A/N: Takes place a few weeks after Chapter One.

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Kimimaro had kept himself inside his room for the day after throwing up his breakfast. He felt fine, but he had not wished to infect his teammates with whatver was wrong with him.

Kabuto knocked on the door of Kimimaro's room, test paper in hand. "Ah...Kimimaro-san...there is something I need to inform you of...urgently.."

"Come in." Kimimaro told Kabuto, sitting in his chair reading.

Kabuto walked in, looking rather flustered, but launched into his explanation. "Ah, Kimimaro-san, I've already informed Orochimaru-sama about this....he says you can keep it as long as he is not addressed as it's father." Explaining some more things, it culminated when he finished with, "..so, you're pregnant. And three months along, too."

The boy looked away, closing his eyes. "Fine. Thank you for informing me of this..." Kimimaro. He bowed his head. "Tell Orochimaru that I accept his decision..." He stood up and left his room and as he did a few months ago, knocked upon Tayuya's door.

Kabuto nodded and left the room. Tayuya opened the door again, tilting her head. "....aren't you supposed to be sick?"

"Not as sick as I believed I was." Kimimaro explained. "May I have some company?"

"Yeah, yeah, come in..." She held the door open for him, similar to that night from three months ago.

Kimimaro stepped in as he did a few months ago. "I see you have a new flute." he commented. "It is much larger than the rest, huh?"

"Yeah, this is from the Rain, too-" She stopped when Kimimaro turned at a certain angle, and she could see a slight bump. She took in an inhale and looked at it. "....you have a tumor or something?"

"Hm?" Kimimaro glanced down and shook his head. "Not exactly..." He told her. "Far from a tumor actually... And if I told you, you might not even believe me."

"Try me." She snorted and leaned back on the bed. "I'll believe you if you're sick."

"I am not sick...I'm pregnant...."

Tayuya pursed her lips and looked him up and down. Huh. What with all of the fuckups in this place, it didn't surprise her. "..who's kid?"

"..." He was silent for a while, remembering that very night when he was forced into sex. "... Orochimaru-Sama..."

"....you didn't want it, did you? I can tell by your face you didn't."

"... It was something I preferred not to get involved in." Kimimaro nodded. "But like a child, Orochimaru got what he wanted." The boy sighed. "Now I don't know what I should do with it... I only found out today, and that had happened three months ago... so abortion is out of the question..."

"....well, does Oro-teme care what you do with it? I wouldn't think so...he doesn't give a shit WHAT we do as long as we respect him, right? Plus, killing your own baby is kinda mean. It is part you, right?"

"I guess... but what am I going to so with a toddler?..." Kimimaro questioned.

"Hey...I'll help you. You don't have to worry about being alone."

"Well, I do like you more than the other Sound ninja..." He pondered this a little, watching her. "I feel like I am intruding already... are you sure?" The teenager asked.

"Nope. I don't have a problem with this..babies might be annoying, but your baby won't be."

Kimimaro chuckled. "Oh yeah? What makes you so sure? Babies are babies, right?"

Tayuya snorted. "Well, babies might be babies...but they also take after their parents. Hopefully that one - it's a girl, by the way, because I can sense her chakra pattern - takes after her mother more, then."

"And if it doesn't?"

"...then she'll be a little brat, that's all. But you'll teach her better than that, right?"

Kimimaro looked at his hands in thought. "I-I'm not sure... I believe I am not parent material... I could attempt, but my efforts might be wasted..."

"Hey, you can say you tried. Better than what most of us here can say."

Kimimaro shifted slightly with a shrug. "I might just kill it... I have no business with a child, at least not at my age." He looked down, shaking his head. "Especially under Orochimaru. Always sending us on important missions... Either way, the child would probably get killed in its womb..." He was certain in the end, somehow the child would not survive or he would never be able to care for it, even if he was ready to.

"Kabuto can convince him otherwise. He probably already has, or else Kabuto would have given you some drug to make you forcibly abort it. Either that, or attacked you, so you miscarried."

The teenager sighed. "I guess no matter how I look at it... I'll just try to poke a hole through it to find a reason for it to die..." He pressed his fingers to his eyelids and rubbed them. "Fine... I'll try to keep it.. Then see what happens..."

Tayuya was still sitting in her place on her bed, then looked up at him. "....well, that's good....you're not killing something innocent." She remained quiet for a moment, then smirked. "Or as innocent it can be with you as a parent, right?"

Kimimaro chuckled. "I suppose..." His eyes looked up to her's finally and with his emotionless glance he said quietly, "Thank you..."

She smiled. "No problem." She looked away for a moment, and the room remained in awkward silence.