Baby Boom Mi-chan

Chapter Four

-Flashbacks-

The past two months for the Hokage team seemed much more like an eternity.

Kirisawa Fuuko obviously wasn't the most financially stable person in the world and Hokage member. She only had a part-time job to help pay her share of rent and a little bit of extra money for herself. Her mother had been the one who paid for her university fees and gave her an allowance. That all changed when she told her mother she was pregnant and that she was going to drop out of university.

"Okkasan, please..." Fuuko begged, fighting back tears that threatened to surface.

"How could you be so stupid? How could you get yourself pregnant? You don't even know who the father is! This wouldn't have happened if you had just concentrated on your studies. You should have been studying instead of sleeping around! You're such a disappointment to me, I never thought I'd have a slut for a daughter..." her mother scowled, her face fuming with anger and disappointment in her eyes.

That did it, being called a 'slut'.

The tears broke free.

Her mother turned her back on her daughter. "Don't expect to get anything from me anymore. This is your mistake and you will live with it by yourself from now on."

"Okkasan..." Fuuko sobbed.

"You're no longer welcomed in this house. I don't want you to ever come back here."

"H-h-hai..." Fuuko stood and headed for the door.

"Fuuko," her mother called abruptly.

Fuuko stopped and turned back around.

Her mother's back was still to her. "If you ever decide to go back to school, I'll be willing to pay the fees again."

"Arigatou..." Fuuko bowed her head and then left.

The Hokage team told her they wanted to help her out financially and physically a week after she had told her mother that she was pregnant. She was shocked when they told her, but thankful. It wouldn't have been so surprising if she knew that they knew what happened with her and her mother. She was thankful they were also helping her out physically. There was no way she could take care of five babies all by herself.

Fuuko stared at her friends, a look of disbelief on her face. She eyed them suspiciously and they just looked back at her, waiting for her response. There was no way they were actually serious about this. They couldn't be. It was more believable on Ganko and Yanagi's part, but not for Kaoru and Recca. "Are you guys messing with me? You're just joking, right?"

The Hokage members, always minus Mikagami, looked among themselves and then back at her. "Nope," Ganko said. "We're dead serious. We've been thinking about it for the past month and an extra week of intensive thinking. Our conclusion was that we want to help you."

They all nodded in agreement. "We all know that a North Wind Brat like you can't handle five kids all on your own, more or less afford to take care of all of them. If you can't afford to keep them, you'll most probably end up losing them all and then all hell would break loose." Recca said.

Fuuko smiled, thankful. "I suppose in return on your part, Recca, I have to put up with the name calling?"

Recca grinned.

Of course, all those decisions had been made before they checked the prices of the items the babies would need and before they had actually spent one night with the babies in the house. Being the bunch that they were, they had all at least seen one show where there was a baby in it. Only when it came to those kinds of shows did they believe 'don't believe anything you see or hear on TV'.

Determination and competitiveness was the only thing that kept them going. By mocking at each other that they couldn't handle a baby, they found it easier to keep on going.

2:48am.

After turning his back to his comrades to hide a yawn, Recca turned back around and forced a smirk on his face. "I guess you guys are nothing more than just kids," Recca shook his head in pity. "You can't even stay up pass your bedtime. Should I go find your mommies to tuck you back into bed?"

Kaoru, whose eyes were about to fall shut, suddenly sprang wide open. "I can stay up just as late as you can!"

Recca shrugged. "Prove it."

"Fine!"

"Fine."

Both of them were holding a baby in their arms.

They practically had the same fight every night.

Choosing who would take care of which baby was an easy task.

"As Fuuko's temporary person assistant," Ganko said proudly. "I have decided on which baby goes to whom." She pulled out a small note pad from the back pocket of her jeans and flipped it open. "Yuki shall, of course, be under the care of Fuuko. He'll be sleeping in a bassinet in your room," she said to Fuuko. "Even though baby Tokiya has some 'abandonment' issues, Yanagi will be taking care of him whether he likes it or not."

As though on cue, Tokiya started crying.

Ganko glared in his direction.

"I'm insulted." Yanagi said.

Ganko walked over to the crib (plastic box thingy) and picked up Tokiya. "He'll get over it. It's just a phase." She said, handing baby Tokiya to his mother. "Anyways, back to assigning babies. You shall have charge over Kenji," she said to Recca. "You shall have charge over Aki," she said to Kaoru. "And that leaves me with Mifuyu."

He froze when he saw the familiar purple haired girl run out of the house. It wasn't the girl who surprised him, it was the fact that she was crying that surprised him. For all the years that he had known her, he had never once seen her crying. He probably had seen her crying before when she was a baby, but he couldn't remember since he was just a toddler when she was born. Even as small kids, whenever she fell and scraped her knee she never cried. Why was she crying now?

He watched her as she ran off.

He didn't know why he did, but he just stood in the shadows.

After what seemed like hours, the purple haired girl came back to the house. She was no longer crying. She parked herself near the house and just stood there, as though waiting. In fact, she was waiting. A blonde haired teenager emerged from the house and a smile spread across the purple haired girl's face. They talked a while; a worried expression was on the blonde's face. After a few minutes of talking, they were both smiling.

It was when they turned around to leave that he noticed something.

When the purple haired girl had come running out of the house, he had been more focused on her face. When she came back, her back had been towards him. While she waited, her back had also been facing him. Now, he saw that she had put on some weight. Since there was a bulge and not proportionate weight distributed out amongst her face and body, he kind of figured she was pregnant.

Oh, boy...

To Be Continued...