"Onii-chan, they'll be having dinner with us!" Raiha said with a smile after she quickly changed to her usual clothing.

"What?" he replied with keeping his deadpan expression as he turned to his sister before walking back silently to the kitchen.

"W-we'll just leave. We don't want to bother y-" said Haruka as she started to the door, but was stopped by Raiha as she held her hand in such a way that made her want to surrender all of her mortal possessions to the little girl at that very moment.

"It's fine, it's the least I can do for you girls for taking care of Raiha this afternoon. Curry is fine right?" He asked with his head peeking through the small gap in their wall that separated the kitchen and living room. Hearing his words, the two girls nodded as Raiha took them to their table as they sat down next to each other while Fuutarou continued to cook their dinner.

"Say Raiha... is your brother always like that?" Aki asked the little girl as she pointed at Fuutarou who was cooking in the kitchen.

The little girl tilted her head in confusion from the question the blonde asked. "What do you mean Aki-nee?"

"I mean was your brother always dependable?"

"Yep! Onii-chan is really dependable! He even worked really hard until he paid all of our debts! Even when... mom died... he still worked with dad and paid the debts. Dad even said he started working when he was around my age to help with the bills, so I'm really proud and happy to have him as my brother!" She said with a slightly sad expression in her face from mentioning the late Uesugi matriarch but was having a truly radiant smile on her face.

The blondes sat there in silence after hearing her words. How could a child say such a thing with that expression? And she said Fuutarou started working when he was her age. That was around someone who just started middle school!

'Wait... So that means Fuutarou started working when he was just around 13 years old?' Aki thought, feeling sad for Fuutarou yet she couldn't help but admire his work ethic and his determination to help his family. And he achieved it. Haruka was also thinking the same thing, as she also admired how hard Fuutarou worked to get out of debt and how he wanted to make his sister happy.

The blondes had almost everything given to them, but not without work of course. But they still got what they wanted and needed nonetheless. That's what their mother taught them. To work for what they want. And they will work hard to capture a special someone's heart~

The three continued to talk but unbeknownst to them, the young man was listening to their conversation from the kitchen. 'And I'm happy to have a little sister like you, Raiha' the young man thought as he started to finish cooking while he also prepared their table for dinner.

"Dinner's ready." The young man said as he brought out a pot of curry from the kitchen and placed it on their table. The curry looked normal but the aroma of it was absolutely divine to the two blondes who couldn't wait to eat the food that their crush had made.

The group was now sitting together around the table with Aki on his left and Haruka on his right. Raiha was sitting across them, enjoying a full view of her brother with two beauties beside him. 'Hehe, I think I'll get some new big sisters soon,' she thought happily as they said "Itadakimasu!" and started eating.

As they started eating, a new presence was felt when they heard the door to their house open. Turning towards the door, they were met with a sight of a tall, bulky and spiky blonde hair with a pair of sunglasses on his head. He was also carrying a bag of what it seems to be cleaning supplies in his left hand while his right had a box of cake.

"Hey, hey! Fuutarou, Raiha, I'm ho-" he said but stopped as he saw his son with two girls beside him while having dinner. Isanari stared blankly before blinking twice at the sight he witnessed right at that very moment.

Fuutarou sighed and stood up, taking the bag and the cake from his father's hand while he took him and sat him down beside Raiha as he also served him a plate of curry.

Breaking from his blank stare, he looked at his son before looking at the two girls "You brought two girls home... You definitely inherited my looks Fuutarou" the man grinned.

"I suppose I should introduce myself. I am Isanari, Fuutarou's father." He said before taking a bite of the curry his son served.

"F-father?!" Aki choked on her food before she and Haruka quickly did a small bow in respect. The two were currently sitting in front of their crush's father and even having a meal with said man!

"P-pardon for the intrusion..." Aki said as she kept her head lowered.

"Ah it's fine! It's nice to have a visitor, not to mention whom my son invited to come once in a while." The man assured the two blondes before they raised their heads. " Now, may I ask what are the names of these two lovely ladies, whom my son invited for a meal?"

"I'm Aki and this is my sister Haruka, sir..." The shorthaired blonde introduced herself and her sister while giving another polite bow.

"Cut the 'sir' business. Just call me ' Isanari' or even 'Dad' if you want," the older man winked, making the two girls face's immediately red at the implications of calling their crush's father, 'Dad'.

Turning to his son who was silently eating but to Isanari, he sees that his son is trying to suppress the urge to hit him chuckled, " First redheads and now blondes? You sure know how to pick them, son." He teased but that was the last straw for Fuutarou who hit his dad but the man did not even flinch from the hit. "Solid hit son but needs more power." he laughed before continuing to eat with the slightly awkward atmosphere.

'Damn, meathead...' the young man thought as he silently went back to eating.

Now that they had finished dinner with their dishes already washed, they then went to eat the cake Isanari bought for dessert. A simple strawberry cake, which was Raiha's favorite. After getting a knife, Fuutarou proceeded to cut them all a slice, except for Isanari who just took a can of beer and went to read a newspaper in another room.

As Fuutarou was going to have a slice of the cake for himself, a knock on the door caught his attention. Isanari came out of the room upon hearing the knock and told his son to enjoy himself. Well Isanari was actually secretly taking pictures of Fuutarou with his actions with the two girls with a mischievous smile on his face. Especially when he caught a picture of Fuutarou smiling when one of those girls said the cake was delicious. He may have seen his son smile more often, but that smile was different from the ones he'd seen.

Opening the door to see who was knocking at this late hour, to see that it was just his old buddy from highschool.

"Oi Fuutarou! We got a visitor!" Isanari called his son who saw a butterfly ribboned girl beside his former employer.

"Good evening, Uesugi-kun."

"H-hey Uesugi..."