It was month three of nine, and a miraculous event had occurred. Like a kernel of popcorn, Naomi had popped. Not huge or anything, but he had noticed when she reached to the top shelf and her T-shirt had ridden up alone the sides of her stomach she had the slightest, almost unnoticeable bump. In fact with her T-shirt on, you never knew. Hiei was just that good, to be frank.
Kurama had just arrived. He checked her vitals, and asked her about various discomforts. Hiei did give the girl kudos, she never complained about how bad she felt, even despite the constant rising she did at least four or five times a night. Hiei had even found her curled up in the bathtub a few times. While Hiei had zoned out and was brought back to life by Kuramas incessant nagging "Hiei, Hiei. Are you listening?"
"Yeah fox, I'm listening", he muttered.
"I don't like her temperature", he whispered, since she had fallen asleep beneath him.
"What do you want me to do?", he asked rolling his eyes as if he could fix her stupid mistake.
"I don't know, but I'm staying", he stated sitting in Hiei's favorite, and only lazy boy.
"Fine, whatever. Then you cook for a change", he said sitting on the floor in a corner. The silence brewed for a few minutes before a tiny voice emerged "What,.uh,..what do you think will happen to her?", Hiei said.
"I'm not 100% , but I think she has an infection, like a cold", he assured knowing how bad the term "infection" can sound. "Why does it matter?", he asked with a smirk.
"I'm just wondering if she'll make it to the fricken bathroom", Hiei blew off. It was slightly this, he did hate vomit, but there was a tiny bit of him that may have been,..worried? Was that the word?
She slept for several hours on the bed Hiei moved her to after Kurama fell asleep in the recliner. When he laid her in bed his impulse was to cover her, he almost forgot she was an ice demon. She stirred awake, slowly blinking her eyes at him as she yawned and moaned out "What happened?"
"You fell asleep", he answered as he stood in front of her. "Oh,..sorry you had to carry me"
"Its not a big deal, until you get fat", he said breaking the constant eye contact she always wanted to have.
"Hiei?" she asked as his eyes reconnected with hers. "Do you think,...the baby will hate me?", she asked
"Why?", Hiei gave her a suspicious grin
"Because its my fault that its a bastard,..and I've never been a mom before,...what if I screw up?", she asked looking into her pillow.
Hiei's eyes actually felt a wandering need to connect with hers "Its built in" he paused "That mothering shit, girls are just supposed to know it. You'll get it"
"What if its not for me, and I let it sleep the wrong way or I feed it to much, or not enough. Or what if I can't deal with its powers", she rattled off every possible thing that could go wrong.
"Just stop worrying about it, be quiet", he shrugged her off.
Naomi's eyes begin to water "Your so horrible, you can't say one nice thing to me, even through all this. You really have no soul, do you? You really get off on this kinda shit!", she exclaimed, voice breaking "You like when people cry or when someone around you feels sad or regretful, because it makes you feel better about your own miserable existence. You call me a whore for getting pregnant, and my child a bastard. But at least someone somewhere wants this baby. No one wants you! You've probably never even had a girlfriend, Kurama is the only person who can even stand to be around you, and you know it!", she said turning her back to him "Just get away from me", she sniffled.
It felt like the ice brewing through her blood had penetrated his heart, it was true he knew of this kind of thing, but no one ever had the balls to say it to his face, no one ever. He wanted to say something equally as rude to her, but the words would not come to his mouth. He turned and exited the room, shutting the door behind him and walked into the living room. As he laid himself down on the couch, he gazed into the ceiling, for the first time in years he laid awake, unable to sleep.
He was still staring at the ceiling come 4 A.M, when he heard Naomi hacking from his room. Something inside him made him rise from the couch and lightly make his way into the bedroom. Upon opening the door he saw Naomi bent over the porcelain god, the bathroom door hung open behind her. He sat on the bed and waited for a pause in the obnoxiously loud heaving, and as time passed he started feeling sorry for her. He knew she had nothing left, but her stomach kept insisting. After the noise was finally silenced, he slowly spoke "For what its worth, I'm sure you'll do better than you expect. All you can do is let things happen the way they're meant to.", as he looked up to her he realized her legs were shaking, and her knees were buckling while she attempted the short walk over to the bed. He helped her over and lay the back of his palm against her forehead, it felt hot to the touch, not an emergency by any normal persons standard but to an ice demon her temperature had skyrocketed.
"Stay here", he said as he went into the kitchen and woke Kurama. Upon a short discussion they decided an ice bath was there best and only option right now.
"You have to strip her.", Kurama had said to him. "What? No! You do it! Your the doctor", he exclaimed.
"Shes more comfortable with you, just do it we don't have much time", he ordered as he ran off to fill the tub and to his freezer to collect ice.
That was how Hiei had ended up staring at her again unconscious body. It was almost rape to undress her while she wasn't even awake to notice he thought to himself as he reached down to the elastic waist band of her sleep pants and pulled them gently down her legs, which didn't take long considering she was short. He felt her warm, soft skin beneath his knuckles as her cotton pants drug down with them.
He discarded her pants behind him as he reached to her tighter tank top. This part he hated even more than the bottom. Girls chests always made him nervous, no matter what you did, girls always thought you were looking at them. He pulled it gently over her head and lavender curls. Left laying in front of him was possibly the most skin he's seen in years. Her perfume cascaded into the air once her clothes were removed. She smelled of sweet hazelnut. Even pregnant, she was still,..well,..hot, Hiei decided. She was thin, but in shape. Her muscles were tightly toned and her curves fit her figure just right. He was so distracted at this scene he almost forgot that she was pregnant. Only when you really looked, and she was sideways could you even tell, with a trained eye.
"Are you coming Hiei?", Kurama asked as Hiei was snapped back into reality, and carried her inside the bathroom setting her down in the tub. The sudden change in temperature woke her with a jolt. "Oh my god I'm naked!", she said covering herself up.
"Your temperature is very high, it was our only option at this point", Hiei whispered.
"Is the baby okay? It won't die right?", she barged Kurama with questions.
"No,..you'll be fine after a few moments in here, I'm going to the store to get some dry ice to let melt in your room", he said as he bowed, and made his exit.
"I'm really scared", she whispered and her eyes teared, at the site of this Hiei was reminded of the incident earlier "You were right Naomi", he quietly admitted.
She just looked to him, biting her lower lip "I'm sorry, I'm just scared"
As if some other force overtook him, he plunged his hand into the cold water, it burned like a hand on the stove to you and I, he then clasped his hand around hers and uttered a nearly silent "It will all be okay".