Chapter 4: Crimson Children
Gojyo's Point Of View.
A/N: Okay! Keep reviewing...I don't really have much to say...
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The past three days have been weird. I had been reading every now and then so I keep my mind off whatever Hakkai is going to tell me. But I'd walk around the house and notice Hakkai was way happier then usual about something. It made me suspicious but I don't really want to hassle him into telling me whatever he's keeping from me. It's the third day now, so I am a little restless, rolling around on our new bed, often jumping on it, doing little flips.
" Gojyo...it's a bed not a toy..." Hakkai sighed, sliding onto the bed next to me.
" Or is it?" I smiled, sitting down next to him.
Hakkai perked an eyebrow and looked at me for a while until he got the hidden message. " Oh, well, I guess that is a bit true, but it's new, don't bounce on it."
" But mom," Hakkai glared at me. " I mean, baby, I'm so bored. It's the third day, tell me now." I said, eyeing Hakkai. Hakkai sighed, closed his eyes and leaned on me.
" Right now?" He asked, taking my hand.
" Yeah." I said.
" This second?" He dragged on, smiling at me.
" Hakkai..." I growled, biting his ear.
" Ow! I'm just kidding!" Hakkai laughed anyway, pushing me away lightly. " You didn't have to bite me."
" Of course I did, you wouldn't tell me." I growled, squeezing his hip, making him jump. " Remember, I know all the spots to make you tell me." I grinned, sitting on his waist. " Like here..." I said, reaching down to his feet. " You want me to? I mean, I could just as easily--"
" Ah!" Hakkai yelped. " Okay, okay, I'll tell you. Just don't..." Hakkai sighed. " I'll tell you."
" I'm listening..." I grinned, laying next to him, still holding his hand.
" Yesterday, you know how I was gone so long?"
" Yeah." I nodded.
" I heard whining noises coming from a box in an alley so I checked in it and I found a two year old girl and a newborn boy inside the box. So I took them to the orphanage and they said if nobody claims them in a week, we can adopt them." Hakkai smiled at me tenderly.
" Why'd you wait to tell me?" I asked.
" So if anybody claimed them I wouldn't have to tell you about them. I figured I'd wait until they were for sure going to be ours." He explained, the same smile still on his face.
" That's cool." I started off. "So...what do these kids look like?" I said, still acting like I wasn't going to give in.
" They look like you." He said, tightening the grip on my hand.
" They're half breeds?" I asked, not really surprised at the fact they'd be a abandoned.
" Yes. I wanted them more then anything, so the kids we'd adopt would look like us so they'd be like our own. I also wanted to make you happy, so I figured adopting the boy and girl together would be good as well." Hakkai explained.
" You really wanna do this?" I asked for the final time.
" We don't have to, Gojyo, we don't have to do this at all. My love for you is all I need and I don't want anything to come between us, and if the kids would come between us, I would rather live together with you for the rest of my existance." Hakkai explained, his voice never changing.
" I do want them, I've decided that already, I just wanted to see if you still want them." I smiled.
" Of course I do!" Hakkai said, more excitedly. " Do you want to go down there and see them? I swear, they look just like you, the girl too. The people there don't really want them there because of their race, so who knows, maybe we can take them today!" Hakkai rambled on. I could see how excited he was about this. I knew it was because he got to have them with me, more then anything.
" Well, what are we doing sitting here?" I asked, stepping off the bed. I took Hakkai's other hand and pulled him off the bed. " Let's go see them."
" Oh, we still need to come up with names for them...don't we?" Hakkai said. " I wanted to give the girl something short..."
" Hakkai, slow down..." I laughed. " Geez, I haven't even seen them yet." I said, closing the door behind us as we left out to the orphanage. Hakkai was a non-stop chatterbox until we got there. It was cute, seeing as how I've never seen Hakkai so excited about something since our first date together. We reached the orphanage quite quickly, mostly because Hakkai was practically speed walking.
" Here we are." Hakkai smiled, as we came upon a large, wooden building. Hakkai pushed opened the door and I followed, keeping the door open for him. We walked up to the desk at the front.
" Good afternoon, I'm Cho Hakkai, I brought in the half-breed boy and girl about four days ago." Hakkai smiled at the lady behind the desk.
" Oh yes, I remember you." She said rather boringly. " You want to see them?"
" I would, if that's okay." Hakkai nodded.
" Sign your name here." She said, handing him a clipboard. " Just so we can keep track of visitors."
" Alright..." Hakkai said, quickly, but neatly writing his name in one of the rectangles on the paper. Hakkai reached to hand it back to the lady.
" He needs to sign it too." She explained. Hakkai blinked and handed it to me. I put my name down and noticed Hakkai put 'Sha' for his last name. I felt my heart drop.
" Hakkai?" I asked.
" Hmmm?" He responded.
" You put my last name down for yours." I said, handing the lady the clipboard.
" Yeah, is that a problem?"
" No, no problem at all." I nodded.
" Are you two going to adopt them?" She asked.
" If nobody claims them by tomorrow." Hakkai explained.
" It doesn't look like anybody is going to...nobody really likes half breeds." She said, looking at me. " So I can check with the owner and see if you guys can take them home today." She offered, standing up out of her seat.
" Is that alright with you Gojyo?" Hakkai said, turning around to me.
" Yeah, that's fine." I nodded, taking Hakkai's hand.
" Okay, I'll take you to their room." She stood up out of her chair and lead us up a flight of stairs and into a room two doors down from the end of the hallway. She opened the door and there was a woman sitting in a chair, feeding a small bundle with a bottle and a little crimson haired girl in the corner, a doll in her lap. The girl looked no more then three, big crimson eyes, tanish skin and a scar on her arm. She looked at me and seemed to smile.
" Yumi, these people are here to see the two." The girl from the front desk said to the woman in the chair.
" Oh, that's great. You two are the first people to see these two since you brought them over." Yumi smiled, putting the bundle in the crib.
" Really?" Hakkai asked, as if he was a bit surprised.
" Yes, I hope you do adopt them. They're really great kids." Yumi said, looking at me. What was with everybody, looking at me!
" We are planning to." Hakkai said.
" I'll leave you alone with them. See how you get along." Yumi said, leaving the room with the woman behind the desk and closing the door behind them. I looked down at the two-year-old and knelt down. She was still looking at me.
" Hey." I said, poking her cheek.
" Mm." She whined, grabbing my finger.
" Gimme that back." I said, pulling.
" No." She said.
" Whoa, she can talk." I said, still pulling my finger.
" She must be an early talker." Hakkai said, looking into the crib.
" Gimme my finger back." I growled.
" No." She said, shaking her head.
" Your new nickname is Punkass." I exclaimed. " Cause that's what you are."
" No." She said, a frown on her face.
" Yes."
" No."
" Yes."
" Nuh Uh." She said, hitting me with her doll and laughing.
" Ow! That hurt. Punkass." I said, poking her cheek with my free hand.
" No!" She whined, hitting me again.
" Stop it!"
" NO!" She laughed.
" Goodness Gojyo!" Hakkai said, picking up the boy in his arms.
" She hit me twice!" I said. " But she is cute...just a punk ass."
" Yes." She smiled.
" If you just want one, it's fine." Hakkai said, sitting in the same chair Yumi did with the small infant boy in his arms.
" Nah, we'll take both." I said, standing up. I felt a tug on my pant leg, the girl was holding onto it. " Hey. Lemme go."
" No."
" We gonna start that again?" I growled. " I'm naming her Emi."
" Sha Emi? That's cute." Hakkai smiled. " But why Emi?"
" It's the name of my first pet. It was a cat. A real punk ass." I said with a smile. " She just kinda reminded me of her, so she name is now Emi."
" I don't mind. But that means I get to name the boy." Hakkai said. I picked up Emi, who went from being in my arms, to my shoulders. I leaned in and looked at the sleeping crimson haired infant in his arms.
" He's cute too. What are you gonna name him?" I asked, my hair being pulled on by Emi.
" I think I like the name Hijo." Hakkai smiled.
" Whoa, where'd that come from?" I said, a bit of irritation in my tone from Emi pulling at my hair.
" I don't know honestly, but I like it." Hakkai said, smiling at me.
" You're right. I do too." I smiled back. " I just wish this little one over here would stop it!" I yelled as she pulled harder.
" No." She said simply.
" Yes."
" No."
" I believe this is going to be quite the adventure in itself..." Hakkai sighed.
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A/N: Keep Reading!!! This chapter was long...whoaaaa...
