Note: This chapter contains mild sexual content.
-Faith, Love, and Forgiveness - Chapter Forty-seven: Outrage-
Kamakura District Courthouse - Two weeks later
When Lucy got the phone call from the Prosecutor part-way through the seventh month of her pregnancy, she at first thought she was getting pranked.
"Kaeda, you're not going to believe this, but that Dr. Einsetz filed a motion to have you taken into custody by the CBRA. I've got to go to a hearing about it tomorrow morning." Moriyama had told her.
Unfortunately, it was no joke.
Now, the pink-haired girl, her family, and the Prosecutor were waiting in the hallway outside of the Judge's chambers.
"I can't believe that motherfucking, narcissistic, arrogant, shit-headed little son of a bitch actually pulled this!" Moriyama ranted. The police and courthouse employees had never seen the Prosecutor so utterly enraged before, and almost felt sorry for whoever had managed to piss her off so badly.
Lucy, wearing a light blue maternity dress that ended half-way between her knees and ankles, was every bit as furious as the Prosecutor, but doing a better job controlling it.
"There's no chance of this actually succeeding, right?" Kouta asked. He normally wouldn't have even asked, but Dr. Einsetz, waiting further down the hall, had arrived with three attorneys, and it was starting to worry him.
"Not unless the Judge decides to commit career suicide." she answered. Coming over to Lucy, the Prosecutor leaned in and whispered, "No matter what happens, stay calm. I promise I will get you out of this, but you can't get emotional in there, ok?"
Lucy nodded her head and sat down next to Kouta to wait.
When they were finally called in, only Lucy and Kouta were permitted entry. Everyone else was forced to wait outside.
Dr. Einsetz did his song and dance about Lucy being the first pregnant Diclonius in history, and how much they could learn if she'd just cooperate and voluntarily submit to CBRA custody.
"Sipelits are always born sterile. This young lady is the only "pure" and fertile Diclonius to ever exist. How did she get pregnant? What is the difference between her and all other members of her species? Will her unborn baby be pure too? Such a phenomenon requires further study."
One of the lawyers argued that under the currently existing Diclonii laws, Lucy could and should be ordered to surrender to the Center until six months after the child is born.
"As Dr. Einsetz said, this is a once-in-history event that will probably never happen again. The law says Diclonii can be remanded into custody if doing so serves a compelling governmental interest, and we be believe it does."
"UNDOCUMENTED Diclonii can be taken into custody. She's not undocumented, therefore, you have no standing."
"Does she have an official identity?" the Judge asked the lawyers.
"She does, yes. However, given the rarity of the circumstances, we feel that shouldn't be considered grounds to reject our motion."
The Judge slowly nodded his head. "So... you want me to let you take a pregnant adult away from her home, family, and husband so you can subject her to experimentation in the name of furthering our understanding of her species?"
"Not experimentation, Your Honor, research."
"What exactly does this "research" consist of?" the Prosecutor asked.
"We'd provide her with the finest Obstetrical and Gynecological care possible, for starters. Naturally, we'd need to secure tissue samples from her cervix, uterus, vagina, and ovaries. We'd also require tissue samples from the fetus, umbilical cord, and placenta. There'd be CAT scans and MRI's, obviously, as well as bi-weekly blood draws. Once the baby has been born, and she's been given time to recover, we would like to attempt artificial impregnation using her eggs and donor sperm."
The Prosecutor looked from the attorneys, to Lucy, to the Judge, and back to the attorneys.
"You want to get her PREGNANT with "donor sperm"?! Have you lost your minds?!"
"Don't worry..." Einsetz said. "If a pregnancy does occur, we'll abort it."
The Prosecutor couldn't believe what she was hearing, and was having an extremely difficult time not exploding with rage and physically attacking the Doctor and his lawyers herself.
Looking at his wife, Kouta watched as a silent tear fell from her closed eyes, and immediately reached up and wiped it away. He thought at first she was sad, or possibly even scared, but what it really was was rage...
Cold, murderous, merciless rage.
At that moment, out in the hallway, Nana gasped in shock and collapsed to the floor, clutching her head as her link with Lucy suddenly turned ice-cold and overwhelmed her without warning.
"Nana?! Are you alright?!" Yuka asked.
"Something bad just happened to Lucy!" she answered.
"What are you talking about?" Mayu asked. Yuka cracked the door to the Judge's chambers just enough to see if Lucy was ok. When she saw the Diclonius sitting beside her husband like nothing was wrong, she quietly shut the door.
For a couple of seconds, the purple-haired girl could once again sense the older Diclonius, and instantly wished she hadn't.
"She's not hurt or anything like that, but I can tell something's definitely wrong. Her Diclonius presence feels so... cold. There's also fear, and an incredible, unbelievably strong feeling of rage."
"Rage?" Yuka asked.
"Cold, sadistic, unforgiving rage..." Nana said. "Whatever just happened must of been really, REALLY bad!"
Back in chambers, the lawyers finished describing the "research" they were wanting to put the pregnant Diclonius through.
"I see..." the Judge said before turning his attention to Lucy. "Mrs. Kurosawa, would you like to participate in Dr. Einsetz's research?"
"Absolutely not!" Lucy answered instantly. "I don't want anything to do with him, the CBRA, OR his research!"
The Judge nodded and turned to Dr. Einsetz and his attorneys.
"Motion denied."
"WHAT?!"
Kouta took his wife's hand, giving her a comforting smile as the lawyers fruitlessly argued in an attempt to change the Judge's mind.
"I cannot believe you jackasses actually wanted me to put this young lady through something so utterly repulsive! I have never in my twenty-three years as a judge heard anything even remotely as disgusting as this! The fact that you would even consider trying to force her to cooperate with this makes me sick!"
"You Honor, mankind will never have another chance like this! The CBRA urges you to reconsider!"
"I urge YOU to get the hell out of my chambers! Your motion is denied... PERIOD... end of discussion!"
Turning back to the pink-haired girl, he asked if there was anything she wanted to say for the record.
Lucy stood up and turned to Dr. Einsetz.
"Leave me and my family alone. I'm not participating in ANYTHING, and no amount of money or pressure is going to change my mind. Stop wasting your time, find something else to study, and do NOT contact me again."
As soon as Lucy sat down, the Prosecutor stood up.
"Yes, Prosecutor Moriyama?" the Judge asked. "Is there something else?"
"Actually, there is. Your Honor, the Prosecution now requests a Protective Order barring Dr. Einsetz from coming within two-hundred meters of Mrs. Kurosawa, her home, or her place of employment, and from making any attempt to contact her through phone, e-mail, social media, written letters, delivered message, or any other form of communication."
"So ordered. Dr. Einsetz, let me make this easy for you. If you violate this court's order, you will be immediately arrested and go to jail. She's made her choice extremely clear, I highly advise leaving her alone."
Rather than heed his advice, they decided to double down on their stupidity.
"Your Honor, our legal team is going to appeal your denial." one of the lawyers announced. "Since you've made it clear your court doesn't care about such a momentous opportunity, we think the appellate Judges should review your ruling."
"The moment they read the transcript describing what you're trying to do to Mrs. Kurosawa, do you honestly think they're going to give a damn about your appeal? File it if you want, but I guarantee you it's going to be upheld."
With that, the Judge bid them a good day and instructed the Doctor and his attorneys to stay put until Lucy, Kouta, and Moriyama had left his chambers.
"Come on..." Kouta smiled proudly. "Let's go home."
The couple followed the Prosecutor out into the hallway to rejoin the others. Yuka hurried over to the couple with a nervous expression on her face.
"Well?"
"Motion denied... of course." Moriyama answered. "Honestly, I can't believe they even tried this in the first place, but I guess some people just don't know when to quit."
"What did they want with Lucy?" Nana asked.
Thankfully, Kouta recorded the entire hearing. The more the rest of Lucy's family heard, the more pissed off they became.
"What the hell is WRONG with them?!" Yuka shouted. "This is sick!"
The Prosecutor sighed and shook her head. "You know, I used to wonder why Kaeda was so hostile and mistrusting towards humans, but now I understand completely."
"Me too..." said Yuka. "It's completely disgusting that they would want to do something like this in the first place, but it's even worse that they'd even consider trying to use the courts to do it."
After a few moments, the Prosecutor asked if everyone was ready to go. Before they could answer, Lucy gasped and clutched her stomach.
"Lucy?! Lucy, are you ok?!" Nana asked frantically.
"Oh God, I think something's wrong with my baby!" Lucy panicked.
"Calm down, Kaeda." the Prosecutor replied. "How far along did you say she was?"
"Just over seven months." Yuka replied.
Moriyama very gently placed a hand on Lucy's stomach and waited. A few seconds later, she started laughing.
"Your baby's fine, Kaeda. She's just kicking."
"How do you know that?" Yuka asked in amazement.
"I worked as a nurse's aide while going through law school." the Prosecutor smiled. "Trust me, she's not the first expectant mother I've had to calm down the first time they felt their baby move."
As if on cue, her unborn child did it again. A bright smile crossed her face as she took Kouta's hand and placed it on her belly. After a few moments, he felt a gentle, but distinct "thump" as his unborn daughter moved inside of Lucy's womb.
One by one, the other residents of Kaeda House placed a hand on Lucy's pregnant belly and waited patiently until they felt the child move inside of her.
"That's incredible..." Nana smiled. "I can't help but feel a little jealous."
"Mrs. Kurosawa!"
Unbelievably, Einsetz's attorneys were making their way over to the group. Nana, Kouta, and the Prosecutor immediately put themselves between them and the pregnant Diclonius, while Mayu and Yuka moved her back a few steps.
"Dr. Einsetz would like to urge you to reconsider your refusal."
"Tell him I said there's nothing to reconsider. I'm not interested in being a guinea pig for humans to study and experiment on. I've had quite enough of that for one lifetime. You will never change my mind, so don't bother."
"What if we provide a higher degree of financial support to your family?" a different lawyer asked.
Nana visibly materialized her vectors and gave the lawyers a glare that would've impressed even Mariko.
"What if I kill all three of you right here, right now?" she threatened.
The attorneys looked at each other, then back to Nana.
"We'll... be in touch." one of them said before quickly disappearing down the hall.
"You've been practicing." Lucy noted.
Nana giggled as her vectors vanished and retracted.
"Maybe a little."
Kaeda House - Later that night
"God, this feels amazing..."
"What if I do... this?"
"Oh... that feels even better!"
"Hey, I want one too!"
"Fine, but wait your turn."
Lucy giggled and adjusted her throw pillow. Kouta rubbing her feet was a pleasure that, while not as good as sex, was definitely a close second. He never complained about it, especially if she had been doing a lot of walking, but she tried not to ask too often regardless. As soon as he was finished, Lucy moved and Yuka took her spot on the couch.
"When do I get a turn?" Nana teased.
"You don't. Your feet aren't real." he retorted.
"Kouta, you're such a party pooper..."
Mayu, Yuka, and Lucy giggled playfully at her reaction.
"I'll massage your head if you want... as long as you don't make any of those creepy-ass cat noises again." he offered.
Everyone started laughing, Nana included. "Deal."
Yuka closed her eyes and smiled, asking Nana if she had any more of that cherry blossom lotion. She went to get it, and upon returning tossed it to Kouta and sat back down next to Mayu on the sofa.
"Hey, Kouta? I just realized I never thanked you for coming into chambers with me. It really, REALLY helped." Lucy said.
"How did that Judge react to all that crap?" Mayu asked.
"He was ROYALLY pissed off. Moriyama took it even worse than he did, especially that part about trying to get Kaeda pregnant again." Kouta answered as he applied lotion to his cousin's feet.
"To tell you the truth, I just about lost it when I heard that." Lucy admitted.
"Yeah, I noticed." he replied. "To be honest, I was beginning to get worried about that. For a few minutes there, I SERIOUSLY thought you were actually going to hurt them, or worse..."
"If Lucy had killed all four of them, would you have been mad at her?" Nana asked him.
"Yes, I would have." Kouta replied.
"Because she broke her promise?" Yuka inquired.
"No, because that carpet looked expensive." he replied.
Lucy blushed as she smiled at him.
"Thank you."
"They were basically trying to RAPE her... then force her to have an abortion if it had actually worked. After hearing that, I stopped caring what she did to them." Kouta said as he finished rubbing lotion on Yuka's feet.
"I don't blame you. I've watched that whole video six times and STILL can't believe they even filed the motion." his cousin chimed in.
Suddenly, there was a knocking sound coming from the front door. As Nana went to answer it, Lucy and Kouta exchanged puzzled looks. They had ordered pizza, but it was way too soon for it to arrive.
Nana returned a few moments later with, surprisingly, Mr. Saito.
"I hope I'm not interrupting. When I heard what happened, I decided to come check on Miss Kaeda."
Seeing their confusion, he explained that he had received an extremely disturbing call from Prosecutor Moriyama regarding the incident.
"I'm going to be honest, some of her claims were... a bit shocking, to say the least. According to her, one of the Institute's former scientists attempted to pressure Miss Kaeda into coming to his research laboratory. When she refused, they tried to obtain a court order requiring her to submit to their research." he said. "To be blunt, that sounds a bit... exaggerated."
"She's not exaggerating, they actually did that." Yuka answered.
"Kouta recorded the whole thing." Lucy chimed in. "Would you like to see it?"
"If you don't mind." he responded as he sat down.
Kouta opened the video and handed his smartphone over.
Like the other Kaeda House residents, the more he watched, the angrier he became. When it was over, he had a very, VERY pissed off expression on his face.
"That's outrageous!" he said indignantly. "To think someone would actually have the gall to tell a married, pregnant woman they want to lock her up, experiment on her, then try to get her pregnant against her will as soon as she's given birth! In front of her husband, no less!"
"Isn't CBRA a private company? How the hell could THEY get custody?" Nana asked.
"I was wondering that too." Yuka said.
"Under the Diclonii laws, undocumented Diclonii can be taken into custody by a Government facility, or an "authorized entity", which the Center happens to be. It doesn't matter though, Diclonii who've gone through Cohabitation are exempt, and cannot be forced into custody."
"They were probably hoping the Judge forgot about that little detail." Kouta said.
"I can't believe they ever thought the court would order something so... absurd!" Mr. Saito said in disbelief. "How could any attorney actually think this had any chance at all of being granted?"
"I'd still like to know how they knew where Kaeda was in the first place." Yuka added. Soon after, Mr. Saito looked at his watch and stood up to bid them goodnight.
"I'll give Moriyama a call and let her know all's well here."
"Kouta, I'll be right back. I'm going to walk Mr. Saito out." Lucy said as she got up.
"Miss Kaeda, you really don't-"
"Don't bother... you know Lucy's stubborn as hell." Nana grinned as she took a seat next to Kouta.
"Fine..." he sighed.
As the two walked to the front door, Saito apologized to the pink-haired girl for the atrocious situation she had been put in.
"I double checked with Prosecutor Moriyama, and she said there was no chance whatsoever of any appeal to the Judges ruling actually succeeding. They would have to change the law to have any standing in court, and I don't see that happening anytime soon."
"What do you think I should do if they refuse to give up?" Lucy asked as they walked outside.
Mr. Saito stayed silent for several seconds before answering.
"I can't believe I'm even saying this, but if you do everything legally possible and they STILL won't stop... I'd say do what you must to protect your family." he replied. "I'm not encouraging you to kill, but I AM encouraging you to fight for the ones you love."
Lucy smiled and nodded her head. "Thank you..."
"You're very welcome, Miss Kaeda." he smiled back. "How's the pregnancy coming along?"
"I think I've got about two months to go." the Diclonius replied. "I'm excited, but I'm scared to death at the same time."
"Do you regret getting pregnant?"
Lucy smiled and shook her head. "Absolutely not. Aside from marrying Kouta, having a baby with him was the best decision I ever made. I just hope I can be as good a mother as she deserves."
"I think you will." he smiled. "You haven't failed at anything yet, I don't imagine motherhood is going to be any different."
After saying goodnight, Lucy went back inside and rejoined her family. When she walked back into the living room, Nana was sitting with her back to Kouta, smiling as Kouta massaged her head.
"Godddd, this feels sooooo good." Nana moaned.
"I thought I said no creepy noises?"
"You said no creepy CAT noises!"
Lucy giggled as she watched. Kouta actually would have probably made an excellent masseur if he'd wanted to.
"This is so unfair..." Nana complained. "Why is Kouta so talented at this, and Kenji so bad at it?"
Kouta grinned and playfully began scratching behind her horns. After a few moments, Yuka, Lucy, and Mayu burst into a fit of laughter.
"Ok Kouta, that's enough! Nana's starting to drool!" Yuka laughed.
"She's WHAT?!"
"MmmmmmmMMMEEEeeerrrRRRRroooOOOWWWWWowwww!" Nana purred, drooling all over herself as Kouta frantically tried kicking her off the couch before she slobbered all over him, too.
By the time Lucy stopped laughing, it hurt to even breathe.
Yuri's Bakery - The next afternoon
At work the next day, the pink-haired girl was in the middle of loading the oven when Yuri brought her the cordless phone and informed her she had a call. Giving the owner a strange look, she took the phone while Yuri switched places and continued loading the oven.
"This is Kaeda, can I help you?"
"Good afternoon, Mrs. Kurosawa. My name is Iwai Tokugawa, we met yesterday at the motion hearing."
"How did you get this number?" Lucy asked. Yuri, a bit alarmed at the unusually hostile tone of voice Lucy was speaking in, put the oven aside for the moment, and signaled for her to turn on speakerphone.
"It was listed on the Order of Protection Moriyama filed against Dr. Einsetz."
"What do you want?"
"I was hoping you'd changed your mind. Mrs. Kurosawa, you're an extremely unique young lady. We could learn so much about the Diclonius race if you'd just cooperate with us."
"I don't want to cooperate, I want to be left alone."
"We're trying to make this world a better place for humans AND Diclonii! Why are you so opposed to helping us?"
"You tried to have a Judge take me away from my family, home, and job against my will so you could "research" me! Why do you THINK I'm opposed to it?!" Lucy angrily shouted.
"What would it take to change your mind?"
"You CAN'T change my mind. No matter what you offer, the answer is still no. Leave my family and I alone."
With that, Lucy hung up and gave Yuri the phone back. The bakery owner had seen the video earlier that day, and took it about as well as everyone else had. Which is to say, not very well at all.
"Are you alright, hun?"
"I'm fine, but thank you anyway..." the Diclonius Queen sighed as she got back to work. Yuri shook her head sadly as she watched. Her pregnant employee had been through so much already, first with the uncaring Midwife, then with the obsessed Ex-Officer Mitsuo, and then with those bigoted students who tried to have her removed from campus simply for being a Diclonius.
Now, she had to contend with a bunch of scientists and their lawyers trying to force her away from her home and family. Just like everyone else, Yuri was starting to understand why the poor girl had such a hostile attitude toward humans.
Two hours later
When the phone started ringing again, the bakery owner called for Lucy to let her answer it. As the pink-haired girl helped a couple pick out a cake for their pregnant daughter's "baby shower" (whatever the hell that was), Yuri picked up the phone and was greeted by the same voice she'd heard earlier.
"Hi, my name is Iwai Tokugawa, and I'm an attorney for Doctor Eins-"
"I know who are." Yuri interrupted. "I thought I heard Kaeda tell you to stop bothering her?"
"You probably did, yes, but since you're her employer, we wanted to talk to you in hopes of clearing up any misunderstandings about what our client is actually wanting from Mrs. Kurosawa."
"I saw the video of the hearing. I think I have a pretty good understanding of what he wants without your help."
Silence, then... "Video?"
"Of the motion hearing. You know... the one where your client said he wanted to attempt artificial impregnation after the baby was born, and then abort any resulting pregnancy? That video." Yuri answered.
"That's... it's just... it's a misunderstanding. When Dr. Einsetz said "abort any resulting pregnancies", he didn't mean an actual, vaginally-accessed abortion. He was talking about giving her an injection that will kill the fetus without any harm to herself."
"Well, I guess that makes everything all better, huh? Look... do me and you both a favor, and don't call here again." Yuri said before she also hung up on him, and immediately went to inform Lucy what had just happened. Noticing she was still with customers, Yuri shelved the idea for the moment and hung back to watch.
"If we do a sheet cake, could you do two layers?"
Lucy nodded, so the couple decided to go with a double-layer sheet vanilla cake with traditional white frosting.
As she was paying, the man asked, "Aren't you the girl who almost killed those three store employees last week?"
Hearing this, Yuri rushed to intervene, but the woman reached out and squeezed Lucy's hand with a sympathetic smile. "Sweetie, you did nothing wrong."
Yuri stopped, watching in surprise as the man nodded and agreed with his wife. "No matter who says otherwise, you did the right thing... unlike SOME people." he sighed unhappily.
Seeing the pregnant girl's confusion, the woman explained that their pregnant daughter was also wrongly accused of shoplifting, but at a department store in Tokyo. When the daughter stood up for herself, her husband publicly scolded her for it, and apologized on his wife's behalf.
"How did your husband react?" the woman asked.
"He praised her for defending their unborn child." Yuri proudly replied.
Lucy nodded her head in confirmation, blushing slightly when the disappointed couple remarked that they wished their daughter had married a husband who was a little more like hers.
"Thank you." she smiled. After they paid and left, the Diclonius went back to the kitchen to start on their order.
Just over an hour later
When the door chimed, Lucy walked up front, expecting to see the couple who had ordered the "baby shower" cake. What she actually saw was three men in expensive-looking suits. As soon as they saw her, the three attorneys started coming her way.
"Good afternoon, Mrs. Kurosa-"
Before he even finished his sentence, Lucy's vectors visibly materialized, prompting the men to retreat a few steps backwards.
"What the hell are you doing here?"
Yuri saw Lucy's vectors and hurried upfront. It was common for her to use them at work, but they were always invisible, and Yuri knew that her employee didn't display them without a very good reason.
"Take it easy! We just want to talk!"
"I have nothing to say to you. Leave me alone and stay out of my life." Lucy coldly replied. Yuri nudged the pink-haired girl, and quietly told her to go back to the kitchen and take a break. Without a word, the pregnant Diclonius turned and did as instructed, her vectors disappearing as she walked away. Yuri watched her until she was out of sight, then turned back to the men.
"I don't know what your problem is, but you've harassed that poor girl long enough. She's not your personal property. You don't own her, and you don't have the right to decide how she lives her life."
"We will soon." a different lawyer spoke up. "We're going to appeal the Judges ruling, and after we win, Mrs. Kurosawa is going to be arrested and turned over to the Center for Biological Research and Advancement. We came here today to give her the chance to submit to our custody voluntarily. If she won't, then we have no choice but to drag her back to court. One way or another, we WILL have her and her unborn child in our custody."
"We'll see about that!" Yuri smirked.
Kaeda House - Three hours later
When Yuri brought Lucy home after work, they discovered that both Yuka's mother and the Midwife were already there (though in Ebihara's case, she wanted to leave the second she found out the pregnant girl wasn't there).
"Oh good, you're finally home... good thing I don't have any other patients to see." the Midwife sarcastically remarked. She followed the Diclonius to her and Kouta's bedroom. When Yuri and Yuka's mother stopped at the door, Kouta told them it was fine to come in. So, they did, and watched silently as Lucy stripped nude and received her "check-up", if you could even call it that.
According to the Midwife, Lucy's weight was still a little higher than expected, but nothing to be worried about. Much to Lucy's irritation, Kouta told her the Diclonius was having, "problems down there", and Yuka informed her she noticed blood on the pink-haired girl's underwear.
After repeated requests by the cousins, Ebihara finally sighed and asked Yuka for the panties Lucy had been wearing. The Midwife checked them for a few seconds and handed them back.
"She's just spotting... nothing to worry about."
"You're not even going to LOOK?" Yuka asked in disbelief.
The midwife just rolled her eyes, and told Lucy to lie down and spread her legs. Using a small flashlight, the lazy bitch examined her for literally three seconds before turning the light off and shrugging.
"Like I said, it's just spotting. She'll be fine."
Without saying another word to anyone, the Midwife picked up her bag and walked out, stopping long enough to leave her usual, horribly-overpriced ¥80,000 bill for her "services" on their dresser.
"Must be nice getting paid to do nothing..." Yuka commented sarcastically.
"Forget her, Yuka..." Lucy said. "I don't want strangers down there anyway."
Of course, she was well-aware that denying everybody but Kouta access to her lady parts was going to be impossible once she gave birth, but again, until that occurred, it was a ''Kouta-only'' zone.
"You were right honey, she really IS ripping you off." Yuri said.
"It's worse than a rip-off. This is borderline robbery!" Yuka's mother added.
As Lucy was putting her clothes back on, the bakery owner asked her if she was planning on breastfeeding.
The Diclonius blushed, flustered by such an unexpected question.
"I... I haven't really given it much thought." she answered. "I was just going to use formula."
"You don't necessarily HAVE TO if you don't want to. I know it sounds a bit primitive, but it's a very effective way to strengthen your mother/daughter bond." Yuka's mother chimed in. "At least it was for me and Yuka."
"Mom!"
"What? It's true, isn't it?" she asked before turning her attention back to Lucy. "I really think you should consider trying it. I mean, what's more natural than feeding your child with your own body?"
"Ok, I'll... I'll give it a try sometime." the very visibly blushing pink-haired girl replied.
It DID sound pretty intimate, after all.
"Don't worry if you get bitten a couple of times. Yuka was bad about that, but she stopped eventually."
"MOM!"
Five minutes later
After putting her clothes back on, Lucy told them about the attorneys phone calls and surprise visit. Unsurprisingly, this did not go over well, especially with Kouta and Yuka's mother. Both of them suggested telling Moriyama, which Yuka did through text messages.
"I told Kaeda to go take a break, as when she walked away, one of those little bastards told me they were "going to have her one way or another" right to my face!" Yuri angrily said.
"Over my dead body!" Kouta retorted. Lucy faintly blushed, smiling lovingly at her husband.
When Moriyama texted back a few minutes later, Yuka read her reply out loud:
"If Einsetz wasn't there with them, then there's no crime. If they come back, ask them to leave, then call the police and file a trespass report. It isn't much, I know, but I'm afraid it's all we can do for now."
"Well, if that's our only option, then that's what we'll do." the bakery owner decided.
As everyone left the bedroom, Yuka asked her mother and Yuri to stay for dinner. Both women accepted, and soon enough, they along with Nana were watching TV on the couch as the others cooked. No matter how many times they asked, they couldn't convince Lucy to come join them and let Kouta, Yuka, and Mayu handle it.
"You know Lucy's stubborn as hell. When she makes her mind up about something, there's no changing it." Nana said with a grin.
"Ain't that the truth..." Yuri sighed. "But to be honest, it suits her. If Kaeda wasn't stubborn, she wouldn't be Kaeda."
Yuka's mother nodded in agreement. "Stubborn or not, that girl's still amazing. She's a far cry from the withdrawn, anti-social girl Yuka introduced me to years ago. The first time I met her, I could barely get a word out of her. She's grown so much since then, sometimes it makes it hard to believe she's the same girl."
Nana and Yuri nodded in agreement, and the three women smiled simultaneously as they heard Lucy start laughing about something.
"Can you two stop acting like a couple of horny teenagers for five minutes?!" Yuka could be heard saying, followed by the couple answering "Nope" at the same time. Mrs. Hinasaki and Yuri erupted into a laughing fit as Yuka loudly scolded the couple.
"Don't give me that shit, Kouta! No, of course there's nothing wrong with kissing your wife, but there IS something wrong with having a full-blown make out session while you're supposed to be helping make dinner! I turned away for FIVE SECONDS, and when I turned back, you've got your hand on her ass, and she's sticking her tongue in your mouth!"
Nana just smiled to herself. 'You really are something else, Lucy.'
Masaki residence - Four hours later
"Don't forget, you're not supposed to pull out this time."
After dinner, the purple-haired girl went to go see Kenji. Now that the agreed-upon waiting period was over, the young couple (especially Nana) was eager to give "having sex like a normal couple" a try. In a rather embarrassing turn of events, when her and Kenji were heading to his bedroom, his mother pulled Nana into the bathroom and bluntly asked her, "Do I have to worry about you getting pregnant?"
She was probably hoping to hear something like, "We're not sexually involved", but Nana just smiled cheerfully and told her she was on birth control. Not quite what she was hoping for, but she liked the young Diclonius, and they WERE adults afterall, so she didn't make a big deal out of it.
"I remember, don't worry." he assured her. Unlike Lucy, who preferred romantic love-making, Nana preferred the more common "typical" kind of sex that fell somewhere between "making-love" and "fucking". At the moment, Kenji was on top of her, but since neither of them wanted to finish that way, they decided to stop and change positions when he started getting close.
Taking a page out of Lucy's book, Nana tried to keep her rose-colored lips on his as long as possible. She might not be a fan of romantic sex, but she was definitely a fan of making out.
When he pulled away from her a few minutes later, Nana rolled over and got on her hands and knees so he could take her from behind. "Tell me right before you finish, ok?" she asked him.
Once he was back inside of her, it only took a minute or two before she felt him speed up and embarrassingly admit he was about to finish. Nana blushed, telling him to go ahead. Seconds later, she heard a quiet grunt from her boyfriend as he started to throb inside her.
'Hang on... Lucy said she always feels a strange warmth that spreads through her body, but I can't feel a thing. Maybe it depends on the girl... maybe he hasn't actually finished yet... maybe he... wait... Ok, nevermind... NOW I feel it!' she thought. Like Lucy, now that she experienced it, she was going to want it every time they got intimate.
When he finished, he pulled out and laid down on the bed, joined a moment later by his girlfriend.
"Wow... that... was amaz... amazing..."
"You're damn right it was!" Nana giggled. "I'm so glad I went to that clinic. I hated having to go through the exam, but it was worth it!"
"Exam?"
"I think Yuka called it a "pelvic exam" or something like that."
Confused, Kenji asked her what exactly happened during the exam.
Nana rolled over on her back and showed him how her feet were positioned. "I had to lie down and put my feet in stirrups. She checked the outside first, then inserted a metal... I don't remember what it was called... inside me and opened it so she could do something called a pap smear. When she was done, she put her fingers in me and kinda felt around a little."
Knowing how much the boy loved anything to do with her ass, she decided not to mention the part where the nurse did a short rectal exam.
"It's your first Gynecological check-up, right? Might as well check that too while you're here!" she had said.
"Why did you go through all THAT? You could have just asked for the birth control."
"...What?!"
"The exam is optional. You could have gotten birth control without it. I know, because that's what my sister did."
Nana really didn't know whether to laugh, cry, be pissed off, or all of the above. Apparently, Yuka didn't know a pelvic exam was no longer a requirement. Or she DID, and just never bothered to tell her.
"Well... no point complaining about it now." the purple-haired girl sighed.
Next chapter: Appeal.