Story is rated R if possible to fit a more mature audience as this story contains scenes of graphic violence, blood, gore, heavy action, death scenes, strong and foul language, horror like elements, sexual themes and incest involve.
This story is something that I've been planning on writing for some time and I've been working on for the past year.
This story has been inspired by a few of my favorite films, games and shows that I took to a liking and help inspired me to come up with this story.
I hope you enjoy this story and put up reviews on what you liked and any ideas or your honest thoughts.
Also if you want a good atmosphere for the story, listen to the soundtrack of Blade Runner 2049 to get a good feel to it, or watch the movie to get an idea as to what the theme of the story really is like once it progress in the next few chapters.
The Golden Crowns
Chapter One: A Reunion between sisters from across the Multiverse
It was another cold night, Hachiman found himself walking down the cold streets of Chiba in silence at around two in the morning as he was making his way back home after dealing with work that night which required him to play music for 4 hours at a bar to which he was payed fined and a few extra tips by some of the clients to which earn him 873 US dollars.
He had his guitar strapped on his back within it's brown leather case as he walked home in the cold.
It might seem odd that for a 17yr who attended Sobu High and was known by his peers from school to be consider lazy but smart as he had outranked everyone in every subject and placed in the number 1 rank in his school with his sister Izanami being ranked second.
If they were to encounter him working a job that required him to perform and sing his own songs he had handcrafted and walking back home so late was something that put their image of him on it's head.
But that's simply because nobody really knew just what went on his personal life, or why he begun earning money each night to the point that he could very simply support himself just fine with just a few gigs here and there.
Truth to the matter was that he found himself in a rather difficult and tight spot. You see about two years ago their father had passed away due to a tumor he had to which came unnoticed to them all. It was a shocking and saddening news, but most importantly with his father's passing it brought forth a huge set of problems for his family.
The first being that their father worked really hard in the company he worked with an earn just about enough money to support their rather large family of five girls and one boy in a wealthy part of Chiba.
His mother was a part time worker as she took on a job at a local cafe to earn a bit of side money to cover any little expenses that she needed to cover.
His mother was distraught and overwhelm with his passing and wasn't sure how she was going to make it alone with the bills that seem to pile up after his father died along with mortgage and the costs that came with supporting her family.
She grew fearful that they would lose the house and be forced to move somewhere cheep and crowded or move with her parents in the countryside just to be able to provided a roof over their heads and earn enough money to support her kids.
But Hachiman being the man of the house now that it was up to him to look after his family now that he was the man in charge, he took it upon himself to help his family in any means possible.
He along with his friend Sagami Minami who he had known for quite a long time decided to do a few 'jobs' in the span of 2 weeks in which he managed to earn enough money to surprise and shock his mother with a closed letter to which once she managed to open and look inside and read the letter inside.
She cried tears and held her son in a iron tight hug as she held the letter in hand close to her, he had managed to pay off the house in full with cash and cover the costs that came with their father's funeral and any other bills they had pilling up.
To ease her worries and concerns on where he got this money, he told a very convincing lie that was truth to a small portion to where he told her that he had been performing in small gigs here and there around Tokyo and had been making money for some time now as musician and singer with Minami's help as his Manager to which they had been working together for the past 4 years.
He told her that he had been saving up the money in order to save it up for college but instead decided to use it to help her when they needed it the most.
And to prove that his words were somewhat true, he pull up some photos that Minami had taken of him performing in some small and large clubs, small mashup concerts and 3-5 star restaurants with one showing a image of him dressed in nicely in a suit with Minami standing by his side wearing a black dress with her long flowing red crimson hair flowing down while having a smirk on her face while he held his signature black and silver guitar.
It worked in convincing his mother and help ease her worries and reminding her that he would do just about everything to keep their family above water to which he keep his promise by continuing to bring in income that help lift most if not all of the burden from his mother.
Now at the age of 17, and close to finishing his third year at Sobu High. He was starting to think on what he would do in the future regarding his family and his own future.
As it was he wasn't really interested in pursuing a certain profession or career, and his once bygone dream of being a house husband came crashing at the age of 10 and died for good after his father's passing.
All he was focus with was supporting his family and being their for his mother and sisters and doing the best he can as the man of the house to look after his family to the best he could.
He was earning enough money to the point that his mother could just stay home for good and just look after the house and spend it with his sisters.
But even so she took to working part time to continue brining in some money of her own even if it was small compare to the income he was bringing in as she wanted to do what was right by any parent to support her family.
Still he was glad that Minami was there to help him as well, without her help most of the jobs they did back then and support he got from her in the past two years made his work and life a bit easier.
Compare to him she had a bit more free time on her hands and so she took it upon herself to play the role of his 'manager' by helping him find new gigs, set up meetings between managers of clubs and high class dinners and a bunch of other stuff so that all he had to worry about was performing songs, sing for a while and write new songs in his free time.
And thankfully tonight was an easy one, he had perform at a rather nice place to which was slow to where he could just play songs that required a moderate amount of effort and earn his money.
Now all he wanted for tonight was to get home, undress and showering with hot water before getting dressed in something light and head to bed.
He would required all the energy he can save up for tomorrow, besides the usual gigs he did with Minami's help, there were other jobs both she and him did that nobody really knew about.
It was something he wouldn't dare mention to his family no matter what, he could only imagine just what they would do in order to get them to stop doing it, but even if they tried there wasn't really anything they could say or do to stop him really.
It was work that only him and Minami had experience with, and as far as they knew they were the only two people who were doing such a task, well the sooner he got home the sooner he could get some rest before tomorrow.
But it seems that his night was interrupted by an unexpected encounter that came in the appearance of 8 girls running ahead of him towards his direction with a look that was notably pure overwhelming joy with streams of tears rolling down their faces as they where running towards him at full on speed before shouting the words.
"Dad!"
"Daddy!"
"Father!"
"Out-san!"
He felt confused and perhaps even stun as he watch the girls approaching him and thought that maybe they were looking at someone behind him, he turn around but saw nobody there.
He turn back around and just then he was tackled by the eight girls who appear to be a year or two younger than him and quite beautiful to say the least as he skid on the ground a few feet as he did his best not to fall and land on his guitar risking breaking his instrument.
The girls who were all about 6-10 inches shorter than him begun to openly cry while saying words like "this really isn't a dream", "you are alive, you really are", "I've missed you so much dad", "I don't want to be alone anymore father, don't leave me like mom did".
In all he was beyond confused and bewilder by the current events that he simply keep calm and quiet while keeping a calm expression on his face.
He thought that after a few moments of them crying and holding him they would stop and calmly explain themselves and explain what was going on.
But after 14 minutes of them hugging him and crying more quietly while uttering muffled words he was getting impatient with the girls so he decided to speak to them.
"Alright listen I don't know what exactly is going on here or who exactly you are but if I may ask. Care to explain exactly what the hell is going on".
Speaking in a deep but frustrated tone, it managed to snap them out of their own little worlds or at least get them to acknowledge the fact that they hadn't said anything during the time they held him in collective hug.
Giving him some space the eight girls stood in front of him while having a smiled that looked to be a mix of nervousness and joy while staring right at him with teary star eyes.
He didn't know why but he felt as if he could see a few faces that were a bit of a blur in his head when he looked at them, especially when it came to four of the girls who had dark silver hair, dark crimson hair and one having a dark but golden color hair and one with dark pinkish hair.
But the one that stood out the most was the one in the middle who had long black raven hair and dark red eyes that looked sharp and almost menacing, but not as much as his to which taking a deep look at her made him felt like he was looking back at a carbon copy of himself if he was born a girl.
Feeling a gust of cold air hit them and shivering slightly from the cold air of the night, he really wanted to get out of the cold and he wasn't looking for to spending another minute in the cold and spend an hour or so talking outside freezing his ass.
"Look before we go any further let's go somewhere warmer, I don't want to be out in the cold longer than I already am. Let's go to my house and once there I want to know what you eight want with me understood".
"of course"
"yes sir"
"let's go home father"
Their it was again, all eight of them gave him a smile with stars in their eyes as they came to his sides and begun to snatch his arms before dragging him straight home, to which he found rather alarming that after 8 minutes of walking in a fast pace they were heading directly in the direction of his house without him even telling them where he lived.
Once he arrived home, and opening the door quietly as to not wake up anybody and instructing the girls to be as quiet as possible.
Hachiman enter the house while holding the door open for them to step inside before heading towards the living room.
As he close the door behind him and took of his coat and put his guitar down, he made his way to the living room and stop just at the corner of the hallway as he took notice of their odd behavior, he watch quietly as they seem to be staring at the living room with a look of deep thought and fondness.
Almost as if they were recalling old memories, the girl with short dark golden hair dressed in a brown jacket and black jeans with a pair of dark eyes was sitting at the couch while looking in the direction of the kitchen.
The girl who was the tallest out of them all being the one with the dark silver hair and sharp black onyx eyes, she looked rather familiar now that he looked at her, dressed in a black leather jacket with patches of logos that looked to be presenting bands and wearing dark grey jeans.
She appear to be holding his family photo being one of him and his family posing in front of the forest near his grandparent's house in the country side, that one was quite memorable as it was a rather found memory he had with his grandparents and his father and mother along with his sisters.
She held the photo frame with a gentle touch as to not harm it anyway possible. Strange it was for him to see girls who were calling him their father and now acting as if they were recalling old memories of a place that they shouldn't know off.
He could already feel a headache building up as he walked into the living room before taking a seat on the single seater couch facing opposite to the larger couch that could sit them all together.
"Alright let's get this over with, the sooner we get this settle the sooner I can to sleep", he rubbed his eyes tiredly as he had been up for around 20 hours and he really wanted to just sleep as soon as possible to build up enough energy for later in afternoon.
Seeing him ask them to sit with the gesture of his hand towards the large couch, the girls did so with each of them taking to sit next to one another.
Now with all eight of them sitting in front of him, he took a moment to actually take a good look at them in the light where outside it was a bit darker and he couldn't really make up their looks.
"Alright first off let's start with names, but I have a feeling you already know my name considering you called 'father' earlier, so why don't you tell me your names", Hachiman asked to which the girls smiled in respond before stating their names from left to right.
"My name is Fumiko Hikigaya" said the girl with dark glacier eyes and flowing dark hair tied in twin tails. Her way of speaking caught him slightly off guard as it reminded him of a certain ice queen, not to mention how she sat in a proper manner.
"Madoka Hikigaya here and present" the girl with dark curly long blond hair and black eyes said with a wide smile as she had her hands up front in a pose that made her look as if she was putting more effort in presenting her name compare to the theirs.
"Kurumi Hikigaya, it's good to see you once more father" the girl with the long dark silver hair and dark onyx eyes smiled with a small blush in her face as she looked in his direction.
"Sora Hikigaya, I've missed you so much dad" the one with short dark pinkish hair that reached a rather far length down to her knees. Her eyes were a bright neon pink color and looked to be a tear jerker as she had tears forming at the corner of her eyes.
"Katsumi Hikigaya I am the oldest of the group father" the one with long black raven hair and red eyes said with a smile while having a serious look in her eyes by nature but he could see pass her eyes that behind those eyes that could be misunderstood for the wrong reasons, much like his. Her eyes held a look of happiness and love that only he could see clearly.
"Akane Hikigaya, I am sure you can tell where I get my red hair from don't you dad?", true to her words Hachiman felt like he knew all to well where that signature red hair that spew down to her waist came from, especially those dark crimson eyes and that toothy grin she express. If Minami was here and told them both to stand next to one another, he would no doubt see the similarities plain as day.
"Miku Hikigaya, aren't I cute like mom dad?", the girl with dark short golden hair and black golden eyes said while smiling in a foxy why while winking at him in a cute manner. It didn't take long for him to realize just who she was referring too.
And lastly we had, "Rikka Hikigaya, I am overjoyed to be present with you once more father", she had long dark violet hair that faded to a bright purple color near the tips of her hair with a curl at the end, her eyes were a dark black color much like his.
He had a vague idea as to who she resemble and he wasn't sure if he should be worried or surprise as to who her mother might be.
Still after they all presented their full names, even using their last name to make it clear and obvious that they were related to him. He still found this whole situation hard to swallow or even to consider this whole thing true.
He closed his eyes and rub them with his hands while uttering something under his breath asking himself if he was still dreaming.
"I hope this isn't one of those spells Minami learn to use, god help me if she is just messing with me right now but even so I can't detect her anywhere near me".
Letting out a deep sigh he look back at the eight girls who keep smiling at him while looking a bit anxious wanting to know what he would say to them next.
But even so he found this whole situation hard to believe or even consider this as true, but even so this whole encounter was so out of place and out of the blue that he might as well be dreaming right now, just about anyone would assume it to be a joke and even impossible for someone to suddenly be surrounded with eight girls who claim to be their daughters with just a year or two apart from their own age.
But their was a way for him to tell if what they were saying was true, a rather simple test that can be perform with modern science, a simple DNA test with just a sample of blood.
But even so the people handling this test would find it odd or perhaps even alarming to find such results after completing the blood tests and finding out that if he was a father to eight girls who were just 2-4 years apart, it wouldn't take long for him to gain unwanted attention.
So then their came the second option, but he just wasn't sure if he would be willing to take them there in order to prove their words to be truth, even if at the moment they are strangers to him. He rather not risk their very well being just to prove their words.
So for now he might as well believe their words for now and just ask a few questions, with first being:
"Alright so if you are my daughters, I guess you should know what question I want to ask you eight. Why are you here then?, or more importantly 'how' did you get here?", he asked.
At this the girls all together were about to start talking all together but seeing as they were all in a jumpy move to tell answer him, Hachiman stop them before looking at the girls and asking Katsumi to speak.
"Katsumi you said you were the oldest from the rest, so you will speak for your sisters. So answer me this question, why and how did you all end up here?". Hachiman asked with a half serious half tired tone.
Katsumi clear her throat before looking to her left and right seeing the nodding approval from her sisters before looking back at her father before finding the right set of words she wanted to use to answer him.
"To answer your question father, we are here because we were offered the chance to be reunited with you after we lost you in our own worlds, perhaps the term 'timeline' would be best to describe our existence. We are all daughters that came from different mothers from those you knew in school, Fumiko here is the daughter of Yukino, Madoka to Yumiko, Kurumi to Saki, Sora to Yuighama, Akane to Minami, Miku to Ishiki, Rikka to Haruno and lastly their is me father, my mother is Izanami... y-your sister father".
At this the girls turn silent while starring at Hachiman nervously to see just how he would react, when they found out that she was the off spring of incest between himself and his sister who was just a year younger than him in a timeline in which a war had ravage the world, in the end they were the last ones alive in their family.
Due to how bad the war was and how many lives were lost, population was at an all time low at just 2 million in the world and much of the adults back then were to injured to work or do anything, and so in order to increase the population, a new law was passed down that allowed siblings to legally marry and have children of their own.
Katsumi who saw her father look slightly stun even if he didn't show it look down to the floor while running a hand thru his hair, clearly he was caught of guard by the news and felt conflicted over the matter.
So she took the time to explain to him how she came to be, the war and how they lost everyone in their family and including everyone they knew from school and also exclaim that Izanami and Hachiman ended up marrying one another at the age of 34/35 and had her a year later, life was harsh back then to which is why she mature so quickly by the time she was 12 years old she was already assisting her parents with their work in the military, but at the age of 14 she witness the tragic death of her parents after they took on a deadly and horrifying mission that took their lives.
She was deeply depressed over her parents death to the point that she wanted to take her own life as life without them was just as cruel as the world was.
"but before I could throw myself over the roof... that's when I heard a voice, a voice like that of a goddess who spoke to me and us that our life shouldn't come to end so soon, and that she would offer us the chance to be with you again father. All of us here are because in each of our timelines, we ended up losing you father, and each one was just as bad as the other and in the moments when you were still alive father. You were always their even in the darkest of moments in our lives before you passed away, so when the goddess told us if we wanted this opportunity to be reunited with you, we couldn't help ourselves from having the chance in seeing you again".
At this Hachiman look up to see tears forming at the corner of Katsumi's eyes, clearly her words were nothing more than true, he could hear the clear pain words that came from her lips and the slight shaky hands as she retold the events in her life.
At this Rikka the girl who was the daughter between himself and Haruno spoke to tell Hachiman her own life, "Dad in my timeline, you married Haruno and together you two became the future CEO's of the family business. But 5 years into marrying and having me 3 years into your marriage, mother was diagnosed with terminal cancer and passed away when I was 4, you took on the position of head chairman shortly after her death. You were stricken with depression but I help you as much as I could to pull you out, by the time I was 10 you were doing just find and we spent most of our times together trying to make the best of our lives without mother, but your success and the growing amass of income and company growth brought some dislike from some people who wanted to get rid of you because you were outrunning them and bringing about a downfall into their own business. And so..."
She felt as if her words were caught in her throat and was trying her best to hold back her tears. "When my 13 birthday came by, you took me to the cherry blossom festival to celebrate my birthday, i was super excited to celebrate my birthday with you but then... just as night had fallen and we were on our way home. A car pulled up and four man came out wilding guns before firing at us, you shielded me from the hail of bullets before they go hurriedly left the area leaving you dying in my arms, y-you fought so hard to stay alive, even when you were bleeding so much on the way to the hospital. You keep on holding my hand as tight as you could, b-but in the end you d-died in the hospital".
At this Rikka used her hands to wipe away the tears in her eyes before trying her best to finish her story. "After that, I was forced to take up the role of CEO for the company, Yukino at that time was married to someone else and so she couldn't take over the company, I did my best to fill in after you and mom but it wasn't easy, it grew worse and harder each day until at one point I was going days without eating and by the time I was 15, I was hospitalized because i was so under weight that they had to keep me at the hospital to keep me alive. I managed to recover but when I did return, the same people who killed you were back out to get me, I managed to make it to my office before barricading myself and calling the law enforcement to help me. But it was to late, they managed to get in and begun shooting towards me, I was dying on the floor... I was close to dying until the same goddess spoke to me and offered me the same chance in being reunited with you just like the rest of us. And now that I am here with you again father I don't regret it one bit"
Emotions running wild and having to recall the horrible memories of her own world, she couldn't help herself by getting up and walking up to Hachiman before hugging him from the front as she let her own fresh hot tears roll down her face.
"It feels nice to hold you again dad, I've missed you so much", her words were meek and muffled with her hiccups being caught in between her words. Hachiman felt like he received a rather hard impact into his own being that he couldn't help but hug her back while looking slightly hurt upon hearing Rikka's story.
"We all had difficult lives Father, but in each and every single one of our lives you were always there for us no matter how difficult things got. And in the end we lost you to the harsh world that saw out to tear you away from us, and when we lost you our own life begun to turn for the worse. So please father understand that when we were offered the chance to see you again and live with you once more, to be offered a second chance. We didn't hesitate to take up the offer", Fumiko said as she watch from her seat as she watch the girl who was the closest to having an actual sister by blood as their mothers were sisters and so they both had the closest bond to being closer to family then the others.
"I see..." Hachiman said with a low voice as he continue to hold Rikka in his arms before he decided to use a spell in which allowed him to see someone's full memories by simply being in contact and applying a very small amount of magic in his hands.
They couldn't see it even if tried, magic was something that didn't existed in this world and it was something both him and Minami keep heavily declassified to the world and never risked showing it to anyone they knew or family wise.
How they gain using magic was something that only he and her would ever tell in details, and so with his spell active. In a single moment that felt like he was hit with a train, he witness and saw every single bit of memories she had about her world.
And just like how she told him, the events that follow his death came into view within his mind, he saw the world within her point of view and saw the horrible scene that was her holding his bloody injured body as they were being rushed to the hospital, he could hear her screams and pleads for him to keep on fighting to stay alive, only for her to see the light within his eyes fade away into darkness.
Seeing your death was one thing but to see it from the eyes of your child as they hold onto you for dear life as they plead and cry out to you to fight thru it and survive this terrible ordeal only to see yourself lose that battle.
It really hit him hard in the most unexpected way.
"Alright then, so I guess I won't have to wait long in order to be a father in this world now that I have you eight. I just don't know how I am going to handle explaining it to my mother and sisters, but what about your mothers?. I for one don't think I would want to go out and tell them that our child from the future came back to see us. Do you girls plan on seeing your mothers by chance?".
They might have been eager to get the chance to see him again but he wasn't sure how they felt about seeing their mothers in this world, he saw how little in difference the girls were in this world compare to Rikka's world.
In her world Yukino was distant and almost cold to both him and Haruno from bits of memories he recall, Yui seem distant in the start before fading away into the world never to see her again.
As he said this, he looked towards the girls who each of them had a mix reaction from one another, some looked nervous, hopeful and even angry.
Fumiko, Madoka looked displease at the thought of seeing their mother while Kurumi, Sora, Miku looked hopeful in seeing their mother again but Rikka, Akane and Katsumi looked nervous at the thought of being reunited with their mothers.
Fumiko who looked the most bothered of the bunch when asked, Hachiman had a gut feeling that whatever happen in her life seem to leave a bad taste with her mother being Yukino.
"Fumiko unless you don't want to tell me that's fine, but if you can would you tell me what happen between us and your mother?", Hachiman asked as he sat up right while letting Rikka go and allowing her to sit by his side while wiping away any dry tears she still had.
The other sisters seem to want to know as well as they turn to face their sister who looked like she was trying her best to not show her hidden anger behind her eyes.
Taking a deep breath Fumiko later exhale while looking down at the floor before towards her father. "I... I personally don't want to see my mother after what she did to the both of us, especially after the hell she put us thru. Their was a moment of love between you two that allow me to be born between you two but later that relationship begun to turn distasteful shortly after I was 3, she begun to grow far distant and begun treating us as if we were strangers, at age 5 she forced you to sign for divorce because we were getting in the way of her job as the head CEO of the family business".
"She tossed us aside and told us to stay away, we were fine for 5 years living together but then when I turn 11. She tried to force her way into our life in order for me to go with her so that I could learn how the family business worked. I didn't wanted to leave you behind as she wanted me to move with her to the UK so I refused to go and so did you, that's when she went mad and begun to treat us like we were beneath her, as if we were her dogs that didn't obey her commands and begun to throw legal actions and play dirty to hurt you so that I would comply".
"We lost our home and you lost your job, we would have been homeless if we didn't move to the country side with grandpa to live a more peaceful life after we snuck out of Chiba in hopes to get away from her. We ended up living nicely for a few years until she managed to find us, then that's when she did the unthinkable... she order her guards to take me by force and hold you down while they burn our house and demanded that I came with her or else she would get rid of you if I didn't comply. Again I told her I didn't wanted anything to do with her and that I wished to live a normal life by your side father, then that's when she order her guards to execute you their and then...".
He was left stun at her story, even the others looked shocked to hear it. She held a tight fist in her hands that they turn white as if trying her best to not shout or show an even more angry expression than what she was currently showing.
If it wasn't late in the night and everyone else was already asleep, she would be yelling out profanities and saying just how much she hated the woman that gave her life.
However she understood from the moment that she crossed over into this world with her new sisters that the woman known as Yukino, her mother by blood was a different version from that of her world.
But after being tormented and remembering the evil look she had as she order her guards to execute her father right in front of her, that face alone made her blood boil and made her swirl in anger beyond words could describe her hatred towards the woman.
Hachiman who managed to approach her without making a single sound, he kneel before her and placed his left hand on her shoulder which quickly broke her from her deep thoughts and let that hatred disperse.
(Spell Active)
"Sounds just like her if I am being honest, she was always one for being hard to express her true feeling and say what she really wants to say. I am grateful that I get to meet you Fumiko, but understand that this Yukino that inhabits this world is the same woman who's blood courses thru your very veins is your mother, and she has yet to do any harm to you are me. I am not asking you to let go of those memories or to pretend that it ever happen, but to try and at least move past it at your own pace and get to know Yukino from this world. You don't even have to tell her who you are, their will be moments when you get the chance to see her and talk to her. It will be up to you if you want to make a connection with her in this life you hear me".
After activating the spell once more to see all of her memories, from when she could recall her earliest memories all the way to the last bitter memory of her seeing Yukino at her worst as she gave the order to her guards to kill him.
He witness her entire life in just a split second along with the mounting headache that he got from seeing it all in an instance.
It took a heavy toll on his mental state, at this point he felt like he had aged years within just a few minutes of meeting this girls.
It also help that by seeing her memories, he could find the right words and the right tone to help her calm down and help her take the small steps in letting that anger she had for her mother slowly dissipate, even if it was just a few grains of sand compare to that of a beach.
Hearing her father use that all to familiar tone of his, and recalling that fact that her father was alive and well in front of her, she did the same as Rikka by hugging her father in order to let go of that frustration she had with the memories of her hateful mother.
"A-As long as you are by my side father, I'll try my best to do so but I can't promise anything", with a muffle voice she promised that she would put some effort to do so but even so, she felt a very large sum of hatred to her mother who left a bitter and awful taste in her life.
"I will... I'll give you my support for however long you need it Fumiko, the same goes for you all girls. Alright I think it's about we head off to bed, I have something important to do tomorrow with Minami in the day so we can sit around in the morning to talk before I have to leave to do a job with her. Once I've return I'll spend some more time with you all understood".
Standing up as he spoke, he looked at the clock to see that it was getting close to three in the morning. Hearing this the girls all stood up and seem to approach him.
At this he gave a visible confuse expression before asking what they were doing. "I know that this might sound a bit out of place given we are a bit grown up but, can we sleep with you tonight dad?, please".
Miku with her dark golden eyes said with a pleading look as she spoke for her sisters who shared the same idea, they might be near adult hood but they were still young girls at hearth who dearly missed their father after losing him in the worst ways possible.
"I still share my bed with Izanami girls, I don't know know how she would react seeing 8 girls suddenly wanting to sleep with me in the same bed at near three in the morning. But if it makes you feel any better we can sleep here in the living room. Go to the closet down the hall and pull out the three futons in there and set them up in the floor, I need a hot shower, I'll be back".
With that being said, the girls all nodded before heading off to do just that with him heading up stairs to take a hot shower before heading off to bed.
He took his time in the shower to think very deeply on the whole situation as he still found it hard to process the whole situation that was playing out.
After looking thru both of Fumiko's and Rikka's memories to see that they were speaking the truth, and seeing how he ended up living his life in two separate lives.
He understood a little better now why they choose to take the opportunity in coming into this world where they could be reunited with him.
If he lost his sisters in such a horrible way and some goddess offered him the same offer be reunited with them, you could beat that he would do just that.
Letting the hot water pour down from above, he could feel some of his tense muscles ease up and relax after a long day, but in his thoughts many questions were running thru his head at the speed of light.
What to do with the eight girls and how he would go about approaching this new information to his mother and sisters, and weather or not he should tell the girls about their daughter's existence.
But figuring that holding out on that information would best for now, as it was their was no need to be rushing to tell the girls this kind of information.
If anything it would just cause trouble for him really, simply because they would call him crazy and look at the girls with a confused and perhaps frighten look before asking a whole bunch of questions that revolved around how it was possible and were was the evidence, or they might just think it's all some sort of prank.
That and not to mention that he knew that this girls had some interest in him from the visible signs and hints he got from them, even when it came to Izanami his sister she keep them most at bay and made it difficult for them to get to close to him as she would keep him in arm's length and given them a glare or two to try and keep them away.
And now that they were approaching the end of their last year in Sobu High, he knew that they would grow desperate and try something in order to confess their feelings for him.
And if they did he wasn't sure if could even accept them or reject them considering he had eight special girls to look after now.
He chuckle at the fact that just an hour ago he was a simple single loner guy to now being a father of eight girls who were all between a year or three years younger than him.
"What am I going to do..."
Later that morning, Hachiman woke up in the middle of the large futon they created in the middle of the living room floor to which he woke up an hour early before anyone else did in order start making breakfast and avoid being caught asleep in the middle of eight girls by his family and avoid any probing that he might find himself in.
The sounds of cooking and the aroma of delicious food being prepared and made managed to wake up his dear sister Izanami who came walking down the stairs with her eyes half close and a large bed head as her long black raven hair reached her waist while dressed in a black over sized t-shirt and grey shorts.
"Morning Hachiman", with a yawn and tired voice she sat herself down on the kitchen table as she rubbed her eyes to clear her foggy morning view of the world.
"Morning Izanami, so did anything happen while I was gone last night?", Hachiman asked as he was near finish getting breakfast done. He was hopping to make some small talk before the girls sleeping in the living room would wake up.
He might not show it but he was very nervous upon having Izanami meeting Katsumi, how she would react to see her after she explain who she was made his heart race none stop.
The fact that Izanami who had a sharp eye like him had yet to notice the girls sleeping on the futon within the living room and not ask him who they were already surprised him.
"Nothing much really, besides helping Hatsume and Komachi with homework and mom taking Komachi, Chifuyu and Alice grocery shopping yesterday. Nothing really much happen, what time did you get back thou I didn't hear you come in the room last night?".
"I came in at around close to three in the morning, I was just very tired so I ended up crashing in the living room couch, I already took a shower earlier when I woke up so no need to tell me about it. Here's your plate, you can have first dibs on breakfast", handing her a full plate of pancakes, sliced ham mixed in with scramble eggs and a few blueberries to mix up the dish.
The smell that came from the hot and fresh meal as well as the visible steam that came from the plate made her stomach growl and her eyes lit up from seeing such a meal placed before her.
Her brother was always such a good cook, he took after learning from his mother when he could to help out prepare meals and lunches for his sisters to take with them to school for lunch.
So it was no surprise that he ended up being really good at making such fine meals.
But as she begun to dig in, the aroma of the breakfast he had prepared managed to stir up one of the girls sleeping in the futon within the living room.
From the corner of his eye as he continue to prepare the other plates, he caught sight of Katsumi waking up dressed in a black over sized t-shirt that he let her use to sleep in and her messy black hair with a bed head being visible while having half closed eyes before she begun to rub her eyes to clear her foggy morning vision.
It didn't take long till Katsumi was attracted to the smell of food being prepared and so she directed her gaze towards the source to which her and his gaze meet before he motion with his eyes to Izanami who was sitting in the table with her back towards her.
If she wasn't fully awake before she was now, her eyes widen in surprise while looking hesitant at how to approach the girl who was her mother. A part of her wanted no more than to rush at her and hug her from behind while another part of her was paralyzed with anxiety not knowing how her mother would react to seeing her, even more how she would react once she explain herself to her.
But remembering that the whole part of being here was not only to be reunited with her father but also her mother, she remember them being loving and caring no matter what.
How they would always hug her together and kiss her on the check and call her their little hope of love that came to be and how brought life into their dull life in world where everything seem to be doom and glom.
Taking a deep breather she did her beast to calm her beating hearth before making the first few steps to the kitchen table, each step she took felt like she was marching into no man's land as the outcome was unknown to her and her father.
Her footsteps caused the floorboards underneath to creek ever so softly but it was just enough to catch Izanami's attention. Their she turn around to reveal her mother's face, long smooth black raven hair and sharp eyes with a dark red color in them, by not doubt her mother was beautiful in her youth and looked well develop considering her bust size and her natural beauty and her long black eyelashes.
Upon seeing her, Izanami had a questioning look on her face before swallowing the food within her mouth before saying, "Hmm I didn't know my brother brought a guest, also that shirt belongs to my brother... Hachiman don't tell me you brought over a girl last night to have your way. Is that why you didn't come into the room last night?".
Her eyes turn towards Hachiman as her eyes narrowed down on him with a harden and questionable look with a menacing feeling to them.
Hachiman wanting to avoid any further misunderstanding decided that it was time to face the storm now than later, he just hopes he could survive it without being injured for being misunderstood.
"No Izanami that isn't the cause, it's rather complicated and while it might sound difficult to understand. Everything I am about to say is true and in no shape or form am I pulling a prank or joke, you already know me well enough to know that pulling pranks isn't something I ever do nor do I do things for my own amusement. Katsumi can you please sit at the table and introduce your full name please".
Turning off the stove he asked for her to sit down while he did too sitting right across his sister with Katsumi taking to sit next to her mother.
Izanami looked at her intently while holding her fork as Katsumi sat next to her while looking more nervous than before.
It took her a few seconds of self encouragement before Katsumi took to looking directly at Izanami before find her voice to speak to her.
"Hello their m-my name is Katsumi Hikigaya, i-it's a pleasure to meet you... m-mother".
Complete and utter silence filled the entire house, it was so scary just how no sound was being heard that Hachiman swore she could hear his and Katsumi's beating heartbeat.
"...what?"
This time Izanami turn to face Hachiman with a look that said nothing more than confusion. Cute but not funny, he almost wanted to laugh but at the same time fall to his knees not knowing how to proceed further.
"Izanami meet Katsumi your future daughter, well at least not from this timeline but from another. Do you want to guess who her father is?".
Looking between her brother and the girl who apparently was her daughter from the 'future'. Izanami while beyond confused looked at the girl who was doing her best to make eye contact, she looked at the girl long and hard to see just how this girl was in any shape or form her daughter.
While she was thinking that this was some sort of sick prank, the more she looked at Katsumi, the more she saw the small little details that reflected back on her image.
By no doubt that hair color match her's and those eyes of her's looked like a more brighter color of red like hers and her cheek bones were a matching fit to hers.
But what caught her attention the most and made her really think on who the suppose father was, she took the moment to look at her nose, those sharp and almost beautiful eyes of hers with that signature half dead look to them, and especially that bit of hair at at the top of her head that resemble awfully close to...
Hachiman watched as Izanami turn to face him before spending a few seconds to stare at him before turning back to look at Katsumi, then back to him and then back to her.
"...so have you figured it out?, or do you want Katsumi here to tell you?", Hachiman said as he clear his throat.
"...are you saying... that this girl right here... is 'our' daughter Hachiman?".
"y-yes indeed she is, and like I said before... this isn't a prank or a joke I am trying to pull off. I wouldn't bring about any girl that we didn't know to our house to stay the night just to pull a joke on you in the early morning just to get a reaction from you sis... I am sure you can spot some of the similarities between her and us. She is our very own flesh and blood Izanami".
"..." Izanami didn't say anything as she turn her gaze from Hachiman to stare back at Katsumi who was looking down at the ground while holding her hands together.
"please mother, he is telling the truth. I was born many years into the future once you two were in your early thirties after a war had ravaged the world and you two were the last remaining individuals from your family, a law was passed down then in which allow siblings to legally marry one another and having children of their own, the reason why was because the war had killed so many people in the 10 years that the war lasted leaving billions dead. Either you guys were forced to marry someone else, or you two marrying was the second option. In the end you two decided to marry together and ended up having me the following year. You both loved each other very much and always stayed together during and after the war had ended, everyone you two knew had long died and passed away because of the war. You guys had nobody else in that world but each other with memories of the old world struggling to make it thru the new one. The reason I am here is because I was offered the chance to see you two again after you two died partaking in a dangerous mission, I was forced to live on my own after you two died, life without you guys was horrible and harsh, I was known to be the best among the new generation but that didn't mean that my life wasn't easy. I struggle everyday on my own and it hurt everyday knowing that I was left alone in such a sufferable world, I had no father or mother to teach me new things or to look after me, returning to our house after each new scout mission was just miserable because you two weren't there to welcome me back home, I couldn't make any new memories that meant anything to me because without you two. All the memories I had were just nightmares of with me suffering alone in a world that had no love to give back to me".
Katsumi was a very strong individual, in her world she was known to be fearless, cold and calculated to the point she did impossible mission with a breeze. But none of that could have prepare her for the moment that was now, her emotions were raging inside her chest, she was doing her best not to shed any more tears in front of her mother.
But she just couldn't hold it in anymore, it hurt so much and in the end she just had enough of playing the mature persona she had built around her image.
She leaped towards her mother and hugged her with a tight embrace as tears begun to spill.
Hachiman taking his chance, he walked up to the two and placed his hands one each of their shoulders before using his spell once more on the two.
He endure the headache that he got from receiving Katsumi's entire flow of memories but using this he shared this memories from her daughter to Izanami who could see just what exactly Katsumi went thru in her life.
It took no more than 6 whole seconds before letting go and standing back to see just what Izanami would do.
To his relief he watch as Izanami brought her arms around Katsumi had hugged her back.
"...you did good on your own... I am proud of you, my little Raven", Katsumi upon hearing her mother use her nickname out of the blue. She only did what she could do in that moment and that was to cry a bit harder.
Izanami upon seeing her cry a bit more couldn't help but chuckle while having tears of her own come down rolling down her face. It was then that she turn to face Hachiman who was just three feet away before she reached out with her hand to grab his own hand before pulling him in.
"Come here... I have something to tell you", pulling him closer he had no choice but to bent down a bit to be near her eye level to listen to what she had to say.
But just as the two were just inches apart, she used the moment to pull him into a kiss.
"!"
He was caught by surprise but didn't dare move, after seeing Katsumi's memories this sudden kiss shouldn't be new to him. But it was a whole different experience now that he was actually doing it in person with her.
Once their lips separated, Izanami had a slight blush on her face as she stared right at him before saying something that made his face redden from both surprise and embarrassment.
"Hard to believe that It took you 30 years for you to confess to me, If I am being honest I was hoping you would do it sometime last year or this year, or even me to begin with. I always did loved you more than a brother, I just didn't know how you would react If I told you how I felt about you, I always gave you hints and sometimes I would catch you staring at me at night when we sleep together or when I came out the shower, I guess this makes us official now doesn't it darling?".
"y-yeah, I guess it dose", god why was he stuttering now?. He felt his face heat up and adverted his gaze away from Izanami who said such cheesy and clique words that somehow had an effect to him.
However as he turn his eyes to the left, he spotted seven heads peeking over the couch in the living room who were looking in their direction before giving him the thumbs up.
"this girls I swear, they are going to be the death of me... I should probably not say that in the open around them. I literally died in their eyes already I don't need to be saying that to them unless I want them to be crying all over me again"
Now that the he had one daughter mother reunion down, he brought over the seven other girls over to the kitchen to introduce themselves to Izanami and spending the next hour or so getting acquainted before the the rest of his sisters and mother came down the stairs who expected to have breakfast with just their brother and sister.
But instead they were introduced to 8 of their new nieces and spending the next 2 hours getting the girls to know them before introducing Katsumi to them and explaining to his mother and sisters just who exactly the mother was.
To his surprise they took it rather well all things consider, it was then that when he ask why they didn't seem so shock or disturbed about it considering incest wasn't a common thing that happen and most people dislike the topic in general.
His mother gave him a smile and said that she could make up the details of her son and daughter and see them in Katsumi and how she herself had speculated that maybe he and Izanami already had that sort of 'relationship' for some time now and just didn't addressed it herself considering they were already at the age of adulthood and still shared a room together and weren't afraid or bothered at seeing each other's naked bodies when they showered.
She even confessed to them that she was expecting any day now to hear between the two that maybe they might have had sex in the past and he might have knocked her up accidently and would bring the matter to her attention to which she honestly wouldn't mind.
Even his sisters had the same idea but were also embarrassed to hear their mother's comment as they adverted their eyes between the two.
Needless to say in the end of it, he could breath and rest easy now that he could truly relax at home now that his family was inform of the whole ordeal and could face his sister Izanami with a straight face.
But it also didn't help the fact that now that it was known that Hachiman and Izanami had a daughter here present with them, she begun to tease him and openly show her affections and love for him.
Even now as he sat at the couch watching his sisters talk with his 8 daughters as they watch a show on the television, Izanami sat by his side as she hugged him while resting her head on his chest with a loving smile and to his opposite side Katsumi held his arm while looking at the TV with a happy and content smile on her face.
He was happy to have this reunion go off without any issues, but as he looked at his phone upon receiving a message.
A message coming from Minami herself with her text being:
"Let's meet up in twenty minutes, time to get to work Hachiman I'll be waiting for you".
Well it looks like this happy reunion will have to end here for now, it was time he got to do what he and Minami had planned out for today.
"Alright... time to get to work"
His eyes glowed a bright violet glow/
Mother = Daugther / Age
Yukino - Fumiko 14
Yumiko - Madoka 14
Saki - Kurumi 15/2 months
Yui - Sora 13
Izanami - Katsumi 15/4 months
Minami - Akane 14
Ishiki - Miku 13
Haruno - Rikka 15/ 1 months
Hikigaya Household
Himiko Hikigaya - Mother
Hachiman Hikigaya - 17 Older brother
Izanami Hikigaya - 16 younger sisters
Hatsume Hikigaya - 15
Komachi Hikigaya - 15
Chifuyu Hikigaya - 14
Alice Hikigaya - 13
Alright then that's the first chapter of this story, I hope you guys enjoyed it so far. Don't worry I am already making the next few chapters after posting this. And like I mention before this story will have more to it besides just being introduced to 8 of Hachiman's daughters that each have a different mother.
While the story revolves around Hachiman and his 8 girls, and how they go about living their life together and how they would be introduced to their mothers much how Izanami and Katsumi were brought together.
How would the other girls react?, good or bad and just how Fumiko's and Madoka's reunion with meeting their mothers Yukino and Yumiko will go considering they have a bitter taste when it comes to knowing their mothers from their previous life.
This story will also shed some light into revealing a rather dark and terrifying story that Hachiman and Minami along with a few new characters deal behind shadows of the world, with magic being in their possession and other unknown skills in their possession.
Just what exactly do the two do that's consider so dangerous and life threating and down right terrifying that he wants to keep it a secret from the girls at all costs for as long as he can.
So anyhow please leave a favorite and a follow if you want to see the next chapter and leave a review on what your thoughts were on this first chapter title the Golden Crowns and what questions you might have for me and I'll make sure to answer them in the next chapter.
With that being said, I'll be seeing you guys very soon. Oh and also the next few chapters will be a bit longer in word count, this first chapter is just to have you guys be introduced to Fumiko, Madoka, Kurumi, Sora, Katsumi, Akane, Miku and Rikka and how the first meetup between mother and daughter went.
