KNY Fanfic: Priceless Smile

Chapter 124: Basket

     Kazumi's now sitting in her room as she kept on scribbling something in a notebook. It's raining but it doesn't seem like it bothers her at all. Not until she stopped writing and sighed.

'I don't remember any baby in here.'

The slayers gasped at her thoughts as she stood up and rushed to the entrance. As she slide open the entrance door, she saw a basket on the floor. And instead of foods or anything in it, it's a baby sleeping peacefully. The slayers' eyes widened as they saw the baby. She rushed out of the gate to look for someone who left it. She saw a lone figure running away from her place without an umbrella, as she's about to go after her, the baby cried and so she has to check on it.

"There, there. How pitiful." Kazumi gently said as she carefully and gently carried it, she smile at the baby while slowly cradling it on her arms to stop it from crying.

She then looked at the note left inside the basket.

"Please take care of him."

No name was left on the note nor the basket. Even a simple embroidered cloth where the baby's name should be placed is not inside.

"A new born, a few days old." Kazumi muttered out before she carry the basket and the baby inside her home.

"She's still a kid yet she held the baby so gently." Kanae said.

She entered her room as she put the basket aside and sat on her futon while still carrying the baby. He stopped crying and now back to being asleep. Take, who's sleeping on a drawer placed at the corner, woke up and landed on her table.

"A baby? From who?" Take asked looking at the baby.

"I don't know. I just found him outside." Kazumi answered as she put the baby down to check on him.

'Healthy. But what's with the slight scent of opium?'

Kazumi then carried it again as she went to another room close to her office. She entered it as she place the baby on a soft bed in there and searched for some clean clothes.

"Opium? What's that?" Tanjiro asked.

"A kind of drug. Bad I should say." Tengen answered.

She then changed the baby's clothes as she put the previous ones in a box and placed it aside.

Their scene changed again as Kazumi's now inside the living room together with the triplets, Mei, Ringo, Nahori, and Kiori.

"If you found him last night, why didn't you woke us up?" Mei asked.

"Sorry, I don't wanna bother any of you at all." Kazumi answered.

"Waaah! It's so cute! Look at how chubby he is!" Nahori praised.

Ai then gently poke his cheek. A slight pink appeared on her face.

"Soft." She said.

"Here, Ringo-san." Kazumi gave the baby to Ringo who held it with her left arm with Kazumi's support.

"Why give him to me?" Ringo asked looking confused.

"I want you to be the first one the baby would see. I mean.... he'll think of you as his mother." Kazumi answered.

Ringo gasped at this as she blushed slightly, her mouth went agape. She then looked down at the baby.

"Does he have any name?" Togashi asked.

"Let's think about one later once he opens his eyes." Kazumi answered.

Shortly, the baby's eyelids started to move. It soon slowly opened his eyes showing his lavender colored pupils as he look up to Ringo. Kazumi then look at Mei as she took her place. She then stood up about to leave when the baby's cry stopped her.