Ulrich sighed as he heard Odd talking to Yumi about his problem in the front room. Yumi had had the guts to confront him and ever since then Odd had been in the front room for 5 hours with Yumi leaving Ulrich to handle Krystal, Kaiser and his mother-in-law.

Ms. Ishiyama was still not happy about the children being baptised in German tradition and was furious at Ulrich's mom for thinking that she knew better than she did for their grandchildren.

"Ulrich dear you mustn't forget I'm catching my flight tomorrow at 7am so I'll want to be there for 4am" Ms Ishiyama said sternly.

"What? You're not due to go back for another week"

"I know but I miss Japan and well I haven't exactly enjoyed my trip except for seeing my grandchildren"

"Look Ms Ishiyama I know it's been rough and even though Yumi does act a bit stressed with you I know she's glad to have you around" Ulrich said

"Ulrich please jut drive me to the airport tomorrow at 4am, thank you" And with that she stood up and went upstairs presumably to pack.

Ulrich groaned and went into the front room.

"Sorry but Yumi I think you should know that your mother is going back to Japan tomorrow and wants me to take her at four in the morning, that is all" And he walked back out and poured himself a large brandy.

An hour later, Ulrich heard Odd leave and Krystal returned from Twinkle's ten minutes later.

Yumi saw to a crying Kaiser when Krystal screamed at a rather large spider.

But eventually Yumi got to Ulrich and started asking why her mother was returning to Japan a week early.

When she realised that Ulrich knew nothing she left him to talk to her mother.

That day Ulrich felt quite lonely and was looking forward to returning to work the next week.

Dinner was a very quiet affair except for Krystal and Kaiser and the tension got to Ulrich so much that he gave up and went to visit Jeremie and Aelita taking Krystal with him so she could play with Ansel.

Aelita and Jeremie were very surprised to see Ulrich and Krystal on their doorstep but welcomed them in all the same. Krystal and Ansel went upstairs to play and leave the grown-ups to talk.

Aelita was surprised to hear about Odd but Jeremie didn't seem all that shocked.

"I kind knew something was up with him and he does spend an awful time with Krystal you know and you do realise why that is don't you?"

Both Aelita and Ulrich shook their heads.

"Ulrich, Odd was very close to you and Yumi you know and Krystal is so much like you two you know, he does indeed yearn for the past"

A silence remained for the next two minutes but Ulrich broke it asking if the rumours were true about them adopting another child.

Aelita squealed "We hope so; we want a little girl around 3 or 4"

Ulrich smiled at Aelita's glee and looked over at Jeremie who was watching his wife intently.

"You want a girl too?"

"Yeah it would be nice to have two children just like you and Yumi and Odd and Sam"

Ulrich nodded.

"How are you and Yumi doing then? No fights or anything?"

"Nah, strong as ever even though we've hardly spoke today"

Both Jeremie and Aelita gave looks which said 'explain' so that's what Ulrich did explain his hectic yet lonely day.

They both sympathised with him but he soon had to leave due to him having to take his mother-in-law to the airport the next early morning. Krystal was quite disappointed to leave as she was thrashing Ansel at 'Twister'.

After Ulrich and Krystal left Jeremie and Aelita instantly started discussing Odd, they both knew that Ulrich didn't want to talk about him so they hadn't prodded at him for information.

"I wonder why Odd has got like this." Aelita pondered when they had got into bed.

"Aelita, bad idea to discuss Odd when we're bed you know" Jeremie muttered.

Aelita giggled and started reading her romance novel with Jeremie searching the net on his laptop.

When Ulrich got back home he headed straight upstairs to bed despite knowing that Yumi was in the front room.

After undressing he climbed into the cold bed.

Just as he dozed off Yumi came into the bedroom looking quite angry.

"What's wrong?" Ulrich sighed as he sat up, even though he knew it had something to do with his mother-in-law as he had heard shouting from downstairs.

"My mother is what is wrong, she just thinks she is right all the time and she isn't. She's telling me what career Krystal should go into. She's said that Krystal would do well if she was to come and live with her in Japan and literally said she was going to take her back with her tomorrow morning, well I'll tell you this now she is not, she can hurry up and piss off for me now"

Yumi sat down on the edge of the bed and Ulrich came and hugged her.

"She won't be taking Krystal and you know that, Krystal's career isn't up to her and neither is it up to us it is up to Krystal herself" He told her soothingly.

Yumi nodded but was still quite angry.

"We're moving the cot in here tonight and Krystal will sleep in the bed with us, she isn't going to be able to say goodnight to them or goodbye"

Ulrich got up to fetch the cot with Kaiser in it and Krystal followed tiredly in.

Ulrich had gotton quite warm very fast with Krystal and Yumi in the bed with him and had woken up twice in the night due to Kaiser's crying.

The third time he got disturbed was due to the alarm clock telling him that it was half three in the morning.

Sighing, he carefully got out of bed, got dressed and went downstairs.

He was quite shocked to find his mother-in-law already there and waiting for him.

"Ah good we can leave and you aren't to stay there with me either"

Ulrich just shrugged, grabbed the car keys along with a bottle of water and followed his mother-in-law out of the front door and into the car.

Three hours later Ulrich grumpily walked into his house to find Odd and Sam having a blazing row; Serenity and Kaiser screaming their heads off; Krystal, Twinkle and Ansel covering their ears and Yumi with a coffee in her hands looking like she wanted to give up, with Jeremie and Aelita doing the same thing.

Ulrich bypassed Odd and Sam who hadn't noticed him anyway, grabbed Kaiser and Serenity, called the three children over to him, told Krystal to get her mother, Jeremie and Aelita and they followed him back outside where they drove, using the Sterns' car and the Belpois' car, back to Jeremie and Aelita's house. All their actions went unnoticed by the arguing pair.

As soon as they had safely got inside Jeremie and Aelita's house, they all sighed a sigh of relief, minus Kaiser and Serenity who had fallen asleep whilst travelling.

While Aelita was making breakfast for them all, Yumi noticed Twinkle's tears.

"What's a matter sweetie?"

"Mommy and daddy are going to break up aren't they?" Twinkle sobbed.

"Oh honey no they love each other, it's just that your daddy is having some issues and mommy can't handle it" Yumi says gently hugging the girl.

"They're like this at home all the time though"

"Yeah they're having a rough ride at the minute but me and Uncle Ulrich did a while back but look we came out strong didn't we honey?" Yumi asks her husband.

After a couple seconds of silence, Yumi looks around and finds that her husband is sleeping.

Both Yumi and Twinkle laugh.

"Well we did like your mommy and daddy will, they do love each other and they love their children too so wipe up your tears and I've got a feeling that Krystal and Ansel are setting up Twister in the next room" Yumi winks.

Twinkle looks up at Yumi and gives her a watery smile.

"Thanks Auntie Yumi" Twinkle gives Yumi a brief but tight hug and leaps out of the room to find her friends.

"Easy to fool them isn't it?" Aelita sighs as she gives Jeremie his croissants.

"What?" Yumi asks truly confused.

"Sam and Odd are probably gonna break up, you do know that don't you?"

"They love each other they won't, I wasn't lying to her Aelita" Yumi defends

"Yumi, they have been arguing for weeks now, and a pair of stupid psychologists aren't going to help them" Aelita agued back.

"What? What was that?" Yumi asked sounding hurt and even Ulrich who had woken up had stood up at Aelita's remark.

"Nothing, I didn't mean..." Aelita trailed off pathetically.

"Ulrich get Krystal, Kaiser, Twinkle and Serenity, we're going home. We aren't staying where we're not welcome."

"Oh come on Yumi you know she didn't mean it like that" Jeremie defended his wife.

"Oh I think she did Jer, so what we can't figure our technical things but we can figure out minds, that's our job and we can figure out we're not welcome"

And with that Yumi stormed out of the house with Ulrich and their children along with Twinkle and Serenity.

Ok so techincally I shouldn't have updated until I had two more reviews but I wont update until I get 5 reviews on this one. I made it longer to please Bighoggi14 and I'm going to take Rycr's tip and not update for 2 months until I get those 5 reviews. I'll have you know that this story is finished and is just waiting to be posted so roll in the reviews and you can see how it's ends.
Simple as.

I'm gonna thank those 3 people who did review:

Bighoggi14

Rycr

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