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Raven: Back to the subject at hand; what's the chapter about?

AnimeKiwi369: Title. Relaying Heritage. What do you think?

Copper: We tell our father's about the info, don't we?

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Chapter 6

Relaying Heritage

John went over the information he had gotten with his friends that day. Though he seemed uninterested, he really was. But he didn't like how his dad's father's name was Leslie. He had only known that to be a more common girl's name than a boy's. How was Jack going to react to that news?

He sat at the kitchen table, looking over the images of his grandparents that had been included. It was freaky how Atlas genes worked. Jack's father looked exactly like him; or rather, Jack looked exactly like his father. All except the eyes. Jack had his mother's eyes, just like John had his mother's eyes. Jack's father had hazel eyes from what he could tell.

His would-be-grandfather would probably be about Jack's height. He towered over his would-be-grandmother. Just like the young blonde's father did with his mother. And just like how he did with his two closest female friends. Height was obviously a dominant, Atlas gene.

He glanced over at his mother, Carly. She was back early from her weekly job as a reporter. On weekends she worked at the floral shop that Akiza and Dove owned. She was typing at her computer for a new story for the New Domino Gazette. She had actually become one of the top reporters for the newspaper in the twenty years that had occurred after the Signer-Dark Signer war. She was so mild mannered, petite, and a bit clumsy (though not as much as back then), that it was hard to believe that she had been the Dark Signer that had faced his father.

He heard footsteps from upstairs, signaling his little sister, Cadie, coming downstairs in the apartment that their father had owned before the war. Her long dark hair was tied back, keeping the hair out of her violet eyes and sharp features that both of them had inherited from Jack. They fought, of course. They were brother and sister after all. But they did love each other. Cadie went over to their mother and leaned over her shoulder.

"Mom, when is dad getting home?" she asked.

"In just a few minutes." Carly responded, shutting her laptop and getting up, "I should start dinner, huh?"

"Yeah." John agreed, not looking up, "We don't want dad to cook; he may be one of the world's best duelist, but he's one of the world's worst cooks!"

"'One of the worst' doesn't even describe dad." His little sister laughed; they loved their father, buteven Jack Atlas had his laughable flaws. The dark-haired, violet-eyed girl went over to her brother, "What are you looking at?"

"The guys and I went to get some information on our father's parents today from Mina."

"Did you do that because what's going on with Copper?" she asked.

"Yeah. There's something kinda embarrassing for each of our families."

"What?" Cadie inquired in a mischievous tone that was similar to Carly's when she wanted a scoop.

"Crow's actual name is Caleb. Kalin is half Dutch and a quarter Gaelic, and Yusei's middle name is Ryuushi." The younger girl started laughing, "You won't be laughing when I tell you what our grandfather's name was."

"Which is what, Jonathan?" Jack's Australian-accented voice asked, startling both of them slightly. The young blonde turned around and looked at his father.

"That your dad's name is—uh, was—umm…er…em…"

"Was what?" Jack demanded.

"Leslie."

"You've got to be joking!"

At the Hogan Household

Raven looked at the photograph of her grandparents as she lied down on her bed, trying to dry her hair, after having taken a shower. Both of her father's parents had the carroty-red hair, he, she, and Eagle all had. Robyn and Jay had Dove's bleach blonde hair color. She didn't like the term towhead. Crow looked exactly like his father. Except for all of the markers on his face and his father was bit more muscular and taller than he was. The first ginger-haired Signer's mother had blue eyes.

It was weird to think of her father as anything but papa or Crow. Caleb was just so different from who he had always been known by. Her father had always wondered what his real name was. But he was so carefree that little things like this didn't really bother him. He was always the one to lift other's spirits. The grey-eyed Signer did know how to have a good time.

Crow would probably take this news really well. It would just put the missing puzzle pieces of his past together a little more. Raven almost wished there was a logbook like with Copper's grandfather. But why would a construction worker have one?

The ginger-haired girl wondered what they were like. She was especially curious about if they were reckless or not. If they were, then her father and mother would be just like them. Her parents had been reckless since they had met. Especially when it came to her mother's parents. Although they were more comfortable with each other than twenty years ago, Dove's parents didn't exactly see eye-to-eye with either of them. But they did come over once in a while.

It's so weird, she thought, that all of our grandfathers are connected to Copper's and the Enerdy Reactor. It was; but it was also really cool at the same time. To think that all of their grandfather's knew each other was so interesting. Raven wondered if Yusei's parents knew Akiza's parents before everything with Zero Reverse happened. And if the two now married Signers had met when they were just babies? Raven heard a knock at her door before it opened. She looked over and saw her father.

"Hey, Raven." Crow greeted with a grin.

"Hi, papa." She responded as he went over to her bed and sat down next to her.

"I heard you went to see Copper today." He commented.

"Yeah." She told him, "We—John, Lane, and I—heard about what happened with Yusei's mom. So we went to see how Copper was holding up from it."

"I see." Crow said, "Yuse wasn't really himself today. He was a bit distracted and almost gave himself a nasty cut if Jack hadn't pointed out what he was doing."

Raven nodded a little absently, "We went to Mina and got some information about your guys' parents." She handed him the folder. He looked it over a little bit.

"'Caleb'?" he questioned, "That's actually my name?"

"Yeah." She grinned a little, "Don't worry though, papa. To all of us you'll always be either papa or Crow."

The ginger-haired man grinned back, "You got that right!"

At the Kessler Apartment

Lane kept looking at the medical history for his father's parents as he sat on one of the couches in the living room. He wasn't too thrilled that throat cancer was hereditary. Why couldn't it be something simple like an inflamed appendix that was hereditary, like with Copper's family? He smiled a little thinking of her. He had it bad for her!

He looked back at the image of his grandparents. It was a bit strange. All of his friends' father's looked like their fathers. But not with his. Kalin looked like his mother with the long ice-blue hair, pale skin, slender face, and high cheekbones. But he had his father's golden eyes. Both of the former Dark Signer's parents were both fairly tall. So it wasn't hard to see that Kalin was as tall as he was, which was just about six foot.

The ice-blue-haired boy hadn't told his parents anything yet. When he had been asked what he had done today during dinner, he had simply said that he, John, and Raven had gone to see Copper. Kalin and Misty had understood. They knew what had happened. Misty had actually been the one to tell him after Akiza had told her at the flower shop that day.

Lane wanted to tell his father; they had a nice relationship, like Copper did with her parents. The former Dark Signer had changed a lot in the past twenty years. The young boy thought that it was throat surgery that had changed him the most. He was quiet, but he also very pleasant. He had a feeling that it also might have something to do with being a father.

All of the people who were involved with the Signer-Dark Signer war have changed a lot from who they had once been. Lane thought, Mostly after they became parents. It was true. Akiza had changed since she had met Yusei and especially after having Copper. Jack had changed since he had met Carly. Crow hadn't changed much, but he had changed a little since he had met Dove. And Kalin had changed since the Signer-Dark Signer war and becoming a father. Those were just a few examples, though.

Lane distantly heard the sound of his little, three-year old brother, Gabe come over to him. Though the little boy had their mother's hair and eye color, he had their father's features and coloring. He had actually been an unexpected child as a result from the two former Dark Signers eleventh anniversary night. He looked sleepy. The ice-blue-haired boy lifted his brother onto the couch next to him.

"Shouldn't you be in bed?" he asked. It was about the time the little boy went to sleep.

"I can't find mommy." Gabe responded, yawning. Lane stood up and took his brother off the couch, taking his hand.

"Then let's go find her." He said; he knew where their mother was. She was probably cleaning up the kitchen. Sure enough, the model was still doing just that, "Mom?" he asked, getting her attention.

Misty turned around with a pleasant smile, "Oh, hey, boys."

"It's time for Gabe to go to bed." Lane informed her and she looked at the clock.

"So it is." She responded and picked up her youngest son beginning to leave the room.

"Hey, mom?" the oldest Kessler child asked.

The former female Dark Signer turned around, "Yes, Lane?"

"Do you know where dad is?" he asked.

"Should be outside on the terrace." She responded pleasantly.

Lane went back to the living room and got the folder that he had received from Mina that day. He crossed through the apartment to sliding glass door that led to the small terrace they had. Their apartment was the same one that Misty had owned before the war. He heard the soft sound of a familiar harmonica. He saw his father outside with his back to the apartment as he sat on the ground cross-legged.

The boy went outside silently and went beside his father. The former Dark Signer didn't acknowledge him at first because he was obviously concentrating. The ice-blue-haired man had his eyes closed, his head tilting slightly towards the sky. He could see the nearly invisible scar on his father's neck he had gotten from his throat surgery. Even though the surgery hadn't had any cutting to the former Dark Signer's throat, he had somehow still gotten a scar. The near identical son listened intently to his father play. He played at some point every evening. He had a gift that he mostly kept to himself, only sharing with friends and family. The last note resonated into the night as he finished playing.

Kalin took the instrument away from his lips and looked at his son, "Hey, Lane."

"Hey, dad."

"Something you want to tell me, son?" the former Dark Signer asked.

"Kinda." The young boy answered. His father gave him a quizzical look, so he continued, "Well you know how we went to see Copper today?"

Kalin nodded, "Yes. What about it?"

"Well we went to Mina and got…" he trailed off slightly, holding out the folder, "We got information on our grandparents. Our father's parents. Your parents."

His father took the folder from him and began to look at the contents. Lane held his breath slightly as he did so. There was an odd, almost awkward, silence as the ice-blue-haired man looked over the different pages. He stopped on the page that had the photograph of William and Ava Kessler. Kalin looked at it for a little while, before moving onto the medical history. He finally closed the folder and looked back at his son, who was letting his breath out.

"Interesting." Was all he said.

"Uh…What?" Lane asked, not sure of what his father was referring to.

"The information on my parents. All of it." Kalin responded, "So we're Dutch and Gaelic, huh?" the boy nodded, "And that throat cancer is hereditary. I wish that we didn't have that."

"I do, too." The ice-blue-haired boy said, "But you know what they say. You can pick your friends but not your family."

Kalin chuckled a little bit and put an arm around his son's shoulders.

At the Fudo Household

Copper yawned, wanting to close her eyes. She knew it was late, but she just couldn't stop reading. She was rereading her grandfather's logbook again, holding a flashlight above the page. She had her father's parents' information, the old photograph of him and them, and photographs of her own family were scattered in front of her as she lied on her stomach in front of the empty fireplace. She wished it was lit, but why light a fireplace in summer?

The dark-haired girl was in a pair of dark colored pajama shorts and tank top with had a blanket around her shoulder and a soft pillow under her arms. She had brought them out there just in case she did fall asleep. And at that moment, it was very, very possible that she would. Her hair again lay in tangles down her back.

She didn't even know why she wasn't just doing this in her bedroom, where she would be more comfortable. But there was something about the living room at night that made it a good place to look at study things like this. The atmosphere there just made it seem closer to the past. She didn't know why she felt like that; she just did.

She yawned again, her eye protesting her as she forced herself to keep them open. She had shown Akiza the information, but wanted to wait to show Yusei. He needed some time to recover from his lingering shock. She didn't want to cause a new round of it while the old was still in his system. Copper looked back at the picture of her father's parents.

She studied over her grandmother—Nan. She looked so happy in both images. The height difference between her and her husband was almost like Jack and Carly's, but to a lesser extent. It wasn't hard to see how her father was about average or just above it. Just like Akiza. Copper knew she'd never be as tall as any of the Atlas or Kessler children, but she didn't mind that she'd be average. She'd probably be as tall as or slightly taller than her mother.

The other differences between Hakase and Nan were similar to her parents. Her grandfather was dark-haired while her grandmother was fair-haired with her brunette hair; just like her father was dark-haired whereas her mother was a redhead with a burgundy color. Copper mainly had a combination of her parents. Her grandfather's skin color contrasted her grandmother's immensely; her father's skin color didn't contrast her mother's as much, but it did contrast a little. The dark-haired girl's skin color contrasted her father's too, having inherited her mother's coloring. Whilst Hakase's and Yusei's features were sharp, Nan's, Akiza's, and hers were soft.

The only difference that her grandparents didn't have with her parents was eye color. The two Signer's eye colors were completely different. The leader of the rare people had blue-indigo, of course, and then the psychic of the group had dark amber-gold. As everyone already knew. Her grandparents had very similar color to the other. The only difference was the type of blue. Copper had a very unique color, with a combo of her parents.

She yawned again as she continued look from logbook to photographs to information to imagining things, wondering many things she didn't know. She wondered what her grandparents' parents, her great-grandparents, were like. She wondered if they had approved of the other and if they had, had a good relationship with each other or not. Copper wondered how Hakase and Nan had reacted when they found out they were going got be parents. They were probably ecstatic. She thought, a sleepy smile playing on her lips.

The dark-haired girl smiled thinking on how they might have reacted when her parents told them that the female Signer was pregnant. They would probably have reacted just like Martha, Hideo, and Setsuko did. Excited and happy for the two Signers. Copper wished she knew what they were like. I wonder if they would be proud of me. She wondered. She bet that they would be.

She looked at her overlapping Marks. I wonder if they knew about Signers. She wondered. It would be cool if they did.

The double-Marked Signer tried to read some more, but her eyes disobeyed her. Her head fell onto the soft pillow as her flashlight fell from her hand. The book still lay in her hand as it stretched in front of her. She finally closed her eyes, imagining what it would be like if her grandparents were still alive.

The Following Morning

Yusei descended the stairs still trying to get back to the normal routine after seeing his mother again. Akiza was in the shower and he expected Copper in bed. But as he crossed through the living room, he saw his daughter with a blanket around her shoulders, her pillow under her head. He saw several things scattered around her and his father's logbook in one of her hands. A flashlight lay nearby, still on. Why was she down there with all that?

The dark-haired Signer went over to her and knelt by her, noting her eyelids moving a little, signaling dreaming. He gently shook her shoulder. She stirred a little and lazily opened her cat-shaped eyes. Copper looked at him with a sleepy smile. She yawned and sat up slowly. She moved close to him and wrapped her arms around his neck and kissed his cheek. The young girl rested her head at the crook of his neck. Her eyes were still glazed over with sleep.

"Morning, dad." She greeted, still sleepy.

"Hey." He greeted back, "What are you doing down here?"

"Studying."

"Copper, school ended about a month ago." He pointed out logically.

"Not school studying." She responded coolly and in a slight trancelike, "More like brushing up on family history."

"'Family history'?" he repeated. The dark-haired girl's eyes suddenly lost their glazed look and were replaced with surprise. She got that face of shock when she made a mistake; one that said 'Did I really just say that out loud?' and/or the 'I'm screwed!' look. It was very amusing and cute to see her reaction, "Copper, what are you hiding?"

She sighed, "Well, the gang and I went to Mina yesterday and, well, got…" she motioned towards the papers on the floor, "information on your parents." She looked down at the floor, "I'm sorry I didn't tell you last night dad. But I didn't want to add to your shock. I'm so—" the dark-haired girl didn't finish her apology because her father cut her off by simply holding up his hand. She thought she might get scolded.

"I don't care that you didn't tell me right away." Yusei told her gently, wrapping his arms around her, "I'm just glad that you did and that you didn't want to add to my shock. You were just thinking of me. I'm glad of that."

"Dad…"

"You're my daughter and no matter what you do, I'll listen, no matter what." He told her sincerely.

"Promise?" she asked him a bit playfully with a smile.

"Promise." He nodded, smiling a little himself before kissing her forehead, "Now tell me what you've found out."

Copper smiled and grabbed the papers, "Gladly."

Coming up in Lost and Found

"I was wondering if you were up to anything today."

"At the moment, no. What's up?"

"Well, I kinda have this plan that might help me understand Nan. But I'd rather not be alone when I do it. It's risky. And John and Raven are busy."

"Oh, well, what's the plan?"

"My plan is to go to the hospital and materialize Second Sight."

NEX TIME—CHAPTER 7: SPELLED

AnimeKiwi369: There you have it. Hope ya'll are excited for the next chapter.

Copper: I'm curious.

John: I am, too.

Raven: Why are you curious?

John: Because we're not in the chapter.

Lane: How do you know?

John: Because the preview says that both Raven and I are busy.

VileEXE: *Grinning*. Busy doing what, might I ask?

John: *Blushes slightly*. Not whatever you're thinking.

AnimeKiwi369: Yeah, that'll be revealed in a later chapter. There are more CopperxLane hints in the next chapter.

Copper: Are you going to set a number of reviews again?

AnimeKiwi369: Well, not exactly.

Lane: And what's that supposed to mean?

AnimeKiwi369: I'm asking for between ten and fifteen reviews for this chapter. If that's okay. Thanks to everyone reviewing this far, by the way. And to everyone who is going to review, thanks. So please be kind and please review. I'll post the next chapter when I either get between ten and fifteen reviews or after a week of no reviews. So please review! ^^