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A few months later, it was only a month until the due dates for both Aki and Mikage and it was starting to show. Their baby bellies had become so big by this point that it was impossible just to bend over and sometimes it hurt Mikage's back to walk upstairs or walk for an extended period of time. Even some of the clothes Aki bought for her pregnant body were no longer fitting and she had to get new ones. Things were certainly getting frustrating again after a period of relief when the morning sickness stopped.

However the two took comfort in knowing that it was almost over and in one month they would finally see their children. But, for the time being they pressed on and thankfully there was something that would make them forget their troubles, even just for one day.

Near the end of one's pregnancy, usually the soon to be mother's friends or family hold a baby shower for her. However considering how close the due dates were as well as how close of friends they were, Aki and Mikage's friends combined their showers and scheduled it for the same day. With all the guests for both families at one party, it was inevitable that the Fudo family backyard would be crowded. When the Atlases arrived at the Fudo household for the shower and walked into the backyard, they were shocked to see the flood of people in the backyard. There were balloons, tables with different confections, kids running around and music playing in the background.

"Jesus Christ...See anyone we know?" Jack asked with Mikage shaking her head. However someone was looking at them rather surprised and even with further inspection, they could not tell who it was. They presumed it was a relative of Aki but, when they tried to walk up to him.

"Hey everybody! The other mother to be is here! Please welcome, Mikage Atlas!" He announced loudly with everyone around applauding which made the couple feel a bit uneasy.

"I'm not used to all this attention." Mikage whispered to Jack as the crowd applauded.

"Me either actually, this party is bigger than the ones I have to go to related to work or something like that." Jack whispered back as the couple tried to not act like it was such a big deal. However their faces were evident of their unease. However they began to notice something pushing through the crowd.

"Ok folks, give them some space, and don’t suffocate the poor girl!" Said the familiar voice of Aki Fudo who looked less than pleased with what was going on. Mika was overjoyed to see her friend but she could only walk slowly towards her due to weight that hung from the front of her body. However, she did manage to make it to her friend who took her hand and showed her around the shower.

"I am so sorry about my relatives suffocating you like that. I swear to god, sometimes they go a little too far with their excitement no matter who it is!" Aki said, complaining though laughing at the same time.

"Well to be fair, both you and I are having children, I'd be excited as well." Mikage pointed out to the red haired mother to be though Jack looked at Aki confused.

"Wait, all those people back there were relatives?!" Jack asked in a shocked manner. Mikage looked back to him and shook her head.

"Sorry, I was generalizing a bit. While most of these are my relatives, a fair number of them are Mikage's as well as friends of ours. And I did try to find relatives of yours as well as Yusei's but I could not find anyone." Aki explained, saying the last part rather grimly.

"I can't imagine why...though thanks for trying," Jack said, rolling his eyes a bit at the beginning though the last part was a genuine thank you. Mikage looked at her husband smiling a bit and let go of Aki's hand to hold his. He looked down towards their joined hands and smiled lightly. However as he looked down, Mikage's baby bump came into his view as well. He sighed a bit as he looked at it, despite his talks with Mikage and Aki, he still was nervous about the child. Despite knowing he shouldn't be nervous, regardless he was afraid of anything bad that could potentially happen.

"So where is Yusei?" Mikage asked as they walked towards the edge of the backyard.

"He's around her somewhere. Last I saw of him he got dragged off by one of my cousins because he wants to give him some tips on raising kids."

"One of your cousins has kids too? Do his tips work?" Jack asked. Aki pointed to the left where a young boy and a young girl appeared to be fighting rather violently.

"They believe in no discipline at all. Meanwhile..." Aki told them before holding her hands out to prevent the kids from coming into contact again.

"Either you kids stop smacking each other or I’m gonna give you both a hundred smacks on your behinds!" She yelled at the two kids who squealed and ran off. Aki turned back towards the rather shocked Mikage and Jack.

"I do. I feel like they need to get the message even if I exaggerate a bit. Anyways what are you going to do when your kids get out of line?" Aki asked as they continued walking.

"Honestly I can't exaggerate my anger like you can but I'll probably use whatever punishment I see fit for whatever they do and never go beyond what the punishment is." Mikage told her friend. They stopped walking when reached the table at the end of the backyard where all of the presents for them stood. And there were quite a lot of presents as well.

"Bloody hell, all of this for you two?" Aki nodded her head delighted and picked one of the presents up.

"Yeah, I think some things I may not need or Mika may not need so we are going to exchange some gifts later depending on what we get." Aki explained, shaking the gift a bit to see if she can guess what’s inside.

"Ahhh I see." Jack replied. Aki put the present down and turned back to Mikage and Jack. However she noticed something behind the two and grew rather excited.

“Hey Yusei, over here!” Aki yelled. Jack and Mikage turned around and saw Yusei walking towards them, trying not to bump into anyone and looking rather confused.

“Hey guys, sorry I didn’t show up for a bit, Aki’s cousin…” Aki held her hand up to tell him it was alright.

“I told them already Yusei, its fine.” She told him, chuckling a bit.

“Oh, thanks…Your cousin has very…interesting ideas about raising a kid.” Yusei said a bit nervously. Aki kissed Yusei lightly on the cheek.

“Honey, it’s fine to say his ideas are crap, even when we were kids his ideas were bad.” Her husband chuckled and carefully hugged her, making sure not to crush her baby bump.

“Awww, how adorable.” A feminine voice said out of nowhere. Yusei and Aki separated, confused and the four looked around for who made the comment and standing near them came the most obvious answer. A tall blonde woman with fierce looking eyes stood next to a blue haired, laid back looking man.

"Sherry!" Aki said rather shocked but with joy evident on her face.

"It's is vonderful to see you again." Sherry said, somewhat chuckling.

"My, it seems like you two jump between France and Japan all the time." Mikage commented while chuckling. Sherry rubbed the bridge of her nose, obviously tired.

"You're right, vee do. It seems like vee are always going there for business or for family reasons and I'm getting sick of it." Sherry said, her exhaustion evident in her voice. Bruno smiled lightly at her and ruffled her hair a bit. Sherry looked at him embarrassed and a bit annoyed.

"Just two more weeks now and that won't keep happening." Jack raised an eyebrow at them.

"Why is that?" Jack asked. Sherry chuckled a bit and lifted up her right hand while holding up her ring finger. At first Jack looked a bit angry since he thought she was flipping him off, but on closer inspection, he saw something else. A diamond ring wrapped around her finger. The rest of the group looked at her amazed.

"It took a couple years. He was too nervous to propose for a while, I waited patiently until finally, he could do it...and I said yes." Sherry told them, looking at the ring with joy. Aki grew an excited smile on her face and looked as if she would start jumping p and down. Yusei walked over to Bruno and put his hand on his shoulder.

"We're proud of you man. We'll be sure to show up at your wedding." Bruno looked over to his friend and chuckled a bit.

"Thanks, just want the both of us to be happy."

"Same here...same here." Jack responded, saying the last part a bit quietly and rather unnerved. No else noticed...save for Mikage. Mrs. Atlas took out her phone and started texting. Jack looked at he, interested in what she was doing.

"Who are you texting?" Mikage looked at him and smiled.

"Someone who I think you should talk to." Jack raised an eyebrow.

"What do you mean?"

"I think you know why and I want to help." Jack looked at his wife as if she just figured out a dark secret of his and nodded in agreement. When Mikage was done she put her phone away and the rest of the group continued to enjoy the shower.

An hour later, Jack was walking around the shower, having talked to nearly every person at the party and did everything he wanted to do there. He was at that point in any party where you are just waiting for things to start wrapping up, but since it was his wife's shower, he wanted her to enjoy it to the fullest. It came to a point where his mind drifted so far into space that he did not see where he was going and collided with a rather tall man.

"My apologies, I..." Jack tried to tell the man before he noticed something familiar about the man. The man was well built despite the fact he looked to be about in his late 40s or 50s, had short brown hair along with a mustache many people would jokingly called a "porno stache" But more surprising to Jack was the woman standing near him who looked to be a little younger than the man but had a face which strikingly resembled Mikage's as well as long, flowing blue hair.

"Mr. and Mrs. Sagiri?" Jack asked surprised. The two grew big, inviting smiles on their faces.

"Jack! How is my son in law doing?" Mr. Sagiri said as he wrapped his arms around Jack tightly. Jack struggled a bit to get out of the hold before Mikage's father noticed and let him go.

"Sorry about Sato, he's just so excited about the delivery." Mikage's mother, Misako told him.

"It's fine." Jack said, catching his breath. Then suddenly, another blue haired girl who looked about ten years younger than Mikage stepped into the conversation looking just as excited as Sato. Her hair was not as long as Misako but not as short as Mikage's somewhere in the middle. She was wearing very flashy, colorful clothes as opposed to the two adults' more polite attire.

"Can you blame dad? My sister and your daughter is gonna have a kid! I'm so excited to see it to! Have you decided on a name? What gender is your baby going to be? Are you going to have another?" The girl asked very quickly.

"Kaoru, let the poor guy breath!" Misako said chuckling.

"No no, It's fine. I can't answer all of those questions, save for one. You were asking about the name?" Jack asked, Kaoru nodding her head quickly. Jack smiled rather cockily.

"The baby's name is...going to be a surprise." Kaoru pouted her lips and stormed off with Misako chuckling and following her.

"Ahhhh she may look older but still acts like a 6 year old." Sato said while turning his head to Jack. He then noticed a somewhat grim expression on his face and his smile disappeared.

"Jack, is there something wrong." Jack walked closer to Mikage's father.

"Hey, can I talk with you for a minute?" Sato nodded his head.

"Well...It's just that...I am bloody terrified of having a kid with Mikage. It's not that I don't want to have a kid but It's just that...I want to be a good father and...I don't think I'm father material and...Look! You are her dad, maybe you can help!" Jack asked, voice changing emotion from nervousness to anger to sadness relentlessly. All Sato did was chuckle a bit with Jack looking at him confused and a bit annoyed.

"You sound exactly like me when Misako was waving Mikage." Jack looked at his father in law shocked. Sato put his hand on Jack's shoulder.

"I was also scared of having a kid for the exact same reasons as you! But, you know something? As soon as the baby was born, BAM! No more fears, everything clicked." He said enthusiastically.

"Really now?" Sato nodded.

"Yep, all my focus shifted to raising that beautiful baby into the woman you see today. As soon as she was born I could not help but tear up and grow excited holding her in my arms. Did I have the occasional worry after that, of course, but that's just natural, it's a signal to tell you to always watch out for your kids." Jack sighed after Sato's speech.

"Feeling better?"

"I guess a bit...but in all honesty...I don't think I can be in the delivery room with Mikage when she gives birth. I don't I could ever see in that much pain...what should I do about that?" Sato sighed and rubbed his chin.

"Well...that I also had trouble with...but I..." Sato said before he heard something in the distance.

"Sato! Come over here, were going to share some chocolate cake with your daughter and her friends!" Misako said from afar.

"Oh god, they are going to give me trouble if I don't show up. We'll talk about this later Jack, gotta go!" Sato said, rushing off to get to the opposite end of the backyard before Jack could stop him.

"Shit..." Jack whispered under his breath. He took out his phone and looked at the home screen photo of them and Mikage at their wedding. The two were full of absolute joy and it looked as though they nary a single problem.

If only I could predict this... Jack thought to himself. He looked around and saw all the relatives of Mikage's and Aki's, some of them with kids and Jack told himself.

"These guys must have had fears to while having kids. If they can get past it than so can I." Jack claimed as he walked over to his wife at the end of the yard.

Oh my god! I am so sorry this took so long, some things came up and progress just got slow, I am so sorry! But here it is and we are almost done with this story and I promise the next chapter won't take as long.

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A few months later, it was only a month until the due dates for both Aki and Mikage and it was starting to show. Their baby bellies had become so big by this point that it was impossible just to bend over and sometimes it hurt Mikage's back to walk upstairs or walk for an extended period of time. Even some of the clothes Aki bought for her pregnant body were no longer fitting and she had to get new ones. Things were certainly getting frustrating again after a period of relief when the morning sickness stopped.

However the two took comfort in knowing that it was almost over and in one month they would finally see their children. But, for the time being they pressed on and thankfully there was something that would make them forget their troubles, even just for one day.

Near the end of one's pregnancy, usually the soon to be mother's friends or family hold a baby shower for her. However considering how close the due dates were as well as how close of friends they were, Aki and Mikage's friends combined their showers and scheduled it for the same day. With all the guests for both families at one party, it was inevitable that the Fudo family backyard would be crowded. When the Atlases arrived at the Fudo household for the shower and walked into the backyard, they were shocked to see the flood of people in the backyard. There were balloons, tables with different confections, kids running around and music playing in the background.

"Jesus Christ...See anyone we know?" Jack asked with Mikage shaking her head. However someone was looking at them rather surprised and even with further inspection, they could not tell who it was. They presumed it was a relative of Aki but, when they tried to walk up to him.

"Hey everybody! The other mother to be is here! Please welcome, Mikage Atlas!" He announced loudly with everyone around applauding which made the couple feel a bit uneasy.

"I'm not used to all this attention." Mikage whispered to Jack as the crowd applauded.

"Me either actually, this party is bigger than the ones I have to go to related to work or something like that." Jack whispered back as the couple tried to not act like it was such a big deal. However their faces were evident of their unease. However they began to notice something pushing through the crowd.

"Ok folks, give them some space, and don’t suffocate the poor girl!" Said the familiar voice of Aki Fudo who looked less than pleased with what was going on. Mika was overjoyed to see her friend but she could only walk slowly towards her due to weight that hung from the front of her body. However, she did manage to make it to her friend who took her hand and showed her around the shower.

"I am so sorry about my relatives suffocating you like that. I swear to god, sometimes they go a little too far with their excitement no matter who it is!" Aki said, complaining though laughing at the same time.

"Well to be fair, both you and I are having children, I'd be excited as well." Mikage pointed out to the red haired mother to be though Jack looked at Aki confused.

"Wait, all those people back there were relatives?!" Jack asked in a shocked manner. Mikage looked back to him and shook her head.

"Sorry, I was generalizing a bit. While most of these are my relatives, a fair number of them are Mikage's as well as friends of ours. And I did try to find relatives of yours as well as Yusei's but I could not find anyone." Aki explained, saying the last part rather grimly.

"I can't imagine why...though thanks for trying," Jack said, rolling his eyes a bit at the beginning though the last part was a genuine thank you. Mikage looked at her husband smiling a bit and let go of Aki's hand to hold his. He looked down towards their joined hands and smiled lightly. However as he looked down, Mikage's baby bump came into his view as well. He sighed a bit as he looked at it, despite his talks with Mikage and Aki, he still was nervous about the child. Despite knowing he shouldn't be nervous, regardless he was afraid of anything bad that could potentially happen.

"So where is Yusei?" Mikage asked as they walked towards the edge of the backyard.

"He's around her somewhere. Last I saw of him he got dragged off by one of my cousins because he wants to give him some tips on raising kids."

"One of your cousins has kids too? Do his tips work?" Jack asked. Aki pointed to the left where a young boy and a young girl appeared to be fighting rather violently.

"They believe in no discipline at all. Meanwhile..." Aki told them before holding her hands out to prevent the kids from coming into contact again.

"Either you kids stop smacking each other or I’m gonna give you both a hundred smacks on your behinds!" She yelled at the two kids who squealed and ran off. Aki turned back towards the rather shocked Mikage and Jack.

"I do. I feel like they need to get the message even if I exaggerate a bit. Anyways what are you going to do when your kids get out of line?" Aki asked as they continued walking.

"Honestly I can't exaggerate my anger like you can but I'll probably use whatever punishment I see fit for whatever they do and never go beyond what the punishment is." Mikage told her friend. They stopped walking when reached the table at the end of the backyard where all of the presents for them stood. And there were quite a lot of presents as well.

"Bloody hell, all of this for you two?" Aki nodded her head delighted and picked one of the presents up.

"Yeah, I think some things I may not need or Mika may not need so we are going to exchange some gifts later depending on what we get." Aki explained, shaking the gift a bit to see if she can guess what’s inside.

"Ahhh I see." Jack replied. Aki put the present down and turned back to Mikage and Jack. However she noticed something behind the two and grew rather excited.

“Hey Yusei, over here!” Aki yelled. Jack and Mikage turned around and saw Yusei walking towards them, trying not to bump into anyone and looking rather confused.

“Hey guys, sorry I didn’t show up for a bit, Aki’s cousin…” Aki held her hand up to tell him it was alright.

“I told them already Yusei, its fine.” She told him, chuckling a bit.

“Oh, thanks…Your cousin has very…interesting ideas about raising a kid.” Yusei said a bit nervously. Aki kissed Yusei lightly on the cheek.

“Honey, it’s fine to say his ideas are crap, even when we were kids his ideas were bad.” Her husband chuckled and carefully hugged her, making sure not to crush her baby bump.

“Awww, how adorable.” A feminine voice said out of nowhere. Yusei and Aki separated, confused and the four looked around for who made the comment and standing near them came the most obvious answer. A tall blonde woman with fierce looking eyes stood next to a blue haired, laid back looking man.

"Sherry!" Aki said rather shocked but with joy evident on her face.

"It's is vonderful to see you again." Sherry said, somewhat chuckling.

"My, it seems like you two jump between France and Japan all the time." Mikage commented while chuckling. Sherry rubbed the bridge of her nose, obviously tired.

"You're right, vee do. It seems like vee are always going there for business or for family reasons and I'm getting sick of it." Sherry said, her exhaustion evident in her voice. Bruno smiled lightly at her and ruffled her hair a bit. Sherry looked at him embarrassed and a bit annoyed.

"Just two more weeks now and that won't keep happening." Jack raised an eyebrow at them.

"Why is that?" Jack asked. Sherry chuckled a bit and lifted up her right hand while holding up her ring finger. At first Jack looked a bit angry since he thought she was flipping him off, but on closer inspection, he saw something else. A diamond ring wrapped around her finger. The rest of the group looked at her amazed.

"It took a couple years. He was too nervous to propose for a while, I waited patiently until finally, he could do it...and I said yes." Sherry told them, looking at the ring with joy. Aki grew an excited smile on her face and looked as if she would start jumping p and down. Yusei walked over to Bruno and put his hand on his shoulder.

"We're proud of you man. We'll be sure to show up at your wedding." Bruno looked over to his friend and chuckled a bit.

"Thanks, just want the both of us to be happy."

"Same here...same here." Jack responded, saying the last part a bit quietly and rather unnerved. No else noticed...save for Mikage. Mrs. Atlas took out her phone and started texting. Jack looked at he, interested in what she was doing.

"Who are you texting?" Mikage looked at him and smiled.

"Someone who I think you should talk to." Jack raised an eyebrow.

"What do you mean?"

"I think you know why and I want to help." Jack looked at his wife as if she just figured out a dark secret of his and nodded in agreement. When Mikage was done she put her phone away and the rest of the group continued to enjoy the shower.

An hour later, Jack was walking around the shower, having talked to nearly every person at the party and did everything he wanted to do there. He was at that point in any party where you are just waiting for things to start wrapping up, but since it was his wife's shower, he wanted her to enjoy it to the fullest. It came to a point where his mind drifted so far into space that he did not see where he was going and collided with a rather tall man.

"My apologies, I..." Jack tried to tell the man before he noticed something familiar about the man. The man was well built despite the fact he looked to be about in his late 40s or 50s, had short brown hair along with a mustache many people would jokingly called a "porno stache" But more surprising to Jack was the woman standing near him who looked to be a little younger than the man but had a face which strikingly resembled Mikage's as well as long, flowing blue hair.

"Mr. and Mrs. Sagiri?" Jack asked surprised. The two grew big, inviting smiles on their faces.

"Jack! How is my son in law doing?" Mr. Sagiri said as he wrapped his arms around Jack tightly. Jack struggled a bit to get out of the hold before Mikage's father noticed and let him go.

"Sorry about Sato, he's just so excited about the delivery." Mikage's mother, Misako told him.

"It's fine." Jack said, catching his breath. Then suddenly, another blue haired girl who looked about ten years younger than Mikage stepped into the conversation looking just as excited as Sato. Her hair was not as long as Misako but not as short as Mikage's somewhere in the middle. She was wearing very flashy, colorful clothes as opposed to the two adults' more polite attire.

"Can you blame dad? My sister and your daughter is gonna have a kid! I'm so excited to see it to! Have you decided on a name? What gender is your baby going to be? Are you going to have another?" The girl asked very quickly.

"Kaoru, let the poor guy breath!" Misako said chuckling.

"No no, It's fine. I can't answer all of those questions, save for one. You were asking about the name?" Jack asked, Kaoru nodding her head quickly. Jack smiled rather cockily.

"The baby's name is...going to be a surprise." Kaoru pouted her lips and stormed off with Misako chuckling and following her.

"Ahhhh she may look older but still acts like a 6 year old." Sato said while turning his head to Jack. He then noticed a somewhat grim expression on his face and his smile disappeared.

"Jack, is there something wrong." Jack walked closer to Mikage's father.

"Hey, can I talk with you for a minute?" Sato nodded his head.

"Well...It's just that...I am bloody terrified of having a kid with Mikage. It's not that I don't want to have a kid but It's just that...I want to be a good father and...I don't think I'm father material and...Look! You are her dad, maybe you can help!" Jack asked, voice changing emotion from nervousness to anger to sadness relentlessly. All Sato did was chuckle a bit with Jack looking at him confused and a bit annoyed.

"You sound exactly like me when Misako was waving Mikage." Jack looked at his father in law shocked. Sato put his hand on Jack's shoulder.

"I was also scared of having a kid for the exact same reasons as you! But, you know something? As soon as the baby was born, BAM! No more fears, everything clicked." He said enthusiastically.

"Really now?" Sato nodded.

"Yep, all my focus shifted to raising that beautiful baby into the woman you see today. As soon as she was born I could not help but tear up and grow excited holding her in my arms. Did I have the occasional worry after that, of course, but that's just natural, it's a signal to tell you to always watch out for your kids." Jack sighed after Sato's speech.

"Feeling better?"

"I guess a bit...but in all honesty...I don't think I can be in the delivery room with Mikage when she gives birth. I don't I could ever see in that much pain...what should I do about that?" Sato sighed and rubbed his chin.

"Well...that I also had trouble with...but I..." Sato said before he heard something in the distance.

"Sato! Come over here, were going to share some chocolate cake with your daughter and her friends!" Misako said from afar.

"Oh god, they are going to give me trouble if I don't show up. We'll talk about this later Jack, gotta go!" Sato said, rushing off to get to the opposite end of the backyard before Jack could stop him.

"Shit..." Jack whispered under his breath. He took out his phone and looked at the home screen photo of them and Mikage at their wedding. The two were full of absolute joy and it looked as though they nary a single problem.

If only I could predict this... Jack thought to himself. He looked around and saw all the relatives of Mikage's and Aki's, some of them with kids and Jack told himself.

"These guys must have had fears to while having kids. If they can get past it than so can I." Jack claimed as he walked over to his wife at the end of the yard.

Oh my god! I am so sorry this took so long, some things came up and progress just got slow, I am so sorry! But here it is and we are almost done with this story and I promise the next chapter won't take as long.