The first days after the birth of their Twins were quite a struggle for all three Mages. First, the Twins rejected to be fed by Yukino at all. Second, both of the boys only stopped crying if Rogue and him where present at the same time. Third, they finally accepted to be breastfed by the Celestial Mage couple days later after Shirayuki was only using a small amount of her Light Magic to cheer her up while she tried to feed Raios.
Minerva had quickly taken over the tasks of a Guild Master so that he can stick around more with his family and he's really grateful to her for doing this. Otherwise it would have been to much of a hassle to head off to missions with Rogue, to attend the annual gathering of the Guild Masters in Clover, to take care of his entire family and the belongings of the Guild as well.
Shirayuki and Yukino are sharing in this time with the Exceeds one room together while the Twins stay with them. Even through Hikari and Raios are so small, he often feels like having a miniature Version of themselves lying right there next to them. Especially Raios has a striking resemblance to his mate. Watching his son makes him wonder, if Rogue was so cute as Baby like the younger one of their Twins. Therefore he likes to tease the Shadow Dragon Slayer a lot about their own past and he gets mostly rewarded with a blushing Shadow Dragon.
After two months have passed by, when everything seems to have stabilized within their trusted surroundings, they decide to spill out the beans infront of the entire Guild. They talked long about it and thought it through just to come to the conclusion to confess towards their comrades Shirayukis true bonds with the newborn Twins. Minerva just gathered every single member of this Guild together after Rogue and himself had talked with her the day before about their actual plan. She is really the first one, who is fully behind them and while he carries Raios in his arms Shirayuki is right next to Rogue and him while everyone looks at them in anticipation for the Guild Master to speak up to them.
„There is something this entire Guild needs to know. I held back the Information on this topic intentionally, because I was unsure first how to talk about it. But now the time has come to confess to you, that these three children all belong to Rogue and myself" is he now saying in a clear voice to the assembled crowd and a deathly silence is residing afterwards within the great hall. Shirayuki just looks slightly confused at him if this is now ok for her to call the Shadow Dragon Slayer infront of everyone to be her ,mother' and he only nods with a gentle smile resting on his lips. Those three children are his full pride. So therefore he takes his full responsibility in being their father infront of every member living and working within Sabertooth. Minutes later some start to mumble and stare mostly confused about this Information at him.
When multiple times the question comes up if the Twins aren't Yukinos and his kids in the first place, he's surprised for the Celestial Mage to step up and defend them infront of the assembled crowd. Even Rufus and Orga are showing their sign of support as well as Dobengal, Minerva and some of the new members who just joined recently the guild. In a way it saddens him to know, that a great part decides to leave just when he does his confession but he can't force them to stay. Most of them were around when they struggled to keep Sabertooth alive after Jienma had taken off and he was named to be the next Guild Master. So he really appreciates the support of his friends and the amount of members still standing behind him, that know all to well the Terror of Jienma's reign would always be a part of the past of this Guild.
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After a major part had left the guild when he had confessed in front of the gathered members who Shirayukis real parents are, it took a while until new recruits join Sabertooth. Most of them only wanted to be a part of this Guild because they heard of the big tolerance within the structure of his way to lead Sabertooth. Even a skilled Rune mage being a single mother with her child joined them and through this way their little Angel has at least someone to play with in her age besides the Exceeds.
In these days he also watched carefully the development of the Twins and he began to wonder, why both Hikari and Raios seem to take their time to start being mobile. He remembers quite well that Shirayuki started to crawl when she was five months old. Besides he notices Yukino to complain lately about being in pain after feeding the Twins.
Minerva checked on the Celestial Mage and when she told him, she saw quite a few tiny bite marks he starts to understand quickly the reason of Yukino being in pain lately. This time around they won't have to go through the phase of having to calm down and show patience while the boys are getting their first tooth. Hikari and Raios are born with the jaw of a preditor like the dragons Rogue and himself were raised as children. Therefore it didn't surprise him at all when after half a year the boys demanded to be fed with meat. Also in this time they finally started to crawl and once they were mobile the same scenario occured as back then when Shirayuki was still a baby.
For him it was quite funny to watch how poor Dobengal tried to keep up with them, when the silent Ninja was on duty to take care of them while he has to do the paperwork. It was sometimes hard for him not to laugh out hard, when he watched the silent Ninja to become frustrated about the swiftness of his sons. Besides, Shirayuki was now attending school and every week there is one or more letters of complaint filed in by the class teacher of his little Angel. He even was asked by the head master of the local primary school to come in for an important talk about his daughter's behaviour in school. Rogue was currently out on a S-Class Mission and so therefore, he had to handle everything regarding their three children.
On the day he was summoned to meet up with the head master both Yukino and Minerva were watching the Twins for him. On the outside he acted like a serious adult while listening closely what the matter of complaints about Shirayukis behaviour during the lessons are. But deep inside he can understand quite well why she acted up this way. He would have been this way too if he had back then to be around a bunch of close minded kids like she had to. He can actually understand why she is fighting back against them for being mobbed. Because it is not her fault at all for being born with such feather white skin and hair.
Actually it had been from the beginning Rogues idea to put her into a local school but he was for her to stay within the Guild, so that she would be taught by Rufus all what she needs to know. When she walked next to him as they left school, the children who tried to boss her around suddenly got big eyes, when they recognized him at once. After this day she started to go to school with much more delight because no one ever dared to pick on her.
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With a deep sigh the Shadow Dragon Slayer looks up from a certain letter and a sheepish grin rests on his lips. He had just managed for his daughter to stay in the guild after even the transfer to Middle School wasn't working out well. A short glare rests within those ruby orbs. Even through he kind of convinced the Memory Make Mage to be the tutor of all of their three children, he also managed to pull off some paying customers. Actually they are the parents of some kids Shirayuki tried to defend while visiting public school. When they learned about her being a member of Sabertooth as well he got the Request if there would be a given chance their children would have Rufus as a teacher.
First his mate isn't pleased at all with this idea. But as the days pass by and the children return by their intend to learn, the Shadow Dragon Slayer admits this is for once a good idea of him. With a big grin resting on his lips he pulls him closer to him and kisses him in a passionate way. Before he's able to kiss Rogue again Hikari and Raios want their attention from then and with a smile he picks up the older one of the Twins. In a way it makes him proud to know he isn't any longer the only user of White Dragon Slayer Magic. His keen senses tell him, that Hikari will most likely be able to wield the same magic as himself while Raios seems to be in a way like Shirayuki. Even through the young Shadow Dragon is cloaked like Rogue with this trusted scent of Shadows around him, he can sense also some White Dragon Slayer Magic outgoing from him.
Finally he's able to tell what kind of Dragon their firstborn child is. Actually this is really a nice bunch of Dragons being together: a White Dragon, a Shadow Dragon, A Holy Shadow Dragon, another White Dragon and a White Shadow Dragon. All of them belong to Sabertooth and right there he's quite curious how Skiadrum and Weisslogia would welcome this new Generation of Dragon Slayers being able to wield the magic Rogue and himself were taught by them when they where small children.