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Author's Note:
Here is something I decided to write in honor of our boy's special day today August 3rd, Mamoru Chiba's Birthday!
So, I felt like writing something a little different when I was brainstorming earlier this week for it via plotting. This one is AU (Alternate Universe set again, after Sailor Stars.) Again, thanks to everyone who's been reading and reviewing this series of various Mamoru-themed and centered stories. I've read each review and appreciated every one of them sent in.
Thank you all, enjoy this story.
MamoChiba Week: Day 6
Friday, August 3rd – Mamoru's Birthday
Title: "Happy Birthday Mamo-Chan!"
"Mmm...I think two slices of chocolate and strawberry birthday cake is my limit this week on sweets. It'll affect my blood pressure but it was well worth it," Mamoru mumbled with a satisfied smile on his face, as he buried his head further into his wife's shoulder as the two of them laid together on their living room couch.
"Well, I'm glad that you enjoyed your birthday cake Mamo-Chan. How does it feel being an old man at 40?" Usagi teased him with a look of amusement in her eyes as he snorted.
"I'm not 'that old' for just having turned the big 4-0 today you silly Odango-Atama," Mamoru shook his head and poked his wife's nose lightly with a 'bop' like their children would do to their poor cats, Luna and Diana.
"I know, I know...just teasing Mamo-chan. You look quite good looking for forty years old, you've barely got any white or Grey hairs...guess it's power of the golden crystal with how the silver crystal's slowed down our aging process." Usagi mused as she pushed herself off of the comfortable couch as her husband began to protest her leaving.
"You stay here birthday boy, I've got a table full of leftover dinner and birthday cake to clear away before we do presents. CHIBI-USA! KEI! PLEASE GET DOWN HERE AND HELP ME CLEAR THE TABLE AND TAKE THE DISHES TO THE KITCHEN! YOUR FATHER'S GOING TO OPEN HIS BIRTHDAY GIFTS AS SOON AS THE DINING ROOM TABLE'S CLEARED!" Usagi hollered as she looked at the stairway of the living room, as Mamoru sat up on the couch, hearing the sounds of pitter-patter footsteps coming from upstairs.
"Coming! I was updating my Neko-Kawaii Cats Blog! Hey! Move it baka you dumpling head!" Chibi-Usa's voice could be heard followed by a younger girl's voice yelping an 'Ow! You did that on purpose! I'm telling Momma and Daddy!'
"Both of you dumb bunnies move! Come on, let me through! I wanna see Daddy open his gifts! Mama! Usagi and Kou are fighting and sticking their tongues out at each other again!" a little boy's voice shouted from the top of the stairs, as Usagi and Mamoru saw his familiar dark ebony hair and brownish eyes.
"Girls! Stop fighting, I mean it! It's your Father's Birthday for Kami's sakes! Kei, stop tattle-tailing, you know Mommy doesn't like that, " Usagi hollered, mirroring almost a carbon copy as Ikuko-Mama as Mamoru silently observed amusingly to himself.
'Like Mother like Daughter, Usako's become so much like Ikuko...' He thought to himself trying not to chuckle out loud or he'd have to face the wrath of his beautiful wife in her mid-thirties despite not even looking a day out of her twenties.
"Coming! Kousagi, move it! She started it, Mom," a pre-teen thirteen year old 'Usagi' Chibi-Usa mumbled loudly as she shot her little eight-year-old sister Kousagi a dirty look, while the smaller girl just stuck her tongue out at her as they both trotted down the stairs.
"I don't care, I don't want to hear it. Now you two march to the table, clear your plates from cake and ice cream. Take them to the sink, don't forget your cups and silverware either. Wait, where's your little brother?" Usagi asked, only noticing two out of their three children going into the kitchen.
"He's still upstairs, being a dork," Chibi-Usa mumbled as she bunny-dashed into the kitchen while Kousagi took to clearing the kitchen table quickly.
"Kei honey, what are you doing up there?" Usagi asked as Mamoru got up to go retrieve him, as if knowing what had happened, as always with his Fatherly ESP sixth sense.
"M-mama...they shoved and practically walked all over on me like cattle cows on the cowboy shows on TV. I watch with Grandpa-Kenji! They just left me all up here alone! Daddy, I think Chibi-Usa broke my ribs and tailbone, can you guys punish her?" Kei's voice wailed and whined from the top of the stairs as his Mother sighed going into the kitchen, while his Father laughed as he climbed up the stairs.
"I'm sure you're all right Kei-chan, but let's take a look at you. Come here, hmm...nope! I see nothing wrong with your tailbone or sides of your rib bones. I think you'll be all right Kei." Mamoru assured his six-year-old son, scooping the boy that had his matching ebony messy hair and his Grandmother Ikuko's brown-dark eyes, into his arms.
"Promise? If I got to go to the hospital and see Auntie Ami, I say you and Momma punish them, make Kou-baka eat spinach and carrots, and Chibi-baka not is allowed to talk to her friends on her dumb cell phone anymore." Kei spit fired, pouting with a glare that mirrored his Mother when she was fired up or upset.
"I don't think you'll have to see Aunt Ami in the hospital anytime soon Kei. Besides, as much as I know you think your older sisters are pains in the butts, you know you still love them...and they love you dearly, though they like bossing you around. Their older sisters, it's what they do," Mamoru assured him, hoping his words of Fatherly wisdom could help calm his only son down as he climbed down the stairs.
"Fine...they aren't that bad...meh. Can you and Momma have another baby so I can get a Brother to play with and even out the kid number in this house Daddy? There are too many girls in this place." Kei asked, making his Father laugh even more while blushing in his face slightly.
"I can agree with you on that, too many girls in this family and we're the only to boys in our home. I'm not sure if your Mommy and I would want to have another baby, not when we're happy having only the three of you besides our cats Luna and Diana to spoil all the time. Maybe we'll consider giving you and the girls a new sibling...one day, just not now. Three monsters like you are all I can handle."
"Okay...I do like being the only one who gets to go with you every other Sundays to go to the baseball games, play soccer in the park, and go to soccer match games with you Daddy, Auntie Haruka, Uncle Shingo and Uncle Motoki. Momma can have Chibi-Usa and Kousagi when they do whatever boring girls stuff she does with them and Aunties Rei, Minako, Ami, and Makoto! What do they do?" Kei asked, looking curiously as Mamoru put him down once they reached the open living room-dining room area of their two-story house.
"Your Mommy with your Aunts take the girls to do different things I imagine. Sometimes they stay for tea gatherings at Auntie Rei's Temple and Shrine. Or they bake things with Auntie Makoto at her apartment with Uncle Nephrite when he doesn't go with all of us guys to do guy things. Sometimes they go shopping at the mall with crazy Auntie Minako. Sometimes, Your Mommy takes your sisters to visit with Auntie Setsuna and Auntie Hotaru at their Mansion to knit, have tea, or talk. They do different things like we do with your Uncles and Aunt," Mamoru answered calmly, as his son nodded quietly.
"Makes sense I guess. Mama! Can we watch Daddy open his presents now?!" Kei asked loudly, proving despite having had Mamoru's looks, that he had Usagi's vocal range of a voice trait wise.
"My goddess, please calm yourself Kei baby. Inside voice sweetie, we've talked about this before. Yes, the girls and I are all done now. Daddy can open his gifts now, girls on in. Present time," Usagi smiled as Chibi-Usa and Kousagi both ran into the room, both carrying cards and birthday gift bags.
"Happy Birthday Dad Here's a card from Aunt Setsuna 'Puu', Haruka, Michiru, and Hotaru. Hotaru gave it to me to give to you from them when she and I met up for Starbucks by the bookstore when we were hanging out with our other friends from Mugen Academy after school for a little bit. Aunt Michiru and Haruka are still in Europe for her violin tour, so Hotaru said she and Setsuna covered your gift from them too," Chibi-Usa explained as she handed her Father a large pastel violet envelop.
"Well thank you to your aunts then. Let's see what Setsuna-chan and Hotaru-chan got me this year...well look at that. A birthday card with an image of the planet earth and a gift card to one of my favorite bookstores with enough Yen to let me buy twenty books. That's thoughtful," Mamoru grinned, eyeing the gift card like it was gold while his younger children rolled their eyes, and his wife giggled.
"They know you too well as they know me too good Mamo-chan. Here honey, open this big box wrapped in rainbow colors. It's a group gift from Rei, Ami, Minako, and Makoto and the guys. Kunzite dropped it off here at the house when he was on his lunch break from working at the car dealership, while the kids were in school," Usagi smiled motioning to the large box wrapped in colorful watercolor wrapping paper on the table.
"All right. What did those eight get me? Anthropology and Medical Science Antique Books, this has to be from Ami and Zoicite. A brightly colored orange and bright pink Hawaiian shirt...clearly this is from Minako and I highly doubt Kunzite had a say in this gift picking matter...Usako, make sure to put this shirt in the very back of our closet. A box of homemade chocolates and mint-chocolate chip baked cookies, definitely from Makoto, and this small picture paper framed image art of constellations of stars is so from Nephrite. Lastly, from Rei and Jadeite is...prayer charms I can hang up in my office and in my car according to this note from Rei. As well as a Buddhist set of prayer bracelets from Jad, I can wear to keep good thoughts and vibes." Mamoru smiled as he looked over the gifts from the package from his and his wife's best friends; the Inner Senshi and Shitennou.
"Those are really cool gifts, Daddy, I like the prayer bracelets. They look pretty and will look dashing on you," Kousagi cooed looking at the bracelets in awe.
"Thank you Kou-chan, I think I'll enjoy wearing them. Whose gifts are next?" Mamoru asked as Usagi took the gifts, placing them back inside the box, as Chibi-Usa handed him a small pink themed gift bag with pink and purple tissue paper.
"This is from my Dad, and technically Luna and Diana." Chibi-Usa smiled. "Thanks, Chibi-Cheebs, oh this is great! Did you get me a new tie, for work? Then some new cuffs for my long sleeved work shirts? These are wonderful Chibi-Usa, thank you, sweetheart," Mamoru thanked his oldest daughter with a hug as she blushed a bit.
"It's nothing Dad, Mum helped me pick them out when we went out shopping and ditched Aunt Minako so she wouldn't interfere with what I wanted to buy. I thought the black and blue gold cuffs would look nice. The tie with green swirls against the sea blue reminded me of Earth, and Mom said you'd love it." Chibi-Usa shrugged but was still grinning as he let go of her.
"I love them. Really, I do. What's that you got there Kou-chan?" Mamoru asked, noticing his youngest daughter was hopping up and down with her gift.
"Me next Dad! I made you the coolest thing ever when I was in school! With my teacher's help putting it together," Kousagi explained as Mamoru took the wrapped strange looking gift, and unwrapping it to find a wooden Popsicle stick-ed collage picture frame that was painted, and had various buttons and small toy trinkets glued to them, with a photograph in it.
"What's this Kou? This is quite creative and colorful, are these star beads with little miniature toy dinosaurs and planets on it?" Mamoru asked as Kousagi hopped into his lap, as he was sitting on his chair at the table.
"Hai! My teacher helped me glue them all on there with the sticks after I painted them all purple and blue, your favorite colors. Mommy gave me the picture, see! That's You Daddy, Then Momma, Me, Chibi-Usa, and Kei when we all were at Tokyo Disneyland when we went for your Birthday last year. You look silly with those Mouse Ears on you when we were smiling with Mickey Mouse Daddy!" Kousagi explained in between giggles while her Father blushed a bit.
"I have to agree, it's very cute...the only time you were willing to wear those ears honey," Usagi snickered softly as he rolled his eyes before looking back at the littlest Odango in the family.
"This is really cute and thoughtful Kou, I love it. I think I'll put it on my office desk at work. Thank you, princess," he thanked her, giving her a kiss on her cheek as she giggled.
"Daddy, here's my gift...Momma helped me make it when it was hard for me to build together," Kei spoke up as his Mother helped him lift something wrapped in clear wrapping and birthday ribbons from under the table, to the top of the table in front of him.
"Wow, what is all of this in this basket?" Mamoru asked looking at Usagi and Kei who were both smiling widely.
"All of your favorite things for when you watch baseball on the television with me Daddy! See, there's your favorite bottles of Root-beer and Chocolate Coke Sodas, Peanuts, Chocolate Candies you like, Some of your favorite Chocolate Candy Bars like Kit Kats and M&M's, then Potato Chips! Then a brand new Tigers Baseball Cap, Momma got it from the sports store when she took me weeks ago, and I picked it out!" Kei explained, pointing out everything to him in the clear wrapping as Mamoru grinned amusingly.
"Thank you Kei, this was really thoughtful and creative on your part and having your Mommy help you out with it. I'll save these treats for the next weekend we're in our favorite armchair watching baseball on TV. All right?"
"Got it! Just us guys!" Kei nodded, diving into his Father's lap alongside Kousagi to give him a hug happily.
"Thank you guys, I loved all of my gifts. You all are the best," Mamoru smiled, looking to his children contently.
"Welcome, Dad." Chibi-Usa nodded, as she pulled her phone out of her pocket just as it pinged, "Excuse me...Got to take this...it's Momo...girl crisis mode...Night Dad, Happy Birthday," Chibi-Usa quickly kissed him goodnight, before doing the same to her Mother before taking off up the stairs to her bedroom.
"Wait...what about Momma? She didn't give you a birthday gift," Kousagi brought up, noticing there wasn't anything to their Father from their Mother on the table, as her little brother nodded.
"Yeah, Mommy...didn't you get Daddy a gift?"
"Oh I did Kei, you see, I gave him multiple gifts like grown-ups do for other grown-ups on their birthdays. I made him his favorite dinner of lamb and chicken coconut curry with his favorite mint rice, then those pork-ed stuffed dumplings, and baked sweet potatoes. I had even bought him a custom chocolate dark and sweet chocolate cake with the strawberries he loves. Plus, I gave him the best three birthday gifts in the world that he already has here," their Mother calmly explained as she moved to hug their Father as they looked to them confused.
"What did you give Daddy already that's so great, and three?" Kousagi asked, feeling puzzled.
"She gave me you, and your brother and sister silly. Those are the three greatest gifts I could ask for," Mamoru explained laughing as Usagi nodded grinning.
"Oh...I see." Kousagi nodded.
"I don't get it...see what?" Kei asked puzzled.
"I'll tell you about it all when you're much older, okay? All right you two, it's time for you both to go take a bath before bedtime. Kou, please go shower in your's and Chibi-Usa's shared connected bathroom between your bedrooms. Shower now while your sister's still gabbing on her cell phone if you want to beat her to using the tub. Kei, honey go to mine and Daddy's bathroom and I'll be up to give you a bubble bath with your army men and Gundam wing toys." Usagi instructed them both as they nodded and immediately gave Mamoru hugs and kisses before hopping off of his lap, to go upstairs.
"Thanks for the quiet at home birthday dinner with just the four of you Usako."
"No problem Mamo-chan, it was nice. Why don't you hang out with Luna in the living room and watch some news on the television while I go make sure our youngest moon monkeys are doing what they have to do."
Usagi smiled, motioning to him to go into the living room, as she took off upstairs.
"Hey, Mamo, enjoying that new book Ami and Zoi got you?" Usagi asked as she stepped into their master bedroom upstairs, throwing her long blond and silvery hair into a loose braid as she was wearing her 'Mom PJ's' as Mamoru referred to them being of an old Sailor V t-shirt and faded gray yoga pants.
"It's interesting, so how did wrangling our moon monkeys go?" Mamoru asked, putting his book and reading glasses on to his side of the bed's side table, turning off the lamp.
"The usual routine, Kei protested having to get out of the tub...I had to chase after his naked butt all over the hallway carrying his frog towel robe until I cornered him in the guest room. Then got him to get into his usual pajamas of robots and planets. Read him his usual stories of Dragon Ball Mangas, he was asleep by volume ten this time. Then I made sure Chibi-Usa was off her laptop and phone for lights out, she pleaded-protested but gave in going to sleep." Usagi explained as she slid into her side of the bed, burrowing herself under the black and rose red sheets and comforter, latching on to her husband's side affectionately.
"That's good, what about our second born moon monkey? Did she give you a hassle?" Mamoru asked, stroking his hands into his wife's hair bangs.
"Nope, at least she's the easiest to deal with for bedtime. Kousagi was all ready for bed when I got to her last. Had on her favorite Hello Kitty sleep dress on, in her bed fully ready for story time. She asked to hear about stories of 'Sailor Moon having to Rescue the dashing Tuxedo Kamen from the evil Queen Beryl' from all those urban legends people talk about 'them' around town and all over Tokyo. I amused her with some stories naturally. She was fast asleep afterward," Usagi answered.
"That easy to get her to fall asleep? I have to hand it to you Usako, you know all our kids' weaknesses." Mamoru chuckled.
"Naturally, Motherly instincts. Now that our kids are all in bed finally, I think now I can tell you what I did get you for your birthday Mamo...we just won't be telling the kids...until the time's right and I'm in the clear," Usagi grinned as Mamoru looked confused to what she had just said to him, as she curled up more on to his chest nuzzling his old Harvard school t-shirt.
"You got me a gift? Why wouldn't we tell the kids un-wait...IN THE CLEAR?" Mamoru exclaimed as he bolted up in their bed, looking wide-eyed at Usagi who just laid there grinning mischievously like she just had been the cat that ate the canary.
"Hai, I got to wait until I'm in the clear for us to tell the kids...plus, I need to actually see Ami about it to confirm everything's official...I had to pee on a test stick in the bathroom and wait forever it felt like...kind of difficult to wait for timed results when you have a younger son literally outside the bathroom door asking why was I taking so long to go to the bathroom, and various other questions. I had to hide the thing in toilet paper and in my jean pocket so Kei wouldn't see it or go blabbing to you or the girls. I hid it in my jewelry box." Usagi explained laughing finding it all amusing as Mamoru's face was going pale at the realization.
"Usa...Usako? We're...again? Are we going to be parents again? You're...are you sure?" He asked stammering, not protesting as his wife pulled him down to her in a hug, taking his hand to where her stomach was under her shirt.
"Yes, I'm a hundred percent sure...my crystal confirmed it when I used my old sense abilities when I could feel things when I was Serenity back during you know when...We're going to be a family of six Mamo-chan. I hope it's another boy, Happy Birthday Baby." Usagi grinned, as she let his hand feel her stomach as his eyes went into concentration as she could tell he was using the abilities of his own crystal and earth's powers to see if he could sense the newest life force within her.
"Kami...you're right...Another star...life...we're going to have another baby. Usako? How do you feel about this? Us having another one? I know we said after we planned for having Kei that we didn't want anymore, and started using contraception...I'm not saying we couldn't afford another child, not at all Usa. With my salary working, and how much we've saved up, we have an extra room here in this house for a new bedroom. We could turn half our room here into a nursery for the fourth...oh Kami, our fourth child. A son or daughter. What do you think?" Mamoru asked, blabbering away smiling wide as his eyes looked excited.
"I think we'll be perfectly okay. Plenty of people have more than one child...well, maybe not reborn Lunarians and Terrans who secretly have children who are half Lunarian-Terran like us but who's judging? I think we'll be all right with one more child, one more baby Mamo. I always did want one more honestly, plus...I don't think my birth control was working well anyway, might have forgotten to take it one day or something. I think our newest 'addition' happened that one weekend when my parents took the kids off our hands when we let them stay with them at their house...and...you know." Usagi answered while recalling some things as Mamoru nodded remembering as well.
"Yeah...your parents looked after them on that weekend visit they had them, while we took off for that road trip when we went to Kyoto...stayed at that nice hotel and had one too many drinks...and we both woke up with that bad hangover together." Mamoru sighed, remembering how he and Usagi had one too many rounds of Saki and vodka playing drinking games in their hotel room for laughs and plain fun with another.
"Well, that's what happens when you tried out drinking me in shots...I still say I won that battle...but yeah, we're going to be parents again...you really excited?" Usagi asked, her delicate soft hands moving to play with Mamoru's black ebony locks of hair that seemed to be growing longer.
"Hai, I'm excited. I always wanted a big family, you and I here together...with Chibi-Usa and a couple of more kids for her to run around with and play in our home...just us all together. This life is better than that could have been living for us had Crystal Tokyo came to pass and if we had to have taken the throne as royalty if the world would have frozen...I'm glad we got this future instead, to be normal, together. I'm happy Usako, thank you for my newest birthday gift." Mamoru smiled, as he hugged Usagi to him and threw a protective arm around her flat looking stomach.
"Your welcome Mamo...Happy Birthday my Endy...I love you."
"I love you too my Sere."
The End
Author's Ending Notes:
Whew! Finished. This one took me some time to write the second the plot moon bunnies took over and I just went with it. I felt adding Kousagi again into the mix with Chibi-Usa and a new made up original character for the Chiba family was the right move. I hope everyone enjoyed reading this one of an AU older Mamoru and Usagi with his or her happy little family. Hope everyone enjoyed reading this one. Just one more story left.
