Mai's Point of View:

I huff in irritation, ignoring Naru and throwing my bag next to him on the couch. I hear him request a moment from whomever he's video conferencing and he follows me in to the kitchen.

For the past week and a half, I've been having cravings for broccoli and peanut butter. It's weird, and I know it, but I think it's just a weird craving from my period or something. It's annoying though. We've spent a lot of money on broccoli and peanut butter.

Naru grabs the peanut butter while I grab the broccoli. He scoops two healthy sizes from the jar on to my broccoli before closing it and placing it back in to the cabinet. I mix it all together while Naru washes his hands, and then I'm eating it and following him in to the living room.

This routine has been just that— a routine. For the last week and a half I've been like this. Irritable until I get the odd combination of food. I don't know why, I just am.

"Mai!" Luella greets from the screen.

I swallow the food in my mouth, "Hello!" I see that my fiancé is apparently having a meeting with the board of directors from BSPR.

Naru introduces me, "Ladies and gentlemen, may I introduce my fiancée, Mai Taniyama."

I smile at the board, "Hello. Forgive me for my moody entrance and the odd combination of food, I'm not really myself this past couple of weeks." The board greets me warmly and then the meeting continues.

"It's actually good that you're here, Mai. My son is being particularly stubborn." Luella says, leaning her head against her fist as she sits around the large meeting table.

"Forgive me for my sarcasm, but what's new?" I say with a smile, taking a bite of my food soon after.

The group of people laugh at my joke while Naru rolls his eyes next to me. He turns his glare to me, "My mother wants me to fly to England to help with a few new PK users that recently entered the company."

"Alright?" I say, confusion filling my being at what the problem is.

"Your finals are coming up soon, you couldn't possibly leave right now." Naru fills in for me.

It clicks and I laugh, "Naru, I can live by myself for a few weeks while you go to England to help your parents."

"That's what we said!" Nearly the entire board shouts.

Naru practically snarls at them before turning back to me, "Mai, I already know that you're going to go fall in to a coma if I weren't here to make you eat and bathe."

I blush, completely forgetting about the conference we're having right now. I glare at him, "I'm not a child, Naru, I can take care of myself." In my annoyance I switch over to Japanese, however, Naru continues to speak in English.

"That's just it. You can't take care of yourself right now!" He's glaring at me.

I turn away from him, "Whatever, idiot! You're going or we're not having sex for a month!"

Silence.

Suddenly, Luella's laughter fills the room and I'm reminded that she can understand Japanese and that we're in a conference call. I turn to look at Naru, who is silently glaring at his mother, but I can see the embarrassment. Naru turns his glare to me, "Two weeks."

I switch back to English easily, "A month."

A nerve in his jaw works, then he looks away.

Clapping erupts and I turn to see the board applauding me. I laugh while Luella sends me a thumbs up. Naru glares at me from the side and I turn to grin at him. He rolls his eyes, but I can see the corner of his mouth twitch up

•

Later that night, I'm laying in bed next to Naru, who is reading a book. I look up at him with a questioning gaze and he sighs, "Why are you staring at me?"

"No reason. You're just acting weird."

He sends me a look of bewilderment, "I'm acting weird?"

I punch his thigh, "Don't be a jerk! You know what I mean."

He closes the book and places it on his nightstand. Then he's shrinking in to the covers gracefully and pulling me to him, "I've just been wondering lately…"

He stops, as if he's not sure what to say. I brush his bangs out of his eyes, "What is it?"

"Do you ever want to have children?" His eyes shine bright with anxiety.

I smile at him, "Is that all?" When he stays quiet, I throw my leg over his hip and push. I knock him on to his back and sit on top of his legs with my palms against his chest. I lean down and kiss him, "Of course I want to have your children, Naru."

The smile he gives me is heart stopping, "Good."

I tilt my head to the side, suddenly wondering, "Why? What brought this on?"

His eyes widen briefly, before he hides whatever thought had crossed his mind behind dark blue eyes, "Nothing. Now take off your shirt."

"Have fun, Boss!" Yasu tells Naru, smiling along with the rest of our friends. We all surround him as he prepares to board his plane.

We've been here for nearly an hour, and everyone just kind of showed up. He'd been surprised, but of course he didn't show it. Surprisingly, he'd even waited a few seconds to complain when Madoka and Yasu glomped him. It isn't long before a call is made for his flight.

Everyone says, goodbye and they all turn to leave. I turn to follow them, but Naru grabs my wrist, "Hey." Everyone turns and looks as he yanks me back to him and I fall against his chest.

I glare, "Naru, what the hell are you—" I'm silenced when his lips cover mine.

The kiss is long, slow, deep and passionate. It seems everything fades away as Naru kisses me for everything he's worth. When he pulls away, I'm breathless, but I manage to choke out, "What was that for?"

Naru looks down at me with dark and mysterious eyes. When he speaks, his voice is low and deep so that only I can hear it, "I love you."

I smile up at him, "I love you."

My stomach churns and my eyes snap open. I stare up at the ceiling for a moment before it churns again. I dart out of bed and in to the bathroom. Everything in my stomach empties in to the bathroom toilet.

Somewhere my phone rings in my room, but I can't bring myself to stand up. My stomach keeps heaving.

About half an hour later, I've cleaned the bathroom and brushed my teeth. I'm taking a shower when the shower door is thrown open. I shriek and Madoka grabs me, taking me out of the shower.

"Madoka, what the hell—?!" I shout, but she cuts me off.

"You look fine!" Madoka yells in outrage, "A little bloated, but fine!"

I send her a blank look, "I look bloated?" I gesture towards her swelled belly. She was getting ready to give birth any day soon.

She glares at me, before grabbing her cell phone from her purse and unlocking it. A few moments later, she's putting it to her ear as I begin to dry off and dress. "Noll!" My heart stops, "Mai is fine, dammit! You told me she was throwing up!"

"Oh, I was." I say, grinning when her astonished look turns to me. I gesture for her to hand me the phone, "Naru!"

"Mon tout." His voice is thick with sleep. It must be really late in England. Plus, he's in 'Nice Naru' mode. He's very much out of it.

"I'm sorry. The bond woke you up, didn't it?"

"Yes, but that's not the issue here. Are you alright?" His voice is beginning to clear up.

"Yes, I'm fine." I say, smiling to myself because I can picture him. Probably sitting on the edge of his bed with mussed hair and dazed eyes. He's always looked sexy like that.

"Good. Go to the doctor." He tells me.

I sigh, "Naru, it's not that big of a deal, I mean—"

"Oh, you're going to the doctor." Madoka growls at me.

"I guess that settles it." Naru chuckles from the other side. I groan and he laughs this time, "Call me with the results."

"Yeah yeah. I know the drill, Naru. Go back to sleep."

"Goodbye Mai."

"'bye Naru. I love you."

"I love you."

•

Ayako greets me in her doctors uniform, "Mai!"

I wave enthusiastically as Madoka and Lin sit on either side of me. Apparently, Madoka had showed up because my over-zealous fiancé decided that because he felt that I was getting sick, it was perfectly okay for him to wake up every single one of our friends.

Whatever. I love him for it.

Ayako takes me to a room while Lin and Madoka stay in the waiting room. It's isn't long before Ayako is checking my vitals and temperature. She writes on her clip board, "And it was only one time?"

I nod, "I don't really understand why I would be throwing up. The only thing I've eaten weird lately is my period food."

Ayako looks up sharply, her entire body tensing as she asks me with urgentcy, "Period food? Do you mean food that you're craving?"

"Yes?" I say, confusion filling me, "What does his have to do with—"

"Do you get migraines or are you irritable whenever you can't seem to get your craving?" She pushes me down on to the bed and lifts my shirt up, pressing against my stomach.

Her panic is making me panic and I stutter, "Y-yes. I get irritable. Ayako, what's going on? What's wrong?"

She looks up at me, and she smiles, "Nothing. I just need a urine sample. Can you do that for me?" At my nod, she walks over to one of the cabinets and grabs a urine cup. I stand from the bed and take it from her. She pushes me towards the bathroom before leaving the room.

What could be going on? Do I have some type of new stomach cancer that makes me eat weird things and then throw up? Oh no. What if Naru gets angry? It's not my fault I contracted a terminal cancer!

Naru, I'm sorry!

When I'm done, I walk back in to the room to find Ayako standing next to the counter with some funny looking sticks. She grins at me when I hand her the sealed container, then proceeds to pop the container open and place the sticks in one at a time.

"What the hell are you doing?!" I shriek, watching as she pulls the sticks out and place them down. Then she seals the container back before throwing it in the correct disposal bin.

Ayako looks up at me, "Just wait a few minutes. But just know, that I'm not sure whether to be right or wrong." Confusion fills me again.

Five minutes later, Ayako is picking up the sticks and a large grin covers her face as she sees all of the sticks. She giggles like a child before turning to look at me, "Congratulations, Mai. You and Naru are going to be parents."

"WHAT?!"

"It's going to be okay." Madoka tells me, rubbing my back with her other hand on her stomach. I continue to sob in to the throw pillow with reverence. Haru whimpers, unable to stop crying while I'm having a mental break down next to him. Masako sighs, sitting across from me on the love seat with John and Yasu. How the three of them fit, I'll never know. Daisuke is laying between Haru and I with his head on my lap. He's mewling and trying to have me pet him, but I just can't find it in me to coddle him right now.

What is Naru going to think? I know he has this thing about his powers. What if he doesn't want to have children this early on until we can figure out a way to produce without making our child the most powerful psychic known to man?

No. That's a little far fetched, but I'm freaking out too much to care that I'm being dramatic.

"Mai, just tell him," Masako says, the usual bite in her tone not present.

John nods, "That's the best that you can do. Tell him and then you two can discuss a way to handle the situation."

"Handle?!" I shriek, my hysteria causing me to assume the worst and I clutch my stomach, "No! I don't want it 'handled'!"

John gets an awkward look on his face, "Mai-chan, I'm not suggesting abortion. I don't believe in it so I would never ask you to do that to you or your child. I'm just suggesting that you and Kazuya can speak about it and decide if you want to look for a proper and caring home for the baby, or if you want to keep it."

Next to me, Madoka agrees, "He's right. You two are much too young to be thinking about raising a child. Maybe the two of you should consider adoption."

Her words sting, although I know she's only trying to help. 'Much too young' sounds like 'too immature' and it makes me feel stupid. I know how to take care of a baby, but I'm no mother. Naru isn't a father either. A genius scientist, a powerful psychic, even a loving fiancé, but Naru isn't a father.

As I open my mouth to saying something, my entire body suddenly feels as if it's going around in circles. Oh no.

Naru!

3rd Person's Point of View:

Naru was pretty sure it didn't take seven hours for Mai to go to the doctor, figure out she's pregnant, and then call him. Maybe she's the rare type of person that the testing sticks don't work for? That would be her luck.

Naru can imagine the brown haired girl watching as the doctor stressed over the irregular results. The professor can remember reading somewhere that doctors test a patients urine with more than one rest. Probably around three. He can imagine one positive, one negative, and one inconclusive.

Naru snorts, Yes, that would be Mai's luck.

"Naru-chan?" A small voice says. Naru looks up to see Aiko Uto— now nearly eight years old— entering his office with a large smile. Naru feels himself want to smile as the girl scurries across the floor quickly, getting to the edge of the desk and peering at him over it.

"Can I help you?" Naru asks, not unkindly.

Aiko nods, "Yes, yes. Martin-san said that he wishes for you to retrieve Luella-san."

Aiko has been around Martin Davis, much too long, Naru decides. He stands, "Would you like to come with me?"

Aiko nods enthusiastically, "Yes please!"

—

Naru never thought he'd find pleasure in strapping a small child in to the back seat of his car. For a short moment, he wonders if Mai and his own children would be like this. Then he get's to the part where you have to actually buckle the seat belt, and he hates the damned thing. Aiko giggles again when Naru messes up the buckle again. Taking his much larger hands in her smaller ones, Aiko guides them and shows him how to buckle the car seat. With a flourish, the latch closes and Aiko is successfully buckled in.

Naru huffs, "That was much too difficult for a child's car seat."

Aiko laughs, the sound too much like Mai's, "Well the car seat isn't meant for a kid to figure it out." Naru glares at the underlined meaning and Aiko laughs again when he closes the door harder than necessary.

The car smoothly pulls out on to the highway. Aiko hums to herself in the back while Naru enjoys the familiar sound. Mai's always humming when she has a chance.

He really does miss Mai too much.

"Do you miss Mai-chan?" Aiko calls from the back.

Naru's eyes snap up to the rear view mirror briefly, wondering if the girl is showing signs of telepathy. He clears his throat, "We're going to be married sometime soon, Aiko-san."

"Really?!" Aiko shrieks, excited, "That's so cool! So you do miss her!"

"Of course I do." Naru tells the intelligent child, "You know, when Mai and I were younger, we didn't get along well."

Aiko laughs, "To everyone else, you still don't get along well."

Naru smirks, "I suppose we don't." Switching lanes, Naru continues to speak, "Well, she confessed to me before I left to bury my brother."

"What did you say?"

Naru swallows, "I was really mean and unfair then, so I told her that it wasn't me she loved: it was Eugene, my brother."

Aiko gasps dramatically, "Naru-chan, no!"

Naru nods, his eyes flickering up again briefly, "But Mai is persistent. She waited for me for three years, and it wasn't long after I came back that someone was trying to take her away from me."

"Did you beat him up, Naru-chan?" Aiko implores, her eyes looking big in the mirror as she listens to the story happily.

Naru laughs, the sound surprising Aiko but astonishing Naru. He never thought he'd find any glee in conversating with a child, yet there he was. "I wanted to, but Mai wouldn't have liked that very much. So we got in to a really big fight, the next thing I know, we're dating."

Aiko giggles, "You and Mai-chan must love each other a whole lot."

Naru smiles at her from the front seat, "We do." He presses the gas as the light turn green, but instead of moving forward through the intersection, they move sideways. The car flips, and it's all Naru can do to try turn and look at Aiko as the car continues to flip.

After seven turns, the car rests on it's flat tires. Shock is coursing through him as Naru sets the car in park, not realizing that it was a useless movement. He gets out of the car with shaky legs. Then he's ripping the back door off with his PK, and Aiko climbs out. Minor cuts and bruises show on her legs and arms as she crawls to him.

The small child collapses in to Naru's arms, and he holds her to him as people stop to help. Aiko cries, "Naru-chan, you're bleeding."

Naru stays calm, even though he can feel the blood running down his front from the glass that pierced his shoulder. It's a miracle they both aren't dead, "It's alright. I'll be fine. Are you alright, Aiko-san?"

"Yes." Aiko says, tears streaming down her face, "Don't die, Naru-chan. Please."

"I'm not going to—" The wailing of the ambulance drowns him out and Naru sighs, irritated.

Great. Now Mai's never going to let him leave Japan alone again. He grins to himself and thinks, Oh well.

Mai's Point of View:

My stomach is in knots as I ride in the car. Luella had had Naru flown in from England after he was deemed stable. Just because we all knew he wasn't going to lie down for a fourteen hour flight, they sedated him. He's going to be pretty pissed off when he wakes up, and I'm not sure how he's going to feel about…

As soon as I'd heard, I broke down in hysterics. Everyone tried to calm me but I didn't calm down until Aiko called me.

•

I'm cleaning my kitchen. I don't know why, but when I'm worried, I clean everything. I think it's a bad habit I'd picked up from my mom. I'm wiping down the inside of the fridge when my phone rings. It's an unknown caller. I wipe my nose and clear my throat before sliding the little green box across the screen, "Hello?"

"Mai-chan!" Aiko greets loudly and a little hoarsely.

"Aiko," I greet, "I heard you were in the wreck too. Are you alright?"

"Yep! But that's not important! Naru-chan is going back to Japan, so you two need to spend lots of time together! He really missed you!"

That makes a warm feeling bloom in my chest, "He said he missed me?"

"He didn't need to." The seven-year-old says with a maturity I didn't possess at her age. I can practically feel her happy grin, "Mai-chan, when you two get married, can I be in the wedding?"

I laugh and sob at the same time, "Of course. How about being my flower girl?"

"Yeah!" Aiko says happily, "Now go meet up with Naru-chan! I love you guys!"

I smile to myself, "We love you too, Aiko."

•

The car pulls up to the hospital and I'm out of the vehicle before Lin can even comb out to help Madoka out. I shoot up the stairs and to the third floor. I stop at the nurses desk, "Hi. I'm looking for Kazuya Shibuya."

"Are you next of kin?" She asks in a lazy drawl.

"He's my fiancé." I tell her.

"Well sweetie, that isn't—"

"What the fuck is his room number?" I shout and growl at the same time. She fumbles before finding his room number and I dart down the hall to 236. I throw open the door and everyone looks up, "Naru!"

The doctor laughs, "It seems that fiancée you've been talking about has made an appearance, Shibuya-san."

Naru looks over at me from the bed, "Mai, come here." I flit next to him and I'm hugging him before anyone can comprehend that I've moved. The doctor quietly let's himself out.

"I've never been so terrified in my life." I whisper, clinging to him.

He chuckles, "I can almost agree."

"Almost? Naru, you flipped eight times. We're just really lucky you and Aiko are alright."

"We're only alright because Aiko used her PK." Raising his hand, the dark haired professor tucks a piece of hair behind my ear.

"She did?" I ask, confused. Then I question, "Wait. You said almost. What's more terrifying than flipping in a frickin' car?"

"Losing you." He tells me in a gentle and quiet voice before Madoka and Lin walk in.

"Mai, did you yell at the nurse up front?" Madoka asks with a grin on her face.

I groan, "She wouldn't give me Naru's room number!" Madoka laughs loudly before settling in a chair.

Later that night, Madoka and Lin leave about mine o'clock, and now I'm just staying near Naru. Some TV show is on that I really don't care about.

"I'm really fine, Mai." Naru says, a twinge of irritation in his voice as I continue to worry over him. He sighs, grabbing my wrist and pulling me in to bed with him. He situates me next to him, wrapping his arm around my waist and pulling my back against his chest. I lean back against him and let his warmth surround me.

"Naru?"

"Hn." I look up at him to see his head leaned back and his eyes closed. He looks so peaceful, but I need to tell him.

"I need to tell you something."