The Hardships of Childrearing

This chapter got finished a week sooner than I thought, amazing yeah?

Anyway this chapter is for the reviewer PIOMI who requested to see mother hen! Kuroko.

Hope I did this right for you!

Enjoy!

Chapter 10: Break

"I'm not sure about this." Said Kuroko uncertainly, adjusting Kouki in his arms to make sure his baby (it didn't matter that Kouki no longer could be called a baby, he tuned out the critics who obviously knew nothing about children) was well covered against the chilling wind. The little boy did not stir once from his perch on his mother's shoulder, breathing softly against Kuroko's neck.

"I appreciate the effort, but-"

"No 'buts', we agreed to this. It's our anniversary and you need this." Kagami argued patiently, ignoring the fact that his petite 'wife' was towing their twelve year around as if he was five years old again. It had taken him an entire month to convince his lover to take a small vacation (just a week) and he wasn't about to let the blunette back out of it. He ignored the pout being sent his way as he knocked on the apartment door.

Tatsuya's smiling face greeted them when he answered, "Good evening Taiga, Tetsuya." Opening the door wider and inviting the small family into his home, not commenting that his brother-in-law was carrying his nephew like a small child. "Where are you two going for your anniversary?" asked Himuro helping his brother lug in Kouki's luggage for a week, "We're going to an onsen resort in Hokkaido." He replied, "Ahh romantic aren't you?" Himuro teased lightly, "But I take Tetsuya is not happy about leaving Kouki behind?" His brother sighed, "He's not happy about leaving him period."

"Separation anxiety? I remember how when he was just weeks old you would skip out on work to stay with him." It had been funny how just one mention of Kouki had sent Taiga in a blind run back home, desperate to be with his newborn son. The Chief of the firehouse thought it was funny. At first anyway. But there was no keeping the red-headed man away from home once he wanted to go. Kagami flushed slightly at the memories, "I wasn't this bad." He muttered.

"I don't think this is the same as what happened to me. This is…more severe."

"Looks like it." Said Himuro, looking into his living room to see Tetsuya hovering by Atsushi who had hauled Kouki onto his shoulders, the small blunette kept looking up at his child with concern lightly coating his eyes, his hands almost hovering out in case the twelve year old fell off.

~KnB~

Day 1:

"Kuroko what are you doing?" Kagami gave the small blunette an expectant look, mentally slapping himself when he registered the fact that Kuroko was dressed in nothing but one of his large shirts. God, Kuroko's legs were-Slap! No, bad thoughts!

"I'm calling to make sure that Himuro-san doesn't forget to take Kouki to school."

"It's five in the morning. Kouki doesn't go to school for another two hours, Tatsuyas' not going to forget." He then calmly pried the phone from Kuroko's hands and ignored the angry pout sent his way.

Kagami groaned, this was going to be a long week.

Day 2:

Kuroko frowned down at his cell phone, "Kagami I cannot get cell phone reception." The red-head turned to look at him, a grin painted on his face.

"Because there's no reception in the forest."

"You choose this forest because of that didn't you." Kuroko stated. How was he supposed to call his son and ask about his day if he couldn't call?

"Oh there's the bend we have to turn at."

If he was lucky, it would take a few hours for the two to hike through this forest. He would make sure it did.

Day 3:

So far Kuroko hadn't made any attempts to call home. That was good, maybe Kuroko was finally calming down and it meant that he hadn't gotten the text message about Kouki falling off the monkey bars at school and getting a bruise-

"Oi Kuroko! Give me the car keys-!"

Or not.

Damm, if he had just deleted the message sooner…

Day 4:

"Kagami that was rude." Kuroko looked blankly at the red-head who had, rudely he might add, snatched his phone said a quick 'good bye' and 'love you' to Kouki and hung up the call. The red head raised an eye brow, "You two were talking for almost an hour. And you called him this morning!"

"What's you point?" Kagami face palmed.

Day 5:

"Aahh! Ta…iga…" Kagami growled lowly at the wonton way his 'wife' moaned his name, god Tetsuya was so cute when his face was overcome with pleasure as-

The phone vibrated.

And he was thrown off to the empty side of the bed as Kuroko snatched his phone, "Hello sweetheart, no I wasn't busy. How was dinner…" Kagami glared at the wretched phone.

It needed to go. And now.

Day 6:

"What the hell are you doing? That's not yours!" He growled lowly, staring at the blunette who was using someone else's laptop to Skype Tatsuya and both mother and son turned at his voice.

"Hi dad!" His son cheerfully greeted.

"Don't worry, I'm almost done and I'll delete the history so the call will never have been made before the owner comes back from his bathroom break." Kuroko replied logically, like that fact that he was using a stranger's computer wasn't an issue itself!

"Listen buddy, mom and I have to go now okay? Be good for your uncle and we'll be home later, love you." He said quickly before lifting Kuroko up into his arms and walking away from the area and hoping that the owner didn't see them.

~KnB~

"Oh your home early, what happened?" Himuro blinked in surprise when Tetsuya gave him a quick greeting before darting inside the apartment in search for Kouki. He gave a questioning look at his brother, "…I couldn't handle him…" The red head mumbled, "I didn't want us to get accused of attempting to steal a laptop so I decided it would be better to leave."

"I thought it was strange that Tetsuya was using Skype."

"Did you get any?"

Kagami flushed, "None of your business!"

If nothing else, Kagami was forced to acknowledge that Kuroko's need to be with their son was a formidable force to be reckoned with. Never again would he attempt to come in between. He'd rather deal with the Generation of Idiots than anything like this again.

Hope you liked how it turned out PIOMI! If anyone has any thing they want to see leave it in a review or if you want a private conversation, PM me!

Until next time!