A/N: It's finally done! It's a little longer than I intended, but I wasn't going to cut it off in the middle of a lemon. ;) I hope you guys enjoy it!

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In retrospect, the amount of time it took for me to figure out why I was jealous of Miranda was quite embarrassing. It seems so obvious now that my jealousy was because I wanted to have another baby, but at the time, it wasn't quite so clear. Instead of figuring it out right away, it took me nearly eight weeks of seeing Miranda every day for me to realize that I wanted to get pregnant again.

And once I'd figured that out, I spent the next several weeks trying to convince myself that I was being ridiculous. Pregnancy had been a miserable experience and I shouldn't want to put my body through that again. I was finally a general and I had a duty to the war and my apprentice; taking myself out of action by getting pregnant was not a responsible thing to do. Yet every single time I chatted with Miranda or helped her with her pregnancy symptoms, I couldn't help wishing that my own womb had a baby growing inside it. And Erika only made my conflicted feelings worse. My little kitten was so adorable and perfect that all seeing her did was further cement the idea of having another child in my head. Even when she was being a stubborn little terror.

Not that it mattered anyway. Yuu wasn't going to want to get me pregnant again, so the whole thing was moot. He was a great father, but Erika was clearly all he wanted, and I was going to respect that. Kanda didn't need to know that I wanted more. He had sacrificed so much for me, giving up his freedom and taking responsibility for my accidental pregnancy, and I wasn't going to be selfish and ask for more.

Little did I know, but I was dead wrong about what my husband wanted. And it would turn out that he thought I was the one who didn't want more children. Fortunately for both of us, he could tell when I was hiding things from him. It normally irked me that he could see through my lies so easily, but in this case, I could make an exception. I just wish it wouldn't have taken him so long to figure out what it was that I was hiding from him.

Or maybe he was just waiting for the right time to broach the subject. Six years together wasn't exactly a milestone, but it was still our anniversary, and while Kanda may not have had much of a romantic streak, he loved celebrating our anniversary. He probably wanted to get me pregnant that night.

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After putting Eri to bed, I went about my own bedtime routine before climbing in bed beside my husband. Having a child had not slowed down our sex life, and we often engaged in those activities before going to sleep, but we didn't want to risk Erika walking in on us, so we usually spent our first hour in bed reading to make sure that she was really asleep before we did anything. Of course, we had other motives for that too. Neither of us were really academically inclined, but Erika was - she had already tested off the charts. And while we didn't want to actively push her in that direction, we also didn't want her to grow up ashamed of how smart she was, so we decided that we'd lead by example. If she saw us reading for fun, she might be more likely to spend her own free time reading.

That night however, Kanda pulled me into his lap before I could grab my book. We just sat there in silence, enjoying the quiet moment together while I waited as patiently as I could for him to tell me what was on his mind. I was expecting something sappy about it being our anniversary, but what he finally asked caught me off guard. "Do you think Eri's ready for a brother or sister?"

I laughed at that, recalling the way Erika had peppered Miranda with questions about her baby at breakfast that morning. I had thought that the two children would be cousins, but if Yuu wanted his brother's kid to be Eri's sibling, I certainly wasn't going to object to that. "Erika is definitely ready for Miranda's baby to get here. She's already excited to have another kid to play with."

Yuu scoffed and nudged my ear with his nose. "That's not what I meant, Moyashi."

I waited for him to finish correcting me, but when his hands drifted under my shirt, I found that I no longer needed him to verbally explain what he was thinking. His hands had come to rest on my belly and his long fingers were absently tracing the stretch marks from my pregnancy. And that action in this context could only mean that he had been asking about having another baby. But even though I now understood what he was after, I was still confused. As far as I knew, he didn't want more children. "Wha-what are you saying?"

"I want to get you pregnant again." The statement was said matter-of-factly, like he was telling me what he wanted for dinner rather than making a decision that would alter our lives forever.

As much as I wanted to hear that, I couldn't resist rolling my eyes at him. "I got that part, Bakanda. Why?"

I was looking for a real answer, but Kanda merely smirked at me; I may not have been able to see it, but I could definitely feel it in his body language. He was teasing me. "Because you were gorgeous with a pregnant belly."

"Pervert."

Yuu just laughed when I elbowed him in the stomach. But then he leaned in closer and kissed that one specific spot on my jawline. It had been six years since I became a neko, so it didn't quite piss me off like it used to, but it still irritated me to have him tease the spots where my human ears used to be. On the other hand, I knew that Kanda loved those spots even more than I hated them, and in times like this, he used them to show me that he wasn't teasing me. "In all seriousness though, I can see how jealous you are of Miranda. You hide it well, but I can see that you want to have another child. So let's do it."

I stiffened at the comment, freezing at the realization that he knew what I'd been trying to hide from him. But I didn't want to focus on that right now, so I tried to blow off the suggestion. "You say that like deciding to do it is all that it takes. We still have no clue how it happened in the first place."

"Then we'll just have to keep trying until it happens." I tried to protest, but before I uttered a single syllable, Yuu's lips were on mine and his tongue was trying to gain entrance into my mouth. By the time he let go, I was gasping for breath from the depth of the kiss. He placed his forehead against mine, and I found myself staring into his beautiful cobalt eyes. "Let me knock you up, Moyashi."

I very nearly let him have me right then and there. In that moment, I wanted nothing more than to become pregnant with his baby once more. But I somehow managed to push the lust aside and think logically. Choosing to have another child was a big decision that would change our lives forever if it worked. We couldn't just do it the first time we talked about it. "But what about the war? Our jobs? I have an apprentice to train. I can't just abandon-"

Kanda outright laughed at that. "No, you have our daughter to train. And she's still too young to use her Innocence, so you'll have no problem training her while you're pregnant. You won't be abandoning her. Besides, you've seen how she is around Miranda. If we get you pregnant, Eri's never going to leave your side."

That was a good point, but there was a bigger issue that needed to be dealt with. "You've got an argument for every excuse I might possibly come up with, don't you?"

Yuu scoffed and started scratching my ear. "Of course I do. I've been waiting for five years for you to change your mind about having another child. And now that it's happened, I'm not going to let you talk yourself out of it."

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Before Allen could say another word, I captured his mouth in a fierce kiss. I pulled the Moyashi closer, holding him firmly in place so that the neko couldn't escape. Allen stubbornly resisted the kiss at first, but I overpowered him, plundering his mouth and making him squirm with pleasure. Talking clearly wasn't working, so I needed another way to convince him that this was what we both wanted.

By the time I released him, he was gasping for breath and his eyes were glazed over, but the fight hadn't gone out of him yet. Allen glared at me as he tried to regain control of his breathing. "That's not fair, Bakanda! How am I supposed to argue against that?!"

I couldn't help frowning. I usually found the Moyashi adorable when he pouted like that, but right now, it was just annoying. I wanted this conversation to be over so that we could move on to better things. "You're not. That's the point. Stop trying to deny yourself happiness."

I leaned in to initiate another kiss, hoping to further convince him that I really did know what he wanted, but Allen saw it coming and placed a hand over my mouth to stop me. "But-!"

Resisting the urge to roll my eyes, I pulled Allen's hand away then went back to stroking the neko's ear. My impatience with the brat made me want to be a bit rougher with him, but I knew that I needed to be gentle if I wanted to get my way. "Look, I wouldn't have brought this up if I thought that it was a bad idea in any way. We're ready for another baby, and now really is a good time to get you pregnant. So we can sit here and discuss it or we can just go ahead and start trying."

"...You're serious..." The way Allen's eyes widened was precious, but it just made me want to roll my eyes at him. He forgot that I loved him at the weirdest times, and it made conversations like this so much harder than they had to be.

I wanted to flick his ear, but I knew that the gesture would be counterproductive now that he finally understood what I'd been saying, so I just continued to stroke the soft fur under my fingers. "I am. This isn't something I decided on a whim. I-"

He smiled brightly as he pulled my hand from his ear. "Ok. Get me pregnant."

I didn't hesitate to pounce on him. I knew I should probably question the Moyashi's sincerity, but I finally had permission to go after what I wanted - and had wanted for years - and I wasn't going to press my luck. Besides, once I captured Allen's lips, the Moyashi immediately started fighting for dominance, which proved that he meant what he had said; if he were only doing this because it was what I wanted, Allen would have turned submissive rather than trying to gain control.

But then again, maybe he wouldn't have. After all, Allen was usually the dominant one when we had sex, and it was entirely possible that he was just acting that way out of habit. While I moved my focus to his neck, attempting to leave a hickey and remind everyone who he belonged to, his fingers immediately set about finding some of my more sensitive spots. Allen knew where they all were and exactly how to touch them to make me do whatever it was he wanted. Normally, I didn't care; even after six years together, I was still so amazed that he wanted to be with me that I was willing to let him do practically anything to my body, but tonight I needed to be in control. So when he pressed his fingers against my body in a way that made my breath hitch, I decided that it was time to say something. "Moyashi. We're trying to get you pregnant. You have to be on the bottom for that to work."

The embarrassment that washed over his face was adorable. He immediately let go of me and rolled over onto his back. In that instant, it became clear that Allen was acting dominant out of habit, but it wasn't because he was being insincere, he had just missed the obvious. "Oh. Right. Oops."

It was also clear that he was waiting for me to make the next move, so I leaned over and kissed his nose, flicking his ear as gently as I could. "You don't have to be completely submissive, you know. You just have to stop trying to take control. Got it?"

He nodded but didn't move, so I flicked his ear again. I should not have to be telling him these things after five years of marriage. "Just take off your clothes, Moyashi."

Allen immediately obliged. He hopped off the bed, stripped, and was back before I got my own shirt off. I raised an eyebrow at him as I slipped off the rest of my clothes. "That was fast, Moyashi."

He just shrugged. "Yeah, well, I want to have another baby, and you're willing to give it to me, so why waste any more time, right?"

I wanted to point out that he was the one who had been delaying things earlier but decided that it was better to just move on.

I captured his lips and grabbed his ass in order to pull him closer to me. His hands, rather predictably, tangled into my hair as he deepened the kiss, and I let my hands trail up to his tail. That spot at the base wasn't nearly as sensitive as it was when Allen first became a neko, but it was still sensitive enough for me to turn him into a puddle of goo with very little effort. It was only a matter of seconds before he was crying out that he was close.

The Moyashi had been embracing his inner cat more over the past few years, and the meowing moans he made during sex no longer embarrassed him, and that just made me love the noises more. I had always liked getting him so riled up that he gave into his animal nature, but it was even more beautiful now that he was no longer resisting it. And the sound he made that night, as he came just from having his tail teased, was especially delicious.

I continued to tease his tail all through his orgasm, and when he started to return to his senses, I flipped him over and positioned myself between his spread knees. The lube was easy to grab from the nightstand - though explaining what it was to our four-year-old had been a very awkward conversation - and I quickly squirted some onto my hand and set about preparing the Moyashi. His hole didn't want to cooperate, and I had to work to stretch him enough to get a finger in. "God, Moyashi. You're so tight."

Allen snorted, clearly unamused by the comment, and I could feel him trying not to squirm in discomfort. I was surprised that he was coherent enough to respond. "You haven't fucked me in three years, Bakanda. Of course my hole has tightened up."

I knew it had been a while since I had last been on top, but that didn't seem right at all. "Really? Three years? How is that possible?"

The Moyashi just snorted again. "You'd rather be on the bottom than wear a condom."

"Right." I let the conversation drop and focused on stretching him. If it really had been three years since we last did this, I needed to make sure that he was thoroughly prepared for what came next.

Allen meowed every time I brushed against his sensitive spot, and I knew he was ready when he stopped fighting against my fingers. I teased him for a bit longer, succeeding at making him whine when I finally pulled my fingers out. I rolled him back over so that I could see his flushed face, distracting him with a kiss as I pushed my length inside him. He tensed up, but it didn't take long for him to relax, which was good because I was having a hard time restraining myself. His tight, hot passage felt so good around my shaft that it was difficult to remember that I needed to wait for him to be ready.

It may have been three years, but I still knew exactly how to move to make him scream with pleasure. And when it was over, we collapsed beside each other, riding out our orgasms in unison. At times like this, we were so in sync that it was hard to believe that we had ever hated each other. Yet somehow, that scrawny, naïve idiot I had nearly decapitated was actually my soulmate. He'd given me a beautiful daughter, and he was hopefully pregnant with my child once more.

Allen snuggled closer, obviously wanting to fall asleep in my arms, as that was something we both loved to do after sex. I stroked his ear absently as he started to doze off. "Do you think it worked?"

He snorted, but it sounded more like a sigh with how exhausted he was. "It's gonna be something like three weeks before we can tell."

"That's not what I asked, Moyashi." But he was already asleep and didn't hear me. I followed after him, hoping that he wouldn't change his mind in the morning and that this wasn't my only chance to try to get him pregnant.