The girls and Shiro had gotten in an argument shortly after the full realization of the war dawned on them. Konata and Blaze wanted to fight- Shiro wanted them to stay behind in the Room of Requirement with Ginny, Tonks, and Neville's grandmother. When all three of the babies broke into bawling midway through the verbal quarrel, the girls reluctantly decided that Shiro was right. So, once the time came, Shiro gave Konata a kiss, Blaze a hug, kissed the trio of infants on the noses, and headed off to fight with the others.
Later on, as Blaze was bouncing Scorpius on her lap and Konata was nursing her twins, the door to the Room of Requirement abruptly opened. Konata hastened to cover her chest, causing Raye to make a short sound of disapproval while Raito whined. This, though, went unnoticed by the intruders: Ron, Hermione, and Harry.
"I'm sorry, but you all have to leave… Just for a bit, then you can come back in," Harry indicated hurriedly. Konata's eyes widened.
"And where are we supposed to put the little ones in the meantime? We can't exactly run around the battlefield with them," she reasoned with a partially cocked eyebrow. However, Blaze was already on her feet. Shifting Scorpius to one arm, she yanked her brunette friend to her feet.
"Don't worry, I know where they can be safe. Come on." Nodding curtly at everyone, she dashed out of the door. "We're going to the Headmaster's office. We can put protective jinxes on the door so nobody can get inside, and I'll conjure up a crib to put the kids in," Blaze explained before Konata could ask. Konata furrowed her eyebrows skeptically. "Relax. It'll just be for a bit, like Harry said," she assured her. After a moment of silence, Konata gave a nod and increased her pace, adjusting the position in which she held her increasingly uncomfortable twins.
They were almost there… The stone gargoyle guarding the staircase was in sights… Yet Blaze skidded to a halt. She caught a flash of a pale teenage boy running in their direction, flanked by two goons. That meant… "Draco!" Blaze cried, her grip on Scorpius tightening slightly. Draco, too, came to a stop as if he had suddenly been Stunned. For just a few seconds, the couple of blondes stared longingly at each other until Draco's eyes fleeted down to the baby in Blaze's arms. He needn't glimpse the infant for longer than half a moment to recognize how strongly it resembled himself. Blaze gulped as if hoping to swallow the overwhelming emotion growing inside of her. She looked down at her son. "Draco… Th-this is your-"
"What are you doing, Draco, we gotta get moving!" Goyle interrupted. Draco bit his lip, looking torn; evidently having sorted out his priorities, he whispered "We'll catch up in due time" to Blaze, kissed her forehead, and bolted off. She closed her eyes for a brief moment before approaching the stone gargoyle.
"Dumbledore," she told it certainly. To Konata's surprise, the gargoyle accepted the password and leapt aside. The two girls mounted the spiral stairs without delay, jumping into the room before they had even made it to the top step. Balancing Scorpius in one arm and her wand in the other, Blaze muttered under her breath until a decent quality crib appeared out of thin air. She set her infant inside, Konata quickly doing the same with her own.
"If something happens, please, PLEASE come and find us," Blaze told the portraits of previous headmasters and headmistresses. They all nodded in unison, some of them proceeding back to their own frames.
"I'll be back soon," the two young mothers whispered, caressing their children's cheeks. They swept outside, immediately turning around and casting protective incantations onto the door. Finally feeling secure, they doubled down the stairs.
"Shiro is going to kill us," Konata huffed, gripping her wand tightly in her hand, as they progressed toward the scene of the war. Before Blaze could respond, she was forced to duck to avoid a streak of green light shot toward her. With a growl, she called out her own counterattack, therefore entering a duel with a masked Death Eater.
"Go on, I've got this!" she shouted over her shoulder at Konata. Her companion started to refuse, until she heard her name called from above. She spun around to see Professor Trelawny beckoning to her from the banisters overhead. Konata immediately hastened to join the woman that had grown to be among her favorite professors.
"Take one, dear," she instructed, motioning at the numerous crystal balls in her bag. For a moment, Konata was confused by this request, until Professor Trelawny used her wand to send one of the spheres flying down below, smashing into a Death Eater's head and rendering him unconscious. Grinning despite herself, Konata started to follow in the Divination teacher's lead. The adventurous smile soon faded, though, as she caught sight of the werewolf whom had nearly taken her boyfriend's life months earlier. She cried out in horror as she realized he'd victimized someone… Who, she couldn't make out, but his fangs were certainly digging through a girl's flesh… Konata sent the crystal ball soaring with all of her might, and with a crash Fenrir Greyback moved no more.
The fighting continued for hours, until what felt like all of a sudden it all stopped. Sakura ushered a badly injured Shiro back to the Great Hall as Konata and Blaze headed to the Headmaster's office to retrieve their children. Heavily sore, the girls had to support each other in order to scale the distance, returning to the other survivors with great difficulty.
Sakura was now sitting with Colin, both of them weeping over a tiny, limp form. With a jolt Blaze and Konata recognized the unmoving body as Dennis Creevey's. The underage, Muggle-born brothers must have snuck back to fight… What, Konata and Blaze couldn't help but wonder, would have happened if they stayed where they should have?
Catherin was silently crying, her arms around a red-faced Satoshi who was shaking with sobs. His puffy eyes were glued to Fred Weasley's dead body, over which Caitlyn Lumbach lay, sobbing, hiccupping, and screaming Fred's name. She fruitlessly kissed his lifeless lips, as if the action would revive her boyfriend. Harry had joined them all, devastation overcoming his features as he caught sight of all of those who had not survived the battle.
Once Satoshi took sight of him, his feeble demeanor took a huge turn. His swollen blue eyes, which were still depositing tears, were now ablaze with fury. His head shot around to face Harry, and he slipped away from Catherin. "This is YOUR fault!" he hissed.
"Pardon?" Harry said quietly.
Satoshi whipped out his wand, storming dangerously close to Harry. "You heard me! Look around you, Potter! People have lost their loved ones and their lives because of this bloody war! Because you won't hike up your skirt and turn yourself in, little Teddy Lupin is an orphan. The Weasleys have lost a son- Caitlyn the father of her unborn child," everyone except the Lumbachs widened their eyes at this declaration, "and me one of my best friends. My little sister is somewhere around here sobbing her heart out because her boyfriend lost his only brother. Seamus is heartbroken because Snape killed Gaia Robertson. Poor Jeff," he jerked his head over his shoulder to face Jeffrey Knumlach, who was sitting against a wall twitching slightly with a blank look in his eyes, "will never be the same because one of those damn Death Eaters tortured him to insanity! Yes, I know people will be ever so devastated if you died, but do you honestly think your life is more important than all of those that have been killed?" He held his wand up threateningly. "Why don't we see how YOU like death!"
"Satoshi, stop…! He didn't WANT these people to die… A-and turning himself in won't bring anyone back," pleaded the voice of Catherin.
"Yes, well-!" Satoshi shouted wordlessly, now crying so hard he was practically vibrating. He shook his head, burying his face in his hands and taking a few steps back. "I'm sorry Harry, I know you didn't want this… B-bloody hell, everything I just threatened was awful… I didn't mean a-any of it, honest, I-I'm just… Agonized." He sucked in his breath, wiping his face on his sleeve. After about a minute of him standing there silently, all eyes were finally off of him. "Go check on my brother, love," Satoshi told Catherin in a choked whisper, precariously patting her shoulder. Sniffling, Catherin squeezed Satoshi's hand and swept off to do as she was told. Konata's eyes flickered after her and, without full awareness of her actions, she followed the blonde girl with Blaze in her wake.
Shiro lay against a wall, one leg stretched out and the other with the heel pulled toward him so that his knee faced the ceiling. His eyes were closed lightly on his pale, unshaven face, and his left arm was in a sling. "How's your arm, Shiro…?" Catherin asked quietly, gingerly kneeling beside her love's brother. "Sorry if the sling's on wrong, I'm not terribly great with- oh, hi Konata…!" Shiro's blue eyes had fluttered partially open once Catherin approached, but at the sound of his girlfriend's name they widened as much as they could manage.
"Hey there," he murmured weakly. Konata fell gently to her knees and leaned forward to give Shiro a soft kiss on the cheek. The twins, who had managed to fall asleep throughout their journey from the Headmaster's office to the Great Hall, fidgeted slightly, made tiny noises as signs that they were awake, and began to cry. Calm little Scorpius had awoken when Blaze took him out of the crib, though the only sounds he'd made since were occasional whimpers.
Giving a click to his tongue, Shiro went "Aww" under his breath as Konata began rocking the twins soothingly. "Don't cry, my dears… Konata, love, hand me Raye," Shiro instructed softly, extending his good arm. Konata did as she was told; Shiro brought the infant close and nuzzled his nose against hers. Her crying ceased instantly, as did Raito's as his mother whispered lovingly into his minuscule ear.
Shiro glanced up to see that Scorpius's blue eyes were fixed on him. Smiling deeper, Shiro shifted painfully to his feet and took a stumbling step toward Blaze and her son. "Hello, Blondie Baby… Look at you, you're such a sweet little boy," he crooned. He then gave Scorpius a long kiss on the forehead. Despite being but a few weeks old, an obvious affection shone on the infant's features.
Blaze smiled sadly. "You're such a good father to him…" Shiro slid back into a sitting position, flinching but maintaining his blissful grin.
"Don't worry, Blaze… He'll be with his true daddy soon enough."
And he was correct.