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Of Life and Love	By : LuciferDragon Category: Yuyu Hakusho > General Views: 2765 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 1
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Theme 10: Ears

Time: Three years after “Pesadilla”

Pairing: None

A Child’s Curiosity

Hyouga and Sha sat at Yusuke and Keiko’s dining room table, sipping coffee and watching the children in the next room as they played with various things.
“So what did you tell him then?” Hyouga asked Keiko as she placed her near-empty cup down.
The human woman laughed. “That he’d be sleeping on the couch, of course. Pulling a stunt so childish would be such a bad example to Reia.”
Sha had declined coffee and instead settled on a glass of lemonade. “Putting a bra in the freezer is a little childish, but it’s not the worst thing he could do.”
Hyouga rolled her eyes. “You just never have a reason to send your male to the couch.”
“On the contrary. He does some stupid things at times, but nothing immature.”
“So when’s this one due?”
She choked on her lemonade a bit. “How the hell— ?” She cut herself off from coughing on a sour bit of the liquid hitting her throat wrong.
“I have two of my own demon spawn, no pun intended. Same as you. You declined caffeine. So, when is this one due?”
The dragon rubbed at her eyes. “That’s not the reason I declined it. Trying to wean myself off caffeine just in case I do get pregnant again. The first time wasn’t so bad, but the second.” She rolled her eyes but smiled at her son, who was playing video games with Hyouga’s son on the TV. “Well it’s not so bad, the first pregnancy. You don’t really have too many things to bother you.”
“Yeah I hear you,” Hyouga agreed. “The first pregnancy it’s quiet, for the most part. The second one, you have the results of the first one to think about while you get fatter.”
Keiko laughed once again. “I don’t think I’ll find that out first hand. One is quite enough of a handful.” She looked over at Reia, who was giggling while Tsunada and Yuki were playing with stuffed animals.
Hyouga quirked a brow. “Human children are much easier to raise than demon ones. Teething, for one, is far simpler for you. A nice cold teething ring suffices. Your children don’t grow fangs.”
“Or wings and tails.” Sha put her face in her hands. “Do you know how long it took us to get Kiete to stop flying out of reach? And to get Tsunada to stop knocking things over with her tail? It was a damn nightmare!”
“Not to mention keeping them away from the weapons in the house.”
Sha audibly groaned and folded her arms over her head. “You don’t have as many swords and knives sitting around as we do at home.”
“Well you wouldn’t if your mate would stop breaking his swords.”
Her head snapped up. “Not his fault all the time. Most, but not all.”
“You’re no better either.”
“Oh lay off you…” She held off on finishing her sentence as Reia came up to the table.
“Hey Mommy?” she said. “I have a question.” Even though she was a little over two, she spoke quite well. Keiko had been an amazing teacher so far.
“What is it Sweetie?” Keiko helped the child up into her lap, where the youngling then stared across the table to the demons.
“Why do they have different ears than us? They’re not normal.”
Hyouga nearly spit her coffee back into the cup, and Sha looked a bit surprised.
“W-why do you say that?” Keiko tried to hide her shock.
“Tsunada’s mommy has pointy ears, like her and her brother. She even has a tail. Tsunada has her mommy’s tail, and her brother has those weird marks on his back, just like she does!” Reia then turned to Hyouga. “And she’s got doggy ears! So does Yuki, and her brother’s got amber eyes while she has purple.”
“Her awareness astounds me,” Sha said, bewildered. “She’s such a young human, but she can see all these things already.”
Hyouga merely chuckled. “I expected nothing less from the child Yusuke would help bring into this world.”
Reia wasn’t to be thrown off her question. “Why are they different, Mommy?”
Keiko began stammering her explanation, trying to make it sound as believable as she should. “Well— ah, um. They are normal, to them that is normal. What I mean to say is—“
“Is that we’re demons,” Sha said, rubbing small circles on her forehead. “You might as well say it bluntly.”
The little girl looked at her oddly. “Like the ones Daddy would tell me stories about?”
Keiko looked a bit panicked, and also pissed off.
“It depends,” Hyouga said with a kind smile. “What did your dad tell you about our kind?”
“He said there were a lot of demons, just like there’s a lot of humans. A lot are good, and a lot are also bad. He told me about stories of when he was a de-de— What’s that word Mommy?”
“Detective, Sweetie,” Keiko supplied, her anger slowly fading.
“He told me about this funny guy named Chu, and another Jin. There were others, but I don’t remember. He also told me about To-Togur—”
“Toguro?” Sha said, her eyes going a bit wide.
“Yeah, him. But he mostly talked about the good guys. And how they were all cool in their own way. And he said Jin had funny ears too!”
Sha snickered behind her hand. Jin had stopped by a few times, and he did have the oddest of ears. The more excited he was about a subject, or a fight, the pointier they got.
“Trust us, we’re some of the good guys,” Hyouga said. She looked at Keiko. “You know, you should take her to see Puu one of these days. I think she’d get a kick out of riding that Spirit Beast of Yusuke’s.”
Reia slid off her mother’s lap and moved over to Hyouga’s chair, climbing into the half-dog’s lap, surprising them all. “I want to make sure.”
Hyouga caught on and lowered her head, allowing the little girl to tug on her small lavender dog ears poking from her head. She winced. “Ai! Ok, that really does hurt a bit!”
The girl pulled back, startled. “They’re warm. And twitchy.”
“Well yeah, what did you expect?” Hyouga rubbed a hand over the small pointed appendages. “You’ve got quite an arm on you, little miss.”
Still not entirely convinced, she moved on to Sha, tugging on her small pointed ears.
The half dragon only smiled. “Yes, she does have an arm. But the tugging isn’t anything new to me. It’s usually my tail to be tugged at anyway.”
Reia looked at Sha’s neck. “What’s that mark?”
“Hm? Oh.” She had forgotten that her hair had been pulled back, unlike Hyouga’s so her marked neck was on full display. “Uh, something you’ll learn about in the far future, I suspect.” She chuckled nervously.
Seeming satisfied with all her answers, she skipped back off to play in the living room.
Keiko let out a big sigh. “Well, she had to learn eventually.”
Hyouga still tugged at her own ears. “Yeah, well if she has anything else she wants to learn, let’s make it less painful next time.”
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