Chapter 29 – Relief and a Miracle

It wasn't long after I had that thought, that I realised Ayako hadn't mentioned the babies. I sit up faster than if I had had a nightmare and wrap my arms around my stomach. "The babies are fine, Mai; surprisingly, and thankfully, they were completely unharmed," Ayako mentions quickly when she noticed my panic.

"Thank goodness," I whisper while lying back down on the bed.

I hear a groan coming from beside me and look over to investigate, what I see has me crying in relief; Naru was waking up. "Naru," I whisper.

He turns his head to face me and I can see the tell-tale signs of a smile on his face. "Mai," he whispers, but it comes out similar to the croak I had released.

Ayako doesn't hesitate to take a glass of water over to him, "Thank God you're awake Naru, we were starting to worry. If you had left poor Mai behind I would have to resurrect you to kill you myself," says Ayako and it sounded so serious that it kind of scared me.

"I'm not leaving her alone anytime soon, so you don't need to worry about that," he retorts, his voice now back to him. Then his face goes pale and he looks over at me, "What about the babies?"

I smile at that and allow Ayako to respond, "They're fine; and like I told Mai, they were completely unharmed."

"Good, I don't want to track that ghost in the afterlife for harming my children, it is bad enough it tried to hurt Mai," he mutters.

"Well now that you're both awake, it won't be long before you can leave and finally go home. The others are going to be glad that you're both fine; I was the only one who was allowed to stay because I'm a doctor," explains Ayako almost as if she was happy the others weren't here.

"I'd rather leave right now," Naru says haughtily.

"Well tough, you're both staying here until it's safe for you to leave," says Ayako in her 'do it or I'll hit you' voice.

"Fine, but I'm not staying too much longer," he mutters under his breath and I know I'm the only one who heard him.

3 Months later

I was sitting at my desk filling in paperwork that didn't involve leaving my chair; I convinced Naru to let me stay in the office even though I won't go on cases. The others were out on a case right now except for Ayako who was my babysitter just in case I went into labour while Naru was on a case. In some ways I envy her; she isn't that far behind me and yet she still isn't as big as me. If I thought I was a blimp before; now I'm an industrial sized blimp.

I was walking into the kitchen for tea when I felt the unmistakable pain of a contraction. It's followed closely by the liquid trickling down my legs. I lean on the bench in pain and call for Ayako.

She comes around the corner and when she sees me on the floor, helps me onto the couch before calling Bou-san. "It's okay Mai; they were already on their way here and are only a few minutes away. When they get here, Bou-san is going to help you into Naru's car so Naru can take you to the hospital," she informs me after hanging up.

Not three minutes later, Bou-san is rushing through the door and comes straight over to me. Ayako and Bou-san skip the pleasantries of hello and he picks me up; they want me at the hospital as soon as possible.

He runs out the door and straight down to the car park to Naru's car. Naru was already waiting in the car with the engine running; as soon as I was buckled in, we were off.

Naru's POV

"AHHHHHHH, THAT DOES IT, NO MORE CHILDREN; YOU HEAR ME NARU?" I hear coming from the birthing room and it makes me wince.

I was pacing up and down the hall in the waiting room, waiting for my children to be born. The others were also here and somehow; my parents were too. I ignored mother's constant attempt to get me to sit down and be patient. Mai's screaming wouldn't let me be patient about it; I was the cause of her pain and that was making me edgy.

I finally realised that Ayako was calling my name and that was followed by the realisation that Mai wasn't screaming anymore; her screams were replaced with the wails of a baby. That didn't last long however as Mai was ready to give birth to our other child. I look over to the doors and a nurse comes out holding a baby. "Your son Mr Shibuya," she says and hands him to me.

I look down at him and smile when I see his soft patch of black hair. He opens his eyes and they are the same chocolate brown as his mother's. The others come around to see him and I can't help but feel pride over my first born child.

Mai's POV

After the nurse had taken my son out of the room, my other baby was ready to come out. "You have to push now Mai; you're going to give birth to your son's twin," says a nurse as if I didn't already know, or rather feel, that.

"On three, one, two, three, PUSH," says the midwife helping to deliver my babies.

I push on her command and the pain is even worse than the first baby. "PUSH."

After a few more pushes, the cry of a second baby fills the room and I was more exhausted than I had ever been. One of the nurses, who weren't holding my baby, went out to retrieve Naru and our son. "It's a girl," says the midwife as she hands my daughter to me.

I look down and see she has her father's hair just like her brother, but when she opens her eyes; she has her father's eyes instead of mine. Her blue eyes were just as beautiful on her as they are on her father. I look up when I hear the door open and in walks Naru with a bundle of blue cloth in his arms that could only be our son. "Come meet your little girl," I whisper to him.

He comes over and smiles down at our daughter who had gone back to sleep. "She also has my hair," he whispers.

"Yes, and she also has your eyes," I respond smiling up at him and he turns to face me.

"Our little angels," he says before leaning down to kiss me.

AHHHHHH, the babies are born and there are cheers around. I'm sorry this took awhile to update, but I was no longer on a role and mum was treatening to kill me (not seriously, of course) if I didn't do my english assignment. Bloody english. Anyway, thankfully I only have one more day of classes, then exam block next week followed by a week with one whole day and the day that the other year levels say bye, and hope to never see us again. LOL. Seriously, I'm going to bawl my eyes out because I'm going to miss my friends. The downsides of graduating high school; the real world and seeing friends very little.

Anyway, again, I hope you liked this chapter and I'm saddened to inform you that the next chappie will be the last for this story and then I can finaly get back to my other fics. When this story is finished, I can celebrate both graduating and completing my first fanfic. Life is good.

Hopefully it won't be too much longer before my next update and hopefully I don't keep you hanging long.

Seza, over and out.