Chapter 36

"Reina! Knock it off!" Aya snapped when he saw her push Kana over. She could hurt whoever she wanted, but she had better not ever think that she would get away with hurting her sister.

"You have two seconds to apologise and make it up to her!" Aya warned. Reina pouted at him, but then helped Kana up and hugged her.

"Aya, aren't you being a bit rough?" Yohji asked, wrapping his arms around him from behind. It was strange. He'd seen Aya tell her to behave, but he'd never seen Aya act so stern with her. He thought Aya was always letting her get away with murder. But now he was getting why she respected him. Because she knew he wouldn't put up with any crap from her.

And as much as he and Reina both knew that he would never raise a hand to her, they both knew when Aya was upset.

"No cry, Kana!" Reina kissed her on the cheek. It had to be the cutest thing he'd ever seen…well, aside from Kana punching herself in the face. That one took the cake!

He watched Reina clumsily wipe Kana's tears with her dirty fingers, leaving streaks on her face.

"Mommy, I make Kana dirty!" Reina pouted, looking down at her dirty little fingers sadly.

"Come here, you two," Yohji laughed, he always kept packaged moist towelettes in his pocket because of those two.

Reina and Kana ran over to him, giggling. He wiped Kana's face first, while Reina shouted "All better!" Then moved onto Reina's grubby little hands from playing in the dirt.

"What the hell are you doing here!" Aya demanded. Yohji looked up to see Schwarz bringing a car seat holding a baby. They looked so out of place it was ridiculous.

"We're taking the baby to the park," Crawford said, pushing his glasses up on his nose.

"Bullshit. Your baby isn't even old enough to enjoy the park!" Yohji laughed.

"Bullshit!" Kana shouted, pointing at them.

Aya and Yohji quickly picked up the girls. If it came to a fight they would lose. It was four against two and there was no way they could protect the girls.

"How in the hell did you pop one out so quick? You weren't big enough yesterday," Yohji tried to get a good look at Schuldig's stomach.

Rolling his eyes, Schuldig passed the baby over to Nagi and lifted his shirt.

"I wasn't doubting it, so I didn't need to see your chest, you freak," Yohji growled.

"GaybarClown!" Reina shouted, pointing at him.

"I'm really glad we found you here. We checked your home and only the boys were there," Crawford said, like he hadn't any idea that they were out here.

"What did you do!" Aya demanded through clenched teeth.

"What makes you think we would do anything?" Schuldig asked with a wicked little grin.

"Tell them! Tell them!" Farfarello said with a psychotic grin. Yohji wasn't sure he wanted to know.

"We knew that you wouldn't know what was in the cure for your girls, so we gave you incentive to help us find one. And you will find one." Crawford said very matter of factly.

"Might want to run home and call a doctor," Schuldig said as he started to play with his baby's hand.

The hand was way too big to be a newborn. The little fist was almost as big as Kana's had been when she'd grown to being two.

"Can we see baby?" Kana asked, craning her neck to try to see.

"No. Those are bad people. We don't talk to bad people," Yohji said, turning and running to where he parked the car. He and Aya strapped the girls into their car seats and dashed into the front seats.

Yohji floored it out of there while Aya got on his cell phone and called Kritiker for a doctor. Then he called the house.

"Ken, are you two okay?" Aya held the phone away from his ear because Ken was shouting. Yohji could hear him clearly.

"No we are not fucking okay! Goddamned Schwarz was here! Injected Omi with god knows what, and now Omi's stomach is swelling all to hell!" Ken shouted.

"I've called a Kritiker and they're sending a doctor right away. Are you two otherwise injured?"

"Not really. I mean they didn't even beat the shit out of us, Schuldig fucked with Omi's head to get him to stay still, and Nagi froze me! What the hell were they trying to do?" Ken demanded.

"They were trying to make Omi's baby grow even faster than Reina and Kana. That way we would be desperate to find a cure. Has Omi split anywhere?" Aya asked.

Yohji winced at that image. He could only imagine the pain the poor kid must be in.

"We're almost home. Try to keep his mind occupied on something else. Sing to him if you have to, but there isn't anything that can be done until the doctor gets there."

"He's screaming at me to cut it out of him. But I can't do that…can I? Is there anything I can give him for the pain?"

"You are not going to get it out of him yourself!" Yohji shouted loud enough that he was sure Ken heard him.

"Knock him out and move fast," Aya said.

Yohji smacked him in the back of the head.

"Do NOT listen to him, Ken! Aya's being an asshole!" Yohji shouted.

"If it were me I would want him to cut the child out. There's the psychic link, Yohji. The baby knows something's wrong and its struggling to be born. Would you rather it make its own hole?" Aya hissed.

"Its not going to make its own hole, Aya!" Yohji growled. The boys didn't need Aya scaring the shit out of them at a time like this.

Just as Yohji was pulling up in the driveway he saw a woman getting out of a car with Manx.

"Ken, the doctor is here, so don't do anything stupid!" Yohji shouted right before Aya flicked the phone closed.

"I can't believe you told him to knock Omi out and cut the kid out himself! You really are a…"

"Mommy, why everyone so mad?" Reina asked as Aya moved into Yohji's seat.

"Aya, what are you…"

"Do we really want the girls to go in there right now? Do you want them to see Omi getting cut open?"

"Good point, but no disappearing acts, okay," Yohji leaned in and kissed him before running into the house.

Yohji was glad Manx had come with the doctor. He wasn't sure he would've trusted a stranger with Omi if he wasn't one hundred percent sure she was legit.

Omi lay on the ground on his side screaming his head off as he clutched his oversized stomach.

The doctor filled a large needle while asking him to get some clean towels and hot water. Though why the hot water he had no idea, as she had brought sterilized tools with her.

Author's notes: Thanks JollyBigSis and Blackorcid for your reviews. :)