Children of the Future

Chapter 5

Hey, Sen here with another chapter. Aether meets with a certain crow lady and it goes... um...

Aether felt strangely cozy in his futon. He shifted a bit only to hear the groaning of women next to him. His eyes went wide looking to his left and Ei was fast asleep. 

"What is she doing here so close?!" he screamed in his head. However, he felt someone else on his right and when he look, Ayaka was there lightly snoring. Aether was screaming internally because of two beautiful women sleeping next to him. Suddenly, he felt something on his lap. Getting up, he braced himself only to see Hibiki asleep and curled into a ball with her face near her tail.

"Phew."

"I bet you wish that were me, don't you?"

Aether was about to scream when Yae put her hand against his mouth, "Good morning to you too." 

"Jeez, don't scare me like that."

"Fine fine. I won't spoil your moment right now," she teased by glancing at Ayaka and Ei. Aether blushed and quickly got up without waking them, though, the two stirred without their man-pillow there.

"I-I'll help with breakfast!" he dashed out of the room with Yae quick to follow with a chuckle. 

In the kitchen, Aether saw Ayame and Maki already there drinking some morning tea.

"Father, good morning," Ayame greeted him.

"Morning girls."

"Are you making breakfast? Let us help." Maki offered and Aether accepted.

Within minutes, they had several stacks of pancakes ready with more on the way.

"Okay, this next batter should be enough for seconds and thirds for everyone," Aether assured himself. Every open space in that room had a plate of pancakes several layers high. With all the guests here, it had to be this way or else there wouldn't be enough food to eat. While they finished cooking, Aether got to learn more about his kids.

"So you're saying I handled a lot of everyone's training? I hope I did a good job."

Ayame laughed, "You did great, Father. We wouldn't be the warriors we are today without your help especially."

"Of course, our Mothers helped where they could too," Maki added.

"Speaking of others, Maki, we should probably get your Mom onboard as well," Aether told her.

"I can only try my best to help."

"Why don't we go pay her a visit today after we eat? The others might be asleep for a while," Yae offered.

"You want to come with us?" Aether questioned.

"Well, you need someone to vouch for you. My word should be plenty for her since she has little reason to doubt me."

"Debatable but alright. We can eat and then head out. Ayame? Could you stay and tell the others where we went?" he asked her.

"Sure. I was planning to train after eating anyway," she smiled.

"Yup. That's Ayaka's daughter," Aether thought to himself.

After finishing their breakfast, they left while it was still early and made their way to Tenshukaku to see if Sara was there. Surely enough, they asked around and managed to find her with the Raiden Shogun puppet.

"I've put my officers on alert. They're currently going to every town and village to survey for any damage." Sara told the Shogun.

"Good. We must make sure that the people are unharmed from those waves," The Shogun nodded.