Tender Love & Care

A Day With Kouyou

Today was one of Kouyou’s rare days off and she hasn’t had the chance to spend as much time with Chuuya as she wanted. So she figured today was a good day to do so. She got up out of bed, and grabbed her robe off of one of the clothes hook. She slid the robe on and closed it, tying it up. She walked to the door of her room, and she slid on her slippers next to the door before slipping completely out of her room. Kouyou closed her door behind her and she made her way down the stairs to the second floor. She walked down the long hallway going to Chuuya's room.  She gently opened the door and smiled as she walked over to the bed. She sat on the side of the bed next to Chuuya, and she gently ran her hand through his hair. 

"Chuuya?" She said softly. Chuuya stirred and rolled over groaning pulling the cover up over him. Kouyou laughed at how hard her son was to get up out of bed. 

"Chuuya?" She said again softly as she reached her hands under the covers, and pulled Chuuya out. She pulled the small ginger headed child into her lap and he nuzzled in to her chest as he held his stuffed animal tightly. 

"5 more minutes Mama..." Chuuya groaned displeased. 

She shook her head. "I am sorry my little love but I have a lot planned for us today. It is my day off and I want to spend it with my favorite boy. Starting with a pancake breakfast." 

Chuuya opened his big blue eyes then. "Pancakes?" 

Kouyou laughed. She knew her son loved pancakes for breakfast, and she knew it was his weakness when he was being lazy about getting up. 

Kouyou nodded at his question. "Yes, pancakes." 

"Can I help?" 

Kouyou smiled as she stood up picking Chuuya up with her, holding him on her hip. 

"Of course." 

Kouyou walked out of Chuuya's room and continued down the long hallway to the stairs. Kouyou walked down the stairs down to the living room, and the courtesans greeted her and Chuuya. 

"Good morning Madame Kouyou and little Chuuya!" They said. 

"Goodmorning girls." Kouyou said smiling and then she looked at Chuuya. She knew Chuuya still wasn't too confident with his Japanese even though it was perfectly fine, and she also knew his accent behind it bothered him. But she made him practice anyway because she didn't want him to be uncomfortable forever. 

"Chuuya what do we say?" Chuuya looked at her and he blushed embarrassed, moving his stuffed animal to cover his face. 

"G-Good morning." Chuuya mumbled. 

The girls laughed at how cute and shy Chuuya was being. Kouyou also laughed at how adorable Chuuya was. And she grabbed his hands and pulled them down making him uncover his face. 

“We are going to work on you being so shy.” Kouyou laughed. “You have to be a bit more out spoken Chuu.” 

Kouyou said as she walked into the kitchen. She sat Chuuya down on the counter, and she kneeled down after she did getting a mixing bowl from under the cabinet. Kouyou took eggs out of the fridge and she gave them to Chuuya, and Chuuya opened the carton.  

“Make sure you don’t get any egg shells in the bowl Chuu.” 

Chuuya nodded as he cracked two eggs over the bowl neatly. Kouyou gave Chuuya a measuring cup and she filled it with milk until 1 cup. Chuuya poured that inside, and then she poured one fourth more and Chuuya poured it into the mixing bowl again. Kouyou then added two tablespoons vegetable oil, and two tablespoons sugar. And then one fourth teaspoons salt, and 3 teaspoons baking powder, and then two cups of flour. Kouyou then plugged up the mixer and turned it on, while Chuuya stood on the step stool near the sink washing what they were done with. Kouyou mixed the batter until it was well and mixed. Kouyou then started making the pancakes and it didn’t take her long. Thirty minutes at the most and she was finished. Chuuya sat at the table kicking his legs, waiting happily for his pancakes. She sat the plate of his pancakes in front of him, and Chuuya grabbed the syrup squeezing a decent amount on his pancakes before he started eating them.