Shiori paused outside the apartment building and stopped as she saw her son walk across his window on the second floor. Moments later his friend Hiei followed him, speaking angrily (if his actions were any indication.) She watched her son round on him and speak in the same manner and then Hiei stormed past him. Shuuichi grabbed Hiei's arm, but the smaller man shook his arm from the grasp and stormed out the door. In moments, Hiei stormed from the building and stopped as he saw Shiori. "Shiori."

She gave a shakey smile "Hiei."

"He's inside." With this he turned and stormed off, around the corner. She sighed to herself and knew she finally had to get the truth from her son. Entering the building she found herself knocking on Shuuichi's door before she was really ready.

Shuuichi opened the door, trying to hide his anger from his mother. "Kaasan. Come in."

She smiled at him and gave him a hug as he entered. "I saw you and Hiei through the window."

He sighed. "Sometimes he makes me so mad."

She smiled at him. "Boyfriends do that."

This stopped Kurama cold. He turned in shock towards his mother. "What?"

She smiled "You can tell me, Shuuichi. I am not blind, I can see how close you are to Hiei."

Kurama stared in shock at his mother and then began to chuckle. "You think Hiei and I are lovers?"

She frowned in confusion. "Yes."

He shook his head. "Mother, I would tell you if I was gay. To tell you the truth, sex really doesn't matter to me when I look for a partner, but I am not or have ever been in a relationship with Hiei."

She sighed and he observed her. "Kaasan, why do you think I am gay?"

She shook her head "I just thought that you were with Hiei cause of how much time you spend with him and up at that temple. You are so secretive. I don't know what to think."

He sighed this time and gestured for her to sit down across from him. "Kaasan, I am keeping secrets from you and from how accepting you were in my supposed lifestyle, thinking I'm gay, I might as well tell you."

She sat and stared at her son. "You are scaring me, Shuuichi. You make it sound bad."

He smiled slightly. "Well, I'm afraid you will think it is." He took a deep breath and then let it out. "What do you know about demons?"

She frowned "I know that they use to run rampant in Japan and many still believe they are around. There are enough evidence out there to prove that it could be true."

He gave a nod "I will tell you that they still roam." At her intake of breath he smiled reassuringly "Some are good demons, some are bad, just like humans. And sometimes they can be reformed. About 20 years ago, a notorious fox demon named Youko Kurama was shot by a hunter and to escape death he sent his spirit into the body of an unformed child and grew up in human world."

Shiori gave a nod. "And this demon is still alive?"

Kurama nodded "Yes, kaasan he is. But don't worry, he is no longer heartless and cruel like he was before he was killed."

Shiori frowned "How do you know?"

Kurama took a deep breath and closed his eyes "Because I'm Youko Kurama."

Shiori stared at her son and he opened his eyes. She noticed they had changed color to gold and she backed away a little. He spoke softly "Would you like to meet Youko?"

"I can meet him?"

"Of course. I can achieve his form now, I've regained enough power."

She seemed to ponder it. "I think you should finish your story before I make that decision."

He nodded and continued. "When you were sick, Hiei and I stole some artifacts from Spirit World. Yusuke is the spirit detective and was sent to capture us. We were given parole and have been helping him protect human world from rogue demons."

Shiori stopped him. "You stole something?"

He nodded and looked away. "I did, kaasan, I stole the Mirror of Forlorn Hope." She frowned "Why?"

He sighed. "To save your life." She blinked at him and he raised his eyes. "The miraculous recovery?"

"I couldn't let you die." She burst into tears and launched herself at him. "Why did you keep this from me?"

He held her and was quiet until she pulled away. "I thought you would reject me if you knew your son was a demon."

She gave a shaky laugh. "I love you Shuuichi. I will admit that when you started, I doubted, but I find myself believing you."

He gave a nod and continued with his story. "We participated in a dark tournament, those few weeks when I went camping with my friends." She gave a nod, remembering his torn clothes, it made sense now. "And when you got married, I went to demon world by invitation of an old colleague of mine. I participated in the first demon world tournament and then returned here."

He sighed again and Shiori tensed up. "I am sorry kaasan, please understand the next part was kept from you out of fear that you would reject me."

Shiori was confused as Kurama stood and walked to a bookcase in the other room. He returned with a picture album. "To tell you the truth, Hiei stays here most of the time, by himself. More often then not I'm usually at Genkai's."

He sat next to her and opened the book to a picture of a girl with black hair and blue stripes through it. She had red eyes that reminded Shiori of Hiei. She looked in confusion at her son, who was regarding the picture with tender eyes. She gasped at the sight. He smiled up at his mother. "This is Rain. She is Hiei and Yukina's triplet."

"Is she your girlfriend?"

Kurama shook his head. "No, she is my wife."

Shiori sat back in shock. "Your wife?"

He nodded and then turned the picture to show a picture of him and Rain, with her heavily pregnant after they returned from Hogwarts. "This is before our kits were born."

He turned the picture one more time. There were the kits right after they were born. "I'm sorry for keeping your grandkits from you, mother. The triplets were born 3 months ago."

Shiori stared at the picture of the adorable babies and then flipped the page, the first few your could tell the babies were demons, with the fox ears, but within a few pages they lost the ears. She raised her eyes to her son. He smiled "They gained the ability to have a human form about a month ago." He pointed "This is my daughter, she is Hina, this is my oldest son, he is Kenshin and this is my youngest son, his name is Harry."

She blinked "Harry?"

He grinned "Yeah, when we were married, we were protecting a school in England and one of our friends that we both became close to was Harry Potter. We honored our friendship there by naming our youngest after Harry."

He smiled at his mother. "Hina's middle name is Shiori."

He stood and she watched him move to put his shoes on. "Shuuichi?"

"Would you like to meet your grandkits?"

She bounded to her feet and hurried to him and he chuckled at her rush. "That is why Hiei was so mad at me. Rain and I fought cause I still hadn't told you about her or our babies. Please understand, I wasn't ashamed of her, but of myself for hiding who I was from you for so long."

The door opened and both turned to see Rain standing there. She smiled at her mate. "I knew that. Although I think that your fear was unfounded."

Kurama smiled. "That it was." He pulled her into his arms and kissed her forehead. Turning to his mother, he smiled with pride. "Kaasan, this is my wife, Rain."

Rain gave a bow to her mother in law. "I am honored to meet the most important woman in Kurama's life."

Shiori returned her bow. "And I am pleased to meet the more important person in Shuuichi's life."

Rain chuckled and returned Shiori's impulsive hug. "I am glad he finally told you. I take it you are anxious to see the kits?"

Shiori nodded "I am."

Kurama smiled "Then let us go and meet them."

A few hours later, Hiei fluttered down to stand beside Kurama. Both observed Rain and Shiori sitting close together, talking over the sleeping babies they held. "So, she finally knows."

Kurama gave a nod "I feel much better." He glanced at his best friend. "Hiei..."

"Shut up, I didn't mind giving you a kick in the ass and as long as Rain is happy you don't have to apologize." He glared at the fox though "Don't do it again."

Kurama chuckled. "Agreed."