A/N: What is this? A second chapter within a couple hours of one another? What strange occurrence is this? So if you don't remember reading a chapter containing an AU, you may or may not want to read that too.

Uh... so this one in particular is rated T just for safety (or rather safe-T haha). All you kiddies out there be good and get some adult supervision or something. It isn't bad, really, it just goes into more detail than the one a couple chapters ago, on the same topic (Remember the one called If you know what I mean?). You have been warned.

When a Mommy cat and a Daddy cat love each other very much...
-Cat, Cat in the Hat

Six pushed himself to the limit, straining himself to move the weights at a steady pace despite his growing fatigue. With a grunt, he finished his rep, placing the dumbbell back into its holster. For a moment, he lay there, calming his racing heart and enjoying the silence that reigned. It had been a long time since he had been able to enjoy the silence of his own thoughts, he missed it. But, alas it was not meant to last for long, he knew. Soon the resident ward of Providence would come seeking him, or the alarms would blare and then the sounds of battle would overwhelm any semblance of silence. Not that Six minded, he had grown fond of the boy, and anyone who knew him, knew that the ninja enjoyed his job. That didn't mean that he didn't long for a little peace every once in a while.

"Hey Six, you in here?"

The green suited man rolled his eyes behind his sunglasses, rising stiffly as his muscles protested the movement. And so the peace is lost, he thought wryly. "I'm over here." He watched as his pseudo-son turned to face him, walking up to him and then dubiously stared at his feet, studying the way his shoelaces moved as he shifted from foot to foot. Six raised an eyebrow, "Did you need something?"

Rex blushed, unsure of how he wanted to broach the subject. Taking a deep breath, the twelve year old took the plunge, speaking slowly with the uncertainty that surged through his system. "Um, well, so I was talking with some of the soldiers, and they were saying some stuff, but they stopped when they realized I was there. Then they were starting to talk about birds and bees, and I didn't know what they were talking about, so they told me to come ask you." The boy hardly knew what the soldiers had been talking about, but the way they made it sound, it wasn't something people talked about freely, not with children anyway. But he was curious, so he needed to ask.

Six's mouth actually hung open for a moment, but closed it quickly before the boy could see his shock. Now the only thing that could betray him were his wide eyes, but they were hidden behind dark rimmed glasses as per usual, thank goodness. Never in all his life did he think he would be giving the Talk to anyone, he thought he had dodged that particular bullet when he decided to marry his work instead of a woman. In his mind, he vowed to gather all the soldiers in Providence and warn them about the consequences of such free use of language. With a cough, Six realized that Rex was now staring at him with big eyes that were confused and seeking answers. Answers from him, that the ninja didn't know how to give... great.

"Give me some time to put together an answer, ok?" Six asked the boy, sounding uncharacteristically uncertain about himself. "Meet me in the cafeteria in two hours, got it?"

Rex was puzzled that he didn't just receive a straight answer, but he nodded, leaving the older man to think through what he was going to say. As soon as he left, Six fell back onto the bench, narrowly avoiding hitting his head on the bar of the dumbbell he'd been working with earlier. What was he going to say...

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Hours later, Rex walked into the kitchen, catching his mentor in the middle of pacing, the first time he could ever recall seeing the man look anything but calm and collected. Maybe he didn't want the answers as badly as he thought... The boy was just about to make a hasty retreat, but he was stopped by the voice of the man he'd been watching only seconds before.

"No! Stay...uh, sit down."

Rex hesitated, but he trusted Six, and so he sat down. The man had never let him down, never given him any reason to question his judgement, Rex wouldn't start to question it now.

"You wanted to know about what those men were talking about, right?" Slowly, Six received a nod, so he plundered on, continuing on the track he'd been building for the past two hours. "Right... so when a boy becomes a man, he begins to... get these feelings, and as a man, you have to be able to control yourself. And uh, hair will begin to grow, and..."

Rex wasn't sure if what Six was talking about was the same as what the Providence agents had been discussing. He'd been pretty sure that what they were talking about had involved both men and women, but as Six kept talking, bringing out a sword and sheath to make his point, Rex realized with growing dread just what everyone had been so reluctant to talk about. What's more he realized with increasing clarity that no, this was not something he wanted to know about. As the green suited man concluded his speech, Rex's face somehow managed to become both pale and green at the same time. Once Six was done and asked if the boy had any questions the child could only shake his head, at a loss for words and not knowing how to piece what was left of his defiled mind. Without another word, Rex rose from his chair and left the cafeteria, heading for his room in silence.

Far off in another section of the giant white building, the security room was filled to the brim with guffawing soldiers. They all knew they would get it good if they were ever found out, but for right now, the soldiers enjoyed their gag and laughed. Who knew they would be able to get such enjoyment from the stone-faced Six?

A/N: I hope you enjoyed this! Please keep in mind that I've never actually received the Talk, and I'm a girl, so I don't really know how one would give a Talk, let alone to a boy. I have no idea what I'm going to do if I ever have boys... or children for that matter. That's why I tried to keep it as vague as I possibly could while still showing how Six would react to this awkward situation. Anyway, this was written for Winter Coma, who made a comment on how funny it would be for Six to be the one who told Rex the birds and the bees, and I had to see how it would play out!

Remember, all suggestions are welcome, and quotes are gathering in my list as well. Feel free to drop a pm with quotes you want to see, or a review if you're more inclined that way. Also, if you guys could help share other names for the characters? Like instead of saying Six, I can say ninja and instead of saying Rex, I can say young EVO, but do you guys have other names and stuff?

Thank you to YellowAngela, and Winter Coma

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