oh, what's wrong?"
Kurama thought for a moment as he sat down at the kitchen table with a chocolate chip cookie. How could he put this gently? "Well, you see, my... lover wants a baby, and I'm not sure I want one." And now his mother would be shocked that he had a lover without being married, and she'd be angry that he never told her before now, never met 'her'.
"How odd, that little young man wants a child now?"
Kurama fell out of his chair with an odd 'urk' sound.
"Shuuichi-kun," His mother was leaning over him worried. Why do all women seem to be omniscient? "Are you okay dear?"
"You... know?"
"About you and that cute little spiky black and white haired boy? Of course I do, I'm your mother."
"But...."
"You always go everywhere together, I've seen you kiss, he makes you happy, and I had a talk with him once."
"Hiei told you!"
"Oh, that's his name," Kurama's mother smiled at him a hint of mischief in her eyes, "I tricked him into revealing his feelings for you. I don't think he even knows it. His eyes are very expressive, but you should know that by now."
She helped her shocked son up as he asked, "You don't care that Hiei's not a girl?"
"Honey, I care that the two of you love each other and only each other. Even your stepfather doesn't mind as long as you love each other."
The former fox demon choked on a big gulp of milk, "He knows too?"
"Well, he did ask me if you were gay after we got engaged, and I told him you don't care about wether the person is a girl or not, just about love, and he said that as long as you weren't just going around flirting with any boy, then he didn't care."
Kurama sighed, "Guess it could be worse." He hadn't known if his mother would be okay with this, many demons ignored the sex of their mates unless they actually wanted to reproduce. "So, what should I do about Hiei wanting a baby?"
"Do you want one?" She asked simply with a soft smile.
"I don't know."
"Well, if you wanted one, how would you get it?" She started cleaning up the kitchen knowing that her new stepson would be home soon.
"Hiei's sister said she would let us adopt her next one, so it would take a year or so."
"That's unusual, but there have been surrogate mothers and such for a long time now."
"Yeah, I don't know about it though, I have my reservations."
She smiled back at him again, "Tell me. It may help you think things through."
"I don't think I'd care about a child that wasn't mine, Hiei doesn't care because it'd be his niece. And then how would we take care of? I don't know anything about kids, and Hiei barely knows how to hold them; we'd need a bigger apartment too, and then we both work a lot. We'd never have the time for it."
His mother nodded, and was about to say something but she was interrupted by the arrival of her stepson.
"Mom, I'm home!" A moment later the boy's voice rang out again, "Shuuichi-san's here too?"
"We're in the kitchen Shuu-chan!" She turned back to her red haired son, "Wait a little while longer and see if Hiei gets over the desire to have a child, and then tell him what you told me. Let him know your worries before the both of you decide."
"Thanks Mother." Just talking to her made the youko in a human body feel a little better. He could just wait until Hiei came back from the Makai before worrying about it. For now, he'd just help Shuuichi with his science project.
Hiei flew back into a wall, managing to rebound before a blast of red energy hit the spot where he had been less than a second ago. His newest sword lay shattered in pieces on the floor behind his opponent, and he was bleeding badly from a wound on his left shoulder. Seeing his opponent's quick glance to the bandaged dragon on his arm, he stopped the attempt to summon the Kokuryuuha just as he started pulling at the wards. No, he wouldn't give her the satisfaction.
The fire demon suddenly awoke and noticed his boss's blue eye examining him. Mukuro should have been laughing, but instead she looked worried, or something similar, about her heir. "Why the Mekai were you so sloppy today?"
Not understanding her between his sleepiness and the ringing in his ears, he managed to realize that no, the floor of the training room was not soft, he was lying in her bed, again. The bed was soft though, maybe he could just pass out again. A rough shaking relieved him of these thoughts.
"Hiei, pay attention. What's wrong?"
"I want to adopt one of Yukina's babies, and Kurama doesn't want a kid."
"You want a brat?" Mukuro stepped away a little. "What's wrong with you? It's insane, you know nothing of kids!"
"But, I want a family." She could feel his sudden wave of sadness and longing.
"You have Kurama and Yukina and your niece, that is a family." Much more than what she herself had.
A year later, and Hiei still didn't have a child. Kurama had been hoping that babysitting Hina would be enough, but as the baby started taking its first steps and talking and giggling as it watched her uncle with bright red eyes, the fox demon had to start the conversation he never wanted to have. Even after explaining to Hiei why he didn't want a kid, the fire demon was adamant.
He held up the child they were currently babysitting, Shina, his second niece, who was only a month old. "How can you say no to a face like this?" Hiei pointed to his own, and then he pointed to the baby's, "Or this?"
"Gah!" Kurama stormed off with a yell that startled Shina, making her cry. He should have never used that on the little youkai just to get him to say 'Ai shiteru' once. "Fine, you can have your baby! But you're paying for the extra costs!"
The phone rang, and Kurama grabbed it in the other room. "Moshi moshi." Hopefully the angry tone wouldn't scare whoever was on the end.
"Kurama." It was a woman's voice, "You sound like somebody shaved you bald and then burned your garden to ashes."
"Mukuro, I'm not in the mood for whatever it is you're pulling."
"Where's Hiei, he was supposed to be back three days ago?" She sounded like it was that time of the month again.
"Oh yeah, that was before he promised Yukina he'd babysit again." He had to hold the phone away from his ear since the S-class demon-ess was laughing so hard. "It's not funny, he still wants a child, and now he has practice with them."
"So you caved in." Mukuro ended in a giggle.
"Koenma was worse when Hiei first started babysitting. Hina was giggling as he threw Koenma out a window."
"Then I'll remember not to make fun of him about it." The phone clicked off as Kurama tried to glare it into exploding.
"Hiei better be happy about this."
Yukina was more than happy to comply, but after a year of studying Koorime and similar demons, she had a few twists up the sleeves of her kimono. She was feeding Shina as Hina dozed off in her favorite uncle's lap.
"You know, I think I found a way for you two to have your own child!" She smiled happily at the thought of bringing joy to her brother. "Genkai helped me with some research, and apparently Koorime can assimilate the DNA of other creatures in order to have genetically original children! However, this is only used between Koorime, because if male DNA is used then a Forbidden Child will result. But I don't think you really need to care about that. I wonder what would happen if I try to assimilate both of your DNA, then I could have nephews!"
Her brother stared at her for a moment, wondering if he really wanted a cursed son, one that could face the same problems he did. Kurama on the other hand was nodding as he thought about this. "It makes sense, bacteria can swallow up DNA from their food and insert it into their own and pass it on to new generations, as a demonic race that merely clones itself for the most part, must be able to do something to prevent inbreeding depression."
"What?" Hiei was confused. "Dee-en-ay?" Kurama ignored him.
"So what do you need to make it work?"
Yukina smiled at them both. "Just a strand of hair from both of you." She suddenly had a bad thought. "It's probably gonna be twins, I hope. What if it's more? What if I have quadruplets? That's supposed to hurt!"
Kurama echoed those thoughts, "That's too many to take care of all together!"
"It's okay, you don't have to do it." Hiei tried to calm both down, but couldn't move without waking up Hina.
She thought hard about what she planned and decided that her brother's happiness would be worth the pain. "No Hiei, I want to do this for you. Onegai?" He smiled softly at her; he couldn't say no and neither could Kurama and he pulled a dark strand of hair from his head as Kurama handed her a red one. A red hair, would they be part human then. Oh well, Hiei had accepted his mate, human and demon sides.
The next morning, Hiei set off for Makai, Kurama went to work like normal, and Yukina announced that she was pregnant again, though she wasn't sure how many there were just yet.
Eight months and a week later, found Yukina, her husband, her brother, Kurama, Kurama's mother and stepfather, Shizuru, Genkai, Botan, Yuusuke and Keiko at the hospital. After five hours in labor, the little Koorime finally gave birth to triplets. They were bald, wiggling, adorable and still blue eyed, though one had baby teeth coming in already.
Yukina signed some legal forms and Hiei and his fox were allowed to adopt the three little Koorime and her forbidden brothers, thanks to Kurama's feminine looks and Koenma's manipulation of the Japanese government. Finally Hiei had his family, and Shiori had her grand-
babies, even if she didn't know that they were demons.
"So, you happy now?" Mukuro's voice greeted the fire demon as he returned to her palace with a baby sleeping in a sling over his back. His son, Kura was two months old and was still munching on the remains of some lesser youkai as she lifted him out. His midnight black hair was curling around his skull, and one green eye opened to peer at her before cooing and dropping the half eaten bone. "Did he kill that himself?"
"Yeah, just told him to eat it, and he did." Hiei sounded fairly proud of himself.
"Which one is it?"
"Kura-chan."
The baby wiggled in her arms and started gnawing like a sharp toothed kitten on her fingers. "Wow, that almost hurts. He's cute like you. Why did you name him after that fox anyways?"
"Couldn't think up the names myself."
"Figures, the other two were Kuro and Hidoina, ne?" A nod from her heir. "I can't believe you named her that, 'terrible,' she's going to be scarred for life by that."
"That's why you're gonna teach her how to fight when she gets old enough, so she knows the name is meant to make others afraid of her." He wished his little girl was with him, but she was safer with Kurama's mother babysitting her brother and her while Kurama worked part time. She had the biggest green eyes he'd ever seen, and the rest of her looked like his Koorime nieces. Kuro, his other son had matching crimson hair and eyes. They seemed to be fully demonic, but could easily pass for humans even with the red eyes and blue hair.
Hiei loved the three little monsters that loved to gnaw on anything available, Kurama tried to explain once that they were teething. He got to tell them bedtime stories about things he'd stolen, famous demons, and his adventures as a Tantei. Kurama read to them every day, and had somehow sneaked a book into the fire demon's cloak with firm instructions to read it to their son every night while they were away from home.
And now the insane little runt had three impressionable minds to mold into the perfect demons. Hopefully they'd be strong enough to take over the Makai and Ningenkai and possibly even Reikai, but they'd still be able to love thanks to Shiori and Kurama. Okay, so Hiei probably wouldn't do that, he'd try to be a responsible parent, he'd play with them every chance he got, but he'd be damned if any of them, even Hidoina, were anything less than A-class by the time they matured. If they did manage to do that on their own though, he'd be very proud. And now he had his own family too. A purr interrupted his thoughts as Mukuro realized how to make the baby demon happy with gentle scratches. See, they were addictive, even Mukuro liked the cute little thing.
And they all lived happily ever after, until Mukuro got knocked up and made the lives of everyone in the three worlds a living hell, but aside from that, Hiei was happy as could be. The end.
A/N: If anybody actually like this or thinks its funny, please review and tell me so and I might write another chapter or something. It's only supposed to be this spur of the moment idea I had, so I probably will never continue it unless people actually liked it.
The Fire-Baby Grows Up
Shounen-Ai warning, and this really is Shounen-Ai by now.
PRI warning, that's Possible Random Insanity, but it might be saner than I thought.
Uncharacteristic Behavior warning, Hiei acts a little weird.
He watched with all three eyes as the little family walked up the steps. He watched as they entered the temple to be greeted by the old fossil. He watched through the window as the wife sat down to feed her newborn baby girl. And as he watched, a cold sadness filled his heart, the sadness of knowing that he, the Forbidden Child, could never have a family. Hiei jumped out of the tree and ran off faster than sight, leaving his twin sister Yukina alone with her carrottop husband, their Koorime baby, and the master of the temple, Genkai.
The fire demon didn't go far though, just into the city, to a small apartment where his koibito was waiting. Collapsing into his lover's arms, Hiei rested quietly with neither sob nor tears, though part of him did want to do both. Red locks drifted down from above him as the demon trapped inside of a human's body held the little youkai closely.
"What happened Hiei?" A light, feminine voice called to him.
"Saw Yukina and the baby. She's perfect."
"So nothing bad happened?"
"They're happy."
Kurama wasn't sure what to think, his lover seemed fragile today, but if nothing was wrong with his sister or his niece, then why was he acting like this. "What about with Mukuro, you two didn't have another fight did you?"
A flash of memory, Hiei's memory was the answer. He saw through Hiei's eyes as the most powerful female demon ever known gave him permission to go to Ningenkai. But before the memory ended, he heard the woman, who had scarred herself with acid, losing her limbs on the right side and an eye just to be free from slavery, say, "So Hiei, when are you and your mate going to have a child?" Her bitter, mocking laugh echoed in his mind.
"You're jealous?" The red haired young man was shocked.
"What, you think it's the first time I've ever been jealous of her?" Hiei snorted, "She was the one that didn't get thrown off a cliff for being born." Kurama didn't have a good response to that, so he just stayed quiet and held his little koibito until he felt like moving, which only took a few hours.
The next day, both Hiei and Kurama got to hold their precious little niece when they visited the temple with the rest of the Reikai Tantei. Yuusuke was busily congratulating his best friend Kuwabara on not being the father of the baby, which understandably began a small brawl as Yukina's husband was angry about the taunts. Yukina herself wasn't sure why he'd be angry, after all, it was their daughter even if they never had mated, but luckily for her she had Yuusuke's girlfriend Keiko, her sister in law Shizuru, and Kurama to explain it to her. While all this fighting was going on, Hiei sat cross-legged on the floor holding his niece. She was perfect, small wisps of blue hair, ice-blue eyes that were starting to make the change to crimson, a healthy youki of pure ice, and she made the oddest little noises as she struggled to look at him. Hina had cried when anybody other than her parents held her, but she could sense that Hiei was family. The fire demon felt quite guilty about the urges he had to steal the little treasure and keep it as his own. 'What the Mekai is wrong with me? I'm not a mother; I'm a bloodthirsty demon. I should want to eat the little thing, not take care of it.' But in his semi-frozen heart, Hiei knew he'd viciously torture, rip out eyes and internal organs, maim, and kill anyone who even suggested hurting the baby Koorime.
Half an hour later, Hiei sat out in his favorite tree, refusing to participate in the joy of the rest of the group. He wanted to be free of his emotions for a moment or two, and refused to allow the others to view any more of his weaknesses.
"Brother, what's wrong?" Yukina's soft voice came from below his branch.
She waited patiently for a response, "Nothing." She wasn't that good with emotions, but it was a sign of how oddly Hiei was feeling when she figured out exactly what was wrong from his tone.
"You want a baby too?" As innocent as those words were, the fire demon was still shocked into falling out of the tree. The Koorime ran over to her brother's side, checking for injuries but unsurprised when there weren't any. Her brother was strong, and he was always there to protect her.
When he was able to sit up and stare at her again, she gave him a hug and continued, "I know that the forbidden children of the Koorime are very unlike true Koorime. I know that you are truly male, and cannot reproduce without a female, which is impossible since you have Kurama. And I also know that you have a heart as cold as ice, that when it melts it freezes around the ones it loves and refuses to let go. I'm the opposite, something from our father, my heart has always been warmer than normal, and I find it easier to love and care about others. I want you to be happy, brother, and if you really want a child to take care of, I'd be more than happy to help."
"Nani?" The heart talk made sense, but did she really say what he thought she said?
"I can get you your own little daughter in ten months if you and Kurama want."
"Grlllggr?" The fire demon made choking sounds.
"Okay, we should all think about that first, but if you want to adopt one of your nieces, I'll let you."
It took three weeks for Hiei to get comfortable enough with the idea to tell Kurama about it. The fire demon sat down on the couch with a container of Ben and Jerry's ice-cream, why Kurama stole the sweet snow from those two guys, he didn't know. His koibito started nuzzling his neck and trying to play with the ice-cream when Hiei ruined the mood. "Do you want a child?"
"Um," Kurama sat up and looked at him questioningly, "My mom would love to have a grandchild, but she doesn't even know I have you, and there's no way to get one."
"That's not what I asked." Hiei had the cutest glares, those big red eyes were stunning.
"I don't know Hiei. I've never taken care of a child, and it really hasn't been that big in my thoughts."
"You don't want a child with me." Kurama glared as the fire demon turned his head away from him.
"Hiei, it's not like that. Why do you want one? Just because of Yukina?" He regretted those words almost immediately when he found Hiei's hurt crimson eyes.
"I just want one, and Yukina said I could adopt her next one."
"Nani?"
"I want one." The little demon growled.
"I know that, did she really say that?"
"Yeah, she wants us to have a kid if we want one."
Kurama growled in frustration, "Fine, whatever, I don't care! You're going insane over this jealousy thing, I'm sleeping alone tonight." The former fox demon stalked off to his bedroom, leaving Hiei alone on the couch with the ice-cream.
The red haired demon with a human body glared at everything as he walked down the familiar street. His koibito had left early that morning to go back to his boss in Makai; Hiei wouldn't be back for at least a week or two. Now what Kurama really needed was advice, but the one person he felt he could talk to, he couldn't, because his mother didn't know he was in love Hiei. Of course she didn't know that both her son and his lover were demons either. Oh well, he was already standing in front of his mother's house, he might as well talk to her anyways. But what would he say? 'My boyfriend wants a baby and I'm not sure about it at all, can you help me Mother?' Yeah, that would go over well.
His mother, a black haired aging but beautiful woman greeted him enthusiastically with a hug and offering of cookies. "Shuu-chan will be home from school soon, he's got some questions for you about his science project."
Kurama smiled, his little half-brother, Hatanaka Shuuichi, was coming to him for advice now, it was in its own way a nice thought. "I'd be glad to help, Mother. Actually though, I came for some advice."
"Oh, what's wrong?"
Kurama thought for a moment as he sat down at the kitchen table with a chocolate chip cookie. How could he put this gently? "Well, you see, my... lover wants a baby, and I'm not sure I want one." And now his mother would be shocked that he had a lover without being married, and she'd be angry that he never told her before now, never met 'her'.
"How odd, that little young man wants a child now?"
Kurama fell out of his chair with an odd 'urk' sound.
"Shuuichi-kun," His mother was leaning over him worried. Why do all women seem to be omniscient? "Are you okay dear?"
"You... know?"
"About you and that cute little spiky black and white haired boy? Of course I do, I'm your mother."
"But...."
"You always go everywhere together, I've seen you kiss, he makes you happy, and I had a talk with him once."
"Hiei told you!"
"Oh, that's his name," Kurama's mother smiled at him a hint of mischief in her eyes, "I tricked him into revealing his feelings for you. I don't think he even knows it. His eyes are very expressive, but you should know that by now."
She helped her shocked son up as he asked, "You don't care that Hiei's not a girl?"
"Honey, I care that the two of you love each other and only each other. Even your stepfather doesn't mind as long as you love each other."
The former fox demon choked on a big gulp of milk, "He knows too?"
"Well, he did ask me if you were gay after we got engaged, and I told him you don't care about wether the person is a girl or not, just about love, and he said that as long as you weren't just going around flirting with any boy, then he didn't care."
Kurama sighed, "Guess it could be worse." He hadn't known if his mother would be okay with this, many demons ignored the sex of their mates unless they actually wanted to reproduce. "So, what should I do about Hiei wanting a baby?"
"Do you want one?" She asked simply with a soft smile.
"I don't know."
"Well, if you wanted one, how would you get it?" She started cleaning up the kitchen knowing that her new stepson would be home soon.
"Hiei's sister said she would let us adopt her next one, so it would take a year or so."
"That's unusual, but there have been surrogate mothers and such for a long time now."
"Yeah, I don't know about it though, I have my reservations."
She smiled back at him again, "Tell me. It may help you think things through."
"I don't think I'd care about a child that wasn't mine, Hiei doesn't care because it'd be his niece. And then how would we take care of? I don't know anything about kids, and Hiei barely knows how to hold them; we'd need a bigger apartment too, and then we both work a lot. We'd never have the time for it."
His mother nodded, and was about to say something but she was interrupted by the arrival of her stepson.
"Mom, I'm home!" A moment later the boy's voice rang out again, "Shuuichi-san's here too?"
"We're in the kitchen Shuu-chan!" She turned back to her red haired son, "Wait a little while longer and see if Hiei gets over the desire to have a child, and then tell him what you told me. Let him know your worries before the both of you decide."
"Thanks Mother." Just talking to her made the youko in a human body feel a little better. He could just wait until Hiei came back from the Makai before worrying about it. For now, he'd just help Shuuichi with his science project.
Hiei flew back into a wall, managing to rebound before a blast of red energy hit the spot where he had been less than a second ago. His newest sword lay shattered in pieces on the floor behind his opponent, and he was bleeding badly from a wound on his left shoulder. Seeing his opponent's quick glance to the bandaged dragon on his arm, he stopped the attempt to summon the Kokuryuuha just as he started pulling at the wards. No, he wouldn't give her the satisfaction.
The fire demon suddenly awoke and noticed his boss's blue eye examining him. Mukuro should have been laughing, but instead she looked worried, or something similar, about her heir. "Why the Mekai were you so sloppy today?"
Not understanding her between his sleepiness and the ringing in his ears, he managed to realize that no, the floor of the training room was not soft, he was lying in her bed, again. The bed was soft though, maybe he could just pass out again. A rough shaking relieved him of these thoughts.
"Hiei, pay attention. What's wrong?"
"I want to adopt one of Yukina's babies, and Kurama doesn't want a kid."
"You want a brat?" Mukuro stepped away a little. "What's wrong with you? It's insane, you know nothing of kids!"
"But, I want a family." She could feel his sudden wave of sadness and longing.
"You have Kurama and Yukina and your niece, that is a family." Much more than what she herself had.
A year later, and Hiei still didn't have a child. Kurama had been hoping that babysitting Hina would be enough, but as the baby started taking its first steps and talking and giggling as it watched her uncle with bright red eyes, the fox demon had to start the conversation he never wanted to have. Even after explaining to Hiei why he didn't want a kid, the fire demon was adamant.
He held up the child they were currently babysitting, Shina, his second niece, who was only a month old. "How can you say no to a face like this?" Hiei pointed to his own, and then he pointed to the baby's, "Or this?"
"Gah!" Kurama stormed off with a yell that startled Shina, making her cry. He should have never used that on the little youkai just to get him to say 'Ai shiteru' once. "Fine, you can have your baby! But you're paying for the extra costs!"
The phone rang, and Kurama grabbed it in the other room. "Moshi moshi." Hopefully the angry tone wouldn't scare whoever was on the end.
"Kurama." It was a woman's voice, "You sound like somebody shaved you bald and then burned your garden to ashes."
"Mukuro, I'm not in the mood for whatever it is you're pulling."
"Where's Hiei, he was supposed to be back three days ago?" She sounded like it was that time of the month again.
"Oh yeah, that was before he promised Yukina he'd babysit again." He had to hold the phone away from his ear since the S-class demon-ess was laughing so hard. "It's not funny, he still wants a child, and now he has practice with them."
"So you caved in." Mukuro ended in a giggle.
"Koenma was worse when Hiei first started babysitting. Hina was giggling as he threw Koenma out a window."
"Then I'll remember not to make fun of him about it." The phone clicked off as Kurama tried to glare it into exploding.
"Hiei better be happy about this."
Yukina was more than happy to comply, but after a year of studying Koorime and similar demons, she had a few twists up the sleeves of her kimono. She was feeding Shina as Hina dozed off in her favorite uncle's lap.
"You know, I think I found a way for you two to have your own child!" She smiled happily at the thought of bringing joy to her brother. "Genkai helped me with some research, and apparently Koorime can assimilate the DNA of other creatures in order to have genetically original children! However, this is only used between Koorime, because if male DNA is used then a Forbidden Child will result. But I don't think you really need to care about that. I wonder what would happen if I try to assimilate both of your DNA, then I could have nephews!"
Her brother stared at her for a moment, wondering if he really wanted a cursed son, one that could face the same problems he did. Kurama on the other hand was nodding as he thought about this. "It makes sense, bacteria can swallow up DNA from their food and insert it into their own and pass it on to new generations, as a demonic race that merely clones itself for the most part, must be able to do something to prevent inbreeding depression."
"What?" Hiei was confused. "Dee-en-ay?" Kurama ignored him.
"So what do you need to make it work?"
Yukina smiled at them both. "Just a strand of hair from both of you." She suddenly had a bad thought. "It's probably gonna be twins, I hope. What if it's more? What if I have quadruplets? That's supposed to hurt!"
Kurama echoed those thoughts, "That's too many to take care of all together!"
"It's okay, you don't have to do it." Hiei tried to calm both down, but couldn't move without waking up Hina.
She thought hard about what she planned and decided that her brother's happiness would be worth the pain. "No Hiei, I want to do this for you. Onegai?" He smiled softly at her; he couldn't say no and neither could Kurama and he pulled a dark strand of hair from his head as Kurama handed her a red one. A red hair, would they be part human then. Oh well, Hiei had accepted his mate, human and demon sides.
The next morning, Hiei set off for Makai, Kurama went to work like normal, and Yukina announced that she was pregnant again, though she wasn't sure how many there were just yet.
Eight months and a week later, found Yukina, her husband, her brother, Kurama, Kurama's mother and stepfather, Shizuru, Genkai, Botan, Yuusuke and Keiko at the hospital. After five hours in labor, the little Koorime finally gave birth to triplets. They were bald, wiggling, adorable and still blue eyed, though one had baby teeth coming in already.
Yukina signed some legal forms and Hiei and his fox were allowed to adopt the three little Koorime and her forbidden brothers, thanks to Kurama's feminine looks and Koenma's manipulation of the Japanese government. Finally Hiei had his family, and Shiori had her grand-
babies, even if she didn't know that they were demons.
"So, you happy now?" Mukuro's voice greeted the fire demon as he returned to her palace with a baby sleeping in a sling over his back. His son, Kura was two months old and was still munching on the remains of some lesser youkai as she lifted him out. His midnight black hair was curling around his skull, and one green eye opened to peer at her before cooing and dropping the half eaten bone. "Did he kill that himself?"
"Yeah, just told him to eat it, and he did." Hiei sounded fairly proud of himself.
"Which one is it?"
"Kura-chan."
The baby wiggled in her arms and started gnawing like a sharp toothed kitten on her fingers. "Wow, that almost hurts. He's cute like you. Why did you name him after that fox anyways?"
"Couldn't think up the names myself."
"Figures, the other two were Kuro and Hidoina, ne?" A nod from her heir. "I can't believe you named her that, 'terrible,' she's going to be scarred for life by that."
"That's why you're gonna teach her how to fight when she gets old enough, so she knows the name is meant to make others afraid of her." He wished his little girl was with him, but she was safer with Kurama's mother babysitting her brother and her while Kurama worked part time. She had the biggest green eyes he'd ever seen, and the rest of her looked like his Koorime nieces. Kuro, his other son had matching crimson hair and eyes. They seemed to be fully demonic, but could easily pass for humans even with the red eyes and blue hair.
Hiei loved the three little monsters that loved to gnaw on anything available, Kurama tried to explain once that they were teething. He got to tell them bedtime stories about things he'd stolen, famous demons, and his adventures as a Tantei. Kurama read to them every day, and had somehow sneaked a book into the fire demon's cloak with firm instructions to read it to their son every night while they were away from home.
And now the insane little runt had three impressionable minds to mold into the perfect demons. Hopefully they'd be strong enough to take over the Makai and Ningenkai and possibly even Reikai, but they'd still be able to love thanks to Shiori and Kurama. Okay, so Hiei probably wouldn't do that, he'd try to be a responsible parent, he'd play with them every chance he got, but he'd be damned if any of them, even Hidoina, were anything less than A-class by the time they matured. If they did manage to do that on their own though, he'd be very proud. And now he had his own family too. A purr interrupted his thoughts as Mukuro realized how to make the baby demon happy with gentle scratches. See, they were addictive, even Mukuro liked the cute little thing.
And they all lived happily ever after, until Mukuro got knocked up and made the lives of everyone in the three worlds a living hell, but aside from that, Hiei was happy as could be. The end.
A/N: If anybody actually like this or thinks its funny, please review and tell me so and I might write another chapter or something. It's only supposed to be this spur of the moment idea I had, so I probably will never continue it unless people actually liked it.