Standard Disclaimer: I don't own Yu Yu Hakusho, Yoshihiro Togashi does, but I did wish I owned it (sob).
9 Months of Maternity
Chapter 7- A True Mother's Love
Ring! Ring!
"I'll get it." Kurama said reaching for the phone in the living room. It was the weekend, Sunday to be exact. It has been two weeks ever since Kurama's mother, Shiori visited. Usually Shiori would visit Kurama every two weeks.
"Hello," Kurama answered the phone.
"Ah, hello Mother." Kurama greeted his mother in the phone. "No everything is fine. The University and my job is great, everything is just fine."
Hiei went out of the room wondering whom Kurama was talking too, with the tone of his voice he knew that Kurama could only be talking to his mother. Shiori doesn't know that Hiei lives with Kurama, she also doesn't that Hiei is pregnant with Kurama's baby.
"Ah, what? You're coming? What? Today? Ah wait mother," Doot, Doot, Doot. Kurama put the phone down. He turned to Hiei with a sigh.
"She's coming isn't she?" Hiei asked Kurama.
Kurama looked at Hiei seriously. "Hiei we need to talk." Kurama said to Hiei, inviting him to seat down the couch.
Hiei sat down the couch; he knew Kurama needed to speak with him with something very important. "Hiei, we need to tell her." Kurama said silently. Hiei didn't react at first; Kurama had been talking about telling Shiori about the baby soon.
"Kurama, I'm not sure." Hiei looked down.
"Hiei, she has the right to know. She is my mother after all." Kurama tried to convince him.
"Kurama, it's hard. She still doesn't know that we live together. It will be a shock for her. It's just too hard, I found it hard telling you about the baby but what more if we tell your mother?" Hiei was unsure what to do now.
"Hiei, my mother treats you like her son; you know that she will accept you carrying a baby. She accepted me being a demon, and she just loved me even more." Kurama tried to comfort the fire demon.
"But still. When is she coming?" Hiei asked.
"10:30, about half an hour. Hiei what do you think?" Kurama asked Hiei again.
"I don't know, yet, tell me fox what do you think?" Hiei turned to Kurama wanting an answer.
"Me? Well I want to tell her, I don't like hiding things from her any longer after I told her that I was really a demon and all. I don't want to keep secrets from her anymore. And she has the right to know." Kurama said to Hiei.
"Hn, what if she doesn't accept me now?" Hiei didn't look at Kurama.
"Hiei, she will accept you and the baby, I am sure with that. Don't be afraid I know my mother, she is the most loving, and kind person I've ever encountered. There is nothing to be afraid of. Hiei, I am here all the time beside you, I wont let you go through this yourself, I am here. Don't worry."
Hiei thought long he had a short time to do so, Shiori would be arriving any time "Thanks Kurama, I decided to tell her. I hope she does allow, I don't want to loose either you or the child. It's just too painful to think about it." Hiei said.
Kurama grab hold of Hiei embracing him "Don't worry Hiei that will never happen." Hiei embraced Kurama tight.
Ding, Dong!
"Hiei, she's here." Kurama said to Hiei letting go of him.
"Ch,"
"Don't worry Hiei I'll do all the talking okay?" Kurama stood up from the couch, about to answer the door.
Hiei nodded, he stayed in the living room, waiting for Shiori along with Kurama there. Even if Hiei was afraid he tried not to think of the fear, he just wanted things to go smoothly and be done with it.
Kurama opened the door "Hello mother." He greeted his mother outside the house.
"Hello Shuichi, long time no see." Shiori was happy to see her son after a while. Kurama embraced his mother, and so did Kurama.
"Shall we go in?" Kurama invited Shiori to his home.
Shiori entered his home "Wow, Shuichi you keep your house very tidy. I see you don't need a woman's touch here." Shiori teased, she knew that Kurama was a very tidy person, even when he lived with her their home would always be clean and tidy.
They headed to the living room, to her surprise she saw Hiei. "Hiei? I didn't know you were here, Shuichi didn't say anything about you visiting." She was surprised to see Hiei sitting on the couch.
Hiei only smiled at her.
"Mother, please sit down. I will be preparing juice, make yourself at home." Kurama left Hiei and Shiori alone in the living room, he went to the kitchen.
"Hiei did you arrive earlier than me? How come Shuichi didn't mention anything to me on the phone." Shiori wondered.
Hiei didn't know what to say, he couldn't tell her without Kurama that is that he lived with him. He just smiled at Shiori, "I guess he missed to tell you." Hiei said to Shiori giving her a smile.
Shiori smiled back. "Have you been visiting often Hiei? He is not keeping you from your work in Makai has he?" Shiori was concerned for Hiei. Hiei didn't know what to say, he was careful with what to say, it was dangerous to say something wrong.
"No, he hasn't." Hiei said softly.
Kurama went back to the living room with his mother and Hiei. Kurama served the juice to his mother, Hiei, and himself. After serving the juice he sat down the couch beside Hiei, he sat close to him.
"Er…mother? Hiei and I have something to tell you." Kurama started.
"You can tell me anything Shuichi." She smiled.
'Gods, she is making it so much harder to tell.'
"Mother, to tell you the truth, well, I don't live alone." Kurama paused. "Hiei lives with me."
"Hiei lives with you? How come you didn't tell me?" Shiori wondered.
"Well, er…it's because I don't want you to be against it, that's why. However, I hate keeping secrets from you so I needed to tell you. Are you against it?" Kurama asked looking at his mother.
"No, I am not. Actually it is good, I am always worried that you would be lonely being alone in your apartment all the time. It's good to have company, so it's all right for me. Besides the two of you, are best friends, what can go wrong? But is it alright for Hiei?" Shiori turned to Hiei.
Hiei caught the attention "Yes, it's fine with me. I don't really have a place to stay anyway; I only go to the Demon world whenever Mukuro has a job for me to do. Asides that I am alright with it." Hiei answered.
"That's good to hear. So is that all Shuichi?" Shiori asked Kurama, who seems to be paranoid with something.
"Uh, well no not exactly, there is still more." Kurama said honestly.
"Okay go on." Shiori insisted.
"Mother this is harder than you think. Hiei and I well, we see each other more than just best friends, Mother, its hard to say but Hiei and I are…uh…we are--" Kurama stopped when Shiori said something.
The scene was intense Hiei was nervous and so as Kurama. Shiori listened to them attentively.
"I know. I already knew from before when you rescued Hiei, in getting back his Tear gems, from that point on I had the slightest idea that you had feelings for him. I just wanted to keep it quiet until you tell me, I knew you were going to tell me, after all you are my son." Shiori said giving a gentle warm smile at Kurama and Hiei.
"You're not mad?" Hiei asked softly.
"No, why would I be? I respect my son's decision, I don't care who he loves as long as this person loves him back, and as long as my son is happy, I am happy. Hiei I treat you like my son and I know that I can trust you with Shuichi, so you don't need to be worried about anything. I see the both of you still same, nothing has changed. I am just happy that Shuichi told me, I was afraid that somehow you will be afraid to tell me, and I am glad you did." Shiori said.
"Thank you Mother, you don't know how much this means to me and Hiei. We loves each other very much, none of us will do anything to hurt each other."
"So I have to give up on grandchildren now right?" Shiori teased.
Kurama and Hiei looked at each other "Er…not quite. We still need to tell you something else." Kurama said again.
"Shuichi?" Shiori turned to Hiei and Kurama. Suddenly Kurama placed his hand over Hiei's abdomen. It was a shock for Shiori to see.
"Mother, Hiei is pregnant."
Shiori was dumbfounded; she couldn't believe what her son was saying. It was impossible for a man to be pregnant, she thought. "Shuichi, you're joking right?"
"No mother I am not, as I told you before Hiei came from the Koorime Island, which was consisted with only ice maidens. His mother was an ice maiden, and his father was a fire demon---" Kurama was stopped when Hiei continued the story himself.
Hiei took a deep breath and continued the story.
"My mother went against the rules of the ice village and made love with a fire demon which was my father. Koorime's can reproduce by themselves there is no need for a different sex for them to produce, but my mother went against it. She made love with another demon. When she gave birth, she gave birth to my sister and me. My sister was created only by my mother, so she was considered an ice maiden, the elders accepted her, but they didn't to me. I was a boy, who was forbidden in the island, they thought I didn't have the features of the ice maidens so they threw me out of their village." Hiei recalled his past, saying these made him feel pain again.
"Hiei…" Kurama was concerned that Hiei was telling his painful past all over again.
"Now that you know that I came from the ice clan, I also inherited some things from them; my inner organ came from the Koorime's. Yes, I am pregnant. I was afraid when I found out; I went through examinations until I was certain of it. Soon I found out that I am pregnant. Kaasan, I am carrying your son's child." Hiei said.
"Hiei…" Shiori looked at him surprised.
"Mother?" Kurama was afraid of what Shiori's reaction would be.
"How long? How long ever since you've been pregnant?" Shiori asked still shocked with it.
"About a month ago. We've been trying to tell you sooner, but we were afraid that maybe you're not going to accept it." Kurama admitted.
There was silence in the room, both Kurama and Hiei were afraid with what Shiori might say next. Shiori didn't show any signs of happiness or angry, her face was blank. Hiei held the hand of Kurama tight.
All of a sudden, Shiori stood from her place; she went to Hiei and Kurama. She bent down, and embraced them tight. Her eyes were closed. She just wanted to hug them.
"Mother?"
"Kaasan?" Kurama and Hiei looked at Shiori.
Shiori didn't know what to do, she only did what she thought was right. His son and Hiei have a child that is what matters now. Now all she needed to do was accept the fact the loved each other and they were going to have a child of their own. She loved her son more than anything, she accepted him for who has was and who he wasn't. She was blood connected with the child inside Hiei's womb; she was going to be a grandmother of this child. All she can do now was accept it, love it, and care for it, as if her own son did.
"Kaasan?" Hiei looked at Shiori; he looked like an innocent child.
"Yes?" She kissed the forehead of Hiei then Kurama, and she embraced them both even more. "Thank you my sons, thank you for telling me the truth. I am glad you did, I am glad that you gave me another child to love Hiei. Thank you for being honest with me."
"Mother…"
"Thank you very much, kaasan." Hiei whispered, returning the hug. In addition, so did Kurama.
A few moments on, Shiori stood back up. She cried, it was obvious with bags of tears that were formed under her eyes. Besides that, she had a smiling face shown.
"Congratulations to the both of you, even if it is sort of long ever since." Shiori smiled.
Hiei and Kurama smiled.
"So what would you want huh? A boy or a girl?" Shiori asked excitedly.
Both Hiei and Kurama turned to each other with unsure faces, they didn't know what they wanted exactly a boy or a girl.
"Uh, we don't really know yet, but if ever it is a boy or a girl we will love him/her as much." Kurama answered unsurely.
The three of them spent the day together; Shiori was excited for the birth of her grandchild even if there was still eight months to go. They talked about the baby most of the time, Shiori offered help whenever they needed it. Both of the couple was glad that Shiori accepted them, and their soon to come baby.
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It was the end of the day, Shiori left hours ago, both Hiei, and Kurama just had their dinner. Now after the happenings of the day, they just wanted to rest. They were inside their room about to sleep; it was nine in the evening, the couple was on the bed, preparing to go to sleep. Both of them hugged each other on the bed.
"Kurama?" Hiei started.
"Yes, love?"
"What would you want our baby to be, boy, or girl?"
"Well I am not sure, if it were a boy it would be easy because we are both men, we can train him to be strong, strong like the both of us. It would be easier to understand the things he is going to go through." Kurama said.
"What if it's a girl?" Hiei asked.
"I would really want a girl too, it will be a challenge, and we can spoil her as much as we want. She will be over protected by her two fathers, she can also train but I don't want it soon for her I would want it when she is grown up a little bit, I don't want to stress her, she is a delicate flower. I want her to be a very gentle person." Kurama said.
"Oh, so what would you want then?"
"It doesn't really matter to me, I just want to have our child and love it whatever it is. Why? What would you want?" Kurama asked.
"Same as you, it doesn't really matter. I will love the child whatever he/she was." Hiei said.
"I know you will." Kurama started to baby Hiei again, brushing his raven hair backwards.
Silence filled the room, they were about to sleep when a sudden thought went to Kurama's mind.
"Hiei? Question."
"Hmm?"
"H-how are you going to give birth?"
The question woke Hiei "Err…I don't know…to be honest."
Kurama could sense that fear was upon Hiei the day he was going to give birth so he just forgot about asking that question, it will be after eight months still he will give birth.
"Never mind." Kurama said, trying to forget he asked that question.
"It's okay." Hiei said.
"It's a good thing we told her right?" Kurama said.
"Yeah, I feel really light now that we did."
"Me too."
"Hiei, are we going to tell Yusuke and the others?" Kurama asked.
"Hmm…I don't want yet, for now I want to keep it our little secret." Hiei said, drifting to sleep.
"As you wish." Kurama kissed Hiei's forehead. "Good night Myves, sleep tight. You've gotten a hard day today. I love you." Kurama placed his hand again over the abdomen of Hiei trying to feel the child's aura.
'Wow, the child is growing better and better everyday. I can't wait until it is born. Please rest as much as you want my child I love you and your Tousan very much.'
Hiei was making sounds murmuring something "Love you too fox."
After a while, they both fell asleep together in one house; one room; one bed. Together with each other's presences. They were satisfied with how things went that day, they were happy to know Shiori accepted them for who they were, and their child. So far, everything has been going fine and smoothly, nothing bad has come their way, at least not yet.
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From a distance a demon is watching, who is he? Is he trouble? He has been watching the couple for two days now. He was on a cypress tree. He is covered in black.
"Tomorrow the job will be done." He said softly but his tone was dangerous.
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BDT: Hello to all my readers! Woah! I finally made Shiori know, it was hard to do, I didn't know how Shiori would react, I couldn't let her be against it, it would be hard (like what Hiei said). Oh well at least I did it right?
Ah! School is going to start in two days! No! I hate it, I may not be updating in the weekdays now, only on the weekends, sorry to all my faithful readers. High school is a bitch. (pouts) Oh well. I will try my best to do so.
Please read and review, I hope you people like it. Thank you very much.