[In Progress] Stay This Way

[orchid_lovers]

Who: Kuran Juuri, Ichijou Takuma and Doumeki Shizuka
When: Saturday Evening
Where: Juuri's apartment, House 8
What: Mama Juuri is getting some answers after the recent death of a human.
Warnings: Will edit as needed

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[orchid_lovers]

Her smile turned into a playful smirk when Ichijou mentioned embarrassing stories. “Oh you mean like once, when you were a baby and I was changing your diaper, you got a hold of the baby powder and had us both covered in it? Then you started sneezing and it went flying everywhere! By the time it was over, half of your room was coated in the white powder.” Juuri laughed remembering it.

Observant eyes watched as Doumeki merely nibbled on her desserts and the vampire could guess just what the issue might be. “I have some soup and crackers if you’d like them instead of the sweets, Doumeki.”

Gone was the playful smirk when he offered to help Takuma, in it’s place was a sad smile as she looked towards the room where Yuuki was playing. “I’m afraid it will take some time for her to get used to you. All her life we had her hidden away and only since coming here has she even met anyone outside of the Kuran family. While I don’t want her to believe that every stranger is out to get her, I also want her to trust in a few people.”

She sighed, looking down into her nearly empty tea cup. “If only Haruka was here, I’d feel easier letting her play with Kippei and Yuzu without me there.”

[not_my_grandpa]

"Juuri-samaaaaaa", Ichijou whined as the embarrassing baby story was revealed. He should have seen that one coming, but he figured it was going to happen one way or the other he felt. But it was a good mood lifter and he loved keeping things lighthearted. He pouted childishly, then smiled back at the elder vampire.

He watched as Doumeki and Juuri spoke about babysitting Yuuki. He knew that the mother was a very cautious one since her children were the most precious thing to her. It would probably take the archer a while to fully gain the pureblood's trust, which was understandable. A new world, new faces, different abilities that other people had that may or may not be stronger than their own abilities. It was something to be wary about.

"Kippei and Yuzu? Yuuki-chan told me about her new little friend Yuzu. She sounded happy about having a friend her own age", he said picking up another sweet and placing it in his mouth.

[talldarknsnarky]

Doumeki's eyes turned to Juuri as she started in on the story - he had a vivid mental image of tiny Ichijou with blonde fuzz on his head, waving baby powder around, sneezing, and Juuri laughing. It made his stomach warm a little, and he raised a brow at Ichijou when the vampire whined and pouted at Juuri for it.

"Hm." he said, "Cute."

Afterward, though, he nodded at Juuri - understanding and accepting that she would be cautious with her child. It made sense, complete sense, which is why he'd simply offered to be around at the same time as Ichijou. It wasn't something he'd push for, but he thought it might be helpful to have the offer out there.

The conversation turned to the other children on the island, and Doumeki sipped at his tea again, listening but not really participating, because he didn't have much to say.