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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 8: Happiness

Pairing: Hiei and Sha, Yusuke and Keiko, Kurama and Kitsu, Kuwabara and Yukina

Time Setting: Two weeks after Pesadilla

Learning

Considering the amount of physical and mental stress the recent tournament placed upon his team, and ex-team, Koenma personally financed a trip to a five star beach resort in Okinawa for everyone. He even allowed Haraguroi to attend to play babysitter. Haraguroi, a man who loved his grandkids as it was, had eventually taken on the other's children as grandkids of his own.

Sha sighed and held on to her son's shoulders to keep him from wandering away. "Stop fidgeting."

"Aw but Mom! You know I wanted to go with Dad today."

"Yeah, well you get Grandpa instead. Dad needs a break; that's why we're here." She adjusted the top of her swimsuit as she sat on a lounge chair next to her daughter, who was content in playing with a stuffed bear. She watched the bustle of the other resort-goers while she waited for Hyouga to come downstairs with her own two pups.

"Hey, Dragon, where's your father?"

Sha looked over her shoulder to see Hyouga ushering her son and daughter off an elevator towards her. "Guess he's coming down. Wasn't Keiko supposed to come down with you?"

Hyouga rolled her eyes and set her pool stuff down next to Sha's on the lounge chair next to them. She put a hand on her daughter Yuki's head as she tried wandering away. "Yeah, I tried picking her up, but she didn't want to come out of her and Yusuke's room. Something about her preggo belly looking horrible in her new bikini."

Sha sighed. "Humans and their self consciousness. I was still wearing this suit while I was pregnant."

Hyouga shrugged and sat Yuki on the chair next to her older brother Misou. "Guess it's understandable."

"Hell no it isn't. We're going to drag her down one way or another."

"Sorry I'm late," came a deep voice. The girls turned to see the seven foot tall dragon lord. "Slept in a bit late."

"It's all right, Papa," Sha said while her two cheered and flocked to their grandfather. "Still taking them to the aquarium, I hope?"

"Yeah. I'll find something to keep them busy all day." He looked to Hyouga. "Yuki and Misou have their swim stuff in case I take them down to the beach?"

"Oh, yeah." She handed him a bag. "Everything's in there." She knelt down and hugged her kids. "Have fun with Grandpa Hara. Don't harass him too much, you hear?"

"We will, Mom," the two chorused before joining Kiete and Tsunada in flocking the much older demon.

Haraguroi shrugged on the two bags containing the young ones' things and waved goodbye to the two mothers, ushering the kids in the direction of the aquarium.

Sha looked to Hyouga. "Right, time to drag Keiko out."

Hyouga slammed a fist a few times on the door to Yusuke and Keiko's room. "Come on, Keiko, come out!"

"No way!" the human girl said from behind the door. "This belly makes me look huge!"

Sha rolled her eyes. "As if you're the first female to have a child inside you. Get over yourself. You're only six months, which is nothing compared to Hyouga and I at six months."

"Well that's only because of the difference in gestation, but still, she's right," Hyouga said.

By then the other girls had emerged from their rooms on the same level.

Kitsu put her hands on her hips. "What's going on?"

Sha rolled her eyes and adjusted the black slip around her hips. "Keiko's too worried about her baby belly."

Yukina laughed behind her hand. "Oh, Keiko, we're not going to judge you. Pregnant bellies are beautiful things."

"Yeah, we're not going to say anything bad," Sukuna said.

They heard silence for a few seconds on the other side of the door before the latch clicked open and Keiko stood before them in all her pregnant glory.

"There, see, that's not so bad," Kitsu said with a reassuring smile.

"I feel fat," Keiko said with a sullen face.

"Well you are," Sukuna said. "Fat with a kid, you shouldn't be upset about that. Be proud you're helping with the population."

The human sighed in defeat. "Yeah, you're right. I'll get my stuff. But the first person to laugh at me gets a fist to the face."

Yukina giggled again. "Yusuke's given you a bit too much influence."

"Don't remind me." She grabbed her beach bag from next to the door and made sure the keycard was inside before maneuvering into the hall.

Sha gracelessly dropped her bag on a chair by the pool before stretching in contentment. Due to it being the off season, but still warm out weather, not too many people were there as it would have been a month prior, so it was nice and quiet out. Hyouga dropped her things in the chair next to her as Sha took off the slip around her hips and hung it on her chair.

"At least we came when no one's around," she said while Sha stretched out on her back on the chair.

"Mm, but there's something bothering me."

"What?"

"Where are the guys?"

Hyouga was about to answer when a chorus of yells erupted on the other side of the pool, and they looked up in time to see Yusuke, Salem, and Kuwabara leaping into the pool, effectively soaking them in the wave they created.

Sha stood up, dripping wet, and was about to scream at them until she saw a flash of black appear behind her and dumped her into the water. She let out a short shriek before she went under the surface.

Hyouga fell onto her chair laughing. "Hiei, she's going to kill you!"

He flashed a rare grin. "If she can catch me first."

She resurfaced and pulled her hair out of her face. "Very funny, you ass!"

Keiko and Yukina laughed from their corners of the pool, where they sat on the sides soaking their legs.

"Oh don't you two start laughing on me!"

"I'm just amazed you didn't start steaming as you hit the surface, Firebreath!" Kitsu said.

"That's it!" Sha hauled herself out of the water to chase after the vixen, only to be caught around the waist by her husband and chucked right back into the pool, although she didn't go down alone. She managed to grab on to his neck and brought him into the water right behind her. "So there," she said when they both resurfaced, sticking her tongue out.

Kitsu continued laughing, until she was chucked in as well by the missing red-head. "Damnit, Kurama!"

He laughed behind his hand. "Couldn't help myself."

She swam back over to the edge and leaned up on the side, resting her head on her arms. "Clever, sneaky fox."

He knelt down beside her, still on the concrete. "And what about it?"

"Nothing at all." Without warning, she latched her arms around his neck and pulled him into the water with her, soaking the white T-shirt he still had on.

"Kitsu! At least wait until it's off!"

"Sounds like something you said last night."

Kurama hid his blush as the others laughed at him by tossing the soaked garment out of the pool.

Sha smiled at the sight, though only her husband noticed. "Find something amusing?" he asked while the rest of their friends began interacting with the others.

"Not really amusing. More like… right." She squeaked a bit as he pulled her closer to him and made her wrap her legs around his waist so he could hold her up. "By the way, that'll have to go away before you get out of the water."

He shifted a bit under her to adjust the black trunks they had found for him. "Hush. And what seems right?"

She nodded towards Kurama and Kitsu, who were laughing and splashing water at each other before he pulled her under the water. "They do. Actually, I'm glad Jen walked out on him and he gave Kitsu another chance." She shrugged. "We never even figured out why he left her in the first place."

"It was a stupid reasoning."

"You knew and never said anything?"

"I couldn't. Wasn't my place."

She narrowed her eyes in confusion. "Well what was his reasoning?"

"It started before I met you, while you were still running from the SDF. We were all fighting in the Demon World Tournament, me, him, and Yusuke. During his fight against Shigure, he cast off his demon self, not wanting to have to rely on who he once was. He wanted to forget his past." Hiei moved them so they were around a crook of the pool so they'd go unseen by their friends. "Then two years later, you guys appear, and he met Kitsu. Got to know her. And in doing so, he found out during their first… encounter, as he put it, he couldn't keep his demon self at bay."

"But why would he want to cast off who he was?"

"That's just it, he isn't Yoko anymore. You should know that better than anyone else, since he's your cousin."

"I was so young when I knew him." She nodded over his shoulder, where the others were. "Who we all see now is who I saw over two hundred and fifty years ago."

"Well, anyway, he didn't want to revert back to who he once was. The cold hearted thief that everyone knew him as. After two years passed with Kitsu, he confided with me that he was afraid he'd hurt her if he stayed with her, since more and more of his true nature would come out around her. He wanted to revert to who he was becoming, as a human, and so sought out a human at his biology schooling. He only wanted Kitsu to be happy."

"But that makes no sense."

He let out a soft laugh. "Not to a woman. To a man, who would give up his own happiness for his loved ones, it makes sense."

She gave him a coy smile. "Sounds like you know what you're talking about."

"I gave up a few things for you and the children. Became a better person for it."

Sha frowned. "Not to everyone else."

"Well of course. I'm still an asshole to them." He smirked. "I can be to you too, sometimes."

"Since when?"

As an answer he picked her up and chucked her into the water. Though when she didn't come back up for air, his nerves gave a shot. Until he felt something grab his ankle and drag him under as well.

They both came up at the same time and started laughing. She flipped her hair back. "Hey, I've got an idea on how you can make me happy right now."

"And what's that?"

She reached up and stroked where he kept his mated mark hidden on his neck, making him shiver. "I think you can figure it out."

Yusuke swam over to where Keiko was now sitting by herself, since Kuwabara had taken Yukina to one of the chairs to talk for awhile. "Hey, Beautiful."

She gave him a small smile. "Hey."

He frowned and hauled himself out of the water to sit by her. "What's with the long face?"

"It's nothing," she said, looking down into the water.

He laughed. "Yeah right. Every time you say it's nothing, it's obviously something. You're still too soft to show that you're upset over something. I know you too well."

A few feet away, the couple heard a few giggles. Keiko looked at the source from the corner of her eye and saw two skinny girls on the side of the pool, trying to hide their fingers that pointed at her.

Yusuke scoffed. "Immature little— Hey, where are you going?"

Keiko had carefully picked herself up and wandered over to the girls. "Think something's funny?" she said.

"Well yeah, pregnant girls shouldn't be in bikinis," one of them snickered, while the other started laughing again.

Keiko fumed. "For your information, I happen to be happy with the fact I have a loving husband and a child on the way. And I'm happy with my pregnancy enough to show it off. Excuse me that you two look like railings on a fence, and are obviously alone. I pity you."

The one who had snickered got up. "You want a piece of me, Preggo?"

"I'd break you in half."

"Time out!" Hyouga said, coming over to stand between them. "I don't want this vacation ending early." She glared at the girls, who as normal humans could only see her amber eyes out of her other demonic appearances. "Seriously, grow the fuck up and eat something. You look like you'll break in the breeze."

Yusuke came up and put his hands on Keiko's shoulders. "Come on, ignore them." The trio gave one more glare back over their shoulders before moving further away. Hyouga left them alone to go yell at Salem, who was in the process of sneaking up on Hiei and Sha with a loaded water gun. "You're really happy with all this?"

She smiled at him. "Of course. It's something I've wanted ever since we started middle school and our hormones started going." Her smile started to fade. "Unless you're not happy."

"Don't be stupid. I wouldn't have married you and gotten you pregnant in that order if you didn't make me happy." He gave her his goofy grin. "Who do you think kept me going with all those battles I was in? I always thought of you. The thought of growing old together and doing all this was my motivation." He knelt down before her and kissed her distended belly. "And now Reia is added to my motivation."

Tears lined her eyes as she started laughing. "Oh, Yusuke. You know just what to say and do to make me feel better."

"So how are you feeling?" Kazuma asked his wife as they cuddled on one of the lounge chairs under an umbrella.

"As fine as any female in my situation would be, I guess," she answered with a smile. They watched as Salem ran by, with Hiei running to try and catch him, yelling something about cold water guns. She laughed behind her hand. "Always the life of the party."

He didn't want to change the subject though. "Have you talked to Sha or Hyouga about tips or anything?"

"I don't really see what I could learn that I don't know from my job as a midwife."

"True. I'm just nervous about all this."

She giggled and snuggled closer. "All first time fathers are. But don't worry; it's only two months in. You still have awhile to get used to the fact we won't be alone anymore."

He thought about it for a minute before he frowned. "Sha and Hyouga said demons were pregnant for seven months, but with humans, the girls are always pregnant for nine. What would be the case with this because I'm a human?"

She thought about it for awhile. "I'm not really sure if it has to do with the mother, or the genes of the child. If anything, we can put a safe estimate at eight months."

They laid in silence for awhile, listening to the gulls caw overhead. The only thing to break the peace was the sound of a person hitting water as Hiei caught up to Salem and threw him into the pool.

"Are you happy with me?" Kazuma asked after awhile.

She leaned up and looked at him curiously. "Of course I am. Why do you ask?"

"When we first met, I kinda forced my love onto you. I was young and stupid and had fallen in love instantly. It took time for you to realize I wasn't kidding with my flirting, and calling you my girlfriend." He sighed. "If I could go back and do it over, I'd be a bit more chivalrous to you."

She laughed behind her hand. "I knew all along what all your flirting was about. I was just new to the whole thing. You have to remember where I come from. There are no boys, and it was a frigid place. I didn't really know how to properly react."

He let out a sheepish chuckle. "Guess I'm just worried over nothing. I was so scared when I thought I'd lose you."

"But you didn't. You beat your opponent and saved me." She leaned over and gave him an Eskimo kiss. "I love you, you big goof. Don't ever think differently."

"I love you too."

Kurama and Kitsu got out of the water and started walking, hiding behind a bush out of sight of humans so she could wring out her tail. "Was really nice of Koenma to do this for us," she said, batting at her ears to dry them.

"Agreed." He looked away, out towards the ocean and the cawing gulls.

"Kurama? Is something wrong?"

"Just thinking."

"About…?"

"About how you're even giving me a second chance. About how you don't hate me like you should."

She put a hand to his cheek. "Don't be silly. This is what we both wanted all along, wasn't it?"

"It was, but I was such a fool with how I handled the situation. I should've been honest with you from the start instead of making you suffer for two years. But even after I tried convincing myself I had moved on, I couldn't get you out of my head." He wrapped his arms around her and pulled her closer. "I'm so sorry, for everything."

Her gaze grew sad. "I hated you."

He pulled away to look at her.

"At least, I thought I hated you. If I could fool myself into thinking I did, it would make the pain easier." She gave a sad smile. "And when she refused to acknowledge you, even after you risked your life to save hers, I felt a jolt of happiness." She looked up at him. "Does that make me a horrible person?"

He smiled warmly at her. "Not at all, given the circumstances. She wasn't the right person for me. That tournament probably stopped me from making the biggest mistake of my life." His smile slowly wavered. "I just hope you can be patient with me while I adjust to any changes that might occur."

"Of course."

He held her closely again, still secluded by the bushes. "I don't know if you'll believe me, but I love you."

She laughed through her nose softly. "I do believe you. And I love you too."

A rare and wicked grin set itself on his face. "So what would you say if I asked you to come back upstairs with me?"

"Lead the way, my fox."
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