That Idiot's Child
Chapter 12
"Alright, miss. If you'll just lie down here."
Haruhi took a deep breath as she shuddered a little from the cool air in the room, carefully seating herself on the table while all the time keeping a firm grip on Tamaki's hand, not being able to relax entirely.
"Now if you'll lift your shirt, miss, I'll be applying this crème on your belly. It's a bit cold. Just so you're warned." The lady nurse said with a reassuring smile and calming tone in her voice, clearly used to pregnant women being nervous at their first ultrasound, something Haruhi felt a tad relieved by. Looking over at Tamaki while the nurse was preparing the ultrasound machine, she gave him a nervous, yet anticipated look, a look that Tamaki returned, although his obvious excitement outshined everything else he was feeling at the moment. Knowing her palms were warm and sweaty, she sort of gave him an apologetic look as she didn't want to let go, instead held him tighter. He didn't seem to take any notice however, for he just gave her his warm and reassuring smile back, a smile that always made her feel better no matter what. Flinching a little, Haruhi let out a tiny whimper at the cold crème once it touched her belly, being slightly massaged around her bellybutton by the nurse.
"What's that for?" Haruhi couldn't help but to ask, really having no idea as to how the procedure went, never having been interested in learning about it during her indifferent self in the past.
"This crème makes it easier for me to see the baby through this machine. It's alright, you can wipe it off as soon as we're done." the nurse said with a smile, somehow amused as it'd been the first time she'd ever received that question.
"Really? That's amazing!" Tamaki suddenly said that made Haruhi blush a little due to his excitement, giving him somewhat of a stern look, though only to catch the glittering in his eyes as his anticipation clearly were growing by the second. Rolling her eyes slightly at this, she decided to leave him be as she had enough to handle with her own nerves.
Turning on a the monitor right next to the table she was laid on, the nurse scooted her chair closer to Haruhi again while holding an instrument of some sort, that she carefully placed on top of her belly, and with slow movements, started circling around and back and forth over her belly.
"Now if you both take a look at the monitor screen, we'll see what we can find." the nurse said while continuing the circling movements, gesturing for them to keep their eyes on the screen.
Feeling her heart beat rapidly in her chest, Haruhi kept her stare on the screen as she really didn't know what to expect, hardly daring to blink as she saw the green waves or whatever they were slowly starting to go back and forth and taking a form of some sort, though so far she found it impossible to make anything out of it. Hearing as nothing was coming from Tamaki as he was too excited to speak, she kept peeking over at the nurse, somehow hoping she wouldn't catch any hints of worry or anything alarming in general in her expression.
"Well…" Haruhi managed to say, "… do you see anything…?"
"Hang on, almost now…" the nurse replied without removing her gaze from the screen, making Haruhi grow nervous to the point she felt it was almost unbearable. What was taking so long?
"And there… you go. That's the heart beating, see?"
Haruhi felt her own heart skip a beat at that, quickly looking back at the screen to see a beating movement in a shape of something small, surrounded by what looked like that of an infant's body.
"Oh, my God…" she heard herself unconsciously uttering as she fastened her stare onto that of her child's beating heart. Not noticing the hand she was holding slowly slipped from her hand, her stare abruptly got interrupted when a loud thud made her flinch and jerk her head towards the source of the sound, only to see that Tamaki was lying fainted on the floor.
"Oh, jeez…" she said with a sigh, having actually expected something like this to happen.
"Oh my God, what happened?" the nurse shouted while quickly placing the instrument back at the table to check out Tamaki's state, making her way to him and slightly shaking at him to find that he was halfway awake, just rather left in a blissful daze.
"Don't worry too much, he's just got a low blood pressure." Haruhi said calmly while the nurse carefully held onto Tamaki's arm as he slowly got up, leaning on the table Haruhi was laid on while giving her an expression mixed of both happiness and shock, causing her to blush somehow. Being assured he was really alright, the nurse sat back at her chair, finding back to the baby again with the instrument, somehow giving the two a weird look at the corner of her eye as she thought this was really one of the oddest couple she'd had in here.
"That's…" Tamaki said while looking back and forth between Haruhi and the monitor screen, tears already forming in his eyes that she couldn't help but to let out a little scoff at, "… our child. Right there, it's the heart. It's beating. It's really beating…!" Tamaki kept saying in an excited, yet careful voice, grabbing a hold of Haruhi's hand again as she just nodded in reply, staring slightly teary eyed herself at the infant silhouette on the screen.
"…that child is a blend of me and Tamaki… what a strange thought…" she couldn't help but to think, somehow feeling a tad weirded out by.
"So…" the nurse said, to get the two's attention again, "… do you want to know what gender it is?"
Both Haruhi and Tamaki felt their hearts skipping a beat at that, looking over at the nurse with somewhat shocked expressions, not realizing how much they for a moment resembled each other, even more so to the nurse's amusement.
"You mean… you can tell that? Now?" Tamaki was the first to ask between the two, his questioning face matching that of Haruhi's.
"Why of course. If you'd been here earlier it might have a been a little harder, but when it's in the sixth month like now it's pretty clear, as long as the baby's in a normal position."
"And it is..?" Haruhi suddenly asked, sounding a bit more nervous than she intended.
"Haha, yes, miss. Everything looks perfectly normal. I see no abnormalities, so you can relax."
"And it's not…" Haruhi said then paused a little, considering she knew Tamaki might not like the question.
"… it's just one baby, right? I'm not having twins or anything?"
To that, she felt Tamaki slightly nudging at her hand.
"What would be wrong with twins?" he said with a slightly upset voice.
"Bingo." Haruhi thought, looking over at him.
"Haven't you had enough of twins for a lifetime?" she said with a sweatdrop, expecting the pouting expression appearing on his face.
"That's not the same… Hikaru and Kaoru are devils. Our kids will be sweet angels…"
"Before this turns into an argument, rest assured, miss, I only see one child. Besides, being this far in the pregnancy you would have probably figured yourself had there been more than one child in there, as your belly would have been a lot bigger."
"I don't know about that…" Haruhi mumbled, as she recalled just how she hadn't even realized the possibility of her being pregnant before having the issue addressed by her doctor, even though she'd had all the symptoms weeks before.
"So, I guess I'll repeat the question then: would you like to know the child's gender?"
Considering a bit, Haruhi sighed lightly while speaking up: "… well, I suppose we wouldn't mind…"
"Wait..!" Tamaki blurted out, clenching at Haruhi's hand, making her look over at him with a questioning stare.
"I don't'… I don't think I could take it… really… the thought is overwhelming…" he mumbled with a blush spreading across his face, clearly flustered and nervous at it all.
"If you want to know, Haruhi, that's alright… but I'd like to wait…isn't it kind of a tradition that the father doesn't know until the baby's born…?"
"You watch too many old movies…" Haruhi sighed before giving a smile and nodding at him.
"Ok, Tamaki. If you're fine with it, I'd like to know the gender. Why don't you go wait in the hallway in the meantime?"
To that, Tamaki pondered a little as he looked between Haruhi and the nurse, before lifting her hand to give it a kiss.
"Alright… I'll be waiting outside. Call me when I can come back inside again." he said while slowly standing up, giving a reluctant expression as he obviously regretted his decision a little.
"Sure…" Haruhi said with a smile, looking after him until he'd left the room, then turned herself towards the nurse to await the revelation.
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Having waited for what felt like forever, fiddling with his fingers in anticipation, Tamaki jumped up from his seat once he heard the door knob turning around, as Haruhi stepped out of the room together with the nurse.
"You're done already? Why didn't you tell me to come …"
"Calm down, Tamaki. What should I have called you in for? We were pretty much done." Haruhi said with a smile, a smile that Tamaki saw had a certain spark to it, revealing her knowing what gender their child was.
"If that would be all then, I have to rush to my next client. You got my number, miss Fujioka, so if there's anything at all in regards to the pregnancy you'd like to question or simply have a talk about, I'm just a phone call away. I wish you both the best of luck from here on." the nurse said with a kind gesture that both Haruhi and Tamaki returned before walking away to her next client.
"So…" Tamaki said with a slight blush, getting Haruhi's attention as she turned towards him with a questioning expression, that he somehow caught had a devious look to it.
"She told you the gender, then?"
"Why, yes, she did. Why? Do you regret not knowing? I can just tell you, you know." Haruhi said in a teasing tone, pretty much expecting Tamaki's reaction.
"No! I said I didn't want to know until it comes, and I'll stand by that. After all, I have an iron will…"
"That I'm sure you do. Just a pity then…" Haruhi said with a slight laugh, catching Tamaki's dumbfounded stare at that.
"What do you mean?"
"Oh well, I suppose you can't go shopping baby clothes with me, considering you'd know what gender it would be from seeing whether I'm buying pink or blue ones."
Having said that, Haruhi had to hold back a laugh at the expression of doom appearing on his face, tears immediately forming in his eyes that soon after started pouring.
"Bu… but…"
"Now, now, remember your 'iron will'. Don't worry, I'll make sure to hide away the clothes I buy so you can't come across them by accident, that is, if it wouldn't be by accident…"
"No, I…" Tamaki uttered while wiping away his tears, clenching his other hand into a fist while a determined look appeared on his face.
"I know I can manage! And I can still buy toys and such with you, can't I?"
"Of course you can. Actually I…" Haruhi paused as she hesitated a little, a faint blush appearing on her face when she thought through what she was about to say. "… I think we might need to take a trip down to the nearby mall now. I've got some things I have to buy…"
"Of course. What things?" Tamaki asked while joining Haruhi by her side as they started walking down the hallway to reach the exit door.
"Oh, just some random things I need for the kitchen…" she mumbled while avoiding looking at his face, relieved he didn't question her anymore as they got outside to meet with Tamaki's chauffeur, kindly taking them anywhere they wanted, though as usual to Haruhi's own embarrassment at being driven around a small town in a high class car. Some things about Tamaki and the Host Club in general would never quit embarrassing her, she thought.
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Peeking nervously around at the shop's shelves and hangers, Haruhi felt her blush and annoyance growing as she was lost at how to handle something she'd never really bothered so much with before; buying bras. Before she'd only owned about two or three pairs, which had been more than enough, and with her small breasts she hadn't need to look too long before she could just pick one of the smallest brands she could find. However now, this had changed.
She'd only noticed it a few weeks ago, but somehow, her breasts had been getting bigger. Slowly, but surely, her once so fitting and comfortable small bras were now getting tighter and harder to breath in. She wasn't so silly that she didn't know why. At least, she'd know enough to read about it to know why. Like with everything else it was the pregnancy.
"Because my breasts are preparing themselves for nursing, I get it. But why does it have to hurt as well?" she annoyingly thought while slightly rubbing at her aching breasts when she thought no one was looking. She hadn't told Tamaki about it, for the obvious reason that she was embarrassed, and somehow she'd managed to hide them growing under loose shirts and clothing in general. Even when making love she'd managed to convince Tamaki of keeping her nightgown on with the excuse of not wanting to have her belly exposed under the act, though much to Tamaki's own disappointment as he missed seeing her naked. The whole thing was ridiculous, she knew, but still, she didn't feel like telling him yet, not wanting to deal with an even more perverted Tamaki than before. Not that he was such a major one now, but it was obvious her breasts growing in size wouldn't exactly come as bad news.
"I guess it'll be these then." Haruhi uttered with annoyance while placing three pair of bras almost doubled the size she'd used to wear before on the payment desk in front of a smiling lady, almost too cheery for Haruhi's taste. Having paid for them, she met up with Tamaki who'd been told to wait for her by the nearby cafeteria, curiously peeking at her bag that she so awkwardly tried to hide from his sight.
"Come on, Haruhi! Why won't you tell me what you've got there?"
"No, and quit nagging or else I'll be walking home!" Haruhi frantically said while Tamaki kept hovering over her shoulders, trying to peek into the bags while walking their way towards the car.
"But why not? You said you were buying stuff for the kitchen. What about kitchen merchandise is so secretive?"
"Just… because! Ok? Now I won't be talking about it anymore." Haruhi uttered while cursing at herself for sounding so silly.
"Oooh, don't tell me, Haruhi. You've been buying naughty stuff? Kyaa." Tamaki said while suddenly giving her a playful hug from behind, grinning at her as her blush grew even bigger at that, desperately trying to tell him that it wasn't so while they reached to the car where she managed to convince him of not teasing her while the chauffeur could hear them.
"You're really too much sometime, you know." she annoyingly mumbled after they'd sat themselves in, to which Tamaki only chuckled in response with a 'I know' expression, obeying her request of staying quiet the short while it took to get back to their apartment.
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Having opened the front door all the way, Haruhi dropped her bags and jolted backwards onto Tamaki from shock when they were suddenly greeted by the entire Host Club and Mei yelling "SURPRISE!" at them.
"What the…" Haruhi exclaimed while still leaning onto Tamaki who she heard had let out a pretty surprised "Whoa" as well, accompanying their yell. Barely getting the time to question any of it, Mei had grabbed her by her wrist and pulled her away from Tamaki, paying him no attention as she dragged her against the couch while babbling on, while the twins however focused their main attention on Tamaki and pulled him alongside them to place on the couch as well.
"So now we're so curios!" Mei nearly shouted, accompanied by the twins nodding and grinning, all three sitting down on their knees in front of the couch, looking like kids waiting to get candy. Mori was sitting at the end of the couch with Honey leaning over the arm, Usa-chan as always safely kept under his arm. Kyouya as usual, leaned against the wall and put down the notebook he had been holding in his hands seemingly the whole time, though only to give Tamaki and Haruhi a nod before reverting his entire attention to whatever he was reading in it again.
"Wait… hang on a second!" Haruhi said while straightening out her hair that had been ruffled by the treatment, taking a quick glance at them all while wiping away some sweat from her forehead feeling a little exhausted due to the trip and now with the thought of having to deal with them all.
"First of all, how did you get in here? I'm pretty sure we locked the door…"
"Pfft, here's an advice to you both, or rather Tamaki, because I'm pretty sure he's the one to blame here."the twins said in unison while cocking their heads at Tamaki, Kaoru pulling out the key from beneath him and waving it in the air.
"You can be pretty certain that underneath the doormat is where a thief will be looking first. We had a feeling that was where we would find it… "
"Under the doormat? Tamaki!" Haruhi said annoyingly while fastening her stare onto him, who flinched at her gesture and raised his hands in defense while sweatdropping.
"I told you to hide it someplace clever, and you hid it under the doormat? In what world of yours was under the doormat a clever place to hide it?"
Haruhi had meant to say it in a continued annoyed manner, but ended up letting out the last parts as a sigh while leaning her back on the couch, not feeling entirely surprised.
"Alright, I'll be taking care of it from now on." she continued before he got a chance to respond, suddenly leaning forward again to yank it out of Kaoru's hold who flinched as he got surprised.
"I'm sorry, Haruhi… I thought it was…"
"Whatever! Haruhi's taking care of it, end of that discussion!" Mei yelled out loud to get their attention again.
"So to answer what I bet was going to be your next question…" Mei said while an excited smile crept upon her lips, pausing a little before continuing to make sure no one was about to interrupt her again. "… we're here to know what gender the child is, of course. So, spill it!"
"Um…" was all Haruhi got to say before Tamaki next to her jumped up from the couch, waving his hands in the air to symbolize for her to not say anything.
"No, listen! We're not suppose to… I mean… I don't want to know!" he shouted frantically, expecting them all to be understanding, but instead was met by indifferent faces, by all except Haruhi who looked like she felt sorry for him.
"So? Go to your room and close the door so you won't hear us. Just because you don't want to know the gender doesn't mean everyone else should abide by it?" the twins said with a smirk, then making a 'shoo' movement with their hands, causing Tamaki's temper to raise a little, though when seeing Haruhi's 'don't' expression calmed himself down, only to point a finger at the twins.
"I will. On one condition however, and that is that none of you is to ever tell me what the gender is before the baby actually comes. If you…"
"Yeah, yeah, we get it. We won't say anything. Now get out, we've got some interrogation of Haruhi to do." Mei casually said while examining her nails, followed by the twins nodding and a soft laugh from Honey.
Letting out a low murmur, Tamaki marched his way to their bedroom and quickly closed the door behind him, though somehow found himself listening with an ear against it to hear any sort of reaction, and to his surprise and puzzlement, heard the twins break out into a laugh.
Letting out a restrained 'thank you', Haruhi choked in her words as Mei had wrapped her in a tight hug along with Honey, the twins gathering around her with questions following their laughs while Mori and Kyouya stayed on the sidelines, though gave their congratulating smiles in their own way.
"All right, that'll be quite enough, thank you." Haruhi gasped while squirming in their hold, though she couldn't help but to smile brightly as she was pretty happy by the knowing herself, and it felt good to have let someone know.
"So then, you don't mind us buying toys and making clothes for the child, do you? As long as you hide the ones with the baby's gender color on it away from Tamaki, it'll be okay, won't it?" Mei asked for herself and the twins, as they all were very much into the clothes making business.
"Of course, I'll find a way to hide it somehow. But please, we won't be needing that many presents. You know Tamaki, he'll be shopping like crazy when the baby comes, I'm sure of it, even if I can contain him a little, he'll still be trying to rob every store there is of baby stuff and clothes. He'd be…"
"No matter, he's not the only one permitted to buy you things, especially not at an occasion as important as this." Mei said with a serious tone, though quickly turned it into a jokingly one as they all laughed about the issue a little, then turned the conversation into everything they could think about in regards to the baby, one topic in particular being what Haruhi wanted to call it, to which she answered that she had something in mind, though decided to keep that one a secret to herself.
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"They've left already?"
Tamaki put his book away when seeing Haruhi entering the bedroom with the bags she'd bought earlier, panting a little while she sat down at the edge of the bed and took her jacket off.
"Yeah, turned out they were headed at some sort of commoner's market nearby, and only stopped by here to ask me what they wanted and if we wanted to come along. I told them I was too tired, but you were welcome to join them if you wanted. They just went, so if you go now you'll catch up with them…"
"I'd like that, but not today. My princess is tired." Tamaki said while shifting himself across the bed and placing his arms around her from behind, giving her a light kiss at her neck that made her let out a soft giggle as it tickled.
"And I intend to keep her company for the night as it's already late." he said while resting his head on her neck, enjoying her hand gently stroking over his head as he felt her cheeks warming up with a blush.
"So why were the twins laughing when you told them?"
"Oh, um…" Haruhi said while shifting herself a little, hinting for Tamaki to let go so she could get up and change out of her clothes.
"I sort off figured what it was about, but I can't really tell you that without revealing the gender. I'm sorry." she said with a slightly apologetic face, though Tamaki caught the teasing undertone to it.
"I guess I'll just have to live with that from now on." he said with a sigh to which Haruhi just gave a smile and hinted for him to look away while she removed her clothes so she could change to her nightgown. Barely gotten to feel thankful for him not giving a peek and make some teasing remark, she paused in her movements of removing her shirt by the words "This is what you were trying to hide?" reaching her, quickly jolting her head towards him to see him holding one of the bras up in the air, giving her a questioning stare.
"Tamaki, that's…!" she said while dashing towards him, trying to grab a hold of it, but he pulled it out of reach, jumping to the other side of the bed while giving her a teasing glare.
"A bra, yes? So what? I've seen you naked many times and you're embarrassed at me seeing one of your bras?"
"But don't you…" Haruhi paused as she was about to ask if he didn't notice any difference about it, but decided not to as she didn't want to let him discover it.
"Well… yeah. Regardless how "well" you know me, it's still no fun having your bra waved around in the air. Now hand it over." Haruhi said while crawling over the bed and reaching for it, to her gratitude receiving it from him, though only to find herself being tackled onto her back the next second with Tamaki hovering over her, a big grin covering his face.
"This wouldn't have anything to do with your breasts having grown bigger now, would it?"
"What?" was all Haruhi managed to say as he took her completely by surprise, never having guessed he actually knew about what she so awkwardly had been trying to hide all this time.
"Please, you thought I wouldn't tell? You should have gone by a looser nightgown." he said with a teasing smile while bending down to playfully snuggle his face against her, lightly tickling her and enjoying her squirms, watching as a big blush spread across her face.
"S… stop that…!" Haruhi managed to say in between her squirming, kicking in the air and slapping his shoulders until he finally let her sit up, though still kept her in a tight hold while grinning.
"Nothing wrong with that, you know. It just shows that you're becoming more and more of a woman. Oh, can I touch them?"
"Oh my God, Tamaki!" Haruhi said while elbowing him in his stomach, knocking the breath out of him as he hunched over, gasping for air, but still managed to let out choked laughs as he did so.
"I really don't need you acting like a perverted kid. I'll be sleeping on the couch tonight if that's how it's going to be." Haruhi said without thinking, not coming up with anything else to get out of the situation, as she couldn't control her rapidly beating heart and hot cheeks.
"Wait…" Tamaki said in between laughing, grabbing a hold of Haruhi's wrist before she could walk away.
"I'm sorry, okay? Haha, I'm sorry…"
Wiping away some tears, he pulled her in front of him and grabbed both her hands, looking up to meet her flustered eyes that had some embarrassment tears shaking in their corners.
"I didn't mean to overdo it. I won't mention it again as long as you don't go sleeping anywhere else. Fair deal?"
Haruhi felt her heart racing even more at his pleading, slightly teary eyes together with his trademark gentle smile, and all she could do was let out a heavy sigh while moving herself in to straddle on his lap, her leg on each side of him.
"As if I would really freak out that much over my own body… I just got a bit taken aback, that's all."
They sat in silence for a moment, resting their foreheads against one another while plucking at each other's fingers, before Haruhi decided to avert from the previous topic and raised her gaze to meet Tamaki's again, giving a slight smile.
"You still absolutely sure you don't want me telling you the gender? It's not going to be easy, avoiding seeing all those clothes and toys we'll be getting with the gender's color, and if the others will really be able to keep themselves…"
"Yeah, I know I'll be challenged, but I still want to see if I can make it. Don't worry about me." Tamaki interrupted while pulling Haruhi in for a hug that she returned, resting her head on his shoulder while thinking that she agreed with the twins in how seeing Tamaki's reaction to the gender could possibly turn out to be amusing.
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Author's note (in case the X's between won't be symbolic enough):
Ahh, I'm so happy with FFnet now. Finally I could replace old chapters with the edited ones so they won't be such a pain to read, lol. I hope it's something that was just installed, 'cause I can't remember FFnet ever having that feature before. Regardless, I'm just glad I could finally rid the story of those awfully wrong marked and sometimes bad spelled chapters *is very grateful*
So, some of you might have guessed what gender I've made their child after some of the comments here. I won't be saying anything, but you're free to guess of course^^ Also, take whatever "facts" I've included here with a grain of salt, I'm not so much familiar with how the procedure actually goes at an ultrasound, same with Haruhi's breasts, lol, I've heard many different versions of that, but I included it mostly to add some humor between her and Tamaki. I had a lot of fun writing that last part XD (And I can definitely imagine Haruhi being annoyed at her breasts growing, lol.)
So I don't think I'll be dragging this story on for too much longer. If I do, I'm afraid I'll grow tired of it, as I've other stories and oneshots I want to do as well, along with amv making. So I think I'll be wrapping this up in three or four more chapters from here. We'll see how it turns out.
Oh, and if someone would like to see my amv's, search for, um, for example "Cody and the Eagle – Test Drive" which is one of them, and you'll find my page that way. I just got banned recently due to copyright so my vids need some more love xD My name is howl4fun21 (And the reason why I don't simply give a link is because FFnet removes it).
So as always, stay tuned for next chapter ^^