Chibi-Kari: Sorry for the wait, I've been busy writing papers for my classes. And now I'm about to start my midterm studies. Then off to Santorini for my ten day break! I don't own and I hope you enjoy the last chapter!


Halfway Down the Block

Tezuka the Organized


She sighed, exasperated. The English video tapes that Ryoma had gotten her were the most boring things she had ever watched. Why couldn't she get any movies or television series on tape? Hell, at this point she'd settle for those English game shows that she could never understand the rules to.

She glanced back at Tezuka, "Can-"

The man didn't even look up from his book in the kitchen, "No. Echizen wants you to learn English."

Sakuno pouted lightly as she turned back, "Couldn't he have gotten me something more interesting to learn from, like a movie?"

"Obviously, he knows you wouldn't pay attention to it." Tezuka answered this time glancing up at the young woman, for the last hour she had been trying everything to get out of this. She made various trips to the kitchen, bathroom, and even her room because she complained that her clothes weren't fitting correctly. She had watched maybe five minutes in the last hour.

"I'm watching Baby Einstein for God's sake!" She threw her arms up in the air as she said them and proceeded to cross them. Here she was watching this God forsaken program because her husband thought she needed to learn English so they're baby could be bilingual, like he was. She had taken English during school, just because she couldn't remember anything except the few phrases that Ryoma chose to say at random times wasn't her fault. This was the stupidest thing that could ever happen to her…scratch that…second stupidest.

"Bring it up with him when he gets home from the tournament tonight." Tezuka said glancing at the woman as she had suddenly gone ridged and quiet. "Wh-"

"Tezuka…I-I think I'm having the baby." Sakuno said quietly before she grabbed on to the couch again.

"You are not-"

"Shit!" Her voice boomed in the room as she slouched her back slightly to get in more of a laying position.

Tezuka's eyes widened at the sound. The little timid girl in front of him did curse; of course she was a young woman now. He stood up slowly and walked to Sakuno's side. "Did your water break?" Oh God, did he never want to have to say that again.

"No…er-yeah." Sakuno said after a moment of hesitation.

Tezuka's mind was whirling, but Sakuno couldn't see anything as she looked up at the man standing in front of her, wouldn't he do something?

Within a flash he had his cell phone out. At a time like this you should call the man that knows all the answers, "Inui? Sakuno's having the baby…yeah…no…get what? Sakuno where's your hospital bag? Oh, fine. I'm going now."

He snapped the phone shut before Sakuno could even reply and walked directly upstairs, to get her travel bag she assumed. Inui would know that, how she wasn't sure, but she was positive he would know that. She expected Tezuka to keep his cool throughout this, but what she didn't expect was the fact that he kept walking down the steps and out the door after he got the bag. Then she heard the car start up, her eyes widened, as she heard it go down the street. She gritted her teeth through the pain and waited, soon she heard a car pull up and let the breath she was hold escape through her lips.

The door opened as a voice came to reach her ears, "There was a 97 chance he would leave you in his flustered state, and a 100 chance he wouldn't lock the door." Sakuno's eyes widened as Inui walked in the room and stood in front of her. "Let's get you to the hospital there is a-"

"Shut up and help me up," was Sakuno's reply.

She heard him mumble something about being 110 chance that she would do that. He ushered her into his car and ran back up to the door to lock it. Then they set off for the hospital.

"Don't worry Sakuno, I called everyone." She didn't doubt Inui's statement; he was known to be quite to gossiper.

It was like a whirlwind and soon she was at the hospital with familiar faces all around her and a guilty looking Tezuka standing to the side. Oh she would make him pay for leaving her at the house. The whole way to the hospital Inui was spouting out statistics and it was driving her mad.

She searched the crowd for her husband as the nurse asked her who she wanted to bring in with her, "He's not here."

"Well, we can have your husband come in when he gets here. Do you want someone else for the time being?" The nurse asked looking at the large group of men that had gathered…what type of woman was this? And why were all these tough looking guys here…well the red head with the Band-Aid didn't look too tough.

Sakuno smiled through her pain as she pointed directly at Tezuka.

"No-" He started but the rest of his old team glared at him.


The Waiting Room

The rest of the team assembled in the waiting room. Shouts could be heard all the way down the hall…and they weren't Sakuno's. Eiji had broken out in fits of giggles when Tezuka had yelled, "What the hell is that?"

Ann came bounding down the hall with a smile on her face, "They said Sakuno just had the baby!"

Tezuka came wandering seconds later looking disheveled and his normal emotionless mask missing as shock filled his features. "I never want to have children…ever."

"What is it?" Eiji asked as he bounced up on his toes.

"A-"

"Where's Echizen?" Momo asked looking around, as it just hit him that the father had missed the birth of his own child.

"Yeah, he should have been here by now." Fuji said looking down at his watch, "And you called him, Inui. Right?"

All eyes fell on the silent data man.

Within seconds they heard yelling down the hall and Ann made a break for the hallway to see what was going on. She laughed lightly, "Oi, Echizen. Down here. You missed the birth of your child." She laughed as Ryoma flew into the room.

"Why didn't anyone tell me? I would have left the game at them moment I found this out! I had to come home and find out by seeing her travel bag missing from our bedroom! What happened? Where is she?"

"Two rooms down on the left, go see her yourself." Tezuka stated as Ryoma barely waited for him to finish as he left.

"So what is it?" Kaidoh hissed.

They didn't have to wait for Tezuka to answer as Ryoma shouted down the hall, "Twins?"

Oishi scratched the side of his head, "Wouldn't that have come up in tests?"


The End

Chibi-Kari: Thanks for reading! I hope you enjoyed. I'm thinking of writing another Prince of Tennis story, but not comedy. I'm pretty good at writing other genres too. I hope some of you would give that story a try if I finish writing it. I'll leave you to guess the sex of the baby yourselves! Please Review!