I decided to try my hand at the always loved drabble fics. These ones will soley focus on Mai and Yuuichi. The only coupling in this fandom that I like. If anyone out there doesn't like this pairing, you're more than welcome to click the back button and go read another story on this page. But this drabble and all of the others I have planned are for the fans of Mai and Yuuichi, this is for you guys.

Mama Said

Mama said there'll be days like this,

There'll be days like this my Mama said

And then she said someone will look at me

like I'm looking at you one day,

then I might find

I don't want it any old way

The Shirelles, Mama Said

Yuuichi Tate looked on as his brother in law Takumi Tokiha worked away at concocting a dish consisting of tofu ice cream and pickles for his pregnant wife Akira, whom was reading over a martial arts magazine in one hand while getting alot of use out of a small excercise tool that when squeezed together the user's grip was strengthened. That alone made Yuuichi flinch in thinking how how when the time came to hold her hand during their baby's birth, Takumi's hand would be little more than a pile of flesh and dust that still hung off of his arm. That however was yet to come and at the moment cooking something would have been much more preferable to what Yuuichi was doing at the moment, namely rubbing the sore feet of his own pregnant wife, Mai Tate, formerly Tokiha, formerly the HiME that controlled flame and the dragon/phoenix hybrid Kagutsuchi and once upon a time formerly a slight nemesis of his considering how rough of a start they had gotten off on. Those days were long since gone and Yuuichi himself couln't be happier.

"Not so hard dummy!" Mai yelled at Yuuichi as he had unfortunately rubbed just a bit too hard.

"Sorry, guess I wasn't paying attention all that well" Yuuichi said, apologizing to his wife. 'Looks like those old days are back again' Yuuichi thought to himself as his wife berated him for his not quite so gentleness with her feet. The first thing he had ever noticed with the woman he would one day marry was her breasts, covered in a soaking wet t-shirt after having given a equally soaking wet girl CPR from almost drowning. She hadn't forgiven him for that act either, that had come on the night of their honeymoon where he was greeted with several glimpses of her bare chest. Said honeymoon was also what had led the both of them up to this moment. Six months earlier had preceeded it with Mai developing quite the bump that all of her fellow girlfriends loved fawning over and asking her how far along she was with the baby.

Yuuichi himself would never admit it out loud, rather in private with her that he too was excited to become a father. He himself had hoped for a girl, as he had heard a story once from one of his relatives that strong men raise daughters, but if he were to be the father to a boy then he would love it all just the same.

Yuuichi's thoughts were shattered by the sound of Akira's mouth uttering the sounds of disgust at the taste of pickles and tofu ice cream.

"Takumi this is awful. It tastes just plain nasty!" Akira shouted. 'You don't need a rocket scientist to tell you that' Yuuichi thought to himself. On more than one occasion his tendency to utter smart mouthed remarks at the wrong occasion had gotten him either a soup ladle upside his head or a trip to the couch for his place to sleep for the rest of the night. Even if he were to just mutter them under his breath, his lovely wife would hear it. So to keep himself from finally being thrown out of the house for his tongue getting the better of his brain, he had opted to just think his latest smart mouth remarks to himself.

"But honey its what you said you wanted, you've been talking about it for the past couple of hours so I made it for you" Takumi said, hoping that his efforts wouldn't be wasted.

"I was just saying I'd like some, I never said I wanted any of it to eat!" Akira said with a bit of venom in her voice, all of it directed at her husband.

"I'm sorry honey, I just thought that you'd want something to eat, and decided to make you this as a meal" Takumi said to his beloved wife. 'Here it comes, hook, line, and sinker' Yuuichi thought to himself at Takumi's winning combination to get his wife seemingly under his thumb. Big, puppy dog eyes, meak, almost childishly cute tone of voice and she was putty in his hands. Watching her take the bowl of ice cream back from him, she began to take a few experimental bites and soon found herself enjoying the taste of it. Yuuichi still wasn't able to deduce how much of it was her grinning and bearing it and how much of it was her genuinely enjoying it through the weird taste buds she had developed through being pregnant.

"I'm sorry Takumi, I guess I'm feeling moody from being carrying around the twins for so long that its affected my reasoning" Akira said apologizing to her husband. Said husband wrapped his arms around her and uttered words of sympathy to her to show that there were no hard feelings.

"Why can't you be more sympathetic like Takumi is with Akira's feelings dummy?" Mai said to Yuuichi angrily.

'She wants me to be more like her little brother? I'm not even gonna touch upon how creepy that sounds' Yuuichi thought to himself at Mai's choice of words, still if he didn't answer soon he'd either be on the couch for the night or he'd be the one eating tofu ice cream and pickles. Neither choice sounded all that appealing to him.

"I'm sorry honey, I'll do my best to be a little more sensitive to how you feel and your condition" Yuuichi said as best he could to Mai as he leaned in and planted a kiss on the top of his wife's forehead. He soon let his lips drift down to her right eyelid and her left eyelid. His next trip was to the tip of her nose, until he finally let his lips meet hers in one of the many kisses they had shared since their days following the Carnival and their courtship. A kiss that still felt brand new and warm inside to both of them. The kiss itself was so passionate to them that they both found themselves shifting their heads to better let the intensity of the kiss continue to flow on and last. The ritual would have lasted until the two of them were both out of breath until something unique happened.

"Oh! Oh there it is!" Mai shouted as she broke away from the kiss. "There it is again" She said as her right hand went to her swollen belly.

"What? What's going on?" Yuuichi asked.

"I just felt the baby kick, for the first time!" Mai shouted happily as her smile grew and to Yuuuichi, the radiance of the room began to grow as well. They say that when women are pregnant, they tend to glow. Science states that its due to blood pressure increasing up to a good fifty percent, but at the moment, Yuuichi could have sworn Mai was radiating with a light that could only be comparable to the light of a fireplace on a cold winter's evening, or that of the evening sun shining off of a piece of gold. It was just such a glow that Yuuichi saw blessed upon his beautiful wife's features.

Instinctively Yuuichi placed his hand onto Mai's belly and he too felt it. The feeling of a faint movement coming from deep within his wife's stomach. The feeling of the life the both of them had created was reacting, it was alive. Yuuichi's hand stayed where it was, until Mai's hand rested atop of it, and she soon began to fill the living room with the sounds of the children's lullaby, "Hush Little Baby". Everyone had agreed that Mai was a beautiful singer and she wasn't ashamed to let them hear her belt out how much she loved it on Karaoke nights with her friends back in high school and sometimes during her girl's nights out with her friends from either work or from her old high school days.

The soft humming continued on with Mai continuing to sing to her unborn child until she looked on and smiled as her husband let his lips rest on her belly, kissing it and letting their baby know that its parents couldn't wait to greet it with open arms on the day it was born.

"Yuuichi. I know I've been moody alot and, I've said some things to you that I shouldn't have but I just want you to know that no matter what I love you and I couldn't think of a better person to spend the rest of my life with, and I couldn't think of a better person to be the father of my baby" Mai said to Yuuichi, clearly trying to apologize for her constantly shifting behavior due to her mood swings in the ever changing stages of pregnancy.

Yuuichi could only bring himself to smile at this and sat up and looked at his wife.
"Hey you don't have to apologize for it. I never minded you teasing me on the ferry, too much anyways. I never minded you sticking your tongue out at me when we first found out we'd be in the same classroom as each other, not a whole lot anyways, and I didn't mind it when you talked down to me back when you were working in that diner either, though I still would have liked to have seen a smile from you back then" Yuuichi said. His tirade was stopped when Mai quickly gripped the bottom of his right ear and tugged.

"Way to ruin the mood, dummy" Mai said with a smirk and a small tick developing under one of her eyes. Lightly batting away her fingers from his ear, Yuuichi leaned in and left a kiss on Mai's lips. "But in all seriousness, I couldn't be happier with the woman I married and the one I'll spend the rest of my days with and will bear me many more children to come in the near future" Yuuichi said with a slight smile on his face.
"Are you sure you can handle it?" Mai asked, deciding to test her husband's resolve.

"You bet I will be. I'm not going to let you do this alone, I'm going to be here for you and our baby through thick and through thin, now and forever" Yuuichi said to Mai.

"Promise?" Mai asked as she stuck out her pinky to Yuuichi. He responded by smiling and interlocking it with hers and shaking it.

"Promise" Was his lone response, and all she needed to hear to know that he was with her and would be with her, now and forever.

"Good Yuuichi, I'm glad to hear it. Now go over there and fix me up a batch of that Tofu Ice Cream and extra pickles"

"Yes dear, just don't make me eat it" Yuuichi said as he retreated into the kitchen to fix up his wife's snack.

While making his wife's somewhat nauseating treat, Yuuichi thought about how the past few months had been spent making more concoctions like this one, his wife's mood swings and threats came at the most random times imaginable. He had barely gotten a wink of sleep due to her tossing and turning in bed, The many, many hours of shopping for baby clothes and throwing in the added misery of going with Mai to shop for her own clothes, and hoping that the newest addition to her wardrobe wouldn't be the one that she asked him if she looked fat in.

But despite it all, Yuuichi had developed a fondess for those strange and annoying events that had been his life since Mai had been carrying his child. So fond in fact that he had found that he wouldn't change a thing nor would he have them come to him any differently, and not from the woman he had and will always love forevermore.

Well thats it for now, thank you for reading and please leave some comments in the review below.