Notes:

Hello! Here Vera with one more chapter of this fic.

First I want to apologize if the previous chapter may have caused any discomfort, displeasure or controversy with a certain topic in particular.

It was not my intention to cause any discomfort or displeasure. For that reason, I apologize 🙇 ️

On the other hand, I want to thank all the people who gave me their words of support during these last days. I have been having a really hard time. But little by little we are coming back with more encouragement and strength ❤️

I also want to thank all those people who keep reading and supporting this story. Seriously, thank you very much for your votes, comments and readings.

And it is for that same support, that we are still here, writing and publishing this story, which, I calculate that we are already halfway through it and that there are already several surprises and important events coming.

I'm only coming back for those readers who do value the translation and the story and who are not being hypocritical moralists with a fictional story on a platform where worse things have been written. Maybe you've even read worse.

So if you are going to leave those comments where you get moralistic, whiny and crybaby, you'd better shove those comments up your ass.

you're on time to abandon this fic, because there are things you might not like about Maki and Yuta's relationship from now on, as well as situations in the plot that will give unexpected turns and situations with other characters that you might not like to read.

The tags are well established since the beginning of the fic and also tags were added as the plot progressed, there you can see what's coming.

So you can stop complaining

But now, if you are one of the readers who are still interested in reading this fic, then get ready, because today's chapter is interesting. And more because Yurika and Yuudai are back with a surprise.

So without further ado, enjoy the reading, especially that they know how to separate fiction from reality.

Chapter 24. Puzzle

"People are mysteries that unravel bit by bit, they are like a puzzle that is pieced together with each interaction."

09:40 a.m.

Maki and Yuki were not the only ones talking at that time in the morning.

While these two women were talking about love, jealousy and sins.

The twins were already awake in their room, playing in that rainy morning before going down for breakfast.

They were even still wearing their pajamas because they were waiting for their mother to tell them to come downstairs.

Of the twins, Yurika was the most restless that morning.

She was very hyperactive since she woke up, she seemed to have woken up with more energy than usual, as she was jumping up and down, deciding which toy to play with.

She could even notice herself quite anxious, as she felt a strange sensation run through her little body, but especially her little feet, they were the ones asking her to go from one side to the other.

The little girl did not know what toy to play with, as every doll and stuffed animal she picked up, she threw it on the floor because she felt that on that particular day, she was bored with greater speed.

She even walked several times to her small dressing table. She combed her hair in various styles because she really didn't know what accessory to wear that day or how she should style it. She even seemed undecided about what to wear after breakfast. Truly, that behavior was very unusual for her.

Moreover, this girl seemed to have discovered something very important that she wanted to show off, although at the same time, she felt she had to keep it a secret.

Yuudai, on the other hand, was too focused on trying to finish putting together a puzzle that his aunt Tsumiki had recently given him. The poor guy still looked tired despite having slept very early the night before.

His sister was not the only one who had woken up with a strange feeling running through her body. Yuudai also woke up with that same unsettling feeling.

Even so, to prevent sleep from overcoming him once again, he had decided to start putting that puzzle together while his mother called them for breakfast.

His sister in such despair at not knowing what to do, decided to join him, quickly sitting down in front of her twin.

"What else do you think Mom and Grandma Yuki are doing down there?" Yurika asked curiously, still moving her feet while sitting.

"Besides chatting, you can tell they are making breakfast since it smells like coffee and food" Yuudai answered as he put a piece that belonged to one of the wings of that rocket that had the puzzle.

That boy, a few days ago, had exchanged dinosaurs for space rockets and planets and stars. It was like his new obsession.

Faced with such a change, his aunt Tsumiki had given him an astronomy book that had belonged to her as a child, especially since for some hitherto unknown reason, Yuudai felt familiar with that subject. And more that he felt himself "floating" in his dreams as if he were in space.

Yurika pouted when she saw how focused her twin was on that puzzle.
"I'm bored!" she said with annoyance to get his attention.

Yuudai looked up at her.
"Then go play with your dolls or stuffed animals. You have a lot of them"

"I tried that, but they bored me!" she said aloud.

Her brother turned his head toward the pile of toys on his sister's side of the room. Truly that pink and white part of the room was a mess.

"Mom will scold us if she sees that mess. You could tidy up what you just did before going downstairs for breakfast" Yuudai scolded.

The girl folded her arms.
"That pile of toys is on my side of the room, so they're not going to tell you anything, crybaby! Besides, I'm already too lazy to pick up that mess, so I'll do it after breakfast"

His twin just rolled his eyes. That theme always recurred between them.

Yurika and Yuudai shared a room since they were born. This was on Mai's recommendation since they took care of each other and avoided being afraid.

From the moment you walked into the twins' room, you could see the difference in the personalities of these two, as well as in their tastes.

The right side of the room belonged to Yurika. It was painted in pink and white colors. It also had nice shelves where she put all her dolls and stuffed animals. As well as her bed had a lilac colored bedspread and many pillows in pastel colors. Her bed was full of stuffed animals and above it was a beautiful pink canopy with lots of gold glitter and above it was an accessory that looked like a big crown.

But at that moment that side of the room was a mess. Since something that characterized Yurika from a very young age was that she was a bit messy because of how restless she used to be.

In addition, she also that on her side of the room, she had a small dresser full of accessories and a small circular mirror, that piece of furniture was also used as a desk to do her homework.

As well as on her side of the room she had a closet full of colorful children's fashion clothes that she had chosen together with her aunt Nobara. Yurika really was and felt like a princess because she even had toy crowns and accessories worthy of one.

Instead, the left side of the room, near the exit, belonged to Yuudai. His part of the room was painted all in shades of blue and green.

Also on his side of the room he had some shelves where there were dinosaurs on them, as well as his other toys like collectible cars and stuffed animals that you might see in a zoo.

As well as near his bed, he had a shelf for his books since he liked to read and underneath it he had his own desk where he did his homework, which was always tidy.

His side of the room was the tidiest because most of the time he was too tired to play or because he spent a lot of time away from home due to his visits to the hospital to make sure his health was stable as it currently was.

And next to his bed, he had a bedside table, where besides having a lamp and his favorite book, he always had all his medications, as well as a thermometer and an oximeter in the drawer, and on his bed was his inhaler.

His bed had a green bedspread with a large drawing of a dinosaur on it, and he had few pillows due to medical advice. And on the ceiling of his bed, there were some stars glued, which glowed in the dark disguising a starry sky.

Like his twin, he had a closet of his own, where yellows, greens, blues and whites t-shirts stood out. He was more modest and understood nothing about fashion.

The whole room in general was full of both their own toys and toys that belonged to both of them. Above all, both of them always played in the middle of the room, which was divided by the large window.

Maki had already tried for each of them to have their own room, but that lasted less than a month in that new house, since one of them always went to play or sleep with the other and hearing their footsteps crossing the hallway always woke her up, so Maki decided that they would continue to have their shared room until a few years later.

Yuudai was the first to notice that something strange was going on that day, he even noticed the unusual behavior of his twin.
"You are more restless than usual" he observed as Yurika frantically moved her right foot.

"And you are behaving more boring than usual," Yurika reproached with an annoyed tone because of what her twin had said.
"Although I'm surprised you were the first to wake up, you're always the last"

Yuudai looked at his hands.
"Let's just say that since I woke up I've been feeling something..."

"Strange?" Yurika completed that sentence, seeming to have read it from her twin's mind.

"Yes, as if something was stinging my hands. As if were that current was going through my whole body, but especially in my hands I have this strange sensation" he showed his palms.

"I feel like that too, but I feel it on my feet. Maybe it's just the rain" explained Yurika, "Maybe the humidity is hurting us"

"Do you think it's an allergy?" Yuudai asked.

"If it were, we would both be bloated, ugly and full of welts" explained Yurika.

Yuudai sighed.
"I just hope this strange feeling goes away soon"

They both kept a moment of silence. They tried to listen to what their mother and Yuki were talking down there, they stuck their ears to the ground, but the rain didn't let them hear anything. And they didn't want to go downstairs yet, as they didn't want to be scolded for listening to other people's talk.

"And what do you think Grandma Yuki and Mom are talking about down there?" asked Yurika curiously as she sat back down.

Yuudai shrugged his shoulders.
"I don't know. Although Mom can be heard raising her voice in annoyance at times"

"Do you think they're talking about us? Because mom tends to tell grandma Yuki about all the pranks we do and the last one we did was at school before we left for summer vacation!" said Yurika pointing at both her and her brother.

Yuudai shook his head once he sat back down.
"I don't think so. Besides, that prank was your idea, not mine, so you were lucky you didn't get expelled from school for troublemaker!" he returned his concentration to that puzzle he was putting together, "Maybe they're just talking about adult stuff, you know, just like the other day when Yuta kun came, he and Mom talked late into the night"

Yurika smiled hugely when she heard that name.
"And when do you think Yuta kun will return to Kyoto?" she asked so suddenly, looking at how focused her twin was.

"He said he would be back in a few days. He promised so " Yuudai took another piece between his fingers.
"Besides, it seemed that he and Mom talked about important things both that night and the next morning before he left for Tokyo" said the observant boy, putting one more piece in the puzzle he was almost finished putting together.

"Even at breakfast they exchanged glances and glances. I think they talked about something very serious" he took one more piece and began to analyze and compare the puzzle in front of him with the behavior of those two adults.

Both putting puzzles and drawing conclusions had become his favorite hobbies due to the long time he spent in the hospital when he was younger. Yuudai had really become a very observant and, incidentally, patient child. But that day he felt that one piece didn't fit.

"And how do you know that?" Yurika asked, raising an eyebrow.

"Because at breakfast they kept seeing each other and I can also tell by the way they said goodbye. It was very..."

"Affectionate? Or loving?" Yurika asked very excited. As if she had noticed it too.

"Yes…" Yuudai pouted slightly.
"Besides, Mom doesn't blush like that when she's with daddy Gumi or not that I remember... although I remember only once I've seen them kiss... but from then on I've never seen Mama behave affectionately with papa gumi" he commented, picking up another piece of his puzzle. He examined it and then put it down, he seemed to be looking for the next perfect piece that would fit the situation.

The slowness of her brother, despaired Yurika, who also began to take pieces at random.

"Well, it makes sense, Mom behaves very serious when she is with Papa Gumi" she looked excited as she looked at the piece she had taken from the floor –"But with Yuta kun it is very different, she even blushes when she is close to him, I have noticed it too, there seems to be something else there" -she smiled, she seemed to have remembered something she saw a days ago.

She quickly put that piece at random, which fit into the puzzle without difficulty. She even seemed to have come to a conclusion at that moment with the behavior between her mother and Okkotsu "Do you think mom likes Yuta kun?"

That question made his brother uncomfortable, who made a noise of disapproval "mmm I don't know, why that question?" he raised an eyebrow.

Yurika picked up another piece again and quickly fitted it into the puzzle with no problem.

"Let's just say that since the day we invited him to lunch, I've noticed certain things between mom and Yuta, besides that well mmm mmmm I mmmm" it seemed that there was something else she didn't dare to say.

Yuudai closed his eyes trying to read his twin's mind. But he could not decipher what it was that she wanted to tell him, although he suspected that "something" that Yurika wanted to give him to understand, since he had also seen something between his mother and Okkotsu.

"And do you think Yuta kun likes or has feelings for our mother?" asked the boy, putting other pieces of the puzzle together.

Yurika got a big smile again at that question.
"I think so. I also like the way we get along with Yuta kun. Even papa Gumi and aunt Miki got along with him very well from the day they met him, as well as our other uncles and aunts " she jumped up and down on her knees without moving from her place. "Well, except for Aunt Noba, she doesn't seem to like him"

"I see that you really like being with Yuta kun, don't you, Yurika?" Yuudai commented, putting in one more piece, which he had a little trouble deciphering.

"Of course I like him! He saved us and by the way, I feel comfortable with him, as well as with everyone in our family! It's like he's one of us!" she said with a big smile, "Besides, he's a lot of fun!" she looked at her brother, "And your Yuudai? Do you like spending time with Yuta Kun? Do you like him?"

"Of course I like Yuta kun and by the way, I like spending time with him, but..." Yuudai said with a frown. He felt that a piece did not fit with that adult. Just like the piece he was holding between his fingers, which he didn't know where it should go since its edges didn't seem to fit.

"But?" Yurika asked curiously, cocking her head slightly to one side as she stared at him.

"Don't you feel that since we met Yuta kun, there is a constant sense of feeling that we are closer to him than we think?"

"What do you mean by that?" his sister asked rather seriously.

"I mean, it feels like he's someone much closer to us, and not just a stranger we met in an alley" he said looking at Yurika, who looked quite serious at that remark.

"A little bit. Since we met him in that place I have felt that strange connection you mention with Yuta Kun" Yurika sighed at those words and more that she also felt that way than her brother.

"Yes, and that makes me think that maybe we are closer to Yuta kun than we think... that's really strange…" Yuudai explained.

"Although I would say that you look quite physically similar to Yuta kun, however he is not a scaredy-cat!" Yurika stuck out her tongue and tousled her brother's hair with both hands, "You especially look like him with your hair!"

"Idiot!" Yuudai brushed his sister's hands out of his hair, "I don't mean physically because if so, remember that you're just me but as a girl!" he said annoyed and pointing at her.

"I know!" Yurika elegantly moved her own hair with one hand, "I am you, but in a girl version, although I must say that I was born very beautiful!" she said shaking her shoulders in a very flattering tone to herself.

Yuudai narrowed his eyes and grimaced in annoyance, "I'd say you're more like a capricious, temper tantruming girl..." he said very annoyed.

"Even so, I'm beautiful, both Aunt Miki and Aunt Noba always tell me so, and even Aunt Mai always told me so!" said Yurika fluttering her hair presumptuously.

Then her shoulders dropped and her gaze focused on her brother. She became somewhat serious.
"But yes, ever since we met Yuta kun I feel like a strange connection with him. I feel as if his energy..."

Yuudai completed the sentence his sister was saying.
"As if their cursed energy resembles ours, doesn't it?"

"Yes, that's what I'm trying to say!" Yurika commented, waving her hands encouragingly.

"Besides" Yuudai continued, "don't you feel as if Mom, Dad Gumi and our uncles and aunts have known Yuta for years and not as if they are just getting to know each other? You know what I mean?"

Yurika made a big yes with her head.
"Yes, and more because Yuta kun don't ask typical things that someone would ask or talk about when you meet someone for the first time..."- she answered doing some memory recalling.

Yurika remembered seeing how both Yuta and their father Megumi talked on the way home that night of the festival. She even remembered her aunt Tsumiki talking to him as if they were talking about something from the past.

Both children kept a moment of silence, while they analyzed this.

Until Yurika dared to say something about a subject she had been curious about for the past year.
"Besides, there's still the matter of our real father..." she pick up one more piece from the floor.

Yuudai mouth twisted and his eyes narrowed in annoyance at hearing that. "Don't start that again..." he whispered with annoyance.

Quickly his sister's eyes lit up and a big smile formed on her face and even more so when she remembered what she had seen between Yuta and her mother.

"What if Yuta kun is our real father?" Yurika said with great joy, placing that piece of the puzzle perfectly.

Yuudai rolled his eyes.
"AGH! Don't talk nonsense!" he replied angrily, "Mom said that our real father left before we were born. So it's more than obvious that he's not coming back!"

Yurika raised her voice at such a refusal
"I believe that our real father is coming back! And if you ask me, I would like Yuta kun to be our new dad!"

Yuudai again rolled his eyes and growled "You should stop watching so many novels and princess movies, that's why you are so corny and believe in so much nonsense" He raise his voice "For me, our father will still be daddy Gumi and our real father is just a coward like mom said! I won't forgive him if he comes back!"

Those words made Yurika quite angry. She puffed out her cheeks and let the air out of her nostrils forcefully, quickly stood up and kicked the puzzle apart, sending all the pieces flying everywhere.

That action annoyed Yuudai too much, who looked with pure anger at his twin.

But at that moment when tempers had heated up and were about to come to blows between siblins, something strange happened between the twins. Something that would leave them quite confused.

Yurika predicted the next move her brother would make, which made her move instinctively to avoid the blow.

That movement that the girl made of taking a step backwards, she did it so fast that even that speed was not at all common even for herself.

Yurika had always stood out for her speed; in sports she was agile and quick, which made her the first choice of any team. However, the speed she showed in that instant had not been normal at all, since in a matter of seconds she had reached the other side of the room.

She even blinked several times, because she didn't really understand what had happened in that instant, as it all happened in the blink of an eye.

She moved so fast that Yuudai didn't have time to react, because what happened to him was even stranger.

A clap of thunder erupted in the sky, followed by a flash of lightning that illuminated Yuudai's figure from behind him. The light passed through the window, intensifying the shadow he cast on the ground.

Just as Yuudai was about to strike his sister, something unusual happened.

The dim light filtering through the window cast its shadow under his knees. The boy, overcome with rage at the smashing of his puzzle and the cruel words his sister had spoken on the subject of his real father whom he hated, felt his hands burn with fury. What happened next, however, perplexed him.

Yuudai had the sensation that his shadow stirred slightly. For an instant, his hands and knees, which were still resting on the ground at that instant, seemed to sink.
It was as if they were submerged in sand or mud. To his horror, some pieces of the puzzle disappeared inside that shadow that transformed into a deep, dark well. Terrified, Yuudai let out a scream and stood up abruptly, causing the sinister opening to vanish instantly beneath his feet.

Even Yurika, who saw how it seemed that her brother's shadow wanted to eat him and took some pieces, was perplexed by what had happened.

Both brothers were stunned. And they were further startled when another flash of lightning broke the sky and another loud clap of thunder caused even their bedroom window to vibrate violently.

They both screamed, their breaths hitching in fear.

Yurika was quite confused.
"What the hell was that?" she asked pointing at Yuudai's feet.

"I don't... I don't know... and..." -Yuudai started to hyperventilate "Why... hell..." -the air was going out of him-" did you move like that?"

"As?" Yurika asked in shock.

"That fast!" Yuudai said in a whisper. Besides, the poor guy was getting very pale.

"Your medicine!" Yurika shouted in fright when she saw her twin get sick like previous times when he stopped breathing.

With what little strength he had left, Yuudai ran to his bed and grabbed the small inhaler he always carried with him, which helped him calm down and, incidentally, helped him to breathe by opening his airways.

"That... was..." Yuudai sat down on the floor carefully, leaning his back on his bed, as he gave his inhaler one more shot in his mouth –"Strange..."- he said in a throat clearing.

Yurika sat down next to him.
"Too strange... I moved quickly and you..."

"The ground opened up at my feet... it looked like... I was going to fall into a dark pit" Yuudai commented, trying to catch his breath.

"I think we are imagining too much..." said Yurika observing how her brother started to recover.

"Yes... maybe we are going crazy..." Yuudai commented, feeling the burning in his lungs begin to subside.

At that instant, the door to their room opened.

"Is everything all right, children?" asked Yuki, who had come up to see the two.

The blonde noticed that they were scared, just as she felt a trace of cursed energy coming from the ground, but in particular, she felt that energy coming from those two.

The children turned to look at the woman, who was watching them with curious eyes. It seemed that her premonition had come true, perhaps those two had already manifested their cursed techniques and maybe that was why they were quite scared, she thought.

"Did the thunder scare you?" Yuki approached them and squatted down and stroked their hair and cheeks to calm them down.

Both children nodded their heads yes. They could not utter a word as she stretched out her hands.

"Aunt Yuki is here to calm them down" she said kindly.

Once Yuki took the hands of those two, she confirmed her suspicions thanks to the residual energy she detected in them. The twins had used their cursed techniques for the first time.

"Everything is all right now, I promise you" she opened her arms for these children to embrace her. Which these two did. They put their little hands around the blonde's neck.

"What do you think if after breakfast, you come with me to buy some things and while we're at it, I'll buy a gift for each of you?" asked Yuki with great joy.

"I do!" Yurika seemed calmer now.

"Me too!" Yuudai said with a slight smile.

Yuki smiled at such answers. That afternoon she would put her plan into action. Which consisted of trying to get the twins to show her their techniques, just as she wanted to get the parents of those twins to reconcile and have a somewhat sizzling encounter without interruptions.

And both were successfully achieved.

Notes:

I hope you liked the chapter.

So, what did you think? I'll be reading your comments.

And as you just read, Yurika and Yuudai are already suspicious about who Yuta might actually be 👀.

How do you think they will react when they are told the truth about Yuta being their real father? Because from what you just read, it seems that one of the twins will react better than the other.

And indeed! They both have cursed energy and technique!

I can't give too many details at this moment, since everything else that was missing from their cursed techniques, I'm leaving it for a chapter that you will be able to read later, since there will be a lot of chaos when they show once again their abilities and even more with the details of their techniques that were missing here.

I can only say that the techniques of both children are a kind of combination between clans.

So in theory, Yurika and Yuudai are quite a powerful and valuable blood mix. That makes them a goldmine as Mei would say, since anyone would want to have them for being a combination of Sugawara blood, Zenin blood, Fujiwara blood and somewhat distant from the Gojo clan. And as we have seen in the JJK canon, people with good techniques will always be considered as very valuable weapons for different purposes, especially between clans.

But as I said, a little later you will know everything else about their techniques, you can still leave your theories.

Changing the subject, let's move on to the warning I mentioned at the beginning of the chapter ️.

And that warning is that in the next chapter the long-awaited reconciliation between Yuta and Maki🔥 is already coming.

So I'm just going to say it at once in case you don't want to read about it.

The next chapter will have some sexual 🔞 content between those two adults. Maki and Yuta.

So for all those who don't want to read anything related to this topic, you can wait until chapter 26, which I am already writing.

And for all those who do want to read such a long awaited and hot reconciliation, well, I hope to bring it to you soon ❤️

So, it looks like someone will follow Yuki's advice and who knows, maybe a third baby will come along .

Anyway, we'll keep reading, this is especially for all those who want to continue reading this fic.

And for those of you who don't already, it was a pleasure ❤️ Feel free to stop reading if you're not liking this story already.

Thanks for reading 🙇 ️ and see you soon.