A/N: here is the second chapter. Rated T for Soul and Patti's potty mouths.

Beach Time! Splash fights and fireflies.

Soul held Kaydence's small hand as he tried to get her into the water. But she dug her little round toes into the sand and whined and pulled.

"Com'on Kay, it's just a little water. It's not gonna hurt ya."

"Noo!" She whined, pulling his hand in the opposite direction.

She squealed loudly when the small tide touched her feet, "its cold!"

Soul looked at Maka with a pleading look, but she just smiled sweetly at him.

She just loved to see him squirm.

'Damn woman.'

"Look, I'll tell you what," He said to his daughter with a confident smile, "I'll carry you, okay?"

Her tear filled eyes looked up at him and she shook her head, whipping her pigtails around "Mm-mm!!"

"Come'er." Soul picked her up and rested her on his hip.

"Noo!!" She wailed loudly right in Soul's ear, he couldn't help but cringe.

He started his slow descent in the cold lake water. The deeper they got, the more Kay lifted her little butt up to avoid contact with the water.

"No!" she still continued to fuss.

"Oh, shuddup!" Soul told her as he walked on. They got deeper and deeper until they were submerged from the waist down.

As Soul repositioned Kaydence so she sat more comfortably on his waist, she clung on to his neck "Don't let go, don't let go!"

"Don't worry, I'm not gonna let you drown." Soul reassured her lazily.

Maka, who had been following them into the water finally caught up.

"It's not that bad is it, Kay?" she asked her daughter warmly.

Kay turned around from hiding her face in the crook of her father's neck and whimpered. Soul rolled his eyes.

After a few minutes, Kay's tears dried up and she appeared to be getting used to this. She put her little hand in the water and made small waves.

"You see?" Maka told Kay "It's just like when you take a bath."

"Like a bath?" Kay repeated.

"Yeah" Maka nodded

Kay smiled cheekily and put her hand into the water before splashing water in Soul's face.

"Gahh!" Soul shook the water off his face. "What the hell was that for you little shrimp?!"

Kay giggled loudly "Just like during bath time!"

"Yeah, I'll show you bath time! Under the water ya go!"

Kay grabbed Soul's neck thinking he was serious."Noo!" Maka just laughed at her boyfriend's childish behavior.

Soul glared at her and splashed water at her.

"What was that for you jerk?!"

Only moments later the three of them were having a very angry looking splash fight.

On shore, a tall blond woman lay on a fold out chair, sun bathing and watching the little family with a smirk. She pulled off her sun glasses, revealing her blue eyes to get a better look at them. "Aww, look at them. Aren't they cute?"

The younger woman sitting on the ground, playing in the sand with a little plastic shovel giggled. "Yep!"

"Hey Patti?" The older of the two asked.

"Yeah big sis?"

"Does Maka seem to be gaining some weight or is it just me?"

"Waddya mean?"

"Well ya know, what if Maka is…expecting again?"

Patti covered her mouth with her hand and her big blue eyes grew wide "Big sis! You can't mean…"

"Oh, yeah, why not? From what I've come to understand, those two must go at it like bunnies!"Patti erupted in a wild fit of laughter and clapped her hands "Maka-chan and Soul-kun are like bunnies!!" she squealed throwing sand up in the air.

"Hey, watch it." Liz said as she brushed the sand off her skin. "So what do you think Patti?"

"Hmm, I dunno sis. Let me ask Kiddo-kun!"

Patti turned around to her right side to see Death the Kidd lying on his back with his head resting in his hands under an umbrella that was stuck in the sand. He appeared to be napping.

"Hey Kiddo-Kun?" she called him.

"Yes?" he poked one gold eye open to assure her she had his attention.

"Guess what? Guess what? Big sis here thinks that Maka-chan is gonna have another baby! Whaddya think?"

At this, Kidd opened both eyes and sat up. "What are you blabbering on about now Patti?"

"I tooold you! Liz thinks that Maka-chan is gonna have another baby!"

"How do figure this?" this question was directed to Liz.

"I don't know. I guessed I never noticed until now that she's in her swim suit that she has a little tummy fat. Do you think it's a baby bump? If it is, a little brave of her to wear an open mid-rift suit, ne?"

"Well," Kidd started looking at the family in the water who was currently calling a truce on their splash battle "I don't know much about baby bumps, but I will try and see if I can sense another life inside her."

"Then do work, son." Liz simply said, putting her large sun glasses back on.

Kidd closed his eyes and concentrated. Inside her, Kidd could see only one soul. This familiar soul, he recognized immediately as the scythe meister's.

Kidd opened his eyes. "No. I only felt Maka's soul. And at this point, if it were clearly visible on the outside, it surly would have been clearly recognizable on the inside as well."

Liz sighed. "Oh, well. I guess I'll just have to invite Maka to my next visit to the gym."

"Well, I think it would have been nice." A quiet voice came from the blanket next to Kidd's.

Tsubaki sat on her blanket under her own umbrella. She sat on her butt with her arms wrapped around her legs.

"You know, if Maka-chan and Soul-kun had another child."

Kidd sighed "Well I guess…"

"I just hope," Tsubaki started speaking again, staring at the soaked family as they made their way back towards land, "That they'd finally get married soon."

"Right? If only." Liz agreed.

~x X x~

When the three finally dried off (and BlackStar returned from doing loud un-necessary laps around the large lake), they all sat down to a sandwich lunch under the umbrellas, courtesy of Tsubaki and Maka.

BlackStar quickly scarfed down sandwich after sandwich. Whether all that swimming had made him hungry or he was just being BlackStar.

"Hey idiot, you're eating all the food! Leave some for the rest of us, won't ya?!" Liz complained.

"Please BlackStar, slow down. You'll choke." Tsubaki pleaded.

"Oi, Oi, papa!" Kay tried to get her father's attention.

"Hm?" Soul responded.

"After we're done eating, we can go back into the water, right!?" she asked excitedly pointing at the lake water.
Soul was about to agree when Maka beat him to talking first.

"No, you have to wait before going into the water right after eating."

"But, Mama! Why?" Kay complained.

"You'll get stomach cramps. Trust me, they're not fun."

"Please, Mama!? I promise I won't get stomach cramps!"

"No. Stomach cramps are not something you chose to get."

"Aw, come on, mama. She's only going in ankle deep." Soul urged.

After a moment or two, Maka sighed and gave up "Oh, fine."

"Yay!" Kay cheered jumping up. "Com'on papa!"

"Hey, hey, the deal was after we finished eating, remember?"

"But- but! I'm not hungry anymore!"

"I'll go with you Kay-chan!" Patti jumped up.

"Really?!" Kay's face lit up.

"Yeah! Come on let's go!" Patti grabbed Kay's hand and began to run towards the water.

"Be careful with her Patti!" Maka called out to them.

"Yeah Patti, watch her!" Liz warned also.

Patti turned around and waved "Don't worry bout it!!" and she continued to pull Kay into the water with her.

Kidd sighed as he watched Patti play with Kay.

Patti was a grown woman. Yet, she was acting like a four year old while playing with a four year old. But then Kidd just smiled. "I guess she'll never change, huh?"

"Nope." Liz said taking another bite of her food.

After stuffing another sandwich down his throat, BlackStar hopped up also and ran towards the water "I CHALLENGE YOU TWO TO WAR!" He yelled as he got in the water and started spilling water from a toy bucket he had found in the sand on them.

"BRING IT ON, MOTHAFUCKA!" Patti sceamed "Come on Kay-chan, we can't let this smelly boy beat us can't we?!"

"No Way!" Kay joined in.

"BlackStar! Be nice, don't hurt anybody!" Tsubaki warned worriedly.

Everybody sweat dropped when he didn't answer.

"Guess Patti isn't the only one who likes to act childish." Maka sighed; disappointed that some of her grown friends had the maturity level of that of a four year old. It was quiet sad.

"Un-cool." She heard Soul mumble.

~x X x~

The sun had set and everybody had changed into casual clothes.

Someone had brought a fire pit and they were now sitting around it on lawn chairs just talking.

Kay sat on her mother's lap and suddenly yawned loudly.

"Are you getting tired, Kay? We'll go home if you want." Maka asked her.

Kay slowly shook her head "No, I don't wanna go home yet."

They had just been lighting sparklers, but they had all went out and now Kay seemed to be bored and falling asleep.

Soul watched her as she had to force her heavy eye lids to stay open.

He was actually a bit sleepy himself. But this was a good day, he was annoyed that the summer would end soon and Maka would have to go back to teaching at Shibusen, and this was going to be Kaydence's first year at school.

Kaydence's first year at school…wow. The time with her seemed to have passed so fast. On moment Maka was pregnant and threatening him with a butcher knife for forgetting to pick up ice cream, and the next Kay was already starting pre-school.

And after pre-school, she would start the Meister's academy.

They had a Meister's academy and a separate one for weapons, although all the weapons present at this moment including him had not been able to attend said academy, he heard they were both really nice schools.

And after the Miester's academy, she would finally enter Shibusen.

She would enter Shibusen, get her own partner, and she would go on her own extremely dangerous life threatening missions to obtain the souls of 99 evil humans, and one witch.

Soul just thought of all the dangerous stupid things he and Maka did when they were young and he began to feel sick.

Perhaps he could lock her in a tall tower somewhere… oh god, he was beginning to think like Maka's good for nothing father!

His thoughts were interrupted by something tickling his shoulder. He turned his head to see a firefly crawling on his shirted shoulder. He gently swiped the little bug off and it flew away and disappeared. There were dozens of the little things flying around in the cool summer's night air.

Soul suddenly got an idea and stood up. "Hey Kay, come here. I wanna show you something."

Kay looked tiredly at her father, nodded and slid off Maka's lap. Maka gave him a questioning look but he just winked at her.

Soul took Kay's hand and led her away from the group, who had continued conversation. He walked with her back to the spot they had kept the coolers and searched them. He finally found what he was looking for; he pulled it out and showed it to her.

She seriously stared at the item, trying to figure out why her papa wanted it. In his hand, Soul had an empty (now clean) mayonnaise jar that they had finished at lunch.

"What do we need that thing for?" She asked him, rubbing her eyes.

"You'll see." Soul smiled, and then he took her hand again and led her into an open space of sand. He kneeled down to her height to show her what he was doing.

Soul transformed one finger into a scythe and poked little holes in the lid of the jar.

"What are those for, papa?" Kay was starting to wake up and become curious.

"So they can breathe." Soul simply said.

"'They'?"

Soul stood up and looked around. Spotting a firefly buzzing near him, he lifted the open jar and lid in the air. Just as the little bug was in the right position, he quickly shut the lid on it. "Gotcha."

Soul handed the closed jar to Kay to look at.

She held it up to eye level and stared at the insect in wonder. The firefly flew around knocking up against the glass of the jar. It crawled up the side and let out its fluorescent yellow glow.

Kay then put on a pouty face and tore the lid off the jar, almost immediately, the bug flew out and back into the night sky. Soul looked a little surprised, but not mad. "What'cha do that for?"

Kay looked up at him angrily, puffing out her cheeks "Don't lock em up in there! Poor thing."

Soul just looked at her. But then let out some laughter "Huh? What you laughing at?"

"Ah, nothing." At that instant, Kay with that face looked so much like Maka it was scary.

"Come 'on. Let's get back to the others." Soul took her hand and was about to start walking back when she did not budge. "Oi, what's wrong?"

"Can you carry me?" Kay said, trying to hold back a yawn.

"Sure." Soul picked her up so she rest her head on his shoulder then headed back for the group. He wasn't surprised when Kay was already asleep by the time he handed her to her mama

Maka laid her sideways on her lap and Soul took the empty seat next to her where he was before.

He looked at Kay's sleeping face.

'Guess we'll just have to enjoy the time we have with her.'

A/N: Yeah, I've decided to update this story every two to three days to ensure longer and better chapters, for you my lovely readers!!

Anyone want to suggest a topic for the next one? :D
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When I log onto my email, and it says, 'Hello, Boo! No unread emails in you inbox' it's kinda depressing. So review to those of you who don't, and thank you to those who do!

(p.s.: did I spell 'mayonnaise' right? o.O)

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