Chapter 1: Birth
The small toddler rolled over onto his stomach and sucked on his skull shaped rattle, kicking his legs in a bored fashion. Though he was only one, he could already speak well formed sentences and do other things that one year olds shouldn't be capable of.
But of course, this was Shingami-sama's child.
His first child to be exact, one who had already shown much promise to his father. Kid Death. Now Kid was waiting for something he already felt he had waited for long enough: his baby brother.
Finally the nurse entered the room with a bundle in her arms and Kid got to his knees and reached up.
"You want to see her?"
"Hwer?" Kid frowned. "Her" implied female. "Her" suggested tea parties and frilly hats and other things that Spirit-sama had babbled about his daughter making him do.
"Yes. This is your little sister Kid. Say hi," the nurse cooed.
Kid peered inside the bundle to see his sleeping baby sister sporting wisps of coal hair. She blew bubbles in her slumber. Suddenly, the newborn snapped open her golden eyes and glared at Kid as if he had committed a sin by seeing her helpless and innocent.
She growled at him.
Kid sat back down on his bottom and sucked his thumb, baffled. Shouldn't girls be sweet and nice?
"It is wreally a girl?" he asked.
"Yes, Kid. This is your sister," the nurse repeated.
"No, it's my bruvver because girls are nice. This baby is mean."
The sister giggled.
"No, Morta is very nice. See, she's laughing!"
Kid got on his knees again to see for himself. Yes, Morta was laughing but, unless Kid was crazy, she was giving him a dirty look out the corner of her eye.
Was he the only one who saw this could be a problem?