Author's Note: A/N: Because Kashino's gynophobia due to Koshiro makes me laugh. :]

Rated: K+, for: One use of a curse word.

Disclaimer: All rights to Yumeiro Patissiere go to Natsumi Matsumoto, Shueisha, and Studios Pierrot and Hibari.


Makoto Kashino was not pleased with the expression on his mother's face. He certainly wasn't displeased with the news she was relaying to him; he was quite certain one would have to be insane to not be happy to hear the gender of their firstborn child. It was the smirk on her face that was really pissing him off. He really didn't get why it was so amusing to everyone who heard the news that he now had a daughter.

Scratch that, two daughters, apparently the second of the twins was a girl as well. He was still frustrated with his mother, but was willing to put that aside for the moment, seeing the tired smile on his wife's face (that seemed to hold a hint of amusement).

When he called their friends to tell them, he could hear the grins in their voices. When they showed up at the hospital the next day, said grins were entirely too obvious for Kashino's liking. While Rumi talked to Ichigo and fawned over the twins, he quietly asked Andou and Hanabusa why everyone seemed to be more amused than excited. Their answer made him scowl.

Okay, so maybe he had a serious case of gynophobia in the past due to a certain Heiress. But damn it, did that really make it so humorous that his children were female?