#97: Endearing
"Lucky bastard," Jadeite sighed. Zoisite raised an eyebrow in his direction.
"Makoto is giving birth and Nephrite gets something we don't have," Jadeite replied. The two men sat in a posh palace waiting room while the girls and Nephrite attended to Makoto.
"What's that?" asked Zoisite.
"The kind of love that comes from having a family," he said enviously.
"Well, I'm sure the world can wait a little longer before the likes of your and Rei's children start terrorizing our Universe," Zoisite chuckled.
"You can't tell me that you and Ami don't want children one day?" Jadeite questioned. "My kids will need someone to give them a run for their money," he said, trying to bait Zoisite; and Zoisite took a huge bite.
"Assuming that my kids pick up on my traits," he said casually. "They will hopefully be all Ami. But, I want twin girls," he said, coming over to lean against the wall Jadeite currently occupied.
"Do you? I can't see you having two little 'daddy's girls,'" Jadeite replied, still staring off into space.
"Yeah, and I want to name my girls Ava and Zhea," Zoisite continued. "They will be my little intellectual princesses."
"And pretty just like you?" Jadeite quipped. Zoisite rolled his eyes. "And how charming, naming them an A and Z name," Zoisite tried to hide his small blush at revealing one small secret and having Jadeite make fun of it. He changed the subject.
"What about you?" He asked.
"Two kids: a boy and a girl, and I'm not girly enough to have their names picked out," he replied rather quickly. To save himself from Zoisite picking up on that fact, he continued, "But you know Kunzite is going to be the one with 8 kids." Zoisite liked that idea.
"Minako will get to name them all," he added.
"And they will all be cute names, like Daisy," Jadeite said. "Nephrite will probably name his daughter after some star or constellation, like Mira, Izar, or Suhail."
"You have given this way too much thought," Zoisite remarked.
"He has, but those would have made good names," Nephrite interrupted. His fellow Shitennou jumped up to find him standing there, looking down in awe at his newborn daughter and holding her delicately in his strong arms.
"I want to introduce you to Peridot," he said with fatherly pride. He shot a glance over a Jadeite. "Named after a green color like her mother's signature color and after a gemstone/mineral substance like her papa." Nephrite let Zoisite and Jadeite take a closer peek as his gemstone before leaving to take her back to her tired mother.
"Griffin and Amalthea," Jadeite said abruptly, as Nephrite left the room, still under tiny Peridot's spell. "That is what I want to name my son and daughter one day."
