Five months had passed since Hoshi had found out her surprising news. Since she had gotten much bigger than she was before, every part of her body ached much more. Every time she stood up to get something, she put her hand on her stomach. It was becoming a bit of pain to be walking around with such a big stomach. She hated the thought of what her breasts were going to be like after she gave birth.
She walked over to the door, opening it to get some air circulating through the room. She took a deep breath. "It's such a lovely day, today."
"Hoshi, how are you feeling?" Rangiku questioned, walking towards her being followed by Momo Hinamori.
Hoshi looked back at the two lieutenants, giving them a small smile. "Well, I'm feeling as good as I can. I mean, everything pretty much hurts and it's hard to get comfortable while trying to go to sleep."
Momo moved closer to her, reaching her hand out to her stomach. "Does it feel weird? You know, when the baby kicks."
She looked down at the shorter girl, "Well, sometimes. Just depends on how the baby moves. Sometimes my stomach feels like it's really tight because where the baby is positioned."
Rangiku pushed her hair back behind her shoulder, "What gender do you want the baby to be?"
Hoshi looked at the golden blonde for a moment, shrugging her shoulders. "I'm not really sure. Though, I'd like to have a girl. But whenever gender the baby is, is fine with me."
Momo laughed a bit, "Knowing Lieutenant Hisagi, he'd probably want a boy."
Rangiku looked at the shorter female for a moment, "I think all guys want to have a boy first. Who knows, I think they want to raise them to be strong and they wouldn't have to be as protective if it was a girl."
"It's not like I can do anything about the gender. If it's a girl then Shūhei is just going to have to get over it." Hoshi replied, laughing softly.
Shūhei paced back and forth with is arms behind his back. He wanted to grab his hair at that moment. He stopped, looking at Kira, raising his eyebrow. "Why are you looking at me like that?"
The blonde lieutenant stared at his friend for a moment, shaking his head. "No reason. Just it looks like you're about to go crazy."
"What gives you that idea? I'm not going crazy…just getting nervous because it's only a couple of months before the baby's here. I don't know what gender we're doing to have." He replied before sitting down on the ground, crossing his arms over his chest.
Kira walked over to him, sitting down next to him. He put his chin in the palm of his head, looking at his friend. "You should calm down. Hoshi's taking the whole thing better than you are. Have you even decided on names?"
Shūhei slowly looked at him for a moment. Names? He didn't remember Hoshi mentioning anything about names. "No. We haven't even gotten that far yet. We'd have to decide on a name for it's a boy and one for it's a girl. It could end up being a long list until we decide on one."
The blonde male blinked a couple of times. How could they not have decided on a name yet? Maybe he needed to get a level head and calm down? His friend seemed to have been taking in everything at once. "Perhaps, you should take things one at time? Like, think about baby names then worry about when the baby's going to be here. That's still a bit of time away."
He blinked a couple of times. Maybe he was right? He was taking everything in at once; he wasn't taking it slow at all. That was probably why Hoshi wasn't too stressed about everything. Which he wouldn't want her to be anyways. "Yeah, you're right. I'm just going end up stressing myself out if I keep going the way I am."
Kira nodded his head, "Yeah you are. You need to stop worrying to so much."
Shūhei patted his friend on the shoulder before standing up. "I should get my head clear before heading back to talk to Hoshi about baby names."
Hoshi sighed heavily; she was feeling tired already and the day wasn't even half way over. She ran her hand through her lavender hair before her bangs fell right back into her face. She tilted her head to the side at the sound of someone approaching her. "Oh…S-Shūhei."
Shūhei stared at her for a moment, moving closer to her. He grabbed her arm, pulling her into a hug. "I think we should talk about baby names, Hoshi."
She looked up at him for a moment, tilting her head to the side. "Well this is the first time you mentioned anything about baby names."
He shrugged his shoulders, "Well, I figured it would be better if we talked about them before we had the baby."
"Yes, that is a good idea, but we don't know what gender the baby's going to be." Hoshi replied, putting her hands on her stomach.
Shūhei put his hand on hers, smiling at her. "It doesn't matter. We can be pick one for both genders and whatever gender the baby is we'll have a name for him or her."
She gave him a smirk, moving back towards her room. "Oh? Do you have names in mind?"
He blinked a couple of times before shaking his head. "Not that his very moment…no, but we can think of them together."
Hoshi grabbed his hand, pulling him into the room. She smiled softly at him. "Alright, if that's what you want do, we'll do it."
Shūhei smiled back at her, following her. He sat down on her bed with her, each of them writing down baby names. They argued a bit over some of the names, since of them were names they couldn't agree on or they didn't like the name. Of course, they had eventually decided on names.
"So it's settled then…if it's a boy, he'll be named Akihiko and if it's a girl, she'll be named Kiyomi." She said softly, giving him a smile.
"That wasn't too hard." He laughed, rubbing the back of his head. Of course it was hard. They argued over what names they liked and what would sound good. Who would have guessed that it would have taken that much time just come up with baby names?
Hoshi leaned closer to him, kissing him softly upon his lips. "At least we settled on names." He nodded his head.
