Picnic

DISCLAIMER: You've no idea how sick I am of writing this. Meaning is implied.

AUTHOR'S NOTE: Wow, I'm so not obsessed with Tsubasa…

I was sitting outside my house, by the pond in my neighborhood. And this lovely little family of Canada geese wandered over to me. I feed them, and oh, goslings are sooo kawai!

Any who, first thing in my head is 'I should write a Tsubasa story about this!'

Not obsessed, ok? This is mother/daughter FaiSakura, and some KuroFaness at the end.

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A dragonfly flitted by, wings vibrating faster than the human eye could follow. It dipped down over the lake, almost brushing the surface. A fish eyed it from below; hoping it would stray too close, and he could make a dinner of it. Water spider skimmed across the water, lazily.

And all of this was disrupted, when a chunk of bread suddenly hit the lake with a 'plunk'.

Fai laughed at his egger daughter, the source of the offending baked good. "Sakura-chan, you do have to wait for the ducks to get here, before you can feed them. I don't even think they've noticed us yet."

"Oh!" Sakura yelped, turning quickly so her long bangs feel into her face. She looked nervous. "You don't think I scared them all away?" the six year old asked, anxiously.

"No, see?" Fai came over to her, and laid a hand on her shoulder, "There's one now. Small pieces, we only have that loaf."

The girl enthusiastically broke off the smallest corner of a slice, wadded it up in her hands and tossed it into the water. The mallard in the water considered it a moment, before deciding it was entirely edible, and so snapped it up.

In no time, the ducks were crowding the water, and a few geese too. Squawking and quaking in anger, and getting into quarrels, when on bird ate another's intended meal. Sakura happily broke the bread up, flinging it to them, and squealing at their antics.

Fai sat on the bench not far behind her, watching her over the top of the book he wasn't really reading. His adopted daughter was just far too adorable. Poor Augusten Burroughs didn't stand a chance.

Being six, the girl's attention soon wavered from the birds, as her supply of bread waned. So, she trotted over to the bench, and sat down next to Fai. Her feet didn't quite reach the ground, so she swung her legs over the front of the bench.

"Finished?" Fai asked.

"I ran out," Sakura declared, presenting the empty bag.

"Well, what do we do now?"

"I don't know," Sakura answered him.

"Do you want to read one of the story books we brought?"

"No," she chimed, then quickly corrected herself, "No thank you."

"Do you want to play a game?"

"No thank you."

"Well, this is an interesting dilemma!" Fai stated. "It seems that Sakura doesn't want to do anything! That can't be right. Oh!" Fai dramatically gasped, " I knew it! They did replace my daughter with an alien pod!"

Sakura giggled.

"Give me back my daughter, you alien slime!" So Fai 'attacked' her (which is to say, he tickled her). Sakura was laughing uncontrollably before he relented. "Now, that's more like it!"

"You're silly, mommy!" Sakura said. Fai didn't mind the girl had taken to calling them 'mommy' and 'daddy'. Then in a subject jump worthy only of the six-year-old mind, she added, " I'm hungry."

"Daddy is coming soon. He said he'd bring food."

"What kind?"

"Hmm. He didn't say. I guess we will just have to wait." Fai told her.

"Patiently?" Sakura queried. Patience not being a virtue that one so young possessed much of.

"Patiently," Fai confirmed.

Sakura sighed, exaggeratedly in boredom. Fai mimicked her. "It such a long wait, I do hope you don't die of hunger! I couldn't bear it!" Fai joked.

"Look!" the girl suddenly cried in excitement, pointing to the water. Fai followed her finger, and realized what she was so pleased about.

"Shhh," he responded. "We don't want to scare them."

A little family of geese, two parents and one gosling were slowly gliding across the lake. Occasionally they tipped forward, head first into the water. The gosling chirped at its parents, unable to manage the feat yet. The mother goose stayed close to her baby, while the father was a bit further away. He hissed at an unlucky swan that inadvertently strayed too close to his family.

"It's us," Sakura said.

"Hmm?"

"See, me and you, and Daddy protecting us," she pointed at the various animals as she spoke.

"Hmm, you're right, Sakura." Children really were not given enough credit, they were more perceptive than anyone thought, Fai reflected.

They sweet moment was utterly destroyed, at the sound of a car pulling into the park's parking lot, not far behind them. The family of geese tensed. Then, as a car door slammed shut, the mother ushered her family away, the father hissing protectively still.

"Oi! Lunch!" a familiar voice shouted.

"Daddy!" Sakura yelled, as she ran toward the tall man. "You scared them away!"

"We were watching a family of geese, and Kuro-tan startled them," Fai clarified as he followed closely behind Sakura.

"Yeah, yeah," Kurogane mumbled, as the girl latched onto his leg. He handed Fai the brown paper bag he was carrying, and picked her up. Fai peeked into the bag.

"Looks like Kuro-chi brought us sandwiches!" Fai declared. The girl, who was now riding on her father's shoulders, smiled.

They headed back over to the bench, where Fai and Kurogane sat down. Sakura however, opted to go sit on a rock by the water.

"Don't put your food down on that rock, and don't get dirty!" Fai called after her.

"I won't," she called back.

Fai leaned his head against his lover's shoulder, taking a bite of his own sandwich. "Kuro-daddy is so good to his family."

"Whatever," the other responded. But he did lean his head against Fai's.

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END NOTE: Authoress not responsible for cavities/sugar overdose due to clichéd syrupy-sweet story. (This story is part of the reason why I should be forbidden from even opening word processor. You can shot me, if you like.)

By the by, I started that vampire fic! Its called "To Dream Of World…"

Check it out!