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SIDE NOTE: Why the hell do I bother with these side notes? Tradition!!!! As long as I can remember, I've always had a disclaimer and then a side note. Well, ppls, this is it. The end of The Dragon Realm… ((sob)) of course, my friend is forcing me to make a sequel…so…heheheheheh…guess I won't be done. Well, thanks to everyone who's stayed to the end and also those who've come in at this point and are planning to read this final chapter. Read on, the last chapter of The Dragon Realm!!!!!

It was raining. Hiei caught each raindrop as they fell from the leaves the tree he sat in. It had begun raining long after he'd taken his perch in the tree, so the branch he sat on was perfectly dry.

The fire demon heard a call from below him and looked down to see Kurama standing there with an umbrella. The kitsune smiled warmly at his friend.

"Come on down, Hiei. It's cold."

Hiei gave him a dirty look before jumping down from the tree and shaking himself dry. "You can't just leave me alone, can you?"

"Now, now, Hiei." Kurama held the umbrella over his smaller friend. "You're my friend. I worry about you."

"Too damn much, fox. You've been coming out here every ten minutes."

"Oh, don't be bitter. Just come inside," he insisted. Hiei sighed in exasperation and gave a submissive shrug.

"Why not? I'm not going to get rid of you anyway." He followed the redhead inside where he was handed a large cotton towel. This, of course, was rewarded with a scowl.

"Hiei, don't look at me like that," Kurama said, responding to the scowl with a false hurt look. "Here." He took the towel from the fire demon and started to dry him off. Hiei snatched the towel away with a glare.

"Damn it, Kurama, I sometimes get the feeling you think you're my mother," said the demon irritably. He proceeded to dry himself as Kurama started to laugh. "What? I'm serious about that, you know."

"I suppose I do act like a mother sometimes," the kitsune agreed. He headed for the kitchen, and Hiei plopped himself down on the couch. "Are you hungry?"

Hiei gave the fox a 'see what I mean?' look and again the fox laughed.

"Alright, I get the hint," he conceded. "But, you know, Hiei…I think the reason why I act like a mother so much is because I care about you…you know that, right?"

"Spare me the corny ningen speech," Hiei said flatly, draping the towel about his shoulders.

"Hiei, hear me out for once." Kurama seated himself on the kitchen table, some ways across from his friend. "Whether you like it or not, there are people who care about you…most of them don't care the way I do, but they care nonetheless. And I think you should let them care. Because you care for them, too…don't you?"

Hiei took a pause and then leaned over the arm of the couch to look confusedly at the kitsune. "That settles it, you are my mother." He sighed. "All right, Mom, I'll bite. I do care. Now, what am I doing that's worrying you so much?"

Kurama smiled. "You can read me like a book, can't you? Sometimes I wish I could do the same with you." He frowned. "Hiei, what happened in that realm to change you so much?"

"Have I changed?"

"You might not have noticed, but you seem…wistful and lost in thought all the time. It's just the slightest change, but…I can't help but wonder. Are you in love?"

Hiei blushed a bright cherry red and ducked behind the arm of the couch. "That's nonsense!"

Kurama laughed. "How cute, your first love. You must have met someone very special in that Dragon Realm, am I right?"

Hiei leaned back over the couch, still about as red as a tomato. "Well, she could take care of herself, I'll give her that."

"Was she cute?"

"Kurama!"

"Sorry, I can't help it," Kurama said cutely. "Just being a mother again."

"I don't know, Kurama," Hiei said with probably his third sigh that night. (A/N: Okay, who just went back to count the sighs? Raise your hand! Cuz I did… ((sweatdrop))) "I told her I loved her. And I think do. Yes, I do. But I don't know why. I've never pictured my perfect woman before, and now that I think of it, I don't if she is the one."

"No one is perfect," Kurama replied. "The only thing that matters is what you see in her."

Hiei leaned on his elbows and faced his friend. "Hmm. I've never thought about that."

"Well, then, now is the perfect time," Kurama said wisely. "Go on…picture her in your mind and then tell me everything you see."

Hiei closed his eyes to better picture Hebidoshi in his mind. Instantly he saw her adorable new haircut, her smile, and even that exuberant laugh of hers. The thought brought a fond smile to his face. He opened his eyes.

"I see." Kurama nodded understandingly. "You love her because she makes you happy. That's very hard to do, so it's no wonder you have feelings for her."

"You think so?"

"I know so." There was a very, very long silence. "You must miss her."

"I knew I'd never see her again, whether or not the black dragon took over." Hiei shrugged. "I'm just glad I could get back home…instead of putting her in danger."

"If there was a way to go back without endangering her, would you take that opportunity?"

"Absolutely."

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Hiei walked along the street, stepping around puddles. The rain had finally stopped, and now only the dew dripped from the leaves. Talking to Kurama had been helpful…Hiei was actually glad the kitsune had convinced him to open up.

At least now I can come to terms with how I feel about her…but how will I cope with missing her presence every day? Hiei just couldn't be sure…

Suddenly, his right arm pulsated…this caught him off guard. Was the black dragon releasing itself? This answer became apparent as the wards and bandages on his arm began to burn away.

Kuso! I thought I sealed it completely when I left the Dragon Realm! Hiei cursed in his mind. The bandages were soon completely burned away, and the dragon released itself. If that wasn't surprising enough, a portal opened right next to Hiei and the dragon dove into it. Immediately Hiei followed it and found himself in Makai. What the hell? I've got to be dreaming…

The dragon had vanished into yet another portal, but oddly, as Hiei tried to follow it, the portal expanded. He heard voices coming from inside it.

"Keep it up! It's almost open!"

"My queen, the men on the eastern border of the land are beginning to retreat…we won't be able to pull the portal around it!"

"Why the hell would they be retreating?! Get this hunk of realm through the goddamn portal!"

I must be dreaming…there is no way in hell that could be…

There was a brilliant flash of light and tremor throughout all of Makai. The portal completely vanished, and in its place was a land that looked all too familiar. The Dragon Realm had entered Makai. And there, right where the portal had been, stood a bouncing cat-eared girl.

"Yay! We did it! I'm a genius! My advisors are geniuses! My soldiers are geniuses! My sister is a genius! We're here! We're here! We're—!"

"Hebidoshi!"

The girl paused in her bouncing to look over at whomever at called. A smile lit up her whole face. "Hiei! She ran over to him and began bouncing all over again. "Hi! Can you believe it? We're actually here!!"

"How did you ever pull this off?" the fire demon asked incredulously.

"Weeelll, I went to my advisors and asked if it would be possible to combine the Dragon Realm with Makai…well, they didn't think it was possible. But then I asked them if we could first pull the Dragon Realm from the depths of Spirit World and then get into Makai, and they said yes, but first we had to get Koenma-sama's permission…and then—" Hiei clamped a hand over her mouth.

"Alright, I get it." He lowered his hand. "Glad you're here."

Hebidoshi smiled. "Yeah, me too." She gave Hiei a hug. "Ahh, it's good to be queen."

Hiei rolled his eyes. Damn…I can't believe I missed her so much.

FINITO!!!!

SIDE NOTE: It's over. Blah. The end. That's it. That's all she wrote. Well, actually, she wrote a lot more than this, but this is all I'm writing for now. I didn't want to have a cheesy: "Oh, Hiei, I love you." "I love you too." kind of ending…no cheeseball stuff like that, nuh-uh!!! I love corny stuff in the middle of a story, but if it's at the end, it totally activates my gag reflex. Well, thanks again to everyone who has reviewed up to the end. I bid you farewell, and I shall be posting up other junk for you to enjoy. Tootles!!