Baby sis missed her mom sometimes.

She was busy during the day. She trained security people and the Awakened and she trained and stuff. Important stuff. That was why she wasn't always there with baby sis. That didn't mean that she was going to run away, though, because she loved baby sis. Out of all the babies in the whole world she had picked baby sis to be hers and she wasn't going to just up and leave her one day. Sho was sure of it.

But also he just liked to check up on her sometimes.

"Mama! Mama over there!" shouted baby sis. She held a baby crayon in her hand and she was either trying to pass it to her mom or stab her with it, Sho didn't know which. All he knew was that he had to hold baby sis back. They technically weren't supposed to be here, this was a Division meeting, but…well Sho was going to be President Suzuki soon and his dad was already President Suzuki so that meant that Sho could go where he wanted to go and do what he wanted to do.

Even sit in the corner and color with baby sis while important meetings went on.

"Mukai, not now. Play with your brother." Said Tsuchiya. She tried her best not to look pissed off. She had told the kid to babysit….that meant that the baby stayed there and he sat! That did not mean he brought the baby into one of Ishiguro's unnecessarily long meetings!

Center your qi.

He was ten…or eleven…or maybe twelve now? He was just a kid and usually he did a damn good job of watching his sister…and that was his sister….so…well she was not going to get pissed off at him. He didn't need that. He had…well not problems but…well he was an emotional kid. She didn't know why he was like that, if it was nature or the way he was raised, but she did know that she didn't want to set him off.

That wouldn't have been good for anyone.

"AS I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted more of these fliers have been seen and-" said Ishiguro before he was, once again, interrupted by children. He had no idea what it meant, why President Suzuki kept on sending his children here. This was either a great honor, the President was trusting this division above all others with his progeny, or President Suzuki was trying to insult him by turning this Division into a daycare center.

Maybe the latter and not the former.

"Baby sis, no, that crayon isn't going to fit in your nose and you know it." said Sho as he pulled baby sis's hand away from her face. She tried to do that sometimes and he had no idea why. Maybe she just liked wax. Shimazaki sometimes chewed on his crayons when there weren't any candles around…so maybe baby sis just liked the tasted and smell of wax and stuff. Well he wanted her to be happy but also…well he also didn't want her to poke her brain and turn stupid or something.

That would have been some pretty bad big brothering.

"AS I was saying-" said Ishiguro. He wondered how attached President Suzuki was to his son. He didn't seem very attached to his daughter, the younger one anyway, so maybe if his son just happened to meet some unfortunate end then…well maybe that wouldn't have been a great loss to the man. It certainly wouldn't have been a great loss to the organization. He could see, out the corner of his, Sakurai running a hand up and down his sword. He wasn't quite brandishing it, he knew better than to outright threaten the President's son, but he was making his intentions clear.

To everyone but the boy, it seemed.

"It's not going to fit in my nose either!" said Sho. She was trying to put it up his nose now…and he knew that they were being loud but whatever! He had to take care of baby sis and he wanted to make her happy and it wasn't like they were talking about anything important anyway. They were just talking about boring division stuff. Money and talent and assets and doing terrible things to awaken people. Normal Claw stuff. They didn't have to have whole meetings for that stuff.

Just keep doing what you're doing. There. What was so hard about that?

"As I-" said Ishiguro. He wished that this boy had been anyone else's son. Then he could have simply told him to get the hell out of there and back to whatever it was that children did during the day. Why didn't Suzuki ever send his older progeny? The girl was at least useful…and looked like she was going to be the heir…but it was not his place to question the will of President Suzuki.

Unfortunately.

"Sho! Stop Sho! Hold still!" laughed Mukai as she tried to stick her crayon in Sho's eyes.

"As-" said Ishiguro

"Not my eye either, you're going to make me go blind!" said Sho. She was so funny sometimes. She was trying to color his eyes like paper…probably because there was so much white in his eyes…and she knew that paper was white and you were supposed to color on paper. Also the walls because they were white too. She was so smart like that.

He had the smartest baby sis in the whole world!

"AS I WAS SAYING!" said Ishiguro, testing the limits of the voice changer in his mask. REALLY. This was NOT a daycare center! President Suzuki….he would speak to President Suzuki…or his envoy…because this was quite enough!

"Want me to throw him out?" asked Koyama. These meetings were long enough without this kid being here making Ishiguro stop and lose his place. He didn't care if the kid was the President's Son, he was an annoying little brat. For the past two months it had been nothing but that kid running around and screaming and….too many kids! He liked Mukai, she mostly stayed with Tsuchiya in their apartment, but this kid….

President Suzuki needed to stop dumping his kids here!

"I can go and get his nanny. He's still down in the lab, right?" asked Sakurai. That kid….that damn kid….for the past two months he'd had to put up with the spoiled little monster running up and down the halls and being underfoot and just…being! He had no idea why Suzuki kept on dumping his son there, maybe to visit the daughter he orphaned or to groom him to ascend to the throne or something, and he didn't care…he just wanted this kid gone!

He was so sick of this kid…of kids like these….

Kids who had the whole world there on a plate. He'd been dealing with kids like that since he'd been a kid. They walked through the world with the idea that everything was theirs. That everything would always work out for them. They never had to worry about where they would sleep or what they would eat…they didn't know what it was to be alone…they didn't know what it was to be cold and tired and hungry and they never would….

And not only that but they rubbed it in his face, too…constantly….

"I don't have a nanny and I don't need to go anywhere! I go where baby sis goes and baby sis wants to be with her mom so I want to be here too! So you guys just have a good meeting and leave us out of it. We have important coloring to do, don't we baby sis?" asked Sho. He leaned against the wall and made sure to look everyone in the eyes…well eyes and mask. Why did that guy, and Fukuda said that he was a guy who pretended to be a girl, think that he could tell Sho what to do? Just because he was the Division leader?

Well, being the son of the President was a higher rank than being a Division leader.

He had his scars but he wasn't a Scar. Scars were called Scars because they were damaged goods. Shimazaki said so. They were espers who fought dad and lost….badly. Everyone lost against dad but Sho knew that Scars lost badly. They lost so badly that dad made sure that they got scars on their faces. Fukuda said that he did his best with the Scars, to make them less bad….less grotty, if he was talking the way Emmy talked, but there was only so much that he could do. They ranked the lowest in the whole upper echelon and everyone could see it on their faces. Sho ranked above everyone else….and it was written on his body…not that anyone would ever see.

He pulled his coat shut.

"Kid, when I said that you could baby sit I meant that the baby had to stay there and you had to sit." Said Tsuchiya with a groan that she couldn't really hide. This kid…yeah. He was going to be their next leader, wasn't he? If not him then the older girl. She was the capable on, she ranked pretty highly, and really they needed more women in the upper echelons…and also she seemed to be just more…chill was the word….than this kid.

She had never met the President's oldest daughter but she seemed to have it more…together…than the President's son…maybe it was best that Mukai wasn't being raised with her brother and sister.

"She wanted to be here. You can have your meeting with her here. It's not like you guys are talking about anything that even matters anyway." Said Sho with a shrug.

"Why you little-" said Koyama as he got up. Sakurai reached over and pulled him back down. Matsuo rolled his eyes and looked back down at his phone. Well don't just help, sit there!

"Not important? Not important?!" shouted Ishiguro as he came to his feet. He knew that he didn't stand much taller than that boy…but it didn't matter. He was stronger. That was the Awakened Child, not the Prodigy, and if it came to it then Ishiguro knew that he could take him if he had to. He had lost to the President, true, but maybe beating his son in combat would mean something…like a better posting than this daycare center…..and he wasn't just talking about the children.

"Hey, do you guys think that this meeting is important?" muttered Miyagawa as he nudged Matsuo….who just stared down at his phone. God. He gets a girlfriend…boyfriend…whatever the hell Minegishi Toshiki was and he thought that it gave him the right to take up residence in La-La Land.

"What?" asked Matsuo. Toshiki was telling him about President Suzuki…about how he, apparently, was trying to drag them to some greenhouse with his daughter in a poorly disguised date. That was a hell of a lot more interesting than some fliers someone had been plastering the town with. What did they care about the town? The guy was a fraud and the kid was being watched already. They didn't need to have another meeting over this….God…he was going to lose his mind one of these days…

Not that he wanted to switch places with Toshiki anytime soon.

"This meeting which, as all meetings, are of the utmost importance." Said Takeuchi. He inhaled deeply and settled his qi. This room was so loud, qi loud, and vocally as well. That child and Ishiguro would both have benefited from some basic meditative techniques. Maybe he could invite those two along when he taught Mukai. She was going to need it, being related to the President and all. If there was any man in this world who needed to meditate it was President Suzuki.

"It wasn't important last week either…or the week before that…or the week before that…." muttered Terada. So there was some fraud going around pretending to be an esper…big freaking whoop. There must have been thousands and thousands of fake psychics in this city. What did one guy matter? So what if he babysat the kid Suzuki had them stalking? They were stalking a lot of people.

"Here we go again." muttered Muraki. He briefly thought about leaving an ethereal clone of himself in his spot…but this was not the time to risk that. Ishiguro was, once again, upset….and he didn't blame him. That kid could be a lot…but if Mukai wanted to be here then it was fine. She couldn't help but act up sometimes…and she was adorable anyway. How a man like the President could have had such an adorable daughter was beyond him.

"I've been here for hours and hours and hours and I'll I've heard is you and those Scars talking about some guy pretending to be an esper. If he's being such a problem then why not kick his ass and tell him to stop? There, see? I did your job for you. Now me and baby sis can get back to the important stuff in life…like coloring." Said Sho. He looked at Ishiguro like dad looked at people, like he was looking through them, like they weren't even worth looking at. Sho knew that he was being an asshole but that was ok because Ishiguro was being an asshole first.

He knew that Fukuda would have told him to be nice, that two wrongs didn't make a right, but Fukuda was busy putting Awakened back together so Sho could do whatever he wanted.

Not that he wanted to be like dad or anything. Sho…he hated dad and he never wanted to be like him…but dad was good at telling people what to do. Shimazaki said that when you walked into a room you had to act like you didn't give a fuck and then you would have all the power. Sho did a give a fuck though, he gave a lot of fucks, but he also didn't want to look like he didn't have any power there. He wasn't big sis, he didn't have a real title, but he was dad's only son so that should have been title enough.

He didn't get told what to do by anyone other than big sis and maybe Fukuda…so there!

"Shots fired." Said Matsuo. Well this was actually going to end up being an interesting meeting for once. Not as interesting as the day Toshiki was having, at this point he was just listening to them vent about how weird President Suzuki apparently could be, and he'd tell them about this later. Maybe after Ishiguro wound up demoted for killing President Suzuki's son.

"You dead! Matsuo dead!" said Mukai

"Hey? Why am I dead? Kill Ishiguro!" said Matsuo. Mukai laughed pointed to him again.

"Matsuo dead mama! Matsuo dead big brother!" said Mukai

"You heard my sis, you're dead. So be dead." Said Sho. That was a fun game, you're dead, when baby sis said that you were dead then you had to lay down on the ground and wait for her to tell you to wake up. Being dead didn't actually work like that…but she didn't need to know how being dead worked. She was just a baby after all.

"Come on, Mukai, you're getting way too excited." Said Tsuchiya. She held out her arms and her daughter came running. She was going to have to talk to the President's son about the meaning of the word 'babysitting' after she put Mukai down for an early nap. She needed it. She could tell that Mukai was way too overstimulated….yes, this was going to be fun, wasn't it? Wrangling an overstimulated two year old into bed and then putting up with Ishiguro's coming bitch fit. Just great.

"Excited!" shouted Mukai

"Yes, I think that we're all getting a little too excited. How about this, Suzuki-chan, if you think that you can handle this better than we've been then go and handle it." said Ishiguro. He was not going to challenge the President's son to a fight. On second thought he decided that maiming or seriously injuring the President's Son would not do well to get him out of this posting. No, he could let the boy dig his own grave. If he wanted to undo months, almost a year, of work that had been done on this case then so be it. Let him explain to his father why and how he had destroyed weeks upon months of work.

"I can handle it. I can handle the hell out of it…and don't call me Suzuki-chan. It's Suzuki-san…sama. Suzuki-sama." Said Sho. He could handle this and he would handle this. It was simple, figure out if this guy was an esper and if he was then make him join Claw and if he wasn't then tell him to knock it off…and also someone had been going around warning people about Claw which made no sense because, obviously, telling people not to join Claw was like asking to get your ass kicked.

And unless this guy was some kind of moron then he knew that he didn't want to pick a fight with Claw like that.

Other espers were either scared of them or tried to stop them….or kill dad. Sho had no problem with people trying to kill dad but trying to stop Claw was something else entirely. He…didn't know how he felt about it…all of it…but he did know that the only reason he was alive was to take over Claw after dad died…so that was what he was going to do. He was going to find this guy and figure him out, and also kick his ass probably, and then he'd come back and play with baby sis some more….and not just because some tiny little man was challenging him.

It looked like baby sis's mom was going to put her down for a nap and Sho needed to fill the next two hours with something….a mission maybe.