"No fuckin' way."

"…Yes."

"Seriously, no fuckin' way. You're really pregnant again? How? When did you find out? How far along are you?"

Shinobu laughed a bit nervously as he held up his hands in surrender. Miyagi took over the questions for him, slipping an arm around his waist and thumbing his hip.

"Well, obviously we prescribed another Append-X pill. We found out a couple nights ago. We had gone to the doctor's to see if Shinobu's recent sicknesses were because of pregnancy, and it turned up positive. His symptoms had been so mild, we almost thought that the pill didn't work," Miyagi explained.

"I'm a little over a month along," Shinobu added. Hiroki raised an eyebrow at him.

"Do you… do you know when it was conceived, then?"

Shinobu blushed furiously and looked down at the picnic blanket, absentmindedly toying with a loose thread. Miyagi chuckled, a bit of pink tinting his own cheeks as he reached up to scratch the back of his head.

"Um… Valentine's Day," Miyagi said after a pause. Hiroki blinked, scarlet blood rising in his cheeks. If he hadn't stopped Miyagi and Shinobu from having sex right on his island countertop…

Hiroki shook his head to chase away the image that had surfaced in his head.

"Okay… so… why? I'm not trying to be blunt but… Append-X really caused a lot of problems for you. I mean… you lost your house because of it," Hiroki said, furrowing his brows. Shinobu and Miyagi paused and looked at each other.

"We were so ready for twins, Kamijou," Miyagi said softly. "We had our entire lives planned out to raise two boys. But… then we lost Yuji, and things just haven't been the same ever since."

"We thought getting married would solve that problem," Shinobu continued. Miyagi moved their clasped hands to Shinobu's lap, where he squeezed his fiancé's hand. "But that same strangeness is still there."

"We both believe that Eiji-kun will grow up feeling like he's missing something. Call it intuition… instinct… whatever you want to call it. Shinobu and I want to make sure Eiji-kun never… never finds out that he had a twin brother."

The silence that followed chilled Hiroki as he stared at Miyagi and Shinobu, who had lowered their heads.

"You're not going to tell him?" Hiroki asked slowly. Miyagi shook his head.

"I don't want him to feel the same pain me and Shinobu feel. Of course we'll tell him but… not until he's old enough to understand that it wasn't his fault. If we tell him too early, he might blame himself for Yuji's death."

Shinobu spoke up next in a quiet, solemn voice.

"And that's why we want him to have a little brother or sister. He won't be alone, and won't have to feel like… feel like he's missing his other ha-half… oh God."

Hiroki frowned as Shinobu burst into tears and laugh-blubbered, smiling as he wiped away the dampness on his cheeks.

"Sorry… g-gettin' all sentimental over here," he croaked. Miyagi bumped him soothingly with his shoulder and squeezed his hand.

"No, it's fine," Hiroki said hastily. Shinobu sniffled, wiped his eyes, and recovered, a few lingering patches of wetness still shimmering on his cheeks. Hiroki gave him privacy to clean up his face as he turned his attention to Eiji, who had lifted his foot to experimentally grip his bare toes.

"So… yeah, that's why we wanted to have another kid," Shinobu said, his voice clear and cheerful once more. Hiroki looked up with a smile.

"I see. So, when are you two going to get married, then?" Hiroki asked. Shinobu and Miyagi glanced at each other once more.

"We're going to wait," Miyagi said. Hiroki raised an eyebrow.

"Wait? How long? Like a couple months?"

"More like a couple years," Shinobu said. Both of Hiroki's eyebrows shot up.

"We want to know each other thoroughly before taking the final step," Miyagi said. "I mean, we've only been together for about two years now. We have our whole lives ahead of us, why rush the final step?"

Hiroki nodded in understanding.

"That makes sense."

"Plus we want little Fuyumi-chan here to be our flower girl," Shinobu cooed. Hiroki simply couldn't suppress the smile that flew to his face.

"You want Fuyumi to be your flower girl?" he asked excitedly. Shinobu and Miyagi nodded. Hiroki tipped his head back and let out a quiet roar of victory, eliciting a laugh from his two friends. Hiroki laughed with them, and soon all of the adults were laughing with loud guffaws for no reason.

The babies, meanwhile, squealed and giggled at the sounds of bliss surrounding them.


"Absolutely not."

"Come on, Kamijou…"

"No!"

"Nowaki will lo-"

"But I won't! I won't love them!"

"You've got to make a few sacrifices if you want to have some amazing se-"

"I don't want to have sex with that bastard!"

"Then do it for your own personal self esteem."

"As if these would boost my self esteem!"

"They will! Go on, show Shinobu!"

"NO!"

Hiroki yelped as he was shoved out of his bedroom and into the living room, where Shinobu was waiting on the couch. He stood as Hiroki stumbled in. Scratching his chin, he pondered.

"Very nice. You've got the perfect hips for these."

Hiroki trembled with rage as he stood before Shinobu in nothing but a pair of black boxer briefs. They would have been completely fine if they hadn't been ninety percent lace. Hiroki felt like an idiot as he self consciously reached down to cover the sides of his hips, where the majority of the lace was located.

"You've got a hot birth mark on your thigh, by the way," Miyagi said as he emerged from the bedroom. Hiroki swore he felt his cheeks burst into flames.

"He does?" Shinobu asked, lifting an eyebrow.

"Yeah. Right here."

Hiroki shrieked as a hand grabbed his leg and lifted it up and out. Another hand braced him at the hip.

"Oh, I see it," Shinobu said. He stooped down to observe Hiroki's inner thigh. "Oh, and it's adorable! It's heart-shaped!"

"You two are insane!" Hiroki barked, blushing all the way down to his big toe. Miyagi released his leg and Hiroki scampered away, covering his bare chest with his forearms.

"Hm. He still looks good when he's running in them," Shinobu mused. Miyagi grunted in agreement, crossing his arms.

"Kamijou, you should go into modeling," Miyagi suggested.

"Yeah. You're hot," Shinobu added, nodding. He turned to Miyagi. "I'd bang him. Would you?"

"Hell yeah."

"I don't even know what the fuck's going on anymore," Hiroki groaned. Shinobu chortled lightly.

"Oh, we're just teasing you, Kamijou."

"You're becoming more and more like Miyagi every day, Shinobu. It just breaks my heart," Hiroki said sarcastically, pursing his lips as he shyly crossed his arms over his chest and hunched his shoulders to cover his nipples.

"We want you to feel better. Me and Yōh know it's been pretty rough couple of days."

"Yeah. We'll make you so sexy, Nowaki's cock will explode," Miyagi said proudly. Hiroki stared at him for a moment before bursting out into hysterical laughter.

"You two…!" he cackled, holding his mouth in his hand while holding his side with the other. "How did the conversation come to this?"

"Because we like seeing you laughing," Miyagi said with a grin. Shinobu smiled as well.

"We want you to be happy."

Hiroki's laughter faded and he smiled at his two best friends.

"Thank you. I really needed a laugh," he said. He held out his arms and Shinobu and Miyagi stepped forward for a group hug. "I love you guys."

"We love you, too," Shinobu cooed. Hiroki closed his eyes in content.

There was a long silence before Miyagi spoke up.

"Anyone else getting a boner?"

Hiroki's eyes snapped open.

"Oh! Me! I am!" Shinobu announced, raising his hand eagerly. Hiroki's eyebrow twitched.

"PERVERTS!"