It was nearly an hour and a half later when Saitama was able to escort Mitsumi out in civilian clothes. They both decided to be cute and wear near-matching blue shirts and shorts, but he was wearing a zipper shirt to delight her. They both even opted to wear sandals for now. As they were going to be checking out Secret Skins monsters shortly, she had her fan belts on her with all of her fans ready to go at a moment's notice.

It was coming up on dusk now, but there was a good two hours before it hit. They were both relieved that the hotel was decorated, and Genos was working with Metal Knight to finalize the booking that was in progress. Tacki was already setting aside the repaired costumes, and she set aside another set of costumes with specialized snaps for quick needs.

"We will start letting people stay in the hotel as of next week. Several staff members from your original home in City X have come by. They are making lists of what is needed for daily cleaning, and they are getting familiar with the hotel rooms," Genos said. Saitama nodded at that.

"Is everyone back from the hotel?" Mitsumi asked.

"Yes. They have all returned and are and eagerly waiting to see what we need to do next," Genos nodded at her.

"Lady Mitsumi, I'll need to take apart the controlling fans for Wind Crane. I want to make you a master fan set, and I'll need to ensure there's extra sockets for teeth from other GOD monsters if we find them. Stable Rock was telling me that this is important. So you can mass control all of the fans if push comes to shove," Tacki said on inspecting the controlling set from Blue Ripple's fan set.

"Would it be easier to give you extra teeth? This way the controlling fans can stay for the primary needs?" Blue Ripple asked.

"Huh. Well…if you all don't mind? That could work. I may want to harvest extra teeth, though. Just in case. It's why I was thinking of taking apart the fans already made. I know we talked about it, but it was still up in the air on what to do," Tacki shrugged. "If you want to give me more teeth, then that's fine. Saitama will need to pull them."

"I am unsure if Wind Crane has teeth to spare," Tangled Vine wheezed out lightly. He was draped over Mitsumi's shoulders protectively.

"Get back here!" Zenchu was heard shouting out. Mitsumi blinked at the sight of a small child running over to them. She mused that it was more like darting than running. The child appeared to be a small boy covered in blue-black feathers with pale skin in various areas along his chest, arms and legs. Large, dark blue eyes peered up at her amidst locks of black hair tinged with blue when he stopped in front of her. He squeaked with protest when Zenchu shadow phased over to pluck him up. Then he quickly wrapped up the boy in a fluffy towel.

"Who…?" Mitsumi asked with a small smile of curiosity.

"Darter! I told you that you would meet her after you got dressed! You need to stop that!" Zenchu scolded him. Then he looked at Mitsumi and sighed. "One of my sons. We named him Darter for…obvious reasons."

"Come, my children. You are doing so well with your walking after hatching not long ago!" Wind Crane chuckled and led Starlight with three other small toddlers. Mitsumi gasped with delight at seeing her new siblings now. They all rushed to her to greet her and embrace her as part of their own.

"Wind Crane, your children are beautiful," Tangled Vine chuckled.

"Hurricane, come to me," Zenchu ordered lightly when another son of his got a little pushy. "Let your two sisters meet with Lady Mitsumi."

Hurricane blinked his bright blue eyes with flecks of black at his father and seemed to pout. His grey hair was tinged with blue-black highlights, and he had a complete mix of white and blue-black feathers all over his back, chest, arms and legs. Darter giggled and cuddled into his father with a sigh.

"Shadow Storm and Breeze, please meet with your oldest sister gently," Wind Crane instructed her daughters. Shadow Storm glanced up at her mother with her dark grey eyes with flashes of bright blue in them. Her hair appeared ultra-long already on ending near the middle of her back and dark grey in color. When she turned her head, her hair showed off tinges of darker blue underneath. Her body was covered with dark grey skin and ultra-white feathers with tinges of blue-black along the tips. These feathers lined her legs, arms and back neatly.

Breeze seemed to huff and took in the sights with her bright blue eyes. Her eyes fully matched her mother's eyes and even had a tinge of hidden wisdom with intense intellect in them. Her black hair tinged with blue framed her face neatly, and she studied her metallic green feathers along her arms, legs and back. She appeared far more slender than the others, but they all had on small, makeshift nightgowns for covering to ensure they were decent for greeting family. Except for Darter from how he ran out to meet Mitsumi first.

"When is that other egg going to hatch? The ice and water one?" Saitama asked and watched his monster dog trot over to start playing with the new children. Blue Ripple rumbled and glanced over at Stable Rock lumbering over to study each child. Then he looked up with a tilt of his head at Saitama to get a good head scratching. He swooned with complete delight as he always did at it.

"That one has a few more days. I shall be watching the nest and tending to my children. They may be fully grown in a week. We shall see," Wind Crane nodded. "Children, come now. They have business to tend to. We will see them later. Let us go."

"Oh, Wind Crane Clan Mother, Tacki said she may need more teeth from you. If it's possible. She wants to make a master set for all of the fans," Mitsumi said. Wind Crane paused and blinked at this. "It's either that, or we take the blades out from the current master set."

"We should leave a primary master set for the fans. As for making a true controlling set of fans for all…I think…I might be able to help with that…" she thought aloud. "She can remove my teeth as she did before. Is she here?"

"I am!" Tacki beamed and bounced over with a scraper. Kamikaze walked over to stand watch over her protectively. He chewed on the stick in his mouth and nodded. Wind Crane had her children stand back, and she hunkered down to become her monster form. She clucked softly and pecked at Zenchu's tail.

"Hey!" Zenchu growled and got the kids laughing at it. "What was that for?! I didn't deserve that!"

"You totally deserved whatever it was she did that for," Garou grinned from where he stood at the balcony with Lily. Then he died laughing at the middle finger retort. He coughed when Lily poked his gut and shook her head. Bright Bolt snorted from where he stood by Saitama and sent a small zap his way. "That was uncalled for!"

"Worth it!" Bright Bolt snickered. Zenchu laughed at it and turned to see his mate opening her beak for Tacki. The teeth formed for her, and she was able to pull out an extra five sets by loosening them from within the massive beak. She gave a thumbs up and ran to her blacksmith building with Kamikaze following her. Then Bright Bolt looked at Zenchu. "You'd better make an epic dinner!"

"Ah…damn it…" Zenchu sighed. "Yeah, yeah. I'll cook. As long as the kids are tended to."

"We can work with them," Blue Ripple snorted. "We need to see to a murderer now. Move the young ones out of here!"

"Right! Babe, you got them?" Zenchu asked when she spread her wings out. All five of them moved to stand and settle around her draconic feet. Then she folded her wings around them neatly. She bobbed her head to show they were safe. Starlight let her four siblings cuddle around her to show she was also ready to do what she could within Wind Crane's wings.

"Saitama…" Mitsumi winced and clung to him.

"Mitsumi? Is everything okay?" he asked and studied her.

"I…need you…again…" she cringed. "Why does it feel like…at ten minutes…but…I'm standing with you?!"

"What?!" he blinked and placed a hand on her belly to focus. :Stop it! Your mom and I have things to do! She is safe! She is with me! You are with me!:

:But…:

:No! You don't do this!:

:Out!:

:No! You don't come out!:

:WANT OUT!:

:Why?: Saitama asked.

:Ah…um…:

:Tell me why you want out.:

:Lonely…:

:You are not lonely, son. You have to grow. You are not ready to come out. You will not live if you come out. What can we do to show that you are okay?:

:Name me. Now.:

:Ah…okay.: Saitama sighed hard and looked at his wife. "He wants us to name him right now. Then he'll behave."

"I have a suggestion," Zenchu said with a small smile.

"What would that be?" Mitsumi smiled back.

"Takaki," he said lightly.

"Ah…huh…" Saitama blinked.

"I think Hirota would be better," Inichi said with a smile.

"Damn. That's good, too…" Saitama blinked again.

"Master, you can also try Taketa," Genos nodded.

"I think Takaki would be good. Our second son, should we have another son, I can see as Hirota," Mitsumi smiled. Saitama gave her a warm, approving smile and kissed her passionately. Then he pressed his hand against her belly. :Your name is Takaki from now on. Okay?:

:Takaki…? I…I like it!:

:Good. Now please do not let your mom need to be with me so soon, okay?:

:Play?:

:Ah…sure. After I help your mom with something. We will play. This is important work, okay? Just give me another ten minutes, Takaki.: Saitama sighed and felt Mitsumi seem to tremble with relief. "I have to play with him after I kill the monster. So, bring it out."

"Sure…" Stable Rock snickered darkly and focused. A ball of earth rose up from the ground before crumbling off the block of ice. Cold Snap focused to remove the ice from the yacht. Blue Ripple kept it levitated, and Inichi focused to bring the faulty fake man before them. The yacht was moved into the lake for now to keep it stable. While all of this was happening, Inichi was gleaning every thought that was given to gain answers on what transpired before.

"He still looks clueless," Tangled Vine snickered and jumped off Mitsumi's shoulders for now.

"What…what's going on…?!" the fake man gaped.

"You murdered my mother. Miu Takashi!" Mitsumi hissed out. The fake man's jaw dropped even more at the sight of eleven Wind Crane Clan fans flying out from the belt strands to hover over her. Then all eleven of Blue Ripple's fans flew out to join them. All of them separated out into their sets of three counterparts. Then the fans split into their crescent pairs. Now a hundred and thirty-two crescents all pointed blades and spikes at the fake man to show they were ready without mercy.

"She wasn't murdered!" the fake man argued.

"She was. On the night you tricked her into checking into an establishment for 'funding'. You held her down! She changed from that crappy flea in her! She abandoned her newborn daughter after that!" Saitama growled and pointed at the fake man. "She came to us in a dream. She told us everything! And she said to kill you without a single shred of mercy! No excuses! The same way you killed her without a second thought!"

"Ah…but…it was part of the deal! To help us! I mean…" the fake man gaped when the fans suddenly swooped down to fully shred off clothing and skin in a whirlwind of death and vengeance. It almost resembled a blender with how the fake man's skin and clothing were shredded off and diced up. Inichi caught the flea neatly and put it in Genos's waiting jar.

"No. Mercy. Mitsumi! On my back!" Saitama ordered. Now he paused at how all of the fans began to charge up in a circular pattern over them to charge. "Oh. I guess they have other plans?"

"ALL OF YOU WILL DIE!"the newly formed monster resembling an elephant mixed with some form of a lobster snarled out. "HATASHI WILL BE INFORMED OF THIS!"

"Hatashi was my cousin. He's dead now, asshole!" Mitsumi spat out. Zenchu blinked at her. Even Garou was a touch surprised.

"Hey! No bad language. Not from you. Let's kill it," Saitama said.

"But…Saitamaaa!" she pouted.

"Nope! You are my beautiful, innocent wife. And the last Wind Crane Clan assassin. No mercy from me or from you. But no bad language from you. Let the monster family do the swearing for us," Saitama nodded. Then he cut his gaze right to the monster before them. "Fans are ready, Mitsumi?"

"More than ready…" she growled. He nodded and had her stand behind him. The monster roared and charged at them.

"Master, aim up and away from the city! We are at ground level!" Genos warned. Saitama nodded and did just that. The fans released the dark red blast of power when he punched up to completely annihilate the monster.

"Wow…" Scout said from where he watched with Sparker in the air.

"That would make a beautiful light source!" Isobe said with awestruck wonder. "That color is just…amazing!"

"I don't think it can be harnessed," Zip said to him. "And I definitely wouldn't want to be anywhere near it!"

"Oh. I think you're right about that. But that shade of red is so vibrant! I think I can make a lampshade like that…" Isobe mused and moved into his warehouse. He was already planning to enlist Tacki's help.

"What's next on the list? We have to interrogate other Secret Skins?" Saitama asked. He let Mitsumi cling to him, and he gestured for the push cart with a fist moving something back and forth horizontally. Then he pointed at the ground to show he needed it right then and there.

"Got it, Dad," Cold Snap said and let it appear for him. The top was down already, and he lay back in the push cart with his wife. Now he settled to gently play with Takaki to keep his son appeased.

"Is Fumio okay?" Mitsumi asked.

"Yep! He's taking a small nap in his room here. Black Sperm is guarding over him, too. You wanted to go back the hotel tonight?" Cold Snap asked and hopped into the cart to settle with them.

"It would be nice to do that," Saitama nodded. "Hmm. I'm gonna suggest something. Daiki and Himiko should check out the 9th floor and see if it's livable for guests. As they live in a luxury home, they would know best on how things should work. What do you think, Mitsumi?"

"We can do that! And King can test his gaming platform, too," Mitsumi nodded. "As for who to check next, there was a monster that was trapped by Stable Rock. We should check on that and take care of it."

"I wonder if a monster can become a Secret Skins. Or if it's only humans that can do it," Garou thought aloud after walking over to them.

"It would depend on if the monster has suitable skin, you would think. It would be an interesting test, but we'd have to try it on a monster that will not change," Inichi pointed out. Stable Rock was already bringing out the trapped monster, and the rock crumbled away to reveal a hairless weasel-like monster with large fangs. It was coiled around itself, and it could have easily been three stories tall at full height. It blinked red eyes at them and snarled. Then it squealed when Blue Ripple levitated it and flailed four sets of clawed arms and legs helplessly.

"Is it a true monster?" Mitsumi frowned.

"It is," Inichi sighed. As though to confirm it, a set of Blue Ripple's fans flew over with a set of Wind Crane's fans to swirl around its muzzle. It tried to snap at them and disregarded the scent.

"Hmm…" Tangled Vine mused. Now he focused on the monster to get it to pause. It blinked and looked right at him with a form of silent wonder. "I know you. I warned you on what may happen if you continued down this path."

"Tangled Vine?" Mitsumi asked and watched him jump into the push cart with them. He settled right next to her side protectively.

"You could say that this one is an old rival from one of my children long ago. I told it to leave my kin alone. It has decided to ignore my warning in full and attack out of spite after so many years. Now it pays the price," Tangled Vine snorted.

"And how do we destroy it?" Bang asked from where he stood with Kamikaze nearby. "What would be the easiest way?"

"It has no true hide. I would say deep freeze and lightning bolt," Tangled Vine grinned with full knowing. Now the monster squealed and struggled against Blue Ripple's glowing lock of levitation. Bright Bolt was already charging up, and the monster began to panic. Then it seems to whine in such a way that Mitsumi looked at it with intense concern.

"Wait," Mitsumi said softly. "Can you bring its face to me?"

"Mitsumi…" Saitama warned. She smiled softly at him, pressed a kiss to his mouth and gestured to see the monster's face up close. It seethed at her, but then it paused at the soft touch she did to the top of its pinkish-white nose. Now it blinked and chittered to get her giggling softly.

"Can you speak?" she asked lightly. It tilted her head at her and gave a small, chittering chirp.

"Huh. If all you had to do was touch its nose to get it to behave…that's interesting," Tangled Vine mused and twitched his tail.

"Is it a GOD monster?" Saitama asked.

"No. Just a strong monster. An annoyance most of the time," Tangled Vine muttered. Bright Bolt grunted, grew larger and pushed his muzzle into Saitama's hand for chin scratches. The monster saw this and Blue Ripple let it experience a small chin scratching from Saitama.

"Huh. Your skin feels like sandpaper. Kinda. From the lack of fur," Saitama mused. "So…are you good now? Or do I have to punch you and kill you? Just…squeak once if you're good now."

It squeaked to show it fully understood. Blue Ripple was highly amused at this and set the monster down onto the ground. Wind Crane rose up her wings and looked at Zenchu to get the children into the nest. Then she turned to look at the monster and squawk at it with a form of motherly protection over her brood. It hunkered down to show a bit of submission. Overgrown Rover trotted over to huff and yap at it to show it was also protective.

The monster squeaked back to converse a bit, and Cold Snap blinked at what he was hearing. "Dad, it wants to be your pet."

"What?!" Saitama asked with surprise.

"I wonder if the scent of the fans did do something," Mitsumi chuckled.

"Maybe. Anyways, we need a name to call you," Saitama said. Overgrown Rover shrunk small and jumped into the push cart to snuggle happily into Saitama. Then it licked his cheek to get him scowling softly. The weasel-like monster shrunk down to the current size of Overgrown Rover and easily leapt into the push cart. It carefully shuffled over on all eight limbs and shyly snuggled into Saitama's outstretched palm. It fully stretched out its now two foot long body against his side and sighed with contentment at the feeling of back scratches.

"It was known as Scritch from the sound it can make," Tangled Vine wheezed out. "It can be what you call a dragon ranking from how it can easily level buildings with its bulk alone."

"As it was proven," Rendor said when he walked over in his human form. Tatsumaki was on his shoulder with mild levitation to support herself. "We took out that other monster, but this one was pretty tough. I was about to show up, but then Stable Rock took care of it. I thought it was earth, though? Like another monster of earth?"

"It…burrows…" Stable Rock grunted.

"Oh! That would explain it. So…it could tunnel under buildings? That can be pretty scary if it was able to level them that way, too," Rendor frowned.

"Effective, though," Inichi chuckled. Fubuki nodded and leaned into him.

"Is that monster a guy?" Garou asked when he walked over with Lily.

"Not really. It is like the dog here. Just a monster with no other fashion," Tangled Vine chuckled. Scritch's stubby ears suddenly perked up at a sound, and it turned to see Dr. Kuseno walking over quickly with Genos behind him.

"I need to examine the growing child," the doctor said.

"His name is Takaki. We need to start calling him that. I don't want him to think he needs to come out. He's been saying that to me," Saitama said and moved a bit. Dr. Kuseno paused at this news.

"Ah. Very well," he agreed and took out a stethoscope. He gently exposed Mitsumi's belly and paused at how it was already showing obvious signs of pregnancy. "This is alarming."

"I informed you of the same," Genos nodded. Dr. Kuseno gently placed the bell over her womb. Then he found himself further surprised at the kick that was given to knock it off! Mitsumi blushed softly at his look of disbelief.

"He probably thinks you're playing with him. I can tap on her belly and he responds with a kick. It's…yeah…" Saitama sighed hard. "Just…gotta keep him happy. As much as we can."

"That's…unheard of…" Dr. Kuseno admitted. Saitama shrugged to show he had no idea. "Well, he's clearly at a month and a half along now. I honestly think that he may not even be born at four months. It may be three."

"What?!" Mitsumi gaped.

"Look at the growth," Dr. Kuseno said gently. "He is growing nearly a full week in a day at this rate. Even four days in one day. I would advise absolutely no missions until he is born. We don't know what will happen if you come under complete stress. Saitama, you told me that, ah, Takaki wants to come out?"

"He told me he felt lonely. It's like…mental talk. Like Inichi. I think it's from my power in her. So, he agreed to be calm if we gave him a name and I play with him. That's what I'm doing," he explained. "Also, if he really wants my attention, he'll make Mitsumi's eyes glow red. Like how I can do with me. It's, eh…not very good. So, I'm doing all I can to keep the peace."

"Hmm…" Dr. Kuseno frowned. "I could give her something to help slow the growth a bit…"

"No," Saitama said quickly. "I don't want anything to hurt him. We just have to ride this out and see what happens. My power does weird and stupid things. If he's born in three months, then fine. He'll be here sooner than later. Just no drugs or stupid things that could affect my wife if it doesn't do anything to my son. Just keep watch over her like this as you've been doing."

"Oh! Well, if you say so. The offer is there. I have some tests I'm running for Genos currently, but if Mitsumi can stop by at some point to get some readings done it would be appreciated," he said calmly. Saitama nodded at this and watched the doctor head off to document the new findings.

"Master, you do not wish to slow Takaki's growth?" Genos frowned.

"I don't. Because of two reasons," Saitama said carefully. "I sort of…want him to be born before our meeting with the Secret Skins event. If Mitsumi is under stress, it can really hurt her. If he's born after the event, then fine. But if these monsters are incredibly intelligent, they may see this as a weakness to me. Because, well, technically it could be. I won't go into a situation if Mitsumi is in danger with me as the cause. I would be ignoring everything around me until I knew she was safe and at my side at all times. I'd be fighting blind and not caring who got in the way. Think about it."

"Ah!" Genos gaped at this.

"Second reason is this. I have absolutely no clue what my power in her will do to unknown drugs in her body. It may have a reverse effect on her. Maybe not do anything at all. Or…there was one other thing that did worry me. It would irritate my son to a point that he would scream that he wanted out again and do something drastic to force it to happen," Saitama said very seriously now.

"I see…" Genos frowned at all of this. Even the others there could only frown at each other with this reasoning.

"I know. We all want my son healthy. We all want Mitsumi safe. But think about it. If we start to poke and prod at things we don't know about…" Saitama said with a grimace and let Mitsumi snuggle into him. "I get it. It's 'science'. But not when it involves my wife and growing son. I won't put up with that crap."

"I fully understand, Master Saitama. You are in a completely protective stand point. I would also be the same with Kamiko. Dr. Kuseno…he kept parts of my original self to see if a child could happen. I would not want anything to happen to her if such attempts were successful. I honor and acknowledge your decision," Genos nodded and bowed to him.

"Huh. Okay. Well, we need to build a nursery the moment we can if my son is going to be here sooner than later. Oh. Didn't we have those reporters to interview? Or something like that?" Saitama thought aloud. "If we do, we should get them out of the way while we still have some daylight."

"How many of them are there?" Mitsumi asked. "And one of them was a Secret Skins, too, right?"

"We have two that are trapped. Both are Secret Skins. One is a reporter. The other is a benefactor that we caught from the training room. We wanted to experiment with the benefactor with a specialized flea that was touched to see if we can gain a new GOD monster egg," Genos said on what was stated before. "I am unsure if you wanted them both to be tested on. Or to see if one can be touched by other GOD monsters with us."

"We should see if one can be lured out of their skin, too. To see if a tricked transmitter can use it to become human again," Garou pointed out. "It was talked about before. That needs to be tested to see if it's true."

"We should take advantage of that. I shall set up the chamber," Metal Knight said from his hovering robot and moved off quickly.

"We should have your uncle here. If Orotsu can make something for us to eat, then it will help. Should we have the others here, too? Your brother and sister?" Saitama asked and nuzzled Mitsumi gently before pressing a kiss on her forehead. "They can also help detect lies."

"Yeah. And Zombieman," she smiled. Then she shivered hard.

"Mitsumi?!" he gaped and saw her pupils start to glow. Then she tugged on his zipper with a small, enticing growl. "Crap. I said to Takashi ten more minutes. That was ten minutes ago. Push cart needs to be sealed! Now!"

"There is a button here, Master!" Genos said and pointed it out along the side by him. This was used, and Cold Snap was quick to leave the cart with the pets. Inichi raised a brow and looked at the others.

"Let's focus on getting the ones we need here. Orotsu will be here shortly with Anno. The restaurant is being closed up now. Anno is a bit concerned that there may need to be a night crew available for cooking, but Orotsu can easily handle that with our help. We will make arrangements as we need to," Blue Ripple said in a calm manner.

"Hmm. Sweet Mask would like to witness this. As well as the board members due to this being a prior benefactor of the Hero Association," Inichi mused. "Ah. Mr. Saitama has grudgingly agreed to allow it. I shall fetch them. I shall also bring Kiyoshi here so he can officially 'fire' the reporter that is a Secret Skins. As well as Daiki, Himiko and Zombieman."

"Yes…" Stable Rock snickered. Tangled Vine was already focusing on the pit that was holding the one reporter left over. The others were already interrogated at the Hero Association before, and it was toyed with the idea to run the fake man around the track. Bright Bolt was already planning to zap the fake man if there were any complaints.

The prior benefactor would be strapped to the interrogation chair to be asked questions by the board members. Everyone was eager to see what could be gleaned at last with a form of excitement. And they all knew that Saitama would deal the killing blow to either of them if push came to shove. His protective rage would show no mercy all over again to prove that point.

*Author's Note - It happened! Over two thousand pages! 841k words according to my Word Doc! I'm still unsure how this story is going to pan out, but I still have soooo much planned! Thank you all for continuing to read, and feel free to DM me with any ideas or suggestions.*

"Who wants to see a dream where Daiki gets slapped by his dad in a dream?!" Saitama asked and raises his hand. "I do! Oh! How about I slap Zenchu again?!"

*Seriously?! Stop it! ~grabs the broom to shoo him off again~ Sorry about that! On to the next chapter and maybe...another thousand pages? Who knows!*