They held the child, hands stroking over newborn flesh as they smiled together. The child wailed softly, and the brown-haired man stole the child away from his partner, rocking him with care and gentleness.

It was a boy, green eyes as bright as his papa's, but his hair was as blindingly silver as his father's. When they first brought the child home from the hospital, Usami could not believe the immense beauty withheld in him, as if he were of the band of tree spirits that were only of myth. If he had not been born inside, they thought, he might have triggered some ecological phenomenon. Alas, he came from within the confines of the blood stained bed sheets and stale disinfectant, given life by a black-haired woman who the couple had come to know as Aki.

As time passed, the small, tree-like boy, which Usami had insisted be named Daichi, began to walk, speak, and eventually write. His innocence began to limit itself, but the young spirit continued to impress the most unimpressed people, and even Usami's family were excited about their new relative. The writers extra study was transformed into the child's bedroom, where they tried to limit the amount of environmental influence, to no avail. The child's thumb was purely green, and his fathers worried for his mental health. He talked to the plants as if they could talk back.

Though, as he grew older, Usami and Misaki watched as their tree-spirit began to become of mundane origins, as he became human, and no longer something of myth.

When first grade rolled around, Daichi could not bear to be separated from his plants, so he brought one from his house to put in the classroom, and carried it home every weekend. While his father was writing, and his papa was busy at the stock exchange, Daichi would grab a snack from the fridge, set his plants on the windowsill of his room, water them, and begin to speak.

By the end of third grade, his parents and teachers were quite concerned. His classmates would tease him, laugh at him, but he would shake off their antics, saying that he was much more important in the long run. In the long run, he would be the one laughing at them. He could inherently feel, that sometime in the future, he would do something important.

When the new school year began, a transfer student from America introduced herself to the class as Anna. She was overseas with her father for sabbatical, and would be staying for a couple of years while her father worked with the literature department at Mitsuhashi university.

Daichi and Anna instantly became friends, though most of the time it seemed one-sided. Daichi, with his shy, lonely personality, and Anna, with her flamboyant, haughty attitude, seemed like a match made in hell, but to them, they were all they had.

When they were on school vacation, Anna would make various trips to the Usami household, only to sit in Daichi's room and watch him. She might not look it, but she loved to calculate, watch people in action, judge their character.

And she loved to do the same to Daichi. She watched as his green eyes swept over each plant with loving care, how his silver hair shined in the light of his bedroom. She found him an interesting specimen.

One day, without knowing the consequences of his words, Daichi asked his teacher why his papa and his father could not marry.

"Because it is unnatural." Was his answer, to which, he was curious.

"Why is it unnatural if my papa and my father love each other?"

"Because marriage is between a man and a woman, not two men, or two women." Daichi, for the first time in his short life, was angry.

"But people in other countries can marry! My papa and my father love each other very much, you big fat meanie!" And Anna tried her best to console the tear-stricken child as he locked himself in the class' private bathroom, with no apparent luck.

"Daichi! If it makes you feel any better, my momma and my daddy fight more than your parents. My momma doesn't even want to live with my daddy anymore" She called, pleading internally that Daichi would listen to her.

When Misaki answered the phone that afternoon, he had a very interesting conversation with his child's teacher.

At the end of the fifth grade, Daichi turned ten. When his papa asked him what he wanted for his birthday (since his father, the great lord Usami, was too busy writing his latest novel), and to his great surprise, Daichi answered, in all honesty, "I want you and father to marry!" And clapped his little, still chubby hands together, grinning from ear to ear. Misaki was speechless for a couple of moments, until he began to smile albeit it was a bit strained.

"Sweetheart, I'm sorry, but me and Usa- your father," Whew, he almost slipped there and forgot he was talking to a child, his child. "Can't get married." The look of utter disappointment crossed the young boy's face, and instant grief overcame Misaki, regretting the truth of the situation. In an attempt to console the child, his hands stroked over silver hair, whispering utterances and apologies to Daichi, explaining to him that it was out of their hands, that it was a political matter. It was nothing they could change, and his little tree-spirit needs to accept that.

A/N: alright, this chapter... this was an introductory chapter, and I'm not exactly sure why I wrote this.. I gonna attempt a slight amount of magical realism, since I began reading House of the Spirits the other day. I guess that was my motivation. And this fic will focus on mainly Daichi, Anna, and two to three other characters I have yet to introduce. R&R if you liked, or something like that. Not sure when the next chapter will be, so hang tight!

EDIT: okay, I've finally got a review! Now imma answer your question And explain how two men have a child.. Without mpreg! Anyone who doesn't understand cloning or that hasn't taken biology won't really understand this. Okay, first, take any cell from Misaki, skin, hair, whatever. Extract the DNA from it, and then take a female reproductive cell (egg) and extract the DNA. Infuse the egg with Misaki's DNA, then fertilize it with Usagi's sperm, then place the fertilized egg into a surrogate mother (Aki). This is my idea, but it probably won't work, seeing as the mother's immune system will attack the egg, but it's a lot more plausible then Mpreg.

Also, Anna is from America, and has no relation with the junjou couples. Hiroki and Nowaki's kids (yes, plural) haven't been introduced as of chapter three, but they will have offspring. *looks at length of edit* ... O_o I talk too much, have a nice day.