It was New Year's Eve and Ichigo was feeding the animals when she felt a pang of pain coming from her stomach. 'What did the birth class say, watch the time in between each one? But it's too early! I sure hope they aren't contractions!' Her eyes widened she was only 7 months pregnant. She had been on bed rest but she still insisted on coming downstairs to watch the ball drop in Tokyo Square. 10 minutes later she had another one and soon they were only 5 minutes apart. "RYOU!" Ichigo yelled and Ryou ran into the living room where Ichigo had moved. "What?" He asked. Her eyes were wide when she said, "Momo is coming," Ryou's eyes also grew and he shouted to Lettuce. "Lettuce can you grab Ichigo's over night bag?" "Why?" She asked standing in the middle of the staircase. "She's having contractions," Lettuce almost fainted but ran as quickly as she could up the stairs and grabbed Ichigo's bag out of the hall closet.

Soon Ryou and Ichigo were on their way to the hospital. When they arrived in the Labor Unit Ichigo was having contractions three minutes apart. "IF YOU EVER MAKE ME PREGNANT AGAIN!!" Ichigo shouted as she was wheeled into a room where she would stay until it was time for a new baby to be born. "Doctor, is this normal?" Asked Ryou. "No it's not, but we've taken a scan of the baby and she looks fully developed so she can't really be considered a preemie," The doctor told him, "And she should be wheeled into the labor room in a few minutes, we think a few more contractions should do it and she'll be ready for the big push," And with that the doctor walked off and Ryou went in with Ichigo. "Ichigo how are you?" Ryou asked and walked over to her bedside and held her hand. "DO you really need to ask?!" She said pushing air out of her nostrils quickly because of a contraction. Ryou grimaced and the nurses ran in again and pushed her into the labor room. Ryou ran in quickly as he could and held her hand the whole time. At exactly 3:02 A.M. January 1st, 2010 Momo Natsu Shirogane was born, three minutes later she was handed to her mother and the certificate of birth was handed to Ryou.

By the 5th Ichigo was ready to go home with her new baby. Ryou had, had Ichigo make a list of things they would need and Lettuce, Zakuro, and Minto had gone out and bought them a few days earlier. Ichigo walked into the door and everything looked the exact same way they left it including her robe still on the floor in their bedroom! Ichigo went upstairs and put the baby to bed telling everyone they could coo over her some other time and she went to bed.

"She's exhausted, poor girl," Zakuro said looking in through a crack in the door. "Yeah," Lettuce said walking in silently and picking up the baby who had just woken up with a soiled diaper, "Better not wake her up, I'm sure Ryou could use some practice," Zakuro smiled and nodded and followed Lettuce to the living room where Ryou, Keiichiro, Pai, and Kishu were sitting watching football. "Ryou, Momo needs her diaper changed and Ichigo is out like a light, could you please do that and then feed her the bottle Ichigo prepared after I warm it up?" Lettuce said handing the bundle of pink-orange to Ryou. "Sure," He said and walked into the bathroom where there was now a changing table and changed Momo's diaper. He fed her and put her back to bed, by then it was time for dinner so he woke Ichigo and they all ate and went to bed. Now of course they slept very soundly all night long. NOT! Momo didn't understand that we are not nocturnal and Ryou complained about this the next morning because she woke them up at 12:27 AM, 2:15 AM, 5:52 AM, and finally 7:34 AM.

A very tired Ryou stumbled down the stairs with Momo in tow for the fourth time and fed her a bottle of milk that Ichigo had made the last time she had to get up. Ichigo of course was sleeping in a bit longer before she had to get up and feed the animals and wash dishes after breakfast. Ryou and Ichigo slept very erratically until the 22nd when Momo finally figured out how to sleep more normally. A few months later Ichigo was sitting on the couch with Momo crawling around on the floor when Momo said very loudly, "Mama!" Ichigo shouted, "RYOU RYOU!!!" Ryou came running and Ichigo told him what just happened and he smiled picked up his baby and twirled her around.

By now there were a good number of babies around. 5 to be exact, Pai and Lettuce were very happy with their baby Nashi, Mint and Kishu were happy with Sukia, and Zakuro and Keiichiro were happy with their twin girls Ichijiku and Kaki. Hopefully they would have time at some point to all get married!!

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Next the Weddings!!!!!! Wh00t!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh and Musa Rox (I think) gave me the ideas for their names and I'm probably going to start a contest for new aliens in the next Chapter... first I have to think up the form... XD