The Green Valley Twins

Long Hair

"Your mommy is weird," Katsuki pointed out seriously.

"Is that bad?" The twins asked at the same time.

"Hmm," Katsuki crossed his arms and thought about it seriously. His highly concentrated face made Inko's laughter even less controllable. "Maybe?" The blonde shrugged cluelessly. "I saw some older kids making fun of a bug and calling it weird once but... They were smiling and laughing."

"So we-id good shing?" Izumi asked

"We-ear-DAUH! thhhh-re-N-gah!" Katsuki stressed the pronunciation of the words with an expression of irritation. "Weird and thing! Say them right!"

"We-eared, th-ing?"

"That's better!"

"You should be a teacher, Katsuki-kun." Inko giggled out, finally calming down. "I've been struggling with fixing Izumi's pronunciation."

"Mommy bad!" Izumi shouted, pointing a finger in Inko's face. "Mommy promised!"

"Mommy promised not to hurt you. I never said I wouldn't laugh at a silly question." Inko corrected as she sat up and looked Izumi in the eye. "Honey, what makes you doubt your gender? Who said you weren't a girl?"

"Others," Izumi pouted at the floor. "All the girls have long hair and pretty dresses and shiny things..."

"No sane parent would ever give their child under the age of sixteen any form of expensive jewelry. Any parent allowing their three year old daughter to have long hair is a glutton for punishment." Inko replied automatically, which only made the children stare at her in confusion. "A parent or parent-s are your mommy and daddy. Sane or sanity is what makes society work the way it does. Glutton is a term used for a person who eats too much food. Punishment means--"

"I know that one!" Katsuki thrust his hand into the air with a big grin. "Mommy punishes me all the time! It means cleaning your room or the living room or the table or the chair--"

"So pun-ish-men-T means you have to clean a room?" Izumi asked curiously.

"No," Izuku answered firmly. "Glutton for punishment," Izuku repeated thoughtfully. "That means..." He trailed off, looking up at Inko unsurely.

"He gets in trouble because he likes it?" Katsuki asked in disbelief.

"Correct Katsuki-kun," Inko smiled at him before turning to her daughter. "As for the dresses, we can shop around for new clothes honey. Just remember that dresses require a different way of movement."

"Different?" Izuku asked curiously.

"Uh Huh," Inko nodded and smiled at her son. "Have you noticed how mommy sits and walks? My knees are almost always together."

"Oh, that's why!" Izuku smiled brightly at her. "I thah-T Mommy just mommy!" Inko giggled at her son, somehow unsurprised by his observations.

"Th-ah-T!" Katsuki corrected, glaring at Izuku and earning a giggle from the boy.

"Do you remember how Aunty Miho walks?" Inko asked

"Really quiet!" Izuku cheered

"Scary sometimes," Izumi nodded seriously.

"That's right. She walks on the outside of her feet to be quiet." Inko drew a line along the outside of her right foot, showing her children just what she meant. "Do you remember how Aunty Yuko walks?"

"She's fast!" Izuku gushed

"Light cats," Izumi agreed

"Dogs are faster than cats!" Katsuki challenged Izumi, it took everything Inko had not to start laughing at the offended look on her daughter's face.

"Cheetahs are the world's fastest meat eaters," Izumi informed him as serious as any three year old could get.

"I agree," Inko said before Katsuki could challenge her daughter again. "Although I don't know much about animals. I could be wrong. Now as for Aunty Yuko's speed, she walks on the heal of her foot and takes small steps in quick succession." She drew a circle on the very edge of her foot, just beneath her toes and just before the arch of her foot.

"Suck-seas-shion?" The children repeated slowly.

"Uh-huh, something that happens quickly and repeatedly." Inko nodded at the children. "Do you remember how Aunty Natsuko walks?"

"Super slow!" Izuku answered loudly.

"Like snail," Izumi agreed with a sleepy yawn.

"That's right, she wears a kimono often right?"

"Her pretty robe?" Izuku asked curiously.

"Yes, her pretty robe," Inko giggled. "It's called a kimono. It's a very old and traditional dress for women. It makes for slow moving but the dress is designed to make the body do what our more modern clothes don't do."

"Like what?" Katsuki asked curiously.

"The obi, the really thick belt around the middle," Inko gestured to her own belly as reference. "Is designed to keep the back straight. The skirt is very tight and thick so the legs aren't capable of moving quickly. Which forces the feet to take smaller steps. This in turn makes the body stand and walk in a particular way, holding our 'energy center' in a different fashion from those of us not used to wearing old styled clothes."

"So dif-gent dresses do dif-gent things?" Izumi asked.

"Diff-ER-EN-T" Katsuki corrected.

"Differ-ent?"

"Yes!" The little albino was starting to look frustrated and Inko couldn't blame him.

"That's right," Inko nodded at her daughter. "I don't let you wear dresses because right now you'll get them torn up. I'll start getting you dresses when you go to elementary school. As for your hair I was hoping to keeping it short for a little while longer. Long hair is difficult to manage-I mean take care of. Especially curly hair." It was just her misfortune that both children inherited their father's curls. At least they had her green hair and eyes. Admittedly though she doesn't know where the freckles came from but they're the most adorable thing ever on her twins.

"Soo... When I'm older I can have long hair and wear dresses?" Izumi asked curiously.

"Uh-huh," Inko nodded, "so long as you're still interested in them then yes. I was going to start up the suggestion of learning to care for your hair when you were ten but if you want to learn how when your eight, that's fine too."

"No, no, ten good!" Izumi smiled brightly. "When I'm ten I get dresses and long hair!" Inko laughed as Izumi and Izuku jumped up and down. Katsuki looked confused, as if he didn't understand the significance of twin's joy.

"Midoriya-San?" Inko looked up at the staff member, "can I speak to you for a moment?"