I don't own YYH or any of it's characters. I only own Mikai, Shinka, Kith and Sotto.
Okay chapter 8...thank you for reading and I hope you enjoy
"Kurama…," a gentle female voice said in the darkness that surrounded Kurama. His green eyes looked around to see nothing but darkness around him. "Kurama?"
"Where am I?" Kurama asked himself out loud as he looked around, his eyes becoming blank. There was nothing to look at, and he could feel a cold wind wrap itself around him. He wrapped his arms around himself, trying to stay warm.
"It's not fair. Why do we have to be apart and never together when we want to be?"
I've been here before. Kurama thought. I've had this dream before.
"Mommy!" a small male voice said happily. Kurama looked around to see a small boy standing next to him. He looked almost exactly like Yomi, only smaller. His hair was cut short in a bowl shape, and he had large blue eyes.
"Mommy!" he called once more.
"Come here Shura!" Mikai's voice called. Kurama looked to his left and saw Mikai standing there with her arms wide open. She smiled as the young boy, Shura ran over to her, through Kurama, and jumped into Mikai's arms.
"Mommy!" Shura said happily as he rubbed his face next to Mikai's.
"Mikai?" Yomi said as he appeared next to Mikai and Shura. Mikai looked up at him as he rose his hand out, and placed her hand in his.
What's going on? Kurama asked himself. Is this a dream…or a prediction? Mikai's not going to…stay with Yomi is she?
"Our family is now complete," Yomi said with a smile. "Let's go."
The three of them, the newly formed family, began to walk out into the darkness, leaving Kurama behind. He watched as Yomi laced his fingers with Mikai's, and Shura laughed. He was left there, watching everyone leave him behind.
"Mikai…," Kurama whispered as he watched them walk away.
Kurama awoke with his heart pounding away in his chest. He was sweating, and his breath was escaping him quickly. As he felt himself clam down, he began to search for Mikai as he did a year before, after all he had fallen asleep in her bed. He didn't find her, thinking that she was back out training, he got up, fixed himself up, and walked outside into the main hallway.
He felt content within himself. No words could describe how he was feeling inside. He could go into the fight now loved by Mikai, and come back out with a part of him missing and still be loved as if nothing happened. Nothing would change between them at all. But maybe one thing, Yomi. Kurama feared something happening between the two since Mikai was always with him. For once in his life he felt as if he couldn't control or predict what a female would do. Their fate, was in Mikai's hands and she didn't know it.
Yusuke stood there, in front of his father's grave, which was now covered in flowers from people who would now miss Raizen. Yusuke had done what he thought would be good for the Makai by setting up a tournament.
"Hey," Mikai's voice said from behind Yusuke. He turned around to see her standing there with sadness in her eyes.
"Mikai?" Yusuke asked as he looked at her.
"I just came to…" Mikai looked away. "I bet you're tired of hearing "I'm sorry" from people so I'm not gonna say it." Mikai walked over to the black haired boy.
"Nah it's okay." Yusuke sighed. "Go ahead and say it."
"Nah," Mikai answered as she walked over to Raizen's grave and kneeled down in front of it. She placed a white rose down onto the sliver grave. "Thank you Raizen. I owe you more then anyone else should." Mikai stood back up and looked back at Yusuke.
"Are you okay?" she asked.
"I'll be fine." Yusuke scratched the back of his head. "And I have an answer for you, about what you wanted to do after this tournament is over."
"What?" Mikai asked as she perked up a bit.
Yusuke looked right into Mikai's eyes. "Yes."
Mikai returned to Gandara later on that night, and decided to go and see the young, growing Shura. She had sunk back into Gandara without being caught let along stopped by any of the guards. She entered the room where Shura was being incubated and saw that he was growing quickly.
"Poor kid," Mikai whispered as she pressed her hand against the warm glass. "Being born for a purpose rather out of love."
"So what are you doing here?" Yomi asked as he stepped into the room behind Mikai. She turned around quickly, out of fear.
"I…uh…just wanted to see how he was growing," Mikai answered as her eyes looked back at the young demon.
"Really?" Yomi smiled as he too placed his hand on Shura's incubator. "Everything is going fine, ever since that energy release from Raizen's kingdom, or rather Urameshi's, Shura has been growing in power and as become more and more of his surroundings."
"When will he be out?"
"Soon," Yomi answered as he bent down and wrapped his arms around Mikai's small neck. "And I've been meaning to ask you, Shura will need a mother in his life and I was wondering if you would fill that position."
Mikai shivered as Yomi's hot breath fell over her ear. She thought about what the blind demon was saying, was it right for Shura not to have a mother? Was she right for the job? Mikai knew that she would be able to and feared what Yomi would do if she declined.
"I will," Mikai agreed.
"Very good." Yomi smiled. "He'll be awake soon, and then you can met him, our son."
Later on that night, in Gandara rain fell heavily. Thunder clapped behind all of the skyscrapers, but all of Yomi's men stood in their posts, watching over everything. The guards were the first ones to bring the stray woman up to Yomi's office where he was sitting happily.
"Sir!" a guard yelled as two others brought in a young looking demon. Her straight black hair fell around her as she was placed on the table in front of Yomi. Her dark blue cat ears wiggled as she woke up reveling her light brown eyes to the world. She was wearing a tight black shirt and blue pants, and had a blue bag over her shoulder.
"Where am I?" she asked as she looked around.
"In my kingdom," Yomi answered. "And might I ask who you are and why you are here?"
"I'm Sotto," she said as she hopped off of the table. "And you're Yomi-sama?"
"Yes." Yomi smiled. "I take it that you're a cat demon?"
"Yeah." Sotto rubbed her car ears. "I'm here to see Mikai, she's here right?"
"Yes," Yomi said as his arched an eyebrow. "Kurama." Yomi turned as Kurama walked into the room. "Go and fetch Mikai would you?"
"Of course," Kurama answered as he walked out of the room, and down towards Mikai's room. He knocked on the door and then opened it seeing no one inside.
She must be training. Kurama thought.
As Kurama turned back around in order to tell Yomi that he wasn't able to reach Mikai, he saw Mikai walk into Yomi's office with a stoic look about her. He sighed, and then he too, walked into the room behind Mikai.
"Ah Mikai, just the person I wanted to see," Yomi said as he looked over at Mikai.
"Why?" Mikai asked as her eyes landed on Sotto. "Sotto!?" She asked.
"Mikai!" Sotto said happily as she ran over to Mikai and grabbed her, hugging her tightly. "I haven't seen you for, forever!"
"You either!" Mikai said happily. She pulled away from the hug as she looked back at everyone else who was now looking at her oddly.
"Mind introducing her Mikai?" Yomi asked.
"Sotto is like a sister to me back in America…back in the Ningenkai that is," Mikai said as she looked at everyone.
"Yeah and I'm here to see Hi—"
Mikai wrapped her hand around Sotto's mouth before she could say anything more. Yomi rose an eyebrow as the conversation went on before him while Kurama knew whom Sotto was talking about.
"Come back into my room," Mikai said with a laugh. "Sotto will room with me okay Yomi-sama?"
"Sure." Yomi smiled. "You are dismissed."
Mikai led the young kitten out as she walked by Kurama. She looked directly at him, then looked away and continued to walk down towards her room, which was down the hall.
Something's wrong. Kurama thought.
The rain outside of the towers had stopped, and Kurama was now outside looking up at the night sky. His mind wondered about what was going on, and his heart was calling out to him. he wanted something, needed something.
Mikai. He thought. She was the only one who could make him feel better about his decisions in life. He didn't know whether it was because he hadn't been able to talk to her as much as he wanted, or something else that was making his heart call out to him.
"Kurama?" Mikai asked as she walked over to his side. "Are you okay?"
"I'm just thinking," Kurama answered as he looked at the older woman. "I've been wondering about something for awhile now, and I wanted to ask you something."
"What?"
"When I was out the other day, I met Hiei," Kurama said as he thought back.
Kurama was out, doing some chore for Yomi, which was saved only for his second-in-command, which Kurama now was. He was out in the middle of nowhere when he saw his old friend.
"Hiei," Kurama said as the small demon appeared before him with his arms crossed. "What are you doing here?"
"I just came here to ask you something," Hiei answered.
"Yes?"
"Is Yomi going to take up Urameshi's plan for a tournament?" Hiei asked.
"As far as I know." Kurama smiled. "Is that all?"
"One more thing." Hiei looked away as if he were ashamed. "How's Mikai?"
"Fine as far as I know," Kurama said with a slight laugh.
"Good." Hiei stuck up his nose. "I'll see you at the tournament."
With that, Hiei disappeared just as quickly as he had appeared, leaving Kurama in wonder. He shook his head as he walked back towards Yomi's kingdom.
"It seemed odd to me that Hiei asked about someone that he doesn't know very well so I'm assuming that you do know Hiei beyond that of a friend. How close are you to Hiei?" Kurama asked as he looked at Mikai who was looking up at the sky.
"You'll find out at the tournament," Mikai said almost in a whisper. "Have you noticed that there aren't any stars here?"
"Sad isn't it?" Kurama said as he too looked up at the sky.
"I'd better go inside now." Mikai sighed. "I have a really big day tomorrow."
"Good night," Kurama said as he reached over to Mikai and kissed her gently on the forehead.
"Night." Mikai smiled through a blush.
"Hum," Yomi muttered to himself as he looked outside of his window. Even though he couldn't see, he could still sense that Mikai was down below him talking to Kurama. He sensed everything that happened through his senses, the talking, and the kiss.
"It's time for things to become interesting," Yomi said with a smile.
Kurama was no back in the main tower of Yomi's kingdom. He walked into Yomi's office, seeing Yomi sitting down looking as if he were thinking, so Kurama sat down next to him, not saying a word.
"Kurama I want you to have a last minute training session with our new army while I train Mikai and I's son," Yomi said hoping it would start something.
"Son?" Kurama asked as he sat forward, wanting to know more about what he said. How could he and Mikai have a son? Kurama hadn't seen Mikai pregnant at anytime and yet here in the Makai things could have slipped by him.
"Don't worry Kurama I doubt you'll be fighting him in the tournament," Yomi said with a smile as he sat up. "You'll be meeting him soon."
"Yes," Kurama said as he stood up, stunned and began to walk down to Mikai's room. Yomi couldn't have could he? He had once before when Mikai was Senkai, and he Youko. If he had, why hadn't Mikai told him? After Youko had been sleeping with Senkai, could she had been sleeping with Yomi at the same time? She wouldn't do that would she?
"Mikai?" Kurama asked as he walked into her room without knocking. "Mikai wake up." He shook her gently.
"Hum? Wha?" Mikai asked as she looked up at him in confusion. "What is it Kurama?"
"Do you have a son with Yomi?" Kurama asked urgently.
"Son?" Mikai blinked as she sat up rubbing her eyes. She said the first thing that came to her tired mind. "Yeah…"
"What?" Kurama asked as he began to shiver. He couldn't believe what was happening. "You couldn't have."
"What?" Mikai asked once more as she began to fall deeper into sleep. "It's no big deal, don't worry about it."
"Don't worry?" Kurama repeated as he looked at Mikai. "How can I not worry?" He turned and walked out of the room without saying another word to Mikai.
"What was that about?" Sotto asked as she popped up from the bedside.
"I don't know," Mikai said as she began to fall back to sleep. "I'll talk to him tomorrow about it."
Kurama fell down into his bed. She and Yomi had a son together and that wasn't the thing that hurt him the most. Mikai hadn't told him anything about it, and had led him on. He knew he was jumping to conclusions of some sort but that's all his mind could do. He didn't know what to think, or what to do.
I'll sleep on this. Kurama thought. I'll talk to her in the morning about everything.
Kurama didn't get a chance to roll over before he fell into a deep sleep, not remembering anything he dreamt about that night.
R&R please!