Okay screw it, I'll never make another serious fic ever. 'One Year' will be the last but it's updates will be slow. It's too taxing on the brain to think seriously in fanfictions. I'll stick to romance that doesn't require too much deep thought. The timelines will switch around and the paring may switch for each chapter on my convenience and pleasure.

Moments of life

Chapter 1: Pregnancy

The logical side of me has dictated this;

Thou will need the therapist of the hand after this.

Aside for my logical side's overt need to be overly pretentious, he was right.

I was going to need therapy for my hand.

Because;

One. My hand is weak.

Two. My wife is currently crushing my hand during her pregnancy.

Oh yes and she was having twins. (Dizygotic as a matter of fact).

So double the pain.

Not too continually groan but she was glaring at me as well. Her eyes where either saying 'help' or 'this your fault'.

I respectfully accept responsibility for the latter. After all it was a crowning achievement.

I was telling her to breath.

It was painfully ineffective.

I tried soothing.

But obviously my attempt meant little in the face of two little humans trying to squeeze out of her.

"ARGHHHHHHH!"

"Yes that's right Mrs Hikigaya! Push, push!"

But amongst all the pain I could see.

A tiny little head popping out of my wife's nether regions.

A few more contractions and the first will be out I thought.

And so it was done.

A healthy baby.

And by the looks of the thing that dangling, the boy is the first to be born.

Good luck to him then.

If he ever needs advice on being the older sibling then I'm the right choice. Better me than his two aunts.

And while such worthless thoughts permeated, the second, the girl was soon to come.

On another hand I'd never seen such a pained but happy look on my wife's face. I've never seen both exclusively but never one on top of the other.

Surely enough the little younger twin sister popped out.

Out came a sign of relief from all the participants

And after what seemed like years of checks on our babies.

"Congratulations, Mr and Mrs Hikigaya, your twins are completely fine. Average weight and as we asserted in the pre-screening checks, no problems. Two healthy babies." The doctor announced.

"Say doctor. Does one of them have a particular set of eyes?" Yukino asked weakly.

"I'm not sure I follow."

"I'm asking whether one of them has a striking resemblance to my husband."

"Oh, well now that you mention it….."

And to no surprised there it was.

One set of dead-fish eyes.

Just like my wife to have a dig at me after her birth.

"He'll have a wonderful life with those….." She regarded.

I couldn't tell whether she was joking or not.

The doctor tapped on my shoulder

"We'll have to move to her to rest for a while. The babies will need rest so….."

So for a while my wife and my kids where taken away from me.

Time to stem the torrent.

And here it is.

The torrent.

AKA, the friends and family.

Yui Honda; The over worried one.

Isshiki Iroha; the one more concerned about the wonders of childbirth.

Hayama Hayato; the one who could tell by my throbbing hand the pain of the husband.

Hayama Haruno; The one more concerned on which baby was born first.

Komachi Hikigaya; The one who was concerned about me raising children.

A bunch of other friends who offered support.

My mother who was crying her eyes out.

My father who was trying to stop my mother from crying but failed and joined in the weeping when he realised that he was grandfather now.

Mr Yukinoshita, who with a rather serious look on his face placed his hands on my shoulder as if to say 'good luck' then proceeded to break out smiling happily and joined my father in the hysterical crying.

Mrs Yukinoshita whom surprisingly enough showed the most concern for Yukino's wellbeing. Looking terribly distressed, she asked of the health of her daughter and her children.

I had to give them all the details, the joys, the pains and the burdens.

I was thankful for the support.

Thankful for the amount of support whom I had never thought possible back in the day.

The doctor called us all up.

And we all crowded around my wife and my kids.

Blocking the doctor.

"aww, they're so cuteeeeee!" Cried out everyone in varying forms.

Wait stop poking my babies cheeks! I'm meant to be the one doing that!

"So what are their names?" Yui asked.

"Hikaru and Yukari" Yukino pronounced clearly.

Wait I don't recall being consulted for this?

Glancing at her she threw me a look that said "accept it."

Scary, woman! I'm your husband! Well it's not as if they're names disagreeable or anything.

And everyone spent the next 30 minutes poking and prodding my kids.

"Okay everyone, maybe we should all leave. Let's get them some rest okay!" Komachi ordered.

I was left alone with my wife and kids.

"Thanks for the hard work." I thanked.

"Is that really something you should of said to a woman just gave birth?"

I shrugged.

"Hey I don't know the conventions for this sort of thing. And I'm not the only one that doesn't want to get use to this."

"Certainly it won't be planned. If we get another one, of course." She acknowledged.

After a brief silence, she fidgeted. She was totally asking for something.

"Hey, Hachi. Pat…" She ordered softly.

She moved her head ever so forward, gesturing that she wished to be patted on the head.

"Hey shouldn't I be doing this to my kids first?"

"They've had enough from everybody else. I want one now." She demanded.

"I can't really tell who the real baby is right now…" I muttered as I stroked her head.

After a few brief seconds.

"Hey, this isn't going to last forever right?" she asked worriedly.

I raised my eye.

"I mean, this happiness won't be forever right? Things will happen right? I'll get angry at them, they'll get angry at me, they'll get angry at each other, they'll grow up and I'll lose them just as quickly as I gained them."

"Can I even raise them properly? Are they going to find happiness? What if they get into trouble? What if"-

I interrupted her with a finger to her lips.

"Yukino, be quiet for a second okay."

She looked miffed at first but soon relaxed.

"Those things may well happen. We can't predict the future. So don't think about it. When it happens we'll deal with it." I comforted.

"And about raising our kids. I'm sure you'll be able to raise them well." I affirmed

"How can you be so sure? It's not like I have many good role models." She cried out.

"You reared me well enough. You've made me into a fully functioning member of society, so I say you've done a good job. Surely my own kids can't be as bad as I was….." I acknowledged.

She paused for a second in deep thought.

"Yes, you're quite right. But that does call into question your own child raising abilities….."

"Hey, I've been child raising for longer than you. I've spent years looking after Komachi, making sure she was fed and happy, making sure she hadn't had massive tantrums." I recalled vividly.

"Sis-con."

"Hey it wasn't just Komachi! I had to look after Isshiki during her presidency, during college, during that period when she found out that Hayama was marrying your sister." I recalled further.

At this point Yukino seemed pretty upset.

"You didn't look after me all that much…."

"You seemed rather capable of doing stuff on your own anyways. If you wanted my help I'd gladly give it to you."

"Fine, you're looking after me while my on my maternity leave then." She ordered.

"Alright, just as the queen wants then. I was gonna anyway…"

She looked pretty satisfied. But why do I get the feeling she wants to be pampered?

"And Hachi."

"Yes, Yuki, darling?" I asked in an overly polite manner.

"Thank you." She whispered quietly.

"You're welcome."

Smiling happily now, she returned to doting on Yukari and Hikaru. Yet an oddity had struck me; they haven't cried yet. No I wasn't a sadist but it was odd.

"Say I haven't heard them crying yet. Is that meant to be okay?" I asked.

"I see your medical knowledge is still faulty Hachi. That's primarily an indicator that the baby is properly breathing. The doctor confirmed that they're okay so there isn't a need to hear them cry." Yukino explained.

"Okay I didn't know that but still isn't it odd that they haven't cried yet? My mom said Komachi and I cried heaps when we were born." I indicated.

"Yes it is odd, but considering they aren't any problems I see no reason to be worried."

"Say I wonder what their first words are going to be?" I wondered out loud.

"It's going to be 'mama' or 'mum'." She responded competitively.

There was a fire in her eyes that indicated that she was actually going to try to force them to say 'mama' first.

Yo lets not make this into a competition!

But she was right. It's time I paid attention to my kids. My newly born children, who would be most likely face the same troubles their parents. Grabbing both, one in one arm, I began to speak with them.

"Hikaru" I started.

"Congratulations, you've officially been born into the world on xx/xx/xxxx. You came out first, so you're the older one, by a hairs length. Your sister isn't going to accept that, and especially the case with twins, you'll butt heads with her a lot. But so long as you don't mistreat her too much, you've would have succeeded in that aspect. As for the rest of your life, you'll definitely find hardships, people may like you, hate you, love you and all of the rest. You'll find things annoying, your parents annoying, the people around you annoying and at some points life annoying as a whole. Your father and mother are quite the testament to that. In any case, we as your parents will still be there with you, so don't worry too much, handle it as it comes like I told your mother just a few minutes ago."

"Yukari, the same applies, except you're the younger of the two. Being born second means you'll most likely be teased about being the 'little sister', I know I teased your aunt a lot about it. Not to worry because you can still surpass your brother in many other things, again our family situation is an indication of that."

At this point Yukino coughed in agreement.

"You've been born into a world of progressive feminism, so be sure to play to your strengths and don't use 'I'm a girl' as excuse, you can however you can use it as a provocation though."

"Don't tell our children that provoking people is alright." Yukino complained.

"Yeah, Iike either of us have the right to say anything in the matter." I retorted.

"Oh and your father wants to add in one more thing." I continued.

"I'll never let you marry so easily! All your boyfriends will get a pre-screening check! I'll dig up any glaring information. Your bag will always contain pepper spray! Hell I'll pay off your friends to keep you out of trouble!"

"Daughter-con" Yukino responded.

"Hey I am merely exhibiting a healthy protectiveness for my darling daughter." I defended.

"Anything you do is unlikely to be 'healthy', Hachiqueer-san." She responded back.

It seems an unwillingness to insult her own last name, had evolved her insults.

"Hey you'd be pretty concerned too, if your daughter was dating some shady person!" I responded.

"I would concede that point." She accepted.

Yes, she relented!

"So I have to wonder what my parents were thinking when I started to openly date you…"

Counter-strike!

"Alright, you win as normal. Still I will resolve to keep Yukari from harm's way!" I resolved.

"Don't neglect Hikaru. Are you trying to create Hachiman 2.0?" She reminded.

"I won't neglect him either. He isn't going to need the help of a 'service club' package to shape him up. Hey aren't you totally ignoring your own contributions here?" I asked.

"I'm merely questioning your resolve to our children. Whether adequate care will come from me, is a question not worth asking however your side still needs fine tuning…."

Her happy grin indicated that she was having fun teasing. I broke out into a grin as well.

"Alright Yukino, isn't it getting late? I'll let you three rest. I'll call the doctor, so you can rest okay." I indicated.

"You aren't leaving are you?" She asked quietly.

"No, wouldn't dream of it. Can't be bother going anyways." I reassured.

"I'm thankful that your shoddy personality can be relied upon in such situations." She accepted.

I called in the doctor, who came to take the babies away for them to rest somewhere else. Yukino seemed to miss them the minute they were taken out of her sight. Judging from her face she seemed worried that something would happen out of her sight. So as she laid down I stroked her head, like an owner would to his cat.

"Rest easy, nothing is going to happen. So sleep for a bit. You'll see them tomorrow, no problem." I reassured.

I kissed her head and proceeded to head to the rather uncomfortable chair provided. As uncomfortable as it was the thoughts of a happy future with my new grown family made me happy.

"Surely my parental life will not be as bad as I expected."

Okay first chapter done, of course there probably isn't going to be a limit to this story but have fun anyways.

See you next time

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