Chapter 13

It was a nice sunny Sunday and the Minamino family was playing outside having a wonderful time. Shuichi was playing tag with the kids while Natashi wasn't feeling quite well and just sat on the porch drinking her crème and sugar coffee watching them. Natashi felt nausea start up again but she tried to keep it down as she slowly stood up so not to alarm her family.

Their oldest foster child, Kenny, was a half-demon, they planned on adopting the boy before the foster agency took him away, and he had some physic abilities with that he knew that his adopted mother would need his help. He stayed by her ever since the twins of the future brought them back to their home he saw something growing inside of her and he remembered that when the foster care put him in Minamino's care that they tried three times to have a baby but each time something went wrong. With that knowledge he tried his best to keep an eye on her when he wasn't in school and his foster father was in work to keep her from being too stressed.

Kenny helped his adopted mother into the house and to the nearest toilet. Once they were in the bathroom he helped her to the toilet so she could empty her stomach even as much as he hated the sound and smell of it. Kenny rubbed Natashi's back instead of holding back her hair because it was always cut short. Finally he asked, "Mama, why do you have something growing inside of you? Is it a disease?"

Natashi had to smile at the little wolf demons' questions and answered, "It's called a baby and it's not a disease."

"So that's where babies come from!" he smiled brightly until he looked up towards the door.

Following Kenny's gaze Natashi found Kurama at the door gazing at her with saddened but unreadable eyes. She knew the gaze all too well and she knew neither of them get take another miscarriage. They would have to do their best to keep this one alive

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Natashi leaned against the cool tile wall of the bathroom trying to cool her over heated body. Kenny had been helping the best he could during the first two month but after that time Kurama had informed his work that he had to stay home to watch over her and their foster kids just in case something went wrong and so Kenny could stay in school so they wouldn't get in trouble.

Natashi knew that he felt how weak and hungry she was getting since her body couldn't get the nutrition it need by the two month mark. Not even into first week of the third month Kurama had to take her to the hospital to put her onto an I.V. and it was then Ayaka and Hideaki decided to show their faces to a very angry Kurama.

Ayaka opened the door to Natashi's hospital and smiled sheepishly at the couple, "I guess it wasn't a good idea to give her the cure and that type of aphrodisiac at the same time."

Kurama glared at the twins until he spotted Hideaki stepped into the room with needle.

Hideaki just ignored Kurama's glare and said, "It was not me that overloaded the aphrodisiac that went into your wife. Your wife is luckily that I felt that something like this might happen. I brought a counter-acting aphrodisiac to neutralize the remaining aphrodisiac in her body."

"Why would any remain?" Kurama asked suspiously.

"Because in our time you could say people have nothing better to do on their days off and that aphrodisiac is very widely used and people tend to go overboard with it and it tends to linger in females body's a lot more than in males. So I'll just give her the antidote to-"

He was cut off by Kurama animalist growl as he loomed protectively over his wife.

With a sigh Hideaki finally said, "We aren't suppose to tell you this but…we're you're future children."

"What?! That's impossible!" Kurama growled.

"That's because we hide our scent with a special herb that we mixed into our shampoo and body wash," Ayaka started and stopped as Hideaki picked up where she started.

"We aren't suppose to tell you because it could mess up the future. If we can't protect the- our lives inside your- our mother then we won't exist."

"Nor will our future be as it is currently was when we left."

"That's why we're here. To make sure that we are born and the world gets the cure from our blood."

"Wait! I thought you said Natashi was the cure!" Kurama stopped them.

"She is but only for the first few decades," Ayaka answered.

"Most of the cure we gave her will be transferred into our blood making us the cure," Ayaka continued.

"We would tell you more but then the future will change. You have to let us give Natashi this antidote so there's no permanent damage."

"Even if that was true I won't let you inject anything else into my wife!" Kurama growled.

Ayaka sighed, "Unfortunately we have to."

Something punctured Kurama's side upon looking down he saw a vine coming from under the bed. Following the vine it led to Ayaka's right arm and the look on her face was solemn.

"Sorry father but we have to do this…"

Well that was an unexpected turn of events.