Natsume Hyuuga: 22 years old.
Mikan Hyuuga: 23 years old.
Kaoru Hyuuga: 10 months old.

Ruka Nogi: 23 years old.
Hotaru Imai: 22 years old.

A/N: Sorry for any grammatical mistakes!

Disclaimer: I own nothing, only Kaoru!

August 15th, 2016

Location: Beach.

Time: 17:26 PM

Today was a perfect summer day for beach time, and since Natsume was in a good mood he went ahead and took his family and friends on a trip to the beach. Since he was a caring father he decided to go to the beach in the safest hour and also the hour when most of the people were going home, so by the time that they arrived there it was almost empty, Natsume couldn't help but to smirk in his intelligence.

Speaking of good news, Kaoru was still a non-alice user, and that made everyone a little happy since they were actually used on having the little cutie around. Kaoru was now crawling and taking her first steps, her first word had been 'mama' and she was a babbler when energetic. Natsume took some hints that she might inherit Mikan's bubbly personality but he actually didn't mind that at all, he wanted her to have many friends as possible. She wasn't shy with strangers, she was actually very curious about them which worried him a little, what if his daughter gets kidnapped just because she trusted a stranger?

Oh but aside from that, today was going to be a lovely evening. As Natsume and Ruka were taking everything necessary for the beach day from the car, Mikan was holding Kaoru and next to her was Hotaru. Both women were wearing an identical strapless dress, perfect to take off easily for the beach; Kaoru was already wearing her kitty swimwear. The little girl was looking with awe at the ocean and she suddenly squealed.

"WATA!"

"Yes, it's water. A big tub of salty water where fishes live and pee." Hotaru said in disgust.

Kaoru sent her auntie and confused look but she giggled after, Mikan shook her head and looked at the two men that apparently were having trouble with the bags and the umbrella.

"Is everything alright? Need any help?"

"No." they both reassured doubtfully, Natsume juggled two bags for a second to lock the car and both walked towards him, Ruka miserably stared at Hotaru for help but she ignored the blonde man and continued walking towards the sand, Mikan couldn't help to feel sorry but she followed Hotaru without saying anything.

Natsume and Ruka shared a look and followed the three girls to the beach sandy area, now we could see Hotaru looking around for a good spot, she was really good at those, they would always get a nice spot in the park because of her.

"Over there." She pointed like a dog points in hunting.

"Good girl." Natsume mocked while dropping the things too quickly on the sand, he had to admit that the spot was actually good, under the shades. They might not even need to use the umbrella. He completely dismissed the glare that the raven haired woman was giving, he quickly unzipped the bag with their towels and took the small octopus one that belonged to Kaoru, when he lied it down on the sand (after throwing the pebbles/rocks and make a comfortable laying spot) he turned at Kaoru, who was placed on the sand and was busy guiding some of it to her mouth.

"Don't!" he quickly grabbed her small arm gently and whipped the sand away with a disgusted expression, "Don't eat sand it's unhealthy."

"'kay daddy!" she chirped.

"I wonder why babies eat sand." Mikan questioned while placing the rest of the towels with Ruka's help.

"Because they're curious." Hotaru sighed, "Are you done yet? I want to sit down."

"Hotaru don't be so lazy, place your own towel!" Mikan pouted.

"Why?"

"Because we're not your slaves." Ruka sighed whilst sitting on his.

Natsume sat Kaoru on hers and flopped down on the towel next to.

Mikan went ahead and applied sunscreen all over Kaoru's visible skin, she even marked her button nose in a heart shape, then she applied in herself and when she handed it over for Natsume's turn he stretched his arms lazily at her, they stared at each other and his eyes said it clear: 'You do it.'

With a sigh and an half-hearted smile and spurred the cream on his muscular arms and rubbed all over until his chest, her cheeks flushed a little when she had to rub it all over his rough chest and six-packs, damn the training really did him right. Kaoru decided to escape the adultery scene between and parents and crawl to her uncle Ruka, when he noticed that he smiled sweetly and held her close.

"Hello there sweetie," he poked her nose making her giggle.

"Hi unca!"

Ruka was literally charmed by Kaoru, since they day when he held her for the first time he really became attached to her. When she called him 'unca' he swore on his shocked expression that he had never been so happy in his life since he met Mikan, Kaoru had recognized him as not only a friend but as family and for Ruka that was enough to make a life promise on protecting this child at all costs, well since he was her godfather it was also his duty. When he babysits Kaoru, he always likes to make her approach his pets, since he's living on a farm full of animals that was a successful mission, he wanted Kaoru to not fear them and he occasionally used his Alice to let the animals take care of the toddler like she was one of them. Sometimes he really missed Piyo.

"So baby, do you wanna go swim?" he asked a little loudly for her parents to snap out of their mental love-making. Natsume was the first.

"I'm coming as well." He said.

"Me t-too!" Mikan cleared her hands and stood up.

"I'm staying; I need to catch my tan." Hotaru said boredly as she placed her sunglasses on and fetched herself a glass of crab's brain.

"Are you sure?" Mikan asked smiling.

The amethyst woman dismissed her question with a hand wave and with that the four of them were off to the sea, of course that Mikan had to ignore the staring from her husband when she undressed the attire and showed her bikini but she was getting used to pretend to not be affected by his piercing stares towards her body.

When they reached the ocean, it was almost empty, Natsume could only see at least three people swimming and they were on the other side of the beach, it was perfect. Ruka walked in the water while carrying Kaoru and he cringed a little at the cold feeling in his feet, when the sea level reached his knees he slowly let Kaoru down and waited for her reaction as her feet touched the water, she giggled and started to splash the water everywhere as she felt wet.

"Some habits don't change." Natsume mumbled making Mikan giggle. She took the liberty to ignore the slowly process of entering the ocean and dived right in on a safety distant to not wet the three of them, when she emerged from the water with a content gasp Kaoru squealed at stretched her arms to her mommy.

"You wanna go?" Ruka chuckled, he walked at Mikan and playfully threw the toddler at her, the brunette caught her easily and splashed a little of water on the toddler's body, Kaoru was shocked at first but being a natural fish since baby gave her the liberty to enjoy water, cold or not. So seconds later Mikan told Kaoru to inhale and both dived under water, Natsume watched them a little nervously and when both emerged again with a funky looking and blinking non-stopping Kaoru he couldn't help but to swim at them, it made him feel less uneasy. When he got there he was welcomed with a splash on his face, coming from his daughter of course. He sighed and whipped his eyes.

Some habits didn't really changed indeed.

END OF PART 1