A/N: A repeat of what I said on my Suika one-shot collection. I will take themes for one-shots if anyone wants to send me one, or a few, in a review or PM. Nothing sexual, filthy, or outright lengthy please, but other than that have fun. You send it in, I'll write it. On another note, I've been doing this theme (First baby just born) on my Snapshots GW collection, and I thought maybe it would fit here. Also, I have a poll for my next VK story you can check out, and I am not starting that story until I get at least three votes... I want it to be fair. I'll stop babbling though.
Disclaimer: I don't own Vampire Knight. I don't make a profit from this. And doesn't everyone know this by now?
"He looks like you." Rima whispered, holding their baby boy as she lay in the hospital bed.
"No. I think he looks like you." Senri was perched on the edge of her bed, peering at the blue-blanketed bundle in Rima's arms.
"Bullshit." Rima rolled her eyes and their son, Tani, blinked up at her, though he didn't seem surprised.
"You're going to have to clean that language up before he starts learning to talk." Senri gently took the baby from Rima. "You don't want him talking like in front of his tutor do you?"
"He's not going to be some wuss who doesn't know what those words are and learns them from his friends." Rima sat up a little, flinched, and lay back quickly. "It's going to be his choice if he uses them." She paused. "But with any luck they won't be his first words."
Senri smiled, it seemed like Rima wouldn't change at all with motherhood.
Tani clearly looked like Senri the most; he had the shock of burgundy hair and the ice blue eyes. But beyond that, he had Rima's facial structure and, if you looked carefully enough, there were dots of cerulean mixed into the ice blue of his irises. His tuft of blood red hair even had natural highlights mixed in.
"He's going to be a real heartbreaker." Rima laughed, and while she sounded exhausted, she also sounded perfectly happy too.
"Are you happy that he mostly looks like me?" Senri ventured, raising an eyebrow at his wife. "Why would you be happy about that?"
Rima sighed; she seemed to be getting sleepier by the second. "I didn't want him to look like me. I mean, guys get teased for looking like their Mothers. But I had hoped he would look like you, because you're good looking and it's not a shame to most people to look like your Dad."
"You have strange logic." Senri shook his head and put the baby in the bassinette as his little eyes closed.
"My brother looked just like our Mother and he was teased until he turned twenty." Rima looked about ready to fall asleep, but she was fighting it for all she was worth.
"Honey, he doesn't look like you, quit stressing out about it." Senri whispered in her ear. "Go to sleep." When Rima still refused, he lay beside her and wrapped her in his arms.
Rima eventually drifted off, stress melting away from her features, replaced by a subtle smile.
"That's my love." Senri whispered and kissed her cheek. Somehow, it was almost laughable. The birth of his first child had been less stressful than any day of Rima's pregnancy.
Wasn't the birth supposed to make the woman hate you? Rima hadn't said anything cruel to him the whole time, though she had broken his hand. That was forgivable though, especially since it had healed almost immediately.
Senri stood, being careful not to wake Rima, though it seemed she was out. He peered into the bassinette, at the little life that was also sleeping peacefully.
All the stress was worth it.
A/N: Eh... I almost hated it enough to not put it up here, because I felt like I was babbling and had no clue where to end it or what I was doing, but I want an add this week and don't know what else I could do. Maybe I'll take it down and write something else when I have a free 20 minutes, but for now, what did you think? Leave a theme if you want.
