It was month two, Kurama had dubbed Naomi approximately four weeks pregnant at her last check up. He had resided with her for a month, and the changes were notable. Hiei had food in his house, all day, every day. Hiei never ate much, but under strict instructions he did attempt to cook a few times a week. Of course he hated being ordered to cook, he was a lazy loner of a human being. He bothered no one and asked nothing of anyone, but yet here she was, someone who required constant supervision. What did he do to deserve this he often asked himself.

They had grown closer, definitely not Kurama & Hiei close, but he could tolerate her company and in small doses even some talking. Even now as Naomi was sitting on the stump of the forest, lightly dressed in sweats enjoying the cool weather that Hiei oh so detested, watching him train.

It was astounding how fast he could move, how fast his silver blade sliced through air so fast you could hear it. Despite his fire demon blood, his shirt was off forcing his body to work harder through the cold. Forcing himself to work harder and harder as his body got colder and colder under the harsh December winter.

Hiei didn't necessarily love her, but he definitely did his job. She was allowed to go nowhere alone, and she went everywhere with him. So far this was how she liked it, no one had come after her since that day she decided to seek help. Although, sometimes Hiei felt like he was married to her it wasn't all that bad, or at least it wasn't after she learned the rules. It took him a whole month to train her not to touch anything, ask anything that couldn't be answered in a few words, submit anymore annoying requests for a television, or walk around at night while he was at slumber. She had learned this the hard way when a dagger landed just a precious centimeter from her pretty face when he had mistaken her for an intruder.

She didn't look anything close to pregnant, in fact you would never know she was. Sometimes Hiei would find himself staring to her, looking curiously. Hiei had seen pregnant people before, but never actually liven with one and had to witness one inflate like a balloon. She was mainly human to him, except for her insane vomiting at 1 A.M.

"Why do you train so hard?" she asked him putting her head on her knees, bent and huddled close to her body.

"To be the best" Hiei answered catching his breath dragging his wrist across his forehead to catch the beads of sweat. Lately after the mood swings had started to get more severe, he tried not to come back with as severe of a comeback. This was not to be mistaken for kindness or pity, he was just tired of listening to her bawl.

"Will you teach me?" she questioned curiously, rising to her feet.

"Teach you to what? Wield a sword?" he said, his voice just oozing with disbelief.

"Please? I just wanna try it" Naomi pleaded.

Hiei pushed the sword just far enough into the ground that it would stay upright, but not be stuck forever via the tundra like grounds of winter. "Pick it up" he acquired as he watched. Naomi walked forward wrapping her delicate fingers around the swords handle. She lifted it slowly and cautiously stared into the gloriously polished finished Hiei maintained. "So you just,..swing it around?"

"If that's what you want to call it." he smirked, this my friends, was going to be good.

Naomi gripped it with both hands, tightening her knuckles around it swinging it in a few directions in a manner that almost seemed graceful. She spun around stabbing the air with it chuckling mischievously to herself. Hiei was actually snickering under his breath "You look like a damn fairy, not a swordsman."

"Hold it more like this" he said as he came up from behind her, wrapping his arms around her tiny frame, he pushed his fingers on top of her own, forcing them down more towards the blade, but still safely behind it. He moved the sword slowly but harshly in her hands from left to right, in a far more precise, straight manner. "More like that." he said as he began to back away from her. The light scent of lavender followed close behind. But more frightening, he could swear he could feel the energy of such a being within her, rising and making everyone aware of its presence in society.

"Hm,.." she paused. "Eh its not for me after all." she shrugged.

Hiei sheathed his sword and gazed into the morning sky, it wasn't too bad of a day out. "We should go for ice cream!" she exclaimed as if she hadn't eaten all day when she had just this morning eaten french toast after the daily battle against her stomach.

The nearest ice cream shop was only a stones throw away so with a sigh Hiei nodded slowly as he replaced his shirt and cloak. If he had said no it would've just become a long drawn out battle about why they couldn't go, damn females. "Hey uhm,...did you hurt your arm?" she asked as she reached out to touch his bandages.

"You're so damn touchy feely." he said as he yanked his arm away "Yeah, I have a minor injury" he lied as he pulled his sleeve down.

As they sat a few moments later on the same empty park bench where they met the month before, they made little effort towards small talk. Naomi had kept her spoon in her mouth, even though she had finished that spoonful gazing into the snow covered trees, when she gasped so suddenly and so eerily it almost scared Hiei. "What?!" he asked looking over to her. Her spoon fell into the snow and her ice cream cup slid from her lap onto the ground as she curled her arm around her abdomen "Oh my god!" she shouted "Speak woman!" Hiei exclaimed

"I haven't even thought about a name! I've been referring to the poor thing as an it for a whole two months." she gasped covering her mouth

Hiei then fell backwards into the snow, anime style of course. "I should fucking destroy you."

"What? Me? Why?" she asked as if she had done nothing. "I thought you were having an,..I don't know attack of some sort or something related to your vagina" he mumbled as he lay in the snow looking up at the sky.

Naomi gazed with him, still seated on the bench, until a snow ball hit her in the arm. "Next time you have a thought, let it go" he mumbled

"You know,...next month it can hear me call it an it" Naomi warned.

"That's impossible, and ridiculous" he stated rolling his eyes as he stood up to leave, and Naomi gathered her fallen cup and spoon, he watched her carefully as he tried to figure out,...why his heart was beating at the speed of light. Why was he so scared, was it because for that second he thought she had fallen ill? I think it was,...woh. "Ew" Hiei said aloud accidentally.

"What?" she said as she discarded her trash

"Nothing, its your turn to cook for my ass" he smirked as they begun the pathway home