I say that there are too many strange stories about the "telling-Shiori". So, here is an Inuyasha/Yu Yu Hakusho crossover to explain it, in a new way! Very little happens in the Inuyasha universe, but it is the important part of the story. Enjoy!

Shiori

By LizzieHanyou

One-shot

The wind whistled through the boughs of the trees as the group set out for another day's adventure, this one resembling most days, yet it held its own specialty. Inuyasha and Kagome stuck closer to each other than usual, for they had just mated the night before, for the first time. Little did they know that it would only take one time to make a child.

Days turned into weeks as the small group noticed something different about Kagome. Soon after the final battle with Naraku, Inuyasha was able to pinpoint the problem. "Holy sh-t," he exclaimed, "She is pregnant!" She feinted at the words, but when she came to, she was happy.

Inuyasha took Kagome back to her time, for Naraku was dead. All of the jewel shards were collected, and the only thing to stay in her time was her friends. Her mother took well to the information, though the same cannot be said about Grandpa.

Months seemed to fly by, and soon she was five months in. Because the children in her womb -- for there were two -- had some demon blood in them, they were to be born in six months as opposed to nine.

Kagome was taken to the hospital for the last week of her pregnancy, and she gave birth to two beautiful girls. Sure, their faces were red from crying and pain, but to the proud parents, nothing was more beautiful in the world.

The girls were named Kira and Shiori. They named the second child Shiori after the kind bat hanyou that they had met in their travels. Kira was almost the same amount of hanyou as her father, and Shiori was almost completely human, making the two friendly rivals in everything.

Years passed, and Kira moved away, for she was aging too slowly to stay in one area. Kagome and Inuyasha shared the same life span, but they stayed with their duties at the shrine, not caring about what other people said about their old age.

Shiori met a wonderful man, married him, and gave birth to a beautiful baby boy, named Suichi. And such is the beginning of Suichi.

Shiori's pleasure was short-lived. Her husband died when her son was still very young, and her son was distant. The boy, even through his baby years, held something against the human race, confusing Shiori to the pits of despair. As a child, her sister had looked down upon her for being human, and now she felt that with her son.

One day, when Suichi was five, things changed. He was trying to retrieve a glass from the cupboard, but started falling as she saw him, catching her poor son in her hands. He was all she had left in life, and she noticed that she was finally getting through to him with her love. She had the scars to prove it.

She never visited her mother since she moved out, for this would only cause the suspicion of her son. Explaining to the boy that his grandfather was a hanyou was not the way to go with their family. So, she stuck to phone calls and Kagome stuck to Christmas presents

Things were looking up after the incident with the glass, but good times do not last long. She soon contracted a rare disease. In the first stages, she was disabled from normal activities, such as her usual walks in the park. But, as the disease got worse, she was bedridden, and soon in the hospital. It all happened so fast after that. Suichi would go to school as usual, and she felt as though she was going to die.

But she didn't. Out of seemingly nowhere, she made a massive recovery. She was out of the hospital, living her life to the fullest, once more. She never wanted to interfere with her son's life, but that seemed out of her reach at the time.

After the illness, he took up on disappearing for long periods of time, giving lame excuses as to his whereabouts. Also, Shiori remarried to Kazuya, and he too had a son named Suichi. And so, our story begins…

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'Hm,' she thought as she made dinner for the family of four, 'My Suichi still isn't home. I wonder where he could be.'

"What are you thinking about, Honey?" asked Kazuya from the doorway.

"Oh, nothing," she replied, "Just wondering where My Suichi could be."

"I'm sure that he's fine. According to the reports you've given me, and what I've seen, he always comes home."

"More-or-less," she added, "Last time, I could have sworn that he had dried blood on his clothes! I swear, that boy needs to learn that we aren't always going to wait for him! I mean, I love him to death, but recently, he just hasn't been the same."

"The boy has a lot on his mind," Kazuya defended, "Why, when I was his age, I wouldn't come home for a few days, because I was out with my friends."

"Did you ever tell your parents where you were?" asked Shiori, knowing it would break his tough-guy attitude.

"Well…. I told them a few times…" he said as he trailed off, "Fine, you caught me, but I still say that the boy just needs a little time with his friends."

"You say that, but when he gets in trouble, you will be the first one to ground him, I guarantee it."

Sometime in their conversation, a battle-torn 'Suichi' made his way into the house. He snuck past all of the defenses – namely Little Suichi – and into his room, where he prepared himself for his family.

The recent mission was had on him. First, only he and Yusuke were available for the difficult mission, and Yusuke was not well versed in the area of stealth, which resulted in the four bruises on 'Suichi's' arms. Then, the thing they were to sneak up on almost beat them, because Yusuke didn't want to talk – which would have made for a big enough distraction to get the artifact that they were after. To add to those injuries, Yusuke ran the wrong way to 'safety', causing the two boys to almost literally fall off a cliff. To say that 'Suichi' was angry would be the understatement of the century.

After he had treated his wounds, he jumped out his window, as to come in the front door.

He walked in the front door seconds later, "Mother, I'm home," he said as his brother tackled him. He hid the wince when Little Suichi tackled one of his freshly wrapped wounds.

"There you are, Suichi," said Shiori, "We were about to start without you."

"Sorry, Mother, I had some business to attend to," he lied, sounding convincing.

"Go clean yourself up for dinner, and report down here quickly," she said, then added, "You look like you've jumped out your window."

"That's because he did," came a voice from the doorway.

"Who is that?" asked Little Suichi, pointing to the doorway. Shiori's face went from confusion to shock as she saw the "intruder". The figure had black hair, and was wearing a hat on top of her head. Seconds later, Shiori realized who it was. It was her twin sister, Kira!

"What do you mean by that?" asked Shiori, "He just came home!"

"Or so he WANTS you to think," replied Kira, "Oh, and for those who may be wondering, I'm Shiori's twin sister, the older one, of course," she added to remove confusion from the others's faces.

"You have a sister?" asked Kazuya incredulously.

Little Suichi asked a question of his own at the time, "Why is she so young if she is your twin?"

"Yeah, she's my sister, and she loves to hold her superiorlty over me. As for her age, she ages slower than me. So, Kira, just brag about how you're better than me, and leave, if that's what you want," Shiori said spitefully, though Kira could sense the humor behind it.

"Oh, dearest sister, I am not here for you. But now that I think about it, I do want to tell you that you are an idiot. You have been living with one of my own kind for a long time, and you never told me!" she said.

"Your own kind?" asked Shiori, "Who would that be?" she asked as she looked around the room, Her Suichi nowhere in sight.

"What do you mean by your kind?" asked Kazuya.

"Shiori, I am so ashamed! You never told your husband about your heritage. Wait until I tell mother and father!" Kira said, with a fake look of hurt, until she mentioned her parents. Then, she did the unexpected. She stepped forward, so that the three people in the room could see her, then she removed the hat. Two triangular ears were on her head, causing Little Suichi to run upstairs in fright.

"Brother!" he screamed as he entered his brother's room, "Aunt Kira is a demon, and she is Mom's twin sister and…" he would have continued, but the adrenalin took over him, and he feinted.

"I know, I know," he tried to comfort his brother, but it proved hard to comfort the feinted. So, he decided to head downstairs, and take whatever was coming his way. No use hiding his secret from people who already knew demons.

He came in on the middle of a conversation.

"It's not my fault that you refused to tell your family the truth," argued Kira.

"I don't need my sister coming into my house telling me how to live my life!" Shiori retored.

"Ladies," 'Shuichi' tried to break into their anger-filled argument.

"WHAT?" they both asked, then noticed who they were yelling at.

"Though I am surprised that you could hear me, can we please talk about this in a more civilized manner?" he asked, and they both nodded.

"Shuichi, is that your real name?" Kira asked getting right to the point. Seeing a faked blank stare, she added, "The rumors that I have been hearing are about the reappearance of an ancient thief by the name of Youko Kurama. It just so happens that Youko's host body fits your description. I was just wondering if the name 'Kurama' meant anything to you. And don't lie, because I can smell it, just like I can feel the demonic presence around you."

"Suichi, is there something you want to tell us?" asked Kazuya.

"Kira, do you think that it is necessary to barge into MY house and charge MY Suichi with being a thief?" asked Shiori, about to lunge at her sister.

"Yes, I do," she said, "You see, I know that this 'Kurama' has joined with the Reikai Tantei, and if indeed he is your son, then you have every right to know that your son is doing good for the community."

"I'm still lost," said Kazuya, "Can you go back to the 'Kira's really a demon' part?"

"Fine," said Kira, "I am a hanyou, I openly admit to that among allies. My father was a hanyou, and my mother a human. I received a lot of my father's demon blood, while Shiori over there had very little in her. Now for 'Suichi', if he is who I think he is, then he is a boy literally possessed by a fox spirit. His true soul either died years ago, or is still living somewhere in his mind. The mix of the human and demon makes him a sort of hanyou, and hanyous look out for each other," finished Kira, explaining things for the poor man.

"Are you Kurama?" asked Shiori, but before he could answer, the phone rang, Little Suichi, who had just came back down, answered it, though he was a little shaken up.

"It's for you," he said as he gave the phone to his brother, "He says his name is Yusuke."

The family listened to one side of the conversation.

"Hey Kurama," Yusuke said, "I just wanted to make sure you got back in one piece. I know I didn't think I would get back in one piece."

"I'm fine," Kurama replied, "But now is not the time to talk. My family and I were just having a discussion. I will call you back later," he said, as he put the phone on the receiver.

"As I was about to say, yes, I am Kurama," said 'Suichi'. "I am so sorry if that scares you. I wanted to keep it a secret," he said sheepishly.

"It's OK, Kurama," Shiori said, having a little trouble calling him that, "I guess I should have told you that your grandfather was a hanyou. Then, we could have gotten this all out of the way."

"Enough caring, now, Kurama," Kira said, with curtness, then added kindly, "Will you sign this autograph?" Everyone sweat-dropped. "What?" she asked oblivious to their stares, "He's famous!"

"Here," he said, signing it 'Youko Kurama'. "I guess I have a lot of explaining to do, don't I?" he asked.

"Yes, and so do I," Shiori laughed as her new family members looked at the two strangely.

Kazuya thought something along the lines of, 'Great, I just found out that I married a partial demon, and her son is possessed by another demon. This is a great way to be put in the nut house,' he thought sarcastically. After that, the family of four and Kira sat down to dinner, discussing their experiences with demons. Little Suichi lightened up to the fact that his new family was partial demons, and it helped that he no longer had to share the same name as his stepbrother.

THE END

How do you like it? Here's a few notes:

1/ I do not know what Kurama's step-father's name is. I have seen him called Kazuya many times, and that is what I am going with.

2/ I know that I changed the writing styles a little bit throughout the story, but I tried to keep the same amount of detail in it.

3/ Please alert me of any spelling mistakes. If I spelled something wrong in Japanese, then tell me as well, but everyone spells the Japanese words a little differently.

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