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Tohru and the others woke up and found themselves inside the Sohma's main house looking at a young Shigure, Ayame and Hatori except they weren't that young; they all appeared to be in their late teens. The three also noticed that the young adults were all sitting on the floor talking to a pregnant lady who was sitting with them. The woman was wearing a long purple sleeve sweater and a long white shirt. She had long, silky brown hair with matching brown eyes and she appeared to be talking to the three boys happily while they all seemed preoccupied on her stomach.
"Mrs. Sohma, how much longer till your baby is born?" Ayame asked cheerfully as he brushed a strand of silver hair from his face.
The pregnant woman smiled brightly as she replied, "Not much longer."
"Hey Hatori, isn't this going to be the first baby you get to deliver for the Sohma family?" Shigure smirked playfully as he slapped Hatori on the back.
"I'm only going to be helping Shigure, but I'm mainly there to see if it's a member of the zodiac." Hatori replied emotionlessly as he pried Shigure's hand from his back.
"Is it going to be a girl or a boy?" Ayame cut in, drawing attention to the woman's belly again.
"I'm not quite sure…" The woman stated before rubbing her belly softly, "…but I'm hoping it'll be a boy."
Suddenly the woman bent over in pain; clutching her belly with one hand as her other hand kept her from landing face first onto the floor. The boys all jumped back and then rush towards her helping her to sit up again.
"It looks like it's time," She panted as Ayame and Shigure's eyes grew wide. Only Hatori appeared to be calm and began directing the situation.
"Ayame, go and get the car. We need to hurry and get her to a hospital." Hatori ordered as Ayame nodded slowly, stood up and ran out of the room.
Both boys, as well as the small group watching everything, followed Ayame's path out of the room. The woman moaned in pain, forcing everyone to look back towards her. "Now Shigure, help me get her into a more comfortable position till Ayame comes back." Hatori stated as he already began to move her. Shigure followed suit.
"I thought we have a family doctor that can do this sort of thing at the Sohma estate?" Shigure panicked as the woman began screaming in pain. Both boys helped the woman stand and allowed her to lean against them as they lead her towards the entrance of the estate and hopefully where Ayame had the car already for them.
"We do but the doctor just so happens to be gone for this entire week. We don't have a choice but to take her to a normal hospital." Hatori explained as the three of them stepped outside followed not far behind by Yuki, Tohru, Momiji, Hatsuharu, and Kyo just as Ayame halted the car in front of them.
"What if the baby is a member of the zodiac and transforms?" Shigure asked as they all got into the car with Ayame and Shigure helping the woman into the back.
Shigure and Ayame sat on either side of the woman who seemed to be gasping for air at the same time as Hatori got into the driver's seat. "Then I'll have to erase some memories." Hatori stated coldly but loud enough for them all to hear.
The scene switched to the hospital as Hatori pulled up towards the entrance. The woman screamed even louder as the pain appeared to be killing her. Ayame, Shigure, and Hatori helped her walk into the hospital as the doors slid open. No one in the hospital came until she yelled harshly, "Will someone get their ass over here and help me deliver this baby!"
Ayame and Shigure flinched visibly in surprise as her yell drew the attention of a few nurses that quickly rushed over. Someone had gotten her a wheel chair and rushed her towards the delivery ward. Several minutes later she was surrounded by two nurses and a doctor who worked feverishly around the woman who was screaming her lungs out. Suddenly another man entered the room and went to the woman's side and held her hand as she continued to scream. She quieted down for a moment at the sight of him as he kissed her forehead affectionately.
As Tohru watched, she felt touched by how the couple seemed to support each other. I wonder if this was how my parents were when I was born.
The man hung on to the woman's hand as the birthing procedure began. During this, Hatsuharu quickly buried Momiji's head against his chest to prevent him from watching as Yuki covered Haru's eyes. Finally after what seemed like hours of labor and inexhaustible screaming, they finally heard the woman's screams end as they were replaced by high pitched cries of a newborn. The doctor handed the child to a nearby nurse who quickly took the child to get check and cleaned. The woman signed in relief and appeared to be calming as her breathing slowed.
The nurse that had taken her baby came back over smiling as she folded the blanket under the baby's chin. She stretched out her hands to hand the child over to the mother and said, "You have a healthy son, Mrs. Sohma. Do you have a name in mind for him?"
"Kyo. His name is Kyo." The exhausted woman smiled brightly.
Tohru and Momiji gasped in surprise as Yuki and Hatsuhara both looked at each other in surprise.
"How could we possibly see that?" Hatsuhara whispered out loud to himself but Yuki heard him and replied, "That's something even I would like to know."
Everything appeared to be normal until the nurse holding Kyo started to scream. The baby, she was still holding, whole body had begun to smoke and Kyo was crying from pain. His cries started getting deeper and deeper as his voice changed. The nurse panicked and dropped Kyo in the process. Hatori and the others had rushed in just in time as Hatori caught Kyo just as the nurse dropped him and slipped beads around baby Kyo's wrist. Seeing that the beads were secure, he began erasing everyone in the room who was not supposed to know about the curse. After he had finished and the room had emptied of the hospital's staff, he turned to the couple and remained impassive as he spoke.
"You do understand that your son has been chosen to be the cat of the zodiac. His life won't be easy and neither will yours if you choose to keep him." Hatori explained as he rocked baby Kyo softly in his arms as he fell into a peaceful sleep. Tohru appeared distressed as Hasuhara and Momiji seemed to be bothered by the whole situation that Kyo could be easily treated as though an exposable object while Yuki and Kyo looked on with blank expressions.
"We'll keep him." Kyo's mother replied with determination.
"What? Why? You don't know the pain he'll be causing us! We should just get rid of him." Kyo's father responded with indifference and irritation.
"He's our son; I will always treat him that way even if he is the cat." Kyo's mother stated firmly as she held her hands out to Hatori who gave Kyo to her. She smiled warmly as she held him close and instantly Kyo turned into a little kitten. The man signed wearily as Tohru, Momiji, Yuki and Haru turned to each other.
"Wow… Kyo's father wanted to get rid of him, how sad." Momiji stated soft and sorrowfully, thinking back to his own mother.
"Speaking of Kyo, where is he? He was glowing just like the rest of us." Haru said as he looked around. What he didn't know or see at the time was that Kyo had indeed been there and that Haru had been starring right at him as he spoke.
