Chapter 4: Park Anyone?
The afternoon rolled in on that fine Saturday. The kitchen within Tseng's very expensive mansion was finally cleaned. Of course that didn't mean the owner of the home was clean, nor his two-years-old daughter. As he was in the luxurious marble everywhere bathroom on the second floor, Sephiroth was stuck in the everything is made from porcelain one on the first floor giving her a bath. With all that was said the night before about the wonderful General, one could only laugh at his shock once the girl was stripped to get into the water. The blush on his face almost made Reno's hair look pure white.
Kiwasaki quickly jumped into the bath water. Being barely 2"2 was the only reason she had to jump. Well that and Sephiroth was too busy eying a navy blue towel on the towel rack. She shook her head trying to figure out why grown-ups were so strange. She didn't have any bubbles or toys so she made use of the water around her. That was ok for about three minutes, when she went underwater and didn't come back.
So many thoughts crossed the mind of the said child. The main thought was How he no know I no there. I below wa-wa. She was going to give up all hope when she felt his hands wrap around her small body. She coughed out the water that she had accidentally swallowed. Who the heck had a bathtub that big was beyond her knowledge. Her only concern was why her father took so long to rescue her from almost certain death.
"I am so sorry, sweetie," Sephiroth said.
"No that again. No wike wa-wa," Kiwasaki pouted.
"The...um...water can...aw forget it. You don't like then you don't like it. I am not going to make you like it."
Sephiroth had barely noticed that he was getting soaked from the water dripping off her. He didn't even notice that she was naked until he put her down. After a short scream, he grabbed the towel and placed it around her body. Never again will he even think about giving her a bath. It was almost a scary thought. No it was beyond a scary thought, it was his worse nightmare come true.
Tseng entered the bathroom wearing his Turks uniform. He had heard Sephiroth scream and wondered what it was. After seeing the General staring into the bathtub instead of Kiwasaki, he sort of got an idea. He threw a lime green dress, which landed on the intended wearer's head, and folded his arms.
The little girl grabbed the dress off her head. She squealed in delight as she removed her towel. She tried her hardest to put her dress on. Her head couldn't fit through the hole for her head. Tseng pulled the zipper down to the dress. She smiled again as she was able to wear it finally.
"So Sephiroth, what was with the scream?" Tseng cocked his eyebrow up.
"Um...I saw a...um...a rat. I saw rat right by the toilet," Sephiroth suddenly began to blush.
"There is no rats in the high end of Edge. You should know that."
"Uh...um...where did you find the dress?"
"It was under the one she was already wearing when she got here. This one is more appropriate for the summer weather."
"Mommy!!" Kiwasaki called.
Tseng looked at her. He shook his head. There was something seriously wrong with her. If she hadn't realized it by now, he was really hating being called her mother. He was a guy not a girl.
Why couldn't she call Sephiroth her mother? He looks like a mother more than I do. Heck he looks like a woman. All that long silver hair and that weird face shape of his that goes perfect with the way his hair borders his face...Anyway why me? Tseng thought in his despair.
"Mommy, I wanna' play."
She began to whine and pout at the same time. She wanted to go play somewhere. Grown-ups were more boring than anything else in the whole entire world. She would rather sit somewhere to watch the grass grow or watch a park bench dry. That's when an idea hit her in the pretty little seriously dense head.
"Daddy, go parky."
"Parky? Wait you mean the park?" Sephiroth asked.
"Uh huh."
"No park. It's bad enough that Strife, Highwind, Fair, Rude, Reno, and Valentine know about you. I don't need the rest of the world thinking that I'm some sort of parent," Tseng said.
"But Mommy..."
"No buts. Besides knowing you, you'll do something extremely stupid and hurt yourself. I am not going to take you to the hospital. No way, no how."
"Not even if Rufus ordered you to do it?" Sephiroth smirked.
"My job and this brat have nothing in common."
"Suit yourself with those words, Tseng."
With that Sephiroth left the room. Trailing behind him was his beloved (don't even ask how) daughter. He had a hunch that soon Tseng would be following them to the park. He grabbed Kiwaski and carried her piggy-back style out the front door. The sun's rays were hitting his self proclaimed beautiful face with heavy heat. Not only was that a problem to him, but the weather felt like it was 110 degrees along with the humidity started to frizz his hair up. Taking a walk with his daughter to the park now seemed way out of the question.
He spotted the black Cadillac and the navy blue (if you can't tell that's Tseng's favorite color) Ford Mustang in the driveway. He gained his very evil smirk as he looked. He would take one of those cars and drive there. It was a little simpler than actually walking or calling his private limo. He would never even attempt to explain why he was at Tseng's place. Nor would anyone believe that the apartment complex he and Zak lived in had an infestation of roaches.
"You better not take my cars," Tseng called.
"Who wants your cars? I sure as heck don't," Sephiroth snorted.
"Parky. Parky, parky, parky," Kiwasaki giggled.
Sephiroth held her even tighter. He wanted to smile at her, but it just wasn't in his character to smile or even think of cracking one. There was really something wrong for him to even think about doing something like that.
Tseng walked onto his porch. He looked at the two standing in the walkway. There had to be something wrong if they weren't going anywhere. That could only mean that Sephiroth finally realized that going to the park was out of the question. It was already hot, not to mention that she was an idiot. He just couldn't shake of the feeling of at least helping them to the park. That would get them out of his hair for a while. The smirk of a demon came upon his face.
He grabbed his black shoes and keys to the Cadillac. He gave a look to Sephiroth that could mean "you are not using my car, but I'll drive it in front of you" or "come on." He turned around to face them as he realized that they weren't following him. He shook his head wishing that more people would understand him.
Sephiroth walked over to the Cadillac alongside Tseng. He, of course, was still holding onto Kiwasaki. He raised one silver eyebrow in the confusion of a certain Turk wanting to be helpful.
I think Tseng has finally lost it. I have never seen him act nice unless there was some benefit for him. Then again I have changed with the help of my so-called "friends." Maybe Tseng has too. Sephiroth thought.
This better work. I swear. I don't want them in my car, especially Sephiroth. Wherever he goes his scent stays for three hours. I will never complain again if he stays out of my house forever...along with that insufferable girl. Tseng plotted.
Mommy go parky!! Daddy go parky too!! The seriously mental child thought.
Twenty minutes later, the car was finally parked at the park's parking lot. They ended up walking another six minutes to get to the actual playground. Once there the two adults sat on a bench, while Kiwasaki ran to go play. The first place she went to was the sandbox where two boys were already playing.
The two looked up from their so-called sandcastle to see the girl sitting besides them. Kiwasaki's emerald eyes stared at them, trying to take in their individual looks. The one on the right was a brunette. His hair stuck up at all ends like that Chocobo she had meant the other night. He had big blue eyes that reminded her of the ocean. The other one had shoulder length silver hair. His eyes were like an aqua color, just with a more green tint in them. She had a feeling that they would be best friends.
"Hi!!" She squealed.
The brunette quickly covered his ears and shut his eyes. That squeal was loud enough to be heard from around the entire planet. The silver haired boy wrapped an arm around the others shoulder. He gave the most demonic glare he could at such a young age. That alone made her back up a little.
"Sorry," she murmured. "I no mean scare."
"It otay. No wike woud noise," the brunette smiled. "I Sora."
"I Tilataki...me think how it say," she wrinkled her nose.
"You can't say your name? How weak," the silver haired boy scoffed.
"Is not."
"Is so."
"Is not."
"Is so."
"Is no..."
"Stop, Riku," Sora whined.
Riku snorted and returned to the sandcastle. Leave it to Sora to be soft on the girl that scared him just moments ago. Then again Sora was always trying to meet new people, especially girls. Sora nuzzled his cheek against Riku's The softness of the others skin made Riku smile just a little bit.
"So you're Sora and Riku?" She asked.
"Yeah," Sora giggled.
"Can me play too?"
"Sure. Don't mess up our castle," Riku said.
As the children began to play, Tseng and Sephiroth were staring with disbelief. The little brat had actually made friends. It only meant that there was actually a God somewhere in the universe. One that almost hated the commander of the Turks.
"Our little girl is growing up," Sephiroth pulled out his MP3 player.
"Our little girl? I thought I told you I'm dropping her with the first old couple who wants kids that I see," Tseng growled.
"Yeah, yeah. Sure, sure."
"Oh shut up. You know to be so rich why couldn't you get something more expensive?"
"Because I was given this. I'm not ungrateful like a certain band of Turks that I know."
"Oh shut up!"
"..."
"Sephiroth?"
"..."
"Are you ok? Say something?"
"..."
As Tseng turned around to face the General, he felt as if a sting had hit his stomach. If something bad had happened, Rufus would be on him like a dog with steak. But looking at Sephiroth gave him an otherwise opinion. He had a stern look on his face with the headphones in his ears. The music wasn't real loud, just loud enough to hear the beat coming through. From what he could tell it wasn't One Winged Angel. Well that was one relief.
Kiwasaki and her friends walked calmly over to the two adults. Kiwasaki's eyes beamed with pride as she saw her parents. Sora looked as adorably confused as he could seeing the two men on the bench. Riku stared in shock as he saw Sephiroth. The three held their own expressions as Tseng stared at them like they were ghosts.
"He Daddy. He Mommy," Kiwasaki pointed them out.
"Your Daddy is beetaful. He looks like me," Riku said.
Riku walked closer to the man. He stared at him with aqua eyes wide. He had never seen anyone look anything like him. That could only mean one thing. That man was his father as well. He would have to make it well known to the world...maybe not the world. He would just tell Sora and Kiwasaki that.
"Mommy no man. Mommy girl," Sora said.
"Mommy girl. See. Mommy has long hair," Kiwasaki smiled.
Sora tiltled his head. His hair was short comapared to that of her father. Maybe he was wearing a wig-thing like some of the women at the orphanage did. Well at least it was better than having no parents at all he supposed.
"Mommy, what girl name?" Sora asked.
"...I am not your mother, boy," Tseng hissed.
"Mommy no mean. Sora no know name. I no know name. You tell name," Kiwasaki said.
"How do you...? You're name is Kiwasaki."
"Tilataki?"
"Kiwasaki...Key-wa-sa-key."
"Key-wa-sa-key. Haha funny name. Who name?"
"Me thinks your name, girl."
"Oh. I funny name."
Tseng sighed in despair. He looked over at the third person of their trio, Riku. He was sitting on Sephiroth's lap. The great General was lost in another world he supposed. Otherwise that boy wouldn't be there. But he could never tell with that guy. Maybe he wanted the boy up there to help him feel comfortable with Kiwasaki. Wishful thinking on both parts of that plan.
Riku took one of the headphone things out of his ear. He put it in his to listen to what his "father" was listening to. His eyes went wide. He knew that song. Well he knew some of it from a crappy movie he had to watch. But the song was faster and sounded a lot different than what it did on the movie.
Sephiroth's attention was to that of the little boy sitting in his lap. The boy had just taken him out of his paradise world. He looked closely to see that it was one of the boys that Kiwasaki was playing with only moments ago. He looked over to see Sora messing with Tseng. Kiwasaki was sitting between the two adults with a smile on her face saying she was content. Though her happiness was a good sign, he wasn't letting some boy he never knew sit on his lap like he was Santa Claus or something else to that effect.
"Child, who are you?" Sephiroth asked.
"I am Riku. I'm your son, Daddy," He smiled.
The other part to the headphone came out of his ear. His face was in shock. The Great General Sephiroth was once again claimed to be the father of some unknown child. It had to be her doing. She had to have said something to make the boy even have the slightest thought that he was his father.
"Why am I your father?"
"Cuz we look alike. Parents and children look a lot alike."
We look alike? Sure he has silver hair. His eyes are aqua and don't have the cat slit pupils like mine. Besides I don't have kids. Sephiroth scowled.
Tseng took the opportunity to figure out what the other was listening to. He shuddered slightly after hearing it. There was something seriously wrong with him. That song...that one song. That song was the dreaded nightmare of any adult. Well Zak liked the song, but then again was Zak even an adult. Sometimes he even wondered about that.
"The Oompa Loompa song?! The Goddamned Oompa Loompa Techno Remix?!" Tseng screamed.
"Of course. I like it, Tseng," Sephiroth said.
"Do you even know what an Oompa Loompa is?"
"No. Isn't it my name in some other language?"
"Oh my freakin' God. Are you some sort of idiot? Even these brats know what an Oompa Loompa is."
"Idiot? I am not an idiot!! I just appreciate good music unlike you!!"
Riku and Sora started to giggle. Kiwasaki started full out laughing. Tseng and Sephiroth continued their argument. People and their children stared at the two grown men acting like children.
"I wike Mommy and Daddy," Sora continued to giggle.
"Daddy is funny. Other man is weird," Riku smiled.
"Mommy and Daddy wike welling. Always welling home," Kiwasaki got down.
The three went back to play on the playground. They went over to the slide where Riku placed them both on and tried his hardest to push them both. Just hearing them laugh was enough. He was more happy with the laughing from Sora than he was of Kiwasaki's.
Hours later, Riku and Sora was taken away by the authorities of the orphanage. Kiwasaki went back to her parents as they finally calmed down. She held their hands as she yawned in her tiredness. Sephiroth picked her up gently. He stared into her eyes with the look of happiness. Tseng was being the ass he was known for. He was trying to figure out what to do with them.
"So what are you going to do, Sephiroth?" Tseng asked.
"I am going to stay with you. I don't have anyplace else to go. I checked my apartment building and it's still not done yet," Sephiroth played with Kiwasaki's hair.
"I was hoping you wouldn't say that. Fine."
The drive home was long and silent. In the end Kiwaskai fell asleep. The only thing that one could wonder was what would happen the next day. With Kiwasaki, Tseng, and Sephiroth together one may never know.
Sorry about taking so long to update this, people who actually read this. The holidays are pretty hard for me to actually write. I forget alot of things. Heck this chapter's true plot was gone after a while. Only thing I remembered about it was the Oompa Loompa song and Riku and Sora at the park. I don't own them either. So do whatever people. See ya
