A.N. Sorry it took so long to update! My computer is kinda broken... -_-;;;
I hope you enjoy this chapter, please review! ^_~
Disclaimer: I don't own SM or any of its characters... I have, however, written this story from my own imagination & I haven't gotten the idea from somewhere else. I made up the characters Katsuo & Maaya... (Actually, Maaya- chan is a character from my original story; although she is almost nothing like she is in this fic... basically just her appearance is the same. ^_^ So really, she's not the same character at all! I talk too much...)
Chapter 9
"Good morning!" Usagi smiled as she walked into Crown Arcade.
"Good morning, Usagi-chan." Motoki replied. "How are you both doing?"
"Good, good, thank you!"
"That's great. How much longer?"
"Just under a month or so." Usagi replied. "She's kicking me like crazy, right here." She rubbed her hand over her stomach, up by her ribs. "She must really want to get out of there."
"She? Did you find out it was going to be a girl?"
"No... But I feel bad if I say 'it' all the time. I have a feeling that it will be a girl, but if I'm wrong there's no harm done anyway."
Motoki laughed. "You're hilarious, Usagi-chan." He tossed a cloth to her for the game screens. "So, how is everything going on with you & Mamoru? You don't mind living with him?"
"Nope. Things are good. We understand each other really well." She smiled & nodded her head. "He's so nice to me... I never would have imagined."
"Yeah, with the way you 2 used to fight like cats & dogs."
"Yup." Usagi winced a little but smiled again. "Aka-chan..." [Aka-chan is a cute way of saying "baby" which I believe is 'Akago'] She looked down at her stomach & whispered. "Why do you insist on kicking me so much?" Motoki laughed. She went to work cleaning up & occasionally stopping to test the games. ^_~
Sometime around 11:30 Mamoru showed up at the Arcade. "Usako." He called out to her.
"Usako?" Motoki blinked. He didn't really get to talk to either of them very much. Today was the first time he'd been able to see Usagi in over a month.
"Mamo-chan? What are you doing here?" Usagi asked.
"Mamo-chan?" Motoki blinked as he approached his two friends. "What's with the names?"
"Eh? Oh nothing, just nicknames we made up." Usagi laughed.
"You two really are getting close, aren't you?" Motoki said as he looked from one to the other.
"It's not what you think." Mamoru explained to him before turning towards Usagi. "Anyway, I came buy because I've got an hour and 1/2 free & I was wondering if I could take you out to lunch."
"Lunch?" Usagi repeated. "But there will be lots of people around... what if you see someone from school? What would they think if they saw you out with someone like me?"
"I don't care what they would think. How many times do I have to tell you that?" Mamoru placed his hands on both of her shoulder & bent down a bit to look in her eyes. "Please come with me for lunch... you can pick where & I'll buy you anything that you want."
She looked over at Motoki. "Can I go?"
"Sure. Knock yourself out!" He smiled warmly.
"Okay! I'll be right back. I'm just going to go to the washroom quickly & get my stuff together." Usagi left.
"What's going on?" Motoki looked up suspiciously at Mamoru who was staring off into space as he thought about something. "Don't think that I don't know you well enough to be able to pick up on they way you are with her... the way you look at her."
"Eh? What do you mean?" Mamoru looked at Motoki.
"Mamoru, what on earth are you thinking? Are you falling in love with Usagi- chan?"
"I don't know if it's love, but I've never felt like this before."
"I can tell. You've never pleaded with a girl to go out with you your entire life."
"Usako is, special."
"Usako... Usako..." Motoki paused for a moment while he thought of where he had heard that name mentioned before. "Wait a minute. There are a few girls in my class who are always complaining about some guy always talking about 'Usako' in their other class. It's you isn't it?"
"Maybe I've mentioned her a few times..."
"Nuh-uh." Motoki shook his head. "They complain everyday about how the hot guy with the blue eyes won't stop talking about his girlfriend & all of her 'quirky little habits'. You're not boyfriend & girlfriend, are you?"
"No, no." Mamoru shook his head.
"Gosh. From the things I've heard you've completely fallen head over heels for her."
Mamoru grinned. "Maybe..." Usagi came back & he smiled brightly. "You ready?"
"Yup! I'll be back after lunch, Motoki-niisan!" She called out as they left together.
*~*~*~*~*~*
"Usako... how do you like your meal?"
"It's very good, thank you for taking me out." They were sitting at a table in the back of a quiet little restaurant that Usagi used to go to all the time with her family.
"No problem." Mamoru smiled. "Usako..."
"Yes?"
"Are you going to go back to school after you have the baby?"
"I suppose I will, but I think that I will switch schools so that nobody needs to know that I'm a year behind. I won't go back right away, though." Usagi said. "I want to get to know my baby & take care of it."
"That's nice."
"You know... I've been thinking about it a lot lately... I read on the Internet that some girls have a lot of trouble when they have a baby through rape. That they have trouble because they are constantly reminded of what happened whenever they look at they're child."
"That's true. It happens pretty often."
"But... I think of it differently." Usagi smiled. "This is still my baby, Katsuo's part has been done, but I'M going to be the one raising my baby... I'm going to get to see all of those amazing things like first words, first steps, first day of school, first crush, first love... to me the good out- weighs the bad. That was in the past, I've got all of these good moments in my future."
Mamoru stared at Usagi as she smiled & talked. "You find a new way to amaze me every time we talk." He laughed.
"Eh? Th-thank you." Usagi blushed.
Mamoru sighed & leaned back in his chair. "You don't need to be so embarrassed all the time..." He grinned.
"It's just the way you say things to me all the time... like you're always trying to make me feel so good about myself... I don't really know how to react."
"Would you rather that I acted like a jerk & tease you mercilessly like before?" He winked.
Usagi blushed just a bit darker. "No. I just don't understand why you're like that."
"Why I want you to feel good about yourself?" Mamoru blinked. "Why wouldn't I want you to be happy? And everything I say is the truth."
"But why do you try so hard? Whether what you think is true or not, I don't think I'm worth so much effort on your part." She didn't want him to feel that he always had to be SO nice to her. Admittedly, she liked it, but she felt a little strange whenever he would compliment her.
"You're wrong! You are totally worth it all, Usako... I love you." He smiled & then realized what he had just said. 'Shimatta!' Mamoru thought to himself. 'I can't believe I just told her that!!'
'I can't believe he just told me that!' Usagi's mind raced & her face went dark red. He surely couldn't have meant it the way she had interpreted it. He was a 20 yr old man & she was just a 16 yr old girl. Not to mention all of the other little reasons. "Ma..." She couldn't think of what to say. She couldn't even say his name. She was in shock.
"Forgive me, Usako. I don't know what I was thinking."
"It's alright... You don't have to be sorry, it was just a shock, that's all."
Mamoru looked at his watch. "I should get you back to work." He stood up quickly.
"Mamo-chan..."
"Yes?"
"I... what... are you serious? Did you really mean that?"
"Listen, I'm sorry... just forget I said anything, it was a stupid thing to say..."
"So you don't?"
"No." Mamoru replied. "I do."
"Eh?" This wasn't making too much sense to Usagi.
Mamoru sighed. He had never been so uncomfortable with a girl his entire life. "I DO love you. It wasn't a lie." He admitted again.
"But... you... Mamo-chan... How long have you felt like this?"
"I don't know. A while I guess... I really should be getting you back to work, we've been gone for over an hour." Mamoru turned around & began to walk away.
"Wait! Mamo-chan!" Usagi rushed up from her seat to go after him. "Ah-!"
Mamoru turned around when he heard Usagi gasp. Some water had spilled on the floor when a waitress had walked by earlier & neither of them had noticed...
Usagi slipped...
"Usako!" He screamed as he saw Usagi lying on the floor, unconscious. He kneeled beside her & held her face in his hands. Other people that were in the restaurant came to see what had happened. "Damn it! Call an ambulance!" He shouted at them.
"Usako... Usako, wake up." Mamoru pleaded. "Wake up..."
*~*~* At the Hospital *~*~*
Mamoru paced anxiously back & forth in the waiting room. He couldn't sit still, even though his muscles were so stiff from worry that every move stung like a thousand needles.
"Mamoru!" Motoki came running up to him through the long, white hallway. "Is she going to be okay?! What about the baby?!"
"I- I don't know. They haven't said much since they brought her into surgery." Mamoru replied as he continued to pace.
Motoki sighed heavily as he sat down in a chair. "Oh my God..." He moaned as he hung his head in his hands.
"Did you call her friends?"
"Yeah. I called the school & got them paged."
"Did you call her family?"
"No. I didn't know if I should. She doesn't want to have any more contact with her parents." Motoki replied.
"You know who her brother is, right?"
"Shingo? Yeah, I know him."
"Could you go pick him up & bring him here? I'll let him call their parents."
"Sure. But... Mamoru, she's going to get better... isn't she? You said that all she did was fall. How can it be so bad? Why is she in surgery if all she did was slip & fall?" Motoki paused before he left to go to Shingo's school to tell him what happened.
"It's more complicated than that. She's over 8 months pregnant... she's only 3 weeks from her due date... her fall... might have killed her baby. " Mamoru's face was pale & his eyes were red. "Please... get her brother..."
"Right." Motoki nodded & ran off.
Mamoru fell helplessly into the same chair that Motoki had just been sitting in. "Usako... I'm so sorry. It's all my fault. It's all my fault that you might-" He was only talking to himself but he still couldn't say the words that he was thinking out loud. '...Die.'
Usagi was in surgery for 2 reasons: the doctors were trying hard to save the baby because while they were in the ambulance she had started bleeding, also she had hit her head on top of that along the table's edge. They were doing an emergency C-Section on a 16 yr old girl with a concussion & it wasn't sure if either of them would make it... she was losing so much blood.
*~*~*~*~*~*
Gomen nasai! You must all hate me for ending this chapter at such a bad time! But don't worry b/c the next chapter, (& I think final) is already partially done. I just wanted to post as much as I could in case I didn't get another chance for a few days. Anyway, sugoi, sugoi! 14 Reviews for chapter 8!!! YAY!!!!
Disclaimer: I don't own SM or any of its characters... I have, however, written this story from my own imagination & I haven't gotten the idea from somewhere else. I made up the characters Katsuo & Maaya... (Actually, Maaya- chan is a character from my original story; although she is almost nothing like she is in this fic... basically just her appearance is the same. ^_^ So really, she's not the same character at all! I talk too much...)
Chapter 9
"Good morning!" Usagi smiled as she walked into Crown Arcade.
"Good morning, Usagi-chan." Motoki replied. "How are you both doing?"
"Good, good, thank you!"
"That's great. How much longer?"
"Just under a month or so." Usagi replied. "She's kicking me like crazy, right here." She rubbed her hand over her stomach, up by her ribs. "She must really want to get out of there."
"She? Did you find out it was going to be a girl?"
"No... But I feel bad if I say 'it' all the time. I have a feeling that it will be a girl, but if I'm wrong there's no harm done anyway."
Motoki laughed. "You're hilarious, Usagi-chan." He tossed a cloth to her for the game screens. "So, how is everything going on with you & Mamoru? You don't mind living with him?"
"Nope. Things are good. We understand each other really well." She smiled & nodded her head. "He's so nice to me... I never would have imagined."
"Yeah, with the way you 2 used to fight like cats & dogs."
"Yup." Usagi winced a little but smiled again. "Aka-chan..." [Aka-chan is a cute way of saying "baby" which I believe is 'Akago'] She looked down at her stomach & whispered. "Why do you insist on kicking me so much?" Motoki laughed. She went to work cleaning up & occasionally stopping to test the games. ^_~
Sometime around 11:30 Mamoru showed up at the Arcade. "Usako." He called out to her.
"Usako?" Motoki blinked. He didn't really get to talk to either of them very much. Today was the first time he'd been able to see Usagi in over a month.
"Mamo-chan? What are you doing here?" Usagi asked.
"Mamo-chan?" Motoki blinked as he approached his two friends. "What's with the names?"
"Eh? Oh nothing, just nicknames we made up." Usagi laughed.
"You two really are getting close, aren't you?" Motoki said as he looked from one to the other.
"It's not what you think." Mamoru explained to him before turning towards Usagi. "Anyway, I came buy because I've got an hour and 1/2 free & I was wondering if I could take you out to lunch."
"Lunch?" Usagi repeated. "But there will be lots of people around... what if you see someone from school? What would they think if they saw you out with someone like me?"
"I don't care what they would think. How many times do I have to tell you that?" Mamoru placed his hands on both of her shoulder & bent down a bit to look in her eyes. "Please come with me for lunch... you can pick where & I'll buy you anything that you want."
She looked over at Motoki. "Can I go?"
"Sure. Knock yourself out!" He smiled warmly.
"Okay! I'll be right back. I'm just going to go to the washroom quickly & get my stuff together." Usagi left.
"What's going on?" Motoki looked up suspiciously at Mamoru who was staring off into space as he thought about something. "Don't think that I don't know you well enough to be able to pick up on they way you are with her... the way you look at her."
"Eh? What do you mean?" Mamoru looked at Motoki.
"Mamoru, what on earth are you thinking? Are you falling in love with Usagi- chan?"
"I don't know if it's love, but I've never felt like this before."
"I can tell. You've never pleaded with a girl to go out with you your entire life."
"Usako is, special."
"Usako... Usako..." Motoki paused for a moment while he thought of where he had heard that name mentioned before. "Wait a minute. There are a few girls in my class who are always complaining about some guy always talking about 'Usako' in their other class. It's you isn't it?"
"Maybe I've mentioned her a few times..."
"Nuh-uh." Motoki shook his head. "They complain everyday about how the hot guy with the blue eyes won't stop talking about his girlfriend & all of her 'quirky little habits'. You're not boyfriend & girlfriend, are you?"
"No, no." Mamoru shook his head.
"Gosh. From the things I've heard you've completely fallen head over heels for her."
Mamoru grinned. "Maybe..." Usagi came back & he smiled brightly. "You ready?"
"Yup! I'll be back after lunch, Motoki-niisan!" She called out as they left together.
*~*~*~*~*~*
"Usako... how do you like your meal?"
"It's very good, thank you for taking me out." They were sitting at a table in the back of a quiet little restaurant that Usagi used to go to all the time with her family.
"No problem." Mamoru smiled. "Usako..."
"Yes?"
"Are you going to go back to school after you have the baby?"
"I suppose I will, but I think that I will switch schools so that nobody needs to know that I'm a year behind. I won't go back right away, though." Usagi said. "I want to get to know my baby & take care of it."
"That's nice."
"You know... I've been thinking about it a lot lately... I read on the Internet that some girls have a lot of trouble when they have a baby through rape. That they have trouble because they are constantly reminded of what happened whenever they look at they're child."
"That's true. It happens pretty often."
"But... I think of it differently." Usagi smiled. "This is still my baby, Katsuo's part has been done, but I'M going to be the one raising my baby... I'm going to get to see all of those amazing things like first words, first steps, first day of school, first crush, first love... to me the good out- weighs the bad. That was in the past, I've got all of these good moments in my future."
Mamoru stared at Usagi as she smiled & talked. "You find a new way to amaze me every time we talk." He laughed.
"Eh? Th-thank you." Usagi blushed.
Mamoru sighed & leaned back in his chair. "You don't need to be so embarrassed all the time..." He grinned.
"It's just the way you say things to me all the time... like you're always trying to make me feel so good about myself... I don't really know how to react."
"Would you rather that I acted like a jerk & tease you mercilessly like before?" He winked.
Usagi blushed just a bit darker. "No. I just don't understand why you're like that."
"Why I want you to feel good about yourself?" Mamoru blinked. "Why wouldn't I want you to be happy? And everything I say is the truth."
"But why do you try so hard? Whether what you think is true or not, I don't think I'm worth so much effort on your part." She didn't want him to feel that he always had to be SO nice to her. Admittedly, she liked it, but she felt a little strange whenever he would compliment her.
"You're wrong! You are totally worth it all, Usako... I love you." He smiled & then realized what he had just said. 'Shimatta!' Mamoru thought to himself. 'I can't believe I just told her that!!'
'I can't believe he just told me that!' Usagi's mind raced & her face went dark red. He surely couldn't have meant it the way she had interpreted it. He was a 20 yr old man & she was just a 16 yr old girl. Not to mention all of the other little reasons. "Ma..." She couldn't think of what to say. She couldn't even say his name. She was in shock.
"Forgive me, Usako. I don't know what I was thinking."
"It's alright... You don't have to be sorry, it was just a shock, that's all."
Mamoru looked at his watch. "I should get you back to work." He stood up quickly.
"Mamo-chan..."
"Yes?"
"I... what... are you serious? Did you really mean that?"
"Listen, I'm sorry... just forget I said anything, it was a stupid thing to say..."
"So you don't?"
"No." Mamoru replied. "I do."
"Eh?" This wasn't making too much sense to Usagi.
Mamoru sighed. He had never been so uncomfortable with a girl his entire life. "I DO love you. It wasn't a lie." He admitted again.
"But... you... Mamo-chan... How long have you felt like this?"
"I don't know. A while I guess... I really should be getting you back to work, we've been gone for over an hour." Mamoru turned around & began to walk away.
"Wait! Mamo-chan!" Usagi rushed up from her seat to go after him. "Ah-!"
Mamoru turned around when he heard Usagi gasp. Some water had spilled on the floor when a waitress had walked by earlier & neither of them had noticed...
Usagi slipped...
"Usako!" He screamed as he saw Usagi lying on the floor, unconscious. He kneeled beside her & held her face in his hands. Other people that were in the restaurant came to see what had happened. "Damn it! Call an ambulance!" He shouted at them.
"Usako... Usako, wake up." Mamoru pleaded. "Wake up..."
*~*~* At the Hospital *~*~*
Mamoru paced anxiously back & forth in the waiting room. He couldn't sit still, even though his muscles were so stiff from worry that every move stung like a thousand needles.
"Mamoru!" Motoki came running up to him through the long, white hallway. "Is she going to be okay?! What about the baby?!"
"I- I don't know. They haven't said much since they brought her into surgery." Mamoru replied as he continued to pace.
Motoki sighed heavily as he sat down in a chair. "Oh my God..." He moaned as he hung his head in his hands.
"Did you call her friends?"
"Yeah. I called the school & got them paged."
"Did you call her family?"
"No. I didn't know if I should. She doesn't want to have any more contact with her parents." Motoki replied.
"You know who her brother is, right?"
"Shingo? Yeah, I know him."
"Could you go pick him up & bring him here? I'll let him call their parents."
"Sure. But... Mamoru, she's going to get better... isn't she? You said that all she did was fall. How can it be so bad? Why is she in surgery if all she did was slip & fall?" Motoki paused before he left to go to Shingo's school to tell him what happened.
"It's more complicated than that. She's over 8 months pregnant... she's only 3 weeks from her due date... her fall... might have killed her baby. " Mamoru's face was pale & his eyes were red. "Please... get her brother..."
"Right." Motoki nodded & ran off.
Mamoru fell helplessly into the same chair that Motoki had just been sitting in. "Usako... I'm so sorry. It's all my fault. It's all my fault that you might-" He was only talking to himself but he still couldn't say the words that he was thinking out loud. '...Die.'
Usagi was in surgery for 2 reasons: the doctors were trying hard to save the baby because while they were in the ambulance she had started bleeding, also she had hit her head on top of that along the table's edge. They were doing an emergency C-Section on a 16 yr old girl with a concussion & it wasn't sure if either of them would make it... she was losing so much blood.
*~*~*~*~*~*
Gomen nasai! You must all hate me for ending this chapter at such a bad time! But don't worry b/c the next chapter, (& I think final) is already partially done. I just wanted to post as much as I could in case I didn't get another chance for a few days. Anyway, sugoi, sugoi! 14 Reviews for chapter 8!!! YAY!!!!