Life After Death

The Start

April 3rd, 2010

Yukari and Aigis' Room

Evening

"Fuka-san told me about your situation," Aigis inquired as she sat on the edge of her own bed. "So what is this, 'pregnancy' thing? I have never heard of it before..."

Yukari looked down at her no longer flat stomach. Instead, it was starting to grow a bit rounded. She gave a soft smile and touched her belly with her whole hand.

"It's... Really complicated and embarrassing to explain..." The younger girl awkwardly laughed. "Essentially, inside of me is growing a human. A very small human called a baby. And that baby, once born, will slowly grow into any other human you've seen before,"

The living robot turned her head to the side. "How did it get in there?" Her curiosity was blossoming, making it hard for Yukari to keep a calm composer without fidgeting and blushing.

"I... Let me just say that... Makoto had some part in it," she nervously laughed again, her blushing increasing to a brighter color of pink. "So, inside me grows... our child..." She rubbed her belly again, her eyes starting to water from the thought of it, but she shook them off and smiled.

Aigis took a moment of thinking, a finger on her chin and a focused gaze in her eyes, looking away from her. Then she turned back to her. "So, once this 'human baby' comes out, it will be like Makoto-san?" She proposed.

"Well, a mix of him and me," Yukari responded, but then stopped. "Though I don't know how much would be him or me..." She too took her turn to think, also looking away from Aigis.

"I'm excited," the robot girl declared, gaining the human girl's attention. "It's like our Makoto-san is being reborn, right?" Her question rang in the girl's mind, then made her smile.

"Maybe..."

...

All throughout those nine months, the girls of the dorm were with her, taking care of her every need. Even Aigis, who knew the least about human babies, was more than excited to help. Even though during the school days, when Yukari was alone in the dorm, Mitsuru sent a family worker to aid her and keep an eye on her throughout every step of the way. That wasn't to say the girls didn't do much to help. Every afternoon, when they came home, Aigis would have the day's schoolwork and homework for her to do, while Fuka had a treat for her every day.

They weren't judgemental towards the young mother at all. Instead, they encouraged her to stay herself and not worry about those at school whispering and spreading rumors about her. They let her leave it up to them to quell and disband the falsehood of their gossip-hungry classmates.

After all they went through, it was like a sisterhood they all always wanted.

So when that day in late October finally came, they never left her side...

...

November 1st, 2010

Yukari and Aigis' Room

Evening

"I made a special place in our room for Little Makoto-san," the metal girl pointed towards a spacious section of their shared room. In it, Aigis and the other girls set up an area with a crib, changing station, and a rocking chair, all in accents of the color of a peaceful, sky blue.

Fuka gave a giggle, pressing a hand to her lips. "His name is Hisato, Aigis," She reminded her friend with a wide smile. She turned her gaze to Mitsuru, who also gave a chuckle as well.

"I don't blame her," the older girl replied with a small smile. "He does look strikingly like him already..." They both turned their gaze to the newborn they spoke of in the arms of his mother. The infant payed no mind to the others in the room. All he did was curl up into his mother's arms, grasping with all his strength to her shirt. Her friends comments were on point. Little Hisato hadn't opened his eyes much, but when he did, he had his mother's light brown eyes; however, the little hair he did have atop his head was the familiar blue they haven't seen in a long time. Overall, he was, in Aigis' words, indeed Little Makoto-san.