For me writing is like starting a fire with nothing but sticks, it is very hard to get started but once it gets going it can grow into something great, so I give you the results of vigorously rubbing those sticks together, the fire that I have made which you the reader will from here on know as chapter 9, hope you enjoy.

Disclaimer: I don't own Oreimo

Greetings.

Huh? Who are you?

Oh it seem I'm early, oh well I'll just wait in the wings until my cue, please just ignore me until then.

What?

{BUZZ}{BUZZ}{BUZZ}

I was startled awake this Tuesday morning by my alarm, it was finally time to get back to work but before I left I had to make breakfast for everyone, I then remembered last night how Aiko decided to make us all sleep in the same bed, and I was still rather disappointed in the fact that Kyousuke doesn't sleep shirtless, I looked over to see the bed empty.

Ki: "Huh? Where'd they go?"

I then noticed a delicious smell in the air, I made my way downstairs to see Kyousuke setting down plates of food.

Ki: "Morning."

Ky: "Oh good morning Kirino."

Ai: "Morning mommy."

Ky: "You're just in time I finished making breakfast."

Ki: "Wow this looks really good."

I looked down at the plates to see a western style meal of bacon, eggs, sausage, and toast.

Ki: "Hm, I'm still surprised an idiot like you knows how to cook at all, I always thought bachelors lived off of fast food and convenience store junk."

Ky: "Well you can thank mom for that, if it wasn't for her forcing dad to force me to learn how to cook that probably would have been my reality."

Ki: "Probably would have ended up as a big tub of lard too, if that happened I wouldn't have wanted anything to do with you then."

Ky: "Hey!"

Ai: "Mommy don't be mean."

Ki: "I'm kidding if that did happen I'd just run you through a rigorous workout regimen until all the fat was burned off, ain't nobody in my house gonna live an unhealthy lifestyle."

Ky: "Haha well aren't you thoughtful."

Ki: "So Aiko did you sleep good last night?"

Ai: "Yeah I had a dream that we were all playing in the water but the water tasted really bad."

Ki: "Oh you were dreaming about the beach."

Ai: "What's a beach?"

Ky: "A beach is where the ocean meets the land, specifically at a sandy shore."

Ai: "What's the ocean?"

Ki: "The Ocean is like a really really big lake that has salty water instead of regular water which tastes really bad but smells good and you can find pretty shells all over the place."

Ai: "Oh I wanna go there, can we go there?"

Ki: "It's a little too cold for that right now but when it gets warm enough in spring we can go."

Ai: "Yes I can't wait."

Ki: "Darn I better go get dressed now if I want to get to work on time."

After scarfing down the rest of my food I quickly made my way back upstairs to get dressed and made up for work and back downstairs to leave.

Ki: "Alright I'm headed to work, are you guys going to be okay on your own."

Ky: "Yeah we'll be fine."

Ki: "Alright, now be a good girl for daddy Aiko {kiss}."

Ai: "Okay mommy."

Ki: "I'll see you guys later."

Ai: "Mommy wait?!"

Ki: "Hm what is it Aiko?"

Ai: "You forgot daddy's goodbye kiss."

Ki: "Oh sorry, okay Kyousuke come over here give me a goodbye kiss."

Ky: "Yeah yeah I'm coming…here {kiss}."

Before Kyousuke reached my cheek I "accidentally" turned my head and he kissed me square on the mouth.

Ky: "Hey c-come on Kirino not in front of Aiko."

Ki: "Don't blame me for your bad aim, you're the one that missed."

Ky: "Yeah sure I was."

Ki: "Hehe yeah you should really work on your accuracy, anyway I'll see you guys after work."

Ai: "Bye Mommy."

Ki: "Bye sweetie."

I exit the house and walk to the street but once I get past the gate I'm overcome with the urge to go back into the house, after a moment I set that thought aside and continue on, as I make my way to Eternal Blue's building I can't help but notice the great feeling I'm having, my head feels clear and for the first time in a while I noticed the refreshing feel of the chilly Autumn air.

Since when did the air feel this good?

When I board the train I actually notice the toasty warmth of the heated car, I feel so warm that I thought I would fall asleep before I reached my stop but fortunately I felt so rested that I stayed awake the whole way, when I exit the station and enter Akiba I'm startled for a moment.

Did I get off at the wrong stop?!

But then I look around and re-recognize the shops and landmarks realizing this was my stop, but everything looked different, more colorful, almost as if everything was shifted to a higher resolution, I continued on taking in the new sight, it felt like I was seeing everything again for the first time, after I reached the building I entered and walked up to the reception desk to register.

Ki: "Hey there Lin I'm back."

Li: "Oh Kirino you're finally back I was getting worried that you…"

Ki: "…Uh, something wrong Lin?"

Li: "N-no! Nothing go right on in."

Ki: "Okay then."

I walk into the elevator and press the button for the floor I work on, when the doors open I enter the hallway and head towards the general break area passing a few people on the way, but for some reason they all gave me strange looks of surprise as I passed.

I've only been gone for a couple of days, though I can't blame them given what's happened in the past few years.

Finally reaching the entryway I entered the general use break area where everyone was getting mentally prepared for today's photo shoots and I could see my friends Ayase and Ran sitting at a table near the vending machines.

Ki: "Hey ladies I'm back!"

Ay: "Hey Kirino."

Ra: "Kirino where've you been we missed you here."

Ki: "Just took care of a few important things that's all."

Ra: "Really? Ayase told me that you were looking after some lost little girl until the police found her parents."

Ki: "Did she now?"

Ra: "I've gotta say Kirino that's pretty admirable for the police to have so much trust in you."

Ki: "Well that's only because they have so much respect for my dad."

Ra: "Hm…"

Ki: "Uh, something up Ran?"

Ra: "Tell me Kirino? Did you find a boyfriend?"

Ki: "EH?! Wh-what would make you say that?"

Ra: "It's written all over your face, you've been wearing that bright, happy smile since you walked in here."

Ki: "What are you talking about don't I always look bright and happy?"

Ra: "Uh, y-yeah sure but not this bright and happy, so tell me is it one of the other models."

Ki: "No I'm not dating anybody, I just…slept really good last night."

Ra: "Hm I wonder how good, oh speaking of dating Ayase told me that your brother has moved back into town you think you could finally introduce him to me."

Ki: "Not this again, I already told you Ran my brother is too busy with work for any relationships plus he's sterile."

Ra: "I don't mind if he's sterile we can always adopt plus ever since that thing happened with you and that executive I've been thinking of retiring early so I could probably just get him to quit his job."

Ki: "Huh, you too Ran?"

Ra: "Well when you're sitting on that much money you can't exactly spend your life working and I'm sure with that kind of incentive your brother would be more than willing to quit his job for me."

Ki: "It's still hard to believe that the three of us are the only ones left from before that."

Ra: "Yeah it makes me feel like a veteran, I'm sure that your brother can appreciate a devoted woman."

Ki: "B-but I forgot to mention my brother uh…has bad hygiene, his breath stinks and he has terrible B.O. he only bathes like once a week."

Ra: "All it takes is a pretty face to change any man's bad habits."

Ki: "Okay Ran I didn't want to say this but my brother is…an ameriboo."

Ra: "So he's really into American culture? Wow me too though probably not as much as him if you consider him an ameriboo, ooh maybe we can go on one of those cross country road trips."

Ki: "Yeah but since he's an ameriboo he's more into American girls mainly big breasted blondes."

Ra: "Well that's a shame, oh by the way what happened with that little girl you're looking after?"

Ki: "Oh yeah the police couldn't find her parents or any close relatives so they were going to send her to an orphanage so I decided to adopt her yesterday."

Ay: "Eh?!"

Ra: "SO YOU HAVE A DAUGHTER NOW?!"

At Ran's exclamation everybody in the room turned their attention to us, a few came over to question me while the rest whispered amongst themselves.

?: "We couldn't help but overhear but is that true Kirino?"

?: "I didn't even know you were pregnant."

?: "Who's the father?"

Ki: "N-no guys you didn't hear me I adopted her, she's already four years old."

I explained the whole situation to everyone to get the wrong idea out of their heads and they all seemed to understand.

?: "Oh."

?: "Aiko is such a cute name."

?: "Do you have any pictures?"

Ra: "Yeah I wanna see her."

Ki: "Yeah sure."

I pulled out my phone and looked through my pictures to find one of Aiko to show everybody, unfortunately all of them were of her with Kyousuke so I chose the one from yesterday with Aiko riding on Kyousuke's shoulders to keep the girls from assuming anything.

Ki: "Alright here she is."

?: "Wow she's so cute!"

?: "She looks just like you, you sure you're not her mother?"

Ki: "Yes I'm very sure, they did DNA tests and everything."

?: "Who's the cutie carrying her?"

Ki: "That's my brother Kyousuke."

?: "Wow he's kind of hot."

Ra: "Kirino I thought you said he had bad hygiene but his teeth look pretty white in this picture and the clothes he's wearing look pretty nice too."

Ki: "Uh well because I'm letting him live in my house I told him he had to improve his hygiene if he wanted to stay I even gave him some of my special tooth whitener to use and as for the clothes I bought those for him to wear outside the house when he's accompanying me anywhere, but believe me when he's by himself the guy is a total slob."

?: "Now that I look at it his eyes do show it, he is a slob."

?: "Well if he looks like that all fixed up I wouldn't mind taking a whack at him."

Ki: "Believe me there's no changing him, he's been that way since he was little but even so he's really good with Aiko the two of them are always playing together."

?: "{sigh}You're so lucky to have such a cute daughter Kirino and one that looks just like you no less I'm so jealous."

As we were talking the head director's assistant Gina walked in.

Gi: "Alright everybody time to tell you where you need to go."

She listed off the names of the various models telling them what studio to head to or what car to take if they had to do an outdoor shoot.

Gi: "Oh Kirino glad to see you're back."

Ki: "Yep."

Gi: "Well anyway you're grouped with Ayase and Ran again in Studio 10."

Ra: "Hey Kirino show Gina that picture of your new daughter."

Gi: "Kirino you have a daughter?"

Ki: "Yeah I just adopted her yesterday take a look."

Gi: "Wow she's definitely a cutie almost as cute as my daughter she looks just like you too and that boyfriend of yours is pretty easy on the eyes."

Ki: "Th-that's not my boyfriend that's my brother!"

Gi: "Oh sorry but now that I think of it doesn't adoption take a long time complete."

Ki: "Uh yeah but being a celebrity and all I was able to use my connections and status to expedite the process and have her move in immediately."

Gi: "Really you can do that?"

Ki: "Y-yeah totally."

Gi: "I see, well we've wasted enough time you guys better get to your dressing rooms before you're late."

Ki: "Okay then see you later."

Ra: "Later Gina."

Gi: "See you girls later and congratulations on your new daughter Kirino."

Ki: "Thanks."

We exited the break area and entered the hallway on our way to the dressing rooms.

Ra: "Hey Ayase is something wrong."

Ay: "Huh?"

Ra: "Well it's just that you've been totally quiet since Kirino got here."

Ki: "Yeah what's up with you?"

Ay: "…"

Mi: "Hey Kirino!"

Ki: "Oh Misaki hey."

Mi: "I just wanted to get an update on your status."

Ki: "Well right now there isn't anything that should keep me from working."

Mi: "What about your new daughter? Aiko right?"

Ki: "Yeah right now my brother is looking after her while he waits for his boss to call him back to work though she won't be starting school for a few weeks now."

Mi: "I see well if you don't have anybody to look after her you can always bring her here and we could have somebody watch her while you work maybe even let her observe you and when she starts school we can shift your schedule around so you'll be home before she is."

Ki: "That'd be great and I hope the higher ups understand that now that I have a daughter that I can't do anymore work abroad or even out of town for that matter."

Mi: "While they are disappointed they understand, things have just been kind of hard since most of our models quit and we've got nothing but beginners now."

Ki: "Yeah again I'm really sorry about that."

Mi: "It's fine in fact my boss said that you more than made up for it by staying with us as long as you have plus you are the face of Eternal Blue they can't risk upsetting you if they want to keep all your fans buying."

Ki: "Hehe I wouldn't say I'm that important, anyway we better get going."

Mi: "Alright then you girls take care now."

Ra: "Later."

We walked to the private dressing rooms to change into our first assigned outfits for the day and met up with the make-up artists, after finishing with that we headed to our assigned studio, once there we met up with the studio's director to see what we had to do for this shoot. We spent the day as we usually did taking photos and having fun though everybody including the director did compliment me on an extraordinary performance which he doesn't usually do when I'm assigned to him.

Ra: "Wow Kirino you really sparkled out there today."

Ki: "What are you talking about I just did what I always do."

Ra: "Yeah but today you had a lot more energy and cheerfulness in it, hmm maybe you do have a boyfriend and he helped to put that pep in your step this morning."

Ki: "Why do you have to keep going there? Anyway I'll see you guys later."

Ay: "Wait Kirino you're not going to hang out with us."

Ra: "Of course she won't be able to hang out with us Ayase she does have a daughter waiting for her at home."

Ki: "Yeah one of the very few downsides to having kids is you have less time for a social life."

Ra: "It's fine and next time we hang out you can bring Aiko with you."

Ki: "Sounds great, later guys."

Ra: "Later."

Ay: "Bye."

I left Eternal Blue's building and made my way home but once I got there I was surprised to see a police cruiser parked in my driveway behind my car but then I noticed the Bleach combat pass sticker on the back windshield and realized who it belonged to.

Ki: "I wonder what they're doing here."

I entered my house but the living room and the kitchen were empty, I then heard some laughter coming from the backyard and went to investigate.

Ich: "We've got you cornered Rocket Man."

Ji: "Yeah there's nowhere for you or the princess to run."

Ky: "Hmhm I was hoping for this to happen because with you two so close together I can take you both out with this."

Ai: "Go dad- uh I mean Rocket Man kick their butts!"

Ky: "ROCKET SHOCK STRIKE!"

Ich: "Aagh!"

Ji: "Oh nooo!"

Ky: "Now princess let us make haste back to the pala- oh hey Kirino you have a nice day at work?"

Ki: "…"

Ai: "Mommyyy!"

Ki: "Hey there sweetie."

Ai: "Haha I missed you so much mommy."

Ki: "I missed you too were you having fun with daddy."

Ai: "Yeah and Uncle Ichiro and Jiro came to play too."

Ki: "Well I'm sure you're having a lot of fun but I think they better get going before grandpa notices they're slacking off."

Ai: "What's slacking off?"

Ki: "It's when somebody is playing games when they're supposed to be working."

Ich: "Hehe yeah we better get going bye Aiko."

Ji: "Bye guys."

Ai: "Bye bye."

Ki: "So "Rocket Man" what have you two been up to all day."

Ky: "Hehe."

The rest of the week went by pretty much the same way I even got in on a couple of Kyousuke and Aiko's games and finally came the weekend, more specifically the day we were to meet up with Ruri in Akiba, we walked down the streets while I was currently dressed in an outfit that partially hid my identity to keep fans from prying in on us at our meeting.

Ky: "Man it's been a long time since I've seen Ruri."

Ki: "Yeah It's been a couple of weeks for me, that cosplay business must be really booming and she's probably gonna become even busier with winter comiket coming up."

Ai: "Mommy who's Ruri?"

Ki: "Ruri is a very good friend of mommy's think of her like your crazy, funny talking aunt."

Ai: "Haha I can't wait to meet her."

Ky: "…Hmhm remember when we used to come here together? Every time we got off the train you would run to the middle of the walkway and scream "AKI-HA-BARA"."

Ki: "Sh-shut up."

Ky: "Hehehe."

Ai: "Hmm {inhaaaaale} AKI-HA-BARA!"

Ki: "Aiko why'd you go and do that?!"

Ai: "You did it when you were little, I wanted to try it too."

Ky: "Great you're already teaching her bad things."

Ki: "{Sigh}."

Ky: "So Aiko what do you think of Akiba."

Ai: "All these houses are so big and tall."

Ky: "Haha these aren't houses, they're skyscrapers, businessmen use them so they can work and do other business stuff."

Ai: "Oooh."

Ki: "Hm you know I just remembered."

Ky: "What?"

Ki: "Kyousuke there's this book I've been meaning to get for Aiko do you mind taking her with you to pick it up?"

Ky: "Sure what's it called?"

Ki: "Children's Compendium of Prehistoric Monsters."

Ky: "Interesting name, alright then we'll meet you at the café, come on Aiko."

Ai: "Aww but I want to meet Aunty Ruri."

Ky: "Don't worry you'll meet her and since she doesn't know you're coming think of this as a surprise for her."

Ai: "Haha okay daddy, bye mommy see you at the coffee."

Ki: "Hmhm it's café Aiko."

Ai: "Oops."

We parted ways and I continued on to the café, the very one where we all first met at.

The Cure Maid Café…it's been a while.

I walked in spotting a familiar black haired woman waring a pair of black jeans, a white form fitting shirt and light pink jacket that was only buttoned up at the top.

Ki: "Hey Ruri."

Ru: "Oh you're finally here, where's Kyousuke?"

Ki: "He's taking care of something but he'll be here in a bit, hm that's a nice outfit you have there looks like you've been following my fashion advice or are you waring that for Kyousuke."

Ru: "Hm hardly, even if that brute were to prostrate himself before me spouting his undying love I would pay as much mind to him as I would a roach on the floor."

Ki: "Jeez Ruri harsh as ever."

Ru: "How can I not be to a fool idiotic enough to leave a goddess such as myself for a mere hag."

Ki: "Hey are you talking about me?!"

Ru: "I see no one else here waring the garbs of a hag."

Ki: "Why you-"

Ru: "So how have you been?"

Ki: "If you have to know I've been doing well and you?"

Ru: "My business has been very lucrative I already have over a hundred outfits commissioned for winter comket."

Ki: "Really? wow."

Ru: "I've also been asked by several colleges to teach seamstress classes given my skill with the needle."

Ki: "Sounds like you're going to be pretty busy for the next few months, how are you able to handle all that?"

Ru: "I will be busy but not so much so that we won't be able to hold these get togethers, I can make at least five outfits a day if I'm working at optimum efficiency and the classes should take no more than two hours a day and they're only held five days a week."

Ki: "I see well I can't say that's a bad thing I mean if you really want to meet with us that bad."

Ru: "Weren't you the one that begged me to be here."

Ki: "Begged? I don't remember begging!"

Ky: "Hey guys we're here."

Ai: "Hi mommy."

Ki: "Kyousuke, Aiko hey."

Ru: "PFFFF!"

Ki: "So sweetie do you like the book daddy got for you?"

Ru: "Mommy? D-daddy? Sh-she-she multiplied?"

Ai: "Yeah it has lots and lots of cool animals in it."

Ki: "I'm glad you like it now how about you say hi to your aunty Ruri."

Ru: "Aunty?!"

Ai: "Hi there my name is Aiko it's nice to meet you aunty Ruri."

Ru: "Uh, ahem, I am pleased to make your acquaintance as well young one."

Ai: "Haha mommy was right you do talk funny."

Ru: "Quite and I'm sure she'll be willing to explain this situation to me."

After putting Aiko's headphones on again and giving Ruri full disclosure of the past week's events she seemed…unaffected.

Ki: "So what do you think?"

Ru: "I have absolutely no idea how to react to this, but I am surprised you haven't molested her yet."

Ki: "I told you I grew out of that."

{RINGALINGALING}

Suddenly we hear the café entrance bell ring loudly and we all turned to see a dark-silver haired woman hunched over and out of breath using the door handle for support, she raised her head to look around and when her gaze fell on us we were able to see that it was Saori (waring normal clothes).

Ki: "Saori what are you doing here?"

With smile on her face she stood up straight and walked over to our table.

Sa: "And thus with my arrival the first official reunion of Otaku Girls Unite is underway! It's good to see you all again."

Ru: "I thought you said you were with your family in Europe."

Sa: "I was but I couldn't pass up on the first chance for us all to be together again and to make my arrival more dramatic I chartered a flight with one of my family's private jets last night and only just arrived a couple of hours ago."

Ki: "…Well then we gladly welcome our leader to the first official Otaku Girls Unite reunion."

Ru: "Welcome."

Ky: "Welcome."

Sa: "…Thanks everyone."

Ai: "Daddy who's that lady?"

Ky: "Oh I guess we better introduce you to the newest member."

Sa: "Huh?"

Ki: "Aiko say hi to your aunt Saori."

Ai: "Wow she's so pretty, hi there my name's Aiko it's nice to meet you aunty Saori."

Without saying anything Saori got on her knees in front of Aiko and then leaned down to give her a hug as tears were streaming down her face.

Sa: "I'm so glad that our circle will continue on through you {sniff}."

Ai: "What's wrong aunty Saori?"

Ky: "You okay Saori?"

Sa: "So…"

Without warning Saori quickly stood up and raised Aiko high into the air.

Sa: "I proclaim thee my heir!"

Ai: "Hahaha I'm so high-up!"

Ru: "Eh?"

Ky: "Eh?!"

Ki: "Heir?!"

Ai: "Huh? What's an heir?"

Sa: "What it means my dear child is that upon the day of my passing everything that I own will be handed down to you!"

Ai: "What's passing? You mean like passing a ball?"

Ki: "That's not something you should be learning right now Aiko, come on Saori sit down you're kind of making a scene."

Sa: "Oh sorry."

Ky: "So you seem rather excited about our new member."

Sa: "Why wouldn't I be I'm really happy for you two."

Ki: "Before we go on let me put Aiko's headphones back on."

Ky: "Now what makes you assume that Aiko belongs me and Kirino?"

Sa: "It's not hard to notice the similarities she has with the two of you though I am sort of confused, this girl seems a little old to have been born recently and if I remember correctly at the time she would have been born Kirino was nowhere near pregnant."

Ru: "And there's also the fact that those two have been estranged for the past decade."

Sa: "I just assumed that they've been seeing each other in secret."

Ki: "Well that's not it…"

I gave Saori the unabridged explanation of what's been going on and she seemed quite intrigued.

Sa: "Huuh I've heard of the astral plane but I always thought of it as a fictional concept rather than a real world phenomenon."

Ru: "I've only ever been able to lucid dream rather than do a full astral projection."

Ki: "Really? What's the difference?"

Ru: "The difference between lucid dreaming and astral projection is that when it comes to the former it takes place within the astral plane but you are unable to exit the dreamscape, whereas with the latter there are almost no limits to where you can go or what you can do so long as it is within limits of your imagination and you can't interact with real world objects or people but you can meet with the spirits of the dead and other astral projectors so long as you have an emotional connection with them."

Ky: "Wow you really know a lot about this."

Ru: "I do have several books on it that I can let you two borrow if you want."

Ki: "But wait I don't get it I thought you had full control in a lucid dream."

Ru: "Yes you have full control but think of it this way, let's say you wished to visit France, in a lucid dream you'd only conjure an illusion of France from what you thought it looked like, it would only be an imperfect copy whereas through astral projection you could actually visit France as it currently is in the real world."

Ki: "Wow you know all this yet you've never been able to astral project."

Ru: "Unfortunately yes."

Ki: "Yet I knew squat about all this and I was able to easily do it with Kyousuke without even trying."

Ru: "Mm w-well yours was just a fluke."

Ki: "Hm yeah but I was still able to do it."

Ru: "Silence you wretched hag."

Ki: "Grrr."

Ky: "By the way Saori why do you want Aiko to be your heir?"

Ru: "Do you not plan on having children or finding romance?"

Sa: "No, honestly I don't think I'd make a good mother but it's mainly because I like the way things are now adding things like a husband or something would just throw of the balance we have here."

Ki: "Are you sure? I thought the same thing before I Aiko came."

Sa: "Yeah but I don't exactly have the aptitude to be able to go into a relationship with any man, I just become a total mess, it's just too much work, besides I don't need any more than this I can live a full happy life with just you guys."

Ky: "If you say so."

Sa: "So when do you two plan on having your next one?"

Ki: "What do you mean next one?"

Sa: "Your next child."

Ky: "Pfff!"

Ki: "Eh?!"

Sa: "It is obvious for most parents to have another child to keep an older sibling company."

Ru: "Or maybe you're afraid that your children will go down the same path that you did."

Ki: "…No, I already figured out all of the probable causes of us becoming what we are and what countermeasures to take if we ever did decide to have, uh, another, I'm actually more worried about…"

Ru: "You're worried that your child could be born with some debilitating defect or illness."

Ki: "Yeah I mean I did the research, the chances something like that happening are pretty much the same as with a post-middle-aged women and physical mutations are only more likely to occur in second or third generation couplings but still I don't know if I want to take that chance, I don't want any child I have to be hurt because of me."

Ky: "Kirino."

Sa: "Maybe there's a way around that."

Ki: "What do you mean?"

Sa: "Over in the U.S. their government is currently funding a project with the goal of completely eliminating all hereditary diseases from the populace and totally zeroing out the chances of any birth defects."

Ky: "Great more sci fi gene editing bullcrap."

Sa: "I know it sounds kind of fishy."

Ky: "Very fishy."

Sa: "But they've tested their methods on a lot of pure bred dogs which as you know tend to be riddled with hereditary disorders and they've been able to cleanse several population masses, some professional breeders have even made it a policy for other breeders they do business with to show them papers that prove if any puppies they attempt to sell or dogs they intend on breeding are a product of those treatments."

Ki: "Hmm."

Ky: "Kirino you're not seriously contemplating this are you?"

Ki: "…maybe."

Sa: "The scientists behind the project are currently looking for volunteers for human testing."

Ky: "Kirino who knows what could happen if we actually went through with this, something even worse could happen then what we could ever do."

Ki: "Maybe you're right"

Ky: "This probably isn't a good thing to talk about right now."

Ki: "Yeah after all it's still way too early to even be thinking of that sort of thing."

Ru: "Is it?"

Ki: "huh?"

Ki: "You did say your chances of giving birth to a healthy child are already relatively low and as you get older those chances further decrease, your biological clock has been accelerated and if you do intend on having a child without taking those treatments then it's best to act as soon as possible but even then you're taking a big risk."

Ki: "…"

Ky: "…"

Sa: "C-come now how about we change the topic."

Ru: "Yes I think it would be best to lighten the mood, this prone attitude of yours is actually quite discomforting."

For the rest of our time at the café we just talked about the good old days and the fact that the Maschera reboot is doing much better than the Meruru reboot or even the original Machera for that matter which me and Ruri ended up getting in a fight over, well more me trying to strangle her for her smugness, we then decided to go out and do some shopping.

Ki: "Jeez we've been dating for only a week and we're already talking about having another kid."

Ky: "Hehe well Aiko has been asking for a little brother."

Ru: "Here young one I give you the season one DVD of Maschera: Lament of a fallen beast 2023 censored version to help further your knowledge."

Ai: "Thanks aunty Ruri."

Ki: "You know Kyousuke maybe it would be best to just forget about having another child and just leave it at Aiko."

Ky: "Are you sure about that?"

Ki: "I don't know but it just seems like too big a risk to take."

Ky: "Yeah besides we could always adopt."

Ki: "Maybe we can find a kid that doesn't have those dead fish eyes of yours."

Ky: "Why does everybody have to make fun of my eyes?"

Ki: "Hmhm."

Ai: "Mommy, mommy can I get this?"

Aiko ran up to me carrying a costume bag which had a child sized version of Ruri's old Queen of Nightmare outfit.

Ki: "Ga-u-uh-."

Ru: "Why don't you let me get that for you as well young one, I'm sure you'll look stunning in it."

Ai: "Thanks aunty Ruri you're really nice."

Ki: "…"

Sa: "I've found them! I've found the prefect costumes."

Ky: "Saori what are you excited about this time."

Sa: "Well with Halloween just around the corner I thought it best to hold a party at my penthouse the day of, so I bought the three of you costumes to wear to it."

Saori held up three costumes the first one being of a white haired medieval male merchant, the second being a wolf woman with fur matching my hair color almost perfectly and the third being a dark brown haired little wolf girl.

Ky: "Wow thanks Saori."

Ki: "Hm the first two outfits look kind of familiar."

Ru: "Indeed."

Sa: "Hmhm I totally ship it."

After spending the rest of the day out on the town and spoiling Aiko rotten with one-upmanship gifts we decided to head home.

Ki: "Bye guys."

Ai: "Bye everybody."

Ki: "{sigh} Man I'm tired."

Ky: "You're tired? My back's about to give out."

Ki: "Silence Mule."

Ai: "Here daddy let me carry some of those."

Ky: "Thanks sweetie."

Ki: "So Aiko what did you think of your aunties?"

Ai: "I thought they were really nice."

Ki: "Well you'll get to see again really soon."

Ai: "I can't wait I can't wait."

Ky: "Seriously Kirino I think my spine's about to snap."

AN: Alright guys sorry for the late update but my laptop screen broke, the repair guys had to bench it for a couple of weeks before they could fix it and yadayadayada bad luck and other unforeseen circumstances but here I am with chapter nine and I shall begin work on chapter ten post haste and for those of you who noticed the reference good for you here's a cookie {Cookie}.