Brides

The three were now ready to leave the Mashimizu Shrine. Yusuke had her things ready and was chopping at the bit to get the hell out of there. Hiei and Kurama worked at a more subdued pass, both having many found memories of the place as well as some of the occupants.

"I’ll miss you Kori," said Kurama giving her a hug.

"And I you," smiled the silver kitsune.

"You must come visit me, then you can be my guest and I’ll show you a good time."

"That would be great, I do hope to see you again soon."

To their side.

"I don’t want you to go!" bawled Jouki squeezing Hiei around the waist.

"Gomen," said Hiei looking a little unsure what to do as she patted the girl’s head.

"I’ll never, never find another like you!" cried the girl. "Why do you have to get married!?"

"Gomen Jouki," said Hiei. "I promise I’ll come back some day."

"But you’ll be married," cried the girl. "There are no girls around like you," cried Jouki.

"I hate to tell you this Jouki, but I’m really a man," said Hiei.

The water demon pulled back from her then reached out and cupped her bust. "No you’re not!"

Hiei sighed. "Right now I’m female, because of a stupid spell, but soon I’ll be male again." Hiei growled in her throat, "It was all part of Enma’s plan to make me agree to marry his son."

Jouki’s lower lip quivered. "A man… Wahhhhhhh!"

"Gomen," said Hiei going back to patting the girls back. "Maybe I can bring my twin sister, Yukina, with me next time to keep you company."

The water demoness was plastered to her front in an instant. "You have a sister?" she said all traces of sorrow gone to be replaced with a look of hope and determination, there was a predatory gleam in one of her eyes.

"Y-yes," said Hiei wide eyed at Jouki’s suddenly mood change. "But she might want to bring her kids with her."

Jouki’s face dropped. "She’s married…." She said in a disappointed voice.

"Yah," said Hiei also sounding a little disappointed. "To a baka ningen, thankfully the kids aren’t really theirs, I’m the birth mother; you could say I conceived them for her, her cycle had already passed and she wanted some kids." Hiei shrugged, "I had some extra eggs so why not, it was the least I could do for her. I’m kind of grateful for it really, I couldn’t stand the thought of them producing offspring together," said Hiei a disgusted look on her face.

"So her kids are like a combination of you, your sister, and her mate?"

"Yup," nodded Hiei. "There a little bit of Kuwabara in them, just a little," she said holding up her fingers an inch apart.

"And how long do ningens live?" asked Jouki.

"Fortunately only a 100 years tops, I’ll only have to put of with him another 50 or 60 hopefully."

"Ah, that’s too bad," said Jouki almost as if she really didn’t mean it. "I’d really like to met this sister or yours. I love children you should bring them too, specially if they’re like you. I can tell already that me and, Yukina you say?"

Hiei nodded her head.

"Me and Yukina I think we’re going to be closing in the future, really close," smiled Jouki.

"Well that’s good," said Hiei. "I’d feel a lot bettering knowing she had a good demon friend, she’s been spending too much time around humans and their lives are so short. I’m afraid she’ll be heart broken when they all start dying on her."

"Poor thing," said Jouki. "Don’t worry Hiei-san. When that starts to happen I’ll take ‘good’ care of your sister, you just leave it to me. I’ll have her so busy doing other things she won’t have a chance to be sad, not with what I have in mind," smiled the water demoness innocently.

"Jouki you’re so kind to me, you almost feel like family," said Hiei.

"Ohhh," said Jouki blushing and clasping her hands over her cheeks. "Hiei-san you have no idea how much I’d love to be part of you’re family."

Yusuke standing off to the side stared on with wide eyes.

"What’s wrong Yusuke?" asked Kurama moving to stand next to the raven-haired teen.

"Hiei just practically agreed to marry Yukina off to Jouki after Kuwabara dies," said Yusuke. "And I don’t think she even knows it."

"You still think she’s a lesbian," said Kurama.

"Yes, she’s a lesbian!" shouted Yusuke. "Why am I the only one that see it?!"

Kurama laughed softly. "Well maybe that’s a good thing Yusuke. You don’t want Yukina-san to be lonely for the rest of her life after Kuwabara gone do you? And besides if Jouki starts chasing after Yukina we don’t have to worry about her trying to steal our koorime, ne?" smiled Kurama.

"You knew she was a lesbian didn’t you?!" accused Yusuke pointing a finger at the red head.

Kurama smiled like a Chester cat. "Kori told me."

"Ahhhh! Why didn’t you say so sooner or back me up all those times."

Kurama shrugged. "Where’s the fun in that?"

"Why you-!" said Yusuke aura blazing around her. Kurama laughed nervously then took off running Yusuke hot on her heels. "Kurama!"

"What’s with those two?" asked Jouki.

"They’re always like that," snorted Hiei.

They finally got settled down and ready to leave.

"Bye Kurama! Remember to invite me over after the honeymoon!" waved Kori.

"I will!" shouted back Kurama.

"Bye Hiei-san! Remember you promised to come back with Yukina-san! I’ll miss you!"

"Hai, good bye Jouki, I’ll bring Yukina next time," smiled Hiei.

"Good bye you stinking hell hole!" waved Yusuke to the shrine. "The leavings the best part," she said tears of joy starting down her cheeks. "And, now that I’m free…" her eyes turned to Hiei and Kurama.

"Huh?" said both notice the animal like look in Yusuke’s eyes.

"Hiei! Kurama!" shouted Yusuke running at the two. "Let go find a nice quite place together were we can-"

Wham!

"Did you forget about me?" asked Magami looking down at the twitching raven-haired women.

"Why did you do that?!" roared Yusuke.

"Just because you’re leaving the shrine doesn’t mean you can go back to your perverted ways," said Magami crossing her arms. "I’m still on my watch and it’s even more important now that I make sure you don’t jump one of them."

"Oohhhh…" groaned Yusuke going limp on the ground. "Just kill me and get it over with," she said. "I can’t take this torture any more."

Magami moved behind the teen and grabbed a leg. "Come on girls," she said. "Tomorrow is you’re wedding day, we’ve still got lots to do." She pulled out her oar and climbed on still holding on to Yusuke’s leg.

"Hai!" chorused the other two pulling out their oars from hammer space and climbing on motioning for Hiei and Kurama to get on behind them. Once they were seated the ferry girls levitated up, Magami holding Yusuke upside down who only crossed her arms and pouted.

"Let’s go," grinned the head ferry girl and they all flew off towards the Reikai.

* * * * * * * * * * *
Back in the Reikai onis were running around like chickens with their heads cut off, while this was pretty common most of them weren’t running with stacks of papers and files as usual, but decorations, chairs, and other wedding things. Everyone was excited about the up coming party and ceremony, it promised to be the wedding of a thousand life times.

"No, no, no!" said George. "The cake has to be at least five times bigger then that! That won’t even be enough for Enma-sama and he’s definitely going to want a piece. You over there! Stopped slacking off and get back to work, those decorations aren’t going to hang themselves! We need more chairs! Half the Makai, Reikai, and Ningenkai, will be here people, they need some place to sit!" The blue oni was shouting into a cone, looking more like a traffic director then a wedding organizer. The oni sighed and looked around at all the chaos. "I need a break," he said dabbing at his forehead.

"Hi!" shouted Botan popping up right next to him, making George jump back holding his heart. "Botan-chan, don’t do that," panted George.

"Oohhhh!" squealed Botan with shinning eyes. "I just loovvve weddings! Isn’t it exciting Hisa?" she asked the little girl sitting in a back harness.

"Ne Botan-chan. Why do you have Shinigami with you?" asked George.

"I’m baby sitting," said the blue haired ferry girl, rubbing her cheek on Shinigami’s spiky brown hair. "Koenma asked me to watch him since he’s so busy."

"Ah I see. Botan-chan, do you think you could take over, just for a little while so I can go check on him?"

"Sure!" shouted Botan in delight. "We can do that can’t we guys?" she asked taking the cone and starting barking orders into it.

George sweat dropped as she yelled at some onis who were dragging some bags of rice for people to throw. Shouting that people didn’t throw rice any more because bird ate it and the rice would expand in their stomachs and killed them and that she didn’t want to do all the paper work that would be created from the rice killing all the little birdies. The poor onis sheepishly ran away with the rice to go look for some bird seed instead.

Shaking his head George went in search of his boss.

"Koenma-sama! Koenma-sama!" he called. "Koenma-sama?" he asked looking inside Koenma’s office. His mouth dropped at what he saw.

Koenma was in his adult form, clothes are ruffled and open, and as drunk as chuu powering up for an ultimate technique.

"Koenma-sama!" cried George running over to his boss.

"Ohww, Geeogeee," said Koenma staggering around. "How’sss tee wejjing sstufffss gonna?"

"Koenma-sama! You’re drunk!" said George catching a hold of him as he swayed by.

"Ammmsss snot," said Koenma. "Jussst neeeddss ta relaxsss a tinssy bit," said Koenma holding up in hand fingers barely apart. "Whust a guys likes me go to worrrryss about? I’ss gotss tee clothes," he said looking at one hand, he was wearing his tux for tomorrow though it was a crumpled mess now. "I’ss gots thee partie stuff, millions of peeples coming to seess me…(hiccup). Andss afterss allss the thee funn, it’ss over rights??" he leaned into George who winced at his bad breath. "WRONG!" shouted Koenma in George’s face, going completely slack. "I get to fulfill every man’s desire and take three hot sexy women to bed with me," he said voice suddenly clearing up. "And I’ve got to pleasure all three of them!" he sobbed against Georges shirt. "I’ll never survive," he whined. "I can’t do it! I can’t do it, I can’t do it! Not all three at once! Maybe one, possible two… but three?! Wahhh! We’re not legally married till I do! My manhood is on the line here not to mention my position!"

"But Koenma-sama, you’re manhood isn’t at stake here, after all Yusuke and the others are men in women’s bodies if anything their manhood is on the line."

"Wahhh! That’s the point!" cried Koenma. "Three women, one man! I don’t have the stamina! Not to please them all!"

"Come on let’s get you clean and sobered up, then we’ll find something to help you out," said George wrapping one of Koenma’s arms around his neck. "You’ve been with all them at once before," said George.

"Not like this," said Koenma shaking his head. "We took turns, I never had to just go from one to the other as seme, there was always time to recover."

"Well you only need to have one round each before the marriage is legal right?" asked George blushing at the conversation subject.

"They’re not one round people," whined Koenma.

"Yah, but you can always change them back after the first round, and have them help you with whoever’s next, can’t you?"

Koenma stopped dragging his feet and snapped up straight. "My god you’re right! I’ll get that glove from my dad and change theme back one at a time! I can get Yusuke to help me bring Kurama over the edge and keep her busy while I catch Hiei, or maybe they can help me catch Hiei. They can keep each other going while I rest! Oh George if I wasn’t getting married tomorrow I’d kiss you!" said Koenma leaning into him.

"….."

Koenma started harder at him. "Never mind, I wouldn’t, you’re not my type," he said pushing away from the blue oni. "First I need to learn to walk again," said Koenma staggering around. "Then I need a druggist."

"Druggist?" said George.

"Yah, a druggist, preferable a youko one. I need something that will keep me going. I can’t go a couple rounds and stop, we’re going all night long!"

"Gee, and a minute ago you were scared to death of that," said George in a mellow tone.

"That was before, when I thought I was going to be the only equipment. I’m so happy I don’t have to ask you to wipe the stupid grin off my dead corpse’s face now, I might live thought this," he hiccuped staggering down the hall. "Where’s that druggist, I’m really!"

"Koenma it’s not even time for that. First you need to get some coffee," said George grabbing his arm and pulling him along. Koenma protested that he was defiantly ready for sex now, making several onis and ferry girls look at them as the moved down the hall. Poor George turned a lovely shade of purple.

* * * * * * * * * * *
That night Hiei, Kurama, and Yusuke all sleep in separate rooms set up next to each other in a wing far away from Koenma, who was going through several sobering up techniques and demanding to see a druggist quite loudly. Yusuke had demanded she be let out. Knowing Yusuke’s nature Magami had locked her up in her room. But…

"I’ve had enough chastity," grumbled Yusuke crawling out on the balcony railing being careful to keep her balance, walked over to one of the other rooms. Hers was in the middle, though she wasn’t sure which room was Hiei’s and which was Kurama’s. She landed on one of the other balcony and smiled wicket, having gone too long without any action she didn’t give a damn about saving herself for one more night, they were all probably going to have a major orgy as soon as the wedding ended anyway. Yusuke was getting to the point that she’d do anything for some. She pulled back the curtain and grinned wider as she spotted a familiar spiky hairstyle laid out on a nice big bed.

"Hiei it is then," smiled Yusuke pushing in the glass door.

"Huh?" said Hiei sitting up and rubbing at an eye in a tired fashion. She turned her head towards the window only to be pounced upon.

"What in the-! Yusuke?!" said Hiei in shock.

"Shhhhhh!" hissed Yusuke clasping a hand over her mouth. Too late the door kicked in.
"Don’t you ever sleep!" complained Yusuke as Magami and her two ferry girls marched in.

"I could ask you the same thing," said Magami.

"She mine!" shouted Yusuke scooping Hiei up and running for the window. Hiei could only blink wide red eyes in confusion still half-asleep.

The two ferry girls blurred away to block Yusuke’s path, oars crossed before the glass door.

"Ah nuts!" roared Yusuke.

Wham!

"Ahhh!"

Magami caught Hiei on the way down and propped her foot on Yusuke’s back who only leaned her hand on her chin and tapped her fingers on the floor in an irritated fashion. "Two steps more and I’d have gotten away with it," she pouted.

"My god is that all you can thing about?" asked Magami putting Hiei down.

"Yes!" shouted Yusuke. "I haven’t gone this long since I was a virgin," she complained.

Magami sighed and grabbed Yusuke’s foot dragging her out of the room. "Get out the wards girls, we’re going to need them."

"Hai!"

Yusuke sat arms and legs crossed and pouting as she looked at the warded windows and doors. No way in or out.

"God! I can’t take it any more!" she shouted jumping up finger glowing a fiery white. "Rei Gun!" The blast struck one of the walls and knocked clean through it.

"What in the three worlds!" shouted a shocked red head sitting up in bed.
Run pounce!

"Ahhh Yusuke! Is that you?!"

The doors kicked open and in marched Magami again. "You’re unbelievable!" shouted the ferry girl brandishing her oar.

Yusuke grabbed Kurama and started running around the room with the shocked red head as the three ferry girls chased after her.

"She’s mine, she’s mine!" shouted Yusuke.

One ferry girl tripped her and both red and raven-haired girls went flying.

"Ahhh!"

Magami caught Kurama and raised her other hand with oar in it.

Wham!

"Get the sedatives, girls. It’s going to be long night," she sighed looking down at the KO teen, who had little flying red foxes around her head.

* * * * * * * * * * *

Yukina walked into the large Reikai palace holding on to Keith’s hand to make sure she didn’t lose the little Koorime boy. Behind her walked Kuwabara in his arms he held Hotaru, who in turn was holding the newest member of their little family, Nike the little purple chibi neko demon that Kuwabara had brought home and thus make the family pet. It would appear that Kuwabara’s love for cats had passed to his daughter as the girl had refused to leave the chibi neko home while they went to her Auntie (mother?) Hiei’s wedding.

"Yukina-chan you look beautiful in that," said Kuwabara unable to keep his eyes off his wife.

Yukina smiled over her shoulder at him, "Kazuma, that’s the tenth time you’ve said that in the last hour."

"I can’t help it, all this wedding stuff is making me think of ours," he smiled. "Of course, you looked even prettier at our wedding Yukina-chan."

Kuwabara was dressed in a neat black tux, Yukina in a long flowing white kimono with pale purple cranes on it and a dark purple obi. Her hair was tied up in an artistic bun with decorative clips, blue ice earrings dangled from her hears. Little Keith was dressed in a matching black tux like his father and Hotaru a short child’s kimono that was a pale pink with flowers embroidered on it in red, white, and black thread. Around the girls tinny waist was a white obi with pale pink strips running across it.

Nike, the chibi neko, had a big red bow tied around her neck with a couple gold color bells hanging at her throat.

"You looked handsome too Kazuma," said Yukina going over and straightening his bowtie for him. "You’d better hurry, I’ve got to go find Keiko-chan and Shizuru-san to figure out where the brides maids are suppose to go. You’d better go find out where you need to be, you are Yusuke’s best man."

Kuwabara laughed nervously. "Well since Yusuke’s a bride I’ve been wondering if that means I’m not his best man but his maid of honor," he laughed.

"Silly," smiled Yukina going over and taking Hotaru from him. Kuwabara bent and lifted Keith to his shoulder. "You two be good and we’ll see you later," said Yukina.

"Bye!"

"Meow!" waved Hotaru and Nike.

Yukina was amazed at how many people were already there and the wedding wasn’t going to start for another couple hours! She could sense many powerful youki milling around the place, snacking while they waited for the ceremony to start. "Wow, so many people," she whispered feeling so tinny in it all.

"Yukina-chan!" called a familiar voice and the ice maiden looked up to see Keiko running her way. The ningen female was dressed much like Yukina in a white kimono only hers had pale yellow butterflies on it and her obi was a yellowish tan, almost a gold color. The kimonos had been sent to them from the Reikai only a few days ago for the wedding.

"Keiko-chan," smiled Yukina as the girl ran up to her.

"Come on Yukina, you don’t want to walk around in all this chaos, since we’re part of the bride troop we can go back with your brother and the rest while we wait. You do want to see Hiei right?"

"Yes," nodded Yukina taking her hand and walking after the girl. "Is Shizuru-san here?" asked Yukina.

"Yup, we came here together. She’s out back talking to Kurama."

The two girls walked through the crowd of people, Yukina carrying Hotaru and the chibi neko. They finally arrived before a large door guarded by onis that moved to block them as soon as they got near the door.

"Hey," growled Keiko. "Don’t you know who we are!" she pulled Yukina forward. "This is Hiei’s sister and I’m Yusuke’s friend Keiko, now move it!"

"H-hai!" stammered the onis moving to get out of the way and let the two in.

"Gee, Koenma needs to hire some people with some brains or at least a decent memory, I just left to find you," muttered the human girl.

"There you two are," said a familiar voice. The two turned to see Shizuru. The woman was also in a white kimono only it had pale blue fish swimming around its silk cloth. Her obi was a dark navy blue; in one hand was a smoldering cigarette.

"Shizuru-san, you look beautiful," smiled Yukina bowing slightly in greeting.

"Not as smashing as Kurama-kun here, though you look good in everything you wear," she said.

"Thank you Shizuru-san," smile Kurama, who was already dressed in her form fitting white tux.

"Kurama I’ve been meaning to ask you about you’re mother, surly you didn’t forget to invite her did you?" asked Shizuru.

"No she’s already here," smiled Kurama.

"What?! You mean she knows about you being a youko?!" said Keiko in shock.

"Well not really," smiled Kurama. "I gave her a drug that will make her memory a little fuzzy, also all the youkais invited have agreed to mask themselves from all the humans attending."

"But, what about yourself and Hiei and Yusuke or Koenma. You don’t think she’ll find it a little weird that you’re marrying three people?" said Keiko.

"Yah, that was a little hard to explain," smiled Kurama tossing her long hair. "I admitted to her long ago that I was bisexually though. So I just told her I was getting married to a prince from a far away land, who was allowed more then one wife.

Therefore, it was going to be a three way marriage."

"And she bought that?" asked Keiko in shock.

"Not at first," smiled Kurama. "We wrote back and forth while I as at the Mashimizu Shrine, my friend Kori served as message girl and explained to her. Kori’s a pretty good storyteller, she managed to convince my mom about everything I wrote. She was a little upset I didn’t tell her sooner about Koenma, but she’s pleased that I’m going to marry at last and that Hiei is some how connected. She’s been bugging me to marry Hiei since the kids were born; she thought it was kind of immoral of me to not marry her after getting her pregnant. She was a little shocked and angry about Yusuke. She finally figure out that we’ve been seeing each other along with Hiei for years now. After all, Yusuke was always staying over and using my shower, it did kind of give him away," she smiled sheepishly at that. "But, I managed to smooth that one over too. She been remarkable excepting of the whole thing, of course I’m marrying a prince so she was rather excited. Getting her here was the hard part. I had Botan driver her thought a portal in a limo. Luckily Botan managed to kept her from looking out the window while they were driving through."

"What about all the onis walking around here?" asked Keiko.

"Unlike you ladies, my mother has no spiritual senses, she can’t see them," smiled Kurama.

"God Kurama, I don’t know how you manage to do it," said Keiko.

"I don’t lie, I just twist things a bit," smiled the fox in human disguise. "She doesn’t need to know about my youko aspect, it’s better this way. Is she knew half the thinks I’ve done or do, she’d probably have a heart attack."

"Ignorance is bliss," said Shizuru blowing a puff of smoke.

"Exactly," smiled Kurama.

"So where’re Ryu and Flora then Kurama-san?" asked Yukina.

"With Yomi," said Kurama.

"Yomi!" said Keiko.

"Yes, the lord I will be taking over for in the future."

"You’ve got one of the lords of the Makai babysitting for you?" asked Shizuru lifting an eyebrow. "Kurama you really are amazing."

Kurama smiled at her in a charming fashion. "Yomi’s a good man, besides he likes kids after having his own. He’s been watching them the whole time I’ve been gone. Ryu’s been a good boy but… Flora gave him a little trouble."

The girls lifted eyebrow at her.

*Cough* "She’s a little bit of a problem child, kind of like Hiei with Yusuke’s bold manners. She tried to burn down his house."

Shizuru giggled softly at that. "Speaking of Hiei, here she comes."

"Onii-chan," smiled Yukina walking up to greet the ex-demon with a kiss and hug, which Hiei returned. The koorime then took Hotaru from Yukina to hold the girl against her front. She almost jumped then the little chibi demon licked her on the nose. She’d thought the neko demon was a stuff animal when she’d taken Hotaru from Yukina. Hiei narrowed her eyes at the chibi. "I remember you," she said remember the tide of neko demons that had swept her away back when they were fighting Echi.

"Meow?" said the little thing tilting her head to the side.

"Kuwabara actually kept it?" asked Kurama looking at the purple neko.

"It’s really cute and the kids like it so much," said Yukina defending the neko.

Hotaru hugged it tighter and rubbed her check on the top of its purple hair all smiles.

Hiei looked at Kurama who shrugged. "I guess it’s harmless," said the red head reaching over to pet its purple mop.

"Guessing is never a good thing with demons," said Hiei, but went no farther with her protests as she could feel the cat creature vibrate against her with a deep content purr created from Kurama petting.

"So where’s Yusuke?" asked Keiko.

"Yusuke… Yusuke's under watch right now," said Kurama.

"Watch?" asked Keiko.

"She’s having a little problem remaining pure till after the ceremony," said Kurama in a mellow tone.

"What?" said Keiko confused.

"She’s as sex crazy as Koenma now," said Hiei.

"…Oh…" said Keiko blushing at the thought.

Shizuru smiled. "Well lost of people start feeling a little antsy and affectionate at other peoples weddings. I know lots of people that like to sneak off ana have a little romance for themselves in a spare room during them." She gave Keiko a meaningful look as the girl blushed redder.

Hiei and Kurama were both wondering if Shizuru was implying that they’d done that already or that they were going to do that. They knew about Keiko and Shizuru from Yusuke, though Yukina and Kuwabara still didn’t know about them.

"So Ryu and Flora are with Yomi, what about the rest of you litter Onii-chan?" asked Yukina.

"Botan’s watching Shinigami and Hisa, Raiko and Sake are the flower girl and ring boy so they're around here," she glanced around, "…some where, George is suppose to be in charge of them… And, Tatsue is with Mukuro, comforting her."

"Comforting?" asked Yukina.

Hiei sighed. "Apparently Mukuro gets emotional at weddings. She practically thinks of me as her son so…"

"Say no more," said Shizuru.

Back out with the guests, in a more comfortable section reserved for important people…
"My little baby’s all grown and getting married," cried Mukuro hugging Tatsue to her front. Mukuro was dressed in a gold Chinese style top and pants with a white phoenix curled around it. The scarred side of her face was covered with her usually cloth and lens. Tatsue, the dragon boy, was dressed in a small black tux tailored for his wings and tail. The dragon boy handed her a handkerchief and she blew her nose. "Thanks sweetie, at least Hiei left me you to mother," she said rocking the dragon cub in her lap.

To her side Yomi sweat dropped. The tall Makai lord was dress in fine black robes, trimmed in white and a dark blue.

Sitting in two other chairs next to them were Atsuko, who was busy drinking down all the free Champaign and Shiori.

"So you’re my Shuuchi-kun’s new boss he was telling me about?" asked Shiori to Yomi. She held little Ryu who was dressed in a black tux on her lap. Flora dressed in a pale violet kimono with violet, black, and white flowers stitched on it and Shura dressed in black robes like his father only with green trim played and rough-housed together.

"I guess you could say that, though he’s more like my future replacement," said Yomi getting a feel for the woman Kurama had all but devoted his life to; well at least his human one.

"Just what do you do?" asked Shiroi.

"I rule over a large city and make sure everything runs smoothly."

"Oh, how fascinating, so you’re kind of like a mayor then. I had no idea my Shuuchi was interested in such a career. He hasn’t been telling me all that he’s been up to lately. I mean I only found out a few days ago about his engagement, and I’m his mother! I was so shocked to find out that he’s marrying a prince. My son’s beautiful and all, but a prince?! Isn’t that something? I’m so happy he’s finally settling down, I was almost afraid he’d never find the right person, or I guess persons. I didn’t know princes from foreign countries still took multiple partners like that. It was really unnerving for me when I found out, but then Shuuchi told me the other partners were that nice boy Yusuke and Hiei-kun and that made it a little better. At least there’s one girl in there some where, not that I’m against homosexuals or anything."

"Girl?" said Yomi, boy Kurama mom could talk a lot….

"Yah, Hiei-kun. She’s the one that had my grandchildren," she said petting Ryu’s silver hair. "I so happy Shuuichi’s finally taking his responsibilities seriously, I mean having children out of wedlock that’s just not right. Hiei-kun deserves to be treated better. Shuuchi should have proposed as soon as he found out about the babies. Speaking of which, where is you’re wife Yomi-san. I haven’t met her yet, or is she this lady sitting next to you?"

"Mukuro…?" said Yomi turning his head towards the other Makai lord.

"Oh we’re not a couple," said Mukuro. "I’m Hiei’s boss, she’s kind of like my ward really," said Mukuro leaning over Yomi to shake her hand. "I never got married or had children so I like to think of Hiei as the one I never had." She petted Tatsue head fondly. "Though I’m thinking about asking Hiei if she’ll give me one of her next litter, I just love these little things," she said pulling Tatsue into a hug. The dragon boy laughed and flapped its wings.

"Give you one of her kids?" asked Shiori in shock.

"Oh Hiei’s the mother of lots of kids," said Mukuro and began counting on her fingers. "Yusuke’s, Kurama’s, Koenma’s, Botan’s, Yukina and Kuwabara’s, and of course little Tatsue here," she said roughing the boy’s wild hair.

"That many?!" said Shiori in shock.

"You didn’t know?" asked Mukuro. "Hiei’s got nine kids total."

"Nine!" cried Shiori in shock.

"Ah so you didn’t know. Don’t worry they’re all basically inside the little love square that we’re here to cement today. Except Botan’s girl and Yukina’s girl and boy, but Yukina’s family and Botan works for Koenma so she’s almost family. Koenma’s a spoil brat he’s been string mine, Yomi’s heir, and even Yusuke, as his mistresses for a couple years now, none of us even knew about it till recently. He just now made it final, I doubt he ever would have if his father hadn’t found out and made him publicly announce it."

"Oh my, it sounds like they’ve all caused quite a bit of trouble," said Shiori.

"Actually, this wedding can only benefit us," said Yomi. "It’s uniting lands that have been at war for many years now."

"So this is a political wedding?" asked Shiori.

"Yes and no, they’re all lovers, the unity of our four lands is just an added bounce," said Mukuro.

"I had no idea this was all so important," said Shiori. "Is my son really apart of all this?"

"Yup, nothing like this has never been done before, but I think we’ve got some peace to look forward to," said Mukuro. "I figured things would settle down after Hiei, Shura, and Yusuke were put into office, but now that Hiei, Yusuke, and Kurama are all are future rulers and soon to be married no less, I doubt there will be many wars between our boarders in the near future. You can’t expect a married couple to wage war with each other, at least not on a grand scale."

"I’m a little confused," said Shiori wondering just where the land was that they ruled over. She didn’t remember hearing about any wars of late.

"Don’t worry about it," said Atsuko to her side handing her a glass of Champaign. "Trust me you’re better off not knowing about all this stuff it’ll only give you a headache. Let’s just relax and have a little drink," she smiled pouring herself another glass. Shiori sweat dropped as Atsuko drank the whole glass down in one swallow.

"Ah! Good stuff!" said Atsuko. "Come on!" she said nudging Shiori in the side. "You can’t go to a wedding and not have a drink."

"Uh right," said Shiori taking a sip.

Atsuko grabbed the bottom of the glass and tilted it back more forcing her to drink it all.

Shiori finished it with some coughing.

"Ah you’ll get use to it," said Atsuko refilling her glass, to their side Mukuro and Yomi continued their conversation.

"This could also cause problems, Koenma is developing too much power," frowned Yomi.

Mukuro snorted. "I doubt it, despite being his partners, Kurama, Yusuke, and Hiei are all independent thinkers. They’re not going to hand over control to Koenma, they know what their responsibilities are."

"Maybe but still it worries me," said Yomi. "If Koenma really wanted to it’d be easy for him to capture them and take over everything."

"Koenma won’t do that," said Mukuro. "He’s not the conquering type. He’s more likely to dump more of his responsibilities on them then any things else."

"Well maybe it’s alright, if he has no such ambitions. I guess I can’t really see Koenma in such terms."

"Precisely, he’s too much of a baby," she grinned thinking of Koenma’s chibi form.

"Yah, you’re right," said Yomi nodding his head. "If he was such an aggressive person I never would have agreed to any of this. Peace huh? I never thought we’d ever get his close to achieve such a simple ideal."

"Life’s full of surprises," said Mukuro.

Yomi smiled softly which turned into a slight wince as a loud noise greeted his triple set of ears. Everyone turned their head as a long row of chairs did a good impression of a set of dominos, ending with an even louder crash as the last chair hit the ground. Everyone then followed the path of collapsed chairs to a little red head youko kit glancing around trying to look innocent but failing and Shura who was blushing bright red and looking like he’d been caught with his hand in the cookie jar.

"Too many surprises," groaned Yomi getting up to go collect his son and his new trouble-making friend.

TBC