Rikkaidai Tenipuri Family Mothers Day

Niou:-- Grandmother (Crazy)

Yagyuu:-- Grandfather

Sanada:-- Niou and Yagyuu's son and the father

Marui:-- Sanada's sister

Jackel:-- Marui's very put upon boyfriend she's trying to get to marry her

Yukimura:-- Sanada's new love, who is unfortunately ill. Still a guy, but sooooo the mother.

Yanagi:-- Yukimura's brother

Kirihara:-- Sanada's son and Yukimura's stepson and the most annoying little cutie in the world.

Disclaimer: Nope, pretty sure I don't own it.

Somehow that one little story spawned. This is set three months after the end of 'Rikkaidai Tenipuri Family fic thing', which I will finish, and is basically an introduction into the madness of tenipuri family fic. This is a continuation of that madness... Please ignore the spellings. Once I get a hold of a word document programme on my computer that actually works and has a spellcheck I shall check it and repost, but I just wanted to post this. It's not funny... again, my humour sucks.

Akaya didn't know what to do. Today in class they had all be told they would be making cards for their mothers for mothers day on Sunday. Akaya however didn't have a mother anymore, and it seemed a bit stupid to make her a card when she was never going to be able to see it. Which left him confused, because he couldn't outright refuse to make a card or the teacher would get mad and write a report on how bad he was behaving in class again (Grandma Niou always thought the notes in his homework book were hilarious and cut them out to put in a scrap book... there were a lot of pages). But his dad didn't think it was so funny, and Papa-Mura would give him a small disappointed look if he didn't give a good enough excuse for behaving badly.

He was sitting on the small deck out the back, poking at a glob of something he thought might have been one of Grandma's latest posionious cookies she made for visitors when they dropped round. It was hard to come up with a way to get around making a card for his mother, and thinking about it made him a little sad, because even though he always made terrible mothers day cards for his mommy, she had always given him a big hug and a kiss and some chocolate cake, and he'd known he'd made her very happy.

"Akaya?"

Akaya looked up in surprise and smiled a little when he saw it was Papa-Mura. Papa-Mura took a seat on the other side of the glob and smiled in that nice way he had that nearly always made Akaya feel better instantly, only today for some reason it didn't.

"Did something happen at school?" Papa-Mura asked.

Akaya looked at him in even more surprise. How had he known? After a moment he nodded. "The teacher said we're going to make cards this week... for mothers day." he said, giving the glob another poke for good measure.

"Ah." Papa-Mura said. "I don't think your daddy remembered to tell her why you came to live with us. Do you want me to send a note in? You can do something else while everyone is making cards if it upsets you." They didn't talk about Akaya's mother often, after the situation with Akaya soon after he had come to live here, while Seiichi was still in the hospital; after it had finally been explained propourly to him that his mother was dead, and she was never coming back, he had cried solidly for three days, and afterwards seemed ok, but all of them avoided the subject unless Akaya brought it up first.

Akaya shrugged. "It doesn't upset me." he lied. "It's just annoying. I mean, why should I have to make a card when she can't see it?" the glob got a harder poke this time, and Akaa's finger broke through the skin of it and into the gooey centre, which he then proceeded to mess with, drawing random patterns on the deck.

Seiichi stayed silent, waiting.

"But if I don't do it the teacher will be annoyed and send home another note." Akaya huffed.

Seiichi smiled. "I'm sure if I speak to her she'll understand the situation."

Akaya didn't say anything, his eyes fixed on his goo drawing. "Mommy always liked it when I made cards for her."

"Did she?" Seiichi askd quietly.

Akaya nodded. "She used to give me hugs and kisses and chocolate cake and she used to walk round all day smiling." he frowned and looked up. "Do you think she'd be angry if I didn't make her a card?" he asked.

Seiichi considered that statement, it hit just a little too close to home, he cold remember Renji asking him the same thing after their mother had passed on. Granted they had been much older than Akaya when they had lost their mother, but the sentiment was the same. "I don't think she'd be angry if you didn't make her a card. She would understand. After all she's your mother."

Akaya bit his lip and rubbed his nose nervously before he leaned over his drawing, eyes darting around as if someone might overhear. "Do you think she'd be angry if I made a card for someone else?" he asked, a guiltly look in his eyes.

"Like Grandma Niou, or Bunta?" Seiichi asked.

Akaya shook his head. "Like maybe you Papa-Mura..." Akaya trailed off, and taking the look of shock on Papa-Mura's face the wrong way he hastened to explain. "It's just, everyone in school started taking about their mommy's today, and I started thinking about mine, and I sort of thought that you acted a little bit like a mommy... I mean, not like my mommy acted. Sometime's your nicer to me than she was, and sometime's you do stuff and get angry at stuff she didn't. But because Daddy doesn't have a lady to be married to, and I like you better than any lady; except for Grandma Niou and Bunta, I thought that maybe you could be like my mommy, except you'd still be Papa-Mura."

It had been a whirling thought that had plagued him some of the day, but he hadn't really intended to say anything. What if Papa-Mura didn't want to be like a mommy to him, like how his stepfather hadn't wanted to be a real daddy for him?

It took a moment to reign in his surprise at the declaration, not something the male lover of a child's father ever expects to hear. When the surprise faded he found himself smiling, but he met Akaya's gaze seriously and said. "I don't think your mommy would be angry at you if you made a card for me. After all, I am a little like a mother, if you put it that way. But Akaya," he said, very seriously. "I won't be annoyed or angry if you decide you'd rather make your mother a card instead, or if you don't want to make one at all ok?" He made a mental note to call the school and speak to the teacher in the morning to make sure she knew about Akaya's situation.

"Really?" Akaya asked, wide eyed.

Seiichi reached over and ruffled his messy hair, making the little boy scowl. "Really, now, you'd better get inside and clean up, you're all sticky and dirty." before Akaya could start to complain about being made to wash up Seiichi held up a hand. "If you hurry up we might have time to make something really special for desert tonight."

Akaya bounced up. "Something just for us?" he asked, and cheered when Seiichi nodded. "And Bunta can't have any! Even if it's the best chocolate cake in the wole world! And not Grandma Niou, or Grandpa Hiroshi, or Daddy or Jackel... Well, maybe Jackel, cuase he got me my crayon's back after Bunta stole them last week... and maybe daddy too, because he'll do the scary look if he doesn't get any... But definitely not Bunta!" he headed back inside, still muttering over who should get the desert, and who shouldn't.

Seiichi got up, closing his eyes to fight off a sudden wave of dizziyness before brushing the duxt off himself and going back inside as well, already making plans to bake a special treat for Akaya on Sunday, whether he got a card or not.

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