WOOT!!! 20 reviews!!! THANX SO MUCH MINNA!!! -cries tears of joy-

Yoh: -smiles- isn't this fun Anna? 20 reviews! I'm so happy for Abie!

Anna: Oh brother... -rolls eyes- it isn't 100 yet ya know...

Abie: who cares! As long as there are people reading my story!

Anna: T.T right...

Abie: Mou... Anna no meanie! -glomps Anna-

Anna: Gah! get off!

Yoh: hey I wanna glomp too!!! -glomps Abie and Anna-

Abie: hehe... glomping is fun!

Yoh: Yeah! -smiles-

Anna: Ugh.. I said... GET OFF!!! ARGH!

Abie: -igores Anna- Anyways... here's chapter 4 of Anna's Labor! Enjoy minna and leave a review onegai!!! Ja!

(Dedicated to... EVERYONE WHO READS THIS FIC!!! hehe... let's all welcome BABY HANA in our happy SK family!!! 'chu!)

(Oh yeah, special THANX to Mrs Hao Asakura for pointing out that babies are born within 9 MONTHS! I worte 12 (way to embarrass me 'lil sis! -.-") Sorry about that... -Abie ISH such a n00b!-)

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...CHAPTER FOUR...

Then...

they heard an infant's cry for the first time...

Yoh blinked and smiled widely.

Anna stopped and more tears were forming out of her tired eyes. It was finally over.

Silva took off his handkerchief and smiled at them as he held the small baby for them to see.

"Congratulations Yoh and Anna, it's a boy..."

Silva cleaned the crying baby of the excess blood and amniotic fluid then wrapped him in a clean yellow towel.

He smiled as he saw it crying with full energy. Seeing it was healthy and in a normal state.

It was one of the world's beautiful miracles. A new life was born... Silva went to the couple and smiled once again as he gave it to Anna to hold.

"Congratulations you two..." Silva said again, never taking off the smile that's plastered in his face.

Anna was crying tears of joy when she received her baby boy in her arms for the first time. It seem to have stopped crying when he sensed his mother.

Yoh who was speechless at the time just smiled widely and kissed her wife on the forehead. He looked down on the baby who was yawning. He felt so much happiness that he wished it would never end... until he realized that it won't because his son, their son was born. And was going to be with them for the rest of their lives..

The itako looked up at his husband with teary eyes. "Yoh... he's beautiful..."

"Yeah... he is..." He said caressing the baby's soft face. "I'm proud of you Anna... I love so much. " he said kissing her forehead once again.

"I love you too..." She said back.

The infant yawned again, this time it raised it's tiny fist.

"He's so small..." Anna said putting a finger on it's delicate hand.

Silva stood up as he cleaned his hands with a towel.

Yoh beamed at him. "Thank you so much Silva. We owe it all to you and Karim..."

"Yes... thank you Silva..." Anna said as she put on a gentle smile on her exhausted face.

The native american blushed. "Ah. It was nothing... I'm happy to have done it." He went to the unconsious Karim and lifted him through his arms.

"Well... better give you guys a private time together. We'll be downstairs..." He said as he dragged Karim on the wooden floor. He gave a final smile to them, then he closed the shoji door.

Yoh looked back at his wife who smiled. He helped her sit down and lean on the wall, it was hard because Anna's insides were still numb from the labor.

"There." Yoh said putting a pillow on her back so she'll be comfortable.

He sat beside his new family. The infant squirmed inside the towel and opened it's little eyes to see his parents.

Anna and Yoh saw it and gave a soft smile to him.

"Hi there..." the blonde greeted it with a smile.

The baby cooed as it saw his mother. Anna smiled tearfuly and held it closely giving their son a gentle kiss on the head.

"He looks a lot like you Yoh..." She said caressing the baby's cheek.

"Yeah... he does, doesn't he?" The Shaman happily said.

Suddenly a haze was seen near the door. Then Amidamaru appeared in his spirit ball form.

"Yoh-dono?" He said. "Lady Anna?"

"Ah, Amidamaru..." Yoh said. "Come here..." he beamed at his spirit ally.

The samurai shyly floated to them and glanced at the baby on Anna's arms.

"Ah! That is...?!" He said with a blush.

"Yep." Yoh said as he grinned.

"Come closer Amidamaru... don't be so modest..." Anna said smiling at him.

"Lady Anna..." he said.

Amidamaru floated near the itako and saw the little infant... Then his eyes flickered in surprise. He was so little and fragile. The baby was looking at a strange transparent figure, it seemed to have notice him.

"He can see me?" The samurai asked.

"Well... yeah, he's a shaman too. But babies can't see clearly yet. All he can see are blurry stuff, like that..." Yoh said.

"Ah..." Then he poofed into his full form. "Welcome Yoh-dono's child!" he greeted.

"hehe..." Yoh chuckled.

and Anna just smiled.

"I'm so happy for Yoh-dono and lady Anna! I Shall protect him, like I have protected Yoh-dono!" The warrior said proudly.

"that would be great Amidamaru..." Yoh said.

Then the ghost smiled back. He was so happy that his master Yoh and Anna finally had their child... He sighed and smiled.

"Thank you Amidamaru... If it weren't for you, I couldn't have made it." The blonde said smiling at the silver-haired samurai.

"You are most welcome... I needed to protect you too lady Anna. It is what Yoh-dono had ordered me since you were still pregnant..." He said with a tinge of red on his cheek.

Then there was an akward silence, and it had occured to him to leave the two, so they can have a time together with their son. Then he thought of a good explaination so he can go now.

"I shall go and inform all my ghost friends. Ja Yoh-dono, Lady Anna!" then he poofed and disappeared.

"Alright Ami. See ya around..." Yoh said smiling. Then he looked down on his wife again and kissed her on the head.

"So... what will we name him?" Anna asked looking up to him. The baby just continued staring at the figures infront of him.

Yoh paused and thought about it... He smiled goofily and spaced out for the moment...

'Bob...'

Anna knew that look... he seemed to thought about a dumb name for the baby.

"We won't name him 'Bob', Yoh..." She said glaring at him.

Yoh looked defeated. "Aww... alright..."

Anna sweatdropped and gave a smirk. I knew it...

"Well... what do you think we shall name him?" the Shaman asked his wife.

Anna looked down on the baby who was still looking at them. She thought for a moment.

"I was thinking... we should combine our names." She said. "How 'bout... 'Hana'?"

Yoh looked at her puzzled. "Hana? How is that a combination of our names?"

The blonde smiled. "Well, your name's Kanji is pronounced 'Ha' and my name's last syllable 'Na'. Ha-na..."

Yoh scratched his head. "Okay... but wouldn't it a girl's name now?"

"Who said 'Hana' can't be a boy's name?"

"Alright." He said smiling... He looked down at the baby who was closing it's eyes for slumber. "He'll be Hana Asakura... our son..."

Anna also looked down on the sleeping baby in her arms. "Yes... our Hana..." She said snuggling the infant. Then Yoh put his arms around Anna's shoulder and hugged her closely.

As the two have their moment with their newborn, there was a knock on the door.

"Come in..." Yoh said.

Silva opened the door silently and poked his head in the room.

"Uh, sorry for disturbing but... someone's here to see you guys..." He said with a faint blush on his cheeks.

"Oh? Who is it?" The brunette Shaman asked.

"Uhm..." Silva said with a sweatdrop. "It's your-- GAH!" A small figure pushed the Indian aside.

"Oh forgive me child... I didn't see you there..." the figure said as she faced Silva on the floor. Then she entered the room.

Silva just gritted his teeth. "I-it's okay..." Then he stood up and went downstairs.

"G-grandma?" Yoh gasped.

"Hello Yoh..." Then she smiled and saw Anna on the futon with the infant on her arms.

"Kino-sensei..." Anna said tiredly.

She walked towards them with her wooden cane supporting her balance.

"Grandma! What a surprise! I thought--"

"Hush boy!" Kino hissed. "I wanna see my great grandchild..."

"Meep." Yoh frozed in his place. His Grandma wasn't the type to be fooled around with.

The elder Itako went to Anna's side and kneeled to face her.

"How are you feeling Anna?" She asked with a bit of gentleness in her voice.

Anna smiled faintly. "I'm fine Kino-sensei..."

Her teacher smiled. "Can I look at the child?"

"Of course." She said as she gave the infant carefuly to Kino.

Kino received the slumbering baby and looked at it. She maybe blind but she can somehow sense the baby's features...

Kino felt waves of happiness as she held the small child, but she didn't let her emotions out... she was an itako and itako's didn't display too much feelings on the outside. But when the baby yawned, she felt herself smile warmly.

Anna looked at her sensei and smiled too. Yoh went to Anna's other side and wrapped an arm around her.

Then she returned the infant to it's mother.

"I'm proud of you Anna..." She said as the smile lingered at her features. "You both know your responsibility for having a child at an early age... we've talk about it right?" She added, the smile fading.

"Yeah... sure we did Grandma!" Yoh said cheerfuly. "We'll take good care of little Hana!"

"Hana?" Kino said raising her eyebrows. "Is that the name of the child?"

"Yep. It's a combination of my name and Anna's!" he grinned.

"Well... he's your offspring..." She said closing her eyes.

"There they are!" Said a female voice from the hallway.

"Mom!" Yoh exclaimed. "Grandpa!"

it was indeed Keiko Asakura and Yohmei. Keiko was teary-eyed once she entered the room. And Yohmei just smiled as he looked at people inside the room.

"Yoh!!" Keiko rushed to his son and gave him a tight hug.

"Mom..." Yoh whined with a blush on his cheeks. "Yeah, it's great to see you too..."

She let go of him and went to Anna. She gasped as she saw what was on the blonde's arms.

"Oh my..." then the tears started falling on her cheeks.

Anna smiled. "Hello... Keiko-sama."

Keiko smiled sadly. "That's 'mom' to you... and is that?" She asked pointing at the bundle on her arms.

The itako blushed and nodded in reply.

"Aww... can I hold him?" She asked as she kneeled next to Anna.

She gave the baby to a flushing Miko.

"Awwww... how precious..." Keiko cooed and stroked the baby's rosy-cheeks. It gave a small whimper. She wiped her tears away and smiled. She was so happy... She was now a grandmother.

"I'm so happy for both of you..." She glanced at her son and daughter-in-law.

"Ah... thanks mom..." Yoh said smiling.

"Thanks... mom..." Anna said blushing as she said that last word.

Keiko gave the infant back to Anna and gave her a hug.

Anna was surprised... She hasn't called anyone mom for a long time. And she was being hugged by her new 'Mom'. She gave a smile.

Then Yohmei went to them now... he let the females have a look first before him.

"Hello Yoh... Anna." the head of the Asakura's greeted.

"Hi Grandpa..." Yoh said.

"Yohmei-sama..." Anna said nodding.

"How are you feeling Anna?" The old man asked her, just like Kino.

"I'm fine. Thank you for asking..." She said with a tired smile. "Do you want hold him?" She asked him.

Yohmei was surprised. "No, no... I'll just take a look at him.." He was scared he might drop something so little.

Anna arranged the blanket that was around the baby so that Yohmei can fully see the baby.

"Ah..." The old man smiled. "He looks like a true Asakura..."

Yoh and Anna looked at each other and smiled too. (a/n: I know... they smile here a lot! Well, what do you expect the feeling may be?...)

"You both have my blessings..." Yohmei said facing the couple. "Congratulations Yoh and Anna."

Anna kissed her newborn son on the head again.

"Okay... now that we all seen the baby. Let's get you cleaned up..." Keiko said to Anna. She was back to her cheerful self.

The blonde blinked.

"And the baby too... good thing I've bought some baby clothes on the way..." She added.
"Yoh, Dad... out of the room, now. Mother and I will take care of everything... now shoo..." a chibi Keiko pushing out chibi Yoh and Yohmei out of the room...

Then she slammed the shoji door shut.

Yoh and Yohmei just blinked and sweatdropped in confusion.

"That's your mother..." Yohmei said putting his hands on his back.

"Yep..." Yoh said nodding.

Then the two men went down the stairs to where Silva and Karim were.

TBC.

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YEY!!! that was so cute!!! The whole family's there!!! In the next chappie, Yoh's friends arrive and look at cute baby Hana-chan! KYAAA!!! Oh yeah, sorry about repeating the word 'smile', I got a thesaurus but it has few other terms for 'smile' so... gomen! Well... they DO feel happy so they SMILE a lot! DUH!

Anna: Great, Yoh's stupid friends are coming and they'll hog the baby! T.T

Abie: No they won't... they're just gonna visit and look at Hana-chan...

Yoh: -nods in agreement-

Anna: Tch. Whatever...

Yoh: Anna-chan ish so mean... -cries- Why couldn't she be like the Anna on the story?

Abie: Don't worry Yoh-kun... -pats and gives Yoh an orange-

Yoh: Ah ORENJI! Funga fufu! GLOMP PILE!!! -Glomps on Abie and Anna-

Anna: Ack! Not again!!! GAAAAHHH!!!

Abie: Wee!!! -turns to readers- While we glomp around... you guys review Okie? that would make us real HAPPY!!! Thanx minna! till next time! Ja!

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