DGG: Hello, Lovely Readers! I'm baaaaaack. Haha. Anyway, as you could probably assume by the title, this is about Yuya's first Halloween! Is it that time of year yet? No. Will that stop me? Also no! I'm probably going to do some random holiday ones before randomly upping Yuya's age by a couple years. I don't know why, but I felt like some first holidays were needed before that happened!
Anyway, enjoy!
"Who's the cutest puppy? Who's the cutest little puppy I have ever seen? It's you! It's you! Yes, it is!"
"Mama! Mama!" the baby laughed as Yoko fawned over him in his Halloween costume.
"Look at this boy. I could just eat you up you're so cute. What do puppies say? What do puppies say, Yuya?"
The baby continued to laugh.
"I'll accept that answer," Yoko rested her forehead against the baby's.
The woman turned as she heard someone slide down the fireman's pole they had in their house.
"Ooh. Mister Sakaki, you look awfully handsome in that getup," she purred.
Yusho was dressed up for Halloween as Prince Adam from Beauty and the Beast. He was wearing the ballroom attire, which consisted of a blue tailcoat, a golden vest, his usual kerchief, and black dress pants.
"Thank-you. You look stunning too, m'lady," he bowed to the woman who was dressed as Belle, but rather than being in the yellow ball gown, she chose to wear Belle's normal attire of a sleeveless blue dress with the white long-sleeve shirt underneath.
She gave a coy smirk as Yuya wriggled in her arms.
"Tell me again why we didn't dress him up in the same theme as us?" Yusho cocked his head to the side.
"Because! I wanted him to be a puppy. And you're the cutest little Dalmatian puppy I've ever seen, aren't you? Say, 'Just look at my black nose! And the black ring around my eye'," Yoko fawned. "And look at his little tail, Yusho!" Yoko pinched the attached tail of Yuya's costume between her thumb and forefinger and wagged it back and forth.
"He is adorable," Yusho agreed. "But wasn't there a dog in Beauty and the Beast?"
"Yeah, but he was transformed into a footstool, Yusho! I can't dress my baby up as a footstool! What kind of mother would I be?"
The man chuckled.
"I suppose that would be odd. Yuya, you appear to be missing something, though. I think it's your ears," Yusho stepped toward the pair and pulled the hood attached to Yuya's costume over his head. "There. Now everyone can see your little puppy ears."
The couple beamed as Yuya kept looking up due to the feeling of something on his head. After a few moments he craned his neck enough that the hood fell off. He quickly turned his head to look as he felt it brush his shoulder.
"Ooh," Yuya spoke before looking at his father.
"Yeah, it fell off, didn't it?" Yusho grinned as he plucked the boy from Yoko's arms and held him in the air.
"Yay!" the baby chirped.
"Yay!" Yusho mimicked Yuya's happiness as he gently tossed the baby into the air.
"All right, you two. That's enough. I told Skip we'd be over soon."
"Yes!" Yusho held Yuya in front of his face. "Then we get to take you trick-or-treating with Yuzu!"
"You're still going to take the babies out to trick-or-treat?" Yoko raised an eyebrow.
"Of course! It's Halloween!"
"They're too young to eat the candy."
"You're right, my love. But, you see, that's where we can take full advantage of that," Yusho grinned. "Right, Yuya? You're going to get us lots of yummy candies."
"You're seriously going to exploit our infant son just to get free candy?"
"Is that wrong?" Yusho blinked.
"No. It's brilliant," the woman beamed. "You, Yusho Sakaki, are a genius."
"Well, I wouldn't go that far, but…" he blushed.
Yoko gave her husband a peck on the cheek before taking Yuya back into her arms.
"Come on, baby. Are you ready to go? You wanna see Uncle Skip and Yuzu?"
"Zuzu! Zuzu!" Yuya clapped.
"I thought so," she smiled. "Come, Darling. The sooner we get to Skip's, the sooner you can take the kids out, and the sooner you do that…"
"The sooner we'll be able to indulge ourselves in too much Halloween candy like we're gluttonous eight-year-olds?" he finished for her.
"Yes, sir," she batted her eyelashes. "Ooh! Maybe if you play up the fact that this is the kids' first Halloween and play up their cuteness, maybe you can score some extra candy from some people!"
Yusho chuckled as he followed his wife out the door.
"I like the way you think."