Tiger and bunny: Lucky to be a lady tonight

Chapter 30

A few weeks later Kotetsu had returned to work. She hadn't shed all of her pregnancy weight yet, and spent extra time in the gym to try to flatten her belly again. To Karina's approval, she started following the diet Rose had originally tried to get her on.

"Excuse me?" Kotetsu gasped into the phone, "I happen to have just had a baby. You give birth to a baby and then see how fast you can lose the tummy! If you want to do another bathing suit photoshoot with Bunny and I, you will have to deal with how I look! And no...photo-tweaking. Those always look unnatural." She huffed before hanging up.

"Can you believe that? That guy asked me how long it'll take for me to get 'sexy thin' again! Uhhg."

"Just your average model photographer. But I think you look sexy now, and every day before and after." Barnaby smiled at Kotetsu. "But you're losing the weight quicker than I thought you would. I'm impressed."

"It's hell. I miss food with flavor." She looked down at her belly and poked it, "Never wanted to gain weight..."

"To be fair, it wasn't really your fault. You needed to eat for Henry, so it was unavoidable to gain weight."

"I know...that's why it's so insulting that they are telling me to lose it faster! Obviously that guy doesn't have any kids..."

"Well, it just shows you know more than him. You know how to care for your body, not him."

"I'm also not young...harder to lose weight..." She sighed and leaned back, chewing on the end of her pen.

"You're getting there. You've already lost a lot of the baby weight. There's not that much left to lose."

"Tell that to the marshmallow tummy."

"At least it's a cute tummy." He reached over and poked her belly playfully with a smirk.

"Bunny!" Kotetsu's face flushed a deep red.

"What? I'm just speaking my mind!" He laughed when he saw how red her face was.

"But we're at work. We'll get yelled at if we goof off."

"We're not goofing off that much, Kotetsu."

"We got yelled at yesterday because we ate lunch at our desks and I fed you a bite of my food." She pointed out.

"We were just eating. Lloyds is too uptight about what we do."

"Yeah, but he's our boss. I'm not ready to retire from hero work." She said before mocking the man, "'If you don't like it, you can retire!' uhg. I like being a hero..."

"There's no way he can fire you. If you go, I go. We're a team, and we're bringing in the most ratings at the moment."

"Still. We should try to behave in the office."

Barnaby sighed and slouched in his chair a little. "Alright, we can try. But I'm not promising anything."

"You used to be all business in the office..."

"Then we got married and had a kid. A lot of that time previously I spent being upset about something. Now, I don't really have anything to be upset about. I'm happy now." He smiled and leaned over to kiss her cheek.

She frowned, being reminded that their son was far away from them at the moment. She had gotten used to being with him during her leave. "I miss Henry... I'm calling Kaede to see how he's doing!" she declared as she grabbed her cell phone.

"You do miss Kaede as well. Henry isn't the only one that's important," he reminded her as he turned back to his work.

"Yes, but Henry isn't used to being away from me yet."