Okay, short chapter, huge time skip, long wait for the update! Sorrysorrysorry! Next chapter is the last one...
The months following Shizuo's birthday were uneventful to say the least. Yuzuki was fitting in well and that made me happier than I could express. But now it was May…May 23rd to be precise, and the C-section was today too. Actually I was waiting rather impatiently for Shinra to return home so we could get this over with!
"Calm down Izaya, he'll be here," Shizuo murmured softly, though he looked amused as he gave my hand a light squeeze.
"Easy for you to say, you're not the one about to have a giant hole cut in your stomach followed by a baby being pulled out of it…" I grumble and he chuckles, kissing the side of my head.
"No, but I do get to watch that happen to my fiancé," He points out, hugging me gently.
"Oh! You're already here! How lovely!"
"You're late Shinra!" I snap at the blissful doctor. Blissful because Celty finally agreed to marry him.
"Eh? Oh, so I am, sorry 'bout that! Come on then, let's get that baby out of you!" I stand heavily, one hand on my too-large stomach and we shuffle behind him slower than I would have liked. Shizuo's arm is my support, but he doesn't mind at all.
"Okay Shizuo, get him on the bed and change into that," Shinra points to some blue scrubs he had gotten for Shizuo. I'm already in a bloody hospital gown. I wonder if you can just buy them anywhere or if Shinra had to sneak in and steal one as Shizuo helps me get onto the bed. He pulls the blue scrubs over his street clothing easily as Shinra injects the blessed pain killer, making my entire lower body go numb.
The C-section was supposed to be a few days from now, but seemed that the baby had other plans as I had now been having contractions and they were getting closer together. The curtain went up between me and them so I wouldn't see them slicing me open and I took a slow, deep breath. I can feel it, but it doesn't hurt. I do see Shizuo go pale though.
"Okay Shizuo, need you over here a minute," Shinra says and Shizuo manages to shuffle closer.
"You take all of that out? But is that safe?" He seems a bit perturbed.
"Hm? Oh, yeah, it is. Izaya can't deliver the afterbirth right? So we have to take everything out now then…ah here we are."
"Huh?"He looks confused but then worried.
"Wh-why isn't he crying?" He whines and Shinra rolls his eyes and does something. A very loud wail echoes.
"Shizuo, I have to make it cry this time. But see? He's fine," Shinra grabs a blanket and I try not to move and see the trio.
"Now, you show Izaya while I get him stitched up," Shinra grins, pushing the bundle into Shizuo's arms. The blonde grins at it before managing to come around the curtain. I hold very still.
"Here," He says, and his voice is full of love too. He holds the newborn in a way I can see him.
"Why's he so pale?" I ask, a bit worried. He seems to be bald too…like, no eyebrows either.
"Yeah…Hey Shinra, you sure he's okay?" Shizuo asks, worried to now.
"Hang on…there, okay don't move too much Izaya," Shinra comes around to take a look.
"Huh…well, no clue, but I'll give him a bath, that should warm him up and get him nice and pink, okay?" He takes the bundle from Shizuo and heads out of the room.
"Ugh, do baths normally take this long for babies?" Shizuo asks, pacing around the room.
"No," I mumble. I'm getting impatient too but Shinra comes in just then.
"Well, good news! He's perfectly healthy!" He says before putting him in my arms which had reached out automatically when he came in.
"He's still pale…" I mumble then I notice he isn't bald after all. He has a thin covering of pure white hair, and his eyebrows are just as white as are his eyelashes.
"Yes…but he's healthy~!"
"I don't get it…how come he doesn't look like either of us?" Shizuo asks.
"I think he's albino…" I mumble, but I smile all the same. He is beautiful after all…sure enough he opens his small eyes sleepily and they are pinkish-red.
"Ah…yes, seems you both carried the recessive gene for it. But this doesn't change anything! I mean sure, he'll burn easier than others in the sun, but lots of sunscreen and heck, he can have an umbrella!" Shinra says happily. I shake my head a little and smile at the sleepy boy in my arms.
"Hah…I should go pick Yuzuki up huh?" Shizuo asks, his grin huge.
"Mommy! Oooh! Is that baby brother?" Yuzuki asks her auburn hair flowing behind her gently as she bounces over and looks.
"Yeah…"
"Oooh….he's so pretty~! He doesn't look like Mommy or Daddy though! How come I look like Daddy and he doesn't?"
"Well…he has something called albinism. It means that the genes responsible for causing skin pigmentation like you and I have isn't there, so he's pale and has no hair colour and his eyes are pink~"
"Oh…okay then! Hey! What's he called?" She looks between Shizuo and me rapidly.
"Ah…I don't know," He says looking at me.
"Guess the names we short listed don't fit huh?" I mumble happily.
"No…" Shizuo agrees.
"Well…what about Yuki?" Yuzuki suggests. We both look at her.
"Well, he's white and pale like snow right? So then call him Yuki! With the Kanji for snow!" She says. It does work…and it flows well with Yuzuki's name too.
"Well…I like it," Shizuo says looking at me. I grin at the new baby.
"Heiwajima Yuki…it works…" I decide with a nod.
He'll be just as spoiled as Yuzuki….
Seliphra: Bahaha! I bet y'all weren't expecting an albino baby!
Izaya: Huh...go figure...
Shizuo: Hey, are we sure you're not albino? You got red eyes too...
Izaya: ...My hair is black.
Seliphra: Yeah...duh... REVIEW AND I ADD SOME HONEYMOON FLUFF/SMUT! Just for you guys... Yeah, next chapter is the wedding...
