Alexander- Eight months Old
Poppy and Henri - One years old
Salvador - Eight months old
Nikolai - Nine Months old
Helena - Seven months old
Sunneva- Eight months old
Cecilia - Two months
Wilhelm - one month
Aaliyah - One month
Japan's eyes opened groggily at the shrill wailing at the bottom of his bed, the wailing almost hysterical when his door opened and he sat up to stare at his oldest, Xiong. His golden brown eyes were tired and cranky, black hair falling to his shoulders and threatening to go past them and Japan felt like he'd been neglecting that the past month but life was ten times harder without China to come home too.
"Okaa-san, make her be quiet!" Xiong whined the only way a seven year old could when Japan realize with a near sob today was Xiong's birthday. "Okaa-san!"
"I'm trying, Xiong, I am. I think she misses Baba." Japan whispered pain cracking his voice when Xiong's cranky mood seemed to vanish and he then played with the bottom of his shirt as he stared at Japan. He then walked into the room up to his mother.
"I miss Baba too. But I'm not crying!" Xiong declared with determination flaring in his bright golden brown eyes, so much like China's, and he held the bottom of his shirt tightly. "I won't cry cause if you cry then Chiyo will be sad!"
"Oh, Xiong." Japan whispered like a broken coo as he reached out hugging his eldest tightly and those all too familiar tears threatened to break their dams and flood down his cheeks. His daughter continued wailing loudly and he let go of Xiong standing up and stroked his hands down his son's hair. "Maybe Baba will wake up for your birthday!"
"Maybe! But Okaa-san, why is she so loud?" Xiong asked again pouting softly but kindly making Japan smile fondly at his eldest. He shuffled over to the bassinet where his tiny, doll like daughter laid wailing her tiny lungs out and he smiled softer.
Three weeks ago they wouldn't even humor the thought of her coming home, being born at five months she should have been at the hospital longer, but as the daughter of a the personifications of Japan and China, she was no normal baby and gained enough health she was allowed to go home three weeks after her birth. Now it was a full month she'd been home and she was now one month old, a feat China missed and he knew it'd kill his husband when he woke up and realized he missed a whole month of their daughter's life. He snapped out of his thoughts and reached down picking up the wailing baby girl, holding her in a gently cradle with his arms as she hiccuped.
"What's wrong, watashi no utsukushī hime?" Japan murmured at her when her wet lashes parted for large, golden brown eyes to stare up glittering wetly as her tiny legs wiggled just a bit and he smiled. "Is your nappy dirty? Huh? Is that what's got you all ruffled?"
"Her diaper?" Xiong questioned then curiously and Japan smiled at his son who was staring at his baby sister curiously, head tilted lightly, and for a split second Japan thought his son looked like a puppy.
"Hai, would you like to help me change her?" He asked softly turning to his bed sitting down carefully and laying out the baby on her back as she whined. He noticed Xiong nod rapidly then and he smiled. "Alright, turn the light on and grab those small diapers and the small box of wipes."
"Hai!" Xiong gave a little salute as he turned his mother's light on, the room flooding in light that made all three of them squint, the baby irritated. He then grabbed the items for his mother and climbed on the bed and crawled over to Japan and sat down. "Here!"
"Arigato! Such a big boy you're becoming!" Japan chuckled when Xiong beamed. He did the snaps of his daughter's little pajama onesie, brought her tiny legs out carefully and opened her diaper. Thankfully she only peed and he was grateful but he noticed Xiong staring at her private area curiously as he folded up the wet diaper and he put the dry one on. "What's wrong?"
"Okaa-san, where's her ochinko? Like mine and Chiyo's! She doesn't have one!" Xiong sounded frantic then when he gasped and his eyes widened. "Did the doctor cut it off?!"
Japan blinked at his eldest and laughed loudly. He couldn't help himself! He got his daughter all situated, letting her lay on the bed, when he grabbed Xiong in an open affectionate hug and laughed loudly. "Oh, Xiong! You are so precious!"
"Okaa-san!" Xiong shouted confused by his mother's laughter and stared up concerned. "We need to get her ochinko back! Why are you laughing?"
"Xiong! She's a girl!" Japan was honestly howling with laughter now as he hugged his son tightly. Oh, god why was this so rich? So hilariously funny?
"So what!" Xiong shouted again with concern in his face. "Okaa-san! Why aren't you worried her ochinko isn't there? Okaa-san, you're not caring at all!"
"Xiong! Oh! Oh, stop! I can't breath!" Japan howled as he let go of his son finally, bending lightly, while he wheezed and laughed with Xiong's intense, burning gaze on him. He laughed like that for some time before he managed to calm himself down, taking deep breathes, tears pricked on his lashes as he then rubbed his eyes and ruffled his son's hair. "Darling, girls don't have an ochinko."
"Huh? Why? Liam told me girls had an ochinko but it went away when they got bigger!" Xiong explained when Japan smiled fondly then moved his fingers through his shoulder length hair slowly. Xiong, of course, closed his eyes like a happy content cat at the motion and leaned into his mother's hand.
"That's not how it works at all, Xiong. Okaa-san will tell you one day, the difference between boys and girls- when you're more mature and older." Japan said when he turned his gaze back to his daughter who was laying out on her back, wide golden brown eyes seeming to look up at something and he smiled softly. Her little girl was visible to him, just a little spring up like that one hair rebelled and it was adorable. She truly was a duplicate to China.
"But how come girls don't have ochinko's? It doesn't make sense!" Xiong exclaimed as he waved his hands then as if to emphasize on that and Japan just smiled. He shifted then, the baby still settled safely away from the edge and at the same time not too far away from his reach in case something happened. He'd opened his mouth to speak, tell him he needed to sleep as it was only two in the morning and he had a birthday party to look forward too when the phone rang.
"Hm? I wonder who that could be." Japan murmured getting up and picked up the baby with him, a tiny noise leaving her, and he walked to the door with Xiong getting up with him rushing after like a little ghost. He walked out into the hall, walking to the hall phone he kept and lifted the receiver just before the ringing stopped. "Hai?"
"Mr. Japan?" A voice asked that sounded lightly far away, crackling just a bit, when he tilted his head. "Hi! This is Dr. Tanaka, um, there's something very important I need to tell you! When I tell you I should tell you not to come just yet, as it's important for me to check tests and run them."
"What are you talking about?" Japan asked softly when Xiong gripped his shirt bottom like it was a life preserver, his head coming to rest on his hip when he looked up at him curiously.
"Mr. Japan, your husband has woken up. He wants to see you, and the baby, obviously but I'd say give me until...dinner time today, for you to come up and see your husband as I need to run tests and check his stability levels." Japan could hear the doctor talking but a joy so bright, like a sun, welled in his chest and he lightly squeezed his daughter who made a tiny squeaking sound and he smiled.
"Hai! I understand!" He breathed out excitedly squeezing the phone receiver as well."Arigato, for telling me! I'll-I'll be there at dinner time! Tell him, please?"
The doctor laughed softly but kindly. "Of course, Mr. Japan."
"I want to see my wife - aru." China whined for the thousandth time today it seemed but the nurse just smiled softly at the Chinese nation. Everyone on staff who was looking after China could understand his eagerness and impatience to see his wife, Japan, but precautions needed to be taken first and he was rather frustrated with that.
"I know you do, Mr. China." The nurse replied then smiled softly, almost sadly. "But we need to run some more tests on you to make sure you're stable enough to go home and everything is okay with you. Oh! Your wife did say to tell you he'll be here at dinner time, when the tests are done, to see you and he's going to bring the baby."
Baby? What ba- Oh! Oh shit! His daughter! "Aiyaa! How could I forget the baby?" China gasped loudly his hands flying to his head, one on his forehead and one moving through his hair."She came so early -aru! Is she alright?"
"She's perfectly healthy! She was so small for the first three weeks but she bulked up rather fast and was able to take her home!" The nurse chirped when she adjusted his IV trading a fresh baggie of clear liquid and threw the empty one away. She adjusted his IV then smiled softly. "Also, he said your eldest son's birthday is today! He'll head over when the party is over, which will be an hour or so before dinner time and before your final test."
"I hope I can go home. I've never wanted to be out of bed more than I do right now -aru." China sighed leaning against his pillows closing his eyes, a light blue bag beneath his eyes nearly nonexistent now and maybe one or two more nights of sleep would clear it up. "I just wish I could go home -aru."
"I know, Mr. China. It's annoying waiting to go home out of a hospital, I was the same when I had my own C section child." The nurse sighed out fluffing his pillows a bit when he looked at her curiously and she smiled softly. "I went through the same thing you did three weeks ago, though I was in my eighth month, I woke up from the anesthesia faster but it felt like forever. I'd wanted nothing more than to get home that day."
"You understand that then -aru?" China asked like it was unbelievable a human woman would understand when she smiled and a flush of guilt went through but he noticed his phone beeping lightly. "Is my cellphone here -aru?"
"Yes! It's in your bag, I'll grab it for you!" She pulled from China's bed and motherly fluttering that was strangely endearing to China and walked across the room to a hospital bag and ruffled through before grabbing a phone and walking over handing it to him. "Here you are! I don't want you using it too much but you can check your messages and whatnot but if it comes to calls you must use the hospital phone."
"Shi, I understand -aru." He replied nodding holding his phone in his hand tight and then watched her check his IV drips and the needles in his arm, his eyes curious when she straightened up with a black lock of bangs falling over the bridge of her nose and her dark eyes glittered with achievement.
"Alright, I'll leave you be! If you're stitches or something hurts just press the button and it'll give you a dose of pain killers. It only let's you distribute one does ever four or six hours, so think before you use it. But I'll check up on you later!" She instructed then smiled giving a wave, turning on her heel she left his room sliding the door shut behind him and China felt a strange loneliness.
His hair was down past his shoulders like heavy curtains he was used too and yet it felt strange but he felt no urge to pull it back in a ponytail. He wanted to see Japan, badly, missing his wife with an ache he didn't know was possible and fought back strange tears that pressed against his eyes suddenly and he focused on his phone. He had at least thirty texts from Nations and some repeats from most but smiled softly strangely, the heavy weight of tears still on his eyes. The first was from Hong Kong.
HK: Hey, I know you're out cold right now. But I wanted you to know Macau agreed to Taiwan and Vietnam's proposal of the artificial insemination so they'll (meaning Vietnam) will be pregnant by the time you wake up hopefully.
America: Hey! China! Man, I heard what happened and I know you're sleeping, we all do! But I wanted to let you know I've been helping out Japan as much as possible. Same with Prussia and Austria, Italy and Germany, Taiwan and Vietnam, Canada and France , Lithuania and Russia even! South Korea has even taken the kids a few times to baby sit! Macau too! We all hope you wake up soon!
England: I know we're not close but I hope you wake soon, China. You deserve to see what a beautiful daughter you have! You deserve that more than anyone! Wake up soon, chap!
Italy: China! Wake up! I know you and I were always against odds, me a part of the Axis and you the Allies, but I just wanted to tell you you should wake up soon! Japan misses you so much! I hope you wake up soon!
China had already read four out of the thirty texts and he felt something warm drip on his cheek and he couldn't continue reading right then. He didn't think he mattered much to many Nations but scrolling through he nearly cried hard at the many people who texted him and gave condolences, warned him to wake up or they'd beat the shit out of him, or even telling him how beautiful his daughter is and how she's a literal duplicate of him. He then looked out the window of his room sighing when he wiped the tears away and smiled softly holding the hospital sheets tightly in his hands. He'd be going home today, he could feel it. He felt better than fine! Perfect! He smiled nodding, his hair lightly brushing his cheek as he caught sight of his determined reflection. He'd be going home! He'd definitely be getting home! He looked up when the doctor walked in smiling softly.
"Ready to get these tests over with so you can go home?" She asked softly when he smiled nodding eagerly. The faster the tests were over the faster he'd be home! He just had to get them over with, after all, how bad could they be?