My thanks go to! Ivgie Sole (hugs for the support and great reviews ::grin::), Ken's luver, Kara, Seishi Minamoto, syenite (return glomp!) Kyla Minamoto (is it me or this family name's so popular? ::wink::), takuya, and of course my wonderful beta-reader!!! Sorry if this chapter doesn't have all your questions answered. Yeah, I'm evil. Heh hehe. ::scutters away with fluffy bunny ears::
by Wormmonsoul
Chapter Nineteen in Which a Decision is Made and a Father is Introduced
Flashback
"What baby?" finally asked Yamato and voiced the worry of all digi-boys. "Whose baby?"
The girls grabbed Yasashiiko and shot out of the house. The boys exchanged uncomfortable glances.
"Congratulations! You're a proud mother to a wonderful healthy about two months old baby!" said the smiling doctor after Yasashiiko had done all the tests in the hospital.
"Thanks," she mumbled.
"This is not something I want to be congratulated upon," Mimi said darkly. "Especially if I'm 16 years old."
"Erm... right. So... Doc... " Yasashiiko said. "Is there any way to get rid of that baby?"
"You don't want it?" the doctor asked in shock.
"She's too young to have it," Mimi said.
"Ah... well, there's abortion, of course. We have to inform your parents..."
"No way!" Sashi interrupted.
"Sashi!" the girls hissed. "It's not time to discuss morality!"
"No way my folks get to know about this baby!" the girl said stubbornly. There was a moment of silence.
"I thought you were talking about abortion," Miyako said softly. "It wasn't funny, Sashi. Even if you're a guy you must understand."
"It's abominable," Hikari whispered, her lips white.
"But it has to be done!" the Child of Sincerity snapped. "You heard Koushiro - in January she will turn back into Ken. It will kill the baby. Or..." she made a pause. "The baby might stay in Ken's body and it will, in any case, kill him. Or... it might be transferred to Miyako's body because she and Yasashiiko are bounded by the spell..."
Miyako went green at the prospect. "Mom'll kill me."
"We don't know what might happen!" Mimi said. "That's why it's better to get rid of the problem while it's still small."
Sora shook her head, jumped to her feet and ran out of the room.
"What exactly is an abortion?" Yasashiiko asked in confusion.
The doctor gently handed her a small book with pictures.
"Don't worry, girl. We'll kill the baby in your tummy with drugs, and extract the body with the help of these instruments. You won't even fell any pain."
The indigo-haired girl pressed her hand to her stomach. Her eyes went large in a fright. Kill the little baby inside of her?
"Come on, let's go." The doctor helped her to her feet.
"No! Wait! I..." she gasped. "I.. don't..."
"I'm not going to do it now," he said. "We need your parents' permission first and many papers have to be signed to do it according to the law. I'm just going to check on you one more time. You see, your body has already adapted to the pregnancy. If you lose the baby, it will be hard for you to recover. But until you decide, I'm giving you prescriptions what you must eat and do to keep the two of you healthy."
"Right," Mimi said. "We forgot someone important here who must help her with the decision. The father of the child."
"Two months... it means approximately from mid-August to mid-September," said Hikari.
Yasashiiko turned to them nervously.
"It could be Daisuke," she gulped. "But then again... it could be not."
"What's your best guess?" Miyako asked. Everyone knew that Yasashiiko used to get around a lot.
Yasashiiko's face went very red. "All Chosen males?... Wormmon?... Kaiser?... Anyone?" she said.
Mimi, Hikari, Miyako and Sora, who returned to the room, all groaned.
The moment she was out of the hospital Hikari called her boyfriend.
"Yes, honey, so what's happened?!" Yamato demanded in a panicked voice.
"She's pregnant," Hikari said icily.
"Who?! You?!"
Hikari swore. "No, YOU, jerk!"
"Me?!" Yamato asked.
"YASASHIIKO is pregnant with someone's kid!" the Child of Light shouted.
"Not Daisuke's?"
"You'd better start explaining, Ishida," Hikari hissed. "And pray that the baby is Daisuke's. Because Sashi said that ALL of you slept with her, you dirty bunch of perverts!!! And I'm gonna beat my big bro to a pulp for that! But first, honey, I'm gonna beat YOU!" she snapped and stopped the call.
Yamato turned to the rest of the Chosen boys. They were sitting in the kitchen, sipping beer and going slowly crazy.
"Guys, we have a problem," the blonde informed them. He briefly explained.
"I can't be the father!" Taichi burst out. "It was too long ago and not true!"
"I'm gonna kill ya!" Daisuke screamed and jumped at Taichi, a bottle in his hand.
Luckily, Koushiro and Iori managed to grab his ankles and bring him down nicely on the table while Jyou was wringing out the weapon from his fist.
Daisuke was swearing his worst and promising to kill anyone who touched his girlfriend.
"Dai, calm down!" Takeru said tiredly. "Everyone slept with Sashi. Okay? No use in denying. EVERYONE."
"Cause she's so hot," Taichi added.
"Even me," said Wormmon, but very shyly.
"Even Kaiser," said Iori. "And me too. Once. But I demand a lawyer! I was drugged!"
"Digimon can do IT with humans?" Taichi gasped. "Eew... gross!"
"Still, Angewomon is so sexy," Takeru said dreamily.
"Lillymon too," Koushiro added.
Jyou blew his nose and wiped the tears from under his glasses. "It wasn't my fault! I was under alcohol's influence and I APOLOGIZED! I... I only did it once!"
"Same here," Yamato raised his hand.
"What?!" Taichi breathed out. "I thought you were gay? Fags don't count. What, are you serious?!!"
"Me too, only once!" Takeru said cheerfully. "So the chances are pretty low!"
"Me too," Wormmon said. He was pouting because nobody paid attention to him.
"It makes Taichi, Koushiro and Daisuke the only ones who had sex with Sashi on regular basis," Yamato said.
Daisuke growled and kicked out from under a pile of chairs on top of him, placed there to ensure the security of the rest of the C-boys.
"And Kaiser," Iori said.
"I don't want to be a father!" Taichi flew into hysteria. "Please, Yama, save me!!! Yama, seduce me or something! Turn me gay! I don't want to marry Ken! I don't want to have his baby!!! Better kill me first! Don't wanna! Don't wanna! Don't wanna!"
Yamato bonked him on the head with a frying-pan to prevent the panic spreading in the group. He could tell that Jyou was about to cry again and start swallowing his suspicious pills one after another.
"I'm too young to change diapers and buy baby food!!!" Koushiru hugged his laptop, sobbing. "And I love my laptop too much! What if the little bastard threw it on the floor?!"
"Daisuke?" everyone turned to him.
"Isn't it cute?" Daisuke gave a grin. "My and Ken's baby?"
"GROSS!"
"The best option is Kaiser," Yamato sighed. "It takes the problem out of our hands."
"But just imagine it, the baby of the genius Ken and the psychotic maniac Kaiser," Iori said wisely. Iori obviously didn't like Kaiser. He was the only one who didn't want to forget the merciless pervert. He had his reasons. See previous chapters.
"KOWAI!!! A tyrant of both worlds!"
Jyou pushed his glasses up his nose.
"We all know the capabilities of Ken," he said. "Now, I want to suggest the capabilities of his child by juxtaposing Ken's genius with our own characteristics."
"It will be kind of .. enhanced, right?" Iori speculated.
"First," Jyou said gravely. "If this baby is mine. A genius doctor who invents a vaccine from AIDS and is given a Nobel Prize!!!"
Everybody went wow.
"Mine!" said Takeru. "A genius writer who receives a Nobel Prize for his philosophical books!"
"No, mine!" said Koushiro. "A computer whiz who finds a way to access the Digital World from any place and change it at will! And he will be richer that Bill Gates!"
"No way!" Taichi smirked. "It will be an incompatible genius soccer player, who's gonna win the World Cup. Besides that, he will be a real lady-killer!"
Yamato smacked him again with a frying-pan. "It will be a smashing girl!" he said. "She's going to be Miss Universe and a real bitch! Then she becomes a genius rock superstar and more famous than Madonna!"
Iori coughed politely. "It will be a founder of a new school of kendo..."
"No!" Wormmon cried. "If it's my child, then it will be new species, half-bred!"
The boys turned their excited faces to a certain mahogany-haired who was steadily crawling out from under a pile of chairs.
"What do you think, Daisuke? A genius soccer player too?"
"No!" Daisuke said. "It's gonna be a blue-eyed, red-haired girl."
"Cute!" everyone exclaimed. "And?"
"She's gonna be a teacher."
At that moment Hikari appeared in the kitchen.
"Very funny," and she threw a meaningful look first at Yamato then at Taichi. "That is, if there will be a baby."
"If?" Daisuke asked in puzzlement.
Hikari told them about abortion.
"Sashi doesn't have a choice," she added bitterly. "She's going to turn into Ken before she can give birth to this baby. Forgot already? How typical of males. And we don't know what's going to happen then. And just to make everything sure..."
"No!" Daisuke said emphatically. "It can't be! She wouldn't!"
"Daisuke, it's her choice, and hers alone," Hikari sighed. "I'm sorry, I'm tired and a little depressed. I'll go to my room. Clean after yourselves when you go home." She went away.
"Then it would make it all easy if the baby isn't born..." Koushiro said quietly.
"Fuck!!" Daisuke kicked the fridge. "Ken wouldn't! He has the Crest of fucking Kindness, dammit! He was always sad when somebody died, even if it was a digimon. He would go to the Primary village and look for this digimon there! Isn't it enough that he thought he killed Osamu and Wormmon?!!"
"Daisuke..." Wormmon whispered. Then he quickly scattered to the door and was gone looking for Ken.
Yasashiiko was crouching on the floor in her room in Tamachi and was flipping listlessly through a huge encyclopedia. There were lots of pictures, of male and female reproductive system, the womb and fetus, the stages of pregnancy, the birth process, child diseases, abortion... Even pictures describing how to feed a child and hold it until it can sit by itself.
She tucked her face in her knees and cried.
Mimi was right, she couldn't keep that child. Her parents would never understand. She's too young, it may be harmful for her.. And besides, she wasn't a real girl. So it didn't even hurt that there was a danger in abortion of never again having a baby.
Wormmon climbed up the side of the house and slipped into her room through the balcony door.
"Ken?"
"Wormmon... what do I do?"
The little green blob snuggled up to her. He was at a loss. After all, he was only a digimon. What could he say? "I can't, Wormmon..." she said helplessly. "When I think that I could hold him in my arms and he would smile at me... But it's impossible... And imagine if it's really Daisuke's child?! He would hate me... I can't do it."
"Even with Digimon babies there is a lot of problems," Wormmon said. "It takes so much time and care to raise a Baby... but I have never heard of Elecmon ever abandoning a single one. Even if it will evolve into a Tyrannomon or BlackWarGreymon. And Elecmon always fight to protect the Babies."
Ken sobbed.
"They will make me do it, because it isn't RIGHT that I got pregnant. But I can't... just throw it away," she whispered. "I don't care whose baby it is. It's MINE. It's in me."
Wormmon nuzzled her foot.
"Then don't throw it away," he asked. "Please? I'll fight for you and your baby."
"Kaiser told me the same thing," she said. "But in a more picturesque detail. What he is going to do to whom and how and for how long."
Yasashiiko picked the digimon in her arms.
"Maybe you're right, Wormmon. I want to see this baby's face. I'll keep it."
"Maybe if you can go to the Digiworld you won't become Ken in two months?" Wormmon suggested.
"That's right. There must be a way." The girl wiped her tears. "I'll call up Sora. The Child of Love would understand."
Next day, the Chosen Children with grave faces gathered in Yamato's apartment. Some faces weren't just grave, they were richly coloured with bruises and bumps. Yasashiiko and Wormmon were there as well.
"Guys, here's what Yasashiiko has to say," Sora said shyly.
"I'm going to keep the baby, you morons. And big thanks to the one who made me like this!" the girl growled.
Wormmon was backing her up. It was kind of intimidating since he had digivolved all the way to Stingmon and was looking like he could do even better any moment. Say, Imperialdramon Paladin Mode. Without any help from V-mon.
"It's uhm... wonderful," Iori swallowed.
"Prodigious," Koushiro nervously added.
"Supercool," said Taichi and winced. After a dozen good punches from his sister, his jaw didn't work well.
"Amazing!" that was Yamato from his bed. He couldn't get up. (Mainly the reason why the Chosen team went to his house.) He had his leg in a bucket of ice-cubes. His explanation was that he fell down the stairs. But Taichi could tell that it was his sister's trademark kick in the shins. When she was wearing high-heeled shoes.
"I.. I'm speechless. It's great!" Takeru hurried to say and limped away from Miyako and her baseball bat.
"I'm so happy for you," Jyou cried. Sincere tears rolled down his cheeks. But it could be because the Child of Sincerity was twisting his arm behind his back.
"I love you!" Daisuke cried.
She blushed.
"Well," Sora said. "Now to figure out how to save this baby. I have a plan. I remind to all males and digimon that pregnancy takes 9 months. We have to prolong the effect of the spell for 7 more months. Period."
"But..." Miyako said. "We don't have enough potion left."
"Then we're going to look for that witch who sold you that potion and buy some more," Sora explained. "It wouldn't be Yasashiiko doing this. She has a baby to take care of..."
Daisuke raised his hand.
"I've a question! Is it a boy or a girl?"
"It's an idiot, just like the mother and the father," Mimi said. "Are you insane? Nobody could tell at this stage!"
"When do we know who the father is?" asked Taichi.
"When it will be born," Hikari said. "And I swear I'll kill somebody if the baby has blonde hair..."
Yamato went pale.
"One more thing," Sora said. "Somebody has to tell Sashi's parents. As in, admit he's the father of the child."
There was a long silence. Long silence. Jyou sobbed. And more long silence.
"What's up with you, guys?!" Hikari growled.
"But we don't know who the real father is!" Takeru said defensively. "Besides, Daisuke's the best option!"
"Why me?!" the soccer player burst out. "What if it's YOUR child? How will I explain BLONDE hair!"
"Actually, according to the genetics," Jyou hurried to say. "The baby's likely to have dark hair! And dark eyes!"
"Taichi has dark eyes," Iori pointed out.
"So do Koushiro, Jyou, and Daisuke!" Yagami bit back.
"Well, it's not a problem if the child has green skin!" Yamato laughed from the bed. Stingmon turned to him. "KIDDING!" the blonde screamed.
Sora tapped her foot impatiently.
"Guys... Listen to me. I say we must choose from the Elder Chosen. First, they are about to finish school, and they will have more time on their hands to devote to the baby. Second, their reputation wouldn't suffer. Third, they can actually earn money and keep the appearance of a family. I'm not saying that they have to be the REAL father. They just have to put a show of being a father. For the sake of parents and teachers. And it's only for a year. Any volunteers?"
Silence.
Sora bumped her head on the wall.
"We need someone responsible," Mimi said in a menacing voice. Jyou winced.
"Someone who knows how to take care of a wife and a child," Miyako added. "I'm talking cooking, washing and cleaning." Yamato tried to dig himself a hole in the bed and hide.
"Someone who would be patient enough and clever enough not to pay attention to evil rumours and suspicions," Hikari said. Koushiro backed into the corner.
"And someone strong enough to protect Yasashiiko," Sora finished. Taichi nervously tugged on the collar of his shirt.
And silence.
"Okay, Sashi, you pick," Sora gave up.
The girl frowned.
"Let's see. I need a man who can wash, cook and clean, that's for sure. A man who can do good in bed. A man who would obey me and especially one who wouldn't use force against me. A man who would be fun to talk to and nice to look at. A man with taste, a gentleman..."
"You need a slave or a robot, in that case," Yamato snapped.
"Why do I suddenly feel very small?" Daisuke muttered uncomfortably.
"That's why I pick Yamato!" Yasashiiko announced. Hikari went white.
There was no support in the eyes of the C-boys when Yamato turned to them with a pleading face. He threw his last ace on the table.
"NO WAY! I'm a GAY!"
"Oops," said Yasashiiko with a sly knowing smile. "That rhymed."
tsuzuku...
a/n Tadamm!!! It's been a long time, I know. One or two more chapters left to go! ::grin:: I had fun writing it. But the part about abortion was sad and scary. ::teary-eyed:: Well, next chapter - Yasashiiko's REVENGE! Oh yeah, who's the father? I don't know? And you?
::heh heh::
kowai - scary
Tips that may help:
July (end) Ken was turned into a girl
August (mid and end) Sashi slept with Taichi, Koushiro, Jyou, Daisuke
September (beginning) Sashi slept with Takeru, Kaiser, Wormmon, Iori, (mid) Yamato
November (end) Sashi found out she was pregnant
January (end) Sashi must become Ken