Alright readers! I know this is a little later than I planned (Wednesday) but I've had an INSANE week so bear with me.

So this chapter is one that I pretty much cried while writing because of the cuteness. But I'm gonna be totally honest, that happens a lot in this series now. I have about 4 or 5 other chapters written (they wont be posted too soon sorry) that I've cried rivers of tears over because of the cuteness and/or angst in them.

This one is ALL ABOUT KYOYA, SAM, AND ZOE AND IT'S SUPER CUTE SO YAY!

I will get back to the twins and Tamaharu at some point. I think I have one more chapter of NOT them. The next chapter will be Hikaris because I miss my babies. It'll probably end up being a shorter one too so yep. I'll try to have that one out by Wednesday at the latest.

So without further ado, please enjoy this Moreau-Ootori family chapter

Chapter 20 - Surprise

May 3, 2018

"Mommy," Zoe held up a more advanced picture book to her mother and pointed to the title. "Wath thith word?"

Samantha had her daughter on her lap in the living room and was braiding her wavy black hair. "That's astronomy, sweetie."

"What about thith one?" She pointed to the sub-title of the book.

"Well that word," Sam pointed to the first of the two words in the sub-title, "is solar. And the other one is system."

Zoe placed the book back in her own lap and frowned. "I don't like them."

"What, the words?"

"They're mean. They have that letter in them. Ith no fair."

"Awe, Zoe. Don't worry you'll grow out of it. When you get a little older you'll be able to say that letter like everyone else." Zoe continued to pout and flip through the pages of the book. When she got to the different planets, she saw that they were glittering on the page as a way to catch the reader's attention.

Zoe gasped when she saw the glittering planets and held the book up to her mother again. "Mommy look it! Look at all the pretty thparkleth!" She held the book where both of them could see it and pointed to each individual planet. "That oneth you! Aannd. Thath me. Oh! And that oneth Daddy!"

She paused for a moment to study the page. She then moved her small finger over to Earth and looked back at her mother, causing the almost finished braid to mess up. "Thith ith where we live, right Mommy?"

Samantha nodded. "Yep. That's Earth. The planet we live on."

"Earth." Zoe giggled. "Thath a funny name for a planet."

Sam pulled Zoe back onto her lap and held her tight. She kissed the side of her head, causing the child to giggle more. "You know what else is a funny name?" Sam leaned in close. "Zoe."

Zoe gasped and laughed as Sam began to tickle her. "Hey Mommy! Thath mean! Thath my name!"

Sam stopped tickling Zoe and laughed. "Well I hope I would know my own daughter's name. I did name you after all."

Zoe cocked her head, confused. "Daddy didn't name me too?"

"Well he agreed with the name Zoe. But I picked it out. I liked the meaning of it."

Zoe crawled back onto her mother's lap and leaned against her chest. "What doeth my name mean, Mommy?"

"Life."

The little girl looked up at her mother, another confused look spread across her face.

Sam let out a small laugh and picked up the solar system book. She pointed to earth and tried to explain. "Remember Earth? The planet we live on?" Zoe nodded. "Well that's the only planet that has life on it. Well we think. So people and animals and plants. That's all life."

"And Alienth?"

Samantha laughed again. "We don't know if aliens are real, Zoe. But maybe."

Zoe frowned and furrowed her brow in thought. After a moment she looked back up at her mother. "Tho. . . Life ith people and thingth like puppieth and flowerth?" Sam nodded. "Tho that meanth babieth are life too?" Sam nodded once more. Zoe looked down at her mother's stomach and poked it. "Tho you have life in your tummy right now?"

"Wait what?"

Zoe cocked her head again. "There ith a baby in your tummy, right? Becauth you keep thmiling and laughing and thinging a lot and you only do that thtuff on thpecial dayth. But ith not a thpecial day . . ."

She paused for a moment before continuing. "And you thaid that babieth come from a mommy and daddy kithing a lot. . . And you and Daddy kith a lot. Tho it hath to be a baby, right?"

Samantha went silent for a moment, trying to take in how advanced her daughter's reasoning was, especially for a three year old. "Wait . . . So you figured it out that easily? You're only three, how could you figure out that I'm pregnant?"

Zoe giggled and huddled close to her mother. "Becauth I love you Mommy. And you need to know loth of thtuff about peopleth you love. Ethpethally Mommy and Daddy."

Sam laughed and kissed the top of Zoe's head. "I love you too, Zoe. You're such a little genius."

After a moment, Zoe pulled apart from Sam and looked back down at her stomach. "Whath hith name gonna be?" She took a quick pause. "Ith it a boy? Can you make the baby a boy? Pleath Mommy? I wanna baby brother!"

Samantha let out a loud laugh and stood up while simultaneously picking Zoe up. "Well I really can't choose that, Zoe. You'll have to just wait and see. It'll be a surprise." She walked out of the living room with Zoe in her arms and then she set the girl down in her hallway. "So do you want to help me with dinner, or do you want to go play with Daddy instead?"

Sam already knew the answer and without hesitation Zoe shouted the expected response. "Play with Daddy!" And before she knew it, Zoe was running down the hall to Kyoya's office.

"Daddy?"

"Yes, Zoe?"

Zoe was laying on the ground drawing a picture with crayon, while Kyoya worked on his laptop. "Do you have a favorite color?"

"Not particularly, no. Why?"

"I'm gonna make your favorite color purple. Ith that okay?"

"Sure."

The two of them went back to concentrating on their work. About five minutes later, Zoe spoke up again.

"Daddy?"

"Hm?"

"What thould the babyth favorite color be? Blue, yellow, or pink?"

"Wait what? Who's favorite color is this?"

Zoe sat up and looked over at Kyoya as he turned around to face her. "The baby."

"What baby?" After he questioned Zoe once more, Kyoya took a sip of water that he had on his desk, which in reality was a bad decision because of what Zoe was about to say.

"The baby in Mommy'th tummy. My baby brother. Or thithter. But I wanna have a brother tho I hope ith a boy."

Kyoya almost did a spit take, but instead he slightly choked on the water and ended up having a short coughing fit. "Zoe, what are you even talking about?"

Zoe held up the picture she was drawing and it showed three stick figures: Kyoya in purple, Samantha in red, and Zoe in green. And then there was a much smaller stick figure in blue where stick-figure Samantha's stomach would have been. It was simply labeled, "Baby."

"Thee I drew a picture of all of uth!"

Kyoya studied the picture for a moment and then looked back down at Zoe. "Zoe . . . This is wonderful, but I'm pretty sure Mommy isn't having another baby."

Zoe frowned and cocked her head. "Thath not what Mommy thaid. We were talkin 'bout it before the went to cook dinner."

Kyoya's eyes went wide and he stood from his chair. He picked Zoe up and handed her the picture. "Can you hold this for me? Let's say hi to Mommy and see how dinner's coming along."

Zoe nodded and held onto the picture with one hand and Kyoya's neck with the other.

Just before they reached the kitchen, Kyoya set Zoe down. "Don't show Mommy the picture yet. Make it a surprise."

Zoe nodded and followed her father into the kitchen. Once in the kitchen, Kyoya leaned against the wall while Zoe went and climbed onto a tall chair.

"Hey Sam."

Samantha looked up from her cooking and smiled at her husband and then back at her daughter. "Oh hi! What brings you two in here?"

"Daddy wanted to thay hi." Zoe swung her feet back and forth on the tall chair and held her picture in her lap.

"Well I haven't really seen either of you much all day since you've been out shopping and whatnot. So I thought it'd be nice to stay with you out here while you cooked dinner."

Sam looked back to Kyoya and smiled. "Oh. Well that's very nice."

"So what are you making tonight?"

Sam smiled and went back to her cooking. Kyoya had offered to hire a home chef when they first got married, but Samantha refused. She absolutely loved to cook. "My dad's favorite thing to cook: Bouillabaisse. He taught me how to cook it when I was sixteen."

"That dish sounds very familiar."

She glanced over at Kyoya quickly and laughed, causing her ginger ponytail to bounce behind her. "Well of course it does. It's a famous dish in Marseilles. I'm almost positive that it's the meal you had when I bought you lunch after breaking your glasses."

Kyoya let out a small laugh. "I remember now. It's Marseilles most popular dish. The one that includes a lot of different types of shellfish."

Zoe sat straight up and let out a small gasp. "Mommyth making fitheth for dinner!?"

Samantha laughed. " That's right, Zoe. Mommy's making fish."

Zoe absolutely loved everything her mother cooked for them. But she especially loved whenever her mother made fish. It quickly became her favorite food.

Zoe let out a small squeal of joy and began swinging her feet again and then started humming quietly.

"You are able to eat that, right? Wait, yes you are. It's stuff like sushi that you can't eat."

"What are you talking about, Kyoya?"

Ignoring Samantha's question, Kyoya posed a different question. "How are you feeling, Sam?"

Sam cocked her head and furrowed her brow, like mother like daughter. " Uhm . . . I'm actually feeling wonderful. Never been better. Why do you ask?"

"Are you sure you're feeling alright? Nothing feels different?"

"Kyoya, what on earth are you going on about?"

Ignoring Samantha's question once more, Kyoya called Zoe over. "Zoe. Why don't you show Mommy that beautiful picture you drew?"

Zoe giggled and quickly climbed down from the chair. She stood behind Samantha and held up the picture. Samantha put a lid on the pot and turned around. She crouched down to Zoe's level and held the picture. "This is beautiful Zoe."

Zoe ran around to Sam's side and pointed out things in the picture. "That one'th me and thath Daddy. And then thath you." She pointed to a very small stick figure that Sam hadn't noticed at first. "And then thath the baby!"

Sam's eyes went wide when she finally realized what Kyoya was going on about. "Oh. Oh!" She paused and leaned in to kiss Zoe on the cheek. "It's wonderful, sweetie. I'll hang it up with the other's on the fridge. Why don't you go wash up for dinner, it should be ready in a minute."

Zoe smiled wide and nodded before running out of the kitchen to the powder room in the hall.

Sam stood up and hung the picture on the refrigerator as previously stated.

"So a baby."

Samantha turned back to face her husband. "Kyoya, I can explain-"

"Well there's nothing to explain. You're pregnant again. What else is there to tell?"

She sighed and leaned against the counter. "I was going to tell you within the next few days. I just didn't know how."

"All you had to do was say it, Sam."

"But I didn't know how you'd react. You didn't want kids in the first place. So who knows how you would've reacted to me telling you we're having another one?"

Kyoya pushed his glasses up the bridge of his nose. "Well I never explicitly said that I didn't want children. I was just never exactly fond of the idea of babies waking me up in the middle of the night or small children running about my home." He took a quick pause. "But that doesn't matter because we have Zoe, and I honestly adore her, and soon we'll have another child. And if this child is anything like Zoe-"

"Then we will have another total genius that reads astronomy books at the age of three and breaks everything they touch . . . "

Kyoya laughed and walked over to Sam. "Well I really hope they don't break everything like Zoe. The genius part is fine with me. The point is, you didn't have to hesitate to tell me."

Sam leaned against Kyoya's shoulder and sighed. "Zoe is too smart for her own good . . . She figured out that I'm pregnant without me saying anything. Normal three year olds aren't supposed to be able to do that."

"Well, like you said, she's a little genius. You know she wants the baby to be a boy."

Sam nodded. "Yeah she really wants a baby brother. And just wait, it probably is a boy. Zoe's probably psychic or something." She let out a quiet laugh. "She'll probably be able to tell the sex of any other kids we have too."

Kyoya cleared his throat and straightened up a bit. "I think two kids is substantial enough for us."

Samantha pouted playfully. "Awe. You don't want Zoe to have as many siblings as Sofia does?"

"Absolutely not."

She laughed and moved in front of Kyoya to kiss him. She wrapped her arms around his shoulders and smiled at him before they shared a lengthy kiss. "I think two is the perfect amount for us."

"Mommy! Daddy!" Zoe stood in the doorway with her hands on her hips. "You don't need to do that anymore! Mommyth already got a baby in her tummy!"

The two of them laughed at their daughter's comment and separated. Sam crouched down to Zoe's level again and held out her arms, cuing Zoe to come running. She picked Zoe up and kissed her cheek, causing the three year old to giggle. "Do you wanna have dinner now?" Zoe nodded. "Then how about you and Daddy go set the table?"

Zoe turned and reached out for Kyoya to carry her and he complied. The two of them then grabbed some shallow bowls and went to set the table.

December 18th 2018

"Thith one goeth here. Aaaand now ith your turn, Daddy." Zoe placed a piece in the large puzzle that her and Kyoya were completing. Zoe leaned back in her father's lap and ate from a small bowl of gummy bears.

Kyoya reached around Zoe and put another piece in the puzzle. It was about three-fourths finished by this point. "Alright. Your turn."

Instead of putting another piece in the puzzle, Zoe turned her head and looked up at Kyoya. "Daddy?"

"Yes Zoe?"

"Can babieth get mail?"

Kyoya stifled a laugh. "No. They can't. Only people can get mail."

"But babieth are people too."

"Well they can't really read, write, or talk. And if you're referring to your little brother, then there's no way he can get mail. He can't really do much from inside Mommy's tummy."

Zoe frowned and stared at her bowl of gummy bears. "But I wanna write him a letter."

Kyoya thought for a moment before continuing. "You can still write the letter. And he can read it when he's your age. He just can't read it right now."

Zoe jumped up and ran to get some paper, causing her pigtails to bounce against her head as she ran. After a quick moment she returned with copy paper and colored pencils. Crayons weren't formal enough for an important letter like this one. She pushed the unfinished puzzle to the side on the coffee table to make room for her writing.

"Whath the babieth name?"

"We don't know yet."

Zoe frowned again and turned back to Kyoya. "But he hath to have a name! I can't call him 'baby' all the time."

"Well Mommy and I like the name Kazuto, but we aren't sure if that'll be his name."

Zoe turned back to her paper and wrote, as legibly as possible, "Dear Kazuto." It was spelled "Deer Kasootoh" but it was easy to tell what she meant.

"Daddy you can't look. Only Kathuto ith allowed to read thith."

"Alright. I won't look I promise." Kyoya leaned against the couch and let Zoe continue writing.

About five minutes later, after multiple scribbles and groans of anguish, Zoe finished her letter to her brother. "All done!"

She folded the letter neatly in half and handed it to Kyoya. "You and Mommy need to keep it for Kathuto."

Kyoya took the letter and then moved back to the coffee table. "Okay I promise we'll only read it to the baby when he's ready. Okay?"

Zoe nodded sharply, causing her pigtails to bounce again.

Kyoya looked at his watch and stretched. "You know it's almost time for bed, Zoe."

Zoe pouted and quickly wrapped her arms around Kyoya's waist. "No! Can I pleathe thtay up tonight, Daddy? Pleathe?"

Kyoya laughed and hugged his daughter. "I'll let you stay up a little bit so that we can finish this puzzle. Deal?"

"Deal."

"So she wrote a letter to the baby . . . And she won't let us read it unless we're reading it to him after he's born?"

Kyoya nodded and moved to get in bed. "She made me promise not to read it. She said it was for Kazuto to read only."

"Wait so we're actually sticking with that name."

"Zoe seems to think so. And we both like it so might as well."

Samantha stared at the letter for a moment before speaking up. "So we really can't read it yet?"

"Unless you want to upset Zoe."

Just then there was a small knock on their bedroom door. "Mommy? Daddy?"

Sam let out a small laugh. "Come on in sweetie."

Zoe hurried into the room and crawled onto her parents' bed. She was holding a small stuffed penguin and was wearing a silky green nightgown with pink ruffles on the bottom. "I couln't thleep."

She crawled over and huddled up in Kyoya's lap. She looked over at her mother and saw the letter she wrote in her hands. "Ith that my letter to Kathuto?"

Samantha nodded and looked down at the paper in her hands. "It is." She turned back to Zoe. "Are you sure we can't read it, Zoe?"

Zoe sat for a moment in thought. "Well ith he here? Can he hear uth?"

"Well I like to think so." Sam looked down at her swollen stomach. "I mean he's gonna be born soon, so I think he can at least kind of hear us. I'm not sure he knows what it all means but . . ."

Zoe crawled out of Kyoya's lap and moved in front of her mother. She held out her hands to see the letter. Once Sam handed the letter to Zoe, Zoe moved closer to her mother and opened the letter. "Ith he awake?"

Samantha laughed and nodded. He had been kicking on and off for about an hour now. She took Zoe's little hand and held it to her stomach. "See? You can feel him kicking."

Zoe cocked her head and frowned at her mother's stomach. "Thath not very nithe." Then she felt her brother actually kick. Her eyes widened and she let out a faint gasp. "Woah. He ith awake!"

She removed her hand and looked back at the letter. "Okay. I'm gonna read it now." She sat up straight and spoke as clearly as possible.

"Dear Kathuto,

I'm your big thithter, Thoe. I'm really really exthited that you're my brother. I jutht wanted to tell you that ith really fun with Mommy and Daddy. Mommy ith really nithe and funny. Theth pretty and a pretty thinger. And the cookth really good too! Daddy ith really thmart and fun to play with. He'll help uth build cathleth and do puthleth. And even though he workth a lot, he thtill playth with me and Mommy whenever he can. We're gonna have loth of fun together! Welcome to the family, Kathuto!

Love, Thoe."

Once she finished reading the letter she looked up at her parents and smiled. "D'you think he heard all of that?"

Samantha let out a small laugh and nodded. She had one hand over her stomach and the other was tucking a strand of her ginger hair behind her ear. She was a bit teary eyed as she spoke. "Zoe, I'm positive that he heard you. That was the sweetest thing I've ever heard."

"Well I wath jutht telling him about you and Daddy."

Kyoya spoke up, smiling. "Zoe come over here."

She crawled back into her father's lap and he pulled her into a hug. "That was incredibly sweet of you, Zoe. You're gonna be a great big sister."

Zoe looked up at Kyoya, wide eyed. "You think tho?"

"I know so." Kyoya kissed the top of Zoe's head and hugged her again. After a moment, he realized that she probably wasn't going back to her room. "Let me guess. You want to sleep in here tonight?"

Zoe nodded slowly. "Ith that okay?"

"Of course it is. Now let's go to sleep and maybe we can go out to breakfast tomorrow."

Zoe nodded vigorously and crawled under the covers between her parents. In a matter of minutes, all three of them were fast asleep.

Kazuto Moreau-Ootori. Born January 3rd 2019 with dark brown hair, pale blue eyes that would soon fade to blackish-purple, pale skin, and a faint trace of freckles on his face, just like his mother.

Alrighty! So that's it for this week folks! Thanks for stickin with this story even if you hate it! And if you love it: That's fuckin awesome man thanks!

So yeah. The second and final addition to Kyoya's family is Kazuto. I can't wait to write more on Zoe and Kazuto's relationship yay! Oh and if you have any trouble figuring out what Zoe is saying because of her lisp, just let me know. You can send me the part you didn't understand in a review or PM and I'll just "translate" it for you if ya need it.

So yeah join us next time for another installment of "First or Last?"

Next time: Chapter 21 - Wedding Bell Blues

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