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When Lavi finally left me alone, I reluctantly made my way down to the training room. It was the most likely place for Kanda to be.

And he was there; I caught sight of him training, shirtless, through the door. But I couldn't make myself go in. I was much too scared of the conversation we had to have. After two minutes of doing nothing but standing there, I lost my nerve completely and retreated to my bedroom.

I collapsed on my bed, initially on my stomach, but a jolt of discomfort reminded me not to do that and I rolled onto my back. I tried to latch onto a coherent thought, but my head felt so chaotic. My stomach was full for the first time in almost six weeks, and that felt wonderful. Even if the feeling of being full did not.

After that, my thoughts turned to Kanda. We were barely a couple; we messed around and had sex. Love had never been mentioned. But why would it have? Some days we barely even liked each other, and on others, it was hard to remember why I'd given myself to a bastard like him in the first place. As far as I knew, I was nothing but stress release to him.

Did I love him? There was no doubt about that. He drove me completely crazy, yet I loved him with every fiber of my being. And to top it off, there was no denying that he was attractive.

But my thoughts were once again pulled to my current problem: the thing - no, the baby - was moving again. The tears began to fall once more. Why was this happening to me? I lay there, crying, feeling the alien sensations of a baby moving around inside my belly.

I was so distracted that I didn't hear the door open. I didn't know someone else was even in my room until Kanda was sitting on the bed beside me. "What's wrong, Moyashi?"

Narrowing my eyes at him, I wiped my tears away quickly. "What are you doing here, Bakanda?"

He snorted. "I saw you outside the training room earlier. You looked like you wanted to talk to me, but then you ran away. So I came to find you, and here you are: lying in bed, crying your eyes out. So I'll ask again, what's wrong?"

"Since when do you care?" That anger I'd felt earlier, the kind that came from nowhere when I wasn't really angry, came back. "I'm nothing special to you, just a toy for sexual release."

The comment earned me a slap across the face. It wasn't hard, just strong enough to get my attention. "Don't talk about yourself like that, Moyashi."

I blinked at him; my anger was gone, replaced with extreme confusion. He wasn't mad at what I'd implied about him, but what I'd said about myself? I didn't understand in the slightest.

He stared at me for a moment before he spoke. "I may not show it, or say it, but I do care. Especially about you. It hurts me when you degrade yourself like that. You are so much more than 'a toy' to me. You're a companion, a true friend, my lover."

The words had been hesitant and he had looked down at the bed the whole time, but that was how I knew it was the truth. Kanda wasn't the type to talk about his feelings. And he apparently wasn't done. "I don't know what changed to make you think I'm so petty, but if you were just a fling, don't you think I'd have dumped your sorry ass back when you started getting fat?"

To emphasize the words, he ran his hand down my side and squeezed my ass. In my irritation, I voiced the first thing that popped into my head. "I'm not fat, I'm pregnant!"

Kanda's gaze snapped up from the blankets and our eyes locked. His cobalt blue depths were full of bewilderment. "What the fuck did you just say, Moyashi?"

I blinked at him, feeling my face turn bright red. But I couldn't look away. "Damn, that wasn't how I wanted to say it... I talked to Komui this morning, like you had told me to do last night. He did some tests, and, well, that's what he found. I've gained so much weight lately because your baby is growing inside me."

Kanda continued to stare at me. He opened his mouth a few times, but never said anything. After a few minutes though, he had collected himself. "How is that possible? I know every inch of your body, Moyashi. You're male."

I sighed, closing my eyes and finally breaking the tense stare. After a moment's debate, I pulled up my sweater and exposed my belly. I grabbed Kanda's hand from where it was resting against my hip, and placed it on my bared skin. It only took a moment of waiting before the baby kicked the spot where his hand was.

Kanda recoiled in shock. He stared at his hand like it had been electrocuted. "What the hell was that?"

I sighed, trying to hold back the tears from how uncomfortable the baby moving made me. "The baby. She started moving this morning."

Another sigh, this next part was harder to say. "But to answer your first question: according to Komui, when I lost my arm a couple years ago, my Innocence ... changed my insides so that I have ... female parts."

When Kanda finally spoke, his words almost made me laugh. "Do you really expect me to believe all this?"

"That's what I said to Komui when he told me to tell you." I sighed and fixed my sweater. "He said to bring you to him and he'd prove it to you."

I was immediately hauled off the bed and dragged to the door. "Then let's go."

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After finishing some of the work he'd been forced into doing, Komui returned to his office. By his calculations, Allen and his lover should be there soon, and after all of Lavi's denials, he couldn't wait to catch the redhead red handed.

But as he rounded the corner towards his office, the first person he saw was Kanda. The samurai looked really pissed about something. It simultaneously scared and frustrated Komui, he didn't want to have to deal with Kanda's grievances in the middle of this whole pregnancy debacle.

As he stepped closer however, he noticed Allen on the other side of Kanda. The teen was leaning back against the wall and staring at the floor, his white hair spilling into his face. His expression seemed embarrassed.

At first, he wondered why they were both there, but it didn't take long for Komui to figure out what it all meant. And he was shocked. "Allen."

The boy looked up when he heard his name. He met Komui's gaze, and the Supervisor tilted his head towards Kanda. "Really?"

Allen dropped his gaze back towards the floor. "Yes."

"Really?"

"Yes, really." Allen sighed heavily. "Can we move on?"

Komui stared at the pair for another moment before he looked away. The Supervisor's mind was more than a little blown to learn that Kanda was the one who had gotten Allen pregnant. "Right, of course. Let's head down to the infirmary."

The three were all lost in their own thoughts as they walked. Kanda was wondering what was really going on, because there was no way that Allen was actually pregnant. Allen was trying to stay calm and praying Kanda would react well to whatever was about to happen. And Komui was processing what he'd just learned: Allen was sleeping with Kanda.

In a way it made sense, they balanced each other so well. And it certainly explained their fighting. If they were secretly having sex, they'd want to make sure that absolutely no one even suspected it. But the feeling of disbelief was still there: a part of Komui suspected that Kanda might have been there just so that Allen didn't have to reveal who he was sleeping with.

Back in the same private room as before, Allen climbed onto the examination table. A chair was pulled close, and Kanda sat in it. Unnerved by the silence, Komui quickly prepped the things he needed and wheeled a machine over towards the waiting pair. "This is an ultrasound machine; it'll let us see the baby while she's still inside Allen."

Neither of the young men said anything; Kanda's scowl deepened, and Allen continued to stare at the wall like he wished he were anywhere else. At Komui's prompting, Allen pulled up his sweater and exposed his belly. He winced at the feeling of gel being spread across his skin, but his eyes never moved away from that spot on the wall.

Komui frowned at the white haired exorcist's behavior, but chose to ignore it. He turned on the machine and began the exam. "That sound is the baby's heartbeat. And this," he traced an area on the screen with his finger, "is your baby."

Kanda's scowl was now directed at the screen, but there was confusion written all over the expression. Allen truly was carrying his child; the brat hadn't been messing with him.

Allen continued to stare at the wall. He refused to look at the screen; he didn't want to see the baby because he knew that the moment he did, he'd start to care about it; it was hard enough just tuning out the heartbeat. But when Komui started pointing out fingers and toes, and how it was possible to tell that the baby was female, curiosity got the better of him. Allen looked at the image of his daughter and it was love at first sight. "Is she healthy?"

"She is." Komui smiled at the question. It was a complete attitude change from the one that morning. "But that'll change quickly if you don't gain some weight. You being so thin isn't good for either of you."

Allen frowned. He didn't want to get any heavier, but if it was what that helpless little baby needed, then he truly had no choice.

"How exactly is it supposed to get out of the Moyashi?" Kanda continued to scowl at the screen in such a way that neither of the others could tell what he was thinking.

Komui frowned, trying to think of a tactful way to word the answer. He turned off the ultrasound machine and began putting it away. "As I told Allen earlier, he has a vagina. It's closed right now, but it will open sometime in the next few months. Once it does, he'll be able to give birth the same way a woman would."

Allen's face visibly grew several shades whiter at the thought of giving birth, but the reaction was ignored. Komui was more focused on what Kanda'Ss reaction would be. The samurai's scowl turned thoughtful. "That's why his hips have been getting wider, isn't it? And his chest? Is that...?"

Komui nodded. The personal nature of Kanda's questions, combined with Allen's lack of reaction to them, killed any doubt that Komui had as to whether or not the two were truly physically intimate. "Allen's hips are widening because his pelvis is changing to make the birth easier on him. And his chest is developing into breasts so that he'll be able to nurse the baby once she's here. So long as he can get himself up to a healthy weight, his pregnancy will be no different from a woman's."

The room fell silent. Kanda couldn't ask any of his remaining questions without giving away what he thought of the situation, and he wasn't going to do that with Komui in the room. Allen had completely lost his ability to speak. Hearing how much more female his body was going to become was freaking him out; the thought of breastfeeding was just as mortifying as the thought of childbirth.

Komui broke the silence with a sigh. "Since we're on the subject, I may as well tell you both this now. There's a high probability that Allen's body won't go back to being male after the birth. It's most likely going to stay in that hermaphroditic state."

"What exactly do you mean by that?" The question was barely audible. Allen was surprised he'd managed to say it at all. But he didn't know what Komui was saying, and he needed to find out.

The Supervisor surveyed the pale young man, and decided that in this instance, blunt was best, trying to be gentle would only cause a misunderstanding later on. "Once your vagina opens, it's not going to close back up. Your breasts probably aren't going to go away either. And not only will it be possible for you to get pregnant again, you'll most likely start having a menstrual cycle as well."

Allen's face had gone from white as a sheet to burning red. Kanda's scowl had returned, and he was growing frustrated; in the midst of this explicit conversation, centered around his lover's body, he was having issues with the English language. "I'm a little lost. What does the word 'hermaphroditic' mean?"

Komui was relieved to be asked a question that wasn't specifically about Allen's female body parts; he didn't know how much longer he could remain professional with the subject. "A hermaphrodite is someone, like Allen, who has both male and female reproductive systems. 'Hermaphroditic' is simply the adjective form of the word."

Kanda nodded slowly as he processed the information, but then he stopped abruptly. "So then that means nothing's going to happen to his dick, right?"

Komui made a face as he thought hard about the answer to the question. "In that it's not going anywhere, yes. He might experience some size changes because of the pregnancy hormones, but compared to everything else, that will probably go unnoticed."

The room fell awkwardly silent again. Allen was still bright red, and Kanda was trying to process everything he'd been told. Komui offered Allen a cloth so he could clean the gel off his stomach, but the young man didn't even notice it until the Supervisor put it directly into his hand.

Komui sighed. "Anyway, back to the matter at hand. The two of you have some decisions to make. You're going to have a daughter in four months. You need to work out a system so that raising her won't affect your duties as exorcists. Or if you decide you want to give her up, you'll have to work that out too."

Allen opened his mouth to speak, but Komui held up a hand to indicate that he wasn't done talking. "But before you decide anything, you need to know that because Allen is a parasite-type exorcist, your daughter is going to be Innocence compatible. That's how it always works when a parasite-type gets pregnant; their babies are exposed to the Innocence from the moment of conception and that leads to them becoming accommodators. Which means that your daughter will be an exorcist someday. If you choose to give her up, she wouldn't leave the Order. We'd arrange for her to be adopted by someone here so that we can keep an eye on her. You would literally be watching someone else raise your child."