Hey hey, new year present! Hope you like it. Happy new year to you all. oh and this chapter is a little limish, so ya, just to say. and its kinda short, i'm sorry, but i have an idea for the next chapter, so i may update tomorrow! and i think this story will end in a couple of chapters...

Kappa and Paperwork

"Toooousaaan!"

"Yes, my love?"

My beautiful baby girl giggled from atop my neck.

Tap. Tap. With those tiny hands that I felt like…I don't know…eating up…she patted my head, pulling at and ruffling chunks of my hair.

"Kappa." A slim, small finger (Such a finicky eater, she drives us crazy) pointed to an abnormally large frog croaking by the glen. Good heavens. Who knew they could get so big.

"Just a frog…" I muttered, slightly unsure myself.

Just as long it didn't hurt my baby. Stupid amphibian.

The specimen dared to look at me, and I refused to surrender.

"What's that murderous glare for, baby?" my wife strolled toward me, hefting a large paper-filing accordion. The end of year taxes were mostly finished, but some of the police work was still left. Saito, being the bastard he is, placed a deadline that demanded everything on his desk by midnight tonight.

I had just taken a break to take Rei around the small pond near the backyard woods.

Misao pecked me on the cheek.

"Kaaasan!" Rei gurgled.

"Lovely," she responded, reaching up to ruffle her straight blue black hair. Not that she'd get anything else. Seeing that both Misao and I had the same hair. "Having fun with Tousan and that—woah, that's a big frog."

"Monstrous," I agreed.

"Kappa," Rei whispered, popping the 'p's.

"Yeah, well," her mother sighed, "Tousan and I have a whole bunch of work to do, so we'll have say 'sayoonara' to the Kappa."

Rei pouted, disliking the idea of running away from adventure.

That's my girl.

"Just a few more minutes," I put in, much to irritation of my wife. Rei cheered, patting a victory beat on my head.

Misao rolled her eyes. "All right."

"What should we do, Rei?" I titled my head back to look at my daughter.

"Hmm," she tapped her nose. "We should…walk to it like this." She patted my head and muttered, "This is the frog and this," she separated her hands and fingers to represent three people, "is Tousan and Kaasan and me." She hummed as her fingers pranced toward my head from all directions.

I swung Rei down from my neck to the ground. "Waahhoo!"

"Well done, Rei. Corner the frog from three sides." She nodded, head held high in an accomplished manner.

I smiled smugly at her and we did our little handshake routine. I turned to Misao to find her glaring at me through narrowed eyes and thinned lips.

"Teaching her military strategies, are you."

Rei began to nod her head furiously, and I leaned over to heavy place my arm on her head to stop it from bobbing.

"Rei is an intelligent child. Quick and sharp. She has probably picked up a few things by simply observing."

"Observing, my foot," Misao grumbled, wacking my head. She lowered herself to her knees and smoothed Rei's hair away from her face. "Violence is not the answer, sweetheart, okay?"

"Not always," I added lightly, earning myself a hard pinch to my left calf.

Rei nodded.

"Okay. Now, let's go say hi to that frog." Misao smiled. Together, with me rolling my eyes at a wasted strategy my genius daughter had formulated, we inched toward the frog.

We were so close when the stupid creature gathered its wits and hopped away from us, diving into the pool with a large splash.

Misao and I stood there holding on too our daughter's slippery hands, watching in weary amusement as she laughed at the frog, at our muddy and soaking clothing, and at her own fantastical thoughts.

O O O O O O O

The sun was setting by the time we had bathed, eaten, tucked Rei into the futon, and had settled down to wrap up our work.

I stole a glance at Misao and gazed at the shadows and the highlights the golden rays of the sun created on her matured but young face. The pregnancy and running around we had done for the past couple of years had aged her, but in a way that transformed her innocent…sex appeal…to that of a woman's. I could see the pain and hardship that had shrouded her life before marriage had seeped away restoring the satisfied gleam in her sea foam eyes.

As she scribbled a signature on some bank statements, I watched her lithe fingers maneuver the pen over the paper in suave undulations.

Someone's horny.

My wife leaned over to gather another packet, the movement unsettling her kimono slightly, so that the sun could deepen the hollow of her neck and chest.

A small wisp of soft midnight hair slipped out her plate to tickle her small nose. She lifted her hand in habit and tucked the offensive strand behind her ear, and the kimono slipped further accordingly.

Grumbling something to herself, she made to push the kimono up, but a hand stopped her.

It took me a second to register the hand was mine.

Misao looked up into my eyes, her eyebrows arching at the heated gaze.

"Aoshi?" I raised a finger to her lips.

"Let's take a break."

She snorted. "Honey, we just had a break. Remember, we shared it with King Kong's amphibian brother."

I smirked, letting my finger trail along her jaw, down her neck and collarbone.

"As much as that sends orgasmic tingles down my spine," she teased, "we have exactly four and a half hours to finish this paperwork." She tweaked my nose and return to the packet.

I leaned over, laying butterfly kissing on her cheek and along her neck.

"Get to w-work, Aoshi," she struggled to steady her voice.

"Absolutely." My other hand combed through her hair, unraveling the braid, and I bore down on her to lay on half on her on the wooden floor.

I felt a wicked sense of accomplishment, when she returned my passionate kiss, her finger running through my hair.

"N-not right now…" she gasped, but immediately relocked our lips.

"How about a quickie?" I parted the kimono, rediscovering her body.

How looong has it been?

"R-really quick," she surrendered.

"I want another baby," I said quietly, pulling her undergarments down,

She hugged me, as we skipped the foreplay.

"Me too."