Still haven't decided what her name will be. I'll decide after this chapter :) I do not own Daiya no Ace/Ace of Diamond or the characters.

Summary: In which Nori seeks out help for his daughter's new love: catching.

Nori had eventually called Miyuki and asked for his help. After teasing Nori for a bit with his usual poor personality, which made Nori wonder why exactly he let the catcher anywhere near his daughter, Miyuki came over. What Nori hadn't been expecting was for another of his old teammates to stop by: Tanba, who wanted to catch up with his fellow pitcher. Of course, Nori's daughter was ecstatic to have two of her favorite uncles around.

"Uncle Tanba!" She cried happily. "Guess what!"

"What?" He asked raising an eyebrow at the surprisingly hyper girl.

"I'm a catcher now!" She said hugging the large mitt again. She hadn't let it go since the day Nori came home. She was even sleeping with it now. "Come on…" She pulled on the large man's hand. "I want… to catch…" She groaned when her pulling didn't go anywhere. She puffed out her cheeks and crossed her arms. "That's not funny…" She said when she saw Tanba's amused smile. "Fine!" She stomped her foot and ran to her father. "Daddy, I want to catch!" She demanded.

"Sweetie… I told you we were going out shopping today…" He tried to explain.

She turned to Miyuki who was standing next to her father. He was leaning against the wall with his arms crossed. He raised an eyebrow when her eyes turned to him. Her bottom lip jut out and her eyes welled with tears. "Uncle Miyuki…" Her lip shook slightly causing Miyuki to flinch at the sudden shift in emotion.

"W-why?!" He panicked as tears started to fall. "Why are you crying?"

Tanba smirked slightly seeing the great Miyuki flustered due to a child. Nori sighed as he knelt down in front of her. He dried her cheeks with his hands. Her face scrunched as his hands ran over his cheeks. "That's enough…" Nori said sternly but kept his voice gentle. Her tears stopped. "Good," he smiled. "Now put the glove down. The three of us are going to the store." She nodded and went to put the glove in her room. She came back and lifted her arms up above her head causing her father to laugh. "Okay, okay…" Nori said as he lifted her up.

The three of them walked to the sports store that wasn't too far away from Nori's home. His daughter sat on Tanba's shoulders since he was the tallest of the three, and she liked to be high. When they walked into the sports store, her eyes lit up. She begged Tanba to put her down and he complied.

"Don't run around…" Nori said before she could take off in a run. She nodded and walked toward the baseball section with her father and uncles in tow.

"Why did we come here?" Tanba asked confused as he looked at all the gloves and bats.

"To buy a glove that will actually fit her…" Nori said with a laugh. "Which is why I asked Miyuki to come. I don't really know much about catcher's mitts."

"There are a lot of nice ones here…" Miyuki mused as he looked at them all his glasses glinting with anticipation.

Tanba picked up a light brown glove. "How about this one? It's… small?"

Miyuki took it from Tanba and looked at it. "Nice, but… The leather is too tough for her to squeeze. We could break it in for her, but there's probably a better one."

The three continued to look at the gloves while Nori's daughter wandered around the baseball and softball section. She drifted farther away from the baseball things and toward the softball ones. There were a lot of different colored bats and gloves, but one caught her eye.

Nori felt a tug on his shirt, and looked down. "Hm?" He noticed the excitement in her eyes. "What did you find?" He asked knowing his daughter enough to know when something was up.

She held up a pink and black catcher's mitt. "I want this one, Daddy." She said with stars in her eyes.

"T-that one?" He asked surprised at the color choice. "Are you sure?" He asked as she handed him the glove. She nodded. "Well… what do you think Miyuki?" He handed it to the catcher.

"Besides the color…" He said sourly but noticed Nori's daughter pout again and quickly stopped himself. "W-well…" He saw tears in her eyes. "It's a softball catcher's mitt… but the leather is already broken in pretty well. It wouldn't be too bad… er… It's good."

Tanba chuckled slightly at the excitement in her eyes when Miyuki handed the glove back to her. She turned to Tanba. "Now I can catch for Uncle Tanba!"

"W-what about me?" Nori pouted slightly.

She hugged her father with a smile. "I'll always catch for you." Nori picked her up and hugged her. "I wanna go home and catch."

"Alright, let's go." He said. They bought the glove and walked home. On their walk, she handed her new glove to Tanba so she could hold one of Miyuki's hands and one of her father's. Since they were close in height, they had an easy time lifting her and swinging her whenever she asked for it.

When they got home, she demanded to catch for Tanba. She was still struggling to catch, so Tanba made sure to toss it to her as softly as possible. She caught the first couple with a large smile on her face. The trio cheering for her happily. But the next toss from Tanba tipped off her glove and hit her in the forehead. She pouted as she tried not to cry and the three of them were instantly at her side. Tanba worried that he had hurt her. He kept apologizing to the small child over and over. Miyuki was silently panicking at the tears that were welling in her eyes. He did not handle her tears well. Nori was holding her tightly and rubbed her forehead gently trying to calm her down.

Days like this were an average occurrence at the Kawakami household even when Nori wasn't home. But his friends never told him that his daughter was magnet for disaster.

I hold on to the fact that Nori would be an extremely doting father. Also, I just feel like Miyuki would be the cool uncle, but when it comes to tears he wouldn't know how to handle it so it just silently begins to panic or outright panics. One or the other :) And Tanba would continue to be too pure for this world hahah