Surrendering
First Trimester
About a few weeks later, Yuna was on her knees, continuing on with her pathetic love affair with her cool porcelain toilet. She had been sent home from the preschool today, the other teachers thought she was coming down with a flu and sent her home before any of the kids could catch it. If she wasn't busy bending over the toilet and puking her guts out, Yuna would have laughed and joked about how pregnancy wasn't contagious.
This was all that had happened to her as of late. Since the stick (and its four other friends) had turned a bright shade of 'pregnant,' she hadn't really felt any different. What was happening to her right now was reminiscent of what would happen to someone who had particularly bad food poisoning with accompanying dizziness that was par for the course of any hangover. Yuna noticed she was eating a little bit more, even at midnight she found herself chowing down on cereals, only to throw it all up after. It hadn't quite sunk in yet that she was basically a vessel of life, as Kurama had put it the other day.
Speaking of Kurama, the house was never as quiet as it used to be since he'd announced that she was pregnant. Keiko came over practically every day to ask her how she was, and she usually ended up being the one to make Yuna tea to come with the crackers she would bring. Other days Yusuke would come over, saying he was just 'passing by' and leaving stomach-friendly foods that Keiko had asked him to bring. They were both incredibly sweet about it, and Yuna appreciated that they were actually opening up to her. The other day, Keiko was telling her about how she and Yusuke fell in love, a tale that was as funny as it was romantic.
On the days where neither of the couple could come over, another one of their friends would come by for a chat or tea. Botan had already seen the inside of her apartment thrice, Shizuru twice, and Yukina and Kuwabara once. Yukina had been quite soothing, as she was the only one who really seemed to understand how bad Yuna was feeling at the moment, since she was three months ahead.
Then, there was Kurama. Yuna wasn't exactly sure what was going on between the two of them and honestly, neither did Kurama. She just didn't have the time or energy left to think about it, and so she just let the chips fall where they may. He came over as often as he could, usually to stay in and watch a movie with her, eat dinner (making it himself on more than one occasion) or just sit up and talk. He was also there to hold her hair back when she was throwing up, or hand her the toothbrush after.
One day, while Kurama sorted and measured out ingredients for a parmesan chicken, he heard Yuna yelp in surprise from inside the room. Worried that something was wrong, the redhead immediately barged in, finding her standing in front of her mirror. She turned to him in surprise, her shirt lifted, exposing her belly to him.
"What's wrong?" he asked as she looked at the mirror again, rubbing her hands over her stomach in slight disbelief.
"Kurama, look at this," she said, indicating her body. "There's already a bump!"
The bump looked more like a little pillow had been stretched over her stomach, but Kurama could see it clearly from the side. "This is crazy," she said, unable to keep her eyes off her stomach. "I mean I'm only what, five weeks along? This is big, isn't it?"
"I don't know," Kurama said, walking closer to her. "I have to admit that I know very little about pregnancy and childbirth."
"I've seen some teachers at the school," Yuna said. "They're never usually this big when they're a little over a month along. Maybe I just got fat."
Kurama actually laughed at that. "Impossible."
The following day, he showed up at her door, his arrival marking this third visit of the week. Yuna's eyes went a little wide as she saw the huge number of books he was carrying with him.
"Do you need help?" She asked him as he awkwardly made his way into the apartment, the books he was carrying were almost up to his chin. He managed to shake his head as he carefully placed the literature on Yuna's coffee table, stepping back when he'd done it.
"What is all this?" she asked him curiously, bending to take a look at the books' titles. "What to Expect when You're Expecting, Yoga and the New Mother, So You Got Knocked Up? Oh gosh, Kurama did you-" she asked, running a finger down the stack of books. She looked up at him and raised an eyebrow. "Did you buy all of this?"
"No," He chuckled, sitting down on the couch and catching his breath. "Half of those books were ones my mother read when she was pregnant with me. The others are ones I purchased for Keiko and Yusuke so they can prepare for their baby too. This one," he said, pulling out one title from the large stack. Yuna read the title as Battle Royale.
"This one is for light reading."
"Ugh, I'll take Battle Royale over any of this at the moment," Yuna complained.
"I've been reading a bit," he told her. "There are pictures of women's bellies on a weekly basis and-"
"Oh my god," Yuna said, immediately flipping to the page to where she currently was, her fifth week. The woman in the picture was barely showing at all! "I knew it. I am fat," she grumbled, grabbing the first book, What to Expect, off the pile and sitting next to Kurama on the couch.
"Not necessarily," Kurama pointed out. "You could be having twins."
"I have to throw up," she said, putting the book aside and making a beeline towards the bathroom.
Yuna knew that there was a reason why she was holding off reading the baby books. She was only on her sixth week when she started absolutely freaking out. She had been pretty good at hiding it too. Nobody really noticed anything was wrong until Nami saw Yuna hanging back while the kids played a round of hide and seek in the playground.
"What's up, Yuna?" Nami asked, coming to approach her senior. "You love playing hide and seek with the kids. I mean, that's the whole reason Miyo's so in love with you because you saved him when he tried to hide up that tree."
Yuna bit her lip and watched as Shari finally found the last child and they were all just scrambling to get back to the base. Yuna pulled her shirt lower over her skirt, hoping nobody would notice her bump. She could swear that it got bigger in a week, which only added to her freaking out.
"I know," Yuna answered with a sigh. "I mean, I would love to join the kids but...the books all say that the first trimester is the most risky. I could lose the baby if I'm not careful."
After saying that, Yuna felt a chill run up her spine, like she knew that something was about to happen. She looked at Nami, who looked a little worried.
"Please don't tell your boyfriend I just said that. If you tell him then he'll tell his stepbrother who will freak out and..."
"And what? Make sure you come to your senses and chillax?" Nami asked, raising her eyebrow.
"Just don't tell him, please?"
"Too late," Nami laughed as Yuna's cellphone rang. Yuna saw who was calling and her eyes widened in surprise. When did Nami even-? Sighing, she pressed a button on her phone and tried to act nonchalant.
"Hello?" She asked, still keeping her eyes on the kids.
"So my brother tells me you aren't playing with the kids in school?" Kurama asked, the phone tucked in between his chin and shoulders. He was currently neck deep in paperwork, his stepfather was leaving for a business trip the next week and they needed to give him status reports on all accounts before he did. But when he'd received his stepbrother's text message, he immediately called her. His worry was getting the best of him.
"Yeah, I've just been a little tired from dating my toilet," she told him as a chime rang out behind her. It was time for the kids to go inside for science experiments.
"That's not what I heard," Kurama countered, signing a document one of the interns had passed to him before turning to his computer to continue typing up a report.
"Alright, so you caught me," Yuna confessed, being led by the hand into the classroom and pushed in at the same time. "I'm just...a little scared, that's all."
There was a pause on Kurama's side of the line. Yuna took that moment to give one of the kids a kiss on the cheek and tell Nami that she was going to finish her phone call in the hallway. Kurama meanwhile, finished up his final report, which made him exhale.
"Well, that was a trying day," he said with an odd chuckle, which made Yuna think that his day had been anything but that. "I'll come and pick you up. Shall we have dinner at that spaghetti place you like?"
"Kurama, you know how I can barely keep anything down."
"Soup and crackers it is, then," he said, his tone of voice becoming much more relaxed. "I'll pick you up in an hour. Preschool should be over by then, yes?"
"Uhm...yes?" Yuna asked, slightly confused. What did this fox have up his sleeve?
Exactly an hour later, as Yuna was waving goodbye to the last child to get picked up from school, Kurama's car pulled up at the front of the school. Suuichi had come over to pick up Nami and he raised his eyebrows when he saw his brother's ride.
"What is he doing here?" He asked Yuna as Kurama walked over to them with a big grin on his face and his work jacket slung to one side.
"Well, you called him, remember?" Nami asked, giggling as she ushered Suuichi to leave, telling Yuna to have fun. Kurama came up to her and saw his stepbrother leaving.
"How often does my brother come here?" He asked curiously as he looked in the direction where Suuichi and Nami had gone.
"Too often for my tastes," Yuna said, shaking her head as she seemed to recognize the tall figure in front of her for the first time. "Uhm...I'm just going to get my stuff from inside the classroom, do you want to come in?" She asked, feeling slightly ridiculous. This wasn't a date, and she wasn't asking if he wanted to come into her apartment. But it sure felt that way.
"Sure," Kurama said, following her into the building, saying nothing as she led him into her classroom. "Actually," he said as Yuna ducked towards her cubby hole to get he bag. "Would you just like to stay here?"
Yuna paused halfway to grabbing her bag. She looked at Kurama and blinked.
"What did you have in mind?" She asked him.
A few minutes later, they were sitting across each other in the middle of the classroom. He'd bought soup and crackers from a deli near his office. Yuna had seated them on the carpet she and the kids usually used for circle time. Kurama had never really noticed the bump she had exclaimed over until then, when she was sitting Indian style in front of him. There it was. Yusuke's baby. If anything, it made him like her even more. There was just an aura of warmth around her, like he couldn't help but feel safer around her. He knew that he could open up to her, and she would understand every part of him. It was that kind of openess in her that Yusuke had trusted.
"Is everything alright?" she asked, and he nodded.
It was only mid afternoon, and the entire classroom was bathed in a rosy, orange glow. Yuna sipped her soup and crackers slowly, thankful that nothing seemed to want to come back up her throat just yet.
"So," Kurama said, putting down his bowl for a moment. "About this fear."
"Yeah," Yuna answered, sipping her water. "I realize that it's totally your fault."
"My fault?" Kurama asked, trying not to laugh out loud. "How is it my fault?"
"You and your baby books!" Yuna said, shaking her head. "I was perfectly fine, not freaking out about all the 'dangers that can befall every expectant mother' until I read those books! Now every time I leave the house, I keep wondering if I'm doing anything that can hurt the baby. Sometimes when the kids hug me I panic because I keep thinking that I'm only on my second month and the baby can just... fall out!"
Kurama laughed, shaking his head apologetically ask he noticed Yuna glaring at him. "Sorry," he said to her. "It's just that I think it's wonderful that you're so concerned over the well being of the child. But you need to relax and trust that everything's going to be fine. Those books aren't meant to scare you. They're meant to help you deal with every crazy little thing that's about to happen to you."
"It doesn't feel like that," Yuna whined. Kurama smiled and took her hand, squeezing it.
"Trust me on this," he said. "You'll be fine."
He noticed she looked a little uncomfortable, seeing how he was holding her hand like that. Kurama was about to pull his hand away in embarrassment when Yuna stopped him. "No, wait," she said, pulling it back. "I like this," she confessed, her cheeks flushing bright red. "But you squeezing my hand made me want to pee, so would you just excuse me for a second?" She asked. Kurama actually laughed and nodded before Yuna got up and left the classroom.
Kurama started getting worried about a minute later, when Yuna still had not returned. He was sure she had mentioned that the bathroom was just near the classroom. Worried that something had happened, Kurama burst out of the bright and sunny room, making it to the bathroom just was Yuna emerged, her face as pale as a ghost, her entire body shaking.
"Yuna, what's wrong?" Kurama asked, immediately checking her for injuries or bleeding. He could smell blood, but where was it coming from? Yuna immediately grabbed Kurama's arm, her firmness of her grip shocking him.
"We have to go to the hospital," she said, her voice shaking a bit. "I...I saw blood a-and.."
At this, Kurama sprung into action, his mind already reeling with a plan. First things first. "It's going to be alright, Yuna," he said, letting her lean a little against him as her knees began to feel weak. "You're going to trust me, right?"
She nodded mutely, and she and Kurama slowly made their way back to the classroom, where Kurama sat her down on the beanbag chair by the door, making her take deep, calming breaths as he got the car. Within moments, they were at the hospital.
"What seems to be the problem?" A strict, heavyset nurse asked them as they came inside the emergency room, Yuna refusing to take a step bigger than an inch.
"She's two months pregnant," Kurama quickly explained. "We found blood."
The nurse nodded and got a wheelchair for Yuna and admitted her. While they performed a series of tests on her, Kurama called Yusuke and Keiko. He found her in one of the hospital beds, almost immediately retreating as he saw the gynecologist sitting in between her raised legs sans underwear.
"Holy f-," He said, and all eyes in the room immediately turning to him. Yuna wanted to die. The doctor, who was a woman, thank god, laughed as Kurama shielded his eyes and walked towards Yuna's covered up half.
"Oh please," she said. "Don't even pretend that this is the first time you've seen your wife from this angle. Now Yuna, darling, I am just going to put this little device through you, okay? The baby's too small to be seen with other means, and we have to make sure that he or she's okay in there."
Yuna nodded, neither she nor Kurama really bothering to correct the doctor's assumptions. This would not be the last time they would do so. Her hand found his, and she held on to it tightly. Kurama kissed the back of her hand to reassure her. Then she gave a slight yelp, like she wasn't sure how to react at the object being thrust up her vagina.
The doctor turned to the monitor beside her and looked at the screen for a moment, the moment seeming to last forever as it did. Yuna felt so confused at the rush of emotions that were coursing through her at the moment. She was still embarrassed that Kurama had to see all of this. She was terrified that something had gone wrong and that the baby would not longer be there and she still wasn't sure how to feel about this particular medical procedure.
The doctor seemed satisfied and nodded to herself as she pressed a button on the monitor in front of her. "Alright," she said. "Good news is that you're fine, my dear. This kind of thing happens most of the time, but it's good that you both came to a hospital. Have you had your first appointment with your OB yet?" she asked, patting Yuna's knee. The girl shook her head and quickly explained that the appointment was scheduled for next week. The doctor nodded and vaguely said something about letting her OB explain it for her.
"I'll let you stay here for a couple more hours just to make sure," the doctor said. "But you should be able to got home after. Congratulations on the pregnancy, the both of you," she finished, flashing Kurama a smile as she left the exam room. Yuna finally let go of Kurama's hand and leaned back, removing her legs from the stirrups. Kurama looked visibly relived as well.
"Didn't I tell you everything was fine?" he asked her, and she only nodded before she burst into tears, the kind that had her crying out loud and covering her face with her hands. Kurama actually panicked for a moment when Yusuke and Keiko burst into the room, both seemingly breathless.
"What..what happened?" Yusuke managed to ask as Yuna continued crying, waving a hand as if to tell the others she was fine. Kurama looked at the couple and assured them that everything was fine. "Yuna's just a bit...overwhelmed."
"Oh, Yuna," Keiko said, immediately taking Kurama's place at Yuna's side. Kurama stood next to Yusuke, who was glaring at him.
"We need to talk," Yusuke said brusquely, nudging his head to outside the room. Knowing that Yuna was in better hands with Keiko, Kurama followed Yusuke to the hallway.
"Kurama, what are you doing?" Yusuke asked, looking like he was trying his hardest not to lose his cool. "I thought we established that you were not going to let your crotch lead your perfectly good head? You're making this whole situation more fucked up than it should be."
"Yusuke, please calm down," Kurama said. "I haven't made move on her."
"Really? So you just happened to be there when she needed to go to the hospital? Don't lie to me, Kurama, it's insulting."
"She's all alone, Yusuke," Kurama said, trying to keep his voice level. "She can't deal with all of this by herself and I can be there for her. She needs me. To some extend I feel like I need her too. I care deeply about her, but as I said before I would never do anything to jeopardize your chances of having a baby."
Yusuke glared at his friend, his arms still crossed over his chest. Kurama looked away from his friend's hard brown eyes completely focused to trying to see if he was lying.
"God, if you weren't my friend I would have called you out on your bullshit," he said, shaking his head. "Fucking fantastic that I know you aren't lying to me. Christ, why did it have to be Yuna? I mean, I'm happy for you and everything but damn."
"I know," Kurama spoke, a sigh he didn't know he was holding falling out of his lips. "I'm sorry."
Yusuke pat a hand on Kurama's shoulder. Then the two reentered the exam room, where Yuna looked infinitely better. Keiko was smiling as well.
"So...everything's okay?" Yusuke asked, deferring to his wife. He wasn't sure how to address Yuna at the moment. Keiko laughed. "Yes, Yusuke, everything's fine."
"We'll take you home," Yusuke offered.
"If it's alright with you, Yusuke, I'd like to be the one to take Yuna home," Kurama interrupted. "I mean, if it's okay."
"Oh. Yeah, sure go ahead," the brunette said, trying not to hide a smile as Kurama stood next to Yuna, helping her off the exam table. The couple was just about to leave when Keiko called out to Yuna. "We'll see you at Dr. Kawamura's office next week, okay?"
Yuna smiled and nodded. "Okay. See you then!" she chirped happily as Yusuke and Keiko walked out of the hospital hand-in-hand. Yuna smiled, sighing at the two.
"Were they always that affectionate with each other?" she asked Kurama who smiled and shook his head.
"In truth, I never actually thought that Yusuke would be so devoted to Keiko," he confessed. "But as it turns out, he loves her just as much as she does him."
The two sat in silence for a moment before Kurama asked if Yuna wanted to go home. The girl nodded and started gathering her things. Soon enough, they were on their way to her apartment.
"Uhm...about what you saw earlier.." Yuna asked, at which Kurama actually laughed and shook his head to dismiss her thought.
"It's alright," he said to her. "It was my fault, just barging in like that. I'm, sorry. How are you feeling?" he asked, briefly turning to glance at her as she gathered her thoughts.
"Well, I'm better now," she said. "What happened back there kind of made me realize the gravity of my situation. I actually care about this baby, and I want to do everything I can to keep him or her safe. I think the baby was telling me to just relax too, if that's weird."
"Not weird at all," Kurama assured her. "Didn't I tell you everything was going to be fine?"
Yuna nodded and acquiesced that indeed, Kurama had told her that everything was going to be fine.
They reached Yuna's apartment building soon enough, Kurama walking Yuna to her door. "Listen," Kurama said, stepping a little closer to her. "I just wanted to tell you. I'm here for you. I want to be the one you rely on for these things, because I really care about you, and I care about this baby."
Yuna looked up at him. "Are you saying...you want to be the surrogate daddy?"
Kurama laughed and placed his hands on her still tiny waist. "If that's what you want to call me, yes. I'll read all the books and take all the classes. I want to be there for you."
Then he placed his forehead against hers, their lips coming down to meet in a soft and sweet kiss. A kiss that, in both their opinions, had ended too soon. Kurama grinned at her and she smiled back.
"I'll see you in the morning, love," he said.
"Mhm," Yuna replied, her cheeks flushing pink as she entered her apartment. Once Kurama was gone, she leaned against her door and looked up at the ceiling.
"Wow," she said to nobody in particular. "Wow."
The following week, Yuna had her appointment at the obstetrician's office. It felt a little odd, sitting there in the waiting room with two people, that until two months ago, were total strangers. And now she was having their baby. She felt a sudden rush of love for the couple, who were holding hands. Yusuke was nervously bobbing his leg up and down, his hand tapping his knee at the same time. Keiko was calmly reading a magazine, but she occasionally bit her fingernails. Yuna rested her chin on her hand and waited, watching a little kid playing in the corner while his mother was speaking to someone on the phone. He smiled up at Yuna and waddled over to her, placing a ball in her hands.
In an impressive display of dexterity, Yuna juggled the ball for the child, which made him laugh. Yusuke and Keiko watched the exchange briefly before a nurse said that Dr. Kawamura was ready for them. Yuna handed the ball back to the little boy and followed the two to the doctor's office, where Yusuke and Keiko would wait while they performed some tests on her. The techs were pretty quiet as they took Yuna's blood, height and weight and performed an ultrasound similar to the one at the hospital.
Moments later, she rejoined the couple in the doctor's office, the doctor in question holding a folder of Yuna's test results. She seemed pretty chipper, so Yuna wasn't too worried. She was, however, unprepared for what the doctor said when she sat down.
"Well, it seems that one shot you had worked better than we thought!" Dr. Kawamura exclaimed happily. "Two eggs are better than one, I always say."
All three heads swerved right at her and looked at her with wide eyes.
"What do you mean, two eggs?" Yusuke asked. "Like...twins?"
"Exactly!" The doctor exclaimed, opening her folder to find the sonogram photo and placing it before the three of them. "Here and here," she said, making circles on the photo with the tip of her pen. "Mono Di, from the looks of it. Isn't that exciting?"
When she looked up at the three, she would tell that exciting wasn't exactly the word they were thinking of. Yuna was just staring at the photo, blinking at it like it would just disappear at any moment. Keiko was as white as sheet, her hands frozen to the arms of her chair. Yusuke was currently squinting at the photo, as if trying to see if the doctor had just made a mistake. Dr. Kawamura thought it was best to just continue. "I heard about the incident at the hospital," she said, sliding the picture over to Yusuke so he could grab it. "It's perfectly normal to have a bit of bleeding at the beginning, but call me if it happens again, alright Yuna?"
The girl blinked up at her and nodded.
"Good. Now, would you like me to tell you your due date?" she asked Yuna, who seemed to be the most respondent of the three at the moment. She nodded. Dr. Kawamura looked over her files for a moment and ran her perfectly manicured finger down the piece of paper in front of her.
"Given the date...you're due on April 15th. Oh, how lovely, spring twins!" She exclaimed, smiling. "Let's get you some pre natal vitamins and schedule your next appointments."
Kurama arrived at Yuna's door right after work, rapping his knuckled gently on the door. They never really discussed anything since their kiss the week before, but he had taken to coming over almost every day now, arranging little 'dates' inside and outside the house. Today, however, he was surprised to see that Yuna answered the door with a puffy nose and splotchy eyes, dressed down in her sweatpants and house slippers. She look exhausted. Kurama noticed her loose white shirt bunched up slightly where her stomach was. He wondered briefly if that was normal.
"Is everything okay?" Kurama asked, stepping inside while she went back to the couch, which was overflowing with fluffy white pillows. He sat on one end, looking over at the girl who seemed a bit reluctant to speak.
"Come on, Yuna, you can tell me," Kurama coaxed. "I'm here for you, remember?"
That seemed to get to her, because Yuna sat up and threw her arms around him. Kurama reciprocated the hug, rubbing smooth circles on her back until she let go. He held her hand and traced circles on the back of her hand with his thumb. "How was your visit with Dr. Kawamura? Is everything copacetic?"
Yuna gave a laugh that was almost a little bitter. Kurama wasn't sure if it was because he'd said copacetic or if it was something he didn't say.
"Oh yeah, everything's great," she said waving a hand as if to shoo him away. "The babies are doing just fine. I'm due on April 15th, did I tell you that?"
Kurama furrowed his brows. "Did you just say babies?"
"Yup. Having twins. Currently freaking out," she said, about to put her hand to her lips to chew off her nails but Kurama pulled it hand away before she made contact. He chuckled.
"But that's great news, isn't it?" he asked. Yuna looked at him, as if a little surprised. Two seconds later, she was crying. Kurama panicked slightly and asked her what was wrong.
"See, that's how a normal person is supposed to react!" She exclaimed, her voice wavering as she wiped away her tears with her shirt. "When I found out that it was twins, I was so happy! But..Kurama, you should have seen the looks on Keiko and Yusuke's faces. They seemed upset, like they didn't want to have the twins."
Yuna buried her face in her hands for a second. She placed a hand on her slightly swollen stomach. "It made me wish, for just a moment, that these were my babies. I could love them, and take care of them, and actually be happy."
"You don't mean that," Kurama said, pulling her closer so she was leaning against his chest. Yuna had calmed down somewhat, following his breathing for a moment.
"Maybe I don't," she said.
"I think Yusuke and Keiko were just shocked," Kurama explained, rubbing a hand on her back. "They were pessimistic about this because they had only one shot. I don't think they were prepared to hear that it worked so well."
Yuna actually giggled. Kurama smiled and lifted her face to his.
"There's that smile," he said. "You're really pretty, you know."
"And you're a pregnophile."
"...a what?"
"You're like a pedophile, except you prey on the pregnant instead of the kids," Yuna giggled, reaching forward and kissing his cheek. "I like it though."
"Hey, I'm not a pregnophile," Kurama argued with a laugh. "Need I remind you that I started to like you the first day I met you, and you weren't pregnant then."
Yuna smiled and a blush crept up her cheeks. "Really?"
"Really," Kurama smiled. "You're different from the other girls I usually meet. You have the biggest heart, Yuna. You never seem to run out of love, even for those who think they don't deserve it," he said, his lips curled up a little in a mischievous smile. "Besides, I knew you couldn't resist my magnetic personality-"
"Oh god!" She exclaimed, pulling away from him to laugh. She ended up resting her head on the opposite side of the couch, her legs splayed out in front of him. Kurama leaned forward and kissed her bump, crawling a bit so he was on top of her. Yuna blinked up at him with big, brown eyes as if asking him what he was doing. Kurama simply smiled and kissed her, running his tongue under her lower lip.
Suddenly, the phone began to ring. Exhausted, exhilarated and slightly nauseated at the moment, Yuna shook her head to instruct Kurama not to answer the phone, keeping her eyes closed, as if fearing she might throw up right then and there. The man smiled and placed a blanket over her exposed legs, disappearing to the bathroom to wash his hand. The answering machine beeped, and Yuna immediately recognized Yusuke's voice, smiling slightly when Kurama almost tripped.
"Hey Yuna, its Yusuke," he said, sounding a little awkward over the phone. "About what happened at the doctor's...we're really sorry. We must have freaked you out, huh? But honestly, we're thrilled. I mean, we had so little hope of actually having one baby, and now, we get to have two...anyway, I gotta go. See you soon."