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Keitaro...I'm Pregnant: An Old Face

It's been two weeks since Shinobu told everyone that she's pregnant. Naru, Su and Motoko decided to play detective to find out who the mystery sperm donor is so they can punish him badly. So far, the only guys they seem to have on their wanted list are seniors in Shinobu's school and graduates from Su's class. I feel sorry for whoever they interrogate. But I'm glad they ruled me out as a suspect. Kitsune seems to care about the situation, but doesn't do anything. Neither does Aunt Haruka, but she will take Shinobu to the doctor when needed. About the only person who's happy with this is Mutsumi. I'm not surprised since she's very acceptable to things. I would act like that to, but since some of the girls really want to know who the father is, I have to act more concerned for Shinobu being pregnant than acting like the dad about to have a child. So far...

"MR. URASHIMA! ARE YOU PAYING ATTENTION?!" I didn't realize I was daydreaming in Mr. Nishihira's beginning photography class.

"Hmmm...Uhhh..."

"Thought so. Please listen up, OK?" I nod. "By the way, I need to speak to you when we have our break." I nod again and he goes back to his demonstration on how to develop film. I wonder why he needs to talk to me? It's only the second time I've been in class, since this is a once a week class and he needs to talk to me? Hopefully it's nothing bad. I only took this class because Shinobu is great at taking pictures and I would like to know how to take better ones myself.

Once Mr. Nishihira announces our break, I walk to him. I'm glad he lets us have these breaks, which are half an hour. I don't think I can handle a four hours class without a break here or there. "Yes sir?"

"Keitaro, remember that info sheet I made you and everyone in class write?" I'm a little puzzled about this, but it's better then being told about daydreaming in class.

"Yes."

"Well, in a class of about 90 to 100 people, you're the only one who can speak English. The reason why I needed to talk to you is that I just got another student assistant, making that four. He's from the study abroad program and was assigned to me. Unfortunately, he only speaks English. I never done this before, but you'll get your own personal helper in this class, if you need it. He can help me in my Thursday class since one fourth of the class speaks English, but for this class, you have him. " I'm pretty grateful with this. I want all the help I can get in the class and now I have someone who can personally help me during class? This is great!

"Wow sir. Thank you."

"Don't mention it. But I would advice you to go to the darkroom now. He's there waiting for you."

"Why is he waiting for me sir?"

"Once break is over, I'm going to tell the class about the darkroom and show it to them. But the darkroom is small and I can only take thirty at a time to show them how to use the enlargers. It'll take the rest of the class time to show everyone. I thought since that assistant only has you, he could teach you and answer any questions you have instead of crowding around thirty people." I have to sacrifice my break, but it's a easy decision.

"Sure. That's great sir." I grab my bag and run to the darkroom area. Once there, I see two photo lab aids setting up in the issue room. I ask them about Mr. Nishihira student assistant and they point me to his office. When I go there and open the door, I see an Asian guy sitting in a chair. He turns around and I immediately take a look at him. He seems to be younger then me with shorter hair. He's wearing khaki pants, green shirt, a watch and glasses. From looking at him, I swear I seen him before. Being the goof-ball I am, I say "You look..."

"Familiar? Yeah, I know." Seem he knows me too, but can't place it either. "Anyway, you the person that knows English in Mr. Nishihira's Tuesday's class?" I nod. "Good. He told me that I'm suppose to teach someone about the darkroom. By the way, I'm Raymond. Raymond Ancheta."

"Keitaro Urashima." He smiles and walks out the office. I follow. He gets some equipment from the issue room before going into the darkroom.

Inside, I could barely see anything. The only thing I could see are faded orange lights that are only shining at the clock. Even with those, I still bump into things. I can hear Raymond laughing a little.

"You lost?" He yells.

"No. It's just too dark in here."

"Wait for your eyes to adjust." I do as he says and within a minute, I'm surprise that I can see in the darkroom. I find him at a nearby station. I walk up to him, where he is setting up.

"How can you see in here?"

"I been doing this for five years now. Being in the darkroom is like home to me." Once he finishes setting up, he demonstration to me how to work the enlarger. What to do and what not to do. He then shows me how to print a picture. I'm amazed with what he's teaching me because I always wondered how pictures were made. First, he tells me that I need to use a test strip so I can tell which exposure use when I print a picture. The image on the test strip looks familiar to me, but I can't place where I seen it.

"What is that a picture of?" I ask.

"This? Just a picture of Lombard Street in San Francisco."

"San Francisco? You go to school there?"

"Yeah." OK. Trying to remember where I seen this guy is giving me a headache. I don't think he seems to care since he's trying to teach. After we determine the exposure, he prints the picture of it. Since the exposure is 30 seconds, I look at the picture. There seems to be two people in it. Once the exposure is finished, he takes the paper and puts it in the tray with paper developer. He gentle moves the tray left and right, telling me that it'll quickly show the picture. Once the picture is fully shown, I'm bewilder to recognize the two people in his picture as Shinobu and me.

"Who are the two people in the picture?" He looks at the picture for a second before telling me.

"I don't really know. They were tourists that wanted their picture taken there while I was a cab driver for the summer." Oh my gosh! Raymond was the cab driver! Seems he doesn't remember me though. Guess I'll tell him.

"So, do you know if those two has fun at the Radisson Miyako Hotel?"

"I really don't know. They... hey wait! How do you know that they stayed at the Radisson Miyako Hotel?"

"Because that's me in the picture." Raymond stares at me a bit before looking at the picture.

"Damn! That is you!" The look on his face is priceless. At least, the features I can see. After regaining his composure, he continues to teach before his watch goes off. "Well, that's all I can teach you. Mr. Nishihira will be coming in with some of the other people. You can stay if you like to learn more."

"Nah. I get it." I help him put away the equipment, taking it back to the issue room. Afterwards, I show him around the campus upon his request, but only show him the English Building and Math Building since he only has classes there. Since neither of us have any more classes and are getting hungry, I take him to a fast food place a few blocks away. After ordering our food, I make small talk with him, since he is going to be helping me in class.

"What are you doing here?" I ask.

"Me? My girlfriend is in the study abroad program, so I decided to join. Unfortunately, I somehow misheard her and ended up going here instead of England."

"So, are any of your friends here?"

"Maybe. I talked about it with them, but don't know where they actually are. By the way, you know of any student apartments? I heard that all the dormitories are full."

"You need a place to stay?"

"Yeah. " Before I can tell him about being manager at the Hinata Sou, our food arrive. I'm a little surprise with him eating his burger since he inhales it! I decide to tell him after he finishes eating.

"I think I know of a place you can stay at."

"Really? Where?"

"It's a bit away from the school. Like an hour on the train..."

"An hour?! Why so far?"

"Because I'm the manager." He seems even more surprised with this then finding out I was in the picture.

"You mean it?" I nod. "How much is rent?" I think about for a bit and decide to give him an offer.

"You said that you brought all you photo equipment with you, right?" He nods. "Tell you what. I can't afford buying all that. If I can borrow yours, you can pay half of the rent." Raymond lets out a huge smile.

"It's a deal!"

Once we finish eating, we head back to Mr. Nishihira's office so he can grab his stuff. Unfortunately, the door is locked. We waited two hours before he came back. Actually, I waited. Raymond slept the two hours. Must be jet lag. Anyway, once the teacher came, I wake him up and we got his bags. We have to leave his large white Balikbayan box behind since it's too heavy to lift all the way back to the apartments.

On the ride to the Hinata Sou, I can tell Raymond was trying to sleep because he isn't snoring. Before arriving at our stop, he opens his eyes and starts talking to me.

"Since you're the manager of the apartment building, who else lives there?"

"Well..." I start swearing, forgetting to tell him about the others. "It's basically an all girls dormitory, so..." He looks like his head about to explode.

"Wait! An all girls dormitory?" I nod. "How are you the manager?"

"My grandma was the manager before going around the world and left me in charge."

"What about the tenants? Won't they reject me since I am...not a girl?"

"Well, I'm the manager. They should understand that it's my decision. And I think Shinobu would be happy to see you again."

"Shinobu? Who's she?" Guess I didn't tell who the girl was in the picture either.

"She's the one who went with me to San Francisco." He lets out a big grin.

"Oh! You mean your jail-bait girlfriend!"

"What?!" I start swearing again. "Jail-bait? What do you mean?"

"Forget that! So she lives with you, huh?" More sweat comes falling down. "She must pay you differently for rent, huh?"

"What do you mean?"

"When I took you two to the airport, you two looked like you got some action." What? How could he tell? "I mean, the way you two looked at each other. How you smiled at each other. Even when she placed her hand on your thigh!" He lets out a bigger grin. "You two where trying to make babies! Weren't you?" If one good thing came out of this, it was that he was quiet enough that the people around us couldn't hear. I feel bad. He barely knows me and he partly knows what happens. I'm not going to tell him he can't stay anymore because he knows. Guess I have know choice but to tell him.

"Yeah. Yeah we did."

"HUH?" His smiling and cheerful face changes to a surprise look. "You did?"

"Yeah. We were...playing around. And now...she's pregnant." His face looks pale as a ghost. I notice that we are at our stop, so I grab one of his bags and point to the door. Raymond takes notice of me and grabs his other bag, following me. We are silent for most of the walk home. I been wondering how he figured it out. It just bugs me. "So, what gave ourselves away that you know Shinobu and I had...some loving?" He looks at me, still like a ghost.

"Dude! I was kidding!"

"Kid...Kidding?"

"Yeah! One thing you got to know about me is I have a perverted mind." No wonder he was commenting about us in the cab like that!

"Oh. I'm...kidding too. Really!" Hopefully he believes me, but the way he's looking tells me he doesn't.

"Yeah right! I minor in theater and been acting since I was seven. I can tell a bad performance when I see one." I feel real bad lying to him, but what can I do? I'm not sure what he'll do with information I'm giving him. "Do the other tenants know about this? I want to know what's going on if I'm going to live with you and your pregnant girlfriend." Odd, I thought he would try to blackmail me. Guess he just wants to help me out.

"The others know that she's pregnant. They don't know that I'm the one who impregnated her." He seems to be doing some heavy thinking as we reach the top of the stairs. I'm bother by this since I don't know him.

Once inside, I take off my shoes and walk to the stairs. I notice him taking of he shoes when I hear screaming behind me. When I turn around, I see Naru charging at me.

"You sick lecher!" Before I know it, I'm flying across the room. Somehow, I didn't go through the front door and land in the dirt ground. Instead, I'm lying in the waiting room with a little pain in my back. I didn't realize until I saw Raymond lying on the floor that he must have stopped me flying any further. As I help him up, I hear someone else's screaming. I turn to see Motoko coming at me with her katana blade up.

"You're going to hell for what you did to Shinobu!" I didn't have time to react when she swung at me. Luckily, Raymond did and pushed me out of the way in time. When I got my balance, I looked at the two girls with burning rage in their eyes.

"What's going on? Why did you attack me?" They both point at me.

"Because you impregnated Shinobu!" What the? How did they find out?

"What prove do you have?"

"This!" Su says, popping between them while holding a clear cup containing some yellow water.

"What's that?"

"It's Shinobu's urine sample." What the?!

"Why do you have that for?"

"I told Shinobu that I made a invention that can determine if her baby is a boy or a girl with a urine sample." I want to question her testing, but this is Su. "In reality, it's a machine that tells when someone got pregnant so we know who to go after."

"So why attack me?"

"That's simple." Naru says. "The test proves that she got pregnant while in San Francisco."

"And we can only think of one person who went there with her." Motoko says, raising her katana while the other two get ready to injure me severely. Before any of them take a step, Mutsumi, Kitsune and Sarah enter from the kitchen.

"WOW!" Kitsune yells. "I almost missed Keitaro get the crap beaten out of him."

"Can I join?" Sarah ask.

"Sure! The more, the better!" Su tells her. I feel...wait...know that I won't survive this ordeal. Their anger must be to the max now, waiting to pound on me. I wish for a miracle right about now.

"Hey!" Mutsumi says. "Who's that cute guy over there?" The girls turn around and see Raymond, looking at us funny.

"Hey! Who are you?" Su ask.

"How did you get in?" Sarah ask.

"What are you doing here?" Naru asks. They wait patiently for his answer, but doesn't give one. They repeat themselves again and again. Even Motoko threatens him, but still no respond. Then it dawns on me that they're speaking to him in Japanese .

"Guys," I say in English. "You need to speak English to him." They all turn to me.

"Why is that?" Motoko ask. I can see that Raymond looks rather mad.

"That's it!" He yells, getting all of our attention. "Other than Keitaro, who else speaks English around here!" Everyone gives a bewildered look as they all raise their hands. "Good! Now that I know I can speak to you all, what the hell is going on?" Everyone seems to hesitate before speaking.

"Wait a minute!" Naru says. "Who are you and what are you doing here?"

"I'm Raymond Ancheta and I need a place to stay while I go to Tokyo University." All the girls, especially the ones that go to Toudai with me, are rather shock to hear that. Well...not Mutsumi. She seems rather happy with this, showing a cheery smile.

"You go to Tokyo...University?" He nods. "Why stay here?"

"He offered." Pointing at me. Most of the girls look rather mad at me.

"Oh no, no, no," Motoko says. "This is an all girls dormitory and we got enough problems with one guy living here."

"Well, you just added one more." She seems stun to hear him say that. No one ever dares telling her off like that. Especially when she's holding her katana blade. He's either extremely brave or a extremely stupid. Still, if he stays with us, I think those two will be bickering all the time. "Since I'm going to live here, what were you four about to do to Keitaro?"

"Well," Su begins. "We just found out that Keitaro just impregnated one of our friends that lives here."

"How?"

"We got a urine sample from her and analyzed it. From the tests I ran, she got pregnant during a trip to San Francisco that the two of them went together."

"Did she tell you after you showed her the evidence?" HUH? What's he up too?

"When we told her what we did, she yelled 'YOU TRICKED ME!' and ran into her room."

"All right. Who is this girl then?"

"I'll get her." Kitsune says, going up the stairs. We all wait patiently for her to return with Shinobu. None of the girls take their eyes off of Raymond. I think they all want to kick his ass, with the exception of Mutsumi. She looks like she's in love with him. Then again, she always looks like that. After a couple of minutes, Kitsune goes down with Shinobu. She turns to me with tears running down her eyes. I feel sad for her. She has been betrayed by her friends, who seems not to care that they cause her major pain. All I want to do right now is run up to her and comfort her. To wipe away her tears and yell to them 'Yes! I impregnated Shinobu, but we did it out of love.' Hopefully they understand. But knowing them, they beat me down into a bloodily pupil or something. Whatever they decide, I'll take my punishment like the man I am.

"Her?"

"Yep. That's her. That's who Keitaro impregnated." He laughs hysterically as the girls give him funny looks. I give one too, but it's more to what's he thinking of.

"What's so funny?" Naru ask. When he replies, he drops a bomb into our pregnancy problem.

"He didn't impregnate her. I did!"

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