Room 504, Sunday Late Evening

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It had been a day spent dealing with two of four of the children, and Ino was pretty sure she’d gotten the easy two. Isae had wanted to window shop, and Ken had been pleased enough to walk with them while she asked questions about his classes. Then she and Ken had gone to Fight Club.

“Isae, honey, we’re back,” Ino said, pushing the door open. “Have you seen Masaki, or Masaru around yet?”

“Nuh huh,” Isae said, while Ken took a seat on the floor. “Otousan’s probably going to be back soon. Masaki’s a baby and’ll need sleep! I don’t need sleep yet, Okaasan. Honest!”

[Primarily for the other half of the family, but sure, open if you want!]

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"I don't need to sleep either!" Masaru charged into the room. Of course he got there first. Why would he not?

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"Yes you do," Ino said, laughing as she went to hug him. "Everyone needs sleep, silly."

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Ken got to his feet and stepped over to the door, peering out. "Masaki and Otousan are coming," he said, grinning a bit. "Okaasan, you summoned them."

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"Okaasan has pooowers," Isae chimed in, with a wriggle of her fingers to indicate magic. "Mommy powers."

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"I brought them," Masaru felt the need to supply while hugging Ino back. A long day with Ichigo was enough to make him glad to see her.

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"Brought who?" Ichigo asked as he reached the door, carrying a sleepy Masaki on one arm. He ruffled Ken's hair with his free hand, because he was small enough and in reach.

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"Depending on who you ask," Ino said dryly, arms full of six year old boy, "either Masaru brought you two, or I either summoned you or used magic. I was just asking where you guys were."

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Ken shook his head and grinned up at Ichigo. "She might have done both," Ken said solemnly, gently tugging Masaki's shoe to make her smile. "And just won't tell us."

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Masaki giggled and wriggled her foot. "Hi!" she said, apparently rather pleased to see her brother.

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"I like to think that I can find my own way back," Ichigo said, rather naively if he had been paying attention to the mob of kids.

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Isae's giggling probably gave away her opinion of that, as she held out her arms for a hug. "Evening, Otousan!"

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"Hi," Ken said back, "did you have fun with Otousan today, Masaki? You look sleepy."

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"Don't ask me," Ino said, taking a seat and snuggling Masaru into her lap. "I just asked a simple question."

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"Uh huh, course you did," Ichigo said to Ino and since Masaki was wriggling even more in his arms now, he put her down on the ground so he could hug Isae. "Did you guys have fun here?"

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Happy to be on her feet, Masaki instantly moved to hug Ken. "I played hide and seek and then Otousan showed us things."

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Masaru strangely enough seemed to be satisfied where he was and he snuggled back against Ino. "Otousan was silly," he told her.

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"He's always silly," she said agreeably, grinning at Ichigo. "But was it fun sort of silly?"

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"We went shopping!" Isae said, clinging to Ichigo. "And then I got to read while Okaasan and Ken went to a fighting club, and now Okaasan says it's time for bed but I'm not sleepy!"

Yes she was.

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Ken laughed as he hugged Masaki back. "Are you getting better at hide and seek? Hide and seek is good practice."

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She wrinkled her nose. "No, 'cos I hid with Nate and he's not a ninja, so he's not good at it. And Otousan wouldn't let us leave the room." So it was all Otousan's fault.

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Yeah okay, so the babbling was kind of cute and Ichigo let Isae cling. "Did you buy anything?"

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Masaru had no problem tuning out the rest of the room as he talked to Ino. In fact, he made sure to talk louder so she could hear him best.

"He got his feet wet. That was funny," he told Ino, because while Ken had been able to stop the whole beach argument yesterday, Masaru had had free range today.

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"Who is Nate?" Ken asked patiently. "And Otousan was just making sure he didn't lose you, because losing you would be bad."

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"I got a new book!" she said, pointing at it. "It's the meta for A Little Princess, and I'm already fifty pages in!"

She'd had the quiet time after all.

"And Okaasan took us out for lunch and we got spaghetti."

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"Indoor voice," she reminded Masaru, ruffling his hair. "What were you three doing to get your feet wet?"

See, now Ino just had to get rid of those shoes and socks he was wearing.