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I'm really sorry for the late update… *doing a dogeza* I just finished it… I hope you'll like and enjoy it… ^_^

Chapter 5

Ren had a busy day again and it was 9:30 in the evening when he unlock his apartment door and went inside. It was cold inside so he turned the heater and the lights. He sat in his living room couch, stretched his legs and arms as he relaxed. But even though the heater was already warming the place up, he still felt cold and lonely. He missed the fun times with his family illusions with Kyoko and the little guy. He smiled stupidly to himself as he recalled all the fun memories they had and maybe the bad ones too, like the poop smell attack and the pee shower on his chest and everything.

Suddenly, his door bell rang interrupting his reminiscence. This is happening a lot lately. Who is it this time? I don't really remember inviting someone to come at my place. He thought, annoyed as he made his way to get it. He opened the door and was surprised again for the second time in two consecutive nights.

There on his front door was Mogami Kyoko who was now on her knees and guess what she had in her arms? What? Food to cook him dinner? Maybe, yes. What else? A baby. But not just a baby, it was none other than the little guy 'Baby Ren'.

"I-I'm really sorry Tsuruga-san but I really have no where to go. I didn't want to disturb the Okami and Taisho's sleep if the baby would cry in the middle of the night. I really wouldn't have come here if I had some other place to go." She said as she bowed her head.

Ren opened his mouth to ask why she still has the baby with her but she was outside his door kneeling and bowing with a baby in hand. So if someone were to see them and took picture, it would be a problem. "Mogami-san, why don't we talk inside? It's kind of chilly out there."

Kyoko obliged immediately and they were now seated in his living room couch. Then Baby Ren started crying so Kyoko had to put him on the coffee table and check what's the problem. She checked if his diaper was wet but it was not and it was warm inside Ren's apartment so the only problem was that he's hungry. So before Ren could ask his questions Kyoko asked him to watch the baby and disappeared to his very own kitchen which it doesn't feel like his anymore. Well, it's not that he minds that she owns his kitchen. In fact he is happy about it. Ren was rummaging the baby bag for something he saw babies often have in their mouths. I saw it a lot in babies. Ren thought as he continued rummaging in the bag. The one they keep sucking. What was it called? Uhm, pacifier or something? I hope Kyoko bought one of those. Aha! Found it!

He put it in the little guys mouth to shut him up. The baby did shut up and started sucking on the pacifier. Ren sighed and then he heard the kettle whistle. But then the baby started crying again because he kept sucking and sucking but nothing was coming out of the pacifier that would fill his hungry stomach. When Kyoko heard the baby cried again, she quickly fill the baby bottle with the formula and water up to three quarters of the bottle. Then she started shaking it like crazy. She opened it again and fill the remaining quarter with not so cold water to cool it down a bit for the baby to drink immediately. She ran to the living room and quickly put it in Baby Ren's mouth.

They both sighed as they watched the baby happily suck on his bottle. They continued watching him for a while and then Ren turned to look at Kyoko. "So, Mogami-san." Kyoko turned to look at Ren. They were seated near each other on the floor facing the coffee table where the baby is, with their backs leaning against the front of the couch. "Why do you still have the baby?"

She looked down, feeling sad and scared she might anger Ren. "After you left the president's office this morning, the president told me that all the good orphanage he found was actually really full of kids and babies. Because these days a lot of crimes and accidents had left orphan kids and there are also a lot of teenage moms who can't raise their babies, so they abandoned them." Her voice cracked and tears threatened to fall from her eyes as she recalled what her mother did to her and how it felt. Seeing her like that, Ren wanted nothing but to hug her close and tight, comfort her and make her feel better. "He said that the baby might not be taken care of as carefully and properly as we did last night because there are a lot of kids and few people that will take care of them. Then there aren't much families that adopts babies and kids and if there were families that would want to adopt, they might not choose him." The tears that she fought so hard came streaming down and Ren who was trying really hard not to hug her, reached his hand out and pulled her to him. "I, I got worried *sniff* So *sniff* I—"

"Ssshhh…" He rubbed her back to calm her down. "It's okay… I know… I understand…"

She felt really safe in his arms that her tears stopped and she started feeling warm inside. Then she noticed their position. "I-I-I-I'm so sorry, Tsuruga-san." She said as she pulled away from him. Ren then put a finger on her lips which shut her up immediately. She froze as her wide eyes stared at her sempai's finger on her lips.

"It's okay. You don't have to be sorry." He said, wiping her wet cheeks with his hand which caused Kyoko to stare back at him with those wide eyes. Then suddenly, they were interrupted by the baby when he started fussing in his sleep. Kyoko scramble up and went to cradle the baby in her arms and rocked him. Ren was forgotten and was feeling cold when she left his comforting arms. After making sure that the baby's sleep wasn't disturbed, they went to sleep; Ren in his bedroom and Kyoko with the baby in the guest bedroom.

Kyoko woke in the middle of the night again when the baby started crying. She sat up and tried finding the baby by hand in the dark. Her hands searched in the dark but her hand found something unfamiliar. What in the world is this? It feels like flesh? Is this the baby? She thought and then moved her hand up and down trying to understand what it was. No, it's not. Babies are soft, this feels muscularly hard. Then she heard a slight moan when he rubbed her hands up and down on the muscular plains. Curious, she went lower. She felt silk clothing. Then the light turned on, her eyes adjusted and she froze. Her eyes laid on a muscular stomach, then it went to a muscular chest and finally to a very beautiful face. That very beautiful face was none other than Tsuruga Ren. He had an expression of surprise as he froze, hands still at the switch on the lamp of the bedside table. Then suddenly he gritted his teeth as he held his breath and closed his eyes. Oh God!

Seeing his expression Kyoko thought he was in pain. "T-Tsuruga-san, a-are you okay? What's wrong?" Ren opened his eyes and looked at her concerned eyes. God! She has no idea does she? Ren thought. Then he looked down to where her right hand was at. Kyoko followed his gaze. She gasped, eyes wide as she removed her hand from where she was touching him. Her face was tomato red. If it could get any redder it would have because she was extremely embarrassed. She was touching and squeezing Ren's crotch. She tried to imagine it but her head overheated and blew up. Then Ren noticed the baby when he cried louder. She was torn between assuring Kyoko and making the baby stop crying, but he chose to attend to the baby first. Kyoko can wait considering she was frozen and he could see her head blew up then. He changed the baby's diaper quickly and rocked him to sleep. The baby went back to sleep already and Kyoko was still in her frozen state. Ren sighed and put the baby back to the bed. Then he shook Kyoko by the shoulders to wake her up from her frozen and broken mind state. Her eyes clear up and focused on him. Her face immediately turned tomato red.

"I'm so sorry Tsuru—" She was in the middle of doing a dogeza when Ren caught her mouth in his hand midway of bowing her head on the bed.

"Sshhh… you'll wake the baby." He whispered to her and then she nodded. "It was really fine, Mogami-san. It wasn't your fault." He looked at her eyes for a while. Her face still red as a tomato. Then she looked down. He followed her gaze and noticed that his hand was still covering her mouth. He quickly remove it and pulled away, sitting opposite her on the bed. After a while of silence, Kyoko recovered herself and could think properly now.

"Uhm, Tsuruga-san" She said in a soft voice but hesitated when Ren looked at her curiously. "I-it's not that I'm being rude or ungrateful… It's j-just out of c-curiosity… I was wondering why you were sleeping in the guest bedroom." Ren froze at her question. "No, never mind I ask that."

"No. It's okay." He said in a whisper that she could hear and looked at her. They both looked at the baby when they saw him moved in the corner of their eyes. "I was worried the baby might move a lot in his sleep and fall out of bed." He blurted out. Nice Ren! That was totally lame. But would she buy it? He sneak a peek at her. She was nodding.

"I see. I'm really sorry Tsuruga-san. I hadn't think of that. Thank you so much."

"It's really nothing." As always she bought it. "We should go back to sleep now too." He said with a smile.

She nodded and shyly laid down and went under the covers. "Should I leave the light open, Mogami-san?" She looked up at him and then saw him smirked. "So you won't searched around with your hands and touch sensitive objects."

Her eyes went wide and her face felt like it was on fire. She opened her mouth to say something about it to him but he put his a finger on his lips and glance at the baby. Then he turned off the light. "Good night, Mogami-san." He whispered in the dark, amusement was very clear in his voice, as she felt him laid on the bed on the other side of the baby.

I hope you liked it. I already planned the 'orphanage is full' thing but then in the midst of writing I just realized about Kyoko's mother and how she feels about abandonment or something so I wrote what I felt and thought… But the 'touching and squeezing the crotch' thing, that was totally unexpected. I was thinking in my mind that Ren would sneak in the guest bedroom and then Kyoko would be surprise but then the scene just popped out of my mind and it made me cracked up. So I decided to share that amusement with you all… hope you enjoyed it… THANKS SO MUCH FOR REVIEWING, READING, ALERT, FAVS AND EVERYTHING… I really appreciate it… love yah ^_^