Tachibana Palace

"This is a bad idea."

Tachibana stands in front of Yuno and reads her facial expression, "Look, I know Tori isn't my child and I won't play the he's not your child either line. I need you to understand that the way you operate with Tori is fine and all I won't question it, but -

"You coddle him too much and you never tell him no, don't you think if he's smart enough to know that if he doesn't get what he wants from me he can come to you is enough of a sign you should be teaching him yes and no?"

Yuno looks up at Tachibana. She knows he's not wrong she just assumed all those kinds of matters will only be necessary once Tori is a year old. "I just thought it's too soon for that." She avoids his gaze and he tilts her chin up

"It isn't, and I didn't come here to upset you I just wanted us to talk and set boundaries so we're on the same page."

He takes a step back and they talk about Tori. Tachibana making plans for his future threw Yuno off for a second and Tachibana noticed, "What?" His expression is something between neutral and scrunching his face.

"You're making long term plans for Tori you do realise you're acting like a dad, what will you do if he calls you his dad?"

He shrugs his shoulders, "What will you do when he stops calling you Momo and calls you mom?"

She chuckles, "I am his Mom, I'm waiting for him to get it right."

He groans he was expecting her to be clueless like him, her answer just makes him feel like she just threw him under the bus, "Look, I'll worry about that later I just didn't want you to be upset."

"I never was."

He rolls his eyes, "Sure you weren't." He leaves walking to his office to get started on his paper work. Ackerman walks in with more snacks and Tachibana glares at him. "He already had a packet of those things, why is he getting another?"

Ackerman leaves it on the table and Tachibana tucks it away. Tori stands up and screams non stop, Tachibana ignores his tantrum until Tori gives up lying on his stomach till he falls asleep.

Yuno receives a call from Ryu demanding to meet up, after careful consideration and thoroughly weighing her options Yuno grabs her jacket agreeing to meet in a public place, "How about the mall?"

They agree to meet at the mall, at the first entrance, walking in silence next to each other towards the one food place they could ever agree on.

Yuno orders her usual sitting across Ryu giving Yuno judgemental looks. Yuno rolls her eyes asking what the meeting is about.

"I want him back you stole my son." Ryu points an accusing finger at Yuno expressing a completely enraged, disgusted, and bitter tone.

Yuno's face drops her mind instantly going mute, the wires in her head crossing stopping her thought flow, she can't even put together the words coming out of her mouth muttering sounds under her breath. 

Ryu gets annoyed and kicks Yuno under the table snapping her out of her mind block.

Yuno instantly glaring at Ryu, "You left him, never called, never came to check up on him, never showed up after sponging money and a place to stay out of me all my attempts to reach out to you were fruitless.

"Don't you dare give me that line Ryu if you want Tori back fine, but only after you show me where you live, how much you make? And give me a valid reason why?"

"He's my son, what other reason would I need?"

"He was your son 9 months ago!" Everyone's attention is turned to Yuno's table, both sisters caught in a glaring trance, "It didn't seem to bother you at all when you just left."