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CHAPTER 1

It has been 10 months since the outbreak. Kohta, Rei, Hisashi, Alice, Zeke, and Rika were waiting outside the room making sure that none of "them" would be attracted to the scream of Saeko. No one really expected this situation to happen especially when the world is being overrun by dead human coming back to life to eat a fresh human flesh. Of course everyone noticed the relationship between Takashi and Saeko grew with each passing day that it is only a matter of time before something happened between them. But in this case no one expected it to happen so suddenly. Not when they just started to admit their feelings for each other.

"I sure hope that no one would hear Saeko-san's scream or we'll be in big trouble." Rika said as she looked through the binoculars they managed to get in a camping store they passed by.

"Yeah, who would have thought Saeko of all people would be the first?" Hisashi agreed as he reached a bottle of water to Rei which she gladly accepted.

"Thanks." Rei said as she gulped some water to quench her thirst. "Takashi is a good man, he wouldn't decide on something so big like this if he didn't think of the circumstances that we are in." Rei smiled. Despite what happened these past few months and even before hell broke loose in their world she finally found a closure between the two of them.

Meanwhile…

"AHHHHHH! It hurts!" Saeko screamed as she felt intense pain course through her body. Takashi stood by her side to be her strength. Saeko took Takashi's hand. Takashi cleared her face from the sweat in building on her forehead and tucked the loose hair strands behind her ear. Then another wave of pain surged through her body and she screamed again from it while she held tightly to Takashi's hand. Takashi of course felt pain on his hand but didn't mind it. He has to stay strong and help Saeko get through with this until the end.

"It's going to be okay Saeko, just hang in there." Kiriko Miyamoto said as sat near Shizuka with a white clean cloth on her hand waiting for instructions.

"It's going to be alright." Hanabi Komuro said while she and Yuriko Takagi were preparing the makeshift bed for Saeko to stay in comfortably.

Saeko Busujima isn't the one to scream from pain. She learned to hide her emotions from her expressionless face and learned the hard way of discipline from the hands of a samurai master, her father. But this pain, this one she did not expect. It was intense that any moment she will pass out. She looked at Takashi who stayed by her side through all of this. She gave him a weak smile which in turn Takashi squeezed her hand as if saying 'You can get through this. I'm here for you.' Then with one last push from the pain she can hear sounds of crying. She didn't know what was happening around her. All she can hear is a distinct crying sound. She tried to lift her head to see what was going on. To see if he/she is okay. She smiled when she saw Shizuka-sensei was handing him/her to Takashi. She could see the happiness painted on Takashi's face as he held him/her towards her.

"Look Saeko, I was right. It's a he. I'm a dad and you are a mom!" Takashi said as he helped Saeko to carry their child.

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