A/N: Sorry, I know the last couple chapters got a little slow, things will be picking up now that the baby's been born.
To Mashiro Ruri (and anyone else who's curious): I realize your review wasn't a question, but yes, Erika is my usual name for Allen and Kanda's daughter. When I'm writing mpreg, I choose the baby's name based on what I want the baby to look like. It's usually Erika, as I usually write that Allen and Kanda have a baby girl with navy hair and silver eyes. In this story, the baby girl has auburn hair and silver eyes (which I don't actually say in the story until next chapter, oops, small spoiler, sorry), so that makes her name Adeline. I have four other mpreg stories in progress (five if you count "A Second Neko"), so you will be seeing Erika again. ;)
Now, on to chapter 6!
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The next month was hard. General Cross reported my disappearance to Komui, telling him all about my involvement in Allen's pregnancy. The Supervisor didn't believe it for a second, but he nonetheless followed Cross' suggestion to punish me by making me take responsibility for the baby I had created. So instead of returning to headquarters as if nothing had happened, I was ordered to stay in Nice with Allen and Cross. The redhead mostly ignored us, and he was almost never home at night, but when he was around, he did his best to make my life hell.
As if it wasn't already hell.
Allen was an emotional mess; he could go from calm and happy to foaming at the mouth over the littlest things, and then he'd have a crying fit over how upset he got. Cross explained that it was the pregnancy hormones working their way out of his system; he also said it was my punishment for missing the mood swings earlier in his pregnancy.
Adeline was quite useful for making the Moyashi shut up. Whenever he got on my nerves, all I had to do was give him the baby, and he'd stop yelling and screaming to fawn over her.
Aside from that however, she was even more of a pain than he was. Newborn babies apparently don't do anything more than sleep, eat, cry, throw up, and go to the bathroom. Getting woken up in the middle of the night by a hungry baby was not pleasant, and neither was making Allen get up to breastfeed her. The diapers were the worst part though. It seemed like she needed to be changed constantly, and unless Allen was in a good mood, which was almost never, that task got farmed out to me. Any free time I got was spent meditating so that I could keep my sanity.
Of course, that only made Cross tease me more than he already was. I could only meditate while Addie was asleep, so I had taken to meditating on my back while she slept on my chest. It was my way of bonding with my daughter. But Cross found it "girlier than anything Allen's ever done". I didn't get it. To me the girliest thing the Moyashi did was refer to himself as "mommy" when he talked to Addie; my meditation routine was nothing compared to that. The Moyashi tried to explain it to me, but he couldn't get the point across. It was hard for him to explain why it irritated Cross when he loved it. "You meditating like that means that you're not using Addie as a way to get to me. It means that you love our daughter. And that means the world to me."
Making it all even harder was that I couldn't stand to hear Addie cry. And not because it was annoying and got on my nerves, which it did, but because it broke my heart. She was my precious baby, and I hated to see her like that.
However, the parasitic Innocence between her shoulder blades was hands down the most agonizing thing of all.
The month wasn't all bad though. Setting aside his moodiness, things between the Moyashi and me were actually pretty good. Once I had set him straight, explaining that I didn't want him to say 'I love you' back to me unless he meant it, he finally relaxed around me. We spent a lot of time just sitting together and talking. We still had our opposite views and personalities, but we began to understand each other. And over the course of trying to make him fall in love with me, I fell deeper in love with him.
We got to have a real first date when Addie was about a week old. It wasn't much, just dinner out for Allen's birthday, but it was nice. The whole thing was Cross' idea, and he actually willingly babysat Addie so that we could have that time to ourselves. I think he might have been trying to break us up, but if he was, it didn't work.
It was rather obvious from looking at him that Allen had been pregnant, so Cross transformed him back into Ellen whenever errands demanded that he leave the house. It had the added bonus of us not having to out ourselves as gay when we went out together, but that didn't make seeing a woman instead of Allen any easier. It was usually tolerable, but on a date...
It was annoying sitting down to a romantic dinner with a woman I wasn't particularly attracted to. On the other hand, it prompted me to explain to Allen that I found the scar on his face attractive, which led to us sleeping in the same bed that night. Platonically, of course, but it was a step in the right direction.
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When Adeline was a month old, it was decided that Allen had recovered enough from giving birth to travel. Which meant that it was time to return to headquarters.
The night before we left, Allen and I had a very deep discussion about what we were going to do next. I had assumed he would make up some lie about adopting Adeline, so it surprised me that he wanted to tell the truth. "It's different now that you're in the picture, Yuu. I'd rather be teased for getting pregnant than lie and pretend I'm not related to her. Plus it's no longer a drunken accident. Err, technically it still is, but you're my boyfriend now, so it's more acceptable for us to have a baby together, right Yuu?"
"'Boyfriend'?" I raised an eyebrow at him. He'd never called me that before.
The Moyashi blushed bright red. I loved making that expression appear on his face, he was so adorable like that. He dropped his gaze to the sleeping baby in his arms. "Yeah. This past month with you has been nice. Well, as nice as it could be given the circumstances. I like being able to talk to you without it ending in violence. And you've been better with Addie than I ever could have hoped. I want things to continue like this once we're back at the Order, and we have to be in a relationship for that to happen, so, yeah, you're my boyfriend now."
He smiled at me, but I could see the uncertainty in his eyes. He was expecting me to argue with him, because that's what the side of me that he was most familiar with would do. I leaned over and kissed him. He pulled away and blushed so red that his scar almost disappeared.
I laughed at the reaction. "You do realize that if I'm your boyfriend then you're going to have to let me kiss you in public, right?"
I tried to kiss him again, but all I got were his fingers as he pushed me away. His blush had faded to a hesitant smirk. "Yes. I realize that. But I have a condition."
"Of course you do." I snorted and leaned back against the couch. "You always have conditions. 'We can hold hands at the market, but I have to carry the basket.' 'We can sleep in the same bed, but I have to-'"
He punched me in the shoulder. "I get it. Shut up now."
I smirked at him and gestured for him to get to the point. He sighed and returned his focus to the baby. "Actually I have two conditions, but you don't really have to do anything for the first one... I want Addie to take your last name."
"Moyashi..."
"Just hear me out, Yuu." He sighed again and began running his fingers through Addie's wispy hair. "I know things will be chaotic once we go back to the Order, and if something happens, or if this thing between us falls apart, I want you to remember that you still have a responsibility to her. I don't want you to forget that she's your daughter."
"Moyashi, I would never-"
"I know, but things could change." His frown turned into a smirk. "Besides, 'Adeline Kanda' sounds so much better than 'Adeline Walker', don't you agree?"
I laughed at the childish look on his face. "Fine. What's the other condition?"
"I want you to start using my real name." The look on the Moyashi's face said he was completely serious.
I was stunned. I knew that that was going to come up sooner or later, but I didn't expect him to be so direct about it. "Moyashi, I-"
He was quick to interrupt my protest. "I'm not talking all the time, Yuu. I know you weren't lying when you said it's hard for you to say. But I want to hear you say it. So even if it's only when we're alone, could you please call me 'Allen'?"
When I didn't respond, he continued to babble. "You're my boyfriend now. You should use my real name, Yuu. And it's not like I'm asking you to use it around Lavi. You can continue to call me 'Moyashi' around him if you want. And if-"
"Allen, shut up."
Saying 'shut up' was completely pointless as he had gone silent the second I said his name, but I said it anyway. His silver eyes were huge as he stared at me. Once again, I caught that feeling of disbelief from him, like he hadn't expected me to give in. I brushed my hand through his freshly cut white hair and leaned in and kissed him. "As long as you understand that I'm uncomfortable with saying it in public, and that I won't use it all the time, then I have no issues with using your real name in exchange for getting to kiss you in public."
The Moyashi slowly stood from the couch, he placed Addie down in her bassinet, and then he was in my lap. Before I could question him, he had his arms around my neck and was pressing his lips firmly against mine. Even after a month it was still unusual for him to initiate a kiss, and he had never been that forceful before. I responded to the kiss, wrapping my arms around his waist, which still had a chubby layer of baby weight, and pulled him down with me so that we were laying on the couch. He tangled his fingers into my hair, and pushed his tongue into my mouth. We fought for dominance as we made out, but his stamina gave out before there was a clear winner.
He lay on top of me, panting heavily, the hardness of his erection pressing against my hip. I wanted to tease him by touching it, but I knew that that would end badly. He'd nearly broken my nose the last time I did that. The pregnancy hormones had made him temporarily impotent, and now that he was able to function again, he was really sensitive about the whole thing.
Since touching him would piss him off, I settled for calling attention to it. "It's a shame your body can't handle sex yet, Moyashi. You've got quite a problem down there."
He didn't pout like I thought he would. Instead, he giggled and nuzzled his cheek into my neck, slowly trailing his fingers down my body. "You're one to talk, Bakanda. You've got to be twice as hard as I am."
"Che. Like you didn't know that attacking me would have that effect."
He snickered. His fingers finally stopped moving when they reached the waistband of my pants. "You know, it's really not fair that you remember that whole night while I can barely recall the morning after. I don't even remember what you look like."
It wasn't until he said those words that I realized he was up to something, but I wasn't going to stop him. If he wanted to start something sexual, then I was going to let him. The memory of that night had been torturing me for months; stopping the Moyashi now would have just been stupid.
The Moyashi's fingers had my pants unbuttoned in a heartbeat. He simultaneously sat up and yanked my pants off my hips. I watched him as he eyed my exposed erection, curious as to what his reaction would be and knowing that it would be entertaining.
He paled and slumped sideways against the back of the couch with a defeated sigh. "You managed to get that inside me? No wonder my ass hurt so bad that I could barely walk."
I snorted in amusement as I began to push myself up into a sitting position. I was planning to change the subject, but the second I started to move, the Moyashi was pushing me back towards the couch. "Moyashi, what-?"
"Shh. Addie's sleeping; you'll wake her if you're too loud." He smirked at me as he placed his hands on my bare hips, keeping me securely pressed into the couch. "If you ask nicely, I'll help you out with your problem..."
I raised an eyebrow at him. "What exactly are you suggesting, Moyashi?"
His smirk only got wider. "One, that wasn't asking nicely, and two, just because my body can't handle sex doesn't mean you have to go without..."
So he actually was suggesting what I thought he was. I didn't exactly want to ask him to jerk me off, but I was incredibly curious as to whether or not this new devious streak of his would hold up. "You're the one who caused my problem, Aren. Will you take care of it for me?"
I expected to see him freak out and back off; I could picture how his silver eyes would grow huge with panic. Instead, I was the one caught off guard. As soon as the question was out of my mouth, the Moyashi leaned forward and began pleasuring me orally. I nearly screamed as he ran his tongue down my length, just barely remembering to remain quiet and not wake the baby.
I didn't last as long as I would have liked, but it was a good thing that we finished when we did. As soon as we were cleaned up and my pants were back in place, there was the rattle of keys at the front door, followed by Cross walking inside. He ignored us and went straight upstairs, but if he had come in any earlier, he would have caught us in the act. And that would have been mortifying.
Allen and I stared at each other for a moment, and then he blushed and collapsed against my chest. "Oh god. That was almost awful."
I laughed as I pulled him closer to me. "What brought that on, Moyashi? It was only a few minutes ago that you were too shy to kiss me."
His blush deepened and I could feel the heat of it through my shirt. "I don't know. I just... felt like it."
I wanted to tease him and heat things up again, but the sound of footsteps from upstairs reminded me that we weren't home alone anymore, so I had to tease him in a different way. "Does that mean you're done being hormonal?"
The Moyashi snorted and pushed himself off me. "I'm going to be hormonal until Addie's weaned off my breastmilk, you know that."
He sighed as he leaned over the bassinet. "While we're sort of on the subject, you do know that if things work out between us and we end up sleeping together again, you're not touching me without a condom, right?"
I laughed as I stood, moving behind him and wrapping my arms around him. "What? You don't want to end up with another unplanned baby? I never would have guessed that."
He snorted at my faked surprise. "Joke all you want, Yuu, but I'm serious. We're never having unprotected sex again."
"I know." I kissed the top of his head. "One baby is plenty. As great as Addie is, I have no desire to go through any of this again, and I know you want it even less than I do."
The Moyashi turned in my hold and threw his mismatched arms around my neck. "Thanks for understanding, Yuu."
I kissed him and he didn't pull away, so I kissed him again. We made out like that until someone cleared their throat behind us. The Moyashi jumped at the interruption and pulled away from me, but I just turned and glared at Cross. The redhead snarled at me, still pissed that he hadn't been able to hurt me for abandoning Allen and the baby. "Shouldn't you two be asleep? Don't you have an early morning?"
"Ah! I didn't realize it was that late." The Moyashi immediately snapped out of his embarrassment and began gathering up the few baby items that still needed to be packed. "Hey, Yuu, can you take Addie upstairs for me?"