Disclaimer: I do not own YYH or it's characters. I do own Angela, Star, and the twins.

AN: I'm interpreting the fight between Shigure and Kurama and what Kurama was thinking about. I really don't know what his battle within himself was, this is just how I saw it.

REVISED AN: Remember the R AN in one of the chaps of WA. I had said that I had changed a detail and added something that is refered to in BA. If you haven't reread WA, then you might notice the inconsistency.

Legend:

-Thought-

-Telepathy-

/Flashbacks/

/Dream/Visions/

Chapter Two

"So, did any of you find anything out today?" Mukuro asked that night at a meeting.

There were mostly shakes of the head. Hokushin, though, nodded. "I did hear some disturbing news."

"Go on."

"Well, several fighters disappeared several days before the tournament. Their friends didn't think they'd see them again, let alone at the tournament. However, they saw them again when they came to the tournament. When asked, the fighters couldn't give a very believable reason for their disappearence. The friends also commented on a change in behavior. I don't know if this is really something to be worried about, but..." Hokushin shrugged.

Mukuro nodded. "At this point we'll take anything to be serious, even if it turns out only to be that the fighters disappeared to go training." She looked at everyone. "Well, if that's all, then you're dismissed." As everyone left, Mukuro thought about what Hokushin had said. She shrugged. -Maybe it is nothing, but something about what he said bugs me.-

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That night, Angela was again plagued by nightmares.

/She was floating in the clouds, looking down on the world. Which world she didn't know. She was over a large forest that had plateaus scattered through it. -A pretty sight,- she thought. Suddenly she had that same feeling. She looked behind her. A red meteorite was hurtling towards her. She just barely managed to dodge it. She followed it's path. It landed in the middle of the forest. She sensed the hate and revenge again. And she saw the eyes, but this time there were two. The rage and hate intensified. The beings started to growl out something, but Angela couldn't understand. She got the meaning of the message though. She turned around and flew away as fast as she could./

Angela's eyes flew open. Her heart was racing. She was scared but she couldn't remember why she was scared. She sighed. -I'm going to have to ask Kurama if he has any of that herbal tea for me to borrow,- she thought as she rolled over, looking at Hiei. His face showed signs of stress. He twitched every now and then. -I wonder what he's dreaming about? Is he having the same type of nightmares as I'm having?- She brushed his bangs from his forehead, showing the bandana he always wore to hide his third eye.

He opened his eyes. "You should be resting," he said.

"I was trying. I had some kind of nightmare again. I thought maybe you could hold me and we could fend off each other's nightmares. What do you say?"

Hiei smiled. "Sure."

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The next day, Angela and Hiei stood by the railing, watching Chu battle a lithe man that had spots on him like a lepard.

"So, no black leather today?" Mukuro asked, indicating Angela's jeans and sweater, as she came to stand beside them.

"Well, the air's a titty bit nipply for an outfit like yesterday's," Angela said, smiling.

"Did I hear 'titty'?" Yusuke asked as he and Kurama came up behind them.

Angela laughed. "Yes, you did. I was explaining why I wasn't dressed to kill today."

Yusuke smiled. "Just because your clothes don't say you're lethal doesn't mean you aren't. I know for a fact that you can kick ass." He looked to a small screen showing Shishi's second battle. "Though Shishi and Suzuka know it first hand." He chuckled, remembering the time that Shishi had said the wrong thing and was punched across the room and when Suzuka had said the wrong and then had Shishi thrown at him like a baseball, knocking him flat. He had been there to see Suzuka experience Angela's anger but he only got to hear about Shishi's experience.

Angela shrugged. "Well...they had it coming. Though I don't remember why I was so touchy when I punched Shishi, but I do remember why I was touchy when I threw him at Suzuka," she said, turning back to the screen to see that Chu had won. Hiei stood a little closer, knowing that she was trying hard not to think about the reason she had been so 'touchy' at that time.

Just then Yomi came up to them, asking "Mukuro, could I see you for a minute?"

Mukuro nodded. "Well, I'll see you all later then," she said as she turned and walked away with Yomi.

Angela turned to Kurama as he took a space beside her. "I hear that when you fought in the first tournament you turned on of those...uhb...fighting...uh...areas... into a large tree," she finished lamely, not knowing what to call the fighting areas in the sky.

Kurama nodded. "Yes, it was in my battle against Shigure. At that time I was fighting two battles. One outside of my body and one within. I had transformed into Yoko early in the fight, but then reverted back to Shuichi. I was having trouble in identifying who I really was, Shuichi, or Yoko. The cherry tree came to me from a memory of when I use to climb the trees at home as a child."

"Did you figure out who you were?" Angela asked.

Kurama smiled. "Yes, I realized that I am both, Shuichi and Yoko. As Kurama I represent both sides of myself, the demon side and the human side."

Angela nodded. "That's what I think too." Hiei stood beside her, smiling gently.

An anouncement asked for Hiei and his next opponent to head for their fighting arena. Angela turned to Hiei and kissed him. "Good luck, though I doubt you need it," she said.

Hiei again smiled slightly. He tried not to show strong emotions when in public, especially about Angela. He had wanted to keep their marriage a secret until he was sure no one would try to harm her to get at him. But it was hard to keep much secret when Chu was drunk with other demons. -At least he learned his lesson,- Hiei thought, remembering the clobbering Chu had gotten from the rest of the DT gang. -He won't spill his guts now when he's drunk.- Hiei headed towards his fighting area, only looking back once to see Angela watching him.

After Hiei left her sight, Angela immediately searched for the screen his match would be displayed on. -Why is my stomach churning. I know it's not morning sickness. It's something else...- Red eyes flashed before her vision. Angela felt a strong sense of malevolence and a thirst for blood and pain. She bent double, retching. It felt too much like what she had felt from the Darkness when it had her in it's clutches.

Kurama kneeled next to her. "Angela! What is it?" he asked extremely concerned.

Yusuke knelt beside her as well. "Hey, is it...?"

Angela shook her head when she took a breath. Again the eyes, again the malevolence and thirst. She retched again. Suddenly there was an explosion. Everyone looked up at a screen. The explosion was on a column that held up a fighting arena. Everyone screamed as the fighting arena broke off of the column and fell to the earth. Angela gasped. -Please let that not be the arena Hiei was on!- she silently begged, all reason leaving her. If she had been thinking rationally she would have known that there wasn't any way for Hiei to have been up there since he had just left.

Kurama sensed her distress. "No one we know was up there," he said, comforting her.

Angela again felt that malevolence and thirst for blood and pain. She again threw up. -What is happening?- she thought, distressed despite Kurama and Yusuke trying to comfort her.

Screams rent the air as people fled from one of the tunnels, fire chasing them. "Fire! Fire!" a man screamed.

Touya ran up beside them from the opposite direction of the tunnel. He looked to Angela. "Can you help me put the fire out?" he asked. Angela managed to nod.

Touya created ice shards in the air around him, then he threw them at the fire. Angela concentrated on the shards, gathering the condensation in the air around them to make them grow larger. Then she concentrated on the fire, trying to weaken it with her own control over fire. As Touya's ice shards hit the flames they sizzled into steam, dampening the fire in those sections. Touya again threw ice shards as Angela weakened the fire. They did this for several minutes, backing the fire up further into the hall.

They followed the fire to it's source. One of the waiting rooms for the fighters. Touya looked around, Angela behind him. Kurama and the others were helping the injured. "I don't understand. This room was supposed to have been locked. No one was to have been in here. And why the fire. The only thing in here were benches. That's another thing, how did the fire start and grow so big and fast?" he wondered aloud.

Touya heard a thud. He turned around quickly to find Angela colapsed on the ground. "Angela?" He ran to her and kneeled next to her. She was breathing shallowly and her forehead was hot. Touya picked her up. "Oh man...Hiei's gonna kill me for letting you get sick," he said as he carried her out into the hall. He caught sight of Kurama. "Kurama!"

Kurama turned and saw them. He was instantly by their side, checking Angela. "What happened!" he asked urgently.

Touya shrugged as he handed Angela to Kurama. "I don't know, I had my back to her, inspecting the room when I heard a thud. I turned around and she was unconcious on the ground. Will she be alright?" he asked, worry all over his face.

Kurama didn't know what to tell him, because he didn't know himself. "Let's just get her to her room," he said as he started to head towards her and Hiei's room. Touya started to follow. Kurama looked back at him. "Stay here. There are still people that need help." Touya nodded.

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Kurama laid Angela on the bed. -She looks so weak. What caused her to colapse? Did she over exert herself using her power?- he contemplated as he got a wet wash rag to put on her head. He came back and looked at her as he laid the rag on her forehead. -No...I don't think she even reached her limit. Touya was doing most of the work.- He thought about the fire. -She was ill before the fire,- he thought as he remembered what had happened before the fire. The whole commotion with the fire had almost made him forget. He thought about how Angela had started retching, then the explosion on the column happened, then Angela threw up again, after that was when the fire happened. -It seems that the explosion and the fire coincided with her throwing up. Is there a connection?- Kurama thought as he watched over Angela.

After awhile she opened her eyes. "Are you okay?" Kurama asked softly.

Angela shook her head. "I don't feel so good."

"What happened out there?" he asked, refering to her retching.

"I don't know...I think I saw something, but I don't remember it. It was like the nightmares I've been having lately. I can't remember them, I only remember the terror they caused." She started to sit up. Her eyes widened in pain. She laid back down quickly, crying. "I think something's wrong! I feel pain!" she gasped out, worry and panic in her voice.

Kurama nodded, understanding what she meant. He quickly ran out of the hall and caught Rinku running by. "Rinku! Get Mukuro and Hiei! Now!" he ordered. Rinku nodded. He didn't dare question Kurama with that tone of voice. Kurama ran back in, sitting at Angela's side. "Hiei and Mukuro are coming. Don't worry."

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Hiei was coming back from his canceled match when he ran into Mukuro. "Do you know why the matches were canceled?" he asked. He and the other competitiors hadn't been told why the matches had been canceled.

Mukuro nodded. "I ran into Suzuka, and he told me why. There was an explosion on one of the columns holding up the fighting arenas, and a fire started in one of the waiting rooms."

Hiei was about to say something when Rinku ran up to them. "Hiei! Mukuro! Kurama wants you two at Hiei's room now!" Rinku yelled.

Hiei and Mukuro passed a look. The same thought passed through their minds. -Angela!- They dashed off to Hiei's and Angela's room.

Hiei burst into the room a few seconds ahead of Mukuro. He saw Angela laying on the bed sweating and crying and Kurama and Yusuke, who had run into Rinku as the kid ran to find Hiei and Mukuro, sitting by beside her. Hiei hurried to her side, taking Kurama's place and held her hand. "What's wrong!" he asked, extreme worry in his voice.

Angela shook her head, not able to speak. Kurama turned to Mukuro. "Can you find a doctor that we can trust?" Mukuro nodded and ran out of the room.

A few minutes later she showed up with an elderly bald man with a long white beard and long ears. He looked at the girl in the bed. "So this is Angela. Mukuro informed me a little of the situation, but I think there's more. Tell me about what happened before her current state while I check her." He shooed Yusuke out of the way and set the black bag he had on the nightstand. He took out some various instruments, then he started to check Angela.

Kurama spoke up. "The first signs we had that something was wrong was a little before the explosion and the fire. She had started throwing up. She continued to throw up during the explosion and she stopped a few seconds before the fire." The doctor nodded for Kurama to go on. "Touya came to us and asked Angela to help him put out the fire. Once the fire was out they examined the room that it had started in. Touya had his back to her when he heard her colapse to the floor in a faint. He called to me and I brought her here. After a few minutes she woke up. Se tried to sit up and-"

Angela interrupted. "That's when I felt extreme pain in my chest and back."

The doctor nodded and started to feel her chest and back. "I think you might have cracked a rib and possibly dislocated your back when you fell. We'll need to take you to the hospital wing."

Angela started crying. "There's something else I need you to check...I'm pregnant.."

The doctor nodded, knowing why the woman was so distressed. "That explains why Mukuro specificaly asked for me. Hold a few minutes and I can get the needed equipment to check you. I can keep this secret, don't worry," he assured her, patting her hand.

True to his word he was back a few minuts later with some strange equipment. He turned to the others. "Would everyone please leave us a moment. Hiei you can stay." The others nodded as Hiei sat on the bed next to Angela.

Yusuke paced up and down the hall, a nervous wreck. Kurama wasn't doing much better, though he was at least in one place tapping his foot. Mukuro stood by the door, waiting patiently. After several minutes, the doctor stepped out. They looked at him nervously. The old doctor smiled. "She's perfectly fine, all we need to do is take her to the hospital wing and take care of her injuries." Everyone sighed in relief.

Inside Hiei was holding Angela's hand. "I was worried there for a second," he said, though he had been near frantic.

Angela smiled, though she was still in pain. "I know. So was I," she replied, but she knew exactly how Hiei had felt and that she had felt the same. "Now get me to the doctors."

Hiei shook his head. "The doctor said he'd bring back a stretcher for you. So we'll wait here. Just rest." Angela smiled through a grimace.

After awhile the doctor returned with a stretcher. Yusuke, Kurama and Hiei helped move Angela to the hospital wing. The wing was already busy with the injured from the fire. "Don't worry," the old doctor said. "We have a room reserved for you." He patted Angela's hand. "We'll have you in and out of here in no time." Angela tried to smile.

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Two hours later, Angela was laying in the bed back in their room, Hiei laying beside her. For awhile they didn't speak. Finally Angela whispered. "I was so scared...I thought that I had lost you when that arena fell. I wasn't thinking. I forgot that you couldn't have been there yet. But still..." She reached out a hand to him.

He took it and held it to his chest. "For awhile there I was scared. When Rinku yelled at me to get to our room, I thought that you might have been in the fire and wounded badly. I feared that I'd lose you and the baby."

"So did I."

Hiei leaned towards her and kissed her. "You should get some sleep. I won't leave your side. Don't worry, all of the matches have been canceled for now, so we won't have to get up tomorrow." Angela smiled then fell asleep.

/Angela was in her space dream again. This time the scenery was different. The tree was dead, the swing was old and broken, sitting in a dump on the ground, and the grass walkways were only dirt with patches of yellow and brown grass. Worst of all was the sun. No longer was it gentle, it was now a burning inferno, lashing out with sun bursts. "What's going on?" she cried.

She heard a howl from space. She turned to see nine meteorites flying through space. As she looked closer, she realized that they looked identical to the meteorite that she had seen fall to earth in another dream. She concentrated on the meteorites and again the vision of eyes, melting flesh, bloody wings and the sense of hate and revenge. She gasped as she realized that the beings recognized her and could sense her also. She ran to the swing, forcing herself to wake up./

Her eyes flew open. -Again a nightmare that I can't remember!- She concentrated hard, trying to remember it. She did managed to remember glowing red eyes, but that was all. The red eyes looked familiar but she couldn't remember where she had seen them before. -What is going on?- she silently asked the night. She thought she would go mad if these dreams didn't stop.

Hiei knew when she had woke up, but he sensed that she didn't want to wake him. -Angela...I can't help you. I don't know what kind of nightmares are tormenting you. I can't enter your dreams. And I don't know why.- It ate him up inside to see her this way and not be able to help. After awhile, Angela drifted back to sleep.