Just a short thing for Amulet Misty. Happy birthday, Dina! :D
Shiki couldn't decide whether she had been more looking forward to this conversation, or utterly dreading it. Either way, she had known that she could count on Neku to propose some truly terrible ideas, and so far he was failing to disappoint her on that front.
"Jupiter," he suggested, pulling at his signature absurdly-large collar, and Shiki wondered why she had so easily caved and sewn it into his new shirt. It's not like he was short of stupid collars, and it was just daft of him to cling to the same sense of style he had possessed as a teenager...
She gently punched his upper-arm. "My child is not going to be called Jupiter," she insisted. Neku paused briefly, and made to open his mouth, but Shiki got there first. "Nor are we calling her Monkey, so don't even go there, or I'm divorcing you."
Neku frowned in mild indignation. "I wasn't going to- wait, 'her'?"
"She's a girl, Neku," Shiki sighed, pushing her glasses up her nose. "Which you would know if you had actually listened to the nurse, rather than just gawking at the ultrasound screen. Remind me why I married you, again?"
"I guess because you got me stripping three days after you met me and knew you were never going to be able to beat that record," he stated, not quite able to keep his voice deadpan. Shiki snorted with laughter. "Can I at least nickname her Monkey?"
Shiki raised an eyebrow. "I guess I can't stop you."
"Hmm." Neku ruffled his own spiky-hair, furrowing his brows in thought. "You know what we should call her? Juno."
"Jupiter's wife?" clarified Shiki, folding her arms as best she could over her swollen abdomen. "Honestly, I don't know why I expected anything else from you."
"All right, I'll think of something else-"
Shiki frowned. "No. The worst thing about Juno is that I can't even find a reason to dislike it."
"So, Juno it is?"
"Juno it is," Shiki confirmed. "And now we're ending this comparatively painless conversation before you can suggest something truly awful, like 'Ofthe'."