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Kai sat upon his couch with a bag of ice on his head and Rei at his side bandaging his left arm. The once heartless beyblader lets out a sigh for countless reasons at this point. Gou comes into the room with a new bag of ice and kicks a stool towards Kai for him to put one of his feet on so Gou can put an ice pack on his right knee.

"Ow! Slowly!" Kai cried out when Gou just about drops the ice pack on the bruised knee.

"Otosan, I fail to understand why you attempted what you attempted two days in a row," said Gou.

"I had to watch over you!" Kai countered.

"…I've skated without you for half of my life already. I thought you of all people would've learned the first time when you scraped your elbow on the first day!" Gou pointed to Kai's right elbow.

"Hn…"

"I'm sorry to say that I agree with Gou, Kai. I was surprised when Gou called me over because you ran out of first aids…" said Rei as he finished up with Kai's arm, "Are you hiding any scars from me?"

Kai grumbled to himself and lifted his shirt a bit to show the left side of his body to Rei. Rei examined it and just took out a band-aid,

"It's just a scratch. What did you do? Go over a bush and a thorn got you?" Rei asked sarcastically.

"You're actually pretty close," Gou quickly whispered, making Rei wonder if he should laugh or start worrying about Kai now…

Kai let's out another sigh,

"What's wrong, Kai? A little pain never put you down before," said Rei as he finished with Kai's side and pull his shirt back down.

"I tried to call Takao yesterday, but he didn't answer," Kai confessed and sighed once more.

"I'm sure Tou-Chan and Makoto are fine. They're probably busy or having too much fun…I mean…dammit!" Gou cursed himself for saying 'fun' in front of his father. But as fate would have it, Kai's door suddenly unlocked itself and the door nearly swung open hard enough to damage the wall.

"Otosan!" Makoto cried running in while kicking his shoes off as he ran.

"Makoto!" Makoto ran to Kai's side and almost tackled the already-injured man into a hug.

"Hey Gou!" Takao called and shuts the door behind him,

"Tou-Chan!" Gou ran and jumped onto Takao.

"Hey Rei!" Takao, carrying Gou, took a seat next to Rei.

"Nice to finally see you again, Takao," said Rei with a sweet smile. Rei took a quick glance at the entire family and took his leave to the kitchen to leave them alone.

"Makoto, what are you doing back so soon?" Kai asked as he pulled Makoto onto his lap after slowly lifting his foot off the stool.

"I wanted to come home. Do you not want me here?" Makoto asked and Kai lets out a sigh of relief this time,

"Of course I want you here. And I'm glad that…you're finally home."

Makoto smiled but then noticed how much his father looked different,

"Why do you look like you fell off the roof?"

Gou lets outs out a small chuckle,

"Well he would've…" Gou muttered.

"Oh…" Kai took the bag off his head, "I was having too much 'fun' per se…stupid Yuri for even giving me that idea!"

"You?" Takao pointed, "Fun?"

"No way!" Makoto added.

"Yes way! It's true!" said Gou and got off Takao, and pulled his bangs up to show Makoto some bandages, "He tried having fun with me when we went to the park and this is what he did to me!"

"Ooh…but then how did you…?"

"Otosan went to the skate park with me…you can just imagine what he did," said Gou and Makoto stared at Kai.

"…Actually I can't imagine it for some reason," said Makoto shaking his head.

"Good," said Kai and rolled his eyes. Takao lets' out a small laugh,

"Not as easy as it looks! Hahaha! It's not so easy being the fun parent is it!?"

Kai calmly shook his head,

"No…" he admitted, "Maybe I'm just better at sitting by and watching the boys have fun instead."

Takao stood up and his hands dropped to the side,

"Well…being the responsible parent wasn't a walk in the park either…" Takao admitted and Kai raised a brow.

"You? Responsible?" Now it was Gou's turn to be confused and not believe it.

"It's true! Tou-Chan never has time to spend with me! Too busy sleeping and doing some hotel planning stuff…" Makoto added, "And he was no help with homework either!"

"Hey! At least I got someone to help you finish it!" Takao countered.

"Hn, well, you did a good job getting the job done at least," Kai admitted.

"Well thanks but…I think I'll leave you at raising them. You're doing a great job at that," said Takao and gave Kai a smile.

"Thanks, but it's nice to have some help once in a while…so come back soon," said Kai and Takao blinked in surprise by that comment but he quickly recovered.

"…Of course I will, Kai. Well, I need to get going now. I'll probably stay with Grandpa at the dojo before setting off tomorrow for Madrid," said Takao and headed towards the door.

"Why the rush, Tou-Chan!?" Makoto called after him.

"There are plenty of guest rooms here!" Gou reminded.

"Come on Tou-Chan! Please? Stay with us tonight!" Makoto pleaded,

"Yeah! Just one day!" Gou pleased as well. Then both kids looked at Kai with cute eyes.

"…Alright fine. Until tomorrow morning. I'll take him to the airport myself," said Kai and the two boys cheered, running to Takao.

"But remember you two, when I leave: Do everything you father tells you!"

"Okay!" the two replied while crossing their fingers behind their backs. Kai shook his head after seeing their obvious lies as he stood up and limped his way to Takao,

"Thanks for trying…"

"That's just me: I always TRY!" said Takao, almost gloating. He then took a peak into the kitchen, "I haven't seen Rei in a while, in other words: since…forever! I think I'll go ask and take him to dinner inst-"

"Okay! Now you're leaving!" Kai pulled Takao and started to playfully push him out the door.

Three weeks later:

"Otosan and I have been getting along much better now," said Makoto in front of the computer on web cam.

"That's good to know. I…got some time in with my father…" said Quennel in front of his own computer.

"That's good! Really good! It's progress!"

"Yeah…it is…"

Makoto then noticed half of that very special hat sitting on the desk within view of the screen.

"Hey…I thought I'd never see you not holding that hat until…I don't know, 5 years from now?"

"Oh…" Quennel glanced over at the hat, "I've tried not to get too attached to it…"

"No! No! Don't force yourself!"

"I'm okay, thanks…What are you and your father doing? Or going to do I mean?" Quennel asked,

"He's taking us to a local anime convention next week!" Makoto excitedly exclaimed, "The best part is: he has no idea what's in store for him there! It's going to be a blast!"

"And your other dad? How long did he stay with you?"

"Oh Tou-Chan? Tou-Chan stayed for the night when he brought me back. But then he started hitting on Uncle Rei which annoyed the heck out of my Otosan. He left the next morning. Tou-Chan said he'll come visit in a few months."

"That's good…and your brother?"

"Gou-Nii? Oh he's fine as usual…oh! So one of my father's co-workers/friends came by to take Gou somewhere. Saying they're going to a science museum or something. But they came back with Gou's IQ test and now he's labeled as a genius!"

"Isn't that a good thing?" Quennel asked seeing Makoto's frustration…or jealousy.

"Well yes…for Gou. But Otosan isn't too thrilled about it! I think Gou's IQ is causing Otosan to have some insecurity about how smart he is…"

"You have an unusual family, Makoto…" said Quennel slightly shaking his head, "But they're all nice people."

"Thanks…and well, I don't have a weird friend, so you better make sure he doesn't get injured," Makoto pointed and Quennel turned around in time to see Dante fall off Quennel's bookshelf with a cry followed by books falling on top of him.

"I better go…talk to you later, Makoto," said Quennel and sighed at his friend's stupidity. When Quennel logged off, Makoto heard the door.

"Rei! Gou! Makoto!" followed by Kai's voice.

"Otosan's home!" Makoto cried to let Gou know who was probably in the next room over playing video games. Makoto ran downstairs to find Kai, "Otosan! It's Friday! It's movie night!"

"Whoa!" Makoto jumped into Kai's arms who almost fell over by the sudden attack from his son, "Okay, okay, at least let me get out of this stupid thing," said Kai pulling the tie off. Makoto smiled and let's go of Kai.

"Is dinner made? If so, who made dinner?" Kai asked on his way upstairs.

"Uncle Rei and Gou helped a little. Uncle Rei is doing some finishing touches right now!"

"Good…"

Makoto kept smiling and instead of going after Kai, he ran to the kitchen to help Rei. Rei easily forgave Makoto for what he did, but Makoto still felt bad and every time he comes over to babysit, Makoto tries his to help Rei out. And the two became closer than ever just like Makoto's relationship with Kai. Makoto never saw his life so bright, not to mention to happy. One thing he learned though was that there's no place like home…

~The End

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Yeah uh…sorry about how Takao and Kai aren't back together. But I think Takao's a bit too outgoing to settle down with Kai. That's probably one of the reasons why they separated.

BUT! I have a sequel! No! Don't get your hopes up about the whole Kai/Takao thing (hey, they were married at one point at least! And had Gou and Makoto!). Instead it'll be…okay, there's only other character there! Here's a quick summary/preview:

2 years later: Makoto's doing just fine in these two years…it's Gou that's having some problems and calls Takao for help when Kai starts dating again and is getting really serious with 'Uncle' Rei…