Little Bitty Pretty One
Chapter One
My Greedy Little Watermelon
"It's your turn."
Aomine groaned and shoved his face in the pillow. "I did the last one."
"I gave birth to her. It's your turn."
"That excuse isn't going to work forever you know?"
"I carried her for nine months. It's your turn."
When the crying from the baby monitor became louder and somewhat grumpier, Aomine said "I think she's hungry."
Kise sighed. He was probably right. It definitely sounded like their daughter's hungry cry. He briefly looked at the clock by the side of the bed. It had been under two hours since she'd last been fed.
Amaya was a greedy baby.
Groaning but not admitting defeat, Kise clambered out of bed and out the room.
Aomine waited, sprawled out on the bed, for the crying to stop. When it did, he untangled himself from the duvet and made his way into Maya's room where he found Kise sat in the rocking chair in the corner, Maya cradled in his arms guzzling away, happy and content.
Aomine's heart swelled. "See?" he grinned, "told you she was hungry. Aren't you watermelon?"
Kise rolled his eyes. "She's always hungry."
That was true. Amaya loved her food. Kise used to feed her every four hours, for fifteen minutes. However, the time between meals was rapidly decreasing and Amaya wouldn't go longer than an hour and a half without demanding to be fed.
At first the boys were worried that there might be something wrong with her, like she wasn't putting on enough weight or even eating properly. But after doing some research and speaking to Dr Tanaka, it was apparently common for newborns to go through growth spurts every couple of weeks and therefore required extra food. The best thing to do was to just let her feed as much as she liked and eventually it would calm down.
Luckily for Kise, even though there had been a sudden increase in demand, his body provided enough milk to keep the supply going. The only downside was that these growth spurts only seemed to happen after midnight and since Kise was the one doing the feeding, it usually meant him getting very little sleep.
They waited in sleepy silence for Maya to finish.
When she did, Kise propped her against his chest, and gently winded her.
Taking in Kise's ruffled her and bruised eyes, Aomine stood up and held out his arms. "Let me take her" he offered. Maya wasn't crying anymore, but it would be a while before she conked out again.
"Are you sure?" Kise asked as he let Aomine gently ease Amaya out his arms.
Aomine nodded. "You have been up all night and every night this week. You need to sleep. I'll wait up with her till she dozes off again."
Kise smiled gratefully. He could already feel himself slipping away in the rocking chair.
He slowly stood up and gave his boyfriend a grateful kiss on the lips. "I love you."
"I love you too."
Kise looked at his daughter before placing a soft kiss on top of her head followed by "I love you too, my greedy little watermelon" and then shuffled out of the room and straight to bed.
Aomine moved towards the rocking chair and sat down. Maya liked to lie across his chest and stretch her legs. She was definitely a creature of comfort!
He held her close and gently rocked the rocking chair backwards and forwards until she fell asleep.
When Aomine eventually climbed back into bed, Kise instinctively turned around and curled into him making Aomine smile. He didn't resist when Kise pulled him closer and buried his head in the crook of his neck.
And then they slept. Blissfully and peacefully.
For an hour and a half at least.
Overwhelming Responsibility
The doorbell ringing sounded like a thousand claxons going off in Aomine's head.
He clambered off the couch, checked on Amaya who was half awake half asleep in her bassinette and shuffled towards the door.
The light of day was harsh on his eyes and he had to squint to see who was standing before him.
"Good afternoon!" beamed Momoi.
"Oi Satsuki…you're being way too cheery…"
"Oh really? Maybe you're just being grumpy." She then looked at his face closely. "You look tired."
Aomine shrugged, "yeah well you try living with a three week old and see how you feel." He then ushered her inside and into the living room.
"Where's Kise?" asked Momoi as she made her way to the bassinette.
"Upstairs, asleep. Maya had him up almost every hour last night. He told me to wake him up when you got here but I'm just going to let him sleep."
"That's probably a good idea."
She bent over the bassinette and began to dote on a now fully awake Amaya. "Hello there, little one. You're getting bigger every time I see you!"
"That's because she's a greedy little thing. Aren't you watermelon?"
Momoi chuckled. "That nickname is so cute! And surprisingly fitting!"
Aomine scratched the back of his head. "Yeah I can't remember how it started. I think it was in the hospital and I compared her to the size of a watermelon. Since then, it kind of stuck. It's only me and Kise who call her that though."
"Well, I think it's cute. Can I pick her up?"
Aomine nodded. "Feel free. She's going to need feeding soon anyway."
"Yay!" Momoi grinned as she bent down and scooped Maya into her arms. "Hey there Maya! Have you just woken up?"
She then moved to the couch and sat down next to Aomine.
"I think she likes you Satsuki" said the bluenette.
"You think?"
Aomine nodded. "She always seems so transfixed when she sees you."
It was true. Whenever Momoi had hold of her, Amaya didn't wiggle around like she usually did but stared wide eyed as if under some sort of spell.
"Maybe it's the hair?" Momoi joked.
"Maybe."
Momoi then nodded towards a bag by the door. "That's this week's homework. Your teachers have said just do as much as you can."
"Will do, thanks."
Aomine had agreed to finish his current year in school rather than drop out completely. After that, he would be working officially as a professional basketball player as a member of the Panthers.
Kise had insisted that Aomine continue with his training at least once a week so he didn't get out of shape. It would also give him a break from baby duty. However, just because he now had a child to look after, didn't mean that training would be any easier. He wasn't sure what was more exhausting; a three week old unable to sleep through one night without waking up, or three hours of coach Nakahara's Spartan training regime. They also agreed that for now, Aomine would take a back seat when it came to playing in actual games as they tended to be all over the country, at least until Maya was a little bit older.
"When's your dad coming over?" asked Momoi.
"I'm not sure. Apparently work's too busy at the moment but he plans to come over in the summer."
"Summer? How old will she be then?"
Aomine did some quick sums. "About four months."
"Wow…"
"Yeah well, it doesn't surprise me really. He's never been there for anything else in my life, so why should the birth of his granddaughter be any different?"
Momoi didn't say anything. She then wrinkled her nose and sniffed the air. "What is that smell?"
"Hmm?" Aomine also sniffed the air. He then leant forward and sniffed his daughter.
Momoi felt Maya tense up in her arms. She looked down and saw a cheeky grin smiling back at her.
"Aww, Daiki I think she's smiling at me!"
"Wait for it…" Aomine said as he got up and walked towards the cupboard.
"Wait for what?"
She then found out. Her nose twitched as the air turned green. "Oh my god!" she exclaimed, holding Maya out as far as she could in front of her. "Is that her?!"
"Yep" Aomine replied from the floor as he lay out the changing mat and placed a fresh nappy and some baby wipes next to it.
"Oh god, how do you stand it?" balked Momoi.
"You get used to it" replied Aomine as he reached over, "come here you little monster." He picked up his daughter and slowly lay her down on the changing mat.
Maya kicked her legs in mini-spurts and chatted away to herself as Aomine unbuttoned her baby grow and removed her nappy. He grabbed a handful of baby wipes, lifted Amaya's legs and began to clean her bottom.
Momoi pinched her nose and tried to breathe through her mouth as she watched her best friend adeptly change a nappy.
When Amaya was equipped with a clean nappy and the old one was disposed of, the green mist in the room began to disappear.
"There you go" said Aomine, as he stood up and sat on the couch, placing Maya on his chest where she instinctively tucked her knees into her chest and grabbed her dad's t-shirt with her tiny fists.
Momoi watched as the pair shared a loving and tender moment.
She smiled. "It looks good on you, you know?"
"What does?"
"Being a dad."
Aomine softly kissed the top of Amaya's head before replying. "I think I'm finally starting to get used to it. I didn't know how it was going to feel, but I didn't think it would be this overwhelming. The weight of responsibility is overpowering. I mean, I'm not too bad now but when we first brought her home, every little thing or every little noise she made caused me to panic. She's so delicate, I was convinced there was something wrong with her. I mean, thank God for Kise. At least one of us seems to know what they're doing."
Momoi let out a small laugh. "Well, well, well… looks like we've finally found something that makes even you feel nervous."
Aomine laughed. "More like terrified."
Once Momoi had left, Aomine quietly and slowly made his way back upstairs and into Maya's room. She had become a lead weight in his arms and stayed that way as he lowered her into her cot. He then made sure the baby monitor was turned up full and that the mobile above her head was twinkling away, before making his way out the room and into Kise's.
The bluenette couldn't help but chuckle to himself when he saw his boyfriend's dishevelled appearance. Kise was sprawled out on the bed, leg and arm hanging off the edge, his hair all over the place with his mouth slightly apart.
He didn't even move when Aomine crept into bed next to him and moved some of Kise's flailing limbs so he could have some space.
Aomine sighed as his head hit the pillow, falling asleep almost instantly.
A/N
Hello everyone! Told you I wouldn't be gone long! Here is a little taster of what I have planned for this story. It's not going to be as long as Unintended (at least it's not supposed to be!) and will include quite a lot of time skips. I'm trying a new format this time which involves each new section having a title.
This story will follow Amaya as she grows up and all the people around her.
Each chapter will have Maya that little bit older.
But like I said, this is just a taster so let me know what you think and whether I should continue with it. I OFFICIALLY move out tomorrow and start my new job on Monday so updates might me sparse until I get the internet and some free time!
I'm going to stop talking now!
I love you all!
RH
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