"...Wait a minute, you mean...?" He trailed off, leaving the rest of the question implied. Of course, as always, I knew what he was talking about without him having to say it.

"I haven't told him yet," I told him, staring down at the floor rather than seeing the look of disappointment on his face.

"But... doesn't he wonder why you're...?"

I continued to stare at the floor. I knew he was going to be pissed the moment he heard the answer. There was no way he wouldn't be pissed, even though it was my fault that things were the way they were.

"Niki, what's going on with you two? There's no way Rai couldn't have noticed that you're spending all your time female. And he hasn't asked you why yet? I don't buy that."

"...I haven't seen him since that night."

He stared at me, his mouth open in shock like he had forgotten how to close it. I could feel the anger building up inside of him, and I knew that it was directed at Rai, not at me. Just like I thought, he had taken it the wrong way.

"Wait, Jay..." I said, trying to explain the situation to him, but I don't think he heard me as he started storming out of the room.

"Izumi!!" he roared.

I couldn't see anything, but I heard the faint sound of Izumi's voice coming from another room. He seemed to be answering Jay's call for him. I sighed heavily and considered going after Jay... trying to stop him before he did something that he couldn't undo. I stopped, though, when I realized that it wouldn't do any good.

"Where the hell is that damned clone of yours!?" Though I could barely tell that Izumi was talking, I could hear Jay just fine. He was that angry. "I'm gonna kill him, that's why!"

Deep down inside, I knew that wasn't true. Even if he wanted to, Jay couldn't kill another person... But the part of me that responded right then wasn't my brain, but my heart. Before I knew it, I was using my magic to take me to the room where Jay was busy yelling questions as his belabored partner and tackling him to the ground. I don't think either one of them expected something like that... at least not if the shouts of surprise that came out of both of them was any indication.

"Stop it, Jay!" I was screaming. "Anything but that! It's not Rai's fault ? it's mine! I was too scared to tell him... so I've been avoiding him, and Adan, recently..."

"Scared?" Izumi asked, looking confused. It was then that I realized that we were having this conversation in front of Izumi... who didn't know yet.

"I, uh..." I tried desperately to think of something to tell him to defuse the situation, but the words just wouldn't come.

"Remember how I reacted when you told me about Kuro?" Jay asked, putting a comforting arm around my shoulder. He... He was going to tell him, it seemed.

"You almost fainted. Then you came running after me demanding to know how the hell something like that could have happened when I'm the one fucking you. Most fathers tend to be a little happier when they get the news, you know."

"...And most gay guys never expect to get that sort of news from their male lovers. So yeah, now think about how Rai, psycho that he is, would react to similar news."

"He is not psycho!" I protested.

"Niki, he gets turned on by explosions. That's more than enough to classify someone as psycho in my book." He patted me on the head and then turned back to Izumi.

"You don't mean to say...?" Izumi looked to me, an expression of surprise on his face.

I nodded. "I'm pregnant..." I squeaked.