Chapter 20

The Quest Continues


They were so cute that Yuki almost couldn't contain himself. Where Kuon took nearly an hour in the toy shop, Yuki knew almost instantly what he wanted. It was perfect.

"Perfect." Yuki whispered with a soft smile as he held the soft, squishy, grey plushy. "Kanae will love this."

"Yuki, you already know what your getting?" Kuon looked at him referring to the cute little floppy elephant in Yuki's hand.

"Yep, we're having a boy." He touted proudly. "We found out at Kanae's last appointment."

"No Yuki, I meant that." He smiled shaking his head as he flicked the little elephant's floppy ear and chuckled.

"Oh! Oops." He answered with a little guilt in his voice. "Kanae's going to kill me. Please don't say anything, she wanted to keep it a secret."

Kuon chuckled and nodded. "Don't worry, your secret is safe." he paused, "What are you naming him?"

Yuki smiled, "We decided on Ken'ichi."

"Hm, good strong name." Kuon commented as he perused through the stuffed animal choices for the 20th time, finally settling on a cute little plush red dragon, a squishy, soft little blond lion cub, and a floppy eared little grey plush bunny.

Yuki nodded. "Ready?"

"Yeah. I think we're done here. Our ladies are going to start worrying if we don't get home soon." Kuon smiled.


"NO! The doctor respects my decision, why can't you!?" She screamed at him in tears as she slammed the door and waddled to the elevator. If she hadn't been so serious one would have been reminded of her days as Bo the chicken on Bridge Rock.

Kuon stood staring at the closed door to their apartment wondering how he had made Kyoko more pissed at him than she had ever been. He sighed, then ran out after her only to find that she had already made it one floor down and most likely got off.

"Crap, Mom and Dad are going to kill me." He groaned. This was the first time in a long while that he had made her cry and it was over something he felt was very important. Sure, maybe he handled it wrong. Yes, completely wrong...but, it was something that really concerned him.

Bzzt...Bzzt...

"Son... What did you do to my lovely little daughter?" Kuu's voice lilted menacingly through the phone line.

"Dad..." He sighed, "Is she with you and Mom?"

"Yes, now answer my question." Kuu answered now starting to sound a little bearish.

"The doctor suggested a C-Section because of the nature of the pregnancy.." He sighed again.

Knock... Knock..

"Hang on Dad, someone's at the door." Kuon groaned wondering who could it possibly be and opened the door to a sympathetic Mother-in-law and a Father-in-law that appeared as though he had been thoroughly chewed out.

"Call you back." He announced cutting his father off and closing his cell phone before giving Kuu a chance to respond.

"So where's my stubborn daughter." Saena asked firmly as they entered the apartment.

"I upset her, so she's downstairs with my Mom and Dad." He answered filled with the guilt of making her cry.

"I see.." Saena said not giving either of the men a clue to what she was thinking. "Sit.. both of you. I'll go make some coffee and we three are going to have a sane, calm discussion.." She commanded to the two men that appeared as though they had run some medieval gauntlet and barely got out alive.


"Sweetie, tell me what happened." Julie gently probed for an answer.

"Well..sniff, sniff.. when Kuon got home he asked me how the doctor's appointment went." She started while rubbing her almost cherry red nose with the soft tissue and dabbing the tears from her red swollen eyes. "I told him how the babies were doing and.."

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"and then she told me how the doctor suggested that she should consider a C-Section, because it was a multiple birth." Kuon sighed with a little despair, Stephen nodded in agreement and Saena shook her head.

"What else?" Saena prodded eyes closed and shaking her head in slight amusement, she had a hunch how this played out but, she wanted to hear the entire thing.

"I told her that..." He continued.

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"He thought I should get one." her voice now started to tremble with anger again thinking back on the argument. "It's my body! I don't want anyone cutting into it when there's no need to!"

"Calm down Sweetie." Julie told her quietly while rubbing little circles on her back. "Did the doctor say it was necessary?"

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"No. He told her they really didn't have to. But why would she want to take that risk?" Kuon was exasperated. Stephen patted him gently on the back and gripped his shoulder to let him know he agreed with him in this argument.

"Kuon.. if it was only a suggestion then don't you think that the doctor may have a backup plan if anything goes wrong?" Saena proposed giving Kuon a new view on the matter that hadn't been tainted with anger and emotions.

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"The doctor said it wouldn't be a problem and we could just use the surgery if anything started to go wrong.." Kyoko whined.

"Did you tell him that?" Kuu asked gently.

"No... He just got angry and we started yelling at each other." She sniffled some more.

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"So how did she end up running to Kuu and Julie?" Stephen took a deep sip of coffee.

"I don't know. First we were calmly discussing it, I gave my opinion and she just flew off the handle and things spiraled from there." Kuon told his In Laws with sadness in his voice.

"I think you need to go get your wife." Saena told him. "To me, you are both at fault for this one. If the doctor isn't worried then you shouldn't be either."

Kuon nodded and headed out the door.


"I'm sorry Baby." Kuon told her as he knelt before her hugging her tightly. "I shouldn't have yelled. You know what's best for you and the doctor wouldn't let you do it if he thought it was too dangerous." He kissed her temple.

"I'm sorry I got so angry Kuon. You were only worried for us." Little tears started falling again.

"I love you and I do trust you. I'm sorry." He whispered as he gently wiped the tears from her soft cheeks with his thumb and gave her a quick kiss.

"I love you too. You don't have to apologize, you were just worried about me and the babies." she snuggled into him.

"Let's go home." He smiled helping her up. She smiled softly and nodded. The young couple would re-enter their home without the heavy burden of their heated argument and spend the rest of the evening cuddling and two sets of parents would amuse themselves with the couple's folly of youth.