Disclaimer: I do not own anything but this idea for a plot and alternate storyline. The characters and places mentioned, except for a few created by me, belong to the creators of either "Yu Yu Hakusho" or "Harry Potter," and any resemblances to people, living or dead, are purely the figment of my, or your imagination. Oh, and please don't sue me; I don't have money, I even have to go to a community college.
A/N: This one's a dozy. I'm trying to get this whole section done and the YYH characters introduced so I can get to the good parts, namely the wizarding world and Hogwarts. Unfortunately, only one person has reviewed my last few chapters, and that was only one time because I made her read it u.u. I wish more people would just say, "Hey, let's see if this fic sucks or not?" and then read it and like it and review it. I know I'm a good writer in other subjects, so why doesn't anybody review? I changed the title, mostly because it sucked and I really needed a new, catchier title. Hopefully that will get me some more reviews. Oh, and I'm concentrating so heavily on the YYH side because this is about 17 or so years after the show ends, and everybody should know what has happened to Harry Potter as of the fifth book. A lot of things happen in two decades, but in this timeline, all this is happening during Harry's fifth year. Wait until summer, then it gets weirder.
Chapter Four
Never Leave Your Children Alone with Strange People
Three years ago, the last time Hiei was in the Ningenkai to drop off his twins to live with their aunt:
Kurama sat down on the wooden steps leading into the main building of Genkai's Temple, and Hiei watched him from his perch on the railing.
"Yukina said you've been acting oddly." Hiei began.
"She died." Hiei jerked abruptly at those words.
"Stop being so vague that I'm forced to cut out your tongue, Kitsune." The easily upset fire demon warned.
"Not your sister, a ningen." The fox spirit seemed distant, his voice emotionless as Hiei waited for him to continue. "She was special. Beautiful, intelligent, accepting, and then I never heard from her again." Hiei could never have expected the sudden surge of anger coming from the youko. The trees whipped around violently, grass grew a whole meter in a second, and the whole of nature, including the wood of the temple began to sing worse than the chorus of a thousand souls as Kurama continued, "Botan came, said she was killed and wouldn't, couldn't even tell me how she died or who killed her. She knew I was Youko, and she accepted me. Shiori could've had grandchildren; I could've had a family of my own. Even you have that much." The storm of plants ended as Kurama gestured inside the temple, where Hiei's pregnant mate and twin children waited for him. "I could have been happy, like you."
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Presently:
Hiei awakens quickly from the memory, 'Yes. I'm so happy when Mukuro throws me out the tenth story window because of PMS.' He feels the taxi stop in front of the huge stairway leading up to Genkai's temple. The group of five, Yusuke's brats, Kurama, and himself had needed to take the taxi after the train ride ended.
While Kurama pays the driver, Hiei sends out his senses and finds the energies of his twins and niece. Hiroku and Hina are bright beacons of light, one fiery red and the other icy blue. Their father remembers how strong they were at 11, when he and Mukuro left them with their Aunt Yukina for more training and so the parents could have more time to raise their next child. The twins just didn't have anything left to learn at home. They defeated Hiei's best attempts to keep the cookie jar safe in Mukuro's treasury, though they still occasionally made non-fatal errors. Even Mukuro couldn't push them farther in combat training without the risk of killing them, and there was no way Hiei could release the Kokuryuuha on them. That black dragon was made of pure fire energy, the hottest ever, and it would indiscriminately incinerate whoever got in its path.
(Translation: 'Youki' is 'demonic energy.')
These thoughts take a fraction of a second to pass through the Jaganshi's mind, and afterwards he notices that the twin's youki has disappeared. Two pairs of arms wrap around him tightly, cutting off the oxygen to his lungs.
"Otosan!" Two exuberant voices cry out next to his ears, hopefully the drums haven't ruptured from the onslaught.
'Can't breathe.' Hiei calmly, but loudly projects his thoughts.
The twins let him go quickly, and Hiroku is blushing at the shameful display. Now the adult fire demon can see that Muroku is safely in his cousin's arms.
Hina, who was named after her grandmother, a true Koorime whereas she is only part Koorime, though that side is dominant in her characteristics, notices the object of her father's gaze. "Um, gomen, ototo saw us coming and Mina-chan picked him up."
(Translation and note: 'Koorime' means 'ice maiden' in English, possibly the race comes from the legends of the 'Ice Princess.' 'Gomen' is 'sorry.')
Hiei smiles as he allows his twins to lead him up the steps to the temple grounds. Once up there, he sees his own twin sister, the beautiful Yukina, standing next to her husband Kuwabara Kazuma. The ningen has rough hewn features which are scary to many and unattractive to all but a few. He is dimwitted and uncouth, but also friendly, eager to please, and would do anything for the young Koorime. Though Hiei would never admit it, the baka is one of the strongest ningens he has ever met. Kuwabara loves Yukina so much that he even respects her wishes to remain a virgin, treating her asexually produced children as if they were genetically his own.
Yukina herself is a slight ice demon with long blue-green hair tied back by a red ribbon the same shade as her large eyes. She is pure, sweet, and so innocent that she is easily used or confused by "adult" matters. Hiei adores her just as he adores his own daughter and niece. She has only known that Hiei was her long lost brother for a few years now, since the day Hiei and Mukuro came to drop off the twins with the aunt they had never even talked to. Hina with her own blue-green hair is almost identical to her slightly younger cousin.
"Yo shrimp! You're later than you said you'd be." Kuwabara's voice has always been incredibly annoying in Hiei's opinion.
"The Urameshi brats were off in an arcade instead of school." Hiei says this in English with a smile, just to provoke the ningen.
"Huh, gomen Hiei, it's been a while since I've listened to English."
"I said you are a baka." The reply is in Japanese.
"That wasn't what you said, tsumuji magari!"
(Translation: 'tsumuji magari' is a screwy or cranky person)
Hiei flashes another evil smirk as he relates his original remark in Japanese.
"Wow, you've grown, almost can't call you a shrimp anymore." Kuwabara's observation reminds Hiei of his latest growth spurt from about two years ago. He has finally reached 160 cm or 5'2'', and one look at his sister shows that she has too. Neither of the young youkai is likely to grow anymore.
"Come inside Aniki, minna-san." Yukina flashes her sweetest smile, "Shizuru-san is feeding Murina-chan."
Unlike the last time Hiei was at the temple, there is no crazy old ningen woman hanging out on the deck spouting challenges. Genkai had died almost a year ago. Keita was probably quiet because he had been the one to warn Genkai her death was near. Rumors say she had been found dead in her video game room with "Game Battler" in front of her and a huge "Game Over" sign flashing. Yukina said she looked happy and peaceful. Luckily, Keita had also given Genkai the time to write up her will leaving everything, including the temple, to her prodigy Yusuke. Fortunately for him, she had appointed Yukina as the temple's caretaker.
Keita, however, was scarred for life. The boy's reiki had manifested in the ability to sense when animals, including people, were going to die. It started with things that hadn't more than a day to live like dogs about to be hit by cars and such. Then his powers moved up to a few months and finally years as the boy grew older, like Mukuro's miscarriage. Hiei's mate still hates the boy from the odd prediction he had made the first day they met. And if the incident earlier this morning with the fish was any indication, the hanyou has started being able to sense the possibilities of something's future death. Hopefully being able to prevent or delay some deaths would heal Keita's wounded soul. As it stands, Enma is interested in hiring the boy, since he is more accurate than Reikai's current methods of finding soon to be dead souls.
(Translation: 'Reiki' is 'spirit energy,' and 'Enma' is Koenma's dad, the God of Death.)
Hiei is roused from his thoughts by a greeting from Shizuru, "Yo Hiei, come hold your niece while I help Yukina with dinner." The human woman holds the two-year-old demon baby out for him, and Hiei notices two gold bands, one adorned with a diamond, on the ring finger of her left hand.
Quickly he wonders, "I must have been gone a long time to not know that she got married."
As he sits down with his tiny niece, Muroku jumps to a space next to Hiei on the couch.
"She chibi-chibi." The slightly larger baby points. "I bigger."
(Translation: very tiny)
The fire demon's eyes widen in surprise, "You didn't say 'we'."
"Muroku-chan's been doing that too!" The harsh voice of Kuwabara exclaims just a little too close to Hiei's head.
Softly, the baby Koorime in his arms speaks in Japanese, "Wa'ashi koko, ka'e soko."
(Translation from butchered baby Japanese: I here, he there.)
At seeing her uncle's confused expression, the little Koorime seems to fall asleep, and when Kuwabara complains about the tickle feeling and the weird ghost that haunts the temple, Hiei pulls up his white bandana to reveal an open Jagan.
Everyone knows that the Jagan sees everything, including hyperactive little Koorime girl spirits. Said spirit happens to be spiraling around her father and Muroku alternately.
"Why in the Mekai haven't we noticed this before?" Hiei growls as the two babies giggle. "You've been projecting your spirits to each other."
(Translation and note: 'Mekai' is like 'Hell' and is the fourth world opposite Reikai in Yu Yu Hakusho. It was destroyed by Enma a long time ago, and its evil denizens were banished to the depths of space. Mekai wasn't really mentioned in the series, but was important in one of the movies when Yakumo tried to turn the Ningenkai into the new Mekai.)
"Hai!" Muroku says this as Murina's spirit nods.
"So while one of you is asleep, you're with the other?"
"Yup!" Again the Koorime spirit nods happily, "Chi-chi smart!"
Hiei snorts, "Hn. And it took me how long to learn about this?" Murina giggles silently as she reenters her body. "Hn." The fire demon begins playing with his now wide awake niece.
By the entrance to the room, Hiei's twins and older niece stand. The two girls are very short; barely over four feet tall, but they have gorgeous long pale aqua hair like Yukina's and delicate features. Mina looks like a younger version of her mother, but Hina only has Mukuro's nose and mouth, everything else is like her aunt. Hiei's niece has her hair up in a low ponytail, and his daughter's hair is down and parted to the side like her mother's.
"Hn. Looks like Dad likes the baby more than his own kids."
'That would be the smart-ass voice of my son.' Hiei thinks with a smirk. He is proud of his son, honestly. The black-haired youth lacks the iridescent white starburst of his father, and has gelled his hair downward into a still poofy and spiky punk look. Even though he isn't quite A-class yet, he shows great promise and is even more cut and well muscled than Keisuke. This shows in the tight blue t-shirt he wears, but not in his baggy black cargo pants. His eyes are shaped like his mother's, and he is an inch taller than both girls, suggesting that perhaps he has also inherited his mother's height. Not that he will be that much taller than Hiei. Hina wears a pretty lilac kimono with white lilies printed on it, and Mina's kimono had white snowflakes on an ice blue background. Hiei promises himself to pay attention to all three of the 'triplets' tomorrow, maybe he'll take them out someplace during the weekend.
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Soon Yukina finishes setting up dinner, and everyone eats between mouthfuls of speech and boiling-hot green tea. The children look forward to their first day of school together. As his twins clean up after dinner (very quickly with the speed they inherited from both parents), Hiei wordlessly joins his old friend on the porch outside the temple.
The red-head's eyes seem to gleam silver, not the usual gold hidden behind those green eyes, in the pale light of the full moon. Sensing the man's need for solitude, the fire demon merely stands silently next to him for a few moments, gazing up at the stars.
"You do not get to see something like that everyday."
'Good, Kurama broke the silence first.' Hiei casually snorts a reply, earning a sad smile.
"Yes, you have probably been in Makai since the night you left the twins here, and even then it was cloudy." Both demons know well that Makai does not have stars, not even a sky really.
This earns a puzzled look from the demonic father, "And you remember something like that?"
"So when was the last time you saw such a beautiful night sky?" Kurama doesn't expect the shorter demon's sigh.
"The night before I left to earn the right to become one of Mukuro's Generals. I think I forgot how beautiful it was." Nineteen years have passed since then.
Kurama gives another sad smile for the past. "Too bad Mukuro has never seen these stars."
"Hn." After a few minutes of listening to the sounds of the night, Hiei speaks up again, "So, you ready to talk about it."
"Nani?" This is Youko's emotionless voice, the bastard isn't going to reveal anything tonight.
Before Hiei can clarify further, his oldest son comes outside, the gentle breeze ruffling his spiky locks and delivering a warning waft of the youkai boy's smell. "Dad! You wanna come play...."
Hiroku is abruptly cut off by his dad's snarl, "Go away boy."
"But 'Tosan...." He whines.
"Angry Hina." The boy blanches and runs off at the threat.
Youko, who isn't actually visible, only controlling the red-headed man's body, laughs. "Angry Hina? What the hell was that about?"
Hiei smiles in silent laughter at the memory before replying, "When they were ten, he broke her favorite toy, she kicked him through three walls and out a window on the seventh story. Took us one week to realize he was missing, and another to find him in the infirmary. Couldn't get out until week three. I think it was something about a ruptured spleen and a missing kidney. But he did manage to crawl to the infirmary with multiple breaks in both legs and a broken arm and broken ribs and possible spine damage."
"One blow?"
"Hai."
"I did not expect something like that from her." The youko admits with genuine amusement, "She is more like her mother than she normally admits."
"Hai, she's strong. But what about you?"
Youko Kurama sighs, he sighs! "Shuuichi was having trouble dealing with his emotions. He's a little angry about the death of that girl, and I'm the one who can deal with all of this day to day shit." By 'a little angry' Hiei knows the fox demon meant 'traumatized and in a murderous rage.'
"And Shiori?"
"I am normal around Mother." Those words should never have been uttered by Youko's sensuous voice. He makes the English word 'Mother" sound like some dirty pet-name reserved for a lover. "But she knows something's wrong."
"You really need to just get over it. She died, go find and kill her murderers, then find a new lover."
Kurama turns to face his friend, changing back to normal Shuuichi. "Why do you think I am abandoning my job for almost two whole years to go teach at her school? Koenma has practically promised I would get the head of her killer."
"Hn. I thought it was because your family was worried about you and your stepfather insisted you take at least a year off from the big family business so you could teach Japanese in England and get away from the investigations in the company."
"One, quit reading my mind, and two, who died and gave you a sense of humor?"
"Should I give you the same answer I gave the detective?"
After a few more moments of witty conversation, the two youkai make their way back into the temple. After Hiei tucks his kids in, assuring Hiroku that he won't sick Hina on him and somehow getting suckered by Yukina into reading Muroku and Murina a bedtime story, Hiei settles himself in the branches of a tree overlooking the babies' room. Before he falls into a light sleep, he has one final thought, 'This is not going to be a fun. I've got most of a year teaching my own brats 'magic' before spending a whole year teaching a school full of ningens.'
One More Time
-outside the Temple-
Kurama: Who died and gave you a sense of humor?
Hiei: Yusuke! (Gets hit by Keiko's frying pan) .
-and again-
Kurama: Who died and gave you a sense of humor?
Hiei: Yo' Mama! (Gets fed to Kurama's plants) x.x
-and yet again-
Kurama (sounds tired, as though this is the fourth time he's said it): Who died and gave you a sense of humor?
Hiei: Kuwabara! (Comforts Yukina who is crying hiruseki, and Shizuru shows up and kicks his ass as his kids laugh at him) .
Kurama: You are such a smart-ass.
