3 months later saw the gang and children at Krystal's 4th birthday party.

Everyone was having a laugh. The children were playing part games like; pin the tail on the donkey; blind mans buff; pass the parcel, etc. supervised by Yumi, Aelita and Sam. Ulrich, Odd and Jeremie were in the kitchen all suffering from headaches but not exactly helping themselves by drinking alcohol. Jeremie was only allowed a couple of small glasses as he would be driving Odd, Sam and Twinkle home as well as Aelita and Ansel.

Ulrich took a peek inside the living room but quickly returned when he saw Twinkle walking around blindfolded and feeling around 16 children.

Yumi came into the kitchen laughing slightly but quickly stopped when she saw Odd asleep on the kitchen table.

She raised her eyebrow to Ulrich and Jeremie who simply replied together:

"Too much drink"

"When you see the lights go off bring the birthday cake through, ok?" Yumi half-asked half-told her husband.

"Sure thing"

Ulrich lit the 4 candles on his daughter's birthday cake along with the number 4 candle that was placed in the middle of the cake.

Jeremie told him quietly that the lights had gone off in the living room which was his sign for him to come in with the cake. Odd had groggily waked up and followed Ulrich in with Jeremie.

As Ulrich came in with the lit birthday cake, everyone started to sing 'Happy Birthday' to Krystal.

When Ulrich got in front of Krystal with the cake, and when the song had finished, she looked up at him.

"Make a wish, sweetheart" he smiled

Krystal closed her eyes and silently made her wish and then with one big blow blew out all 4 small candles and on her second blow blew out the number 4 candle.

As Ulrich put the cake on the table, everybody applauded Krystal.

An hour later and everybody had left Ulrich, Yumi and Krystal in peace.

Krystal was busy playing with her new toys that she had got while her parents tidied the rooms up from the party.

The doorbell rang out and Ulrich answered it.

A minute later Ulrich came into the living room with a big parcel in his hands.

Yumi looked at him questioningly

"It's for you Krystal"

"Yay more presents!" Krystal said excitingly

Krystal opened up the parcel and found Japanese clothes inside.

She read-aloud the birthday card, with some difficulty, which had come with it:

"To Krystal, Happy 4th Birthday. May there be many more. The Wafuku inside this box has a long history and I'm sure your mother will remember it and tell you the stories I told her. I know you are not 100 percent Japanese but you are 50 and that is enough to wear your family's robe.

All my love darling, Grandma."

Yumi took out the Wafuku and smiled.

"It wont fit you for a while honey but when it does you'll look beautiful in it"

For the rest of the evening saw Krystal asking questions about her mom's history and once that had been explained she went to ask about her fathers to whom Yumi explained too. Ulrich had just laughed when Yumi had started telling Krystal about his history but didn't mind and took a custom of just listening in and corrected the parts in which Yumi had got mistaken.

After settling Krystal into bed, Yumi snuck into the kitchen and wrapped her arms around Ulrich's body from behind.

"She asleep?" Ulrich asked while pouring wine into two glasses.

"Yeah, totally out of it but before she was still going on about her being half-Japanese and half-German"

Ulrich laughed and passed Yumi her glass.

"To the future and to us" Ulrich toasted

"To the future and to us" Yumi laughed and knocked her glass against Ulrich's.

They drunk their wine and then themselves went up to bed as they were tired from being up early to decorate the house for the party.