Babies and Bathwater (Rou, Korin)
There was something different about Fei Lin lately. Nearly everyone noticed it. She seemed to smile more often and giggle about the littlest things or about nothing at all. She rarely wore her more...
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It didn't take Fei long to find Rou. Usually, when he was in the library he was bothering Korin as the librarian cataloged what books were in and which were out. Today, it seemed Korin tired of the...
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Rou laughed and kissed his wife on the cheek. "Not terribly," he replied, wrapping his arms around her shoulders comfortably. "I've just been here. I went and talked with Sai a little before stopping...
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"I've been having a good day." Fei replied. The smile didn't leave her face as looked at him. She loved the man. The finest moment of her life was marrying him and it seemed that every moment since...
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Family. Rou froze. His arms around Fei Lin slackening suddenly, nearly dropping completely to his sides. Family. Fei wanted to have children. Children! The very concept of the idea had never...
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Korin had found Comparative Religions in a complete mess, and that had turned a simple reshelving operation into a major re-sorting. When he had everything neatly lined up to his satisfaction, and his...
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It wasn't the reaction she'd been hoping for. Instead of a legitimate reason, Rou did everything he could to avoid his wife's gaze and stuttered half thought sentences. The idea scared him and there...
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"..Wh-... What?" Break the news? What news? What the hell was Korin talking about? And why was Fei Lin staring at him like that, with her beautiful jade eyes wide in anxious anticipation. When's it...
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This wasn't the was it was supposed to be. In stories announcements like this were always considered happy. While she had felt happy only moments before, Fei couldn't help feeling upset and hurt by...
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Oh, gods. When he ealised how it was, Korin wished himself a million miles away. This was an important conversation about private couple matters. Korin shouldn't have interfered. Then common sense...
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Of course he hadn't gussed. No one had said anything! When one's schedule tended to get as busy as Rouichi's did one often overlooked smaller matters in favor of remembering the bigger ones. Well,...
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"Oh, Rou..." Fei said softly, she wanted to laugh but it wouldn't be right given how Rou was reacting. Every little thing he was saying had been her own worry three months before. She'd done things in...
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"Fei Lin, what I do is I kill people for a living," he remarked heavily, putting particular emphasis on that statement. She didn't get it because she didn't know, he realized that much. Rouichi had...
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Except for her questions Fei listened quietly as Rou spoke. There had been so much he hadn't told her about when he was a boy. He'd listen to her talk about the few moments in her own past that were...
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When Korin realised that the conversation was not going to get any less private, and they were just going deeper into sensitive areas, he unobtrusively withdrew, feeling uncomfortable. Neither Fei nor...
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Rou bit his lip and wrapped his arms around his wife cautiously, suddenly afraid that he might break her. He had never considered Fei Lin fragile in any sense of the word, but now she was pregnant...
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Fei smiled gently as Rou spoke. It wasn't exactly how she planned to tell him, but he was coming around to the idea now and that was all that mattered. Already he spoke of talking to Sohma about the...
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Korin turned when he heard his name, and abandoned the bookshelf to come over to the couple. Rou seemed to have calmed down, at least. "Yes?" he said. He was expecting something along the lines of...
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There were probably dozens of better people to pick to be his child's Godfather than Korin. Funny thing was, Rou didn't want anyone else to do the job. Korin wasn't reliable, he wasn't strong, he had...
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Korin stared at Rou, in complete shock. The child's godfather? Him? He couldn't! The idea was to have someone who would be able to help raise the child, to teach them things and show them how to live...
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Fei couldn't seem to keep a smile off of her face now. Everything seemed to be working out. Rou knew now and had come to accept it, even if he'd need a lot of time to get used to the idea. Korin was...
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