(Author: I used that AI arts app to turn my baby sister into an anime baby, look how she turned out...I don't know what to say, she looks so....odd, what do you guys think?)

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Gakushū had made them a simple healthy breakfast

Fried fish, fried rice, boiled eggs and cut apple slices

Karma was still scrolling on his phone when Gakushū had set the table

Gakushū was impressed with how.....calmly Karma was taking this. He was expecting a full on tempter tantrum from the red head, maybe even a straight up denial of what was happening, "Alright where's the hidden cameras?! Who's the punk who thought of this?! EVERYBODY OUT!" was what the younger Karma from ten years ago would have reacted.

He would have turned as red as his hair and started spouting death threats and the most brutal torture methods his twisted mind could come up with, to whoever it was that wronged him.

"So according my tweets here...we're married" Karma recalled. "My friends and family are pissed at me-" he groaned, running a hand through his hair. "But I think they're just reacting this way because we didn't invite them to the wedding"

"Not like there was even a wedding ceremony" Gakushū chimed. "I'm pretty sure from our tweets and the pictures, we got married on the same day we left....so my guess is we just went to the court house and signed the necessary papers"

"We must have been pretty excited" Karma said with a chuckle. "We skipped dating and went straight to marriage! Hey which one of us d'you think wore a gown?!"

"Do not look at me that way Karma! I definitely did not wear a gown!" Gakushū hissed at him. "If anything I'd say you'd be the one wearing bridal garments..." he muttered under his breath, imagining Karma in a puffy white wedding gown with big awkward sleeves and a super long veil....he laughed at the ridiculous image he conjured in his head

"Hey what're you laughing about?" Karma demanded with a pout.

"Nothing" Gakushū said with a cough. "I, I don't think we even bothered dressing for the occasion either, we'd have most probably just went to the court house in our normal attire, whatever it was we wore that day"

Karma nodded, pulling out his phone again. "My mom's calling me" he said, making a face. "I should take this" he left the kitchen, leaving the strawberry blond alone.

He looked down at his phone, wincing when he remembered his family's messages to him.

Just when everything was going well for them...

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Nanami-neechan: Gakushū! What's going on? I'm really confused, you got married?!

Mom: Gakushū how long have you two been in a relationship? Why did you never tell us?

Gakuho: So you're married now?

He almost couldn't bring himself to read the rest of his father's message to him. His relationship with his father was...a working progress. His father and him didn't have a warm, loving relationship when he was growing up.

His father was a strict, brutal educator who was still in mourning of his lost student, and Gakushū wanted his father's acknowledgement even if it meant being forced to endure a couple of mental gymnastics that left him vomiting in the end

Their relationship now was better

Gakuho, his father, was thriving to become a better man

But still, their relationship as father and son is fragile and needed to be thread on carefully. One wrong decision could cause it to shatter again

And Gakushū doesn't know which one of them would be the one to pick up the pieces

Gakuho: I know I wasn't the best father, I know I treated you rather poorly. You, your sister, even your mother

Gakuho: I've been taking therapy appointments, I was hesitant to enter a shrink. But it proved to be rather helpful for me, I thank you, for the recommendation of the doctor

Gakuho: I really thought that we were becoming closer, I didn't wish to put my hopes up in case it was just wishful thinking

Gakushū's heart clench as he continue reading his father's messages. "We were becoming closer, father, I just can't bring myself to fully accept you yet"

Gakuho: But I was really shocked when I woke up this morning, checked my spam emails and lo and behold there were the articles about my son, the CEO of Asano inc. Married to Akabane Karma, the infamous heir of our rival business

Gakuho: I thought I misread it, so I read it again. But no, it was true

Gakuho: Gakushū, I don't know what to say except...Well done for marrying someone who can match your intellect

"Thanks dad, you're the only one who remembered my high standards" Gakushū thought

He started to typing his explanation to his father. Reassuring him that they were definitely fixing their relationship, that those therapy appointments worked wonders, and that his and Karma's wedding was a farce

But then he stopped

Biting his lower lip, he left the messages app and went to his albums. He pressed on the icon, and checked his photos.

There were hundreds of new photos there. All of him and Karma. With each swipe, he saw him and Karma with happy smirks, grins, smiles, pressed together, showing off their rings, holding hands.

There was one picture with Karma napping on the couch. There were drawings all over his face and the phrase "property of Gakushū" on his forehead

Gakushū chuckled. That sounds like something he would have written on Karma...ten years ago.

Then he came upon a video