"Anyway Hiei," Kuwabara said, ignoring Yusuke for the moment, "How long will you be like this?"
The tiny being shrugged. "I have no idea. More than likely just tonight. I usually sleep it off in a tree near Genkai's temple."
"yeah but according to fox boy, this is not your normal time is it?" Yusuke had returned to his normal mildly serious self.
Hiei shot the fox one of his patented death glares. They would talk later. "Like I said, I have no idea."
"Well then, I suppose that you're going to stay here while this gets slept off?"
"Most likely. Here seems to be safest for me now. Moving around as an ice apparition is usually a very dangerous thing to do."
"Yeah," Kuwabara's eyes clouded as he remembered what had happened to Yukina. "Humans can be real bastards sometimes."
"Makes you wonder why we keep saving their sorry asses huh Kuwabara? Yusuke asked. When he got no answer he said, "I think it's cause of the very few that are actually good people, but then what the hell, why discriminate?"
Kurama walked to the kitchen calling over his shoulder, "If you are all going to be spending the night then I should start cooking. What do you want?"
"What do you have?" was the unanimous reply.
He chuckled, "I have ramen, waffles, and some leftover oden. I would rather not make any thing too new."
"Something cold." Hiei told him. "I don't really care what it is, but it just needs to be cold.
The other two boys said ramen instantly. Kurama offered to put a bowl of the finished noodles in the freezer and Hiei shrugged saying, "as long as it's cold."
Later as they all were eating, the doorbell rang and Kurama rose to answer it.
Botan's cheery voice could be heard from the hall and Kurama's answer. There were footsteps and they returned to the kitchen. Botan looked at hiei, greeted him politely and then called him to the living room.
"Hiei, lord Koenma sent me over to do a quick exam of you." She said, taking a large pink case out of her inside pocket of her coat.
"Why?" he asked. He hated doctors, it didn't matter if they were from Spirit World or the Human World. He still hated them.
"We caught the demon that attacked you, and it showed signs of well, transferal."
"What?" he asked incredulously.
"We think it may have injected you with something when it attacked you." She took a number of tools from the case and laid them out on the tea table.
He shrugged. "Fine. But do it quick."
She sat him on a stool, and moved to undo the obi ties, before remembering to shut the doors. "Those two might just get it in their heads to peep on you." She explained. Once the tie was undone, she slipped the shoulders of the kimono off his shoulders, showing his stomach and bare chest.
Then, she set up a small machine and attached some long wires to him, over his heart his lungs and to both his temples. Flicking the devise on, it bleeped in time with his heart rate and as she read the symbols that screened across, nodding at the results. She then moved three more wires and attached them to his lower abdomen. The machine started to bleep again, but this time, to something completely different.
Botan clicked her tongue against her teeth and shut off it off. She removed the wires, then took his pulse, heart beat and checked his breathing. When she was done he was feeling very intruded upon. She wrote out a note and stuck it into her bag. When she was done packing up she helped Hiei redress and they returned to the others.
"Well," she said finally, "Hiei appears to be perfectly fine, although I believe I found why he transformed."
They all looked at her expectantly. "Apparently, the demoness that attacked you was pregnant Hiei." He looked at her blankly. It would appear that your body, sensing the embryo, changed into your full ice apparition form in order to give you the ability to bear it and well, give birth."
He looked at the grim reaper with narrowed eyes. "yes well, I thought that might be your reaction." She took a small vial of some amber liquid and handed it to him. "This will allow you to flush the embryo from your system and then you'll return to normal."
He looked at it, then at her. Finally he handed it back. "I'll think about it." He said shortly.
"But- Hiei you can't think about it for very long! The embryo is already two weeks old! If you wait more than a day or so you'll have to have an abortion in order to get rid of it!" she looked a bit frantic.
"if I get rid of it, then I'll be no better than the mother who forced it on me." He replied, "And I refuse to sink that low. I said I would thick about it."
And so, he thought about it. He sat on the sofa in the living room s he thought, his chin resting on his interlaced fingers. Hiei purple eyes were glazed over in thought. He wasn't sure if he could raise a child, but he felt that if he just got rid of it, then it would seem to him like murder. He may have been a killer, but he would not kill a child who had never even had the chance to decide if it wanted to live or not. And he didn't want to sink to the level of the Ice Maidens that had cast him from their midst. If he got rid of the child, it would be from fear of it, and he could never live with himself if he did that. He tried to think about what he could do with it if he did have it. Where would he keep it? Not Kurama's house. The fox's mother might not want to have a baby in the house. The temple might be good, Genkai could possibly help him. Of course his den in the demon world was out of the question, there were too many demons who would hunt him and the child down for food. As he was now he would never be able to protect the too of them.
Suddenly he stood. He had made his decision, but there would be only one question, then he would give his answer.
He came into the kitchen, and walked up to Botan. "Why is it that you and Koenma want me to get rid of this child?" he asked his eyes narrowed.
Botan looked a bit taken aback, "We, well that is. Hiei I think it would be too hard for you to raise a baby, not with what you have to do! There would be too much risk for both you and the child!"
"And Koenma? Why is he so insistent about this?"
"Lord Koenma, Lord Koenma thinks that if you do have this child, then it will be deformed in some way, imperfect to a point where it may very well die at a young age, or it could end up as a cat/fire/ice apparition which has never even been heard about, much less actually done." She sighed, "But I think he won't be able to take the paperwork that will come with it."
"Well, that toddler will have to deal with it." Hiei said shortly. "Because I am keeping it."
A/N: Okay sorry to all the people who were looking forward to this story, no i am not stopping progress, I just wanted to apoligize for not updateing when i had planned, i lost my thumb drive so i couldn't move the files, but everything is all fixed, so as an apology, i give you not one, but two chapters, however i must now ask for six reveiws, muhahaha! I am evil huh? No flaming, or I will set Major Armstrong on you! ohh the sparkles, they blind! (see Fullmetal Alchemist if you have no idea what i am talking about)