Bonus! (For C.A.M.E.O.1 and Only because she brought up a good point about those Mikoshiba brothers, to be completely honest I'm not so good at focusing on a lot of characters so I tend to leave them out)
Gou's baby shower was a little, different. She was very much pregnant, overwhelmed and Sousuke had to cover something at work so she was left in the hands of Rin and Haru (and the kids). She was doing well, Tsubasa was making sure he brought her anything she wanted. So far it was just the 6 of them in the living room of Gou and Sousuke's new house.
Slowly people began to trickle in and of course they all ran to Gou and touched her belly. The little baby didn't like too much noise as Gou noticed more people coming in.
Yanako was the first and took the spot right next to Gou after dropping off her oversized present with Haru.
"Who's the cute quiet one?"
"My brother's husband."
Yanako snapped her fingers, "Damn."
The next ones to come in were Nagisa and Rei. Gou held her belly protectively as Nagisa barreled over.
"Gou-chan! Gou-chan! How are you feeling?" He practically yelled. The baby kicked Gou nearly straight in the ribs making her wince.
"Hey Nagisa you should probably keep it down," Rei mentioned and Yanako agreed.
"Most of the time babies don't like sudden noises and tend to accidentally hurt the mother in their discomfort." Nagisa finally noticed someone other than Gou and beamed at Yanako.
"Wow you're really smart! Who're you?"
"Yanako, I work with Gou. I blame my three sisters for my extensive knowledge of pregnancy and you are?"
"Nagisa!" He introduced and then pulled Rei over by the arm cuddling him, "And this is my boyfriend Rei."
Rin walked in with snacks and noticed Nagisa getting extra close to Gou so he pulled him back by his shirt, "Be careful with my sister."
"I'm hurt that you would think that I would ever hurt Gou," Nagisa pouted.
"What about that time you pushed her in the pool?"
He groaned, "That was an accident!"
Gou simply smiled and put a hand on her belly, rubbing gently. Tsubasa brought her a little sandwich with the thought of 'Maybe the baby is hungry'.
Mizu and Sakura were playing off to the side and shaking the present boxes to figure out what they could possibly be.
It was sort of a relief to see Makoto walk in next, he was quiet and considerate and never failed to put Nagisa in line. He leaned over her to give Gou a hug and Yanako nudged her arm.
"Straight?"
Gou shrugged, "I'm not sure."
"Good enough for me." She said before walked up and introducing herself.
The next people to ring the door bell, Gou didn't think she would ever see again.
"Seijuro!" Gou yelled in surprise as he walked in the living room. His younger brother popped up behind him causing Gou to feel the need to actually get up. "Momotaro!"
She awkwardly pulled them into a group hug with her baby making them bend over.
"Wow Gou! You look," Momo paused, "Well, pregnant."
Seijuro nudged him in the ribs, "That was stupid."
Before they could get in a fight Gou began crying.
"Awe, what did you guys do?!" Nagisa asked loudly before hugging Gou.
Both the Mikoshiba's looked at her in alarm, Seijuro relaxing after a moment but Momo still on red alert.
Haru went over and put an arm around her, completely used to Gou's outbursts by now.
"I'm pretty sure that's just hormones," Seijuro commented and then slapped Momo on the back. "When you finally have a wife and she's pregnant then you have to deal with that all the time."
Gou nodded and tried to stop crying, "Does that mean you're married, Seijuro?"
He grinned, "Yup! Around two years ago we tied the knot, she's wonderful. Had a boy last year and now we are expecting a girl within the next few months." Momo nudged him to get him out of his 'dad' mode, "She helped me pick out the gift actually so it should be useful."
Gou smiled, "That's great, you should bring her over here sometime. The kids can have a playdate. Tsubasa?"
He was at her side in an instant, "Ya, mom?"
Gou loved it when he called her mom, she felt as if he was all hers. "This is Sousuke's first child, Tsubasa. Five years old and ready to be a big brother in about 2 weeks."
Seijuro leaned down to say hi and Momo followed suit. In the end Tsubasa grabbed Momo's hand and rushed him over to Sakura and Mizu, dubbing him the cool guy.
She laughed but suddenly Gou felt a pain, "Whoa!" She said out of the blue and suddenly all eyes were on her. It passed in the next second and she looked confused at her stomach, "What was that?"
"A contraction?" Seijuro asked in a slight panic.
"W-what do we do?" Momo squeaked out from the floor beside the kids.
Gou waved him off, "No, probably those fake contractions that happen around this time. Did your wife get any?"
"Braxton hicks contractions? No, she went straight into labor."
Gou laughed, "Well that can't happen, Sousuke isn't here." She felt another, this time stronger and she held her breath.
Rin was over as soon as Seijuro called, "What, what's happening?"
"I think Gou's going into labor."
Momo began to panic and Rin paled, "Uh, Haru?" When Haru walked up to them front the kitchen Rin leaned in close, "We think Gou is going into labor."
Haru looked at him in shock and then at Gou whose face was twisted in slight pain. He hurried over and helped her sit down, "Do you have your bag packed?"
Gou nodded, "But we didn't plan everything yet," She looked down at her stomach, "You were supposed to give us two more weeks."
Haru nodded and gestured to Yanako to come over, "Well she wants to come now." Once the blonde was close he told her of the situation.
She gasped and clapped her hands excitedly, "Do you have your bag?"
"She has most of it packed but not all, can you double check it?"
Yanako saluted, "Yes, sir."
Gou hadn't seen Haru ever take charge before but as another contraction hit she was grateful someone had their head on straight. Haru gave her his hand as another hit.
"Don't hold your breath. Remember your classes," Haru reminded and Gou finally let out air and tried to take a steady breath in.
"This really hurts," Gou said, tears collecting in the corners of her eyes, "I want Sousuke."
Rin immediately took out his phone and dialed his number.
Sousuke was swamped at work, trying to rack up as many vacation days as possible to help out at home. So he took the chance for this Saturday work day and was surprisingly in the zone. Everything was going well, even if he did wish he was at home for the baby shower he knew that Rin and Haru would take care of Gou for him. It was kind of annoying when he was thrown off his rhythm to his ringtone going off loudly. He gritted his teeth but he began to get confused when he saw Rin's name on the screen.
"Hello?"
"Finally you answer! Gou is in labor!"
He stood from his desk so fast he hit it and a stack of papers swayed to the ground, he looked at them in annoyance before getting back to the problem at hand, "Are you sure?"
"Would you like to ask her?" Rin didn't wait for an answer before passing the phone to his sister.
"S-Sousuke?" She asked once the contraction was over.
He winced at the pain in her voice, "It's me. How are feeling?"
"Really bad, she really wants to come out."
Yanako appeared at the stairs holding the suitcase and a pillow in the air, "It's done!"
"Yanako finished the packing, we are going to the hospital right away. Are you going to make it?"
Sousuke looked at the papers on the floor once more, his boss was going to kill him but he would understand. "Of course I'll be there. Just go to the hospital and tell Rin to keep me updated, I'll be there as soon as I can."
Gou groaned and soon the voice was Rin's again, "We have to go."
"Don't let anything happen before I get there. Text me everything."
"Will do," Rin confirmed before hanging up.
Sousuke was like a tornado rushing around his desk picking up papers and stacking them neatly again. He paged one of his buddies and asked him to explain to the supervisor, then pleaded for him to take some of the work if he had time.
"Of course, just go, man! Your baby is about to be born and you're standing here worrying about paper work?"
That was all Sousuke needed to hear before he rushed out, and down the hall towards the parking lot.
"Gou you need to stay calm," Haru said for the billionth time. "Sousuke will make it."
She had since crushed his hand and moved onto Rin's.
They somehow got her down to the garage where her car was and then loaded her into the backseat. Nagisa, Rei and Makoto stayed behind to watch the kids who were fairly upset that they didn't get to go. Especially Tsubasa, but they were reassured that they would see her right after she had the baby.
Seijuro and Momo stayed behind to help out for a bit. Momo played with the kids and Nagisa while Seijuro and Makoto took it upon themselves to clean up the house.
"It's a shame she didn't get to open any presents," Makoto commented as they both washed the dishes.
"Ya, that was always my wife's favorite part. I guess everyone likes getting presents though. Anything she got she would squeal over and say 'Look how small this is!' and shove it in my face, as if I wasn't already marveling at it."
"Gou would probably do the same thing."
Gou and Rin sat in the back while Haru drove and Yanako was seated beside him.
"How much longer?" Gou asked tensely.
"Just a couple more minutes, we just need to drive around to the maternity side. Then we can drop you and Rin off and we will park the car and bring the suitcases. Don't worry, you just go have a baby."
Gou nodded, thankful for Yanako's presence.
Rin slid out of the backseat as quickly as possible when the car stopped and ran around to the other side to help Gou out. They heard the car speed off and just before walking in through the door Gou felt liquid running down her legs under the sundress she was wearing.
Stopping in her tracks she surprised Rin, "I- I think," She paused looked down and blushing, "I think my water just broke."
Rin grabbed her hand again, "That means she's almost here, we need to go get you checked in."
Rin decided to run on ahead and get everything straightened out by the time she walked up behind him. They asked if she wanted to sit in a wheelchair and to Rin's surprise she declined. They took her to a private room and paged her doctor who was there in a flash.
"How far apart are the contractions?"
"Less than two minutes," A nurse replied.
She looked at Gou, "You're doing great, only a little bit longer and she'll be here. Where's Sousuke?"
"He had to work but he should be here any minute," Rin answered, "I'm her brother."
"Good to meet you brother, if you don't mind would you get washed up and stand here?" She pointed to the spot right next to her and he complied. "We are just going to take Gou to get changed and a little cleaned up, looks like your water made a bit of a mess."
She supported Gou by the elbow and walked her into the connecting bathroom. Once Gou got out again Yanako and Haru burst into the room with the suitcase.
"We're here! Here's the stuff!" Yanako breathed, "So many stairs."
Rin looked at Haru for an explanation, "The elevators were full of patients."
Gou nearly screamed as another ripped through her.
"Unfortunately it's too late for an epidural, you're coming along fast, Gou. Where's husband?" She asked one of the extras in the room who began calling and texting him. The doctor helped Gou onto the bed and redirected Rin to stand by her feet. "While we finish setting everything up you're going to stand there and make sure if a baby starts coming out, you tell us and you support her."
Rin paled and felt faint, "W-What?" But she had already left to grab some more supplies.
Yanako began washing up and Haru followed her lead, clapping Rin on the shoulder.
Gou tried to kept her legs closed, "Rin, I would rather you didn't look unless you really had to."
Rin nodded, "That feeling's mutual."
Another one hit her and she curled her toes at its force and Yanako remembered something.
"Socks." Everyone stared at her with varying degrees of confusion. "Sorry, I just remembered that while your feet are up like that they can get really uncomfortable if they are uncovered. So," She said while opening the suitcase, "Socks are an essential item to have." She pulled out a pair of fuzzy looking knee socks and put them on Gou.
"Sousuke is parking." Haru said.
Gou let the relief wash over her and the doctor rushed in again this time with a small table and bin with a variety of things in it.
"Sousuke will be here in 5 minutes," Gou told her.
"Good, alright well these rooms do have a capacity so once he gets here at least one of you will need to leave.
Rin and Haru volunteered in the end, Yanako would probably be more useful than they were but they assured Gou that they would be sitting right outside the room.
Sousuke ran in completely breathless. Rin and Haru both grabbed him by the arm and flung him to Gou's side where she held his hand.
"Where have you been?"
He kissed her slightly sweaty forehead, "I made it here as fast as I could."
"Okay daddy, you're going to have to wash up right away," The doctor said while Gou yelled into her contraction, "Baby is coming soon."
Yanako stayed by her head chanting the breathing patterns to her and Sousuke was taken down to her feet.
"She's crowning," The doctor said, "Gou you need to do a really big push to get the shoulders through."
After one particularly painful sounding push Gou began breathing heavily and Yanako clapped. She pushed the hair out of Gou's sweaty face.
"She's here."
The nurses took her briefly to wash her up and clip the umbilical cord closed. Sousuke kissed Gou on the forehead lovingly and she finally smiled.
"And here's your baby girl. Do we have a name yet?" One of the nurses asked while handing her to Gou.
"Kimi," Both Gou and Sousuke breathed.
The only thing the new mother wanted to do was sleep but she kept her eyes open looking at her daughter. She opened her eyes slightly to reveal the grey blue most babies had and on her head was a tuff of dark hair, too thin to see what color it was in the dim lighting.
"She's perfect," Gou said while nuzzling her head. Then she moved to let Sousuke hold her.
Yanako opened the door to inform the new uncles of the arrival. They all rushed in to see Sousuke holding a tiny bundle of blankets. Rin broke out in tears and Haru rolled his eyes throwing an arm around him and moving him closer.
Kimi looked even smaller than she was because of Sousuke's broad shoulders but she only weighed 7.2 ounces and 21 inches long. Sousuke gave her up to Rin once he stopped crying.
"Forever the emotional one," Gou commented, "I'm so glad you guys are here."
Rin softly bounced her, he hadn't been near a newborn since Gou so he had very little idea what he was doing. Kimi reached an arm out and Rin instinctively put his finger into her teeny hand.
"Haru, Haru look," Rin whispered while walking over to him, "She's holding my hand. She's so cute."
Haru cracked a smile while he held Kimi making everyone smile. "She really is cute," He looked at the new parents, "You did well."
Yanako was taking pictures of them all holding her so when it was her turn she gave the phone to Gou to look through the photos.
"Oh aren't you just a perfect little thing?" She cooed, "Aunt Yanako is going to spoil you so much."
"Who is going to grab the kids?" Gou asked, "It's nearly 7, I wonder how everyone's doing."
Rin checked his phone, "I haven't gotten anything."
Eventually Haru and Rin left the hospital to get the three kids and relieve the makeshift babysitters.
Rin dialed Makoto when they got to the lobby.
"Hello?"
"It's Rin, we are coming back to get Tsubasa-
"Did Gou have the baby?!"
"Yes-
A collective cheer was heard on the line and Rin began to get irritated from being cut off so often.
"We are coming to get the kids now, okay?"
There was a silence and Rin wondered if they had hung up before finally a voice spoke again, "We can bring them there, no point in you leaving and then us going over there anyway."
Rin stopped Haru from walking any further, "Okay I guess. Make sure the child lock is on the doors with Mizu and Sakura. And their seatbelts! Tsubasa has trouble sometimes."
"No problem, we'll get there."
By the time everyone was piling into the room Gou was taking a nap so Sousuke had to take the lead and show them Kimi. Everyone coddled her and Makoto was the first to hold her.
Sousuke was talking with Momo outside about being quiet, and also catching up as they hadn't seen each other since Sousuke's third year. Seijuro came up behind Momo surprising him and Sousuke nearly fainted because 'There are two of you?!'
When they walked back in Gou was awake and Nagisa was sitting beside her on the bed while she supervised him holding Kimi. Rei downright refused saying she was way too small to be trusted in his arms but when he saw Nagisa gently rocking her he broke down and sat beside him.
Momo had to do the same thing, sit next to Gou ask she directed him on how to hold her, but it was less nerve-wracking because she knew he had held his new born nephew. Seijuro held her like an expert, trading daddy information with Sousuke.
Yanako had strategically taken the kids down to the cafeteria to grab some dinner, saying she also needed their help to bring food up to their guests.
Once all the kids were back Gou was holding Kimi again and the kids ran up to their respective dads to give them the treats they had picked out for each of them.
"Tsubasa?" The young boy was at Gou's side in an instant, "You can climb up on the bed and see your new sister now."
He excitedly crawled up beside her and Gou moved some of the blankets so he could see her face. She was still pretty pink and a little bit wrinkly. "She's cute, kind of like an alien."
Gou laughed, "Do you wanna hold her?"
He nodded vigorously as he sat down with his legs swinging off the bed. Sousuke stood in front of him to make sure Kimi was secure but he did it surprisingly well. Her head was supported and she didn't cry.
"Wow, what an amazing big brother you are," Gou commented. Tsubasa grinned and then showed Mizu and Sakura who had their turns after.
After everyone had gone and Kimi was taken to infant care Gou was finally beginning to rest, Sousuke sitting beside her with Tsubasa sleeping on his lap.
"That Seijuro is a good guy, we should have him over for dinner," Sousuke commented.
Gou chuckled, "He is, I met him during Rin's time at Samezuka, before you went there. He's nice, a little too nice before." Sousuke gave her a questioning look, "He used to have a crush on me, the same as Momo."
"What?!"
Well there you have it folks. This fic is officially done.
Keep an eye out for any other fics I decide to write in the future and thanks for stickin' around for so long with this one
A BIG thanks too all my readers, reviewers, favs, and followers, wouldn't have done it without you
~PrincessNoodle