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CAPITOLO V - FINAL

Slim slides of fruit were placed around the white frost. It was ice cream and in the bottom were some bread with condensed milk, pieces of pineapple, strawberry and peach. Everything was in layers and the last one was decorated with lot of detail with fruit and chocolate. In the end, Ikki placed six strawberries and smiled when his work was done.

"It looks so great."

"Not for anything I work in a restaurant."

"I want some..." Seiya said almost over the cake.

"Perfect." Ikki took the desert to open the fridge and hide it from Seiya's eyes. "You will have some after the dinner."

"Hey, dad!" Helena arrived and at her side Athena stop and sat down. "Uncle Shun says he wants to feed Kanon and uncle Hyoga says he wants to feed Athena."

The Phoenix Saint nodded and opened a cabinet to take some cans and give it to Helena, not before Athena licked his hand.

"And wash your hands, the dinner is ready."

"But I already wash my hands."

Helena answered with a smile while she was petting the big dog at her side. Ikki crossed his arms and even Seiya did the same.

"Helena?" Seiya asked. "I think you will need to do it again... you are caressing your dog."

The little girl then realized it and stop doing to giggle about it. She nodded and move quickly to let Athena follow her. Ikki smiled seeing his little daughter so happy and turned to wash his hands once more.

"I thought we wouldn't talk Greek this holidays." Seiya sighed to then switch to his maternal language. "Do you speak Greek with Helena always?"

"No." Ikki smiled with the most proud smile in the world. "We speak Japanese and Italian. She is so smart, she loves languages, mythology, geography and even mathematics." Seiya smiled seeing the sparkle in the Phoenix's eyes. "She doesn't like kid's books, she always try to read novels for adolescents and is going perfectly in her school. Ah, you should see her when arrives and talks me about all the classes she had." he laughed. "Sometimes I just eat and she tells me everything and I don't need to say any comment till the end." but again, Ikki showed some sadness. "She is perfect, I would like Shaka could see it."

Minutes before, with a apologize, Ikki explained to Seiya the same he explained to Shun. So now the four of the brothers knew it and they decided to don't talk about the Virgo Saint in front of Helena, even in front of Ikki.

"Don't worry, I bet he is proud of that girl." Seiya said winking. "I'm proud! It is awesome that my niece is so smart! And you know the best part?"

"What?"

"She doesn't have cosmos!" he jumped. "She can have a normal and happy life."

"Well..." Ikki said as he was taking some plates so begin to pour some soup on them. "Do you remember Shaka's meditations?"

Seiya was smiling but hearing that he just removed it.

"What about it?"

"It is... a bit." The Phoenix Saint didn't turned to see him because was more concentrated in the soup and how hot it was.

"A bit?"

"Yeah... Shaka woke a bit of her cosmos."

"WHAT?!" Seiya was surprised. "Why?"

"Because, he... he was always afraid to know where she was. You know, having a kid in Rodorio was something but the big part of the time was in the Sanctuary and when he felt her cosmos in Cancer temple or even in the last one, well..."

"I understand now." Seiya sighed. "But she will not fight and have an armour, right?"

"Under my dead body."

"Amen to that..."

"Now help me with the soup. And be careful, it is hot."

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All the dishes, bread and cheese were on the table alongside pepper and salt and some other condiments. Shiryu and Seiya were already there when could smell a delicious chicken with potatoes that Ikki prepared for them. In that moment, Helena and the other two arrived.

"Did you wash your hands?" Ikki asked once more to Helena.

"Yes, smell them!" she came close with her hands over her head.

The Phoenix Saint laughed and smelled them to then suddenly have Hyoga and Shun's hands over his face.

"We clean them too!" Hyoga said to then receive a slight slap.

"Sit down!" Ikki said with a smile. "I prepare some duck especially for you."

"What?! How could you?!" the Duck Saint reacted as a drama actor. "The next time I will make chicken!"

They both laughed while Helena came close to a chair and, something she didn't wait, it moved. She smiled to Shiryu and received his help to sit correctly and be close to the table. He sat down between her and Seiya, while Shun, Ikki and Hyoga sat down in front, leaving the dad and the daughter be together.

"Thank you, uncle Shiryu." she said.

"Just call me uncle." he smiled warmly to the little girl.

"But... then... I mean." she sighed. "There are four of you, if I say just uncle how are you going to know to whom I talk with?"

"Easy, princess." Ikki smiled sitting at her side and pointing them with a fork. "Uncle Shun, Uncle Duck." Hyoga just saw him a bit serious. "Uncle Pony." Seiya just showed his tongue because this. "And Uncle. Just uncle."

"Dad, you shouldn't call them like that." she said a bit serious holding his arm. "It is Cygnus and Pegasus, not Duck and Pony." she then saw to Hyoga to a smile. "Even if his helmet looks like one."

"Oh wow, it's confirmed!" Hyoga said placing his hands over in the air. "She is totally and one hundred percent Ikki's daughter!"

Everyone laughed about this, and Ikki couldn't do anything more than smile and fix Helena's hair to don't have it over her face. He was indeed happy that the five of them were there; he was feeling great knowing that his brother Seiya was better after so much he passed in the Holy War, or knowing Shiryu took some of his time to even leave his wife-to-be Shunrei those days. He felt proud of his best friend Hyoga that was smiling and acting strong as he was and indeed happy to see his young brother being all well after Hades and with a bright smile as always.

"Ok, now is time to eat." Ikki said coming close to the table. "I don't want the food gets cold and I bet you want to sleep early today."

Everyone nodded and said the known "itadakimasu". But suddenly Helena took their attention making noise with the glass of juice she had.

"Sorry." she smiled. "But... I wanted to say thanks."

"Ah?" Seiya was almost eating the soup. "Thanks? For what?"

"I have the same question, cara." Ikki said.

"I just..." Helena said with some blush in her face. "I want to say thank you for the food and that you are all together now." the five Bronze Saints smiled. "Dad Ikki needed this and you came and... I'm so happy to know you all and can be with you." she was now talking without so much pause. "I'm very proud to be his daughter and having such great uncles like you. So thank you for coming."

The five of them smiled to the little girl and made a little reverence. She was happy for saying those words, especially because said them in a basic Japanese she knew. Now Helena held his spoon to begin to eat but suddenly felt Ikki poking her arm.

"You forgot something." Ikki said. "You said you wanted to say it in front of them."

"Oh, yes!" Helena said leaving the spoon. "We are in Italy and we normally do this because before we ate with signore e signora Marchica and became a habit so..." she smiled placing both hands in front of her, the other five followed this. "Grazie per il cibo che ci dai, benedicilo e provvedi a tutti coloro che non he hanno. Amen." all the other five said Amen, especially Hyoga who felt a bit of melancholy thinking when was a child with his mother. "And now we can eat! By the way!" she smiled holding the cheese. "Dad' soup is delicious with cheese."

"I want some, princess." Ikki said placing his plate close.

"Oh, please me too!" Shiryu answered doing the same.

"Hey, save some cheese for us!" Seiya pouted in a childish way.

"I would like some too." Shun smiled.

"Don't forgot uncle duck!" Hyoga waved his arms in the air.

Indeed Helena was so happy and her smiled showed it as she was pouring some cheese over their plates, even to stand up and move to be close to Seiya, Hyoga and Shun. At her point of view, from all the dinner time, she could see the five brothers talking about their lives, joking around and remembering some old times. She was eating in silence as her eyes was catching their expressions and their way to talk Japanese, especially in his uncle Hyoga who had a different accent and his uncle Shiryu who was mixing sometimes Chinese sounds. She smiled eating her potatoes that minutes before her father served to all of them alongside the chicken and then saw that everyone was being a bit silence. Helena wanted to talk with them, be part of that family, so she didn't wait to make her voice stand up a bit.

"Can I ask something?" she said with a smile. Of course, they couldn't say no, either way she turned to see Ikki and asked him something in Italian.

Ikki's expression changes and just nodded with a slightly smile.

"Tell me about the Golden Saints." she said to receive the surprised expressions from her uncles. "I met them, but not for so long. Daddy Shaka didn't like I play around in the Sanctuary." she was eating like if it was a normal conversation. "I met Mu because he was the best friend of my daddy and too Aiolia and sometimes Aldebaran was there with Kiki with candies."

"We didn't met them all." Shun said. "Well, yes we did, but not like being very close, only with a few." he smiled. "I must admit we didn't have close relationship to all of them. I can tell you about your dad Shaka and Mu."

"I kept talking with Aldebaran and Mu." Seiya said as he place some bread in his mouth.

"Well..." Ikki wasn't so happy about this but still smiled. "Maybe your uncle Shiryu and uncle Duck can help. But, only if they want to."

"I have a surprise for you." Shiryu said crossing his arms. "I was the student of the Libra Saint."

"The Libra Saint?!" Helena opened her eyes widely. "Daddy said he lived very far from them and he was very old."

"Yes, he lived in China with me and my girlfriend Shunrei. Maybe one day you should go to visit us, I bet my girlfriend will love to meet you."

"Are you going to get married?" the girl asked as if was only talking with him. "Can we go to the wedding? Are you going to have kids? I would love to meet them and play with them!"

"Yes, yes and... not yet." Shiryu said a bit nervous.

"Oh, yes, yes, and more yes." Hyoga winked.

"Hyoga..." Shiryu opened widely his eyes to let him know to keep silence. "Anyway, as I said, my master and we lived in China and he trained me very hard. And yes, he was old but not that old. Guess how old he was."

"Sixty?" The dragon saint said no moving his head. "Eighty?" again he did the same. "One hundred?!" Shiryu smiled and did the same movement. "How old was he? No one can be more old that one hundred!"

"He was two hundred."

"Mio Dio !" Helena was surprised.

"And he was trained by a dragon."

"No way!"

"And he was old but suddenly was young again! Eighteen years old!"

"Dad! Uncle Shiryu is saying lies!" She held her dad's hand and made him laugh. "Dad!"

"He is saying all the truth."

"But daddy Shaka said that was impossible." she was totally impressed and making some funny faces, even talking in Greek because couldn't with all of that. "He told me no one can be immortal."

"I never said my master was immortal." Shiryu held his fork and took some chicken. "I said he was young for two hundred years. So, daddy was right."

"Anyway, it is my turn!" Hyoga said with a smile.

In that moment Ikki saw to Shiryu as if they both knew something. Of course, they didn't want him to talk about his master and get all sad. But something in the way he asked his 'turn' and how Helena was acting maybe could help. And indeed, because suddenly Hyoga began to talk without problem.

"He trained me and my friend called Isaak in Siberia. He was so powerful and taught us to can reach the absolute zero. Oh, and I remember he was always so strict but in the dinner talked with us about this and that in a very warm way. Well, warm in his way." he laughed. "And he taught me and Isaak some French."

"Really?"

"Oui, mademoiselle. " Hyoga said showing still his hard accent that make him unique. "Je m'appelle Hyoga et suis vraiment heureux d'être ici avec vous."

"Dad! I want to learn French? Why uncle Hyoga knows French?"

"My master was from France." Hyoga said with a smile that Ikki and the others were happy to see.

"First, finish Japanese classes and then we can see that." The Phoenix said but couldn't believe how smart and curious this girl was. After two years, he was still impressed by this.

"And my friend was from Finland!" lamentably the Cygnus Saint didn't know what he was doing repeating the same he said in French but now in Finnish.

"Dad!"

"Daughter!" Ikki copied her. "Let me guess, you want to learn Finnish now." Helena nodded. "But those are too much languages."

"Daddy always told me I could learn all I want."

Ikki's expression was now softer seeing his daughter. She was with a disappointing sight but still with a glow in her eyes. He smiled and nodded.

"True, daddy Shaka was always right. First finish Japanese, then French... but FIRST finish your dinner to have some desert."

"Yes, desert!" Seiya yelled as he was till with some bread in his mouth. "I want desert too!"

Of course they laughed, especially Shiryu that could see Athena eating some of the chicken that Seiya put on the floor.

"Uncle Hyoga?" Helena asked once more after the laugh. "We can I met your friend Isaak?"

The Phoenix opened his eyes and turned to see Hyoga. He was worried because his best friend, but the Cygnus Saint just cleaned around his mouth with a napkin and smiled to Helena. Again those eyes that Ikki hated so much.

"We can't' see him anymore, Helena. I would love you know him but..." he kept in silence still with the smile.

"I understand." the girl said taking a very mature air around her. "He is now with daddy Shaka and I can imagine you miss him, I miss my daddy too. But someday we will see them again." she smiled. "Daddy Shaka promised me that." The five Saints got a bit surprised because this, they turned to see Helena, who was a bit nervous now. "I forgot I shouldn't say that..."

"What?" Ikki asked. "Daddy promised you what?"

He was angry and a bit scared. How do you promise a little girl you will see her again? Wasn't that something like saying she would die? Even if Shaka believed in the reincarnation, wasn't something nice to tell to his daughter.

"He promised me he would come back." Helena smiled. "He said he was just waiting for the others."

"Ok, I finished my chicken." Seiya smiled standing up with his dish. "I want desert. I mean, seriously, guys, did you see that piece of cake?"

"Well, you didn't finish." Shiryu decided to help him to break that moment. "I saw that Athena was eating some chicken..."

"You were feeding my dog?" Ikki sighed. "She had a perfect diet, you doesn't need to give her more!"

"Yeah, Minerva can get sick." Helena said placing the last piece of chicken in her mouth. "I finish, dad." and in that moment she left her place and fork over his plate that was already empty.

"Minerva?" asked Shun.

"I don't like to call her Athena. Aunt Saori is Athena, she isn't a dog." Ikki laughed a bit. "It is true! Sister Shiva told me."

"Oh, I need a family three now." Hyoga laughed taking Shun and Seiya's plates. "But first I need some desert. I help you, bro."

"Thanks." Ikki smiled taking the other plates and moving alongside Hyoga.

As the other three kept talking with Helena about how Agora and Shiva were her siblings because after all were students and almost Shaka' sons, the other two birds were in the kitchen cutting the delicious cake. But wasn't talking about something as the others.

"You need to talk about what Shaka said with Helena." Hyoga said in Russian, another language he and Ikki used to talk in secret since kids. "That was... creepy."

"I know, and I will... totally."

"Dad!"

Ikki sighed and saw over the kitchen bar.

"Here comes another language she wants to learn."

"What language are you speaking?!"

After the dinner and some plays and talking, Helena felt sleep over Athena's on the floor. Both were sleeping while Kanon was still cleaning its fur one side of Seiya, who was already in pajamas over the sofa.

"I think princess needs to go to sleep." Ikki left his beer in the table and stand up from the floor to take Helena between his arms. "I will come back soon. Hyoga... don't touch my beer."

"Yes, I will drink it all." Hyoga smiled.

The Phoenix Saint smiled back and moved slowly to don't wake up his daughter. The other four Saints could see how he smiled and kissed her forehead before disappear in the in the hall. Andromeda didn't want to take that moment that his brother wasn't there.

"He has change, don't you think so?" he told to the others as he was finishing his desert. "He is more... how can I say?"

"Open?" Hyoga kept petting the big dog he always said was a horse now. "His feelings aren't so hide now. But maybe is because he is mature."

"He is mature, he knows he has us and, the most important." Shiryu smiled. "Ikki is now a father. I bet that change anyone."

"Specially our father!" Seiya said with sarcasm.

"Ok, anyone who really loves their children."

"Yes, that's better." Seiya moved both thumbs to the air. "And totally agree, he looks even less angry and, my favourite part, he is with us."

"Don't expect him to be always with us." the Cygnus stand up. "Ikki has his life and we should respect this, in the same way we all respect our lives."

"Agree." Shun did the same and stretch. "And I should respect my sleep time."

"Even your brother would think the same, Shun." Hyoga laughed patting his back. "But I got you... I need to sleep too. Such tiresome day."

"You go, Shun." Shiryu smiled. "And what if you sleep tonight in the bed, Seiya? We can rotate."

"Really?" Seiya jumped. "That would be great, thanks! Let's go, Shun!"

"To where?"

The Phoenix Saint appeared seeing those three already out of the sofas. Shun explained him they needed to sleep. The clock was almost showing midnight and the Andromeda Saint indeed looked tired. Ikki accept this and hug him and Seiya to wish them a good night.

"Where is my good night kiss?!" Hyoga hugged him and kissed his cheek.

"What?!" Ikki didn't expect this.

"Good night, see you in bed!"

As the Cygnus Saint moved he spank to Ikki hard enough to make him gasp and Shiryu and Seiya couldn't hide their laughs. They quickly run to their bed as Ikki moved towards them, to then just turned and laugh a bit about that terrible spank with a cold hand.

"He is drunk or stupid." Ikki said sitting at side of Shiryu.

"I bet he isn't drunk." Shiryu smiled.

"At least he is happy, that's good."

The oldest of the five kept in silence. Shiryu was tired and Ikki wasn't as tired as them but indeed enough to need his bed. The black cat moved to the open window and jumped out side to keep his walking from the tree to the floor and the street. The Dragon Saint then could see how the big dog stand up from the floor and began to walk thru the hallway. He didn't pay too much attention, but now could hear Helena's voice making a slightly sound.

"They both sleeps together." Ikki said as he hold his beer to finish it. "I adopted Athena when we arrived here. I admit, her real name is Cerberus, but I said to Helena I didn't like that name. She is really into Greek Mythology."

"Ikki?" the phoenix nodded to let him know he was listening. "I'm proud of you."

He just kept a silence and left his body lay over the back of the sofa and see the ceiling.

"I should say that. I'm the old brother."

"Well, as the second old brother, I have the right to say it." Shiryu smiled. "And I bet all of us are proud of you, even if we don't understand why Italy and why suddenly you called us." Now he did the same to see the ceiling. It wasn't new at all, but now realize the beautiful ceramic on it.

"Italy calls me for some reason." Ikki answered. "It has beautiful places, full of peace, some of them looks a bit like Greece and I can see art." Shiryu was listening to the explanation. "I love food, and you know this, I bet Shunrei has told you about our recipe talks."

"Oh, she did, believe me."

"Italy has the perfect food, I love it. I don't care if Hyoga says his master cooks better, I give a... duck." he laughed a bit. "And then I want that Helena felt the urge to go further and travel and learn new things and cultures. I loved that from being a Saint." he then reincorporate and was a bit serious. "And I loved fight at your side... not against you." his finger was on the air to make this an important point. "I know I wasn't never at your side in the beginning of the fights, but I already knew you didn't need me and well, I had Helena and Shaka." Shiryu now took his sit again and saw to Ikki.

"That's why you called us? Because you feel guilty from not being with us?"

Ikki laughed because this and pat his back.

"Of course not, I'm happy I wasn't with you. I can't work with a team, you know? Even in my work I'm the boss and some of the other chefs are scared of me and respect me because they know I'm always right. But you four work different, you don't have a boss or a leader, you just know how to work together. I would be a problem in all your adventures if I began them alongside you."

"That's true, you are an asshole."

"Hey... you are right." Ikki moved his shoulders and chuckled. "But I called you, because you are my brothers."

"Ah, I get it. You missed us."

"No, I didn't. Well, a bit, to be honest. I missed the gentle Shun, the stupid Seiya and the assduck Hyoga and I missed you too, lizard." Ikki was now playing around with the beer bottle. "But I just wanted to be together, the five of us, without wars and worries and armors. Just us, as the brothers we are. And, Helena was always asking about you four."

"She told us you always tell her stories about us."

"She loves them." Ikki nodded. "And me too, I enjoy them. I don't want to repeat them, only if is necessary, but I do really like to think when we fought side by side and win. So that's why I called you, guys." the explanation kept even if he stand up. "I'm proud of all of you, and I'm so happy to call you brothers. I just needed to see you one more time, that's all."

The Dragon Saint stand up and now could realize it. Ikki's eyes were tired and had some signals to grow a beard soon, he was taller and still with muscles from the training. Shiryu could see that two years did a lot on his brother and too in themselves.

"I missed you too, Ikki."

Both Saints smiled to each other. Ikki didn't want to say it openly, but Shiryu already could read that on him.

"Anyway, is too late." the Phoenix Said as he moved to the kitchen bar and leaved the empty bottle. "You go and sleep in my bed."

"No, we said you will not sleep in the sofa."

"I will not. Helena has a big bed and I don't mind to sleep with her and the dog. Plus... with that fucking spank the assbird gave me, I think he will bother me all the night and no thanks! I want to wake up tomorrow and make some breakfast for you guys."

"Thanks." Shiryu came close to him to place his arms around his shoulders and Ikki did the same. "Aren't you the best brother?"

"No." he laughed. "You, you four are the best ones someone could wish. Believe me..." they began to move inside the hall. "I would never change you, brothers."

HELLO! Thank you for read this little (?) fic I did for the SS Siblings Week! Which I finished in time! That makes me so happy.

I really hope you enjoyed this as much as I did :) I loved to mix the languages and the conversations with each brother. I don't know if you realize it or I wasn't good enough to make this being seeing xD but even if the whole ffic was centered in the Phoenix Saint, some of them are centered in his relationship with certain brothers. In the first one I wanted to place Shun and Hyoga, the second one is about Seiya, the third one is with the five, the fourth is again Shun and Hyoga and the last one is Seiya and Shiryu. I hope you could see it ^w^ if not... you can read it again :D

Too, I'm thinking in add maybe one or two extra chapters, out of the SS Siblings week and totally centered in Ikki now and maybe some more relationship of him with Helena, even maybe leave some of the uncles hehe~

And before go, maybe the next year will be centered in other of the Bronze Saints, do you have any in special? I was thinking between Shiryu or Hyoga? But tell me which one you prefer x) and if this great event still alive, then I will be so happy to write some about it again. Maybe with some new characters that wasn't around here!

THANK YOU! Have a great day, I really appreciate any comment or just the fact you finished here :'D

See you in the next ffic! I will finish the Saint Seiya Ladies (yeah, I hadn't finish it yet) and the Café Second House. Both can be found in this account.

XOCO WILDE