Hi, it's me again. I have to thank those who left me a review, I really enjoy all of them. I'm so glad you all like this story. You keep me motivated. Now I feel I should explain some of the questions you asked.

CallMeQueen - I'm so glad you noticed the way they called the OC's. It will get even better. You will see in this chapter, at least partially =) Haruka get's explained here and Ayaka will in the next chapter. I gave this so much thought, I mean the way they call each other and in the end, this seemed like the best way. I hope you will like the explanations =)

beca - Yes, it was the Black King, but I can't tell more without revealing too much. Everything will became more clear within the next few chapters, I promise =)

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When We Ruled The World

Chapter 4

Mikoto looked at the woman in front of him. Her wrinkled face was gentle as she watched him for any kind of reaction. Her eyes looked old and wise and he felt like he could see pity in them. He tried to understand what she just showed and said to him. A pregnancy test? Really? He wanted to tell her this is too crazy for joking. But she didn't look like she joked a lot. And she certainly didn't look like she joked right now.

"Is this some kind of stupid joke, old ma'am?" He couldn't help it in the end. Even though he noticed her scowl at him after he called her an 'old ma'am'. His instinct of self-preservation never worked well, if it worked at all. "Because as hell this is not funny."

He stood in a room full of people and all he heard was quiet beeping of a machine monitoring Reisi's heart. His own heart beating at quite a bit faster rate right now. He sighed inwardly. His mind not really able to comprehend the concept of the information the doctor gave him. He couldn't imagine Reisi – a man, being pregnant. A child growing inside his male lover was something he just couldn't wrap his mind around at the moment. And he didn't see Munakata for three months, at least they told him it was three months he was dead. And even if everything was true and Reisi was really pregnant with his child – how the hell that happened?

"Do I look like I'm having fun?" The old woman interrupted his inner musings and returned him back to reality. His eyes fearlessly scanned her face, daring her to prove him otherwise.

In that precise moment the door opened and in came Ayaka dragging with her some strange machine with small screen and many wires. The whole thing sat on a small white wheeled table. Ayaka brought it over to the bed and began to turn on the unit.

"Now all of you out," said Haruka and everyone started obediently leave the room.

Mikoto turned as well, when he felt the gentle tug of Anna's hand on his own, but stopped when the old woman spoke again.

"If you want, Red King, you can stay." She looked at his back, waiting for his reaction. "You probably should, if I understand the situation correctly." She could see the tension in his back. After another moment of tense silence Haruka sighed. "I'm not trying to make fun of you, Red King. I'm trying to understand what's happening to Reisi and I presume you can help with some things." She then saw the little girl look up at the Red King and smile. She let go of his hand, silently disappearing behind the now closed door. Leaving the read headed King behind.

"I already know from Seri-chan, Reisi didn't feel good lately. Except his problems with sleeping which I talked a few times with Reisi himself about after the incident at Ashinaka island, she told me about his problems with eating and drinking and once she even thought he fainted. Well, these could be the symptoms for pregnancy, but not necessarily. I'm gonna do an ultrasound to see what's going on inside him."

"You're using Munakata's first name awfully lot." Mikoto suddenly turned and looked at her sharply.

She laughed heartily. "You're sleeping with my grandson and don't know about his old grandma?"

Mikoto had to try hard not to let his eyebrows rise and show how surprised he actually was. It took him just a few moments before a cocky smirk found its way onto his face. "Well, his family members never really crossed our minds during our time alone together. Not many things did." He shrugged. He actually lied a bit about that, but what the hell.

"I can imagine." She smiled gently. "Now, you didn't see Reisi for three months?"

"Yes? I was dead."

"And the last time you two had an intercourse?"

"That word sound's terrible. What is this? An interrogation?"

"Don't be such a girl. And no, this is not an interrogation, I simply want to know how far along is my grandson supposed to be so I can use the right method for his examination."

"There is more ways for you to find out?"

"Well, the first twelve weeks the child is too small for an ultrasound you know from movies where I put a cold gel and wand to his lower stomach and we can see the child trough abdominal wall. If he's less then twelve weeks, then I would have to put the wand inside him."

"Oww." Mikoto grimaced.

Haruka rolled her eyes. "You went there, remember? If you didn't do that, we wouldn't be here right now."

Mikoto couldn't answer to that. He was too stunned. So he rather answered her previous question: "They said I was dead for three months and the last time we slept together was three days before I died."

"He should be in his thirteenth week then. That's very early. Alright, I will try the first method and if I can't find anything, I will try the second."

He just nodded to that and for several minutes watched her and that Ayaka girl prepare the ultrasound and Reisi for the examination. When he saw them uncover Reisi's stomach and the amount of gel Haruka squeezed on it, he shivered. Then the doctor took a wand in her hand, put it into the gel on Reisi's underbelly and started moving the wand around while watching the monitor intently. All the while mindful of Reisi's stitched wound. He couldn't help it and came closer so he could see the monitor too. His eyes widened when he saw the black and white spots the whole screen was covered with. There was absolutely nothing recognizable to see there.

After a few moments Haruka turned to him with a wide smile and pointed to a place on the screen. There was a lot of black and some white and some gray. She pointed again and said: "This is your baby."

He came beside her and watched her draw a circle on the screen. Trying to see what she saw.

"Here is the head and this is a body." She pointed out the places.

And then...he suddenly saw. It was tiny gray cluster surrounded by black.

"Can you see? The black around is amniotic fluid."

Mikoto couldn't take his eyes from the tiny thing. "Is that a nose?" he asked still watching the screen closely.

"Yes, it is." Haruka laughed. She could see the moment the Red King recognized the black and white spots on the monitor as something more. As something living. A living child. His child. She could see the moment the Red King literally fell.

Mikoto watched as Haruka draw some lines across his child and then clicked a few times. He turned to her, waiting for her to explain what she did.

"According to the size of the fetus, Reisi is in his fourteenth week. The child is now eight centimeters large." She looked at him and then squeezed his hand. "Congratulation."

"You don't seem surprised by all this," Mikoto commented his observations.

"Well, I'm doing this job for quite a while and let's just say after all these times with the blue clan and Kings, some things just cease to amaze me. I've seen many things in my life and this isn't really the biggest mystery I encountered. Look at you. Didn't you die three months ago? In his arms?" She motioned to the still sleeping Reisi. "And now you're alive and about to be a father. Age will teach you not to think about some things too much."

"Three months ago..." Mikoto sighed and run his hand trough his red hair. "The day I died, we had our biggest fight. He was...already."

"Yes, at that day, he already was pregnant. It's been only days, but he was." Haruka could understand what was going trough the Red King's head. She could see it written in his eyes. "Neither of you knew." She tried to comfort him a bit.

"So, he's going to be alright?" Mikoto asked mostly wanting to know if the Blue King will be good again and a little bit to change the subject. He was not really proud of their last fight anymore, however magnificent it was.

Haruka checked Reisi's data again before answering: "He's a bit dehydrated and lost some weight, but we're rehydrating him via IV and when he wakes up, I'm going to give him something for the morning sickness so he can eat again. The wound was not too deep and we didn't have problems stitching him up, so he should be alright again in no time even without the help of his aura."

Mikoto nodded to that and approached the bed. Ayaka left the room right after she finished cleaning Reisi and putting his clothes and blanket back on. One of Reisi's hands was resting on the unwounded part of his stomach. Mikoto watched the pale fingers atop the white blanket and noted there wasn't that much of a difference in the color between his lover's skin and the sheets. Then he slowly touched the hand with his fingers, the skin cool against his fingertips. And then he felt it, the barely noticeable movement of the hand under his. He zeroed at Reisi's face and saw the Blue King stirred. Once, twice and then his eyes slowly fluttered open a bit. He could see how unfocused the blue eyes were. Munakata blinked a few times to get rid of the sleepiness. Finally focusing on the Red King standing beside his bed.

"Hello Sleeping Beauty." said Mikoto pulling his hand back from Reisi's and crossing them over his chest.

Reisi still looked a bit out of it. "Where am I?" he asked at least watching Mikoto, distrust leaking off of his eyes in waves.

Before Mikoto could answer him, Haruka came to the bed looking Reisi over with a big smile on her face. "Hello dear."

"Obaa-san," he whispered looking at her.

"How are you feeling?" she asked the Blue King.

"I'm alright," answered Reisi and looked back at Mikoto. Haruka could see he was unsure if the Red King standing beside his bed was real. So she squeezed his hand comfortingly.

"It really is the Red King." She smiled at him gently wholly understanding his uncertainties.

At her words Reisi's face hardened thereupon the agonized expression appeared on the Red King's face.

"Haruka-san, can you please leave us alone for a while?" Reisi asked more formally this time, his eyes not leaving the Red King as he finally managed to sit up, his back resting against the pillow Haruka adjusted to make him comfortable.

"Alright," Haruka answered after a while. "But no stress," she warned looking pointedly at the Red King. "I will be back in ten minutes. We have a lot to discuss." With that she left the room.

Reisi remembered the pain in his abdomen and Suoh watching him. He now knew it was not a ghost he saw before he passed out. He felt all the bottled up emotions suddenly overflow and he wanted to scream at the Red King. All the memories of their last moments. All the days, weeks, months suffering alone for what he was not able to do. For a lost friend, love. And now he just walks in, like nothing happened. Like these three months were just a bad dream. His felt his head spin. And all that was left was anger.

Reisi glared at Mikoto for a moment. "You're a bastard."

Mikoto looked at the Blue King lazily, but a smirk soon broke up on his face. His interest piqued. "Yeah, that's me. And I'm glad to see you too." He added sarcastically.

"And you're not even a bit sorry for it," Reisi stated angrily.

Mikoto just shrugged.

Reisi glared at him for a second, then he turned his attention to the IV in his hand. He slowly lifted off the patch holding it to his hand and pulled out a thin transparent tube. A drop of blood formed over the small wound.

"You sure, you should do that?" Mikoto pointed to the IV Reisi just laid on the bedside table.

The Blue King ignored him.

"You made me kill you." Munakata stated instead. "So you could take the easy way out. You're just a selfish child, Suoh."

"And you sound like a whinny one, Munakata." Mikoto turned and crossed the room to a window looking out, but not really seeing anything, his thoughts elsewhere. "You knew what's going to happen from the beginning. Don't try to make me feel guilty for something I had to do."

"I'm not blaming you for your suicidal attempts. I'm blaming you for making other people suffer because of them. Your clan went trough hell after you died. Can you even imagine what it was like for them?"

"I know you suffered..."

"This isn't about me," said Reisi flatly and Mikoto turned to him again at that.

The Red King noticed Reisi looked a bit more pale then a moment ago if it was possible, because even before he was as pale as a sheet.

"Yes, it is. Because it's you who's mad at me, not them."

"I'm not..." Reisi began. The Blue King clutched the white blanket in his hands and he was shaking a little. The paleness of his skin now got a slightly greenish tingle.

"Yes, you are." Interrupted him Mikoto. When Reisi took a deep breath to say something, he quickly continued: "Look, I'm sorry that it had to be you. I'm selfish for wanting you to be the one and I know it was hard on you..."

"You had no idea." Reisi breathed out interrupting the Red King while slowly getting up and off the bed, testing if his legs could carry him. It was not perfect, but it has to do, since he really needed to use the bathroom right now and his stomach refused to wait another moment. So he hastily crossed the room on wobbly legs, reaching the desired destination, which was a bathroom where he crumbled down against the toilet. He dry heave a few times before finally the gastric juices came out.

When he finished, he flushed down the toilet and tiredly sat down on the cold floor his back resting against wall. Almost immediately a hand with a glass of water appeared in front of his face and Reisi heavily lifted his head to look at the owner of the hand. Mikoto has unidentified look on his face, if he didn't know him well enough he would have thought it almost looked like guilt. When Reisi's hands stopped shaking, he took the glass from Mikoto's hand and sipped a few times.

"It's not your fault I'm not able to deal with my duties as a King." Reisi didn't want Mikoto to feel responsible for his state. It was his fault he couldn't deal with his duties, not the Red King's so he felt he should explain to Mikoto some things. "It was my duty to kill you. To prevent another disaster like Kagetsu crater. In my head I know I did what I had to, but my body just refuses to accept it. It was bad at the beginning, but it got easier with time. But the better I felt the worse my body's reaction was. I'm sorry you had to see it. I can't really help it. But it's not your fault I can't deal with what I accepted as a part of my life when I became the King."

"Yeah, but it's not entirely truth either." Mikoto was now avoiding Reisi's eyes and the Blue King naturally noticed.

"What do you mean?" Reisi looked Mikoto in the eyes, but the Red King avoided him successfully.

"I think your obaa-san will be better to explain." Mikoto said, his eyes still looking at anything but his lover.

Reisi rewarded him with a peeved expression. He hated when people hinted something and then left the thought unfinished, but he still had enough dignity in him not to pry the answers where someone didn't want to give them. He's not a child who couldn't go to sleep without answers. He won't beg Suoh for anything.

Mikoto watched him for a moment before he decided the change of topic was in order. "So, it was the Black King who tried to kill you." He stated.

"Yes," Reisi nodded absently.

"The eight King?" asked Mikoto with raised eyebrows.

"Probably," sighed Reisi and started to get up. Unfortunately he struggled a bit, the Red King noticed and without asking or saying anything helped him up and stayed by the Blue King's side until he got safely to the bed.

"How did that happen?" Mikoto was as curious as Reisi himself about the eight King. They all thought there was only seven of them and then suddenly another unknown King waltz in the Blue's headquarters and try to kill the Blue King.

"I don't know, but I will find out," was Reisi's sincere reply.

"You know why he did it? Why he tried to kill you?" Mikoto wanted to strangle the unknown eight King. The thought about someone attempting to kill his lover making him mad.

"It was probably in a spur of the moment." Reisi shrugged and after a moments thought he decided he rested enough and it was time to get back to work. "He came to me with a proposal and I refused. He got angry and stabbed me." He explained quickly while getting out of the bed Mikoto helped to sit him on a moment ago.

"You're incredibly brief. You don't actually expect me to accept that answer, do you? What is it you're not telling me?" Mikoto asked with a smirk. "Are you going to bathroom again?"

"Does the motive really matter? It has nothing to do with you. Scepter 4 is going to find him. He will be punished for his crimes." Reisi purposely avoided the last question.

"I bet." Mikoto folded his arms across his chest and looked to the side petulantly. "And it has everything to do with me since it's gonna be you, who will have to arrest the Black King."

Reisi stopped in the middle of the room. "I can assure you I'm perfectly capable of doing so." He narrowed his eyes at Mikoto. He couldn't believe the Red King is doubting his abilities, because that's exactly how it sounded to him. "I don't see the reason why me arresting the Black King has anything to do with you."

"I know you are, but your doctor will tell you, why this is such a bad idea." Mikoto looked at him almost apologetically.

"Since you're not going to tell me more, I don't care what your opinion on me arresting the Black King is. I will do what is my duty and you have no say over it."

"You wouldn't believe me anyway if I told you," shrugged Mikoto the indifferent look back on his face.

"It's such a lame excuse. Even for you, Suoh." Reisi shot back the same expression the Red King was giving him.

Mikoto looked at him. And smirked. Okay, two can play this game. So he gave the Blue King what he asked for. The answer. "You're pregnant."

A moments silence. Mikoto didn't took his eyes from his other half. He went from the indifferent look on his face over surprise to confused and finally ended up with something akin to anger. He wouldn't believe the Blue King could feel so many emotions in such a short time if he didn't witness it himself.

"You're losing your touch, Suoh. I would never guessed you for someone telling stupid jokes." Reisi finally found the acceptable answer.

"You're the rational person here, try to think about it." Mikoto shrugged again.

"That's why I told you it was a stupid joke."

"I told you, that you won't believe me."

"And you are surprised?" Reisi asked taunting.

"No, I wouldn't believe myself either."

Just then the door opened and Haruka came in the room. She however stopped when she saw Reisi standing in the middle of the room. Pinning him with a hard look.

"And what, pray tell, do you think you are doing?" She scolded harshly.

"I'm going back to my work." Reisi stood his ground.

"You're not going anywhere. Now go back to bed." She ordered.

"I'm fine, my aura is helping to heal the wound. I don't need..."

"I'm not asking you. Just do it. You maybe feel fine concerning the wound, but we have another problem." She turned and beckoned the small white haired girl to join them.

Anna came into the room cautiously and looked warily at the still standing Blue King.

Reisi suddenly felt as if all confidence left him. He could feel his legs started to shake. Just as he thought they won't be able to hold him anymore, strong hand wrapped around his chest and Mikoto let him lean onto his left shoulder. Supporting him.

Mikoto saw Reisi's body shake, the slight color in his cheeks disappeared and was replaced with paleness. He quickly came to him and helped him stay up. Then he guided him back to bed and sat him down. Haruka came to check on him. Looking him into the eyes and checking his pulse.

"You have to breathe, Reisi. Breath in. Breath out. Slowly." She held his hand.

After a moment Reisi's breathing evened and he stopped shaking. His eyes focusing on them again.

Haruka smiled down at them. "That's better." She turned to Anna then. "What do you feel now, child?"

"It's as I told you outside. It's still drooping. Just a small amount, but the red aura inside the Blue King is slowly getting weaker." She looked Reisi in the eyes, now wide with fear. Fear of the possibility Mikoto was telling him the truth and the possibility of loosing that truth. She felt it all.

-TBC-