Disclaimer: These characters are not mine. They belong to the wonderful Romiko Takahashi and her licensees (Viz Communications in North America). This work is strictly for the non-profit enjoyment of fans. No copyright infringement is intended. Deserted no longer: Part two. And baby makes three. By RJ Baby due in T-minus 30 days and counting Akane tears wet her hands as she tried to wipe them from her face. She sat at the kitchen table crying for a good ten minutes. Ranma walked into the kitchen with Kasumi and Nabiki. "Akane! What’s wrong?" Ranma asked panicky. She looked up with pleading eyes, still crying. *sniff*sniff*sniff "Oh it’s nothing." "What? Why would you be crying over nothing." He responded. "Please Akane, tell us." Kasumi sweetly asked. "Well…*sniff * sniff….I tried to bake…*sniff *sniff some cookies and…and I burnt them….!" She cried some more. Ranma released a laugh of relief, "Is that all?" "What do you mean is THAT ALL!" Akane tear filled eyes had turned to raging anger. "Warning, warning, Ranma Saotome, warning, mood swing straight ahead." Nabiki said waving her around like a certain robot from a sci-fi show in the 60’s. "You stay out of this Nabiki." Akane yelled. "Akane, really I didn’t mean it like that." Ranma throw his hands up surrendering to his raging wife. "I spent all afternoon trying to make cookies for you and you...YOU JUST LAUGH!" she yelled. "Akane I thought something was wrong with the baby, that all. I didn’t mean to...here let me try a cookie." He reached over to the brunt batch of cookies and started to eat one. "Mmmm they’re good burnt." He tried to swallow. "Really?" Her face losing anger. "Yeah, really." He took another bite. "I love you." he said hoping to turn her mood. "Oh Ranma I love you too!" She through her arms around Ranma hugging him tightly. Ranma released a silent sigh of relief, "Phew." "Hey good save there buddy." Nabiki whispered into his ear, patting him on the back. T-minus 23 days and counting "OH DEAR GOD! AHHH EWWWW AHH! NO DON’T MAKE WATCH ANYMORE! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" "Ranma please, you have to know what to expect in the delivery room." Soun said as he held back Ranma’s left leg. Genma held his right leg, Ryoga, with his eyes closed, had his right arm. Shampoo and Ukyo had his left arm, and Nabiki held his eyelids open in order for him to watch the video, "Child birth and you." "You said we were going to watch a Bruce Lee movie!" "Ranma you have been putting this off long enough." Nabiki said forcing him to watch. "Ranma stop acting like a girl and watch." Ryoga growled. "Oh your one to talk, with your eyes closed." "Well I’m not the one with a pregnant wife. Now I’m I?" Ukyo’s face paled and lost the hold on his arm. Shampoo turned and looked at Ukyo, "Is all right? You no look good." "Yeah, um no, I’m not feeling to well. I think I have a stomach virus. I’m going to go before I effect anyone here." Ukyo left the room and started for home. Nabiki watched as she left the house. "Hmmm?" she thought. Ukyo walked down the street, not looking up, just staring at the sidewalk. She almost walked straight into Akane, if Akane hadn’t made herself known. "Hey Ukyo!" Akane said. "Are you all right?" "Umm, yeah, just a little upset stomach." "Are you going back to your restaurant?" "Yes." "May I borrow a cook book?" "Umm, sure." At Ucchan’s, Ukyo unlocked to door and went in. She had closed it for the afternoon in order to help everyone out with Ranma. It wasn’t a big deal, business was good and she deserved an afternoon off. Ukyo turned around and looked at Akane. You could tell she was pregnant, but she wasn’t huge. Akane started to make a weird face and then she smiled. "The baby is kicking. Want to feel?" Ukyo stared at the stomach of her former rival, she nodded her head yes. She placed to hand on Akane stomach. A smile crossed her face, then she looked up at Akane’s smiling face. Ukyo’s eyes turned down and she took her hand form Akane’s stomach. "I better get you that cookbook." She said as she turned away. "That was odd." Thought Akane. Ukyo returned from the back of the restaurant and handed Akane the cookbook, who was now seated at the counter. "Ukyo what is wrong?" "Umm nothing, just the tummy ache I mentioned earlier." "No I don’t think so." Akane stated. "What do you mean?" "It’s something more then a little tummy ache. Come on you can tell me, we’re friends now. Aren’t we?" Ukyo turned her eyes away, "Yeah I guess, it’s just..." she trailed off. Akane waited patiently for the rest, "It’s just what?" Ukyo turned her eyes back to Akane with tears in them. "It just that I’m pregnant." Tears began rolled down her cheeks. "Oh." Akane simply said. "It’s not Ranma’s is it?" Akane asked holding her breath. She shook her head and said, "No." Akane let out the breath in relief, then looked back at her friend. "Are you sure you are pregnant?" "Yes, when I went for my annual check up and the doctor informed me that I was." "How far along?" "Only two weeks." "Can I ask who’s is it?" Ukyo turned her head away, she couldn’t look into Akane's eyes when she spoke the name. "It's Ryoga’s." "Oh." Akane said surprisingly. "I didn’t know you two were together" "We’re not, well not really." Ukyo snapped her head back up. "I mean we are kinda, but not ready for this. I mean it was just one time and..." "Did you guys use, you know, protection?" "Yeah, I think so." "You think so? How do not know?" "Well it was that night everyone came over to play poker." "I remember that night." "Well, you remember what a good time everyone had. We were drinking a little. Now there was no way we were drunk, buzzed maybe, but not drunk. So after everyone left, Ryoga stayed like he usually does when it’s late. I mean I didn’t want to jerk to go wandering into the cold night. Anyway, both of us being buzzed and feeling good, we started talking and laughing and one thing led to another and the next thing I knew Ryoga was in my bed, naked. Sleeping next to me, also naked. There were some condom wrappers scattered around the room and some were open and used. But I have no idea how many times we, you know, did it." "So are you going to tell him?" "Yeah eventually, but I don’t know when." "Ukyo." Akane said reaching out for her hand, "You have to tell him while he’s around. You know the way he gets lost, The next time he may see you when your showing. That’s if your going to keep it." "Of course I’m going to keep it. This is a life inside me. I don’t run away from my problems. I was careless, I will think of something." "Ukyo, it takes two to Tango." "I know, I just don’t want him to think that he has to stay around because of me." "He still has the right to make that decision." "Yeah I know. Hey, you won’t tell anyone, will you?" "Not if you don’t want me to." "I don’t, not until I tell Ryoga first. God knows what he’ll do." "Yeah. Well I better get going before everyone starts to worry." "Okay." Akane got up from her seat and made her way to the door. "Hey Akane?" "Yes." She turned around. "Thanks." "Anytime, what are friends for." Akane turned back around and walked out of Ucchan’s. Ukyo smiled, Yeah, I’ll be here for you too?" She thought, placing her hand on her stomach and turning off the light. T-minus 1 day and counting. Nabiki sat at the kitchen table counting money and writing in her black notebook. Akane walked in and went towards the refrigerator. She opened it and stared at the contents inside. "Anxious are we?" Nabiki asked. "Why would you say that?" "Oh I don’t know, maybe because this is your fifth time looking for something to eat in the last hour." "I’m just hungry." "No." Nabiki said shaking her head. "Okay, well wouldn’t you be if you were having a baby?" "Yes, but I’m not am I?" Akane rolled her eyes and stood up and started to walk around the room, putting one hand on her stomach and the other on her back. "So are you going to let Ukyo borrow some of your maternity cloths?" Akane’s eyes opened wide. She turned around and asked, "How did you know? Did she tell you?" "No, but you just did." "Nabiki that was a dirty trick." Nabiki just smiled. "How did you figure it out?" "Oh I had my suspicions for a while now, but the turning point was when I saw her looking in the baby store. It was more then her buying a gift for your baby." "Oh." "Yeah well are you going to tell me who the father is?" "Umm....no." "Akane you know you can’t lie to me." "I can’t say I promised. I said I wouldn’t tell anyone until she said it was okay." "Can I try to guess?" "No, let’s just stop now before anything else is said and don’t breath a word of this Nabiki." "Fine, fine." The next day at Ucchan’s. Ranma ate his okonomiyaki quickly as Ukyo cooked away. Ryoga was also eating, enjoying the home cooked food. She looked up and saw the two of them at her counter. One was her first love, former fiancee’ and best friend, while the other a jerk at times, friend to her at other times. Oh and of course father of the child she was carrying. She had tired to tell him so many times, but she couldn’t do it. "Mmmmm... this is really good Ucchan." "Thanks Ranma." She smiled. "Why aren’t you I class today?" She asked him "Oh I had a free period last period, so I could leave without getting into trouble." "You left Akane at school? By herself?" Ryoga yelled. "Calm down bacon-bits, I’m going back for her in forty-five minutes." "Don’t call me bacon-bits." Ryoga growled just loud enough for Ranma to hear, but low enough that Ukyo wouldn’t. "Whatever." Ranma shrugged and continued to eat his meal. At Furinkan High School the classroom was quite. All the students in global economics were taking an exam. Daisuke’s gears in his head were turning at full speed, however, it wasn’t doing him any good. He was only halfway through the exam and the class was almost over. Hiroshi, on the other hand, was doing fine. He was almost done with his exam. So was Akane. She filled in all the answers best she could, then double checked them and went to hand it in. She got up from her desk, wobbled to the teacher's desk and placed the test down on the desk. All of a sudden an over exuberant amount of pain came over her. She doubled over and grabbed the desk. In seconds the oak desk was now toothpicks. Monuments later an ambulance was called and Akane was off to the hospital. *Ring!* Ring! "Ucchans’s how may I help you. Yes, he is. Why? Oh, Yes definitely, be there In a few. Okay bye." "Who was that Ukyo?" Ranma asked. "That was Nabiki. Akane is in labor let's go" Before she could even finish her sentence Ranma was up and out the door. "Come on Ryoga lets go." She said grabbing the lost boy by the shirt. In the waiting room of the hospital a small group gathered. Soun, Nabiki, Genma, Nodoka, Shampoo, Mousse and even Cologne. Kasumi was in with Akane, whos screams could be heard all the way out in the waiting room. "Where is RANMA!" She screamed. "Akane please..." "Where is that PERVERT HUSBAND OF MINE?" "He’s on his way. He’ll be here any second now." Ranma busted into the waiting room. "Where is she?" Ranma said with panic eyes. "She’s in th..." "AHHHHH! RANNNMAAA!" "AKANE!" He ran past his family and friend and into the delivery room. "Who is this?" Yelled the doctor "I’m the father." "Nurse, get this guy some scrubs." After Ranma got into the scrubs provided by the nurse, he ran over to Akane’s side. "Akane, I’m here." Ranma kneed next to his wife and place his hand on top of hers. Akane turned her face to him and smiled and took Ranma’s hand "Okay Akane here come another one." Said the nurse. "Ready?" "Ready for what?" Ranma asked but then Akane griped his hand "AHHHHH!!!!!" she yelled "AHHHHHHHHH!!!" Ranma yelled as Akane crushed his hand. "AHHHHH!!!!" They both screamed. Out side in the waiting room, the screams could be heard. "Well looks as if the happy couple are together." Nabiki stated. At this time Ukyo and Ryoga joined the group. Kasumi walked out of the delivery room with a smile on her face. "They make such a good couple." 8 ½ hours later "OH MY GOD! YOU. YOU DID THIS TO ME!!!" Akane roared. "I HATE YOU! YOU MAN!!!" "Don’t worry they all say things like this." The nurse said consoling the freaking father to be. "First time having a baby?" she asked. Ranma just nodded yes. "Don’t worry the next one is usually easier." "THERE WILL BE NO NEXT ONE! YOU WILL NEVER TOUCH ME AGAIN!" Meanwhile in the waiting room. "Is she ever going to have that baby." Mousse asked. No one answered, they were all half asleep waiting. With each passing yell from Akane, Ukyo cringed. "Is this what is going to be like for her?" She thought. She looked around and spotted Ryoga leafing though a magazine. "Well what better place to tell someone news then a hospital." She got up and walked over to Ryoga. "Ryoga, can I talk to you for minute." "Sure." He put down to magazine. "In private." She got up and led Ryoga out of the waiting room by his hand. This cause Nabiki to look up. "Well, well, I guess I would of won the bet if I placed one." She said softly. The hospital was quiet for the time being. Akane’s screams of killing and destroying Ranma had died down. Now only the typical sounds of hospital could be heard. Until the sound of someone crashing into a gurney and hitting the floor distributed the silence. 4 hours later, at 2:30 in the morning Akane delivered a 7 pound, 8 ounce beautiful baby girl. Ryoga laid unconscious in a hospital bed. The next morning the same group, who waited so long for this to happen gathered in front of the window of the maternity ward. They made faces and gaga noises at the newborn Saotome. "Hey guys." Ranma said walking up to the group. Everyone one congratulated him and asked how was Akane. She was fine, tired but fine. Ranma had this grin on his face and sparkle in his eyes, that only a new father could have. "So did you guys decided on name?" Asked Genma. "We decided to name her Kohana. It means little flower." Ranma said. "That very pretty." Shampoo said. "Yes Saotome, you’re very lucky she doesn’t look a thing like you." Mousse said. Ranma just stood there and then began to laugh. "You know Mousse, if I didn’t just witness the birth of my first born daughter, I would kick the crap out of you for making that statement." Everyone laughed. It was great to see everyone get along. Ranma thought as he scanned to group. Watching his family, his friends, who were formal rivals not to long ago. Then he notice Ukyo. She was acting weird. And then he noticed Ryoga who too was acting weird. Maybe it’s just everything that has happened today. End of part 2 ***** Authors note: Hi all, hope you like it so far. I know, I know this only started out to be a short fic, now it’s turning out to be a small mini series. So shoot me. No, not really. Well like the name Kohana, It means little flower in Japanese. Pretty huh? I thought so. Well got to go all, I got a part 3 to write. :) RJ
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