Chapter 2: The Answer
Seto and Sagira walked silently down the stairs and into the kitchen. Despite her apology earlier, Sagira still seemed wary of her father. He turned on the overhead light of the center island and lifted Sagira into her seat. A glance over at the stove's digital clock revealed the time to be near 2 o'clock in the morning.
"Now Sagira, is there anything you want to ask me?" He said, trying to sound as nice as he could. The last thing he needed was her screaming at him again.
Sagira looked around the kitchen doubtfully and shook her head.
"Are you sure about that?" Seto asked again.
"Ice cream?" She looked up at him hopefully. Seto sat there for a second, just looking skeptically at her. Finally he stood up and walked over to the freezer.
"What kind?" He asked, looking at the variety of ice cream they had stashed away. When Ishizu discovered ice cream she seemed unable to control herself and bought tons of it monthly.
"Chocolate!" She chimed. She seemed to be in a better mood knowing that she was getting a dessert. As Seto pulled out the chocolate ice cream she chimed again. "And mint?" Seto looked at her again, but pulled out the mint.
He dished up the two flavors of ice cream into Sagira's favorite bowl. It was a cup sized bowl with a Duel Monsters duel going on with matching spoon. It was meant for boys but the 'dueling protégée' in her just had to have it. Before putting the bowl down in front of her she asked for one more thing.
"Can I have sprinkles too?" She asked in a voice sweet enough to give him a cavity. Seto had been expecting this and quickly retrieved the rainbow sprinkles from the one of the cabinets. After thoroughly sheeting the ice cream into a rainbow colored mess, he put the sprinkles back and sat down next to her.
"Shukran Baba!"
"In English Sagira. You know better than to talk to me in that dead language your mother and Marik speak behind my back."
"But Shukran is Arabic."
"Like I care."
"Thank you Daddy!" She giggled.
"That's better. Now, is there anything you want to ask me about before?" He said, getting down to business.
Sagira took a few spoonfuls of ice cream before asking. "What was Mama trying to tell me? You were playing a game?"
"No. Your mother was on the right track when she said it was something fun for people our age to do… Well…you don't have to be our age. The first time I did it was when I was 12."
"Fool around?"
"Exactly. But we call it having sex."
"Sex?"
"Yes."
"What's sex?
Seto folded his arms as he explained. "It's what your mother was trying to tell you. Now, she would tell you that sex is when a man and a woman who love each other very, very much decide to express their love to each other physically, which leads to making a baby."
"Oh! So that's what sex is? It's something you do show love and make babies?"
"No! That's not what it is at all. That's probably what your mother would want me to tell you, but that's a load of crap."
"Awe! Daddy said crap!" she giggled.
"Stay with me here Sagira." He ordered. She immediately stopped giggling and he continued. "What sex really is, is a physical need you develop when you're old enough to have children. It's instinct to secure the growth of the population."
"I learned about that in… in… the place where they do the tests. It was on the discovery channel. I have an I.Q of 200! We learned about shapes and isosceles triangles and…"
"Sagira! Focus!" He snapped.
"Huh? Oh, yeah!"
"Like I was saying, that's the purpose of sex but it's not why real people do it. The truth is that people have sex because they like the way it feels. They want to do it. Sex becomes the need instead of having babies. When that need is really strong that they have to do it, that's called being horny."
"Bakura!" Sagira chimed once again, connecting the familiar word to a face.
"Yes. Bakura is always horny and he's rubbing off on your uncle.
"Uncle Mari is horny too?"
"Yes constantly, he's probably having sex right now. Lucky Bastard."
"Are you horny, daddy?"
"That, you don't need to know." He said pulling the ice cream away from her.
"No, I'm sorry. I won't ask again." She whined reaching out for her beloved dessert. Seto pushed the ice cream back in front of her and allowed her to continue eating.
"So do you understand now?"
"I think so." She said in between bites. "You and Mama were having sex. Sex is something older people do 'cause they like they way it feels and 'cause they have to and sex is what happens to make Mommies pregnant and have babies. And Uncle Mari and Bakura are horny."
"That's it in a nutshell."
"Wait daddy. If Uncle Mari and Bakura is horny than why don't they have sex together?"
"Your uncle and his friend claim to be strait. That means they only have sex with women but I wouldn't be surprised if they did. They're wierd like that and they're always around each other. Whatever they do it their own business as long as they don't try to pull that shit around me."
"Awe Baba said 'shit'!" Sagira wailed in excitement.
"Any other questions?"
"Nope. Sex sounds cool. I wanna see!" As she said this, Sagira realized that she had eaten all of her ice cream.
"Well you're going to have to wait a long time for that to happen." He looked down at her ice cream bowl and the sullen expression on her face. "And it's going to take an even longer time to sucker me into giving you ice cream at 2:00 in the morning again."