It have been four months since Elie had moved in with her father Eiri Yuki, all had gone well so far. Though, they two caregivers that she had acquired didn't seem to be able to get used to her being there. She was more responsibility then the two young males have been used too, and it often brought them away from being able to do anything pleasurable at night. Little Elie seemed to always have a nightmare just before it got good.
At the moment, Elie lay on the couch, sighing heavily. She was bored to tears, Shuichi was at his band place, rehearsing. Her father was at a meeting with his editor. So here she was, alone and bored, and a large 4 bedroom apartment, and she couldn't find anything to do. And just to make her problem worst. She was hungry... As if to verify her thoughts, her stomach gave off a whining growl.
Eyes darting to the kitchen, her tongue slipped out from between her lips, moistening them as she thought,
"
Remember Elie. Don't do anything that involves fire, knifes, large about of water... or anything else that could hurt you. I'll be back at 4..." Yuki's words rang through her head clearly as she sighed again, picking up one of her father's laptops, and randomly clicking on things.
DING DING DONG
Startled, Elie looked at the laptop and waited for it to start counting down, or something else, like blow up, but the second time the sound rang out, she realized that it was the door. Wide eyed. She grins and dashes down the hall, standing on tip toes for a moment to turns the door and pull it open.
Standing before her was a woman; she looked to be in her late 20's, early 30's. She had long, black hair that was at the moment tied up behind her head in a bun. Her body was clothed in a simple red dress, which fit her nicely, with out flaunting her figure, but it didn't drown it out. Behind her stood two identical boys, both supporting short black hair, and large blue eyes, unlike their mother's honey brown ones. The only difference between the boys was height and age.
But none of there trivial facts caught the attention of little Elie. What her eyes were glued on here the large batch of chocolate chip cookies that were saran-wrapped on a place, just begging to be eaten.
"HI! I'm Elie... Wow! Those sure are a lot of cookies... want to come in?" words seemed to just spurt out of the small child's mouth, and the woman couldn't help but smile.
"Hi Elie. I'm Naomi. This is Shido and Chui..." she motioned to the two boys, first the older, then the younger. Still smiling, "And we would love to come in"
Elie hurried and rushed in her guests, bringing them through the hall and into the living room. Naomi smiled happily and set the cookies down on the coffee table as she managed to convince the two young boys that sitting on the couch wouldn't kill them, nor would holding still… Elie helped herself to a cookie... then another... pretty soon, between a mouth full of cookies, Little Elie managed to talk to the elder woman who was a guest in her home.
"So Elie. Where are you parents? Are you here alone?" the soft sound of concern for the child was shining through in her voice as Naomi asked the question. Elie, shoving down yet another cookie, swallowed quickly and answered right to the point,
"Well... my mom is dead… dad's at a meeting with his Editor... and his boyfriend is recording his new record. Normally K is here to watch me, but he had to go and do secret services stuff… K's funny... he has a lot of guns…" A look of pure horror remained on the woman's face as she stared at Elie, watching her shove more cookies into her mouth. Though she didn't really see Elie, all she could picture was the 'secret service' man and his guns, her writer father, who, no likely, did drugs. His b-Boyfriend who was in some horrible band that's music would scar and ruin children for life.
"Elie … sweetie... you really shouldn't be here all by yourself. "
Yuki sat, staring at his editor, appearing to be not only listening, but fascinated and getting everything that was being said... but, none of this was true. His thoughts where on only one thing... and for once, this one thing wasn't his beloved boyfriend, but the small girl that he had left at home.
'Maybe I should get my ass back there and spend some time with her. I'm sure K's with her... but…' His thoughts were interrupted when his editor stopped talking, and the loud electronic sounds from his cell phone could be heard, whipping out the phone, he answered the call, hoping it was an excuse to go home..
"Hello?"
"Hey. Eiri? That you?" "
Yeah. What is it? Some thing wrong with Elie?"
"Naw, man, that's why I called, I forgot to tell you I wasn't going to be there!"
K blinked when he herd the soft buzz of the dial tone. Yuki has hung up on him. "Hope little Elie's ok..." K shrugged and went to go and beat Shuichi into submission so that he could drag his ass into the recording room and get him to finish his CD.
Eiri Yuki has given his Editor a small explanation as he ran out of the conference room and down to the parking area, getting into his car and quickly backing up, nearly hitting two people who were standing by there cars chatting. Yuki floored it, driving as home as quickly as he could.
Making it home in an amazing amount of time, and he ran to the door, unlocking it and stumbling inside before he called out,
"Elie?" He looked around quickly as he walked down the hall, hoping to see his little girl... pausing in the living room, his eyes meeting those of a woman that he hadn't seen before. Sitting on his couch, drinking tea, a plate of cookies resting on the coffee table.
"Who..." Yuki said but was cut off by Elie saying.
"Hi daddy!" Elie came running through the room, two boys, just about her size and age, were chasing after her, the older, taller one catching up to her, and finally managing to tackle her to the ground. Watching them roll around for a moment, Yuki's brain came back to his head, and realized that he needed to act.
"It was nice to meet your daughter... Um..." the woman has stood up as she started to talk,
"Yuki."
"Well, Yuki-san, it was nice to meet your daughter... My name is Naomi... please... do keep a better watch on Elie." Yuki blinked and nodded, watching Naomi pull Shido off of the girl, and drag Shido and Chui out.
"Daddy! Can Shido and Chui come over again to play?" Elie got herself up off of the ground and ran up to him. Almost my instinct, Yuki caught his daughter and lifted her up, and held her there, a frown on his face, his eyes in a harsh glare,
"Why were they in here?" his voice was harsh and cold, and made Elie's eyes widen a bit, trying to figure out what her father was so made about.
"I was all alone, and hungry and they came over and gave me cookies, so I let them in to play." Yuki sighed and hugged the little girl, before tossing her playfully to the couch,
"Listen, Elie, Don't let people in the house, defiantly not when you're alone!" Elie nodded and giggled
"But I had a bunch of fun... Shido's fun... and fast! Chui cries a lot though." She continued to lay on the cough, laughing slightly as she went on with what had happened on her day…
Shuichi came home, dead tired, his throat shot from having to sing so much that day. Coming home was a wonderful thing. Well… it would have been, had a glaring, ready to kill him Yuki hadn't greeted him at the door...
"H-hi Yuki... is something wrong?" Shuichi gulped and tried to slink his way into the house, not wanting to really have to face the mad boyfriend.
"Why didn't you make sure that K was with Elie day... you knew that I had a meeting…?" Yuki growled as Shuichi tried to slink by... grabbing his arm, and squeezing tightly, " When I got home, Elie had let in a strange woman and her two sons… do you realize that any one could have come over and she would have let them in.." Shuichi looked Terrified for a moment... but Yuki leaned down and caught his lips in a kiss. Smiling as he pulled back, staring at the shocked boy, laughing softly, "come on, it's late, let's get in and go to bed... Little E is already tucked in..." Shuichi nodded and followed his boyfriend, suddenly happy and jabbering on and on about what he had done. Reminding Yuki of Elie.
Little did the happy couple know, that there kiss has been witnessed... the apartment next door's window let any one there see right at the door where they had kissed. A soft, female voice talked into the phone that the woman had just picked up and dialed.
"Hello…Abuse/Child Counseling? I'd like to report possible child abuse…yes... that's right.." she gave them the address and phone number for the house next door, and told the voice over the phone everything that she had learned and heard over at the Yuki house hold…
"Don't worry Ma'am; we'll get right on the case. From what you've said, it seems that this is serious… there's no need to worry."
"Thank you." the woman sighed as she hung up the phone, slouching down into the chair she sat, and thinking about the poor little girl next door.