"We're having a boy and girl," Soul said smiling.

Maka held out the picture for all to see.

"I don't see them," Liz said.

"Me either," Tsubaki said.

Maka looked at the picture again.

"Stein said that these things were the noses," Soul said as he pointed to the little bumps.

"Aw, cute!" Patti screamed.

"CUTE!" Spirit shouted.

"I don't know how to deal with all this yelling," Crona said ducking down into his knees.

"What are you going to name them?" Black Star asked as he groped Maka's belly, making Soul and Maka very uncomfortable.

Soul especially didn't like it so, he punched him, making him fall to the ground.

"Ooh, you should name the girl Ami!" Liz screamed. "No, Zelda!"

"Like the video game?" Kid asked.

"NO!. . .Like, a cute name!" Liz's face went red.

"Um, thanks guys, but-" Maka started ut was interrupted.

"Akahana is a good name for her!" Tsubaki screamed, being dragged into the excitement.

"That's too long for me to shout if she's in trouble," Spirit said.

"STOP!" Soul yelled.

Everyone got quiet and slowly turned their heads to stare at him and Maka.

"Now, we appreciate all the suggestions, but really, we can come up with the names of our children on our own," Soul stated.

"Soul, it's okay, I mean we aren't going to get any better suggestions from a book," Maka admitted. "Let's just hear them out, maybe we'll hear something we like," Maka persuaded.

"Whatever." Soul waved it off and turned his back to the others. "Let's hear them."

Soul putting his hands in his pockets was a hint that he was angry or that he was trying to be a cool guy. In this case, it was both. He was angry because he wanted to name the babies, but he was trying to remain looking like a cool dude.

"You really shouldn't have said that, Maka," Kid said as he rubbed his eyes.

"Aina!"

"Aikye!"

"Eiko!"

Liz and Tsubaki continued to scream names non-stop.

"You do realize they're having a girl and a boy, right?" Kid asked still rubbing his eyes.

"Oh. My. God. I totally forgot, I couldn't get the image of a cut little pink baby girl out of my mind!" Liz yelled.

"Don't be ridiculous, Liz. Even though my daughter's a girl that doesn't mean I'm gonna let her wear a color like pink," Soul said letting himself back into the conversation.

Maka raised her hand. "I second that. I might be a girl, but I don't care for pink much."

"That doesn't matter as long as she has her uncle Black Star!"

Kid, Maka and Soul lowered their heads and shook.

"I think you should name the boy after me!" Black Star pointed to himself and smiled.

Patti hit Black Star on the back of the head, knocking him to the floor. "No, you should name him after me!"

"Patti, you're a girl," Liz sighed.

"Oh."

"What about Al?" Tsubaki asked. "For the boy."

Maka shook her head viciously.

"Akiyo!" Liz started screaming boy names.

"Eito?" Tsubaki asked.

"Do you still think it was a good idea to hear them out?" Soul whispered in Maka's ear.

Maka gave him a mean look, but she knew he was probably right, they didn't seem to be hearing anything they liked.

Then, out of nowhere, Spirit yelled out two names. "Aya and Yuuto!" He grinned. "Perfect twin names."

Kid cleared his throat, by that time everyone had forgotten he was there because he stayed silent, but really he was thinking of names that Maka and Soul might enjoy. No one stopped yelling. Kid cleared his throat again, but this time louder. Still no one stopped.

"I have something that I would like to say!" Kid yelled, getting everyone's attention. "I think it's time we hear the names that I have come up with. First, for the girl, I think Saka, Rain, Rose, or Itsu would be lovely names for your baby. Second, for the boy, I have come up with Sasuke and Dean." Everyone kept quiet thinking he might go on and didn't want to get in the way of that. "You may proceed with the yelling and screaming."

Just before Liz, Tsubaki, and Spirit started yelling again Maka spoke up.

"Wait."

Soul took his hands out of his pockets and turned back around to face Maka.

"Kid, where did you get those names?" Maka asked.

"I had a good," he looked at the clock on the wall," 15 minutes to cook them up."

"Do you like them?" Soul asked.

"Yeah, I think I do."

"What about you, Soul?" Kid asked. "Did you hear anything that you liked?"

"The last ones were fine." Soul placed his hands back into his pockets and headed for the door. "Now can we please go home?"

"We didn't even exchange presents!" Spirit screamed.

Soul stopped in his tracks, as if he were caught in quick-dry cement. He turned his head so one of his ears were facing the group. "Did you say presents?" Soul crawled back over to the group, practically drooling over the wrapped boxes in the corner.

"It's Christmas!" Patti yelled.

"This is for you guys from me and Patti," Liz said handing Maka a small sized bag with Santa on the front.

Maka removed the red tissue paper to see what was waiting inside. Maka pulled out a small, pink outfit that said 'Our precious' on it.

"Thanks, Liz and Patti. I guess you figured we were having a girl," Maka said trying to keep the smile on her face.

"You didn't even know we were having twins before today. What if we ended up having two boys?"

Liz shrugged her shoulders. "Given you the receipt." She smiled.

"What about you," Soul pointed to Black Star, "what did you get me?"

Soul held his hand out to Black Star, waiting for him to put a box or bag or something in his hand. Black Star placed a wrench with a blue bow on it in his hands.

Soul looked at the wrench, it had Black Star's signature also.

"Really?"

"You've been saying that you needed a wrench to fix the old bucket of metal you call a motorcycle for awhile, and what's a wrench without a God's signature?"

Soul rolled his eyes and thanked him for the wrench.

"Don't think I forgot about you, Maka," Black Star said. He pulled out a medium sized bag with Maka written on the tag.

"Thanks, but you didn't have to-"

"Just open it."

There was no tissue paper so Maka didn't have to pull any out, all she had to do was pull out the gift; it was a book.

"A book?" Soul said.

"Not just a book, a book about pregnancy and after pregnancy and stuff like that I'm sure Maka's going through," Black Star said.

Maka smiled and hugged him. "Thanks, Black Star."

"I figured that you and Soul could use this," Tsubaki said.

Tsubaki held out an envelope to Maka and Soul. Soul decided to grab it first. He opened the envelope and peered inside.

"Are you sure about this?" Soul asked looking at what was inside.

Maka grabbed the side of the envelope and looked at what was inside.

"We can't accept this," Maka said handing it back to Tsubaki, but she refused.

"I have more than enough to go round, I don't have bills like you guys do. I think this is the best present I could give you. But, I don't want you spending it on clothes or things for your motorcycle. I want you guys to save it for an emergency. It could be for the babies, it could be for your retirement, but that's up to you."

Maka smiled again and almost began to cry. She wrapped her arms around Tsubaki and squeezed.

"Thank you so much."

"Well, you're lucky what I got you was in a pack," Kid said.

Kid handed a small bag to Maka.

"You said that you never got your own teddy bear when you were little like all the other kids, so I decided to get you a teddy bear. But, I saw one pack in the store and they were so beautiful and symmetrical, I couldn't resist."

Maka pulled the two teddy bears Kid had gotten her out of the bag. One was blue and the other was a light green. They both had big blue eyes and a cute little stitched mouth.

"Thank you, I can give these to the babies when they're born." Maka smiled and put the bears back into the bag. "I actually have something for you too."

"Really?"

"Yes." Maka picked up a small box that said bleaching kit on it and gave it to Kid.

"A bleaching kit? What's this for?"

"There's stuff in there that you can put on your hair so you can get perfect shapes and lines. So, I thought you could make those three lines on your head symmetrical with this."

Kid just about fell over from how happy he was at that moment.

"I'm glad you like it." Maka smiled.

"My little Maka, you're growing up so fast. You're so much like your mother, it's crazy."

"Hopefully not too much," Maka said. She looked back at Soul, who was laughing with their friends.

"I want to give you this."

Spirit handed Maka a necklace that had an inscription on it. It said Mommy and Daddy's heartbreaker.

"Your Mama had this made for you before you were even born, and when you did come out it obviously wasn't safe for you to wear it, so it's been sitting in the dusty old room since then. I found it the other day and decided it was time I finally gave it to you."

Maka held up her hair and turned her back to her papa so he could put the inscribed necklace around her neck. Finally, he managed to get it clasped together.

"I never want to take this off." Spirit smiled. "Thank you, Papa!" Maka grabbed his waist and squeezed him like if she let go she was going to die.

"Maka, do you think you could get Soul to come over this way. I need to talk to him, and give him his present."

"You aren't going to try and hurt him are you, Papa?"

"No, Maka darling, I just want to speak with him."

"Okay, Papa, I'll try."

Maka walked over to where her friends were standing and asked Soul if he would go and talk to Papa. He nodded his head and walked over to Spirit with his hands in his pockets once again.

"Soul." Spirit nodded his head welcoming Soul.

"Spirit."

"I want to talk to you about something."

"Yeah, I heard."

Spirit pulled a small, black box out of his coat pocket, but being extra careful that no one would see it. He handed the box to Soul.

"Open it."

Soul did as Spirit told him and opened the small box. There was a beautiful ring inside the little box.

"I like you Spirit, but I think getting married would just ruin my relationship with your daughter and grandchildren."

"You're a funny guy, Soul. This is an 18 carat white, gold princess cut diamond engagement ring. It had 56 diamonds in total."

"Okay, so why are you giving this to me?"

"Are you really that dim? I want you to give this to Maka when you feel you're both ready."

"What makes you think were gonna get married?"

"I never saw what she saw in you, I always thought Maka was too good for you."

"You're right."

"No, I'm not. Soul, you may not feel like you're the best for my Maka, but I can see how much you two love each other. No one in their right mind would give that up because of what they think they are." Spirit patted Soul on the back. "You're a good kid, no matter what you or anybody else thinks."

Soul smiled. "Thanks."

Soul open his yellow and black jacket and placed the the little back box inside an inside pocket, so no one would find it.

"Thank you everyone! It was a great night! Goodbye," Maka said as Soul and her left the building.