Reality is never what you expect
by: sonofon
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Of course, the childbirth classes had gone to absolute waste. Waste! Hikaru might as well have set the money on fire. That, at least, would have been much easier and saved a lot of time.
Because there was something that Hikaru had not taken in account before Renge's going into labor, and this could be summed up into one word: pain.
It hurt like hell. Or so Renge said. Except, she didn't really say it because she couldn't. Hikaru just assumed so because she was asking for enough painkillers to put a wooly mammoth to sleep.
Hikaru had the stopwatch in his hand, and he was saying, "Remember to breathe! Remember to breathe!"
But was she going to listen? No. Renge only shot this dirty look to him that said, simply: Shut the fuck up.
So he did. However, Renge kept asking for more painkillers, and it got to the point where she was begging the anesthesiologist to marry her.
It didn't help that the one giving anesthesia was Kyouya.
The bastard. Hikaru was sure that the dark-haired man was smirking behind that safety mask. God, he hated the hospital so damn much.
When the torture was over, it'd been a good twenty hours since the ordeal had started. Hikaru was getting ready to ask Renge for a divorce.
But then she showed him the baby.
And he couldn't help but think: Cute. It was such a fragile-looking child. Its eyes were closed with a small thumb perched right on its lips.
It made him so happy, so suddenly like that. He reached out for the baby, and he whispered softly, "Jin?" A rush of prenatal emotion that he'd never known had come to him. He was shocked to silence.
The baby made a gurgling noise, but that was enough to convince Hikaru that he'd just found The Perfect Name. Jin was cute, he thought, and who cared if it was short? If a girl had too long of a name in the first place, who could remember it?
But Renge broke all of his hopes right there and then.
Half conscious, but enough to kill his spirits, she managed, "Hikaru? About the name. The baby?"
"Yeah?"
"It's...a boy. Not a girl."
Hikaru paused, blinked, and drew his hand away. He stared at the baby. The baby stared back.
Then he yelled,
"Why the hell didn't you tell me the sex of the baby before? Isn't that, like, the most important thing?"
"Shh," Renge said, "you'll wake him."
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A/N: Yeah. Hikaru went through all that child-naming-torture for nothing. Read and Review!