darkness of death: Welcome! I have nothing to say but I don't own Digimon.

Kouichi and Ari: YAHOO! We're gonna be parents!

darkness of death; Oh, great. Tis' thy fault that tis' happened. * Kouichi and Are scream *

Ari: AHHHH! Mercurermon! Head for the hills!

Kouichi: Don't scare us like that! You've never met Mercurermon!

darkness of death: I have. YO Mercurermon! * Mercurermon comes out, waves, and leaves. * See? I do know him.

Ari: -__-' Enjoy the story.

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Chapter 9: Home again

"It's good to be home! But I miss the others already." I said and plopped on the couch. I waved bye to Kouichi and Kouji as they walked out the door to their dorm.

"Yeah. At least we can visit the others in the Digital World anytime we want." Izumi agreed. I smiled and felt all tingly inside.

"True." Was all the reply she got from me.

"Is it true about what you told Kouichi? Are you really.." She asked.

"Yeah. I'm gonna have a baby." I answered.

"Oh my gosh! I'm so happy for you!"

"I'm happy too. It's just that Tousan is expecting me to finish college and get a job. The baby will kinda make this harder to do. And I could never give her up because she's family now and no one should give up their family." I sighed.

"This won't be so hard. There's friends and family around to help." Izumi comforted. I just couldn't hold it in any longer and I broke down. "C'mon, we'll all help you. Kouichi will probably help the most since it's his baby too." She alleged and hugged me warmly.

"You know? I think that this will make things all the better now. Thanks Izumi." I replied and dialed Kouichi's number.

"Hello?" Kouji asked.

"Hi. Can I talk to Ichi?" I asked. Kouichi picked up the phone and said,

"Hi Ari. You wanna talk about you being pregnant?"

"Yeah. What should we do with her? I wanna keep her, but she is your child too." I said.

"I wanna keep her too. I don't care if it interferes with our school, let alone change our lives, but then again it might be fun." He replied. I smiled happily because..well...you know already.

"Okay!" I said excitedly.

"I just have one question."

"Shoot."

"Can you come over here?"

"Sure thing." We hung up the phones and I yelled, "Yo Izumi! I'm going next door for a while!"

"Okay" She replied. I went next door and knocked on it. Kouichi was the one who answered it and he said,

"Hi."

"Hi."

"Come in. You're not walking on lava anyways." He welcomed and I snickered as I walked in.

"So why did ya ask me to come over?" I questioned.

"I just wanna ask, uhh, how do I say this, er, uhh, umm.." Kouichi stuttered. I had no clue about what he was talking about. Heh, price we get for not being romantic at all. Actually, I didn't have a clue till he just asked quietly, "Willyoumarryme?"

"Nani?" I asked. "Slower this time."

"Will you marry me?" See, like I said before, he's not the romantic type, so he didn't go on a knee, or any of those other proposing thingys that guys do. Of course, I said yes.

"Okay." Was what I said though.

"Works for me." He replied. " I was kinda planning to ask you before, but didn't know when, so now seemed like a good time." I just laughed and pushed him a little.

"Interesting. Right after you find out I'm pregnant." I teased him.

"Hey! Very funny." He replied sarcastically.

"I know it is." I answered.

"Geez. You're so hard to understand at times." Kouichi sighted.

"The smart people understand what I say."

"What's that supposed to mean?!?!?!?!?" He yelled.

"Never mind." I said, acting as if he was really stupid.

"Alright." He murmured. 'He admitted it!' I thought.

"HA!"

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Ari: Yeah, and there might be just two more chapters to finish this story.]

Kouichi: Now she can stop torturing us

darkness of death: Naw, my next fic will probably have the whole gang again AND my three new add on characters the triplets. They seemed like such good characters that I just can't bear to lock them up and never use them so... I"LL BE WRITING ABOUT YOU AGAIN!!!!!

Ari: Oh, no.

Kouichi: Ja ne!