By the ti Sukuna and Sakura finally pushed open the front door, the house already slled like dinner and exhaustion.
"We are back..."
"We are back..."
Kizashi was half-asleep on the kitchen seat, boots kicked off, tie loosened. buki was folding laundry like she was in a war zone, with the sharp efficiency of soone who had worried all day and was only now allowing herself to breathe.
The mont she looked up and saw them, the laundry dropped.
"Finally... you know how worried we were. How co the mission lasted this long?" she said, her voice cracking just a little.
Sakura barely had ti to nod before buki wrapped her in a tight hug. Kizashi jolted awake, blinked twice, then stood and pulled both children into a clumsy family embrace.
"Ah... family ti," Sukuna said like a man who had just surrendered himself to his fate. No matter what they did, there was no way to avoid this. Believe him, he tried.
"You two are grounded," their father said, like he was talking about recent climate change.
"What! Why... we didn't do anything!"
"What! Why... we didn't do anything!"
buki giggled seeing both of them in this sink; there were only a few tis which reminded them that they were twins...
"For scaring us," Kizashi held his laugh and said with seriousness.
Sakura snorted. Sukuna ignored it. How long could they ground them anyways? Soon another mission would co by, and during this ti he wasn't planning on stepping out anyways. He was a bit hosick after that annoying, tiring mission.
"Do as you both wish," Sukuna said offhandedly, and then separated himself from the family embrace, finally entering the house proper.
Instead of collapsing or vanishing to his room, Sukuna walked straight into the kitchen, rolled up his sleeves, and started pulling ingredients out.
buki froze.
"…Sukuna?" she asked carefully.
"I'm cooking," he replied, as if this was the most normal thing in the world.
Her eyes lit up like it was a festival day.
She turned on her heel and said it like the governnt announcing a new welfare policy. "He's cooking."
Kizashi sat up straighter. Sakura's eyes widened.
"He is?" Sakura asked, a soft smile tugging on her lips and her stomach groaning like it was already expecting so fine cuisine.
Sukuna was a good cook. He trained himself relentlessly while he was figuring out his curse technique. Gods only knew why, but he also learned cooking, even though it didn't actually help him much in mastering that technique.
However, strangely enough, the pink head took a liking to cutting, mixing, and burning different ingredients, and kept cooking as a hobby.
And he was good at it. Not the kind which ca from so peculiar talent, but the kind of proficiency which only ca from multiple repetitions.
He never stopped experinting with sothing new, and hours and years of experience had made him an excellent chef.
Sukuna cooked like he did everything else. Calm. Precise. Efficient. The pan sizzled, the knife moved cleanly, and soon the table was filled with dishes that slled far too good for a random evening.
They ate in blissful silence for the first few minutes.
"This is amazing," Kizashi said, already on his second helping.
"You should cook more often," buki added happily.
Sukuna shrugged. "I do, just not in the kitchen."
Sakura kicked him under the table. "Don't say that!"
Conversation drifted, as it always did, into dangerous territory.
"So," Kizashi said casually, "anyone special on the mission?"
Sakura choked on her drink. And to even their parents' surprise, their ever-stoic boy, who they suspected to be either gay or asexual, also seed to react a bit. For the first ti, and both parents honed in on that.
"S-Special?" Sakura squeaked.
buki smiled knowingly. "So, how is it going with that boy Sasuke? You haven't been talking about him recently."
Sakura's face went red instantly. "M-Mom!"
Sukuna watched this with mild amusent, calming his own features from the earlier jolt, recalling what happened with Karin.
"And you?" Kizashi turned hopefully. "Anyone catching your eye?"
"None of your business, old man... you focus on who caught yours..."
Kizashi froze for a second, now wondering what this boy would say in front of buki.
Sukuna said with a slight smirk, "I saw you eyeing the fish cutlet ever since I placed it there. If you want more, then take it already."
'Phew...'
"What about Karin?" buki tried. "She seems very fond of you."
Sukuna seed to mutter sothing under his breath before going back to his food. Saying anything would only lead to being trapped more. Kizashi was a goofball, but his mother, buki, had sharp instincts. She'd catch that he was lying.
"That Hyuga girl...?" Kizashi pressed.
He just ignored it...
They tried everything. Nas, hints, loaded pauses. Sukuna remained completely unaffected, like teasing simply slid off him.
buki sighed. "You're no fun," pouting like a child.
'Better than being the source of fun...' Sukuna intensified his eating like a man on a mission.
Dinner wound down, and just as Sukuna stood to clear the plates, Kizashi coughed.
"Ah yes... why should I cook and also do the dishes... you handle it..." he sat back down, pointing at Sakura.
'Kid, how did you co to that outco? I just coughed....' Kizashi was speechless.
Sakura was even more baffled.
"Ahem," he said. "We should probably tell you."
"You're pregnant..."
"You're pregnant..."
The siblings seed to have the sa wavelength at tis. They snapped at their mother like war was announced.
buki blushed. "No... how did you both co to that? Cough, cough... just listen."
"Oh." Both quieted down again, now uninterested at whatever it was.
"Your grandmother sent us an old vase."
Sakura smiled. "That's nice."
"It was nice," Kizashi continued gravely. "And ancient."
"Until it wasn't!" buki's face darkened.
"You broke it or sothing!" Sukuna said while chewing the last bit of his food.
"Burned it, actually..."
"Wow, that's so next-level hate for relatives... I can understand, though..."
"No, not for that..." She sighed.
"It was infested," buki added.
Sukuna paused. Sakura frowned. "Infested with what?"
"Bed bugs."
The words hung in the air.
Both Sakura and Sukuna seed to feel a shiver running down their spines. The horrible little vampiric monsters...
The infections, the loss of sleep, and oh... the sll. Sukuna even thought about using Fuga at one point. But they were still paying off a loan for the house.
"Our room is sealed," buki said. "The sofa too."
Sakura's eyes widened. "Then where are you sleeping?"
Kizashi smiled far too calmly. "Your room."
"What?" Sakura shouted.
"For a little while," buki added. "Which ans you two will have to share."
"What!"
Sakura turned slowly toward Sukuna. "You knew about this?"
"No, I ca with you, dear little sister. Do you think I would bother returning if I knew it?" he said honestly.
Her face turned red again. "You're sleeping on the floor."
"Absolutely not."
"You don't even move when you sleep!"
"Oh, and how do you know that? Say, little sister, you wouldn't act like a creep and eye your handso older brother while he's sleeping, would you!"
"E.."
They stared at each other.
Kizashi stood up, stretching. "Well. Good luck, kids."
buki smiled sweetly. "Don't fight too much. Please, both of us really need sleep after last night's escapades with those bed bugs."
As the parents disappeared down the hall, both Sakura and Sukuna looked at them with helpless expressions on their faces.
They looked at each other and sighed.
At that ti, buki's voice ca again.
"Oh... and don't do sothing stupid either. I'd rather not have to worry about another pink-headed kid around the house. Sakura is too young for that..."
"MOM!!!"
"MOM!!!"
They shouted in indignation.
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A/N : Been a while seen I wrote a family chapter. I usually have fun writing this kind of chapters.
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