Forgiveness Chapter 3
One Week Later
Oxford University Dormitory Female Toilets
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This was the second time today that Shina heaved her latest meal into the toilet bowl. She was starting to think that the toilet was becoming her newest best friend. Okay, she's not even going to go there.
To say that she felt like shit was a complete understatement. Her daily heaving had started ever since she arrived in England, she knew she should have gone to the doctor but she had a feeling she knew what it was. She was just in denial.
"Shi-chan?" A golden-eyed, long red-haired man inquired.
Heaving.
"Shi-chan? Are you alright? Can I come in?"
More heaving.
"Alright. I'm coming in now."
Coughing. "Kyuu-chan, you're not supposed to be in a girl's bathroom."
"So what? My female friend has been throwing up every little bit of food for the past week and you're worried that I shouldn't be in here because I'm a boy?!" Kyuubi argued back as he rubbed circles on her back.
She just laughed at him.
"Are you feeling better now?"
She nodded.
"Are you sure? You've been throwing up for a week. Are you really sure you're alright?"
"Kyuu, I need you to do something for me."
"What is it?"
"I need you to go to the pharmacy and buy me something."
"…Buy what?"
"A pregnancy test."
Kyuubi's eyes widened. "A…A WHAT?!"
"It's a long story."
"Oh, please do tell. I have all the time in the world since I'm the one who's being asked a favor of." He drawled sarcastically.
She sighed. "I was tipsy, he was wasted. I told him no but he couldn't hear me over his extremely strong libido. Being wasted didn't help."
"So your boyfriend… raped you?"
"Not really. I wanted it; although I must admit I was less than ready at that moment to have sex with him. I'm only 13 after all."
"Yeah, 13 but smart enough to get into this course apparently."
"So?! You're only 16 and you're in the course too."
He rolled his eyes. "Okay so we're both smart, but you're smarter. You're 13 and you're in an accelerated course for medicine in Oxford University."
"It's not that I'm smart. Both my parents are full-time doctors. They travel all the time to different branches of our family hospitals and I followed them all the time. I practically lived in the hospital. Dad's a diagnostic specialist and a pediatrician, mom's an oncologist and cardiologist. I usually study what they do while I do my homework up in theater."
"Wow, you are a true prodigy."
"Whatever" She rolled her eyes, "How about you Kyuu?"
"Mom and dad are forensics." He shrugged. "So… I'll just be getting your pregnancy test now." He got up from the floor, reaching out his hand to help her up.
"Ne, Kyuu?"
"Hm?"
"Please don't tell anyone okay?"
He smirked, "Hn, alright. I promise I won't unless you want me to." He smiled at her while tucking her hair behind her ear. "Make sure you take good care of yourself okay sweetie? I'll help you through your pregnancy and after the birth."
She smiled and nodded. "Geez Kyuu, you're turning into a mother hen now."
"Hey! I'm only trying to look out for my new best friend." He pouted playfully at her.
"But won't you be busy with your boyfriend?"
"Pssh. What boyfriend?! With the amount of work we'll be doing in the next few years it's probably better for me to be asexual." He joked. She rolled her eyes in response.
"Thanks Kyuu."
"For what?"
"Thanks for being here for me. I really appreciate it."
"That's what friends are for babe." He smiled at her.
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5 Years Later
"MOMMY! Hurry up! You're going to be late!" a blue-eyed raven 4 year old boy shouted from the living room of the condo.
"Be patient Tatsuya. You know your mother takes forever to do her make-up."
"SHUT UP KYUUBI! I HEARD THAT!" Shina shouted at him from her bedroom.
"Mommy." The blonde-haired raven-eyed 4 year old girl came up to Shina's bedroom door and knocked. "Mommy, we have to go now. It's almost eleven."
The door swung open and the little girl looked up to her 18 year old mother. Shina picked the little girl up. "Mommy's ready Natsumi sweetie."
"Mommy, you look very pretty." She smiled at her mother.
"Thank you sweetheart. Let's go to mommy and uncle Kyuubi's graduation ne?"
Natsumi nodded her head vigorously as Shina led them to the living room where Kyuubi and Tatsuya were waiting.
"Alright, let's go already Ms Top-of-my-class." The red haired man said sarcastically as he picked up the raven boy.
Shina rolled her eyes at him, "It's called a valedictorian, baka."
"Mommy! You just called Kyuu-ji stupid." The raven boy corrected his mother.
"Mommy didn't call Kyuu-ji stupid because he's actually stupid sweetie." She chuckled.
"Then why did you kaa-chan?"
"You'll understand when you're older sweetheart." She smiled, "Let's go, mommy has a speech to deliver."
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
"Sasuke-kun, let's go on a date today!"
"I'm busy."
"But we haven't gone out on a date for so long." She whined.
"Geez Sakura, we went on a bloody date less than a week ago." Not that I wanted to go.
"Exactly! It's been so long! It's Friday! I want to watch that new movie, Mamma Mia tonight. It just came out. Everyone told me it's really good."
"If I go will that make you shut up?!" He seethed.
"Yay! Thank you Sasuke-kun! This is why I love you so much, you're the best!" She screeched.
"Okay, okay. So get out. I have work to do."
"But…"
"NOW!"
She 'eeped' and ran out the room. He gave a dejected sigh and rubbed his aching temples.
Why the hell did I ever agree to go out with her?! Oh yeah, it's the only way she'll shut up and not give me a head ache with her bloody screeching. She's even making me watch gay musical movies. First it was High School Musical I then High School Musical II and now Mamma Mia?! Gawd, I need an Aspirin. He opened his drawers to find his Aspirin stash. Damn it! I need to get another prescription. Maybe I should get some Prozac too. That pink… thing is driving me into depression and insanity. Dear God, please someone save me from this wench!
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
"Kaa-chan! Look! That cloud looks like a giant Easter bunny." Natsumi pointed out from the window seat of the private jet plane they were boarded on.
"Nana, don't be silly, it looks more like a sleeping lion, you can see the mane thingy!" Her brother argued.
"The little girl giggled, "Hehe, yeah I can see the mane thingy too!"
From the other side of the plane Kyuubi and Shina just laughed at the twins' latest antics to fight off boredom of the long hours of the flight.
"Hey, so who's gonna pick us up from the airport?"
"You know Itachi? The guy I told you about?"
"Your brother-in-law slash pseudo-guardian?"
"Yes that's the one."
"Is he hot?"
"Hn. You'll see." She smirked.
"Is he…"
She raised an elegant eyebrow.
"Does he… swing my way?"
She smirked. "Hn. You'll see."
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
After over 10 hours of a scrutinizingly boring flight, the four of them finally reached Tokyo Airport. They walked out of the arrival gates and met up with the long haired raven who had waited there with an amused smirk on his face.
Shina walked up to him and gave him a hug.
"Welcome home. Who's your red-haired friend?" He whispered in her ear.
She smirked. "Thanks. It's good to be back. He's all yours." She whispered back.
"You mean…?"
"Yeah." She smiled as she pulled away from him. "By the way, I want you to meet Kyuubi" She pointed to the red-head as her voice returning to normal volume. "My best friend slash personal baby-sitter to my children."
"Hey!" Kyuubi pouted at Shina. Itachi smirked at him before looking down at the two four year olds, crouching to their eye level.
He looked at the boy first, "You must be Tatsuya-kun." The raven boy nodded shyly. Itachi smiled at him before turning to the girl, "And you must be Natsumi-chan." The blonde haired girl nodded vigorously as she flashed him a toothy smile, reminding him of her mother when she was that age. "Do either of you know who I am?" Itachi asked them.
They both nodded. "You're Itachi-ji, ne?!" The little girl spoke up first.
Itachi smiled at them.
"Mommy told us all about you! She said you always took care of her when she was little, like Kyuu-ji to us!" She continued.
"Is that so? Did your mommy tell you she used to be really naughty when she was small?"
Both shook their heads.
"She used to run around in my garden and play hide-and-seek when she didn't tell me beforehand."
Both looked shocked.
"And she used to never want to eat her vegetables." He looked up at Shina. "Naughty mommy!" He playfully scolded her. She just rolled her eyes.
The two looked up at their mother with utter surprise written all over their face. "Mommy! You always told us to eat our vegetables but you didn't! That's so unfair!" The little boy pouted at his mother.
"Tatsu, that's why mommy always told the both of you to eat your vegetables, mommy used to get sick all the time because mommy didn't like vegetables. That's why mommy started eating them and then mommy hardly ever got sick again."
"Oh! Really?" Natsumi asked.
"Yes sweetie, mommy is telling the truth." Itachi answered for her. Both children looked from their uncle back to their mother who nodded in response.
Itachi got up to his feet, "We should go." Shina's smile instantly faltered.
Kyuubi instantly rushed to the children's attention and addressed the other two adults/teens. "I'll get them to the car first."
When the three of them were out of sight, Itachi looked at Shina in worry. "Are you sure you want to do this?"
She took a deep breath and smiled at him, "I've held it back as long as I could. Now that I've graduated from the course and I'm back here, there's no hiding it anymore. I have to tell him sometime in the course of his life. No matter how scared I am to tell him." She chuckled. "It's just a shock to know that he's dating her now. I mean she's the reason we broke up in the first place, even if he didn't know that." She sighed.
"If it makes you feel any better, he looks extremely miserable. He's popping anti-depressants and painkillers like its candy since they started 'dating', if you can even call it that. I think he agreed just to shut her up."
She laughed in response.
"My parents hates her guts, and she kept on going on and on about marrying him."
"Has he ever…?"
"Slept with her? No. I told him that if he did, I would personally castrate him. Whenever she kisses him, he would make this disgusted face as if he was puckering sewage waste."
She scrunched her face in disgust. "Eww. That is an extremely nasty visual." She gagged.
He just shrugged. "I want to ask though, since you're technically ready to go to med school, why are you bothering to go back to high school?"
She sighed, "I want to study there but that would mean that both Kyuubi and I would have even less time with the kids. I feel like such a horrible mother as it is, not telling them about their father, being too busy to properly take care of them, I don't want Kyuubi to feel like he was forced to do this. He deserves a break from constantly taking care of them. So I decided to study here, at least I won't have to put all the burden on one person only. If all other family members are unavailable, I can at least safely leave them with the maids. They'll keep them entertained for a couple of hours at least." She shrugged.
"But why high school?"
She rolled her eyes and sighed, "The Tokyo District Health Board didn't care if I was a triple doctorate, if I don't have a high school diploma, no matter how smart I am, they won't accept me as a doctor. This was the deal they gave me. If I return for my last year of high school in Japan and get an actual graduating certificate, even if I didn't do any exams, they would let me work here. The only mandatory thing was my attendance and participation in school and at least join one club or society then after that I have to complete six University of Tokyo exams that they require to get the degree plus the practice license exam."
"Wow, sucks to be you."
She shrugged, "Meh~"
Itachi just rolled his eyes and chuckled as they walked towards the awaiting limo.
