Affirmation: True to Life
Disclaimer: I do not own Savage Garden or YuYu Hakusho.
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Botan x Hiei
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"Push! Puuuush!" A nurse from the heaven realm commanded the blue-haired humanoid sitting in an awkward position on the bed. Her face contorted in anger and pain. Hiei and Kurama were to pay, heavily. Demon births were often hard because of the tendency that demon babes drew power from their mother using her lifeforce as part of their feeding. Botan gripped the already broken hand of her fainted demon husband. His body dangling from her grip onto the floor.
"AAAAAAAH!" Screaming, the hand went doubly purple as a nurse came by with a damp cloth to wipe away sweat. The only thin on Botan's mind was that Hiei and Kurama were going to hang by their noses strapped above a boiling pot of lava, after she had her way with them ten ways from Sunday.
Another scream, a younger one, came out as Botan pushed with her body. Her heart clenching in pure agony and bliss. The nurse began preparations of cleaning the child as she cut the umbilical cord, tying it effectively. It was then she noticed something strange along with the doctor. There was another head coming out of her dilated southern region.
'Oh, shit.' The nurse and the doctor looked at each other and nodded, before the first one started screaming its lungs out. The loud thing sure had a pair of lungs on it.
"You have the first one out. Just one more push, Mrs. Jaganashi!" The nurse carrying the first child put on a cheerful face. She felt as the woman put her eyes on her as if the nurse was going to self-combust. Hearing words of dread, Botan cursed like Yusuke onm a bad day. Then the words hit home.
"WHAT? THE FIRST ONE!" Screaming, Botan pushed a second time. Another infantile cry came and the woman in labor felt as if her heart stopped as she heard the small cry. Those two were beautiful as she was handed them. Her husband woke up only a few seconds after the second delivery to see when she was handed both bundles of joy.
Both were beautiful as they watched her with intelligent eyes. One was a red-head with a few wisps of tinged hair, and mismatched eyes of pink and green. The other was a blue-haired boy with red eyes. The redhead was a girl, mystifying in her smaller size of almost five pounds and six ounces. The boy weighed only a pound heavier and seemed bigger.
"What are their names?" Now Hiei and Botan seemed to despair for that was the one thing that they hadn't planned on or rather both couldn't agree to one let alone to liking two. Botan looked to him with a glare that signed his death if he answered anything.
"Sage Yuuen Jaganashi for my boy……." She thought his hair reminded her of sagebrush, a few of the bushes she had seen once in awhile when she traveled, and Yuuen was a lovely name for him, as it was with her husband. The redhead stared at her with sleepy, blinking eyes as she thought of one for her. She was like the earth, a Terra then, and also those mismatched eyes reminded her of the goddess Artemis from the Greek myths. Something wild and fierce behind the gentility of her. "Artemis Terra….."
She paused on the last name. Shinomori or Jaganashi? She knew then at once that Artemis was to be Kurama's. He deserved this piece of them. Artemis would help him to grow even more than he already was growing.
"Shinomori."
"Is that her last name?" Nodding, almost too tired to speak anymore, the mother of two held her children close. Her husband finally taking notice of the dull throbbing of his hand saw that it was broken. He picked up Artemis from his wife's arms, relieving her of the weight, to see the difference immediately. Looking over to Sage while holding his redheaded child, he made a silent vow.
Artemis would be treated like his own, even if she smelled more like a fox demon than a fire demon like his son.
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A Week Later
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"Artemis will only stay in our care until Kurama can take care of her, himself! She deserves to be with him, Hiei. It doesn't mean she won't know us!" He only grumbled holding Sage in his hands while Botan held the twin girl. "She will still think of you as a father, but she'll need to live with him. After all, I think this is karma."
"Karma?" The concept was foreign as he held his child closer stroking the blue hair. Sage was quiet, barely doing anything but sleeping most of the time, now anyway, compared to the ball of red fluff that contained his sister, the strawberry shocker.
"I believe in karma, what you give is what you get returned." Reaching out a warm hand, Botan intertwined her fingers with rough calloused ones. "Kurama gave us love and I am willing to give him a return gift for his unconditional love for us. Artemis is his by genetics. He needs to have someone to take care of and love." Hiei only growled but faced the other direction. He knew when he had lost.
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YAYNES! ALMOST THROUGH!