CHAPTER TWO: SERIOUSLY!?

Tetsuhiro's still panting Senpai, and lover, Tatsumi Souichi glowered at him, "You bastard! Time to die!"

The green eyed agricultural student nervously smiled, "Sen...senpai!" It had been awhile since his beloved had sounded or looked quite so sinister as he did at that very moment. "What's wrong? What do you imagine I did now?" He really wanted to know what had made his Senpai angry, but he feared that it could possibly have been something he'd said or done the night before. Not that his life-partner had complained, though he did wonder why he was there.

"Senpai, I thought you were staying home today..." the blond had been sick that morning and he'd been reluctant to leave him, but he'd known it was impossible to do so, because the man in question would have booted him out the door if he hadn't gone.

"Never mind that! The doctor's findings! That's whats wrong, and its all your fault!" He slammed the door behind him as he approached Morinaga with a sinister aura, one small slow step at a time. "Damn you! How the hell could this happen!?"

Tetsuhiro stared blankly at the older man, who was his senior by but two years. He'd said something about the doctors, but Senpai hadn't told him about going to the doctors lately, not since they'd had their immunizations when they re-entered the country after their visit to Kowaku Island. Yet he felt a tendril of dread shoot up through him, but how could it possibly be his fault he wondered.

'It can't be, I've always at least been meticulous about getting my blood checked, even back in my wild days after Masaki and before Souichi. So... what is it?'

Though he feared the answer, he asked, "What are you talking about?"

The blond graduate student of Nagoya University came to a halt half way between the door he'd just come through and Tetsuhiro, growling, "The doctor said I'm pregnant! What the fuck!?" Then he proceeded toward his kouhai, grabbing him by the lapels of his white lab coat.

Tetsuhiro lifted one of his hands up to hold the arm of the hand that gripped his lab coat, his eyes wide and not yet comprehending what his Senpai had just said, "The doctor?"

The blond's grip tightened on the material he held in his hand, his eyes slanted in rage as he yelled into his cowering kouhai's face, "That's right! And I know exactly who is to blame!"

There was a brief pause before his mouth dropped agape in shock, "Wait, you mean y-you're really," he almost couldn't say it with how tightly Senpai was gripping the collar of his long white lab coat, but managed to get it out in a stunned awed voice as though he couldn't quite believe it, "Pregnant!?"

As Tetsuhiro uttered that last word, the slighter man released his hold, bringing his other hand up in an arc, causing knuckle to meet jaw, sending the dark haired man flying. As his senpai's fist made contact he heard him growl in a low dark voice, "You should face the consequences!"

Once the blond had turned, holding his hands against his face, just below his temples, his fingers slightly curled, Tetsuhiro held his left hand to the spot where he'd been hit.

"What am I going to do?" The older student shook, "This is just wrong, on so many levels. What will people think!? Fuck! How am I supposed to go to school? What should I do?" The only thought that crossed Souichi's mind was, 'Damn doctor...' as though it were completely the doctors fault for his current predicament.

After a few moments, Tetshiro dropped his hand from his face and carefully rested both of them on his Senpai's shoulders. "Senpai... Souichi..."

Whirling around, Senpai glared at Tetsuhiro, "I told you not to call me that at school!"

Trying to calm his beloved down he whispered, "Sorry, but what you just said, is it true?"

"Would I joke about something like this!?" He frowned as his honey-amber eyes met green.

"Well... no," it was true, his lover wasn't the type to joke around, he was a very serious person. "But... how?"
"That's what I'd like to know! This makes absolutely no sense. It's wrong!"

"Then... do you not... want to keep it?" One of his hands moved from the blonds shoulder to his abdomen, not really sure that's where the fetus was being carried, but he was in awe of the possibility.

"I don't know..." he hadn't thought it through, but frowning down at where his kouhai had placed his hand, he pushed it away.

The corners of Tetsuhiro's mouth dipped into a frown, "Then, you want to have an abortion?"

At that word, Souichi shuddered, his eyes narrowing into small slits, "No!" And without any thought his hands went to where Morinaga's had just been, unable to imagine snuffing out the life of one could have no say in the matter, unborn and vulnerable.

"Then, you're going to give birth?" Asked the whispered voice of Morinaga.

"I..." at the thought of giving birth, he couldn't imagine it. "I am a man how the hell am I supposed to give birth? Obviously the doctor's diagnosis was wrong." He'd given up the thought of ever having children of his own, not having given it thought ever since he and Morinaga officially became a couple, though not everyone, other than inside their families, knew.

He heard his slightly taller lover expel a sigh, "Souichi, if you want to get a second or third opinion then you should, but the more who know about this, the more likely we'll run into someone who wants to treat you like a lab specimen."

Souichi grimaced at the very idea. While he was a scientist himself, some of the things other scientists did he could not bring himself to condone.

"And, Souichi, if there is a baby, just think what they'd do to him or her."

He turned into Morinaga's arms, confused as to what he should do, and that thought making him nervous, more so than he'd ever been other than the times that his lover, long before he ever considered him that, had.

"What are we going to do... Tetsuhiro?" Just this once, he couldn't help it at the lab, because this was something very serious, involving the both of them.

"Depending on how far along you are, we should finish up our current projects here and return to Kowaku Island, but find a doctor willing to fly in for check ups and when its around that time..."

He didn't like the idea of abandoning yet another semester or more of University. "No, Tetsuhiro, we're going to stay here and see it out." Though as he thought about it, he frowned, "I wonder if there was something on the island..." he gazed up into the eyes of the man he'd come to love, wholeheartedly.

"Souichi?"

"Yes, Tetsuhiro?"

"May I kiss you?"

Souichi frowned, normally, because they were at school he'd say no, but, perhaps because of the worry of what the future held in store for them, he couldn't bring himself to say no like he wanted to. Instead he tilted his head back, his lips parted as his eyes fluttered closed.

Tetsuhiro stared down at the gorgeous lithe man, startled, but with a quick small shake of his head his mouth curled into a smile as he bent his head to brush his lips over his bespectacled lovers.

Neither of them heard the doorknob turn, too lost in the brush of each others lips, Tetsuhiro's arms wrapped around his Souichi's waist and Souichi's arms in turn wrapped around Tetsuhiro's neck, one of his hands gripping the dark locks at the back of his lover's head.