It was a fun day, Todo had to admit. He found himself smiling and laughing as he played with Jyushi all day and ignoring Kara's cries of when Jyushi will finish his plate of cake, which was probably covered in snow and frozen bugs by now. They spent a good while at the swing set, before they started to build small snowmen and use pebbles as their little eyes. Osomatsu and Kara joined them later, and now, the four brothers were just lying on the snow, laughing after having an intense snowball fight, with Todo and Kara against Osomatsu and Jyushi. It eventually resulted into Todo and Kara chasing down the other two, with Jyushi riding on Osomatsu's shoulders while throwing snowballs. And now, all four of them were lying on the snow.

Thank god no one was around to judge four seemingly adult men playing around in the snow. But all good things must come to an end, and the sun was setting, signaling the four of them it was time to leave the park.

"Oh my god. You suck. How could you not have dodged that?" Todo managed to get out, despite laughing hard. He was covered in snow, but he didn't seem to be as pissed earlier.

"Speak for yourself, Tater Tot. You're the one covered in snow head to toe, idiot." Replied Osomatsu with a grin.

"We did our best, Osomatsu-niisan. Though Todo could have ended the game earlier if I had let him cover a rock in snow. You're lucky I have morals." Kara added in. Compared to everyone else, he was covered in less snow. But only because Osomatsu was seemingly aiming at Todo earlier in order to tease him. At least it got Todo out of his angry little shell.

"That was so much fun! Thank you so much! Ichi-niisan and I don't get to play outside as much as we used to when we were kids!" Giggled Jyushi, as he was being helped up by Todo. He was covered in snow, but he wasn't feeling cold at all. His outfit was thick enough to keep him warm. "Aw, I promised Hatabou we'd be done by now. Let's all go for dinner again! Oh, and let's do this again sometime! With Ichi-niisan too!"

"Agreed." The other three chorused, goofy grins on their faces. If anyone else were to see this right now, they would probably wonder if they were dreaming or hallucinating; by the way they all smiled, it was impossible to tell them apart from each other.

The group then decided to wait outside the park as soon as they finished grabbing their things. Jyushi was sitting on his wheelchair and was happily singing a song alongside Kara. Todo was still in charge of pushing the wheelchair while Kara and Osomatsu carried the shopping bags and groceries. Thankfully, the groceries weren't as heavy as they were earlier, since Osomatsu had eaten half the bags of chips and they used a lot of the plastic utensils earlier. The clothes inside the shopping bags were neatly folded by Kara after they showed them to each other, so it didn't seem as heavy as it was earlier. Jyushi was in a better mood than he was earlier, and Osomatsu was glad he wasn't crying anymore.

Jyushimatsu and Karamatsu both were pretty nice singers, Osomatsu had to admit. And Jyushi and Kara remained the same. But even though they had nice voices to listen to, Todo's eye kept twitching in annoyance. He didn't seem to be a fan of pop songs, or anything sung by Osomatsu for that matter. While he did like the voices of the people currently singing, he just hated pop songs in general. "Dear god, please let the limo arrive soon." He muttered under his breath, the singing voices of Jyushi and Kara becoming louder with each passing second. Osomatsu snorted at his misfortune.

Then suddenly, Jyushi stopped singing. That resulted to Kara stopping as well. "Oh! I forgot! I want to show you guys something important! Um, please hold this, Todo-san." He gave his cane to Todo and started rolling the sleeve of his right arm upwards. But since the other hand was covered by a sleeve and mitten, he wasn't doing a good job at it. His fingers were probably failing to grasp the fabric with how the mittens and the sleeve were limiting the movement of his fingers underneath.

"Let me help you with that. You need hands for these." Kara helped Jyushi roll up his sleeves with both of his hands, similar to the way he rolls the sleeves of his own clothes. "Why don't you show your hands? They are covered with mittens, aren't they? They can't possibly be cold. And," He ran his fingers through the areas of the fabric Jyushi had bitten. "Why do you bite the sleeves of your clothes? You were doing that yesterday too, weren't you?"

"I think it's a rather bad habit of mine.." Jyushi murmured, flapping the sleeve of his other arm. "I also picked on my nails a lot, so Ichi-niisan told me to use my sleeves and flap them instead, since picking my nails isn't really safe. I ended up biting my sleeves a lot, though." Once Kara had finished rolling the sleeves properly, Jyushi used his free hand to grasp the fabric covering his hand, and pulling it off. His hand, as the three expected, were normal. To their surprise however, his fingers had yellow nail polish. A metallic object was wrapped around his index finger, obviously meaning it was a ring. "Ah. The nail polish was applied by Fuyu-san. Ichi-niisan said that if it had nail polish, I couldn't possibly bite it anymore since it would taste so yucky. Plus, it would make my nails hard."

Osomatsu was more impressed at the fact how soft and clean Jyushi's hand looked compared to Jyushimatsu. Then again, with his disability, Jyushi probably never touched a single baseball bat in his life. Or Ichi never let him, probably. "So, what is it that you wanted to show us?"

"Oh! This one." He moved his index finger. "Ichi-niisan said that if a ring is on your index finger, it means affiliation. This is a ring that means we're from the Suuji Family! He has one too, except it's on his left hand. He's left handed! Anyway, Ichi-niisan said this ring was really, really important! Asides from the sleeves preventing me from biting my fingers or picking on them, they hide the ring. It was kinda expensive too, but I don't understand why." He started shaking his one arm until the sleeve rolled off a bit. He used his free hand to remove the ring from his finger. "So, I wanted to lend it to you!"

..What?

"Jyushi.." It was Todo again, the guy that kept trying to be polite, but was failing horribly. He lost his dignity on the process too. "You just said it was important-"

"I'm just lending it. For a day. Return it to me tomorrow when you come over!" He smiled brightly. "No one will notice! Besides, I trust you all enough to be able to return it to me. If you lose it, no worries! I'll just tell Ichi-niisan!" He grabbed Osomatsu's wrist, causing him to drop the groceries. He then gently placed the small ring on Osomatsu's palm and forced him to curl his fingers around it. "Don't wear it yet. Hatabou might see. I'll put my mitten back on, so Hatabou won't see it's not here. Think of it as an initiation!"

The other three blinked in confusion. "Initiation?"

"Of our friendship!" He chirped, grabbing his mitten from his armrest and slipping it back on. He then pulled his own sleeve downwards, so it was covering his hands again. "We're brothers in Osomatsu-niisan's dimension, right? So we need to trust each other! I trust Osomatsu-niisan to take care of the ring! Todo-san and Kara-niisan need to trust Osomatsu-niisan to not mess it up!" He giggled. "Okay? That also means Todo-san shouldn't choke Osomatsu-niisan! Trust is important in a family, and we need to trust each other!" He looked at Osomatsu with his bright yellow eyes. They were sparkling with happiness, it seemed. "Osomatsu-niisan. Even though we're not really your brothers, I hope you're not upset with the fact we remind you of them."

Ah. Jyushi's not as naive as I thought he would be.

Osomatsu stared at the small silver ring on his palm. The numbers "114" were engraved on it if he looked close enough. Jyushi was looking at him with genuine sympathy, and so was Kara, who had crossed his arms and was nodding. Todo, however, was looking away, but glanced at Osomatsu to give a quick nod. He smiled a bit. "I'm not upset. I'm.. alright. Thanks for the concern, Jyushi, but onii-san's fine." He remembered the video message earlier. "I really am. Don't worry about it, guys. Anyway, don't worry about the ring! I'll return it to you in the same condition it is now!"

"You're gonna accidentally lose it or do something to it, I just fucking know you will." Todo commented, a smug smirk on his face.

Osomatsu pretended to be hurt as Jyushi giggled at Todo's statement, Kara sighing in exasperation, but a small smile on his face. "Sweet little Tater Tot, your lack of faith in me is astounding." He zipped open his sling bag and gently placed the ring inside. "Ah, isn't that our ride over there?" He pointed at the distance, where a familiar limo was driving in their direction.

The limo stopped right where the group was waiting, so Todo helped Jyushi up again so they could bring his wheelchair inside the limo. Kara and Osomatsu both opened the doors, revealing Hatabou sitting alongside Chibita and Iyami. "Ah. Good evening everyone." Kara greeted. Iyami and Chibita both raised their hands awkwardly and waved them as a greeting, while Hatabou simply nodded, eyes blank and focused Jyushi. Kara pulled the wheelchair inside with Osomatsu's assistance, and Todo was helping Jyushi get in. "How was your day?"

Peachy.

"Just fine." Chibita replied dismissively, ignoring Hatabou's creepy stare at him. Todo helped Jyushi sit down on the seat across them, and the four of the look-a-likes sat in the same order as they did yesterday. Chibita was not going to tell them about how Hatabou nearly crushed all the white pieces from his little chessboard. He had crushed a glass of water yesterday, and now, he nearly crushed all white chess pieces. He could probably crush someone's hand with his strength, and Jyushi might not know anything about that. "How about you guys? Had fun?"

The four of them wanted to leave out the part where three of them nearly got ran over, knowing Hatabou might freak out. Thankfully, it was Jyushi who spoke up for them. "We went to the clothes shop! You know, the one Ichi-niisan and I go at! We got matching hoodies too! Masayoshi-san gave me a discount on all items, and we all got animal kigurumis! I got a giraffe!" Jyushi chirped, waving his sleeves around. "Oh, and we all went on a picnic! We played around in the snow too! We made snowmen!"

"That's nice, jo." Hatabou commented, voice stoic. "Well, we'll be having dinner at the same place, jo. Fuyu and Yuki are unfortunately busy and cannot come with us, as well as Chiisana-san and Warai-san, jo. Others will be coming, though I am sure we will have the table all to ourselves, jo." He clapped his hands together, before gesturing to the briefcase beside him. "I do know we'll be able to talk to each other properly. There is a lot of things I hope to discuss with the three of you, jo. And Jyushi, there is also a lot of things we have to share about Flag Corporation."

Osomatsu suddenly noticed Jyushi stiffen beside him. Feeling his brotherly instincts kick in, he grasped Jyushi's wrist tightly. "Hatabou, what is it?" He asked. Kara seemed to sense something was wrong and his breath hitched, but Todo had quickly put his guard back up. His lips were curled into a frown, and Osomatsu could see that his fists were curling tightly. Like Osomatsu's hold on Jyushi, Kara was holding onto Todo's wrist, mostly to prevent Todo from throwing a punch at Hatabou.

"Don't be so impatient, jo. It's a topic I'd rather discuss over a nice meal, jo." Hatabou said, unfazed. Osomatsu also noticed Chibita and Iyami both look down, almost as if in shame. "Because after all." Osomatsu saw Hatabou's eyes darken. "Trust is important in a family, correct?"

Osomatsu gulped. It probably wasn't going to be a peaceful dinner, he knew.