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“Rei Papa,” Miri looks up at him with big round eyes, holding her green tinted hand up to him.
He takes her hand in his, her small fingers wrapping around his palm as they walk home from daycare.
“Do you think Kazuki Papa will like it?” She holds up a picture of her finger painting. Where she traced her own hand with green paint and turned it into an elephant, or is it a giraffe? No, it’s definitely an elephant.
“Mm,” Rei grunts a nod as he stares at the picture with her. She beams up at him and giggles as she lets go of his hand, skipping the rest of the way to their building.
“We’re home!” Miri sings as she drops her belongings onto the floor.
“Your shoes,” Rei calls after her, but she’s already bolted around the corner into the kitchen to find Kazuki.
“Miri, you have to remember to take off your shoes when you enter the house,” Kazuki scolds her softly, sitting her down on a chair and removing them.
“I made this for you, Kazuki Papa,” he smiles down at him as he hands Rei her sneakers, their fingers brushing against each other at the exchange.
“It’s great! I love it!” Kazuki exclaims, staring at the picture, turning it right side up, or upside down? “I’ll hang it on the fridge,” he smiles at her.
As she follows him to the kitchen, she makes grabby hands at him.
“Up!” She shouts, demanding to be picked up to help him hang the picture.
“Okay, but can you say, please,?” He tries to teach her manners, but fails when he’s already hoisting her up on his hip.
She giggles and she takes a banana shaped magnet off the fridge and sticks it to the picture, holding it in place.
“Perfect!” She smiles, admiring her handiwork. Kazuki high fives her and then sets her down.
“What are thinking about for dinner?” He asks the two of them.
“Pizza and fries,” Miri and Rei say in sync, both of them having the same idea when Rei asked her what she wanted earlier on their walk home.
Kazuki laughs and says fine, but Miri needs to clean her paint stained hands first. Looking down at Rei’s, “you too,” he adds, noticing the green smudges on his palm.
The two walk over to the kitchen sink, Miri on her step stool and Rei reaching around her to both scrub their hands free of green residue.
“Let’s see em,” Kazuki inspects her hands before they leave the sink, eyeing them closely. He scratches at Miri’s palms, humming and hawing as she laughs under his joking scrutiny.
He lets her go and grabs Rei’s hands, inspecting them with the same joking smile. Kazuki softly traces the lines of Rei’s palm as he smiles up at him sweetly, making Rei blush.
“Kazuki Papa, can we order now?” Miri asks from her bean bag chair, flipping through her coloring book.
Kazuki lets go of Rei’s hand with a quick wink as he walks over to Miri with his cell phone out. Leaving Rei holding his hand out in the air, the tingling sensation of Kazuki’s finger still buzzing under his skin.
“Hey! That’s my paparooni,” Miri pouts as Kazuki snags a stray pepperoni from her plate.
“Oop, sorry! I didn’t think you were gonna eat it,” he apologizes.
As Rei brings the last slice of pizza to his mouth, he sees Kazuki’s giant fingers peel off the single pepperoni left on the slice. Rei is so stunned at the pepperoni-napping that he almost drops the whole piece.
“Hey, that was mine,” he whines in his low voice. Kazuki laughs as Miri smiles, popping the pep in her mouth.
“Sorry,” Kazuki shrugs, placing his hand on Rei’s shoulder, gently squeezing as he laughs, again.
“Movie night!” Miri giggles, holding up a few discs to choose from as they clean up the table.
“Okay, but then it’s bath time, kid,” Kazuki says as he hands Rei a plate to dry, their fingertips sliding between each other’s, softly.
“Which one?” Rei asks Miri as he pops open the disc player.
“That one,” she points her tiny finger blindly to one of the three movies sprawled on the floor.
As the movie begins, Kazuki pads over with two bowls of popcorn for them. A small one for Miri and a larger one for Rei and himself.
Miri snuggles into her bean bag chair, right in front of the tv, as Rei sits in his usual place on the couch. Kazuki settles into the cushions next to Rei, pressing his hip against his.
While the movie plays and Miri happily munches on her popcorn, Kazuki and Rei sit back and relax. Kazuki grabs a handful of popcorn from their shared bowl, shaking a few kernels into his mouth. He smiles over at Rei, holding out a piece to his mouth.
“Ahh,” Kazuki hums, instructing Rei to open his mouth so Kazuki can feed him the popcorn.
Rei opens his mouth, taking the kernel from Kazuki’s fingers and chews; his eyebrows raise at the flavor.
“It’s sweet,” he smiles, taking another piece from Kazuki’s hand.
Watching the last of the film, Rei reaches into the bowl for another handful, accidentally grabbing Kazuki’s hand as he does the same. Rei gasps, allowing Kazuki to interlace their fingers secretly in sweet, buttery topping.
Miri snores softly as the end credits scroll on the tv in front of her. Her popcorn completely gone and her little hand lightly gripping the bowl as it slips down her lap.
Kazuki chuckles quietly, releasing Rei’s hand and getting up to scoop Miri up and take her bed.
“So much for bath time” Kazuki sighs into the crown of her head, nodding for Rei to follow him up the stairs to help put Miri to bed.
“Grab her nightgown,” Kazuki whispers to Rei as he lays Miri down. Quickly changing her clothes to her pajamas, they tuck her into bed.
Quietly closing the door to her room, Kazuki turns to face Rei.
Sliding his hands up Rei’s torso, running his fingers through his long raven hair. Rei moans as Kazuki kisses him passionately. Waiting all day to be able to touch each other, to feel each other’s hands on their bodies. Walking him backwards to his room, Kazuki closes the door with his heel behind him.
“I’ve missed you,” he kisses into Rei’s neck. His hands dragging up Rei’s shirt, sweeping it off of him as he pushes him against the door.
“Missed you, too,” Rei mumbles in between kisses, his long, thin fingers running through Kazuki’s hair, gently pulling his head back, exposing more of his neck to lick and nibble on.
All of the secret touches, the stolen glances and hiding their relationship from prying eyes, makes them crave each other’s touch even more every day. Sneaking away into Kazuki’s room, free to touch, kiss and make love as they please in the dark cover of the night, Rei and Kazuki explore each other’s bodies with nimble fingers and needy hands, and tonight is no exception.