Life With You

Part 12: Crisis

ChiChi sighed in relief feeling Goku's hands massage her lower back. At six months pregnant, her load was getting heavier with her beach ball size stomach. Her son moved around a lot; sometimes using her body as a punching bag. She love being pregnant but the aches she got in her lower back and feet were not welcomed. The only comfort in her suffering was having Goku massage her. It was definitely an advantage having the world's strongest man massage her. Being a skilled martial artist, Goku knew how to touch a body; his skillful hands had the ability to destroy mountains but it could also ease the tension in the muscles of her lower back.

Goku was happy to help. ChiChi did all the work carrying the baby. He felt happy he could contribute even if it's only massaging ChiChi's back and feet. "How's your back now?"

"Much better. Ooo!" she suddenly jumped.

"What is it?" Goku asked slightly frantic. Did he press too hard? "Is it your back?"

"It's your son." ChiChi rubbed her stomach. "He's kicking me again."

Goku flipped on the bed so he laid across from ChiChi. Whenever his son moved, Goku was eager to feel him. Goku put his hand on ChiChi's stomach. To his disappointment, his son stopped moving. Goku raised his Ki slightly so his hands illuminated. The heat from Goku's hand warmed ChiChi's stomach and stimulated his son to react with a kick.

Goku grinned. "He kicked."

"I know," ChiChi winced feeling another strong kick.

As Goku rubbed a warm hand over ChiChi's stomach, he asked, "How much longer before the baby's here? I've been waiting forever."

"We have three more months." Goku groaned loudly. One would think he's having the baby with how impatient he's being. "Our baby will be here before you know it." ChiChi laughed at Goku pouting. Sometimes he really did act like an impatient child. "At tomorrow's appointment, we'll see more of our son on the sonogram since I'm bigger."

Goku rubbed ChiChi's stomach grinning. Her stomach grew a lot in the last month. "That's true. Your stomach's really big. I think you're eating more than me now!" He innocently laughed. "How much bigger do you think you'll get, ChiChi?"

Growling, ChiChi kicked Goku hard. He soared out of bed and crashed into the wall. Goku groaned as he sat up and rubbed his lower back. "Ow! What'd I say?"

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ChiChi laid on the exam table with her shirt pulled up to her breasts. She shivered as Dr. Barkley rubbed the cool gel on her stomach. Goku looked on curious at the gel. Dr. Barkley explained to him at every appointment how it is used to help see the baby but Goku would forget and Dr. Barkley would explain all over again. Goku hoped to see something this time. The last two images didn't impress Goku. It looked like a black and white blob of nothing. Whatever was on screen looked nothing like the babies he'd seen in his travels.

"So, have you picked any names out yet?" Dr. Barkley asked.

"Still working on it. Einstein and Archimedes have been shot down." ChiChi glanced wryly at Goku.

"Sometimes parents can't think of a name until they see their baby." Dr. Barkley flipped on the machines. The screen revealed a child in a sea of black and white and a loud whooshing sound of the baby's heartbeat filled the room. "Ah. There he is. He's bigger." While the doctor could see a child, the expecting parents still had trouble deciphering the image. "Any concerns or questions you have?"

"Other than my eating, I'm fine. I don't like the cravings I have." ChiChi didn't dare tell her doctor of the wild animals she consumed. While it was normal to Goku and now her, she knew it wasn't normal to eat wolf, bear and tiger.