Babysitter Dues:
Of Bottles and Diapers Chpt.2
Continuously she switched babies, but never letting the two brothers get near each other for the fear of bloodshed. Or at least a couple of bruises and bloody noses. "You know I never got your guy's favorite colors."
She peered at Bui. "Bui?"
He gave her a childish grin, "Bue."
"Blue huh? Good choice." She quirked an eyebrow at Karasu, "Karasu?"
He giggled, "Wed!"
She laughed slightly and shook her head. "And I wonder why?" He stuck his tongue out at her. She tweaked it. "No sticking your tongue out at me mister!" Her voice was mockingly stern and she waggled a finger in his direction. Karasu put his hand over his mouth and glared over the top of his fingers. She put Ototo down and settled Sakyo next to him, picking up Ani in return. Cradling him she asked, "And you mister?"
He looked at her with innocent eyes and she had to stop herself from laughing, "Gween!"
"How'd you know that was my favorite color?" She asked grinning. He merely shrugged as if it were no big deal, "I'm psychwic!" "I'm sure you are." She said giggling.
"Now, Ototo your turn!"
He had his thumb in his mouth and was looking at the shelves along the aisles. He looked at her and smiled. Rolling her eyes she gently yanked his thumb out, "No thumb sucking...you'll need braces if you keep that up!" He pouted and stuck his tongue out. She also tweaked it; "I thought I said no sticking your tongue out!" Again she waggled her finger and held a mockingly stern voice.
"No, you twold Karasu that...not me! Swiver!"
"Silver huh. I like that." She looked at Bui and Ani arguing...
"You guys are impossible." Chuckling she cocked her head at Sakyo. "Well?"
"Hmm...bwack!"
"Black it is." She headed for the baby aisle. One elderly woman, however, stopped her before she could get there. "Aww, you have such adorable babies..."
"Thank you, but there not mine..."
"Fred and I always wanted more, but I could never conceive, they were all still-born, except for two. Two beautiful, healthy boys." The woman smiled, "Take good care of them and feed them well." Kyo sighed and smiled whilst gritting her teeth. "Thank you, I'll be sure to take your word up on it." The lady smiled and nodded before waddling off. Ani cocked his head and looked at her with curiosity. "Concwieve? Swill born?"
Kyo sighed. "Someday I'll tell you."
He shrugged, seemingly content with that answer, "Oh, otay."
She walked down the aisle looking at the baby toys. Kyo couldn't believe how much stuff there was for babies. Grabbing the pacifiers, she threw them in the basket she was carrying and headed for the rattles. "Before I get these I want to know, does any one like rattles?" Bui and Karasu nodded. "Alright, now what else do we need?" Sakyo whined, "Fwood! Kyo-Chan...I'm hungwy!"
"You sound like Karasu!" She chuckled and made her way towards the food. "Peaches, pears or bananas? Or apples." She added, eyeing a can of apples.
"Peaches!" "No, apples!" "Peaches!"
"OH BE QUIET YOU FIVE!" The babies looked at her wide-eyed. "Why don't we just get both?" Kyo shook her head and trudged on. Everything was going fine until...
"Uh, oh...Kyo-Chan! I nweed a diapy change!" All babies began to cry. Kyo slapped her forehead. "Why me?" She looked at them pleadingly. "Oh please hush, Shh its ok...please!" She knelt down beside the cart cooing and stroking their faces trying to get them to calm down. She kissed their foreheads and offered soothing words of comfort, but they were relentless. She threw her hands in the air and groaned. A young woman sat beside Kyo and placed her hand on her shoulder. "Can I help you ma'am?" Kyo looked at the woman and nodded. "They need a diaper change, but I have no diapers. You see I am only babysitting and the guardians didn't leave any supplies for me so I have to start fresh." The woman nodded understandingly. She got up and strolled over to her cart where she reached into a bag and pulled out five diapers. "Here, this should last you until you are able to buy more." Kyo took them and thanked the lady graciously. The woman nodded, "I had the same thing when I was young. But for me I had to buy them then change them then go back to shopping. The second time I came around the clerk looked at me in bewilderment. I had to explain what happened. I'll never forget that. Whelp looks like I'm done here. Take care." The lady smiled and waved before disappearing into the next aisle. Taking the diapers and the babies Kyo headed for the bathroom. Once inside she found that this was going to be a bigger task then she thought. The stall wouldn't be able to fit the stroller, her and the babies, much less let her change them. Luckily another mother was in there and saw her predicament. "Here, I can hold the other three babies while you change those two and then we'll switch." Kyo was much too thankful for the help to even be worried about the lady kidnapping her infants. Since Ani was already in her arms she changed him and Bui first. "How do you manage with five children?" Kyo gave a dry laugh. "They aren't mine. I'm only babysitting, but I don't know how I'm going to manage because they are going to be with me for a long time."
"Don't you have a husband or someone to help you?"
"Nope I'm not married or seeing anyone and most of my friends are guys and they would never let me live this down..." Kyo could sense that the lady was giving her a funny look. Dropping her voice dangerously low she added, "It's a long story. But I do have some female friends that would be delighted to help...I hope."