A/N: Thank you so much for the reviews favorites and alerts! Shout outs to whoever used the puppy dog eyes on me to review soon. Needles to say, it worked… I was going to put out another chapter of Evil Eye before this but… I couldn't resist those puppy eyes…XD!
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Warning(s): This is the only PG rated chapter that you will only come across for now because…well, the chapter title is a hint! Lol!
"Talking"
'Thinking'
Chapter 13: Fenrir, The Mighty Babysitter
After Itachi scolded Naruto about letting Sasuke eat ramen on the day he wasn't supposed to, how careless he was acting, and how inconsiderate he was being of Sasuke's health, he snatched the half-eaten bowl away from Sasuke and threw it in the trash before leaving Sephiroth's house without saying goodbye to anybody. I looked at Naruto for an explanation, but all he did was shake his head at me before apologizing to Sasuke for ruining his lunch. Sasuke nodded his head in understanding before asking for another slice of pizza, which Naruto quickly got up to go and get. It wasn't hard to tell that Sasuke was upset and so was Naruto.
"This happens quite a lot as well…" Sephiroth said in a low voice.
"Itachi has a fear that Sasuke will develop Hypertension if he keeps eating ramen the way that he does. The fear comes from when he watched his grandfather die because of it. To try and prevent it, he tells Naruto to only feed ramen to Sasuke on Wednesdays and Sundays so he can control how much he can have of it. Naruto being Naruto tends to not follow Itachi's set schedule and when Itachi catches him doing it, it turns out like how you just saw or worse. That's why I warned Naruto at the ramen shop, but he only listens but so much..."
"I think I get it now… What you're trying to say is that Naruto's often stuck between a rock and a hard place when it comes to Sasuke and Itachi. When he pleases one, the other is left upset."
"Most of the time..." Sephiroth said as he looked down at his watch.
"Damn, time sure does fly. It's almost six. I need to get ready for tonight and I suggest you do the same."
"Oh? But I thought that I don't start until I'm 18."
"You don't. Tonight you're going to be working the bar alongside Tifa and Aeris to get a feel of how busy it gets."
"Oh, okay… What do I wear?"
"Whatever you feel like wearing, but save your sexy clothes only for me to see…" Sephiroth said with a smirk on his face before getting up and leaving the counter with me still sitting there with a bright red blush on my face.
"No! Stay with us! Don't go!"
"Yazoo let go of daddy's hair. Daddy's going to be late for work if you don't."
"No!"
After Naruto, Aeris and I left Sephiroth's apartment to get ready for tonight, we came back to Sephiroth's apartment to help him take the children to their babysitter's apartment, but Yazoo had other plans. For the past 15 minutes, Yazoo has been pulling on Sephiroth's hair while holding onto the wall post in an effort to get Sephiroth to stay home and for him and his brothers not to go to their babysitter. All the while, his brothers and Sasuke watched from the sidelines to see if it would work and whether or not they should join in to help. I could tell that Yazoo had a nice grip on the locks of Sephiroth's hair by how Sephiroth's face would scrunch up in pain when he tried to pull his hair free. Even though Sephiroth was in pain, I couldn't deny that it was cute to see that his child was doing all he could to make sure that his dad wouldn't leave, not without having a nice size bald spot in the back of his head.
"Yazoo, I'm going to count to ten. If you haven't let go of daddy's hair by then, you are going to be in big trouble."
"No!"
"One…"
Yazoo's fist tightened.
"Two…"
Yazoo tightened his grip on the wall post.
"Three…"
Sephiroth slowly walked closer to the boy.
"Four…"
Yazoo's eyes widened as he looked back and forth at the shortening distance between himself and his father.
"Five…"
Sephiroth was now a few inches away from him.
"Six…"
Yazoo bit his lip as his face began to turn pink, a sign that he was about to cry, before he finally let go of Sephiroth's hair. Sephiroth sighed before he leaned down to pick up the now crying child and wiped his tears away.
"I know you don't want me to leave, but I have to Yazoo…"
"Then can we stay home?" The crying boy said as he sniffled.
"We won't leave, we promise!" Kadaj added with a smile on his face as Loz nodded.
"And we'll make sure Sasuke doesn't either!" Loz added as Sasuke folded his arms and frowned. Sephiroth shook his head and my heart ached as I saw the hopeful looks on the children's faces go away.
"No, you four cannot stay here by yourselves. You three are too young to be left all alone with no one able to watch over you and to get you to bed on time."
I looked over at Aeris and Naruto and saw that they were feeling the same way I was. With no regrets, I made Sephiroth a reasonable offer.
"I can watch them, if you don't mind that is…"
I couldn't help but blush when I felt everyone turn to stare at me. Granted, I never have baby sat before, but I figure that it couldn't be as bad as how Naruto was trying to put it; and since I plan on being with Sephiroth, I minus well get to know his children better. They seemed to be pretty well-behaved kids, besides the running away part they pulled this morning.
"Are you sure? They can be quite a handful…" Aeris said with her brow raised.
"I'm sure I can handle them. Besides, it's a win-win situation. The kids get to stay home and Sephiroth won't have to worry about them trying to sneak out again…"
I turned to Sephiroth and smiled.
"Right?"
"Yep!" Yazoo happily said with a smile on his face. Sephiroth continued to stare at me before smirking.
"You might want to get a pen and a piece of paper to remember all of what I'm about to tell you as well as Itachi's recommendations for Sasuke."
My smile widened when I heard the children cheer at being able to stay here and Naruto mumbling that I didn't know what I was getting myself into.
"I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll – Yazoo, get down from there!" I said as I grabbed Yazoo off of the counter and placed him on the ground before quickly snatching him back up and growling as Yazoo screamed playfully.
"Quick! Yazoo needs our help! The big bad wolf has him! Charge!" Kadaj yelled and he, Loz, and Sasuke came charging after me with their wooden spoons raised high and ready to attack me. We were playing a mixture of cops and robbers with the four little pigs and the big bad wolf. The children were the cops/ little pigs and were wearing bowls on their heads, except for Kadaj since he was picked as leader he wore a colander on top of his head, with aluminum foil shirts I made for them and had curly tails that I made for them out of paper and tied it to them using yarn and used wooden spoons as their weapon. I, of course, was the robber/ big bad wolf and I was using Kadaj's clean socks as my ears that I paper clipped to my hair and used a pen to make whiskers on my face and used my own sock as my tail. My goal was to steal one of them away and keep them in their bedroom as my prisoner and their job was to protect one another from being stolen while trying to kill me and to free of them if they got caught. If I captured all of them, then I win the game and if the hit me on my stomach with their wooden spoons, they win the game. The off limit area was the kitchen since I didn't want them to accidentally hurt themselves in there. Needless to say, Naruto and Aeris were wrong about them being a handful and I didn't need the long list of what to do if they get bored and/or hungry. Besides me occasionally yelling for them not to jump on the sofa, climb on the glass table and the bar stools, and not to run near the television, they were behaving very well, probably because they were having so much fun playing our game.
"Help! He's taking me away!" Yazoo yelled as he giggled and I growled before sprinting over to their room to place him in it before closing the door and dropping to my hands and knees and growling as I protected the door.
"Quick we need a diversion! Sasuke!" Kadaj shouted as they still ran towards me.
"I'm on it!" Sasuke yelled as he ran up to me and began to swat at me with the wooden spoon.
"Ouch!" I yelped when Sasuke hit me in my eye.
"Sorry, Cloud. Are you okay?" Sasuke asked and stopped hitting me as the other two waited for me to respond.
"Yeah, I'm fine…but you're not! GWARR!" I yelled as I crawled after the screaming and laughing Sasuke and chased him into the bathroom as he closed the door.
"Aww man, he trapped Sasuke! Charge!" Kadaj yelled after Loz opened their bedroom door and let Yazoo out. I smirked when they got closer. I was ready for them this time. When got close enough to me, I let out a roar before running up to them and grabbing Loz and Yazoo before lifting them over my shoulders and making a dash back to their room and putting them in it. I turned around and saw that Kadaj had a look of shock on his face before he ran to the bathroom door and banged on it for Sasuke to let him in as I slowly made my way closer to him. I laughed when Sasuke slowly opened the door and Kadaj pushed his way through and slammed it shut. Since I knew that they weren't about to come out soon, I took a breather on the floor. They were wearing me out already and it wasn't even 12 o'clock yet. I knew they were supposed to be in bed by 9:30, but they were so into the game that I decided not to stop them. Besides, it's better to let them wear themselves out and then put them to bed than try to put four fully energized boys to bed. I can tell that they were getting tired since they were running a lot slower than when we first began playing. Since I was near the triplet's bedroom door, I wasn't surprised to hear Loz and Yazoo yawning every three minutes or so. Knowing that they weren't going to last much longer, I crept closer to the bathroom door and hid in front of the couch so that they couldn't see me when one of them decided to come out. It was a few minutes later when the bathroom door slowly opened and closed and tiny footsteps were heard.
"Hey! Where'd he go?"
I smiled as I heard Sasuke quietly question as he slowly moved around the living room with me watching him the entire time. When he got close enough to the couch I quickly grabbed him and carried the squealing and laughing boy to the triplet's room and placed him in there before closing the door. Just down to the last little piggy now…
"Alright, Kadaj. Come out from wherever you are. I have the rest of your friends as my prisoner. Surrender now or fight to the death!" I said in my deep wolf voice.
"Please surrender! I wanna go to bed!" I heard Yazoo yell from behind the door and Sasuke and Loz making noises of agreement, which made me chuckle. When I didn't hear Kadaj say anything, I got up off of the floor and went to look for him. When I opened the bathroom door, I noticed that the door that led to Sephiroth's bedroom was wide open. I couldn't help but smile when I stood in front of the doorway to Sephiroth's room. It seemed Kadaj had quit a while ago since he was knocked out on top of Sephiroth's bed. I removed the colander, aluminum foil and his tail before picking him up and carrying him out of Sephiroth's room. Luckily I already told the boys to change into their pajamas before playing. When I opened the door to his room, I saw that Loz was already asleep on the bottom bunk and Sasuke was asleep on the top bunk.
"Hey Yazoo, which one does Kadaj sleep on?" I asked as he took off his bowl and tail.
"Kadaj sleeps on the bottom one." He said sleepily.
"Alright." I said as I placed him on the pillow that Loz wasn't occupying before throwing the covers over both of them. When I noticed that Yazoo finished taking off the aluminum foil, I picked him up and placed on the top bunk and waited for him to get settled in before throwing the cover over him and Sasuke.
"Can you turn on the night light please?" Yazoo asked. I nodded before switching on the chocobo night light that was near the door before turning off the main light after I collected all of the bowls, wooden spoons, aluminum foil and tails.
"Night night Cloudy…" I heard Yazoo say before he let out another sleepy yawn.
"Goodnight Yazoo, sleep tight..." I said with a smile before closing the door.
It wasn't long after I washed and put away the bowls and wooden spoons that the front door opened and Sephiroth walked in and smiled at me as I put everything back where it was supposed to be.
"Were they alright?" he asked as took off his coat.
"They were better than alright. I don't know why Naruto doesn't babysit them. All he has to do is play a game with them and they're set!" I said as I put the lamp back on the table.
"What game did you play?" Sephiroth said curiously.
"It's um…difficult to explain…" I said as I rubbed the back of my neck while blushing. Sephiroth chuckled before walking over to the boy's room and slowly opened the door and peeked inside before closing it.
"Have ever babysat for anyone previously?" He asked with a brow raised.
"Nope! Why?" I said before sitting down on the couch and letting out a long sigh.
"Well, compared to their other babysitter and Aeris, this is the first time I've ever seen them sleeping and not faking it."
I couldn't help but giggle at that.
"I guess they don't really play games with them often."
"I guess not." Sephiroth laughed.
"Where are Naruto and Itachi?" I asked. I thought that they would've been here to retrieve Sasuke…
"Let's just say that they needed me to let Sasuke spend the night over here…" Sephiroth said with a smirk on his face as I blushed, understanding very well what he meant. Who knows, maybe that's what Itachi needs to be back to not being angry at Naruto anymore…
"Does that mean that I'm allowed to spend the night here too?" I asked as I bit my lip and batted my eyelashes at Sephiroth. The only answer I got was a grin before he walked over and picked me up and carried me to his room with me giggling all the way there. It seemed as thought tonight I was to be the little piggy and Sephiroth was the hungry big bad wolf…
End of Chapter :)
A/N: I'm sorry, but this has to be the cutest chapter I have ever written! :) And now for the story raffle! As I mentioned above, the bonus raffle in Chapter 12 is still available for you readers to answer as well if you haven't done so already. Happy Raffling!
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