Kiddie AU

[sliceitwithwind]

November 11th, after the great hair dying Halloween, when the kids got home from school there was a strange man sitting on the porch with Lenna, Elcy, and Yinsi. He was seven foot seven inches tall and seemed to take up the entire porch. Skin four shades darker than Dilan's, brilliantly green Katzu eyes, and braids down to his knees of thick, black and grey hair.

He was in a beautiful coat of terrible chartreuse, and the instant the boys saw him Dilan bolts forward shrieking happily in too-fast Katzu.

Braig grabbed Aya's hand and explained, "That's his great-grand-uncle Sannish."

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[mitochondriaaya]

She'd just wiggled into the first tiny space she could! It wasn't an intentional great spot!

"Oh, right. That's gonna take forever."

[sliceitwithwind]

No sooner had she said it than Braig wiggled under with a grin, scooting up on Dilan's other side, "It like. Took forever to remember this place, Ayay."

[mitochondriaaya]

Well, all the important people were present and accounted for then! Aya wiggled as well, allowing a bit more room for the boys and worked her way into her pockets. Anything to help pass the time? Her fumbling produced two rubber bands, a pencil eraser, a bandaid, and a paperclip!

Not much in other words.

"That was a really short forever! It's not even dark!"

[sliceitwithwind]

"I like this spot." Braig said with a small, huffed laugh. Dilan watched as various sneakers pounded outside their spot, falling into that odd state he sometimes shared with the kittens.

[mitochondriaaya]

"I feel kinda like a spy, watching everyone out there but they can't see us." Aya gave a small giggle and bumped Dilan with her shoulder. "Gonna take a nap?"

[sliceitwithwind]

"No. I think I could totally take him down. And her. And her." Dilan has fallen into stalk-and-hunt mode. Fear, neighbourhood children. Fear.

[mitochondriaaya]

"Well duh."Aya sniffed. "You're faster than them and you bite better." These were awesome traits in a best friend!

"But we gotta stay here. I could break a rubber band and give you a wiggly piece of rubber to chase?"

[sliceitwithwind]

"Maybe later." he was having far too much fun watching ankles. "Don't want you snapping your fingers again."

[mitochondriaaya]

"Hey, I don't do that all the time!." And it really wasn't that bad. She didn't bleed or anything! "But fine..." she folded her arms and settled down to watch ankles as well...

...and nodded off within ten minutes. A mighty patient hunter she was not.

[sliceitwithwind]

The boys let her sleep until the neighbourhood kids gave up, and then until they were called in to supper. Then they tried to wiggle her out from under the porch without waking her up, because little kids need their sleep.

[mitochondriaaya]

And like many little kids Aya slept like a sack of potatoes. Totally unconscious until they got to those annoying stairs up to the porch. Then she was wiggling and trying to knuckle her eyes. "Huh? Their turn to hide?"

[sliceitwithwind]

"As if, supper time." Braig says with a laugh, "C'mon, monkey, we've gotta clean up."

Dilan ... licks her nose. What? Braig had her feet.

[mitochondriaaya]

That got the requisite squeal and wiggle as she tried to escape the licking. Hard to get away when her hands and feet were being held though! "So...we won? We totally won?"

[sliceitwithwind]

"We totally won." Braig said as he set Aya's feet on the ground. Dilan waited until she had her balance before letting go, "Yeah. Next time, though, they're not gonna let us change the game in the middle. I heard that."

[mitochondriaaya]

"But didn't they join after it became Sardines?" She asked, confused. She tried her best to brush the dirt off her clothes before kicking her shoes off to go inside. "I thought they did. That doesn't make any sense!"

[sliceitwithwind]

"I dunno!" Dilan says with a laugh, "I have no idea what was going on, really. We're all gonna have to clean up a lot, we're all dirty."

[mitochondriaaya]

"Well I think they were just making up stuff to yell at us." Aya sighed and shook her head at the folly of the neighborhood kids. "Really dirty. Do I still have any extra clothes here cause I think I need to change."

[sliceitwithwind]

"Um." Dilan thinks about it, then shakes his head, "There weren't any in the laundry. You can borrow mine!"

[mitochondriaaya]

"Man, bad week to get all my stuff back to my house huh?" Most of her stuff anyway. Her moogle slept wherever she did. "Okay! I'll be Dilan Jr. tonight!"

And just on the heels of that decision came the adults noticing their entrance. "What were you guys doing?!"

[sliceitwithwind]

"Uh huh!" Dilan said laughing, then looking up with those big, blue, kitty eyes...he was good at kitty-eyes, "We were just playing hide and seek!"

[mitochondriaaya]

Stronger women than Braig's mom had melted under that look. "Well, it must have been in a hole in the ground." Not surprising given the trio but...well, she had hoped they wouldn't come home so dirty? "Bathtub, all of you."

[sliceitwithwind]

"Mo-ooom!" Braig grumped, but he grabbed the others and stomped to the bathroom. He was just enough older that he ran the bath for the younger kids and then went to shower in the other bathroom, but Dilan strips without hesitation and hops in to scrub dirt off.

[mitochondriaaya]

Ditto for Aya, of course she climbed in after she found the tub toys. She liked taking baths at Braig's house. It was kinda like having her sister back when someone else was in the tub! Only a lot more boy-like of course.

"So is your uncle staying for dinner? He eats like you right? You get to share!"

[sliceitwithwind]

"Uh huh!" Dilan was much more into the whole washing up part of being in the tub, but he didn't mind playing with Aya. She was his Ayay after all! "He's gonna stay for a couple of weeks."

[mitochondriaaya]

Scrubbing was something to be done once the toys were all sunk! It was how things worked! Unless Dilan made her scrub early. She'd do it then. "That's a long time! Is he going to sleep on the couch?" That's what visitors did right?