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"What the hell do I do now?" I watched as the brother of my fated soulmate practically broke down in front of me, knees to his chest, elbows lying over them, causing the knuckles of his gloved, covered hands to nearly touch the floor while he rested uncomfortably against the wall with his head tilted down, shoulders shaking. "Why the hell did this happen."

I narrowed my eyes at the tone he used, and tilted my head right to narrowly miss the bottle of wine that he threw.

'That was definitely a statement since he threw a bottle of his 1989 Pretus wine without knowing if I'm even here.' I then closed my eyes when I suddenly heard the eighteen year old in front of me fighting back his sobs, causing my hands to clench, for I can't help him the way his sister, cousin and Odasaku can. '!!!! Hang on, that's not a bad idea.'

Reaching into my pocket I take out a special burner phone, this particular burner is one that Mori asked to be personally made for certain people in the Port Mafia, I happened to be a mate of one, so Mori made sure that I was equipped with one for emergencies such as this.

Pressing a particular pattern, I held the phone up to my ear, and listened to that dial-tone till someone answered.

"Hmm~, Koto?? What's wrong?"

"Cheiko, I know that you're busy with Angelique, but I need you to come to Chuuya's office."

She went silent, as I then heard shuffling, as if the phone was being passed around.

"Mako." I immediately tensed at the stern voice of Angelique. "Give the phone to Chuuya, or place it on speaker."

I inhaled and gave in, pulling the phone away from my ear, I searched through the phone settings and pressed for the speaker feature to activate it.

"You're on speaker."

She didn't speak, but she started to hum a song that I didn't recognize, but apparently it helped calm Chuuya down enough to at least communicate.

"Chuuya. I do not know what is happening, but I promise I will do absolutely everything I can to help you through it. Dazai and Sakunosuke too." I watched him raise his head slightly, allowing me to see the tear streaks along his complexion. "We are one pack, and as your cousin as well your first I can feel when something is abnormal."  

I looked at Chuuya who just sniffles, moves his legs to the point where they are criss-crossed and wipes his nose with his left sleeve.

"Ange."

"So please answer, why do I wish to run to you and have you in my arms right now, despite laying here in this bed waiting for my water to randomly break a second time?"

'Wait! What did she just–'

My eyes widened at what Angelique just revealed, and I think Chuuya did as well, for he immediately leaps up only to stumble for me carefully to help him upright.

"E-easy there Chuuya."

He just groans and snatches the phone out of my hand, with me immediately about to protest before witnessing him stand on his own; carefully bending down to pick up both his hat as well a small object off the floor, holding them both in his left hand, while raising the phone closer to his face.

"I'm on my way to you."

I just watched in utter astonishment, as he hung up the burner phone and tossed it to me effortlessly while smoothly placing his fedora on his head with his left hand, with me catching the phone with the same amount of effort as he did with eyes closed behind my glasses.

"Chuuya~." I opened my eyes just to watch his back to see him try to act tough, which was both admirable and reckless in his current situation. "You trying to act tough, while I completely understand why you know you—"

"YEAH I KNOW–" He turned his head slightly right and back in my direction, growling as he then looked to the floor while I watched his grip on the small object in his left hand, that was still over his hat, tighten slightly. "I– Why is she in this situation so early?" He then quickly spun to face me, only to grow anime swirly eyes and stumble around for me to quickly run behind him to keep him steady. "I-Its just t-to early, M-Makoto."

I narrowed my eyes behind my glasses at the sickly looking Chuuya in my grip.

'He's right.'

I then carefully look to the side, thinking.

'Something must've happened to Odasaku if she's going into early labor.' I then moved my eyes back to Chuuya, whose face held a lot of worry for Angelique, which is completely understandable given they're each other's first, as well as fated in two ways. 'If that's the case, then I have to make sure Chuuya gets to her to calm her..... or we're all screwed.' 

With that I carefully placed Chuuya onto my back effortlessly with my eyes closed, as he started to weakly hit the back of my skull with his right hand.

"O-OI!!! Makoto!!! Put me down!!"

I sighed, opened my eyes and looked at the closed door in front of the two of us.

"Swallow your pride, Chuuya–" I felt Chuuya stop beating my skull, as I gestured to him to look to his left, and into the full body mirror he had in his office to see my narrowed eyes. "Angelique needs you right now, and in your current predicament you're too weak to get there on your own."

I watched him shudder in mirror and lower his hat over his eyes with the same hand he was beating me with, while feeling the middle, ring, pink fingers grasp my loose necklace tightly, as I glance at my left shoulder to see to see that small object clutched between his index as well his thumb.

"While I admire you for trying to be brave, your fated mate is in need of you as you are with her." Looking back at the mirror, I made contact with the narrowed, determined eyes of Nakahara Chuuya. "I'm more than willing to play horse this one time, for Angelique."

"Then I'll quit fighting, you win you damned aper."

I nodded and sped walked my way to the closed door, grasping the door knob with my left hand I paused, causing Chuuya to hum in question.

"Why the hell did you stop? We need to get to Angelique!!?"

"Will you tell them??"

I felt him shudder.

"H-huh?!--" "Will you tell them, moreover will you tell Angelique??"

I heard him gulp as I looked up at the spruce wood of the door, while feeling his left hand further clutch the cloth of my left shoulder.

"She won't despise you; she'd do anything and everything for you, much like you would for her, such as I am right now."

I heard him make a sound that sounded like it was a question, as I turned the office door knob. 

"If Chieko was in this situation, and I was you, I'd fight tooth, nail, anything to be beside her." I heard nothing from him. "So I get it, and you have me on your side with this, not as your brother-in-law, but as your friend."

I heard him loosened up his grip on my shoulder and took a breath.

"Then let's go, so I can at least tell her."

I opened the door with a serene closed eyed smile, and walked through it with a composed, determined Chuhuahua on my back.

"Very well~."

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Quickly making use of his taller stature, the brown haired male adorned with glasses, carefully speeds his way throughout the halls of the building known as the Port Mafia headquarters, discreetly and easily avoiding ramming into anyone with the help of the gravity ability user among his back, as said user then noticed two figures standing in the middle of the hall, one having a small child standing by them, the other holding a small infant perhaps barely over the age of 1.

"W-wait is that Mori and Koyo up ahead?!"

The gravity user then began to sweat, both in worry and fright.

'W-why aren't they with Angelique, what's going on?!'

The male, known as Makoto, immediately realized that the ginger haired male on his back, known as Nakahara Chuuya was right, and began to think.

'Hold up, if they're here....' Makoto's eyes immediately widened behind his glasses. '!!! Shit!! They aren't aware.'

He immediately sprung into action and used the fact that he's particularly weightless to his advantage.

Quickly picking up speed on purpose, he quickly crouches down and leaps onto the wall, above the four lifeforms that got quickly startled by Makoto's actions.

"Mori!!" One of the figures, now known as a male by the name of Mori, eyes widened before looking up to see Makoto on the part of the wall that connects to the ceiling, and smiles, going to say something but is immediately cut off. "Angelique needs help, now!!!" 

Mori, the child and the woman's eyes widened as they then noticed the infant's sudden disappearance from the female adults hold as Makoto skillfully leaps off the wall onto the ground, briefly turning to the three standing in absolute awe.

"Also taking Chuuya and Angelique's baby, but please hurry!!!"

Looking, the three then saw the little infant laughing in the arms of the ginger male that was on Makoto's back, raising questions to Mori, but not the child or the woman who saw the small object within Chuuya's left grip, causing both to gasp and understand the situation more clearly with the information Mori had already gave them, all in which made the woman's face hardened in sorrow.

'Chuuya and Angelique won't take this very well.' It was with this thought that she immediately began running alongside Makoto and the sickly pale ginger, both of which had determined expressions. 'But as long as they have each other, they can forever survive all hardships.' She then hears the pants of Mori, who carries the little blonde child on his back, running alongside them. 'For they are a fated pair, one that will always run to the other when one of them is in desperate need.'

She then turns her attention to said ginger who holds the little, giggling infant in his arms with a straight look.

"Chuuya." Said ginger yelps, gaining the attention of everyone that continues running to the location where Angelique was currently. "Does Angelique know, and what about Dazai?"

Mori made a sound that formed a question on its own, as Makoto's eyes narrowed and Chuuya clenched his teeth.

"I just found out recently, I was planning on telling Angelique soon as for Dazai? No cause he and Odasaku aren't back yet."

The skin crawling on the three following did not go unnoticed, but the two leading let it slide for now, as Chuuya begins to feel his connection to Angelique strengthen, causing his eyes to widen.

"She's close." Chuuya then begins to smack Makoto's right shoulder, with the infant's head lying on his upper left arm. "Put me down!!"

Makoto just scoffs in response.

"Yeah– no."

Chuuya just growls at Makoto's response. 

"Look, I still have pride as a man!!! So at least let Angelique see me as such!!!"

Makoto just blinks, when he notices Chuuya was growling low, which tells him exactly why Chuuya wanted down.

'You just want to reassure Angelique that you can be strong enough for all of you....' Makoto's eyes then softened. 'Even though you don't have to fight anyone on your own.'

Makoto sighs in defeat.

"I'm not stopping, so you're going to have to be graceful as well as careful."

Rhetorical ears of a lion sprouted on Chuuya's head, as he nods, placing his right hand firmly on Makoto's shoulder; gently leaping off him, landing on his feet to run alongside Mori, the woman known as Koyo, and Makoto while making sure the infant was secured within his left arm was uninjured in doing so.

The last action from Chuuya results in a eye roll from Makoto, a smile from Mori, a giggle from Koyo and a laugh from the child on the second mentions back, all in which Chuuya growls at them as Mori notices a small item clutched in Chuuya's gloved left hand.

This alone causes him to have wide eyes and give a nervous sweat.

'This will be even worse than I thought it would–' He then shakes those thoughts away immediately, shoving them into his archive of his brain as he regains thought of the more important issue. 'As much as I want to make Chuuya comfortable, Angelique is in an even more dire situation...'

"Chuuya are we any closer to Angelique?"

Chuuya was about to respond when his eyes widened and immediately slid to a complete stop, frozen in front of a wooden door.

"Here." The ginger, pale male pants. "She's in here!"

Chuuya didn't see the nods or narrowed determined eyes of the people behind him, as he immediately heard the pained groans and whimpers of a female that he knew too well.

Feeling his pupils change into that of the slits of a lion, he quickly approached the door, praying that neither his sister or the hurting female were by it, he raised his right leg and hastily kicked it hard enough for said obstacle to swing a hard open to the right.

"Angelique!!!" Said female, who lies upon a bed, back leaning against the head bed frame glances up at the now busted door frame, only to have her eyes, both right and hidden left widen at the sound as well tear up at the sight of the ginger male who called for her, as said male immediately, yet carefully makes it to her left side, with the others immediately following close behind, infant still in his left arm as he carefully uses his right hand to move the hair from in front of her face, in which she whimpers into his touch, causing Chuuya's eyes to soften. "I'm here, Ange." 

He then carefully turns his body slightly left, sits slightly behind her left side, and wraps his right arm around Angelique's shoulders before leaning his head over to rub the right side of his face with hers.

"I'm right here."

Hearing the purrs mixed with pained whimpers causes Chuuya's heart to clench, for he knows very well that his fated partner was in pain and that all he could do, especially in his situation, was hold her close to him.

....... That fact alone caused his teeth to clench.

'Damn it, I can't do anything but sit here—' The whimpers of the infant within his left arm cut off his thoughts, gained his attention before then realizing that the female beside him skin was shifting, or in the terms of everyone who knew of the secret community Woging into the form of a Lioness at the whimpers that came from the infant, as Chuuya then gained an idea. '--or maybe I can do something.'

Shifting his body slightly, he carefully places his right knee under Angelique's left thigh, and carefully helps her hold the little one year old infant in her right arm.

Chuuya himself then saw Angelique look at the small object in his left hand, and grimace when she gasped along with his sister, whose violet eyes got large, as everyone in the room, surrounding the bed tensed up, in anticipation of Angelique's view on the new discovery.

Chuuya could feel his skin start to crawl at Angelique's silence, but he willed himself to stay calm and not to woge, or else it would cause Chieko as well Makoto to do so......

..... but he was starting to fear that Angelique's silence was a bad sign.

'Damn. This isn't—' Chuuya then heard sniffles, as well as the gasp from everyone present, as his eyes widened when he felt multiple drops of water hit his wrist. 'What is–'

Looking to his right his eyes met the glassy, soft eyes of Angelique, as Chuuya felt his pupils dilate in concern.

"H-hey!! Hang on--w-why are–" "So that's why?"

Chuuya's eyes widened at the words that came from the female in his arms, who continued to sniffle with cascaded tears flowing on her complexion.

"I was so worried that something bad happened to–" She groaned, accidentally cutting herself off before returning to face Chuuya. "-- You, but this?"

He watched as she then started screaming up to the ceiling, wailing with even more tears flowing down, as if she was a living faucet.

"MY HEART HASN'T FELT THIS GRATEFUL SINCE MY WATER—" 

She then screamed in pain immediately lurching her body forward to grip the bottom of her stomach in agony, all in which caused Chuuya's expression to change from happy and grateful to one of immediate concern, as he quickly placed the small object on the side table to his left, before carefully using said hand to keep the baby secured in her right arm.

"H-hey!! Easy!!" She groans in response, letting out a series of whimpers while doing so, while Chuuya carefully took the little one year old from her grasp, and handed the baby to the little blonde girl that was in the room to hold before turning to attention back to Angelique, caressing her swollen stomach with his left hand as well gripping her right shoulder with his very own right hand. "Easy, I'm right here."

She calmed down enough for Mori, and Koyo to approach Chieko's position carefully, as the third mentioned stepped aside to let the practiced doctor take over and examine the situation at hand only to have his eyes widened.

'They're breached. Not only that–' "Twins, both breached." Hearing those words caused everyone in the room to feel the temperature drop, as Mori looks up to see the pale or paler expressions of fear on Chuuya and Angelique. "Angelique, there's no way around doing this naturally." She gulps at his serious tone. "I'm sure you're aware of what has to be done, if you want them both alive."

She started shaking as Chuuya started to woge while growling at Mori, only to have Angelique use her right hand to calmly grip his hand on her shoulder, gaining his attention as she turned hers back to Mori.

"All I want is the twins alive. So do what you must to make that happen, I take whatever pain is necessary."

Eyes of everyone except Chuuya and Makoto widened, as she then turned to the former mentioned with a smile.

"As soon as I'm better, it'll be my turn to help you~."

Chuuya blushed, but also playfully growls at her while Makoto and Chieko chuckle at the randomness she gave as Mori shook his head to regain his composure.

"Okay then Angelique, I need you to lay completely on your back." She does as told. "Everyone else can either close your eyes, or observe if you can stomach it."

All eyes were open and held determination, even when Mori glanced at Chuuya he was surprised to see the iron, determined glare he held and nodded at their decision.

"Very well, then let me begin." 

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Hours.

That's all it felt like to me, was hours.

Now, after an hour and half of calmly reassuring my fated partner of the pain, discomfort she was in, I now gain witness to a bare boy and girl laying on Angelique's chest, as I feel my eyes soften at the sight of the two of them feeding from her chest before turning to see Chieko helping Mori stitch up the abdomen of the women in my arms.

'I now have an even greater reason to push forward.' I then felt Angelique rub her head gently against my stomach, causing me to glance at her, and blush when I heard her start purring still woge. '-- and I'll be damned if anyone gets even a fraction near any of them.'

Hearing the little burps of the twins I chuckled, because that was the best way to be brought out of my thoughts, as I watched Mori stand up from the corner of my left eye to answer the door that I didn't even hear knocking.

Kaji walks in with two lemon shaped containers, which instantly placed both me and Makoto on edge knowing exactly how Kaji is with his lemon shaped bombs.

We watched him shudder, because both Makoto and I have done a force woge to get a point across to both him and Akutagawa that we won't allow harm to this pack.

Mori instantly caught on to how Kaji shudders as well as saw how defensive Mako and I got and chuckled, waving to the two of us to calm down.

"Now, now you two~!" The two of us still growled. "These are just incubators for the twins....although." He himself then looked at the containers and sweated. "I do admit, if Chieko hadn't told me about this before the procedure..... I'd be rather defensive as well."

I sweat dropped at the fact that Mori just admitted that, and Kaji just laughed it off nervously, but then noticed that Mori was starting to sweat even more.

"Now, gathering that we all know that the twins will need to stay in these containers until they're healthy enough to pass a car-seat test, as well as some physical health examinations." We all nodded, even Kaji who was jotting everything down. "--- but that also means we need to keep you in check as well, Chuuya."

I watched Kaji stop writing and make a confused sound, looking at Mori before me.

"Granted, that is you want to keep the child or in possible case children of Osamu Dazai, since he is just a Lifetime mate."

I heard the notepad and pen the Kaji held fall to the floor, as I held my expression in determination.

"Whether or not that night was, or wasn't supposed to happen it did, and everyone knows I'm not one to harm anything that hasn't even done nothing wrong."

"Even if it meant you can be more available for Angelique and twins."

I growled at him, as Makoto and Koyo stepped forward.

"Who the hell says he's the only one available?" All eyes went to Mako, except Ane-san. "The way I see it, Chuuya's the way he is because his heart is literally made of gold and on his sleeve, whether he's pregnant due to being born having both parts or not he isn't on his own."

I felt tears fill up my eyes, as I watched Ane-san nod.

"Agreed, of course you already knew this didn't you~."

Mori was quiet before I turned and saw him smile, it wasn't evil or monstrous, it was a genuine, relieved smile.

"Quite, in fact I was already racking through my brain on the many possibilities and safety procedures as well as the precautions needed to be taken." He then looks up to the ceiling with a playful look. "I just wanted to make sure of what your decision on the matter was, that's all~!"

...........

We all wore dead expressions, as Mori came up to Angelique, helped me with getting her to carefully sit up and was about to gently take a twin each, when something clicked in my head. 

"Hang on. What about Dazai and Odasaku??" Everyone except Makoto, Chieko, Kaji and Angelique froze. "I mean the twins are Odasaku's blood, so shouldn't we hold on a bit longer."

I watched as Ane-san didn't meet eyes with me, saw Elise carefully tighten her grip on little Eliza, and lastly I witnessed Mori with a look of contemplation.

....... I instantly knew something bad happened.

"Mori?" He and I flinched when Angelique spoke. "What happened to Dazai and Sakunosuke??"

I saw Mori's hair, shielding his eyes from Angelique, but I could still see the sorrow his eyes held, as well the muscles in his jaw clenched.

"I'm sorry Angelique." I carefully grabbed Angelique's left hand with my own, as I noticed they started to shake. "Your lifetime mate died taking down Mimic with no back up."

I carefully rub her back with my right hand while still having my attention on Mori.

"What did you say?"

He stayed silent.

"I told him to at least take Akutagawa, or least our Dazai twins." He then looked at Makoto. "--- but I'm going to assume he didn't tell you."

"He didn't, I didn't even realize what he was talking about when he told me he wouldn't involve me or Osamu."

I then saw Makoto's eyes narrowed, as mine did the very same, and saw Kaji's do the same.

"Hey, hold on." We all looked at Kaji, whose brows furrowed. "What about Dazai Osamu, where's he right now?"

Silence was all that was heard, if you can even hear such a situation.

"He left." All eyes widened, as we watched Mori tilted his head down, but we all saw the frown he had among his face. "Dazai Osamu has deflected from the Port Mafia."

I glared at the ground before feeling Angelique nudge the right side of my jaw, and turned to see her tear-stained cheeks with blood-shot eyes added to it.

Feeling Makoto's hand on my left shoulder, as well as sensing Chieko sitting on the floor beside my left leg, placing the back of her head on my thigh; it caused my eyes to soften.

"We'll be...... alright without that retarded Mackerel." I then turned to face Makoto, with what I'm sure is an unsure expression. "Right??"

I saw him blink, before taking a deep breath and smiled.

"Yeah–" We all looked at Mori. "This pack right here, we'll manage as long as we have each other's back."