17 One year later

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Karma's eyes are closed

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Karma's eyes are closed. He's lying on the sakura petal covered ground with his husband lying next to him and son between them.

The sakura trees were in full bloom, the sky clear and cloudless. Karma sneezed when a pink petal lands on his nose

Youta giggles while Gakushū smiles fondly

"Boys! Lunch is ready!" Natsuki called for them.

The trio got up and, hand in hand, walked up the little hill to the picnic table where Natsuki, Gakuho, Nanami, Mira and the twins waited for them.

Youta sits in between Alice and Alex. He's grown much closer to his cousins, always visiting them and playing games. They absolutely adored their younger cousin Youta. It made Karma and Gakushū happy to see their son slowly and surely revert back to his old self.

They ate a deliciously packed meal, told jokes, and entertaining stories. Gakuho re-tells the story of the 'pitchfork incident' for the millionth time.  He never understood why they were so entertained(except for Natsuki) by it. His reckless teenage self steals the first kiss of the (former because he's completely moved on) woman of his dreams, said woman beats him up with a pitchfork in retaliation

Youta and the twins laughed so much tears formed in their eyes

"I mean you deserved it, everyone agrees" Youta laughs. Karma and Gakushū enjoy that beautiful laughter for as long as they can hear it

"Yes, I'm well aware" Gakuho still thinks she over reacted though. A punch in the face would have been a normal reaction, but to actually find a pitchfork and stab him?

Youta and his older cousins ran around the field for a bit, laughing as they played.

Karma snapped pictures after pictures

"Your storage will get full too quickly" Gakushū reminded. Karma shook his head "I don't care, I'd rather it get full of Youta's photo than useless files" he said seriously.

After wards, everyone packed up and headed home.

During the car ride, Youta and Karma nearly destroyed Gakushū's ear drums with their singing

"AAAAAAND I-AYYYY-AYYYYYYYY- WILL ALWAYS LOOOOOVE YOUUUU!" the father and son screamed the lyrics with exaggerated off key-ness that Gakushū wanted to stab pencils in his ears

"Oh God please STOP!" Gakushū begged. Karma and Youta simply laugh at Gakushū's suffering.

"STOP THERE!" Youta suddenly screams causing Gakushū to step on the brakes and for the car to come into an abrupt stop. "What is it?!" He asks worriedly.

Youta's eyes were wide, and his cheeks were reddened. His mouth hung open as if he has seen something miraculous. "Oh kami-sama" he whispers. Karma raised a brow and poked Youta's arm. "What are you staring at? Did you fall in love? Mikoto's not gonna like that" he snickered.

Youta pointed out the car window

His dads followed what he was pointing and saw a fluffy snow white pomeranian puppy sitting under the shade of a sakura tree staring at them with it's tongue out.

All of a sudden Youta had unbuckled his seatbelt and was out of the car faster than they could blink. "Youta!" Gakushū and Karma ran after their son. "Youta don't touch that thing it's filthy and you don't know where it came from!" Gakushū chastised.

"No don't pet it! It could bite you!" Gakushū snapped, just as Youta had knelt down and started petting it. "No Youta! It's fur is dirty you could get something! I said don't touch it!"

Gakushū turned to his husband, about to ask him to do something, only to find his husband cooing and awweing at the cute display. "Awwwe" Karma said, sparkles and pink lighting suddenly surrounding him. Gakushū blinked, and rubbed his eyes. Is he seeing this right?

"Papa, daddy, he's so cute, look at him!" Youta said, rubbing the puppy's belly.

The pup approached Karma and Gakushū and sat infront of it. As if to say 'take me with you look how cute I am'

"No" Gakushū crossed his arms and stubbornly shook his head

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"No" Gakushū crossed his arms and stubbornly shook his head

"Yes", Karma said, kneeling infront of the pup

"No!" Gakushū repeated firmly

"Please?" Youta pleaded, hugging the pup.

"I said no and you can't change my mind" Gakushū strongly declared.

Five minutes later they are driving to the vet with the puppy in Youta's arms. Karma and his son looked pleased, while Gakushū had a deadpan stare, annoyed that he lost to his husband and son's cute eyes and pleads, add the fact that they were holding a puppy.

A few days later, Youta was playing with his puppy, Shiro in the backyard. The pup was chasing the boy around. Karma and Gakushū filmed the scene with their phones

Youta was slowly recovering from his fear of cameras and doesn't mind getting his picture or video taken, just as long as there was no flash

Much later, the family gathered together to make dinner

Karma did the chopping, Gakushū stirred, and Youta handed them ingredients

Shiro would occasionally get treats from Youta, much to Gakushū's disapproval. "Wash your hands again" he kept saying

Their dynamic was slowly returning to normal. They were recovering from that nightmarish experience together, and that bastard was rotting away in prison and can never ever touch them

If another moron ever tries to mess with them again, they might not be as merciful and low abiding as they were before

"Dad, can you teach me how to shoot again?" Youta suddenly asked. "And papa, I'd like to hone my brainwashing skills more...you never know when it could be useful"

Karma and Gakushū smiled darkly.

"Of course angel!"

The end

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