Naoto stood outside the home she shared with her grandfather; she still had her key, he had taken a liking to Kanji and asked them to come and visit at any time they wanted to. As she walked through the door a maid noticed her and went to her, she smiled at her.
"Naoto-Sama it's a pleasure to see you." The maid announced in a cheerful voice.
"Is grandfather in?" Naoto asked as she looked at the maid
"Ah yes Shirogane-Sama is in the study." The maid replied before she bowed and ran off to do her work, Naoto sighed as she headed to the study.
The house was still the same; the same staff, the same decorations, yet it seemed like a different place since she moved in with Kanji where he was felt like home. Naoto knocked on the door of the study, her grandfather's voice called her in, and he smiled at her as she had come into his line of sight.
"Naoto-Chan it's good to see you." He said looking at her fondly
Naoto walked over to him and looked at him; she composed herself breathing in deeply.
"Why did you ask Kanji to take our name?" She asked
"He asked me to take the Shirogane name." Grandfather said as he looked at Naoto "He came in saying that the Shirogane name was important and that he would be honoured to take it, even though he is the heir to Tatsumi textiles."
Naoto smiled to herself; she imagined what he would say when she confronted him about it, so she decided to let him have his secret. The more she thought about it she really didn't mind him taking her name.
Kanji sat looking at the offer he had received from Junes; they had offered to buy him out of the textiles shop, and to stock his knitted animal dolls across Japan. He was considering the offer as he knew that taking Naoto's family name meant he would be leaving the Tatsumi family, but he had talked it over with his mother and she was proud that his stuffed animals were selling well. It seemed like a deal he had to take, and the money he had made would be enough to set them up in a small home in Tatsumi Port Island, so that Naoto didn't have to go out to work a case and travel to and back each time, she had to work more cases in the big city than she did here in Inaba. He laughed at himself; he was quitting work after they married to become the housewife, and he was going to be the main caretaker of their kids, but he oddly wanted it he loved to cook, clean and Naoto. She had no idea that he was planning this, and she would freak out if she knew. He phoned up Yosuke and said that he was going to take the offer, but he needed the time to tell Naoto and to find them a home to live in.
When he had ended his call he was waiting for Naoto to come home; she had told him that she had to go and see Rise to discuss something, and he still had work to do on her wedding dress.
Naoto had arrived back home to see her fiancé asleep at the living room table; the official looking letter from Junes lay on it, she picked it up and read it over. She had sat down to read it; she nudged Kanji awake to ask him about it.
"Kanji, what is this?" she asked already knowing the answer but determined to get an answer from her fiancé, he looked up at her sleepily
"Naoto it's a deal for them to take the store over and sell my stuffed animals across the county, and I took it." He said
"I don't want you to give this place up because we are getting married." She said looking at him with a faint look of disappointment
"I'm not." He said "I hate the thought of you being in danger when you are doing your detective work; I wanna be there with ya to beat those bastards to a pulp."
His statement made Naoto laugh, but the real reason he kept to himself. You really can't cook Naoto; I'd worry for our kids.
Naoto walked around the table to where Kanji was sat; she smiled at him as she pulled her fiancée into a kiss, his hands ran under her hair and caressed her back.
"We are going to have kids right?" Kanji asked as he broke of the kiss.
"I think that we may." She replied looking at him. "Do you want to start?"