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Chapter 7: Welcome baby

Tezuka immediately rushed to where Sakuno was, much to his delight, the egg was wobbling again. The regulars who could hear just fine had heard her call him in a very loud voice which she rarely uses. They found that their buchou had turned away from the window and had been right beside her and staring at the box, with his back facing them, immediately they had pressed their faces onto the window to see.

"Momo you're pushing! Nya!"

"Move it porcupine."

"You have a problem Mamushi?"

"Shh! We can't hear them!"

They all shoved and pushed. Inside, Tezuka felt like he was forgetting something, he forgotten about his nosy regulars who were now pushing and pressing their faces as close as they can to the window without it breaking.

He also forgot how close he is now to Sakuno, his face over her shoulder hair touching hers. They were crouched close together like two expectant parents. They couldn't think about that now, excitement was causing them to forget. He also forgot one more important thing...

"Quack."

The baby was a duckling! Too late! It had imprinted both Sakuno and Tezuka as they were so close together! Tezuka who suddenly realized how close they were and that it was a duckling still couldn't manage to pull away.

It was quiet cute. It had furry yellow body and it was struggling to get out of the eggshell. It was... utter joy! It was alive! Much too his hearts cheer, his mind was very unhappy, 3 points he had tried in vain to remind the owner and yet his heart had prevailed to steal all the attention.

Sakuno turned her head to see how close they were but she blushed deeply, Tezuka too turned at the same moment and that was when the accidental kiss happened in front of all the regulars at Seigaku!

Ryoma was very angry, but what can he do? He was outside of the house. Quickly achieving distance, Sakuno had her fingers touching her lips. Tezuka's mind went into lecturing mode, leech! Pervert. But the heart nudged him more, he was surprised yes, but he didn't know that lips can be soft!

It concerns him that they did kiss but it made him feel happy too. He turned his head and he realized the other thing that he forgot. Sakuno followed his gaze and turned into a deep shade of red.

"OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH"

He saw the red faces of his regulars as they stared wide eyed at them with their face pressed hard onto the window, leaving no space to think. They were absolutely hilarious. A smile curved onto his face, Sakuno had burst into fits of laughter. He opened the door and said

"I will have you all run 50 laps tomorrow."

The regulars all scrambled in, they were very hungry. Sakuno had forgotten about the kiss momentarily as the image of these funny people were enough to wipe it out for awhile. She smiled as she served them all food that she had made. The once empty dining table was filled with the regulars stuffing their faces with the food that was given to them. Their buchou sat there cross legged as he crossed his arms across his chest.

"What are you all doing here?"

Tezuka saw out of the corner of his eye, Sakuno bringing the final bowl of rice for herself before he started eating. Momoshiro who had no manners spoke with his mouth full.

"Ve ugh koorious ov ju, n egg n sa.." (We were curious of you and the egg and sakuno-chan)

He choked a little, Sakuno was there quick and served him water, Tezuka stared him down.

"Chew with your mouth close. Talk after swallow."

Momoshiro who was feeling better went back into eating sheepishly. Fuji threw Tezuka a smile, Tezuka immediately got the idea of who was it who encouraged this rendezvous.

"Rejoicing on the birth of your child with a kiss huh?"

Food spurted everywhere, and Sakuno blushed into a deep shade of red. Tezuka had small touch of red before recollecting himself. Tezuka drank his tea before he replied in a nonchantly behavior

"It was an accident. I would have apologized if you all weren't playing peeping tom."

Now the regulars acted rather guilty. But the meek sound of quacking and loud in fact. Sakuno and Tezuka were the first to react to the baby as they watched as the baby's fur was dry now. And it began to walk towards Tezuka and Sakuno.

Sakuno was very happy to take it into her hands. A few days ago, they had bought some food ready for this to happen. Tezuka was hesitant, but something had urged him to pet the duckling. He outstretched his finger and the duckling hand willingly rubbed it's furry head against the finger. He smiled only for a short while, but was caught by Sakuno. She was mesmerized, for he was very handsome when he smiled.

"I wanna pet it Nya!"

Eiji reached out to pet it, but there was sharp glint in its eye, caught by Fuji and some others. Eiji was attacked by the duckling.

"Nya! Pain! Ow!"

Tezuka smirked a little, but he deduced that he had to lecture the thing too.

"No. Don't attack my regulars."

Fuji smiled as it seemed that the Duckling acknowledged him to be the father of the sort as it quacked back. Funnily Oishi smiled warmly as he commented.

"Wow, that glint in the eye was so like Tezuka."

That froze the rest of regulars, after all that is starting to sound like they were gushing at a baby! A real human baby, not a duckling.

To be Cont…