Hidden Treasure

Indie RP blog for OC child of Izaya and an OC blog.

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✖┆ “Even if I did, that’s something I’ll worry about.” he answered, sitting down on a nearby stool with just enough force to flick his tails out of her grasp. Whatever mud he had on them was definitely all thanks to her, anyway. “Now just hurry up and clean yourself off already. I’m not spending all night watching you splash around.”

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Sometimes he was no fun! Spending a few moments playing with the soap, Takara eventually cleaned herself up before becoming distracted by her bath toys once more.

“Can you tell me a story?”

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✖┆ “And all I want is for you to be quiet and actually pay attention, but clearly that’s asking too much.” With that, Izaya reached over to turn the faucets to finally let the bath tub start filling up. At this rate though, Takara would already have a five course meal planned out before he’d managed to prod her in the water.

“Now, get in.” Maybe once he’d managed to occupy her attention with something like a toy, she’d calm down.

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Takara climbed into the water with a huff in his general direction, half distracted by bath toys and his tails. After a moment she reached out with wet hands to grab one of his tails with a grin. “You got mud on your tails.”

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✖┆ Izaya allowed himself to dragged along, following Takara and her wailing toward the kitchen where Rei stood, waiting with boxes. Though, instead of stepping up to take his, he let the impatient jumping bean at his side take her share fair first before he got pulled into the mess himself.

“I’d do what she says. She does make a good point.” Izaya answered, defending Taka’s point with a sing song reply of his own. “—And as the one who’s had to put with her for most of the day, I should get double that, too. Just for compensation.”

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The only reply to both of them was an amused snort and a gesture to sit down and eat, and Takara did so with a pout, taking the no for what it was. A second helping of ootoro was plonked onto the table though and she reached for some of it with a cheer.

“I’m gonna be smart! And when I’m as smart as you dad, you’ll teach me lots more stuff right? Right?”

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✖┆ And the only thing she’ll be getting in lieu of kisses from him, at this moment, is a firm stare. Looks like someone forgot to teach her a little something about phone etiquette.

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The saddest of smol stares. Daaaaaaaaaaad. I want a kissus.

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No, this smol wants those kisses now, please and thank you.

Tugtug. Tugtug.

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✖┆ “Maybe, if you cooperate.” Because if Takara thought he hadn’t picked up on her growing resistance to bath time the closer they got to the door, she obviously didn’t know who she was dealing with. 

And with that, the door to the bathroom was swung open; Izaya all but pulling the smaller away from her spot near his side to usher her toward the tub instead. 

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Taka’s pout grew at that, but she allowed herself to be ushered to the bath, wiggling at the prospect of being able to play with her bath toys once she was clean and in the water.

“I want apple juice!”

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✖┆ “If you actually behave for once.” Obviously that was him being generous and overlooking the mess she’d decided to track all over everything inside; not to mention him ignoring the mud he could already feel clinging to his shirt as he paraded her off to the bathroom, too.

Negotiating lunch could definitely wait until after he’d managed to get the after effects of Taka’s little ‘adventure’ under control.

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Takara sighed heavily, as if she was making some great sacrifice allowing herself to be bundled into the bathroom before being fed lunch. “Can I have juice too?”

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✖┆ If looks could kill, the one stuck on the smaller would at least be good enough to land someone in the hospital. He was more than annoyed, and if Takara knew what was best for her, she’d stop being stubborn and actually listen for a change. “With all that yelling, I’d be more surprised if she hadn’t heard you already.”

“—Now come here.” Stepping forward, he reached for one of her arms to usher Taka off. Her tracking up his apartment and avoiding a bath wasn’t up for negotiation.  No matter how hard she tried to complain.

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Takara pouted as she allowed herself to be pushed along, shifting to grab onto the hem of his shirt as she walked.

It wasn’t fair, she wanted to tell mama all about her mouse, still. And she still didn’t want that promised nap, either. She wasn’t sleepy at all! “Do I still get ootoro?”

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✖┆ “Hmph.” Izaya gave an annoyed huff as the girl at his side bolted off, showering mud from his feet all the way inside the door. For someone so simple-minded, she really knew how to test his patience, didn’t she? He was almost amazed how much her nativity could make her so dense.

Still, he followed the younger inside, giving a stern “Like I said,” when he’d eventually caught up to the child. What he’d mentioned before wasn’t up for negotiation, and if she could pick up on his less than pleased attitude over the mess she’d just strewed about, she’d be smart to realize that.  

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She pouted at him, eyes wide as she did so. She didn’t want to nap after a bath, though she didn’t mind taking a bath itself. But she wanted to tell Mama all about the mouse first! “I gotta tell mama about my mouse!”

“’Cause I caught one and I gotta tell mama about it!”

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✖┆ “Oh?” Izaya feigned interest at Takara’s question, though his eyes never once left the small screen in front of him that he continued to poke away on. “Well maybe if you give me a good example of what you’d need it for, I might just let you in on the secret~”

He wouldn’t, but the smaller didn’t need to know that. Having someone like Taka spamming his email with her pointless babbling was the last thing Izaya wanted to put up with anyway. Aside from dealing with her, he did have a business to run!

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“Ummmm,” she answered, face scrunching as she clearly began to think really hard for an answer to the question. “’Cause you’re my dad an’ I love you an’ I wanna be your friend too!” Was that a good enough reason? It should be, shouldn’t it?

“An’ then I’ll have lots of friends with your friends!”

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✖┆ Well, that was probably more than enough teasing for one sitting. With every fiber of Takara’s expression screaming in annoyance, there probably wasn’t anything more he could do to poke fun at her, anyway. But just for good measure, he decided to keep his full attention trained on her; watching her struggle with each problem that came up until she’d eventually finished the page.

“That was impressive~! Who knew you were so good at math.”

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She ignored his mocking, choosing instead to shove the paper at him for error checking with an attempt at dignity. She’d complain to mom later about him being a jerk.

“I hate you as much as I hate math,” she informed him blandly once he declared it free or errors, even as she allowed herself to fall over and sprawl across his lap. “You’re the worst dad ever.”

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✖┆ “A good listener or not, at least you’re right about one thing.” Izaya gave a stretch, eventually plopping the young girl back down on the floor before easing his way out of his chair to stand up himself. Even if the broker couldn’t teach her everything, at least she already understood that flattery would get her everywhere~!

“—But I think it’s about time we convinced a certain someone that it’s her to turn to find us food. I think she owes us a few boxes of ootoro, don’t you?”

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“MAMA!” she called immediately, grabbing his hand to drag him out of the room and into the other room. “Mama it’s time for ootoro!”

Takara dropped his hand once she spotted Rei, bouncing forward and holding her hands out to reach for the box of food in her mother’s hands. “Ootoro! And mama, we gotta eat ootoro every day from now on, ‘cause it’s got new tree ants in it to make eye qs go up and I need all the new tree ant to be as smart as dad! Right?” she added, turning to look at Izaya over her shoulder. “Tell mama!”

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✖┆ “Hmm.” Well now, wasn’t she just the future little mastermind. Izaya wouldn’t say he could commend Takara on her pronunciation of the words yet, but at least she was showing promise in retaining information. And with that sly smile and her persistent attitude, there were bound to be some pretty interesting things in store for the younger should she keep chasing after things that caught her attention.

“I don’t know, maybe~! Since this was all your idea, how about I let you be the one to break the news to her and we’ll see how it goes.” In a rare show of physical acceptance, Izaya lifted a hand to ruffle at the girl’s hair as she squished against his side.

“Just remember. As nice as it feels to get the better of someone by tricking them like that, doing something simple won’t be enough to raise that ‘eye q’ of yours. And it’s not something I can help you with, either. That much, you’ll have to do on your own.”

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Takara leaned into the touch happily, pleased at the attention as she snuggled closer. Dad was still so weird. “But you’re super smart! So y’know how to make my eye q go up!” She would definitely tell mama they needed ootoro every day though. As soon as they had lunch. Which was ootoro.

“Time to eat?” She’d remind him to hang up his present later.

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✖┆ “Now what do you think?” Izaya shot back over a shoulder, making sure to keep anything of his out of Takara’s grasps with a few well-timed flicks. As much as he appreciated the ego stroking compliment, having anything touch the muddy mess that was the smaller was completely out of the question. She’d just have to make due with what she had for now.  

“If you really think your little mishap deserves an afternoon snack and extra play time, then maybe you aren’t nearly as smart as what I was giving you credit for.” Besides, even without Izaya’s sharp remark, Takara was bound to crash as soon she’d finished cleaning up anyway. It was almost like clockwork, as much as she always tried to deny it.

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She pouted, giving up the game as home came into sight. “I dun’ wanna nap!” she repeated, sulking. “I wanna play with you.” That was more fun than sleep! She bounded ahead of him though, bouncing through the door and leaving mud in her wake as she enthusiastically called for her mother, babbling about catching a mouse.

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✖┆ Where was the fun in acting sympathetic, though? From the way Takara had treated him before, she definitely hadn’t earned any of his sympathy! And wasting his small allowance of an emotion like that on a few math problems wasn’t something Izaya was willing to compensate for.

He’d still give her paper another once over though, with an approving ( borderline teasing ) nod right after

“Congratulations~! You finally managed to finish one whole math problem by yourself without any help from me! Next, you’ll be blazing through the entire page without so much as looking in my direction! Won’t that be astounding~!” 

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She made another face at him, pulling the paper back to work on the next one. He was such a jerk. The math did not actually get any easier, but at least she made it through the problems eventually, despite his teasing.

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✖┆ “Maybe. If you’re really so curious to find out, after we’re done turning you back into something half way decent, you can go try to find one and ask them what they think.”

Tails flicked in annoyance as he felt grimy paws try to latch onto them to act as a lead. A few well timed sways had the fluffy appendages out of Takara’s grasp for now; Izaya making sure to keep up their pace as he shot another answer over a shoulder. 

“—When you’re ready to. Why do you ask?”

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“’Cause I wanna pretty tail too!” She continued her game of trying to catch one, grinning widely up at him as she trotted along. “They’re nice an’ warm an’ fluffy!” Which was a compliment, obviously. They were very nice tails. She wanted some too, just like his.

Takara went quiet for another few minutes, still playing catch the tail before she finally looked up again. “Will it be naptime after bath time?” she asked, finally tossing the mouse by away by the tail when she saw the tip of a cat tail peeking out from under a nearby bush. The cat’d probably eat it once they were gone.

“I dun’ wanna nap.”

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✖┆ “Oh, I don’t know,” Izaya started, continuing to lead Takara along while still keep plenty of distance between her and her muddy mess, “I was thinking that since you’re being so nice and offering to share, maybe I’ll just keep it as a souvenir and display it for everyone else to see. I mean, with the way you’re carrying it around like that and all, you’d think it was a trophy!”

Her catch wasn’t anything to be particularly proud of. With the weather being as consistently wet as it had been, anything that’d been worth catching was tucked away deep in their burrows But! He’d definitely have to give her her dues for actually managing to find something worth bringing back, too. 

Izaya wouldn’t touch it, but it was a start for her either way.

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She hummed in response to that, glancing down at the mouse in her hand. Not really a trophy, but it was her first catch! That had to be worth something, right? She poked at it for a moment thoughtfully before she finally turned her head up to look at him as she trotted after him.

“C’n a kitty eat it?” She knew quite a few strays who might like the thing, muddy as it was. She skipped closer, reaching out to grab for his tails just out of reach, grinning as she tried to catch the swaying fur in her muddy fingers.

“When will I get lots’a pretty tails?”