Natsume Hyuuga: 22 years old.
Mikan Hyuuga: 22 years old.
Kaoru Hyuuga: 4 months old.

A/N: Sorry for any grammatical mistakes!

February 9th, 2016

8:23 PM

Another splash of water punched Natsume's nose, Mikan giggled while holding Kaoru close to her in the bathtub.

It was a cold and rainy February night and the Hyuuga's decided to take a warm family bath before bed, Kaoru loved taking baths, she would always splash around the water with her tiny feet and arms, and sometimes she just like to throw water at her parents and squeal loud giggles after. She was indeed a fish, in Natsume's words.

"Kaoru stay still, I don't want any shampoo on your eyes." Natsume warned half-smiling, Mikan was only watching amused. For some reason when Mikan applied the shampoo on Kaoru's hair the baby would stay still and calm but when it was Natsume she moved around and splashed water everywhere in her all mighty power. He really had to focus himself to not let any of the baby apple scent shampoo burn her bambi crimson eyes. He hated seeing her cry, when she was hungry, when she needed a diaper change, stomachaches, cramps, bad humor, Natsume couldn't handle those, her crying was a big no no for him.

Once again, another splash of warm water slapped him and he sighed in defeat while looking at mama bear, she smirked and continued his work, now Kaoru was only smiling at her daddy and sitting still on Mikan's lap. He glared down at Kaoru and pinched her cheeks.

"Oi, do you hate me?"

She giggled and grabbed his hand, "Ababa da…" she guided his hand to her mouth and nibbled on it, her two lower teeth made him wince.

"Poor thing, her gums have been bothering her." Mikan sighed, "Imai-san said that it's normal and he gave me medication but biting seems to be her way to calm down." She paused with a frown, "It hurts when I nurse her."

He smirked, "Well in her defense, biting your nipples is great."

Mikan flushed quickly and threw him a look, "Natsume!"

He smiled, "If you feel like it hurts then you can just feed her with the formula."

The brunette made a disgusted look, "I don't want to feed her formula, I want her to have natural milk. I still have it so I'm feeding her my milk as long it's still there."

"Alright calm down mammal bear, it was only a suggestion." He chuckled.

Kaoru had her drool all over Natsume's hand but she paused to yawn, Natsume and Mikan noticed and she hurried while washing the shampoo from her hair, "All down baby, let's head out now."

Natsume was the first to get out the water; he wrapped a towel around his waist and grabbed a two more or his wife and daughter. Kaoru's towel was a ducky one; he had to admit that looked darn adorable on her. Mikan grabbed Kaoru and passed her to Natsume, he quickly wrapped her around the towel and embraced her securely, then he watched Mikan stand up and get out of the tub, he stared even more and when Mikan noticed she quickly wrapped her towel around her body, "Pervert fox." She mumbled with her cheeks red.

"What? I can't stare at my wife? It's not like I haven't seen you naked before, look at the proof." He held Kaoru in front of her; she giggled and kissed her daughter's nose.

Making Mikan laugh always made Natsume happy, he didn't show it much but it did. When they were kids he hated her smile, it annoyed him but now it was like something that he awaited for every day.

"Oh let's go, she's trembling." Mikan opened the door and walked inside her bedroom.

After dressing up, they all cuddled together under the bed's sheets, Kaoru was lying in the middle of her parents, both stared at her, watching her fall asleep slowly. Mikan smiled when Natsume pulled her body closer, he liked to do that. Mikan would always wake up embracing Kaoru while Natsume embraced both of them close.

He always wrapped his arms around her possessively in a way that made him think that this wasn't a dream, that he wasn't dead and this was a fake reality projected for him in heaven, just for him to rest in peace. Those thoughts always scared him, the idea of seeing Mikan forget about her life in the academy and himself, then moving on, marry someone else…love somebody else was horrible and perfect for make him all depressed. But seeing her and his baby every morning was enough to kill those thoughts and make him live for another day, all the dark past that he had with his missions and the nightmares about his burning village and when Aoi was taken away were gone just with the sight of Mikan's peaceful sleeping face and the small baby curled up on his chest.

This was indeed a lovely reality for him.

A/N: Well I'm not happy with this but it's okay for a kick starter I guess, I'll do better next time and expect bigger chapters!

Review me what you want me to write next!

I will cringe while reading this in the future.

-Cathy