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To all of my wonderful readers...I am happy to present to you... A Life Beyond, the sequel to the hit Ryu and Ryo!

Rinko sighed at the peace and quiet in her and her husband's home. The slightly western house was quaint and not at all like it had been years ago. To Rinko, it seemed like just a year ago Ryuu and Ryo were causing havoc and their significant others were trying to pacify them.

"What am I going to do?" Rinko asked herself as she looked around the house. There wasn't much to do and Nanjiroh was out with Ryoga, who had returned the week before for a visit. The mid-aged woman smiled at a sudden idea and grabbed her keys and purse. She would visit her dearest daughter.

--

'I give up,' Ryoma thought sourly as she looked at the balance sheets. 'Why did we start this damn thing?' Ryoma took her hair out of the ponytail that it was in and redid it- a habit of hers when she was frustrated.

Her intercom system rang and she got up with a grin- something to distract her!

"Hello?" Ryoma said as she pressed the button. A picture of her mom came up from the camera just outside the door. "Mom, come in!" Ryoma opened the door and was enveloped in a hug.

"Ryoma, how are you doing?"

"I'm good, just balancing some sheets."

Rinko smiled and looked around the penthouse that her daughter and boyfriend had bought. It was large and lavish, taking up the entire top two floors of the large plaza. The place was divided up just like a regular two floor house. The bottom part held the huge living room that was colored blue and white with dark blue carpeting. White couches formed a semi-circle around the large 72 inch flat screen. A glass coffee table stood elegantly in the middle of the plush leather couches. Ferns were on either side of the breezeway that led from the front door to the living room and was painted a lighter shade of blue.

The dining room was a warm and cozy reddish copper tone. The carpet was a deep russet red and the walls were a warm yellow. The table was large and could easily fit at least ten people. It was already set for decoration with gold rimmed white dishes, red napkins, and the centerpiece was a clear vase with red and yellow roses.

The bathrooms were closed but Rinko knew that they were soft shades of pastel green.

"Kunimitsu-kun has you doing that?"

"Yes," Ryoma sighed and flopped down on one of the couches.

"That's not good. Don't do that," Rinko admonished lightly.

"It's only two months. Nothing's going to happen."

"This is the most dangerous time though." Rinko sat down next to her daughter and patted her now flat stomach. Ryoma ran a hand through her thick waist length hair and sighed.

"Kunimitsu doesn't want me to 'stress' myself with dealing with the bumbling idiots at the main office."

"How did I know?" Ryoma giggled and sat up.

"Do you want some tea?"

"Thank you." Rinko leaned back and smiled ruefully. "Ah, to think in seven months I'll be a grandmother!" She could hear Ryoma chuckling in the kitchen.

"You already are one!"

"Then I'll be one again! Did you hear anything from Ryuu and Sakuno-chan?"

"I think they're still finalizing the deal over the house in Vermont. Or at least, Sakuno is. Ryuu is still in Spain for the Madrid Open."

"So you want to be out there too?"

Ryoma came back from the large kitchen with the tea. "Of course I do! But nooo! Mitsu just had to get me pregnant."

"It takes two." Ryoma blushed deeply and averted her gaze while Rinko laughed lightly. "Do you think it'll be a boy or a girl?"

"Boy, I know it."

Ryoma recalled the dream from when she was a first year. The oldest child was a boy.

--

Oishi opened the door and walked into the office; there was no need for him to knock. The young twenty three year old looked around the plush office and spotted his best friend at his desk, seemingly sleeping.

"That's not like you Tezuka."

Hazel eyes opened slowly and focused on Oishi. "A lot of things aren't me, yet I do them anyway." He stretched once he stood and walked around the desk to greet Oishi properly.

"What are you hear for?"

"Just came by to say hi…so…hi!" Oishi chuckled. "Actually I came to see Echizen-chan."

"She's at home right now. Try there," Tezuka leaned against his large mahogany and frosted glass desk. His suit fit him well, revealing his broad shoulders, slim waist, and long legs. Navy blue really was his color. The years had done very little to him. His hair was the same, as was his face. He had changed his glasses a bit, they were framed in silver, but more often was he found wearing contacts.

"Ah, she's one of my harder patients. I can never find her," Oishi said as he rolled his eyes. "She's sneaky and she's making my residency even harder than it needs to be"

Tezuka's lips twitched slightly, "Just go check up on her."

Oishi left the office after a few more moments of friendly chatting. He got into his car and drove a few blocks to the large plaza that was home to Tezuka and Ryoma.

He passed the large desk in the lobby and went up to the second to the top floor.

"Echizen-chan," Oishi spoke softly into the intercom, she could be sleeping. A beep indicated that she wasn't.

"Oishi-senpai, Ryoma isn't here."

"Echizen-chan, I know that's you. Echizen-kun's in Spain, remember?"

"Damn." The door opened and Ryoma stood there in all of her five feet and seven inch glory. "What can I do for you doctor-to-be?"

"You could vanishing from one place to another so I check up on you properly." Oishi stepped in and removed his shoes. "Echizen-san, it's good to meet you again."

"Oishi-kun, it's very calming to know that you are looking after Ryoma during these few months. Even though she's only twenty one and shouldn't be in this condition in the first place." Ryoma shot her mother a withering look and went into kitchen to make more tea. "She's only a senior in college and already pregnant."

"Mother! Please now," Ryoma shouted.

"She's lucky that you and Kunimitsu-kun both did those advance college credit classes during high school. Only twenty three and you both have high college degrees!" Rinko sighed wistfully. Oishi chuckled and sat down on the couch and waited for Ryoma.

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Atobe barged through the door and stepped into Tezuka's office.

"Didn't you read the sign Atobe? This is a no diva zone. Get out." Tezuka didn't even look up from the computer screen and continued typing away.

Atobe paused and backed up to look outside. "There's no sign."

"This is a no idiot zone too. It's on the front of the door." Atobe left the room and closed the door. Tezuka's hand went under the desk and he pressed a little button. A buzz echoed followed by the sound of the door locking.

"Open the door Tezuka!" Atobe shouted as he banged on the door.

--

Tezuka leaned back in his chair and spun around to face the window that overlooked all of downtown Tokyo.

He was at his office; it was part of his father's business which, due to Tezuka's rare random thoughts, became an international powerhouse after making a risky investment. He was going to leave to go to America in two months since they were opening up a new branch in NYC. Of course, Ryoma would be going with him.

He leaned forward a bit when his thoughts shifted to his little girlfriend. She was already two months pregnant and because of that, he hadn't seen his grandfather in quite a while. Of course, Kunikazu didn't hate Tezuka. But whenever they saw each other since Ryoma found out she was expecting… all he would get from the old man were teases, jaunts, jeers, and a suggestive waggle of the eyebrows with a wolfish grin.

'That damn old man,' Tezuka thought as his face grew red from embarrassment.

--

"Well based on what I heard, I hereby order you to stop drinking grape soda…soda in period."

"What? I can't stop drinking my Ponta."

"Then drink grape juice. I'll tell Tezuka to make sure you follow through."

Ryoma huffed and leaned back in the couch with a cute pout.

"Mommy, Oishi-senpai's being mean to me!"