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Mori's eyes opened when he heard the sound of a baby crying. He looked over at the baby monitor and glared at it. He groaned and turned over to his wife, putting his pillow on his head.
"Mira… Baby…" He grumbled.
"Takashi… Your turn…" Mira said, turning over. Mori groaned and pushed himself out of bed. That was the second time that night that Leanne, their thirteen month old baby girl, had started crying. And he was fairly certain he was the one to calm her down last time, but he was too tired to argue.
"Fine…" He groaned, walking out of the room. Mira sighed.
"Thank you…" She mumbled sleepily. Mori turned back to look at his wife and smiled at her sleeping face. He may have had to go and tend to the kid to see it, but it was worth it. He left the door cracked as he went down to the kitchen, getting a baby formula and warming it up to the right temperature before he headed back upstairs to the baby's nursery. He opened the door to where his crying daughter lay in the white crib in the middle of the room. He checked the temperature of the milk before deciding that it was fine and picked up his daughter, cradling her in one arm and feeding her with the other. He gently rocked and shushed her as he fed her.
Leanne, named after her late grandmother, was a beautiful baby girl, with her father's dark hair, and her mother's green eyes. Since she never really cried too often during the day, Mira assumed she had been given her father's patience as well. Everyone adored her. Every now and then, when they got visits from the host club, Tamaki and Honey would gush over her, talking about how cute she was. Kyoya even offered to help them set up a trust fund for her when he first met the baby. Hikaru and Kaoru, who were now co-owners of a very well-known fashion line, made outfits for her almost daily. Every few days, they would bring them over and insist that she wear them. Haruhi would gush over the baby (Not quite as much as Honey and Tamaki), then she would ask Mira for advice, seeing as she had a child on the way herself, Tamaki's child, no less. They had gotten married. Mira always said she was crazy for doing it, but Haruhi never took it to heart.
When it seemed that Leanne had finally fallen asleep, Mori carefully placed her back in the crib and sighed in relief when she didn't make any noise. He quietly left the room and shut the door behind him before heading back to his room. He crawled into bed next to Mira, his eyes instantly closing in sleep.
That morning, Mori awoke to find the side of the bed where Mira usually slept was empty. He got up and stuck his head into the hallway, the smell of breakfast instantly filling his nostrils. He smiled and walked down stairs, where he found Mira, who held their little girl, making eggs and pancakes.
"Can you say 'pancake'?" Mira asked her in a baby voice, "Come on, pan-cake."
"Pah!" Leanne cried, reaching out for her father when she saw him. Mira turned around and was surprised when Leanne was taken from her arms and Mori held her up high, making her laugh as he tossed her up once and caught her, bringing her back into his arms and kissing her head. Then he turned to his wife and kissed her cheek.
"Hmm, well, at least she knows who her daddy is." Mira said, "Papa's going to be her first word, I promise you."
"It could be mama." Mori said, "You never know." Mira shrugged.
"I guess." She said, turning her attention to the food. Mori wrapped his arm around her shoulders and watched her as she flipped over a pancake and kept making eggs at the same time. How she learned to do that over the years without burning anything, he'd never know.
"What's with the breakfast?" He asked.
"To say thank you." Mira said, "It wasn't really your turn last night, and this breakfast is going to make it up to you." She kissed his cheek, "If you do me one small favor first." He looked at her questioningly, "Give Lee her breakfast?" Mori smiled and nodded, carrying his daughter over to her high chair and placing her in it before he went to get her baby food that they kept in the fridge. He grabbed a bib and tied it on her before he started feeding her. For some reason, she was one of the messiest eaters he had ever seen, and he's seen Honey in his early cake-loving phase.
He smiled as he remembered how they decided they wanted a child.
"Huh?" Mori said, looking up at Mira from the couch in their apartment.
"I-I want a child…" Mira repeated, gripping at the hem of her shirt, "We've been married for a whole year, and it's been nice and all, but I want a baby." Mori looked at her nervous expression, obviously waiting for his answer. Mori stood up from his seat and walked over to her, kissing her passionately. Mira was caught off-guard by the sudden gesture, but quickly got into it.
When Mori pulled away, he said, "I thought you'd never ask." Mira smiled excitedly.
"You mean it?" She asked, "You want a child?" Mori nodded and Mira squealed, jumping into his arms, "Thank you, Takashi!" She kissed him with twice as much passion as he did to her. "You know what the best part about having a kid is?" Mori shook his head, "Making it." Mori smirked and purred deviously, picking her up and carrying her to their bedroom.
That had been one of the hottest nights he ever had. He shook his head of the thought and focused on feeding Leanne, who happily ate the banana-apple mush that was her food. Mira came over to him, setting down a plate of pancakes and scrambled eggs near him and one for herself next to his. She took the spoonful of baby food from his hands and began to feed Leanne.
"Eat your breakfast while it's still hot." She ordered, shooing him out of the chair. Instead of moving, he grabbed her waist and sat her in his lap. "Hey!"
"Hi." Mori returned, eating the breakfast she made for him. Mira rolled her eyes at him.
"Cheeky." She muttered, feeding her baby girl. They sat like that for a moment in silence, aside from Leanne's baby babble, simply enjoying each other's company.
"Lee-chan!" Tamaki cooed as Mira and Mori brought their daughter over to a picnic he had decided to throw. Leanne babbled happily as he came up to them, "Oh, do you recognize me, little Lee-chan? You're so smart!"
"That's right, Leanne!" Mira encouraged, "That's Tamaki the idiot!" Tamaki pouted, Mira laughed, "I'm only kidding, relax."
"Hum!" Leanne said, pointing to Honey, "Hum! Hum!"
"Yes, that's right, Lee-chan!" Honey said, letting Leanne take hold of his finger, "I'm your uncle Honey!"
"She really likes you." Mira said, leaning down to give Honey (Who had grown slightly taller over the years) a chance to hug her.
"Look, Lee-chan!" Honey said, pulling out a small, plush bunny, "I got you an Usa-chan!"
"Ah! Ah!" Lee reached for the pink bunny and Honey handed it to her, and she hugged it tight. "Buh!"
"That's right, Leanne!" Mira said, "It's a bunny. Can you say 'bunny'?"
"Uh buh." Leanne said. Mira sighed.
"I guess it's still too early to ask for words." She said.
"At least she knows how it starts." Haruhi said, waddling over as best she could with her seven-month pregnant belly. "Bunny starts with a 'buh'. She's very smart."
"Ah!" Leanne said, reaching for Haruhi.
"That's right, Leanne." Haruhi said, letting her grab her finger, "I'm Haruhi. Remember? Ha-ru-hi."
"So, how's you kid coming along?" Mira asked, looking at Haruhi's swollen stomach, "You ask about the gender yet?"
"Yes, it's going to be a boy." Haruhi said, rubbing her belly.
"Have you decided on names yet?" Mira asked, looking up at Tamaki.
"Well, we're still working on that." Tamaki said, "We're still not sure if we want him to be named Akira, or Hideki."
"I'd go with Akira." Mira said, "I like that one better."
"That's what I keep telling him." Haruhi said.
"Ah!" Leanne said, getting their attention, pointing to something, "Ah!"
"What is it?" Mira asked, turning around.
"Leanne-chan!" Hikaru and Kaoru said, running over.
"Hello, Lee-chan!" Kaoru said, letting her grab his finger, "Do you remember us? I'm Kaoru."
"And I'm Hikaru." Hikaru said, smiling at her.
"Ah!" Leanne said, smiling at them.
"She's so cute!" The twins cooed. Mira smiled at them.
"All by yourselves today?" She asked, last time they had come to visit, Kaoru had brought his fiancée, a pretty girl named Mayumi.
"Yeah, Mayumi wasn't up to going out today." Kaoru said, "She's gotten really sick, recently."
"How sick?" Mira asked.
"She's throwing up all the time." Kaoru said worriedly.
"Does she feel fine later?" Mira asked.
"Yeah, but I'm still worried." Kaoru said, "We're taking her to a doctor tomorrow."
"Well, that'll be interesting." Mira said with a sly smile, Kaoru looked at her confusedly.
"What does that mean?" He asked, Mira shrugged.
"Who knows?" She said.
"By the way," Mira said, turning to Hikaru, "How have you been treating my sister?" For the past six months, after Isabella had scored a modeling job in New York (By complete accident; a man saw her and told her she'd make an amazing model) she had come to work as the twins' model for their designs. And after working for them, Hikaru had asked her out to dinner, and they'd been dating ever since.
"Your sister's fine." Hikaru said, shooting her a look at her protectiveness of Isabella, "Contrary to your belief, she actually likes dating me."
"I don't see why." Mira said, "But, then again, I'm guessing you're a different man when you're not hitting on your brother." Hikaru stuck his tongue out immaturely at her, and she did the same.
"Okay, enough chit chat!" Tamaki said, "Let's get to what we came here for. The picnic!" Everyone walked over to the picnic table that Haruhi was sitting at, with different kinds of foods sitting on the table. Tamaki handed a bowl of mush over to Mira and Mori, "Haruhi even went as far as making baby food for little Lee-chan. It's apple and plum."
"Thanks." Mira said, holding onto her baby in her lap, "Where's Kyoya?"
"Oh, he said he was busy today." Tamaki said, "Something about merging with someone?"
"Oh…" Mira said, "Funny, Kenneth talked about the same thing." Over the years, Kyoya had worked very hard to get his master's degree in college and had actually gotten to take his father's place and became his successor. Kenneth, after their father's retirement, was given their father's company, and now ran it so that business was better than ever. Mira shrugged, "Must be a coincidence."
Mori watched as Mira held their child's hands as she walked around in the grass in the park. Tamaki was rubbing Haruhi's feet for her, babbling about how their baby would be perfect. Hikaru and Kaoru had left early because someone had called about getting ahold of some new material they needed to go look at. Mira swung her daughter up into her arms, making her squeal in laughter. Mira held her close and kissed her cheek. Mori smiled. It was times like these that he was thankful for Mira and for their little girl. When the baby was happy, Mira was happy, and when Mira was happy, he was happy. He loved their daughter with all of his heart, and when Mira would give him certain looks, his heart would still pound like it did when they were in high school. He couldn't have pictured a better life for himself, except for, maybe, having two children.
Mori smiled and walked over to her, kissing her gently on the lips. Mira looked up at him. "What was that for?" She asked him.
"No reason." Mori said, Mira smiled and kissed him back. Their daughter started babbling again, and they both kissed her cheeks.
Yep, he couldn't have asked for a better life.
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