Hello!
I know it's been a while sine I've updated this story and i'm sorry for not updating in a while. I had a little bit of a writers block.
Any way here's chapter three!
Chapter 3: The Question
Kaze's pov:
"Mama!" Akane said excitedly holding his little chubby arms up to me. Begging me to hold him, which I did.
"What is it Akane?" I softly asked him.
"Play-Play!" He said cutely even though I know he can say full sentences. He just chose not to in front of the other people.
"Not now baby." I cooed, smirking afterward when I saw irritation flash through his face.
"Mommy?" I heard Kanna ask softly, a question in her voice.
"Come here." I said softly back to her.
My free arm stretched out toward her. I watched her scurry toward me, jump i'm my lap and burry her face in my stomach. Hearing a trot, I looked up to see Entei and Haku walk in. Entei coming up behind me and lying down, his head lying on my left side. Haku's head on my legs and the steady rise and fall of his alerted me that he'd fallen asleep. Looking around me, I realized that they all fell asleep. I soon leaned back resting on Entei and joined them in a small nap.
(Time skip: 3 hours later)
"Mommy!" I heard a shriek.
Recognizing it as Kanna's voice I jumped into action. Sounga immediately in my hand in the fighting stance I created after years of practice with Inutaisho-sama and relearned again with Sesshomaru when I lost my memory.
Looking around me, I just saw Rex, the kids, Larry, Ahkmenrah, Jedediah and Octavius with Entei still behind me.
"Wow! Calm down little lady! Rex was just giving them a ride." Jedediah said trying to calm me down.
After calming my racing heart I sheathed my sword and stepped out of my stance.
"Sorry about that." I said awkwardly. Looking away a blush stained my face, unnoticed by everyone and scratched my head.
"It's alright Miss Kaze. I would have been the same if someone precious to me screamed like that." Octavius said to me, comforting my nerves.
"Thank you Octavius-san. You to Jedediah-san." I replied with a smile.
"Tis my pleasure my lady." Octavius said back.
"No problem little lady." Jedediah told me in his southern drawl, tipping his hat toward me.
Looking back to the kids, I saw how much fun they were having. So I decided to sit back down and watched them play with rex. Even when I felt Larry and Ahkmenrah sit beside me or Jedediah and Octavius leave in their toy vehicle I didn't look away from them.
"They seem happy." Larry said lightly causing a small smile to come to my face.
"This is the second time i've ever seen them happy." I replied softly.
"Why's that?" Ahkmenrah asked.
After one more glance at the kids I peaked out of my peripheral vision watching them deciding weather or not to tell them. After looking through the pros and the cons I finally said, "None of us had a good life while we were alive. When I was five to the age of nine I was a soldier in my master's army. When he died protecting his newborn son I left. When I was ten, I'd just wandered. I'd do odd jobs here and there, mostly protecting villages. When I was eleven I was tricked into being a mans "bodyguard" instead I ended up a slave to a madman. The same one that fathered them."
All was silent except for the noises the kids and rex made.
"Im sorry about your…bad childhood" Larry said quietly.
"It doesn't matter. The bastard dead and it's in the past. The only thing to do is move forward." I said with a sigh. Suddenly tired of everything.
"I know the best way to move forward." Larry said with a new burst of energy and confidence.
"Oh? And what is that?" I asked curiously.
"Go on a date with us." He said bluntly yet confident. It caused me to blush a bright red, something I know they saw because of how close they were.
"Why would you want to go n a date with me? Im nothing special." I said flabbergasted.
"You shouldn't say that Kaze. You're very special to us." Ahkmenrah said to me with a blush on his cheeks.
"Oh? Give me an example of how special I am." I told them incredulously.
"Well your kind" "Pretty" "thoughtful" "smart" "funny" "protective" "a good listener" "you have a beautiful singing voice" "exotic" "tough" "stand up for what you believe in"-
"Ok! Ok! I get it! Please just stop." I said feeling a headache coming on from watching them talk back and fourth.
"So will you go on a date with us?" Larry asked again.
As I was about to make up an excuse when I was cut off.
"Please. At least give us a chance we really like you and would like to get to know you if you'd let us." Ahkmenrah said in such a way that without thinking I blurted out "Ok."
After a moment I realized what I just said and I tired to take it back only to be cut off again by Larry.
"Great! Your first dates in a week from today with me. Ill gets you five minutes after you wake up. Then Ahkmenrah will get you a week after that. It's at the same time. Ok? See you got to go bye!" he said hurriedly seeing that monkey (don't know his name) take his keys.
Watching him chase the little guy was funny that it sent me into a fit of giggles.
"I hope you don't mind doing this." I heard Ahkmenrah say softly.
When I turned my attention back to him I saw the soft blush on his face. It was so cute it brought a small smile to my face.
"I don't mind at all. It's just…different. In my time I was considered a warrior, a tool to be used. Not loved. So…the concept of you both liking me just feels so… alien in a way," I said trying to reassure him, instead it made him sad, "it doesn't mean that your advances are unwelcome," I said hurriedly. "Just that I truly don't know how to respond to them."
"It's alright to feel that way. Im kind of the same as you. When I was alive I was in an arranged marriage with a girl who truly loved me. So I never truly did something like this before either." Ahkmenrah told me.
"Well it looks like we both have to get used to it," I joked "because I doesn't look like we'll be able to do things normally after this."
"Yes. Most likely your right. Even if I suddenly stopped liking you id most likely still act much different from before and Larry would still try to get your affections." He said calmly.
"Sigh." "Your right. Hopefully this doesn't turn into a disaster." I said softly to him.
"We'll just have to wait and see." He told me before we turned in for the day.
END
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