A/N: I want to thank everyone who submitted ideas. I am actually going to try to use all of them to my fullest abilities. Some of you guys may be psychic because your ideas were creepily similar to mine. Thank you all again and I hope you enjoy!

Chapter 11

Kaneki walked into the kitchen as Hide scrambled some eggs.

Hide's smile was like sunshine, illuminating the room. "How is my awesomely handsome husband/mate who is carrying our beautiful child this morning?"

Kaneki rubbed his eyes with one hand and rubbed supported his seventh month pregnant stomach with the other. "Tired. Your child is too hyper, it was kicking all night." Kaneki sat at the table, wanting to already get off his feet.

Hide set his plate of scrambled eggs at his spot across from Kaneki. "What do you want? I'll heat it up for you?" Hide smiled, all chipper.

Kaneki relaxed into the chair and rubbed his stomach. "Can I please have a cup of coffee?"

Hide shook his head. "No can do. You're pregnant."

"Please Hide. I really want coffee. I want it so bad. "

Hide looked at Kaneki and kissed his cheek. "Are you having cravings again? Do I need to get a pack of fingers and toes from Akira again?"

Kaneki shook his head. "Coffee." He insisted.

"No Coffee Ken." Hide said and sat at his spot. "Anything else and I will deliver."

Kaneki rubbed his stomach. "Can you possibly see if there are any uh…" Kaneki blushed at the request, he hated his eating habits.

"What do you want, my love?" Hide asked, pulling out the phone.

"Eyeballs."

Hide was shocked for a split second by the new order, but he pushed it off quickly and called Akira.

"Good morning Mr. Nagachika. What can I do for you?"

Hide grinned and winked at Kaneki. "Mommy has the munchies. Can you send some eyeballs over?"

There was a brief pause until Akira responded, "We sent a CCG member over with the order. Anything else?"

"Nope. See you in the office." Hide hung up and not too long afterward a knock sounded at the door. Hide answered in and carried in a glass jar of eyeballs. It looked like something out of a horror film. Hide gave it to Kaneki who dobe in.

For the first time in a long time, Hide was momentarily grossed out at Kaneki's diet.

Every eyeball Kaneki picked up had a sting of slimy mucus attacked to the eye.

Hide watched in morbid fascination as Kaneki went through a process to eat the eye. He first licked all the mucus off before popping the eyeball into his mouth whole and eating it.

Hide somehow finished his eggs and kissed his mate's temple. "See ya later."

"Have a good day at work." Kaneki responded.

Hide waved and left.

Kaneki cleaned up and got ready for work.

The CCG were generous and provided Kaneki with maternity shirts to wear around the facility. They were maternity shirts, but the CCG designed them so they would appear more masculine than feminine for Kaneki.

Amon picked Kaneki up from work and escorted him to his new job in the CCG. He was no longer an errand boy, but now had a job as an evidence logger. It was Kaneki's job to log and retrieve evidence from storage. It was a bit of a demanding job, definitely when Kaneki had to lift some of the boxes which ranged from 2 all the way to 75 pounds. The CCG assigned a cadet to work alongside Kaneki, so while Kaneki did the paperwork, the cadet did the heavy lifting.

At the end of the day, Amon arrived to escort Kaneki back to his apartment. Kaneki opened the door and turned the lights on.

Inside the apartment were a few of the CCG doctors who had been working with Kaneki during his pregnancy, Akira, a few random CCG people he saw around the facility, and his husband.

Hide grinned and walked over to hug Kaneki. "Surprise!"

A few CCG members were in the room waiting for Kaneki.

"Hello." Kaneki replied, confused by what was happening.

Hide grinned. "It's your baby shower. Act surprised, not confused."

"I am. You're all here for my baby shower?"

Everyone nodded.

"We worked all day and got something to show you." Hide took Kaneki's hand and led him down the hall to the room which Hide and Kaneki talked about turning into a nursery.

Kaneki walked in and looked around in awe. What use to be an empty white room now was a fully furnished nursery.

A crib was set up with a dangling mobile that played 'You are My Sunshine' and had cute little pictures of a sun, moon, cloud, and star dangling from the mobile. The room was painted a light yellow. There was a changing table and beside that was a cushioned rocking chair facing and not too far from the crib. Kaneki walked over and gently touched the chair and watched it softly rock.

Hide smiled. "So, whenever you want to read to the baby, you will have a comfortable place to do it."

Kaneki bit his lip, as he felt tears in his eyes.

Hide pulled Kaneki into a hug. "It's okay to cry. These are happy tears."

"Damn hormones." Kaneki muttered.

Hide laughed and kissed the top of Kaneki's head. He smiled and led Kaneki out of the nursery so they could talk to Akira and thank everyone for helping with the nursery.

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Kaneki looked around the new nursery and sat down in the rocking chair to test it. The chair felt great on his aching back, it was stiff yet the cushions provided a soft comfort. He rubbed his stomach and looked down at it. "You've been very hyper at night. Can you settle down for me a little?"

Kaneki felt a flutter against his hand and smiled.

"I read that a baby can hear its mother's voice and identify it. Do you know my voice?"

There was a brief pause before another flutter tickled Kaneki.

"Your daddy and I are so excited for you."

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"Ke-," Hide paused when he heard a voice come from the nursery. He wanted to ask Kaneki something, but forgot what he was going to ask. He pressed his ear up to the nursery door and listened.

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"Your daddy and I are so excited for you."

Kaneki rubbed his belly. "I just worry. That will always be my job as your parent, I am going to worry about you." Kaneki was silent for a bit, thinking his own words over. "You have a wonderful daddy, Hide will protect and provide for you. You are lucky, my dad was never in the picture and my mom… Well… she left too soon. But I promise you little one, no matter what I will never leave you. I hope I can be as good of a parent as your daddy and if I'm not, know that I am trying my hardest. It's hard being a parent if you never had parents of your own. I want you to live a good life like a normal kid, no matter if you are human, ghoul, or something in between. No matter what, I will always love you and so will daddy."

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Hide smiled and waited a few seconds to knock on the door. He peeked his head in. "May I come in?"

Kaneki smiled. "Come in."

Hide walked over and kissed Kaneki. "It's time for bed. We have work tomorrow."

Kaneki sighed and momentarily blushed. "Hide?"

"Yes?"

"Can you help me up?"

Hide smiled and helped his pregnant mate out of the rocking chair.