Nishi was worn out the next three days, just from taking it easy on her normal daily tasks and resting or at least sitting as often as she could. Hiei watched her carefully, wondering just as much as she did when she would deliver their newest miracle child. The wolf healer stayed in the castle, since she was the midwife for her. One thing that annoyed him was the doctor from the Spirit World was on retainer and staying with until she delivered as well. Nishi had to be quite insistent and convincing to get Hiei to accept that fact. At least the doctor could look inside her body and check that everything went well. Hiei still did not like the idea of the doctor assisting with the birth, but accepted it grudgingly.
The fourth day, in the morning, shortly after breakfast, Nishi went into labor. She had been working in the library when it started. Hiei had been with her, watching over her. Once she breathed through the first part of the pain that started, she set herself and others to task.
With Hiei, she had him help her get to the birthing room she had set up next to their rooms. The innocent one, who had been in the library with them when it started, was sent to fetch the doctor and the wolf healer and send them to the birthing room.
At first, the pain seemed manageable to her as the four of them set her up in the birthing room. Her boy had come too to her side, but according to him, his girl was uncomfortable with the idea of watching her give birth. The doctor checked her with his hologram projections periodically over the next four hours that passed. So did the wolf healer, but with a hands on approach.
After the four hour mark however, the pain dialed it up for her. She was screaming and sometimes even crying when a contraction ripped through her, even with the shot the doctor gave her in her lower back to assist her. At the wolf healer's insistence, Nishi would walk around between contractions as it eased the pain for her.
After two hours of that pain, Nishi would not walk, even when the wolf healer tried to get her to. She wanted to just lay in her bed. The pain seemed more intense than it should have for her. Each time Hiei asked about it, the doctor explained that it was normal and everything was going as expected.
When six hours had passed since her labor started, Nishi was ready to give birth. The wolf healer and her boy stood on one of side of her while Hiei and the doctor stood at the other. The doctor watched carefully through his hologram, making sure everything continued as normal.
"Stop," the doctor told her suddenly after her second round of pushing, where their son was about half way born. "The cord is wrapped around his neck," the doctor explained. To Nishi, he explained, "don't push, even if your body wants to." The most Nishi could do in response was look pale up at him. Hiei did not know what to do. To the wolf healer, the doctor instructed, "Asa, you need to reach in and loosen the cord. He won't be choked as he can get air from the cord, but it will keep him from harm."
The wolf healer did as she was bid, even with Nishi whimpering in response to the necessary pain inflicted by it. Her hand clung to Hiei's tightly. Hiei, not sure where to put his eyes, watched the doctor's hologram. As did the wolf healer to make sure she pulled the cord off their son's neck without hurting it, him, or Nishi. Her boy had turned his head away, not looking at the scene. The boy looked uncertain if he even wanted to be there anymore.
Once the wolf healer removed her hand again, the doctor instructed Nishi to push. She screamed as she did so. Their son was almost out after that. Her boy bulked at that, leaving the room with a quick apology.
Nishi watched the door as her boy left forlornly, but murmured that that was okay and the fact that he had stayed so long for a boy his age was considerable.
The wolf healer was bending over Nishi's center, ready to catch their son the second he was born. Nishi pushed one more time, the head crowning. Another pushed lead to their son being half way born. With one last scream and push, their son was born into the wolf healer's hands.
Their son cried loudly as he was born, robustly. Nishi cried freely herself at this moment, asking to hold him, almost begging. The wolf healer cut the cord herself and then passed their son up to Nishi. She cried blinking rapidly, so she could properly see the child she had delivered successfully.
Hiei watched quietly next to her, noticing their son had raven black hair like both of them did, but sky blue eyes, something that was unexpected. He had his own tiny sliver of a wind serpent hanging around his neck.
Once Nishi had held their son long enough to bond, she mostly willingly passed him off to the wolf healer to clean him up.
"I'm so tired," Nishi murmured as she carelessly wiped her hands off on the sheets beneath her.
"You can sleep once you're finished," the doctor told her. "Asa," he called over to wolf healer. Together, the three of them finished her delivery and were done.
"You can rest now, my lady," the wolf healer told her soothingly. Tenderly, she stroked Nishi's brow, sweeping a stray and sweaty hair out her face.
And sleep Nishi did, peacefully and deeply while the wolf healer and Hiei took care of their son who should have never even been born. A miracle child in his own right.
The wolf healer commented that even in his first hours, he behaved goodly, honorably. As much as a child his age could anyway.