7. Fluffy Appendages!?


Nanami snuggled her pillow as Tomoe had his lamp on on the other side of the room, He had his back against the wall with a book open. He was reading and sitting on his futon as Nanami snuggled on her side of the room.

She yawned slightly and Tomoe looked up at her, he shook his head slightly as the young girl nodded off and fell to sleep.

His eyes twitched slightly and he smelled his sleeve, Thank god he got the smell out, now he was wearing clean clothes and he had to srub his spoiled ones for an hour or two. Tomoe sighed out and let his head hit the wall behind him. This room was big unlike his old one... He kind of missed his space.

Mikage still kept it there in case Tomoe needed it but the fox was now sleeping in the same room as Nanami, more for safety reasons. He put his book down and turned the light out before laying down on his futon and staring up at the roof.

He remembered training in this room, Always watching Mikage doing his god cleansing and writing prayers. He even taught Tomoe in this room.. And now his mate was sleeping in it. Tomoe winced out in the dark, the moon lighting up his features. His white hair fanned out around his and his ears perked at the sound of Nanami's even breaths.

He listened slightly and breathed in when the sound started to lure him to a dull sleep.. He yawned slightly. Even though they weren't in the same bed it wasn't the same when he was sleeping alone.. in fact it was easing him to a nice slumber.

It was relaxing to hear her breaths, not that he wanted to admit that to anyone; but he was slightly tired from the days events. He coduln't believe that Yonomori tried to..

Tomoe shook his head and snarled out in the dark, He wasn't going to let her take the baby that he made! It wasn't like he meant to get Nanami pregnant but this child was his and he was going to take care of it. Yonomori wasn't going to take the child away..

The child woudl wonder who its parents were one day, and Tomoe knew the pain of being abandoned. The fox sat up and hugged his knees as he looked at Nanami's sleeping figure at the other side of the room.

There had to be a reason that she was his mate right? There was no turning back and that meant they had to get used to each other in some way, right? The fox sighed out into the room, it was colder in the room but that was because Nanami was having hotflashes already..

The fox shuddered and pulled his blanket close as his ears pinned down, He was tired but for some reason he coudln't stop looking at her. Tomoe cursed to himself and shifted slightly as he laid back down. He had to control his mind and thoughts.

Tomoe stared up at the roof and bit his lip, Inari had made apiontment for them in the morning, Since Nanami fell she needed to be checked by a professional. If the baby died...

The fox grimaced, What would he do? He would be free from the burden and Nanami could go on her way, but... No child deserved to die, and for some reason he was scared, and he didn't know why! Tomoe winced out and pulled his covers close to him..

Tomorrow they had their first ultrasound. It was going to interesting to see. Tomoe bit his lip in confusion, What did a baby look like when it was in the person? The fox sighed out slighty as his body grew weak and he slowly fell asleep, he would know tomorrow...

Not that he was looking forward to it.


Tomoe rolled his eyes as Nanami swatted his head and huffed, They were walking into the doctors office and the fox was already ready to turn back. It was crowded, plus there was some yokai around that were spreading the rumors of, ' The great Tomoe FINALLY getting a Mate' This only made the fox grind his teeth.. And get embarrassed..

The teen sighed out as Nanami got signed in and they sat down in the waiting room, Tomoe tugged at his yukata and twirled his obi belt in boredom. Nanami rolled her eyes at his bored expression.

Did he have to act like that? Yeah she knew he didn't WANT this baby but he coudl show a little more intrest. She patted her belly, knowing she still had s month to go if she wanted the famous, ' Bump' The girl bit her lip but sighed.

She looked up and sighed out until she saw a toddler coming towards them. It was wobbling around on wobbly feet and it made Tomoe look up in shock. It was a little girl with pig tails. She was a yokai with a cat tail. The little girl looked up at Tomoe and then giggled and she clapped her baby like hands and twirled around.

Tomoe blinked and then looked around to see if the childs parents were close by, but sadly they weren't and the little girl twirled and collided into Tomoe's leg. The fox hissed slightly before she hugged him and giggled gleefully.

Nanami smiled as Tomoe's face spawned a light pink blush from the embarrassment of having someones kid cling to his leg. The little girl looked at him and then jumped off before running off into a tall man. The man chuckled and picked the little girl up before looking over at Tomoe and Nanami and nodding cheerfully. He had a cat tail too...

But it had stripes..

Nanami gasped and looked at Tomoe with glee, ' Theres Tiger yokai!?" She clapped her hands and Tomoe gave her a riggid, ' Duh' Look. She glared at him for the look until a nurse walked in and called out , ' Mikage'

Tomoe ground his teeth as he stood up and they both walked back, The nurse asked who he was and he got embarrassed when he had to say that he was the father. The nurse smiled and muttered something about the couples getting Younger and younger before leading them back.

When they got back into the main room the doctor welcomed them,

" Ah! " He smiled and sat on his desk, " How are you two? "

Nanami smiled, " Good.." She whispered, knowing that wasn't all the way true. The man smiled and then flipped through his clipboard, but sighing and looking up at the girl and her mate.

" I see you had a fall?" He smiled, ' We'll check that out now.' He stood and pulled out a pen before going to a door and opening it and motioning inside with his hand, " Please, I want both of you back there for this ultra sound." He smiled and Tomoe sighed out as Nanami clapped her hands and walked back.

Tomoe didn't know why she was so excited, What was so grand about seeing what the baby looked like? He wondered why they HAD to see it. The fox sighed out and leaned against the wall with his arms crossed as Nanami sat down on the main chair like area. Tomoe arched his brow in confusion

Why was she in a chair? He paused when the doctor smiled and sat down before sighing, " Okay.. I need you to lift your shirt-"

" WHOA! WHAT!?" Tomoe gasped and the doctor looked at him shocked. Nanami looked at Tomoe confused and the doctor held a bottle of see through luqiud in his hand. He furrowed his brow and Tomoee instantly bit his lip and turned red in the face. Nanami laughed a bit to herself.

Tomoe was so jumpy and yet he was so cute too, She had learned something about him. Even in the short time she had known him..

Tomoe got embarrassed easily.

The girl smiled as Tomoe's ears pinned and he sat in the chari beside the bed. Nanami bit her lip, trying to stop from laughing harshly. She didn't understand, He could be so much like a jerk that no one would want to be around him and yet he had a slightly sweet side to him as well.

The girl sighed out as the doctor looked at her and smiled, Nanami lifted her shirt to under her bossom, reveiling her stomach. The doctor smiled, opened the bottle and squirted jelly like liquid on. Nanami gasped at the cold and the dctor winced,

" Sorry Its cold." He smiled, " Usualy its cold for yokai women too, so don't feel left out." He chuckled and then pointed at a screen, " You will be able to see the baby here. Now, " He pauses, " The baby is just developing, so it may not look like much. I'm also going to check the childs' health since you fell." He smiled and grabbed a monitor with a rounded end..

Then he started to rub it over Nanami's flat tummy before looking at the screen, " Okay.. We're looking for it.." He smiled and Tomoe looked at the screen in confusion..

All he saw was black and white everywhere and an occasional movement. He titled his head to the side with a blank look on his face before the doctor made an , ' Ah Ha!' Sound and then stopped slightly. Tomoe blinked... The man had stopped but all Tomoe saw was...

" Its not that blob is it?" Tomoe pointed to the monitor and the doctor blinked at the name Tomoe used. He choked on a laugh and then nodded.

" Yes, I told you the baby isn't really developed yet-'

" I made a blob!?" Tomoe gaped right before Nanami hit him hard across the head. He whined slightly and then glared at Nanami in annoyance as the doctor put together a development booklet. While he was doing so Tomoe glared at Nanami harshly.

" Stop hitting me woman!" he hissed and rubbed his head as she glared at him.

" Stop calling our baby a blob!" She fumed, " Its going to look alot like you and me so stop being so cruel!" She pouted and folded her arms as Tomoe glared at her.

" I'm only saying what I see! And I see a blob!" He ground out deserving another hit on the head.

" Its a healthy blob by god!" Nanami whimpered, Curse her homrones, They had been acting up lately and Tomoe found it strange; especailly at the moment when everything was aweful for him. Nanami started to sniff and Tomoe grew stiff at her water filled eyes.

Oh Crap.

Nanami covered her eyes and started to cry leaving Tomoe baffled and slightly guilty. He bit his lip in hate as he reached over and patted her back.. Nanami looked at him with tear stained eyes and he bit his lip in confusion. She looked.. so.. He swallowed and slowly, with hestitation..Moved his hand to her shirt and slipped it under to feel her stomach.

The girl looked at him shocked, given that she had pulled her shirt back over she stomach because she was so cold, She blinked as Tomoe sighed and closed his eyes..

He knew she was pregnant, it was there and if you were a yokai you could feel a soft warmth coming out of her stomach. He pasued for a moment before retracting his hand and biting his lip,

" Sorry..' He whispered only for Nanami to look at him and try to fight off her burning face. She reached forward and tugged at his hair, making him look at her. This baby was theirs.. and they had to learnt to get along ; or the baby would be better off somewhere else. Nanami was told she was marked as his.. And he was hers.

It sounded rather appealing to her for some reason, given that he could be such a jerk. He looked at her through his bangs and blinked as his eyes grew wide. She watched him closely and Tomoe felt his face burn for some odd reason..

' There has to be a Reason He chose her to be his Mate'

Tomoe blinked, his eyes grew wider before he jerked his head down and looked at the floor, his heart was pounding and his hands were shaky.. He wans't used to this feeling at all. It was pulsing through his veins and making him have a difficulty to swallow...

Thats when the doctor walked back in and handed Tomoe a phamplet. Tomoe stared at it before accepting it and flipping it open slightly , he stared at a few pictures before going red in the face.. He flipped to the last page and gaped at the time..

" Its going to be in there for nine months!?" Tomoe gasped and the man laughed slightly at the teens shocked and grossed out face.

"Yes.." He nodded , ' Then you two will have a bundle of joy with you. " He leaned back in his chair and smiled, " What do you two want the most? Girl or boy?" He smiled and Tomoe looked at the man in confusion..

Thats when Nanami sighed heavily and patted her stomach, ' My family has had all girls and nothing else. ' She pouted, " My mother said it was a family curse.." The brown haired girl sighed and the man nodded slightly. He looked at Tomoe, who was, at the time, still shocked by his question.

Tomoe paused and then sighed out, " I'm not sure yet." He held up his hands, " Whatever it will be it will be, right?" He coughed out dryly and Nanami gave him a blank expressioned face.

The doctor chuckled and nodded, " So you want it to be a surprise?" He smiled wamrly and nodded , ' Thats the best way to find out really." He smiled and stood before grabbing his clipboard,

" Okay Mrs, Mikage.."

Tomoe ground his teeth from the marrital name but he said nothing,

" Please answer these questions..' He smiled brightly and Nanami nodded.

Tomoe groaned silently, this was going to be a LONG dotcors trip, wasn't it?


Nanami smiled as Tomoe sat across from her in a small ice-cream parlor, it was a nice day given that Nanami was now waving her ultrasund picture around. Honestly no matter how many Times Tomoe looked at it? All he saw was a blob.. But then again the booklet, that he was now looking at, was very detailed on when the baby would start forming.

The good thing about the booklet was that it was for kitsune babies.. Tomoe stared at the baby like form on the picture and paused, The baby would have ears like his.. and a tail. He paused and smiled slightly, not really understanding why. Until he blinked and realized how small the thing was going to be.

This way him recoil and almost choke in shock, It was going to be so SMALL, and Tomoe coudl feel himself freeze up. He made something this small.. This thing was going to be there in seven months and now he was freaking out even more..

He coudln't hold something that small! What if he hurt it or broke it!? What if the kid hated him because Tomoe wasn't so sure at the time what to do with a baby? What if he found it as a waste of time and he didn't want the kid?! What if the kid didn't want him?

What if... He hurt it and there was no going back? He didn't know if he wanted the baby, and yet.. His heart was leaning towards it more than anything. Maybe he DID want this baby.. but it was scaring him because it was all so new to him?

Tomoe laid his head down on the table and let out a moan, catching Nanami's atenttion. She noticed his stressed feeling and she slowly let her hand descend on his head. The teens ears twitched as he slowly looked up at her, withhis head still on the table. He sighed out as her hair worked over his hair in a pat and for some reason she mouthed,

" Its going to be okay.. We're going to be okay."

She smiled and Tomoe looked at her shocked but slightly stressed and teary. He was so scacred, he thought he was more scared then Nanami and she was the one having the baby. He was so scared that he felt more sick then she did.. he made this child and it was making him shake quiver.

" I..' He whispered, " I hope so.." He choked in fear as it road up in his chest. Crap! He was loosing his composure all because of thes girl in front of him, and because of the baby. Tomoe's ears flopped, thank god they were in a yokai ice-parlor. No one would come near them giving that Tomoe was so well known in certain things.. But he did hear a few rumors about him a human girl.

Which.. Was true..Sadly..

Nanami sighed and patted hsi head before standing up and looking at him, Tomoe blinked and looked up at her before the girl bit her lip and tugged at her hair,

" Tomoe.." She whispered, " Lets go look at Baby Stuff.." She pouted, " Please? You should always start early and the baby will need a crib and, and.." She started to tamble and Tomoe felt himself smile slightly..

This girl was so.. difficult and yet he couldn't get enough of her company, even her breathing helped him sleep. It was comforting to have her in the same room, and so close to him. He didn't undertsnad why though, but did he to know at the moment? Right now?

He wanted to be there for her.. Even though he was probably more scared then her. After all.. Yonomori said Yokai babies didn't make it past a certain time. This only panicked Tomoe.. At first he didn't want the baby, he wanted it to die but now he felt aweful that he had even thought that. This baby was going to alive..

He still wasn't sure he wanted it.. But he knew..

He wanted it to live..

Tomoe looked at Nanami and smiled at her rambling, when he had enough he held up his hands and sighed out, " Fine, Fine. Blockhead, close your mouth before the demon here try to put you out of your misery.' He sighed out and paid the bill before standing with her and walking out of the store.

" Should we got to a human baby store?" Nanami looked at Tomoe and then teen pasued. He wasn't sure...

" W-Well..' He paused and for some reason got embarrassed, " Do humans sell baby outfits with hole's in the bottoms?" He blushed and looked at Nanami. The girl looked at him confused before Tomoe dragged a hand down his face in exasperation,

" T-The baby..' Tomoe choked and chewed his lip, " Its.. Going to b-be a K-Kitsun-" He was suddenly cut off by a sqeal as Nanami went into a daze like trance.

" MY BABY IS GOING TO HAVE FLUFFY APENDAGES!?" She giggled and clapped her hands as Tomoe's ears pinned.. Oh god. She was one of THOSE girls. He dragged a hand through his hair and swallowed in confusion,

' A Yokai store it is.." He groaned out and ignored Nanami's tainted fantises..

Oh Kami why?