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I'm really sorry I took so long to update. I was really pretty busy this week. Honest. And I was kind of trying to find the right mood to write this chapter. I didn't really had a clear idea of how this chapter would go so I had to arrange my thoughts first. I'm really grateful for your continuing support. Love you guys and Enjoy! ^_^

Recap:

"Wanna hold her?" Ren asked Kyoko with a small smile. He walked to her and motioned for her to take the baby. Kyoko held her hand ready to take the baby and Ren transferred the cute little thing to her arms.

Kyoko looked down at the peaceful little sleeping face in her arms. She felt her warmth and her weight. She felt like a miracle. Kyoko let out a breath as her eyes slowly pooled with held back tears. Holding the baby reminded her of baby Ren whom she missed so much, she ached inside.

She wanted to hold him again. To kiss him. To feed him. To play with him. To bathe him. Just be with him.

Baby Ren... I love you... I miss you...

Chapter 45

Kijima and Kanae practiced holding the newborn baby. They looked really funny because they were so afraid of the baby and so nervous they might drop her. After they each got their turn practicing and getting sure that they will not drop the baby during the scene, they started shooting. They were going to film all the hospital scenes that day.

The first scene they shot was with Kanae and Kijima. They were in the hospital room. Maddie came in to visit Carolyn who was holding her newborn baby. Carolyn who was played by Kanae was sitting in the hospital bed since she just gave birth a few days ago to Pamela. Maddie went over to her and took the baby in her arms so tenderly. She cooed to Pamela and praised her for her cuteness. Maddie was so taken by Pamela that she then decided she wanted to have a baby of her own. Carolyn told her that she had to get a man first. But she told him that she only wanted a baby not a man to go with it. It was only her own baby and no one else's. Vaughan arrived a short time later greeting Carolyn with a kiss. Maddie handed Pamela to his daddy and the two went to the side of Carolyn's bed. They were talking and gazing at each other lovingly and happily and to their adorable little baby too. Maddie watched them with a pang of envy and happiness for her best friends. And the scene ended.

It took a few takes for the scene to be done because in the first take Kanae was so stiff as she held the baby. The next take, Kijima was so nervous his hands were literally shaking when Kyoko gave him the baby. He was envious of Kanae because she was sitting down while holding the baby. Another take, Kijima was obviously awkward at holding the baby. It took a couple more till they got used and were comfortable to the flow of the scene and of the baby for it to appear so natural.

After they finally did it, the director gave Kyoko a ten minute break before she went to prepare for the next scene. Kanae and Kijima changed out of their costume and stayed to watch Kyoko and Ren act the next awaited scene since they did not have any more work for the rest of the evening. Well, most likely because they intentionally cleared their schedule for that day when they found out when that particular scene was going to be filmed. They were going to see how the two would act this interesting scene.

When Kyoko came out of her dressing room, she was now nine months pregnant and wearing a nude bodysuit and a hospital's gown underneath her robe. She practiced walking inside her dressing room before going out since she was not able to see her feet anymore because of her fake bulging stomach. When she was making her way to the set she had her right hand to her hip and the other on her huge stomach. She was running her hand up and down on her big belly and she just felt so happy she could not help smiling so tenderly.

As she neared the stage set, each one who noticed her arrival watched dazedly. Kyoko was so engrossed in what she was doing and everyone saw her so blooming and glowing with happiness and... Life. They thought that she was a real pregnant mother-to-be. It was mesmerizing that everyone just stopped and stared in complete silence at her. Kyoko was already several feet away from the director and the other actors and suddenly, Ren appeared at her side like out of thin air.

"Kyoko, are you feeling alright?" Ren asked as he unconsciously put his hand behind her on her waist. "Is it really heavy?"

Kyoko snapped out of her dazed state and looked up at Ren. "Eh? Uh, Yes. Yes, Ren, I'm okay." She smiled at him to assure him. "And it's not heavy. I'm just... Imagining if this is really how it... Feels to be this... Pregnant." She giggled.

Ren smiled in return. "How does it feel?"

"Hmmm... Weird?" She replied unsurely and Ren raised an eyebrow as to why it was weird. She laughed. "Because! I can't see my feet at all!" She laughed. "Oh, and watch this."

Kyoko tried to bend down as if to reach her toes but couldn't because of her huge belly and then she tried to bend her knees to touch the floor but her big belly bounced off her thighs and she nearly fell on her back if not for Ren catching her and supporting her in time.

"Okay, okay, that's enough. I get the picture and no more bending down." Ren told her as he helped her up on her feet and Kyoko giggled. "I'm already scared for you when your just faking pregnancy, how much more would I be when your this pregnant for real?" He grumbled in a low voice that only Kyoko heard it. She blushed at the meaning he had insinuated with his statement.

"Ahem!" The director finally interrupted the real life drama going on on set. "I hate to burst you out of that little bubble of love you two had going on there but we don't have time to waste, so to your places please."

Kyoko and Ren finally became aware of their surrounding and noticed that everyone was smiling at them, especially Yashiro, Kanae, Kijima, and Kyoko's manger. Yashiro was nearing fan girl mode by the look in his eyes. If he was alone watching the two of them, Ren would bet that Yashiro would squeal like a girl. But Ren did not allow that to affect him because no one could take away his happiness of being with Kyoko and imagining her pregnant with their child. He apologized to the director and he helped Kyoko to the stage set and to their places. Cameras and camera men all around them as they also got ready to shoot. Ren looked at Kyoko as she slightly blush at her embarrassing position on the hospital bed. He held her eyes as he tried to reassure her. She looked at him with determination in her eyes as she nodded to him.

"Action!"

A series of curses flew from Maddie's mouth as she death gripped Mile's hand and her face contorted into a painful expression.

"Maddie, you're suppose to pant during contractions, not swear," Miles implored by her side. "Panting supposed to make it easier."

Maddie gave him a baleful look. "Spoken like a true offsider," She muttered. "Why don't you pant during my next contraction, then? I prefer to swear. Nothing is going to make this ghastly process any easier, and swearing makes me feel better! Oh, God, here comes another one. Oh, God oh!"

Miles felt himself began to panic. Maddie had refused an epidural block, opting by large for a natural childbirth.

"Do you want ice chips? Water? Massage?" Ren was now adlibing unconsciously. He couldn't help it because looking at Kyoko's face with dark bags under her eyes, sweat running down her forehead and expression that showed how painful she was feeling. "How about we get that epidural now, Kyoko?"

Maddie clenched her teeth and gripped his hand some more as she tried to swallow her scream of pain into a groan. Ren looked at her worriedly.

"CUT!" The director shouted startling everyone out of their concentration to the intense scene. When Ren saw Kyoko's face free of pain or agony anymore, he sighed in great relief and hung head as he ran his fingers through his hair.

"I'm very sorry." Ren apologized to the director. "I was caught off guard by her... Pain."

"Wow!" Shingai commented in surprise. "I didn't think anybody could make The No. 1 actor Tsuruga Ren to break character during a scene." He chuckled and turned to Kyoko with a smug smile. "Congratulations, Kyoko-chan! This clip will certainly be in the special features of the DVD."

They resumed filming after that and they went back from the top again. And this time, Ren did not panic and properly followed the script.

"Shall I call the nurse?" He asked when her face twisted in even more agony. "What about the doctor? He's just next door, delivering another baby. Shall I call him?"

"No. Yes. No. Oh, God, yes! I suddenly want to push, Miles, and I can't stop. I can feel the baby, Miles. Oh, my God, it's coming out!" She wailed.

Miles pressed the buzzer frantically, then screamed for the doctor. But when no one appeared immediately he had no option but to get down there and do something. For a split second, he was petrified, but then a fierce rush of adrenaline brought with it a surreal confidence along with an instinctive knowledge.

"Pant, Maddie, and try not to push too hard," he advised as though he did this kind of thing every day.

Ren was seriously acting when Kyoko's open legs under the covering sheet suddenly closed. He looked up and saw her covering her tomato face.

"Cut!" The director shouted for the second time.

"I'm sorry!" Kyoko's apology was muffled by her hands which were covering her face. Shingai only chuckled since it was obvious why she acted that way.

"Kyoko-chan, you acted more embarrassing scenes than this with Ren. This is nothing compared to those scenes we filmed last night and the past week." Shingai told her.

A moments pause and Kyoko slowly dropped her hands from her face and nodded to the director. "I know... I'm sorry. Please, let me have another take, director Shingai."

And so they began the scene again.

"Pant, Maddie, and try not to push too hard," he advised as though he did this kind of thing every day. "yes, that's it. Easy now. The head's out. Now here comes the shoulder."

Maddie had stopped swearing and was panting madly now. And suddenly, Miles was standing there with this very slippery infant in his arms. The door to the room was abruptly flung open, and a harassed doctor raced in followed by a nurse.

"Good God," the doctor said. "Sorry. Difficulties next door. Breach birth. Can't stay long. What a fine-looking boy!" He finished up everything with the mother and newborn son. He examined the baby and Maddie, telling her that she didn't need stitches. He praise Miles for job well done and he went back to the other room again.

Miles sat down on the chair beside Maddie's head as a wave of dizziness hit him. He took her hand and pressed it to his lips. "Did you hear, my darling? A boy. We have a beautiful little boy."

She looked at him, tears running down her face. "That's wonderful," she choked out. "And you were wonderful. Simply wonderful."

When the nurse was done cleaning up the baby, Miles took him and took their bobby-dazzler of a baby to the arms of his mother. They looked at him so lovingly with happiness gleaming in their eyes.

The scene ended. It was also broken down into little scene when Ren was finally holding up their baby after he just came out. They had used a doll that looked so real since they didn't really did a close up scene of the baby when he was just born in Ren's hands. But they did use a real baby when the nurse had done cleaning him up and gave him to Miles. The mother and baby arrived when they began the second take of the birthing scene.

He was even more adorable and tiny than the month old baby girl Kyoko had costarred with Kanae and Kijima. Kyoko and Ren were a little nervous at first because he was just so tiny, a three weeks old baby. But they got a little used to him after holding him once.

Kyoko and Ren were still at the stage set looking amusedly at the tiny miracle in Kyoko's arms. They had a fifteen minute break before they need for the ending scenes of the whole mini-drama. He was peacefully sleeping. But they were abruptly interrupted when Kyoko's manager hurriedly went to her and held Kyoko's phone in front of her.

"He said he is Hizuri Kuu-san and he was calling due to an emergency. He's asking if his son is okay." Hayaka told her charge.

Ren and Kyoko looked up at the phone in surprise. She looked up at Ren and then handed the baby to him before she answered her phone.

"T-tou-san?" Her voice trembled in nervousness. Hayaka's eyes widened when she heard how she addressed Kuu.

"Kyoko-chan, finally! I've been calling you since an hour ago." Kuu replied on the other line. "So, where are you?"

"I'm sorry, Tou-san. I just finished filming. I'm at XXX studio. Why?"

"Stay put and we'll be right there. Please take care of our Kuon for a little while, like an hour or so." Kuu answered.

"What are you tal- W-wait, you're in Japan right now?" Kyoko exclaimed.

"Yes, so wait a just a little bit longer, okay? See you later." And Kuu hung up the phone.

"Wa-wa-wait! Tou-san. Tou-san?" But it was of no use, he already hung up. Kyoko looked at the phone and then to Ren in horror. "What are we going to do?" She asked Ren worriedly. "Tou-san's in Japan and is coming here to the studio in about an hour." She said in a whisper to Ren.

The baby suddenly woke up and cried. They looked around the set for the baby's mother but they could not find her. They asked some crews and one crew told them that he noticed the mother went to the somewhere just before the scene ended and still hasn't come back. The baby wailed even more so they had no choice but to take care of him.

"I think he ate an hour ago just before we started filming that scene with him." Hayaka told them.

"Okay, so maybe he's diaper's wet." Kyoko guessed while Ren felt up his diaper to find it a little fuller. He nodded to Kyoko in agreement. "Where's his diaper bag?"

Hayaka scrambled to find the baby's diaper bag because the baby's wailing were making her feel panicky. Good thing, it was just beside the chair where the mother had sat on the sidelines of the stage set. Hayaka grabbed it and brought it to Ren and Kyoko. Kyoko folded her legs to give space for the baby on the hospital bed she was sitting on. Kyoko rummaged through the bag and pulled out a diaper, wipes and baby blanket to spread under him. Ren carefully put the baby on the blanket as everybody around them stopped and watched what they were doing so closely.

Kyoko unwrapped the blankets covering him and undid his side snap onesies and frees his legs so that she could change him. She lifted both the legs up to put his onesie away from the diaper. She put it down and began undoing the diaper. Sure enough, he had pooped. Ren on Kyoko's side had opened the clean diaper so it was ready for her to just put underneath the baby. He also opened the wipes and pulled out two and handed to her. She took it and wiped the baby cleaned without any hardship or awkwardness. He gave her another two when she needed it. Ren rummaged the bag for a plastic bag or something that mothers keep in case they need it to put the used diapers in. He found one and put the dirty diaper in it without crunching his nose or just showing his discomfort of holding a pooped filled diaper.

Kyoko snapped the baby's clothes back on with a smile as the baby stopped crying. "Hhmm... Now, you're all dry and comfy, huh?" She told the baby as she wrapped him back into the blanket and carried him in her arms. Ren stood up and threw the plastic bag away to the trash can near the doors of the set.

Everyone just stared at the talented actors who had easily changed the diaper of an infant in front of them without a care in the world and with naturalness that told them the two had a lot of experience in taking care of a baby. And everyone who didn't know their secret had one thought in mind.

The rumor really is true! Tsuruga has a secret child! O.o

I just finished this chapter... I'm so sleepy right now... Sorry about the grammatical errors and typos above. I'm sorry Baby Ren is still not here in this chapter but I think maybe next chap he might certainly be there. My eyes are literally dropping right now. I barely endured until the end to review and proofread this chapter, so please excuse all of the errors up there. I'm really thankful for all your love and support. I'm really happy you like my story and shows it to me. So I'm forever grateful, you guys... Love you and God bless... ^_^ I'm going to sleep before my eyes drop to the ground... Lol