Three weeks and Chiro still had not woken up from his healing sleep. After the first week, Gibson was able to put Chiro into the healing chamber, but the birth had done a lot of damage to his insides so he had readily anticipated Chiro's stay in the chamber to be a long one. Gibson checked his vitals each day, three times, to make sure that everything was going smoothly and happily he discovered that Chiro's progress indicated that he would be able to wake soon and meet all his children.

The four babies had all been able to wrap the monkey team around their tiny fingers, but since they didn't have official names, Sprx and Otto took it upon themselves to nickname them based on their personalities that they had observed over the last few weeks.

The first born girl was a little firecracker, henceforth why Sprx named her as such. If you did something she didn't like or upset her in any way, she would most defiantly not hesitate to scream to let you know. At first Otto suggested they name her 'spoiled' but that was quickly thrown out by four out of the five monkey's and as Gibson pointed out was a dreadful nickname, before he went into full lecture mode of the effects of nicknames for children.

The second born girl was the sweetest child of the whole bunch. She was quiet and calm unless she needed something or felt the want for a little attention, but Nova was good at giving her that, given the fact that she and the child had been practically inseparable since she held her after birth. Nova decided on the name 'Angel' for her since she was so small, gentle and delicate, and even her physical appearance suggested the name itself.

In almost every way possible, both boys were exactly alike, not only in looks but also in personality. At first the monkey team thought they would be polar opposites, but after paying a little attention, they saw that they were completely wrong. It seemed that even from birth the boys had a system set into them on how to act when together, one would act like a small hyperactive boy, while the other appeared strong and protective of the other. If it hadn't been for the bracelets the monkeys would have never been able to tell that they boys were who they thought they were. Amazingly enough, the boys switched personalities as if taking turns. They were quickly seen as two complete opposites yet one in the same, so they were deemed 'Ying' and 'Yang'.

The monkeys took the babies to see their 'mother' everyday, and talked to them about how much of a wonderful person that he was and that he would protect them along with their Aunt and Uncles.

At about the three and a half week line, Gibson came into the lab with 'Ying' securely wrapped in his arms only to notice that Chiro was in fact awake inside the healing chamber and waiting patiently, or impatiently depending on how you looked at it, for someone to open it and release him from the inside.

"Hold on a moment Chiro, I need someone to take Ying before I can help you out of the chamber." Gibson said loudly enough for it to be heard through the glass.

Immediately, Chiro's eyes were drawn to the baby inside his teammate's arms before he walked outside of the infirmary to pass the child to another monkey while he handled Chiro.

"Sprx, can you come here for a moment please?" Gibson called waiting patiently for the other monkey to show up. As the red monkey walked into the room, he saw that Chiro was awake, smiling he walked up to Gibson after giving Chiro a thumbs up. "Will you please take Ying while I get Chiro stabilized and out of the healing tube?"

"Sure thing," he smiled, taking the small child into his arms and stepping away from the monkey at work. It took the better of ten minutes for Gibson to take him out of the tube and another fifteen just to get him dried and clothed.

"What happened?" Chiro asked once he had had a glass of water to clear his scratchy throat from lack of speaking.

"Unexpectedly, right before you delivered the last child, it became apparent that you had had some sort of hemorrhage and I was forced to take her out myself and by that time you had lost a lot of blood. It took a while but I was able to replenish your blood supply and stop the bleeding. You've been unconscious for about three weeks."

"Three weeks?" he exclaimed softly in surprise. "How are they?" he asked out of the blue, but both monkeys present knew who 'they' were.

"All perfectly happy and healthy bundles of joy, I'll tell ya" Sprx commented walking up to Chiro with Ying in his arms and he noticed that the boy smiled large at the small baby.

Sprx didn't even need to be told and quickly handed Ying over to his 'mother'. All three were amazed at how intuitive Chiro was at holding his son while smiling at the child, who got a toothless smile right back briefly before the child went back to looking around. "He's perfect," Chiro whispered mostly to himself before looking up, "Where are the others?"

Gibson smiled, "Let's get you on into the living room and get you comfortable and then I will call the others and tell them you are awake and to bring the babies."

Chiro nodded and allowed Gibson and Sprx to help him walk to the living area and to sit down on a large soft circle cushion before he called the others. Very soon the rest of the monkeys came in, each holding a baby in their arms. Chiro smiled and carefully placed Ying down between his spread legs, waiting as the others came up. Antauri, who had Yang, lay the child down next to his brother while Otto and Nova, each holding a girl placed them on the outside of his legs so that he could look at all four babies at once.

You would thing no one could have smiled as Chiro did, as he bonded with his children for the first time

Nova came up behind him and hugged him around the neck, "I'm glad your awake and alright, Chiro, you had us worried there for a while"

Chiro looked up briefly and smiled at the monkey whom he viewed as his mother figure, "Sorry guys, I guess I tend to carry trouble around with me." He joked. A hand landed on his right shoulder opposite of Nova, who was laying her head on his left; he looked over and saw Antauri smiling down at him, "There's no need to apologize for something you had no control over, we are simply glad that you are alright."

The boy once again nodded before looking down at his children as the others sat around him with the babies. He felt each of their smooth cheeks, in awe, at just how soft their skin was, "How have you guys been telling them apart?" he asked with a chuckle as he noticed his two boys were identical.

Otto smiled, "We gave them nicknames!"

"Nicknames?" Chiro asked puzzled yet amused.

Antauri smiled, "We were not sure what to call them, as we realized we never really spoke to you about names, so we improvised." He chuckled, "We also had bracelets made for them so we could tell who was who."

"What did you guys pick out?"

Otto crawled up closer, you could tell that he was very excited to share the information, so the others let him have his fun. He pointed to the girl on the left, "This one is Firecracker! She's got a big attitude on her when she wants something or if you make her mad." Everyone joined in on the laugh at the true statement. Next he pointed to Ying on the left side, "This is Ying," then he pointed to the other boy on the right, "and this is Yang! They are exactly alike but they take turns on which one is hyper and which one is the calm one." Lastly, Otto pointed to the last baby on the right of his legs, who was the smallest baby of all, "That is Angel! She's really quiet and calm, and she looks like a chur-, uh, chab-…"

"Cherub" Nova giggled.

"Right that!"

Chiro smiled and laughed, when he looked at Angel he had a glint of concern, "Why is she so tiny?" he asked.

Gibson came forward, "She is quite small but she is perfectly healthy. I think that when demons have their children, it is similar to dogs, where one would be the runt of the litter, so-to-speak, by the time we turned you back she had already had the effects and was getting the least of the nutrients, but it doesn't seem to have harmed her in any way."

A small noise directed them to look down and it seemed as if 'firecracker' had deemed she was not getting enough attention so she grabbed onto Chiro's pant leg and shook her arm up and down until her tiny grip couldn't hold on, her face held this small barely noticeable expression that Chiro could definitely tell that she was going to be quite the handful when she got older. Chiro slowly lowered his hand and placed his finger in her grip, where she held a very firm grip and looked at it, as if trying to figure out what to do with it. Eventually, she decided to stick it into her mouth and try to suck on it, and seemed content to just do that.

"What were you going to name them Chiro, c'mon, we're dying to know!" Sprx egged.

Chiro laughed, "I picked out four names of each since I wasn't sure what I was having, but I know my favorites." He looked towards the baby on the left, decided to name them left to right, "I'm going to name them Aiko," he moved to the next child, "Kenshin…Kazuki…and Sakura"

"All very good names Chiro, nice choices," Antauri praised.

"Thanks," the boy smiled still marveling at the sight of his children.

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After Chiro had woken up, he had taken into his 'mother' role, very quickly. The monkey team hardly had to teach him how to do things for his children, saying that he just simply knew what his children needed from him.

The monkey team still helped, after all, no one person could take care of four newborn infants by themselves and NOT go a little insane, and Chiro was very glad for the help. As the months passed by, the children grew and more personality came with it. Aiko did in fact turn into a little diva, as expected, but her tantrums turned out more funny than frustrating when she kicked her little legs and flailed her arms, not quite crying but just a general fit.

Kenshin and Kazuki were still hard to tell apart and were protective of each other, whenever one of their other siblings would try to take toys or bottles, the other would step in and defend them. They are also inseparable, and don't like to be away from each other for very long and never want to sleep in separate cribs. Chiro did not see too much of a problem in it at the moment and that he would deal with the change when the time came. He secretly loved coming in at night to see them cuddled up to each other, sucking on each other's thumbs…NOT that he would ever admit that out loud.

Sakura was a total blessing, even as she grew, she still remained the quiet, shy and overall happily content child that she was in the beginning.

Over those months as the babies grew, so did the robot, or at least the area underneath the robot. The monkey team had decided that the robot was too dangerous for a baby to stay, especially if they were ever in battle. So, in order to create a safe and permanent place for them to stay then built an underground home so to speak. It came with everything a normal house would and with the help of some artificial technology courtesy of Gibson; they created windows that projected the area around the robot, as if the house were above ground. The home had over 13 rooms, in order to house the whole family, guests, and for the later years when the children were older, they could have their own rooms if they wanted.

Both Jinmay and Chiro's friend, Serena, from the club, proved to be great assets in the babysitting department. It had been a difficult conversation when Chiro informed them of his upcoming parenthood, while he was pregnant, and both seemed skeptical of the whole thing, but once they saw the babies themselves; they couldn't stay away.

So far, in their adventures defending the city, the attacks had been small, and not challenging in the slightest. All of the team was concerned how the Skeleton King was being so quiet lately; they feared that he was saving up for something big.

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Chiro smiled as he walked down the street with the stroller that held four different spaces that held all of his children who were all looking around them happily at the scenery that passed them. All of his children were now 15 months old, and loved to go on walks and see the town. Unfortunately, everyone he passed, although was happy to see his children and commenting on how cute they were, were always asking constant questions of, 'where's their mother?' or 'where's your lovely lady?'. He found it was just easier to tell them that she had passed away then to explain that she left or that even he was the mother; because that was a whole different conversation in itself he didn't want to go into with strangers. Then he had the men's comments which were much worse, he never wanted to hear anyone talking about how potent his little swimmers were…ever, ever again

"Chiro!"

He smiled as he looked up to see Jinmay running towards him. "Hey Jinmay!"

"How are you Chiro?"

"Good," he smiled, "Just out for a walk with the babies"

Jinmay looked down into the stroller and smiled as she greeted each baby and got a bunch of toothy smiles and a couple, "Inma!"

Jinmay smiled, "Wow Chiro, I still can't believe how big they are, and already talking!"

Chiro smiled, proud of his children, "I know I can't believe it either, I think they get their smarts from hanging around Antauri and Gibson too much." He chuckled.

"Dada!" once of the boys yelled, causing Chiro to look down as his son who promptly but his fingers to his mouth, "Foo!" which was then followed by three more of the same comments.

Chiro and Jinmay laughed as the boy commented on it, "Well, I guess that means we should stop to we can get the little mouths fed. Would you like to join us Jinmay?"

Jinmay smiled, "Of course I would!"

They then walked to the closest restaurant and sat at a table long enough for him to be able to sit the kids on one side and him on the other to feed them. He quickly ordered a burger for himself as he took out the food from the compartment on the bottom of the stroller that was made for the toddlers to eat. He moved quickly knowing that Aiko and Kazuki were not patient when it came to waiting for their food, so he used the placemats bought for them that were self-sticking and placed their food down in front of them with their sippy cups.

"Your such a good dad Chiro." Jinmay smiled.

"Thanks Jinmay" he said sincerely with a smile back.

"Well, well, well, what a perfectly sickening display" said a dark voice near them.

Immediately Chiro was up and turned around to face the voice that sounded behind him.

"Mandarin!" he growled. He saw Jinmay move to be near the babies and internally was very grateful he had told her about the plan if something were to ever happen while he was with the babies.

"Good to see you too, boy! I see you've been a very busy boy" he taunted, looking at each of the children with a leer as they started to get frightened and therefore start crying

"What do you want, Mandarin?" he snarled.

"Why, Chiro, I'm here to retrieve you for my lord, the Skeleton King, of course. He is in need of your special services. I might just even grab those brats, great leverage you know."

The tone in which Mandarin used made chills run down his spine and his eyes widened at the threat to his children. Silently and skillfully, he pulled off a small ball from his bracelet without the monkey noticing and pressed the button throwing it under the table and it landed just below the highchairs. Suddenly there was a bright green barrier around his children and Jinmay was inside it as well, trying to calm down the children.

"I'll never let you touch my children, and the moment you do, I'll kill you and anyone that tries." He threatened.

The orange monkey's eyes widened, never hearing such a dark phrase fall from the boys lips, but he regained his composure quickly, knowing that he was here simply to get the boy and no doubtedly that annoying robot girl had called his brothers by then and they were on their way. He quickly lunged for the boy but he had transformed and leapt out of the way, making him land face first into the green barrier, but he got his footing back quickly and attacked once more aiming a punch at the boy's face.

Chiro stopped the punch but failed to notice the other hand until he felt a small pin prick on his shoulder where Mandarin had slapped it during his jump. Chiro jumped away and put his hand to his shoulder, "What did you do?" he shouted. Suddenly, he started to feel really dizzy and could no longer hold his footing. He fell to one knee and put a hand on his head as he fought to stay conscious, thinking about his children. However, Chiro soon lost the fight and passed out.

"Chiro!" Jinmay shouted in shock and worry but couldn't leave the barrier; she had made a promise to Chiro that in a situation like this, the babies came first.

Mandarin walked forward, throwing the boy over his shoulder, just as he started to hear the distant sound of his brothers coming near. He growled and chuckled evilly as he activated his hover pack and started to fly away, leaving behind formless to attack the barrier to keep the monkey team distracted as he got away.

Jinmay was crying, while trying to calm the now hysterical babies.

"Jinmay!" she heard Nova yell, "hold on we'll get rid of them and then let the barrier down.

In no time the formless were gone, and the barrier lowered. Sprx, Otto, Nova and Gibson each took a baby trying to calm them down.

"Where's Chiro?" Antauri asked in worry, trying to calm the girl down

"Mandarin took him!" she cried, "I couldn't stop him! I'm sorry!"

"Did Mandarin say anything to Chiro that might hit as to where he went or why he took him?"

Jinmay nodded, "I don't know where they went but it can't have been far, Mandarin left on a simple hover pack." She took on a concerned face, "H-He said something about needing Chiro's special services."

Gibson gasped, "Oh dear…"

"What?" Sprx asked when he saw the blue monkey's face go a shade paler than usual.

"When Chiro was released from the tube, after he met the children, I asked to do a scan on him to make sure everything was alright…" he trailed off before looking dreadfully sick, "I found out that Chiro has been altered after his transformation to where he-he can still have children."

Silence followed as shock settled over the monkey team

They had to find Chiro. NOW.