Chapter 10
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"Karana is he telling the truth?" Youko asked and looked Karana in the eyes.
"Yes," Karana said and lowered her head, looking at the ground sadly.
"Karana! Youko! Kuronue!" Fitaria yelled as she ran up next to Kuronue and then she turned and looked at Rimu.
"Fitaria you're back." Kuronue said and smiled at her.
"Hi Kuronue we found Hiei..." Fitaria said grabbing Hiei by the collar of his shirt flinging him around in front of her.
"Oh so they found you Hiei, where have you been all this time?" Kuronue asked and looked at Hiei, and then his attention fell on Karana and Youko.
"Kuronue what happened? Why is Karana sad?" Fitaria asked looked from Youko to Karana and then back to Kuronue.
"Karana is pregnant..." Toushi said as he walked up next to Fitaria.
"Who are you?" Fitaria asked and looked at Toushi.
"Oh Fitaria this is Toushi, he knew Karana when she was little. He came to help us save her but she found us." Kuronue said, turned and looked at Youko and Karana again.
"Youko give her a chance to explain!" Toushi yelled and walked over to Karana who was crying.
"What do you mean give her a chance to explain, she had sex with Rimu after she mated with me! She betrayed me," Youko said and pointed at Karana with a snarl on his face. "I can never trust her again..."
"Youko please...Just listen to me..." Karana pleaded as she walked toward him.
"No Karana, just let him be for now he'll come to his senses soon enough. You can stay with me for the time being..." Toushi said wrapping his arm around her shoulder turning and starting to walk toward the forest away from everyone.
"And where do you think you're going Toushi?" Rimu asked as he appeared in front of Toushi and Karana.
"Get out of my way Rimu..." Toushi said in a threatening tone as he glared at Rimu.
"Oh what are you going to do Toushi? You've never been able to fight and win with anyone..." Rimu said and smirked at Toushi when he clenched his fists and teeth. "Oh what's the matter Toushi? Are you getting angry?" Rimu asked in a mocking tone and laughed a little.
"Damn you Rimu," Karana said in a low voice as she looked at the ground and her bangs covered her eyes. "You've ruined my life," She said and shot her head up and glared at Rimu her eyes the color of freshly spilled blood. "And for that you will pay!" Karana growled and flames shot up from around her and Toushi jumped back avoiding the raging fire.
"Oh so you're going to fight me then, Karana..." Rimu said and smiled at the angered Karana standing in front of him. "What are you going to do? You were never taught how to fight..." He said and laughed a little.
"I don't have to be taught...It's in my blood..." Karana growled in a low voice her eyes not moving from Rimu.
"Sure it is..." Rimu said and chuckled. "Just like it was in your worthless mother's blood too huh..." He said and laughed a little. "She was so easy to kill it was pathetic."
Karana clenched her teeth together her fangs cutting into her lower lip as she did so. "How...dare you...speak of my mother in that way!" She roared and a huge blast of flames shot up around her not harming anyone but Rimu.
"Damn wench..." Rimu said as he grabbed his arm where a flame had hit it and flinched in pain.
Karana smirked her fangs showing. "My flames have the poison of my hatred in them...You'll die slowly with the pain that you have put upon my heart..." She said staring at Rimu with her piercing blood red eyes.
"What do you mean wench..." Rimu asked in a weakened tone as he fell to his knees still clenching to his bleeding arm.
"All of the heartache and pain you have caused to me will now kill you because of the extremeness of its power...I couldn't contain it any longer...If I had of tried it would have killed me." Karana said as she started to get a little wobbly from using so much of her power at once without the proper training.
"Ah!" Rimu yelled in agony as he clenched his arm tighter blood dripping from the wound as it made his whole body throb.
Youko looked at Rimu and then over at Karana who was now leaning on a tree for support. "Are you all right love?" He asked, walked over to her and put his arm around her waist helping her stand.
Karana looked at Youko, her eyes starting to tear up. "Yes I'm fine love..." She said and leaned her head on his shoulder and closed her eyes. "I'm sorry the child won't be yours love..." She said in a sad voice.
Youko smiled softly and put his hand under Karana's chin making her look him in the eyes. "I will love this child as it was my own...And I understand now that it was not your choice on what Rimu forced you to do my love." Youko said and leaned over and lightly kissed Karana on the lips.
Karana smiled once the kiss was broke and then her attention fell on Rimu who was now on the ground moaning in unbearable pain.
"Well it looks like everything has sorted it's self out for the better..." Toushi said and looked over at Youko and Karana and then over at Fitaria and Kuronue.
Everyone watched as Rimu took his few last gasping breaths of air and then the life was lifted from his body.
"Well..." Yumia said breaking the silence that had come with Rimu's demise.
"Huh?" Youko said in a confused tone and looked at Yumia.
"Shouldn't we all go home?" Karana asked and looked at her love and friends and smiled.
"Sounds good to me..." Fitaria said and smiled up at Kuronue and then took his hand in hers and squeezed it lightly.
--Nine Months Later--
Youko paced outside of a room in the castle, Kuronue, Toushi, Kuro and the rest of Karana's friends stood around watching him pace.
"Youko please stop pacing your going to drive me mad!" Kuro yelled and glared at Youko until he walked over to a wall and leaned against it for about five minutes and then jumped at the sound of the door opening to Karana's room.
A woman dressed in servant clothes walked out of the room with a bundle of blankets in her arms. She looked at Youko and smiled sweetly. "It's a girl..." She said and handed the bundle to Youko and turned and bowed toward Lord Kuro and then went back to check on Karana.
Youko looked at the blankets for a minute before he decided to move them and when he did a little baby girl with shimmering black hair and brilliant moon silver eyes stared up at him and smiled then giggled reaching up to Youko.
Youko smiled and tickled the little girl under the chin and she grabbed his finger and yawned.
"Let me see her Youko..." Fitaria said and walked up next to Youko and looked down at the little girl in his arms. "Oh she's precious..." She said in a sweet tone.
Toushi looked over at the new little baby girl and smirked. "She looks like her mother..." He said and laughed lightly.
Everyone laughed until the same woman who had brought the baby out came with another bundle of blankets. "Well this little guy was a surprise..." She said and smiled as she pulled the blankets back to reveal a little baby boy with red hair and bright violet eyes, on top of his head are a pair of raven black fox ears and he has a jet-black foxtail to match them.
"Well I think we can unfortunately see who took after their father..." Kuronue said as he looked from the little girl Youko's was holding to the little boy the servant woman was still holding.
"How is Karana?" Youko asked and looked at the servant woman a hint of worry in his voice.
"Princess Karana is just fine...If you would like to see her you may." The woman said and moved for Youko to go into the room.
Youko smiled lightly, walked over to the woman, took the other baby, held it in his arms along with the little girl, walked into the room, and saw Karana lying in a huge bed surrounded by silk pillows, beads of sweat still dripping from her forehead and face.
"Oh Youko it's you..." Karana said in a weak, horse tone as she sat up a little, looked at Youko, and smiled when she saw his was holding the two newborns.
"How are you feeling?" He asked and looked at Karana lovingly.
"I'm fine..." Karana said and smiled.
Youko looked down at the two newborns now sleeping in his arms and then back up at Karana. "What are you going to name them?" He asked and smiled.
"I thought you could name the girl and I would name the boy...If you wanted to..." Karana said shyly, knowing that they were after all Rimu's children and not Youko's.
Youko looked at Karana seeing the change in her emotions and smiled. "I'd be happy to name the girl..." He said and looked down at the little baby girl and laughed a little when she yawned in her sleep. "She looks a lot like her mother, when she was a baby..." Youko said and glanced up at Karana and winked.
"You know that makes me mad...You got to see me when I was a child but I never got to see you..." Karana said and laughed lightly and stuck her tongue out as Youko playfully.
Both Youko and Karana laughed for a few minutes then Youko kissed Karana on the forehead and left her to get some rest and feed the babies.
"I'll think of a name for the girl and tell you when you have rested up love..." Youko said and smiled at Karana as he walked out the door to her room.
Karana smiled at him as she dozed off to sleep with her two newborn children in her arms, sleeping peacefully.