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This is Rook universe, pre-Nao.

Wataru snuggled close to his King, who was sleeping peacefully. Their Queen was out – taking care of a traitor down the coast – so Wataru felt that he should keep an eye on Taiga, who got inconsolable whenever any of them were away from his bed.

He’d left their son – well, his and Mio’s son, officially Taiga’s – in his room, doing homework. Hiroto was making noises about going to college down in Hiroshima and studying hard for the university entrance exam. Wataru knew that Taiga wasn’t keen on letting ‘his’ son go that far away, but he and Mio had persuaded Taiga that Hiroto needed to find his own way in the world.

Not that Hiroto wouldn’t, he suspected, be besieged with offers to work for Fangire companies, no matter what major he chose.

Wataru would just have to make sure that Taiga gave their son his space.

“Hiroto?” Taiga asked, not quite as asleep as Wataru had thought.

“Studying, beloved,” Wataru said. “He has to get into school, remember?”

“I know,” Taiga groused playfully. “He’ll be a good D&P employee someday.”

Wataru smiled. Hiroto probably would. But their child had a quiet independent streak a kilometer long… he needed to get it out of his system. “Someday. Stop worrying, beloved.”

“I will when he graduates school,” Taiga grumbled. But he didn’t fuss about it, nor check on Hiroto.

And that was a good thing.

Crossposted from Ramblings Yet Once More here.