Chapter 5: Knowing him

Ah… Saturday, my favorite day of the week. I just love sitting on the bench just doing and thinking nothing. I love the atmosphere all around me, gentle breeze, birds chirping, and leaves dancing with the wind. I just sit back, relax and enjoy sitting ice cream a-

"There you are! Come on, let's go…" a voice just came behind me.
"Who-"Before I could ask, someone just dragged me away through the forest, "What are doing? HEY LET ME GO!" I yelled and tried to struggle,

"Shut up, moron you're making my ears bleed!" he said coldly, then he continued, "I need you to take care some business for me…"

"What?! Why would I care for your business? Why me? " I asked him, and then he stopped walking.

"Here we are…"

"What?" I looked down and I saw a little gray-haired boy staring nonchalantly in front of me. "Youichi? You mean Youichi?" Then I looked at Natsume,

"Yes" he replied firmly.

"S-soooo, what about him?" I asked him again.

He sighed and said, "Idiot. What do you expect? I brought you here just to show you how cute he was in that look? I brought you here to take of him while I'm gone, that's all."

I looked at him, angrily and confusedly, we paused and then he said, "What?"

I was pissed when I replied, "Seriously? You just… suddenly… dragged me all the way… here just to babysit of your seven-year old brat?!"

"Yeah, and actually he's eight." He pointed at him.

"Whatever, just why are you lending him to me? Where are you going, anyway?" I asked him while pointing at Youichi while his stare creeps me out.

"Training for the competition next month." He replied

When I saw what he's wearing, I began to laugh, "Really? With that formal clothes? "I pointed his black casual jackey with a hoodie then I coed, "Ooooohhh, you're on a date…"

"NO!" He yelled while looking the other way. He paused for a while then he sighed and said, "Well… It's a date, but I have to go training afterwards!"

I scoffed, "Really? I don't believe you…"

Natsume smacked his forehead, and then he looked at his watch, "ARGHHH… Wha- GREAT, I'm late!"

I was pissed off again, "Hey, don't blame me for being late, you jerk! I don't want any trouble!"

He looked at me angrily and said, "You won't get any unless you have to take care of him!"

I looked at Youichi for a while with his big… cute…puppy eyes, could those eyes could get any bigger? Then I sighed in defeat and said, "Fine… I'll babysit him."

He smiled and said, "Good." Then he knelt down in front of Youichi and said, "Be a good boy to your mommy, okay?"

The little boy looked at him and answered his cute voice, "I will, papa…"

He stood up and then he just passed by me, he didn't just say thanks or goodbye to me. How rude and impolite of him. Now, I feel awkward while this little boy staring at me, it DOES scare me out. So I sighed, counting one to ten backwards, then I knelt before him and said with a fake smile, "So, what do want, my darling Youichi? An ice cream?"

I waited for a response then he just simply answered, "No"

I was pissed off a little bit by his answer, "Or perhaps, we shall go to your hou-"I was cut off when he yelled,

"NO!" He shook his head.

That's it! Now my smile turned into a frown, "WELL, WHAT IS IT THAT YOU WANT ANYWAY, YOU LITTLE BRAT!?"

Then he replied shyly while looking the other way, "Let's just walk…"

"Eh?" I was surprised by his answer, "W-why Can we just do something like-" And then a felt a small hand grasping on my palms. "Natsume-niichan maybe gone but at least I still have this one person who cares me as I care for her… I'm talking about you…"

I was bit shocked of his answer, seriously this kid could really say all of this, I paused and then smiled.

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6:00 pm… Youichi and I still walking towards the park. I was getting bored, but when I looked at him, he's still showing me that same face again. Complete silence enveloped us until he spoke…

"Can we just go somewhere else?"

Ah, Finally! I knew he could say that! I sighed in relief, "Umm… Why don't we go to that amusement park?" I pointed to a place where all several lights surrounded the huge Ferris wheel. We followed that place, and then when we arrived at the entrance, I was surprised that this place is bigger than the ones I visited last year. I looked at the several booths then at the roller coaster. Everything changes a lot, I wished Hotaru was here to share and enjoy this wonderful moment with me.

I tried riding a roller coaster. I screamed a lot in fear and Youichi is just… laughing? I think this was the first time to see him laugh. What a mysterious kid… it, he was drooling at those cotton candies nearby the exit and he even asked me to buy one for him. I walked faster towards the stall, and then I bumped into a person beside me… My eyes widened when I saw that person is actually Natsume.

I looked at those dark crimson orbs, I even see my own reflection behind those, and then I realized I was lost in those beautiful, tantalizing ey—AH, WHAT THE HECK I WAS THINKING?!

"What are you both doing here?" He said in low, composed voice.

"Papa!" Youichi ran towards him and then Natsume carried him.

He smiled looking at him "Hey! Are you having fun here?" Then Youichi replied with a huge grin marked on his face, "Lots!"

"Natsume… What happened to your face?" I pointed my finger at his red mark on his cheeks.

He looked down calmly and said, "It's nothing… really."

Youichi was pissed and said, "Did she do this to you?"

He replied, "No…" I knew he was lying. Then I tried to touch his face, "Ow! Stop that!" he winced

"Sorry… What happened? H-how was the date?" I tried to ask him, but he kept denying until I ran out of questions to ask him.

Well were just enjoying our moment here at the carnival until Youichi became tired, so Natsume just carried him to his room. Then after we just stared and even tuck him in his bed as he sleeps soundly.

We paused until Natsume spoke, "So, do you like being his mother?"

"Well, thanks to you, he called me that after you left him." I laughed for a moment then he looked down and said,

"Hey, polka…"

I looked at him, "Yeah? What's wrong?"

He clenched his fist and continued, "About Luna and I… I was thinking…"

He stopped for a moment then he said something which it made me shocked, "I was thinking of breaking up with her…"

W-What?

WHA- Oh yeah, I wrote that. Well, that goes for you guys! You really want to know why Natsume wants to break up with Luna, aye? Keep updated. And sorry for the wrong grammars! I really wanted a beta reader please PM me! XD.

Lots of sugar,

Ruby X Sapphire