Digimon Fan Fiction ❯ The Shuffle ❯ Everybody's Business ( Chapter 19 )
[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]
By: Lord Archive 
The choices of the Chosen are not entirely their own to make, and the media wants to everyone to see how their lives are.
Anime/Manga: Digimon Fan Fiction | Genre(s): / Hentai / Sci-fi / Romance / Adventure | Type: Continuation | Uploaded On: 08.10.2012 | Pages: 7 | Words: 6.5K | Visits: 619 | Status: Completed
The choices of the Chosen are not entirely their own to make, and the media wants to everyone to see how their lives are.
Anime/Manga: Digimon Fan Fiction | Genre(s): / Hentai / Sci-fi / Romance / Adventure | Type: Continuation | Uploaded On: 08.10.2012 | Pages: 7 | Words: 6.5K | Visits: 619 | Status: Completed
The Shuffle
Chapter Nineteen - Everybody's Business
By: Lord Archive
Digimon belongs to Toei Animation and Akiyoshi Hongo. They are used without permission or the intent of profit. All rights reserved.
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Takeru's Journal:
The pregnancy, going public, Yamato's band's big break, and discovering Xuanwumon's seal all happening at once gave us a lot to deal with at one time.
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Sora sat on the examination chair nervously waiting for the doctor's return. Less than nine weeks and the baby would be Taichi's, over twelve Yamato's. Well, maybe eleven weeks if her time in the Digital World slowed the rate of growth. Perhaps he found something wrong with the baby and she'd need to abort it anyway.
Sora picked up a magazine to distract herself. She frowned at the articles in it about her and her friends. One gave a rather incomplete time line of their adventures, though it included some information she didn't think anyone who wasn't a Chosen would know about. Others held wild speculations, particularly concerning Yamato. And this was an entertainment magazine, not some tabloid garbage. There were even pictures she didn't know existed of her and her friends in this. It was like stepping forward had released the shackles on the media, and now they were going to dump all the stories they had stored up over the years all at once.
Sora then jumped when she heard a middle-aged man clear his throat.
"Sorry to disturb you, but I thought you'd like to get this over with," the doctor told her with a smirk.
Sora laughed nervously. "Yeah, I can read this bullshit later."
"All right, Takenouchi-san, I have a few more questions for you, though I must say I'm surprised you're putting so much effort into a pregnancy you claim you don't know if you'll keep the baby. Most girls your age would be running for the abortion clinic," the doctor related.
"Things are a bit complicated for me," Sora replied.
"Would it have something to do with my receptionist talking about how you're supposedly some pop star's ex-girlfriend and have a digimon?" the doctor asked.
Sora picked up the magazine and held up a picture of herself that was in it. "I hope she understands patient privacy. Or at least doesn't know why I'm here."
The doctor blinked. "I thought..." He shook his head. "I will remind her. If your situation gets out and she's responsible, she'll need a new job." He then coughed. "Anyway, can you tell me when your last period was?"
Sora pouted. "Sometime around July 21st, I think."
"Were your periods regular?" the doctor continued.
"More or less." Sora sighed. "They were every four to five weeks. But after almost three months of not having one, I started to get worried."
"Apparently for good reason." The doctor jotted down information onto her file. "Don't see anything to offset this. So we'll mark July 21st as the start point."
Sora pouted. "Is that when... 'I' conceived?" She couldn't remember having sex during the middle of that week, but she had also needed help from Taichi and Yamato to even know roughly when her last period was.
"Probably not. It's been standard procedure for a long time to start the count from the last period. While we can get a general idea from fetal growth about how long the pregnancy actually is, truth is nature has it's own pace. Some will develop faster than others. So I can't give you an exact date of conception, just a best guess," the doctor explained.
"At this point I could use even that," Sora returned.
The doctor shrugged. "Well if your last period was July 21th, and your periods are four to five weeks, I suspect you would've been most fertile during the week of August 8th."
"Doesn't help. I didn't have sex that week. I was last with one guy July 31st and then started to make love to another guy August 22nd," Sora related.
"And hence the issue of trying to pin down dates. Are you sure you didn't have sex between those dates?" the doctor questioned.
"Unless I was raped in my sleep, and he cleaned me up afterwards, still without waking me, no," Sora snapped.
"I see." The doctor rubbed his chin. "With your current progress. I'd have to guess the one in July."
"But you're not sure," Sora pressed.
"Sorry, I wish I could be more definite. As we track fetal growth we may get a better idea, only a paternity test will tell for certain," the doctor informed her. "For now, all I can say is your due date looks to be at the end of April."
"Why can't anything ever be easy?" Sora muttered to herself.
--
Taichi climb over the barren landscape to finally come to the center of Xuanwumon's seal where various children, digimon, and a Gennai clone were busy working on various computers and machinery. "Any progress?"
Koushiro looked. "Finally someone that speaks Japanese. I've had to put Ayashi's English lessons to good use."
"Hear she's been doing more than keeping your mouth busy," Taichi teased.
"I wish. For some reason people think just because I got engaged to Miyako for 'screwing her,' I got out of it by screwing Ayashi." Koushiro frowned. "Then again Ayashi might be behind that rumor, even though we've done nothing."
"The player of Obaiba Junior High is a virgin." Taichi smirked. "Sad thing is this bullshit doesn't end with school."
"Tabloid issues?" Koushiro guessed.
"Apparently we have orgies in the Digital World with inhuman digimon," Taichi replied in a joking yet disbelieving tone. "Oh, and can't forget Hikari is pregnant and doesn't have a clue who the father is."
"Wow they really do make shit up out of nothing. Hikari is still a virgin, isn't she?" Koushiro returned.
Taichi nodded. "Any boy that tries would have to face her angry brother and sister."
"Any news about Sora?" Koushiro wondered.
"Yeah, she's not always involved in the threesomes with Yamato and me," Taichi quipped. "At least as far as tabloids goes. But with what's really going on, we still don't know who the father is. Her doctor thought she got pregnant about ten weeks ago, over two weeks after sleeping with Yamato and more than a week before being with me. He gives the odds to being Yamato. We asked Jyou if the doctor is an idiot. Apparently he's just honest, another doctor might've told us differently, even saying 'for certain' whether Yamato or I'm the father, but in truth the margin of error with current information they can't be certain. Sora's trips to the Digital World not helping with that as no one knows what that could do to the baby."
Koushiro frowned. "I'd put my bet on you."
"Any reason why?" Taichi wondered.
Koushiro looked away. "Something happened while in the labyrinth. We had gotten lost inside another maze filled with mirrors of time. Gaze into a mirror and the reflection changes to a potential future. A couple times I saw you married to Sora and one of them was rather clear that she still had Taichi's soul and was rather pregnant."
Taichi raised an eyebrow. "Why didn't you say anything about that before?"
"There were good futures and bad ones. There is no true destiny for us. Though some things still seem predetermined." Koushiro smiled sheepishly. "My first child will be a girl. Any future I saw that included me being a parent included a daughter. Her looks may change slightly from different mothers, but so long as I'm not dead, she will be born. Other than that, nothing was consistent. Whether the girl was an only child or the oldest of four. If I remained Miyako or was able to switch back. Even if I died young or lived to eighty. Or anything else." He then sighed. "And some of those worlds I saw... I really don't want to talk about, and neither does Miyako."
"Anything I should look out for?" Taichi wondered.
Koushiro gazed at him with serious eyes. "If I ever go 'Kaiser,' put me down."
Taichi folded his arms. "If you went truly evil, you'd probably kill me first as not only would you take out War Greymon, you prevent Omegamon and Imperial Dramon Paladin Modes from being options as well."
"Right now, I'd set it up to take out Sora, Hikari, Ken and you all at once, maybe Yamato as well. Houomon's healing ability would be overly troublesome, Hikari's powers would certainly be of great concern, and the rest due to combat potential." Koushiro shook his head. "Best not to dwell on that."
"Right." Taichi nodded. "And back to what I asked when I got here, 'any progress?'"
Koushiro slowly shook his head. "Afraid we've made no real progress. We're working on making a probe to try to find out the basics of Xuanwumon's dimension, like time flow, in case we decide to send a team of Chosen to help. Earliest we'd do that is during winter break in December."
--
"Hey," Yamato greeted as he saw Sora waiting for him outside of the recording studio.
"We need to talk somewhere without ears," Sora told him in a low voice.
"Digital World?" Yamato questioned.
"Nope! Birdramon air," Piyomon chirped before evolving to the giant fire bird.
While there were a few gasps and looks of surprise, there were also numerous flashes of cameras and cellphones pointed to take pictures of the large digimon.
Sora grabbed onto one of Birdramon's talons and Yamato joined her, holding the girl tightly as they took to the air. They did not go far, merely the roof of the recording studio.
After landing, the Chosen moved away from the fire bird, but Yamato did not let her go. He had a good guess as to why she wanted to talk alone. "I'm the father, aren't I?"
"Sixty forty currently, with you favored," Sora replied. "The doctor thinks I'm farther along than I should be if it was Taichi's. However, at the point I should've conceived was during the week before the Piemon battle and I sure as hell didn't get pregnant then. Closest I came to being with a guy was having a rather vivid dream of you taking this body's virginity."
Yamato nodded slowly. "I see. And because that timing is off, you can't be certain until a paternity test, can you?"
"I've scheduled an ultrasound in two weeks, which may help to answer the question. However, about the only question that we should know then, unless I'm much less pregnant than they think, is the baby's sex." Sora shook her head. "Even then, as my doctor said, nature has it's own pace, we may find my supposed conception still being after you and before Taichi."
Yamato gazed at the girl and then reached out and grabbed her by the face and kissed her soundly. "I love you, you know," he told her in all seriousness. "In fact, I loved you, Taichi, before I fell for Sora. I want to stand by your side forever."
"You have no idea how much I want to punch you right now," Sora replied softly.
"Are you sure that's what you really want to do?" Yamato returned.
"This body is having other ideas, which is the reason why I want to punch you," Sora growled. "Look, this is not the time to be confusing me with this."
Yamato took a step back and appraised the girl. "I don't think you're confused at all. Scared? Sure, but not confused."
"Why should I be scared?" Sora shot back.
Yamato poked her in the stomach. "Because you're going to be a mother. I know you, both of 'you.' You've made the decision already to keep the baby, even if it's mine."
"But I haven't decided," Sora insisted.
"Taichi never puts that much thought into any decision, and Sora certainly knows what it means to sacrifice and take risks. If you were going to have an abortion, you would've done it already," Yamato retorted. "The only way you'd change your mind is if keeping my baby means losing Taichi."
"I know him. Know him better than anyone. He'd never leave me," Sora asserted with fists clenched.
Yamato nodded with a deep frown. "Which is why you're going to be a mother. If Taichi left you now for any reason other than stepping aside for you to be with me, he wouldn't be someone I love as well."
Sora bowed her head. "You know that I don't love you that way. You were always my best friend, a brother. This body may still love you, but my soul just can't accept it."
Yamato leaned forward and kissed her forehead. "Be good to each other."
Sora nodded and walked back to Birdramon slowly. She grabbed onto a talon and held tight as her partner flew off with her.
Yamato watched them disappear into the distance, tears he would refuse to admit he shed falling from his eyes.
--
"You can almost forget you're in the middle of a huge city here," Ken commented as he walked next to Mimi through New York's Central Park.
Mimi nodded. "Even in the heart of an island of concrete, nature can still flourish."
"How have you burph-" Ken was interrupted by the girl's hand on his mouth.
"What did I say before?" Mimi demanded sweetly.
Ken shrugged hopelessly. When the hand was removed, he still questioned, "I was just go to ask... how are you feeling?"
"Not... going... to... answer," Mimi replied, poking the tip of his nose with each word. "Today I want to enjoy myself. I don't want to think about anything."
"You're running away from what's troubling you," Ken pointed out.
"I know it's not going to just go away, but can't I have just one day of being a normal girl once in a while?" Mimi questioned seriously.
Ken frowned. "Can we ever be 'normal?'"
"Maybe not completely 'normal,' but we can at least pretend," Mimi asserted. "Now would you like to see a movie, go to a museum, or something else?"
Ken sighed. "Whatever you want to do."
"I don't know, that's why I'm asking you," Mimi returned.
Ken folded his arms. "I suppose were just going to wonder around the park until we get hungry and still not decide what we're going to do."
Mimi giggled. "I'm fine with that."
"How safe is the park?" Ken questioned in a low voice.
Mimi leaned in close to him. "During the day usually rather safe except for the random pick-pocket. It's only late at night when not many people are around you'd really have to worry."
"Maybe so, but we're being followed," Ken told her.
"I noticed." Mimi grabbed the boy by the hand and pulled him into a run off the path they were on and into a group of bushes and trees. It did not escape either of them that their stalker chased after them.
The man cursed as he came to a clearing and saw no sign of the kids until he was put into a painful arm lock from behind.
"Who are you?" Mimi demanded as she came out of hiding.
"Nobody! Please don't mug me!" the man pleaded.
"You were the one following us," Ken intoned, gripping the man's arm tighter. "We want to know why."
"This is just a misunderstanding," the man told them.
"Then explain yourself," Ken ordered.
"I'm a member of DTA," he told them.
"I suppose you don't mean 'Department of Theater Arts,' do you?" Mimi questioned.
The man sagged. "Digital Threat Assessment."
"I see." Mimi gazed into the man's eyes. "And why were you so insistent on following us? You had to know we'd spot you by being as close as you were."
"The increased activity of you children has my superiors worried. You've been spotted repeatedly in Tokyo while he's here illegally as well. Then there's the token military kid being spotted in Brazil. And that's not even counting how you kids have been disappearing for hours at a time from around the world," the man returned.
Mimi put her hands on her hips. "You know you could've just asked. And why don't you know much of that from James's reports?"
"We're supposed to maintain a hands off approach. We weren't supposed to follow you or come in contact. The recent activity has forced our hands, especially since the military isn't forth coming with information," the man returned.
Ken let go of the man. "Is there anything wrong with just visiting some of the other kids?"
Mimi nodded with a smile. "James has gone to Brazil to be with his new girlfriend, nothing more. Just as Ken is here today to be on a date with me."
Ken began to blush deeply.
"You can't tell me all that activity is because of socializing. Portal activity in the past month is up over three hundred percent," the man retorted.
Ken frowned. "There is something else going on. We've discovered a sub-dimension and we're currently running a threat assessment on it. I can't really tell you more than that. We've got those of us with the strongest digimon on call in case trouble happens. And if it does, it would hit the Digital World first and foremost. If there would be any spill over on Earth, it would start in the middle nowhere of Alaska."
The man nodded. "Thank you." He started to walk away.
"You still plan on spying on us, don't you?" Mimi questioned.
The man laughed. "In my line of work, you trust no one. If you have reason to warn us about something, just state calmly into your cellphone 'DTA Digimon Digital World threat' and we'll contact you." He then walked off.
Ken glanced at the girl. "Why did you say we're on a date?"
"Aren't we?" Mimi pouted at him. "You have been spending a lot of time with me these past few months. It's not all because of any guilt you felt because I had to see your nightmares, was it?"
Ken blushed. "Well... maybe not entirely."
Mimi smiled coyly at him as she drew him into a hug. "Now what would you like to do?"
"Maybe... well..." Ken looked into her expectant eyes and instead of saying it, he kissed her deeply.
"Oh my..." Mimi breathed after the kiss ended. "I guess we can do that until we get hungry."
"And we are alone now," Ken replied with a small smile.
Mimi pointed at two people not far away who had been kissing too much to notice anything else. "As alone as we can be. And if they're still spying on us, let them see this is nothing more than a date." With that she drew him in for another passionate kiss.
--
Hikari blinked her eyes open, hearing her D-Terminal beep repeatedly. For it to be that insistent meant the message had a high priority. She reached over and picked up the digital device from the top of her dresser. She then stared at the message she got. Her hand seemingly moved on it's own, shaking the one next to her.
"Five more minutes," was the sleepy reply.
"I need your help, now," Hikari pleaded. "Where's Patamon?"
Daisuke sat up and hit his head on the Hikari's bedroom ceiling, as they were on the top bunk. "Ouch. What was it?"
"Where's Patamon?" Hikari repeated.
"You called?" the small digimon asked nervously poking his head into the room.
Hikari frowned. "Do you know where Tailmon is?"
"She just went in here a minute ago," Patamon replied.
Hikari jumped out of her bed. She began to search frantically.
"What's going on?" Daisuke wondered.
Hikari started to throw the boy's clothes at him. "Get dressed. I need your help. Tailmon took my digivice to the Digital World." She then started put her underwear on.
Patamon had been blushing since the girl jumped down. "Huh? Why would she go there without us?" he asked in surprise.
"That's what I need to find out," Hikari replied desperately, as she finished putting her clothes back on.
Daisuke hopped of the bed. "All right, let's go."
--
Sora blearily opened her eyes while someone was shaking her, slowly realizing she had fallen asleep on the couch while reading.
"Why are you reading THIS?" Mrs. Takenouchi held up a book about pregnancy.
Sora pouted. "I was going to tell you as soon as I knew SOMETHING."
Mrs. Takenouchi folded her arms. "What do you mean by that? Are you pregnant?"
Sora gave a shallow nod. "I am, but that's about ALL I know. Even after talking to a doctor, I don't know if the baby is Yamato's or Taichi's. He thinks I should've gotten pregnant right between the times I was with Taichi and she was with Yamato."
"Why haven't you just done something about it?" Mrs. Takenouchi questioned. "YOU can't possibly want this baby."
Sora looked away. "I'm not sure I buy into the whole soul goes into the baby at birth. Maybe I've just listened too much to the priest at Church the few times I've been there... but I don't know. There may be a reason for this. A destiny this child is supposed to have. The fact I got pregnant off peak so I can't tell who the father is. And that the baby will have the power to be a Chosen. I don't know what having an abortion will do."
Mrs. Takenouchi glared while folding her arms. "My daughter wanted a baby, didn't she?"
Sora nodded. "Yeah. Even though there's been no protest to the idea, I still fear that if I end this, I won't be forgiven."
Mrs. Takenouchi sat down next to the girl, a mix of emotions playing across her face. "Do you even know what you're getting into?"
"Not a clue," Sora admitted.
"If they find the cure soon, you may have to wait until after giving birth to use it," Mrs. Takenouchi pointed out.
"I know." Sora sagged. "But do I really have the right to end this baby because it's inconvenient to me? This is something that was wanted. If your daughter was sitting here, there would've been no question, she would've kept it regardless who the father was."
Mrs. Takenouchi frowned deeply. "Have you told anyone about this?"
"Taichi was the first to know, and I was forced to tell Yamato in front of the other Chosen," Sora admitted. "None of the other parents know yet."
Mrs. Takenouchi closed her eyes. "I'm not going to lie and say I'm happy about this. I'm very disappointed. Sora always claimed she didn't want to be stuck running my flower business. With this, there won't be a choice. You won't be going back to school after winter break."
"At least there's that bright side to this," Sora joked weakly.
--
Mrs. Yagami gazed at the teen wearing her son's face with concern, wondering why he was asking to talk to both her and her husband. What ever it was, it obviously wasn't a small concern.
"I should just be Taichi with this." The boy's posture became stiff. "A while ago I made a promise that even if we were stuck this way, I would still make Sora a Yagami. I intend to keep that promise."
Mr. Yagami frowned. "There's no cure?"
Taichi shook his head. "There's a method to switch us back. In December I plan on leading a team into a sub-dimension to free a digimon we know who has the power to fix us. I would like to marry her or at least make my intention for marriage clear before that."
"How dangerous is this mission to free this digimon?" Mrs. Yagami fretted.
"We'll be walking into a middle of a war that has raged for many years," Taichi reluctantly replied. "I won't be taking any unnecessary risks as I will have the one I love waiting for me here."
Mrs. Yagami blinked. "Why wouldn't Sora go with you? Won't you need her help?"
Taichi closed his eyes and bowed his head. "Because she's carrying my child."
"WHAT?!" both parents cried out.
"Sora's pregnant, but we're still not sure if I'm the father or the mother," Taichi explained.
"And why haven't you taken care of it already?" Mr. Yagami asked.
Mrs. Yagami slapped him. "That's no answer."
"Are you kidding? You're asking our SON to give birth to a baby he might've had no part in making?" Mr. Yagami shot back.
"Unless we find a reason not to, Sora will be keeping the baby, even if it is Yamato's, though she hopes it's mine," Taichi told them firmly. "Beyond our feelings on the matter, the baby will be a Chosen. We do not know what ending the pregnancy will cause. We don't want to risk that our baby is needed in the future and because it came too soon, we ended it."
"So you're going to leave a girl who is pregnant because of you to free a digimon who can cure you. And what if you have to wait because she's pregnant?" Mr. Yagami yelled at the boy.
"That's why I want to at least make my intentions clear before then." Taichi held his hand to his chest. "I don't want her to feel she's alone in this even when I'm off on that mission."
"We'll see what we can do about that," Mrs. Yagami pledged. She then made the boy look her in the eyes. "Hikari is going as well, isn't she?"
"Yes. I'm afraid she might be needed more for this mission than I will be," Taichi replied.
"Have you given any thoughts to engagement rings?" Mrs. Yagami asked.
Taichi nodded. "I was planning on meeting with a digimon blacksmith this weekend. The only question I had was if I was going to make them as wedding bands instead."
Mr. Yagami stood up and marched for the door.
"Where are you going?" Mrs. Yagami demanded.
"The bar!" Mr. Yagami snapped before slamming the door on his way out.
--
"I love that I don't have to hide anymore," Armadimon chirped as he set a tray on a table at McWonder Burger.
"I'm not sure I like all the attention you get," Sayuri added as she sat next to the digimon.
"They're just Odaiba's special celebrities now," Iori commented while glancing over at V-mon telling a bit of a story to some kids.
Sayuri motioned toward the window. "I could do without the cameras."
"They just want to be the first to reveal another Chosen," Takeru commented, not happy with the paparazzi stalking him. "They know there are more than me and the others who came forward at the concert."
"Thank you, 'Captain Obvious,'" Iori groused.
Yume giggled. "It's still so weird to hear sarcasm from you."
"People change," Iori returned with a shrug.
"Can't something be done about those so-called reporters?" Sayuri questioned. "They've even wrote about Yume being your girlfriend. And really how is putting a black bar over her eyes in a picture where she's in her wheelchair in front of our school 'protecting her identity?' She's the only person in the whole school stuck in one."
"Well, we're definitely getting to learn how bad the attention can be," Takeru commented.
"It'll blow over as soon as something else catches their attention," Iori added. "Sure they're writing a bunch of crap now, tomorrow they'll be talking about the latest celebrity wedding."
"Digimon may be the story of the week, and it may be something else next week, but they won't stay away. Once a digimon attacks, more Chosen step forward, or something goes on with the ones who already have and they'll be back to following Takaishi and everyone he knows," Sayuri pointed out bitterly.
"She does have a point," Yume agreed. "But it's going to be an occupational hazard. To be near digimon is to have the extra attention."
Iori nodded. "All this talk isn't going to get us to the movie faster."
"Right." Takeru turned. "Come on, V-mon. Food is getting cold."
"Sorry, heroes need to eat if they want to get big and strong!" V-mon told his fans before rushing to the table.
--
Hikari emerged from the Digital World via her computer. She glanced sadly as the portal program shut down. She then slowly walked out of her bedroom.
"Just in time for diner," Mrs. Yagami greeted.
"Tailmon still in the Digital World?" Sora asked, while helping set the table.
Hikari nodded, fidgeting a little as she moved to sit down at the diner table. "She'll need to be there for some time."
"There's no reason to be upset. Tailmon has been in our world for so long, she probably needs to be in the Digital World," Sora told her.
"That's not exactly the reason I'm bothered by this. It's more, well... WHY she needs to stay in the Digital World," Hikari replied.
"I thought there would be more to it with her suddenly deciding to go there," Taichi commented.
"The issue can't be any worse than the mess with your siblings," Mr. Yagami groused.
"Huh?" Hikari blinked.
"I already told them I'm going to be a parent," Taichi informed.
"And he wants to marry me before December break," Sora added. "Should first at least find out if the baby has any birth defects."
"You're keeping the baby?" Hikari chirped in surprise. She then let out a breath. "Thank goodness."
"It's good to think positive of it," Mrs. Yagami commented, placing a dish at the center of the table.
"I'm hoping there is an issue that makes you end this stupidity," Mr. Yagami growled out.
Hikari gave her father a sad smile. "I doubt there will any problems."
"How can you be sure of that?" Mr. Yagami demanded.
"Well, it is tied into why Tailmon is in the Digital World." She turned to look at Sora intently. "Tailmon has produced an egg. Gennai and Koushiro scanned it, and it looks like it's connected to you, Sora."
"Greymon isn't going to like hearing that," Taichi commented.
Sora folded her arms. "Now that Birdramon has already slept with him, I doubt she's going to stop."
"What else do you know about the egg?" Taichi wondered.
"Tailmon believes the egg has Wizarmon's soul, and Gennai has mentioned that is a possibility. Otherwise, we don't know anything. Can't even be sure what trait they'll have," Hikari answered.
Mr. Yagami frowned deeply. "With the baby already having a partner...?"
"The chance of me having an abortion has gone down to almost zero," Sora replied. "Only a serious birth defect would make me end it."
"Just fucking wonderful." Mr. Yagami leaned back. "Dear, can you get..." He stopped as his wife was already holding out a beer for him. "Thanks."
--
"Well everything seems to be progressing smoothly," the doctor intoned as he looked at the monitor.
"That's good." Sora tried not to squirm too much while he had a cold rod shoved into her to get the ultrasound image. She was really wishing she had opted for the one took readings from over the stomach even if it wasn't nearly as accurate. "So how far along does the baby look to be?"
"Hard to say. We can already see some hair, yet the ears are still a little low." The doctor shrugged. "But as I told you before, nature has it's own pace. She's got some aspects of being sixteen weeks, and others at twelve. Doesn't mean there's anything wrong. Though if she is less than fourteen weeks, she's going to have some head of hair when she comes out."
"So she's going to have a girl?" Mrs. Takenouchi asked, gazing intently at the monitor.
"Probably." The doctor nodded, knowing that Sora wanted to know the sex of the baby. "The little girl isn't shy at all facing toward the ultrasound. At this stage I can't be completely certain, but from what I see the baby looks to be a girl."
"Still no firm answers," Sora laughed bitterly. "Well, if the father is Taichi, really not surprised about the hair or the lack of shyness."
"With this I really can't rule out the possibility of the baby being conceived only eleven weeks ago, making this the end of the first trimester. I still think you're further along than that, just not necessarily sixteen weeks," the doctor explained. "I suppose you'll be keeping the baby."
"Unless some test gives me reason not to," Sora replied.
"Well, I'd suggest you come back in two weeks so we can run the triple-screen test for birth defects and we can check the progress of the baby."
"Will this be a bi-weekly deal?" Sora wondered.
The doctor laughed. "After the next appointment, the following one would be a month later for another ultrasound. With that one we'll be more certain how well the baby is developing, if there will be any major birth defects, and more precisely tell when the due date really should be."
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Chapter Nineteen - Everybody's Business
By: Lord Archive
Digimon belongs to Toei Animation and Akiyoshi Hongo. They are used without permission or the intent of profit. All rights reserved.
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Takeru's Journal:
The pregnancy, going public, Yamato's band's big break, and discovering Xuanwumon's seal all happening at once gave us a lot to deal with at one time.
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Sora sat on the examination chair nervously waiting for the doctor's return. Less than nine weeks and the baby would be Taichi's, over twelve Yamato's. Well, maybe eleven weeks if her time in the Digital World slowed the rate of growth. Perhaps he found something wrong with the baby and she'd need to abort it anyway.
Sora picked up a magazine to distract herself. She frowned at the articles in it about her and her friends. One gave a rather incomplete time line of their adventures, though it included some information she didn't think anyone who wasn't a Chosen would know about. Others held wild speculations, particularly concerning Yamato. And this was an entertainment magazine, not some tabloid garbage. There were even pictures she didn't know existed of her and her friends in this. It was like stepping forward had released the shackles on the media, and now they were going to dump all the stories they had stored up over the years all at once.
Sora then jumped when she heard a middle-aged man clear his throat.
"Sorry to disturb you, but I thought you'd like to get this over with," the doctor told her with a smirk.
Sora laughed nervously. "Yeah, I can read this bullshit later."
"All right, Takenouchi-san, I have a few more questions for you, though I must say I'm surprised you're putting so much effort into a pregnancy you claim you don't know if you'll keep the baby. Most girls your age would be running for the abortion clinic," the doctor related.
"Things are a bit complicated for me," Sora replied.
"Would it have something to do with my receptionist talking about how you're supposedly some pop star's ex-girlfriend and have a digimon?" the doctor asked.
Sora picked up the magazine and held up a picture of herself that was in it. "I hope she understands patient privacy. Or at least doesn't know why I'm here."
The doctor blinked. "I thought..." He shook his head. "I will remind her. If your situation gets out and she's responsible, she'll need a new job." He then coughed. "Anyway, can you tell me when your last period was?"
Sora pouted. "Sometime around July 21st, I think."
"Were your periods regular?" the doctor continued.
"More or less." Sora sighed. "They were every four to five weeks. But after almost three months of not having one, I started to get worried."
"Apparently for good reason." The doctor jotted down information onto her file. "Don't see anything to offset this. So we'll mark July 21st as the start point."
Sora pouted. "Is that when... 'I' conceived?" She couldn't remember having sex during the middle of that week, but she had also needed help from Taichi and Yamato to even know roughly when her last period was.
"Probably not. It's been standard procedure for a long time to start the count from the last period. While we can get a general idea from fetal growth about how long the pregnancy actually is, truth is nature has it's own pace. Some will develop faster than others. So I can't give you an exact date of conception, just a best guess," the doctor explained.
"At this point I could use even that," Sora returned.
The doctor shrugged. "Well if your last period was July 21th, and your periods are four to five weeks, I suspect you would've been most fertile during the week of August 8th."
"Doesn't help. I didn't have sex that week. I was last with one guy July 31st and then started to make love to another guy August 22nd," Sora related.
"And hence the issue of trying to pin down dates. Are you sure you didn't have sex between those dates?" the doctor questioned.
"Unless I was raped in my sleep, and he cleaned me up afterwards, still without waking me, no," Sora snapped.
"I see." The doctor rubbed his chin. "With your current progress. I'd have to guess the one in July."
"But you're not sure," Sora pressed.
"Sorry, I wish I could be more definite. As we track fetal growth we may get a better idea, only a paternity test will tell for certain," the doctor informed her. "For now, all I can say is your due date looks to be at the end of April."
"Why can't anything ever be easy?" Sora muttered to herself.
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Taichi climb over the barren landscape to finally come to the center of Xuanwumon's seal where various children, digimon, and a Gennai clone were busy working on various computers and machinery. "Any progress?"
Koushiro looked. "Finally someone that speaks Japanese. I've had to put Ayashi's English lessons to good use."
"Hear she's been doing more than keeping your mouth busy," Taichi teased.
"I wish. For some reason people think just because I got engaged to Miyako for 'screwing her,' I got out of it by screwing Ayashi." Koushiro frowned. "Then again Ayashi might be behind that rumor, even though we've done nothing."
"The player of Obaiba Junior High is a virgin." Taichi smirked. "Sad thing is this bullshit doesn't end with school."
"Tabloid issues?" Koushiro guessed.
"Apparently we have orgies in the Digital World with inhuman digimon," Taichi replied in a joking yet disbelieving tone. "Oh, and can't forget Hikari is pregnant and doesn't have a clue who the father is."
"Wow they really do make shit up out of nothing. Hikari is still a virgin, isn't she?" Koushiro returned.
Taichi nodded. "Any boy that tries would have to face her angry brother and sister."
"Any news about Sora?" Koushiro wondered.
"Yeah, she's not always involved in the threesomes with Yamato and me," Taichi quipped. "At least as far as tabloids goes. But with what's really going on, we still don't know who the father is. Her doctor thought she got pregnant about ten weeks ago, over two weeks after sleeping with Yamato and more than a week before being with me. He gives the odds to being Yamato. We asked Jyou if the doctor is an idiot. Apparently he's just honest, another doctor might've told us differently, even saying 'for certain' whether Yamato or I'm the father, but in truth the margin of error with current information they can't be certain. Sora's trips to the Digital World not helping with that as no one knows what that could do to the baby."
Koushiro frowned. "I'd put my bet on you."
"Any reason why?" Taichi wondered.
Koushiro looked away. "Something happened while in the labyrinth. We had gotten lost inside another maze filled with mirrors of time. Gaze into a mirror and the reflection changes to a potential future. A couple times I saw you married to Sora and one of them was rather clear that she still had Taichi's soul and was rather pregnant."
Taichi raised an eyebrow. "Why didn't you say anything about that before?"
"There were good futures and bad ones. There is no true destiny for us. Though some things still seem predetermined." Koushiro smiled sheepishly. "My first child will be a girl. Any future I saw that included me being a parent included a daughter. Her looks may change slightly from different mothers, but so long as I'm not dead, she will be born. Other than that, nothing was consistent. Whether the girl was an only child or the oldest of four. If I remained Miyako or was able to switch back. Even if I died young or lived to eighty. Or anything else." He then sighed. "And some of those worlds I saw... I really don't want to talk about, and neither does Miyako."
"Anything I should look out for?" Taichi wondered.
Koushiro gazed at him with serious eyes. "If I ever go 'Kaiser,' put me down."
Taichi folded his arms. "If you went truly evil, you'd probably kill me first as not only would you take out War Greymon, you prevent Omegamon and Imperial Dramon Paladin Modes from being options as well."
"Right now, I'd set it up to take out Sora, Hikari, Ken and you all at once, maybe Yamato as well. Houomon's healing ability would be overly troublesome, Hikari's powers would certainly be of great concern, and the rest due to combat potential." Koushiro shook his head. "Best not to dwell on that."
"Right." Taichi nodded. "And back to what I asked when I got here, 'any progress?'"
Koushiro slowly shook his head. "Afraid we've made no real progress. We're working on making a probe to try to find out the basics of Xuanwumon's dimension, like time flow, in case we decide to send a team of Chosen to help. Earliest we'd do that is during winter break in December."
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"Hey," Yamato greeted as he saw Sora waiting for him outside of the recording studio.
"We need to talk somewhere without ears," Sora told him in a low voice.
"Digital World?" Yamato questioned.
"Nope! Birdramon air," Piyomon chirped before evolving to the giant fire bird.
While there were a few gasps and looks of surprise, there were also numerous flashes of cameras and cellphones pointed to take pictures of the large digimon.
Sora grabbed onto one of Birdramon's talons and Yamato joined her, holding the girl tightly as they took to the air. They did not go far, merely the roof of the recording studio.
After landing, the Chosen moved away from the fire bird, but Yamato did not let her go. He had a good guess as to why she wanted to talk alone. "I'm the father, aren't I?"
"Sixty forty currently, with you favored," Sora replied. "The doctor thinks I'm farther along than I should be if it was Taichi's. However, at the point I should've conceived was during the week before the Piemon battle and I sure as hell didn't get pregnant then. Closest I came to being with a guy was having a rather vivid dream of you taking this body's virginity."
Yamato nodded slowly. "I see. And because that timing is off, you can't be certain until a paternity test, can you?"
"I've scheduled an ultrasound in two weeks, which may help to answer the question. However, about the only question that we should know then, unless I'm much less pregnant than they think, is the baby's sex." Sora shook her head. "Even then, as my doctor said, nature has it's own pace, we may find my supposed conception still being after you and before Taichi."
Yamato gazed at the girl and then reached out and grabbed her by the face and kissed her soundly. "I love you, you know," he told her in all seriousness. "In fact, I loved you, Taichi, before I fell for Sora. I want to stand by your side forever."
"You have no idea how much I want to punch you right now," Sora replied softly.
"Are you sure that's what you really want to do?" Yamato returned.
"This body is having other ideas, which is the reason why I want to punch you," Sora growled. "Look, this is not the time to be confusing me with this."
Yamato took a step back and appraised the girl. "I don't think you're confused at all. Scared? Sure, but not confused."
"Why should I be scared?" Sora shot back.
Yamato poked her in the stomach. "Because you're going to be a mother. I know you, both of 'you.' You've made the decision already to keep the baby, even if it's mine."
"But I haven't decided," Sora insisted.
"Taichi never puts that much thought into any decision, and Sora certainly knows what it means to sacrifice and take risks. If you were going to have an abortion, you would've done it already," Yamato retorted. "The only way you'd change your mind is if keeping my baby means losing Taichi."
"I know him. Know him better than anyone. He'd never leave me," Sora asserted with fists clenched.
Yamato nodded with a deep frown. "Which is why you're going to be a mother. If Taichi left you now for any reason other than stepping aside for you to be with me, he wouldn't be someone I love as well."
Sora bowed her head. "You know that I don't love you that way. You were always my best friend, a brother. This body may still love you, but my soul just can't accept it."
Yamato leaned forward and kissed her forehead. "Be good to each other."
Sora nodded and walked back to Birdramon slowly. She grabbed onto a talon and held tight as her partner flew off with her.
Yamato watched them disappear into the distance, tears he would refuse to admit he shed falling from his eyes.
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"You can almost forget you're in the middle of a huge city here," Ken commented as he walked next to Mimi through New York's Central Park.
Mimi nodded. "Even in the heart of an island of concrete, nature can still flourish."
"How have you burph-" Ken was interrupted by the girl's hand on his mouth.
"What did I say before?" Mimi demanded sweetly.
Ken shrugged hopelessly. When the hand was removed, he still questioned, "I was just go to ask... how are you feeling?"
"Not... going... to... answer," Mimi replied, poking the tip of his nose with each word. "Today I want to enjoy myself. I don't want to think about anything."
"You're running away from what's troubling you," Ken pointed out.
"I know it's not going to just go away, but can't I have just one day of being a normal girl once in a while?" Mimi questioned seriously.
Ken frowned. "Can we ever be 'normal?'"
"Maybe not completely 'normal,' but we can at least pretend," Mimi asserted. "Now would you like to see a movie, go to a museum, or something else?"
Ken sighed. "Whatever you want to do."
"I don't know, that's why I'm asking you," Mimi returned.
Ken folded his arms. "I suppose were just going to wonder around the park until we get hungry and still not decide what we're going to do."
Mimi giggled. "I'm fine with that."
"How safe is the park?" Ken questioned in a low voice.
Mimi leaned in close to him. "During the day usually rather safe except for the random pick-pocket. It's only late at night when not many people are around you'd really have to worry."
"Maybe so, but we're being followed," Ken told her.
"I noticed." Mimi grabbed the boy by the hand and pulled him into a run off the path they were on and into a group of bushes and trees. It did not escape either of them that their stalker chased after them.
The man cursed as he came to a clearing and saw no sign of the kids until he was put into a painful arm lock from behind.
"Who are you?" Mimi demanded as she came out of hiding.
"Nobody! Please don't mug me!" the man pleaded.
"You were the one following us," Ken intoned, gripping the man's arm tighter. "We want to know why."
"This is just a misunderstanding," the man told them.
"Then explain yourself," Ken ordered.
"I'm a member of DTA," he told them.
"I suppose you don't mean 'Department of Theater Arts,' do you?" Mimi questioned.
The man sagged. "Digital Threat Assessment."
"I see." Mimi gazed into the man's eyes. "And why were you so insistent on following us? You had to know we'd spot you by being as close as you were."
"The increased activity of you children has my superiors worried. You've been spotted repeatedly in Tokyo while he's here illegally as well. Then there's the token military kid being spotted in Brazil. And that's not even counting how you kids have been disappearing for hours at a time from around the world," the man returned.
Mimi put her hands on her hips. "You know you could've just asked. And why don't you know much of that from James's reports?"
"We're supposed to maintain a hands off approach. We weren't supposed to follow you or come in contact. The recent activity has forced our hands, especially since the military isn't forth coming with information," the man returned.
Ken let go of the man. "Is there anything wrong with just visiting some of the other kids?"
Mimi nodded with a smile. "James has gone to Brazil to be with his new girlfriend, nothing more. Just as Ken is here today to be on a date with me."
Ken began to blush deeply.
"You can't tell me all that activity is because of socializing. Portal activity in the past month is up over three hundred percent," the man retorted.
Ken frowned. "There is something else going on. We've discovered a sub-dimension and we're currently running a threat assessment on it. I can't really tell you more than that. We've got those of us with the strongest digimon on call in case trouble happens. And if it does, it would hit the Digital World first and foremost. If there would be any spill over on Earth, it would start in the middle nowhere of Alaska."
The man nodded. "Thank you." He started to walk away.
"You still plan on spying on us, don't you?" Mimi questioned.
The man laughed. "In my line of work, you trust no one. If you have reason to warn us about something, just state calmly into your cellphone 'DTA Digimon Digital World threat' and we'll contact you." He then walked off.
Ken glanced at the girl. "Why did you say we're on a date?"
"Aren't we?" Mimi pouted at him. "You have been spending a lot of time with me these past few months. It's not all because of any guilt you felt because I had to see your nightmares, was it?"
Ken blushed. "Well... maybe not entirely."
Mimi smiled coyly at him as she drew him into a hug. "Now what would you like to do?"
"Maybe... well..." Ken looked into her expectant eyes and instead of saying it, he kissed her deeply.
"Oh my..." Mimi breathed after the kiss ended. "I guess we can do that until we get hungry."
"And we are alone now," Ken replied with a small smile.
Mimi pointed at two people not far away who had been kissing too much to notice anything else. "As alone as we can be. And if they're still spying on us, let them see this is nothing more than a date." With that she drew him in for another passionate kiss.
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Hikari blinked her eyes open, hearing her D-Terminal beep repeatedly. For it to be that insistent meant the message had a high priority. She reached over and picked up the digital device from the top of her dresser. She then stared at the message she got. Her hand seemingly moved on it's own, shaking the one next to her.
"Five more minutes," was the sleepy reply.
"I need your help, now," Hikari pleaded. "Where's Patamon?"
Daisuke sat up and hit his head on the Hikari's bedroom ceiling, as they were on the top bunk. "Ouch. What was it?"
"Where's Patamon?" Hikari repeated.
"You called?" the small digimon asked nervously poking his head into the room.
Hikari frowned. "Do you know where Tailmon is?"
"She just went in here a minute ago," Patamon replied.
Hikari jumped out of her bed. She began to search frantically.
"What's going on?" Daisuke wondered.
Hikari started to throw the boy's clothes at him. "Get dressed. I need your help. Tailmon took my digivice to the Digital World." She then started put her underwear on.
Patamon had been blushing since the girl jumped down. "Huh? Why would she go there without us?" he asked in surprise.
"That's what I need to find out," Hikari replied desperately, as she finished putting her clothes back on.
Daisuke hopped of the bed. "All right, let's go."
--
Sora blearily opened her eyes while someone was shaking her, slowly realizing she had fallen asleep on the couch while reading.
"Why are you reading THIS?" Mrs. Takenouchi held up a book about pregnancy.
Sora pouted. "I was going to tell you as soon as I knew SOMETHING."
Mrs. Takenouchi folded her arms. "What do you mean by that? Are you pregnant?"
Sora gave a shallow nod. "I am, but that's about ALL I know. Even after talking to a doctor, I don't know if the baby is Yamato's or Taichi's. He thinks I should've gotten pregnant right between the times I was with Taichi and she was with Yamato."
"Why haven't you just done something about it?" Mrs. Takenouchi questioned. "YOU can't possibly want this baby."
Sora looked away. "I'm not sure I buy into the whole soul goes into the baby at birth. Maybe I've just listened too much to the priest at Church the few times I've been there... but I don't know. There may be a reason for this. A destiny this child is supposed to have. The fact I got pregnant off peak so I can't tell who the father is. And that the baby will have the power to be a Chosen. I don't know what having an abortion will do."
Mrs. Takenouchi glared while folding her arms. "My daughter wanted a baby, didn't she?"
Sora nodded. "Yeah. Even though there's been no protest to the idea, I still fear that if I end this, I won't be forgiven."
Mrs. Takenouchi sat down next to the girl, a mix of emotions playing across her face. "Do you even know what you're getting into?"
"Not a clue," Sora admitted.
"If they find the cure soon, you may have to wait until after giving birth to use it," Mrs. Takenouchi pointed out.
"I know." Sora sagged. "But do I really have the right to end this baby because it's inconvenient to me? This is something that was wanted. If your daughter was sitting here, there would've been no question, she would've kept it regardless who the father was."
Mrs. Takenouchi frowned deeply. "Have you told anyone about this?"
"Taichi was the first to know, and I was forced to tell Yamato in front of the other Chosen," Sora admitted. "None of the other parents know yet."
Mrs. Takenouchi closed her eyes. "I'm not going to lie and say I'm happy about this. I'm very disappointed. Sora always claimed she didn't want to be stuck running my flower business. With this, there won't be a choice. You won't be going back to school after winter break."
"At least there's that bright side to this," Sora joked weakly.
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Mrs. Yagami gazed at the teen wearing her son's face with concern, wondering why he was asking to talk to both her and her husband. What ever it was, it obviously wasn't a small concern.
"I should just be Taichi with this." The boy's posture became stiff. "A while ago I made a promise that even if we were stuck this way, I would still make Sora a Yagami. I intend to keep that promise."
Mr. Yagami frowned. "There's no cure?"
Taichi shook his head. "There's a method to switch us back. In December I plan on leading a team into a sub-dimension to free a digimon we know who has the power to fix us. I would like to marry her or at least make my intention for marriage clear before that."
"How dangerous is this mission to free this digimon?" Mrs. Yagami fretted.
"We'll be walking into a middle of a war that has raged for many years," Taichi reluctantly replied. "I won't be taking any unnecessary risks as I will have the one I love waiting for me here."
Mrs. Yagami blinked. "Why wouldn't Sora go with you? Won't you need her help?"
Taichi closed his eyes and bowed his head. "Because she's carrying my child."
"WHAT?!" both parents cried out.
"Sora's pregnant, but we're still not sure if I'm the father or the mother," Taichi explained.
"And why haven't you taken care of it already?" Mr. Yagami asked.
Mrs. Yagami slapped him. "That's no answer."
"Are you kidding? You're asking our SON to give birth to a baby he might've had no part in making?" Mr. Yagami shot back.
"Unless we find a reason not to, Sora will be keeping the baby, even if it is Yamato's, though she hopes it's mine," Taichi told them firmly. "Beyond our feelings on the matter, the baby will be a Chosen. We do not know what ending the pregnancy will cause. We don't want to risk that our baby is needed in the future and because it came too soon, we ended it."
"So you're going to leave a girl who is pregnant because of you to free a digimon who can cure you. And what if you have to wait because she's pregnant?" Mr. Yagami yelled at the boy.
"That's why I want to at least make my intentions clear before then." Taichi held his hand to his chest. "I don't want her to feel she's alone in this even when I'm off on that mission."
"We'll see what we can do about that," Mrs. Yagami pledged. She then made the boy look her in the eyes. "Hikari is going as well, isn't she?"
"Yes. I'm afraid she might be needed more for this mission than I will be," Taichi replied.
"Have you given any thoughts to engagement rings?" Mrs. Yagami asked.
Taichi nodded. "I was planning on meeting with a digimon blacksmith this weekend. The only question I had was if I was going to make them as wedding bands instead."
Mr. Yagami stood up and marched for the door.
"Where are you going?" Mrs. Yagami demanded.
"The bar!" Mr. Yagami snapped before slamming the door on his way out.
--
"I love that I don't have to hide anymore," Armadimon chirped as he set a tray on a table at McWonder Burger.
"I'm not sure I like all the attention you get," Sayuri added as she sat next to the digimon.
"They're just Odaiba's special celebrities now," Iori commented while glancing over at V-mon telling a bit of a story to some kids.
Sayuri motioned toward the window. "I could do without the cameras."
"They just want to be the first to reveal another Chosen," Takeru commented, not happy with the paparazzi stalking him. "They know there are more than me and the others who came forward at the concert."
"Thank you, 'Captain Obvious,'" Iori groused.
Yume giggled. "It's still so weird to hear sarcasm from you."
"People change," Iori returned with a shrug.
"Can't something be done about those so-called reporters?" Sayuri questioned. "They've even wrote about Yume being your girlfriend. And really how is putting a black bar over her eyes in a picture where she's in her wheelchair in front of our school 'protecting her identity?' She's the only person in the whole school stuck in one."
"Well, we're definitely getting to learn how bad the attention can be," Takeru commented.
"It'll blow over as soon as something else catches their attention," Iori added. "Sure they're writing a bunch of crap now, tomorrow they'll be talking about the latest celebrity wedding."
"Digimon may be the story of the week, and it may be something else next week, but they won't stay away. Once a digimon attacks, more Chosen step forward, or something goes on with the ones who already have and they'll be back to following Takaishi and everyone he knows," Sayuri pointed out bitterly.
"She does have a point," Yume agreed. "But it's going to be an occupational hazard. To be near digimon is to have the extra attention."
Iori nodded. "All this talk isn't going to get us to the movie faster."
"Right." Takeru turned. "Come on, V-mon. Food is getting cold."
"Sorry, heroes need to eat if they want to get big and strong!" V-mon told his fans before rushing to the table.
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Hikari emerged from the Digital World via her computer. She glanced sadly as the portal program shut down. She then slowly walked out of her bedroom.
"Just in time for diner," Mrs. Yagami greeted.
"Tailmon still in the Digital World?" Sora asked, while helping set the table.
Hikari nodded, fidgeting a little as she moved to sit down at the diner table. "She'll need to be there for some time."
"There's no reason to be upset. Tailmon has been in our world for so long, she probably needs to be in the Digital World," Sora told her.
"That's not exactly the reason I'm bothered by this. It's more, well... WHY she needs to stay in the Digital World," Hikari replied.
"I thought there would be more to it with her suddenly deciding to go there," Taichi commented.
"The issue can't be any worse than the mess with your siblings," Mr. Yagami groused.
"Huh?" Hikari blinked.
"I already told them I'm going to be a parent," Taichi informed.
"And he wants to marry me before December break," Sora added. "Should first at least find out if the baby has any birth defects."
"You're keeping the baby?" Hikari chirped in surprise. She then let out a breath. "Thank goodness."
"It's good to think positive of it," Mrs. Yagami commented, placing a dish at the center of the table.
"I'm hoping there is an issue that makes you end this stupidity," Mr. Yagami growled out.
Hikari gave her father a sad smile. "I doubt there will any problems."
"How can you be sure of that?" Mr. Yagami demanded.
"Well, it is tied into why Tailmon is in the Digital World." She turned to look at Sora intently. "Tailmon has produced an egg. Gennai and Koushiro scanned it, and it looks like it's connected to you, Sora."
"Greymon isn't going to like hearing that," Taichi commented.
Sora folded her arms. "Now that Birdramon has already slept with him, I doubt she's going to stop."
"What else do you know about the egg?" Taichi wondered.
"Tailmon believes the egg has Wizarmon's soul, and Gennai has mentioned that is a possibility. Otherwise, we don't know anything. Can't even be sure what trait they'll have," Hikari answered.
Mr. Yagami frowned deeply. "With the baby already having a partner...?"
"The chance of me having an abortion has gone down to almost zero," Sora replied. "Only a serious birth defect would make me end it."
"Just fucking wonderful." Mr. Yagami leaned back. "Dear, can you get..." He stopped as his wife was already holding out a beer for him. "Thanks."
--
"Well everything seems to be progressing smoothly," the doctor intoned as he looked at the monitor.
"That's good." Sora tried not to squirm too much while he had a cold rod shoved into her to get the ultrasound image. She was really wishing she had opted for the one took readings from over the stomach even if it wasn't nearly as accurate. "So how far along does the baby look to be?"
"Hard to say. We can already see some hair, yet the ears are still a little low." The doctor shrugged. "But as I told you before, nature has it's own pace. She's got some aspects of being sixteen weeks, and others at twelve. Doesn't mean there's anything wrong. Though if she is less than fourteen weeks, she's going to have some head of hair when she comes out."
"So she's going to have a girl?" Mrs. Takenouchi asked, gazing intently at the monitor.
"Probably." The doctor nodded, knowing that Sora wanted to know the sex of the baby. "The little girl isn't shy at all facing toward the ultrasound. At this stage I can't be completely certain, but from what I see the baby looks to be a girl."
"Still no firm answers," Sora laughed bitterly. "Well, if the father is Taichi, really not surprised about the hair or the lack of shyness."
"With this I really can't rule out the possibility of the baby being conceived only eleven weeks ago, making this the end of the first trimester. I still think you're further along than that, just not necessarily sixteen weeks," the doctor explained. "I suppose you'll be keeping the baby."
"Unless some test gives me reason not to," Sora replied.
"Well, I'd suggest you come back in two weeks so we can run the triple-screen test for birth defects and we can check the progress of the baby."
"Will this be a bi-weekly deal?" Sora wondered.
The doctor laughed. "After the next appointment, the following one would be a month later for another ultrasound. With that one we'll be more certain how well the baby is developing, if there will be any major birth defects, and more precisely tell when the due date really should be."
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