Talks

A/N: I'm glad people really liked this story. I just thought it was high time for someone to right stories based on good times before Jin lost his mother. Plus I really like Jun. :) Every time I think about writing her, I get this sense of peace and just relax into whatever I am writing. So enough with that let us continue with our story!

Jun thought she wouldn't have to think about Jin having a girlfriend for a long time. She knew that when he became a teenager, he would start to think about girls, and she was fine with that, but when her six year-old boy came home one day from school, saying he had not only one girlfriend, but two, she almost spit the tea she was drinking out her nose.

"What was the sweetie?" Jun said, putting her cup down on the table.

"I have two girlfriends!" he said, standing on his tip toes to see over the counter at his mother.

"Aren't you a little too young to be thinking about girls?" she asked, eyes getting wide.

The young Kazama put his finger beneath his chin and thought about his mother's question. "No, I don't think so. Aya said that it's okay to have a girlfriend. Everybody has them apparently. She even said that people have a lot of girlfriends!" He held out his arms wide, emphasising the word.

Jun just looked at her son, and proceeded to the couch where she plopped down and covered her face with a pillow. "This cannot be happening," she moaned to herself. Jun continued to just lie on the couch until she felt someone tugging on her pant leg. She looked to the side and saw Jin with a worried look.

"Momma," Jin said quietly. "Are you alright? Do you need me to call Oji-san or Obaa-san?" He looked at her with those big brown eyes, his bottom lip quivering.

Jun put on a small smile. "No, I'm fine, Jin." When she saw that his face did not change, she laughed. "No honestly, I'm fine." She got up from the couch and squatted down to Jin's height. "Why don't you get changed and we go out for dinner, alright? Mr Lei is in town and invited us out to eat."

At this the little boy's face lit up. "Really, Momma?"

"Yes," Jun said, guiding Jin to his room. "Now go get ready. We're leaving in thirty minutes."

Jun spotted Lei seated at a table not too far away. When he spotted her, Lei waved her over and stood.

"It's good to see you," Jun said, taking his hand and pulling him into a hug.

The man hugged her back. "Likewise." When he let her go, he saw a little boy hiding behind Jun, holding her dress tightly in his small hands. The boy looked up at him with Jun's brown eyes.

Jun looked down and nudged her son. "Say hi, Jin."

The child nodded and let go of her dress. "Hello, Mr Lei."

Lei smiled and got down to Jin's height. "Hello, Jin; I see you've gotten bigger since I've last seen you. How old are you now?"

The boy held out his hands. "I used to be five, but now I'm six," he answered with a smile.

"My, you're getting big," Lei said with a chuckle.

"Yep, I even have two girlfriends!"

At this Lei raised an eyebrow. He looked at Jun for some sort of denial, but she just covered her face with her hand.

"Can we just sit down before I have another headache?" Jun pleaded.

After they had ordered, Lei leaned toward Jun and whispered, "Since when did Jin have a girlfriend?"

Jun shook her head. "I don't know. He just came home today and said he had two. He's only six! Soon my baby boy will be getting hit in by no-good hussies." She made a face at the last word.

"Well what do you expect? He's got his mother's good looks," the cop laughed.

Jun waved off Lei's compliment. Lei always had something nice to say about her every time they saw each other. She would play into it to a certain extent, but she never took it beyond playful flirting.

"Seriously, what am I going to do?"

Lei considered his next question before speaking it. "Did you ever ask him if those girls were just friends, but he calls them girlfriends?" He paused to see if Jun would say anything, but when she didn't, he continued. "I mean, it's very common for kids his age to think like that."

Jun leaned back in her chair as she thought about her friend's logic. "I guess so, but still . . ."

"If you're so concerned, just ask him," Lei suggested. He turned his attention to Jin who was swing his legs from the chair and colouring away at the activities sheet. "Hey Jin, can I ask you a question?"

"Hmm?" The small boy looked up from his picture.

"Are these girlfriends of yours just friends that happen to be girls?"

Jin put down his crayon and scrunched up his face in thought. "Yeah they are. I used to think girls were icky and mean, but then Aya and Sakura started being nice to me, and now they're my friends." He went back to his colouring, but looked back up a second later. "That makes them my girlfriends, right?"

Lei shook his head. "No Jin, it doesn't." The policeman looked to Jun as if asking permission to continue. "A girlfriend is a girl that you really, really like; even more than a friend. Same thing applies to a boy, but since your mom's giving me the evil eye, let's not talk about that one."

Jun stopped glaring at Lei and took a sip of her water. When she set her glass down, she turned to Jin and asked in her sweetest voice, "Do you understand, sweetheart? The difference between a friend and a girlfriend?"

"I guess so," Jin replied. "But Momma . . ."

"Yes honey?"

"When can I have a girlfriend?"

Lei had to keep from outright laughing when Jun threw her hands in the air in exasperation, laid her head on the table and said, "Not until you're forty."

This is almost identical to what actually happened to my nephew when he came home from soccer practice stating he had a girlfriend, except my sister-in-law almost started World War III right in the car. So enough with that, review so that I may continue with this story. Until then, Peace!

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