" Where's Nakai?" Tsuyoshi asks when he came out of the kitchen after doing the lunch dishes. His three room mates are all sprawling on different spots on the couch with their eyes closed.
" I am so tired!" Shingo whined.
" Sssh! Not so loud! You will wake the baby!" Takuya snapped.
" Nakai insisted on taking a nap with the baby." Goro mutters with his eyes closed.
" Why must he be so hardheaded about getting the baby to accept him!" Shingo mutters frustratingly.
" Ego." Goro replies with a lazy stretch.
" How's the kitchen?" Takuya asks Tsuyoshi.
" Clean." Tsuyoshi replied. " The baby food was all over the walls. Took a while to get every spot."
" Who will ever think feeding a baby is like a battle in full force?" Takuya laughs. For some strange reasons his companions followed, each remembering their role in the war earlier.
After the nappy change, the baby had decided that it is time for her stomach to be filled so without much ado, she "screamed" out her request. She was starting to wonder how dense these 5 men are when one of them hit upon the idea that she is hungry so they made her a bottle of milk and heated up a bottle of pear and carrots *yuck* for her.
They may pretend pear and carrot puree is yummy but that did not fool her one bit. Just as the first spoonful neared, she flinged her limbs out, kicking Nakai in the nose and upsetting the spoon in Takuya's hand. Everyone shrunk away while Nakai held his injured nose and teared non-stop from the pain.She continued to kick and struggle as if her life depended on it, holding everyone, including that spoon of dreaded stuff, at bay.
She couldn't understand why they just don't get the idea that she is not going to eat that alien goo! Spoonful after spoonful kept coming at her and with every effort made by them, she had to thwart it by kicking the nearing threat, sending blobs flyingall over, some landing on the walls, some on the clumsy fellas trying to force feed her. When a spoon was successfully pushed into her mouth at last, she blew her lips, refusing to swallow till the contents in her mouth dribbled out again.
" Eew!" Shingo exclaimed in disgust but the wayward baby only gurgle happily at her victory.
That is till she felt the familiar pair of warm hands around her chubby torso. Abruptly she stops. " You are hungry, aren't you, honey?" Goro coos. " Be a good girl and eat up."
" Here, let me!" Nakai said eagerly with a trace of irritation as he grabbed the spoon and bottle from Takuya. But before he can so much as dip the spoon into the mixture, she cried with vengence.
Goro shot up immediately, pacing the small space trying to cajole her into a good mood again. The cramp kitchen is made almost impossible to move about by 4 other large physique men but Goro managed to wound his way around them. He strokes her back gently and made baby noises again. " Hush now, hush ~
" You want to grow up into a beautiful girl, don't you? You must eat up then ~
" Hush, hush ~"
To everyone's relief, the baby screeches stopped. And further to their relief, she began to swallow her food meekly while Nakai is restraint against his will by Takuya and Shingo.
After finishing her lunch, she yawned rather elegantly and promptly lay her head on Goro's chest to sleep before he could put her down. With a light sigh of resignation, he carried her into their room. Leaving Tsuyoshi to clean up the kitchen, they had dropped their tired bodies into the next available seat. When Goro returned, he did likewise.
" I'll go look in on her!" Nakai said catching all of them off guard. Before anyone can react he had disappeared from sight.
" Hope for the best." Takuya mutters tiredly.
