Tachibana stays up with Tori who isn't sleeping and that's unlike him he should be sleeping by now. A knock on the door breaks their play time Tachibana lifts Tori up opening the door, shutting it the instant he sees who it is.
"How rude of you Ken, is that any way to greet your sister?" She notices Tori and gasps, "So it's true, you have a baby!
"I'm so sorry Hitori your stupid old man didn't tell me anything, but not to worry because aunty Kim is here to spoil you rotten."
She smiles and puts the gift bags down. One in particular startles Tori and Tachibana because it moved, "His name is Bolt." Kim announces and the small pup walks out of the bag running around the place.
Tori wiggles out of Tachibana's hold following the pup as it goes up and down.
"Aww, I'm so happy he likes the gift."
Tachibana glares at Kim he knows she means well, but she gives too much and it can get annoying, "We're trying to avoid turning him into a spoilt brat I'd appreciate it if you could cooperate, anyway, would you like something to drink?"
"We? Did you just use the word we? The worlds coming to an end, but I figured that out when my twin brother had a child before me."
"Take your mutt with you when you leave Kim."
"That's not your choice to make baby bro." She walks around the place and finds the fridge, pouring herself a glass of juice sitting down to talk to Tachibana while he's secretly hoping she won't tell anyone it's his birthday and some of the gifts are for him.
"What did you get me this year?" Kim asks,.
Tachibana walks to his bedroom and pulls out the big box he somehow managed to hide for 2 days. He checks on Yuno before leaving the room and presenting Kim with her birthday gift.
Yuno gets out of the tub and gets dressed walking downstairs to find Tori asleep with a puppy sleeping next to him. She over hears Tachibana talking with a female voice that sounds familiar.
Kim jumps from her seat and covers her mouth so she doesn't wake Tori, but still insists on giving Yuno a big hello.
"When he said we it caught me off guard, but he was serious." She turns to Ken then back to Yuno checking her finger, "Ken don't tell me you did not …"
"Don't!"
Yuno stares confused as Tachibana's mood sours up.
He gets out of his seat pecking Yuno on the lips before checking her hand, "You feeling okay?"
She nods looking behind him and recognises Kim from when she worked at Tachibana's, on her official first day they got stuck on the elevator together.
Kim was more excited then she should've been about getting stuck in an elevator.
"You remember me. Yay. So, what do you have planned for Ken's birthday?"
"He's baby sitting and I'm going to sleep, nothing special about his birthday, ask me that question when we're talking about his funeral."
Tachibana smirks and leaves to take a long shower hoping when he gets out Kim will be gone.
Yuno screams, and he jumps out of the shower to find the Puppy running back to Tori, "Hey, what's with the puppy? I packed it with the toys thinking it was a new edition, when suddenly it came to life and I dropped it."
"Kim's gift to Tori we're not keeping it."
"She's your sister tell her that not me." Yuno grabs her keys and opens the door to see it dark out. She woke up sure it was morning.
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Tachibana Palace
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