Hand in hand the two kids jumped off the train, closely followed by Kichi, making sure they didn't get lost in the crowd. Sasori got off and looked around. This town seemed a lot bigger than the one they were coming from.

"Deidei, stay close I'm not in the mood for kidhunting."

"Ok Dana." Deidara yelled as he ran past on his way over to a vendingmachine he had spotted in a corner. "Dana I want a soda"

"No. You have a bottle of juice in the backpack."

"But I want a soda, un"

"Well you can't have one because I packed you juice and that soda is probably overpriced"

"But I can buy it with my own money"

"I thought you were saving those for the museum."

"Yea but…"

Once again Hana and Kichi came to the rescue.

"What kind of juice is it?" Kichi asked. Deidara looked at her and then took off the bag to check.

"Ehm… Orange."

"Oh. Can I have a taste?" Hana said with a smile.

"Eh, sure"

"And maybe you could offer him to taste your drink as well honey?" Kichi said.

"OK. You want some of my chocolate milk?"

"Yes please."

Soon the two children were walking ahead of them talking happily to each other. Sasori just couldn't believe his eyes.

"How do you do it?" he asked looking over at the woman next to him.

"Lots of experience. It's not that hard really. The key is to start talking about something different, but somewhat related, so they won't notice that you are changing the subject."

"I'm learning a lot of new things today. You have some mad parenting skills."

"Thank you, but I'm not that good I'm just making most of it up as I go along. Most of the time I'm just scared out of my mind that I will do something to mess her up."

"Don't worry about it, you are a good mother."

Kichi smiled at him and put her hand on his shoulder.

"And you are a good father," she said.

Father? Well of course it made sense that Kichi thought that but Sasori hadn't thought about it before. Naturally everyone was going to assume that he was Deidara's father since he was living with him and taking care of him. So what now, should he correct her or should he just leave it be? Come to think of it what kind of relationship did he have to the boy? Workpartners didn't really seem to fit any more.

"Actually I'm not really… he's not my real… I'm just taking care of him."

"So you're like his fosterdad?"

"Yes, yes I am"

Fosterfather, who would have thought that a week ago?

After a short walk trough the town they got to the museum. Sasori was just about to go in through the doors when he noticed that Deidara was just standing in front of the building without moving. He walked back and stood behind the boy.

"What are you looking at brat? You know I don't like waiting."

"It's so big, and look there are dragonsculptures over the door"

"I see them. Do you want to look more at them or should we go inside?"

"I want to go inside."

"Ok come on then," Sasori said and gave the boy a little shove towards the door.

When they got into the lobby they were met by a big sign pointing them towards the different exhibitions. Hana and Kichi were already standing in front of it looking through the different options.

"Oh Dana there is one called "The art of a single moment" can we go look at that?" Deidara said with a hopeful smile.

"Let's see, that's a photoexhibition. Sure we can go take a look."

"Yay!" Deidara exclaimed and went back to looking at the sign.

"You know how to read Deidei?" Kichi said with a surprised look.

The boy did not take his eyes from the board but he nodded . Kichi looked really impressed by this.

"How did you teach him to read?" she asked.

"Ehm, I didn't. His, ehm, his babysitter did. She said he is very gifted." Sasori said with, what he hoped was, a proud and convincing smile.

Eventually they had made up a plan on what exhibitions to see in what order. Before lunch they were going to see the photo exhibition, modernistic sculptures, beautiful everyday things and if they had time they would take a look at some stuffed animals. Then afterwards they would do classic style paintings and the history of fireworks. And then of course they would go to the giftshop, otherwise the kids would kill them.

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