A/N: Thanks for all the reviews. Here's the next chapter. It's time for Kanda to find out what's wrong with his Moyashi.

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The Moyashi wasn't waiting for me when I returned from my daily mission. Normally that wouldn't be strange, but I knew he was at headquarters. Komui wouldn't have let him leave while he was sick.

Trying to recall what little he'd told me about his illness, I headed to Allen's room. If he hadn't been eating and he was too tired for training, then he must be there.

He didn't answer when I knocked, but when I went in, I found him curled up on the bed with his back to the door, Timcanpy in his arms. It was hard not to get distracted by the view. Now was not the time to be thinking about how gorgeous the neko was. "I'm back, Moyashi."

Aside from a slight twitch of the tail, Allen didn't react. Apparently the brat didn't think I knew when he was fake sleeping. I sighed and sat down beside him. "You're such a troublesome brat, Moyashi. Just tell me what Komui said, and then you can go back to being mad at me for whatever it is I did that upset you."

That time I was rewarded with a sniffle. I leaned over him and saw the trails on his face, he'd been crying. The last time I saw him that upset was when he became a neko. "Oi! Allen! What's wrong? It can't have been that bad..."

There was a mumble and a muffled sob. I began rubbing his ears, if that didn't calm him down then it would at least annoy him into talking to me. After about ten minutes he finally spoke. "You're going to leave me."

I blinked at the words. "What could possibly be so bad that it would make me break up with you?!"

Another few minutes passed before Allen pushed my hand away. He sighed longingly as he let go of my fingers, almost as if he was saying goodbye to them. "I'm pregnant."

"What the fuck, Moyashi! This isn't the time for jokes!" There was something about his body language that was creeping me out.

He blinked once, slowly and deliberately. "I'm not joking."

I felt the blood drain from my face. The Moyashi was pregnant? But he was male! And that was something that I knew better than anyone else. "How is something like that even possible?"

"...because I'm half cat..."

"Oh." That was all there was to say. It unfortunately made perfect sense, and it certainly explained his mood. He had adjusted so well to that, and now it was screwing with his life again.

It also explained the rather odd situation in which I now found myself. My Moyashi was carrying my child. But why does that sound so good? Shouldn't that be a bad thing? Shouldn't I be horribly disturbed by the news that a fellow male is pregnant? But the more I thought about it, the more I realized: I actually wanted this. For some unknown reason that I couldn't even begin to explain, I was thrilled to be having a baby with Allen.

A soft sob made me realize that from his perspective my silence wasn't a good thing. "How far along are you?"

Allen narrowed his eyes at me, suspicion written all over his face. "About five weeks."

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Kanda was being weird. Why was he showing interest in my condition? Shouldn't he have left already? "So then it happened around the time of that mission in Belgium? Or was it the one in Russia?"

I looked up at him, completely confused. "What are you getting at?"

He blushed and got a little flustered. I would miss seeing that side of him when he left. Then he suddenly growled. "Look. Is it my baby or not?"

It was my turn to blush. He'd been trying to figure out when I'd gotten pregnant. "Of course it's yours! I would never sleep with anyone else."

Kanda was not acting at all how I thought he would. He leaned over and kissed me. "Good."

Then he got up off the bed. But he didn't leave. I sat up so I could see what he was doing, setting Timcanpy on the bedside table in the process, and found him digging around in his jacket pockets. He found whatever it was he was looking for and tossed it in my lap.

I slowly picked up a little square box. It was a plain blue, and only a couple inches wide. I tore my eyes away from it when Kanda sat back down on the bed. He was clearly waiting for me to open it. I stared back down at the little box, suddenly burning with curiosity. Kanda had never given me a gift before. Why was he choosing now, while I was an emotional wreck, to suddenly do so?

I pulled the lid open and the box immediately slipped out of my fingers. It landed on its side and the little silver band slipped out. I gaped up at Kanda. There was a happy smile on his face. "It's good to know I can still surprise you, Moyashi."

While I struggled to find words, he picked the ring up off the blankets. "Wha-? Why? Why would you buy me a ring?"

"Because I hate seeing people flirt with you. I thought that maybe if they knew you were taken they'd stop. I saw it at a marketplace today and thought it would make you laugh. It wasn't meant to be anything serious, just a joke, but now..."

Everything went slow motion as it hit me that Kanda was proposing. Suddenly just remembering to breathe became incredibly difficult.

"I need you to know that I'm not going anywhere. I want to be with you. And our baby. I'm not going to let you do this alone. I love you, Allen Walker. I-"

I leaned over and kissed him, not caring that I interrupted him. He so rarely actually said those words. And it made me feel so stupid. I should have known that this man loved me so much that he would choose to accept the baby. I should have known he wouldn't leave me.

He broke the kiss to slip the ring on my finger. "I guess I can take that as a yes."

I stared at the strip of silver on my finger; it almost felt like it would disappear if I blinked. The whole thing was such an unusually affectionate display for the samurai. "You're being weird."

Kanda laughed. "Coming from you, I'll take that as a compliment." He pulled me between his legs and wrapped me in his arms. I leaned back against his chest. "Besides isn't that the normal thing to do?"

"Huh?"

"Isn't getting married the normal thing to do when you find out you're having a baby?" His hands slid down my sides and untucked and unbuttoned my shirt, not stopping until they were resting on my bare stomach.

It was a strange feeling knowing there was a baby in there. It was also completely terrifying. I was responsible for the well-being of that innocent life. "Nothing about this is normal. I'm a man. I shouldn't be pregnant. This is... It's just so... Why is this happening to me?"

Kanda smirked. "I thought you wanted kids, Moyashi."

"Not like this!" I'd had enough of his hands reminding me I was pregnant, so I pulled them away from my abdomen. "I wanted to be a father not a-!"

"Mother?" He whispered the word in my ear. It made me cringe.

I glared up at him. "And I thought you didn't want kids. Why are you being so calm about this?"

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"First of all: I said that I didn't want to have kids in the middle of a war, not that I didn't want kids. And second: who said I was calm?" I practically growled at him. "I may not be as freaked out as you are, but I assure you that I am definitely not calm."

Allen was upset, and he had every right to be. It was going to take time for him to get used to the idea that there was a child growing inside him.

In his current mood, anything I said about the baby would be taken the wrong way. I certainly couldn't tell him that the reason I was worked up was because I was excited by the idea of a mini Moyashi running around. For the time being it was best to pretend I agreed with him on everything regarding the baby. But in order to do that I needed to make him tell me what he was thinking. "I probably should have asked this before I asked you to marry me, but are you going to keep the baby?"

The Moyashi sniffled a little, and then forced the tears back with a sigh. "Komui says I don't have a choice."

"Why not?" That seemed like an odd thing to say, even for the supervisor.

"The baby is going to be half cat like I am." I smiled inwardly. Our child really would be a mini Moyashi.

I took his hands in mine and moved them so that his palms were placed against his flat stomach. From the way he flinched, he hadn't done that yet, but I kept my hands on top so he couldn't pull his away. "So when are we going to tell everyone?"

"You want to tell people?! What about the whole 'they'll kill us for being gay' thing?"

"We're having a baby. No one's going to care about that anymore."

He sighed softly. "How can I be expected to tell anyone when I'm too scared to talk to Jerry about it?"

"Jerry knows?" I felt myself becoming angry that he'd told someone before I got home, but the Moyashi interrupted my panic attack.

"Komui told him. He wants to talk to me to make sure I'm eating properly."

I surveyed the pile of plates nearby. "If that's all you've eaten today I can see why." I began nudging him off the bed. "It's nearly dinner time. Go talk to him before the rush starts. The rest of this can wait till later."

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Kanda scowled sternly at me until I left the room. Then he followed me to the cafeteria. He was not going to let me get out of this.

My stubbornness caved as soon as I got close enough to smell the food in the cafeteria and I realized just how hungry I was. I may not have wanted this thing to be growing inside of me, but it was an innocent life that was completely dependent on me to take care of it. If I was barely eating enough for my own needs, there was no way it would survive. And if it died because I wasn't taking care of myself... Well, that was worse than killing it.

I dumped the dishes from lunch, then went into the kitchen. This was not a conversation I wanted to have through the window where anyone who wanted to could see it. The door closed behind me and Jerry turned to shout at whoever had come into his kitchen without permission. He stopped when he saw it was me though, and I was immediately wrapped in a tight hug.

He led me to a quiet corner where there was a small table. I was pushed into a chair and a glass of water was placed in front of me. "Now Sweetie, drink that, and explain to me what's going on in that head of yours that makes you think it's ok to skip meals."

"I'm not doing it on purpose; I certainly don't like feeling so sick to my stomach that I can't eat." I sighed and drank the water. "I'm always hungry in the morning. Especially after being woken up by the need to vomit. I don't know why, but when I come down for breakfast the cafeteria just smells so nauseating that I have to turn around and leave before I throw up again."

Jerry nodded as he refilled the glass. "Pregnancy can mess with your sense of smell, Allen, and with as strong as yours is, it's not surprising that it's affecting you like that. Now, is it the overall smell of food that's making you sick, or is it the smell of a particular item?"

"I think it's one specific thing, because it only bothers me at breakfast, but I never stick around long enough to figure out what it is."

Jerry nodded a few times, he seemed deep in thought. I sipped on the water while I waited for him to speak again. "I have some ideas for what might be causing it. I'll take care of it." He gave me a look. "But if you're still bothered by it tomorrow, you have to at least come get food to take back to your room. No skipping meals while you've got a little baby depending on you."

I sighed. "I know."

"Now, go join your friends." He refilled the water glass and handed it to me. I didn't take it from him and was rewarded with another look. "You have to make sure you're drinking plenty of water. Dehydration will make the nausea worse and could cause problems for your baby."

"Oh." I took the glass from Jerry. I hadn't known that.

The chef smiled and guided me towards the door. "I'll send someone out with your food. Remember to come back if you're still hungry."

I nodded and went out into the cafeteria. Kanda was sitting with Lenalee and Camilla, and the Chinese girl waved when she saw me. I went over and joined them, hoping that Lenalee wouldn't immediately pester me about why she'd had to bring me lunch. "Hey Allen. Are you feeling better?"

I forced myself to smile at her. "I am. Thank you, Lenalee."

She shook her fork at me. "You're lying. But Komui said asking you questions about it would make things worse, so I'll let it drop for now. But you better tell me what the hell's going on when this is all over."

"...Fine."

I didn't want Lenalee, or anyone else, to ever, ever find out that I was pregnant. It was going be thoroughly humiliating when they did: Lenalee would fawn all over me and Lavi would tease me every chance he got. And Camilla would be worse than the two of them put together, simply because she would know that it's Kanda's baby. If it were possible, I would never tell them. Ever.

But I wasn't stupid; I knew it wouldn't be possible to keep this a secret forever. I was having a baby, they'd find out eventually. But if I had my way that wouldn't be for a very long time.

"Moyashi." I perked up at the name, noticing that my food had arrived while I was spaced out. Kanda looked ready to throw something at me. "Stop thinking so hard. You'll hurt yourself."

"My name's Allen, Bakanda." I stuck my tongue out at him then began digging into my food.