I apologize for the wait. It's been like, what, a week? I've actually had this chapter ready since Friday, I just never got a chance to upload it...

So anyway, at long last, here is Chapter 7. I'll try to update sooner next time.

"Ah. Hello, Kagura. Nice to see you", said Kazuma.

"What're you talking about?!" asked Rin, "It's not nice to see her!"

"I see you're in your usual lovely mood", said Kagura cheerily.

"You can't just come over to someone's house anytime you feel like! It's rude!"

Haru, Kagura, and Kazuma were stricken with the complete irony of that statement.

"Well, I just wanted to see how you're doing!" said Kagura.

"I'm fine. Go home."

"So how far along are you, anyway?" asked Kagura, completely ignoring Rin's protests.

"I don't know. Go home."

"When did you find out you were pregnant?"

"It was August", said Haru.

"Oh, really? So that means it'll probably be born...if I had to guess...May?"

"Who cares? It's not like I'm going to tell you when it's born."

"Aw, why not? I wanted to hold it. I love babies."

"It's okay, Kagura. You can hold it", said Haru.

"So is it a boy or a girl?"

"Umm...I don't know", Haru replied.

"You mean you haven't found out yet? Isuzu should be far enough along where you can find out..."

"Well, maybe I don't want to find out yet!" Rin snapped, "Maybe I want to find out when it's born, huh?!"

"You don't have to bite my head off!"

"Isuzu, please stop antagonizing her", said Kazuma, "I don't want her to destroy my house."

"I would never do something like that, Shihan!" cried Kagura indignantly.

"Destroying sensei's house is enough for her", said Haru.

Kagura came over and sat down next to Rin. "So no one else knows still, right?"

"You better have kept it that way", said Rin darkly.

"Don't worry! I didn't tell Tohru, just like you said. Well, anyway, I just thought I'd come to see how you were doing. I haven't been over in a while.

"Oh. Well, she's doing fine", said Haru, "She had to get bigger clothes, though."

"I can see that. But hey, I was doing some research on babies and stuff, because, you know, I wanted to help you guys out. But you know what? I read that if you talk to your baby while you're pregnant, it will recognize your voice once it's born."

"What? That's stupid. I've never heard anything like that", said Rin.

"Well, I don't expect you would have."

"So...if you talk to it, it'll recognize your voice once it's born, huh...?" Haru was thoughtful.

"Haru...don't tell me you're actually thinking something that absurd could be true?" said Rin furiously.

Haru sat down next to Rin and put his hands on either side of her stomach. "Hello. I'm Haru Sohma. I'm your daddy."

"Haru!!"

"The crabby lady with the angry voice is your mommy. You've made her kind of...temperamental."

"You're the one making me 'temperamental'!"

"But it's okay. She may be stubborn, but she's actually a nice lady."

"Stop ignoring me!"

"Though she does get annoyed very easily. You'll want to watch out for that."

"Haru!"

"But she's the smart one."

"Stop being stupid! It's not like it can hear you!"

Haru looked at her. "How do you know?"

...

Kazuma heard something strange when he passed by Rin's room in the hall that night. He thought he heard...her voice. Was she talking to herself?

He went closer to the door.

"--and, um, I'm Rin Sohma. Well, actually, Isuzu is really my name, but I go by Rin. Um...I'm, er, your mother, so, um...yeah. I think this is really stupid, but...just in case you can hear me right now...I, um, may have given off a bad impression earlier, so..."

Kazuma smiled and continued down the hall.

Well, that's that. And for those of you who have been kind of like "WTF?! Where are the other Zodiac members?!"

Don't worry. They're coming in future chapters.