...Meh, i got bored again, but usually that means you guys enjoy yourselves X3
Disclaimer: I do not own Tsubasa
It scarcley happened, when the tsubasa gang could have time to just chill out and relax. It was even more of an oddity to have it completley quiet, save for movment of a book page or the crackle of a fire.
To be honest, Syaoran was a little too concerned with how quiet Fai and Mokana were being to enjoy it. He could see by the way Kurogane stiffend whenever Fai even moved, the ninja felt the same way he did.
"...I'm bored, lets tell stories!"Mokna chirped finally. Syaoran sighed, he knew it couldn't last forever.
Fai put down his book that he pretended he could read and rested his chin in his hands, leaning on his knees, "What types of stories Mokana-chan?"
The white bunny type thin hopped on top of his favorite ninja's head, "It isn't dark enough for scary stories, so lets tell stories from our memories. It would be a good way to see how much of Sakura's feathers have helped!"
Sakura smiled, "It think that's a good idea Moko-chan!"
"Mokana will start! What was Sakura like as a baby?"
Sakura coke her head tot he side in htought, while the others waited patienly.
"U-um...well i don't remeber exaclty myself, but i do have a memorey of my father telling me about it. He said i was a very good baby, but i always wanted to be where he was or where mother was, and that i always wanted to be held...especially when someone was sad."
Mokana giggled, jumping into the girls arms, "Mokana bets Sakura was a very cute baby!"
"No doubt about that!" Fai agreed, smiling serenly, before he turned to the brown hiared boy next to the princess, "and you Syaoran-kun?"
Syaoran blinked an gave a sheepish look, "Well, i doubt anyone knows, my father found me when i was about seven years old...so I truly don't know."
Mokana laughed, hopping on the boy's head next, "Mokana thinks Syaoran was a curious baby, the type that always got into everything to see what it was!"
Everyone else made a noise of agreement and Syaoran blushed in embarrassment.
Kurogane refused to talk about himself after that, and Fai gave vague answers but nothing really worhty of conversation. It left Mokana pouting as the children went to bed, and the other two went back to whatever they were doing. So the white pork bun opted to play spy, and pretended to fall asleep, rollign onto it's side with a flop like an over-plump strawberry.
After a minute the Mokana heard, "It's finally asleep?"
"Looks like." Fai answered the grumpy Kurogane.
"Wonder what it was getting at, asking the brats questions like that....then again i don't think i want to know." Mokana resisted the urge to puff indignantly and listned once again.
"Hmm, well it would be interesting woudln't it. the children have grown up so fast, we don't get to see what they were like as cute little babies.."
"You're as weird as the pork bun..." Kurogane growled.
Mokana didn't bother to listen anymore, becasue it was struck with a brilliant and wicked idea. Wicked in the fun way. He plotted in his head for the next morning....
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the next morning...
"Good morning everyone!" Sakura called cheerfully, walking into the rented kitchen the group shared.
"Good morning princess, fancy some pancakes?" Fai asked, patting the princess on the head as she walked past.
"Yes please, is there anything i can help with?"
Fai was about to answer when he saw Syaoran come in the room, adjusting the collar on his shirt. and smiled smugly, "How about you keep Syaoran company, while i fix you both breakfast?"
He resisted laughing when he saw Sakura blush and nod shyly. the two kids chatted at the table, soon joined by Kurogane, who opted to stand leaning against the counter with a cup of tea instead of actual breakfast.
Before the topic of how they were going to find Sakura's feather came up, Mokana bounded in the room, looking freakishly more happy if possible.
"Mokana has an idea of what we should do today!" It sang, leading two of the kitchen's ocupants to brace themselves, while the other two looked on innocently.
"What is it Moko-chan?" Sakura asked, tilting her head to the side. The white pork bun giggled, jumping on the table in front of the two youngest of the tsubasa group.
"Hold still now, Mokana is going to trun you two into babies so we can see what you were like, won't that be fun?"
"EEEEEHHHH???!!!" both teens cried out, Kurogane cursed and Fai just continued to smile. Mokana had already started to puff up then spit out blue sparkly dust, when Kurogane grabbed the pork bun to try and stop it. But it was too late, the dust already had covered both kids in a good layer. Next thing, there was a pop, and two piles of clothes fell on the floor.
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"Well, isn't this an adventure!" Fai observed, holding the squirmy infant Syaoran still while he tried to pull a shirt his size on him.
"How can you be so calm about this?! THE PORK BUN TURNED THE BRATS INTO FREAKIN BABIES!!!" Kurogane screamed. The infant Sakura whimpered in his lap, having already been changed.
"Stop that Kuro-puu, your scaring Sakura-chan!" Fai scolded, wagging his finger at the still livid ninja.
Kurogane groaned in frustration, but nontheless made an extreme effort to lower his voice,
"Just what are we going to do then?" he grumbled.
Fai humed a little, setting Syaoran down so he could crawl where he wanted, making sure to keep a watchful eye on him,
"Well, Mokana did say, before you oh so graciously threw him out the window, that the spell would last 24 hours. so all we have to do is wait it out, then things can go to normal."
"Yeah right." Kurogane leered at the mage, but then snapped his attention to a cabinet on the far end of the room, which had started to rock dangerously back and forth.
"Syaoran-kun!" Fai cried out, seeing the baby digging in one of the lower shelves clumsily, trying to pull out a book. the magician snatched the infant out of harms way as the unbalanced cabinet started to fall, leaving Kurogane to catch it with Sakura cradled in one of his arms.
Sakura giggled, clapping her hands when the ninja set the cabinet upright again. Fai attmepted one of his silly whistles, "Good job Kuro-chii!"
"Shut up!"
Fai paid him no mind, instead turning his attention to the baby Syaoran, who was fiddling with the book, his 'prize'.
"Mokana was right, you are a curious little one arent you?"
Syaoran looked at him with those big brown eyes, unaware of the danger he had put himself in. He reached out and touched Fai's mouth with his fingers, gurgling his own little baby language.
"Kawaii!" Fai smiled, nuzzling the baby with his nose. Syaroan tried to push him away, whining to be let down. Fai did as he wished,but then turned his attention to Sakura, who had started her own one sided conversatin with Kurogane.
Balanced perfeclty int he man's arms, the little princess leaned up on her knees and toucehd his face as well, playing with his ear lobes and tlakign to him as if he was th most interestinghting inthe world.
"Bshaa! Iglishmmm !" She cooed, giving an open mouthed baby kiss to the wide eye'd ninja's cheek.
"Aww, Sakura-chan loves her daddy!"
"Your treading on reeeaal thin ice mage...your lucky the brats are in here." He said, lowering Sakura to the floor quickly. The little girl paid it no mind and crawled over to Syaran, continueing her conversation with him. The boy looked at her with those inquisitive little eyes and touchd one of her brown curls gingelry as they hung around her neck. Baby Sakura giggled in reslut, leaping on top of her new playmate in a clumsy hug.
"Kuro-sama, go and get the camera!"
"The what?"
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"Yoo hoo! Syaoran kun, where have you gone?" Fai called throughout the house, not sounding serious at all.
"I can't believe you lost him again!" Kurogane exclaimed, exasperated when he saw Fai prance aroudn a corner.
"Not to worry Kuro-pon, i found him! He just wanted to play with your sword!"
"He WHAT?!!"
Fai laughed, setting the infant down on the ground, only for him to be scooped up by kurogane.
"This kid isn't touching the ground until we get him a leash." Kurogane stated, his tone was dead serious. Fai only sighed as if dealig with a difficult teenager,
"Yes, whatever puts your mind at ease kuro-tan, really, you are such a protective daddy!"
Kurogane shot a look upwards a the magician, glaring, "I am not, i just don;'t want him touching my stuff!"
Fai giggled, "Kuro-daddy is in denial. I'm going to go prepare some food for the little ones, so you play with them for a while."
Kurogane's eyes widened, "Wait, no, you tkae them! I don't know anything about kids!"
Fai merely gave Kurogane a pat on the shoudler, "Would you rather cook?"
Kurogane shivered, "Just hurry up."
Fai merely smiled, then leaned in to the babies, "Mommy will be back soon, be good for daddy!"
Kurogane watched him run to the kitchen, grumbling under his breath at how the mage was having entirely too much fun with this.
The ninja plunked himslef and the babies down onthe floor int he living room, but not before tying the string form his swords scabbard genlty around Syaoran's ankle, making sure it wouldn't actually hurt the little one. As predicted, before only second could pass, before Syaoran realized his sudden freedom and decided that the curtains needed to be investigated. Before he could get too far however, Kurogane would softly pull the string, so Syaoran would be dragged back to the ninja's side, where he couldn't cause harm.
After a while, Syaoran forgot what his original intent was and decided playing this game was much more fun, and would collapse in squeals when he was dragged back along the soft carpet floor. Kurogane tried to resist, but soon the baby boy's joyful giggles caused a smirk to crawl up his face in amusment.
However it didn't last long, when he heard a soft whimper come from his lap. He looked down to see Sakura gazing at him with those doeful green eyes, pleading for attention. He had grown so accustomed to her being tucked into his elbow like that, he had forgotten her presence....had he ever even put her down since that morning?
To remedy this situation, Kurogane started to lower her to the ground so she could play with Syaoran, but a sudden wail caused him to panic and bring her back up again. Had he hurt her somehow?
But no, as soon as she was back in his arms she gripped his shirt and nuzzled into his chest, sighing contently.
The ninja raised an eyebrow, why was this kid so attached to him? There was no way he thought it was cute! cute was for sissies, like the mage! It didn't matter how big her eyes were or...how nicely she seemed to nestle in his arms.
Kurogane, decieding that giving the princess attention was the best way to avoid a bawling baby, quickly glanced at the door to make sure the mage was coming. When he pronounced it all clear, he genlty began to pet the princess's hair comfortingly.
The infant cooed, lookgn up at him and smiling.
"Aww, such a little daddy's girl!"
Kurogane twitched as Fai entered the room, damn it.
The blonde froze in place when he saw the rope around Syaoran's ankle, and sweat dropped. He shook his head and silently untied the baby, picking him up as well as Sakura. Sakura fussed for a moment, then realized that Fai wasn't going to put her down, and once agian nestled the elbow of her current guardian.
Kurogane tried to ignore the small feelign of possesiveness girp him as he saw the yougn princess carried away to be fed.
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"What pretty pictures Syaoran-kun, but food is for eating, not for playing!" Fai stated, tapping the boy's nose, watching the baby blink and rub his appendage offendedly. He gave Fai an indignant whine then went back to his finger painting in the pea mush Fai had made.
Fai merely laughed, spooning another glob into Sakura's mouth then tyring to do so with what was left of Syaorans. Syaroan would accept it...sort of. He would open his mouth, but it would all dribble back out when he started to concentrate on spreading the mush on his place at the table.
After another fifteen minutes of this, Fai pronunced them good and fed, depsite how half of the mush had been spread on themselves isntead of in thier mouthes.
Keeping both kids in thier seats, he ran the tap with luke warm water into a wash tub, filling it with bubble bath that Yuuko had graciously sent over. the tub was big enough for both infants, so the mage carefully plunked both of them, sitting up in the bubbles. He let both children splash and play for a moment,before he grabbed a soft wash cloth, and began to wipe the girme away form thier tiny hands. Sakura leaned into it, but Syaoran didn't, fussing because when Fai wiped his mouth he coudln't play and examine the bubbles.
"You seem to have gotten used to this quick.." Kurogane observed, surprised the blonde even if he didn't show it. The tall ninja plopped a bundle of clothes for the babies to change into.
Fai smiled, shielding Sakura's face as he poured water over her head, "So have you Kuro-tan, i didn't even have to ask for you to bring the clothes."
Kurogane growled, " Stop trying to change the subject! you know what i'm getting at, how is it that you think you can get so close to these brats, enough to care for them as you are in this situation, and not expect them to wonder about your past as well? Whatever your's running from, you'd better get yourself prepared, all you'll end up doing is hurting them and yourself...but that's what you wanted from the begging isn't it, to hurt yourself. Coward." Kurogane stomped out of the room as soon as his speech was over.
Fai's smile didn't falter untill the ninja was gone. Soon, as the stomps faded into the distnace, Fai's face dropped, and a thoughtful and sad as Kurogane's words echoed in his head.
The two infants looked at each other uncertainly, sensign something was wrong. Both started to whine and fuss, feeling uneasy.
Fai snapped out of his reverie, bending so he was eye level witht he infants, "What's wrong little ones?"
His smile turned itno a look of shock, when Sakura reached forward and held his face, gazing at him with unsettled green eyes. She whimpered a little, looking up at him questionalby as if to ask 'What's wrong?' Syaoran grabbed onto his arm with the same look on his face.
Fai blinked, then grabbed a towel for both babies and wrapped them into them, hugging them at the same time.
"Thank you..." he whispered, smiling whistfully
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After a few more hours with similar adventures, (including a diaper changing worthy of it's own story) both adults settled exhaustedly intot he fornt room, Kurogane with Skura, Fai with Syaoran.
Both adutls had not spoken much other than about the children, both refused to bring up the topic of before again. but that's how it always was.
Syaoran and Sakura looked at each other again, wide innocent eyes communicating silently. Sakura, reahed out to Syaoran, bekoning him to come there. Syaoran pushed agianst Fai as the magician looked down at him confusedly,
"Now what's wrong?" He muttered, letting the boy slip to his hands and knees in front of him. However, his eyes shot open in surprise, when Syaoran pulled himself to his feet, wobbling unsteadily.
"Kuro-boro look look!" He said excitedly. Kurogane looked up from where he was staring at Sakura's little act, his eyes going wide as well when he saw the boy.
Syaoran reached his arms out towards Kurogane, rockingback and forth and takin a hesitant step, falling over on his bottom a secodn later.
Fai braced hismelf for the child to start crying, but no, not our syaoran. the boy narrowed his eyes determinedly, once agian pushing himself up and staring dead on to his 'father'.
"You can do it, way to go Syaoran-kun!" Fai cheered as Syaoran took a few shakey steps forward, before falling into Kurogane's lap.
The boy looked up at Kurogane, brown eyes sparkilng with pride, he laughed happily up at the uncertian ninja. Fai merely watched with his head resting in his hands, smiling.
"Uh....good job kid." Kurogane relented, patting the boy on the head. Syaoran giggled, grabbing onto the hand happily.
Sakura smiled, kissing Syaoran on the cheek as congratulations.
"Awww," Fai crooned, Kurogane merely rolled his eyes.
Sakura then decided it was her turn to make the trek. She hesitanlty stuck a leg out, standing up by supporting herself agaisnt Kurogane's shoulder. Her first step ultimatly had the same outcome as Syaoran's, but after two or more tries, she soon fell giggling proudly into Fai's waiting arms.
"That's my girl.." Fai smiled, when Sakura kissed him as well. The magician looked up serenly at the ninja, "Can you believe it, we taught them how to walk!"
Kurogane stared at him for a moment, but then slowly gave a smirk in agreement, feeling for some reaspn that they had accomplished something much bigger than that.
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Syaoran Groaned, literally rolling out of bed and onto his feet late the next morning. He looked in the mirror, smoothing out his hair which had gotten even more unruly over night. He looked down to see that his pajama's hung off of him in a strange way, like they hadn't fit properly that night..but...that couldn't be right?
Come to think of it, the boy could remeber nothing about last night at all. He remebered Mokana coming into the room, and saying something crazy, but after that it was all fuzzy.
He looked up when he heard a knock on his door,
"It's open!" He called. fai poked his head in the door.
"Good morning, how do you feel?" the blonde asked,
syaorna blinked, the blonde's eyes suggested they knew soemthign he did not, but the boy simply shrugge it off, "Good morning Fai-san. Fine i guess...why?"
Fai smirked, and proceeded to tell the entire sotry of yesterday's events. As he went on, Syoran's face got redder and reder, and sputtered out apologies here and there.
"I'm sorry to have troubled the both of you, you and Kurogane-san that is, I mean..well.."
Fai laughed, walking forward and tapping Syaoran on the nose just as he had yesterday. Syaoran held his nose in shock.
"Don't apologize, you were a very cute baby Syaoran, despite how pokey you were."
Similar events were taking place in the room over, with Kurogane and Sakura.
"I'm so sorry Kurogane-san. It must have bothered you how clingy I was, was I heavy?"
Kurogne looked off to the side stubbornly, but seeing the princess's guilty face sighed, "No. You were down right puny, not even an effort to lift you."
Sakura smiled up at him, "I'm glad...thank you, for taking such good care of me and Syaoran.."
Kurogane glanced down at her, then slowly brought his hand up, petting her hair like he had the day before, "Your welcome kid..."
I think i may have gone a little oveboard with this....but it was too damn fun to stop! anway, i'm sure someone out there enjoyed it. Read and review if you liked it please!