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I'm going to warn you guys. This is futuristic and fictional, so whatever you read is possible as this is an AU. Also, some facts are just pulled out of my butt (lol). You can choose whether to believe it or not. But please, no flames! You can tell me if something's way too illogical, but I won't take rudeness. I'll accept my mistakes but please tell me in a nice way! XD
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This is it Jasminum, Chio'No'Akuma, Akemi and VandQ! I hope you like it 3
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Disclaimer: KnB is not mine, as well as the picture used.
Chapter 3:
Akashi POV
"Kuroko's almost 2 weeks pregnant."
"What, Shintaro?" My eyes widen. How is that possible? I know that in this modern age, many scientific and technological advancements have appeared. Heck, they just found the cure for cancer years ago, but it wasn't made public (only for the exclusive people who can afford, tch). But a man, pregnant?!
"I don't know how this happened, Akashi." I hear him sigh on the other line. "I want to conduct tests to make sure. 2 weeks is an estimate. So bring him here as soon as you can." And he cuts off the connection. I stay frozen in my office, trying to comprehend Shintaro's revelation. How in the world…? Then a realization hits me.
Is this what they have done to Tetsuya?! They experimented him?!
I will find them and kill them. Torture them first so they die slowly. They will beg me to kill them. But I won't, not until I've gouged their eyeballs, cut their fingers one by one, castrate them, and many more. The last thing they will see before they die are their brains plucked out from their skulls being crushed in my own hands.
I pound my fists onto the table and throw several vases on the floor. My executive secretary Reo Mibuchi comes in panicked. "Sei-chan? What happened?" he alarmingly asks.
"I'll take the rest of the day off Reo," I state through gritted teeth. I storm out of the office and head to the apartment.
I find Tetsuya sitting on a couch pulled near to the glass wall, staring dreamily at the blue sky. My heart softens but I am unable to erase my anger. I know it's unreasonable to be mad at him for keeping this from me, but the ire clouds my judgment.
"Tetsuya," I say his name with venom. He flinches and turns to me. I must have looked terrifying in his eyes. "We are going to the hospital."
His eyes enlarge. "No." he refuses firmly. It only makes me angrier.
"Why not?" I snap.
"Because I don't want to." he replies in that monotone voice. I clench my fist to prevent myself throwing furniture.
"We. Are. Going. To. The. Hospital." I repeat.
"Why do I have to do anything you say?" he shouts fearfully. "I don't even know you!"
I freeze again. That's right, he doesn't remember me. Something inside my chest becomes uncomfortably painful. My whole body feels heavy. I don't know what Tetsuya sees in my expression because he touches my cheeks and apologizes.
"You're right. I'm sorry. I almost broke my promise. I told you that I'm not going to do anything you don't want to do. But please Tetsuya, I want you to be honest." I close my eyes. "Are you pregnant?"
His breath hitches. "H-how did… How did y-you…?"
"You really are pregnant." I whisper. I weakly sit on the larger sofa. My strength is slowly being drained.
Neither of us speak. But a few moments after, I hear him choke a sob. I snap my eyes open and see tears streaming down his angelic face. My anger dissipates and my heart aches.
"I'm leaving." he announces. My chest constricts but I ignore it. "Thank you for all your kindness," he bows politely and heads towards the door.
"Wait, no!" I jump out of the sofa. I grip his right wrist. "Don't go, Tetsuya." I hear desperation and hurt in my voice.
"I'll go before you kick me out. I'd like to leave with dignity." Then he adds. "I don't even know why you helped me in the first place."
It's true. I guess I have some explaining to do. "Okay. Let's sit down and I'll tell you anything you want to know." I say. We go to his bedroom and sit on the queen-size bed.
"Kise Ryouta," his sky blue eyes lit up in recognition. "He's my friend. He asked me years ago to help them find you." A half-truth. I was out searching for you before I even knew you were kidnapped.
"K-Kise-kun…" his hands tremble. I place my hand above his. "H-have you…?" he mutters. I understand what he's trying to ask and shake my head.
"When I saw you in that state, I figured you wouldn't want them to see you that way. I was trying to buy some time for your wounds to heal before I tell them you're here." A lie. I wanted to you to stay here with me, where I can protect you. And I don't want to share you yet.
He nods appreciatively. And now, to explain why I'm helping him. This is the most justifiable reason I think of. I sigh. "I want to confess something." He stares straight into my eyes. "I like you Tetsuya." True but not quite. No, I love you more than my life.
His usual poker face reddens. Oh Tetsuya, you are too adorable. How much cuter would you be if I told you how I really feel? "I… ah… um I-" He stammers.
"Ever since I first laid my eyes on you, I've felt a strange connection." Half-truth. The first time I saw you was when we were kids. Hurry up and remember.
"I feel this strong urge to protect you and take care of you." Truth.
"When you said you were going to leave, it hurt me." Truth.
"I want you to stay with me." Truth.
If it's possible, his face redden ten shades deeper. "You don't have to respond to my feelings right away. Right now, my priority is your health, and it would really make me happy if Shintaro checks you and the baby's health, and assures me everything is fine."
He contemplates on this. "Please Tetsuya. Do this for me." I say. I internally blink as I realize I am close to begging. The Akashi Seijuurou, begging? If I was being me, I would have ordered him to go, punished him for raising his tone against me, and dragged him to the hospital myself. Oh the things you can do to me, Tetsuya.
He sighs and speaks in a quiet tone. "Okay. But… don't leave me." He pleads.
"Of course." And once again, I smile uncharacteristically.
"In the past, ultrasounds can only detect a gestational sac on the sixth week of pregnancy," Shintaro informs us. "But with the technology we have today, it's possible even after a week of conception-nanodayo."
Tetsuya lays on a bed while another doctor slides something back and forth his stomach (a transducer, I found out later). "How sure are you that he's two weeks pregnant?" I ask.
"We're not. It could be more or less. Like I said, it's an approximate. It's impossible to know the exact date of conception. Normally, a transvaginal ultrasound is more effective to see if we can find a fetus but…" he trails. Of course. Where would they insert it? Tch.
"There," the female doctor presses a button, freezing the picture on the screen, and points to a tiny glitch. "This is amazing," she exclaims. "It's inside an abdominal cavity under the peritoneum. It's too early to see a fetus but it's there. He's definitely pregnant."
The tiny glitch is a baby? My world stills as I try to wrap my head around the facts.
"This will be complicated." Shintaro shakes his head. "As if ectopic pregnancy in women isn't deadly enough." I don't comprehend his words as I stare at the tiny glitch in the screen. The tiny glitch is a baby…
The session finishes in a blur. We are ushered into Shintaro's office.
"I need you to stay here for a few lab tests, would that be okay Kuroko?" he asks. Tetsuya looks at me but I don't respond. My brainwaves are still in the ultrasound room.
"Ehem…" Shintaro clears his throat a little too loud. "Do I need to jolt your heart to restart it Akashi?" I shake my head to clear the daze in my thoughts. "I'm sorry. What?"
"Kuroko will have to spend a few nights here."
"Oh, okay." I say. Tetsuya grips the hem of my shirt. "It'll be fine. I'll be here." I assure him. "And I don't need to worry about the privacy, should I?" I threateningly ask Shintaro.
"Of course not. You're forgetting this is my hospital. And as I recall, you've already bought a whole floor here."
"It proved to be handy." I shrug. "Will Tetsuya be okay?" And in a smaller voice I add. "The baby?"
Shintaro sighs and pushes his glasses upward. "I can't guarantee 100% that everything will be okay for him and the baby, as this is a new phenomenon." He turns to Tetsuya. "However, I promise to figure out everything about this and assist you in every stage. We won't let you be harmed."
Tetsuya nods. "Arigato, Midorima-sensei."
"Of course. Don't be too formal. And I'm only helping you because Akashi is a friend, not because I care for you or anything."
"Hai, Midorima-kun." Tetsuya smiles a little. Yes Tetsuya, you figured out he's a tsundere, as Kazunari calls it.
Shintaro looks away. "I'll assist you to your room-nanodayo."
After a few office-related calls I made, I go back to our private hospital room and finds that Tetsuya is not there. I panic and run around the hospital, asking people if they've seen him. I briefly remember that he's hard to be seen, and I worry how I would find him. Thankfully, one elderly man in a wheelchair gives me a direction and I sprint towards it.
I see him staring at something beyond a glass window. I approach and little wrapped babies in warmers came into my sight.
"They're so cute." he deadpans. I stay still. I still haven't gotten around the fact that the little blip was a baby, much more that it's inside Tetsuya too.
"I can't believe there's a baby inside me," he says quietly. "But I won't give it up." Shintaro briefly mentioned the word "abortion" a while ago and I saw Tetsuya instinctively wrap his arms around his tummy. Shintaro realized the horrified look on Tetsuya's face and backed down. I smile as I realize that he'll be a good mother, seeing how much he wants to protect the baby.
Mother? Suddenly, my mind blanks.
"I'll be the baby's father."
Tetsuya widens his eyes at me. Even I surprised myself. But I know in my heart this is right.
"If you let me, of course."
He chuckles to my surprise again. "I like that, Akashi-kun." My heart flutters at the sweet smile he gives me.
In my twenty-six years of living, this is the first time that I've felt this warm inside it's almost magical, as I subtly hold Tetsuya's hand and watch the tiny babies in the nursery area.
Fin~
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Omake!
"Mou Daikicchi, you really should be more careful-ssu!"
"Shut up Ryouta. It's just a broken ankle."
"And a stab on your thigh."
"Whatever. It's not like I can't walk again. I just have to be in this shitty wheelchair for a while."
"I'll take care of you Daikicchi~! Daijoubu ssu yo!" \(^.^/)
"Get away from me Ryouta!" =.='
"Kagamicchi said he'll visit, but I don't know when." =3
"Fine! Get the hell of me! You're not supposed to sit on me!"
"Aww you're so cute when you blush my dear anata~"