Yeah...I haven't updated this story in a looooooong time...Life swept me away and I couldn't get back into, until now. I'm really sorry for those of you who were waiting hella of long for the next chapter. Anyway, you can slap me...or hit me with something heavy DX There might be a lot...and I mean A LOT of mistakes in here. I'm sorry about that. I've been off track lately and I haven't been able to type this chapter in a long time so I didn't bother with editing so much, but if there are any mistakes tell me and I shall fix them. ALSO, IF YOU WANT TO TELL ME WHICH IS YOUR FAVORITE, SHIRO OR KURO? (for those still with me D:) Or any favorite quotes or moment from this story you like. I want to know to see if people are really liking it how I'm writing it or what I'm putting into this. Lastly, this will be in two parts.

Shizuo's POV

It's kind of a flaw of Izaya's that he's a light sleeper. I can never wake up without waking him first, so every year on the day before our anniversary I slip something in his dinner so he can be in a deeper for a little longer. I know it's a bit sneaky, but I've turned into a bit of a romantic and so I really want to make a special breakfast for him this morning. As I slowly get off our bed, I take a quick look at his sleeping face. He sure does look like he's in a deep sleep considering that he has his arms sprawled out, his mouth open, and he's drooling. I better get the camera.

"Shizu-chan…" I almost have a heart attack when I hear him call my name, thinking that I woke him up, but when I look over to him he's just blushing in his sleep and smiling. I should take a picture of that too. He turns over to his side and grabs a hold of my pillow, which I purposely put there so he could hug it and then moans in his sleep like he always does when he's having a good dream. He's really cute when he's like this, but I can't waste time observing him, so I head off to the kitchen and start looking for the ingredients.

Suddenly I hear footsteps and immediately think its Izaya, but then I see Shiro standing there rubbing his eyes. I walk over very carefully and pat my son's head. Unfortunately, Shiro's a light sleeper too. One little noise and he's awake as if he knew there was a fire in the house.

"What are you doing up, Shiro?" I already know the answer, but I'd like to know why he decided to come downstairs.

"Happy Anniversary, Dad." He says simply. I flinch from surprise and then shake my head with a smile on my face. I ruffle his hair and then look at the time.

"Mind telling me where your mom keeps all the ingredients? I can't find the eggs…" I say with a nervous laugh.

"What are you trying to make Mom?" He asks with a smile.

"An omelet." He nods and grabs some ingredients out of the refrigerator and then out of the cabinets. He spreads them onto the table and smiles at me as he points to all of the stuff.

"There, but do you really know how to cook, Dad?" He asks me as he watches me start picking up some ingredients. I laugh nervously as I scratch the back of my head.

"Well, we're going to find that out right now." Shiro only smiles and nods as he continues to stay at my side. He's been with his mother while he was cooking in the kitchen and then with Hina once or twice when he was over at Kasuka's place, so when I'm doing something wrong, he instructs me how Izaya would do it or how Hina would do it. It wasn't annoying since he was helping me. I rather have someone nag at me on how to do this sort of thing instead of getting it wrong and wasting ingredients and poisoning Izaya. "Are you thinking of becoming a chef?" Shiro blushes and shakes his head. I smile at him and bring him closer to me.

"Are you gonna make him some toast?" Shiro asks me as he gets the bread out and holds it up. I nod and plug in the toaster. Shiro hands me two slices of bread so I put them in the slots and then he pulls the lever down. He watches the bread for me while I turn over the omelet. "Mom likes just butter on his toast."

"Yeah, he doesn't like jelly because it's too sweet." I say as I slide the finished omelet on his favorite plate. I look at the bread and see that it still has a couple more seconds until its ready so I go and find the tray so I can serve Izaya his breakfast in bed. Every year I've slipped something in his dinner the day before our anniversary, but have yet to make him breakfast in bed. Usually it's something different every year to surprise him. He always tells me I'm unpredictable so I'd like to keep that cloak of mystery.

"Toast is done." Shiro says as he shows me the plate with already made toast, with a little butter. I pat his head and thank him for taking care of the toast. I snap my finger as I remember to get him a drink. I prepare him his usual coffee, adding just a touch of cream like he likes it and then put everything on the tray.

"Can you do another favor for me and grab that little vase with the flower in it that's on the table?" Shiro smiles and grabs the vase and follows me upstairs with it.

I open the door slowly and hope that he's still asleep, which he is. Kuro has followed Shiro and me inside with a sneaky smile. I set down the tray on the nightstand he has on his side and then tell my kids that one I count to five we're going to yell "Happy Anniversary" really loud. They agree and start giggling a little. By the way Izaya looks as he's sleeping now, he's not under the influence of the stuff I had slipped into his dinner, so he's in a light sleep and the tiniest of noises will wake him.

I smile and start putting my fingers up, counting to five.

One…Two…Three…Four…Five!

"Happy Anniversary!" We all yell loudly, as Izaya sits up in a panic, the covers flying off his body. He clutches his chest as he laughs a little. He lies back down and puts his hand on his forehead. I'm glad he didn't pull his knife out on us since he has one with him all the time.

"Morning." I say with a laugh. Izaya rubs his eyes and tries to calm his heart. Kuro immediately jumps on the bed and tackles his mother. Shiro does this a little more calmly. I smile as I look upon the scene before me. Kuro then motions me in for a group hug. I feel really cheesy right now, but it's kind of nice. "After that little scare, you must be hungry." I say as I place the tray over his legs and then place the little vase for décor. He smiles at me and motions me to lean forward. I do as I'm told and he gives me a kiss on the cheek. Kuro giggles and runs off after Izaya tells him that he and his brother should go eat breakfast too. Shiro nods and heads downstairs, tailing after his little brother.

"You sure are unpredictable. Thank you." He inspects the food and smiles. "Shiro helped you, am I right?"

"Nothing seems to get by you." I say with a laugh. "I bet if I had made it by myself, it'd probably make you sick."

"You used to tell me that I used to make you sick when you just looked at me." Izaya reminds me as he begins to eat his meal.

"You know I never meant anything by it."

"Well, if that was your way of flirting with me, it really sucked." Izaya says with a laugh.

"I think constantly getting me into fights and making me get run over by a truck is really bad flirting too." I retort simply. "Anyway, I'm gonna tell the kids that they're gonna spend the night at Shinra's today." Izaya smirks at me as he gets the hint. "But before that, the kids really want to spend time with us since this is the first time in a long time that both of us have a day off on the same day. After that, I've got reservations for us at your favorite restaurant."

"I've never seen you this organized."

"Well, this is a special occasion."

"Do you have an organized agenda of how we're gonna make love tonight?" He asks with a smirk. I blush slightly and then scratch the back of my neck nervously.

"I thought we'd just wing it. Whatever you want, I'll do it." I say honestly.

"And whatever you want, I'll do it?"

"Exactly." I say with a smile.

"This is gonna be fun then." Izaya says as he puts his hands behind his head as he closes his eyes. He then opens his eyes and thinks about something. "So you're saying that I can top if I asked you?"

"Huh?" I ask with surprise.

"Yeah, you said 'whatever you want' didn't you?" Izaya says as he blushes. "I really want to satisfy my Shizu-chan."

"I don't picture you topping me." I say honestly. He looks at me with a sad look and sighs.

"Fine. It seems your male pride won't break."

"Why are you saying that as if you're not a guy with 'male pride' too?"

"Apparently, Shiro thought I was a woman all this time." For a moment we're silent and then I burst into laughter as if it's a joke worth dying over. "Stop laughing, brute."

"I'm sorry, it's…it's…just that…you're…" I can't stop laughing at this point.

"I don't see how this could be funny. I'm very peeved about this." Izaya says as he crosses his arms.

"I'm sorry…you're right…it's just…"

"I'm about ready to cut your throat."

"Alright, alright…" I say as I wipe my eyes of the tears. "That was good though. Laughter is the best medicine."

"Hmm, I wonder what's the best poison then." He says darkly.

"Hey, don't be so sour about it. I bet in his eyes you were a beautiful woman. Besides, we never really told him about the truth anyway. How was he supposed to know you were a man if we never told him or Kuro?"

"True…What do you mean by 'in his eyes.'?" He asks suspiciously. I can tell he thinks that I inferred that in my eyes he's not beautiful.

"Ah, well in my eyes you're beautiful just the way you are now. I don't need to imagine you as a woman." I say with a shrug.

"You're such a sweetie." Izaya says with a laugh. "Aren't you gonna eat something?"

"Do you mind sharing?" Izaya rolls his eyes and offers me some of his omelet. I open my mouth and he feeds me casually. "So the kids want to take us out somewhere, probably around Ikebukuro to see our friends. Kuro says he reminded everyone that our anniversary is today."

"He's always the one to boast about things like that." Izaya says with a laugh. "Well, let's get ready then. I'll give the boys a bath and then we can take a shower together. How about that?"

"That sounds like a great idea." I say happily.

Izaya POV

Shizu-chan has always been quite unpredictable, that's one of the reasons why I fell in love with him. That's why I also wasn't expecting Shizu-chan and my two boys to wake me up so suddenly. But, it wasn't too horrible; my heart just wanted to pop out of my chest. Shizu-chan should know that I hold grudges though. Not on my children, but certainly on him. I don't think he realizes the mistake he just made moments ago.

Plain and simple, he said that tonight we're going to make love. And he said that he will do whatever I want and I'll do whatever he wants. Big mistake. But before I can get to my revenge, we're going to get ready to head into town, all four of us for the first time in months. I really love spending time with my family, but there's so little time to spare that most of the time we're only all together at the dinner table.

I send my children off into the bathroom so I can bathe them. Shizu-chan told me not to baby them so I won't join them in the bathtub like I usually do. Once they're in the tub I begin washing them and then scrubbing their hair with shampoo.

"Are you and Dad gonna do something special together?"

"Hmm? Why do you ask that?"

"Well, because Kuro overheard Dad saying something about me and Kuro having to be at Uncle Shinra's." They were listening to our conversation?

"How much of that did you hear afterward?"

"Nothing else." Shiro says simply. "Kuro got really hungry so we went downstairs after that." I let out a relieved sigh and then continue scrubbing Kuro and Shiro and then begin rinsing them. Kuro starts splashing around like he usually does, while Shiro begins to play with his bath toys a little more calmly. They're so very different, but they still get along so well like they do. They hardly ever fight. They may give each other the silent treatment for a day or so, but then they revert back to being friends again.

"Your father and I are just gonna have a nice dinner together and then just spend some time together alone." I answer simply. "Now then, it's time to get out and dry you both off."

"But Mommy!" Kuro whines loudly. "I want to play some more."

"Nope, it's time to head off. Your father says you two are taking us around town." I say happily as I help Shiro get out of the tub first. Kuro in the meantime relaxes in the bath, playing with his toys violently like he always does. Shiro allows me to help him to dry his hair and body. I wrap the towel over his waist and tell him to change while I dry Kuro off. He nods and begins to search through his small pile of clothes I left on the stool beside me.

"Mommy, you've never told us about your wedding." Kuro reminds me as he gets out of the tub. I smile and tell him that I'd tell them the whole story of how Shizu-chan and I fell in love up to the point when we got married some other time. This time would give me a chance to look for our photo album. If I can remember clearly, Erika had taken about one thousand pictures of our wedding. Out of the blue she'd always give me a few pictures she took of us when we got back together and whatnot. It was creepy, but also flattering. Shizu-chan just said it was "fucking annoying." He's never been one to enjoy fans. He especially didn't enjoy it when he found out that she made an entire site called " .com" which she proceeded to inform me that " .com" was already taken. She complained about how it wasn't even about us; it was some other kind of automobile site which at the top said " : What you need, when you need it."

"Well, well, well you both clean up nicely." Shizu-chan comments happily as he looks at the boys. They're dressed in casual wear, but they look very cute nevertheless. Kuro puts his arms up, wanting his father to pick him up. Shizu-chan gets the hint and picks Kuro up and tosses him in the air. Kuro just laughs all the while. Shiro holds onto my pants and watches in awe as his father spins Kuro around a little and then lifts him up over his shoulders. Shiro's eyes suddenly glow in admiration. I pat his head and scoot him forward.

"Go ahead, he'll lift you up like that too." I whisper to Shiro. He shakes his head and blushes as he buries his face in my pants. "Well, we better take a shower." I proclaim simply.

"Yeah, you kids can go play now." Shizu-chan says as he puts Kuro down gently and ruffles his hair. "Your mother and I will be ready soon."

"Do you guys take a shower together like me Shiro take a bath together?" Kuro asks curiously. Shizu-chan and I flinch from surprise and immediately deny that we do that a little frantically. Kuro and Shiro laugh a little. "You guys are funny." Shiro is a lie detector, so the smile he exchanged with his brother just now was one that said "They're lying, no doubt about it."

Shizu-chan and I head off to our bedroom to prepare ourselves for our shower, while looking for his clothes in our dresser Shizu-chan turns to me and sighs.

"They know…"

"Yeah, nothing gets by Shiro." I say simply, smiling all the while even if I know this is not something to smile about. Arguing about it with the two boys was futile since Shiro is so smart and Kuro is not much a fool either despite his mischievous nature. "Well, it's nothing to be too ashamed over."

"You seem to be shameless." Shizu-chan says with an annoyed expression.

"I'm not, but there's nothing we can do about it. They know the truth and they know the truth really is the truth. How can we fight that?" I ask as I shrug my shoulders. "We can tell them a thousand lies to cover that one truth, but it will never bury it completely."

"Alright Mr. Metaphor." Shizu-chan says as he enters the bathroom. I smile and head inside the bathroom with him. "Maybe to make the truth into a lie, we should stop showering together." Shizu-chan says as he pushes me out of the bathroom.

"Nooooo." I whine simply. "This is the only time I really get to spend with Shizu-chan intimately. Don't take that away from me." It's a special time me and Shizu-chan share. We don't even have sex since we feel connected by just being close, just like we're lying in bed. Shizu-chan thinks for a moment and then sighs. He moves out of the doorway and allows me to enter the bathroom.

I always win~

After removing our articles of clothing we head inside the shower. The warm water is so inviting and just the thought of being close to Shizu-chan like this after a long time is heartwarming. Shizu-chan starts scrubbing my body carefully as I cling onto him lovingly. We usually take turns scrubbing and washing each other as for drying we do that ourselves.

After the shower we get dressed in our usual attire. I put on a nice black V-necked shirt and Shizu-chan wears his usual bartender get-up. I'm about to put on my furry jacket when Shizu-chan stops me and snatches it out of my hands.

"I rather not be seen with some weirdo in a furry jacket." Shizu-chan says rudely. I snatch the jacket back and then put it on with a smirk on my face. Shiro quickly takes my hand and pulls me while Kuro takes his father's hand and does the same thing. The two seem to be quite enthusiastic about heading out for a walk like usual.

"Uncle Shinra and Aunt Celty said that they have presents for you guys." Shiro says as we walk together. Kuro travels a little farther ahead like he always does. As people pass he strikes up some weird conversation or asks a silly question, which makes me instinctively take his hand and apologize to whoever he was once talking to. Kuro can be quite bothersome when he wants to be.

"So we're heading there first?" I ask Shiro as I try to calm Kuro down. Shiro nods before he suddenly remembers something. He looks up his father and shyly looks to the floor. If I remember clearly he had once saw a son and his father together; the son resting on his father's shoulders. I tap Shiro's shoulder and try to persuade him to ask his father. Shiro's not as cold to his father anymore, but he's replaced that unnecessary resentment into unnecessary shyness.

"Shizu-chan, I think Shiro wants to ask you something." I finally say as I realize I have to push him along. Shiro looks at the floor shyly and begins shaking his head, refusing to say what's on his mind.

"I'm all ears son." Shizu-chan says as he ruffles Shiro's hair. Shiro looks to the ground and then buries his face into his dad's shirt. I can tell he's blushing and trying to hide it. Shizu-chan smiles and then looks at me. I smile back at him and motion my hands above my shoulders as if I'm holding someone's legs there. He nods and then picks Shiro up, making him wonder what's happening. Shiro's a bit bigger than Kuro, slightly taller too, but Shizu-chan doesn't have any trouble picking him up.

Shiro hangs onto his father as he notices how high up he is and then smiles and blushes with happiness. He hugs his father and looks as if he's going to start crying with joy, but seems like he's controlling it.

"Thanks dad…" Shiro says shyly as he looks around at his new height.

"No problem, Shiro. You just ask me whenever you want a ride." Shizu-chan smiles and holds onto Shiro's legs firmly. Kuro smiles at his brother and gives him a little signal of some sort that only them seem to understand since they make things up. I then see Shiro taking off his dad's sunglasses and putting them on happily. Kuro starts laughing and then Shiro starts. I smile at the two boys seeing as they're having a great time with the simpler things. Shizu-chan laughs a little and then says (trying to act as if he doesn't know) that his sunglasses have disappeared, which makes the kids try to hide their laughs with their hands.

"Have you seen my sunglasses, Izaya?" He asks me happily. I smile at him and shake my head in disbelief. This is another part of Shizu-chan that I'd rather not see since it's so ridiculous, but he does it for his children and for that reason I don't dare say anything. It's kind of cute in a way.

"Nope, can't say that I have." I say as I laugh a little too. "Maybe Shiro knows what happened to them?" I say and then noticed Simon is waving desperately at us. Shiro tells his father he doesn't know what happened to his sunglasses and passes them to Kuro. Kuro quickly hides them. Shizu-chan doesn't notice this so he probably still suspects that Shiro has them. Ah, they love this game, keep swapping enough to make the person mad or crazy, but oddly Shizu-chan as a lot of patience (well, for his children).

"Hello! Anniversary today right?" Simon asks in his usual accent. The kids usually understand him pretty well, except when he speaks in Russian. "Little Izaya and little Shizuo told me." Simon explains as he points to Shiro and Kuro. Oddly those are their nicknames Simon had given them when the two were fighting in the street one day, resembling us a lot but in mini form. There was less vending machines being tossed when the our children were fighting in the streets though. I forget why they were fighting in the first place…Oh, right, Kuro had stolen one of Shiro's toys and wouldn't give it back. He wanted to play so he made Shiro follow him to get the toy back. This was when they were a year younger than they are now.

"Our kids reminded everyone we know about today…" I say, feeling a bit embarrassed that they did that. Shiro tells his father he wants to say hi to Simon and so his father puts him down.

"Here, for you two." Simon says as he holds out two presents and then kneels down and gives the two boys some fliers to pass out. Everytime we bring the kids here he does this since people love our children so much. I mean, they're adorable and Kuro won't take no for an answer. "Happy Anniversary."

"Thanks Simon, but we really better get going." Shizu-chan says as he watches his children work their charms on the people passing by. When Simon tries to hand out fliers a lot of people ignore him, but when our kids do…damn…there's like a crowd of people. I'm sure people are missing work to see how cute our children look handing out fliers.

"Fun. Those two having lots of it." Simon says as he points to our kids. Suddenly Tom appears out of nowhere from the crowd. Shizu-chan blinks from surprise and then pats Tom's shoulder. Tom tries to catch his breath and then smiles at us before looking back to the crowd.

"Are those your kids in there?" Tom asks as he looks at the two little figures in the middle of the crowd. Shizu-chan and I nod at the same time with a sigh. "Wow, they sure know how to work it." Tom then takes out two boxes from his bag he's carrying. "Here you two, Happy Anniversary."

"Thanks Tom." Shizu-chan says with a smile as he looks at the medium-sized box.

"Yeah, thanks Tom."I say and then look at the ever-growing crowd. "Shiro, Kuro! We're leaving now!" Like little rabbits, they're ears prick up and they make their way through the crowd. They would have given Simon the leftover fliers…if there were any…

After travelling away from Simon and Tom, I look at Shizu-chan and tell him that we should have brought a bag with us for all the gifts were probably gonna get.

"Now, we go to see Uncle Shinra and Aunt Celty." Shiro says as he puts his arms up so his father can lift him up over his shoulders again. Shizu-chan gladly does so and holds onto Shiro happily.

"Son, you wouldn't happen to know what happened to my sunglasses, would you. I know you had them." Shizu-chan says as he probably noticed said sunglasses missing on Shiro's face. Shiro giggles and says he hasn't seen them. Shizu-chan then suspects Kuro. Surely enough, when he looks down and looks at Kuro he spots the sunglasses on his head. He plucks them off from the top of Kuro's head and puts them back on.

We walk peacefully along the way to Shinra's place; the kids giving us no trouble while we get there. When we get to Shinra's place Shiro is still on Shizu-chan's shoulders, which makes me happy since the two haven't been on good terms like this before.

"Ah, Shizuo, Izaya-kun; come in, come in." Shinra says as he opens the door. Our two kids scamper inside and immediately hug Celty's legs. Shinra looks upon them and I can tell he feels hurt. Out of the two, Shiro and Kuro really do love Celty the most. Poor Shinra.

"Well then, um…Happy Anniversary you two." Shinra says as he gives us a gift. "It's a gift from Celty and me. It's for both of you to share." Shinra winks and then blushes while laughing a little. Shizu-chan steps on his foot.

[Happy Anniversary you guys.] Celty types on her PDA and shows us. Shizu-chan holds my hand and smiles at me as I turn to him.

"Thanks, this is a really special day…and we were wondering…" Shizu-chan looks over to the kids who are clinging onto Shinra and asking him questions and whatnot. "We were wondering if you could keep the kids here for tonight."

[You guys already planned that together?] If Celty had a head she would have probably been looking at us skeptically.

"Celty, surely it's to be expected from us. We haven't been able to do that, since the kids were born."

[Sure, but the kids will probably ask questions about why they have to stay here for tonight.]

"Just tell them we're to spend the time alone." Shizu-chan tells her. "Maybe tell them that we also won't be home because we're going somewhere nice."

"So, you guys will be back here after you tour around town?" Shinra asks as he gets up from the couch. We look at him curiously. "I could hear you guys. We're in the same room, obliviously. We're not miles away. So when will you guys drop these little tikes off?"

"Probably around five o'clock. I have other plans with Izaya, not just what I mentioned before." Shizu-chan says shyly as he blushes.

"Why do we have to stay here?" Kuro asks sadly.

"Can't we go with you guys?" Shiro asks.

"Yes, for most of the day you'll be with us but before dinner time, you'll be here with Uncle Shinra and Aunt Celty." I say happily as I kneel down and ruffle both of my sons' hair.

"And then…?" Kuro asks demandingly.

"And then we'll pick you two up in the morning." They both look at each other as they both gasp.

"You're gonna leave us here overnight!" They both ask in unison.

"Kids, it's only for tonight. We promise." Shizu-chan says happily to them. We haven't done this in past years since we were both too attached to them to leave them here with Shinra and Celty. Besides, Shinra is not so trustworthy, not like Celty is and I was too afraid to let them stay with a mad doctor like him. Shizu-chan agreed, but this year we're really hoping to spend some much needed alone time together and rekindle our sex life. It sounds selfish, but we're desperate at this point.

"You guys are gonna have sex…" Shiro says unexpectedly. Boy, he really reminds me of Shizu-chan, what with his ways to surprise me. All of us, minus Kuro who's nodding his head in agreement with his brother, look at Shiro with surprise. We then turn our attention to Shinra, blaming this all on him is logical since he's such a blabber mouth or as Celty says an informational reverse toilet.

"What?" The accused man says as he lifts his arms. "I didn't say anything about that!"

"It wasn't Uncle Shinra…it was mom's diary…" I freeze for a moment, trying to remember where I stashed that stupid thing, which unfortunately was written by a very stupid younger me who loved to include detailed entries. I stopped writing in it after Shizu-chan and I got together, but I still had added some details about me wanting to have sex with him and whatnot, which now seems like a terrible idea. I now want to murder the younger me who wrote that stupid diary and the now older me who kept it. "It said a lot of weird things…like switching positions…" I cover Shiro's mouth and pat his head.

"Kids have the wildest imaginations…" I say nervously. "Where did you find that, Shiro?" I ask sternly.

"Kuro found it." I mentally applaud myself for guessing right. Kuro found it. Kuro finds everything. Unfortunately, it's everything nobody ever wants anyone else to find (usually). He found Shizu-chan's "How to Sex" (Man on man edition) book once without really looking at the cover (besides he was one and half years old). He found my old school girl uniform that I hid away. He found Celty's unmentionables once. And he also…well he also found out that I was a man sooner than Shiro I suppose. Shiro was still oblivious, which I had no knowledge of, but I knew Kuro knew I was a man because he caught me showering once. That happened when he was about three and a half. He's such a sneaky boy that I hadn't known he was there, or that he could pick locks. By that time, we made him adapted to doing more constructive things, but he's still as sly and sneaky as ever.

"Kuro…" I look over to Kuro whose dropping his head in shame, though he's just sorry he got caught, not because he knew that he did something wrong. Shiro always tells me the truth, but Kuro doesn't. And Kuro doesn't even get mad when his brother sells him out; they're too close. Kuro only tells the truth if it'll cause someone some great deal of trouble or it will cause a mess of things or something of the like. But he almost never tells me the truth, probably to Shizu-chan though. "Mind telling me why you went snooping around where you weren't supposed to?"

"We just wanted to know more about mommy…"

"And you went and looked for my diary?"

"Uh-huh." Kuro says sadly. I sigh. There's nothing I can do now except for burn that book when I get back home. What has been read can't be unread…But fortunately, they don't entirely know what such things meant when they read all that.

"Well, you two will be punished later." I say with another sigh. "You're still gonna stay here for tonight as part of your punishment."

"Okay…" They both say in unison.

"Let's head out…" Shizu-chan says as he coughs nervously. "You boys were gonna take us to other places, right?" Pfft, Shizu-chan was just enjoying me taking charge. He didn't even add in his usual "Yeah you kids know you did bad."

"Oh yeah." Kuro says happily. "Let's go, let's go!" They both say goodbye to Uncle Shinra and Aunt Celty and drag Shizu-chan and I out the door before we could say anything.

"We have to go see Uncle Mikado and the others." Shiro states happily as he pushes me out and then travels farther ahead to carefully descend down the stairs.

"Come on, come on!" Kuro says as he pulls his father's hand, trying to make him move faster, but to no avail. Shizu-chan stops just a couple steps away from the stairs and smiles at Kuro. "Daaaaadd!" Kuro whines as he notices that his pulls are meaningless.

"Why don't we take the elevator this time?" Shizu-chan suggests to his kids as he points to said object.

"No, Mom says you're getting chunky because you eat too many sweets! We're going down the stairs." Kuro commands sternly as he points to said object. Shizu-chan immediately looks at me and gives me a cute glare.

"You have to admit that I'm always right." I say as I poke his belly. Shizu-chan sighs and starts descending down the stairs with me and the kids. We're fairly quiet as we descend, except for the kids who love making as much noise as possible. Mostly it's Kuro who provokes his older brother Shiro. When Shiro isn't around Kuro he's very well behaved and quiet. Kuro, minus Shiro, is relatively the same but he's much more hyper and loud if he's accompanied by his brother. But even if they are a bit of a handful together, they're also more fun.

Once outside again we head over to Mikado's place. Shiro and Kuro talk a little amongst themselves, at times pushing each other playfully. Kuro suddenly spots something and then runs over to the stop sign at the corner of the street and looks at it before tugging at it a little, trying to copy his father. We haven't really noticed anything particularly strange about our children, well except for Shiro. He's got a bit of his father's strength, but Kuro hasn't shown any signs of this so we're guessing that he's just average. Shizu-chan had talked wholeheartedly to Shiro about having such strength and Shiro seemed to understand, feeling quite happy that his father was sorry and that he was going to help him through whatever he was feeling because of his strength.

Shiro watches as he sees his brother attempt the (nearly) impossible task of taking a stop sign out of the concrete. Shizu-chan and I think it's adorable, while Shiro looks quite nervous about it.

In a split second, we suddenly hear the tearing of the stop sign from the ground and then see our son take it over to the edge of the sidewalk (in the middle of the road) and stops a familiar van before it drives past us (though it was about to stop anyway). We run over to Kuro and I lift him up in my arms protectively. Shizu-chan looks at the stop sign, how it now is implanted in a very inconvenient part of the road, some drivers drive around it. The van drives to the curb next to us and parks, rolling down the windows and revealing Kodata and his gang.

"Morning…you guys…" Kodata says as he's out of breath after the sudden brake he made. His gang looks unharmed as well as him, but they were probably very scared.

"Kuro…how did you do that?" I ask him as I hold him in my arms. Kuro shifts around and then looks at me as he holds onto my neck.

"I just thought really hard about it and then poof!" Kuro says as he happily smiles at me, content that he had succeeded in his desire to stop the van's passengers and driver in front of us. "Uncle Kodata has a gift for you guys." Kuro says as he the van's passengers exit the vehicle. Kodata laughs a little before patting Kuro's head and then Shiro's.

"He's a lively one…I'll give ya that." Kodata says as his breathing slows down to its normal rate. "Here…we all pitched in and got you guys this. Happy anniversary you two." Erika flashes a picture once I grab the gift, blinding Shizu-chan and I.

"Oh! These two are adorable!" Erika states happily.

"For the last time Erika…we're grown men. Grown men aren't adorable." Shizu-chan says in defense. She puffs out her cheeks and shakes her head.

"This time I was talking about your kids." She says as she kneels down and embraces them tightly then starts playing with their cheeks. "They're cheeks are so chubby! And they look just like their parent's! Such cute chibis." Shiro and Kuro suddenly run to Shizu-chan and I and hide behind our legs.

"She scares us…" Kuro admits shyly. Erika's heart drops.

"Heh…they don't mean that." I tell Erika nervously.

"Mom told us to always tell the truth…and you really do scare us!" Kuro says as he hides his face with my pants. Erika sighs and scoots away slowly.

"Anyway…we're heading off to the bookstore. We'll see you guys later." Kodata says before signaling his gang to enter the van again. Kodata kneels down to our kids and asks them if they still have the key chains he gave them. They search in their pockets and pull out their key chains happily. Kodata smiles and nods at them before entering the driver's seat and driving off.

"Kuro…" Shizu-chan says after the van gang leaves. "You never told us you had that much strength. How long have you knew?" Shizu-chan asks worriedly. Unlike Shiro, who ultimately is still trying to cope with the stress of owning such powers, Kuro is more adaptable and accepting of things within his control much like I was when I was younger.

"I've been able to carry a bunch of heavy things since I turned two." Kuro says happily. So he got his strength around the same time Shiro did. "I never told you guys because it was a lot of fun just now to make you guys all surprised. Happy Anniversary!" We both sigh, knowing full well that he's waited for this moment, probably skipping last year to do this to build up the surprise. "Now I'm just like Daddy." He adds happily after putting his arms down, which he had up to represent his revealed surprise "gift".

"Kuro…" Shizu-chan says as he kneels down to Kuro. "I'm glad you're accepting of your strength, but I don't want you using it for wrong reasons okay?"

"Okay Daddy." Kuro says as he hugs his father tightly. This has posed another problem in our road to happiness, but it's not so bad. Families are going to have to go through problems. With Shiro we have to make sure he becomes accustomed to his strength and accepts them while with Kuro we have to make sure he stays out of trouble. And boy, will there be trouble if we leave him be.

Shizuo's POV

I'm not sure what to think of all this news. Shiro has the same strength as me, and now I'm just finding out that so does Kuro. I was afraid this would happen and I even told Izaya before we decided to have kids that they might be stuck with this monstrous strength. All he said was "I know that's a risk, but I really want to have children with my beloved monster." Why does he always have to have his way? I mean, I always like to see that he does because I'm stupider now (stupid to fall in love with him, stupid to marry him, and stupid to risk having children with him). I love him a lot though…intelligence can go fuck a tree.

"So we better go to our next few stops and then we can go to the park." Izaya tells the kids as they run around us, trying to tag one another. Shiro's really happy now…I'm happier now that he's growing to love me. Shiro looks up to me suddenly as if he's read my mind and then holds up his hands for me to put him up on my shoulders. I lift him up, saving him from getting caught by his brother and look at Kuro who's pouting because Shiro is in a safe spot he can't get to. Izaya takes Kuro's hand to settle him down, which works; he quiets down and then starts asking if he can buy something at every store we pass.

Our day goes on the same way it began, strolling around town, meeting with our friends, receiving gifts, and then having lunch before going to the park so the kids can play on the playground. So here we are, with bags of gifts at our sides while watching the kids play.

"He gets it from you, you know that right?" I ask suddenly as I close my eyes.

"What? The sneakiness?"

"Yeah and the whole 'causing others trouble' thing you used to do." I say feeling a bit annoyed.

"Heh, you're just mad because I used to cause trouble for a lot of people not just you."

"You were a sneaky, horrible bastard, you know that?"

"Ne, you loved it." He says happily as he laughs a little. "At least when I used to get you mad, you used to get your fill of exercise. Shizu-chan wasn't so fat because of our little chases~"

"You're giving yourself lousy excuses." I say before pulling him in for a kiss. Our foreheads touch as we break away and we stay like that for a little while before hearing Kuro yell out "Mommy, Daddy!" Kuro runs this way and tackles us, landing in Izaya's lap before getting up and lying between us. Shiro comes over as well, but tackles me instead and ends up in my lap.

"Are you guys having a nice Anniversary?" Shiro asks as he gets up and sits on the grass next to me.

"Yup, the best Anniversary yet. A bit better than last year's at least." Izaya says with a laugh. "To think that you even made strangers tell us happy anniversary." That was a bit awkward though. While walking around town, the kids would tell complete strangers (while staying close to us) that it was our anniversary. And to think people actually told us happy anniversary even if they didn't even know us personally, though they probably remember us as the guys who made a mess of the city.

"Now where do we go?" Kuro asks energetically.

"Back to Shrina's it's already 4:30, so by the time we get there it'll be the time they're expecting you two." I say as I look at my watch Izaya bought me for our anniversary. When we arrived at the park, Izaya decided to give me my gift. I broke all my other watches before I married Izaya, so I decided never to get one until I could control my anger. Izaya probably considers me controlled now.

"Noooooo." Kuro and Shiro say gloomily.

"Yesssssss." I say with a laugh. "Your mother and I want to spend some time together." They look at me and Izaya with puppy-dog eyes as they whine. "Alone." I enunciate. They groan and sigh.

"We promise to pick you up early in the morning." Izaya adds as he gets up. I nod before getting up too. They mumble something and then follow us back to their "favorite" place.

Thankfully, Shinra and Celty were already ready for us to come back. They made sure everything was set such as the dinner plans, playtime schedule, and their bed was made in the guest bedroom, which was once Celty's bedroom, but you can probably guess where she sleeps now.

[Why the long faces?] Celty asks with her PDA. The kids kick their feet solemnly before clinging onto Celty's legs. Celty seems surprised by the sudden action, but then kneels down and hugs the boys. She pats their heads and then grabs two things from a bag on the floor. She hands one to each of them and (if she had a head) smiles.

"Well, take good care them for us, please." Izaya says happily as he kneels down and gives them both a hug. I do the same and then ruffle their hair to try to cheer them up, but they just sighed and fixed their hair at the same time. We leave the two there, hoping that they won't cause any trouble, but they always seem to surprise us. They've never slept over anyone's house before so they're probably uneasy about the idea, but it's the only way we could think of to have some alone time together.

And alone time we shall have.

A/N: Yesssss! It's done! Anyway, it might be a week before the next update, maybe less if I'm in the mood. Thanks for reading and please review so I can get motivated to update sooner. Yell at me if you have to (in a PM). PM's usually motivate me too.