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"Mother?" Hatsumi asked, as she sat up. "Why are you here?"

"I'm here to take you home." She said evenly.

"No, I'm not going. I'm with Ryoki and his mother and our baby." She said as she elbowed Ryoki.

"What is it? I'm tired." He said as he grunted and sat up. He pulled on his glasses and then went silent.

"You're my daughter and I want you to come home." She said.

"Mother, I'll not come home until you forgive me and accept me back with a loving heart."

"No you will not!" Ryoki said as he stared down intensely at Hatsumi.

"What do you mean?" Hatsumi asked. "She's my mom, and I'll go back when I forgive her. "

"Well I don't think you should forgive her." He said. "She's been out of your life for almost 9 months and wanted you to abort your, our baby." He said.

"I know, but she is still my mother."

"I'm taking my daughter no matter what."

"No you will not." Ms. Tachibana said as she entered the room.

"Don't get in the way of a mother daughter feud." Ms. Narita said.

"I will when it has to do with my soon to be daughter in law."

"Yeah, see Hatsumi is my fiancée now." Ryoki said.

"Wait, we never made it official." Hatsumi said.

"What are you doing hesitating?" he asked heatedly.

"Well I ask because I don't know If I'm ready for marriage or not."

"But you're ready for parenthood with me?" he asked, his eyes fixed on her intensely.

"Yeah, but that's because I don't believe in abortion, and well I love you but we're still young. Is our love strong enough? Are we truly soul mates?" she asked, completely confused.

"Wait, does this have anything to do with Azusa or Shinogu? Shinogu is my brother, and god forbid me question our relationship!" Hatsumi said as she jumped out of the bed.

"Well you're my girlfriend, I tell you what to do." He said.

"I'm not a freaking puppet Ryoki. I have a mind of my own. This is why I have wavering thoughts of us not being able to stay together." She said as she pointed to him.

"So you're saying it's all me?" he asked.

"In a way yes. You for months tried to get me into bed, and then when I do have sex with you, you then demand more favors of me that I'm not comfortable with." She said.

"Are you sure it's not because you're stupid?" he asked.

"I know I might be naïve but I'm not stupid Ryoki. I have morals and I don't want you to get in the way of them!" she said.

With all the noise, it wasn't much of a surprise when a nurse came in and ordered everyone out of the patient's room, including Ryoki.

"Are you okay?" she asked.

"Just stressed." She said.

"Get back into bed and rest then." The nurse said as she left.

Hatsumi couldn't relax, and was so steamed that she had to call someone.

"Hello?" a voice said.

"Subaru?" Hatsumi asked.

"Hami?" he asked unsure of the voice.

"Yeah it's me. I need to talk." She said.

"Okay." He said.

They talked for an hour, or rather Hatsumi talked and Subaru listened. "So you're saying that Ryoki is being his normal controlling idiotic self, and your mother is being a stupid bitch, and that Ms. Tachibana wants you and Ryoki to marry."

"Yeah."

"So the problem is Ryoki." He asked.

"Yeah he's so controlling that I don't know what to do with him."

"Yeah I can see what you mean."

"He said that all of our problems were because I was stupid." Hatsumi said with a sniffle.

"Well that's not true, and you know that." Subaru said. "Hey Hatsumi, I've gotta go, but I'll drop by the hospital with Asahi to chat and see the baby."

"Kay, thanks Subaru."

"No prob." He said before hanging up.

Still upset about the entire ordeal, Hatsumi pulled her knees up against her chest and rested her head on them. She was so emotionally tired and before she knew what was happening she was crying.

"Hey now, this is supposed to be a time of laughter not tears." A deep voice said from the doorway.

When she looked up, she saw Shinogu at the door holding a bouquet of sunflowers. "Why are you crying." He asked as he sat down by her bed after he had put the flowers down.

"It's Ryoki and Mom." She said. She explained everything to him, and started crying. She was surprised when warm arms wrapped around her and rocked her back and forth, soothing her tears into silence.

"Don't cry Hatsumi. If he's making you so unhappy, leave. Kazama and I have room at our place if you need somewhere to stay. You and the baby can stay." He said.

"Oh Ms. Narita. I have your son. He's ready for dinner." The nurse said as she brought in the baby and a bottle. Hatsumi had decided to use the pump and feed him her milk by bottle.

"Should I leave?" he asked.

"No, he's drinking from a bottle now." She said softly as she cradled Kazuki. "Kazuki, this is your uncle Shinogu. He'll be by your side forever." She said as she gazed up at her brother.

"Like hell." Ryoki said from the doorway.

A/N: Oh, more drama on the way, but I hope you liked this chapter! I am so bored so I decided to update my stories. I've been uber sick and now that I'm better, I'm so bored. I'm not aloud to do much since I'm still weak and can still get sick again, so I'm supposed to stay inside. But Yay! I can update. Please Review!

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Teri Baumer