A/N: I know this was initially going to be a one shot but thanks to one of my reviewers, I was given a great idea and have decided to continue with it. And allow me to introduce, a pregnant Mai! Similar to the first chapter but slightly different.
Disclaimer: I don't own Ghost Hunt. Do you think I would be writing fanfics if I did?
"Blue,"
"Pink,"
"Blue,"
"Pink,"
"How many times do I have to tell you? It's going to be a boy," Mai said.
"About as many times as I have to tell you it's a girl," Naru replied. The pair had been married for almost 2 months when they found out Mai was pregnant. Looks like Naru got it on the first try.
"The nursery should be blue," she said once again.
"It should be pink," he said.
"WOULD YOU TWO JUST KNOCK IT OFF?!" another voice interrupted them. The couple turned to find a very pregnant miko standing behind them. Her face almost matched the color of her hair.
"First you fight over Mai's wedding dress, now you're fighting over what color to pain the nursery! Get a grip and move on. Paint the goddamn room once the baby comes!" she yelled. Everyone seated in the room mentally cringed. She could almost out scream Mai. And that was saying something.
Takigawa stood and attempted to calm his raging wife. Mai shook her head and returned to looking at her own husband.
"It's going to be a boy," she muttered so that Ayako wouldn't hear. Naru simply ignored her and went into his office. Mai sighed.
"It's okay Mai. He just doesn't like to be wrong. So far the score stands at Mai: 1 Naru: 0 so he's still a little sore," Lin said unexpectedly.
"You guys are keeping score?" Mai said after a moment. Everyone nodded.
"Why?"
"As Lin said, Naru doesn't like to be wrong and he often isn't. We just want to keep track so we can use it as ammo later on," Ayako said with a devious smile. She had calmed down considerably since her little outburst.
Mai walked into the kitchen and began making a round of tea.
'It's going to be a boy,' she thought, 'I am carrying it after all. I think I would know.'
Mai finished making the tea and walked back out into the lobby. She gave everyone a cup before Naru reappeared and took a seat on the couch.
Suddenly Takigawa got up and sat next to the teenager.
"Can I help you?" he said without looking at the monk. Takigawa grinned evilly before wrapping an arm around Naru's shoulders.
"Believe me Naru. You thought Mai was bad before just wait until the hormones kick in. And then the cravings! You are in for one rough ride my friend. Best to make her mad now before she starts actually going through with her threats," he said laughing as Naru's face paled more so than usual.
"I heard that you jerk," Ayako said while sniffling. Tears were pooling in her eyes as she glared at the monk. Mai hastily wrapped her arms around the miko.
"See what I mean?" Takigawa muttered before also moving over to his wife. Mai moved away so that her friend could try and comfort his wife.
After everyone had calmed down and left the office, Naru called Mai into his office.
"What do you want?" she asked.
"You wouldn't really do that to me, would you?" he asked, referring to earlier when Ayako had gone about pummeling her husband for his remarks about hormones and such.
Mai just smirked mysteriously and left the room. Naru gulped loudly.
Naru sighed and laid his head down on the desk in his office. He hadn't been sleeping well lately because Mai had done exactly what Takigawa predicted.
Her hormones had kicked in and now instead of going from sad to cheerful in an instant; she went from hysterical to homicidal. And it somehow always ended up directed at him.
For example, the day before Naru had been working in his notebook when Mai came in upset. He casually asked what was wrong and she burst into tears. He simply shook his head because she refused to speak. He then went back to reading his notebook and he barely even noticed when Mai stormed from the room.
Later that night when Naru had returned home from work, he found his precious black notebook sitting in the toilet. Completely ruined. He had a clear idea who had done it.
And now he was being forced to sleep on his own couch because his oh so happy wife decided he couldn't touch her anymore. The slightest brush of their hands and the waterworks would start.
"Sleeping on the couch again?" Lin asked, snapping Naru from his reminiscing.
"How can you tell?" the man groaned without looking up. Lin uncharacteristically chuckled at the poor man. He simply walked away afterwards.
Not only were her hormones going berserk but her cravings had him stumped. Naru thought back to two nights ago.
She had been sleeping quite peacefully when he came into the room to change. Obviously he was too loud because next thing he knew she was calling out to him.
"Naru are you there?" his heavily pregnant wife said tiredly.
"Yes," he said continuing to change.
"I'm hungry," she said with a whine. Naru sighed. Here it comes.
"Okay would you like me to make you something?" he offered. She nodded happily.
"What would you like?" She thought for a moment before breaking out in a smile.
"Haggis," she said. Naru's jaw almost hit the floor.
"Ha-hag-haggis?" he stuttered out. She nodded enthusiastically.
"Why in the world do you want haggis?" Naru exclaimed. Mai pouted in that frustrating yet oh so adorable way she does, and Naru had no choice but to cave.
"Fine, I'll be back," he muttered darkly before stalking from the house.
Naru could still remember very clearly the dark anger that had penetrated his body when he returned to find Mai asleep. When he woke her up and gave her the food, she said she wasn't hungry and fell right back asleep.
Naru almost threw the offending appetiser out the window.
A crash from outside startled Naru and he jumped from his seat. He opened the door to find Mai clutching her stomach and standing in a puddle of water.
"Naru…it's…time…" she gasped. Naru was frozen to the spot. His baby was coming. He was going to be a father. Right now.
Another loud scream from his wife snapped Naru from his musings. He rushed forward and helped her regulate her breathing. Once she was calm, Naru ran from the office and retrieved his car.
In the time Naru was gone; Lin had exited his own office and helped Mai keep her breathing regular. He also made a mental note to speak to a doctor about his bruised hand while they were at the hospital.
'Dang that girl has a grip on her,' he thought as she squeezed his hand once again.
Naru rushed back up the stairs and was about to pick Mai up when Lin did it for him.
"She's very heavy," the older man assured him. Naru nodded and silently followed down to his car.
40 minutes later, Naru was pacing hastily as he waited for news on Mai's condition. He couldn't help the scenarios that were running through his head.
What if Mai didn't make it? What if the child didn't make it? Could Mai handle that? Could he? What if, what if, what if.
He was thankfully snapped from this hazy mess by Ayako hugging him with all her might.
"Oh congratulations Naru," she cheered when she let him go. He felt a weight on his leg and looked down to see Ayako and Takigawa daughter, Aysel, clinging to his leg.
"Congrabuwations Mr Nabu," she said with a big smile. He smiled lightly down at her as she bounced away and into her fathers waiting arms.
Next thing he knew, Naru was being slapped on the back by Takigawa. Then John and even Lin joined in. Masako wished him well and Madoka had ruffled his hair like a little kid saying, "I knew it was going to happen before they did!"
The next pair however almost made the young man pass out.
"Mom? Dad?" he said in shock. And there they were. His parents who should have been in England, were currently standing right in front of him with big smiles.
"How is Mai doing dear? Is she okay? Lin called us when she went into labor," Luella gushed.
"How did you get here so fast?" Naru asked as his mother embraced him.
"Well they don't call it the Concorde for nothing now do they boy?" his father joked while patting his shoulder. Naru nodded and was sitting down, talking with his mother when the doctor came out.
"How is she?" Naru asked, jumping from his chair.
"There was some internal bleeding that caused some complications," he said professionally. Naru felt his stomach hit the floor. The way the doctor said that immediately brought Mai to mind.
"And?" Luella prompted.
"We were able to stop it thankfully and it appears both babies are healthy," he finished. Naru breathed a sigh of relief until the doctors words sunk in.
"Babies?" Ayako voiced for him. The doctor simply nodded.
"She had twins. A boy and a girl," he elaborated. Naru was still in shock as everyone congratulated him.
"You can all see her now if you want," the doctor informed them. Naru began walking until he noticed no-one was following.
"You should go first Naru," Madoka told him with a smile. He nodded and followed the doctor to his wife's room.
Mai was propped up on pillows with two colored bundles in her arms. Her hair was ruffled and thin shiny film could be seen on her forehead. She looked up at him with big brown eyes as Naru entered.
"Look Naru," she said looking back down at the babies, "They're so beautiful."
"That they are," he replied sitting down beside her and taking one from her arms. "But what else would you expect with us as their parents?"
Mai laughed and shot a playful glare at him.
"And here I thought you had given up your narcissistic ways," she chuckled.
"Never," he replied looking down at the little girl in his arms. "Looks like we tied on this one."
"At least Bou-san and the others can finally put a point on your side," Mai commented.
Before Naru could ask what she meant, a click was heard and the pair looked p to find their friends standing there with big smiles.A woman, who Mai could only assume was Naru's mother, held a camera out in front of her.
"The happy family," Ayako gushed. Everyone piled into the room to steal a glance at the new additions to the family.
"He has your eyes Naru," Masako mentioned from over the mothers shoulder.
"And she has Mai's," John added from Naru's side with a big smile.
"So what are you going to call them sweetheart?" Luella asked her son. Naru looked over at Mai who smiled down at him.
"What about Celeste?" she asked. Naru beamed.
"Celeste Davis. It's perfect," he replied.
"And what about the boy?" Martin reminded them.
"Eugene," Mai supplied. Naru looked at his wife in awe. She wanted to name their son after his brother. Her eyes were trained on the blue bundle she was cuddling.
"Celeste and Eugene Davis. Perfect," Luella and Martin said with huge smiles.
"Mommy! Mommy!" a little girl of around seven yelled as she ran into her mothers office. The brown haired woman looked up at her daughter just as her son came bounding into the room also.
"What is it sweetie?" she asked the girl. The little girl had straight black hair and cinnamon brown eyes in contrast to the boy who had cinnamon brown hair and crystal dark blue eyes.
"Me and Gene want to hear a story," she said confidently.
"Gene and I," a man corrected her from the doorway. Mai smiled up at her husband.
"Celeste and I want to hear a story," Gene said. Mai sighed and stood from her desk. She moved and sat on her couch, motioning for the two children to join her.
"And which story do you want to hear?" she quizzed them. Naru also joined his wife on the couch as she spoke.
"How you met Daddy!" Celeste cried. Mai laughed and began telling them.
"Okay. It all started when Mommy was in high school. She, along with some of her friends, were telling ghost stories in one of the classrooms when a young man interrupted us…"
A/N: There is chapter 2 of Wedding Woes. Hope you all like it. Read and eview.
