Alright! Chapter 2 is now out! Recap: Dr. Kogami reveals that he knows that Ryoken called the police on him 10 years ago and that scared Ryoken a lot. Later he is reunited with an old childhood friend, Kanata Funakoshi, or Kanashi for short and Ryoken's nickname is Ryomi, but he doesn't want to be called by that because's he not a kid anymore, but Kanata keeps on doing so anyway. Dr. Kogami original was going to have Kanata be the last subject of the Hanoi Project instead of Yusaku, and Ryoken thought if he didn't meet and invite Yusaku to his house, then Dr. Kogami would torture Kanata for 6 months, and yet he would still snitch on his father for doing the project. Anyway, time to start the story, this time, it will focus on Yusaku. I don't know how he will encounter Ryoken again after the war against Lighting, but I'll figure that out. So, enjoy reading chapter 2 of Father Thy Blood!

A normal day at school is like any normal day, well, that doesn't bother Yusaku. He kind of feels neutral about school, he guess.

There wasn't any danger in Link VRAINS and besides, Yusaku did defeat Bowman since it was a couple of days, so he didn't mind taking a little break, he guess.

"Yusaku!" He heard someone call out his name. He turned around and sees his friend, Takeru, running up towards him, "Good Morning!" Takeru said, with a smile on his face.

"Morning," Yusaku said with his usual neutral face.

The two boys walked up to the school entrance where another boy with the same boy's school uniform is standing. He has dirty blonde hair and blue eyes and he is not too happy.

"You two are late." He said in a bitter tone.

Manato Yamaguchi. A 3rd year in Yusaku's high school and the student council president. He has always bugged Yusaku ever since he log into Link VRAINS to fight off the Knights of Hanoi 3 months ago, and he is still bugging him, and now he is bugging Takeru too.

"Sorry about that, Yamaguchi-senpai, but we kind of stayed up all night and haven't sleep since then," Takeru explained.

It was true, after Yusaku defeated Bowman and everybody else has returned from death, he, Ai, Takeru, and Kusanagi have celebrated their victory, but also mourn for the loss of the other Ignis since they haven't come back yet, even though it was a school night.

"I don't care," Yamaguchi said, in a annoyed tone. He turns his head away from the boys, but he was looking at someone else, who has arrived late as well.

Yusaku turned away and sees his schoolmate, Aoi, coming up to the school as well.

"You're late, Zaizen," Yamaguchi told her.

"Sorry, senpai, I went to visit an old friend of mine," she said. After Bowman was defeated, Aoi was brought back and she went to the hospital to see her old childhood friend, Miyu, who has awaken herself. There, they rekindle their friendship after 10 years of being separated.

"I don't care," Yamaguchi said the same thing again in the same annoyed tone, "I am reporting you three to the principal and you will be all staying here at school and do all the cleaning duty."

"What?! No fair! We've promised our friend to take over his hotdog truck while he is visiting his brother!" Takeru complained.

"And I have to visit Miyu-chan after school at the hospital," Aoi said, surprised as well.

"That's what happens when the three of you are late to school," Yamaguchi told them, then he eyes on Yusaku and Takeru, "and also, having a job is against the school rules, so I am putting an extra day on cleaning duty."

Takeru groaned when he said that, "That's not fair!"

"He's right. It isn't fair, Yamaguchi-kun," a male voice said.

Yusaku, Takeru, and Aoi turned around and see another boy, wearing the boy's school uniform, and is probably around Yamaguchi's age, walks up towards them with a smile on his face. He has fiery spiky hair and dark ocean blue eyes.

Itsuki Asahina. Also a 3rd year as Yamaguchi. He is popular in school and all the girls love him, well, except for Aoi, and he is a star baseball player for their school's baseball team.

"Having three 1st years doing all the cleaning duty twice while they have schedule plans, it is unfair," Asahina explained.

"This is none of your concern, Asahina-san," Yamaguchi said in a bitter tone, "also, you are late."

"Yeah, yeah. I was busy with baseball practice at home," Asahina explained, "but still, you shouldn't give them cleaning duty if they have other plans. And also, Fujiki-kun and Homura-san aren't technically working at a hotdog truck, they are just helping a friend."

"It doesn't matter, they were late, so they get cleaning duty after school."

"Then I'll take their place in cleaning duty." Yusaku, Takeru, and Aoi were surprised when Asahina volunteered to do the cleaning duty, when he has baseball practice with his teams.

"Don't you have baseball practice today?" Yamaguchi asked.

"I'll just cancel it today and go tomorrow," Asahina said and then gives out his biggest grins and a thumbs up.

Yamaguchi gives out a big sigh in annoyance, "Fine. I'll let Fujiki, Homura, and Zaizen go and you will be handling the cleaning duty."

"I look forward to it!" Asahina said in a positive tone. Yamaguchi rolled his eyes in annoyance and he went inside the school.

"Y-you didn't have to do that, Asahina-senpai!" Takeru stammered in shock.

"Hey, I didn't want you three to delay your personal business, you know?" Asahina gives the three a thumbs up and a grin and then walks into the school, "Have a nice day!"

Takeru smiles like an goofball when he watches Asahina walk into the school. "Asahina-senpai is so cool!" He exclaimed in excitement, "Not only is he the captain of the baseball team, but he also got us out of cleaning duty!"

"What did you expect, Takeru? He's a 3rd year in school." Yusaku explained.

"And let's not forget that every girl in school falls for him all the time," Aoi added, "it's a good thing I'm not attracted to Asahina-senpai." Soon, Aoi is about to go inside the school, "Good seeing you today, Fujiki-kun," she said with a small smile before she went inside.

"Yeah. You too." Yusaku said in a neutral voice.

Ai comes out of Yusaku's duel disk for a bit. "I don't see why you have to go to school," he said, "we just save Link VRAINS again, and yet here you are, at school."

"I'm still 16 years old, Ai," Yusaku told his Ignis, "so I have to go to school."

"True, but it would of been fun if you just skipped school since we're heroes." Ai pouted a bit, if he has a mouth. Then he went back inside Yusaku's duel disk

Soon, Yusaku and Takeru went inside the school and headed to their classes.

The boys went inside the classroom and their teacher looks at them. "You two are very late."

"Sorry about that, sensei, it won't happen again." Takeru said.

"It better not. Now go to your seats," she told them, and they went up to their seats.

Before class began, a girl with long dark purple hair and dark brown eyes and is wearing the girl's school uniform came rushing in.

"I-I'm so sorry that I'm late! My alarm didn't go off and I miss the bus-" she tried explaining, but she tripped and landed on the floor. "Ow! Not again!"

Misaki Tanizaki. A 1st year like Yusaku and Takeru. She is a very timid girl and is sometimes gets nervous. She is also sometimes a klutz and gets bullied often.

Shima then laughs at Misaki when she tripped, "What an idiot!"

"Ungh! Don't laugh at me about my clumsiness!" Misaki whined as she is getting up.

"Shima, out in the hall, Tanizaki, take your seat," the teacher told them, so Shima went out to the hall as he starts complaining while Misaki goes to her seat.

Takeru turns around and looks as Misaki, "You okay, Misaki-chan?" He asked.

Misaki's face turns bright red when Takeru asked her the question, "Y-yes, Homura-san, I'm okay…," she replied, "I-I just have to be c-carful next time."

Takeru gives Misaki a smile, "That's good." He then turns around as he is about to be ready to study, while Misaki gives out of lovely sigh while she stares at him romantically.

"Okay, class, today's lesson will be about ancient history."

School day is finally over. Yusaku and Takeru pack their stuff and they were about to head out.

"Hey, Fujiki-kun, Homura-san," a voice called out to them and they both turn around to a girl with raven hair with dark purple hair on her bang that is covering her right eye and her left eye is white and she is wearing a girl's school uniform and she is carrying a Ouija board underneath her arm.

"Would you two like to speak with the dead on my Ouija board?"

Airi Shimanouchi. Another 1st year like Yusaku and Homura. She likes to communicate with the dead and ghosts all the time and she also a fanatic of old history. Takeru is kind of scared of her when she talks to ghost, because he is clearly deathly afraid of ghosts.

"Uh, t-talking to g-ghosts on a board? N-no thanks, Shimanouchi-san. I'll pass." And Takeru went out to the door.

"You know, talking about the dead and ghosts is not Takeru's thing, so you shouldn't say that in front of him." Yusaku told her.

"Hey, I can't help if I'm into spiritual stuff," she said, "it's his loss."

Yusaku then turns around and leaves the classroom. He walks to Takeru to takes calming breaths to keep calm. "You okay, Takeru?" He asked his friend.

"Yeah. I'll be fine. Why does Shimanouchi-san have to mention the g word?" A sweat drop appeared on his head just thinking about Airi's spiritual communications.

Ai pops out of Yusaku's duel disk and looks at Takeru. "You know, Flame would calm you down about this whole g word and the whole Shimanouchi thing in no time."

Suddenly, Takeru got a little sad and looks down at the floor. Ai just realized what he just said and he got sad too. "Sorry. I shouldn't have mention his name. I know the others are gone, but I just know that they are still alive, somewhere."

Takeru looks back up and tries his best to give his smile. "Yeah. I hope so too. We just need to have hope that all the Ignis will come back."

Yusaku looks at Ai and Takeru and feels bad about them. "Come on, let's go to Cafe Nagi." Takeru nods, then Ai went back inside Yusaku's duel disk and the boys left the school.

Business seems to be booming at Cafe Nagi. Takeru is serving all the hot dogs to the customers while Yusaku is trying his best to cook the hot dogs. They sometimes switch roles to make things a little faster.

"Wow! I never seen so many people ordering a lot of hot dogs," Takeru said as he enter the hotdog van, "did Kusanagi-san have this much customers all the time?"

"Not really." Yusaku said, and he didn't even turn around to look at Takeru because he is too busy cooking.

"Okay! Switch time! I'll do the cooking and you do the serving." Yusaku nodded when Takeru said that and he went out of the hotdog van while Takeru started cooking.

Yusaku quickly served all of the food to the customers as fast as he can.

"Playmaker-sama, be careful, you might bump into someone." Ai whispered through Yusaku's duel disk.

"Don't worry, Ai. I never bump into someone while serving." He said calmly, but then-

BLAM!

Yusaku landed on the floor with his butt and then a cup landed on his head and he feels something wet and sticky. He realized that the cup was filled with soda.

"I am so sorry about, I didn't see you th-" Yusaku stopped talking for a moment as he looked at the person he bumped into.

He has white hair with blue streak, light blue eyes, is wearing a pink shirt with a gray short jacket over it and some black pants and some slip on shoes. He also has a hotdog on his head. He looks at Yusaku and is surprised to see him.

"Revolver." Yusaku said quietly as he said his Link VRAINS avatar.

OOOOOHHH! Yusaku and Ryoken are meeting at the Cafe Nagi once again, but they kind of bump into each other and they have food and drinks on their drinks. I thought that was kind of funny. Anyway, how will Yusaku react when Ryoken talks to himself, when Ryoken is actually talking to his ghost father? Stay tune. Also, you're probably wondering why an OC character of mine like Misaki Tanizaki is crushing on Takeru like that. Don't worrying, it's only one-sided on Misaki's side, I am a full Entrustshipper here. Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this chapter! See you soon on chapter 3!