Rounding a corner, Risa smiled when she saw Tien sigh with a smile walking toward her. Her smile getting bigger as he stepped up next to her. She couldn't wait to get him back to the house and tell him what was going on with her. But she wanted to do it just the the two of them and Chiaotsu. "Everything okay?"
"Yeah she sneezed." Tien then looked down at Risa and her smile, then to the smile that Bulma had. "What happened?"
"Nothing. Just seems I have a bug as she put it. I will be just fine. I told you that it was nothing to worry about." Risa then laughed as he sighed then half glared at her. "Come on let's just go home." She then turned to Bulma and smiled as she nodded. "I look forward to see you again too Bulma. It was delightful to meet you."
Laughing as she smiled back, Bulma then turned and walked away from them. "Same here. Who knows may be sooner than you think. But I gotta get back to work now. Later Tien, Chiaotsu."
Giving his wife an odd look, Tien didn't move. "Maybe we should take you…."
Laughing as she looked up at him, Risa shook her head. "I am fine Tien I promise. Let's just get back home. Please."
With a sigh as he lifted her fully into his arms and headed for the door, Tien closed his eyes. "If you say so. But if you start getting sick like that again, then you are going to a doctor."
"Alright." Risa prayed that the flight back home wouldn't make her get sick, and once she got home she would figure out some way to tell him she was pregnant.
Once they were outside and flying away, Risa let out a content sigh as she held onto her husband. "I love you Tien."
Looking down at her for a second, Tien took a deep breath. "I love you Risa. You just worry me with this getting sick stuff."
"I promise I am just fine Tien." Moving her head up she kissed his cheek and giggled as he half glared at her. "Trust me?"
"Alright." Tien then smiled as he and Chiaotsu flew toward home. He had a home, a wife. He never thought he would, but he did. His eyes narrowed for a moment when he thought about Master Shin being around there. He knew he was up to no good, and he would fight anyone to the death for her. Even his old teacher.
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Landing before his house with a smile, Tien looked down at his sleeping wife. "I swear I don't know what it is about you." Looking down at Chiaotsu he laughed. "Let's put her in bed and then we can get some training done here around the house. Sound good Chiaotsu?"
"Yes it does Tien!"
Taking her in, Tien carefully lay her down on their bed then smiled as she sighed and rolled over. Reaching out and brushing her bangs from her face, he bent over and kissed her forehead. Turning to Chiaotsu he smiled as they headed out. "Lets get some speed training in."
"Right!"
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Slowly opening her eyes, Risa stretched as she yawned. Looking around as she sat up she sighed as she smiled. She was home. Getting out of bed and going to the window, she smiled to see Tien and Chiaotsu training as usual.
Going to the kitchen she pulled her hair back and set to work making them all something to eat. It was evening and she was starving. As she set to work getting the meal ready, she gasped then smiled. "I know what I can do to tell him I am pregnant. Once I get the food started I will get my yarn and work on it while everything cooks. Shouldn't take too long to work them up real fast."
Once she had water on to boil for rice, several different vegetables in another pot, and some meat in another pan she went back to her room and pulled out some yellow yarn and a crochet hook. Going back to the kitchen she sat down at the table and quickly started to work up a pair of baby booties. She would give them to Tien when they were all done eating and in the living room. 'It's perfect.'
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Just little over an hour later, Tien and Chiaotsu came in just as the food was done. Now after the meal, since it was such a nice evening, they all sat outside. Risa let out a content sigh as she leaned against Tien's shoulder and hugged his arm as his hand rested on her lap.
Moving for a moment she turned and faced him on the swing and took his hand in hers. "Tien I have something that I need to tell you."
"What is it?" Giving her an odd look as she laughed, Tien didn't know what to expect. She hadn't been her normal self since they left Bulma's.
"Just wait here for a moment. Please." Risa then got up and went into the house and got the small box she wrapped with the baby booties in it. Coming back to the swing she giggled as she held the box out to him and let her head fall to the side with a smile. "This is the reason why I haven't been feeling well sometimes and getting sick so much."
"So there is a reason?" Taking the box then looking at her odd, Tien didn't know what to say to that one. "Why can't you just tell me what is going on Risa?"
Giggling, Risa tapped the top of the box. "Just humor me please. It's nothing bad I promise. Please Tien?"
Rolling his eyes with a smile, Tien shook his head as he looked down at the box. "Alright. Alright. Let's see what is in the box."
Risa watched with a nervous smile as he tore the paper away and then slowly lifted the lid. Taking a deep breath and holding it when his eyes went wide and he froze once he saw them. She knew he would be excited, but he just wasn't doing anything. "Tien?"
His eyes glued to the baby booties, Tien didn't know what to think. It was just barely over two weeks when they did anything for the first time. Could it have been then? But can you really tell so close in time? Looking up at her with shock on his face he didn't know what to think. "Really? Like really?"
Nodding as she laughed, Risa laid her hands on her stomach. "I realized about five days after our first time that I was late. But figured it was because of the stress leading up to that, thinking you didn't love me like I did you. But then I started to get sick. And I have been extra hungry. But I didn't want to say anything to you and get your hopes up if I wasn't." Looking down at her stomach as tears dripped out of her eyes, Risa smiled even brighter. "I told Bulma what I thought and she had me take a pregnancy test. She said some people can tell as early as five days later. She also told me that the baby will be born in April and…" But then she gasped as she was cut off when Tien pulled her to his lap and seared her mouth with his. A nervous shake in his arms. When he pulled his lips from hers and hugged her, Risa smiled. "Tien…."
"I will be fine. I just never thought that it would happen so soon." Looking into her dazzling green eyes he took a deep breath as he smiled. "We are going to be parents in the spring."
Nodding as she laughed, Risa twined her arms around his neck. "But you know, being raised by a father and brother. I don't know the first thing about having a baby or how it should go. No one ever told me that. Bulma said we could stay with her the last month. If that's alright with you?"
"If you want to go stay with her for a month and have the baby in a hospital then that's what we will do. I promise." Tien then kissed her and looked down at the extra wide eyes of Chiaotsu. "You get to be an uncle my friend. We are having a baby!"
With an excited squeal, Chiaotsu closed his eyes as he jumped up in the air spinning. He was going to be an Uncle!
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Watching from his hiding place, Shin couldn't stop the cynical smile he had on his face. This was it. He would wait till it was almost time for her to have the baby. Then he would take her, and when Tien got close to save them, take their lives. 'Perfect. Now to vanish for a while so he thinks I gave up and won't be so on guard with her.'
