Disclaimer: I don't own Pretear

A/N: This is a sequel to My Love.

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Mannen was panicking. Himeno trusted him to watch Nozomi and he lost her.

"Birdie!" a soft, female voice called out and shin ran towards it. He found Nozomi behind a bush, playing with a Typi.

"You shouldn't have run away like that!" he scolded and picked her up. Nozomi looked at him and stuck her tongue out at him. "You're a spoiled brat, know that?"

"Nozomi give you the slip again?" Hajime asked as he and Shin walked up behind him. Nozomi had a bad habit of waiting until her care taker was sleeping and sneaking off.

"Mind your own business." Mannen ordered and tried to calm Nozomi down as she reached for Shins green eyes.

"Shin! Shin!" she called out for him and kept stretching out. Shin walked closer and gently ruffled Nozomi's white hair. She smiled and grabbed his finger with amazing strength like her mother.

"I'm back." Himeno said walking into the backyard. "How is everything?"

"Fine." Mannen said giving Nozomi to Himeno.

"Mama back!" the child announced, looking into her mothers pink eyes with her lavender ones.

"Yeah," Himeno told her daughter. "Mama's back."

Himeno took Nozomi inside, set her in her highchair, paid Mannen for babysitting and let the boys leave.

"Did you have fun today with Mannen?" she asked.

"Where Shin?" Nozomi asked, suddenly missing one of her favorite people in the world.

"Shin had to go." Himeno told her toddler who suddenly started to pout. "But Daddy will be home soon."

Nozomi suddenly cheered up again and clapped her hands. "Dad-dee!" she cheered. "Dad-dee! Dad-dee!"

Himeno laughed. Her daughter was so cheerful, so much like her. "Want anything to eat?" she asked.

"Ouce-cream." Nozomi answered and waited for her mother to bring it to her, surprisingly, the two of them liked the same ice cream.

"There ya go." Himeno said and set the ice cream on the tray of the highchair and started to eat her ice cream.

Nozomi stayed quiet, making a mess with her ice cream until she heard the front door open "Dad-dee!" she squealed.

"That's right." Himeno said, and smiled when Sasame walked into the kitchen. "Welcome home." She told him as he walked over and kissed her.

"I missed you." He told her

"Ewww!" Nozomi said. "Kisses yucky!" he parents laughed at her.

"She had a fit when she heard you coming."

"Dad-dee!" Nozomi said again, reaching for her father.

Sasame smiled and picked up his daughter. She had his hair and eyes, but had her mother's features. "Did you miss me?" he asked but his eyes when wide when she stuck her ice cream covered hand in his mouth.

"Dad-dee ouce-cream." She said smiling and Himeno laughed.

"Nozomi, haven't you ever heard of strawberry ice cream?" Sasame asked, his face green.

"Yucky." She said and stuck her tongue out.

Himeno watched them and smiled. Her life was perfect, the perfect husband, the perfect, healthy child, what more could she ask for?

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Later:

Sasame and Himeno watched Nozomi sleeping.

"She's an angel." Himeno said and Sasame wrapped an arm around her shoulder.

"She is." Sasame said and pulled his wife closer. "Let's let her sleep." He said and led her out the room, leaving the hall light on for the baby.

A/N: This is the sequel to my love, but it will have more than one chapter. R&R please