Suprise!

So, I decided I wanted to write a nice, long chap for you guys, and before I knew it, I had typed up 20 pages in word. So, I guess I really wanted to make an extra long chappie for you guys! Sorry it took so long to update!
Enjoy!

Chapter 5

Over the next month, Yusuke’s days had fallen into a pattern. Kurama would wake up early in the morning and start his shift as a guard. With Yusuke being nine months pregnant, the security had tightened. The guards worked on a rotating schedule, and usually only Kurama, Hokoushin and a couple of monks would work that time in the morning. That of course made it extreamly predictable what he was doing during the day.

He would wake up later than almost anyone else in the castle. First thing in the morning he would be examined by Juichi. He would slowly waddle to the living room with Puu, who had shrunk drastically in size because of Yusuke’s lack of energy, and sit on the couch and shoot the breeze with his friends who weren’t currently on guard. The rest of the day he would eat, nap, and play card games in the living room until Kurama would be ready for bed, at which point Yusuke was as well.

While Yusuke kind of liked having a schedule to follow, he wasn’t exactly thrilled with his new schedule, especially his sleeping habits. Yusuke could never have been classified as a morning person, he had always been a night-owl. Even before he had died, the reason Yusuke didn’t go to school was because he never woke up in time. He would prowl the streets at night, fighting with thugs and other students. Yusuke was a creature of the night, and going to bed at 10 just didn’t suit him.

He was, however, happy that a while back, Kurama and Kuwabara briefly went to the Ningenkai and brought back a VCR and DVD player. While Yusuke had a TV in his castle, it only picked up demon channels, and Yusuke was depressed when he would watch fight scenes. So, instead, Yusuke would go in the living room and watch old movies with his friends, especially “crappy early nineties movies with their bad graphics and animation”*.

Yusuke had found that him and his friends had formed an even stronger friendship since Yusuke had been pregnant. All his friends new that they could always count on Yusuke for protection if they needed it, and in one-way or another the mazoku had followed through with that silent promise. But now, Yusuke was the one that needed protection and his friends were not going to leave him in the dust.

Yusuke used to feel complete when helping his friends, and knew that he wasn’t useless when a friend approached him with a problem, but now he was useless. While it was nice his friends where there for him, it was so weird for him to rely so much on his allies. He couldn’t help but feel weak because of the pregnancy and for needing help. After Yusuke became detective, he hadn’t been ashamed to ask for help against Sensui or others, but this was different. He wasn’t admitting that he needed help fighting an enemy. He needed help because he had grown weak and frail, and while he knew that wasn’t actually the truth, it was all in his head, he couldn’t shake the feeling. It had become extreamly common for Yusuke to end up with his head and feet in
his friends laps when he was laying on the couch.

With Yusuke’s size, it was almost impossible for him to find a comfortable position, especially while sitting up, so he lay on the couch. This of course led to the issue of space management in a small room with up to eight people in it at a time. The most logical choice: put more people on the couch. It had been extremely awkward at first, and still was at times. Yusuke adamantly refused to put his head in some people’s laps, mostly Chu and Kuwabara. Just the idea… ooked him out. There where only four people he would do that with other then his mate, Shizuru, and shockingly, Touya and Hokoushin.

Shizuru wasn’t a large stretch, after all, Yusuke had known her a long time, and she was a woman, so it didn’t seem gay (yes, he knew the irony). Hokoushin had cared for Yusuke when he had been in much worse states, in fact they had recently found out that a couple years prior Hokoushin had thought Yusuke to be extremely ill, but apparently he was going through his first heat cycle. That had been particularly embarrassing, but Hokoushin had been helpful, and except for the obvious method of assisting Yusuke, did everything in his power to help his lord. Touya was a different matter. While Touya had never seen Yusuke at his lowest points, he was very polite concerning Yusuke, and unlike Jin or Chu didn’t move around much after sitting down, leaving Yusuke able to drift in and out of sleep without being jarred awake by random movements. And as a bonus, Touya could give some of the worlds best shoulder massages.

None of this helped Yusuke though, he still felt weak and pathetic.

With that feeling came another, more important one, what would he do after the kits where born? He had been a fighter since ten years old, and had been one for hire since twelve, so what would he do now? It wasn’t as though he had any real-world skills. Sure he could punch down a brick wall, run for weeks on end without rest, knock-out two hundred guys in about two minutes, but it’s not like he had ever had a human job. That was one of the only point on which Keiko and him could not agree. She had wanted him to settle down, work in the restaurant, something Yusuke just could not do. He was a free spirit, and he wasn’t going to settle down for anything except now maybe for the kits. Even with his mate there to try and figure something out, they still were unsure what exactly they were going to do in the way of where to live. Would they raise the kits in the makai or Ningenkai? Both had advantaged and disadvantages or would they just decide to go from one to the other?

As Yusuke lay on his bed one morning thinking about the makai vs. Ningenkai problem, it suddenly occurred to him that Boton and Yukina still only though he was having one kit. He slowly stood up, and rocked himself out of bed before being able to carefully get to his feet.
“Goddamn humans, they would be giving birth right about now.” He mumbled lightly to himself as he walked towards the door. “Lucky bastards.”

Juichi had decided after Yusuke’s hips had widened that the demon should be on full bed-rest, however the mazoku flat-out would not do that when there was still three more months of pregnancy. Yusuke never went much further than the living room or bath room and since those were very close to his room, Juichi decided that it was alright with her.

With Raizen’s palace being rather small in radius, almost the entire bottom floor was “Yusuke’s area”. The only area downstairs demons went into were the kitchen and living room. Yusuke and Kurama took up two rooms, one as their and Puu’s bedroom and one as a future nursery and birthing room. Even Juichi lived upstairs in between Kuwabara and Chu, which she had jokingly complained about.

He was going to make his way into the living room, but his bladder began to scream at him and he knew that he must once again go to the bathroom. “It’s not like I could ever go on complete bed rest, not with these kits playing kick-ball with my bladder.” Yusuke’s bladder was now within reaching distance of the kits since his hips had widened. Really, nothing had stayed the same since then. He couldn’t lay on his back, he constantly had to go to the bathroom, he was aching a bit more, especially in his feet and legs, and he had started mumbling to himself a hell of a lot more.

When he finally reached the living room, he looked over at Chu, Rinku and Touya who were currently the only occupants.

“What’s up Yus-chan?” Chu asked when he saw the already pissed off mazoku walk in. Regrettably, Yusuke’s nickname had not gone away since his friends had stayed, and only had spread in popularity.

“Where’s Kurama, I need to talk to him about something.”

“He’s on guard right now, but from what I been hearin’ he should be gettin’ down soon.” Jin said as he walked into the door. Yusuke sighed and slowly walked over and sat on the couch, before cautiously laying on his side and putting his feet in Chu’s lap and his head in Touya’s.

“So, what did ya wantin’ to be talkin’ about wit your mate?” Jin asked from one of the chairs.

Yusuke sighed loudly, ignoring the sound of Rinku smacking Jin, and said “I’m worried that the girls in the Ningenkai are going to forget some of the stuff I need to get. I think that all of us should take a trip to the Ningenkai and help the girls shop. I won’t be able to of course, but I know Kurama would enjoy it, and I would like to see Genkai.” Even though Yusuke would never admit it out loud, he missed the old bat. Since the end of the dark tournament, he had never been away from her for this long, and after loosing her once, he wanted to be around her as long as possible before she was gone for good.

“I think the sheilas can handle it, mate.”

“The last notice they got, I was only having one kit, and there are some other things I know they’ll forget.”

“That could be a little bit of a problem” Touya said above him.

They continued talking, but had changed the subject to Makai politics for the next ten to fifteen minutes. Yusuke was getting an amazing shoulder massage from Touya when Kurama walked down the stairs. Yusuke shot of the couch, okay, so there was no “shooting” involved, mostly it was grunting, cussing, rocking, and balancing shakily, but really, aren’t those the same?

Yusuke and Kurama slowly walked back to their room, where they sat on a corner of the massive bed, Kurama massaging the knots out of Yusuke’s back as Yusuke tried to find a way to say what he wanted to say.

“Kurama, what do you think about going to the Ningenkai for two days?”

“Sure, we’ll go after the kits are born.”

“No, I mean like, tomorrow or later this week.” Kurama stopped massaging Yusuke, which irritated Yusuke, and
turned to look as Yusuke closely.

“Why?”

“Well, I was thinking about it this morning, and while the girls know to buy some stuff for a baby, but they don’t know that there is more then one, not to mention four of them yet, and I know they won’t think to get some things.”

“What would they forget?”

“Well, you know, stuff like… a meft bompf.”

“I’m sorry, what was that last part?”
Yusuke’s cheeks blushed lightly as he said quietly “a breast pump.”

Kurama couldn’t help it, he was shocked. He hadn’t even thought about getting anything like that, so he knew that Yusuke was right and that the girls definitely would forget.

“Where did you get the idea to do something like that?” he asked Yusuke, returning to massaging his lovers aching muscles.

“It’s something Juichi recommended. Demons haven’t come up with any formulas yet for infants, and lord knows that human formula won’t cut it, and if we start to bottle my… the… breast milk” he managed to choke out, “we can take turns feeding the kits, especially right after their born, since I will most likely be so exhausted it will be almost impossible to wake me up.”

Kurama thought about it, and it all seemed to make sense, he knew that she did this for a living, but he was shocked that Juichi had thought far enough ahead about this.

“Okay, I’ll see what I can do, but must we go to the Ningenkai?”

“I wanna go!” Yusuke whined “Look here, Fluffy, if we go to the Ningenkai, I’m much more likely to be better protected because of the kekai barrier, those creatures in the living room will get a chance to stretch their legs a little, and maybe even have some fun if they go with the girls, and I get to visit Genkai, and maybe my mom could come up. Plus, I have some plans to make up there.”

“Such as what, exactly.”

“That’s for me to know, and you to stop asking questions! …. Please, Kurama? It would mean so much to me.”
Kurama rubbed the bridge of his nose. Yusuke had won, and he knew it. “Fine, but only if we talk to Juichi first and she says its alright, and she comes with us.”

Yusuke smiled brightly and kissed Kurama passionately… before whispering “thanks Kurama.”

The next morning, well, actually afternoon, they all slowly walked out of the castle, and walked in the court yard, where Kuwabara slowly made a portal that would take them to the pseudo-space between the two worlds. They slowly made there way through, until they reached the barrier which Kuwabara cut and then repaired, before they walked into the Ningenkai right into Genkai’s front yard. Kuwabara had to lean on his sister for a moment. He still wasn’t used to his growing powers, and they made him dizzy after using them, however, he was nowhere near exhausted as Yusuke. He was leaning against Kurama and breathing heavily, until Kurama sighed slowly picked up his lover, trying not to grunt from the weight, and slowly carried Yusuke into Genkai’s house.

Yusuke knew he was going to be drained while away from the Makai’s strength inducing powers, but he didn’t know it was going to be that drastic or that sudden. Kurama gently placed Yusuke on his old bed, and kissed his forehead. “Stay here, and get some strength before doing anything else.”

Yusuke wanted to object, but found himself nodding slowly instead. “Kurama, take Juichi with you, make sure she gets all the stuff we need.”

“Yusuke, she needs to say here with you.”

“The hell she does. Please Kurama? You’re not even going to be gone for 24 hours, I’ll be fine for that long.

Go have fun shopping and visiting your mother.”

Kurama reluctantly nodded, he just couldn’t allow himself to tell Yusuke no when he was in this kind of shape. Kurama walked towards the door when he heard Yusuke say behind him “Oh, and Kurama, could you please… visit Keiko’s grave. Tell he what’s happening. Please? For me?”

Kurama nodded to his lover, told him that he loved him, and walked out of the door, unable to shake the bad feeling he was getting.

Two hours later had Kurama sitting nervously in a large eight-demon van filled with himself, Juichi, Kuwabara, Jin, Touya, Chu, and Rinku. While all of them looked human enough, they all had to take precautions to look human, or just not as weird. Jin was wearing a shirt and jeans with an old baseball cap they had found. Touya and Chu just wore regular clothing, and Touya was wearing a short brown wig. Juichi was wearing a long dress that miraculously could hide her tail paired with a bandana in her hair
Kuwabara was driving the vehicle to his and Yukina’s house. Kurama was happy for his friend. Kuwabara was speeding down the roads (something that he never did, as he was one of those people that drove as carefully as an old, blind nun) in order to get home and see his wife and two twin girls, Ami and Emi. While Kurama tried to show he was happy for Kuwabara, his mind was wandering on Yusuke. What if something happened? What if he went into labor? What if someone attacked? What if he tripped and fell?

“Kurama!” Juichi said loudly, bringing Kurama back down to earth. “Are you alright? You look pale?”

“I’m fine, thank you.”

“Are ya worrien’ ‘bout Urameshi, mate?” Chu asked loudly from the back.

“A little, yes.”

“Don’cha be fretten’ but to much there fox-boy, he’s got Hokoushin with him, and that demon won’t be letten’ just anyone near Yus-chan ifn’ ya know what I mean.” Jin chipped in.

“I know that, but thank you Jin.”

Juichi leaned forward and whispered in Kurama’s ear, “Listen hun, I’ve done these kinds of things a lot. If, god forbid, Yusuke does go into labor, you will know it. You see that mark there on your neck, that connects you two together. You will be able to feel it, and don’t worry, I’ve told Hokoushin that if Yusuke does go into labor to get into the Makai as quickly as possible. We will meet them there. Don’t worry to much, all right hun?”

“… Right.”
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Yusuke woke up a couple hours later to the sound of two very loud people yelling at each other, and an equally loud person, just yelling. He slowly stood up, and felt so dizzy he thought he was going to fall over, regained his strength, and waddled carefully over to door. When he opened it, he saw Hokoushin dodging flying pieces of furniture or decorations, thrown by Genkai, with his mother laughing loudly and applauding drunkenly in the distance. Once he walked out, Hokoushin rushed to his side.

“Lord Yusuke” that was a name Yusuke had begrudgingly agreed to with the monks “Lord Kurama said you should sleep for at least another hour, sir.”

“Maybe I would have if people weren’t yelling! Hokoushin, what the hell did you do to the old bat?”

“I did nothing, sir, however this woman is very rude.”

“Oh, go shove it up your ass, baldie! I am not going to be questioned by some demon I’ve never met, about my apprentice in my own home!”

“Hokoushin, you didn’t!”

“Well, she approached your door, and while I was sure that it was most likely the Genkai that owns this property, it is of course my job to ask questions. But when I did she told me to ‘go fuck myself and pull that seven-foot long stick out my ass’ which I took as aggressive and a possible threat to you. I immediately assumed she was an enemy, but did not attack and continued to ask questions until she started using housing
decorations as missiles.”

Yusuke sighed loudly, and wanted to lecture them both, but felt himself running out of steam already, and slowly walked towards the living room couch. He looked over at his mother, who was now sitting in the chair across from him. He realized that she wasn’t drunk for once, just excited to see her son, but he could tell that she was thinking more then that, though.

He saw the way her eyes grew in shock when she saw the size of his belly. He saw the way she seemed repelled and slightly disgusted by the taunt skin complete with stretch marks that peeked at the bottom of his stretched skirt. He could see the disgust and what looked like either shame or sympathy in his mother’s eyes when she looked at her son as he struggled to find a comfortable position in which to sit. She took everything in, his sighing and weakness, and the way his hand automatically reached to his abdomen and gently rubbed it out of habit. Yusuke saw that she looked at him through guarded eyes, as if he were a stranger, and that hurt him. He could see she was struggling not to look that way, but he knew that his mother was disgusted by the sight of her only son.

“Wow, Yusuke, you sure have gotten bigger!” His mother was finally able to choke out. Genkai walked over and sat on the edge of Atsuko’s chair and said, “You sure have, Yusuke. Is it true that you and Kurama recently found out that you’re having quads?”

“Yeah. We found out we were having triplets when Juichi examined me for the first time, and then after an… unfortunate incident, we ended up finding out we were having quads.”

“…You’re going to have four children?!” Atsuko said, completely shocked. “Wow, you are going to have such a big family, just like you said you always wanted.”

“Well, I always wanted a big family with uncles and aunts and grandparents and stuff like that, but over the years, it seems I’ve gained that.”

“… What do you mean, Yusuke?”

“Well, let me just say, I think my kits are going to have lots of aunts and uncles.”

“Kits?”

“Um, yeah. It’s what Kurama and I have gotten into the habit of calling them, since he’s a fox-demon. The
thing is, all my team-mates and a lot of my adversaries are going to be aunts or uncles, except of course Kurama who will be a father, and Genkai who will be a great-grandmother to the kits”

“Oh. Yusuke, I think you have something on your cheek.”
Yusuke sighed loudly. “Um… Genkai, now that Ma’s sober, can you explain it to her.”

“You see Atsuko,” Genkai began “when your son… No, I think I should start a little before that. A long time ago, and demon by the name of Raizen-“

“I know about our family’s demon heritage. I’ve known since my mother died. She told me the story on her death bed so if she lived I wouldn’t be surprised, but honestly, I never believed the myth until Yusuke’s last fight before going to the Makai. He seemed different some how, and I knew that must be the reason. When I looked at him, I got the same vibe that I do when looking at an apparition, but I didn’t want to show him how worried I was. That’s why when he told me he was going to go to the Makai for a couple years, I acted like I was drunk, when actually I wanted to cry.”

“I’m… sorry Ma.”

“It’s alright Yusuke. You can repay me by telling me what’s on your cheek.”

“That is a …. Preview I guess, to what I look like as a demon. I have markings, and my hair grows along with my fangs and claws. My body is trying to get ready for me to…you know, give birth, so it’s starting to go into demonic form slowly that way I’ll have more energy, you know, when I need it.”

“Why don’t you want to say that you’ll give birth, and I bet you don’t want to say breast-feed either.”

“Yeah, I don’t” Yusuke said flatly “Look, Ma, I’m a guy, okay, and I’m not a flamboyant guy either. It’s not like when people look at me, they think I’m gay, and before you say anything, I’ll get back to that in a minute. I’m a guys guy, and I can beat the shit outta anyone, and yet, I’m… you know, giving birth … and… breast-feeding.”

“So, can we go back to the whole ‘I don’t wanna look gay’ thing?”

“Look, Ma, I don’t consider myself gay, I don’t even consider myself bi, I just happened to fall in love with Kurama. After Keiko died-“ Yusuke had to pause for a minute. He felt his voice break, and tears fall slowly. “Damn hormones.” Atsuko immediately got up and put her arms around him and held her son close, which made Hokoushin nervous until she glared at him so bad that Hokoushin was 100% sure that she was Yusuke’s mom.

“You don’t have to say anymore Yusuke. I understand. So, how far along are you?”

“Almost 10 months.”

“10 MONTHS!”


“Yeah, well mazoku in my situation are pregnant for a whole year.”

“Damn, I was a week late with you and I wanted to kill you, I can’t imagine what it must be like at 10 months.”

“A pain in the ass, but, if it will help my kits get stronger I don’t mind. Oh, I gotta go to the bathroom, I’ll be back in a few.” He said as he gracelessly got up and waddled out of the room.

“He’s such an amazing boy.” Genkai said after Yusuke left. “He can be an idiot, but he has a great heart.”

“Yes, he does, I’m proud to call him my son.”
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Kurama walked through the sickeningly cute baby isles with Juichi, who was picking out all of the not-so-obvious things that they would need. Breast pump, check; diaper genie, check so far, so good in the baby store, but they were going to have to go to a pharmacy soon and get some things bound to freak everyone out. But for now, Kurama was enjoying himself. Some of the items were deathly cute, and he was getting filled with that happy anticipation again at the thought of being a dad. He knew that the pregnancy hadn’t been planned, and that it had caused a lot of problems, but to him it seemed worth it, except that he didn’t like seeing Yusuke so weak. He hated seeing Yusuke as depressed as he was, it just didn’t seem right. Kurama looked over and saw a beautiful cradle, starting walking over to it. ‘Maybe Yusuke will enjoy putting this together, and I know he’s every bit as excited as I am’ he thought.


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Yusuke sat at desk in his office, and stared at the phone intently. He wasn’t sure whether or not he was willing to go through with this, would it be worth it? Oh well, might as well get the easier of the two calls done with. He picked up the phone and dialed the number in front of him. It rang twice before a boy answered it and said “Yeah? Who’s this?”


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Kurama pinched the bridge of his nose as he looked at his friends who had obviously lost their mind. Chu and Rinku were currently ogling baby clothes and trying to picture what Kurama and Yusuke’s kits would look like, which seemed to be breaking their brains. Kuwabara was fighting with Touya over something insignificant, and Jin was…

“Jin!” Kurama said quietly but firmly. “Get down here, you’re going to scare some poor humans badly if you continue floating like that!”

“Oh, sorry ‘bout that. I kinda forgot and I was want’n a better view o’ the baby things.”

“Well don’t forget again, we really can’t afford to draw too much attention to ourselves.” He looked over at his loud, incapable-of-blending-in friends and added “Any more attention than we’ve already drawn.”

“If you can’t take care of these fools, how in the hell are you going to manage four kits and Yusuke?” A familiar voice asked from down the isle. Kurama turned to see the three-eyed demon smirking at him.

“Hiei! I wasn’t expecting to see you here.” Kurama said.

“Yes well King Enki sent me here, said that it looked like some demons were trying to bring chaos to the human world.”

“Oh no, you caught us.” Juichi said suddenly from behind Kurama “Well, the only way tyrannical demons such as ourselves will be satisfied is if you help us shop. Thank you so much Hiei for volunteering.” She pulled a shopping cart up to the shorter demon and said “Alright, now go ahead and go get some blankets and stuff for the kits.”

“… I will slit your throat when I get the chance.” Hiei said darkly, before doing as she instructed.


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Yusuke leaned back in his chair, glad that he was finally finished with making all those calls, when he heard someone knocking lightly on the door.”

“Come in.”

Atsuko and Hokoushin slowly walked into the room. It was the first time anyone other than Genkai had been in his office, not even Kurama had entered the room. All around the walls were books lined up, there was an entire bookshelf dedicated to classic action manga, but all the other shelves where filled with book after book on martial arts, or types of demons and their weaknesses and strengths, books on the Makai and 3 Lords, hell, there was even one book on himself. Every book he owned he had at least read some of it for work or pleasure.

“Lord Yusuke, I had no idea you read so much.”

“I don’t usually, but after the fight with Sensui and my return from the makai, I figured that I was tired of the kinds of fighting I was doing before. Most demons by now know about me, and know the areas in my fighting style I’m not very strong in, so why can’t I at least know the basics if I’m going by species. Besides, I was doing it for a living, so I couldn’t keep getting into fights that took long recoveries.”

“Well, anyway, Genkai wanted to let you know that it’s time for dinner.”

“Awesome!” Yusuke said, excepting his mom’s help out of the chair, and walked towards the dining room.


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Kurama slowly and somberly placed the flowers on Keiko’s grave and straitened up, looking but not seeing up to the sky. He sighed loudly before beginning his long speech to the dead woman buried beneath his feet.

“Keiko, I’m not going to dance around the subject and lie to make myself feel better for respecting the dead. You and I never really had the chance to know the other one well, so never cared much for the other except for how it affected Yusuke. Hell, if I’m going to be honest, I disliked you. I know that’s unfair, seeing as I never really knew you, but it’s the blunt and honest to goodness truth. I think we both could agree that it was our mutual love for Yusuke and competitive natures that didn’t allow either of us to get close to the other. I didn’t like how Yusuke was so protective of you, I didn’t like the way he looked at you, and when he told me that upon his return he was going to marry you, well, I thought my heart was going to stop beating.

“Don’t get me wrong, I don’t mean to say that I wouldn’t have been able to live without Yusuke, I knew that time would continue just as it always had and that everything would be alright, it wasn’t going to cause the apocalypse or anything. I would be lying if I didn’t say that I’m not in the smallest part relieved or even partially glad that you died because it brought Yusuke and I together. If there had been any way for that goal to be accomplished with you alive, I would have gladly accepted that one, but I think that both of us are in agreement that would never happen.” Kurama paused for a moment, and looked back down at the grave, shoving his hands further into his pockets and looking away.

“Look Keiko reason I am here is for Yusuke, and I think I wanted to come clean with you. Yusuke and I have become mates, and I am the happiest I have ever been before. Yusuke is pregnant with our children, and we are going to be fathers to four kits. Yusuke is so excited to be a dad, but I can tell that while he doesn’t want admit it, I wasn’t the one he ever expected to have children with. There are obvious pieces of evidence that would contribute to that belief, mainly because we are both males, but I know that he always wanted to have children with you and I would be lying if I said that I wasn’t jealous or resentful towards you for that. Yusuke is fine physically, but I can tell that emotionally he’s a wreck. He thinks in some way that this is cheating on you, and he is so worried that you hate him for doing this. If you were alive and this had happened, you are the one that he would turn to for support, and I know that more then anything else he wants your blessing.

“Obviously both Yusuke and I realize that this can never happen, and that we will forever guess what you are thinking, or if you even know. I’m sorry that I bothered you with this emotional baggage, and I am fully aware that it is our own fault that we are emotionally bothered by the situation, and that it is no use blaming the dead.” Kurama bowed deeply before saying “I do not regret taking Yusuke as my lover after your death, and I will admit that it pleases me greatly to know that he will always be by my side as my mate, however, I am sorry that this happened at the expense of you life and I don’t expect for your soul to ever truly forgive me. Goodbye Keiko, and thank you for all you did for Yusuke.” With that said, Kurama turned and walked back to the van, his heart not light and guilt-free as he had hoped, but at peace for the first time in a while.


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Yusuke walked into the kitchen to see Boton hurriedly going around the kitchen as she cooked them dinner. It was widely known that Boton’s cooking was nowhere near gourmet food, but the other three options were between Genkai, Atsuko, and Shizuru, all of which Yusuke had tasted their food before and hated it. Yusuke was pretty sure that if hell where boiled down into a pot, that if you ate smelly, athlete socks on the side it would taste better then their cooking.

He sat at the table, across from a visitor he hadn’t expected to see, Koenma. Koenma, in his teen form of course, waved to Yusuke. Yusuke said hi back and slowly sat down into his chair, making Koenma nervous and squirm as he made it painfully obvious that he didn’t want to look any further down than Yusuke’s head. Boton turned around, saw Yusuke and rushed to give him a hug, saying “Oh, Yusuke! Look at you! You’ve gotten to big!”

“So I am told” Yusuke said with a grin. Boton reached down and slowly rubbed over Yusuke’s belly, which
startled Yusuke slightly. A feeling of sudden rage and protectiveness rushed through his veins as the unsuspecting reaper continued to rub and coo at Yusuke’s stomach. Yusuke had to grip the sides of his chair, and the only thing that stopped him from slicing open Boton’s throat was will power, and the knowledge that she would do no harm.

“Um, Boton, not to sound rude or anything but please stop that. If you don’t get your hands off my stomach I think my instincts will go into over drive and make me slit your throat.” Boton “eeped” and immediately retracted the hand as Yusuke took a calming breath.

“Boton, it has nothing to do with you, it’s just my instincts, and I wasn’t expecting you to do that. Maybe later on tonight after I calm down and when I know you’re going to do that you can. Deal?”

“That sounds fine Yusuke, just thanks for the warning!” She said brightly, and slowly set the dinner on the table.


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“So Shuichi, how is America?”

Kurama was sitting across the table from his mother, quietly eating dinner with his family. He knew this was the last time he could eat dinner with his human family, seeing as Kurama was now supposed to be 27 years old, but he still looked like he was 19, and he would for a couple more years.

“America is fine, mother, I’m enjoying it very much.”

“Do you have a girlfriend?”

“Actually, I have a fiancé, but we don’t want a big wedding. We’re actually expecting to have a baby soon.”

“Oh! Shuichi, I’m so happy for you! What’s her name.”

“…Yus-chan.”


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Yusuke woke up the next morning, in pain. Not bad pain, like labor, but the pain of a sudden boner that won’t go away. He moaned softly for Kurama, knowing that Kurama wouldn’t be able to hear him, but wishing all the same. He quickly tore off his pants to tackle the problem, but it wasn’t enough. Yusuke would come close the edge, but he couldn’t climax, no matter how hard he tried. “Kurama, where are you?”


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In a nearby city, Kurama sat up straight in his bed. Fear came rushing through his veins, and he knew Yusuke was in trouble. He picked up his cell-phone off the nightstand and called Yusuke.

“He-hee- hello?” Came the panting reply.

“Yusuke, what’s wrong.”

“Nothing, really.”

“Yusuke…” Kurama said warningly.

“Look, I just have a really intense case of morning wood, okay? But it won’t go away.”

“What do you mean?”

“It means I could wrap my hand around it and pump for hours and I won’t be able to cum!”

“Are you alright?”

“Well, it kinda hurts, and it really sucks. Imagine the most turned on you have ever been, but no matter what
you do, you can’t cum.”

“I’ll try to be there soon Yusuke, alright?”

“Alright, hurry please, Kurama.”


Within 20 minutes Kurama had already said goodbye to his mother for life, and was on his way to pick up Juichi and head back to the Shrine. “Hold on Yusuke”


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Yusuke was peeved that Hokoushin knew what this was. It was embarrassing, he didn’t want anyone to know about this, let alone Hokoushin. He knew the old bat could tell too, but he thought his mother might still be in the dark.

“Lord Yusuke.” Hokoushin said as he walked in the door, holding a tub full of cold water and a wash cloth. “I’m assuming this is like one of your heat cycles.”

“It’s a little worse, but yeah. Thank you, Hokoushin.” Hokoushin nodded and walked out.

Yusuke rubbed the cool cloth over his body and felt, anxious without Puu by his side. He knew that the spirit beast was fine, he could tell through their connection, but that didn’t make it any easier. Puu was always by his side, and helping him, so Yusuke felt nervous without him, combine that with Kurama not being there, and the detective was on the brink of hyperventilating.

His hands fisted into the sheets, as he shook his head back and forth from the pain and pleasure coursing through his veins as he tried once more to reach completion his hands roughly pumping his cock. He shifted his feet and planted them on the bed and tried to push his weight up so he could attempt to buck into his hand, panting, moaning, wanting and willing to do almost anything if it would give him release. Sweat pored down his body, and pure exhaustion kept him from continuing his bitter-sweet ministrations leaving him moaning in pain and feelings of helplessness, wanting more then ever, his mate by his side.


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Kurama and Juichi raced down the road at ungodly speeds as Kurama drove madly to reach Genkai’s temple. His mind raced with thought of Yusuke, and through their mate-bond he could feel that Yusuke was frustrated and in pain. It looked like they might have made it to Genkai’s within a half-hour if it hadn’t been for the sudden sea of angry, red tail-lights infront of them.

Kurama cursed loudly, but was surprised to hear the demoness beside him curse as well.
“What is it?” Kurama asked, he knew that something not obvious to him must be wrong.

“Well, I didn’t want to worry you earlier, but if Yusuke doesn’t get release soon, he could risk exposing the kits to too much testosterone, with could poison them. His body though will probably react faster then that though and shove him into premature labor.”

“WHAT?!”

“Kurama, it is not going to be helpful if we cannot think rationally.”

“I… know.” Kurama picked up his cell phone and quickly called Yusuke’s cell.

“h-h-Hello” Yusuke panted into the phone.

“Yusuke, I need to tell you something, and I need you to stay calm, okay?”

“What i-is” moan “it?”

“Juichi and I are currently stuck in horrible traffic, and can’t find a way out. It will take us another 30 minutes to get to you from our current location, but with this traffic, I have no idea when it will be.”

“… okay.”

“And Yusuke, there’s something else. Juichi just warned me of something that could be extremely unfortunate. If you stay in the state you are currently in too long, the testosterone could poison the quads. Your body will most likely prevent this however by going into premature labor. Yusuke, you can’t stay in this state much longer.”

“I-I understand” Yusuke said shakily and lowly.

“Yusuke, I guess what I’m saying is if I’m not there within an hour… you’re going to have to be assisted by someone else.” Kurama could hear the strain in his own voice as he said the words that made his blood curdle.

“… I’ll have someone else help me if it comes down to it, probably Hokoushin since he would be the most sensible one. I don’t w-want it to come to that though, so get here as soon as possible, Kurama.” Yusuke knew by Kurama’s instructions how much Kurama loved and trusted him if he wanted Yusuke to do something that Kurama would have hated to even think about.

“I am trying my damndest, Yusuke. I love you.”

“I love you too.” With that, Kurama quickly hung up the phone and focused on the traffic.

“Should you have been that blunt with Yusuke?” Juichi asked from beside him.

“I don’t sugar coat, and Yusuke knows it. We trust each other’s strengths and understand the others weaknesses. Through that, we can tell each other just about anything directly and bluntly and put out emotions aside for a moment in order to plan something.”

“You two definitely seem perfect for one another.” Juichi said, before going back to formulating a plan.


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Within forty-five minutes Yusuke was beginning to get flustered and panicked that Kurama had yet to show. He didn’t want to approach Hokoushin unless it was absolutely necessary, lord new that would be unpleasant for all involved. He was starting to get a headache, and his stomach had begun to ache with hunger and by the stress on his body. Yusuke knew his body well enough that he knew if he wasn’t careful and he didn’t get a handle, or a hand, on this soon, he would be meeting his kits sooner than planned. He wanted to get up and run to the nearest toilet he was feeling so nauseous, but he had a feeling if he tried to stand he would most likely fall and that could hurt him, but more importantly the kits. So that left him writhing on the bed panting in a pool of sweat.

He heard the door creak open, and looked up.

“Kurama?” he asked shakily. As the figure moved closer, he realized the silhouette was wrong for Kurama, he was now in the presence of Youko.

“Youko? Why are you-“ but he couldn’t finish his sentence as he was hit with an extreme wave of sexual energy.

“Kurama and I decided that it would be best if I came out and played, seeing as I have more stamina in this area than does Kurama.”

“Mhm.” Yusuke managed to say.

Youko smiled lightly, knowing that he was going to enjoy this, as he quickly walked across the room and suddenly kissed Yusuke. Yusuke’s eye’s widened from shock, but soon he was moaning and wrapping his arms around Youko as the skillful tongue battled with Yusuke’s for dominance. Youko’s tongue seemed to know exactly how to move in a way that seemed less like a battle and more of a dance that was slowly bringing Yusuke over the edge.

Youko moved his hands slowly down Yusuke’s sides as his mouth continued attacking Yusuke’s. The hands moved and rested on Yusuke’s breasts, which Youko readily began massaging and teasing. His mouth left Yusuke’s and traveled slowly down Yusuke’s neck and near the ear, as he began lightly pinching Yusuke’s sore nipples. Kurama’s skillful tongue swished over the mating mark making Yusuke gasp loudly and dig his nails into Youko’s back.

Youko grinned mischievously as one hand began slowly pulling down Yusuke’s pants and heard the man his as his erection reached the air. Purple and very, very angry were the only words that could describe Yusuke’s begging cock. Youko kept swishing his tongue over the mating mark and nipping at it lightly as a barely grazed Yusuke’s taunt stomach. The stretched belly was very sensitive and Yusuke wanted to buck upward from the sheer pleasure. Youko’s hand continued down until he grabbed Yusuke’s length and began pumping while terrorizing the mark on his lover’s shoulder.

“Oh-oh Go-od” Yusuke moaned loudly, digging his nails deep into Youko’s skin. The silver fox responded of course by biting the mark, making Yusuke scream his name and pant like he had run for two months straight. Youko pumped harder and harder, his free hand groping at Yusuke’s breast again until at last Yusuke yelled out and bit Youko’s mating mark hard making the fox unexpectedly climax as well.

Yusuke rolled on his side on the bed and said “Youko, I’m still hard.”

“Well I don’t see what you want me to do about it, you took mine away.” Youko said before silver hair went red, and gold eyes faded to green, and Kurama was the one lying in front of Yusuke. “I’m terribly sorry, as all of us know, Youko can be a bit of an ass.”

“Kurama, I want to…” he trailed off.

“What Yusuke? In case you haven’t noticed, you get to pick tonight.”

“I… I want to have sex the way we used to.”

“You want me to top?”

“Yeah, I think my body wants you to, some how I know that’s the only way it will completely get the surge of testosterone out.”

“Are you sure?” Kurama asked tentatively, that last thing they needed was have Yusuke regret something like this later on.

“I’m sure, we just have to be really careful that there is no tearing.”

Kurama pressed swollen lips against swollen lips as he kissed Yusuke in a more gentle and loving manner than Youko and made Yusuke’s confidence grow. Kurama kept going south lightly touching Yusuke and made Yusuke feel safe with Kurama rather than it just being “hot sex” with Youko.

Yusuke was panting loudly, and Kurama could tell that it wasn’t all because of the foreplay, Yusuke needed out of this. Now. He reached into the nightstand draw where they kept the lube and applied a gracious amount to his fingers. Before continuing he asked Yusuke one more time “Are you sure you want to go through with this?”

“Y-yes.” Yusuke panted.

“Okay, then I think you should kneel, facing the wall and grip the headboard for support, after all we are in the human world and you’ll have less strength, there I think I can support you better, and you won’t be lying on your back.”

Yusuke moved over and knelt by the headboard, his back facing Kurama, and spread his knees apart for Kurama. The fox moved behind Yusuke and nipped lightly at his neck as one hand wrapped around his lover’s waist to gently pump his cock, and the other slowly spread Yusuke’s cheeks as he inserted one finger. Already Kurama could feel how tight Yusuke was, especially going without this kind of sex in over 8 months. Still Yusuke wasn’t as tight as Kurama had thought, probably due to the passage widening. Yusuke squirmed underneath him as he slowly inserted another finger and carefully began scissoring inside Yusuke.

“Are you alright?” he whispered in Yusuke’s ear.

“Y-yeah, I’m fine.”

“We can stop whenever you want.”

“I… I know.”

It was a slow process, stretching Yusuke out the appropriate amount. It took at least fifteen grueling minutes before at last Kurama slid his fingers out and positioned himself behind Yusuke.

“Go.” Was Yusuke’s one command.

Kurama slowly went through the protective ring, and slowly slid himself to the hilt in one slow motion. They stayed like that for a moment, Kurama kissing the back of Yusuke’s neck before he finally started to move in Yusuke’s tight warmth. He moved slowly and very carefully, making sure not to do anything that could cause tearing.

“Ku-Kurama, f-faster!”

Yusuke’s command was not ignored as Kurama started picking up the rhythm and began hitting Yusuke prostate with every push. Yusuke moaned loudly as their pace picked up, Kurama stroking a pumping Yusuke faster and faster, while he started pounding harder and harder, never once missing that spot.

“Aw… god t-that’s g-good ah” Yusuke said as he supported his weight on the creaking headboard. Kurama’s free hand wandered up Yusuke’s stomach and cupped one of his breasts, tweaking the nipple while massaging around it.

“Ah- ah!” Yusuke said as he met Kurama thrust for thrust becoming louder and louder until he came, shooting out his seed and Kurama’s name as he did so. Kurama lasted no longer than 30 seconds after that, following in Yusuke’s steps by yelling Yusuke’s name in the crook of his lover’s neck.

Kurama separated himself from Yusuke and plopped down on the bed before helping his exhausted lover do the same. “After we get some rest and the baby stuff all arrives, can we please go back home?” Kurama asked. Yusuke had to smile at that, it was the only time he had reffered to Raizen’s house as “home.”

“That sounds good to me.” Yusuke said weakly before drifting off to sleep in his mates arms.


“Well, it looks like everything’s set ta go, mate.” Chu said to Yusuke the next morning/afternoon. Yusuke looked over to where his mother, Genkai, Boton, and Yukina sat, and waved at them.

“Well, looks like I’m gonna go back for a while. I know that you are all coming to visit in about two months whenever I finally pop, but I’ll miss you guys until then.” He turned and was about to leave when Boton called his name.

“What?” Yusuke asked.

“I just wanted to know if I could, you know feel the kits.”

“Um… sure.” Yusuke said.

Boton walked up to him slowly and put one hand on Yusuke’s stomach.

“Oh my god, the kit kicked!” She said happily.

“Yeah, well they get into the habit of doing that sometimes.”

Boton thanked him and Yusuke turned to leave. He was already starting to feel weakened again, and that was not fun at all. He turned and looked at the shrine that in some ways he still considered home, and yet didn’t at the same time. Raizen’s palace was his and Kurama’s home now, their family’s home, and he was shocked that he was so excited to go back home.


*I had to put it in there, for those that don't know, YYH was made in the early 90's
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So, what did you guys think? Don't expect all my chaps to be this long. If there are typos and stuff, I am really sorry, but I did a lot of editing before finally saying "Fuck it".
I have decided that I am going to make a sequal to this fic!!
Next chap (depending on how this goes) might very well be the birth, so yay!
I drew a pic of Juichi!!!
It sucks, and I don't have a scanner so I had to take a pic of it, but here you go:
http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z41/psycicfox/P1010002.jpg