Hiei's Harem - Pt. 18 - Ending

Just a little bit of a warning. Both of these last two scenes are going to be a bit long. Please bear with me.

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Scene 13 ---------------- Spirit World


* Koenma makes a jubilant gesture of excitement.


Koenma- Alright! Good move, Kurama! - Now.. back to more important things.


* The Teen rubs his hands eagerly and grabs up the remote to change the channel. He settles back in his chair to continue watching the unfolding orgy in Hiei’s bedroom. He tilts his head one way, then the other to get better views. Then his attention is grabbed by an irritating beeping.


Koenma- D---! Somebody’s overriding the lock! It’s a good thing I’m taping this.


* The Prince grumbles as he turns the large screen monitor off just as his main door opens. A misty smoke that reeks of burnt wood and ashes floods the room. Koenma coughs and waves the smoke away as he recognizes the scent.


Koenma- Kagutsuchi? (1) What the h--- are you..?!


* The new arrival waves one of his hands and the smoke clears away. Having been years since Koenma’d last seen his cousin, the Teen’s eyes bulge when he gets his first clear look at the god of Fire.


Koenma- Y-You look like..

Kagutsuchi- Hiei?


* Koenma takes in the dark attire all the way up to Kagutsuchi’s flame-shaped, solid black hair.


Koenma- Well, y-you’re.. taller, but..

Kagutsuchi- Yes. Unfortunately my son inherited his height from his mother.


* The Prince slowly removes his pacifier so he won’t choke on it.


Kagutsuchi- I know that you’ve been keeping..


* The dark deity glances toward the monitor suggestively.


Kagutsuchi- An eye on my boy.


* Kagutsuchi then moves closer to Koenma’s desk.


Koenma- Y-Your.. your son?

Kagutsuchi- Hn. Surely you suspected that he was more than just a typical demon by now, cuz.


* Koenma’s mouth works, but no sounds come out. Kagutsuchi chuckles and takes a large spindle of thread out of one of the pockets of his long black trench coat.


Kagutsuchi- You know what this is, of course.

Koenma- A spool of black..


* Koenma hesitates as he senses the aura surrounding the shiny thread.


Koenma- Life thread.


* Kagutsuchi nods.


Kagutsuchi- Hai.. And as you can see, there’s still a lot left on this spindle.

Koenma- Then that can’t be Hiei’s.


* Kagutsuchi faulters a moment.


Kagutsuchi- You got something against my son?!

Koenma- Well no, of-of course not, but..

Kagutsuchi- Then trust me, this is his.. I’m making sure that it’s as long a life as possible.. I’m trying to smooth it out as much as I can. That’s why I’ve decided to come talk to you after all these years..

Koenma- Woah, woah, cuz.. Back up.

Kagutsuchi- You want an explanation.


* Koenma crosses his arms.


Koenma- D--- right. A full explanation. Father doesn’t just grant spindle handling to anyone.


* Kagutsuchi sighs and settles himself into the armchair in front of Koenma’s desk.


Kagutsuchi- Do you remember when I went through my rebellious stage about a hundred years ago?

* Koenma scowls.


Koenma- How could I forget?! You set Father’s throne on fire and blamed it on me..! That’s what landed me here doing all this d---ed paperwork all these years!

Kagutsuchi- You got off easy compared to my punishment, Ko.. Uncle Enma took away my godship for seventy-five years. Since you snitched about my sneaking into Demon World he banished me there to live as a demon.


* Koenma drops his eyes.


Koenma- So that’s where you disappeared to.. I thought Father had..

Kagutsuchi- Relax, Ko. The punishment wasn’t truly as bad as I thought it would be.. But I admit I was a bit miffed at you. I wreaked havoc down there anyway I could.

Koenma- So that’s why my work load was nearly tripled for about that many years..! But then everything quieted down.


* Kagutsuchi nods.


Kagutsuchi- Near the end of my punishment I met the most.. amazing demoness.. She was an Ice apparition that had been captured by a band of thieves.. I killed them and freed her.. In return, she granted me one request.


* Koenma rolls his eyes.


Koenma- The demoness was Hina and being the letch you were I don’t have to guess too hard to figure out what the request was.


* Kagutsuchi nods with another deep sigh, then smiles softly.


Kagutsuchi- Ahh. It was one night that changed my whole life, Ko.. Hina was.. amazing.. So beautiful, so innocent.. We spent three glorious months together.


* Koenma cocks an eyebrow.


Koenma- Only three months?


* Kagutsuchi lowers his eyes.


Kagutsuchi- My time ran out and I was snatched back up here to stand before Uncle Enma again.. Needless to say, he was infuriated when I told him why I wanted to return to Demon World again.. He forbid me to have any contact with either her or.. my children as punishment for breaking the ‘no personal contact’ stipulation of my sentence.

Koenma- Father has always been big on punishments.

Kagutsuchi- Well this punishment’s sentence was for twenty years.. I had two choices, either accept that or be banned from any contact ever.. I accepted the twenty years. I figured what could go wrong in such a short time.


* Kagutsuchi lowers his eyes again then takes another aqua-colored spindle out of his other pocket and sets it on the desk beside Hiei’s.


Koenma- You have Yukina’s, also?

Kagutsuchi- When the sentence was over Uncle Enma seen that I’d learned my lesson. He gave me permission to search out their life threads from the warehouses and take care of them.. That’s when I learned about my poor Hina’s fate.. I had planned on returning to Demon World, but now I had no reason to do so.


* Koenma relaxes to lean forward on his desk and look closer at the spindles.


Koenma- I suppose not.

Kagutsuchi- Instead I devoted my time to finding their spindles. It took me twelve years just to find both these spindles.. Yukina’s wasn’t too hard to fix, but Hiei’s..


* Kagutsuchi picks up the black spindle to look at it lovingly.


Kagutsuchi- His was a mess.. My son was well on his way to being destroyed by your detective when I finally found it.


* The dark deity chuckles and looks back at Koenma.


Kagutsuchi- I realized rather quickly that your new detective was just the one I could use to help my son get his thread back in order.. Of course, the Kitsune was a big help, as well.


* Koenma rubs his chin thoughtfully.


Koenma- So my Father knew who Hiei was all along?


* Kagutsuchi nods.


Koenma- That explains why he gave me such a light sentence of probation for breaking into the vault.

Kagutsuchi- Like Father, like son, I guess.


* Koenma rolls his eyes with a grunt.


Kagutsuchi- I had to do some heavy grovelling to Uncle Enma, though. I promised him that I would do whatever I could to straighten Hiei’s thread out and change the path his life was heading in.

Koenma- So you’ve been directing his life since I sent him and Kurama into Maze Castle to help Yusuke and Kuwabara?

Kagutsuchi- Hn.. But part of the stipulation was that I was never to reveal myself to either of my children.. Another of Uncle Enma’s usual acts of irony.

Koenma- Don’t I know that trait all too well.

Kagutsuchi- Hn. So I’ve done my best to give him a better life than his first few years were.. I got him settled into that very comfortable position with that Demon Lord Mukuro. Then I guided him toward having a nice little family of his own.

Koenma- How carefully have you been watching him these past few months?


* Kagutsuchi’s shoulders slump slightly as he looks at Koenma again.


Kagutsuchi- Obviously not as well as you have been, Cuz..


* Kagutsuchi thumbs over his shoulder toward the monitor. Koenma’s cheeks color a couple moments.


Kagutsuchi- I got a bit distracted with some orders from Uncle Enma to create some eruptions and such, you know how busy he can make us.


* Koenma nods emphatically.


Kagutsuchi- The boy does have a knack for getting his threads in knots, but I’m getting it back in order. I came here to thank you for keeping him in line while I was busy after I seen what nearly happened.

Koenma- Kagut, I know how fragile life threads can be.. I also know that the handler can only control them to a certain degree. I’ve learned this with my own subject Yusuke’s spindle.

Kagutsuchi- Hn. Trouble’s in Hiei’s genes, I’m afraid. That’s another reason why I’ve come to see you. I know that you’ve been granted the right to oversee Yusuke’s spindle, as well as the Kitsune’s.


* Kagutsuchi looks over Koenma’s shoulder toward a pair of Spindles whose threads are slowly being twined together onto another.


Kagutsuchi- Being the handlers allows us to direct their futures.. Ko, would you consider allowing my son’s to join theirs?


* Koenma glances back toward Yusuke’s and Kurama’s spindles then lowers his eyes.


Koenma- While I’m sure both Yusuke and Kurama would be appreciative of that.. I’m not sure I should allow it.

Kagutsuchi- Why not?

Koenma- While you were.. distracted Hiei’s suffered some losses recently that have been.. hard on him.


* Kagutsuchi sighs again and nods sadly.


Kagutsuchi- I know. I couldn’t do anything to prevent them. I don’t yet control all of his family’s spindles, but I’m working on that.

Koenma- Again, that’s good, Kagut. But unless you do something to get your son out of his current depression because of these losses..


* Koenma lifts a certificate that he’d placed off to one side of his desk yesterday.


Koenma- Neither of us are going to be able to prevent this if a date appears on this certificate. I was barely able to prevent it this last time.


* Kagutsuchi scowls then leans back rubbing his chin a few moments before standing.


Kagutsuchi- Can you open a portal to his bedroom? I think I have an idea.

Koenma- You can’t have contact..

Kagutsuchi- No, I said I can’t reveal myself to him.. but I can do something else.


* Koenma nods and moves to the computer console.


Koenma- I hope your idea works, cuz. If it does, then we can discuss adding his thread to their spindle.. Good luck.


* Kagutsuchi disappears into the portal when it opens. Koenma hurries back to his desk to turn the monitor back on. He smirks when he watches Sarista raise her head from beneath Hiei to look around. She obviously catches Kagutsuchi’s unique scent as soon as he enters the room before he can mask it. The Fire deity then sends his smoky mist over the bed, effectively putting all the occupants to sleep. Kagutsuchi then moves forward and lays a hand on Hiei’s forehead. Koenma watches the jagan blink open then look up at its host’s sire.


Kagutsuchi- Allow me to do this for him, Eye.


* The jagan seems to recognize Kagutsuchi and closes back up causing Koenma to raise both of his eyebrows in surprise. The Fire deity closes his eyes and begins to concentrate on his task.

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I hope I 'spun' this together in a believable way. It didn't quite come out as well as I had it in my head, but I did my best.

(1) You can google this guy's name and learn all about him if you're not familiar. Of course I tweaked his appearance some to fit my needs, but that is the baeuty of fiction, right? ;o)