Okay, I know you really want Kai to come back, but I haven't planned for that. Sorry, but I'll try. Anyway, Spikelives, here's your debut! . YAY!


Kurama looked around him. Nothing but darkness in every corner, every eye's spot. Under him felt like air, but he was able to stand. What was even more confusing was the fact that he could no long feel Yoko's presence. Suddenly, a figure came from the darkness and a forest rose from the background and beyond.

It was Chi-Li.

"It seems... that I haven't being very honest with you and Ruby, Kurama." Chi-Li sighed.

How does she know my real name? "What do you mean... and what is this forest?"

Chi-Li stepped in front of the confused fox with a dazed expression.

"We are at a flashback that Ruby is having. Call it a vision... and this... is Hanging Neck Island; the very place where Ruby was born."

Kurama gasped lightly.

Well, that explains the energy and why Kuwabara couldn't sense it. It was neither demon nor human.

Then, Chi-Li walked into the forest, away from Kurama. The fox followed the woman, becoming lost in the bush. It was then that a white flash went by Kurama and he followed that instead in curiosity.

The white flash stopped behind a tree and the red-head hid to watch what was going on...

Theclear blurturned out to be Yoko. He laid against a tree, and put a woman in his arms in front of him holding her tightly. The woman had beautifully long black hair and wings on her back... and seemed to be in extreme pain. She was in labor.

Wait... what is that woman...

Suddenly, Yoko looked at a tiny groove in a tree that was hidden behind bushes that smelled of cherry. Before Yoko got too comfortable, he crawled the woman and him behind the bushes and rested his body against the tree groove.

Then, a tree limb broke in the surrounding forest and Yoko's ears perked up to zero-in on where it came from. Kurama also stood still so asnot to be found. Yoko covered the laboring pants that the woman was still sending for their protection.

"Come out, Kai! I have an egg to feed!" A voice called out.

It was another woman... only her voice sounded demonic and evil. She seem to be looking for Yoko and the woman. Still, with the bushes hiding them, the cherry scent covering Yoko and the winged woman, and the dragon's breathing covered by Yoko's hand, the demonic woman walked right past them. However, Yoko could still smell her scent in the air and kept the woman quiet until the demonic being completely left from his senses.

When the'murderer' finally left, Kurama saw that the woman under Yoko's tender care was in a terrible state and the sun was leaving the sky. The first thing she did was scream softly, clamping down on Yoko's legs.

"That dragon woman must be Yoko's past mate. But why would Ruby dream this?" Kurama thought, looking at the two from behind the grooved tree.

"Because... that woman... is your past mate in a sense." Chi-Li said, suddenly coming from behind the fox.

"My mate?" He gasped.

Chi-Li nodded. "Long ago, Yoko was a trainer of a special race called dragons, but he fell in love with one. This is her... Kai."

"Kai... but that still doesn't explain why Ruby is seeing this." Kurama whispered.

Chi-Li motioned for him to look further into the scene.

Yoko kissed his mate deeply, trying to keep her quiet and wanting her pain to end. It was stressful to see Kai so miserable. The dragon was trying her best not to scream from the pure agony, but little yelps and cries escaped her lips.

Yokonuzzled Kai's cheek lovingly, holding the dragon's shaking hands. Kai, still gasping in labor, put her hands behind her back as Yoko helped her through delivering.

"This must be terrible, but She-Devil must not find us." Yoko whispered, moving a piece of hair behind her ear.

Kai whimpered in response, but growled and cried as something started to exit her. Yoko held Kai's legs against her stomach so the egg wouldn't hurt as much. He started to nuzzle her long hair, trying to keep his dragon from yelling. Kai's panting became harder and harderas the egg started to leave her. Slowly, but surely.

"This... is Ruby's first breath into this world." Chi-Li whispered.

Kurama was in total awe as he saw life.

Kai's breathing decreased as she looked down at what she conceived. When Yoko looked down at the beautiful package, he started to kiss Kai passionately.

"I'm very proud of you, Kai-san." Yoko smiled warmly as Kai took the life filled egg in her arms.

It was as gorgeous as any red ruby and as shiny as water shimmering under the moon or sun.

"This is the most beautiful birth that I will probably ever have. Believe it or not, this is only my second egg."

Yoko was curious. So was Kurama.

"What happened to the other egg?" Yoko asked and Kurama thought.

"It was a still born..." Kai sobbed silently, holding the egg tighter in her arms. "And I pray on the sun above that this one will not die. I will not let any harm come to this egg, even if my own life is taken."

Yoko was saddened at the last egg's fate, in turn making Kurama highly upset, but both were highly impressed at Kai's protection. Yoko held the dragoness closer to him, enjoying the warmth.

"You can depend on me to guard our precious ruby egg from harm, and especially from She-Devil."

Kai started to cry blissful and happy tears as she embraced Yoko's lipsagain from the emotional wave.

Kurama turned away from the two, trying to absorb everything that he learned from one sitting.

Chi-Li put a hand onthe fox'sshoulder. "You see, Kurama,...Yoko and Kai had a very tight bond that wasn't supposed to happen."

"Why is this?"

"Kai was supposed to be Yoko's property and forced fighter, not his mate. No one knows of this... well... accept one person."

Kurama's eyes narrowed. "Who?"

"Someone you know very well." She frowned. Chi-Li pointed to a tree, where none other than Hiei stood looking upon the same two, but he didn't seem to notice Kurama and Chi-Li.

"Hiei! But... was he a 'dragon trainer' also?"

"You learn quickly, Kurama."

Then, the two looked back at Kai and Yoko.

"Have you named this egg yet?" Yoko asked.

Kai was surprised.

"No, Yo-kun. All I know is that it's a girl."

Yoko smiled as his thoughts went with the facts.

"We should name her 'Ruby' because of her beautiful shell." Yoko proposed.

Kai gasped, but smiles warmly again at her mate..

"Yes... Ruby is a lovely name for our daughter..."

Kurama figured it out.

"Chi-Li, are you telling me that I'm Ruby's reincarnated father?"

She nodded. "Hai..."

Kurama sighed, finally understanding, but there wasone more thing thathe needed to ask.

"Chi-Li... why couldn't I, or Yoko for that matter, remember any of this? Why couldn't I remember my past after the fact of me being a legendary spirit fox thief?"

Suddenly, everything was cloaked in darkness once again. It was as if the forest wasnothing but a dream.Chi-Li sighed.

"Hiei felt sorry for the dragon race because of thedecades of bondages thatthey hadgone through... so with his Jagon eye, he made everyone on that very island lose their memory."

"Hiei..."

"Hai. He, of course, carries the burden of remembering everything that happened, but he chose not to tell you. But, then... Ruby came to your school and he had me tell you this while he talked to Jason."

"Since this is Ruby's vision, does she know all of this now?"

Chi-Li smiled.

"Hopefully, yes. She has the right to know her father was a legendary spirit fox. I, of course, am still her foster mother until she is on her own. I trust that you... as her blood father, will also take care of Ruby."

Kurama nodded. "I'll do my best... besides... I'm only 18."

Chi-Li nodded, but as Kurama saw her leave his sights, he called out for he one last time.

"Chi-Li, how is it that you know so much about my past... andsome much aboutthe demon world, for that matter?"

Suddenly, the woman's gentle nature became sharp as her body become engulfed in a bluish glow.

Her eyes changed from an onyx black, to a warnful aqua and her blissful purple hair darkened to jet black. Her komodo was practically torn apart from the force of her power. Then, the most startling to Kurama, was what came out of Chi-Li's back.

A pair of bluish dragon wings.

"Dear Kurama, I must address to you that I, Chi-Li, am a reincarnation myself. The reincarnation of another dragon. That's how I know." She stated in a snarl. "But let's keep this between you, Ruby, and I." She asked her lips not moving.

Kurama nodded and he regained normal train of thought within the inky darkness.


Well... how do you like? I hope you did like it, because from here on, it's going to be a little on the dramatic and funny side! Ja ne.