Author's Note: Hi, everyone. I hope you all enjoy this chapter, which features an adorable, 3-year-old Gilbo ^_^

Chapter 22: A Shocking Sight for Gilbert

Little Gilbert woke up one April night at 2:00 in the morning after having a bad dream. He grabbed his stuffed Sonic the Hedgehog and ran down the hall to his parents' room.

When Gilbert got to Claus and Elise's bedroom, he opened the door quickly.

"Mommy, Daddy," the boy said, starting to cry. "I had a bad dweam—" Gilbert then stared in shock at what he saw: Claus and Elise "wrestling" under the covers. After about 3 minutes, Gilbert let out a bunch of screams.

"Huh?" Claus and Elise said in confusion and then saw their son standing in the doorway, screaming and holding onto his stuffed animal for dear life.

"Oh, God," Elise said and got out of bed. She picked up a still screaming Gilbert and took him to the kitchen, where she sat him down at the table.

Meanwhile, Gilbert's screams could be heard from the Honda's house. 3-year-old Yao woke up and was pretty cranky. He looked out the window and realized where the screaming was coming from: the Beilschmidt's house.

"Oh, so it's a screaming match you want, eh, Gilbert?" Yao said crossly. "Well, game on, aru!"

As Gilbert continued screaming, Yao screamed back.

"AAAAAAHHHHHH! AAAAAAHHHHHHH!" the half-Chinese/half-Japanese boy yelled. "I'm beating you, aru! AAAAAAHHHHHH! AAAAAAHHHHHH! AAAAHHHHHH!"

Just then, Yao's parents, Daisuke and Mulan, walked into his room. They both looked very tired. Mulan looked like a grown, female version of Yao, and Daisuke had short, black hair and brown eyes.

"Yao, stop screaming, aru," Mulan said tiredly.

When Yao didn't stop screaming at Gilbert's house, Daisuke got a hold of him. "Yao Honda!" he said firmly. "Stop the screaming. Your mother and I are trying to get some sleep."

Yao looked first at his father, and then at his mother. "I'm sorry, Mommy, Daddy, aru," he said apologetically.

"That's alright, honey," said Mulan. "Now go back to bed, aru."

"Okay, aru," Yao said and did as he was told. Daisuke and Mulan went back to their room.

Back in the Beilschmidt's house, Elise and Gilbert were sitting down at the kitchen table. Gilbert's screaming had stopped, and the boy was just staring straight ahead at nothing while still holding his stuffed Sonic.

"Gilbo, what you saw in there was actually a beautiful thing," said Elise. "When mommies and daddies love each other very much, they like to show it that way. In fact, that's sort of how you were made."

"You mean that the Stork didn't bwing me to you and Daddy like Woddy said?" Gilbert asked his mother, looking at her with big, red-violet eyes.

"Uh…" Elise said. "No, not exactly."

"So, you and Daddy westled each other to get me?" asked Gilbert.

"Uh…yeah, yeah," said Elise.

"Okay," Gilbert said. "Who won?" he asked a minute later.

Elise, however, didn't have an answer to that question. "Um…" she said awkwardly. "Um, why don't I put you back to bed?"

"Okay," said Gilbert. Elise carried him to his room, put him in bed, and put his Mickey Mouse nightlight on for him. She left the door ajar so Gilbert would feel safe going to sleep, and then went back to her and Claus' room.

Little did Gilbert know that Claus and Elise's "wrestling" would later give him a new little brother, on his 4th birthday in January of the next year.

Author's Note: Oh, and I got Yao and Kiku's parents' names from a baby name site; I didn't get the name Mulan from the movie.

"dweam"=dream

"bwing"=bring

"Woddy"=Roddy

"westled"=wrestled

The above words are written like they are because Gilbert, being only 3 in this chapter, wouldn't know how to properly pronounce his "r"'s yet.

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