(A/N – It's amazing the things you come up with when you come down to the wire! I bid you guys welcome to the record breaking 21st chapter of "Nine Months in the Socks of the Motamiya's!" I say "record breaking" because this story has now, officially, become the longest story I have EVER written!

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Anyway, I honestly didn't think I would get this chapter out on time because I didn't do any writing during the week. Friday I hunkered down, sat at my keyboard, and didn't get up until I finished a decent sized and decently written chapter, and even better, it's on time! So I hope you enjoy this installment of "Nine Months in the Socks of the Motamiya's!" Please don't forget to review!)

Nine Months in the Socks of the Motamiya's – Chapter 21

"Izzy and Mimi are going to have a kid, dingbat." Kari said, playfully. "Do I have to spell it out to ya?"

"Oh, man! That's so cool!" Davis crowed into the phone, causing Kari to pull it quickly away from her ear. "Do you think he knows?"

"I don't know. I don't think so. Either that, or they're both playing dumb." Kari said, thoughtfully. "Though that would probably be a downgrade for Izzy. Anyway, how's Yolei?"

"The doctor said it won't be long now. She had her walking around the apartment for a bit to speed things up, and she just finished eating a sandwich."

"Eating? But I thought—"

"I asked the doctor about that," Davis interrupted. "She said that for a home birth it was okay. It gives her the energy she needs for labor. The only reason they don't allow you to eat in the hospital during labor is because if the mother eats and she needs emergency surgery, she could vomit up the food she ate."

"Wow, Davis. You sure absorbed a lot of information while you were there." Kari said, genuinely impressed.

"Not as dingbatty as you were lead to believe, huh?" Davis said proudly.

"I wouldn't go that far." Kari laughed. "I gotta go. I'm going to get some pictures of the new Digidestined. I'll come by later when everyone's settled. Give Yolei my best."

"Sure will. Give Tai and Sora my love." Davis said. "And I'll see you soon. I love you, my Kari-chan."

"I love you too, my Dai-chan. Bye."

As Kari closed the lid on her phone, Paige walked up to her with a worried expression on her face.

"Oh no! I left these files out on the counter! Nobody supposed to see them!" She stammered, quickly collecting the folders. "I'm sorry ma'am, these files are confidential."

"Oh, don't worry. I won't tell if you won't," Kari said, smiling. "Besides, that patient is like a sister to me." She pointed to the folder on the top.

"Oh, okay. But still, these files are confidential. If anyone got a hold of the information in here, management would flip." She continued, putting the files in the cabinet.

"There not the only ones." Kari thought to herself.

"Way to go computer dude!" TK said with a bright grin as he and Davis stood outside the closed bedroom door. "Who knew he had it in him?"

Davis gave a wink. "Evidently, Mimi did."

TK and Davis laughed heartily and were cut off by Yolei's loud yowl of pain from behind the bedroom door. "Sounds like she's getting close. Better get in there." TK said, setting his hand on the doorknob.

"Yeah…" Davis said, patting TK on the back. "Go get 'em tiger."

The blonde's hand trembled on the knob, his face was now soaked in sweat. His bangs were matted to his forehead by the moisture his body was producing.

"Go ahead, man." Davis said, gesturing to the door. "You should get in there."

"Davis, I can't do it." TK said, shoving his hand away from the doorknob, his head bowed. "I'm not ready."

"Well, Yolei sure is." Davis said, as Yolei gave a loud groan in the other room. "What's wrong?"

"I don't know if I'm ready," TK said, his voice trembling. I don't know if I'm ready to take this big step."

"Great. NOW you get cold feet." Davis muttered. "Come on, TK, you're the strongest person I know. This should be a piece of cake for you compared to what we've delt wi--"

"Don't you understand!" TK yelled, grabbing Davis with both hands by his shirt, his eyes wide with a combination of panic and anger. "This isn't the digital world! This isn't a file of ones and zero's we're talking about! We can't just dump it in the digital world and let it fend for itself! This is a living human being!

Davis looked at him, struggling to get his right hand out of TK's tight grip.

"If I do something wrong…" TK gasped, terrified. "One small mistake…and that's it. This kid can't come back…he can't come back…he can't come back like Ange—"

"Forgive me, but you need this." Davis thought as he revved back, balled up his fist and connected with TK's cheek.

TK lost his grip on Davis shirt and fell to the floor, hitting the wall by the bedroom door. Davis walked up to him, stooped down and grabbed his shoulders, his right hand aching.

"Sorry TK, but you needed that. You are not going to fold up now. You've come too far, invested too much to fold up now. Yolei needs you in there. Your baby needs you in there. Just like I needed you in the digital world, they need you now."

TK's eyes widened, as he raised a hand to his struck cheek.

"Yes. I needed you in the digital world. You were my rock. Even if it wasn't evident, I trusted your opinion over anyone else's. I tried to model myself after you because I admired your strength under pressure and your leadership skills."

"Ten years later, and I still look to you as my rock." Davis continued, his grip softening on TK's shoulders. "When you and Yolei got married, I looked to you for guidance on how to make a marriage work. Heck, I looked to you more than I did to Tai. And now…I need you to help me get Kari through this. I don't know what I'm doing. I'm petrified myself. I need you to show me."

Davis stood and held out a hand to TK, who was still rubbing his cheek. "Now, come on. Get in there. Your wife, your kid, and your kook of a doctor awaits."

TK took a deep breath, grabbed the brunette's hand, and pulled himself up to his yellow-socked feet. He wiped the tears from his eyes and brushed off his clothes. "You're right. Thanks man. I really needed that."

"I know you did. That's why I did it." Davis said, nodding. "That and I always wanted to give you a right cross."

"Gee whiz, Tea Cakes!" Dr. Greystone called out from the closed bedroom door. "What are you and goggle boy doing out there, making out or something! We're at nine centimeters! I recommend you get your bun cheeks in here ASAP!"

"Making out!" TK and Davis exclaimed simultaneously.

"Dude, you better get in there now before she really starts believing that." Davis said, patting TK on the back.

TK confidently put his hand on the doorknob, turned it, grabbed Davis wrist and pulled him inside.

"Wait! Whoa! Wh-what's going on!" Davis sputtered "This is a family thing. I don't know—"

"You're family today. You wanted me to show you, I'm showing you." TK said, standing by his wife's side. He leaned down and gave her a kiss. "How are you?"

"It hurts so bad, Take-chan," Yolei panted as she took a sip of water from the bedside table cup. "But I'm glad you're with me. What happened to your cheek?"

TK gave a small grin and gingerly set a hand on his now dark purple cheek. "Heh. A reality check that I needed in the worst way. It's okay, though. I'm fine. Let's concentrate on you."

"Yolei, you're almost done." Dr. Greystone said, softly. "Remember in the birth video I gave you in the hospital when the mother pushed each time the doctor told her too, everyone counted to ten like a bunch of retards, and the mother stopped pushing when the doctor told her to?"

"Yeah." Yolei said, nodding.

"Well, we're not going to do that here. This is your birth, your baby. YOU make the rules. You can move around anywhere you feel like it, push when you feel like it. You know what your body needs to do to get the baby out. Your brain and body are working on auto pilot."

"Okay." Yolei panted, slowly scooting her legs off the side of the bed. "I feel better standing up and walking."

"Go ahead. And like I said, just push whenever your body tells you too." Dr. Greystone said, as Yolei slowly stood up and padded around the bedroom. She turned to TK. "You look like you have something on your mind."

"Doc, are you sure this is okay?" TK said, nodding to Yolei. "I mean—"

"Tea Cakes, women have been doing it this way ever since Adam and Eve." The doctor explained. "It's much less stressful for the mother, and far less stressful for the baby."

"But what if something goes wrong? What if—"

"I'm well trained in emergency newborn care." Dr. Greystone said, seriously. "If anything happens, I have a car full of medical gear that I can access at a moment's notice. But don't worry. Everything is fine."

"Oh GOD…" Yolei bellowed, squatting by the doorframe leading to the bathroom. "I feel something! I feel something!"

Dr. Greystone ran over and quickly examined her. "That's your child, Yolei. That's the head. Don't be afraid. Just let the child come to you. Lets get you back to the bed and see what's going on. Tea Cakes, goggle boy, help her to the bed."

Davis and TK, after quickly sharing an exasperated look, padded quickly over to Yolei and allowed her to wrap her arms around their shoulders. As a group, they shuffled towards the bed.

About halfway, Yolei's knees buckled and she gave a loud scream. Davis and TK's legs fell under the weight and almost tumbled to the floor. "I can't go any further! I have to push!"

Dr. Greystone looked between her legs and gasped. "Go ahead. Just use the guys as support and push until I tell you to stop."

TK and Davis stood up and allowed Yolei's arms to tightly wrap around their necks as she squatted down between them. Her face was twisted in a scowl as she pushed. TK looked down and saw the child's head slowly emerging out of her body.

"That's it, Yolei-chan. That's it! Here he comes."

Davis looked on in awe as the child's head slowly revealed itself. "Come on, just a little more." Davis silently encouraged her.

"GRNNNGGGAAA!" Yolei grunted and cried as Dr. Greystone caught the child's head. "Is that it?" She panted, looking at her doctor. "Is it out?"

"Almost, but not quite. Look and see for yourself." The doctor said, as she suctioned out the child's nose and mouth.

Yolei looked down at her child's head, the eyes closed tightly, covered in blood and other fluids that protected him for the past nine months.

"Let's shuffle over to the bed so you can lie back after the baby's delivered." Dr. Greystone recommended. "Yolei, don't push yet until we get there."

The group slowly padded towards the bed, with Yolei in the middle, panting heavily. "I gotta push, I gotta push." She growled, as TK sat behind her on the bed, supporting her back. Davis stood off to the side at the foot of the bed, watching intently, quickly brushing away a stray tear from his eye.

"Nobody's stopping you." Dr. Greystone said, nodding. "Deliver your Christmas blessing."

Yolei arched her back and pushed, screaming and bellowing as she delivered the child's shoulders. Dr. Greystone slowly guided the child up on Yolei's stomach as she pushed.

"And here…we…go." The doctor said as Yolei gave a loud scream as the child's feet finally emerged. She gently set the child on her bare stomach.

"WA-WA-WAAAAahHHHHHH!" The new child screamed in protest as the two parents stared down at it in awe.

"Oh, my God…oh…" Yolei cried, cuddling her newborn. "Hello. Hello you…hello…welcome to the world, little one."

"We did it, Yolei-chan." TK sobbed, as he stared at his newborn child. "We did it. Look what we did. Do you see him? Do you see him?"

Yolei nodded and kissed her husband on his uninjured cheek. "Not a bad job, huh?" She said, laughing through her tears as the child continued to cry in her arms.

"Would you mind telling us all what your new kid is, please?" Dr. Greystone said, smiling, a tear trickling down her cheek.

TK peeped under the blanket and grinned broadly, his eyes now awash with fresh tears. "It's a girl."

Yolei smiled, and looked down at her new daughter. "I thought so. I thought you were going to be a girl. I could feel it."

The newborn girl cooed in her arms, her cries now slightly subsided.

Davis looked down at the new baby in awe, his jaw hung open. "Wow." He gasped as he watched TK snip through the child's cord. "TK, she's beautiful, man."

"I know, I know." TK whispered, still engrossed in the new being in his lover's arms.

"Do you guys have a girls' name picked out?" Dr. Greystone said, picking up a clipboard.

"Akina…" TK and Yolei whispered simultaneously after a minute. "Akina Rini Takaishi."

"So let it be written, so let it be done." Dr. Greystone said, writing the name on the clipboard. "Let's get this little girl weighed and back in your arms." Dr. Greystone said, gently bundling up the newborn.

"Way to go, mama." TK said, kissing his wife all over her face.

"Not to shabby a job, daddy." Yolei replied, wearly returning the kisses. "I'm exhausted."

"Heh. You have every single right to be. I intend on pampering you for quite a while." TK said, whispering in her ear.

"Isn't your idea of 'pampering' how we got our Aki-chan in the first place?" Yolei said, looking at her husband in disbelief. "Give me a while to recover first, THEN I'll take you up on that order."

"It was beautiful, guys. You wouldn't believe it." Davis voice projected from the cell phone speaker sitting on the table by Sora's bed. "I mean, the baby just slid right out of her! TK and I were just holding on while she was pushing, and it just came on out! Eight pounds ten ounces!"

"That's beautiful Davis." Kari said, wiping a forming tear from her eye. "How's Yolei?"

"Oh, she and TK are resting right now, so I'm going to tiptoe out of here." Davis said. "Dr. Greystone said she'll come back later on tonight to check up on them to make sure everything's okay."

"Oh, I can't wait to get out of here and go see them." Sora said in the rocking chair by the bed, her newborn son asleep in her arms. "A baby girl. Imagine that."

A small knock came from the door. "Come in!" Sora said gently.

"Oh, wait until you see her, she's so cute!" Davis said, almost gushing. "Almost makes you wonder what kind of kid Izzy and Mimi are going to have!"

"WHAT?"

All heads snapped towards the door where Mimi and Izzy stood in shock holding brightly colored balloons. Tai scratched behind his head and laughed nervously. Sora's mouth fell slightly ajar as she abruptly stopped rocking in the chair. Kari winced as though she were electrocuted.

Izzy turned to Mimi with his dark eyes wide. "Wait a minute…" Izzy stammered, staring at his wife in shocked amazement. "You-you're PREGNANT!"

"Umm…merry Christmas?" Mimi said, sheepishly, playing with the string that tied onto the balloon she was holding.

"Things have just gotten very, very interesting." Tai muttered to himself.

"Hello? Guys? Am I missing something?" Davis' lone voice called out from the cell phone on the table. "Hello? I said, I wonder what kind of kid Mimi and Izzy are going to have! Hello? Is anyone there?"

To Be Continued…

(A/N – Another bun out the oven, another few stress points I loose! TK andYolei have their new baby girl and Chapter 21 is now over and done with! As I stated before, I would LOVE to thank each and every one of you who reviewed my stories here, but this website (who won't even allow you to post website addresses in your stories) says I can't, so I'll just use the Author Review Reply messenger. My fingers are itching to start on the director's commentary version of this story! Look forward to a shocking and plot-twisting chapter 22 of "Nine Months in the Socks of the Motamiya's"! A small clue about what happens…absolutely nothing happens! Hee hee! You'll have to wait a bit for the grand finale! See you guys soon!)