"Damn hormones" Naoto thought when she had sat down at her desk in the Inaba police station; Dojima watched her from across the room, she had shouted at a poor rookie as he walked into her causing her to drop an armful of case reports. Naoto never raised her voice in that way, and she had attributed it to hormones down to her research.

"Shirogane-san are you ok?" Dojima asked as he walked over to Naoto's desk

Naoto looked up at him and sighed.

"I'm fine." She replied curtly

The senior detective looked at her and noticed the look she had given him; it was one of 'let's talk about it later', Dojima caught the look and smiled.

"Ah ok." He replied "I'll be in my office if you want to talk."

The morning passed on in much the same way; Naoto getting frustrated and hitting the photocopier because it refused to fax the files she had to send to the prefecture office, and she couldn't email it as the stupid rules said she couldn't. She also had a hasty argument with the vending machine as if refused to give her the bar of chocolate she had paid for.

"Shirogane-san your husband is here to see you." The receptionist said on the other end of the phone, when it was lunchtime, Naoto sighed that his timing was perfect she could use the break and so could the vending machine. Naoto headed down to the reception to meet Kanji.

"Not causing trouble today Kanji-kun?" Dojima asked as he walked out of the station, he was heading out to go to the convenience store.

"I am waiting for Naoto." Kanji replied

"I hope you didn't do anything wrong, your wife assaulted the vending machine earlier." Dojima replied

Kanji looked at him with a little worry.

"It deserved it." Naoto said calmly as she approached the two of them, she looked right at Kanji as if to say 'don't ask' he responded by raising his eyebrows at her and taking her hand in his.

"I'll let you two get on with your lunch date." Dojima said before he waved and left

Once Dojima was out of earshot Kanji looked at her and smiled.

"You assaulted a vending machine?" Kanji asked

"It refused to give me what I paid for." Naoto said "I showed it who was boss."

Kanji squeezed her hand; he was oddly proud of her for doing something like that, she didn't seem to feel remorse for attacking an inanimate object.

"What do you want for lunch?" He asked

Lunch turned out to be at the Junes food court; surprisingly Chie, Yosuke, Yu and Yukiko were all there. Naoto had spotted them all at their table; it wasn't easy to miss them as they were all waving at the two of them, Naoto had led Kanji there as he carried their lunches on his tray.

"Hey Naoto-kun and Kanji-kun." Chie said as she looked at the two of them

Naoto smiled at them as she sat down at the table; she let out a huge sigh when she did, Kanji sat down next to her and smiled at them.

"Naoto-kun what's wrong?" Yukiko asked a gentle smile on her face.

The detective looked directly at her friend and smiled at them.

"Just a little stressed I guess." Naoto explained she didn't want to go into any depth with her friends and tell them the truth just yet; she didn't want to jinx it, it was still early in her pregnancy after all. She felt a hand supportively squeeze her own under the table and looked out of the corner of her eye that it was Kanji who had done that, she was happy he was a supportive husband like that, and he'd be a good father she thought that happily to herself.

"Ok well now that Naoto and Kanji are finally here, I have some news." Yukiko said "Yu and I are having a baby, we found out a month ago."

Chie and Yosuke were excited for them; whereas Kanji and Naoto shared a look between them, a little worried if they should sat something too.

"Is it a boy or a girl?" Chie asked enthusiastically.

"Idiot it's too early for them to know that." Yosuke answered her

Chie relaxed her smile a bit and frowned.

"Oh yeah it is." She said a little sadly. "Well anyway we need to celebrate, Yosuke go fetch us something to toast with." Chie commanded her husband, he sighed loudly, before he went to follow her order.

"Congrats you guys." Kanji said as he looked at the two of them; he tightened his grip on Naoto's hand as Yukiko smiled at them. Naoto just looked at Yukiko; she was a little confused about what to say to her senpai, she was happy for them but at the same time wanted to tell them about her child too.

Yosuke returned with a bottle of champagne and a can of orange soda; he handed out plastic glasses and filled everyone's except Yukiko's with the champagne, Naoto looked at hers suspiciously.

"Yosuke-senpai I can't drink this." Naoto explained

Yosuke looked at her suspiciously as he took the glass she had held out to him.

"You are still on duty?" He asked

"Yes I am." Naoto explained, Kanji looked at her and tilted his head as if to say 'go on tell them' she responded with a look of her own saying 'I can't I'm embarrassed.'

Just as Chie was about to call the toast Kanji held his hand up.

"Hey can I say somethin' too?" He asked; earning the questioning gaze of the four of his friends. "We're having a kid too."

Naoto looked away from all of them and looked at the ground; they heard a squeal of excitement from Yukiko and Chie, they all raised their glasses after Kanji had managed to persuade Naoto that she hadn't needed to be embarrassed.

"To Yukiko and Yu and also to Naoto and Kanji." Chie called.

"Dummy that's too long." Yosuke said

"Fine." Chie responded "To the future."

"To the future." The response called