What Hurts the Most

[Royal Vizier Kris]

Do not ask about the title of it. It makes sense to me but that's because I'm the one writing it. It's not going to be on ff.net only because I would get a LOT of flames saying something about OC's and characters and yeah...So, I’ll just keep it here. Okay, go with me on this, we’re going to say red means your pregnant; because apparently none of us know (we’ve never been pregnant before). You’ll understand in a few minutes.

Summary: The last year in High School and neither Kris nor Ryou planned on a baby coming along. Now they have to tell EVERYONE else about it. And that includes her dad. But how will they manage all of that when they can’t even stop arguing long enough to tell anyone?

This isn't how I wanted this chapter to turn out but it's good enough for me. It's not as long as you think.

What Hurts the Most

“Oh shit,” the little thing on the Pregnancy Test turned a deep red and as she reached over for the box that was sitting on the sink, Kris scanned the back of it for a minute, her hair fell in front of her face as she looked at the box. She blinked and set the box down on the sink again. It couldn’t be true! It wasn’t true! The test wasn’t that accurate, but then again there were other signs. There were other ways to tell she could be pregnant. She couldn’t believe it. She was only seventeen. She was too young to be pregnant.

“Kris?” the teen turned toward the closed door. She knew who it was almost instantly. Walking across the room, she unlocked the bathroom door and opened it, wrapping her arms around the white haired teen standing just outside of the bathroom. He smiled and ran his fingers through her hair. “What?” he asked when Kris let go of him.

Sighing, Kris walked back to the sink. She picked up the box and the actual Pregnancy Test and walked back over to Ryou, first showing him the back of the box. He looked at the back of it, reading off what the colors on the back meant and then Kris showed him the part of the Pregnancy Test that had turned red. He looked from the box to Kris, his chocolate colored eyes wide with surprise. “You mean?”

She nodded already knowing what he was going to say. She took the box and set the things back on the sink before finally speaking “we’re going to have a baby.”

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Not even thirty minutes later, both Kris and Ryou were in the living room of his house. Neither of them spoke for a few minutes. It was hard to admit that she really was pregnant. It wasn’t like they weren’t happy, because they were. It was just the fact that she was pregnant that surprised them both. And at seventeen, how was it possible? They were far too young to be thinking about kids. Everyone else seemed to think the same thing only a week earlier when they were discussing the matter in Health.

“What are we going to do?” Kris asked a loud. Ryou turned and looked at her, apparently, during the time of silence, he was lost in his own thoughts. “The school year barely even started and here I am finding out I’m pregnant. What are we going to do?” Kris asked again.

“I-I don’t know.” Ryou admitted. He didn’t know what they were supposed to do. How was he of all people supposed to know what to do about finding out they were going to have a baby? He stood up, “I think the only thing we can really do is get advice.,” he said.

“We don’t need advice.” Kris replied. “I’m not going all the way to the doctors just for him to tell me everything I already know and then have to pay just for visiting.”

“We don’t know much about it. All we know is you might be pregnant.” Ryou replied as he walked into the kitchen.

Kris stood up and followed him. “Might?” she asked. “I might be pregnant? That Pregnancy Test was 99% accurate. We already know that I’ve missed a period, what more proof do we need then that?”

“Kris, all I’m saying is that we should see a doctor. Maybe he’ll be able to help us figure out what we can do.” Ryou said as calmly as possible. He wrote something on a notepad that was attached to the refrigerator and then walked to the phone, dialing the doctors’ office. “Maybe we can see him today. We can figure everything else out tomorrow.”

Kris sighed, defeated. She leaned against a wall, pushing back her hair out of her eyes and watched Ryou. He hung up the phone only a few minutes later and grabbed the car keys off the table. “He said to be there in ten minutes.”

Kris nodded and followed Ryou back to the living room. They both stopped at the door and almost instantly, Kris took the keys from him. “You sure you’re okay to be driving?”

“You make it sound like I’ve been drinking.” Kris muttered as she walked out of the door. “And for the record, I haven’t been. So yes, I’m okay to drive.”

“You know what I mean, Kris.” Ryou replied. She didn’t say anything. Ryou sighed but didn’t say anything else.

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“We’re not doing that.” Kris muttered as she took the pamphlet with the word ‘ABORTION’ on the top of it. “And we’re not doing that.” again, she removed a pamphlet, this time with the words ‘PUTTING KIDS UP FOR ADOPTION’

“Come on, Kris. You have to have an open mind here.” Ryou said as he took the pamphlets she had removed.

“I’m not having an abortion if that’s what you’re suggesting.” Kris said as she snatched that pamphlet away from him and setting it on a table next to her.

They spent over an hour in the doctors’ office and all he did was have her take another test and gave them pamphlets to read over. He scheduled another appointment for the following month and now the two of them were back at Ryou’s house, looking through the pamphlets. Most of which Kris absolutely refused to do.

“I’m not suggesting about the abortion. I mean have an open mind for the other options we have.” Ryou replied.

“All I see is things about giving up the baby. We’re not giving it up the baby. Besides, I don’t see why he would give us something about abortion.”

“He knows we’re desperate.” Ryou replied.

“Desperate?” Kris repeated as she set the remaining pamphlets on the table. She turned and looked at Ryou “define desperate.”

“All I mean is that we don’t have too many options available for us now. We can’t do much of anything unless you want to keep the baby.”

“What makes you think I don’t want to keep the baby?” Kris asked. “I never said that I didn’t want to keep it.”

“Well then why have we spent an hour looking through pamphlets?” Ryou asked.

“Hell if I know. It was your idea. I never wanted to go to the doctors and I never wanted to look at these. I know what I want to do with the child. I just don’t know what we’re supposed to do now.” Kris said. She stood up and gathered the pamphlets up, setting them all neatly back onto the table before grabbing her coat and walking to the door.

“Where are you going?” Ryou asked as he watched her walk to the door.

“Walk around for a bit. Maybe go home and grab a few things. I’ll be back later.” Kris muttered as she opened the door and step out into the darkness of the night, shutting the door behind her.

Ryou sighed, leaning back and resting his head on the back of the couch, closing his eyes. This was not going to be easy. Especially if she was going to snap at him throughout the whole pregnancy. If she did that she would most likely end up snapping at everyone else and they would want to know what’s with the mood swings and then they would have to explain the whole she’s pregnant. That was not something he was ready to do. And he knew that Kris wouldn’t be willing to tell them any time soon. They were both still trying to get the fact to sink in.

But they would have to tell her dad, and soon.

[High Priest Ali]

(Damn, that's long...)

[High Priest Ali]

(Long, but f-ing funny!)

[Royal Vizier Kris]

(Thank you. Glad you like it. The next chapter is going to be....interesting to say the least...)

[Royal Vizier Kris]

Second chapter to What Hurts the Most. Have not decided on what I'm going to do after this chapter. But this one is going to be interesting. I'm going to pity Ryou throughout this whole chapter. Poor guy. Okay anyways, hope you enjoy.

What Hurts the Most

"Come on Ryou, don't make me do this, please?" Kris begged as the two of them stood just outside of her house. It had been three days since they found out since she was pregnant and the two of them were holding off on telling her dad. That was until Bakura had to mention it. "We can do this some other time. Like not on a school night...When he's most likely pissed off that I'm not at home...And when he's been home all day...drinking." she shivered at the thought of what would happen if they did tell him she was pregnant.

"We're going to have to tell him someday." Ryou pointed out. "We might as well get it over with now." the truth was, he had been afraid of telling her dad. He, like Kris was afraid of what would happen if they did tell him. But they would have to tell him. He would find out eventually. And then by then he would be pissed off at the fact that they hadn’t bothered to tell him sooner.

Kris sighed, her hand on the doorknob. She slowly turned the handle until it opened. She stopped, not wanting to walk in. “Go on,” Ryou whispered. Nodding, Kris slowly walked inside and Ryou followed close behind her. He shut the door and instantly a cat ran out of another room and over to the pair of them.

The brown and white cat stopped in front of Kris before taking a step forward and starting to rub up against her leg. “Meow.”

Smiling, Kris picked the cat up, placing a kiss on the top of his head “I missed you, Mocha.” she said to it. She turned and looked around the room before finding the open cat carrier against a wall. She put the cat in the carrier and shut it, locking it so the cat didn’t get out. “We’ll leave in five minutes.” Kris whispered to the cat and stood back up. She looked around the room “It doesn’t look like anyone is here, lets go.” she said and turned to walk out the door.

“Not yet.” Ryou said taking her hand and gently pulling her back. “We haven’t looked through the whole house.,” he said and as if right on cue the two of them could hear something slam shut from the kitchen. “I told you.” Ryou said.

Kris glared at him before leading the way through the house and into the kitchen. She stood in the doorway, watching her step-dad dig around the kitchen as if looking for something. They remained standing there, silent as her step-dad poured a bottle into an empty glass. He took a sip and while still holding the glass, he turned around and looked at Kris and Ryou, instantly he glared at Ryou. “What are you doing here?” he demanded.

It took a second before Kris managed to find her voice. She took a deep breath before finally saying, “We have something to tell you. And we were kind of hoping we could tell you today...”

His gazed left Ryou and now he was staring at Kris, his drink still in hand. Finally, he set the drink down onto the counter. “Make it quick.,” he said.

Kris looked at Ryou and back to her step-dad. How was she supposed to explain she was pregnant? It was bad enough that he hated Ryou with a passion (and it’s kind of hard to hate him at all). But to explain she was pregnant and Ryou was the dad? That was nearly impossible! “Well...” she started but couldn’t think of any way to explain it. She turned to Ryou hoping for some help but apparently, he was at loss of words as well. “It’s just that...” she was now looking back at her step-dad who was still glaring at her. “I might...possibly be pregnant.” Kris said finally.

“Possibly?” he asked, not taking his eyes off her to look at Ryou. “You could possibly be pregnant? How do you figure?”

“Okay, I am pregnant. The doctor confirmed it three days ago.” Kris said.

Now, his eyes were on Ryou. He glared at him before taking a step forward, pushing Kris out of the way. Within seconds, he had Ryou pinned against a wall the pair of them were almost nose to nose. “I’ve told you to stay away from her!” he growled. “I told you the last time what would happen if you even said one word to her.”

“It’s not his fault!” Kris said instantly taking a step forward toward Ryou. “He didn’t do anything wrong...” Kris said.

“Kris don’t.” Ryou said now looking at her.

“I’m not going to let him hurt you for something you haven’t done.” Kris replied. “Please...It really wasn’t his fault.” Kris said still looking at her step-dad.

He turned away from Ryou and slowly let go of him before walking over to Kris “for once you’re actually admitting to do something.” he said. “You’re actually admitting to something just to save him.”

“Yes I am.” Kris replied and just like he was glaring at her, she did the same, her icy blue eyes narrowed. For the first time, she wasn’t afraid of him. He couldn’t do anything. Not unless he wanted to hurt the baby as well. And even though it didn’t appear that he cared much about it, he wouldn’t lay a hand on her if he knew she was pregnant. That was one good thing about telling him.

“And why would you be willing to do that for him?” he asked.

“It’s something called love.” Kris replied. “Something you’ve never experienced so it doesn’t surprise me that-”

Ryou stepped forward, pulling Kris away from her step-dad and backed out of the kitchen. “The doctor gave her some kind of medication. Something about stress relief. And it’s a side effect of the medication.” Ryou explained quickly before pulling Kris out of the kitchen and back to the living room. He picked up the cat carrier and opened the door. Kris stepped outside and he followed her, shutting the door behind him. “Are you crazy? he asked once they were both in the car.

“No I’m not crazy. I was just being honest.” Kris said as she slammed the door shut. “He wouldn’t do anything to me. He wouldn’t hurt me if he knew I was pregnant. What did you want me to do? Not say anything at all?”

“That would have been nice.” Ryou muttered as they drove back to his house.

Kris sighed and stared at her window, they were silent for a while. All that could be heard throughout the car was Mocha meowing. Finally, Kris looked back at Ryou “and where did you get the story about the medication? I’m not on any medication.”

Ryou smiled innocently. “I kind of figured you would blow up and say something like that to him. I had that story planned for two days.,” he admitted as they pulled into his driveway.

Kris sighed. That really would explain a lot. Like how Ryou didn’t seem so surprised when her step-dad pinned him against the wall. It was like he planned that. Like he planned everything that happened to him. But that couldn’t have been possible. ‘I guess I’ll worry about it tomorrow...’ Kris muttered as she opened her door and got out, taking the cat carrier as she did. She followed Ryou into the house while still wondering how he could have planned all of it. She only shrugged and unlocked the cat carrier to let Mocha out.

[High Priest Ali]

(Dun dun dun! Kris is preggers!)

[Royal Vizier Kris]

(That's the best you can do or say after I wrote that WHOLE thing in less then 30 minutes)

[Royal Vizier Kris]

You guys are SO lucky I'm being nice enough to stay up and finish these chapters to this story. It's a half hour until midnight and I need sleep. But I promised myself I would finish in one day and that's what I'm going to do. I'm sorry these next two chapters are short; I'm tired and half-asleep here.

What Hurts the Most

For the most part, it seemed as if things had died down. Kris had calmed down a lot much to Ryou's surprise and she wasn't snapping at everyone all the time. Because of the whole her snapping at her step-dad, Kris hadn’t been home in a week. She was staying at Ryou’s house, trying to avoid her step-dad as much as possible, which worked because he didn’t bother to call or come over for that matter to get her.

As much as Ryou refused, Kris made him swear he wouldn’t tell the others anything. Not for a while at least. And after a while, he finally agreed under the condition that she was to tell them within the next three weeks. And from the calendar, she had two weeks left before she had to tell them anything.

School seemed to be killing the two of them though. It was hard for them to concentrate on anything that didn’t deal with the baby. Both Ryou and Kris found themselves often worrying about the baby. It seemed silly to worry about it so early into the pregnancy but they still worried. Whether the baby would end up healthy, or if it would end up with some kind of disease or something along those lines. Kris was even willing to call the doctor, he said not to worry about it, and that they would do whatever it took to keep that baby healthy.

Now both Kris and Ryou were sitting at a circle shaped table waiting for the others to join them for lunch. Kris poked at her lunch, refusing to take a bite. She had been like that all week. She wouldn’t touch breakfast or school lunches and would hardly eat dinner. And no matter how much Ryou begged her, she refused to eat anything. When he asked her why she was doing it, she refused to answer. In fact, that seemed to be another thing. She rarely spoke to him or anyone else. Whether that was because she was trying not to snap at them, no one knew.

“Come on, Kris. You’ve been reduced to staring at your food, expecting it to move, you could at least try some of it.” Ryou said as he finally looked at her.

“Actually, I swore I saw it move a few minutes ago.” Kris replied.

Ryou sighed and looked back up to find Yugi, Joey, and Tea walking over to them. They sat down after saying a quick ‘hi’ and instantly the fell silent. Ryou turned and looked at Kris. She stood up, muttering something about going to class, he nodded and his gaze followed her until she was out of the cafeteria. “What’s wrong with her?” Tea asked when no one else bothered to.

Ryou turned and looked back at them. He couldn’t tell them. He promised Kris he wouldn’t say anything. And she would only get pissed if he did tell them. “She’s just not feeling good.,” he said and that was close to the honest truth as he could get without breaking the news to them.

“Well then if that’s the case, she hasn’t been feeling good since last week.” Tea said as she kept her eyes on Ryou. There something he wasn’t telling them. She knew it. He rarely ever lied which made it easier to tell when he was lying. “Now come on, Ryou. We know something is up and we all want to know what.”

“I-I can’t say. I promised I wouldn’t tell you. She’ll tell you when the time is right.” Ryou muttered as he looked down at his own plate of food.

“We can’t wait until she’s ready to tell us. What if something bad happens tomorrow? We would never know what was wrong with her.” Tea said. “Now please tell us.”

Ryou sighed, he knew she wouldn’t leave him alone unless he did say what was wrong. But he also knew Kris would get mad at him if she found out he had told them. He looked back up at them, all of them were staring at him, waiting for an answer. “Okay...Fine.” Ryou muttered. Now how was he supposed to tell them? “We just found out a week ago that Kris was pregnant.”

“You’re kidding!” Tea said instantly.

“I’m afraid I’m not.” Ryou said. “So now she’s having this whole nervous melt down and it’s making me nervous and that’s the whole reason she isn’t eating or saying much to anyone.” Ryou said.

Before Tea or anyone else could reply, the bell for lunch rang and everyone got up to return to class. They walked back to the Science room together and as soon as they were in the classroom, Tea scanned the room before spotting Kris in an empty desk in the corner. She ran over to her and without warning gave her a hug and quickly letting go.

Kris raised an eyebrow and looked at Ryou as if to say ‘What was that all about?’ Ryou just shrugged. “You never told us you were pregnant!” Tea said happily.

At that moment, Ryou wished he could have been anywhere else besides there. Kris was glaring daggers at him. She stood up “you promised you wouldn’t tell!” she snapped at him.

“Yeah but they were worried and wouldn’t leave me alone.” Ryou said. “So I had to tell them.”

“But you promised! I didn’t want to tell them this soon!” Kris said.

“Come on, don’t be mad at him. If at all anything you should be happy!” Tea said excitedly. “Now we have to plan the baby shower and then you’ll have to buy the toys and make a nursery and-”

“That baby isn’t due for another nine months.” Kris said as she finally managed to calm down. “We have time to plan. Now can we drop the subject, please?”

They nodded and as everyone else started coming into the room, they took their seats, waiting for the teacher to show up. “I’m really sorry, it’s just that-”

Before he could say anything, Kris placed a kiss on his lips and after they broke away, she smiled slightly. “Lets not worry about it right now.” she said. Ryou smiled. There were times he did like her mood swings, and this just happened to be one of those times. He nodded and looked up as the teacher came in. He pulled out a notebook, but this time he wasn’t talking notes. Instead he wrote ’I love you’ and handed it to Kris. She read it before replying to it and for the rest of the hour the two of them went back in forward with the notes.

[Royal Vizier Kris]

Okay, this is the last one and I’ll have finished it with one day. It's short but better then nothing. Tomorrow...Okay today since it’s passed midnight, I can work on my Avatar story. First, I want to say this takes place twelve years into the future so go with me on this chapter.

What Hurts the Most

“Alexis hurry up, you’re going to be late!”

“I’m coming mom!” Alexis yelled back.

Kris sighed and walked back into the kitchen. She set oatmeal down on the table for Alexis and turned her attention to the two-year-old sitting in a booster seat at the table. He reached for Alexis’ oatmeal but Kris put a bowl of cheerios in front of him. Smiling, the boy picked up the spoon and started eating his own breakfast. “Alexis! I’m not going to tell you again, you’re going to miss the bus!”

“I’m coming!” Alexis yelled back as she walked downstairs. She sat down at the table and tied back her white hair, something she had inherited from Ryou. She then picked up her spoon and started shoveling cereal into her mouth.

“Slow down, honey. You’re going to make yourself sick if you eat that fast.” Kris said as Ryou walked into the kitchen. He kissed the two-year-old and said “Good morning, Reku.” he than placed a kiss on top of Alexis’s head and said “Good morning, Alexis”, then moved, and kissed Kris good morning before sitting down next to Alexis.

“Alexis you better go, you’re going to be late.” Kris said as Alexis stood up and put her bowl into the sink. “I’ll pick you up from school on my way home. And then your dad will have to take you to your soccer practice.”

“What are you going to do while I’m taking her?” Ryou asked, raising his eyebrows.

“I have to somehow manage to get off early so I can take Reku to his doctor appointment.” Kris said.

This was a normal life the four of them. Or so it seemed. Often, Kris found herself lying awake at night and thinking about what happened twelve years ago. Thinking about how she found out she was pregnant with Alexis. She remembered how scared and worried she was and then the mood swings, although that was one thing she kind of did like. Being able to snap at someone and have a reason for doing so. And then the day that Alexis was born, August seventh. She remembered that day so well. She remembered how everyone rushed to the hospital at two in the morning only to sit there until noon that day for the baby to be born.

She remembered everything about Alexis. Starting from the day, she started talking, the day she walked, up to the terrible twos. And then the first day of kindergarten. And then year’s later finding out she was pregnant again but this time with Reku. And December fifth was Reku’s due date, he was born a few days before that though on December first. And even then, she remembered everything. It amazed her though how she remember from both Alexis and Reku. What amazed her more was how she and Ryou both managed to take care of them both. The whole parenting thing was new to them when Alexis was born, but with Reku, it seemed so much easier.

“How about if I take him to his appointment and you take Alexis to her soccer practice.” Ryou suggested.

“It would make more sense. You wouldn’t have to take off early to pick up Alexis from school. You could work a little later then take off early and take Reku.” Ryou pointed out.

Kris sighed and nodded “Okay. Fine, now we need to get ready. We don’t have much time. I’m running late as it is. Alexis come on.”

“I’m going! I’m going!” Alexis said grabbing her backpack and walking out of the door.

So it was a little hectic during the mornings, but everything else was just fine. They managed to somehow sit down for dinner together, and do a few things together as a family as opposed to what both Kris and Ryou were use to when they grew up.

“Ryou, don’t forget we have to get packed tomorrow. We promised to meet Yugi at the airport at three.” Kris said as she cleaned off the mess of cheerios Reku had made before setting the two-year-old onto the floor. Instantly, he ran out of the room and into the living room where most of his toys were.

That was another good thing, even though they managed to raise two kids, they had also managed to keep in touch with their friends. Right after High School and after Alexis was born, Ryou and Kris moved from Domino to Kyoto because of the new job Ryou was taking. But they had managed to see their friends at least once a month. How they managed that still seemed hard to determine.

“Then we need to get backed tonight. You know how long it takes us to pack everything. Not to mention to have to pack Reku’s stuff and Alexis’ stuff.” Ryou said.

“Good point.” Kris said. She left the kitchen and into the living room where she picked up Reku and took him upstairs to get cleaned up.

At least they were happy with the life they were living. They had nothing to worry about. They had what seemed to be a perfect life for all of them. “I’ll see you tonight, Kris!” Ryou yelled upstairs.

“Okay!” Kris yelled back as she dug through a closet before finally finding cloths to throw on Reku.

They had everything they could every want and ever need. Each other.

(Don’t complain, I know it’s a bad ending but you try being up until 1 trying to finish it. Okay now that it’s done, I’m going to bed.)