It's summer and Kyo and his dad are playing football in the park together after nursery. Kyo doesn't have any therapy sessions today. Clara's nursery ends in 2 hours.
The father and son duo keep shooting the ball to each other, Kyo tries it harder than his dad. "Kyo, you can't shoot straight, so I have to teach you how to do it, okay?" He walks towards him and Kyo's eyes light up. Kousuke got down on one knee and put Kyo's face between his palms. "Kyo, I really don't know if you're upset." Which he responded with thumbs up. Kousuke sighs and takes the ball in his hand to position in towards his foot. "Anyhow," he put the fingers of his left hand into an L shape. "If you try to shoot the ball in the way I point, while you look if your foot points the same way, it will get better." Kyo tried it and the ball went straighter than before. Kyo is overjoyed that it works, he claps really fast, with his lit up face. Kyo feels his cheeks getting pinched. "You could at least smile for that, Kyo." With his dad's half sunken smile he tried to put Kyo's lips to a smile. "Your mother gets really sad when you don't show a smile even at moments like this, you know?" Kyo's face sank while he looked down and nodded. Kousuke took a deep breath and stood up. "Let's just... continue what we were doing, I will buy you your favourite ice cream when we are doing the groceries before we pick up Clara, okay?" This made Kyo look up with his stoic expression and nodded quickly. Kousuke chuckled and ruffled through Kyo's hair. "Okay, I'll go shoot the ball from there to you."
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At the register at the supermarket Kyo tugged at his dad's pants. "What is it? Oh right, I promised to buy your favorite Ice Cream. Go get it, I will wait here for you." Kyo rushed off to the freezer to take two, a mango flavour for himself and a peach flavour. "Why two? Oh, that's Clara's favourite. Such a good brother you are." This made his heart melt and smiled at his son. "Come on, give it to the lady to scan for you." He lifted his son up and down. "Awh, your son is so sweet." The lady around Kousuke's age started. "Yeah except he is a little sick."
"Oh no I bet it is hard for you alone, I always see you here on your own."
"I am in love with my lovely wife. I can't make her take these heavy groceries on her own." Kyo is really confused on why his dad responded like that, he can't make out the faces of the adults on the two sides of the register. His dad just paid the total and grabbed the heavy grocery bag. "Let's go, Kyo." and they left the store towards Clara's nursery. "Can't believe that that happened." He muttered. And held the hand of his son with his other hand.
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A little girl ran to her twin brother and father after her teacher confirmed she could leave. "KYOOOOOOOOOO!" And Clara jumped to hug her brother in which in response he hugged back. "I missed you so so so much, I did so much today that I need to!!" Still in Kyo's embrace, Clara looked up. "Oh hi daddy, thank you for picking me up! I am SOOOO hungry. "Hello cute daughter of mine, I see you didn't miss me that much today."
"No I did miss you, I just missed Kyo more okayyy." And hugged him again. Kyo tapped her shoulder, so she let go. Kyo handed her the ice cream. "FOR ME? YAY THIS IS MY FAVOURITEEE!! Daddy can you pleaseeee open this for me." She looked at him with big eyes. And he did as she asked.
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"Okay twins, let's make some food together. Can you two give me the vegetables, we're going to make some rice and curry." Kyo's arms are in the air. "YAYYYYY THAT'S YOUR FAVOURITE, KYO!" And the twins were running around their big living room after each other, while Kousuke was cooking in the kitchen. "Don't trip you two!" He shouted.
The front door opened. "I am home, family." The children rushed to the door and immediately hugged Kyouka's legs. "Mommy I missed you so so much." She put her bag on the floor, went on her knees and hugged her two children. "Awh, I missed all of you as well." She tightened her hug. "Why hello there beautiful," Kousuke arrived in the hall by the door. "I see you look really excited today." Kyouka's smile grew even more. "Oh my, you can always tell, can't you. I will tell you after I get changed, alright?" She stood up, grabbed her bag and gave her husband a peck. Then she hurriedly opened the safety door by the stairs and went upstairs.
"Okay, I am ready to tell you all. Oh, thank you dad for the food!" Kyouka sat down with the children as Kousuke put down the dishes to eat. "One more and I'll come." As he grabbed the last dish and sat in his seat they all said itadakimasu [1]and started to eat. "Okay, so I thought, maybe we should all go to the firework festival this weekend." She took a bite of her food. "Nice, I think I can take time off for that. Do you two also want to go?" He looked at the twins, Kyo slightly nodded and Clara nodded really fast, while both had their mouths full with their food. "Alright! The firework festival it is. I am so happy we can do something as a family again." And the family chatted during the rest of their meal. Kousuke however, ate his food a little faster so he can go and prepare to go to work.
"Beautiful, I am so sorry I have you do the dishes, but I really have to go now." He hurried in his work clothes to the front door. "Don't worry, you already cooked so I can at least do this. Did you take some curry for yourself to bring to work?" He gave a kiss on his wife's cheek. "Yes I did my love. See you tomorrow twins, go to sleep early and don't give your mother too much trouble, alright?" Kyouka smiled at him. "Have a nice night then." And he left for work.
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It's the day where the family goes to the firework festival. All four of them are wearing a matching yukata today and are strolling through the stalls. "Clara, you can't only hold Kyo's hand, you have to either hold mommy's or daddy's hand also. Hey, don't try to run away." Kyouka runs after her children. Kousuke already lifts both up so they can't run away. "Can you really carry them both at the same time?" Clara and Kyo try to wiggle from his grasp. "No." He puts them down and holds one of each shoulder. "Listen, you don't want to get lost in this place so one of you has to walk with mommy and the other with daddy." This displeased the twins. "But daddy, I want to hold hands with Kyo, if I hold your hand then we will become like a train who blocks the way."
"You can hold your brother's hand when the fireworks start, okay?" She pouted. "Okay, daddy." And held her dad's hand. Likewise, Kyo also held his hand up for his mom to hold it.
"Twins I will buy you two cotton candy, but don't make a mess, alright?"
And the family kept strolling through the stalls before finding a good place to watch the fireworks.
"You can sit on our shoulders to watch the fireworks, don't you like that?" Kousuke said. "YESSS!!!" Both Clara and Kyo jumped up and down in excitement. And then Kyo sat on their mother's shoulders and Clara on their dad's. "It's going to start soon!" Kyouka always loved going to the festival, this is the second time she has gone with her family.
The fireworks started, Clara claps. "WOOOOOOOWWW SOO PRETTTYYYY!!!" It's hard to hear, so Clara screams even louder than normal.
Kyouka feels something pulling her hair really hard. "Kyo?" She lets Kyo off her shoulders and is stunned by how Kyo looks. His eyes are closed and full of tears, he makes himself look so small and covers his ears, while he shivers. "Kyo... Oh no, I. Why did I think bringing you here was a good idea." She muttered to herself. She pulled the clothes of her husband, he looked back and saw the state of his son and put Clara down. "Why put me down?" After a few seconds he stopped moving all together. "Kousuke, we need to go to the hospital. FAST!" Tears formed in Clara's eyes seeing her brother in a state she couldn't understand.
None of them did.
[1] sorry i know it might look cringe, but it's a setting in japan okay