Yumi looked into the back yard where Ulrich was playing with Odd and Sam's sons, Simon and Travis. She smiled as the two-year-olds twins tried to over-power their father's best friend. Gently placing her hand over her stomach. She grabbed the tray of sandwiches and walked out. She placed the tray on the large picnic table.
" Okay everyone! Time to eat!" she called. Odd, Sam, Jeremy, Aelita who was carrying her year old son Matthew, Ulrich, and the twins hurried over.
" So, Yumi, any particular reason you invited us here?" Odd asked.
" Yeah, we're over here all the time anyway." Jeremy said. The friends laughed. Yumi smiled.
" I have an announcement." She said. Everyone turned to listen. " I'm pregnant." Ulrich's jaw dropped, and he jumped up.
" Y-you're, you're…" he faltered.
" Pregnant." She finished for him. He broke into a crazy grin and hugged her, then picked her up and spun her around a little.
" Is it a girl or a boy?" he asked. Yumi raised her eyebrows.
" You're kidding right?" Ulrich thought about it for a second.
" Oh, right."
" Congratulations Yumi!" Aelita said. " Now we can be pregnant at the same time!"
" Don't forget me!" Sam said. The men froze.
" What did you say?" they asked. The two women smiled.
" Oops." They said, shrugging. Then the women went inside to discuss their pregnancies, taking Matt, Travis and Simon with them. The men…passed out.
A few months later
" So, are you excited to find out the babies' genders?" The doctor asked the three women, their husbands by their sides. They all nodded.
" Well, Mrs. Belpois, you're having two sons." Jeremy looked excited.
" Twins?" he asked. The doctor nodded.
" Mrs. Della Robbia, you are having a son." Sam and Odd smiled.
" That's great!" Odd said.
" Finally, Mrs. Stern, you're having a girl." Ulrich broke into another crazy grin.
" That's the best news I've ever heard from a doctor." He said, putting an arm around Yumi. Yumi chuckled and leaned into her husband's hold. They all got up to leave, and got into their separate cars. Yumi turned towards Ulrich.
" You are excited about this right? You want a child right? It doesn't matter that it's a girl does it?"
" Yumi, of course I'm excited, I want children, a daughter is one of the best things ever"
" Really? You're not upset that it's not a boy?"
" Yumi, I've always wanted a daughter. A daughter is perfect." Ulrich said reassuringly. Yumi breathed a sigh of relief. " But I'm going to miss when the 'make your husband happy' hormones go, I enjoy the lunches you've been making me." He added jokingly. Yumi hit his shoulder.
" Well don't get used to it!" she said, placing her hand protectively over her stomach. Ulrich chuckled.
" The mood swings I could do with out." He said, and Yumi hit him again.
More months later
" Ulrich, I don't think I can take this much longer!" Yumi complained. Aelita and Sam already had their children. Aelita had Kevin and Andrew, Sam had Nick.
" Yumi you are 9 months pregnant! You don't have much longer to go!"
" I know that! You're her father! Make her come out!" Yumi shouted! " I miss seeing my feet!" Ulrich resisted the urge to laugh, knowing she'd freak out if he did.
" Yumi, Just relax, besides, we don't want her to come yet. We're not ready. We still need to pick out a name, and we…I need to finish the nursery."
" You haven't finished?" Yumi cried. Ulrich winced.
" No, Yumi, I'm still working on the furniture."
" Well I told you I'd do it but you wouldn't let me! You went as far as to hide the paint!"
" I didn't want you and the baby around all those fumes!" Ulrich said in defense. Yumi glared at him then felt a pain in her stomach. She hid it the best she could, but Ulrich saw through it.
" Yumi? What's wrong?" he asked, worried.
" It hurts!" She said. " I'm not done nagging you!" she called after Ulrich, who was running to get the bag Yumi packed a week ago.
" Yumi, you can nag me later, right now we have to get you to the hospital." Ulrich said guiding Yumi to the car. She got in the back and they drove to the hospital. On the way Ulrich called the others.
" Hey Jer, you and Aelita need to get to the hospital soon. Yes Yumi's in labor, this is the last time we got through this, this year at least!" then he hung up and had a similar conversation with Odd.
Just later
" Push Yumi! Push!" the doctor, shouted to Yumi.
" I push any harder and this kid's gonna go flying through the room like a pinball!" Yumi shouted, her face red. Finally the doctor announced that the baby was born. The nurse went to clean it and brought her back to Yumi and Ulrich.
" What should we name her?" Yumi asked, staring at her daughter's face.
" Something good, and nothing normal."
" Yeah, definitely nothing over used like Jessica or Ashley."
" And something girly, but not too girly, or can have a good nickname."
" Tianna." Yumi said, looking up.
" Tianna…Tianna… I like it." Ulrich said. " What do you think?" the baby gurgled.
" I'll take that as a yes." Yumi said chuckling. The door opened.
" Where's the baby?" Odd asked loudly. Aelita shushed him. Yumi smiled.
" It's fine, she's not sleeping." Yumi said.
" What's her name?" Sam asked.
" Tianna."
" That's a lovely name." Aelita said.
" I know." Yumi said. They all laughed.
" I don't think we'll ever change." Jeremy said.
" Would you want us to?"
" Never."
A/N there! I did it! My one-shot, I'm putting this up second, but I wrote this one first. Yeah, I'm not normal, I know! Well, tell me what you think! It is after all my first one-shot! The next one will either be all the guys baby sitting their kids, or Ulrich doing some father-daughter bonding with Tia. I'm not sure which yet.