Fathers be Good to Your Daughters

"Usagi...we need to talk," Hiiro sighed, his little girl sat across from him in their large dining room. The red-head looked up from her plate.

It had been two weeks since the incident at Usagi's school and the principal had taken it upon herself to call Hiiro just about every day to make sure he hadn't forgotten about the child. She seemed unable to understand the fact that 'Mr. Yui's' work was important.

"So you think your work is more important than your child? Mr. Yui..." the principal, Ms. Gradey, looked sternly at the young man. Hiiro gritted his teeth, trying not to mouth off at the woman, he kept in mind there was a six year old boy outside the office awaiting his punishment for dropping ice down a girl's back. It wouldn't be very gentlemanly of him to let a child hear such colorful language so he held his tongue.

"Ms. Gradey--I didn't say that." he sighed heavily, getting himself another dirty look from the almost elderly woman, "I just have difficulty getting out of work early enough to pick her up. Can't you just put her in some sort of after-school activity to keep her busy--and safe--until I can come pick her up?"

Stupid school. What kind of school didn't offer after-school activities?

"What abowt daddy?" Usagi asked, picking up a spoonful of macaroni-and-cheese, looking at the Spongebob-shaped noodle. Probably looking for any blemishes in the item of food.

"You know daddy has trouble being on time to pick you up, right?"

"Well, yeaw. You'we always late."

Hiiro winced, the kid didn't realize how harsh she could sound sometimes, and it wasn't like he could correct her, she was usually right. Always the winner.

'Just like her mother,' he thought.

"Well daddy has come up with an idea, it's a very good idea. It's so that you don't have to be by yourself after school, or any other time daddy is late."

"Really?" she tore her wide blue eyes away from Squidward, whose nose was abnormally large.

"Yes, but it would take a lot of cooperation on your part. You'd have to be good, and do as you're told."

His daughter made a face, she didn't much like rules and any of that sort of thing.

"I guess...but daddy?"

"Yes?" Hiiro looked down at his own meal, wondering what had possessed him to endorse commercial food.

"Whats...coop-arshun?"

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Usagi frowned at the 'resume' before her. She didn't know what it was for really, but she knew it meant that some smelly old lady would be telling her what to do all the time.

A nanny. That was daddy's idea.

'Sowwy daddy, but I just can't standy by and let youw do this,' she thought rebeliously, 'I bet mama wouldn't like it eithew.'

Usagi pictured her mother in her mind, she was beautiful. The young woman had long blonde hair, and the same blue eyes as Usagi had. The picture Usagi remembered had both of her parents standing together--Duo said it had been taken some years before they had been married.

Duo promised Usagi that Hiiro wouldn't find out she knew about her mama. She wasn't supposed to know about her mama. Duo said Hiiro wouldn't find out Usagi knew her mama had been in trouble. Usagi wasn't supposed to think about her mother.

But it was hard! She wanted to know more about her--she wanted to know why her mama was so much shorter than her daddy!

That day she had gone into daddy's room, looking around his dressers--the ones she could reach anyway--while Duo took a nap. He was supposed to be baby-sitting her, but he said he was real tired. She found the picture under his socks.

It had been well taken care of, it looked like it had been taken like, the day before. But her daddy looked different--thats when Duo had woken up and explained about her mother.

The other kids in class made fun of her. Little Usagi had no mommy. Sure some kids' parents had divorced, but none of them had heard of someone just not having a mommy. Before all that started in school Usagi hadn't even known what a mother was!

Oh well, when she was old enough she'd reprimand her father on the topic.

She would be six in only months, a real woman!

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Notes:

I haven't written anything in a long time! I hope you enjoy this, even though the chapters of this story are a bit shorter than all my other ones...it's something...I just haven't had much to write lately, I'm sorry ya'll!

R&R please!