A/N: Thanks for the reviews! I didn't realize it at the time I was writing this, but based on the dates I give for Allen's pregnancy later in the story, this chapter takes place on Kanda's birthday.

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Allen and Kanda left the cafeteria hand in hand. It was weird for Allen to be touching like that in public, but Kanda was determined that they start acting like a couple immediately, and so he wouldn't let Allen let go.

He led the Moyashi down to Komui's office where the Supervisor was waiting for them with a very confused Johnny. The scientist had been ordered to whip up some maternity clothes that would fit Allen, and he had been up all night, sewing and stewing over why a male would need such things. But that changed once he caught sight of Allen. The oversized sweater might once have fooled him into thinking the teen was just chunky, but now that 'maternity' was on his mind, he could clearly make out the teen's pregnant belly.

Komui greeted Allen cheerfully when he came into the room. "Good morning, Allen! How's the baby doing today?"

Allen glared at Komui in a perfect imitation of Kanda. He was confused about what was going on, and being asked about the baby only frustrated him further. "She's fine. Now could someone please tell me what's going on?"

The Supervisor's smile faltered slightly before it brightened again. "We made some maternity clothes for you!"

Allen's glare melted into a frown. He was less than thrilled with the idea of maternity clothes, and having them placed in his arms didn't help. "Go on! Try them on!"

Not caring that everyone was watching, or that the door was open, Allen swiftly stripped off his pants and boxers and replaced them with the ones he'd been given. He wanted to get this embarrassing situation over with as quickly as possible. But it was hard to hate what was happening when the pants turned out to be the most comfortable things he had ever worn.

Johnny was practically bouncing in anticipation. "Well? How do they fit?"

Allen sighed and forced a smile. "They fit great."

"Lift up your shirt so I can get a better look." Johnny stepped closer and examined the way the pants sat on Allen's body. "They're a little big, but that's good, you're only going to be getting bigger from here on. And they support your belly well enough, but I don't think that I used a stretchy enough material... I'll have to find something better for the next batch." He beamed up at Allen. "Try on the shirt now."

Allen frowned at that. "Can't I just keep wearing sweaters? They fit fine."

Kanda snickered from where he was leaning against the door he'd closed while Allen was changing. "You can if you want, Moyashi, but next week is the start of summer. It's going to start getting hot soon..."

"Ugh. Fine." Allen reluctantly pulled off his sweater and undershirt and replaced them with the flowing pale blue shirt Johnny handed to him. He frowned as he looked down at himself. It was clear to everyone that he was unhappy. "I look pregnant."

Kanda let out a snort of irritation mixed with amusement. "You are pregnant, Moyashi."

"I know that, Bakanda. But it... It's just so weird to see it like this."

While they bickered, Johnny examined the shirt. It fit the teen, but not nearly as well as the pants did; the shirt had been designed for a flat-chested male, so it looked slightly awkward over Allen's budding breasts. But it accentuated his baby bump nicely. There would be no denying he was pregnant, but at the same time, it didn't draw any unnecessary attention to the bulge.

Johnny tugged on the fabric to get Allen's attention. "You're good to go. This style isn't going to work on you for very long, but you'll probably have outgrown it before then, so it shouldn't be a problem."

Allen frowned down at the ensemble. He hated how pregnant it made him look, and he was still mortified by the idea of maternity clothes, but there was no denying that he hadn't been this comfortable in clothing in a long time. At least he could be grateful that none of it was pink or girly. And if Kanda truly had a pregnancy fetish like Lenalee claimed...

He smiled at Johnny. "Thank you."

The scientist beamed and excused himself to go back to his work. Allen glanced through the pile of clothes that were on the desk; it wasn't much, but there was more than he expected given how short of notice Johnny must have had. He gathered up the garments and turned to leave, but Kanda stopped him. "Moyashi. I need you to explain that comment you made at breakfast."

Allen frowned down at the clothes in his arms. He knew exactly what comment Kanda was referring to. "I'm not going to marry you just because you got me pregnant."

Kanda's scowl turned thoughtful. He was running out of ways to tell Allen that his love for him had nothing to do with the baby. Though with his lack of social skills, he hadn't had many in the first place.

But Komui spoke up before the samurai could come up with anything. "Actually, Allen, you don't have a choice. The Order has very strict policies regarding relationships and families. If you want to keep the baby then you're going to have to get married."

Allen gaped at the Supervisor. "You're making that up."

"I'm not." He really wasn't. He had found the rules the day before and planned to use them to mess with Lavi, but that had all gone out the window when it turned out that Kanda was the one who fathered Allen's baby. He had been planning to help the pair find a loophole, but when it turned out that Kanda actually wanted to marry Allen and raise their child, Komui decided to enforce the rules. It was better to let Allen think he had to marry his baby's father than to risk staring down Mugen again.

"But what about the homosexuality thing?" Allen was grasping at straws to find any way out. "Surely us both being men changes things, right?"

Komui gave him a slight smile. "You're not male, Allen."

Allen's face fell. He should have known that that was coming; he'd used it on his friends at breakfast barely an hour earlier. Kanda kissed him to keep him from complaining again. "I want to marry you, Allen. Do you want to marry me?"

"Yes, of course I do, Yuu! But-!"

Kanda silenced him with another kiss. "Then stop complaining. I know you don't want your pregnancy to be the reason for it, but if it weren't for the baby, we wouldn't have this opportunity. So shut up and marry me."

Allen snorted. "That's a very romantic proposal, Bakanda."

"What? You expected me to get down on one knee?" Kanda laughed. "Don't be ridiculous, Moyashi."

The pair kissed once more. Komui shook his head at them. Despite seeing it with his own eyes, it was hard for him to believe how perfect they were together. "Alright, that's enough you two. No making out in my office."

Allen blushed as they broke apart, and that just made Kanda smirk more. Komui stared sternly at the pair. "Now that we're all on the same page, you have two options: you can either fill out the paperwork now, or we can put together a wedding ceremony. Which will it be?"

"Paperwork."

They said it in unison, without consulting each other. Kanda turned to Allen in surprise. "Really, Moyashi? I thought you'd want to have a ceremony."

Allen snorted. "Maybe. But if we do that then Lenalee is going to make me wear a wedding dress. And there's no way in hell that that's going to happen."

Komui guided them through the paperwork; he had already prepared the documents because he knew that it was what Kanda would want and had suspected that the samurai would get his way. Once the pair signed the pages, it was official: Allen and Kanda were married. All that was left were the wedding rings, which, with Komui's robot-building expertise, had been a cinch for the Supervisor to make. The simple silver bands were placed on each other's ring fingers, and at Komui's prompting, they kissed once more to seal the deal.

Less than ten minutes later, they stood in the doorway of their new room. Or maybe 'suite' would be a better descriptor. What they were actually standing in was the doorway from the hall into their new private living room.

Allen's mouth hung open in awe as he wandered through the attached rooms: a bedroom for him and Kanda with its own private bathroom and a bed that looked absolutely huge, two smaller unfurnished bedrooms, and a second bathroom that opened into the living room. It was way too much space for the two, soon to be three, of them. "It's too big."

Komui laughed. "I know that, Allen. But the other rooms that were ready were too small. And you'll want the space once your family starts to grow."

Allen frowned down at his belly. He'd only been pregnant for a day and Komui was already making jokes about him having more kids.

Oblivious to the teen's inner turmoil, the Supervisor kept talking. "We'll get one of the smaller bedrooms furnished for the baby. In the meantime, you two can work on getting all your things from your old rooms moved in here. Ok?"

The newlyweds nodded and Komui left them alone.

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I collapsed on the couch. The maternity clothes I was wearing were so comfortable that it was making me uncomfortable. And the fact that they didn't hide my baby bump made me even more so. I'd been hiding that bulge for so long that it freaked me out to actually see my belly when I looked down.

And that's when my eyes landed on the bedroom that Kanda and I would be sharing for the rest of our lives. It was just that morning that he had joked about learning to sleep in the same bed, and now, a little over two hours later, we no longer had separate bedrooms. Suddenly the ring on my finger felt like it weighed a thousand pounds. I couldn't stop the tears from falling. "How did I get here?"

Kanda sat beside me and pulled my head onto his lap. He stroked my hair, but didn't say a word. "I should be worried about akuma and what the Earl is up to, not maternity clothes and wedding rings. How did I end up married and pregnant?"

I let out a sob as the baby kicked. "I'm an exorcist, not a housewife! But, god, I love our daughter so much it hurts. I'm already stressing about scaring off boys and having to teach her to fight. It wasn't all that long ago when I had real worries, like whether or not the Fourteenth would succeed at taking over my body."

"Moyashi..."

I didn't hear the rest of his sentence, I was crying too hard. But Kanda didn't try to make me listen, he just held me while I continued to vent. "And then there's you! How did I end up married to you? You're not even truly human. You're a soul placed in an artificial body. You have an entire life that you don't remember! How are you ok with all this?! With me?! Better yet: how am I ok with it?! I've known your past for years and yet I'm still as madly in love with you as I was back when we first started sleeping together! God, and it was just this time yesterday that I thought you were using me for sex, too. And now here we are: married."

Kanda growled at me when I paused for breath. "Please stop saying the word 'married' like that. It's making me want to jump you."

I blinked up at him, my frustrations completely forgotten. "Huh?"

He bent down and kissed my forehead. "I get that you're freaked out, Allen. You've had to take in a lot over the past twenty four hours. And I'm sure the baby hormones aren't making it any easier on you. But it's different for me. I've got you lying in my lap, carrying my baby, and wearing the ring you put on after vowing to spend the rest of your life with me. For the first time in ... as far back as I can remember, I feel whole."

'Whole'. That was a good word for how I felt about him. He was my other half, and now he was mine forever. We were one. That ring now felt like it was part of my hand.

"As for the other thing..." I blinked at him. There was another thing? I was definitely not listening to myself complain. "You are not useless. You may not be able to fight right now, but you are helping the war effort. After all, not just anyone can make a new accommodator."

Right. I wasn't sidelined; I was on the very important mission of creating a new exorcist. I sat up and kissed him. "Thank you, Yuu."

We kissed again and this time we didn't stop. Before I realized what was happening, I'd been carried to the bed and stripped of everything but my wedding ring. Kanda was naked as well, and he was kneeling over me and kissing my rounded stomach. It felt weird, but I wasn't about to tell him to stop. That's when I saw that glint in his eyes. "Dear god, it's true."

"Hmm?" He looked up at me without taking his lips off my belly.

"You really do have a pregnancy fetish."

He scowled fiercely at me; it was meant to be a denial, but it only confirmed everything. "Where the fuck did you get that idea, Moyashi?"

"Lenalee told us at breakfast this morning." I couldn't help smirking at him. "Apparently you had an awkward teenage phase."

Kanda's scowl deepened. He growled at me for a moment, but then he suddenly stopped. "'Us'?"

I blinked at him. "Uh, yeah. Lavi was there too."

He was off the bed in a heartbeat, but I caught his wrist before he could stalk away. "Come back to bed, Yuu. That can wait. Finish what you started."

Kanda froze, but he didn't come back. He just stood there staring at me, so I got up and wrapped my arms around his waist. I tried not to laugh at him, but it was too funny. "You're actually embarrassed by this, aren't you?"

He growled at me, but that just made me laugh more. "Well, you've got no reason to be. I don't care."

"Moyashi?"

I leaned in and kissed his neck. "So you like pregnant women. I certainly can't judge you for liking something weird. And as it turns out, it's not all that weird. I mean, it's not like any of us could have predicted that you'd get me pregnant, right?"

His body relaxed with my words, but I could tell that something was still bothering him. "Actually, it was probably a lie to say that I don't care. I think ... that I ... might ... like it a lot. If this means that you're going to find me attractive even when this pregnancy makes me feel fat and ugly, then-"

Kanda cut me off with a kiss. "You will always be beautiful to me, Moyashi."

With that, he allowed me to pull him back to the bed.