TodoBaku, Destiny

Ch. 19

Katsuki's pov

"Here she is, your baby girl! She's healthy and very beautiful!"

The midwife merrily handed our newborn daughter over to me after having dried her off, wrapped a towel around her and put a beanie on her head.

Suddenly, I'd just forgotten all about the pain.

Looking at her for the first time while holding her in my arms, I felt how the tears welled up in my eyes. Of course I couldn't hold them back, so I simply let them stream down my cheeks as I watched my daughter with the warmest smile that'd ever taken place on my lips.

"She's so lovely..!" I sobbed as I gestured for Shōto to come closer.

I closed the distance between our lips for a short moment before handing our daughter over to him.

He carefully held her in his arms, and for the second time, I got to see tears escaping his eyes.

"She really is..! She's absolutely perfect!"

A wide smile widened across his lips as he placed a gentle kiss on her forehead.

"What should we name her? I think you  might just already have a suggestion judging by the look on your face."

I could clearly see that he already had a name in mind.

"...Akatsuki." (Akatsuki means "dawn")

Akatsuki was a great name and it fit her perfectly, but..

"Doesn't that sound a bit too much like Katsuki though..?"

Shōto shook his head, disagreeing.

"It fits right in. Mitsuki, Katsuki and Akatsuki. Plus, I think her hair colour is that of a dawn. I managed to catch a glimpse of her hair before they put her beanie on."

He wasn't exactly right... Her hair was more crimson, but if I separated "Aka" and "Tsuki" it would make the word "red moon", so the name Akatsuki would work nevertheless. We'd just have to fight about the spelling later.

"Welcome to the family, Akatsuki..!"

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~Eight months later~

Katsuki's POV:

"Akatsuki! Don't run away!"

I reached my hands out to pick our almost one year old up as she'd started running a week or so ago. Because of that, we couldn't even let her out of our sight for a minute as she was such a troublemaker already.

Something that had been on both my and Shōto's minds a lot was the fact that she learned way too quickly. She could run and say a few words at the age of eight months. Not only that though. We could already tell that she was an alpha. Normally, kids would show signs in their early teens. Some unlucky ones would show signs even earlier, but never younger than three years old. Sure, Shōto was apparently declared an alpha at the age of five, but I wasn't declared omega until I was 16. I was a pretty late bloomer, especially for being an omega.

Anyway, we had taken her to the doctor, who despite his shock could with certainty declare her an alpha. As parents we were both worried about why she was showing such strong signs so early. She wasn't even a year old...