Baku and four babies
Rated for silly humor and extremely mischievous kids
It was a lovely day in the Theatre district of Lindblum, the birds were chriping, even the older inhabitants, who prefered staying in most days, were now crowding the streets, the sun was shining and...
"NOO!"
"but please Baku.."
"What part of 'NO' don't you understand, Chester?" the big man asked with a sarcastic voice. The other, rather thin man sighed heavily. He'd been traveling through the whole town just to get to Tantalus hideout. The two boys in his arms sqiurmed as Baku had yelled and the two others were clinging to Chester's legs.
"I'm not running an orphanage you know!" Baku growled, bumping his foot against the threshold to the hideout.
"...I know...but these kids are orphanes...they were found near the entrance to Lindblum, they probably got together by a mere accident, cause they don't really look alike to be siblings..."
After have listened carefully to his friend's speech, Baku scanned the faces of the little kids. The one held by Chester's right arm was eyeing him curiously with big blue naive eyes, but at the same time clinging safely to the thin man's chest. To Baku's surprise he noticed the boy had grew a tail.
The boy by the other arm was kicking the man's side, trying to get down at any price, he had spiky red hair and for some odd reason, wearing a piece of leather over his eyes, making Baku wondering if he was blind or something. Letting his eyes travel lower, he spotted a goblin-like kid with a bandana (thought it isn't covering his eyes now) who stared back at him with obvious suspiciousness.
The fourt kid wasn't what you would call especially cute, no. His stomach bumped as he stood on the tip of his toes, trying to grab the piece of doughnut which was clearly visible in the man's pocket.
"How...old are they?" he hesitated a little as he looked around at the kids one more time.
"We believe the goblin kid's four and the other three around three years", Chester exclaimed with the happiness of a baker who had just succeeded in selling the last bread and was now free to go home for the day.
"Oh...", Baku replied, not really knowing what to say before the other man continued.
"By the way, we named them, if you don't mind", he said as if the fat man had agreed on taking the kids. "This is Zidane", he nodded his head to the blonde boy, who was busy looking at all the by-passing people on the streets.
"He likes to run off, so you better keep an eye on him", Baku frowned but didn't say anything.
"And this is Blank, he's a kind of tough little creature, ever since we found them, he's only been fighting the other children, so you better keep an eye on him as well", he sighed but Baku lightened up at the last words. "Then we have Marcus...the little goblin...he hasn't really showed much of himself, he seems to be pretty calm and collected and has been trying to look after the others...smart kid...and then there's Cinna, he eats anything he comes over and I haven't really had much problem with him either...so..."
Silence occured
"Bwuahahaha!" Baku laughed, making the kids stop whatever they were doing and stared at the man. "They're all pathetic! What makes you think I'd let them stay here with me...hmm?"
Chester thought this over before opening his mouth.
"Well...Look Baku...these kids got nowhere to stay and there's a lot of creepy people around...I know they'll be fine with you...would you just let them live on the streets, starving?" he asked and to add to the question, drops of rain started falling from the sky.
"Well...they 'are' pathetic but...Baku would never do such a thing!" he yelled pointing a gloved finger at his chest. Chester gave a small smile, glad that he'd finally convinced his friend.
"Oh hell...get them inside before they get totally soaked...", his heart melted a little as he watched those big-eyed helpless children.
"Why me?" he muttered as they went inside.
Several minutes later
"Ok kids...", Baku started, sitting in his favorite chair, with the four little children in front of him. He wasn't really sure how to deal with them and not to talk about how he would survive the upcomming days either.
A movement caught his eye and snapped him back out of his thoughts.
"Blank! Stop that!" the redhead had been enjoying himself, pulling at Zidane's tail, making the other boy cry. "And, what's him name again...Cinna! Stop picking your nose!"
The kids glared at him as if he was a troublesome general.
"Now you see...I'll go get you guys something to eat...stay where you are...don't go anywhere..." he wandered away to the kitchen and openened a random cupboard.
"I guess this'll do it...", he grabbed a bag of cookies and started his way back to the hideout mainroom. "Ok boys, you..." he looked around the room only to find it empty. "Damn! Where are you, you little brats?" he went out of the room, after have first fine-combed the spaces under all beds, in search for any signs of stinking little brats, as Baku prefered to call them.
Will Baku find 'the little brats', will they be able to put up with each other, what about Cinna's predilection for food and why does Blank behave the way he does? Well, review and I'll post up another chapter