A/N: Hi guys, welcome to chapter two of Mama and the Sixteen Dads. Thank you to everyone who read, faved, followed, and/or reviewed the previous chapter! Please be sure to read the A/N at the end of the chapter because I need help with this story. Disclaimer: still not my series...
Haruka looked down curiously as the golden-eyed boy pulled on her skirt. "Mama, what are you doing?" he asked.
"Mama?" The guys parroted out of sync. They gaped as they waited to see what Haruka would do.
Haruka knelt down beside the child. "I can't be your Mama, I don't have any kids yet," she explained gently.
The little boy stiffened and his face scrunched up. "No! You're Mama," he insisted.
Then he approached Tokiya. "Look, here's Dad!" Tokiya blushed as the other guys either glared or gawked.
The little boy then moved to Otoya. "Daddy!"
"Huh?" the two boys chorused.
Then to Ren he declared, "Babbo!" The members of all three bands as well as Ringo and Ryuuya quickly became confused when Ren was addressed in Italian. Haruka simply followed along with the child, trying to process why he was calling her Mama and calling the boys his fathers.
He skipped over to Natsuki, "This is Père," and on to Syo who was dubbed Papa. To Cecil, Masato, Ringo, and Ryuuya he offered, "Baba, Father, Da, and Pa," respectively. The other children began coming closer as the little boy tried to make his case.
Haruka stopped the boy, "Hold on, we don't know your name. Can you please introduce yourself and tell me your mother's name so I can show you that I'm not her."
The little boy huffed, his cheeks swelling with air before he let out a sigh. "You are my mom. My name is Ichinose Hayato, and you are my mom, Nanami Haruka!"
Haruka and Tokiya gasped as they stared Hayato. Tokiya frowned, remembering Shining's words to them, before kneeling down in front of the child. He had to admit that the little boy definitely resembled himself and Haruka. "Hayato, please tell me, what year is it?"
The little boy looked at his father in surprise, but realization quickly dawned. "Wait a minute. Could it be? You're from the past...? Oh, that's what you meant when you guys all left this morning."
One of the older girls approached the group warily. She had spiky pink hair that was clipped back with burettes to reveal bright blue eyes like Syo's. "My name is Kurusu Sora, daughter of Kurusu Syo and Nanami Haruka." She ruffled her brother's hair, much to his displeasure. "Hayato was on the right track. It seems that you guys were switched with our parents, your future counterparts."
Hayato pushed Sora's hand away. "Let's not forget to introduce our other dads, Sora-neetan."
Sora pointed to Reiji, "Oto-chan." Then to Camus she said, "Oto-sama." She turned to Ai and smiled slightly, "We call him Tou-san thanks to Michi-neetan." She then turned to Ranmaru and smirked, "Kurosaki is Pops."
Hayato turned toward HEAVENS. Nagi immediately stepped back. 'Wait, we can't be part of this mess, right?"
A little boy who was maybe eight grinned sadistically as he turned his piercing purple eyes on the youngest idol. "Of course you are Tou-chan. You and Poppy," here he looked at Eiichi, "and Oto-san," he concluded with a glance at Kira.
Hayato poked the older boy. "Nii-san, introduce yourself."
The pink-haired boy blushed. "I was just getting there, Hayato!" he complained, ruffling the younger boy's spiky hair. "I'm Otori Akihiko, son of Otori Eiichi and Nanami Haruka."
"Eh!? Nanami hooked up with him!" Syo shouted with a disgusted look toward the leader of HEAVENS.
Eiichi, for his part, was too confused to be offended.
Otoya stepped forward. "I'm confused, why was you addressing all of us as parents. Aren't you Tokiya's son, Syo's daughter, and Otori-san's son?"
Hayato and Sora rolled their eyes as Akihiko fumed. "You guys aren't getting it, are you?"
Akihiko grabbed Haruka by the hand and marched toward the front of the group. "Since all of you morons fell in love with Mom, you ended up sharing her. Haven't you ever heard of polyamory? All of us siblings have Nanami Haruka for a mother and while one of you is our birth father, we are raised with sixteen dads."
"E-eh?" Haruka stuttered, looking at the guys in surprise. "That's difficult to process; no one other than Cecil-san has ever seriously mentioned any sort of interest in me. Why would anyone fall in love with me? Besides, it would hardly be fair to them." As she talked, she patted Akihiko's matching strawberry locks and he curled into her like a kitten.
The guys from STARISH turned away, both impressed and still somehow surprised by their princess's obliviousness.
Reiji hugged Haruka from behind. "Now that's not entirely true, My Girl. Now that the 'No Love' rule is gone, I can say it seriously. I love you." Reiji leaned in and kissed Haruka's forehead.
Akihiko mimicked gagging, and Nagi found himself liking the kid.
"E-eh!" Haruka squeaked tuning pink and burying her face in her hands.
Ren growled slightly and Masato clenched his fists as Reiji continued holding onto their composer.
Cecil tried to focus on Sora again. "How does the relationship work? Don't we get jealous about who spends more time with Haruka?"
Sora shrugged. "I don't quite know why it works, but I know that everyone is happy."
Haruka looked around at the other kids before asking, "How many kids are there?"
Hayato did a little count-off on his fingers before responding, "There are twenty of us in total. The others are back at the house. Oh, but these four should introduce themselves, right guys?"
Tokiya laughed. His son was an odd combination of Haruka's openness and his determination. All in all, Tokiya was finding himself quite impressed with the six year old.
"Wait, did you say twenty kids," Masato asked, looking like he might faint.
One the boys crossed his arms. Haruka guessed he was about the same age as Nagi, and she chuckled slightly to herself.
The boy answered Masato. "Yeah, there are twenty of us in total. Look, why don't we wait to go back to the house and then we can do this and introductions properly and in order."
A boy a few years younger pouted a little, but nodded as he scooped the toddler up and placed her on his shoulders. The little girl beside him tilted her head and stared at the idols with wise sea-green eyes before starting off on a path up the hill.
The boys warily followed the composer as she held hands with Hayato and Akihiko on the way to the gleaming (and rather intimidating) mansion at the top of the hill.
Within minutes, the seventeen 'parents' were gathered in a massive library that practically made Tokiya drool.
There were plush leather couches in the center, but along three of the four walls and up to the thirty foot ceilings were bookcases. The other wall had massive windows banked by a few mahogany tables with chairs. On every book-covered wall was one of those rolling ladders you only see in movies.
Hayato looked up at the older bluenette with a wide smile. "This is your space, Dad. This is your favorite spot in the house."
Tokiya offered a small smile. "I'm sure it's even better when I get to spend time with you."
Hayato gave his father a blinding smile before he bounced over to an intercom on the wall. "Minna-san! Please gather in the library. Michi-neetan and Masa-niitan, can you get Louis and Iori? It's important that we all be here, Mama and our dads from the past are visiting."
He heard a response on the intercom before he walked over to where Haruka was seated on the couch. "Mama, can I sit with you?"
The boys sweat-dropped. "He's a real Mama's boy," they all agreed mentally.
"I don't see why not," Haruka said, patting her lap. The younger bluenette curled up on her lap, wrapping an arm around her neck and snuggling against her chest. Tokiya could feel his heart melting; it was just so cute.
"Hey, I wanted to sit on Mom's lap!" Akihiko complained.
Eiichi watched his son curiously. The little boy had yet to so much as glance at him since dubbing him Poppy. Was he really a bad father? Was he too hard on his son the way his father had been on him?
Eiichi frowned. "Akihiko, why don't you come sit on my lap?" he offered, wanting to see his son's reaction. STARISH looked at him in surprise, probably wondering why the sadistic prince was being nice. Haruka smiled at Eiichi as she cuddled with Hayato.
"But Poppy, I sit on your lap all the time," the boy said in confusion.
Eiichi sighed in relief internally. "Well you haven't yet because I'm not your father yet. So come, on," he said, gesturing for Akihiko to come toward him.
The boy seemed to realize something as he made his way over to his father. When he sat with Eiichi, he whispered, "Don't worry, you're not like your dad. You love me enough to show it."
Eiichi looked away, surprised at the boy's perceptiveness, and a little embarrassed to have been caught being sentimental in front of the other guys.
Within a few minutes, more and more children began making their way into the library until a girl who carried an air of authority (as well as a squirming toddler) made her way into the room followed by another golden eyed boy holding a baby with light pink hair, a lot like his own, Nagi noted with a shudder.
The older girl convened with the intimidating boy from outside as she set the older of the toddlers down. After a moment, she turned to face the crowd, her long pink hair forming a temporary halo around her head.
"Minna-san, please line up." The younger kids immediately followed her orders despite the kind tone. Hayato and Akihiko even got up from their places and went to file in with the others from outside.
Finally the girl cleared her throat. "Konnichiwa, my name is Ichinose Michiko, I'm 17 years old, and I'm the oldest child in the Nanami household."
She may have had Haruka's hair color, but her eyes were the same cool, but wicked sharp blue as her father's.
Michiko offered a slight curtsy to the group before going to wait with the toddlers.
Cecil and the others looked at Tokiya in surprise. Ren whistled, "Well someone got busy."
Tokiya blushed and refused to look at the others, but he was secretly pleased that he had two kids with Haruka.
Next was the older boy from outside. He grunted, "I'm Hyuuga Kaname, 16 years old."
Now that they looked at him, his parentage was obvious. He had the same spiky orange hair, but he had heterochromia that resulted in one golden eye and one blue eye.
Syo could feel the beginning of a mental breakdown coming on as he realized his idol had a son with the girl of his dreams.
The next boy was the one who had followed Michiko into the library. He was one of the golden-eyed kids, but his blue hair was cut in a way that made everyone think Masato was his father before he even said it. "Hajimemashite, my name is Hijirikawa Masaru, 15 years old."
Masato blushed as he looked at Haruka, but he was pleasantly surprised as he looked over his future son.
"A mini Hijirikawa, great," Ranmaru grumbled under his breath.
Next was Sora who decided to introduce herself again. "As you know, I'm Kurusu Sora. I'm 14."
After Sora was a set of identical twins who were, undoubtedly, Otoya's with their bright red eyes. The first one had her pink hair cut to her shoulders while the other wore hers long and in pigtails. "Konnichiwa, minna-san," they chorused with a laugh. "I'm Ittoki Kiku," the first said. "And I'm Ittoki Kanon," her twin finished. "We're 13."
Otoya grinned as the girls came over and ruffled his hair. "Hiya, Daddy," they said before settling at one of the tables near the windows.
Masato, Tokiya, and Ai were doing the math to realize that Haruka didn't seem to get a break between kids. Everyone was a year apart so far, and they weren't even halfway through.
Next was the other unnamed boy from outside. He flashed a playful smile that highlighted his amber eyes. He had dark brown, but longish hair tucked under his fedora. "Hiya, Mom, Dads. I'm Kotobuki Yukio, 12 years old!"
Reiji let out a whoop in excitement. "I was right. A perfect mix of kouhai-chan and I!"
"Shut up," the other members of Quartet Night deadpanned.
Next in line was an icy pale girl with platinum blonde hair and white-gold eyes. Her mannerisms were cold and rigid as she curtsied. "I am Lady Alice Cryszard, Duchess of Permafrost. I am 11 years of age."
"Eh? Camus has a last name?" Cecil asked in surprise.
Alice glared at the prince. "No, Mother chose it for him."
While everyone was trying to shake the icy aura surrounding the girl, Camus looked at Haruka in surprise. Could he really be close enough to her for such an intimate act in the future? Ever since the Silk Queen had given him his name, he'd lived by it and no other.
The other guys wouldn't admit it, but they were getting jealous. Natsuki, Cecil, Ren, Ringo, Ranmaru, Kira, Ai, and Nagi had yet to be introduced to any kids who were genetically theirs. Though Ai was not really holding his breath due to his nature (POSSIBLE SPOILER!) as an android.
The next kid was a tall girl with Haruka's vibrant pink hair, but unlike her mother's hair, the girl's was a wild mess of curls that bounced whenever she moved.
"Konnichiwa! I'm Shinomiya Suzu-chan!" she announced, twirling so her lolita dress swished around her knees, the light green fabric really brought out her emerald eyes which sparkled like Natsuki's bedazzling kit. "I'm ten years old."
"Ah, so cute!" Natsuki praised as Suzu twirled for him. "You're just as beautiful as your mother!"
"Yeah, Mama is so pretty!" Suzu agreed as she skipped over to Haruka. She looked the composer over. "Hi Young Mama. You know, you don't age a day, people think you and Michi-neechan are sisters all of the time. She doesn't like that," Suzu giggled.
Michiko glared silently but didn't say anything. Suzu hugged Haruka and then went to sit with Natsuki.
Next was another pair of twins, this time a boy and a girl. Both were darker than the others with beautiful caramel colored skin. They were both a physical mix of Haruka and Cecil; they boy had Cecil's messy brown hair but his mother's warm honey gaze. Meanwhile, the girl had a hairstyle a lot like Haruka's, but her eyes were like the gateway to the sea.
"I'm Aijima Hajime," the boy introduced with a slight bow.
"And I'm his twin, Kagami. We're nine," she said with a light-hearted smile and a wave.
Cecil beamed. Thy were even more perfect than he had dreamed.
"Hi! I'm Jinguji Rena. I'm eight, and I'm Aki-chan's fraternal twin!" The next girl said as she hugged the pinkette beside her. She seemed to take pleasure in Akihiko's discomfort.
Ren and Eiichi looked at each other in horror. Everyone else was staring at them, Haruka included. Although, to be fair, Haruka was staring at whoever was announced as the biological father whenever one of the kids introduced his or herself. The guys were wondering, could Ren and Eiichi really have hooked up with Haruka on the same night?
Akihiko sighed. "No, Rena, we're not fraternal twins, the term is Irish twins. We are ten months apart. Somehow, she's the older one."
"Still my twin," Rena said with a playful grin. She stuck her tongue out and made her way over to Ren. She just stared at him expectantly until Ren caught on and patted his lap. The little golden girl plopped herself down and started braiding his hair.
"Yeah, whatever. So, as you probably figured, I'm eight too," Akihiko finished before going back to curl up with Eiichi.
Next was a little girl with short, light pink hair and electric teal eyes. "Ohayo, Mama and minna-san. M-my name is Tsukimiya Akina. I'm seven years old, and I like to play dress-up with Mama, Da, and my onee-chans," she said softly.
Reiji smiled. "My, my. It looks like Rin-chan is more of a threat than I realized."
Ringo tossed the other idol a wry grin. Though most people forgot, he and Reiji were the same age. Ringo was surprised his daughter was so quiet, but he figured that Haruka may have been like that as a child.
Ringo stood and walked over to his baby. "Oh my goodness! You are just the cutest thing," Ringo said as he scooped the little girl up and hugged her tight. "You are just like your mommy aren't you?"
"Well, I play piano like Mommy, but I sing like you, Da," Akina told him.
Ringo beamed and sat back next to Haruka with the little girl still in his arms.
After Akina was Hayato, who was, in fact, six. As soon as he was done re-introducing himself, he went back to curl up with Haruka as though he had never left her.
"You know," he said from his place with Haruka, "none of you look that different now. I mean Pa has a few gray streaks, but other than that, it's just the way you dress and a slight difference in your faces. Except for Tou-chan," here he offered Nagi a quick glance. "But that's understandable since he's the same age as Kaname-niitan at the moment."
Ryuuya grumbled about Hayato saying he had graying hair in the future, but then he remembered that the oldest child was seventeen. He was already thirty-two, so he was at probably at least fifty supposing Haruka and Tokiya conceived Michiko within the next year.
He then blushed, realizing what that entailed and how unlikely it would be that the twenty-year-old composer would give the okay to her bizarre harem. But, it was even more likely that at least one of the sixteen of them would not be okay with sharing. Ryuuya could barely believe he was warming to the idea slowly.
The next kid was a small, skinny boy with spiky pink hair and the most mesmerizing silver eyes. He glanced up at the crowd of parents from his big teddy bear. "I'm Kurosaki Taiki, five years old."
Ranmaru jolted upright in surprise. "This runt is mine?"
Taiki flinched as Ranmaru said runt. "Hey, Pops! We've been over this! You don't get to call me a runt. Jiiji has photos of you at my age and you were even more of a runt," Taiki huffed with a scowl.
Ranmaru grunted. "So my no-good dad shared pictures, huh? That bastard."
"Language," Michiko warned, her voice a few degrees colder than it had been earlier.
He ignored her and walked over to Taiki. "You've got spirit, Kid. I like that," he added with a smile. He moved to ruffle his son's hair, but the boy ducked and ran over to Ren.
"I don't want you to ruffle my hair, I want to sit with Babbo!" Taiki announced as he joined Rena on Ren's lap. He then stuck his tongue out at Ranmaru.
"Yep, definitely my kid," Ranmaru grumbled under his breath. He shuffled back to the couch and plopped down beside Reiji.
Haruka giggled, not missing the hint of a smile at the edge of the rocker's lips.
Michiko cleared her throat to gather attention back to the remaining kids.
She stood beside a petite girl with her onyx black hair pulled into two low pigtails. Her eyes were like yellow diamonds, not the warm amber that was inherent in Haruka. These eyes conveyed everything and nothing simultaneously.
Michiko introduced the little girl. "This is Sumeragi Shizuka. She's four, and she hardly ever talks."
Everyone sweat-dropped. "She's just like Kira," they all agreed silently.
Shizuka walked over to Kira, and tilted her head slightly, but then she broke into a wide smile. She tugged on his pants to signal to him.
Kira looked down at the tiny jewel that was his daughter in awe. He smiled at her gently before bending down and scooping her up, having understood what she wanted.
"Oi! I don't have a kid yet," Nagi whined.
Michiko rolled her eyes in a way that reminded everyone of the way Tokiya deals with Otoya.
"You are the youngest of our fathers, just be patient," she implored.
"Why does age have anything to do with it? Shouldn't it only matter how well I can seduce the girl?"
Nagi was intentionally ignored as they moved onto the next child.
"'Nichiwa," he mumbled shyly. "My name's Iowi."
"He means Iori," Michiko interjected. "Tou-san," she said, looking at Ai, "He's your son."
Ai blinked in surprise. True Iori looked just like he had as a young android, but Ai was a robot, he couldn't reproduce. "But, how?"
"Help from a friend or two," Michiko said mysteriously, but Ai and Reiji seemed to understand, but the others pondered the statement, clearly lost.
Reiji was felt such a wave of relief wash over him. So Aine had woken up in the future. He would have to find his friend later and figure out what happened.
"'Hayo!" Shrieked the youngest little girl excitedly. They recognized her as the last kid from outside. Now that she wasn't napping on Yukio's shoulders, she ran around like a little ball of energy. Her short pink hair was pulled up into a little ponytail on top of her head and decorated with a gray/brown butterfly clip to match her earthy eyes. As she ran, her pink dress poofed up like a jellyfish. "Chi-chan says 'hayo!"
Haruka cooed at the little princess as she ran her fingers through Hayato's hair. "Well aren't you just the cutest little thing," Haruka said as Chi-chan came over.
"Mama!" Chi-chan said proudly before dashing away again.
Michiko moved quickly and held the little girl still just long enough to untuck the hem of her dress from her potty-training diaper.
Getting up again, Michiko rubbed her forehead. "Chi-chan's full name is Kotobuki Chidori. She's two and a half."
"Oh yeah!" Reiji cheered. "Another victory for Rei-chan!"
Camus, Ranmaru, and Ai just sighed in unison, having given up trying to silence their older bandmate.
Michiko finally bent down to the last kid, and Nagi resigned himself to the fact that the helpless baby was probably his.
Michiko picked him up from his place playing with a light-up piano baby toy.
"Finally, our latest , and final, addition, Mikado Louis. He just turned one last week. He's shy around new people, but he should be fine around you guys."
Nagi got to his feet, walking over to the girl and moving to hold the little golden eyed baby. "So, you're mine, huh?" he asked Louis.
Louis stared at him cautiously. Nagi picked the baby up hesitantly, a surge of wonder washing over him as he stared at his future son. The baby was adorable and a perfect mix of Haruka and himself. Nagi found himself adjusting to the idea of settling down with the composer if this was the result. He could actually feel a tiny bit of affection forming as he raised his son in his arms.
Louis stared back at Nagi, letting out a slight whimper. But the next moment, he started screaming and crying. His wails were unbearable and Nagi freaked out, completely heartbroken at having his flesh and blood reject him.
"Oh my god! Haruka, take him!" Nagi panicked, almost throwing Louis to Haruka. Fortunately, he was close enough that Haruka was able to get a good grip on the baby before Nagi ran to the corner to sulk uncharacteristically.
While most of the guys were surprised by Nagi's intimate way of addressing the composer, Syo had to keep himself from laughing as the baby instantly calmed in Haruka's arms. "I think he just doesn't like you."
"Why doesn't he like me?" Nagi complained.
"You don't look the same as you do in our time. Most of you guys are already adults, but you aren't," Kaname explained. "You're like a stranger to Louis."
Syo took the baby from Haruka, and received only giggles. "It's true! He even recognizes me!"
"That's not fair! He's mine!" Nagi growled, glaring at Syo. He wanted to take the baby out of the other idol's hands, but at the same time, he didn't want to upset Louis again.
Michiko patted Nagi's shoulder awkwardly. She knew that he would eventually be one of her fathers, but at the moment, he was younger than she was, which made things really weird.
"Hey, it's okay. If you make an effort, Louis will notice. He hated Grandpoppy, or Raging Otori, as you you know him. Plus he wouldn't let any of the aunts and uncles hold him for eight months. He'll warm up to you because somewhere in you is a great dad, the dad he knows. So cheer up, yeah?"
Nagi looked at the girl in surprise.
"Was I a good dad to you?"
Michiko cracked a wry smile. "Yes, one of the best."
A/N: Whew, that was a pretty long chapter. Sorry if it was a bit rough, but I needed to introduce everyone so we could get the ball rolling. I will be trying to update regularly, but I'm taking summer college classes, and it's a bit hectic. HELP! Please review the chapter like you normally would, but let me know what you want to see in this story. I don't have a working plot, so I'm not sure where to go with the story. Just some notes for consideration: Reiji will be going to see Aine (I haven't played the games, but I've read about them). Two of the same person cannot exist in the same time which is why their older counterparts switched places with them. They shouldn't know exactly how far into the future they are. I guess that's it... Oh, also, how would you guys feel if some of the guys were affectionate with each other? not all of them, but some just being casual about affection and kissing each other or something? Please help me direct this story! Thank you all, ily! ~Raine
