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Mai Otome: The Next Generation

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"So...exactly why couldn't we just send the maids to do the shopping like we always do?" Natsuki asked as she pushed the cart along the grocery store. She hated doing the groceries.

"Because, like I told Natsuki before, the girls need to be exposed to more things outside of home. It is vital for their healthy development," Shizuru answered as she walked beside Natsuki with Duri in her arms. Although the one and a half year old already knew how to walk, she cried whenever Shizuru would put her down or anybody besides her mothers would try to pick her up.

"You've been reading more of those parenting books haven't you?" Shizuru pouted at her wife's question, "Does my Natsuki think I am unable to learn parenting skills without a book? Does she find me that bad of a mother?"

Natsuki freaked instantly, "What?! No! I didn't mean it like that! You're a great mother!"

Shizuru smiled victoriously, her faked pout already gone, "Well I'm glad. Now how about you take Kiyo-chan and find some cereals while I take Duri-chan with me to get some mayo for my Natsuki?"

"Okay!" Natsuki replied with a bright grin, "We can meet up in the dairy aisle."

Shizuru nodded and watched as Natsuki sped off towards the cereal isle with Kiyo in the cart seat. 'That shall be entertaining' she thought with a smile before walking off with the little bluenette in arms.

"Cereal, cereal, cereal" Natsuki chanted while walking through the aisle without any idea of which one to get. "Do you know which one your mommy wants?" Natsuki asked her daughter who only replied with a frown and pointed at a red box with colored circles. "This one?" Kiyo nodded as Natsuki took the box and placed it on the cart. "Okay let's go find mommy and Duri-chan." Kiyo had been mad since they entered the store and placed her on the child's seat on the cart. Shizuru didn't want her running around like a crazy child like she usually did at home.

"Mutt?" Natsuki turned when she heard the red-head's voice behind her. "I never thought I would live to see the day when the almighty principal of Garderobe would be shopping at a grocery store. I knew this was my lucky day since I got up this morning.

Natsuki rolled her eyes, "Whatever, Shizuru forced me to come because she says the girls need more experiences in the real world or something like that."

"In the real world? Aren't they a little to young for that? Besides, they'll get enough of that in Garderobe, just like you did." Nao laughed when Natsuki blushed, "Not that kind of experiences idiot!"

"Besides, if you ask me, your children were doomed from their birth, I mean, look at you, who would want you as a mother? I understand Shizuru, but…come on, you?" Natsuki grabbed the nearest cereal box and threw it to the column's head. "Of course they want me! I feel sorry for little Yuuki though, like seriously, Nina is cool but you?"

As the two adults bickered back and forth, Kiyo took this as her chance to escape. She had been put on the cart since they entered the store, taking away her freedom while her twin was allowed to be carried. Sure, she was more of a troublemaker, but Kiyo didn't think it was fair, and she was mad.

Kiyo climbed carefully down the cart and made her way silently to the lowest shelf of cereals, and decided to take revenge by doing something that she knew would upset her blue-haired mother. She grabbed the nearest cereal box and pulled it down, repeating the process as she ran down the aisle, throwing down as many cereal boxes as she could before Natsuki and Nao both turned to find Kiyo smiling up at them with cereal boxes sprawled all over the floor behind her.

Nao laughed as Natsuki's face began to redden. 'KI-YO-CHAN!!!"

"Huh?" both Shizuru and Duri turned their attention when they heard a very familiar voice, and right now, very loud as well. "Looks like Kiyo-chan has made mom mad, should we go save her?" Shizuru asked as she smiled at Duri who just giggled back.

"Come back here Kiyo!" Kiyo ignored her mother as she ran down the other side, her mother unable to catch her as she kept stepping on boxes of cereal. Nao doubled over in laughter as the brunette giggled her way down the aisle, but looked up when the giggles ceased abruptly.

"Ara…" Shizuru had just been run into by her young daughter, who's laughter stopped as soon as she realized who she had just bumped into in her escapade. Shizuru smirked when she found Natsuki on the floor rubbing her knee after having slipped on one of the boxes. Natsuki smiled in relief back at her, "Thank God you're here."

Shizuru looked down at Kiyo who just smiled brightly at her before hugging her leg as she giggled and said what would become her most often used word as she grew up.

"Oops."

A/N: Thanks for reading :D
I hope you guys liked it. Please review. Remember that this one-shots are not in chronological order. So they go back and forth :D If there is a character you would like to see a childhood moment of, please tell me. I am always eager to see my reader's ideas :D