A/N:  This chapter is sponsored by Jessica L.  Thank you for being my first donor.  The first four chapters of this story is dedicated to you.  xoxo -ptd

Yasu Mori laid in a field of corn, the setting sun dipped lower and lower with each passing moment that Yasu ignored his parents calling out for him to come home for dinner.  The cicadas were already chirping loudly, calling him to quickly get up and answer his parents. Those two older man and one older woman were who he called “Mom, Dad and Father.” 

The original soul of Yasu Mori was a 40 year old successful tapestry artisan in the 21st Century.  Growing up with only his grandmother, she had passed down to him the family knowledge and business of silk embroidered tapestry.  Due to the modernization of the country, silk embroidered tapestry wasn’t very popular. Because of this, the artistry of handmade silk embroidery began to be forgotten and lost. They hand only a handful of custom orders every month and became a novelty item families would buy for their grandparents.  

Although his family wasn’t poor, they weren’t rich either.  It wasn’t until he took control of the family business and began posting his work on social media that his family business began to grow.  Soon fashion designers began to contact him to embroider his designs on their high fashion clothes that his business really became successful.  The one story home and business that he was raised in, took over the other businesses beside him and he began teaching others how to embroider.  

Yasu remember the day he died, his on again off again boyfriend met his on again off again girlfriend and they had a raging and explosive argument that escalated into his accidental death.  In trying to come in between his lovers, they accidently pushed him into the street where he was hit by a car.   

“I guess it’s what I deserved.”  Yasu whispered to himself as he looked at the clear and darkingly skies.  “I should have settled down with one of them, but my heart belonged to both of them.”  

“Yasu!”  His Dad called out.  “Dinner.”  

Yasu sighed heavily and sat up.  

“How is it that I am now in this alternate universe?” Yasu quested himself at least once a day.  

When he died, he didn’t feel any pain.  He only remembers the darkness around him and when he opened his eyes, his was a different person.  

The body that he possessed was also named Yasu Mori.  He has one Mother and two Fathers. In this alternate world, for every 10 men there are only 3 women.  Women were rare and precious. Only those who are wealthy and strong could marry a woman. Gay and bisexuality was accepted in their society due to the rarity of women.  

His first Father, Soshu, is a retired General.  He was an orphan that joined the army when he was only 14 years old and spent his whole life as a soldier, working his way up the ranks until he became a General.  Although he wasn’t a well known General that was known throughout the land, those that were in the army knows him well as an upright, strict and likable General. He had control over 30,000 soldiers and was stationed at the borders.  Throughout his career, he didn’t have many notable merits, due to the fact that he was a soldier during peacetime.  

His second Dad, Jiro, was an Imperial Doctor that served the Royal family.  Jiro came from a family of Doctors that served the Royal family and was the second youngest son out of eight brothers and one sister.  His other brothers were Imperial Doctors as well. Due to Jiro’s talents he only served the Empress Dowager.  

Whenever Soshu visited the capital city to attend yearly celebrations in the Imperial Palace, it was then that he met Jiro and fell in love with him.  Although Soshu was a decade older than Jiro, age did not play a role in their love story. Their long distance relationship stayed strong with long letters of yearning and passionate embraces when they finally found time to be together.  

With Soshu so far away from the capital, Jiro found himself slowly falling in love with a woman who worked as a seamstress in the Imperial Palace.  Jiro wrote to Soshu about the seamstress, Miyoko, who is 24 years younger than Soshu, and 14 years younger than Jiro. The next time Soshu came back to the capitol, Soshu met Miyoko and thought that she was a good candidate to be their partner.  

With the three of them agreeing to each other, they continued their love relationship and agreed to marry and move near the border to start a family.  When Jiro retired as an Imperial Doctor, the Empress Dowager gifted him a small fief and presided over his marriage to Soshu and Miyoko.  

While Jiro and Miyoko lived on the fief, Soshu was only a day’s ride away and could visit his spouses more often.  When Soshu retired at the age of 60, Yasu was already 16 years old. Jiro became a small town doctor and Miyoko opened a small dress shop.       

When the 21st Century Yasu Mori tranmigrated into the body of the current Yasu Mori, he was only a 5 year old child.  With a strict General Father, a scholarly Doctor Father and a seamstress Mother. Yasu Mori was taught personally by them.  He knew how to play shogi, fight, yield a sword and draw a bow and arrow. He also knew how to read, write, paint, play instruments, identify medicinal plants, identify different illnesses and concoct medicine.   He was also taught how to sew and cook by his mother.  

When the 21st Century Yasu Mori woke up in a 5 year old body, he did not have any of the 5 year old’s memories.  The 5 year old had caught a fever one day in winter and the fever ran through his little body for several days. Jiro stayed by the little boy the whole time, fearing that his little life would slip away.  However when the little boy woke up, the only thing that was wrong was his missing memories. Since then the little 5 year old’s character changed. Yasu was more serious, focused, and eloquent. It was as if the 5 year old boy grew up overnight.  

“Yasu!”  His mother called out once again.   

“Coming.”  Yasu answered as he began to jog towards the house.  

In the 12 years living in the new alternate world, Yasu has long adjusted to his new life.  Now 17 years old, he was in a juncture in his life. He had to choose what he wanted to do with his life.  

Since 5 years old, Yasu was forced to wake up before sunrise and was taught martial arts to condition his body to become stronger. He then began following Jiro to work when he was 10 years old.  At the clinic, Yasu was in charge of taking care of the pharmacy and was constantly questioned on different patient’s illnesses and correct prescriptions. During the afternoon, he was then sent to his Mother’s shop to help her run errands, receive guests, accept purchases and help his mother embroider dresses. 

Jiro, Miyoko and Yasu would go home for dinner where Yasu would train again with the guards for another two hours before using the rest of his free time to do as he wishes.  Usually he painted new embroidery designs or read new books.  

When his Father, Soshu came back to visit them from the barracks, Yasu would spend the whole day with Soshu.  They would go hunting or fishing, while Yasu took time to gather medicinal herbs whenever they came upon them.  When they come home for dinner, Yasu would spend the rest of the night playing shogi with Soshu.  

Their home would be considered as “humble” according to capital standards.  However, to the country villagers, it would be considered a grand courtyard.  

The 2 story, 5 bedroom main house has a front receiving room and a back dining room.   The first floor also has one bedroom in the back which belonged to Yasu’s parents. It was the largest bedroom of them all and all three of his parents shared the room.  The second level has 4 bedrooms, one room belonged to Yasu, 2 bedrooms were guest rooms and the last room was turned into a study room.  

On the right side of the main house is a smaller building where all the meals were prepared and two small shacks for food storage and firewood.  On the left side of the main house is a small building for Jiro’s work. There was only a small room in front of the building to treat patients and the rest of the building was reserved for pharmacology.  

In front of the main house is a beautiful landscaped park, filled with flowers a small pond with a pagoda and several walkways.  Behind the main house is a large garden reserved for medicinal plants and a training field.  

In the corner of the gated courtyard are four buildings.  The small building was reserved for servants and the bigger building was reserved for guards.  There was another large building that was the bathhouse for all the men. The last building was a barn to house 20 horses.  Their home was fully fenced with tall walls and was constantly guarded. Their guards were Soshu’s most skilled and confidant soldiers who he trained himself.   

The grand home was located in the middle of a gated pasture for the horses and farmland.  The Mori estate was also located an hour’s walk to town. With the closest neighbor who was 30 minutes away.  

Yasu walked out of the cornfield and towards the entrance of his home.  Two guards outside of the gate both turned their heads towards Yasu and bowed towards him before going back to stand ridgedly.  The gate quickly closed after Yasu entered.  

“Are you trying to skip your training?”  Soshu asked as he waited for his son right outside of the park entrance.  

“With you here, how can I bare to skip my training?”  Yasu joked with his Father. “You would hunt me down then force me to train into the night.”  

“It’s good that you know.”  Soshu said as he clapped Yasu’s back.  “Have you thought more about what you wanted to do with your life?  You already know that I would prefer that you don’t join the army. For I do not want you to live a harsh life that I had to live, because it was my only choice.”  

“I know Father.”  Yasu answered. “And I know you and Mom also don’t want me to become a scholar as well because you guys don’t want to send me off to the academy.”  

“Then what have you decided then?”  

“Can’t I just stay here and keep on living with my family?  In the mornings I spend it with Dad at the clinic in town and in the afternoon I spend it with Mom at the shop.  Why can’t I just keep on living my life this way?”  

“Don’t you want to travel and make your own way in the world?”  

“Why would I want to do that?”  Yasu asked as he smiled at Soshu.  “I have everything I need here. My family is here.  My friends are here. Life here isn’t so bad.”  

“I agree.  Life here isn’t so bad as well.”  

“Not only that, but Father’s already an old man.  At 61 years old, how can I bare to leave your side?”  Yasu jokes.

Soshu slaps the back of Yasu’s head, but misses because Yasu had already anticipated Soshu’s habits.  

“See that, only a year in retirement and your reflexes have slowed down so much!  Have you been slacking in your training, old man?”  

“You brat!  This old man is the healthiest person in our family!  How dare you tease this old man! Come back here so I can kick your butt so you can see just how healthy I am!”  Soshu shouted at Yasu ran away.      

“Father, you shouldn’t get so agitated or else Dad would have to check your vitals!”  Yasu sprinted out of the park leaving Soshu behind.  

“Damn brat, I should have beaten you more as a kid, then you wouldn’t mouth off so much in front of me!”  

“Old man, you know you feel younger when I’m around!”  

“Scram!”  Soshu screamed as he sprinted off behind his son with a smile on his face.  “Better watch out once I catch you!”  

Yasu laughs as he races towards the main house.  The servants who were working in the park stopped what they were doing to bow to Yasu and Soshu, but once they passed the servants, the servants could only shake their head at the Father and Son pair.  Their daily petty, teasing actions were nothing new to the servants.  

“Dad!  You must save me!  Father wants to beat me up!”  Yasu cries out as he sees Jiro walking out of the small clinic.  

“Quickly hide behind me so that old man won’t hurt you!”  Jiro quickly said as he turned towards his only son.  

Yasu ran behind Jiro and turns around to see Soshu run out of the park as well.  

“Father, Dad just called you an old man!”  Yasu shouted at Soshu.  

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A/N:  Yasu calls Soshu, Father.  Yasu is more formal towards Soshu, because Soshu is more strict with Yasu.   While he calls Jiro, Dad, because Jiro is more patient with Yasu.