I don't own YYH or any of it's characters. I only own Mikai, Sotto, and Kith.

Yay! Update! It's about time too huh? Well anyways, here's the new chapter! Enjoy it please!

As the days went by faster, the tournament was coming up quicker and quicker. Kurama hadn't seen Mikai or Sotto since the night that he had come into her room asking her the question he hated. His own team was now keeping him busy, him getting them ready to a point just to make sure that if something went wrong, at least one of their allies would win the tournament.

"So how are you and the little girl?" Chuu asked as he hit Kurama on the back one day after training.

"Yeah I heard you two were in a passionate love that no one could break," Suzuki said as he too looked at the red head.

"I'll tell ya you two are the cutest couple I ever did see," Jin said with a smile as he floating next to everyone else.

"I haven't seen her for awhile," Kurama said with a fake smile.

"That's good," Kith said as he walked into the room with a grin on his face that Kurama didn't like. "I don't think she'd want to see you anyway."

"And who are you?" Suzuki snapped as he glared at the new trainer.

"I'm Mikai's trainer. Now Shuuichi why would Mikai want you when she could have Yomi-sama? I mean he's so much more powerful then you." Kith laughed.

"Hey don't interfere with their relationship!" Chuu yelled as he stepped up to Kith.

"Trust me if there is anyone Mikai needs to be with, it's Yomi," Kith growled as he looked up at Chuu. "Like you would know anything about anyone."

"Why I outta!" Chuu rose his fist only to have his friends pull him backwards.

"Don't do anything!" Jin said as he pulled Chuu back.

"He's not worth it!" Rinku said as he too pulled back the large blue haired man.

"I'll be seeing you around." Kith turned his back to everyone. "And Shuuichi, remember Senkai did belong to Yomi-sama, so in place for the object you stole, Mikai is now his. That's why Yomi-sama picked her to be a mother to his son."

Kith walked out of the room, leaving everyone in awe. No one said anything as everyone who had grabbed Chuu were slowly slipping off, wondering what someone should say.

"Forget him Kurama," Chuu said as he turned back to the red head.

"What was he saying about Mikai being a mother?" Touya asked as he looked at Kurama also.

"I don't know." Kurama gripped his fists. "I think Mikai is the mother of Yomi's son."

"WHAT!?" everyone yelled as they looked at Kurama.

"That can't be true!" Chuu yelled. "She always hung out with us when she wasn't trainin' and she was never pregnant! I refuse to believe it! Besides she wouldn't do that to you Kurama! She told me herself that she loved you!"

"Yeah she always said stuff like that," Rinku said as he scratched under his nose.

"Have you asked her if anything was true?" Touya asked.

"I didn't…I tried but when I did she was half asleep," Kurama confessed seeing a small light in his dark mind.

"Go ask her," Shishiwakamaru said as he crossed his arms. "It's the only way to be sure."

"Thank you." Kurama smiled. "I must be going now." Kurama began to walk towards the front door of the training room with a bit of hope in his heart.

"Don't worry about it Kurama!" Chuu yelled.

Shura's small body hit the floor, and skidded to a stop. He sat up rubbing his head as he looked up at his father who was standing across the room from him.

"That really hurt!" Shura whined as he rubbed his head.

"Get up and try it again," Yomi ordered.

Shura began to stand up but was brought back down when his knee buckled underneath him. "Ow."

"Shura!" Mikai said as she ran over to his side from the sidelines. "Are you okay?"

"I'm fine mother," Shura said as he looked up at Mikai. "I just hurt my knee that's all."

"He's fine," Yomi said as he walked over to his son.

"Just let me look," Mikai hissed as she lifted Shura's blue pants to see a cut on the back of his knee, which was bleeding. "You're okay."

"I told you mother!" Shura said as he stood back up and rose his fists to his father.

"I'm just worried about you," Mikai said as she too stood up. "Can ya blame me?" She laughed gently.

"Shura," Yomi said as he faced his son. "Go out and do something, your mother and I have something to discuss."

Mikai looked at Yomi questioningly as Shura nodded. "Yes father." And with that, Shura left the to alone in the dark training room.

"What?" Mikai asked.

"How do you think it's coming?" Yomi asked as he walked over to the younger woman. "His training I mean."

"Fine." Mikai sighed. "I think you're pushing him too hard though."

"Well this was what he was created for," Yomi said with his own low sigh.

"It's still wrong," Mikai hissed as she looked away from the blind demon. "Children are a combination of two people who love each other or who at least thought they did. You on the other hand have created a child so that you could win some tournament."

"What makes you think that?" Yomi asked, not having any idea how Mikai figured out his plan for the young prince.

"It's simple," Mikai said with a slight laugh as she turned back to Yomi. "I mean if Shura did win the right to become the king of the Makai, wouldn't you order him to hand it over? It's pretty to hard to imagine you just standing to the side while your son rules over this world and does what he wants with it. Especially after fighting Mukuro and Raizen for over five hundred years like you have."

"My, my." Yomi said with a smile. "You really have grown up haven't you? Senkai was never like this before."

"Dammit!" Mikai yelled. "I'm not Senkai! I'm Mikai! Senkai is buried within me and is a part of me but I'm not her! Get that straight before you talk to me again." Mikai walked past Yomi and out of Shura's private training room growling under her breath.

Here in the Makai she was always being compared to Senkai, the demon fox buried deep within her. Back in the Ningenkai she was Mikai and no one else knew anything else. She wanted to be treated as she had been back at home, as Mikai not Senkai. Everything here was about Senkai and her past, but what about Mikai? What about her past and future? Was it doomed to be like Senkai's?

"Screw all of this," Mikai hissed.

As a pissed of Mikai stomped down the hallways of Yomi's kingdom, she turned a corner and met face-to-face with Kurama who looked a bit scared.

"Kurama!" Mikai said as she jumped back in surprise. "You scared me!"

"Mikai?" Kurama asked as he ignored her reaction and walked over to her. "Please come with my to my room. I need to talk to you."

"Sure." Mikai blinked, confused and a bit scared inside because of the look on Kurama's face. He usually was so cool and yet now he looked scared as if someone was about to die.

Mikai followed Kurama back to his room where he opened the door for her. She thanked him, and walked in, Kurama following behind her. He closed the door and sat on his bed, then patted the spot next to him asking for Mikai to come and sit down next to him. She did as she was asked and looked at him.

"Are you okay?" she said gently.

"Mikai, do you have a child with Yomi?" Kurama asked, the words almost hurting him to say it.

"Not like, together," Mikai said as she looked at Kurama gently. "Yomi created a son for fighting…" Mikai gripped her pants in her closed fists. "and Yomi asked if I could be like a mother to the kid so I said yes. His name is Shura and I hated the fact that Yomi just decided to create a son so I figured if I could help the kid in any way, the kid's life might be better."

"That's it?" Kurama asked as he sat forward a bit.

"Why you think I slept with him?" Mikai asked as she looked at the red head. "No way! But Kurama…" Mikai looked away from him and put her head down. "You really think I would do something like that?"

Kurama looked away. He hadn't thought so much as to think that his question would hurt Mikai. He had been so worried about whether it was really true or not, that he forgot whether Mikai would really do something like that. He had forgotten how she would feel.

"I'm sorry," Kurama said in a low tone. "I shouldn't have thought that way about you."

"I can't say that I forgive you right now," Mikai replied as she looked back at the red head. "It might take me awhile to get over this but I have to say that I still love you."

Kurama smiled. "I understand. I love you too."

Mikai returned to her bedroom with a slight smile on her face. She walked over to her bed and was about to lie down when Sotto popped up next to her.

"So what were you and the red head doing?" she asked with a devilish smile on her face.

"Nothing," Mikai answered as she sat down on the bed. "You know he acutely thought that I would sleep with Yomi?"

"Ew." Sotto laughed. "Would you though?"

"No!" Mikai looked away. "That's gross."

"Can I ask you something?" Sotto asked as she sat down next to Mikai. "Why are Yomi's eyes always closed?"

"He's blind," Mikai answered as she looked at the clueless kitten.

"Then how did he know that I was a cat demon?" Sotto asked as a confused look came over her face. She blinked a few times as she tried to think of how he would be able to tell.

"He could properly smell the dander's coming off of your ears and recognized them as being cat dander's. Other then that I don't know." Mikai shrugged her shoulders.

"Ew. He can do that?"

"Yeah."

"Creepy." Sotto looked around suspiciously. "I wonder what else he can sense."

"Where are you going with this?" Mikai asked as she narrowed her eyes towards the young kitten.

"Where do you think?" Sotto asked.

Kurama walked about Yomi's skyscrapers, thinking to himself. Everyone was supposed to be asleep by now but mostly everyone was up nervous about the upcoming tournament. It must have been getting to him also, because even when he laid down in a dark room with nothing else to think about, sleep would not find him.

"Ahoy mate what are you doin' up this late at night?" Chuu asked as Kurama spotted him from down the long hallway. He had a small bottle in his hands and a bit of a blush on his face.

"Are you supposed to be drinking?" Kurama asked with a slight laugh as Chuu walked over to him.

"It's every man for himself!" Chuu laughed out loud. "But Kurama, I've been wanting to talk to you."

"About what?" Kurama asked as Chuu placed his arm around the smaller boy. "You're not drunk are you?"

"Not yet!" Chuu laughed once more. "But to be more serious, did ya talk to Mikai yet?"

"Yes." Kurama smiled. "I think everything's going to be okay between us."

"That a boy!" Chuu hit Kurama playfully. "See I told you everything would okay! She really loves you ya know?"

"You think?" Kurama smiled as he felt a small blush come over him.

"Yeah you're lucky." Chuu let go of Kurama and moved his arms behind his head. "To have someone that loves you that much that is. I'd tell ya I'd give almost anything to have someone that loves me. You always hear stories about people bein' in love and I guess…when the times comes you have to realize it before it fades away."

"What was her name?" Kurama asked.

"Somethin', I don't know maybe all my drinkin' is finally getting to me. I don't remember her name at all, and yet I can still remember her face. Ironic that I began drinking to forget her because everythin' hurt so much but now I want her back more then anythin'." Chuu turned back around to Kurama. "Sorry I've been borin' you with this rubbish."

"I don't think its rubbish at all," Kurama said as he looked up at his comrade.

"Anyways." Chuu coughed. "I just wanted to see how things went. I really want you two to get together. I know I must sound crazy but I think you and the little Mikai are destined for each other."

"You really think so?" Kurama asked as he smiled both inside and out.

"Yeah!" Chuu yelled as he opened his mouth and poured more beer down his throat. "We need to sees that you gets to bed!" Chuu wrapped his arm around Kurama once more. "Let's go."

Kurama let Chuu walk him down the hallway towards his bedroom. His mind was content now, and somewhere in his heart he felt a bit of hesitation. A part of him wanted to believe Chuu with all of his heart, and yet that hesitation was still pulling him back. Why it was there was beyond him, but he just hoped that everything would go okay.

Mikai was sitting up in her bed, rubbing her hand. It hurt out of nowhere but that wasn't odd for Mikai now. Ever since her trainer changed from Shinka to Kith, she found herself getting more and more hurt in everyday actives. Everything now hurt, and Mikai couldn't figure out why. She just figured that everything would get better after the tournament, and when she would get a break from training.

"Crap," Mikai mumbled to herself. There was no one to talk to in her room for Sotto had gone out to the kitchen and decided to run around and explore everything around Yomi's kingdom which was so much like the cities back home.

Mikai fell back into her bed and sighed. She moved her head to the side and began to relax in her bed but everything in her rose to it's peak as she felt someone sit on the bed next to her. She sat up to see Yomi sitting on the side of her bed.

"Yomi-sama…," Mikai said as she looked at him. She sighed and began to catch the breath that she lost when her first shock ran through her.

"Mikai." Yomi turned to the young demon. "I came here to apologize."

"Oh." Mikai looked away. "Thanks I guess."

"Can I ask you something?" Yomi asked as he coughed a bit, clearing his throat.

"Sure." Mikai coughed too.

"What is your weakness?"

"My weakness?" Mikai repeated as she thought it over. She thought really hard about it, wondering if it was safe to tell him. Would he use it to his advantage during a fight?

"Not going to answer?" Yomi said as he shook his head. "I don't blame you. But do allow me to tell you mine." Yomi shifted his body so that he was facing Mikai directly. "My two weaknesses are my need for power, and my new heart."

"New heart?" Mikai asked as she looked at the blind demon.

"After I lost my light I discovered that I had taken advantage of many things. I wanted power, I wanted to be better the Youko Kurama, and I wanted all of the power that came from being the leader of the bandit group. But now I see all of the mistakes I've made. I see how I acted, and how I knew that Senkai loved Youko deeply and maybe that's why I wanted her in the first place." Yomi sighed as he found himself confessing. "My new heart now tells me that I must make everything right and to do that I have to make a new start, and with that, I want to have my own family. You, me, and Shura."

Yomi reached over to Mikai, and gently pressed his lips against hers. Mikai's eyes widened as she tired to pull away but Yomi's arms wrapped around her, pulling her in deeper.

What's going on? Mikai thought. This isn't right! I have to stop this!

"I understand. I love you too."

As Mikai sat there with her body pressed up against Yomi's she could think of nothing but Kurama. She had just said that she would never do anything with Yomi and yet here she was, not doing a damn thing to stop it. She was falling into Senkai's past, it was happing once more, Yomi was getting what he wanted even though she wanted Kurama. The past was repeating itself once more, but now Senkai was Mikai, and Youko now Shuuichi.

I don't want this to end. I want this, I really do. A small voice echoed through Mikai's head, breaking all of her thoughts. I'm sorry…Youko.

What the hell? Mikai thought as she felt herself begin to kiss Yomi back, giving him the signal to take things further if he wanted too.

Yomi's mouth left Mikai's and began to trail kisses down her small neck. His hands were running up and down Mikai's back as she sat there looking up at the ceiling as her body began to shiver from Yomi's kisses. She felt goose bumps come over her as she came back to her senses.

"Stop…," she said in almost a whisper. "Yomi-sama stop."

Yomi stopped hearing the master reference at the end of his name, it then just hitting him that he was not the Yomi he was so many years ago when Mikai was Senkai. This was not Senkai but Mikai. No matter what he did tonight, he could not fix the past. He couldn't fix everything that he messed up that night when stole Senkai's innocence. He couldn't get Senkai back.

"Excuse me," Yomi said as he pulled away from Mikai. "I'm sorry."

Yomi could sense the drop in Mikai's mindset. He heard her place her head down, and the small strands of hair fall in front of her face, hiding her eyes. The same eyes Yomi was dying to see, dying to look into one more time be could not. All because of that sliver fox.

"I'll see you tomorrow for Shura's training lesson, and discuss what is to happen at the tournament you're little friend has set up," Yomi said as he stood up. "Good night."

Yomi walked towards the bedroom door, opened it, and walked out. He gently closed the door behind him and smiled. Don't worry Mikai you will be mine. He thought as he began to walk away.

"Dammit!" Mikai yelled as she slammed her fists down into her white pillow. She bit her lower lip in order to keep herself from crying, as her body took in a small breath in order to begin her crying.

What the hell was that? Mikai thought as she felt an urge to run out and hold Yomi tight to her body, and fall into bed with him. Why the hell do I feel this way? I…She…can't can she? But if she does…then….that's unfair to Kurama…I can't…drag Kurama on this way. I have to let him go…this isn't fair to him. He has to have someone who loves him and him only. She fell down onto her bed as small tears fell from her eyes. She took in a hard breath as he gripped the white blanket beneath her.

Kurama…I'm sorry. Please forgive me. Forgive…us.

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