Finding a Mother; Being a Mother
CHAPTER 14
Summary: Sakura finds out that her mom is not dead, but actually alive and living somewhere in the world. She goes on a quest to find her mother and find the truth- but meanwhile, she's pregnant with Syaoran's baby. In the end, she finds her mother. But who is she? And why did she leave?
A/N: This is the final chapter.well, there's going to be another chapter, but it's going to be the epilogue, so technically that's not a chapter.But anyways, this is the chapter where (drumroll, please) Sakura gives birth to her beautiful son. At the end of this chapter, I'm going to list the names of the winning category, and until I get a name, I'm not posting up the epilogue. Review!! And VOTE for the BABY BOY NAME!!!!!!!
EXACTLY 2 MORE MONTHS LATER.When Sakura is 9 and a HALF months pregnant
Sakura woke up and yawned.
She tried to get up, but with her bloated belly, it was pretty hard. Finally, Sakura succeeded in getting of the bed, by rolling off and jumping up.?
Sakura walked downstairs, pausing to admire the finished baby room. It was filled with everything a baby needed.
The whole house had changed to accommodate the new baby. There were diapers in the linen closet, locked medicine and cleaning cabinets, safety lids on poisonous things and socket protectors. The baby monitors were set up in every room, ready to be used. Syaoran was taking a month off of school to help Sakura. Yes, indeed, it was a quite lovely baby house.but without the baby.
"Honey, want some breakfast?" Syaoran asked.
"No thanks. I don't have much of an appetite. WHY ISN"T THE FREAKING BABY COMING OUT OF ME?????" Sakura suddenly roared.
Syaoran winced and said, "I think it's grown attached to your stomach. And I don't think yelling is going to have the baby come out any sooner."
"Well, we're ready for it to come. I'm done with studying, I'm prepared for my high school diploma. The house is ready, we're ready!" Sakura pouted.
"The baby's not ready. And he comes first," Syaoran said.
"Okay. But DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW HARD IT IS CARRYING THIS BABY???????" Sakura shrieked.
Syaoran cringed, and thought, "Hormones. That's the only answer."
He comforted, "Calm down. We have an appointment today, and hopefully it's going to be the last one before the baby comes."
"Okay," Sakura said, and deeply inhaled and exhaled.
Then, she asked, "What time is the appointment?"
"Soon. As soon as you get dressed and eat some breakfast, okay?"
"Right. I'll have some blueberries," Sakura said, and Syaoran opened the refrigerator to reveal produce bags filled to the brim with fresh blueberries.
"Cream?"
"A lot, thank you," Sakura said, and ate her breakfast.
"Hey, will our baby turn out blue if you keep on eating blueberries?" Syaoran mused, then ducked from Sakura's flying fist.
"Just wondering," he said, and then added, "I'm going to go upstairs. Come upstairs when you're done, okay? Se we can get ready to go to the clinic."
"Okay," Sakura said, and watched her husband go up the stairs.
She quickly finished her breakfast and looked down at her stomach.
"I better start cutting down on the blueberries," she said.
She walked upstairs and changed into a maternal flower dress that fitted her perfectly.
"I feel so old. And I'm only 18," Sakura complained.
"You feel MATURE. Come on, say it with me, mature. Not old, but MATURE," Syaoran coached Sakura.
"Mature. Got it. Let's go.don't want to be late," Sakura said.
At the clinic.
"Well, the baby is full developed and quite healthy. It just needs a little more time. I'm guessing he'll be due in about a week or less," the doctor said.
"A week? Isn't there anything we can do to make it come out?" Sakura asked.
"Go to the nurse and she'll give you a handbook on how to induce labor. It has some tips to help you relax, and that'll probably do the trick," the doctor said, and Sakura gratefully thanked him.
Syaoran and Sakura went home, reading the handbook on the way.
"In order to induce labor after 9 months has passed and there is no sign of labor, follow these guidelines to help you. Drinking soothing tea will help. Boiling fresh water to a rolling boil and then steeping a bag of tea will make the perfect drink for you to relax. Relaxing is the best way to induce labor. If that should not work, taking nightly walks for about thirty minutes every day shall help. If all fails, sexual intercourse will stimulate labor. It is clinically proven to bring about a child," Sakura read.
She looked at Syaoran.
"No way. I am NOT having sex with you just to 'induce labor'," Syaoran protested.
"But you wanted to.remember our honeymoon?" Sakura sweetly asked.
"That was then! This is now!! You said you were going to make me suffer until the baby comes out, and you should keep your word!" Syaoran griped.
"You think YOU'RE suffering? What about ME?" Sakura asked.
"Yeah, but you have more self-control, and you're a woman," Syaoran replied.
"No, I don't care about sex-suffering. I mean, suffering as in FEELING LIKE A FAT HIPPO?" Sakura exclaimed.
"We're going to try the tea and walks first. Read more. It must have more information about inducing labor," Syaoran said.
"That's it. Except for stroking the stomach the help the baby come out," Sakura said.
"Fine then. We'll be doing that," Syaoran said.
Sakura stared at Syaoran with hooded eyelids.
"What?!" Syaoran asked, uncomfortable at her gaze.
"You know, we could just have sex and get this over with," Sakura tried the persuade Syaoran.
"I never thought you'd be trying to convince me to have sex," Syaoran said.
"Stop changing the subject.come on, it'll be our second time. You know, once to make the baby, once to make the baby come out!" Sakura said brightly.
"No. No. No," Syaoran said firmly.
They got out the car and walked into their house, and sat down on the couch.
"Well, what if we PRETEND to have sex?" Sakura asked hopefully.
"What good'll that do? Besides, now I'm going to be feeling guilty. The baby has eyes and ears now. What if years from now, it'll be traumatized? Remembering that before it was born, his parents were doing it? How disrespectful is that?" Syaoran asked.
"Fine then," Sakura pouted and sighed like a little girl whose daddy said no more candy.
Five days later.
"Tea?" Syaoran asked.
"Sure," Sakura took the cup and thirstily drank the tea.
"We've tried everything, and the baby still isn't coming out. There's nothing to do but wait," Syaoran said.
"No.there still is one more thing that we haven't tried," Sakura said.
"Except that," Syaoran said.
"Get me some more tea and a lot of honey. And some blueberries and some of those German cookie thingies," Sakura directed.
"What? I'm not your servant!" Syaoran exclaimed.
"You're my husband. You know, if we had just had sex, then the baby would've been out by now, and I could get my own food," Sakura hinted. She was kind of getting annoying by now.
"That's it, I'm getting the baby out of you RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!" Syaoran yelled, and started the furiously kiss Sakura.
"MMMMMmmmm." Sakura moaned, then suddenly paused.
"What?" Syaoran asked.
"I think.I think my water just broke," Sakura said.
"That's not possible. Because water is not a solid substance, so it cannot break. Now, if it was ice, then it could break, but then ice technically isn't water. It's ice," Syaoran said.
"No!!!! My WATER broke! The fluid supporting my baby is coming out. The baby's coming out, now! I'm LEAKING!!!!" Sakura said, waving her hands crazily.
"Oh my god," Syaoran gasped, and tried to stay calm.
"Um, I'll get your bag. Get your jacket and go to the car," Syaoran said, and rushed around trying to find Sakura's bag.
"In the closet?"
"Right!" Syaoran grabbed the bag, the keys and herded Sakura out the door, making sure all the lights were off.
Syaoran drove as fast as he could and ran a red light and swerved past in the incoming lane.
"Syaoran, the police are following us," Sakura said.
"Shit!!" Syaoran swore, and pulled over quickly.
"What's the rush, son?" the police man got out of his car and walked over to Syaoran's window.
"My wife is having a baby!! Please, officer, don't give us a ticket. We have to go to the hospital!!!!" Syaoran exclaimed.
"What? Uh.okay then. Follow me," the officer said, and got into his car and escorted the Expedition all the way to Tomoeda Memorial Hospital.
"Thank you!" Sakura waved at the officer and got hustled into the hospital by Syaoran.
Sakura was led to a room and was patiently lying on the bed.
"Aren't you excited?" Syaoran asked.
"Of course I am," Sakura said.
"Well, you don't look like it!" Syaoran said.
"I know. I just feel like I'm in a dream," Sakura said. She paused, then asked, "Aren't you going to call everyone?"
"Right!" Syaoran got out his cell phone and started dialing in crazily.
Sakura laughed at the sight of her frenzied husband.
"Yes, Fujitaka! The baby's coming! We're at the Memorial Hospital, room 289. Tell Touya and Nadeshiko to come!" Syaoran exclaimed, then hung up and dialed Tomoyo's number.
"Baby's coming. Room 289, Tomoeda Memorial Hospital. Bring Eriol. On the way, call Sakura's friends and Yamazaki."
"Mom? Sakura's water broke. We're at the hospital right now. Tell everyone! And come if you can, okay?" Syaoran finished telling the news to everyone through his trusty cell phone.
"Well, why isn't the baby coming out, now?" Syaoran had finally calmed down.
"I need to expand to 10 centimeters so the baby can come out now. I'm only 3 centimeters right now," Sakura explained.
"Have the contractions started?" Syaoran asked.
"One. But it wasn't too bad. Kinda like someone was tickling me really hard, but in my crotch and stomach area," Sakura said.
"Okay, I didn't need to know that," Syaoran said, and sat down next to Sakura.
He held her hand and said, "We've come such a long way. Almost 10 months, now. We got married.and now we're having a kid. I love you so much," Syaoran said.
"I know. Me too. I wouldn't want any other person to be with me," Sakura said.
"Gosh, you guys are going to make me cry," Nadeshiko's teary voice made them look up.
"Hi mom. Hi dad. Where's Touya?" Sakura asked.
"He's picking up Yukito. They'll be here in ten minutes. So, how are you feeling, princess?" Fujitaka asked.
"Fine. Actually, I'm feeling really good right now," Sakura said.
"That's good. So, it's February 28th, 11:30 am," Nadeshiko said.
"Yeah. The baby's birthday! Wow!" Sakura said, and sighted Tomoyo and the gang coming in.
"Sorry it took so long. The principal wouldn't let us go, so we had some kids from the football team create a distraction so we could go. Luckily, it's lunch time, and study hall is next, so we can skip those classes," Tomoyo said.
"Okay. Eek! I'm so excited!" Sakura said.
"I know.well, we'll be out in the waiting room. Let us know if the baby's really coming out, okay?" Chiharu, Naoko, Rika and Yamazaki left.
"Okay. Bye!" Sakura waved at them and turned her attention back to her family.
"You still haven't thought of a baby name, have you?" Tomoyo asked.
"Nope. We thought of some possibilities, but none of them seemed right. The name has to be special," Sakura answered.
"Oh, by the way, we have some news," Eriol coughed.
"We're thinking of having kids. Since we're married, and school is almost out, we thought it would be the right time," Tomoyo said.
"But what about school? College?" Sakura asked.
"I'm not going. I'm already pretty successful with TD Retro, and I can work at home. Eriol's making good money, and he's already been to college. And graduate school," Tomoyo said.
"Well, that's good. Then our baby can have someone to play with," Sakura said, and smiled at the couple.
Then, she gasped as a contraction took her.
"Was it bad?" Syaoran asked worriedly.
"Kind of. I hope it won't get worse," Sakura said.
Nadeshiko cackled and said, "Oh, it will. I went through HELL to give birth to Touya."
"Wow. Thanks for supporting me, mom," Sakura said dryly.
"Sorry. Oh, there's Touya and Yukito," Nadeshiko said, and waved at the two boys.
"Hi. Hope we're not too late-oh, the baby's still in you," Touya said.
"Yeah. You're going to be Uncle Touya!" Sakura said, then paused, "The name doesn't sound right."
Everyone agreed, and Sakura said, "Um, Tomoyo and Eriol are going to be the godparents, and I was hoping if you, Yukito, would be the god-uncle?"
"I'd be honored," Yukito said.
The doctor came in and read the machine that was next to Sakura's bed.
"Ah, you're 5 centimeters. Half-way there!" the doctor told them.
"Okay. And what about my contractions?" Sakura asked.
"Around 8 centimeters, they're going to get really bad. And probably in the birthing room, they'll be about 20 seconds apart, and be very hard," the doctor said.
"Okay." Sakura took the news.
"Well, there's nothing for us to do but wait," Syaoran said.
And they waited. And waited.
Sakura started having more frequent contractions, about two minutes apart, and from the grimaces on her face, they were pretty painful.
Syaoran was there the whole time, holding Sakura's hand and stroking her forehead.
Tomoyo and Eriol disappeared to who knows where (hint hint, empty hospital room with bed?), Yukito and Touya went off the eat, and Fujitaka was getting Nadeshiko a coke, who was in the bathroom.
"It's just us, now," Syaoran said, and gently kissed Sakura.
"Yeah. I feel kind of sad. Like, the baby's been in my stomach for so long now, I've grown used to it. And now, it's going to out there, in the world, growing and being it's own person," Sakura said, and sniffled.
Syaoran kissed Sakura again and said, "Well, it's going to be even better. Imagine him. He's going to adore us. Call us mommy and daddy. We're going to be his role model. We're his.parents." Syaoran said.
The doctor came in again, and said, "You're up to 9 centimeters. We're going to take you to the birthing room, now, okay?"
Sakura nodded, and Syaoran, Nadeshiko and Fujitaka followed Sakura to the birthing room.
"Please, only one person. We need some air to breath," the nurse said, and gently pushed Nadeshiko and Fujitaka out, who were protesting.
Sakura started to sweat.
"This is it," she told Syaoran.
The nurses got Sakura ready and a female doctor came in.
"I'll be handling the baby," she said, and introduced herself as Dr. Losim Campbell.
"Campbell? Do you have a brother named Misol that's a tutor?" Sakura asked.
"Yes! Do you know him?"
"He was my tutor. AUGH!!!" Sakura yelled painfully as a contraction came.
"Okay. Now get ready," Dr. Losim said (Losim is Misol backwards.hee hee).
Sakura painfully moved into the a comfortable position.
"Now, the contractions will be quick. About 20 seconds apart," Dr. Losim said, and winced as Sakura yelled again from another painful contraction.
"TWENTY SECONDS MY ASS!!!!!!!!!" Sakura yelled and grabbed the nearest thing, which was Syaoran's hair.
"Now, PUSH!" Dr. Losim coached.
"ARGH!!!!!!" Sakura pushed as hard she could, and quickly panted.
Syaoran was moaning painfully from Sakura's death grip on his hair.
"That's not enough. Push HARDER!" Dr. Losim directed, and Sakura, with all her strength gave another push.
"Ooh, there's his head," Dr. Losim pointed the head out to Syaoran, who was rubbing his head.
"Push one more time, okay?" Dr. Losim said.
"I can't," Sakura cried, and sighed. She was tired, sweaty, and in pain.
"You have to! We can't have a baby half-in, half out of you!" Syaoran said.
"That's not helping," Sakura said.
"Make me mad!! If I'm mad, I get some adrenaline and I'll push harder!" Sakura said quickly.
Syaoran looked around and said, "You're so fat you look like a hippo!"
"NO!!!!!! Not that kind of mad! And you're not helping!" Sakura exclaimed.
"You know, the baby must be pretty uncomfortable with its head halfway stuck," Dr. Losim said dryly.
"Come on, Sakura, I know you can do it," Syaoran said, and looked in Sakura's eye.
"I love you," he said, and Sakura nodded.
"One more push. For me, okay?" he said, and Sakura took a deep breath and pushed like crazy, using all the strength she had.
Then, the baby came out, wailing like a siren.
"Oh." Sakura softened at the sight of her baby.
"It's so purple.and bloody and icky!" Syaoran said.
The nurses took the baby away, and Sakura asked, "Where are they taking her?"
"To clean her up. Now, you can freshen up, okay?" Dr. Losim said, and smiled as Syaoran gently wiped Sakura's sweat and redid her hair.
They took Sakura back to her room, and the baby came, asleep, wrapped up in a little blue blanket and wearing a blue beanie.
"Oh." Sakura breathed again, and took the baby into her arms.
"He's so small." Sakura said, and sniffled.
"Can I hold her?" Syaoran asked.
"Of course," Sakura said, and passed the baby to him.
"Hello," Syaoran cooed, and smiled one his rare grins at his son.
Sakura smiled at how gently Syaoran was being, and quietly everyone else filed in.
A nurse came in and had a tag with her.
"Do you have a name for him?" the nurse asked.
"No, not yet," Sakura said.
"That's fine. He'll be Baby Boy Li," the nurse wrote on the tag and attached it to the baby's ankle.
Sakura read it.
"Born February 28th at 2:28 pm at the Tomoeda Memorial Hospital," Sakura said.
She watched as 'Baby Boy Li' got passed around into the loving arms of all her friends and parents, and even Touya softened up and cooed at the baby.
When her son got passed back into her arms, it slowly opened it's tiny eyes and stared at his mother.
"Oh, look!" Sakura exclaimed softly.
"He has green eyes.like me!"
"And messy brown hair, like me. God, he really is my son," Syaoran said.
The baby's eyes slowly fluttered back asleep, and Sakura gently laid him down into the crib next to her.
Sakura's eyelids started to feel heavy, and she soon fell asleep.
Syaoran herded everyone out, whispering that Sakura needed her rest. Tomoyo, Eriol, Yamazaki, Chiharu, Naoko and Rika went back to school, and Touya, Yukito and Sakura's parents went to the waiting room.
About an hour later, Sakura opened her eyes and smiled as she saw her son still sleeping.
"He's our son." Sakura said and smiled at Syaoran.
"I know," Syaoran said.
"Did you really mean it when you said I was fat as a hippo?" Sakura asked.
"Of course not. I was just trying to get you mad," Syaoran said.
"Okay. It feels nice to have my body back to normal again," Sakura said, and Syaoran kissed Sakura.
"Yeah. Now we can have some fun at night, right?" Syaoran asked.
"Okay. I love you," Sakura said, and the three of them, Sakura, Syaoran and 'Baby Boy Li' peacefully smiled.
A/N: Yesh, this is the final chapter. The winning name shall be announced in the Epilogue. Sorry that this chapter is kind of short. Now, for the voting of the baby name. I got a LOT of baby names. I had to take some out because some of them were girl names. Here they are, from the winning B category:
1) Kain
2) Akira
3) Daichi (I like this one. It means 'grand first son')
4) Syo-Ying
5) Shaoran (Sakura's pet nickname for Syaoran)
6) Xuiouh
7) Tenchi
8) Shiwaba
9) Wobayuki
10) Mamoru
11) Syao-Ying
12) Keiichi
13) Hao Xin (meaning good heart)
14) Kyosuke
15) Xiao Ying (little eagle)
16) Lao ying (hawk)
17) Syaruka
18) Shuji
19) Satoru
20) Sho
21) Seiji
22) Koji
23) Akio
24) Kiyoto
25) Hideki
26) Noboru
27) Syaokura
28) Sakuran
29) Syaokuran
30) My personal favorite.Seto Kaiba!!!! *sigh* yesh, I'm in love with an anime character.
So, VOTE!!!! You don't have to put the name if you're a lazy bum like me. Just put the number of the name you think best suites Sakura and Syaoran's baby boy. I know there are a LOT of names, but I sincerely need to pick one. So, PLEASE VOTE!!!! Or else you will not be getting the Epilogue.which is really twisted, by the way.
CHAPTER 14
Summary: Sakura finds out that her mom is not dead, but actually alive and living somewhere in the world. She goes on a quest to find her mother and find the truth- but meanwhile, she's pregnant with Syaoran's baby. In the end, she finds her mother. But who is she? And why did she leave?
A/N: This is the final chapter.well, there's going to be another chapter, but it's going to be the epilogue, so technically that's not a chapter.But anyways, this is the chapter where (drumroll, please) Sakura gives birth to her beautiful son. At the end of this chapter, I'm going to list the names of the winning category, and until I get a name, I'm not posting up the epilogue. Review!! And VOTE for the BABY BOY NAME!!!!!!!
EXACTLY 2 MORE MONTHS LATER.When Sakura is 9 and a HALF months pregnant
Sakura woke up and yawned.
She tried to get up, but with her bloated belly, it was pretty hard. Finally, Sakura succeeded in getting of the bed, by rolling off and jumping up.?
Sakura walked downstairs, pausing to admire the finished baby room. It was filled with everything a baby needed.
The whole house had changed to accommodate the new baby. There were diapers in the linen closet, locked medicine and cleaning cabinets, safety lids on poisonous things and socket protectors. The baby monitors were set up in every room, ready to be used. Syaoran was taking a month off of school to help Sakura. Yes, indeed, it was a quite lovely baby house.but without the baby.
"Honey, want some breakfast?" Syaoran asked.
"No thanks. I don't have much of an appetite. WHY ISN"T THE FREAKING BABY COMING OUT OF ME?????" Sakura suddenly roared.
Syaoran winced and said, "I think it's grown attached to your stomach. And I don't think yelling is going to have the baby come out any sooner."
"Well, we're ready for it to come. I'm done with studying, I'm prepared for my high school diploma. The house is ready, we're ready!" Sakura pouted.
"The baby's not ready. And he comes first," Syaoran said.
"Okay. But DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW HARD IT IS CARRYING THIS BABY???????" Sakura shrieked.
Syaoran cringed, and thought, "Hormones. That's the only answer."
He comforted, "Calm down. We have an appointment today, and hopefully it's going to be the last one before the baby comes."
"Okay," Sakura said, and deeply inhaled and exhaled.
Then, she asked, "What time is the appointment?"
"Soon. As soon as you get dressed and eat some breakfast, okay?"
"Right. I'll have some blueberries," Sakura said, and Syaoran opened the refrigerator to reveal produce bags filled to the brim with fresh blueberries.
"Cream?"
"A lot, thank you," Sakura said, and ate her breakfast.
"Hey, will our baby turn out blue if you keep on eating blueberries?" Syaoran mused, then ducked from Sakura's flying fist.
"Just wondering," he said, and then added, "I'm going to go upstairs. Come upstairs when you're done, okay? Se we can get ready to go to the clinic."
"Okay," Sakura said, and watched her husband go up the stairs.
She quickly finished her breakfast and looked down at her stomach.
"I better start cutting down on the blueberries," she said.
She walked upstairs and changed into a maternal flower dress that fitted her perfectly.
"I feel so old. And I'm only 18," Sakura complained.
"You feel MATURE. Come on, say it with me, mature. Not old, but MATURE," Syaoran coached Sakura.
"Mature. Got it. Let's go.don't want to be late," Sakura said.
At the clinic.
"Well, the baby is full developed and quite healthy. It just needs a little more time. I'm guessing he'll be due in about a week or less," the doctor said.
"A week? Isn't there anything we can do to make it come out?" Sakura asked.
"Go to the nurse and she'll give you a handbook on how to induce labor. It has some tips to help you relax, and that'll probably do the trick," the doctor said, and Sakura gratefully thanked him.
Syaoran and Sakura went home, reading the handbook on the way.
"In order to induce labor after 9 months has passed and there is no sign of labor, follow these guidelines to help you. Drinking soothing tea will help. Boiling fresh water to a rolling boil and then steeping a bag of tea will make the perfect drink for you to relax. Relaxing is the best way to induce labor. If that should not work, taking nightly walks for about thirty minutes every day shall help. If all fails, sexual intercourse will stimulate labor. It is clinically proven to bring about a child," Sakura read.
She looked at Syaoran.
"No way. I am NOT having sex with you just to 'induce labor'," Syaoran protested.
"But you wanted to.remember our honeymoon?" Sakura sweetly asked.
"That was then! This is now!! You said you were going to make me suffer until the baby comes out, and you should keep your word!" Syaoran griped.
"You think YOU'RE suffering? What about ME?" Sakura asked.
"Yeah, but you have more self-control, and you're a woman," Syaoran replied.
"No, I don't care about sex-suffering. I mean, suffering as in FEELING LIKE A FAT HIPPO?" Sakura exclaimed.
"We're going to try the tea and walks first. Read more. It must have more information about inducing labor," Syaoran said.
"That's it. Except for stroking the stomach the help the baby come out," Sakura said.
"Fine then. We'll be doing that," Syaoran said.
Sakura stared at Syaoran with hooded eyelids.
"What?!" Syaoran asked, uncomfortable at her gaze.
"You know, we could just have sex and get this over with," Sakura tried the persuade Syaoran.
"I never thought you'd be trying to convince me to have sex," Syaoran said.
"Stop changing the subject.come on, it'll be our second time. You know, once to make the baby, once to make the baby come out!" Sakura said brightly.
"No. No. No," Syaoran said firmly.
They got out the car and walked into their house, and sat down on the couch.
"Well, what if we PRETEND to have sex?" Sakura asked hopefully.
"What good'll that do? Besides, now I'm going to be feeling guilty. The baby has eyes and ears now. What if years from now, it'll be traumatized? Remembering that before it was born, his parents were doing it? How disrespectful is that?" Syaoran asked.
"Fine then," Sakura pouted and sighed like a little girl whose daddy said no more candy.
Five days later.
"Tea?" Syaoran asked.
"Sure," Sakura took the cup and thirstily drank the tea.
"We've tried everything, and the baby still isn't coming out. There's nothing to do but wait," Syaoran said.
"No.there still is one more thing that we haven't tried," Sakura said.
"Except that," Syaoran said.
"Get me some more tea and a lot of honey. And some blueberries and some of those German cookie thingies," Sakura directed.
"What? I'm not your servant!" Syaoran exclaimed.
"You're my husband. You know, if we had just had sex, then the baby would've been out by now, and I could get my own food," Sakura hinted. She was kind of getting annoying by now.
"That's it, I'm getting the baby out of you RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!" Syaoran yelled, and started the furiously kiss Sakura.
"MMMMMmmmm." Sakura moaned, then suddenly paused.
"What?" Syaoran asked.
"I think.I think my water just broke," Sakura said.
"That's not possible. Because water is not a solid substance, so it cannot break. Now, if it was ice, then it could break, but then ice technically isn't water. It's ice," Syaoran said.
"No!!!! My WATER broke! The fluid supporting my baby is coming out. The baby's coming out, now! I'm LEAKING!!!!" Sakura said, waving her hands crazily.
"Oh my god," Syaoran gasped, and tried to stay calm.
"Um, I'll get your bag. Get your jacket and go to the car," Syaoran said, and rushed around trying to find Sakura's bag.
"In the closet?"
"Right!" Syaoran grabbed the bag, the keys and herded Sakura out the door, making sure all the lights were off.
Syaoran drove as fast as he could and ran a red light and swerved past in the incoming lane.
"Syaoran, the police are following us," Sakura said.
"Shit!!" Syaoran swore, and pulled over quickly.
"What's the rush, son?" the police man got out of his car and walked over to Syaoran's window.
"My wife is having a baby!! Please, officer, don't give us a ticket. We have to go to the hospital!!!!" Syaoran exclaimed.
"What? Uh.okay then. Follow me," the officer said, and got into his car and escorted the Expedition all the way to Tomoeda Memorial Hospital.
"Thank you!" Sakura waved at the officer and got hustled into the hospital by Syaoran.
Sakura was led to a room and was patiently lying on the bed.
"Aren't you excited?" Syaoran asked.
"Of course I am," Sakura said.
"Well, you don't look like it!" Syaoran said.
"I know. I just feel like I'm in a dream," Sakura said. She paused, then asked, "Aren't you going to call everyone?"
"Right!" Syaoran got out his cell phone and started dialing in crazily.
Sakura laughed at the sight of her frenzied husband.
"Yes, Fujitaka! The baby's coming! We're at the Memorial Hospital, room 289. Tell Touya and Nadeshiko to come!" Syaoran exclaimed, then hung up and dialed Tomoyo's number.
"Baby's coming. Room 289, Tomoeda Memorial Hospital. Bring Eriol. On the way, call Sakura's friends and Yamazaki."
"Mom? Sakura's water broke. We're at the hospital right now. Tell everyone! And come if you can, okay?" Syaoran finished telling the news to everyone through his trusty cell phone.
"Well, why isn't the baby coming out, now?" Syaoran had finally calmed down.
"I need to expand to 10 centimeters so the baby can come out now. I'm only 3 centimeters right now," Sakura explained.
"Have the contractions started?" Syaoran asked.
"One. But it wasn't too bad. Kinda like someone was tickling me really hard, but in my crotch and stomach area," Sakura said.
"Okay, I didn't need to know that," Syaoran said, and sat down next to Sakura.
He held her hand and said, "We've come such a long way. Almost 10 months, now. We got married.and now we're having a kid. I love you so much," Syaoran said.
"I know. Me too. I wouldn't want any other person to be with me," Sakura said.
"Gosh, you guys are going to make me cry," Nadeshiko's teary voice made them look up.
"Hi mom. Hi dad. Where's Touya?" Sakura asked.
"He's picking up Yukito. They'll be here in ten minutes. So, how are you feeling, princess?" Fujitaka asked.
"Fine. Actually, I'm feeling really good right now," Sakura said.
"That's good. So, it's February 28th, 11:30 am," Nadeshiko said.
"Yeah. The baby's birthday! Wow!" Sakura said, and sighted Tomoyo and the gang coming in.
"Sorry it took so long. The principal wouldn't let us go, so we had some kids from the football team create a distraction so we could go. Luckily, it's lunch time, and study hall is next, so we can skip those classes," Tomoyo said.
"Okay. Eek! I'm so excited!" Sakura said.
"I know.well, we'll be out in the waiting room. Let us know if the baby's really coming out, okay?" Chiharu, Naoko, Rika and Yamazaki left.
"Okay. Bye!" Sakura waved at them and turned her attention back to her family.
"You still haven't thought of a baby name, have you?" Tomoyo asked.
"Nope. We thought of some possibilities, but none of them seemed right. The name has to be special," Sakura answered.
"Oh, by the way, we have some news," Eriol coughed.
"We're thinking of having kids. Since we're married, and school is almost out, we thought it would be the right time," Tomoyo said.
"But what about school? College?" Sakura asked.
"I'm not going. I'm already pretty successful with TD Retro, and I can work at home. Eriol's making good money, and he's already been to college. And graduate school," Tomoyo said.
"Well, that's good. Then our baby can have someone to play with," Sakura said, and smiled at the couple.
Then, she gasped as a contraction took her.
"Was it bad?" Syaoran asked worriedly.
"Kind of. I hope it won't get worse," Sakura said.
Nadeshiko cackled and said, "Oh, it will. I went through HELL to give birth to Touya."
"Wow. Thanks for supporting me, mom," Sakura said dryly.
"Sorry. Oh, there's Touya and Yukito," Nadeshiko said, and waved at the two boys.
"Hi. Hope we're not too late-oh, the baby's still in you," Touya said.
"Yeah. You're going to be Uncle Touya!" Sakura said, then paused, "The name doesn't sound right."
Everyone agreed, and Sakura said, "Um, Tomoyo and Eriol are going to be the godparents, and I was hoping if you, Yukito, would be the god-uncle?"
"I'd be honored," Yukito said.
The doctor came in and read the machine that was next to Sakura's bed.
"Ah, you're 5 centimeters. Half-way there!" the doctor told them.
"Okay. And what about my contractions?" Sakura asked.
"Around 8 centimeters, they're going to get really bad. And probably in the birthing room, they'll be about 20 seconds apart, and be very hard," the doctor said.
"Okay." Sakura took the news.
"Well, there's nothing for us to do but wait," Syaoran said.
And they waited. And waited.
Sakura started having more frequent contractions, about two minutes apart, and from the grimaces on her face, they were pretty painful.
Syaoran was there the whole time, holding Sakura's hand and stroking her forehead.
Tomoyo and Eriol disappeared to who knows where (hint hint, empty hospital room with bed?), Yukito and Touya went off the eat, and Fujitaka was getting Nadeshiko a coke, who was in the bathroom.
"It's just us, now," Syaoran said, and gently kissed Sakura.
"Yeah. I feel kind of sad. Like, the baby's been in my stomach for so long now, I've grown used to it. And now, it's going to out there, in the world, growing and being it's own person," Sakura said, and sniffled.
Syaoran kissed Sakura again and said, "Well, it's going to be even better. Imagine him. He's going to adore us. Call us mommy and daddy. We're going to be his role model. We're his.parents." Syaoran said.
The doctor came in again, and said, "You're up to 9 centimeters. We're going to take you to the birthing room, now, okay?"
Sakura nodded, and Syaoran, Nadeshiko and Fujitaka followed Sakura to the birthing room.
"Please, only one person. We need some air to breath," the nurse said, and gently pushed Nadeshiko and Fujitaka out, who were protesting.
Sakura started to sweat.
"This is it," she told Syaoran.
The nurses got Sakura ready and a female doctor came in.
"I'll be handling the baby," she said, and introduced herself as Dr. Losim Campbell.
"Campbell? Do you have a brother named Misol that's a tutor?" Sakura asked.
"Yes! Do you know him?"
"He was my tutor. AUGH!!!" Sakura yelled painfully as a contraction came.
"Okay. Now get ready," Dr. Losim said (Losim is Misol backwards.hee hee).
Sakura painfully moved into the a comfortable position.
"Now, the contractions will be quick. About 20 seconds apart," Dr. Losim said, and winced as Sakura yelled again from another painful contraction.
"TWENTY SECONDS MY ASS!!!!!!!!!" Sakura yelled and grabbed the nearest thing, which was Syaoran's hair.
"Now, PUSH!" Dr. Losim coached.
"ARGH!!!!!!" Sakura pushed as hard she could, and quickly panted.
Syaoran was moaning painfully from Sakura's death grip on his hair.
"That's not enough. Push HARDER!" Dr. Losim directed, and Sakura, with all her strength gave another push.
"Ooh, there's his head," Dr. Losim pointed the head out to Syaoran, who was rubbing his head.
"Push one more time, okay?" Dr. Losim said.
"I can't," Sakura cried, and sighed. She was tired, sweaty, and in pain.
"You have to! We can't have a baby half-in, half out of you!" Syaoran said.
"That's not helping," Sakura said.
"Make me mad!! If I'm mad, I get some adrenaline and I'll push harder!" Sakura said quickly.
Syaoran looked around and said, "You're so fat you look like a hippo!"
"NO!!!!!! Not that kind of mad! And you're not helping!" Sakura exclaimed.
"You know, the baby must be pretty uncomfortable with its head halfway stuck," Dr. Losim said dryly.
"Come on, Sakura, I know you can do it," Syaoran said, and looked in Sakura's eye.
"I love you," he said, and Sakura nodded.
"One more push. For me, okay?" he said, and Sakura took a deep breath and pushed like crazy, using all the strength she had.
Then, the baby came out, wailing like a siren.
"Oh." Sakura softened at the sight of her baby.
"It's so purple.and bloody and icky!" Syaoran said.
The nurses took the baby away, and Sakura asked, "Where are they taking her?"
"To clean her up. Now, you can freshen up, okay?" Dr. Losim said, and smiled as Syaoran gently wiped Sakura's sweat and redid her hair.
They took Sakura back to her room, and the baby came, asleep, wrapped up in a little blue blanket and wearing a blue beanie.
"Oh." Sakura breathed again, and took the baby into her arms.
"He's so small." Sakura said, and sniffled.
"Can I hold her?" Syaoran asked.
"Of course," Sakura said, and passed the baby to him.
"Hello," Syaoran cooed, and smiled one his rare grins at his son.
Sakura smiled at how gently Syaoran was being, and quietly everyone else filed in.
A nurse came in and had a tag with her.
"Do you have a name for him?" the nurse asked.
"No, not yet," Sakura said.
"That's fine. He'll be Baby Boy Li," the nurse wrote on the tag and attached it to the baby's ankle.
Sakura read it.
"Born February 28th at 2:28 pm at the Tomoeda Memorial Hospital," Sakura said.
She watched as 'Baby Boy Li' got passed around into the loving arms of all her friends and parents, and even Touya softened up and cooed at the baby.
When her son got passed back into her arms, it slowly opened it's tiny eyes and stared at his mother.
"Oh, look!" Sakura exclaimed softly.
"He has green eyes.like me!"
"And messy brown hair, like me. God, he really is my son," Syaoran said.
The baby's eyes slowly fluttered back asleep, and Sakura gently laid him down into the crib next to her.
Sakura's eyelids started to feel heavy, and she soon fell asleep.
Syaoran herded everyone out, whispering that Sakura needed her rest. Tomoyo, Eriol, Yamazaki, Chiharu, Naoko and Rika went back to school, and Touya, Yukito and Sakura's parents went to the waiting room.
About an hour later, Sakura opened her eyes and smiled as she saw her son still sleeping.
"He's our son." Sakura said and smiled at Syaoran.
"I know," Syaoran said.
"Did you really mean it when you said I was fat as a hippo?" Sakura asked.
"Of course not. I was just trying to get you mad," Syaoran said.
"Okay. It feels nice to have my body back to normal again," Sakura said, and Syaoran kissed Sakura.
"Yeah. Now we can have some fun at night, right?" Syaoran asked.
"Okay. I love you," Sakura said, and the three of them, Sakura, Syaoran and 'Baby Boy Li' peacefully smiled.
A/N: Yesh, this is the final chapter. The winning name shall be announced in the Epilogue. Sorry that this chapter is kind of short. Now, for the voting of the baby name. I got a LOT of baby names. I had to take some out because some of them were girl names. Here they are, from the winning B category:
1) Kain
2) Akira
3) Daichi (I like this one. It means 'grand first son')
4) Syo-Ying
5) Shaoran (Sakura's pet nickname for Syaoran)
6) Xuiouh
7) Tenchi
8) Shiwaba
9) Wobayuki
10) Mamoru
11) Syao-Ying
12) Keiichi
13) Hao Xin (meaning good heart)
14) Kyosuke
15) Xiao Ying (little eagle)
16) Lao ying (hawk)
17) Syaruka
18) Shuji
19) Satoru
20) Sho
21) Seiji
22) Koji
23) Akio
24) Kiyoto
25) Hideki
26) Noboru
27) Syaokura
28) Sakuran
29) Syaokuran
30) My personal favorite.Seto Kaiba!!!! *sigh* yesh, I'm in love with an anime character.
So, VOTE!!!! You don't have to put the name if you're a lazy bum like me. Just put the number of the name you think best suites Sakura and Syaoran's baby boy. I know there are a LOT of names, but I sincerely need to pick one. So, PLEASE VOTE!!!! Or else you will not be getting the Epilogue.which is really twisted, by the way.