Future
By: DarkBlue Mint

Disclaimer: Not in the past, as sure as hell not in the present, and I even doubt the future…

Notes: If heart-san is reading this, I'm really sorry about the delay; although I told you that I was going to post it yesterday I kind of forgot that I work on Mondays. Still here it is and I hope you enjoy it.

It was said that Kuga Saeki inherited all of her Kaasan attributes, her looks and her personality. Of course those who really knew her would say that (apart from striking emerald eyes) she had inherited her Mama's temper. Maybe that was the reason why when her Mama was being late at waking up so she could take her to school; she went outside, filled a bucket with the (extremely cold) well water, went to her Mama's room and proceeded to empty the contents on her.

"What the…!?" Kuga Natsuki never was a morning person. "Saeki?! What the hell are you doing?"

"Time for school, I don't want to be late!" And moving fast (to avoid her mama asking why she wanted to go to school that eagerly) she went to the door.

"Saeki." Natsuki's serious voice stopped her before she could open the shogi door of the room. "I... admire your desire of being prompt but…. It's still one hour to our normal wake up time."

The girl blushed after seeing her wristwatch. "I think my alarm clock is one hour fast."

"Yeah, I think so too..." Natsuki said while trying to take some of the cold water from the dark tresses. Before any of them could say anything more a voice interrupted them.

"Natsuki? What happened to you?" The worry in Shizuru's tone would have continued if not for her eldest daughter sheepish look.

"Apparently, I had this dream in which I was swimming on a lake, and Saeki decided to help the interactive experience by drenching me with cold water." Natsuki kept laughing while Shizuru giggled; Saeki for her part was blushing so much that she was sure that the blood vessels in her face would burst.

"Natsuki, I think it's better if you take a warm bath; I will hate to see my Natsuki with a cold." Shizuru couldn't avoid hiding the mischievous look on her face.

"Right, as if you don't have plans for whenever I got sick." She started walking to the bathroom, then stopped and pointed at the still blushing sixteen year old girl. "Punish her."

"With pleasure, my Natsuki." Shizuru turned to her daughter with a smile on her face; the girl had the grace to swallow and took a step away from her kaasan. "What have I told you before about your Mama?"

"That there's only one of her, but you can make more of me; so I better not do anything to bother her?" Said Saeki with practiced ease, then at seeing her mother advancing on her she changed her tone. "Please, kaasan, please… Don't punish me I swear I didn't mean to…" And she couldn't keep talking at feeling her mother tickling her senseless. The punishment lasted a minute.

"Mou! What would people say at knowing that the amazing Kuga Shizuru punish her kids by tickling them." Shizuru laughed at her daughter's tone, so much like her Natsuki.

"What would people say at knowing that the amazing Kuga-sama is so ticklish?" Shizuru smiled warningly at her daughter. "You do know that even though I punished you, my Natsuki will still get revenge?" The girl eyes widened and then saw that her Mama's futon was sopping wet (there was a big chance that her bed will be in that state come night). "Anyway, what reason do you have to go to school so early?"

When Saeki let her eyes fall to the floor, Shizuru knew she had struck embarrassment gold.

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Saeki was at the breakfast table with a blush that had barely disappeared since her Kaasan had put it there, next to her was Kuga Yuuka who was staring at her breakfast as if she was going to kill it not eat it (the poor fourteen years old wasn't a morning person). Directly in front of Saeki was Kuga Rui, the six year old girl seemed more interested in taking something apart (that in a previous life could had been a clock or a hairdryer, it was hard to tell) than in eating her food, that was until her Mama entered the kitchen.

"Rui-chan, what did Mama said about taking things apart on the table?" The motherly tone on Natsuki's voice brought a smile at Shizuru that at the moment was preparing the bento for the girls.

"That I can't do it at lunch." The innocent voice of the dark haired girl with the red eyes, let everyone know that she was anything except innocent.

"And?" Said Natsuki tiredly (after all they played this little game every two days).

"And I can't do it at dinner." Now Natsuki simply lifted an eyebrow. "That I can't do it at breakfast either?"

"Take that stuff to your room." The little girl sighed at the proclamation and obeyed her elder order (they will see when she was a grown up, she will have her revenge... she was a genius after all!).

At seeing the girl leave Natsuki drifted to Shizuru, she let her arms go around her waist and put her chin on her shoulder.

"Natsuki knows that if she holds me like this I can't continue to prepare her daughter's lunches?" A happy mumble was her only answer and Natsuki didn't move.

"Let them starve, it builds character." Was the answer made in Natsuki's deep voice (and certain former Kaicho almost makes a puddle of herself).

"You do know that we are here, don't ya?" Yuuka was ignored by her mothers and simply went back at scowling at her food (why was it that they considered too young to drink coffee but old enough to witness that?).

"Anyway." Started Natsuki while smirking at her poor girl's misfortune, maybe next year they would let her drink coffee (she had started at fifteen after all). "The futon is drenched and the day it's too humid, I doubt that it will dry today. So when you get back take yours out."

"Kaasan has her own futon?" This was news for Saeki, since she had memory her mother always shared.

"Yep; she bought it once after we had a fight; only slept there for an hour." Natsuki smiled at the memory, it had been such a fun memory.

"Ara, it just that the futon had a design flaw." A questioning sound encouraged her to continue. "The futon had no Natsuki inside."

She felt Natsuki move and bury her face on her hair, she giggled happy at knowing that after all this years she still could make her Natsuki blush.

End.

More Notes: Prompt was: "a biological child between Natsuki and Shizuru (they ended up with three), a biological child between Mai and Mikoto, and a Nina/Arika pairing" (there was also "a physical fight between Nao and Natsuki, but as the previous fic already include it… I'm not doing it); you are going to notice that two thirds of the prompt aren't answered, that cause there's going to be two more chapters (one Thursday the other one Saturday) this is mostly cause I'm kinda tired. If WolfNightwind-san reads this, the new chapter will be on, later tonight or early tomorrow.