Koorime Litter

Hi Everyone well here it is the end or is it the beginning?. The next installiment of this series is called "Brides" and is a few pages shy of 200. It's a big monster and poor Kuroi is currenty hacking at. I'll give her a month or two before seeing where she is on it.

Also some of you have expressed desire too see the old fanart posted on "the Makai Black Market", once upon a time. Unfortunately, I lost all of that when it went down. I have recently been doing some more character designs and may in the near future have pics of the Koorime's litter for you or more exactly the never started continuation to "Brides"; "Teens".

Anyway enjoy and and we'll see about getting some more stuff up for yah. You're two cents always adds up so feel free to express your opinions.

ja ne
b-chan aka Saiaynb

Chapter : Let's Name Them

Everyone showed up at Genkai’s temple and crowded into the guestroom that Hiei slept in. A rainbow of different color eggs now lay against the Koorime boy’s stomach: red, silver, green, dark blue, aqua blue, orange, pink, brown, and black. If they’d stuck rabbit ears on the Koorime he could have been the Easter bunny.

"Oh! I hope they hatch soon!" said Keiko, moving over to Shizuru. Yusuke smiled secretly at the two.

"Botan! Where have you been?! Where’s the second egg?!" shouted Koenma at the blue haired ferry girl.

Botan just laughed nervously at him and pointed to the pink egg.

Koenma’s mouth dropped.

"You will give the great Kazuma Kuwabara and the fair Yukina any babies they ask for," chanted Kuwabara into Hiei’s ear, trying to give the fire demon subliminal messages; he’d been doing that for the last 30 minutes.

Yukina smiled and pulled him away from Hiei. If he thought anything about them when he woke up it would probably be that she was fair and Kuwabara was a great pain.

"Isn’t this exciting, Yusuke? We’re going to be fathers," said Kurama, clasping his hands over his heart. "And, my mother’s okay with it too."

"Really?" said Yusuke. "So is my mom. Ha, even Keiko’s okay with it," grinned the raven-haired teen.

"Really?" said Kurama, repeating Yusuke.

They all went silent as Hiei groaned and slowly pulled himself up into a sitting position. "What happened? I feel like I’ve just used the Kokuryuu attack," he said, rubbing his head. He opened his eyes and blinked in confusion to see everyone crowded around his bed. "Did I miss something?"

Just then a small, thin, black, fire dragon flew up and licked him on the cheek before disappearing under the bandage of his arm. Hiei’s eyes grew as big as saucers. "Was that the Kokuryuu that just licked me?" asked the shocked Koorime boy.

There were several cracking sounds and Hiei snapped his glaze down just as the eggs hatched in little puffs of smoke.

Hiei closed his eyes and slowly opened them when the air cleared. His mouth dropped as nine adorable babies now surrounded him. All the color drained out of Hiei’s face.

"They’re so cute!" shouted everyone around. They bent to pick up their respective cubs.

Kurama cuddled the two Youko kits. Apparently he had gotten the eggs mixed up, but he didn’t mind. One was a black Youko kit with white-tipped ears and tail. She was a perfect replica of him in human form, except she was a she and had blood red eyes. The other Youko kit was all silver. He looked just like a Youko Hiei, except his eyes were bright green. Kurama all but cried with joy nuzzling the two kits, breathing in their scent for the first time.

Yusuke was all grins as he picked up his two kids, a girl and a boy. The boy was him all over again, except the kid had a third red eye smack dab in the middle of his forehead and his hair had a blue shine, to it not green. Yusuke could already feel a strong ki in the boy. As for the girl, she had black hair with a green shine to it stuck up in two points like Hiei’s Majin form, plus side locks like Yukina. She was perfect; already dad’s little girl. He kissed both kids on the forehead. The boy reached out and pulled on his hair, the girl his cheek. "Ouch, they've already got a great grips; strong too!" He cuddled the still pulling babies. "I’m so proud!"

Kuwabara picked up the curly carrot-top baby and was surprised to see it was a girl! He laughed. "You were right Yukina, it’s a girl," he said, showing it to her. Yukina smiled sweetly and picked up a baby with aqua blue hair. "And the other one is a boy," she said, cuddling it to her chest. Both babies had blood red eyes and snowy white skin. To Kuwabara they were perfect, he had to have them. If Hiei said no, he didn’t know what he was going to do; kidnap them? He began counting fingers and toes happily.

Botan squealed in delight and picked up a giggling baby girl with aqua blue hair and blood red eye. "It’s so— cute!" she laughed as the baby laughed with her. She patted its back and turned circles with it. The baby only laughed harder, delighted in the fast movement. "Wee—," squealed Botan. "She’ll be a natural oar rider! I can tell already!"

Koenma’s hands trembled as he picked up a baby with wild, spiky, brown hair, a Godling. He cradled it in his arm and traced the white starburst in its hair. The baby opened large brown eyes then closed them tightly as it scrunched up his face. The baby whimpered and Koenma reached into his pocket pulling out a pacifier to pop it in the boy’s mouth. The boy stopped whimpering and started to suck on the pacifier happily. Tears of joy streamed down Koenma’s face as he rubbed checks with the baby.

From his place on the bed Hiei turned his head from side to side, looking completely shocked and confused. "W-what’s going on?" he asked. He felt a pull on his coat and looked down to see a miniature version of himself tugging on his coat. There were a few very obvious differences, especially when the boy flapped its black leathery wings to fly up and perch on his shoulder. The baby laughed and wrapped its cubby arms around his neck to coo in his ear, wagging its short reptilian tail happily. The little dragon boy had a short horn on his forehead, a longer one on either side of his head, and his ears were elfish. The dragon cub was black with a dark blue shine, except for his white face and belly.

"WHAT’S GOING ON!!!!" shouted Hiei, totally freaked out now.

Everyone stopped cooing at the babies and turned to look at him.

"Congratulations Hiei, you’re a mother," said Shizuru.

"M-mother," said Hiei, running a hand through his black hair. "To what?"

"To all of them," answered Shizuru casually, waving an arm at the babies they held.

Hiei swayed, his eyes rolled up in his head, and he fell backwards onto the bed as he fainted. The little dragon cub laughed on the way down. It snuggled up against Hiei’s neck and yawned. Closing its eyes, it was soon snoozing.

Everyone smiled at the sweet picture they made.

In his arms, Yusuke's boy and girl whimpered and started waving their arms at the fire demon.

"You want down?" asked Yusuke. He set them down on the bed and they both crawled over to snuggle against the unconscious fire demon.

Kurama’s kits whined and the redhead laid them down next to Hiei. They stopped whining at once.

The rest of the Koorime’s litter also began to whimper, so Koenma, Botan, and Yukina set them down next to Hiei. The room all but vibrated when the litter all began to purr. Even Hiei’s features softened, and soon he too joined in with the buzzing chorus.

Kuwabara stubbornly refused to let got of the little girl with curly, orange hair. She began to cry loudly.

"Kazuma, put her down with the others. She needs to drink in some of Hiei’s ki," said Yukina, touching his arm.

"Can’t she do that from us?" asked Kuwabara.

"Not yet, but soon," said the ice maiden. She smiled at him reassuringly and took the baby to lay her down next to the Koorime boy with aqua blue hair. "All right, everyone out!" said Yukina and began shooing them out of the room.

"B-but, but!" said all the would-be parents, not wanting to let go so soon.

"Out!" shouted Yukina. "Hiei will take care of his litter, you can see them again after he wakes up." She some how managed to get them all out of the room.

"Sleep tight, little ones, Onii-chan," she said, smiling as she closed the door.

* * * * * * * * * * *

A couple hours passed and everyone was talking excitedly in the living room waiting for Hiei to appear when Botan’s voice chirped up above the noise. "I know, let’s name them!" she called.

"That’s a great idea," said Yusuke.

"Shouldn’t we wait for Onii-chan before we name them?" asked Yukina.

"I’m sure Hiei won’t mind," said Kurama.

"You go first, Kurama," said Keiko. "What are you going to name your little girl? The one that looks so much like you?"

Kurama smiled softly thinking about the black and white Youko kit. "Well, if I had a girl, I was thinking of calling her Flora. But, she’s got a fire ki, not a plant one, so I’m not sure any more."

"Ah!" said Botan. "No, it’s a good name! I like it!"

Everyone agreed that they like the name. So Kurama decided to call the girl kit Flora.

"Okay, Yusuke! You’re turn!" chimed Botan.

"W-what?" said Yusuke, looking around. "Why do I have to go next?"

"Because you’re sitting next to Kurama. We’ll go in a circle, okay?"

Everyone but Yusuke agreed with Botan’s reasoning.

"Well," said Yusuke rubbing his chin. "I’m not sure what to call them, I haven’t given it any thought yet."

Next to Shizuru, Keiko sighed. "Typical Yusuke," she said, shaking her head.

"Hey! I’ve only had two days to think about it," protested Yusuke.

"How about Raiko, in honor of your demon heritage," said Kurama next to him.

"Yeah, good one," said Yusuke. "Hmm, that name sounds kind of familiar," he mumbled to himself. He shrugged. "I think it fits, so Raiko it is," he said with a nod of his head.

"Okay, Kuwabara, what are you going to name the curly-haired girl?" asked Botan.

"Um..." said Kuwabara. "We still don’t know if Hiei will let us keep her."

"Oh, you know he will, if Yukina asks," laughed Yusuke.

"Yusuke, I’m serious!" shouted Kuwabara shaking a fist at him.

"So am I," said Yusuke. "Think about it, he’s got nine kids! He’ll probably try and give them away!" grinned the raven-haired teen.

"Yeah, that’s right Kuwabara," said Kurama. "I’m sure Hiei will say yes, so go ahead."

Kuwabara gulped. "I hope you guys are right. Let’s see what should I call her? Despite my efforts for her to be other wise, she has inherited something from Hiei."

"What’s that?" asked Koenma.

"She’s a fire demon. So I’ve been thinking maybe Hotaru would be a cute name."

"Firefly," smiled Kurama. "That’s a very cute name for a girl."

"Yeah, I’m surprised you could pick such a good name," said Yusuke. "Thought you’d be calling her the great something or other."

"Hey!" protested Kuwabara. He turned back to Yukina and took her hand. "What do you think?"

Yukina smiled sweetly. "I like it a lot, Kazuma."

Kuwabara beamed with joy. "Hotaru it is then. Yukina, you can name the Koorime boy."

"Thank you, Kazuma." She thought for a few moments. "How about Keith, I’ve always liked that name?"

"If you like it, then that’ll be his name," said Kuwabara.

"Next!" sang Botan. She looked around to see who was next and noticed it was she. "Oops," she said, scratching her neck. "I guess I should have been thinking of a name while everyone was picking theirs."

Everyone slapped their faces and shook their heads at her.

"Oh, come on! Yusuke got help naming his kid, what do you think I should call her?"

"How about Loud Mouth?" suggested Yusuke. Keiko smacked him on the back of the head. "What?!" protested Yusuke, turning to look at her while rubbing his head. "Come on, any kid of Botan’s going to get herself in lots of trouble."

"Yeah, but she’s an expert of getting herself out of trouble as well," said Koenma.

"Then call the baby girl Hisa, it means "made it threw many troubles"," said Kurama.

"Kurama, you’re a genius," said Yusuke.

"I kind of like it," smiled Botan. "It’s got a nice sound to it."

Everyone nodded his or her head.

"Okay, so who’s next then?" asked Botan looking over her shoulder at Koenma. "Me?" asked Koenma, looking around.

"Yes, you," said Botan, poking him in the side.

"Okay, okay! Let’s see, he needs a name to go with his future position as the God of Death."

"Then call him the God of Death," said Yusuke.

"Shinigami?" said Kurama next to him.

"Yeah!" said Yusuke. "That works great. Hey, Koenma call him that."

Koenma though about it and nodded his head.

"We’ve been all the way around, Kurama it’s your turn again," said Botan.

"Well," said Kurama. "The silver Youko reminds me a lot of Hiei, and when I think of Hiei I can’t help but compare him to a dragon. Therefore, I’ll call him Ryu."

"Ah, Kurama you think of great names," said Keiko.

"Okay, Yusuke!" sang Botan. "Come on, what’s the girl’s name going to be?"

Yusuke frowned. "I’m no good at this naming stuff."

"You named the boy after your father’s side, why don’t you name the girl after you mother’s?" suggested Kurama.

"My mom?!" said Yusuke. "Ha, if I named my daughter after my mom it’d have to have something to do with liquor," he said, folding his arms. "Hey wait, that’s it! I’ll call her Sake!"

"You’re actually going to name your daughter after liquor?" asked Keiko, blinking her eyes.

"Hey, I like it. So that’s what I’m calling her."

"Somehow it fits," said Kurama.

Botan counted on her fingers. "That’s only eight, who didn’t go?" she asked, looking around.

No one answered.

"Tatsue," said a deep voice.

Everyone turned their heads to see Hiei leaning against the wall.

"The last cub was the black dragon’s. Therefore, I’m going to call him Tatsue," said Hiei.

"Hiei! How long have you been there?" asked Yusuke.

"Long enough to hear all the names," said Hiei.

"Any objections?" asked Shizuru.

Hiei looked straight into Kuwabara’s eyes. There was an uncomfortably long pause. "None at all," said Hiei softly.

"Hiei? Are you saying we can—?"

Hiei waved him into silence. "Just go pick Keith and Hotaru up, Kuwabara."

The carrot-top was all smiles as he got up and headed for the guestroom.

Yukina got up and walked over to Hiei. "Onii-chan, are you sure?" she asked.

"Do you want them?" asked Hiei.

The ice maiden nodded. "Very much."

"Then I’m sure," he said, kissing her forehead.

“Thank you,” she smiled, going to join her mate and new children.

"Hey, Hiei. What about us?" asked Yusuke.

The Koorime boy frowned. "If you wake them up, you’re the ones that have to put them back to sleep," he warned.

"Fair enough," said Yusuke, hopping over the couch he’d been sitting on. Kurama also got up and went after him. Soon followed Botan and Koenma.

Everyone came back out with the two kits and the cubs. A small whimpering was heard, then a black dragon boy flapped out of the room. Hiei opened his arms and hugged the boy as he buried his face against the fire demon’s chest. "Sorry," he said, patting the dragon boy’s head. "I didn’t mean to forget you, Tatsue," said Hiei, petting the boy’s fine hair. The whimpers died down and soon the cub was looking around with curious eyes while curled up against Hiei’s chest.

Everyone was shocked when a soft smile graced the fire demon’s lips.

"He looks like Yukina," whispered Kuwabara, breaking the silence.

"What?" asked Hiei tilting his head in Kuwabara’s direction.

"Um, nothing," said Kuwabara, looking away.

Hiei glared at Koenma, Kurama, and Yusuke. "You guys do know you’re dead right? I told you *not* to touch me."

All three gulped, scooting away from the fire demon who was now radiating heat.

"Nine," said Hiei. "How did I ever get nine?! I’m not a rabbit!"

Koenma thought about telling him the same thing his father had told him, that nine hours equaled nine eggs, but decided against it.

"Well, Hiei, you didn’t say no two nights ago," said Yusuke. "I had to crawl out through the window to get away from you."

"I managed to escape through the front door some how," said Koenma.

Hiei looked at Kurama with a mortified expression.

Kurama shrugged his shoulders. "I was too tired to even get out of the house. I just slept in the guest room next door."

"So that’s why we didn’t see you walk in," said Yusuke.

Hiei had turned bright red. "I told you not to touch me!" he growled. "I’m going to castrate you all," he muttered under his breath. "I’m through having kids. If you want any more you’ll have to do it yourself," barked the Koorime boy.

"Say, Yukina," asked Botan. "When can we take them home?"

"Well, any time," said Yukina. "They’ve already taken enough ki from Hiei, he doesn’t need to give them any more. You can let them feed off your own now. Of course, they still need to eat like human babies."

"Hiei, are you all right with your litter being broken up like this?" asked Kurama.

Hiei thought about it and nodded his head. "It’s better this way. I can’t handle nine kids all at once, I’ll go mad." He lowered his head and spoke softly, but they all heard it clearly. "But that doesn’t mean I’m just giving them up. I’m coming to see them when I want to."

Koenma cleared his throat. "Um, Hiei, Kurama, Yusuke. I wanted to ask you to spend the night in the Reikai, there’s something important I need to speak to you three about."

"Koenma," growled Yusuke. "This isn’t about another case or a ‘special mission?’" he asked. "Because if it is, I’d much rather spend it with my new babies."

Next to him Kurama nodded his head.

"No, nothing like that," promised Koenma. "There something much more important I need to speak to you about."

The three tantei were unnerved by the seriousness in Koenma’s voice.

"Okay, then I’ll go," said Kurama.

"Yeah, me to," said Yusuke.

"Hn," snorted Hiei.

Koenma smiled charmingly. "Good."

"Koenma-sama," said Botan. "Is there anyway the Reikai can start a daycare center?"

"What?!" shouted Koenma. "No way!"

"But, Koenma, what are you going to do with Shinigami then?" asked Shizuru. "Take him to work with you?"

The Prince of Death sweat dropped at that. He hadn’t thought of what he was going to do about that.

"Well, that’s good then. I can drop Flora and Ryu off at the Reikai when we’re on our next case," said Kurama, playing with one kit’s furry ear.

"Yeah, that makes it a lot easier," grinned Yusuke. "I mean, you can’t expect a normal human girl to baby-sit kids like these," said Yusuke. "They’d probably kill her."

"Hn," said Hiei nodding his head, the dragon cub in his arms grinned, showing sharp fangs.

"Now wait just a minute!" said Koenma.

"Oh, it’s getting late," said Kurama, looking at his watch. "We’d better hurry and go to the Reikai before it gets too dark."

Kurama, Yusuke, and Hiei all got up and walked towards the door.

Gods, and I want these three to be my wives, thought Koenma?! He shivered at the terrifying power they would have to drive him insane with that title.

"I’d better go back too," said Botan, carrying little Hisa with her. "I’m going to buy a carrier for you and take you on lots of oar rides," she said to the little, aqua-haired, baby girl.

Hiei went over and kissed both Keith and Hotaru good night before going over to Yukina and kissing her cheek. He turned to look at Kuwabara. "I’m trusting you," he said; there was a warning in the fire demon’s gaze.

Kuwabara nodded his head. "I understand."

Hiei gave the smallest of smiles, then turned and left with the others, little Tatsue still curled up against his chest.

* * * * * * * * * * *

"Ah!" said Hiei, flopping down on the extra large bed in Koenma’s room. He was still damp from having taken a shower. The little dragon boy, Tatsue, flew over to land on his chest, also damp from the shower.

They were all dressed in white bathrobes, clean, and ready for sleep.

Kurama was brushing his long hair, while Yusuke was playing with all four of his and Kurama’s cubs.

"Wow, they’re not even a day old and they can already crawl like sons of a guns," said Yusuke, rolling on the floor with the litter trying to tackle him.

"They’re part demon,; most learn to walk at a young age," said Kurama putting down his hairbrush. He went over and picked up little Ryu and Flora. "Time for bed, that goes for you boys and girls too," said Kurama, addressing Yusuke, Hiei, and the rest of the litter.

"You know, I don’t think this bed's going to be big enough," said Yusuke, picking up Sake and Raiko and dumping them on the bed before climbing in after them.

"I’m sure it will be," said Kurama, grabbing hold of Hiei and pulling him up with Tatsue to the head of the bed.

"I mean for when we want to *sleep* together," said Yusuke, lying on his back with Sake curled up against his side and Raiko on his chest.

"Oh, we’ll have to have Koenma make them their own room for when we do that," said Kurama.

"I don’t want to have sex again any time soon," growled Hiei. "Not after what happened last time."

Yusuke and Kurama grinned. "Oh, come on Hiei. You know you like it," said Kurama.

"Hn, you took advantage of me," said the fire demon.

"That was one hot night," grinned Yusuke.

"I’ll say, you’re an animal, Hiei," said Kurama.

"Shut up," said Hiei.

"Again, and again, and again," whispered Yusuke in the demon’s ear.

"I said shut up!" said Hiei, blushing.

Kurama and Yusuke laughed.

Yusuke sighed and settled down. "I like this a lot," he said, closing his eyes.

"I do to," smiled Kurama.

"Hn," snorted Hiei, but a small smile graced his lips.

They were all about to fall asleep when the door opened and in walked Koenma with Shinigami. The brown-haired baby was fast asleep.

"Sorry I’m late," whispered Koenma, putting Shinigami down next to Hiei. "I had lots of paper work to finish up."

He pulled off his outer clothes and slipped into bed beside Kurama with only his white shirt on.

"Hmm," said Kurama as Koenma loosely wrapped an arm around his waist. "So what did you want to talk to us about?" he asked half asleep.

Koenma's mouth worked to say the words, but he froze when all three looking at him with tired eyes. "Um… nothing. I’ll tell you tomorrow. Let’s just go to sleep now." He reached over and turned off the lights, but stayed awake long after the others were all softly snoozing. "Good night, my loves," he whispered, before closing his eyes.