Author's Note: I am not going to review responses because my computer is being a butt and the internet won't stay connected long once it does decide to connect. It takes about ten tries before the stupid thing makes a connection. I will thank as many people as I can remember.
Thanks to: DarkAceGambit, Lexi Teniro- I'm so sorry I forgot you last chapter, Mif Chan, and there was someone with a pen name that had something to do with blue. I'm sorry I can't remember exactly, but I can't access my review right now, but thanks for the review! By the way, what does kawaii mean? Lol. Sorry, if that's a stupid question, but I honestly have no clue what it means.
Paranoid Stalker Loves Slash: You're the only who I could remember specifically what anyone said, so you're the only one who gets a response. You're the one that is psychic, not me! Serisouly! You guessed in like chapter two, or something what I had planned, and in your review of the last chapter I had seriously been thinking about letting Tomonori have a 'friend.' I even had a little scene planned out, and you guessed it! You're the one that is psychic. Thanks for the long review! I love long reviews, and I agree with the Golum thing even though I hadn't thought of that. Lol. Thanks again!
To anyone who might be interest I'm thinking of doing a story similar to this, except that it would be Fruits Basket and it would Kyo and Yuki who would be little. Would anyone be interested in reading that? By the way, the 9th volume is sooooooooooo good, and I want the 10th one REALLY, REALLY, REALLY, BAD! Okay, sorry, just had to let you know that. Now, on to the story.
Chapter Five: School and the Park
Tsukasa swung off Tomonori's arm as they made their way through the familiar halls of the high school. Tsukasa has forgotten his tummy ache momentarily at the prospect of seeing his friends again. They came to Tomonori's room and entered. It was in between classes so only a few students were there. Tomonori lifted Tsukasa up and sat him in his desk chair.
"Can you sit here and behave?" he asked seriously. Tsukasa nodded while placing his hand over his stomach.
"My tummy hurts," he complained for the tenth time. Tomonori answered for the tenth time.
"I know it does, and I'm sorry that you're in pain, but you shouldn't have eaten all that ice cream." He laid some coloring books, blank paper, and crayons in front of the child.
"But I love ice cream," he argued, "and it tasted really good. You like ice cream to you know." Tomonori sighed knowing this argument would go nowhere since it was about the fifth time they had had it that morning.
"Never mind that. While I teach classes why don't you color me some pretty pictures, or draw some for me?" Tsukasa seemed to consider before nodding and opening one of the books in front of him. Tomonori kissed the top of his head, thanking the lord that the child had done it quietly.
He stood in front of his desk as the last of his class filed in. He could whispers around the room and could much of the female population of his room oohing and awing at how cute Tsukasa was. He even one person remark on how much more like a girl Tsukasa looked now that he was younger.
"I'm sure all of you have heard about what happened yesterday in chemistry and that Tsukasa Amou is now a four year old instead of sixteen. He will be in the classroom everyday until he is returned to his sixteen year old self, and I do not expect any of you to use him as an excuse to not pay attention, understood?" They were nods around the room. Satisfied, Tomonori began his first lesson of the day.
Everyone knows that keeping the attention of teenager is very hard, but it seemed twice as hard that day. Tsukasa was an angel and only said something to him once he had handed out that night's homework and left the students to do it. Unfortunately, this was one the talking would start, the whispers, and note passing. Tsukasa apparently was just a good distraction to the students. He knew things would settle down after a few days and everyone was used to the change.
Finally, lunch came as they pair headed to the cafeteria. Tomonori had packed Tsukasa a lunch and hasn't planned on letting the child eat in the cafeteria, but he wanted to see his friends. Tomonori walked Tsukasa over to where Kaname, Mana, and Naoya were sitting. Tsukasa practically ran to them. Mana smiled and drew the child into her lap. Tomonori made his way over to them. The teens smiled politely up at him, and each said hello. "Would it be okay is Tsukasa ate lunch with you all? I told we would have to ask you all first before I let him.
"Oh course, it's okay. Do you want us to just bring him to class with us after?" The all three had Tomonori's class right after lunch.
"That would be fine, thanks. I wouldn't ask, but he wanted to see you all and I have a meeting I need to go to."
"It's no trouble," Kaname answered. "We'll bring him to class."
Tomonori kissed Tsukasa's forehead, and said, "Behave, and no ice cream, okay?" Tsukasa pouted, but nodded. He couldn't get ice cream in the school cafeteria anyway. Even though they were going to be in the same building Tomonori was reluctant to leave the child. He knew Mana, Kaname, and Itsuki were completely capable of handling any problem that might arise, but the overprotective side of him was telling him to take Tsukasa with him. He forced himself to tell the child good bye and head to his meeting.
Kaname watched his teacher's retreating back and shook his head. "He's certainly overprotective." Itsuki spoke between mouthfuls of food.
"What makes you say that?"
"Couldn't you tell that he was stalling for time by telling Tsukasa to behave and making small chat with us? He's reluctant to leave Tsukasa anywhere without him, even in the same building." Itsuki shrugged and went back to eating his food. Tsukasa had slid off Mana's lap and was now sitting in between her and Kaname, across from Itsuki.
He poured out his lunch from the paper bag Tomonori had given him and began to eat his sandwich. He punched the straw into the juice box that Tomonori had also placed in his lunch.
"Do you like bring little, Tsukasa?" Mana asked. Tsukasa immediately nodded.
"It's kind of odd, but fun. This morning before Daddy got up I ate a half a gallon ice cream! It was so yummy, but I got a tummy ache from it. I wanted to stay home, but Daddy said I had to come because there wasn't anyone to watch me." All three teens' eyes had widened when Tsukasa said how much ice cream he had eaten.
"Did you really eat half a gallon of ice cream?" Itsuki asked, amazed. Tsukasa nodded proudly. "And I didn't even give him any coaching," Itsuki laughed.
"But my tummy doesn't hurt anymore."
"That's good, it always horrible to come to school when you don't feel good, but at least you don't have to do any work," Itsuki muttered darkly as lunch ended and they headed for Tomonori's room.
When they reached the classroom, Tsukasa sat back down at Tomonori's desk and began to color again. Tomonori had known this would be the hardest class to control since they all knew Tsukasa, or at least knew he was, but he never would've thought it would as bad as it was. He couldn't teach at all for all the questions everyone was asking Tsukasa. After ten minutes he gave up, but was determined to get the class into some sort of order.
"This is how it's going to work. All of you are going to shut up. If you want to ask Tsukasa a question, or anyone a question, you will raise your hand and wait until I call on you, got it?" He didn't wait for any nods as almost everyone's hand was already in the air. He pointed at the person nearest to him, and was shocked at what was asked.
"Have you let sensei see you naked yet?" Tomonori blinked, and glared at the student.
"All of you keep in mind that the question must be appropriate for class, and junk." The student wilted, and quietly mumbled, "Sorry. Can I ask a different question?"
"No," Tomonori answered simply, still glaring.
"But I do think you're taking it the wrong way. I mean, like, for a bath, or something. Can he still do those things on his own, or does he need your help with those kinds of things?" Tomonori kept his glare in place. He knew that was not what the student had meant, but didn't say anything.
"I do believe everyone wanted to ask Tsukasa question, not me." He was satisfied to see the student swallow before Tsukasa took the chance to speak up.
"I can't do that on my own anymore. I can't do a lot of things now, like reach the cabinet without getting a chair, and even then I have to stand on the counter to reach the bowls," the child answered simply, basking in all the attention he was getting.
"So that's how you got the bowl. I was wondering, and how did you get the ice cream? The freezer is almost as high as the cabinets." Tsukasa blushed lightly, and looked down at his lap.
"I put the dictionary on the chair and stood on both of them." Tomonori shook his head and chuckled.
"At least you're a resourceful child." Tsukasa grinned as he realized his father wasn't mad.
The questions continued all class period, and Tomonori decided it would be better to just so this for the rest of the day and give his classes a review sheet on stuff they had already covered. He had talked to Mana, Kaname, and Itsuki earlier in the day and they had agreed to go with him to take Tsukasa to the park and play. Tomonori hadn't the child this yet knowing that if he did Tsukasa wouldn't be able to sit still for the rest of the day. The rest of the day pasted uneventfully and soon it was time to leave for the park.
Tsukasa ran ahead of him, now holding onto Mana's hand begging her to take him on the merry-go-round. Tomonori settled down on a bench nearby to watch as Mana and Tsukasa settled down on the merry-go-round. Itsuki and Kaname each grabbed a handle on it and began running in circles to get the ride going. (A/N: what exactly can I call that. It takes to long to write out merry-go-round about fifteen times.) They both jumped on at the last minute. Tomonori smiled at Tsukasa's sequel of delight as it went round and round and round and round. The man was child Tsukasa could handle it. Just looking at it made him dizzy. He took out some papers he had brought with him and began to grade them.
Twenty minutes later Tomonori was pushing Tsukasa on the swings with Mana, Kaname, and Itsuki beside him. Tsukasa was chattering his head off, but Tomonori was only half paying attention. Just hearing the child's voice was enough for him. "Daddy, can I get down now? I wanna go get a drink." He pointed over at the water fountain a few feet away. Tomonori stopped the swing that was about three feet to high for the child, set him on the ground, and watched him run over to the water fountain.
"Everyone got ask Tsukasa how he was dealing with being little, but how are you dealing with him being little?" Mana asked swinging gently. Tomonori took his eyes off Tsukasa to look at the three teens that were looking at him expectantly.
"I was a little overwhelmed at first, but I love it. he's completely adorable, and-" He stopped mid sentence, and color drained from his face as Itsuki spoke.
"Where did Tsukasa go? He's not at the water fountain anymore."
Tomonori's eyes immediately went to the water fountain not more than ten feet away. He forced himself to breath as he scanned the surrounding areas. There weren't many people out today, about five other children and parents, and Tsukasa was no where to be seen. "Tsukasa?" Tomonori yelled. It wasn't at the top of his lungs, but certainly loud enough that it carried over the small park. "Tsukasa!" he yelled again, voice louder and panic obvious in his tone. He strode across the park, calling Tsukasa's name, and looking all over the place.
Ten minutes later he thoroughly searched the whole park, but there was still no sign of the child. Tomonori could feel his breath catching and knew he was panicking, but didn't care. Someone had taken his son, his precious little boy. Who in the world would be cruel enough to do that? He was about to loose it when a woman approached it.
"Excuse me, but you are you looking for?" she asked politely. Tomonori forced himself not to yell at the woman.
"My son, he's four years old, about this high, blonde hair and blue eyes. (A/N Does Tsukasa have blue eyes? I don't even know! And I don't feel like going to check. Oh well, they're blue now.) Have you seen him?" The woman nodded. "Really, you have? Which way did he go?"
"He didn't go any way. A man came over to him at the fountain, said something to him, picked him up, took him to his car, and drove off. He had just left about the time you noticed he was missing." Tomonori thought his heart was going to burst through his rib cage.
"He was driving a blue mini van, a Honda, looked to be early to mid thirties, short brown hair, and brown eyes. He didn't seem like a very friendly man, but since you didn't say anything when he took the child I figured you knew him. Do you know anyone that fits the description?" Tomonori shook his head, the only thought registering in his head was that someone had taken Tsukasa from him.
