Kaira Miju screamed out in pain again, throwing her upper body back violently onto the padded bed. Her breath came in ragged gasps, despite the throng of doctors telling her to breathe. She could feel the weight that she had carried in her womb for nine months begin to move down, the sudden change in weight sickening and painful. Her legs, despite her efforts to shut them, were pried open, and she momentarily stopped screaming, struck by this new pain as her fifteen year old sex opened to admit the head of her child.
Watching from the outside of reflective glass, stood her mother and father. Her mother was pale with terror for her daughter, and her father was furious at the embarrassment he faced.
Kaira began screaming anew as her child began to push it's way into life. The bloody head pushed it's way through the barrier, and as soon as her child's mouth was revealed, it began to fill it's lungs with air and use it to scream it's discomfort.
Soon, the entire child was whelped, and Kaira subsided to shuddering sobs as her body purged itself of the afterbirth. Her child, a daughter, went on crying as the nursing staff cleaned her, tied and cut her birth cord, and pricked her foot for a blood sample. Now Kaira had calmed her breathing, and reached out for her child, who was placed in her arms. Kaira's brown eyes, before so clouded with pain and fury, now were soft and caring as she held her child.
She looked back up at the nursing staff and returned the child to them. "Please don't worry, Miju-chan, you will be able to return home with your daughter in a few hours." Kaira lay back as her parents were allowed into the room. Her mother flung herself to her daughter, hugging her and kissing her, sobbing her thanks that she was still alive. Her father had a look of irritability, but his eyes followed his granddaughter as she was carried out of the room.
Though her parents had suggested a wetnurse or formula, Kaira resolved to breastfeed, as she wished to give everything to her child, since the father had disappeared as soon as she began to swell. She got her opportunity quickly, as soon as they were on the shuttle home. She did not expect the pain in her breasts and womb as she did so.
The shuttle pulled up to their home, Kaira with her daughter, and her parents following her. It was going to be a rough time for all of them.
Kaira named her daughter Tomo, and the two of them were incredibly close growing up, despite the two being ejected from her father's house when Kaira was 20 and Tomo 5. Kaira's mother opposed the idea, but Kaira willed it, and the pair of them immediately went to the Kusari Navy barracks on New Tokyo, finding lodging for them both. Kaira began training as Tomo found schooling nearby, but much preferred military chores with her mother. Kaira and Tomo became the infamous pair on station, and when Tomo was old enough for her flight license, began flying with her mother on military drills.
It took longer than Kaira thought, before she and her daughter were accepted to the Kusari Navy as Ensigns. Typical sexism, she concluded. She made sure that she and Tomo were always in the same wing, same assignments. The pair became famous where ever they went for their ferocity and love of 'scrapping' as they called it, since even on ground, the pair loved to fight. They were un-feminine in every sense of the word, often having to get extra chores tacked on for starting fights, and winning them, against men. They never used stereotypical cheap tricks, they fought fist and foot and won.
It was their tenth anniversary when the pair were appointed commander and chief engineer of the gunboat "IKN|Hataki", which they serve on to present day.