One and Not the Same-Chapter 4

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One and Not the Same

A Yu-Gi-Oh5D’s Fanfiction

Chapter 4-What is Really Needed

Day XX, Month YY, Year 20XX

Today was one of the rare days where both Yoko and I had a day off. We chose to use that opportunity to take our boys on an outing-they had little opportunity to visit the outside world, what with us being so busy with our work.

So, today, I found myself on the corner of a bustling city street with my wife and my children, searching for somewhere to take them to visit.

I felt vulnerable and isolated on the city streets. It felt strange, not wearing my lab coat, clad only in faded jeans and a worn T-shirt. I felt…exposed. My intellect, my sole tool in finding my place in the world, my occupation, my identity in society…it was virtually useless here, out on a crowded city corner, accompanied by two twin boys in a stroller and a wife searching for the nearest source of childish amusement. What could I do here…?

Then Ryuusei made an irritated whine at a pigeon that had wandered close to their stroller and was pecking at it. A few moments later that was followed by a peal of childish laughter from Yuusei, fascinated by the never-before seen creature.

It was as if their cries had cleared my muddled head. I saw now.

Here, on the street, my intelligence was unneeded, unnecessary. It wasn’t a scientist that my children needed me to be.

It was a father. Someone to care for them, to love them with every fiber of their being, to raise them to be all they could be. Someone to feed them, clothe them, laugh along with them as pigeons pecked nearby and explain to them what the little grey birds were. Someone who could give them meaning to their world.

It was something I could do. It was something I had always been able to do, ever since I had first seen them several months back in the bassinet, where I had unconsciously vowed to raise them the best I could raise them. That was all that they needed.

It was something that I always had the materials to do. To raise them as only their father could, I had everything, here, in my heart…

…and in the diaper bag.

Fudo Yuuen-hakase

Momentum Lead Scientist