A few weeks later, Hiroki was finally fit enough to start work the next week. When she arrived home with Hitoshi now that he was back in day care, Hitoshi ran straight to the kitchen waiting to help his mother to prepare a snack. Hiroki smiled and walked over.

"Hey Mama, for baby brother's name can we call him Hinata? No, no Touma!" Hiroki smiled. Once Hiroki got a check up to confirm she was pregnant she had gone back for and Ultra sound and was told it was a boy.

"We'll see, Papa has to like it too" the boy nodded then nuzzled his mother's tummy. Hiroki ran her hand through his hair "Now let's make these snacks" Hiroki smiled and her son cheered and they both immediately set to work. Once they were done they headed to the living room and just as they set down the food there was a sharp knock on the door

Hitoshi ran to answer but Hiroki stopped him

"Dig in sweetheart" was all she said and the boy did just that. Hiroki answered the door to see Minoka standing on the other side along with a woman who looks like she had been crying. "Are you stupid or do you not understand what piss off means?" Hiroki hissed.

"I could care less about what you think" Minoka growled "I told my son we would be coming, and I will not let him do as he pleases when a lot is expected of him"

"No, you expect a lot from him and he doesn't have to meet those expectations" Hiroki snarled.

"Of course, he does, he's a Kondo" Minoka turned her nose up at Hiroki

"No, He's a Kusama. He always has been always will be, you didn't raise him you cow" Hiroki snarled. Hiroki flicked her seething gaze on the woman beside her. "Who are you?"

"Do not answer to her" Minoka snapped and the girl kept quiet. "She is to be Nowaki's wife"

"I can think of at least 3 things wrong with that sentence" Hiroki snapped. Hiroki turned to the girl. "Don't listen to her I want you to answer honestly; who are you?" Hiroki growled

"Nakamura Mina" Mina whimpered

"I hope you aren't wanting to be married to Nowaki? Someone you don't even know?" Hiroki growled

"I don't! I'm doing this for my family! My father told me to!" Mina pleaded "I love someone else" Mina started crying for what looks like it wasn't the first time that day judging by the exasperated look on Minoka's face.

"Just as Nowaki will"

"Mina-chan" Hiroki soothed ignoring Minoka "I hope it helps to know that he won't go through with this, that he's already married with a son" Mina stopped crying and smiled

"He'll be divorcing soon enough" Minoka stated smoothly. Hiroki was about to snap back when Nowaki's voice almost roared at the woman as he returned home. Nowaki moved to stand between his mother and his wife

"What part of I want nothing to do with you don't you understand?" Nowaki roared at Minoka. Nowaki's kind faced was twisted into pure rage. Worried Hiroki reached and placed a hand on his arm. Something didn't feel right. "Take your little friend and leave, if I catch you here again I will get a restraining order." Nowaki snarled. Hiroki had never seen Nowaki so vicious before it was worrying him. He was definitely almost at his breaking point. Pain shot through her lower abdomen. A pain she knew all too well.

No! "Nowaki" Hiroki whimpered trying to relax and draw air into her lungs to calm herself down.

"Leave!" Nowaki snapped to the two other women and they hurried away, clearly intimidated. Nowaki world around and pulled Hiroki gently inside

"It hurts" Hiroki gasped. Nowaki tried helping her calm herself. But Hiroki's panic only rose, she knew this feeling, but it was intensified.

"Hitoshi!" Nowaki called "Quickly we need to go" Nowaki added. Nowaki picked up his wife and carried her down to their car. Hitoshi followed along worried and confused. He had heard yelling and suddenly his mother wasn't looking to good. Hitoshi sat so he could see his mother.

The woman reached back despite the pain she was feeling to sooth her son. Something was screaming at her that it wasn't right. Stay strong. Hiroki chanted squeezing her eyes shut.

Kusama Hiroki

Hiroki sat in a daze. Nowaki was with Hitoshi while Tachibana sat with her, the doctor watching Hiroki worriedly. He held her hand and it just lay their limply as she processed what had happened. She'd lost her baby. She had miscarried. The baby was too new to be able to survive the sort of stress that Hiroki was under.

Even if she had managed to calm herself the baby still would have died. The sudden spike of stress was too much. "I'll take Hitoshi to play with Tsumori and send Nowaki-san in," Tachibana smiled sadly.

When she was alone, tears started tracking down her face as she curled into a ball. She heard the door open and Nowaki crouched beside her resting a hand on her thigh. "Everything is going to be okay Hiro-san" Nowaki coaxed.

Hiroki suddenly threw herself at Nowaki hugging him tightly as she sunk to the ground "I'm so sorry, Nowaki" Hiroki sobbed crying into his shoulder "I lost him" She sobbed again.

"It's not your fault" Nowaki soothed he pulled her back to look at him. "It was not your fault, you were in a stressful situation and I probably didn't help. But it was not your fault nor entirely mine."

Hiroki took a shaky breath. Once she had finally settled down she leaned against him. "I really wanted to see him. Our new baby. I wanted to see him and Hitoshi playing together"

"I know, Hiro-san, me too" Nowaki waited for to calm herself again

"Nowaki, could we try again?" Hiroki asked.

"Why don't we wait till everything has calmed down. I don't want this to happen again" Nowaki pleaded

"No! I don't want my family to be put on hold because of her! My mother can't so neither can yours." Hiroki snapped

"Hiro-san…" Nowaki breathed.

"This isn't simply just an attack on my emotions, Nowaki, but my pride as a mother. I can't let her win" Hiroki whispered. Nowaki sighed.

"Leave it for a couple of days, this is still rather upsetting for both of us" Nowaki suggested "Then we can talk about it, deal?" Hiroki nodded against his neck.