Hey, everyone, how do you love my "great" grammar skills? Am I not wonderful and truly talented in the English grammar department?

::Everyone nods::

Well, I don't deserve any of it!

::Everyone facefaults::

I have my own personal editor and he's a heck of a lot better at locating mistakes than I am. My good online buddy, David! ^_^ He deserves all of the credit. The parts that have all of the grammar errors are the ones that he didn't see before I uploaded, like this part. ^^

Well, for this part we have an old character return that hasn't been mentioned in a good while now. I almost forgot about her too until I read over the reviews. Normally, when I read over your reviews it helps to give me ideas and to help get rid of writer blocks. ^_^

Well, let me quit dragging this on. Enjoy everyone and we all must remember, "I DO NOT OWN DIGIMON."
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Part 29-1: Big Brother Skepticism...

It was nearly four months later since we last saw Koushirou starting off his summer break and the now 15-year-old Koushirou was waiting anxiously for news about his mother who had gone into labor. Along with him was his 14-year-old friend, Miyako.

"Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, oh my gosh," the boy kept muttering as he paced back and forth.

"Calm down, Izumi-senpai. Your mother will be fine."

"I can't take the pressure!" the boy shouted.

"Obviously," she muttered.

Koushirou grew tired of pacing and took a seat beside Miyako.

"Gomen," he apologized with a sigh. "I'm just not used of this." He then looked over at his younger friend and asked, "What if she gets hurt or something?"

"She'll be fine," Miyako assured him. "All of those painkillers should do the trick."

"But that's not too wise a thing to do," the two heard a voice say.

"Jou-san/Jou-senpai!"

"What are you doing here and what do you know about not using painkillers during childbirth," Miyako asked as she crossed her arms. "A boy would say something like that."

The now 17-year-old boy shook his head at the girl and defended himself, well tried to anyway...

"I'm just going by what I have heard about medications and chlidbirth." He then sighed a bit and muttered, "Unfortunately, my Biology class is studying female anatomy. Eijiro left to goof off for the rest of the day, probably. I was just on my way out until I saw you two sitting here."

"You have to witness the birth of a baby?" Miyako asked in surprise.

The boy waved his hands around and shook his head.

"No way! That was the idea, but our instructor decided not to put us through the agony of witnessing it! Instead, he let us look at the newborn babies through that window."

The girl gave Jou a look.

"How is that agonizing!?!"

"It's not!" the boy said in defense. "I just don't think I could handle seeing something like that, that's all, and our instructor must think so as well since he cancelled it!"

"You're the one trying to become a doctor!"

"Not that kind!"

The glasses-wearing girl shook her head at Jou and tittered a bit.

"All of you guys are the same."

The glasses-wearing boy gave Miyako a look.

"And what is that supposed to mean?!?"

"You guys can help to make them, but you can't witness their birthing and what the mother goes through!"

"Hey, you are just a child! You shouldn't know about such things!"

"I am 14 years old and I can assure you that I am no child!"

The girl then gave Jou a sly look. She loved toying with him since it was so easy to do; especially if it dealt with anything personal or sex oriented.

"I could have children myself if I chose to. I am old enough, you know." The girl then looked over at Koushirou and smiled slyly. "Izumi-senpai would know that better than anyone."

Jou looked at Miyako and then looked over at Koushirou and then shook his head. He didn't want to even think of such a thing. The idea of his younger buddies in an intimate fashion or situation highly disturbed him. Koushirou was too wrapped up in what was going on dealing with his mother to even listen to what she or Jou were saying.

Miyako laughed at Jou's expression. She was thinking of the time when Koushirou went to the orphanage and the lady there thought that Koushirou had fathered a child. Mimi had told her and Sora all about it. Both found the situation amusing and wished that they could have seen the look Koushirou had when Mrs. Mitsuishi assumed that, especially since Mimi told them that his look was priceless.

"Calm down, senpai. I was only kidding around."

"I should hope so!" Jou said in an adult-like manner. "Children shouldn't be joking about such things."

"Must we go through this again?" Miyako asked with a sigh. "I am not a child! I am a young, highly-motivated independent woman of the 21st century who could start my own family if I chose to, and furthermore---"

"Gomen, gomen!" Jou said as he waved his hands around in an apologetic fashion. "My fault, you are a 'young woman.'"

"Bingo!" she said while winking at him and giving him the Victory sign. "Now remember that."

Koushirou, who had been quiet the entire time, turned towards both Miyako and Jou.

"Will you two quiet down please! My mother is in there, you know!"

"Your mother?" Jou asked.

"Izumi-san went into labor while Izumi-senpai and me were working on a new program to present to the Computer Club this Monday. We were in his room when we heard some dishes break. We went to see what the problem was and we saw Izumi-san holding her stomach. The strange thing is that she was having contractions the entire time; yet, she didn't even know it, until she said her water broke. She felt that it was too soon to be having them and didn't think anything of it, until the contractions got closer and closer together and the pains became too much for her to bear and of course her water breaking and all. That's when we heard the dishes she dropped, break."

"I hope she does okay."

"For his sake, I hope so too," Miyako laughed.

She pointed towards Koushirou who was still pacing around like a madman.

"You sure are calm about this," Jou noted.

"Maybe because this is normal. You guys are more worried than Izumi-san is and she's the one having the baby!"

"I hope no complications occur," Koushirou muttered.

"Stop worrying, Izumi-senpai. Everything will be fine."

The boy started to pace back and forth once again. He was worried and nothing was going to change that.

"What if the same fate that occurred with her first child, who would be about two years older than myself, was to happen again?" Koushirou thought in worry. "What if he or she was to get sick during the actual birthing procedure instead of shortly after like before?"

Right now, he wanted some better reassurring. He also wished that Mimi could have been around, but he knew that she was currently out with Yamato. He appreciated Miyako's company--even though he couldn't tell that ever since Mimi and Yamato got together that she flirted with him nonstop--but he still liked hanging around with Mimi as well. She had an afterschool date with Yamato and he didn't want to bother her any. He respected her in that sense. He still felt that her hanging around with Yamato as his "official girlfriend" was a bad idea and forced on her part.

He could tell that Mimi didn't like Yamato the way he did her and they had been together for a few months now. He could tell that Mimi was only dating Yamato, probably, to keep other guys from bothering her and to humor Yamato since he did show such an interest in her and didn't act "fan-crazed" about it. He figured that she didn't want him to feel bad since he went out of his way to get with her to begin with; something he, himself, didn't.

He still cursed himself for not telling Mimi about how he felt about her to this day, somewhat. He wanted to tell her these things, but he could never bring himself to put himself in such a situation. It just wasn't like him to act all lubby dubby or hung up over a person.

One thing he still didn't understand was why she never gave him a chance. The two shared a passionate kiss, afterall. Seemed that something would have come from that, but unfortunately, it didn't. Koushirou understood romance a bit better now and he could tell that Mimi liked him the same way that he liked her just from the few things she would do around him. He might not be an expert in the "romance" field, but he was still quite analytical and observational.

For one, she still hanged out with him as much as she possibly could, when Yamato wasn't involved, and the way Yamato acted around her, was the exact same way that she would act around Koushirou.

As a matter of fact, when she invited him to go to the beach a few months back, he was the only she had invited. He thought it was for the whole gang and brought along Tentomon. He was surprised to see that it was just the three of them. He had fun that day too since he did love spending time with Mimi, regardless of the situation. Mimi also made it clear that she still wanted him to be her date for their Senior dance. That still made Koushirou more confused and he still didn't understand why she just didn't ditch Yamato and date him. She hanged around him like she was interested in him whenever Yamato wasn't around.

He didn't want to think of her thinking that she was "too good" for a person like him or him being "too nerdy and unpopular" for her, or anything like that because it didn't suit her. He knew that Mimi wasn't shallow and that she had to have had a reason for not taking their already great friendship to the next level--other than his being too shy to initiate it.

The reason for Mimi's indirectly and unwillingly rejecting Koushirou was quite simple. She valued her friendship more than her own happiness in the romance department, which showed how unselfish she truly was and how she really fit having the Crest Trait of Purity. Mimi liked Koushirou a lot, more than she ever admitted to herself, but going with Koushirou might affect her friendship with someone else that was very important to her...Miyako.

Miyako was her reason for not dating Koushirou or letting their friendship go a step further. Mimi knew that Miyako had a big crush on him and that she had had it longer. Mimi also saw Miyako as a sister to her. Mimi didn't want ruin that sisterly bond over a guy, even if she was crazy about guy. She knew how sensitive Miyako was when it came to guys and how she felt that they ignored her, so Mimi felt that she would end up hurting Miyako if she went with the one boy that Miyako had been after for the past couple of years.

To this day, she hated the fact that nothing could ever happen between her and Koushirou, but she just sighed and said that it was for the best. After that kiss, she wasn't sure if Koushirou felt the same way back or not. He seemed to act normally as usual when they saw each other again in school that following week and times after that.

She wasn't happy with Yamato at all since her plan to date him to get over Koushirou obviously wasn't working since she did still have a thing for him. She liked Yamato as a friend, but that was about it. She saw him as cute, as others did, but she still couldn't see anything beyond friendship when it came to him in general and no matter how many hints Mimi threw at him, Yamato just didn't catch them. This, of course, made Mimi feel a bit bad, but she didn't have the heart to drop him. He was so infatuated with her, he couldn't tell that she wasn't happy in the relationship that they had.

The two had even shared kisses, but, to her, it had no meaning. Not like the one she and Koushirou had shared. She still thought about it to this day and whenever she did kiss Yamato, she imagines that she is kissing Koushirou.

Koushirou thought of that day a lot too and how he had gotten his first real kiss and how he felt that he and Mimi "broke up," even though they were never officially together. He also still had a thing for Mimi, which was pretty obvious. He still wonders and ponders every day why Mimi wasn't honest with him in that sense, but he always kept coming to a dead end...

Koushirou stopped pacing abruptly and stopped thinking about Mimi as he saw a doctor walking towards him. It was the same one who had taken his mother to prepare for the delivery. He, of course, started to grill the poor guy.

"How is my mother! Is she okay? Has the baby been born yet? Did she have a boy or a girl? Can she talk to me?" He grabbed the shirt of the doctor and said in a demented like manner, "Tell me!!! I can't take the waiting anymore!" He then started to shake the poor doctor. "Tell the baby to hurry up if it isn't here yet! Hurry up! Don't just stand there! Tell me what is going on! Do your damn job!"

"Whoa, calm down Mr. Izumi," the doctor said between shakes. His eyes then started to swirl. "You're giving me a headache."

Jou and Miyako grabbed Koushirou so that he could release his unusually tight grip on the doctor.
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RP: Hmm, strange how it took the both of them to do that. Koushirou is quite strong when he is hysterical or freaking out, I suppose.

Tentomon: I don't think that's it.

RP: What is it, then?

Tentomon: See, crazy people are stronger than that of your average human.

RP: (Nodding in agreement) Oh...that explains it...

Tentomon: And thanks to your fics involving him, Koushirou-han has gone beyond that!

RP: (Bows) Happy to be of service! ^_^

Tentomon/Koushirou: (Sighed) -_-
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"I'm sorry about that, doctor," Miyako apologized. She then laughed nervously. "This is his first child."

The doctor laughed.

"I can see that. He is getting a new brother or sister afterall."

"I wonder how he would react if he was married and his wife was about to give birth," Jou whispered to Miyako.

"I don't think I would want to know," the younger girl laughed. She then smirked at Jou. "I would just tell the doctors to keep him out of the room while I am giving birth…"

Jou laughed.

"Yeah, she probably would." The boy the realized what the younger girl had said. "What!!!"

"I'm just kidding around, senpai."

The older boy wasn't sure if the younger one was joking around or not. Koushirou and Miyako had been getting a bit close, but as far as he knew, the two didn't date. They weren't even an actual couple, just close friends, like Koushirou was with Mimi.

"Well, I just came to let you know that your mother is doing fine, but she still hasn't given birth yet."

"Just let me know of this one thing…"

"What's that?"

The boy got a serious expression on his face and looked up at the doctor.

"Will she die? Will the baby die?"

"Koushirou, calm down! The doctor knows what he is doing! Why are you assuming something like that?!?"

The younger boy looked over at Jou and muttered, "I have my reasons." He then looked back at the doctor and asked, "Well?"

"We aren't having any complications, if that's what you mean, and I don't plan on them occurring. Your mother is in good shape; her blood pressure is normal, her pulse rate is average, and everything else with her is okay, including her heart rate. She is a very healthy woman. The only thing she needs now is her husband right by her side."

"I called him three times on my cell phone and I still haven't been able to reach him! He must be in some kind of a meeting, which is why I can't reach him! What do I do?!? He should be here!"

"I'm sure that he will be here when he can. Lucky for you, your mother's friend is here with her."

Ever since Ms. Hanada and Mrs. Izumi met one another months ago, the two became instant friends--the best of friends as a matter of fact. Mrs. Izumi liked the fact that she finally had someone else to talk and associate with that wasn't all gossipy or a bit shallow, like her friends of the apartment building she lived in.

When Mrs. Izumi got those bad contraction pains, Koushirou called her immediately out of panic. He didn't know what to do, and even though Miyako was giving him the right advice, he was still too panicked to even consider her suggestions. Miyako didn't take this the wrong way nor did she get offended, even though everything she had told Koushirou was the same exact thing Ms. Hanada had told him.

He got her on her cell phone. She was at school doing some last minute planning for her upcoming Monday class. When she found out, she dropped everything and told Koushirou to get her to the hospital as fast as he could and that she would meet them there. She also gave him some more suggestions to help her out.

Koushirou was glad that Ms. Hanada had gotten there so soon and was grateful that Odaiba Elementary was so close to the hospital for her to get there as fast as she did. She got there before Mrs. Izumi, Miyako, and Koushirou arrived.

"I have to get going now and keep an eye on your mother. I'll let you know what is going on later and when your father does arrive, tell the receptionist at the desk so that she can contact the nurse to let him come back and see your mother."

The boy nodded as the doctor left the three teens.

"See, nothing to worry about," Miyako smiled. "Your mother is completely healthy. Her contractions are getting closer and closer together which means the labor time is winding down and that the baby should be born pretty soon."

"You sure do know a lot."

"I should hope so," Miyako said, giving Jou a playful smirk. "I am a girl afterall and that's what we learn about in Sex Education. What do you all learn about?"

"Never mind that! You're not supposed to know about it!"

The girl smirked at Jou and told all that she knew. Koushirou, once again, ignored the two while they conversed. Miyako got so detailed with her descriptions, it made Jou turn red in the face from nervousness. Koushirou probably would have reacted in the same fashion too, if he would have been listening.

"You know more than I do!" the boy responded hyperly and nervously. "You-You're not supposed to-to know about all of that!" he stammered.

She just laughed and turned her attention back towards Koushirou. She decided to stop teasing Jou for a while.

"C'mon, she will probably have the baby soon."

"But why is it taking so long?" Koushirou asked. "We have been here for over an hour! Why can't the baby just come out!"

"Because it doesn't work that way! Besides, normally with one's first born it takes the longest to deliver anyway. So I've been told..."

Koushirou gave her a slightly annoyed look and Miyako then remembered that this wasn't Mrs. Izumi's first born; this was her second. She too knew about the first child she had had and how he had died a short while after his birth and if he had survived, how he would have been almost Jou's age now.

"Sorry," she apologized.

"That's okay," Miyako-kun," Koushirou sighed. "I tend to forget that myself sometimes."

"Forget what?" Jou asked.

"About how Mrs. Izumi has had a child before."

"Oh."

Everyone pretty much knew that Koushirou was adopted and that Mrs. Izumi had had a child before him. He told both Miyako and Mimi about it who told every one of their friends out of the Chosens. Mimi now understood why Mr. and Mrs. Izumi fostered so many children, to make up for the one that they had lost.

"God, I wish she would hurry up and have the child and I wish my father would hurry up and get here! I left him a ton of messages! He had to have received at least one of them!"

"You should try calling him again," Jou suggested.

The boy shrugged and decided to do just that. He didn't have anything to lose by doing so. This time, when he called, he got the receptionist of the company that his father worked for. She told Koushirou that he had left for the day quite a while ago after his meeting to tend to some personal business, almost an entire half-hour.

"Thank you."

He hung up the phone and turned to Jou and Miyako who were debating on which Science was more difficult, Chemistry or Biology. Miyako was complaining, saying that Biology was a more difficult science while Jou argued that Chemistry was.

"He's not there," he told them. "According to the receptionist, he left a long time ago."

The boy then got a bit angered.

"How could he leave like that! What personal business does he have that couldn't be taken care of another day!"

Jou and Miyako tried to calm the boy down, but he kept complaining and arguing. Both just decided to let him rant and ignore him pretty much. He ranted so much he didn't even notice that Mr. Izumi had walked up.

"Koushirou!"

The boy turned to see the older man.

"Otousan, you are here!" he said in surprise

"Of course I'm here! I got your message and rushed to get here as soon as possible! It was murder trying to get here, I think I just may give in and buy myself a car instead of relying on public transportation, but never mind that. How is your mother? Is she okay? Did she have the baby yet?"

The boy shook his head and explained to him what had happened.

"It's a good thing Miyako was with you."

"If it weren't for me, Izumi-senpai would have gone crazy."

The girl laughed to herself a bit after saying that. To her, Koushirou was beyond crazy over the situation.

"Thank you, kids, now where do I go?"

Koushirou pointed towards where he was to go. He thanked them and left Koushirou and the others behind in a very rushed fashion.

"So that's why he wasn't around when you called," Jou said. "He was in a business meeting and the other time you called, he was on his way here.

"Now what do we do?" Koushirou asked.

The boy started to panic a bit.

"I don't know that much about children or how to take care of them or what to even do with them! What if I do something wrong? What if I offend him or her?"

Jou, who had grown tired of standing around, took a seat and started to flip through a magazine.

"You've done a good job with that adopted girl," Jou said while looking for an interesting article to read. "The one who lost her entire family to that fire a while back."

"Yeah, to her, you are like her older brother and you baby-sit her on occasion so that's good practice right there," Miyako smiled.

"I guess I am learning to associate with younger children more, but I still do not feel that I am ready to be given that responsibility 24/7."

"Stop worrying about that, Izumi-senpai. Kimiko loves you very much and sees you as a brother, so I am sure that your new brother or sister will too."

"Yeah, Kimiko-kun really appreciates and respects you. If it weren't for you, she would have never gotten a new home."

When Koushirou first visited the Hikarigaoka Adoption Agency & Orphanage, he met a four-year-old girl by the name of Kimiko. She had lost her entire family to a fire. The girl started to talk with Koushirou and instantly labeled him as her new brother and wanted to go home with him. When the girl looked as if she was about to cry, Koushirou got incredibly nervous. Not knowing what to do with a child in that state, he promised her that he would visit her every Sunday until she could find a real family again and kept his promise.

Every Sunday he would visit the young girl, but the more and more he would visit, the more and more depressed she would become since no immediate family would take her in nor would any non relative for that matter. As the weeks went by, her friends would get homes and adopted, which made her feel alone. Every time she would make a new friend, they would get adopted and she would never see them again.

Koushirou started to feel a bit sorry for her and wished that there was something he could do. He knew that taking her home with him was out of the question. He wasn't ready for children, let alone marriage, and he was too young to worry about kids and marriage in general. He then remembered "Sui-obasan," who had always said time and time again how she wished to have a child of her own and how she wasn't blessed with the ability to do so. She never got into detail, but Koushirou figured that she physically couldn't have children in some way.

Koushirou figured that she would like Kimiko and how Kimiko could really use a family. He told Ms. Hanada about the girl and she agreed to it. Just from Koushirou's description of her, she loved the child already and loved her even more when she met Kimiko in person.

They got everything arranged and set up and surprised Kimiko that beautiful late May afternoon…

"Well, I have to get going again, Kimiko-kun. I would stay longer, but I have school tomorrow as well as tests."

"Okay, oniichan," the girl sighed with a frown.

"You shouldn't be so sad," Koushirou told her. "You'll get to see me again."

"But I have to wait a long time before I can see you again."

"Not too long. You'll probably see me again tomorrow."

The girl got excited and clapped her hands.

"Hontou!?! (Really!?!)"

"Zettai. (Absolutely)," he nodded.

"Sugoi! (Cool!)"

The girl got up and hugged Koushirou.

"I can't wait to see you again, oniichan!"

He nodded and started to walk off. He then turned back and gave the young girl a sly smirk.

"Well, aren't you coming back to Odaiba with me?"

The girl looked at him in pure confusion and asked, "huh?"

"Are you not coming with me?"

"What do you mean?"

"I thought you would have caught on by now. You are coming back to Odaiba with me."

The girl stood there for a moment and then finally let what Koushirou had said sink into her head. The girl jumped up and down and shouted out "Yay!" over and over again. Koushirou smiled at her. He was glad to see her happy for a change. He hated leaving her every week.

The girl was calmed down by Mrs. Mitsuishi who smiled at Kimiko.

"Surprise, Kimiko-chan," Mrs. Mitsuishi told her.

"Kiyoko-mama, did you hear that! Oniichan said that I can go home with him!"

The woman nodded and smiled. She was glad that Koushirou had gone through the trouble of finding a home for the girl. She too felt sorry for her and was even mad at the girl's family. She had lots of family, unlike Koushirou, and no relative of hers was willing to take her in. She thought of all of them as "ungrateful ingrates."

"Now you can see Koushirou-kun as much as you'd like, but you aren't going to stay with his mother and father."

"I would let you if I could, Kimiko-kun, but I can't."

"Then how will I be able to see you, oniichan?"

"Remember that nice lady that came with me to visit you a while ago?"

"Sui-chan?"

The boy nodded.

"What did you think of her?"

"I hate it that she doesn't visit every week like you do! I've only seen her," the girl started to count on fingers, "four times. I like her a lot, and she's a lot of fun!"

"I'm glad you think so," Koushirou smiled at her.

Right at that moment, Ms. Hanada walked in. It was all a part of the surprise that Koushirou had gotten together. Kimiko saw Ms. Hanada and ran up to give her a big hug.

"Sui-chan, I'm so glad to see you again!"

"So am I," Ms. Hanada said, picking the girl up and hugging her tightly. "I missed you quite a bit."

Ms. Mitsuishi smiled at the two. They looked like a happy family already.

"So, are you ready to come home with Chibi Koushi and me?"

The girl nodded.

"Yay, I get to go home with Kou-niichan and Sui-chan!"

The girl stopped hugging Ms. Hanada, who put her down.

"When do I leave!"

"Whenever you are ready to," Mrs. Mitsuishi told her.

The girl smiled.

"I have to pack all of my stuff now."

"No you don't. We already did that for you," Mrs. Mitsuishi explained. "During your visitation time from Koushirou-kun here, I packed everything for you. I knew that you were leaving today. I'll go get your things."

The older lady turned and walked off, leaving Koushirou and Ms. Hanada with the young girl.

"How do you like your surprise, Kimiko-kun?" Koushirou asked.

"I love it! I can't believe it! I am finally going to get a new home to live in!"

"I'm glad that you are too," he told her. "I'm glad that she has a home now and I am glad that Sui-obasan will have someone living with her now," Koushirou thought, glad of how things had turned out. "Neither one of them will ever be lonely again. Sui-obasan wants to have children, but obviously can't, and she is divorced. Kimiko-kun has family that doesn't want to take the time or effort to take her in. I'm sure the two will get along very well."

A short while later, Mrs. Mitsuishi returned holding the few things that Kimiko owned, which wasn't much. One child sized suitcase of clothing and a small bag of toys that weren't destroyed in the fire.

"Here you go, Kimiko-chan, all of your belongings."

Koushirou took the suitcase and the bag for her.

"The paperwork has already been done and the judge has already signed the adoption papers. Kimiko-kun is legally yours, Hanada-san."

The woman handed some papers to Ms. Hanada.

"I'm glad of that. It took so long for all of that paper work to go through."

"Yeah, I know what you mean, but those are the rules. The adoption process takes a good while." The woman then turned to Kimiko. "Since everything is in order, you can leave right away if you choose to."

The girl was ready and willing to go and smiled happily, but that smile soon left her face.

"Kimiko, what is the matter?" Ms. Hanada asked.

The girl started to cry a bit and hugged Ms. Mitsuishi.

"I'm going to miss Kiyoko-mama!"

During the time Kimiko was there, she and Ms. Mitsuishi had grown very close to one another, and the two were quite attached to each other. It was like they had a mother, daughter bond that couldn't be broken.

Ms. Mitsuishi was going to miss her as well. She was like one of her own children and she would have taken her in herself if she didn't have four children of her own already. Financially, it wouldn't be possible for her or her husband to do. Their children were all in their mid teens to early 20s and all of them were in lots of school activities and then there were college fees and such for the older ones. She kneeled down to Kimiko and wiped one of her tears away.

"I can always visit you, Kimiko-chan. I know where you are moving to and your address as well. I will be personally checking up on you and Hanada-san since your case is my responsibility. I'll visit you as much as possible if that'll make you happy."

The girl stopped sniffling and hugged Ms. Mitsuishi again.

"Okay, Kiyoko-mama. I'm going to miss you a lot, but I love Sui-chan just as much as I do you and Kou-chan. I have two mommies now and a new brother!" the girl smiled.

"That's a good girl now," Mrs. Mitsuishi said, almost wanting to cry.

The girl turned towards Ms. Hanada and smiled. She then said, "Let's go home, atarashii Sui-mama! (New Mother Sui!)"

Ms. Hanada smiled at this and grabbed the young girl by the hand as they left to head back to Odaiba…

"You know, Isako likes you a lot too," Miyako pointed out. "She thinks of you as her brother."

The glasses-wearing girl smiled at her friend.

"Let's face it, Izumi-senpai, you get along with children better than you give yourself credit for. You get along with two children who are under the age of eight. I'm sure that you will get along with your new sibling with no problems at all."

"Maybe it was meant for Koushirou to have to encounter younger children since he was going to end up having a younger sibling. It's a premonition!"

"Senpai, you are into psychic type stuff?"

"No, not really. I just have that mentality and belief that everything happens for a reason. We may not understand it or know what that reason may be, but there is definitely one. Apparently, Koushirou having to be around Kimiko-kun and Isako-kun was foreshadowing his having to learn how to get along with children much younger than himself."

"That's an interesting way of putting it, senpai. Maybe you're right."

Koushirou just shrugged as he started to pace around again, still worrying over his obviously healthy mother. Jou and Miyako remained seated as they watched their friend pace around. Jou grew bored of the magazine he had been reading and set it aside. Miyako was looking towards the door as if she were waiting around for someone.

More minutes passed and Koushirou seemed to have been wearing a groove into the floor.

"Koushirou, stop pacing around so much! You're driving me crazy!" Jou shouted at him. "Your mother will be fine!"

Right at that moment, a person walked up behind Koushirou giggling and said, "Yeah, you should really listen to him. He knows what he is talking about."

Everyone turned to see...

"Mimi-oneesama!/Mimi-kun?/Mimi-san?"

"Hey everyone," the girl smiled.