Author's Rant: Oh my! Thank you guys for reading and reviewing! Really, words can't express how grateful I am! Thank you!

And for this chappie...I dunno where it comes from...really! And messed up with kiddies' ablities...can they walk when they get to 1 year old v^^? I really have no information and experience with kiddies, so sorry for the mess up! And chappie three of Of Childhood... should be up soon!

Beware of AU, OOC-ness, typos-generally, my shitty Englishx.x, and girl!Shin xD (again...).

Disclaim: If you are a fan of DC or MK and you think I own them...Do look at the credit in the manga again or look up on the Internet :D.

Chapter 2: The Fairytale.

Long long ago, there was a peaceful kingdom called Beika that was ruled by a kind Queen. Working directly under her to keep the kingdom peaceful were two families called Kuroba and Kudo. They were the most powerful families in the kingdom but they were really nice people.

The Kudo family had a daughter named Shinichi and as for the Kuroba family, they had a son named Kaito. And because the two head masters of the two families were really close, so the two children were betrothed even before they were born.

And so, the story started just two days before the little Kuroba Kaito's first birthday.

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"Aww, Kai-chan! You little squirt~!" a blond woman cooed at a little boy with messy brown hair. The boy giggled and grasped her finger tightly by his hands.

The mother of the child, a woman with short brown hair smiled at her friend and her son.

"Chi-chan! You're so lucky! Kai-chan is sooooo cute~!" the blond hair woman whined

"Now now, what's wrong, Yukiko?"

Yukiko sniffed a few times before continuing, "My Shin-chan! She won't play with me! All she does is to stare at the picture books!"

Chikage blinked, "Oh, then hide all her books and take her outside?"

"She'll give me silent treatment!" Yukiko sniffed and took out a handkerchief to wipe away her (fake) tears while Kaito happily munched on her other hand's finger.

"Silent treatment? Oh my," Chikage giggled in amusement as Yukiko waved her arm, upsetting Kaito, who tried to hold back on his munching toy.

"Not only that! She can glare! Chi-chan! Her glare is really really deadly! ANd I hate having those glares on me...they're scary!"

"Isn't she only a year old? And she can glare?" Yukiko nodded frantically at Chikage's amused wonder.

"Oh...I haven't seen her for a long time now...I even missed her birthday..."Chikage looked down at her son in her lap mourfully. As for Yukiko, she had only just realized that her finger was covered in Kaito's saliva and she hurriedly took the handkerchief out to wipe away the saliva while glaring at little Kaito, who gave her an innocent look.

"No worry Chi-chan!" Yukiko beamed, "I'll bring her along with me and Yuu-chan to little Kai-chan here's birthday~!"

Chikage immediately brightened up, "That would be great!"

"And it would be a nice chance for Kai-chan here meet his fiancée, ne?" Yukiko winked and Chikage chuckled softly and nodded.

"Yes, I look forward it!"

Right at the moment, the grandfather clock chimed six times, startling the occupants in the room.

"Oh my, it's this late already..." Yukiko mourned, "I have to get home now..."

Chikage nodded and stood up with Kaito in her arms, who now found the pendulum of the clock interesting, and followed Yukiko to the front door of the Kuroba Mansion.

The servant handed Yukiko her cloak politely and Yukiko turned back to smiled at Chikage and Kaito, whose eyes followed the pendulum, left, right, left, right, left, right...

"Bye then, I'll see you and Yuusaku-kun and Shin-chan at Kaito's birthday."

"Yeah. Bye then, Chi-chan and Kai-chan~! I'll see you guys later."

Yukiko gratefully stepped on the carriage that was waiting for her.

Chikage's eyes followed the carriage until it disappeared into the darkness of the night before walking back inside.

"Well, Kai-chan, let's make preparation to greet your fiancée, ne?"

...The fiancée that never came.

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To K.K: I remember you said that you can't image a girl!Shin, right? Then you should totally read the doujin named Handsome Girl :D. And you'll see xD. Girl!Shin is awesome~! It's on aarinfantasy site, try looking for it :3!

I've got a lots of ideas in my mind and I need to write them out to get rid of them...but then, the new ideas just come :"C.

Oh wooh...I can't log in the online game I've been playing today so I typed this instead v^^. And I have friends waiting for me in the game too, too bad I can't log in x.x.