A/N: Okay I'm amazingly sorry I didn't post this sooner. Please forgive me. It was a hard chapter to write, I need to get some facts collected, and for the most part I wound up making up some things that sound true. Luckily this is a fiction so that's allowed sometimes. I hope you guys like this chapter, a lot happens, it's not super long but I like it and any longer and it would have been delayed further. Sorry again, please enjoy!
"Are you ready?" Yuki called up to Tohru.
"Almost just let me brush my hair first." She called back down.
Today was the big day. Tohru was going to Hatori to find out what the baby was going to be. It was decided that Yuki would take her, since Kyou's presence would be noted immediately, and reported to Akito, and this would not make for an easy time. They were to sneak in to begin with, and at a time when Hatori called after giving Akito a heavy sedative, they would have some time. While they were going to the doctor, Hana and Kyou were shopping for a crib. Hana got to pick it out and Kyou got to carry it home.
"Alright, lets go." She said throwing on a jacket, just in case.
They were walking, because Yuki's car would be easily detected if they drove, but it wasn't so far, and they could stop and rest if they had to. "What are you hoping for, Miss Honda?" Yuki asked.
"Hmmm…" Tohru had thought about this before. "If it's a girl I can teach her to cook and sew and clean, but if it was a boy, Kyou could teach him how to fight, play ball, and to love. Right now all I want is to know that my baby's going to be safe." She smiled.
"That's just like you." Yuki said smiling right back. "I know your baby will be safe, because you have me and Kyou right here, to protect you and that baby, forever if we have to."
They had finally arrived at the Sohma main house. They weren't to go through the main gate though, so instead the traveled through the woods around the fence until they got to a place where a couple of the boards were a slightly different shade. This would open up right into Hatori's yard. It was something Shigure and Aaya had set up to visit him relentlessly, after they'd left the main house. Yuki went in first, telling Tohru to wait for him outside. "Hatori?" He said after closing the door.
Hatori came out into his garden. "Yuki."
"Can you spare a minute?" Yuki asked. This was actually a code, to make sure nothing had gone wrong and Akito was still sleeping soundly.
"Yes. I suppose." The coast was clear.
Yuki opened the gate to allow Tohru in.
"Come right this way." Hatori motioned hastily. He led them down a hall-way to a room where the curtains were drawn shut, and several large pieces of equipment were hiding under sheets. They were on loan to him, from a friend who ran a maternity ward at a near-by hospital. Inside this room Hatori had Tohru sit in a reclined chair, while Yuki sat in a chair along the wall.
"Now you're only ablout 12 weeks along, but due to the nature of the cells that created this baby, I'm willing to try to find out what it is. But don't be disappointed if we can't tell that today." Hatori said as he turned on the machines. It took a moment for them to start and then he went about putting in information. Once he had finnished at the screen he left the room to scrub up.
"Don't be nervous Miss Honda, I know your baby will be healthy, and as long as we know that we can just find out what it is next time." Yuki said, smiling. 00 She seems built to be a mother, she even has that way of wrinkling her brow when she's worrying. 00
"Of course, I know you're right but I still have to see for mayself that everything is okay." She smiled, softening her brow.
Hatori returned to the room and put on a pair of gloves, and then prepped Tohru's stomache, which was now showing a more round appearance.
They all stared hard into the screen, while hatori moved a device around Tohru's belly. "Ah, there." Hatori said.
"What?" Yuki and Tohru asked together, neither of them quite certain that the blob currently occupying the screen was anything at all.
"That's a hand." He smiled, as he moved to try to get the rest of the baby on the screen. He had never actually done this before, except in school. The idea of turning into a sea dragon everytime it was a girl, never appealed to him. He was glad he was still able to identify the diferences between blobs. "Lets see, what else we can find. Here's the head, he said focusing on a bulbus circular blob.
"How peaceful you look." Tohru said, talking to the screen. "Can we tell whether it's a boy or a girl?"
"Lets see", Hatori said moving to another spot, and concentrating hard on the screen. "It appears to be a girl." He said finally.
Yuki laughed inside his head, he had secretly been hoping for a girl, hopefully she would grow up to be just like her mother. "Congratulations Tohru." He said.
Tohru herself did laugh. "I'm so glad, that everything's alright."
A/n: Interesting factoid. I started this chapter fully intending to make it a boy, then, I decided twins wold be perfect, better yet, one healthy twin and one sickly one. But then I decided on girl, if I were ever to write a sequal to this sequal I would explain why in the story, but I most likely won't. Pleaes review this chapter, PLEASE!