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So Hiei told Yukina that he's her brother. Wonder what happens next. Dadadadum!!!

Chapter 7: Death Bed

Hiei stared at Yukina as she stared back at him.

"What?...What did you just say?" Yukina inquired, shocked and frightened at Hiei's words.

"I'm…I'm your brother," Hiei said, defeated by humility and anguish that he had just told the truth to his sister.

"How? I've been looking for my brother for the longest time. I gave up hope. I thought he was dead! You, you've been here since Yusuke and Kazuma rescued me from the black market. Why didn't you tell me?"

"Because I thought you would be afraid and reject me," Hiei said in a hushed voice. "I thought that if you knew I, a murderer and a convicted felon, was your brother, that you would be scared. I'd rather suffer with knowing that you'll never know me as who I am than have you scared of me."

"Hnnn," Kuwabara groaned, opening his eyes and looking up. "What the hell are you still doing here?! Get the fuck outta my house!"

"Kazuma, NO," Yukina cried. "He's my brother!"

Kuwabara stopped dead in his tracks. "What?"

"He's my brother!"

Yukina took both Kuwabara and Hiei into the living room and told them both to sit. Hiei sat on the couch; Kuwabara sat in his recliner chair. Yukina left momentarily and brought back three cups of coffee, a bowl of sugar, and a small bottle of creamer. She gave Kuwabara and Hiei each a cup, and then sat down next to Hiei.

"Can you tell me how you are my brother?" Yukina asked, looking at Hiei in a lasting shock.

"We have the same father, but different mothers. My father was the lord of the fire demon realm. He was on a mission to assassinate a small band of demons that had been causing problems when he met your mother. I had already been born, but because of my mother was an ice maiden, like yours, I was cast out. My father didn't know where I was, and thought that the demons he was hunting would have some information.

"He met your mother in the forest one night. She was lost and had an injured leg. He bandaged her leg and told her that he was headed to a nearby ice maiden village, and that he would accompany her until they reached it. It would take about a week. During that time, my father fell in love with the young ice maiden, and watched her from afar. He would watch her every move, and make sure she didn't get hurt.

"They reached the village and he left her the hands of one of her relatives that just happened to live there. He promised her that he would return and check up on her. He continued on his search for the band of demons, and on his search to find me. I wasn't with that particular band, and father did eventually find me, bringing me back to my own village, where I became more powerful, and, I'm sorry to say, killed off the entire village because they were planning on killing me after father died.

"That's a different story though. After my father dispatched the demons, he returned to the village where he let your mother. He told her that he was looking for his son, but that he would stay with her for a while. He said that one day the peach trees blossomed, and that day was when the two met in private and mated. They were forbidden lovers, but they didn't care. He left the village and came back after a few years to find the ice maiden married and with a daughter. He didn't know that he was the father, so he turned and left, without saying goodbye. He never went back to that village."

Hiei concluded the story and closed his eyes, waiting for Yukina to respond.

"Now I know why you kissed me," she said.

Hiei looked up in surprise.

"Have you been having weird dreams about people that look like you and me, in a field, surrounded by peach trees?"

"Hn. What kind of a…" Hiei started to realize what Yukina was getting at. "I thought it was you in the field! It was your mother! And the person who I thought I was was really…"

"Father," Yukina finished. "I've been having those dreams too. I was afraid at first, but what you just said, now it makes perfect sense."

Yukina smiled, and then started to laugh at what she had just realized. Hiei laughed too. The spirits of their father and her mother must have wanted them to know how they had met, and so had given their memories to their children. Hiei cursed himself for thinking that he had wanted to make love to his sister. But then he remembered how Yukina always was killed in the end.

"Yukina, how do your dreams end?"

"Oh, Kuwabara always comes in and beats the crap out of you. I'm guessing it was no different with you. Kurama probably did something to me in your dreams. I think that's because they aren't what we really want, just what our parents want us to remember."

Hiei shook his head in silent agreement. Everything made perfect sense now. He was worried about Kurama, but at least he now had something to tell him.

The phone rang and Yukina answered it.

"Hello? What?! Okay. No, he's right here. Yes I'll tell him. We'll be there shortly."

Yukina came back into the room and looked at Hiei. She looked frightened and about ready to cry.

"Hiei, Kurama's in the hospital."

"What?!"

"He was hit by a car. They don't know if he'll last the night. They say he's laying on his death bed."

Hiei got up and took off, heading towards the hospital. This was his fault. He started crying as he reached the hospital, finding Yusuke and Shiori in the waiting room. He looked at Shiori, who was watching him, and went to see his precious Kurama. The sight that awaited him made him cry out in agony.

The story thickens. I hope you enjoyed thsi chapter and I hope you review. As for the different mothers thing, according to the official YuYu Hakusho website, Hiei and Yukina do have different mothers, but the same father. At least now we know why Hiei's been dreaming about incest.