Another one shot, but this one isn't a play style... joy of joys. This one also isn't meant to be read over the phone, internet, or whatever... lol, it's the first normal one shot... if you want to call it that.
I don't own Mai Hime
Fic Number 3: Papa's and Daddies
"Naru, Mommy likes it when you play with her hair, but I don't." She had hair clips and scrunchies everywhere. The child was likely only making tangles, not undoing them. Natsuki rolled her eyes as the small one giggled in delight. Her three year old was quite the active child. She shook her midnight blue bangs out of her eyes, only to have to squint when they were flung back into her face. "Where is Mommy? Do you know?"
"She's cooking din din." Naru exclaimed as she continued to play with the messy mop of hair in front of her. Hopping off of the stool she was standing on, she walked around and looked the person she considered a second parent. "Papa, can I ask you something..." Eyes of interested violet gazed up at her. Little Naru looked very much like Shizuru, except for her eyes. Takumi, Mai's younger brother, had been the donor. For some reason, those violet eyes seemed to shimmer differently, almost as if she was confused. Even if she looked like Shizuru, the child acted like a parrot, mimicking everything she saw and heard.
"What is it?" Natsuki asked, pulling the three year old into her lap. She waited calmly as the little girl seemed to think carefully about her question.
"Are you a girl?" It seemed so innocent coming from her.
"Yeah." Natsuki wasn't much for an explanation, but she had expected that question sooner or later. "I'm a girl just like you. Why did you wanna know?"
"Why are you papa then? Shouldn't you be a mommy?" Her head turned to the side, her brows furring in seemingly deep thought. She was genuinely interested in knowing the answer.
"Uh..." Natsuki had been given hard questions before, but this one was a new one. She hadn't actually thought beyond the generic default answers. "I'm a mommy...but you call me papa. It's easier than calling us both mommy right?"
"But a papa can't be a mommy, right?" As if a new thought popped into her head she quickly asked a second question. "So, if your papa, doesn't that make you a daddy?"
Natsuki sat there for a moment, unsure of what she should say. She had a feeling anything she said would be twisted even more so. She sighed, trying to calm her own mind, it was at war with her. She was tempted to run and hide, purely because this child was very much like Shizuru, and also very inquisitive. The questions would be never ending this evening. Clearing her throat she attempted an explanation. "Naru...daddies are...different. Daddies can be a papa, but I'm a mommy. You just call me papa, since that's what I like to be called."
"But you aren't a daddy?" Natsuki nodded her agreement, happy the child finally got it...but, then yet another question was fired her way. "...papa...how are daddies different?"
Natsuki placed a palm to her face, warding away the migraine starting to form. "Shizuru!" Natsuki called, trying to get her lover to come rescue her. "I need help in here!" Clattering could be heard in the kitchen. "Now would be nice!"
"Yes, yes, I heard you the first time." Shizuru held a towel in her hands as if she'd finished the dishes. "I have soup on the stove, I can't let the veggies burn." She leaned on the door frame as she gazed at the little family in front of her. The look on Natsuki's face told her this was going to be highly amusing. "Now, what is it that you need?"
"Naru...uh...wants to know...uhh...daddies are different..." She mumbled incoherently, a scarlet red upon her face.
"Oh, is that all." Shizuru smirked as Natsuki turned even redder. "That's really quite a simple answer Natsuki. You shouldn't have any problems answering it." Watching the glare that produced, she just looked at little Naru. Such an innocent look upon her face, she truly had yet to understand the power of a good tease. "Naru, do you really want to know the difference between a mommy and a daddy?"
"Yes." Naru figured that part should have been plain as day.
"Daddies are boys like uncle Takumi and uncle Reito. Mommies are girls like me and aunt Mai and aunt Nao." She said with simple ease.
"Oh, ok." Naru said hopping off of Natsuki's lap in search of her crayons.
"That was all it took?" Natsuki gawked.
"I assume so. She's just a little girl for cryin' out loud. Why, what did you think she wanted to know...My, my Natsuki, you're having her grow up too quickly."
"Shizuru!" Natsuki warned in a growl. "You just wait, this topic isn't gone yet...sadly."
Just then Naru cam scampering back in the room, another perplexed look on her face.
"Mommy..." Naru said as she walked slowly towards her parents. "Why are they boys?"
"See!" Natsuki laughed when Shizuru's jaw dropped. "Told you!"
"This is going to be a long night." Shizuru muttered from behind her hands, a faint tinge of pink on her cheeks.
-End...-
