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Stage 4
:: Two Months Later::
"...Michibiku ko tobagai koborete shimiwa you ni....." Shuichi sang gaily as he began to hang new curtains in Yuki's study.
"You are not putting the baby in there!" Yuki had ground out. "Where the hell am I suppose to work?" "Where's the baby suppose to sleep, Yuki..." Shuichi had reasoned. "She's gotta have some place to call her own." "So put her in the bedroom... No wait that's even worse! The livingrooom..."
"YUKI!"
The novelist groaned, hearing a lecture about the baby about to come up. "She needs to be near us, Yuki! The baby needs her own enclosed space. And the study is the best thing we have!"
Yuki hadn't conceded, not by far. Shuichi was being a sly little fox behind his lover's back and had ordered Hiro to bring over the curtains he had ordered. He reached up on his tip-toes to hang the gauzy curtain with pink bunnies on it when he somehow lost his footing, and...
"Baka!" Yuki hissed his ear, catching him as he fell off the step stool.
Shuichi felt himself hit a soft wall of chest, his lover's arms wrapped around him, cushioning the baby. "What did you think you were doing, you damn brat!"
"I was just..."
"You could have hurt yourself...." He then whispered. "Or the baby!"
The pink-haired sprite heard this fortunately. "Yuki...." He clasped his hands together. "You do care for the baby!" The other man pulled a face. "Yuki, I love you so much!" He glomped onto his lover. "Yuki..." The older man looked at the other with lust in his amber eyes. He bent down and captured Shuichi's lips with his, backing him up against the far wall. His young lover mewled, arching his back and tangling his small hands in Yuki's blonde hair. As their kiss became more intense the expectant mother tugged on the novelist's hair. To say the least, they were really getting it on!
"Well..." A soft voice spoke. "Am I interrupting anything?"
They froze.
Yuki turned his head to look Tohma Seguchi in the eye. He began to growl like a wild beast. "Seguchi! What the hell are you doing!?" Shuichi's leg was still resting on his hip, and a hand still up the older man's shirt. "Seguchi-san...." He breathed out, dropping his leg. "Oh," A smile. "Don't let me disturb you." "Got an eyeful, didn't you?" Yuki asked. "Not too much." Tohma sauntered over, pulling out the chair to Yuki's desk and sitting on it. He looked at the curtains Shuichi had been carelessly hanging. "Did you pick these out, Shindou-san?" The other nodded. "Yes..." "They're very...you." "Thank you, Seguchi-san." "And the baby?" The president looked down to his abdomen. "Is she well?" "As well as can be expected! She's getting very energetic!" He got more animated when discussing the baby.
"Really?"
"Yes. She's been moving around allot!" He put a hand over the baby.
Yuki watched this mindless exchange between the two. Even Tohma had been too peppy upon hearing of Shuichi's pregnancy. It was all too weird.
"Well, that's good to know."
"Hey!" Shuichi brightened. "Wanna feel her kick?"
"Oh, that isn't necessary, Shindou-san...."
"No, really! I want you to feel her! You too, Yuki!"
He just rolled his eyes as always.
The energizer bunny felt around with his hand, waiting. "Ah! There!" He grabbed Tohma's hand and put it to his stomach. "Did you feel that!?" "No..." "Just wait!" He pressed the keyboardist's hand closer. "Just wait..." They waited. "Oh!" Tohma exclaimed. "You felt it!" The platinum blonde nodded. "Isn't it the most AWESOME feeling, Seguchi-san!?" He took his hand away. "It's certainly up there, Shindou-san." "Yuki, you next!" "Some other time...." "But, Yuki..." Shuichi's face crumpled. "Now, Seguchi! What. Are. You. Doing. Here?" The president of N-G pro smiled. "No reason." He lifted a bag. "Mika-san asked me to give this to you and Shindou-san." "What's this?" Yuki didn't take it. "More charity?"
"Yuki!"
A chuckle. "I hardly think having us help provide for your child--our niece--is charity, Eiri-san..."
His eyes narrowed. "Keep it! I can provide for my own damn child!"
"Yuki..." The words were out; the novelist couldn't call them back.
He looked into his young lover's star-struck eyes. "You REALL TRULY care!"
The blonde scowled.
"Yuki." Shuichi giggled. "You know if you make a face like that for too long it'll freeze that way. Tee hee!" He covered his mouth. "I wouldn't want THAT to be the first sight our baby sees."
"Now!" Yuki turned to Tohma. "We'll not be needing that. I make more than enough to get by on Tohma and you damn well know it! I can certainly buy some things for my kid!" "Whatever you say, Eiri-san..." He left the room with a strange smile to his lips. "Yuki!" The kawaii pink-haired brat exclaimed again! "This is SO great! You care about me AND the baby! I love you. Yuki..." The novelist held him at arm's length. "So you've said..." He then went to light a cigarette. Shuichi smacked it from his lips. "YUKI!" "What the hell was that for!?" "Yuki... I thought we'd discussed this al ready! Smoking's bad for the baby!
He frowned.
"Oh, c'mon, Yuki. Don't be stubborn. It's for our baby." He smiled encouragingly. "Do it for the baby, okay?"
The other sighed. "Fine."
He crushed out the cigarette.
"How long have you been smoking behind my back, Yuki? How long have you been subjugating our baby to that filth!?"
"Wow, big word."
"Don't change the subject with me, Eiri Uesugi!" Woa! When Shuichi started using his real full name, Yuki had learned this was when trouble was going to start.
He groaned, just thinking about the headache he was going to get by the time the pregnant one was done ranting on him. "You've got allota nerve smoking when I expressly forbade you not to!" Shu-chan yelled, trailing his lover out of the office and into the living room. "Who do think you are to ignore strict rules I have set!? I'm just trying to keep our baby healthy! Is that such a crime!? But you've gotta be so damn pig-headed and do it anyway... I don't know even WHY I bother!" Here came the tears. Yuki turned around. He was going to have a migraine by the time those tears were all dried out. "Do you hate me that much, Yuki? Am I and the baby such a bother?" He sniffled. "It's because I'm not thin and so petite as I use to be, right?
"I'm all big and fat and ugly...." He let out a long wail. "An you don't want me anymore! Isn't that right? Just tell me so! Tell me you don't want me because my feet and ankles are swollen and when we make love, you have to be on the bottom, and you hate that! And you hate meeeeee!" More tears.
Yuki began to feel the beginnings of a headache coming on. He gripped the sides of his temples and gritted his teeth. Not this. Shuichi ran off to their bedroom and locked the door with a SLAM and a CLICK. The novelist stomped over to it and began banging on the door. "Damn it, Shuichi! Open this door right now!" "No! Go 'way, Yuki! I don't want you to see me! I'm ugly!"
The blonde growled. This was why he'd always been careful not to get any of the women he'd been with pregnant! He'd heard the "horror stories" some men told of possessive psycho women, overloaded on their own hormones. Now this! He knew living with Shuichi would come back to bite him in the ass one day. What's next? Rape? He pounded on the door again. "Open this DAMN DOOR, SHUICHI, OR I'LL BREAK IT DOWN!" "GO 'WAY, YUKI! I DON'T WANNA SEE YOU NOW!" Oh, this was cute... They were now having a screaming match. "Fine! Stay in there, you damn brat! I've got work to do!" He stalked to his office and slammed the door.
Inside the bedroom, the pink-haired sprite lay sniffling on the bed. His tear-stained face burried in Yuki's maroon pillow."Stupid, Yuki...."" Shuichi sobbed. "He's such a jerk!" He caught his breath. "But....I still love him, baby..." He put a hand to his stomach. "I love him with ALL of my heart AND soul!" Shuichi's heart ached so for the one known as Eiri Yuki...
Yuki stopped typing. His young lover was crying. The sound had never bothered him before (that's when he was entirely a heartless bastard). Now it hurt. It REALLY hurt. He pounded on the keys, attempting to block the painful sound out of his head by the rhythmic typing. Still he heard it. He gritted his teeth. Damn it! He got up and left his office, pressing his ear to the bedroom door. "I love him with ALL my heart AND soul!" He heard. The novelist knocked. "Shuichi..." No answer. He knocked louder, thinking the sprite hadn't heard him. "Shuichi!" Nothing again. He shut his eyes and massaged the bridge of his nose. "Oh, c'mon, Shu-chan... Answer me damn it!" Click! The door opened and there stood his pink energizer bunny.
His face softened. "Hello, Yuki... " Shuichi looked absolutely adorable. And the fact that he was with child, didn't diminish Yuki's desire for the little brat. "I'm done crying." "That's good, Shu-chan...." "Yuki..." He went into the other's arms willingly, snuggling deep. "You brat. Just because you're a little BIGGER than usual... It doesn't change my feelings for you. You can be such a baka." He kissed the top of the sprite's head.
::That Night::
Shuichi was nestled in his lover's embrace, sighing contentedly as moonlight shone down on them both through the open blinds. One of Yuki's arms was thrown over his expanding tummy, a hand resting on his thigh. "Yuki?" "Hmmm..?" "I love you." "So you've said." "Don't you believe me?" His voice was small. "I believe you, Shu-chan..." "But....you've never said you love me, too...." The other man didn't say anything for awhile; he just lay there breathing calmly. "Yu-ki?" "Yes, baka..." "Tell me you love me." "In time, Shuichi..."
The boy started to pout.
"I do care for you..."
He sighed, guessing he'd have to be content with that, but knowing deeply what Yuki really meant. He would never come out and say aloud. He just wasn't that type of per- "Oh!" He exclaimed, reaching his hand down towards his navel. "What?" "Yuki, feel!" His lover complied. He said nothing for a moment then, "Shuichi... If that's a boner, I'm going to seriously be pissed." "YUKI! Why do you have to ruin all the beautiful moments!?" "Shut up, baka..." He kissed the top of his pink head and smiled.
"The baby's moving...."
Next Chapter: Stage 5: Nesting Period
A/N: Yay! Chapter..four done! HAHAH. Don't you just love that last line!? I thought of it while driving home today. I crack myself up! Well, did you like it? Enjoy the fluff!? Well... You know what to do! Review onegai!