Time Period: 3 Years Old

Zoro wasn't exactly sure where the time had gone but as he knelt in front of Quin, tying up his little runners, he couldn't believe that it only felt like a few months ago that he had been holding the boy as a little baby in his arms. Now the tyke was a full three years old and was a complete and utter hyperactive terror. Feet kicking in his excitement to get outside Zoro could hardly properly finish tying his shoes.

When he got the last bow done with a jerking cinch, Quin was already pushing himself off the step and running for the door as he and Sanji were still trying to get their coats on. The rain had luckily stopped only an hour before, which meant they would be able to take Quin out for an afternoon walk and tire the little guy out. Being cooped up inside all day due to the rain had only managed to accumulate all of his energy and at this rate he was about as slow as a jet plane.

"Where does he get that energy?" Sanji balked, pulling on his own jacket before snatching up Quin's and bolting out the door after the small boy. Only in a shirt and little sweatpants, already running down the paved driveway at an insane pace, little legs working as he was trying to get God knew where.

As Zoro closed the front door and locked it, he couldn't help but laugh at the fact that Sanji managed to catch up to the toddler in three easy, long strides and scooped the boy with an exaggerated swing that had the boy laughing hysterically. After placing a ridiculous blown kiss to the boy's belly that had him shrieking even more, Sanji set him back down to quickly pull the coat onto the giggling boy.

Laughing and distracted, Sanji managed to do up the zipper before Quin was back to his senses and hopping up and down in excitement. Little dirty blond hair flying in every direction as he squealed happily, "Park! Park! Park!"

"Yeah!" Sanji grinned, "We're going to the park!"

Quin only screamed again in his excitement and took off down the driveway once more with Sanji and Zoro following afterwards easily. It was always a nice way to tire the little guy out; walking to the park allowed them to relax and let Quin run in all directions until he was exhausted. The bonus was that walking normally, they were able to keep up with the little three year old without any trouble.

Zoro's hand immediately found Sanji's, twining their fingers together as he continued with watching Quin with a fond smile. Compared to his early teenage life, he'd have never imagined that he would wind up with such a pipe-dream, white picket fence life. It almost felt kind of surreal, but it wasn't a feeling he would give up for the world.

Sanji took the hand holding with a small smile and light shoulder shoved against Zoro's playfully as they made the rest of their way down the block in silence. Both content in watching Quin's antics as they basked in the ambiance of their little family.

It wasn't long before they were at the park, and Quin became a whirlwind of excitement. Running up structures, tumbling down the slide, jumping on the weird rocking planes, and getting Zoro to push him on the swings. Eventually he had dragged Sanji over to one of the merry-go-round's and had Sanji sit on it with him as Zoro was given the task of spinning the thing as hard as he could.

It finally ended with Sanji telling Zoro to stop the ride or he'd fly off and make sure to kick Zoro right in the face in process. A few extra spins were added before Zoro dug his boots into the sand and grabbed onto one of the handles to bring the contraption to a stop. Quin hopped off, still giggling manically from the fun of the ride as Sanji crawled off to lay in the sand while groaning.

"I do not remember it making me this sick as a kid." Sanji be moaned into the sand as Quin sat beside him catching his breath from his happy shrieking on the ride.

"Dad's eyebrows dizzy." Quin stated with a chubby pointed finger, his limited vocabulary making the sentence sound odd, but nonetheless understood as Zoro and Sanji both blinked at the comment. A moment later a hysteric green-haired man fell back on the ground in a fit of laughter.

Quin took Zoro's laughter as a good sign and began giggling while repeating the sentence over and over, "Eyebrow's dizzy! Eyebrow's dizzy!"

"You jerk!" Sanji cursed through his own laughter, crawling across the sand and pouncing on his guffawing husband, playfully shoving his hands in the man's face as he tried to keep him pinned to the ground. More of pathetic wrestling than actual punishment for Zoro's laughing at him, "Shut up!"

"'Dizzy eyebrow's'!" Zoro gasped through his laughter, gut beginning to hurt as he couldn't believe how spot on Quin had managed to be by accident, "That's perfect!"

Quin was still shrieking the sentence over and over as he ran over and jumped on top of them in a small doggy pile as Sanji quit his punishment to Zoro to turn and pull Quin in for a more secure hug. Giving the boy a tight squeeze of a hug in slight punishment he chuckled into the blond hair as Zoro's laughter eventually died down and he just remained laying in the sand watching as Sanji cuddled the little version of himself.

"Alright." Sanji murmured affectionately, his tone belying his words as he obviously didn't want to get up at all, "We're getting dirty; let's get up."

Quin however didn't think twice and jumped out of Sanji's arms, already running off to explore another part of a playground. Sanji took the small opportunity to glance down at Zoro with a small scowl, "Say it and I'll kick you."

"Curly brow." Zoro murmured with a taunting smirk.

Sanji was back on top of him in a second, though having his head shoved back into the sand as Sanji planted a heated kiss to his lips was infinitely better than any kick.

~X~

The walk back home was a lot less energetic than the way there. Quin having used up most of his energy at the park and seemingly content with walking in between Zoro and Sanji, holding each of their hands as he occasionally had them swing him up in the air. As they rounded the corner they got a pretty good view of the city in the distance and the rain clouds retreating that had plagued the city the whole day. However something caught Quin's eyes and he stopped dead in his tracks in shock.

"Dad! DAD! Look!" Quin squealed, practically giving himself a hernia in his excitement as he scampered off the trail so he could get a better view of the large rainbow in the distance. Bordering the end of the earlier storm clouds as it framed the city elegantly before disappearing behind a few of the more taller buildings.

Zoro remained on the sidewalk, watching as Sanji made his way over to crouch beside Quin and look up at the slowly fading rainbow with him. Smiling to himself he knew that it was little memories like this that were going to be framed in his mind forever.

"Aw..." Quin bemoaned as he began to see it disappear, the light fading and taking the creation away with it.

"Quick!" Sanji hushed with a grin, "Close your eyes and I'll try to catch it!"

Without even asking for an explanation Quin slapped his small gloved hands over his face in a panic as he shouted blindly, "Catch?!"

"Yup." Sanji reassured and Zoro watched as the rest of the rainbow eventually faded and Sanji finished digging a package from his pocket. He watched in curiosity as the blond opened up the small pack of Skittles and poured a few into his hand.

A soft smile worked its way onto Zoro's face as he began to understand what Sanji was doing. They ate relatively healthy thanks to Sanji, so a lot of junk food and things like that were completely foreign to the boy. However, they were good little surprises to keep around for him. Sanji liked to call them 'sweet distractions'. Usually they would be enough to stop a tantrum and leave the boy in awe.

Moving to kneel in front of Quin, Sanji kept his hand closed carefully before murmuring, "Alright. Open your eyes now."

Quin slowly lowered his hands, glancing over Sanji's shoulder at the sky that now was devoid of any rainbow and pouted lightly. Turning his little head back to Sanji as he glanced down at the blond's closed hand before back up at Sanji with shocked eyes, "You caught?!"

"Yup." Sanji grinned, "I caught."

Quin seemed to be scared for a moment as he eyed Sanji's hand, obviously not sure how to react to the idea that something that had been so big in the sky was now in his Dad's hand. Sanji's free hand came up to reassuringly wrap around Quin and pull the boy a bit closer, rubbing soothing circles into his back as he did.

"Look." Sanji hushed excitedly, slowly opening his hand to reveal the perfect row of brightly assorted candy. A single coloured sugary piece for every colour that had just been in the sky.

"What?!" Quin wailed in awe, "Rainbow?!"

"Yeah." Sanji grinned, obviously trying to keep the lie believable without breaking into too large of a grin at Quin's adorable behaviour, "If you learn how to catch one they give you these little bits of sweet rock."

Quin still seemed to be too lost in his shock to listen to Sanji, jumping up and down lightly as he looked over at Zoro with wide eyes and pointed exaggeratedly, "Dad!"

Zoro just returned the look of shock with an encouraging smile and Quin quickly turned back to Sanji, still clearly unable to believe the fact that a rainbow was now in Sanji's hand.

"Pick a colour." Sanji urged, moving his hand closer to Quin.

"Green." Quin immediately decided and Zoro didn't miss the wry smile and cheeky look that Sanji sent his way before looking back at Quin as the toddler snatched up the little green piece of candy. Holding it awkwardly in his adorable little hand he looked it over in wonder before looking back at Sanji expectantly. "What do?"

"Eat it." Sanji smiled, "It tastes like the rainbow."

Quin's eyes became two large blue orbs of wonder as he looked back down at the Skittle before immediately following Sanji's commanded and popping it into his mouth. The first few moments that the young boy's cheeks poofed out as he sucked on it was adorable, and then he began to put his new teeth to work at chewing on it. The reaction was instantaneous.

From interest and curiosity exploded amazement and pure joy. Chewing away at the gummy little bit of candy before eventually swallowing and looking up at Sanji in pure awe, "GOOD!"

Sanji laughed happily, before offering his hand once more, "Which colour can I have?"

Glancing them over Quin seemed to debate it before snatching up the blue and shoving it towards Sanji's mouth, "Blue!"

Sanji opened his mouth and let Quin toss the candy in, before chewing at the candy casually. It wasn't long before Quin had demolished the rest of the candy, gobbling them up in his excitement. However, despite his excitement he still was as well behaved as ever and continued to share them.

Zoro was always oddly smug about how well behaved Quin was compared to other kids. Not that he was the type to brag about his son, but he definitely liked judging the other kids whenever he went to the daycare and notice how much better Quin was than everybody else. Sanji called it a parent complex, Zoro liked to call it clearly superior.

"All gone." Quin concluded morosely with his limited vocabulary.

"Yup." Sanji nodded, hand retreating to his pocket as he smiled softly at Quin, "We'll have to wait till there's another rainbow."

"Okay." Quin nodded in understanding, not making a bit of fuss as he made his way back to the path and to Zoro's leg. Tugging sharply on the jean material as Zoro chuckled, stooped down and scooped the boy up and into his arms. Once on level with Zoro Quin muttered, "Catch rainbows too, Dad?"

Eyes flickering to Sanji, he glanced back at the little boy and grinned, "Nope. Dad will have to teach both of us someday."

"Yeah!" Quin screamed happily, jumping in Zoro's arms.

"Next time it rains." Sanji assured with a smile as they began to start making their way home.

This seemed to be enough to pacify Quin and he smiled approvingly before turning back into Zoro's embrace, little hand curling in the lapel of his jacket as a huge yawn split the small boy's face. They both chuckled quietly as Quin tried to shake off the yawn, but was obviously feeling the wear of using up all his energy in the park. Little eyelids already beginning to droop while he put his head on Zoro's shoulder.

The rest of the walk back home was silent as Quin rested his head on Zoro's shoulder and began to drift off to sleep, completely tuckered from all the excitement of the park. Zoro only lightly adjusted his arm so the boy could sleep more comfortably as his free hand once more located Sanji's. Giving it a happy squeeze as they made their way back up the street and to their perfect white picket fenced house.

A/N: Idk. There was a Skittle commercial on tv, okay? What do you want from me?