Ohayo Minna-chan! As promised, I’m posting this on Crossing Destinies before I post it on ff.net. ^_^..... I want some string chease......... *stares lovingly at her refrigerater* But that’s besides the point. I didn’t get many reviews, but I didn’t expect them either. It was a very short chapter, nothing really interesting in it. ^_^ It was just setting up the plot for this chapter! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAA ^_^ :D I have such fun ideas for this chapter... I just hope I can pull them all off. I have a feeling this might be one of my long fics. Duo- Snort, all of your fics are long() And you haven’t even finished any of them yet! Asia-chan- *glares at Duo* Do you wanna know who Usa’s going to be with, or not? Duo- :D Asia-chan- :$ I tried not to, I tried to give her to Trowa, but it just wouldn’t work for this fic’s plot. So you get her. ^_^ Congrats. Duo- YAY! I won! Usagi- You WON me? Duo- Uh, well, babe, I mean, I meant Uhhh...... ~~~~~~~~~ Disclaimer- Me own natta but the fic. ~~~~~~~~~ recap- Noin smiled and put a hand on her swollen abdomen, “About four months. I was going to call you, but when we heard you were coming anyway, I wanted to tell you in person.” Usagi smiled and grasped Noin’s hands excitedly. She blinked, and stared down at them. She gave a low, quiet growl and closed her eyes. She slowly turned around and walked over to Zechs. She picked up his folder, and whacked him upside the head with it. “Usagi, wha-” “Why don’t I see a ring on this wonderful woman’s hand, hmmm?” Usagi glared at him and raised the folder in case she had to hit him again. Noin blushed very uncharacteristically. He held up his hands in defense, “I haven’t found one yet.” She eyed him warily but put down the folder. “Whatever you say..... Anyway, I’m hungry. I feel like Chinese, what about you?” Usagi asked Noin. She looked thoughtful for a moment, “Do they make spinach ice-cream?” “uhhh.....” ~~~~~~~~~~ Voices of the Soul- Chapter Seven By Usagi Asia Maxwell ~~~~~~~~~~ Usagi grinned brightly from her seat across from Milliardo and Noin in their booth. She gave a short sigh, reached over the table, and grabbed both of their hands happily. “Wow, you know, you’ve just gotta’ make me the godmother! Pleeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaase!” Noin looked down at her menu nervously. “Uhh, well Usagi,” she said, “Relena’s asked too....” Usagi’s eyes widened, “You can’t be serious! No fair!” Noin quickly explained, “We haven’t decided yet. The baby hasn’t even been born. But she would be able to take good care of our child.” Usagi pouted. “So would I! *hmph* I have first hand experience,” she said sulkingly. Milliardo sighed, “She is my sister, Usagi” Usagi’s eyes sparked dangerously, “Is that it? I understand that it’s your choice of who you want your child’s godmother to be. I just never thought that you’d favor Relena just because she’s your sister. And, I would like to add that I’m your cousin, though I thought we were closer than that. I mean, I have known you all of my life.” Noin’s eyebrows furrowed, “We didn’t say she would be the godmother, Usagi. I’d love for you to take care of our child. Like I said, we haven’t decided. We don’t want to hurt either one of you. But you don’t seem to be yourself. Is there something wrong?” Usagi rubbed her eyes and sighed, “I’m sorry, you guys. Just a little stressed out about work, that’s all. ^_^ I don’t mind if Lena-chan’s the godmother.” She grinned, “You’re kid’ll still like me more.” Noin laughed, “I have a feeling you’re right.” She blinked, “You said something about experience. What did you mean? Baby-sit for a friend or something?” Usagi grinned and handed a picture to Noin. “This is Chibi Chibi,” Milliardo glanced at the picture Noin was studying nonchalantly, then did a double take, “my musume” The yell that followed rang out through the restaurant and into the shops around it, “WHAT?!!!!!!!!!!” ~~~~~~~~~ Quatre blinked from his office in the preventers Cinq headquarters. He could have sworn he hear Zechs. But he was almost halfway across town having brunch. He shrugged and went back to work. ~~~~~~~~~ Usagi jumped as her normally composed cousin grabbed a knife from the table and jumped up from his chair. (lol, they’re having Chinese and yet he still managed to find a knife. ^_^()) His nostrils were flared; he flipped his hair out of his face, making it stick out in disarray. His face was flushed and he was panting deeply. But the most frightening thing were his eyes. They were wide and angry, he seamed to be boring a hole in her forehead. “IT’S THOSE BOYS!” he exploded, sending little specks of spit onto her face, “THAT’S WHY THEY’RE LIVING WITH YOU! WHICH ONE IS IT?!?!?! I’LL KILL HIM!!!!!!” Noin grabbed onto one of his arms and tried to restrain him as he tried to get to Usagi. “Zechs! Calm down! You’re being histarical!” He sat down abruptly, but the fists he had banged on the table were trembling. He glared at Usagi, “How could you do something so stupid! You’ve got your whole life ahead of you! You’re only eighteen! You had to have had this child when you were still a minor! I thought you were better than this. How could you do something so incredibly stupid?!” Usagi’s bottom lip trembled and her shoulders shook. A tear fell down her cheek, it was quickly followed by another, then another. “Mill-chan, I-” she was cut off by a soft sob. Zechs fought down the urge to apologize. He didn’t want to make her cry. But he reminded himself that it was her fault in the first place. She was like a little sister to him. They had always been together, since the day she was born. He had so much respect for her, until now. Nion frowned at Zechs, he was really over reacting. He was, after all, the father of her unborn child. Granted, they were a bit older than she. She turned to the weeping girl before her, “Usagi-chan, why don’t you tell us what happened. Who’s the father?” Usagi tried to fight down her sobs, “I- I- I don’t know-” she broke off on another sob before she could continue. She knew it was silly of her to cry. She knew that Mill-chan didn’t know the real situation. She even knew why he was angry. But he had never acted so harshly towards her before. Even if she HAD had a child under-age, which she didn’t, he should have been one of the people there for her. But he looked like he wanted to kill her. He called her stupid. Even through everything else she had been through, this had to hurt the most. Zechs paled, “What do you mean, “You don’t know? How many men could it be?!” Usagi shook her head and tried to stop crying so that she could explain. “You- you don’t understa-sta-and,. Sh-she i-isn’t mine by b-birth. Please stop y-ye-y-elling at me, Mill-chan. Please don’t h-hate m-me. I-I-”, she burst into a new batch of tears. People around the room were glaring at Zechs now, including his fiance. She quickly got up and hugged Usagi. She started rocking her gently (this seams un-Noin-like, but she’s got all of her womanly maternal juices flowing. ^_^ She’s going to be different for the next few months. Aren’t hormones wonderful?) She noticed distractedly that her friend felt a little warm to the touch. “Hey,” she whispered soothingly, “It’s all right. He doesn’t hate you. It’s ok. Try to calm down, all right? It’s ok” Usagi sniffled, whiped her eyes, and tried to smile. “I’m sorry,” she said, “It was silly to cry. I don’t know what came over me. I should have been able to just tell you. I think I’m getting sick. There was a flue going around back in Tokyo, maybe I caught it.” Zechs’ mind reeled. She thought he hated her. He called her stupid. And she hadn’t even done anything. Work and Noin’s pregnancy must have been getting to him. He had never acted like this towards her before. He made her cry, “Koneko, I-” “It’ ok Mill-chan. I forgive you. No worries.” Usagi stuck out her pinkie like she did when they were younger. Zechs smiled wryly and hooked his pinkie with hers. They both shook them and Usagi sighed. A watress came hesitantly over to them, “Um excuse me please, but um.. are-are you ready to uh order?” Usagi grinned at Noin, “We’ll take two servings of everything! What do you want Mill-chan?” Zechs blinked, “uh, a small salad.” He eyed the two happy women in front of him and resisted the urge to roll his eyes. Things were going to be VERY interesting for the next few months..... ~~~~~~~ ^_^ This would be a good place to stop. Actually, I didn’t mean to write anything like this, it just came out. And I haven’t written anything I was going to! I think this fic should continue, ne? ~~~~~~~ Just as they were getting dessert, Usagi’s cell phone rang. She groaned, “Sorry.” and flipped open her phone, “Moshi Moshi? Oh! Ohayo Yaten-ku-..... YOU WHAT?!?!?! Uh! You IDIOT! I’m on my way!” Usagi threw her phone into her purse and called out distractedly, “Check please!” Noin and Zechs shot up in alarm, “Koneko, what’s wrong?” “Is everything all right Usagi-chan” Usagi shook her head angrily as she grabbed the check from the waitress, signed her name, and handed her her credit card, “I am going to KILL Yaten!” In less than a minute they were in Usagi’s cherry red mustang. She was quickly into 5th gear and she floored the gas. She wasn’t the type of person to go so fast with a pregnant woman in her car, but this was an emergency. She weaved expertly in and out of cars, and somehow managed not to stop or run a red light by the time she got to her house. She threw open her door to find Yaten tangled in a latter in the middle of her foyer. She would have kicked him with her silver tipped boots too, if she hadn’t heard a happy “Chibi!” above her head. She looked up to find her daughter hanging like a little monkey by Usagi’s mother’s well loved Austrian crystal chandelier. “Oh crap....” The little girl giggled and took off one of her hands to wave, “Bunny!” Usagi looked around the foyer quickly, trying to find a way up to her. “Darn high ceilings...” she muttered. She sighed, ran to one wall, jumped on it, forced herself on the other wall, and used it to get up to near where Chibi Chibi was. She quickly braced her feat and grabbed onto the decorative wooden molding at the base of her ceiling. She held out her other hand to her daughter. “jump” she commanded sternly. The child giggled and leaped onto Usagi. Usagi let go of her wall and landed on the foyer floor with a thud. By now Yaten had gotten out of his ladder/cage and was brushing a small line of dust off of his clothes. He frowned distastefully at Usagi. “That’s the last time I’m watching after that little runt! She ruined my suit! She’s your kid, you watch her.” Usagi had been bent over panting, her face was flushed and her chest hurt. She looked up at Yaten and glared. She walked over to him, still panting, and with one angry punch, knocked him out. Zechs started to get worried when her breathing didn’t return to normal. “Koneko?” he asked slightly concerned. Usagi turned toward him. Her eyes were foggy. Her lips parted, but no sound came out. Her body teetered, then crashed to the floor. Chibi Chibi screamed, “Bunny!” she ran over to Usagi and tried to shake her awake. Usagi opened one eye wearily an gave a small smile before it shut again. Noin bolted to her side and put a hand to her forehead, “I think she’s got a fever. Help me get her upstairs.” Milliardo picked his cousin up, and carried her upstairs to her room with Noin following balancing Chibi Chibi on her hip. She turned to him after he lay Usagi on her bed. Noin handed Zechs Usagi’s car keys, “Go back to work. I’m off for the rest of the day anyway, I’ll stay here.” Zechs nodded, gave a her a quick kiss, and hesitantly left his cousin behind. Noin sighed and looked down at the worried Chibi Chibi, “Well, I guess it’s just you and me.” She sat down on the foot of Usagi’s bed and ran a hand through her bangs. “Noin,” a weak voice whimpered from Usagi’s pillow, “Thank you for taking care of her. You should go to the lounge. I don’t want to get you sick, your baby-” She smiled, “It’s ok Usagi-chan. Go back to sleep.” Usagi nodded and closed her eyes. ‘Thank you Noin,’ she thought. ~~~~~~~ Now I’m done. ^_^ I hope I didn’t confuse you guys with Usagi’s feinting thingy. She said she was sick earlier, and after all of the excitement and physical exertion, she tired herself out and made herself sicker. ^_^ Sorry about the sucky ending. Next chapter I hope will be very kawaii. Ja for now, and remember to review.