A/N: This is the set I've been looking forward to the most, where I finally get to do a challenge about Vanitas! :D Instead of having a set pairing/trio, each drabble will have Vanitas paired up with whoever I feel like, usually Aqua, Ven, or Xion probably. There may also be crossovers here and there since I have this unbreakable habit of platonically shipping Van with ponies… *XD/sweatdrop*
xX~100 Eternal Moments~Xx
Set 5 – Unbreakable Chains
76 – Diaper
"I am not changing that brat's diaper," Vanitas informed his mother.
"Oh, is that so?" She raised a thin blue eyebrow, trying not to smile at her eight-year-old son.
"Uh-huh." Vanitas glared at the blond baby boy in his mother's arms. "He's smelly and gross and drools all over everything. And he'll probably pee on me."
"Well I guess you don't want Flood anymore, then. After all, he pees in his cage and you clean it out. That must be too gross for you to handle." She made like she was going to his room.
"No!" Vanitas reached out, clutching fistfuls of his mom's shirt. "Leave Flood alone!"
Aqua smiled, turning back to face him. "You take care of Flood because you love him, right?"
"…No, I take care of him 'cause he's my minion. Love's mushy and gross." The black-haired boy frowned and looked away. You couldn't love your minions. It made them have too much self-esteem, and then they'd stab you in the back. Not that Flood would ever do that to him, because the blue hamster was the best minion in the worlds.
Aqua put on a look of hurt. "So you don't even love me? Or your father?"
Vanitas let go of his mom and turned away, crossing his arms, and mumbled something under his breath.
"What was that, young man?" Aqua asked sternly, rocking her baby son in her arms when he started to fuss.
"I said I love you," Vanitas grumpily replied, then winced when his brother let out a squeaky cry. How could his mom love the little brat so much? All he did was pee and poop and eat and cry, and she still thought he was the light of her universe.
"Oh." His mother's face lightened again. "I love you too, Van," she said, appeasing him slightly, but that was ruined when she added, "And I love your father and your brother, too."
"And Flood?" He asked. Flood was way cooler than the baby brat; it wasn't fair to leave him out. Aqua laughed.
"And Flood. Just like you take care of Flood because you love him, I take care of you and Ven because I love both of you. Now, you need to learn how to take care of your brother too."
Vanitas's face instantly hardened back into a scowl. "I don't need to. I don't love him."
His mother put on her 'That was Too Far' face. "Vanitas, he is your brother, and you will learn to love him. Just like you're going to learn how to change a diaper."
She knelt down and laid the fussing Ventus on a changing mat that she had previously spread over the floor. Vanitas took the chance to try and sneak back to his room, but she saw him with what could only be eyes in the back of her head.
"Vanitas Chi Fair, get back here this instant," she ordered, freezing him in his tracks. He sulked back, plopped down next to his mother, and hunched his shoulders.
"Babies are stupid," he muttered.
"Believe it or not, you were a baby too once," his mother informed him while undoing Ventus's diaper. Vanitas chose the not option. (At least, if he was a baby, he hadn't been nearly so slobbery and smelly as his brother.) "I had to do the same things for you that I do for Ven, and someday you'll take care of your children the same way."
Vanitas made a disgusted face. "Eww, I don't want to have kids."
"Your future wife might change your mind," his mom teased lightly.
"Pfft, I don't want to get married, either. Girls have cooties."
Aqua laughed, leaning over to kiss her grumpy, adorable son's forehead. "I hope you think that for a long time, Van. Now could you please pass me a baby wipe?"
He made another disgusted face as Aqua cleaned her younger son's bottom and clothed it with a fresh diaper.
"See, that didn't look so hard now, did it?" Aqua asked.
Vanitas's only reply was several loud gagging sounds.