The sky is most beautiful in summer
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Chapter 01: The unspoken promise
Namimori maternal hospital...
On the hospital bed in a certain room, lying a brown haired woman who just has a healthy delivery. Sawada Nana - her name, tiredly looks outside the window, it is midnight now, the crystal clear night sky is filled with silver gentle moonlight. Nana subconsciously gives out a small smile, then she turns to the cradle on the right of the bed, she stands up and walks to it. She looks at the two tiny features in the cradle, her twin sons are peacefully sleeping. Nana tries her best to restrain herself from the urge to squeeze them but she fails, who can do that when seeing such adorable twin babies hugging each other anyway? The childish mother then gently picks her sons up and holds them in her arms, she brings them to the bed and sits down, looking at the angelic sleeping faces, she cannot help but giggles while silently whining.
"Nana!" called a voice of a man.
"Shhhh!" Nana looks up and signals him. The said person is a blonde haired man with sturdy feature and hairy face, he is leaning against the wall catching his breath and panting like he just runs a long distance marathon, his hands are holding a small girl. Nana looks at him - Sawada Iemitsu - her husband with cheerful eyes. Iemitsu then walks to where his wife is, making sure not to cause noises, the little girl he is holding looks like she is half sleeping but when she sees her mother, she rubs her eyes and let out a big smile. Sawada Natsume is her name, she is the one-year-old(-and-four-months, as she always states) daughter of Nana and Iemitsu. Her father places Natsume on the bed, next to Nana then he looks at his wife worryingly:
"Is it OK for you to sit up? You just have a hard time, you should rest-" before he can continue with the questions attack, Nana puts a finger on his lips:
"I am fine, dear. No need to worry too much, the doctors and nurses helped me eagerly. Moreover, our sons are good boys, they did not make me any difficulties." She said as she looks at the boys in her hands. Iemitsu's eyes beam with happiness as he receives one of the boys from his wife. Nana turns to Natsume and gently pats on her daughter's soft brown head:
"Are you hungry, Natchan? Did you have dinner? Did daddy give you something to eat?" Natsume looks up and answers with her clear and cute voice but she makes sure to lower the volume as understanding it is night time:
"I ate already. Daddy's cooking was not really good but I devoured all. Mom worry not." with a big smile again, she makes Iemitsu's face turns red as mentioning of his cooking, he scratches his back and idiotically grinning while Nana pulls Natsume to a hug with her free arm as she squeals because of cuteness:
"Aww! Natchan~~~" Nana releases the hug and shows her cute daughter the babies, one is on her other arm and one is on Iemitsu's ones. "Hehe, Natchan! Meet our family's new additions!". Natsume's amber round eyes widen in curious, she looks back and forth at the tiny babies her parents are holding. Nana and Iemitsu really want to laugh but they hold back, waiting for Natsume's reactions.
Honestly, their daughter is really maturer than her age, she started talking when she was four months old, some months later she just stood up and walked effortlessly. Iemitsu was super excited, he did not stop bothering everybody bragging about his genius daughter: "My awesome daughter is a genius, she blablabla and blablabla and is super cute, you cannot find anything cuter than he! Really! Believe me!" until a certain Arcobaleno pointed a rifle to his head: "If you don't shut up and get your ass to work, I'll make sure your genius super cute daughter to run away from you everytime she sees your face!" that made him reduced his my-daughter-blabling to a limit (lesser but still annoying in some people's opinions).
Well, Natsume sure is a talented girl, but she is still a little kid. She looks at her new brothers, as registering the fact that she is a big sister now, as she notices many differences between the boys, she has many questions in her head but not sure which one to ask first. After blinking for a while, she reaches her hand to the boy that Nana is holding and touches his cheeks:
"It's warm! Mom! His cheeks are warm!... and soft! Uwaa! He is moving! He is moving!" Natsume looks at her mother and father while her eyes widen more and her mouth opens. Seeing the scene, Iemitsu cannot hold it more, he covers a hand on his mouth and laughs quietly while Nana hilariously smiles as she answer the little girl:
"Of course, Natchan. They are sleeping now, when they wake up they will be moving more." Natsume nods in understanding:
"Then, can I play with them?"
"Hahaha, sure can Natchan! But you have to wait for a while. Now, they are still babies. Babies are small and weak, so they need to sleep reaaalllyyy muuuucchh so that they will grow stronger then they can play with you." Iemitsu answers with a big grin. Natsume acknowledges the information, she thinks of something then asks again:
"Uhm... so..." for some reasons, she hesitates.
"What's wrong?" Iemitsu and Nana ask in harmony.
"I just wonder... what can I call them? Means... their names?" With Natsume's question, the dumb couple realize something so important: they still not naming their precious babies! They burst out laughing but stop when remembering they are holding the babies. Nana moves a bit to the edge of the bed and places the baby on the soft big pillow, Iemitsu does the same and sits down on the other edge while Natsume still stays the same position in the middle of it.
"Now, what names should we call our angels? Do you have any idea?" Nana askes, and Iemitsu is deep in thought.
"Tsu - na!" They both look up. Natsume just says something.
"Tsuna?" Nana tilts her head, questioning.
"Yes. 'Tsu' in daddy's name and 'Na' in mom's name... and... they are also from my name" Natsume lowers hee voice the last part but her parents can still hear it, they smile happily while the littler is slightly blushing.
"That's a great idea, Natchan." Nana says as she pat her daughter's head. She then turns to the boys, gently caresses the one whose hair is brown and claims:
"Then, our brunette-kun name wil be... Tsunayoshi."
"It's brilliant, Nana!" Iemitsu makes a big grin and turn to his unnamed son "Well then, my brunette tuna fish is Tsunayoshi, so my blonde tuna fish will be... Tsunashige! How about it?" He looks at Nana and Natsume.
"Uhm, I like it!" Said Nana and Natsume's nodding of approval. Natsume thinks of her brothers' names as she looks at them:
"Huhm... Tsucchan and Shi-chan..." she calls happily then she frowns in confusion "Daddy! Mom! They are twins?" She asks.
"Oh, Natchan knows what twins mean? Natchan is sooo smart!" Iemitsu squeals. "Yup, Natchan, they are twins." Natsume continues:
"So I am their big sister and they are my little brothers" she pauses and the parents nod "then, which of them is the big brother?" After the innocent question, Iemitsu snaps and turn to Nana as he also does not know.
"Oh," Nana giggles seeing two heads, father's and daughter's, having the same expression and tilting the same direction "haha, Tsunayoshi is twenty three minutes older than Tsunashige, so Tsu-kun is the older brother and Shi-kun is the youngest." She giggles again when the father and daughter duo have the same reaction again.
Natsume approaches the twins, she lies on her stomach on the bed and observes their sleeping faces. Suddenly, Tsunayoshi yawns, his tiny hand stretches out and touches Natsume's hand. Surprisingly, Tsuna holds the little finger of Natsume's right hand. To respond to the sudden action, she gently wraps her hand to hold the bottom of Tsuna's hand. Later, Natsume fall asleep while still holding Tsuna's, her other arm wraps around the twins as she is hugging them when sleeping, the hand that holds Tsuna's loosen and their little fingers hook onto each other, it looks like they are making a promise.
"I will protect you always, no matter what the situations are, no matter who the opponents are, even if it is the world itself, even if it means my life... as long as you are my brothers, as long as I am your sister..."
An unspoken promise.