The cutest anime ever and I hate love you for introducing this to me….

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“Kagome-onee-chama!” 

Feeling a light tug on her apron, the called female blinked as she saw the little black haired girl pointing to her undone pigtail. Chuckling at her pout, Kagome came down on her knees before patting her lap. “Kirin-chan, were you playing with the boys again?”

“Mmm!” She nodded as she made herself comfortable on Kagome’s lap; Kirin faced the boys who continued to play their ‘hero’ game. “I am the princess today!”

“You always are, Kirin-chan.” Fixing both of the girl’s pigtails, Kagome took notice of Taka beginning to swing his toy sword on his brother. “Seems like they made Hayato-kun and Ryuuichi-kun the evil wizards today?”

“Dragons!” Kirin shouted with excitement. “They are the evil dragons wanting to destroy our land and take our money!”

Sweat drop looming over her head, Kagome watched Kiri run off back to their imagination. Where did kids get so creative? Money? Did kids even care about money at that age? Did they know how it worked? Shaking the many questions piling in her head, Kagome stood up only to see Taka running to her.

“Kago-nee-chan!”

“Hm?”

“You need to play, too!” He swung his sword at her while pointing with his free hand to the other side of the room. “You can be the other princess! I will save you!”

“Oh?” Letting Taka pull her by the finger to the group, she chuckled at the sight of Ryuuichi getting ‘attacked’ by Takuma while his twin brother, Kazuma, lightly patted his sword against Ryuuichi’s shin. Despite their ‘gentle’ hits, with so many coming on him, it was bound to hurt later, or at least that was what she learned. Kids could not measure their strength even if they did not have ill intentions in their playful hits. After joining the babysitting club (thanks to Taka crying and crying asking for her to join), she had found herself loving these kids.

“Here!” Taka handed Kagome a small plastic crown. “I’m gonna save you from that ugly dragon!”

Following where his sword pointed, she quickly had to hold back her laughter upon meeting Hayato’s eyes.

“Oi. Who are you calling ugly?” His older brother’s eyes narrowed dangerously. Taking a step forward, with a ready fist, he blinked the moment Kagome interrupted his path.

“This is not the time for brothers to be fighting.” She raised a brow, sending the older Kamitani a message. “This is playtime, and we shouldn’t be ruining it because someone got angry over what a kid just said, isn’t that right, Hayato-kun?”

“He called me ugly.”

“He is a kid, Hayato-kun.” This was going to be a repeat of last weak when Taka told his older brother how he sucked in his last baseball match.

“Let’s all just play in peace.”

The two teens looked over to the ‘defeated’ Ryuuichi on the floor who was strongly forming a smile. Smiling while getting hit was an accomplishment for anyone taking care of kids.

“Kagome-onee-chama!” Kirin called as she raised a star wand up in the air. “Come over here! This is our castle!”

Kagome could not help but sheepishly smile at the so-called “castle”. It was
nice to think the kids had an enormous imagination, enough to make Usaida the
front wall as he slept. Being hurried again by the small child, Kagome made her
way around the main caretaker. Kneeling down to Kirin’s level, she watched as
Taka pulled Kotarou to stand in front of Hayato and Ryuuichi, who had finally
escaped the twins’ clutches.

Taka pointed his sword at the two male teens, “you dragons! Let go of the
princesses!”

“No.” Hayato blatantly replied.

Taka’s brows furrowed, “we won’t let the princesses be with ugly dragons!”

Kagome sighed under her breath as she saw the annoyance on Hayato’s face and
the hope in Ryuuichi’s face. No doubt that both of them were hoping Hayato did
not explode on his brother, again.

Squatting down to Taka’s eye level, Hayato slowly bent his middle finger
down to his thumb. Eyes remained glued on the slow movements until the flick on
Taka’s forehead echoed. Taka’s cry erupted, even having Usaida jumping up from
his nap to see the disruption.

“Try calling me ugly again.” Hayato warned.

“Oi!” Kagome stood as she walked over to the two. “You didn’t have to flick
him!”

“Do you want a flick, too?”

The corner of her lips twitched in response. “Only if I can give one back.”

Watching the sparks of bravery between the two, Ryuuichi placed his hands on
both of their shoulders. “Please, guys, let’s calm down! The kids don’t need to
see this!”

Kagome stuck out her tongue upon catching Hayato’s lingering glare; she
turned to face Taka who was now being protected by Kotarou. Chuckling at the
sight of the quiet boy, she then squatted to his level before petting his head.

“Both of you are so cute; I really am glad Taka-kun is at least the cute one
of the family.”

“You are asking for it, Kagome.” 

“G-Guys!” Ryuuichi chuckled nervously. This was going to end up with
babysitting the two of them rather than the kids.