The Next Morning...
"Good morning Chrono." Tokoha tells him, who wakes him with a kiss on the cheek.
"Good morning ... by the way, can I know what I'm doing in bed?" He asks.
"You should know, since you were the one who arrived and went to bed here." Tokoha answers him, who was getting up.
"I think I'm very tired because of yesterday's news ..." Chrono said as he got up to wash his face.
"Is it a good news or a bad news?" Tokoha asks the redhead.
"At the moment it seems to be good news, Mikuru returns today with Shin-san and Misaki-san." Chrono answers her.
"Well, then it's best to have breakfast to receive them on a full stomach." she answers while going to the bathroom.
"I think so ..." Chrono says.
"By the way Chrono ... do you want to get in the shower again with me?" said Tokoha, who seeing the reaction of Chrono laughs a little.
"What did you say ?!" Chrono answers who blushes like a tomato.
"It was a joke ... or did you want to?" says Tokoha, getting too close to the redhead.
"I better go and make breakfast before Mikuru comes." said Chrono, who leaves the room with a smile.
"ha ha ha, it looked like a tomato when it blushed ... well anyway, I'll go to shower" thought Tokoha when he saw Chrono withdraw all red.
*Knock Knock*
"I wonder who will be?" asks Chrono, who gets a tremendous surprise ...
"Hi Chrono-kun." Mamoru greets him.
"Hi Mamoru-san, what brings you here?" the redhead asks him.
"My sister ... I haven't seen her in a few days, I was wondering if you ... knew something?" Mamoru asks the redhead.
"Come on, there's a lot we have to talk about." Chrono tells Mamoru, who after passing him tells him what happened.
Minutes later...
"Chrono, the shower is ready~." says Tokoha who is surprised to see someone in the room.
"Hi~." Mamoru greets his sister.
"What are you doing here Nii-san?" Tokoha asks him.
"He was worried about you, and he came to see if I knew anything, well, I'm going to take a shower, I have things to do today." Chrono says to her retreating.
"Tokoha, why didn't you say anything? I understand that Chrono and you are a couple, but ... don't worry your family." Mamoru says in a serious tone.
"Chrono told you everything, right?" Tokoha asks him.
"Yep, and I'm glad he's taking good care of you." Mamoru tells her, who hugs her.
"Come on nii-san, I'm not a girl anymore ... but you're right." said tokoha who thinks ... "although it is also fun to play a few jokes on Chrono."
Later...
"Are you leaving now, Mamoru-san?" Chrono asks his brother-in-law.
"Yes, I can see that you are having a good time together and I do not want to ruin your special moment, Tokoha I'll tell mom and dad that you are fine and that they shouldn't worry about you." Mamoru says goodbye, but when opening the door ...
"I didn't know that we had visitors?" Mikuru said when he saw Tokoha and Mamoru in the apartment.
"No, in fact I was already leaving, I still have things to do." Mamoru says.
"Hey wait, why don't you stay a moment?" a masculine voice answers behind Mikuru.
"Surprise Chrono!" Mikuru tells his nephew.
"Is this the surprise?" asks Chrono.
"It seems that he didn't like it much." Shindou Rive answers her.
"Well, what do you think, we are still cleaning up the disaster that you and Ryuzu caused." replies Chrono, who is hit in the head by Tokoha.
"Don't pay much attention to him, it's a pleasure to meet you. I'm Anjou Tokoha." she answers, as she shakes Rive's hand.
"She is Chrono's fiancee." Mikuru tells his brother.
"Not bad, and it's also pretty, you choose very well Chrono." Rive tells him trying to break the ice again with his son.
"Well, if that's all, I'm leaving ... I have work to do in the store." the redhead answers, who in the end smiles a little.
"(little nervous laugh) give him some time." said Tokoha who comes after him.
In Card Capital ...
"Don't you think you were very rude with him." Tokoha tells Chrono.
"I don't know what are you talking about." Chrono answers him.
"You haven't seen each other in a long time, you don't think you should be nice to him." Tokoha tells the redhead.
"You forget everything we went through because of him!" said Chrono, who starts to get annoyed
"Yeah, some things were bad, but ... others weren't so bad, were they?" asks Tokoha, who wanted to know if having met her had also been bad for Chrono.
"We have to stop them." Emi told the guys, seeing the discussion of both.
"Enough, both of you need to calm down." a voice said in the distance.
"Ibuki, what are you all doing here?" Chrono said when he saw Ibuki entering with the members of Q4.
"It's time to end them once and for all!" Ibuki told him.
"And how will we do it?" Shion asks, while he and the others take a seat.
"I knew you would ask that ... come in!" Ibuki to Shion, who invites one more person to pass.
"Hi ..." says Shindou Rive.
"Who is he?" Kazuma asks.
"He is Shindou Rive, leader of the original Team Nippon and Chrono's father." the blonde replies to Kazuma.
"Guys ... I'm sorry for what happened and in past I know it's my fault and that's why I want to make up for it." Rive says to everyone.
"And how will you do it Rive-san?" Tokoha asks him.
"With this ..." he replies by showing him three blank cards.
"You never learn, Do you?" Chrono answers him.
"I understand how you feel ... but maybe it's our last chance Chrono-kun." Aichi was saying to the redhead.
"If you don't mind I'll take one ..." says Tokoha, taking the card on middle.
"Well, I think I want this one." Shion said taking another of the white cards.
"You won't take the last one?" Tokoha asked Chrono.
"No, I don't intend to do it ... the card can be taken by any of you, I'll finish with Chaos Breaker with my own hands." says the redhead who leaves the shop annoying.
"I will give it to him, pls don't worry." Tokoha tells Rive.
"Yeah, thank you ..." he answers, while he sees Tokoha leave the store.
In a Nearby Park ...
"What's wrong with you?" Tokoha asks him when he sees Chrono sitting in the park.
"I do not want the Tokoha card." Chrono told him, who thought that Tokoha would give him the card.
"Well, you don't deserve it.." says Tokoha who starts to scold him.
"Don't make a wrong idea, I'm glad he came back and everything, but ... How long?" said the redhead a little depressed.
"And that's why you behave like that? What will happen at Christmas, or at some other important date?" Tokoha said trying to make him see reason.
"Tokoha, we haven't had a date in a long time, right? ..." said Chrono, who was standing on the bench where he was.
"What's that?" she asks Chrono.
"If you are free tomorrow, can you accompany me to a very important place?" Chrono says.
"Okay, but ... tomorrow is Christmas, or is it that you forgot?" Tokoha replies to the redhead.
"No, but ... I thought we could relax a bit, plus there's something I want to show you." says Chrono, who says goodbye to her with a kiss on the cheek.
"What are you up to now, Shindou Chrono?" Tokoha thought as she watched her boyfriend retire.
To be continue...