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Chapter 25: Pint-sized Chaos
The first few days after Tokiomi's attempt to show his faux powerful stance seemed to actually go against the head of the famous Magi family.
Aoi Tohsaka, that had been always very affectionate to her husband, moved out of the big mansion and surprisingly vanished away from public sightings.
Rin had been taken away by her mother, Tokiomi having been deemed by the woman unfit to take care of any of her children.
Harsh words, unexplainable for many, that described perfectly the furious mood of the usually calm woman.
Danny might have not read the content of the letter of the deceased Kariya, but he knew well enough the person to know how a last letter from him would actually talk about.
In a simple talk those words would have not bulged Aoi to actually believe the truth, especially one as ruthless and terrible as Kariya would deliver it, but the fact that the man that had wrote those last wills was dead made the content even heavier to take in but easier to believe.
The Master of Caster was actually worried how the woman would have reacted to letter, since very little was known about Aoi Tohsaka, both in FateZero and Fate Stay Night.
Add to the matter that the woman had been just given a load of bad news and the recipe for madness was delivered in his meticulous planning.
The War had progressed while he mingled with other individuals as he had been keen to learn that the young woman that was Waver Velvet had left Japan to return to Great Britain... alone.
A part of him felt very depressed as Rider had been actually a very amiable character both in the Anime and as the real deal.
Yet Danny knew he had hoped way too much in having the King of Conquerors beat the overly (and unnecessarily) overpowered King of Heroes with just a single advantage.
He had not felt any change to the drain coming from his Magic Circuits, so Gilgamesh had not used Ea in the War... yet.
At least Waver had survived the War, he thought, and maybe he will help the girl by sending her anonymously the El-Melloi's Crest.
Will he get some lectures if his ploy was revealed to Kiritsuko? Maybe, but Waver needed everything to survive any repercussion for having returned home empty-handed.
Danny's plan was to utterly destroy the Greater Grail and not deal with the last contender of the competition.
It was a simple and flawless plan.
Yet somehow things had to go wrong even as the final part of the Heaven Feel approached.
The lack of Rin at school depressed his cute daughter as she showed less and less smiling.
As an attempt to lighten up her mood, Danny decided to make their visits at the park more frequent and most of the times having either Sakura, Caren or both with them so Sasha wouldn't be alone to play.
"Papa! Look, it's Rin!"
The exclamation from his adorable daughter finally broke the short reverie about the past few days.
Danny indeed saw the young Tohsaka trying to win a no-blink challenge with... Sasha?
Her real daughter didn't bother to notice said weird situation as she just ran toward her best friend.
Jaw a bit hanging open at the surreal predicament, Danny's eyes finally moved and widened at the two women sitting in the bench closest to him.
While Aoi had barely noticed his arrival, Gil-ko had been staring at him silently for a good minute, her red eyes piercing mercilessly his own.
A bit of sweat started to roll from his forehead. "Gilgamesh."
"Battery." The woman replied dryly, the woman sitting on her side bowed her head slightly.
"Mr. Dempsey" Danny smiled and nodded at her. "Ms. Tohsaka."
Surprisingly enough the woman's visage soured a little at the honorific and she looked away to watch back the children.
The young man blinked in shock at the cold change in her mood but his attention was taken away by the Golden King.
"It's been so long since we met in our ways, battery, I hope nobody had come close to damage you." Her tone was quite calm and lacking any sort of concern regarding his safety.
Actually her tone was filled by barely-hidden self-worry.
She, the King of Heroes, can be removed from the living world once more if the man had been killed and that was scary to someone that valued much of her own importance.
"Been better, barely sleeping nowadays." Aoi gave a quick confused glance her direction, clearly interested in what the young man meant.
Sadly the quite dangerous woman close to her released an amused snort.
"I can tell. That nun had indeed gone through with her petty plans, I can smell her scent on you, partner."
The entertained tone at the end of her words managed to bring even more red to Rin's mother, completely floored by the clear subject of the discussion.
"Yeah but at least she is not passing the bills to me and lazying around like some great King, I know."
He had expected her to actually lose her coolness in that moment, he had not expected her to retort his claims. "Oh, you met with that short english king? I saw her being quite slothful with the food."
The deadpan look spreading in his face just made her cocky grin even more annoying.
"Papa." Danny looked to his side as Sasha pulled at his pants.
"Yes, sweetie?" The girl gave him a quite familiar kind of smile. The smile that she would have in her cute face when she wanted something near impossible from him.
But... who wouldn't spoil once in a while their own children?
She looked first at Rin and then to her carbon copy, then she returned to glance at her Papa.
"C-Can Rin-chan, Amy-chan, Rin's Mama and Lady Gilgamesh come and live with us?"
"Sash-" "Of course I will accept your passable offer, battery." Danny's mouth closed as he stared dryly at the arrogant woman.
"Rin, you know that we cannot ask to a stranger." Aoi tried to reason but her daughter didn't move from the trio's idea.
"I'm tired of being away from school and my friends, mother. Plus I know that Sasha-chan's home can house us all. A-And-" She seemed to consider convincing reason to accept the offer and a particularly good one came in her mind. "And there is Sakura!"
Aoi's eyes widened. "S-Sakura?" She stared shocked at Danny. "Sakura lives with your family?"
The man froze as he had not accounted this situation to happen so soon.
He nodded but, as Aoi moved closer to him and he braced for a loud slap and screams, her frail arms pulled his chest close to her head.
"Y-you are the one Kariya spoke about. T-The one t-that would have entrusted Sakura's wellbeing." She closed her eyes. "Thank you."
"Also!" Sasha started, looking mischievous at her Papa. "We have something that will force you to accept, Papa!"
Aoi moved slowly away from him, the moment clearly broken by the naive child.
The red-haired girl glanced at her black-haired clone and, in a simple tackle, they looked at the man with their powerful adorable stare. "Pwease!"
Inwardly Danny was collapsing to his knees at the dual cuteness overload he was experiencing.
He had never thought that this scenario could have been possible, yet slowly he felt developing diabetes from the twice as adorable attack.
"Okay, sweeties~" His mouth moved independently from his mind as his body had completely surrendered to the two girls.
"Yatta!"
Danny sighed as he noticed how the amount of children and women in his house was incredibly increasing...
AN
The last lap for the end of this fanfic is starting now!
Yesterday I spent the day planning how to finish this story and I got every piece set for the Grand Finale.
Will it be great? Maybe, I think it will.
Also I wanted to voice an particularly greedy thought of mine that had been pestering me for a while: Is anyone going to ever make a TvTropes page about my fanfics?
I know I shouldn't behave to highly as my grammar isn't the best but... I would feel immense gratification to know that at least FPO reached the 'Throne of Fanfics'.
Lastly I hope everyone had enjoyed the Summer holidays as School/Uni is starting soon... :)
Review Q&A!
MWkillkenny84: It's sad that many had painted Aoi as someone who would sacrifice everything for Tokiomi. I think everyone has a limit in their trust towards others and I think having solid proof of what had happened to Sakura is enough to make Aoi rethink her life choices.
BlueXtreme: Somewhere, may it be heaven or hell, Kariya shed a tear as true justice has been dispensed!
merendinoemiliano: I know and I'm sorry about it. I expect to write some fights in Chapter 27-28, as I wish to give the last two chapters the role of Ending and Sequel's hints.
Matze96: There they are!
Guest Q: Yep! Also no, it's not Kaleid... but I plan to make a spinoff in the future that is set during the sequel but with another point of view that might have Kaleid as a focus.
A Guest: No, Servants drains from their Masters' Prana. Danny made a pact with Gilgamesh that has the same system of prana's drain but Danny doesn't have any Command Seals on Gil-ko.