FASH: Okay, here's another response to one of kirskipkat's challenges. You all knew this was coming. Happy New Year!
Disclaimer: I still don't own it.
Sena excitedly gripped Akaba's hand and rocked back and forth on his heels as they waited for the train to come into the station, causing the older boy to look down at him with a raised eyebrow.
"I can't seem to recall you ever being this excited about meeting up with me." He said with a mock-frown, causing Sena to swat him lightly with the hand he wasn't holding.
"That's because I can see you all the time, Yamato-kun lives a lot father away than you." Sena explained.
"I knew that, I'm just commenting on it." Akaba replied, leaning down to give Sena a quick peck on the forehead. "I'm excited about him coming down too, you're just more obvious about it."
"Oh." Sena retorted cutely before perking up.
The train was coming into the station.
It was a good thing Yamato was particularly hard to knock over, otherwise the airborne hug he received from Sena when he walked into sight coupled with the weight of his luggage would have cause them to fall over into some sort of compromising position.
Yamato looked up from his arm-full of brunette-love and his eyes met with Akaba's.
"Why's the other half of my reception committee all the way over there, come on, group hug!" He called, gesturing with one arm for Akaba to come closer, which the red head did with a sigh.
Sena had decided that, to commemorate Yamato's visit, they should all go on a date to the zoo once Yamato had dropped off all of his stuff at Akaba's place. And so off to the zoo they went, Yamato and Akaba lingering behind, not so much interested in the animals themselves as Sena's reaction to said animals.
The had drifted off towards the eastern end of the zoo where the birds were kept, and that was when the real fun began.
"Look! Look!" Sena cried excitedly, pointing to a pair of large, white and black birds with long beaks. "Storks!"
"Yeah, storks, what's so exciting about a stork?" Yamato asked, raising an eyebrow curiously.
Sena gasped and his eyes widened dramatically. "You don't know?" He questioned, as if they were missing out on the most important piece of information that had been bestowed upon humankind by the Gods themselves.
Yamato shook his head, as did Akaba and Sena quickly motioned for them to come in a bit closer as he sent a cautious look at the people around them.
The other boys complied, both of them looking fairly amused as Sena sent one final look at the people around them before he whispered: "Storks are the ones that bring the mommies of the world their babies."
Yamato broke out into laughter while Akaba pulled back with an amused: "Fuu."
"That's a good one Sena! Now what's the real reason storks are so amazing?"
Sena stared up at them, a little perplexed and definitely not amused.
Yamato abruptly stopped laughing and Akaba's smile vanished.
"Wait a minute, is that... Is that actually what you think?" Yamato asked incredulously and Sena crossed his arms and pouted up at them.
"I don't get what's so funny. Didn't your mothers ever tell you where babies came from?" He asked, cocking his head to the side.
Akaba cleared his throat. "Sena... How exactly did your mother go about explaining this natural phenomenon? And how old were you at the time?"
Sena tapped at his lips in thought for a moment. "Well, I may have been seven or eight. Mom said that after a couple got together they would pray to the heavens to have a baby, and once the baby was ready the Gods wrap the baby up in a blanket to keep it warm, and give it to a stork to fly it down to their parents. And that's how you get a baby! That's why storks are so amazing." Sena nodded to himself assuredly while Yamato and Akaba gaped and started at him respectively.
"What?"
"Fuu. Have you never had any sort of health class? Is Deimon's curriculum really that philistine?" Akaba, the first to recover, asked.
"We had a health class in my last year of middle school."
"And?" The red head prompted.
"And what? We learned a couple things. There were a couple days that I wasn't paying attention because I needed to finish my math homework though."
Akaba's sunglasses glinted as he turned to look at Yamato, smirking. "Yamato, I don't think it's right for poor Sena, at the ripe age of sixteen, to go through life thinking such outrageous things, do you?"
"Hey! My mom wouldn't lie about something like this!"
"You know what Akaba, I think you're right." Yamato said, his shocked look was quickly replaced by a grin.
"Fine, go ahead and ignore me." Sena said with a pout, turning to look at the storks once more.
"Aw, don't worry Sena." Yamato said as he wrapped his arms around the younger boy. "We're not ignoring you, we're just making plans."
"What plans?" Sena asked curiously, leaning back into the embrace and looking over his shoulder at Akaba. "I didn't hear you do any scheming."
Akaba gave him a small smile. "We're going to re-educate you, now come along, we'll cause a scene if we start everything up in public."
"Re-educate? A scene?" Sena questioned as he and Yamato began following Akaba out of the zoo. "What do you mean by that?"
"Oh, you'll see." Yamato whispered in his ear before giving him a light peck on the cheek.
-Much Later-
"Wait a minute. Does this mean I'm going to have a baby?"
"Yes Sena, that's what this means."
"WHAT?!"
"Fuu. Just ignore him Sena, men can't get pregnant."