For Our Children

Chapter 1

"Oh for Heavens sake!" Sora hissed out in pain, "Yamato Ishida, if you don't get your act together you will not KNOW what happiness is again because I will make your life MISERABLE..."
Matt winced and covered his ears as she gave a cry of pain again. "Alright, alright! Hold on darling..."
All of a sudden his shirt collar was seized and his face was pulled down close to Sora's sweaty, pain-filled one. "Don't you 'darling' ME mister! GET ME TO THE HOSPITAL NOW!"
Breathing almost as heavily as his wife, Matt shot up and half-carried, half-dragged Sora towards the door. "Aiko! Kaleb! Come and help me get Mom to the car!" he yelled frantically.
There was a slamming of doors and two small red-haired children rushed towards the front door. "You need your keys to start the car Daddy," Aiko informed her father solemnly.
"Uh-uh... Kaleb! Get the keys for me! Hurry!" Matt's head was spinning and he could feel the familiar pounding in his temples. You'd think that after two kids I'd get used to this process, he thought to himself.
Kaleb came running from the kitchen area with the keys and threw them at his dad. "Oh boy! Will Mom scream the whole way there?" he asked excitedly.
Aiko was a little more concerned and clung to her mother's hand, "Are you going to be okay Mommy? Does it hurt?"
A weak smile of love for her daughter crossed Sora's face as she squeezed the little hand in her palm. "I'll be fine honey, and you'll have a new brother or sister soon,"
Sturggling to get Sora out the door, Matt took a deep breath and yanked none too gently. With a squeak of surprise she flew out the door and stumbled in his arms before clutching at her swollen abdomen again. "Kaleb... Kaleb call your Uncle Tai on the cell-phone!" Sora gasped.
"Okay Mom, I'm on it,"
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A black minivan screeched to a halt in the relatively empty hospital parking lot. Makoto climbed out of the passenger's side and looked wonderingly at the stars, and then at his rather agitated father. "Whoa Dad! I've never seen you drive so fast!" Makoto exclaimed in excitement.
However, his father barely paid attention as he grabbed Makoto's head and ran twoards the door. "Uncle Matt's gotta be extremely stressed out right now," Tai told Makoto urgently, "And I bet Kaleb's looking for someone to play with,"
Makoto's response was shaking off his dad's hand, "DAD!" he complained loudly, "I'm seven! If you hold my hand Kaleb'll think I'm a sissy!"
If there was anything that Tai hated, it was the 'I'm too big for this, and I'm too big for that' routine. But right now he didn't feel like reprimanding his son. The two Kamiyas burst into the lobby to the front desk. "S-Sora I-Ishida," Tai panted out in-between breaths.
The receptionist typed the name into the computer unhurriedly and then pointed disinterestedly to the left. "Through the doors, down the hallway, then turn left. I think a Mr. Ishida's waiting there already," the woman drawled out in a bored tone.
But Tai had already disappeared through the doors, Makoto close behind. The receptionist only shrugged and went back to sleep.
When Tai entered the waiting area he almost laughed out loud. Matt was pacing the room, just like he had the first two times only now he had two kids each clinging to one leg. "Kaleb! What're you doing?!" Makoto demanded in horror.
Seeing his friend, Kaleb immediatley detached himself from his dad. His face was bright red as Makoto regarded him suspiciously. "Uh... nothing! I was comforting Dad, yeah... that's right,"
"Uncle Tai! Uncle Tai!" Aiko screamed excitedly, running towards him, "Mommy's having a baby! I want to name her Diaper,"
Laughing, Tai picked the little girl up and hugged her, "Now why do you want to call her that?"
Aiko looked back at Matt and giggled, "Cuz she's gonna smell like a big ol' stinky diaper!"
Matt's expression was perplexed, "Aiko! It might be a boy you know,"
"Then we'll name him Toilet Seat!" she retorted.
"I give up," Matt sighed, "How in the he-"
Kaleb and Makoto perked up and gravitated towards Matt. "Are you gonna swear Dad?" Kaleb asked.
At this point, Tai decided to take charge of the situation, seeing as Matt was barely able to conceal his worry. "Kaleb, Makoto, why don't you go find a vending machine and buy a chocolate bar?"
"No money Dad," Makoto replied promptly.
Tai fished a dollar out of his pocket and tossed it towards his son, "Here, now go,"
The two boys were gone quicker than a wink. Aiko yawned pitifully and made puppy eyes at Matt. "Daddy, can we go home? I'm tired,"
Holding out his arms for Aiko, Matt smiled tiredly, "As soon as we find out how Mommy is, okay? Why don't you go sleep in the chair?"
Aiko nodded, hugged her dad, and then curled up in one of the stiff plastic seats. Smiling tenderly at his daughter, Matt draped a blanket over her small form. "Well Tai, third time around. I think this'll be the last," he looked over at his friend, "I don't think I can stand this kind of stress a fourth time,"
"You're telling me," Tai chuckled, "Once was enough to give me a heart attack!"
As the two grown men sat next to each other and reminisced about the past, a door swung open. A man in green surgery clothes with a stethescope around his neck and blood on his gloves grinned.
It was Joe.
"Matt, you have a son. And guess what? He's the spitting image of you!" he announced happily.
"A son? A son! And he looks like me!" Matt sprang up from the chair, as did Tai.
They shook hands, pulled in for a hug, and slapped each other's backs merrily. "I'd join in, but I don't think you'd appreciate blood on your clothes. Matt, why don't you go in? Sora's waiting,"
Matt was nearly skipping with joy as he strode towards the door. Tai turned to Joe and smiled, "Joe! Man is it great to see you again!"
"Yup. Always a pleasure. I can't believe I helped Sora give birth! You think I'll be the god-father this time?" Joe joked.
"Not a chance, buddy, not a chance. This kid's gonna be my god-son!"
Joe grinned, then his face turned serious again. "You'll never guess what I did yesterday night Tai," he continued on before his friend could blurt out a guess, "I popped the question to Julia, and she said yes! I'm gonna legally adopt Bobby so he'll be my kid!"
"Whoa, this is too much for me," Tai exclaimed, "Three of my friends get a new kid, and one gets a wife!"
There were many more backslaps exchanged that night.
~~~
"Puurrr-fect, said the cat," a voice growled ominously, "Puurrr-fect say I. Soon... soon the digidestined will lose their most treasured possessions..."
The large figure shifted in its seat, "I will avenge the death of all evil..."