Satoshi occasionally nuzzled the top of Toshiyu's head and tickled him as he carried the boy towards his spouse's office. The pitched laughter of the child eased away the worry that had been eating him up when he found out that the boy had not return home hours after school was over.

He had been worried if the boy had gotten lost, or even worse, had gotten kidnapped but thankfully that was not the case. He still regretted forgetting a minor detail about kids of high profile parents going to school for the first time though. Everyone would end up knowing who he was, and million rumours were going to spill out before him for every weaknesses there was in his parents or his coming into being.

Satoshi could still feel the slight soreness in his son's mindthread. He knew it would go away in time, after he had proven to the boy that the rumour of his adoption was wrong. It ached him to leave them that way until they heal themselves, but he knew the boy wouldn't grow if he continuously tended to every emotional wound that the boy faced using his mindthreads. Plus, Toshiyu was a clever boy. He would understand quickly and know what to believe once he's shown proof.

"You clever little webber devil you~" Satoshi cooed teasingly as he tickled the boy again.

"Papa nooo~!" Toshiyu cried out as he struggled to fend himself against his papa's hands. His cheeks flushed at being praised for the umpteenth time and he hid it by trying to show ferocity.

The older man gave a hearty chuckle as he continued to invade the boy's ticklish areas. "Embarassed? You're embarassed are you~?"

"Nooo papa!!" The five year old started to move his legs desperately and tried to climb up onto his father's shoulder and head to get away. It simply made Satoshi laugh louder and grab his son securely in his hands before pulling him down again.

"Alright, alright," he said apologetically. "I'm done, okay? No more tickles butthisone!!"

Toshiyu gave a pitched shrill as his father caught him by surprise and grabbed for him instinctively. Satoshi laughed again, and he hugged the boy against his chest tightly. "You screamed like a girl~" Satoshi teased evilly again, before he felt a small knee butting him in the stomach. "Oww, that's soo not girly!" Another sensation struck him when a small bite sank into his shoulder. "Owww!! Ow! Ow! Oww! He-hey, come on! I was just kidding!"

He pried the boy away from his body and held him at an arm's length as he stopped walking. The boy looked back at him sullenly, with his silver tipped blue hair hanging before his eyes like a curtain. "Am not a girl," he said, just as sullenly.

"No you're not," Satoshi repeated, smiling again. "But you should try punching next time instead of biting," he added, as he started to laugh again. "If your daddy thinks I've gotten a lovebite from someone else, I'm going to die a painfully horrible death~"

Satoshi watched the look on his son's face slowly turned from sullen to worry. "I'm sorry papa..." the boy said quietly.

"It's alright, I don't mind," Satoshi said with a broader smile. "I'll teach you how to beat people up properly tomorrow, okay? But you can't use them on anyone else but me, Kagami-ji, and Hallie-nii alright?"

A smile grew on Toshiyu's lips again and he extended both arms to hug his father. "I love you papa!" he said happily.

"I love you too, my clever little rascal~" Satoshi replied, hugging the boy again. He continued to walk down the hallway happily with his son in his arm, whispering jokes into his ear again to make the boy laugh.