Framed Cliché
IV : The Question
"Master, where do babies come from?"
Disclaimer
The characters in this story belong to Masami Kurumada, Toei, and Bandai.
It was a quiet and peaceful afternoon in the Sanctuary. The weather was warm and cosy because the summer was just started to reign in Greece, and the Zephyr brought the pleasant scent of the sea and made the atmosphere even more — it was truly a lovely afternoon.
And the guardian of the Aries Temple was enjoying the lovely afternoon with the Virgo Saint. They were both sitting on a chair in front of the Aries— looking at the horizon, feeling the slight breeze brushing their faces while sipping the jasmine tea which the Lemurian made earlier.
It was such a perfect afternoon for these two— the weather was pleasant, the tea was exquisite, and the fact that they have each other company made that afternoon even more enjoyable for them, but their pleasant afternoon was soon changed to a rather awkward yet unforgettable afternoon for the two calmest saints of the Athena's Sanctuary.
"Master! Master—" exclaimed the little red-haired Lemurian, waving his little hand while his feet were running up the stairs that lead to the Aries Temple. He kept running until he arrived right in front of his teacher and the Virgo Saint.
The little Lemurian bend his body down trying to catch his breath, and not so long after he blurted, "Master, where do babies come from?"
And that innocent question made the lilac-haired Lemurian spit his jasmine tea all over his pants, while the Virgo frowned and was genuinely concerned with both the question and the fact that the Aries was almost choked.
That question was totally unforeseen by both of them.
"Why did you ask that silly question, Kiki? You almost made Mu choke by the tea..." reprimand the Virgo Saint, as he tried to help the Aries to clean the mess that he just had done.
Kiki puffed his cheeks, sometimes he is annoyed by the presence of the Virgo Saint, always trying to be close with his teacher, and more that the Virgo Saint sometimes is too strict and curt— ah, and most importantly he was so boring! He didn't even know a simple game. Kiki couldn't understand why his teacher really likes to be with him.
"That's not a silly question! And what's so wrong if I am curious about it!" exclaimed the little Lemurian as he looked away sullenly— and that made both saints sigh resignedly.
"There's nothing wrong, Kiki— it's just that..." Mu replied awkwardly as he tried to elbow his companion to help him with this question, "It's just a little bit hard to explain."
And Shaka— he immediately understood Mu's signals, he then attempted to answer the little Lemurian's question, "Oh well— listen, Kiki... babies come out when a bee sting a bird, and that will make the bird lays eggs— not so long after, well— Yes the baby was born..."
Mu frowned at Shaka's poor attempt to explain reproduction— why in the world did he talk about bees and birds? That was utter nonsense!
"What are talking about Shaka? You said babies come from an egg?" snapped Mu and Shaka immediately defended himself, "Well— that's the only thing that I could think of to explain it appropriately! I mean— it does involve some kind of 'sting' right?
Mu's face turned into a carmine as he heard Shaka say that, but he still thought that Shaka might traumatise Kiki, "No, Kiki... Shaka was wrong... actually a baby born when a woman— Uhm, eats a giant watermelon!"
"What? That's even more nonsensical than what I just said!" Shaka sneered at the other, but Mu immediately snapped, "But at least this way, Kiki wouldn't be traumatised!" Shaka snorted, "And how does your answer not traumatise him? There's no one that can swallow a giant watermelon, Mu..."
Kiki only looked at both saints with confusion more so that it seemed everyone has given him a completely different answer every time he asked about it, "So, there is a lot of ways for a baby to come out? Because you two said a different thing and so does with Mr. Aioria and Mr. Kanon!"
Kiki almost lost his patience because all day he couldn't get a definite answer about how a baby comes out. "Mr. Aioria said that the stork brought it for us through a chimney— and he said that's also why we don't have babies here because there's no chimney in the Sanctuary..."
"But— Mr. Kanon said that it has something to do with, uhm— what was that again?" the little Lemurian frowned as he tried to remember what the younger twin had said to him, "Ah yes! Manhood!— he said that it has something to do with manhood... but he didn't tell me how though, he only said that I lack the necessary equipment to have a baby, no I am not lacking it just that mine is not meeting the requirements yet— but I am sure that he said we need a manhood to have babies!"
Both saints gaped as they heard the word that came from the little Lemurian's mouth, Mu was already fuming with rage especially after hearing Kanon's answer— that definitely will traumatise Kiki!
"Well— master... do you have the required manhood?" asked Kiki innocently— again. "Kiki what are you talking about? I—" rushed Mu trying to give something appropriate.
"Oh, so you don't have it, Master?" Kiki sighed dejectedly while Mu couldn't even utter any words, he was simply speechless by his apprentice's question, "Maybe... Mr. Shaka have the required manhood, no?"
Shaka immediately snapped, "Why of course, I have!" He wouldn't let this little boy hurt his pride that he doesn't have a manhood— it would be humiliating for him.
Kiki smiled widely with Shaka's answer, and with his pure intention, he exclaimed, "That's great! Then... Mr. Shaka can have a baby with my Master, so I can have someone to play with! Because Mr. Kanon said that to make a baby we need someone who has a manhood and someone who doesn't have it— and because Master doesn't have it, you can do it with Mr. Shaka who has it, so we can have a baby!"
Shaka can only gape at the little Lemurian's words, while the lilac-haired Aries's cosmos were rising, and his fury can be felt all the way through the Patriarch's Temple— with the intention to kill the younger Gemini for having his little apprentice's innocent mind desecrated by his words.
Author's note:
Word Count for this chapter: 1072 words
Well, well, this is just my attempted humour to do this, so I am sorry if it's rather unfunny and failed XD
As usual, I apologised for the grammar errors, spelling mistakes, poorly chosen words, or any other mistakes as I am not a native speaker of English.
Thank you for reading.