Bring Me to Life

Chapter 15

By Porcelain Girl

Aya sat with Aki & Persephone as well as Yuhi & Chidori's daughter Shuro. They were in the waiting room, because Chidori was having her second child. Yuhi was in the delivery room with her. They had been there for over six hours when Yuhi came running out. "I'm a father again Aya!" he yelled out with joy. He gently woke up Shuro "Shuro, you've just become an older sister. Would you like to see your new baby sister?" he asked. Shuro was still half asleep when Yuihi woke her so when she realized what he just told her her eyes lit up. Yuhi knew her answer was yes and grab her hand as he helped her off her seat and walked her to the delivery room.

When Shuro walked in she was glad to see her mother was okay and so was the new baby. Her mother smiled when she saw her walk in, Yuhi placed Shuro on the bed so that she would be able to see her sister. "She's so small!" Shuro spoke. She hugged her sister's small and frail body and giggled smiling at Yuhi. "What hers name?" Shuro asked. "We don't know yet sweetheart, but why don't you think of one while mommy gets some rest okay?" Yuhi told her, when he noticed how tired Chidori looked. Shuro skip off to see Aya.

"Her eyes remind me of that woman I saw, when you fainted that night when we were going through my father's will." Yuhi spoke. "Just those blue eyes...". "Yes, my friend Athena... The one I told you I was having dreams about. She was warning us both about those demons that are lurking around trying to kill Celestial Maidens. I still can't believe they killed Mrs. Watanabe and Ms. Higurashi... It's been months since then. Why haven't we heard of any more attacks?" "Sh, Chidori calm down-you just gave birth you need your rest. Let me worry about that. You know I will protect you and our daughters with my life if I have too. Now get some sleep." Yuhi spoke as he slowly closed the door and left the room.

"Yo, Shuro did you want to go out and get some Ice cream? We'll go out and buy your sister a present too okay?" Shuro jumped up at the thought of Ice cream and ran to grab her father's hand. "Aya, thank you for staying with Shuro while I was in the delivery room. Chidori would like to see you too, before you leave and before she falls asleep." Yuhi told Aya. Aya smiled and answered "No, problem."

When Yuhi & Shuro got in the car, Shuro told he father "I thought of a name for my new sister: Athena!" Yuhi was surprised and asked her "Where did you come up with that name Shuro?" "My friend in my dream told me." she answered. Suzumi had already given birth to a baby girl she named Kaoru a few months before. Since she had given birth to Kaoru, Tomonori came to the branch every weekend he didn't have a conference in Europe, America or wherever to spend it with his daughter. He also wanted to make sure Kyo was getting a proper education since it was in Masahiko's will that he take over the company at the age of twenty one.

"Alena? Huh Shuro?" Chidori thought "I do like the ring to it and it does remind me of my friend's old name..." Her voice drowned out she heard the voice of the announcer speak on the TV. "A body was found today near Hitachi college. Police have identified the body as Kikyo Kurasuga. The body had three distinctive slashes across the victims chest. Authorities have ruled out animal attack and are looking for a suspect. Rumours have spread that it may be the same killer who murdered Momo Watanabe & Korin Higurasahi. The police have no leads for suspects or witnesses... In other news..." Yuhi turned off the TV.

"I knew it! I knew it!" Chidori cried out tears streaming down her face at the dicovery of the loss of her friend. "Things were to quiet! They were way to quiet!". "Shh, Shh Chidori" Yuhi tried to calm her down. "It'll be okay, we stopped the Mikage before we can stop these demons. We might lose more friends this time, but we have to survive this so we can protect our children Chidori." She had calmed down and ceased crying as Yuhi hugged her.

Two days later Chidori was able to leave the hospital with her newborn baby Athena. Shuro's pronounciation of Athena was Adena as Yuhi and Chidori found out when they got a big fuss out of Shuro when they called her Adena. It was then that Chidori knew that the baby she had been carrying was her friend reincarnated for the first time into a human. When they arrived back home, Yuhi called Aya knowing she would want to know about the murder of Chidori's friend.

There was no answer at Aya's, which worried Yuhi a little. He decided to check on how his restaurant was doing for the few days he had left it. Shota worked there with the help of his wife Hana. Yuhi had asked them to run the restaurant while he and Chidori were at the hospital. He knew they would be planning a congratulations party for Chidori and Athena, so he brought the whole family with him. When Chidori walked in she was surprised to see everyone. She freaked out even more when she saw Ayame, Neko-Hime and Hitomi were all there and safe. The evening was full of fun and laughs for everyone, Suzumi was there with Kaoru & Kyo-she didn't stay long though because Kaoru was getting fussy, Mrs. Q, Shota, Hana, Aya, Persephone, Aki, Maya, Keisuke, Kei & Kumiko were all there too.

Kaoru became fussy soon enough too, Chidori was going to go upstairs to put her to bed-but Mrs. Q insisted on doing it. Chidori reluctantly agreed only on the terms that she turn the baby walkie talkie on and give the other one to her. "Don't worry Chidori, I'll watch over her until the party's done. It'll be no problem." "Alright..." Chidori said as she handed Athena to Mrs. Q. It was strange but when Athena looked at Mrs. Q's face she seemed facinated by it and laughed. Chidori freaked "Yuhi! Yuhi! Come see, she's less than a week old and she's already laughing."

Yuhi looked at Chidori's face filled with extreme joy and ran over to see his daughter laugh. "She's so beautiful, and look at her sweet smile!" Yuhi spoke "Well no wonder she's laughing anyone would do that seeing Mrs. Q's face!" Mrs. Q then whacked Yuhi on the head with a heavy object. "But she's so young, I've never seen a baby smile like this before at this age. Even when they've seen my face." Aya watched the pair and wished that Toya could have experienced Aki's first laugh. She was as happy as she'd ever been but she still felt as if there was a big empty space in her family, she wished her son could have had memories with his father like Persephone did.

Soon enough the party ended as most of the children became tired and more and more of the parents left because of it. Chidori made a decision that day, she didn't care whether Yuhi liked it or not. "Yuhi I've been thinking alot about the demon attacks and how unsafe and vulnerable I feel when I think about our family. I've decided that were going to get a dog, they can sense evil's presence coming much sooner than any of us." she told him. "How can we do that? My restaurant is downstairs, we'd have to get a real house what would I do with the apartment upstairs anyway when we'd move out?" he asked her. "Come on Yuhi, your restaurant is successful enough you could turn the upstairs into part of your restaurant too."

"Besides we'll have enough room for a dog, the two girls and another baby boy when we decide to have one." "Wait Chidori slow down don't I have any say in this?" he questioned her. "Alright you get to pick the house." she teased him. When Yuhi saw the smirk on her face he began to chase her around the living room. She fell back on the couch and Yuhi began to tickle her "Yuhi... stop giggle please... Yuhi... please giggle stop." Chidori knew Yuhi was enjoying himself to much to stop so she wrapped her arms around his neck and kissed him, he did stop tickling her and deepened the kiss when he let go. He told her"Fine, we'll get a dog."