Author's Note: Thank you for your kind feedback and advice! Tsukushi hasn't defended herself much in the shock of all this. But I'll make sure she'll kick Tsukasa's ass for this!

In response to Snuffy's question, I suppose that Rui still has feelings for her, given that this isn't in an alternate universe and I'm trying to stick to canon as much as possible. But, he's given up on Tsukushi because she's Tsukasa's love interest. However, he'll keep defending her, just as he had always done (in his own special way...)!

Chapter 1 was pretty much to establish the plot and kick things into motion; I'll develop it more, I promise!

Rating has been changed from K+ to T due to mentions of making babies and slightly crass words. However, I won't be putting any rude words in at all since I believe a point can be made without having to go so low. But that's just me.

Big thanks to Moonlight Storm for helping me pick out some errors; Frontpage tends to eat the spaces between my words.

Edit again due to more landmines a.k.a space-eating bugs.

Disclaimer: Hana Yori Dango does not belong to me! But the plot of this fanfic does.

Family Planning

By Onkiu

Chapter Two: Tsukushi versus the rest of the world

"Mmm? What is it?" asked Nishikaido. "So you already know if it's a boy or a girl?"

"She's not pregnant," said Domyouji flatly.

"Oh, stop denying it," laughed Mimasaka, making a habitual hand flick. "Was Tsukasa an animal in bed, or what?"

"How would I know?" snapped Tsukushi. "I'm still a virgin!"

There was a long silence in which only the rustling grass could be heard.

"Say that again?" said Mimasaka.

"IT MEANS I'M NOT PREGNANT, YOU GREAT BIG FLYING BABOONS!"

"You're lying," murmured Mimasaka. "This can't be true. And I'm not a great big flying baboon either, Tsukasa is."

"Actually, it's true," said Domyouji. "Disappointed as I am, it's true. I meant the bit about her being not pregnant, not me being a flying baboon."

Mimasaka and Nishikaido looked at each other, as if they were about to cry. Rui's face was as impassive and blank as ever as he yawned and tried to fight off the waves of sleepiness trying to take over him. He knew this was a somewhat important event, but sleep was so much more enticing.

"Tsukasa! We thought you'd finally stepped over the barrier into manhood! We had such high hopes for you!" sobbed Nishikaido, stylized manga tears pouring down his face, his lips upturned into a pout, fists clenched in a dramatic pose.

"Shut up!" Domyouji grabbed Nishikaido by the collar and gave him a massive headbutt. But in the middle of his succession of rapid fire headbutts, Tsukushi stood up so suddenly, fists clenched, in such a wave of fury that even Domyouji stopped his blitzkrieg.

"Will you all stop your childish arguing? Look, guys. This isn't funny anymore. I'm the real victim here," snapped Tsukushi, looking very red and angry indeed. Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. "You guys really like torturing me, don't you? What do you think the stupid Eitoku F4 groupies are going to say now?"

"They will, obviously, be very envious of you because you carry the pride of the Domyouji clan," stated Domyouji.

"No, fool!" she snapped, giving him a mighty slap. "I bet there's going to be more nasty rumours about how I'm doing this for money. And you idiots obviously forgot the biggest problem of all – how are going to get a real baby out in nine months time?"

"What? So THAT was your biggest problem?" laughed Mimasaka. "The solution's too easy. All you have to do is -"

"- really make a baby with Tsukasa," finished Nishikaido. "I volunteer to teach you the fine art of love making. I know more than the Karma Sutra can ever teach you."

With that, Domyouji recommenced his rapid fire headbutting of Nishikaido.

"How are you going to make her look more and more pregnant over the next few months?" piqued Rui, wiping his eyes free of sleep. Everyone jumped; they had forgotten that Rui was even there due to his lack of input. He had fallen asleep listening to their arguments and had woken up at this fairly crucial moment.

How very typical of Rui to think so calmly and practically in such a dire situation. Tsukushi felt very grateful for his support and his level headedness.

"We'll think of it along the way," grinned Domyouji. "Trust me."

How very typical of Domyouji to think so rashly and irresponsibly in such a dire situation. Tsukushi felt like belting some sense into him with her fists of doom. This plan isn't going to work at all without thorough planning.

"I think we should quit this stupid lie before it gets so big we can't get out of it," snapped Tsukushi. "In fact, I'm going to explain to everyone right now, before this gets out of hand."

With that, she stormed off, back towards the school buildings.

"Wait, Makino!" cried Mimasaka. "We'll think it through! Hey, come back!"

But she refused to listen and marched straight back, the same look of determination on her face as the time she declared war on the F4.

"Should we just stop this before this gets out of hand?" said Nishikaido, looking worried.

"No," said Domyouji, looking fairly dangerous himself. At that moment, Nishikaido really understood why Makino would be the only girl good enough for him – she's the only one who was just as dangerous as him. It was so typical to fight fire with fire. "How dare she try to destroy my brilliant plan so recklessly... so, she doesn't want us to be together, huh? I'LL FORCE HER!"

"What do you plan to do?" mused Rui.

"I will make sure the secret is never spilt. All she'll be doing is talking to thin air," smiled Domyouji, feeling his heart beat faster. This was like the very first time he had been challenged by Tsukushi. It had his heart racing; it had been the very first time a student ever challenged him, to stand up against him - and he had enjoyed it. It was a whole new experience, to have had his authority questioned. He felt up to the challenge again this time; except, this time, he would be the winner.

Rui shrugged. He had a feeling that Domyouji's solution to this situation was worse than Tsukushi's.

By noon, most of the people's curiosity had taken hold of them so strongly that they had flung aside their pride and stooped so low as to ask Tsukushi bluntly if she was pregnant. Each time they did that, she gave them a seething, dangerous look, and an answer that plainly meant no.

However, she found that despite denying that she was pregnant so plainly and obviously, no one seemed to believe her. The Eitoku students must be fairly stupid to not be able to understand my straightforward answer, she thought.

"Are you pregnant?" asked a nobody-in-particular student. "It's true, isn't it?"

"No, I'm not!" It was the one hundred and sixth time she had answered that today.

The guy looked at her with a look of suspicious disbelief. "Are you sure... but the F4 said..."

"Well, THEY'RE WRONG!" She screamed so angrily that the student looked surprised, tripped over and ran away before she could kick him.

It was then that she realized why nobody seemed to believe her. As she walked along the corridors with everyone still whispering and pointing at her, she caught a glimpse of Mimasaka talking to a student inside a classroom.

"... Of course she's pregnant! It's the happiest thing to happen to the F4 ever since they started going out with each other!"

With that, she rushed into the classroom and sent a flying kick towards Mimasaka's head, before running off again. It was a pretty spectacular hit and run attack for a supposedly pregnant woman.

But then she noticed Nishikaido and Domyouji doing the same thing in different parts of the school. Time and time again, she did a hit and run flying kick or uppercut before running off and trying to explain to more students that she wasn't pregnant. But, even for a girl as strong as her, she didn't have the energy to keep up with so many hit and run attacks against three members of the F4.

Newton's third law of motion seemed to apply to gossip spreading in Eitoku. For every action, there is an equal but opposite action. This was definitely the case here, except that it was her word against the F4's, and their word did not seem equal to hers; it seemed to far outweigh her word.

No one was going to believe the word of one poor and hated student that everyone mocked when there was the word of three beloved student leaders stating the opposite thing.

By afternoon, she pretty much gave up denying her pregnancy. I guess I'm used to this stupid rumours about me, she thought. I don't need the approval of these people; I don't need to care about what they think...

The questions about her supposed pregnancy still hadn't ceased by afternoon. People, who were probably looking for confirmation of the news from the F4, still came up to her and asked the same thing.

By that time, she had come up with a set of standard responses, which she found amusing to say because of the look on the people's faces when she said it, especially since her tummy was flat. She wanted to test the Eitoku student's intellect; were they smart enough to be able to tell if there was any truth in her words?

"Yeah, I'm expecting septuplets. How am I going to name them all? Their daddy isn't helping at all, he says he wants them to be called Tsukasa Jr, Tsukasa Jr I, Tsukasa Jr II... he's forgotten that some of them could be girls! Oh, they will be laughed at by other kids, a girl named after her Dad!"

"It's been nine months, but my baby hasn't grown one bit! I'm starting to wonder if it's there at all..."

"The doctor said it'll come out in twelve months instead of nine. Is my baby really that abnormal? Such a lazy baby, just like its father!"

The questions ceased by last period because the news finally spread that she was confirming everything that the F4 stated as truth. The menacing, unwelcoming glares, the rude whispering and finger pointing stopped as the student body finally recognized what a potentially powerful woman she would be. She would be the future Condelezza Rice of Eitoku, with her power only eclipsed by one other man; the George Bush of Eitoku, Domyouji Tsukasa.

The whole attitude of the student body changed, and took one the airs of one like the first time she was 'officially' dating Domyouji. No more whispers about what a promiscuous woman she was, how she only slept with him for money; it was all admiring glances, all friendly greetings in corridors, all gushes of "Kya! Tsuki!" and little gifts here and there. It was all the airs of friendliness from fake friends now.

Even the teachers had taken on an attitude bordering on worship towards her. She had become some kind of Eitoku goddess. Nevermind that this was a premarital affair; never mind that this kid is still, technically, a bastard; she was carrying a child bearing the Domyouji name and that was all that mattered.

"Before we start this lesson," said her history teacher, "I'd like to congratulate Miss Makino on this piece of wonderful news."

The whole class erupted into applause and cheers as Tsukushi tried to ignore them by laying her head into her arms and burying herself in it.

As the lesson progressed, she noticed reverent glances towards her, and heard people whisper things like, "Let's bake her a cake! I hope she likes cake... I wonder if she likes green-tea flavoured cakes! But it might not be good for the baby..."

Tsukushi really hoped this lesson would end so that she could rush home before she gets surrounded by fake admirers. This lesson seemed longer than usual, with everyone looking at her and whispering.

Hurry up, she willed. Please, hurry up, bell, please, save me.

The bell took its sweet time and finally rang; but before she could leap up and sprint out the door, Domyouji came and blocked off her escape.

The whole class stopped packing their bags and watched with interest as he stood there, blocking the doorway. Tsukushi tried dodging him by going left - he stopped her there; she tried going right – but he was too fast for her.

"What are you doing? Get out of my way!" she snapped.

"Say it," someone said in a commanding whisper behind Domyouji. She peered underneath Domyouji's arm that was draped against the doorframe and noticed Nishikaido hidden in the shadow behind Domyouji. Her eyes narrowed as Nishikaido looked up at her from his crouched position and smiled sheepishly.

"I'm ..." began Domyouji, flushing up. Oh no, what now? She thought.

"I'm... here to take you home..." continued Domyouji.

This was getting tedious. Tsukushi didn't really like the fact that her whole class was watching her, either. Some of the students gasped, as if theyweren't expecting it. It wasn't going to do her any good for them to see them act like a couple expecting a child.

"I'm here to take you home..." repeated Domyouji.

"Say it!" commanded Nishikaido, a little more loudly.

"... HUNNYBUNS!" shouted Domyouji, his face instantly changing to a glorious shade of red, very similar to a colour of nail polish called 'Deep Red Chili Flavoured Kisses' that the girls sitting behind her were trying on and had insisted that Tsukushi tried on too because they were a 'posse'.

Nishikaido slapped his forehead and sighed at the very unromantic way Domyouji said the word 'hunnybuns'.

Tsukushi's eyes narrowed at Nishikaido.

"Did you teach him that?" she whispered dangerously.

"I thought you two might look more like a loving couple if he used cute nicknames for you," said Nishikaido meekly, as Tsukushi's shadow loomed menacingly over him. "I was going to suggest that you call him Muff-"

"Well, you're WRONG!" she yelled, trying to step on his fingers. But before she could do so, Domyouji grabbed her arm and muttered, still red in the face, "Let's just go."

He raced off down the corridor, still dragging Tsukushi as people peered out of classrooms and pressed their faces against the windows, trying to get a better glimpse of them.

They finally got to the school gate, and, huffing from trying to keep up with his fast pace, Tsukushi said, "Thanks for rescuing me out of the classroom. See you tomorrow!"

"No, I'm really taking you home."

"There's no need, I'm fine. I'm not really pregnant anyway. Bye!"

"Hey! That's not how an expectant couple is supposed to act! I'm supposed to be loving and caring and take you home..." said Domyouji. "... Soujiro said," he added in a murmur.

"No, seriously, I'm fine," she said. "There's no need, no one knows if you really drove me home."

Domyouji got impatient with his lame excuses, and, grabbing her by the waist, he lifted her up and carried her into the car.

"Hey! Put me down! There REALLY is no need for you to take me home!"

"Actually, there is," smirked Domyouji, as he made sure Tsukushi was not going to try to break out of his limousine anytime soon. "I'm going to tell your parents."

Next Chapter: Oh noes! What's he going to tell her parents? The lies or the truth? Find out in the next chapter, a most exciting installment of Family Planning!

Please continue to advise me of anything which you feel is important; I enjoy reading people's comments as they sometimes have even better ideas than I have about what should/could happen.