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AN: Okay, thank you guys so much for putting up with me for so long. I know that they end of the last chapter kind of sucked. When ever I went back and reread it, I looked at if and went "What the fuck?" But anyway, it had a perpous, and that has been served, so I hope that you guys like this chapter.
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4 Is a Magical Number

Yusuke woke up the next morning with the familiar feeling of being propped against pillows. He knew from years of street fighting that if your back is propped so that you’re sitting up, that you had been hurt… pretty badly. His mind was fogged with the familiar feeling he had experience so many time before. He couldn’t remember much, and what he did remember was extremely vague. He sat, stunned his room seeming to spin around him, until he was finally able to gather up his strength. Suddenly everything seemed to click into place and all his memories hit him with the force of a spirit gun. He sat up strait in the bed, and winced at the slight pain that went through his abdomen. He heard Kurama moan lightly next to him, who immediately started to comfort his worried lover.

“Kurama, are the children-“

“Yusuke, calm down.” He said, holding Yusuke close to him. “The demon that you fought had a light coating of a very weak poison on his claws. Usually it wouldn’t have affected you, but since you are pregnant, you’re body quickly shut-down so it could repair the damage. No permanent harm was done from what we can see. I know that it didn’t seem that serious, but now we know that a particular kind of demon is trying to find you in order to steal your unborn children, so do not take this lightly.”

“Okay, so nothings changed.”

“I never said that,” Kurama said with a smile. “It’s a good thing this happened, actually. With a combination of poison and you moving around so much, Juichi managed to discover something amazing.”

“What is it?”

“Well, it appears that the fetuses moved around in you, revealing that there was another child hiding behind the other ones. We’re having four children.”

“FOUR! We’re having four children!”

“Yes.” Kurama said with a wide grin on his face. Yusuke couldn’t remember anytime in the last time he had looked into his lover’s green eyes and saw that look of excitement and love. In the last few months their relationship had been extremely strained with Yusuke’s hormones raging and Kurama’s desire to keep Yusuke safe had made the two fight and bicker, and for a while there, they didn’t even see each other. Kurama moved to sit behind Yusuke, with one hand wrapped around Yusuke’s waist, and the other resting on Yusuke’s growing tummy.

“Good, four’s a great number.”

“Why do you say that?”

“Well, four is the number of the official ‘Team Urameshi’, and four is the number of times I’ve ‘saved the world’".

“I thought you had done it more times then that.”

“Well, Rando I don’t count since he was just taking psychics’ powers, so the first time I ‘saved the world’ was… well…”

“Against Goki, Hiei, and myself.” Kurama said with a sad smile.

“Well, yeah. Then after that there where the Saint Beasts, Toguro and Sensui. Four.”

“Well, then I guess four is a powerful number.”

“Yes, it is. So besides learning about the quads, everything is fine.”

“Well, it taught all of us something very important, and that is, even though you love our children, you are still the hot-head you were before. So, in order to prevent you from making unsafe choices, I have decided to bring in backup that will help me keep you safe.”

Yusuke heard the door slowly creek open behind them, and heard a familiar voice say “Urameshi! What the hell is the matter with you? Now I have to come bail you out of trouble again!”

Yusuke turned to see Kuwabara and Shizuru walk into the room. Shizuru waved curtly before saying “What’s up Yus-chan?”

“Yus-what?” Yusuke said as he was rewarded with stifled giggles around the room.

He heard a booming voice from the doorway say “You know the Sheila has a point!”

“Chu!”

“Oh, and ya can’ be forgetten’ me too, Yus-chan.”

“Oh, great, I’m so glad that name is spreading around.” Yusuke said dryly and with a glare, but anyone who knew him at all, knew how happy he was to see his friends again. “So how many of you are here?”

“Well, there’s Sis and I, Chu and Jin of course, occasionally Touya and Shishiwakamuru, but they won’t be here very often. We’ll be here to help out before ya pop, and then everyone’s gonna come down to see the kits.”

“Kits? You are refering to my children as kits?” Yusuke said slightly amused.

“Well, Yusuke, since I am a fox-demon, they are, technically speaking, kits.”

“Hey! Why are you taking their side?!”

“Hey, not that I don’t love standing around talking to a bunch of demons, one of which is smashed, one is floating in the air, and another is my brother’s impregnated male best friend, but I’m going to go to my room and smoke for a while.” Shizuru said, then left out the door, saying a quick “Later, Yus-chan” to Yusuke over her shoulder.

“Okay,” Yusuke said, looking at Kurama “I can understand that everyone else is here to help protect me, but what is she doing here? She isn’t really strong compared to us.”

“She’s here for entertainment. She volunteered for this.”

“Lovely.”

“Hey, Urameshi, we gotta go get settled in and everything, but we’ll see you and Kurama later.”
With that they all waved and promptly left.
“Kurama, why are they here?”

“You know the reason.” He replied with a grin.

“I know your bullshit answer, but why did you bring them here?”

“I thought it might be fun for all of us, besides, I want to keep you strong…Yus-chan.”

“Okay, that it!! I’m beating the crap out of you.”

“Oh baby!”


Yusuke lay down on his bed, his shirt pulled up with Juichi’s hands on his stomach. His eyes were closed as he tried to calm down. The further along he got into his pregnancy, the more paranoid he got about people touching his stomach. He had known everyone else there for years, and had fought with them in the past, but Juichi was new. He had nothing against the demoness, he just hadn’t known her long enough. Kurama stood next to him, holding his hand through the procedure.

“Well, Yusuke, everything appears to be going beautifully. All that I think you should be aware of is that your hips will begin to widen to acomidate the quads. It should actually happen anytime within the next three or four months. It will be, unfortunately, quite painful, and you will be bed-ridden for a couple of days.”

Yusuke sighed and looked up at Kurama tiredly before nodding his head in acknowledgment. Juichi gave him some more standard information and reminded him of his limitations before leaving. Kurama looked at his lover, who suddenly looked exhausted.

“Yusuke, are you alright?”

“Yeah, I’m fine.”

“Are you worried about the pain?”

“Not really. Go get hit by a car and fight Toguro or Raizen and you’ll feel pain, I’m just not looking forward to it. If pain frightened me, I wouldn’t have become Spirit Detective.”

Kurama just nodded, and hugged Yusuke until his lover fell into a comfortable sleep. He stayed awake for a while just listening to Yusuke’s breathing and feeling the occasional kit move around. He was starting to drift off to sleep when he felt Yusuke thrash violently beneath him. He restrained Yusuke’s strong arms first, before shaking him lightly and calling out his name. Yusuke snapped awake in tears hugging Kurama closely to him as he bawled into the red-heads shoulder.

Kurama let the younger man cry into his shirt even though they both knew he had no idea why he was crying, or what he had dreamt. He had read about the night terrors that sometimes plagued pregnant demons, and new that with Yusuke it was best to just let him cry it out. That night, Kurama and Yusuke became closer then they ever had before. Their relationship reached a new level. One that neither even knew existed.

About three months had passed since the attack, and so far no other demons were stupid enough to try and attack. Yusuke was playing cards with Chu, Jin, Kuwabara, and Shizuru. They sat around the table, and learned just why it isn’t productive to play cards with a psychic. A now very pregnant Yusuke was practically foaming at the mouth as time after time Kuwabara or Shizuru called his bluff. He had lost all of his money and he could smell cigarettes and booze pouring from Shizuru and Chu. The rule was that you could smoke and drink, just not in the main castle, but with Yusuke heightened sense of smell, he could smell it from a mile away, which could put him in a pissy mood. He was already pissed he couldn’t drink booze, but then he had to stop smoking too!

Shizuru was busy whipping all of their asses, except for her bother, who she had to work extreamly hard to beat. Kuwabara ended up leaving for a while, saying that he had some stuff to do, meaning he left all of them to Shizuru’s wrath. Yusuke was beginning to go into the negatives as he paired up with Chu for a game of spades. Unfortunately, Chu was drunk off his ass again, and so did not make a very good partner at all. After two games Yusuke got pissed and demanded that they play poker.

Kurama walked down the stairs and into the middle of the insuing chaos. Yusuke was yelling at Shizuru, who just shrugged it off with a “chill out Yus-chan”, which only pissed Yusuke off. Chu and Jin were laughing their asses off, enjoying their free show. Seeing Yusuke loose at poker wasn’t anything new to anybody. It was a know fact that the mazoku could beat almost anyone’s ass, but when it came down to poker, he sucked ass.

Kurama sighed loudly before getting his angered lover to calm down. He managed to convince Yusuke that he had to stay calm for the kits’ sake, and that he would take his place. As Jin dealt the cards, sparks flew between Shizuru and Kurama. Kurama stared intently into Shizuru’s brown eyes. Both of them were famous for not showing their emotion, so this would be a game of strategy and chance. Chu and Jin folded almost immediately, while Kurama and Shizuru continued to stare each other down, until, in an act of desperation, Shizuru put down her hand and walked out of the room saying “I’m going to bed. See you later Yus-chan.”

As Yusuke growled at Shizuru’s back, Kurama collected up all of the cards and put them in the deck. He quickly took a look at Shizuru’s hand, and knew that she had won. Worst of all, Kurama knew that Shizuru knew that she would of won the game, but wanted to give Yusuke a chance to have a small celebration.

Yusuke really hadn’t had a lot to celebrate over the last few months. Well, okay, he had the discovery of the new kit and Kurama and his relationship reaching new levels, but all in all, he was almost depressed. It was great having his friends around, but he would see Chu and Kuwabara sparring together, and want to jump into the mix and beat their asses. He wanted to be able to sit on the roof top and smoke a cigarette with Shizuru. He wanted to go on an adventure, or fly with Puu again. He was even beginning to miss that look on Koenma’s face whenever Yusuke was faced with a seemingly impossible task. Yusuke missed the danger, but he knew that he would enjoy this life with the kits so much too. The two sides of his personality were conflicting with each other over which one would be dominate.

As Kurama thought about how Shizuru threw the game for Yusuke, he felt a wave of affection for the woman. He was glad that Yusuke had friends that knew him well enough to know what he wanted, and to know what would make him happy. As he looked over at Yusuke who was playfully bickering with Jin and Chu, he knew in his heart that Yusuke was alright. That they were alright. That everything was going to be alright.


AN: Okay, I know it's shorter then the rest of my other chapters, but I've been really, really buisy, so I hope that you guys enjoyed it. PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE REVIEW!!!!