"Can I come?" Tai asked on the phone.

"Uh…sure." Kari answered, a bit surprised at his sudden request. "Of course you can Tai."

"Are you inviting Tai? I want to invite someone too." TK said.

"But TK, we can only fit so many people in that tiny room…Oh, fine. Okay Tai. Tomorrow at three." Kari hung up and handed the cordless to a smiling TK. "Are you inviting Matt?"

"No. Davis."

"Davis? Oh, TK, you aren't starting this again…"

"I just want him to know what our baby looks like." TK defended.

"TK, Davis isn't interested in me anymore. It was just a crush he had when we were children."

"'Just a crush?' I wouldn't call stalking 'just a crush.'"

"He didn't stalk me. Why do you have to tease him about it all the time?"

"I'm not teasing him. I'm poking fun at him. Seriously, Kari, Davis is a good friend of mine. He knows I'm just kidding."

"I still don't like it. Why don't you take Matt? He's your brother, and soon he'll be an uncle."

Well, as it turns out, neither Davis nor Matt could come, so TK invited Cody. It had been a while since they had seen each other, and Cody was fun to be with.

"Hello Tai. Are you excited to see your nephew?" Cody greeted Tai in the waiting room while Kari and TK glanced through magazines.

"You bet. But I also want to see this Dr. Greystone my brother-in-law is so fond of." Tai answered. TK grumbled from behind his magazine. "What was that TK?"

"Nothing."

"Takashi?" Called a nurse. The foursome walked toward the room the nurse indicated, some more reluctantly than others. "Dr. Greystone will be here in a minute."

"No hurry." TK answered.

"Hey, a TV! I wonder if the game is on." Tai headed for the monitor.

"Tai, don't you touch that screen!" Kari ordered.

"Okay, okay. Man, this is a dismal place. All it needs is leg irons. What are these for?" Tai pointed to the stirrups at the end of the exam bed.

TK shuddered. "You don't want to know."

"I'm surprised he doesn't. Even I know what those are for." Cody replied. Tai lost interest in the stirrups and started playing with the small rubber hammer the doctor uses to test reflexes. He hit his knee, causing his leg to kick a chair, which made a loud clanking sound. Tai steadied the chair and gingerly put the hammer down.

"It's never dull with Tai around." Kari had to admit.

"What do we have here?" Dr. Greystone walked in and smiled.

"This is my brother Tai, and our friend Cody." Kari replied.

"It's very nice to meet you doctor." Cody bowed, kendo-style.

"Oh, do you do martial arts? What kind? You look like a karate man to me."

Cody turned red. "It's kendo, actually."

"Huh. Never heard of it." Dr. Greystone turned to Tai. "And it's nice to meat you too, Tai. It's not every day I meet someone with hair the size of a continent. Heehee." Kari hid a smile. Both boys looked ready to strangle Dr. Greystone.

"Now, TK," The doctor continued, "Have you been taking care of Kari? You made sure she's taking her folic acid pills, right? If she doesn't take three each day, the baby's whole central nervous system could be shot!"

The color drained from TK's face. "Three? Bu- But I thought-"

Dr. Greystone laughed. "Just kidding. She only has to take two a day. Scared ya, huh?" TK was breathing hard, clenching his chest, relieved.

Dr. Greystone would not shut her mouth while examining Kari. "So, this morning I was with a patient that was in labor, and all of a sudden her dog runs in! Her dog! And I was like, 'Who let that dog in here?' I mean, we can't have a dog in the delivery room! Think how much trouble it would cause. I must say, I have never heard of anything like that ever happen before." Dr. Greystone finished.

Kari smiled politely, but the boys just stared with a glazed look in their eyes.

"Uh, water! I'm thirsty!" TK ran to the little water tank that he had escaped to on his first appointment, Cody and Tai on his heels.

"Man, she's insane! Psychotic!"

"I can't believe she scared me like that! What if I had actually done something to hurt Kari or the baby? That is nothing to joke about!"

"She dissed the hair." Tai growled.

"She thought I did karate! Karate!!"

"What's wrong with karate?"

"Oh, it's a decent martial art," Cody said, "But you don't call someone who practices Kendo a 'karate man.' It's just not done."

"Okay, guys, calm down." TK took a deep breath. "I know we don't like this lady, but Kari does, so we have to be supportive."

"Right. We have to do this for Kari." Tai agreed. Cody nodded.

"Okay. Ready to go back?" TK asked. Reality should hit right about…

"Oh no! We left my sister alone with that hair-dissing madwoman!" They raced back into the room.

"Welcome back." Dr. Greystone greeted them. "How was the water?"

"Uh, wet." Tai answered truthfully.

"Well, while you were gone, I finished all of the routine stuff. So are you ready for Baby to make his debut?" She rubbed gel on Kari's bare belly, then put a strange-looking device on it. "Ah, there he is." She turned on the TV screen. "Healthy little critter. Growing quite nicely."

Normally, TK would've objected to Dr. Greystone calling his son a 'little critter,' but he was too mesmerized by his son's appearance to care. Wow. Look at that. Two arms, two legs…he grew all that in just three months. I can't believe that I helped make that. It's my baby. Hey, if he looks like this now, how will he look in six months?

That human being is inside of me? I'm nourishing, protecting, helping him to grow? And I don't even think about it. My body does it all on it's own. The human body is so complex. It's miraculous.

I can't believe that Kari is carrying my nephew around. He looks just like ME! You know, some people have trouble reading these things, but this one is so clear.

"And there's his nose…" Dr. Greystone was saying. Oh, that's his nose? In that case he looks like Matt. Maybe this isn't as clear as I thought…

This whole time Cody was just looking at the screen. "Nori!" he suddenly cried out. Everyone turned in surprise. "He looks like a Nori." Everyone stared. TK turned back to the TV screen and squinted.

"You know what? He kinda does."

"How can you tell? He's not even in color." Tai pointed out.

"Nori. It's a gender-neutral name." TK said.

"Hmm… Nori," Kari thought. "Short, sweet, and has nothing to do with Tai. I like it."

"You're doing that just to annoy me, aren't you?" Tai glared at his sister. "Well it's not going to work," He continued in a 'so there' kind of voice, "because I happen to like the name Nori. Anything's better than Kenzabur."

"Well, don't forget, you still have six months to decide." Dr. Greystone unhooked the machine. "Now I'll be right back. Stay here. Don't run away!" She joked.

"Wouldn't dream of it." TK said to her back.

Suddenly chimes filled the room. "Oh, my cell phone." Tai answered it. "Hey Matt. Is your concert over? Yes, I will pick up chips on way home. Man, you should be here. You missed Nori. Man is he cute. Not as cute as me of course, but he comes pretty close. Yeah, Cody thought it up. Yeah, I know they're not naming it Baby Tai, but at least they aren't naming it Baby Matt either. Hey! Goggle head?! Okay, you just wait until I get home. I'll show you who's the Goggle head! Fine. Bye." Tai hung up and rounded on TK. "Ooh! Your brother!"

"Yeah. Matt has that effect on people."

"Hi! Did you miss me?" Dr. Greystone said.

"Not really." Cody muttered.

"I brought you a tape of the ultrasound, your baby's first pictures, and a prescription for vitamins to take during your second trimester." She piled it all into TK's arms. "Don't forget to set up an appointment with the receptionist on your way out." And she was gone.

"Come on, TK. We have to go home and fax these pictures to Davis and the others who couldn't be here today." Kari snatched the pictures from TK's pile and gazed proudly at them.

"Okay."

"Oh, hey Davis," TK said on the phone at home, "You got the pictures?"

"Yeah, but they just look like a black and gray blob to me. Sorry, but I just don't see it. I'm upset."

"That's okay. At least you're not over here. Kari's making me fax these pictures to everyone in Japan. Hey, honey? Do you still keep in touch with your Aunt Gertrude?"

"She never even mails us Christmas cards. But send her some anyway!" Kari called.

"Okay." TK sighed. "See? So what are you up too?"

"Oh, nothin'. Just hanging out, eating pizza."

"Ah, to be a carefree bachelor."

"You say that as if you know more than I do."

"I've always known more than you have." TK joked.

"Watch it…"

"So, did you call for any specific reason?"

"No, I-"

"Oh, hang on. I have another call. Hello? Okay. But I can't! My wife is pregnant, I can't just leave her. No. But- Okay. Sure. Bye." He switched back to Davis. "My boss wants me to go out of town on business next month! What am I going to do? I can't leave Kari alone!"

"Yeah, it will be pretty hard. All she has are two arms, two legs, and two digimon there to take care of her."

"You see what I mean, then."

"Can you get out of it?"

"No, my boss says it's mandatory. I can't go out of town! She'll be almost five months pregnant!"

"Just call someone to come over and Kari-sit."

"I think that's what I'm going to have to do."

"Who ya gonna call?"

"Davis, you gotta stop watching old '80s movies at night. I think I'll call Joe. He's a doctor."

"I know. But he studies brain surgery."

"Yeah, but he still knows how to take care of Kari. You think brain surgery is the only thing he studies? I'm going to call."

"Kay. See you." TK hung up, only to pick right back up and call Joe.

"I don't need Joe to come over TK!"

"Kari! How long have you been eavesdropping on me?"

"Since I heard my name being mentioned."

"So then…the whole time."

"Yeah. Pretty much. And let me just say that I can take care of myself."

"I know. But what if something happens? Joe is coming." Something in TK's voice told her that he was not about to be swayed, and she walked away muttering angrily about 'overprotective husbands.'