Before you start reading, I want to say something-I think Astral's natural curiosity is a-Fricken-dorable. Am I the only one? Because, come on, his curiosity about how things work is cute! It's awesome!

And, since the only two people who are reviewing seem to like the idea of the AU fic that I was planning, I'll start writing it. I'm taking suggestions for titles, if anyone's interested.

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Astral was naturally curious.

I mean, you can't really blame the guy. He has no memories and, being from a different world, he has no idea how things here work. I've known from day one that he was curious about everything. It's one of the things about him that I found annoying, but amusing on occasion.

I remember when we were at a beach and he asked me about sand. I remember the look of childish curiosity on his face as I explained sand and how you can make sand castles. It was hilarious, how much like a child discovering the world for the first time he looked at that moment.

But this? This was ridiculous.

"What was Akari talking to you about?" Astral asked me as I buried my red face into the pillow on my hammock.

I felt my face grow hotter than it already was. Of all times, Astral had to be curious now?! Akari had just given me "The Talk" about how I was growing up and I'd have urges, blah, blah, blah. Y'know, that talk that every child dreads? Yeah, that one. Anyway, Astral had "Overheard" part of it from where I'd told him to stay-in the bathroom (Akari and I had been in my room, which wasn't TOO far from the bathroom). After Akari had left, Astral had come in and immediately started bombing me with questions that I didn't want to answer.

"I don't want to talk about it," I hissed low under my breath, practically praying to any kind deity that he would just SHUT UP.

But, of course, with my luck, why would it work?

"How can a human have seeds? And what is a v-?"

"ASTRAL JUST SHUT UP ALREADY!" I finally snapped, bursting into a sitting position to glare at the spirit. This, of course, resulted in my losing my balance and falling to the floor, conveniently hitting my head on the trunk that I kept my picture of my mom and dad on, on the way down.

Today is just not my day.

I gripped my head where I had hit it on the trunk, a pained hiss escaping my lips. Thankfully, I'm pretty sure I didn't hit it too hard, or else it would be bleeding, so I guess I was lucky in that way.

"Yuma!" I heard Astral call with a concerned tone, "Are you alright?"

I managed to stand up with my pounding head. "Yeah, I'm fine." I crawled back into the hammock and sighed, facing the spirit. "Look, I just don't want to talk about that right now. It's kind of embarrassing. I know you're curious, but please stop asking about it. Please?"

Astral sighed. "Very well, Yuma. I will stop asking."

"Thank you, Astral," I said, happy that his curiosity on this subject would be held back.

For now.

Theabridgedkuriboh: thanks. And yeah, Temptation is a pretty deadly verb. But I had to keep this rated at least T, so. maybe soon I'll change the rating to M.

vividRegulator: aww, thanks. I'm going to start writing it ASAP.

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