Heya, so here's another Chapter. Chapter 14 already. I decided to make this a no fight but handy to read chapter, hope you like it.

See ya later!

After Misaki had 'left' things seemed to have calmed down but we all were on edge.
My parents had been pissed which is not an understatement. Things like; how could you put Mitsuki at risk? how could you put yourself at risk? how long is this thing going on? And some rude comments I can't repeat.
I understood why they worried, I would worry myself. But to me even then there is a limited on the way you can and should react. Because even though I fully understood why they worried the comments they made kind of hurt me.

I was at home sitting at the computer looking at a site for job applications. I loved working at the café but in all honesty, it didn't pay much even though I loved being around the others and Ryou. But I shouldn't forget I also have a degree and it would be a waste to have a degree but never putting my knowledge to use.
I kept scrolling down. I sure am not picky but this time I felt it was important to stay closer to home. Of course not only because of my family or because I am a mew but I needed a job where I could go on maternal leave. I was in my second trimester but knowing time flies when you work it would mean I would soon have to leave again and it would be a pain for the department if I left so soon. So I decided to look for a job with little working hours and a low difficulty rate. I could always work my way up. It just would be a shame to either have them search for a temporary replacement or have them fire me so soon.
Even though it was my idea to try and find a job every time I was looking at job applications I ended up freaking out a bit. I hadn't forgotten a few months ago when Ryou had decided to quit his job. I knew how hard it could get so it held me back a bit.

"I seriously shouldn't be looking at job applications in the middle of the night."

I looked at the clock, 2.28am.

"Oh well."

I stood up.

"I might as well get some tea and then go to bed."

I walked into the kitchen and put on the kettle.

"Hungry… snacks… snacks…"

I opened the fridge, in search for something to eat. I should've done some grocery shopping but I had been too lazy and Ryou had been busy with work so no now we had a lack of food.

"Moooooooooo… I want food!"

I covered my mouth with my hands. Shoot, Ryou was sleeping and I shouldn't wake him up.
I looked in the freezer.

"Ice cream~"

I took it out of the freezer and turned off the kettle. I poured my tea and took it with my ice cream to the couch and sat down. I put on the television and started eating.

"Itadakimasu~"

After some time I felt a bit nauseous so I put away the little bit of ice cream that was left over and drank my tea.

Ryou's P.O.V.

I woke up and looked at the clock near me 2.50am. I looked beside me and noticed Mitsuki wasn't in bed.

Was she downstairs on the computer again?

I stood up and walked downstairs, I heard the television in the hallway.

She is watching some drama again, isn't she?

Slightly annoyed I opened the door to the living room. There was indeed a drama on but Mitsuki wasn't watching it.
I walked around the couch and found Mitsuki sleeping. She must have dozed off while she was sitting because the position she was in didn't look that comfortable. I looked at the table and I saw a box of ice cream, melted. Next to it was a cup of tea, half full.

I turned back towards Mitsuki. Should I take her upstairs or put a blanket over her? I would probably wake her up if I lifted her up but if I let her stay here I still would've put her in a different position or she would have a aching body the next day. I decided to take her upstairs and lifted her up. She moved a bit in my arms, leaned her head against my chest and continued to sleep.

"Sleepyhead…"

Every time I carried her to our bed or whenever I carried her, I would be amazed by how light she is. Even now she was so light in my arms.

I had reached our room and laid her down on our bed. I took off her slippers and put the blanket over her. I sat down onto the bed next to her and caressed her cheek.

I sometimes wondered how I was able to be in a relationship with such a beautiful girl as she is. Of course she isn't only beautiful, she is smart, knows what she wants and has a strong will. Beside that she is extremely stubborn, naïve at times and childish most of the time but that's okay. Being in her company was always eventful and wherever she would go people would be amazed by her, her generosity, her warmth and her big heart.

Thinking about this made me remind something someone said a while ago. The person said I was in a relationship with Mitsuki just because of her status and her money which isn't the case at all. Mitsuki had been there and got so pissed it was cute to see her getting angry over something she shouldn't be. We both knew very well why we are together and to us it didn't need explaining but it was understandable that people who didn't know us would think weird things. After all Mitsuki meant more to me than anyone could know.
Things hadn't been easy for either of us in the past and knowing those things about each other made that we understood each other on a different level. Even though it was extremely funny to tease Mitsuki I knew very well she was actually really guarded.
Mitsuki once told me that if she wanted to be in a relationship with anyone she needed to feel a certain amount of security to be able to stay with the person. She said; I need to feel secure and safe but I also need to be able to be independent. To me this is something that should be natural in a relationship but to her it really goes to a different level. She has been through much and she needs a place to be able to let her guard down and be fragile so she can be stronger in other situations. I am glad I am able to give that to her and I am glad she even knows how to give me that same feeling. Whenever I am with her I feel like I don't need to hold back and I don't have to lock things away from her.

Mitsuki mumbled something in her sleep, turned and leaned against me.
I put my arms around her and pulled her a bit closer against me.

"She really gets warm when she is asleep."

Things were slowly changing for us and I didn't really mind. I knew things would change anyways but the change that was happening in our life was a beautiful one. Mitsuki was showing more now and being pregnant really suited her.
Because Mitsuki was pregnant she didn't join the girls for the fights anymore. Especially since Misaki was gone Mitsuki didn't want to join them anymore and in all honesty I was glad she didn't join. Of course it was hard on the girls because they were one man less strong but they had survived without her before too so they tried to make the best of it. But I felt it was better to take a step back so she could focus on the things she already had going on and do things in her own pace instead of the endless rush we had going on. We finally had the chance to have time for each other and that felt nice.

Mitsuki opened her eyes and looked at me sleepily.

"Is something wrong?" She looked at me puzzled.

I shook my head. "No not at all. I was just looking at you sleeping."

She smiled and said, "Come on, let's get some sleep."

She nuzzled against me and closed her eyes again. This time I decided I should sleep as well and closed my eyes.

Normal P.O.V.

It was a gray day and I was hanging around in the mew café. We were in the middle of the fall and a cold breeze touched my face as I passed the door.
The girls were at school or work, Ryou was upstairs busy and Keiichirou had gone grocery shopping so I had no one to talk to. I had cleaned the café already so when the girls would arrive they didn't have to clean up and the dishes were done so no one had to worry about that. I was bored but knew I shouldn't bother Ryou at this moment.

"Hmmm, what to do?"

I looked around the place.

"Ah! I could bake something. I bet Keiichirou won't mind."

I walked into the kitchen, put on some music and went on to do my thing. I made sure to check what I needed so we wouldn't run out of the material and Keiichirou wouldn't be unhappy about it. I couldn't say angry because I seldom saw him angry.

I might have been busy for half an hour or so and I just put the cake in the oven when I heard the door open and close.

"I am back."

Keiichirou walked into the kitchen. I looked up.

"Welcome back."

"Ah what are you making Mitsuki-san?"

"I felt like baking so I am making something special."

"Special?"

"It's a secret though." I smiled happily.

"Well then, I won't ask then." He gave me a smile and started putting away the groceries.

"Would you mind asking Ryou if he can come down? I think he should take a break and drink some tea with us."

I nodded and smiled. I walked upstairs and stopped at the door of the ''lab''.
I knocked on the door but no answer came, I only heard ticking on the keyboard.
I opened the door slightly and looked around the corner.

"Ryou?"

Ryou looked up and turned around.

"What's wrong?"

"Noth.. nothing really but Keiichirou asked if you wanted to come down and have some tea with us."

I think he noticed I was a bit worried as he reached out his hand to me.
I opened the door further and took his hand. He softly pulled me on his lap.

"I think I need a hug first though."

I giggled and put my arms around him, he put one arm around me and his other hand on my belly. I closed my eyes for a second but opened them very quickly afterwards.

"What's wrong?"

Ryou had felt my sudden shock and looked at me slightly worried.
I just took the hand he had on my belly and put it a bit more to the right.

"Oh…"

He grinned and I smiled.

He then looked at me.

"First time..?"

I just nodded.

After some time we heard a soft knock on the door and looked up to see Keiichirou standing in the door opening.

"You were taking a long time so I was getting a bit worried. But it seems you are doing just fine."

Keiichirou's eyes trailed to where Ryou's hand was and looked a bit puzzled at us.

"Come on, let's go." Ryou said and we got up.

He took my hand and pulled me passed Keiichirou while still grinning.
Keiichirou obviously didn't understand at all but didn't ask questions.

We were sitting downstairs for a while and Ryou and Keiichirou were in conversation about certain progresses in the mew project but also things about the café. I had given them a piece of the chocolate cake I had made, on the outside soft and on the inside melted chocolate. Keiichirou still hadn't asked us what had happened earlier but that quickly changed.

"Ryou, I was wondering, what happened earlier?"

"Earlier?" I looked surprised.

"Ah, that. Mitsuki felt the baby move and she let me feel the movement."

They both looked at me and I was a bit surprised.

Ryou grinned. "No need to look so surprised. It's a very normal thing to do."

I was too aware of their looks and couldn't help blush while looking down at my belly.
Ryou took my hand in his and softly squeezed it.

"Now we are talking about your pregnancy, how far are you along?" Keiichirou asked.

"Hmmm… 16 weeks and 3 days."

"When will you find out the gender, or are you planning to wait?"

Ryou smiled. "Next week we will have an echo and we expect to find out then."

Thinking about the gender gave me butterflies. I was maybe being a bit cliché but I really want to have a girl because I really want do to mother-daughter things. I had already thought of names for a girl but I had trouble to come up with boy names and in a way I kind of felt rude for not thinking about boy names.

"What tells your gut about the gender?" Keiichirou asked.

I didn't expect that question but I did think about that.

"I think a girl."

Neither of them looked surprised.

"Every time I go shopping I only like the pink things, I always grab girly things and every time I refer to the baby I end up saying her. People ask me if I know the gender already even though I have no clue. But I wouldn't be surprised if it is a girl."

I came back out of my thoughts and looked at the guys, both looking at me. Keiichirou looked at me with slight surprise yet with warmth and Ryou looked with love, happiness and warmth and my heart started pounding a bit quicker.

"What about you?"

I looked anticipating at Ryou.

"I'm gonna sound cliché but as long as baby is healthy I am happy."

I couldn't help but feel happy.

"I didn't notice before but Mitsuki-san but you are really glowing."

"Ah…"

I put my hand on my cheek and smiled.

Before I could say anything else the door swung open and Ichigo came rushing in.

"We have a problem!"

She slammed a paper on the table.

I looked shaken at her, Keiichirou looked worried and Ryou looked straight of annoyed.

"What is such a big problem that you have to come rushing in and slamming on the table?"

"This!,, she pointed at the paper on the paper.

"We are on the front page. We are in the news. They are saying we are the bad ones, that stupid Natsuko and her little sister I don't know the name of went to the media and said we are the bad ones. It's all over the news and the papers!"

Ryou frowned and took the paper.

His expression went from annoyed to pissed to extremely angry.

In all the silence I stood up.

Ichigo and Keiichirou looked at me.

"Mitsuki?"

"Mitsuki-san are you okay? You look pale."

'I… I can't…'

Without answering I rushed to the nearest bathroom and threw up. I didn't expect this kind of reaction from myself. I looked at my hands and they were shaking badly. I tried standing up but instead I had to throw up again.

I felt someone pull my hair back and rubbing my back and without turning around I knew it was Ryou. I sat down on the ground and tried some breathing exercise.

"It's okay."

He handed me a damp towel and I took it.

"I haven't felt like this for some time."

"A bit too much chocolate I think."

I knew he was giving a faint smile but he wasn't happy at all. Knowing him he was really pissed off on the inside.

"Do you want to lay down?"

I only nodded and he then helped me up slowly. My hands and even my knees were still shaking but his strong hands held me up. We went out of the bathroom and outside stood Ichigo.

"I am really sorry Mitsuki."

I shook my head. "It… It's okay."

We then walked on. Finally upstairs I laid down.

"If you need anything just let me know."

I nodded and closed my eyes.

Ryou's point of view

I walked back into the café and Keiichirou and Ichigo looked up worried.

"Is Mitsuki going to be okay?"

"She is going to be fine, she just had too much chocolate." I answered Ichigo.

"Now let's come up to deal with this problem."

"Ryou, maybe we need to wait for the other girls?"

"We have no time for that, Ichigo can relay what we decide. So what do we have?"

"So I found this paper but apparently the last few times we had to fight camera teams followed us and filmed. I thought it was just coincidence…"

"Obviously it isn't. Wait a second, you said earlier the enemy used the news to make us look bad. How about do the same around? Mitsuki has some small flying cameras, if we can use those we can turn the situation around."

"But Ryou, how are we going to broadcast that? We have no way of getting it on television."

"No not on television, but we can put it online. If we are able to get people share it then we can get it on the television that way and we also reach further than Japanese news. That way we have more people on our side."

"That should work."

Zakuro said while she and the other girls walked in.

"Who will put it online though?" Katelinn asked.

"We can broadcast it live and use the file to put it on other sites later on." I answered.

"Isn't that a hassle?" Ringo asked.

"Compared the problems we'll have if a hate towards us grows, then this is easy." I told her.

"Who made this delicious cake?" Pudding asked while licking the chocolate off her fingers.

"Mitsuki-san made it." Keiichirou answered her.

"I really like it! Is there more of it?"

"Kitchen." I said slightly irritated.

"Now you mention her, where is she?" Katelinn asked.

I stood up.

"Where are you going?" Ichigo asked.

"Upstairs. Checking on Mits and then continuing my work, tea time is over."

I walked upstairs towards the room where Mitsuki was.

I softly knocked and opened the door.

Looking at Mitsuki and sat down at the bedside.

She was fast asleep and I softly brushed away the hair that was in her face.

Her face pulled an uncomfortable face and mumbled protect me.

"Don't worry. I will."

I kissed her forehead and stood up.

'I better get some work done before taking her home.'

I closed the door.