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Playdate

It’s preferrable to be able to work with different kinds of people which is why the Captains organize a kind of a get together for them and their children; a chance to socialize. But not everything goes according to plan

This is a collab with @lyranova with whom we wrote this 50-50 <3

Characters: Yami, Charlotte, Hikari (oc), William, Fuegoleon, Solara (oc), Alistair (oc), Leonidas (oc), Cyraleona (oc), Ezio (oc), & Marx

Length: ~5.1k

Tags: @eme-eleff

A few months have passed since the invasion of the Spade Kingdom and the defeat of the Dark Triad, and for now the Clover kingdom was calm and peaceful. That is, until today. To celebrate their victory in Spade all of the Squad Captains decided to have a small “play date” between their, as well as some of their Vice Captains and some specially invited guests, kids. They felt it would be good for them all to meet properly now in case in the future they would be working alongside each other in battle.

“ Do we have to do this?” Yami Sukehiro, Captain of the Black Bulls, asked with a groan.

Charlotte Roselei, Captain of the Blue Rose Knights and also his wife, nodded firmly.

“ Yes we do. We haven’t seen the other Captain’s and squads in a couple of months so I thought it’d be nice to catch up with everyone. Besides, this isn’t just for us all to catch up, it’s also for all of our kids to be properly introduced.” Charlotte pointed out as looked at their daughter, Hikari.

“ Hey Kid,” Yami started before he crouched down to his daughter's level. “ Y’know you don’t have to do this right? We can just grab Wheels from the party and go back to the Hideout if you want?” He added with his most convincing smile, Hikari smiled back at him and shook her head.

“ Nope, I want to do this. It’ll be nice to meet some other kids my age and from different squads, besides I’ll get to check on Alistar!” She told her father brightly, Yami sighed and hung his head in defeat.

“ You really love giving your old man a hard time huh?” He muttered as both his wife and daughter chuckled at him. Yami stood up and continued walking with his family until they finally made it to their destination.

“ So far there’s only Solara, Fuegoleon, and William.” Charlotte pointed out as she looked around. Hikari’s eyes lit up as she Alistar sitting by himself reading and she quickly ran towards him as Solara and Fuegoleon walked over to Charlotte and Yami.

"Good day," Solara greeted with a wave as Fuegoleon simply nodded to the two.

"Good day," Charlotte replied, while Yami gave a muffled grunt as an acknowledgement. He really would have preferred not to be here, since these parties, get togethers seemed more of a nuisance than anything actually useful.

"Glad that you could make it," Solara continued with a smile.

"Of course," Char stated after giving Yami a nudge with her elbow. "This does good to Hikari, to be able to spend time with kids of her own age. There's been so many occurrences as of late that they, all of them, should be able to just... enjoy their childhoods."

"Agreed," Lara nodded before glancing to her own children, who were happily conversing amongst themselves. "Leon and Cyra have each other, but it'd be better for them too to befriend other people. It'd enrich them in more ways than one."

Yami glanced at the twins, thinking to himself, wishing that Hikari, too, would befriend someone in addition to Alistair. Not because he thought Alistair to be of bad influence, but he simply didn't want Hikari to wind up isolated from her peers like he was while growing up.

Charlotte noticed the look in her husband's eye as he watched their daughter talk to Alistar and she gently grabbed his hand and gave it a gentle squeeze, assuring him that whatever he was thinking would come to pass. She saw him visibly relax at the comforting action before going back to her conversation with Lara.

Hikari looked at Alistar before looking across the way at the other children. They looked vaguely familiar but she couldn’t place them.

“ Hey Alistar, who are those two?” She asked as she crouched next to her friend. Alistar looked up from his book for a split second before looking back down at it.

“ That’s the Vermillion twins. Leonidas and Cyraleona.” He explained, Hikari nodded, that’s why she recognized them. They were Captain Fuegoleon’s children. She watched them curiously for a little bit, they seemed to be glancing in her direction as well before talking amongst each other.

“ Hm, do you think we should go say hi?” She asked the white haired boy, who shrugged.

“ I’m… not too sure.” He muttered softly as he also began to watch the twins, he wasn’t sure why, but he was very weary of them. The only person he really wasn’t weary of other than his father was Hikari, but then again he had known her for most of his life, so maybe he just was nervous of meeting new people?

“ C’mon, let’s introduce ourselves!” Hikari announced brightly before taking Alistar’s hand and dragging him towards the twins.

A blush crept onto Alistair's cheeks as Hikari took a hold of his hand. His heart begun to race, and he became so focused on the fact that Hikari was indeed holding his hand, that he didn't protest. He simply let Hikari pull him along with her, and it wasn't until they were standing face to face with the Vermillions that he realized the distance they had travelled.

"Hello! My name is Hikari Sukehiro," Hikari announced proudly while extending her hand for the two to shake.

The boy of the two stood in front of his sister, who in turn was rather meekly looking away and seemed rather comfortable covering behind her brother's back.

"Good day, my name is Leonidas Vermillion. It is a pleasure to make your acquaintance." The boy said while extending his hand for Hikari to shake. He sounded... a bit stiff. Much like what Yami had told about Captain Fuegoleon to Hikari. Perhaps an apple didn't fall far from the tree.

"And my name is Cyraleona... Vermillion... It's nice to finally meet you. I've heard a lot of good about you," the girl spoke with a hushed tone, making a little curtsey as her eyes flickered between Hikari and the ground.

Hikari gave the girl a curious look. She didn't seem all that... stiff necessarily, just formally polite. And shy. Which wasn't a bad quality in itself. In a way it reminded her of Alistair, because Alistair certainly was rather meek with most as well.

That was when she realized that Alistair hadn't yet introduced himself, so Hikari gave him a nudge. Much like she had so often seen her mom do with her father.

Alistar looked at Hikari with a confused expression when she nudged him, she subtly nodded towards the twins and he sighed softly. He rubbed the back of his neck and looked away nervously.

“ I’m Alistar Vangeance.” He said softly, Hikari rolled her eyes and shook her head at him before turning back to the twins with the bright smile that her Uncle Asta had taught her.

“ Sooo…” Hikari started, she noticed things were beginning to grow awkward between the four of them and she wanted to stop it before it got any worse.

“ Nice weather we’re having huh?” She asked with a nervous laugh, the Vermillion twins and Alistar all looked towards the clear blue sky before looking back at her.

“ Yes…the weather is really nice today thankfully.” Cyraleona agreed with a small smile, Alistar couldn’t help but shake his head.

“ We’re really going to talk about the weather?” He mumbled to himself, Hikari opened her mouth to respond but Leon beat her to it.

“ Well do you have any suggestions on what we could talk about?” He asked the white haired boy with a raised eyebrow.

"Well..." he replied with a frown. If he was completely honest he didn't have anything better to really talk about, but the weather seemed... more... pretentious than most things. "No not really", he mumbled while averting his eyes.

Even if there was no real topic to discuss, Leon certainly could have been nicer about asking. But then again, the conversation he had overheard while walking past his father's office one day, had taught him that Leon was unpredictable and hot headed.

Hikari watched Alistair curl around himself, even if only slightly.

"That's... How most begin conversations, do they not?" Cyra noted, looking at her brother more than anyone else. "You begin with some topic just to gather... Uhh.. Mo-... Movement? Was that the word... Mom... Used when..." her voice grew more and more quiet as she begun to trail off, losing confidence in herself.

"Momentum," Hikari replied with a smile. "I think it's 'momentum'. Like when you need to give a nudge for things to start going forward but after it's moving it just... goes on its own weight."

"Yes, that's it", Cyra replied as Leon glanced at her, without saying anything.

"You're right," Hikari continued. "That's why small talk exists."

Leon looked Alistar up and down for a moment as the girls talked about momentum, he seemed to be in full control of his magic just like everyone else was, so how on earth did he suddenly lose control and nearly destroy an entire Magic Knight base?

Alistar placed a thoughtful hand under his chin, he wasn’t the best when it came to small talk and from what he could tell so far neither was Leon, he made a humming noise as he tried to think of a topic they could talk about. He could feel Leon’s eyes on him and he looked right back, he seemed to be pretty calm and level headed, so how could he have nearly burned the Crimson Lion’s base?

“ Oh I know! Why don’t we kind of tell each other a bit about ourselves? Maybe we’ll have a common interest?” Hikari suggested, Cyra smiled a bit and nodded in agreement.

“ That’s…a good idea.” She said a bit shyly as she peaked around her brother. As the kids began telling a bit about themselves, their parents were also talking amongst each other.

“ You can feel the awkwardness from all the way over here.” Yami stated with a chuckle as he watched his daughter start the conversation.

“ If I recall correctly, when we all met we weren’t the most, hm, ‘graceful’ with one another either.” William said as Yami snorted.

“ I dunno what you’re talking about Goldie Guts, I was very ‘graceful’.” Yami stated as he grabbed a cigarette, Fuegoleon chuckled.

“ If believing that helps you sleep at night.” He told the dark haired man before taking a sip of his tea and going back to watching their children.

"I think William has a point," Charlotte noted while thinking back to her meeting Yami for the first time. "Ours wasn't the most... refined either."

"Oh?" Yami hummed with a smirk. "You looked pretty 'refined' for someone who had just tipped my lunch onto the street," he joked, still remembering the very first words he had spoken to her. Although it seemed like an eternity from now.

"You see, Yami? You have a certain effect on people," William mused while still looking at the kids, or, mostly Hikari and Cyra, having a conversation.

"Hmm..." Lara hummed, without glancing to William, to which Fue quirked an eyebrow.

"Could we... Not reminiscent that particular incident," he asked, turning to look at her, guessing what she was thinking of.

Lara simply nodded, but Yami and Charlotte quirked eyebrows as well in unison.

"Oh? Spill it Goldie," Yami stated.

"Well, there was a conversation that got a bit...heated, which resulted into a kind of a confrontation during the next meeting," he explained.

Fue frowned, not wanting to, particularly, think back to that specific memory.

"What kind of a confrontation?" Charlotte asked.

"I broke his nose," Lara commented, looking at Char. "Not something I'm particularly proud of-"

Yami burst into a laugh. "I have an influence?!"

Charlotte sighed, and Fue looked like he was pinching the bridge of his nose internally.

"I wonder what's so funny?" Leon wondered out loud as the kids had turned their attention to their parents at the sound of Yami's laugh.

Alistar frowned a bit as he watched Captain Sukehiro laugh. “ I’m not too sure, but whatever it was Captain Sukehiro seemed to find it hilarious.” Alistar muttered he turned away from the adults.

“ He probably told them one of his awesome jokes.” Hikari stated proudly, Alistar couldn’t stop the snort from escaping at her words. Captain Sukehiro was many things, but being good at telling jokes wasn’t one of them.

Hikari glared at her friend before a wicked smile graced her face. She suddenly patted the white haired boy on the back and said.

“ Why don’t you tell us a little bit about yourself Alistar?” She suggested, the boy blushed and stammered a bit, he didn’t even know where to start!

Cyra gently tapped her older brother on the shoulder as the two in front of them bickered.

“ They almost act like a married couple.” She told Leon quietly, the Vermillion haired boy nodded in agreement as he watched them with a curious look.

Despite Alistar being unpredictable, Leon didn’t sense any weariness from Hikari. From how it looked she seemed to trust him completely, which struck him a bit odd. Did she believe Alistar was more in control now than he was before? Or did Leon maybe misunderstand what his parents had said? He shook his head at the thought. It had to be the former, because he knew what he had heard.

“ Fine Hikari,” Alistar grumbled before sighing. “ Hi, I’m Alistar and I like plants.” He mumbled under his breath as he held his book tighter to his chest.

Leon glanced at the book for a brief moment, but before he could open his mouth, he was nudged by Cyra in turn.

"Good day, I'm Leonidas and I like..." he thought for a while. He liked a lot of things, but of they were going to find some common topic, then perhaps he should mention reading. As an alternative he could say that he liked chess, but that might end up with yet another stand still." Reading. Among other things," he continued.

Alistair turned his gaze to Leon, consciously trying to keep his expression as neutral as possible. Leon seemed like he had been considering something for a moment. And the addition felt like he was trying to choose what to say, rather than straight up starting to list things. Meaning that he took the time to asses something. Which hardly fit together with an image of someone who had destroyed half of the Crimson Lions headquarters.

"What kind of books do you like?" Alistair ask with half a mumble, feeling his curiosity pique, even if only little.

"Mostly adventure, if we're talking about fiction. But philosophy tends to be intriguing as well."

Philosophy? Alistair thought, this time quirking an eyebrow. That didn't sound like something a hot-head would find interesting either.

"You and father sure have had some heated discussion about those theories," Cyra giggled, more to herself than anyone else.

Hikari tilted her head a bit. “ You and your father have had heated discussions over philosophy? That’s…an odd thing to argue about.” She laughed, Leon smiled a bit and nodded.

“ I wouldn’t say they were arguments. I would say they were more like, hm, ‘passionate debates’.” He explained simply, Hikari nodded although she wasn’t quite sure what the difference was.

“ That sounds a bit like a passive aggressive argument to me.” Alistar mumbled under his breath without meaning to, Leon cut him a look and as he opened his mouth to retort, he saw a flash of pink run in front of him.

“ Hikari!” The flash of pink shouted dramatically before clinging onto the black haired girl. Leon, Cyra, and Alistar both looked on with similar confused looks.

“ Ezio? What’re you doing here, I thought you were staying at the Hideout with Aloys?” Hikari said as she moved the younger boy away from her, she noticed his cheeks were red and he had tears in his eyes.

“ Your dad asked me to come just in case you wanted to leave early, in his words ‘Hey Taxi Jr. today you’re going to be my daughter's set of wheels alright?’ Then he dragged me and my dad along.” He sniffled, Hikari raised a suspicious eye brow. He had been told that by her father many times before so surely it wasn’t just now hurting his feelings? “ Also, Josslyn rejected me again!” He added with a loud dramatic cry. Hikari nodded knowingly, that’s what had him so upset.

“ Ah sorry, I guess I should introduce this drama king. Everyone this is Ezio Roulacase, Ezio, this is everyone.” Hikari introduced with a laugh.

"Alistair," he was the first to utter out, even if it came out as more of a mumble, more than anything.

"I am Leonidas," he greeted with a frown, his eyes still flickering to Alistair with a glare.

"My name is Cyraleona," she said with a faint smile, but her voice was still quiet.

"Such a beautiful name, very fitting for a beauty such as yourself!" Ezio professed, eyes beaming to Cyra.

Well... That was a quick heartbreak... Hikari thought to herself with a sigh. Though she knew that the 'healing' Ezio had seemingly done in a blink of an eye, was only temporary.

"Just being in your presence is a blessing, unlike any other," he continued taking a determined step forward, reaching out for Cyra's hand in the process.

Cyra's eyes opened wider and she instinctively took a step back to get away from Ezio. Her lips were sealed shut to keep herself from screaming out from the sudden burst of attention being cast on her without a warning.

Leon stepped between them putting his hand in the air towards Ezio with an open palm. "My sister is not a rebound!" He yelled, and as he did, his mana begun to flare up around him. Pure heat radiated from him, and his golden eyes begun glow as if the raging sun above.

Ezio paled instantly at the Vermillion haired boy's sudden outburst…wait…Vermillion haired? Ezio blinked a couple of times, Cyraleona and Leonidas were their names…he paled even further and felt his leg’s begin to tremble in fear.

These were Captain Fuegoleon Vermillion’s twins!

“ W-Wait a second! I d-didn’t realize who you were, I thought…Hikari help me out here!” Ezio screamed, his voice going higher and higher with every word. Hikari glared at him and just shook her head. She knew one of these days his flirting would get him into trouble, he was very much like his father in that aspect.

“ You thought what? That my sister was just some random noble? Even if she was, does that make flirting with her unwarranted ok?” Leon growled as he began to think of a spell he suddenly felt something crawling up his leg and extending down his outstretched arm. When Leon looked down he noticed it was a bunch of vines, he suddenly looked towards Hikari, no it wasn’t her, it wasn’t Ezio either, which left only one other person.

“ So the rumors were true, you are just as hot headed as they say.” Alistar said, his voice louder and more firm than it had been all day. Leon smirked as he began to burn the vines with his magic.

“ I could say the same about you; there are rumors going around saying you can’t control your magic, and by the look in your eyes, those rumors appear to be true.” Leon stated, he could easily tell the white haired boy hadn’t even realized what he was doing until Leon’s arm had almost been entirely cased in his Plant Magic.

"At least I am in control of my emotions. So, I am closer to being in control of myself, mana and all," Alistair retorted.

And paused. Such a reply wasn't like him. But it just dropped from him. It was like something that needed to be let out. Yeah, he needs to hear that, Alistair thought for a fraction of a second in the haze that was the adrenaline rush coursing through him.

"Just because I am defending my sister, it doesn't make me any less than someone who doesn't even realize when their magic is-!"

"Leon-oniisan!" Cyra pulled Leon back by his shoulder. "Calm down, please. There's no reason to fight Alistair," she tried with as firm of a tone as she could muster. She did not like the situation that was about to unfold. But she was also not going to just let it become one. Even if she hated being in this situation; her stomach twisting in the process.

"Yeah, Alistair. This isn't like you. We can talk this out," Hikari tried, placing her hand onto Alistair's shoulder, as Ezio took a step back in an effort to get away from the line of fire.

Meanwhile the small talk among the parents had also ceased, and they were all looking at their children, already in an argument.

"Should we intervene?" Fuegoleon asked from the others, without looking away from the kids.

"It's important for them to learn to settle their differences," Lara replied, while internally thinking about how she, at times, hoped that Leon wouldn't have inherited his temper from both sides of the family. Even if he was using that temper to protect his near and dear, which was something she couldn't scold him for.

"I agree," Charlotte replied. "Though it's better to start on good terms with people, they also need to be able to work through their emotions. Sometimes they take the better of us, but it doesn't mean that we couldn't deal with them in a constructive manner." She stated, thinking back to her feelings for Yami. But also about how proud she was of her own daughter, who had shown, for so many times already, that she was perfectly capable of using her head even in tough situations. Hikari really had inherited the strength of will from Yami, and the ability to work with a turmoil of emotions from her. And she was proud of her.

William nodded in agreement, he believed the kids should try and work it out on their own as well. But a small part of him was concerned about the children being able to control their emotions as well as their magic, if both of them suddenly lost control and ended up hurting those around them, as well as each other, then he knew both boys would feel tremendous amounts of guilt.

“ I agree, but they also need to learn how to work with people they don’t necessarily like. That way they can put aside their differences and work together if the occasion calls for it.” William said as he watched his son.

The adults watched with bated breath to see if their kids could work things out on their own or if they would have to step in when suddenly, they watched as the mana radiating from where the children stood suddenly began to diminish. The adults turned as Yami suddenly began to chuckle.

“ I had a feeling we wouldn’t need to get involved,” Yami chuckled as he grabbed a glass of water and drank from it. “ The minute the girls stepped in their Ki changed.” He explained vaguely and with a slight shrug. The girls acted as a sort of “safety pin” for them; they could either keep them from exploding, or they could be the cause of the explosion.

Alistar felt his shoulder tense up as Hikari placed her hand on him, he glanced at her over his shoulder. The look she was giving him was stern, but also understanding and sympathetic. He let out a soft sigh and began to remove the vines from around Leon. As he looked at the vermillion haired boy he noticed the pleading look in Cyraleona’s eyes, and the regretful look in Leon’s as they stared at each other, seeming to communicate without actually speaking.

Leon sighed as well as his muscles relaxed, his mana settling down.

Cyra gave him a smile and a nod before turning her gaze to Ezio, who had shuffled behind Hikari.

"Please don't do that," she said, trying to say it as soft as possible.

But still it made Ezio's shoulders slump forward as he faced another rejection. Though this one wasn't as big of a blow as the previous one. The flirt had just... left him. It was like it was in his blood. And according to his mother... it was.

Hikari glanced at Ezio, half expecting him say something rather dramatic about having his heart broken, but felt small relief as he didn't. Though, she was pretty sure that this wasn't a step into a direction of ... not flirting with as many girls, but rather was him recognizing with whom he had been flirting with.

"I'm sorry... about that," Cyra continued, directing her attention to Hikari, not really knowing why she was the one to apologize. But it felt fitting.

"It wasn't your fault," Hikari continued. The apology didn't really make sense, coming from her, but she thought that she was really apologizing for her brother.

"Apologies," Leon stated with a stern expression. "For being... rash."

Alistair frowned, because Leon's apology lacked sincerity. But as Hikari nudged him, he, too, mumbled an apology.

“ And I…also apologize. I should’ve,” Alistar cleared his throat as he could feel Hikari’s eyes on him. “ I should’ve controlled myself better.” He mumbled. Hikari frowned as well, neither boy had been truly sincere in their apologies, but something was better than nothing she supposed.

“ W-Well I um, I-I think this is my queue to leave-.” Ezio muttered as he tried to sneak away, Hikari suddenly grabbed the pink haired boy by the top of his head, much like what her father would do to his father.

“ Where do you think you’re going, Taxi Jr.?” Hikari started, her voice low and dangerous, suddenly looking almost identical to her father at this moment. “ You made this mess, now you get to help clean it up.”

Suddenly Ezio began to loudly, and somewhat dramatically, beg and plead for his life. Cyra couldn’t help but slightly feel bad for the boy, but at the same time she was partially amused as it looked like two siblings bickering.

The adults watched curiously as it seemed the children were able to resolve their issues themselves, but they all felt a small sense of pride as it showed how mature their children were becoming. Of course this didn’t excuse their earlier actions, but it showed that they were at least able to sort things out on their own.

"See?" Yami chuckled to himself as Charlotte's expression turned into a soft smile.

She was really proud of their daughter, who had taken ... perhaps more after Yami than her. Or so she thought at times like this. But. She didn't mind. Because it didn't matter after whom she took more, as long as she was the wonderful young woman that she was. "Mhm," she only uttered with a faint nod.

"It's good that they were there," William commented, thinking to himself about how he needed to talk things through with Alistair once back home, because it was more than clear that the vines hadn't been an intentional action. Alistair would need to grow more in touch with his emotions, which ... was easier said than done. But with time and proper guidance, he was sure that his son would grown into a skilled mage.

"Indeed," Fuegoleon agreed, looking at his children, who had been, much to his dismay, at the centre of the conflict. Though, he couldn't scold Leon for standing up for his sister, he could guide for a better reaction in the future.

"We need to talk to them later," Solara thought out loud, more to Fue than anyone else. "But it's good that they were able to contain themselves."

"Everyone looses their composure at times," Charlotte continued the thought, with spoken words of her own, as she thought back to all the times when she had... 'lost her composure' around Yami. "But what matters is how you recover from it."

Yami let out a thoughtful hum, and scratched his head. "Though Taxi Junior could learn to not flirt with everything that breaths."

Charlotte and the other parents couldn’t help but chuckle and nod in agreement with Yami’s words. Suddenly, a faint static like noise caught all their attention. As the adults turned to look, they noticed it was Marx Francois, whose face looked calm but his eyes held a somewhat nervous look in them.

“ Oh good you’re all here, this will be much easier than I initially thought.” Marx said with a sigh of relief.

“ Is something wrong?” Fuegoleon asked, Marx turned to look to his left before turning back to the Captain’s.

“ Actually, there are a few nobles from Thea who are here. I’m…not sure what it is they want to discuss since I don’t understand Thean, but I’m sure I heard them ask for the Captain’s as well as Solara.” Marx explained with a slight frown. “ So I think it’d be best if you all came to the Meeting room.”

“ Alright, we’ll be there shortly. Just tell the nobles this,” Solara began before saying “ [Solara Equinox and the Captain’s are on their way.].” Marx mimicked her words the best he could before disappearing.

“ Well, this playdate was fun while it lasted.” Yami muttered before suddenly shouting.

“ Hey Taxi Jr.,” Ezio jumped at the sudden shout but he turned to look at Yami. “ I need you to take the kids to Marx’s office for a while, we gotta deal with some Clover-Thean stuff!” He added, the young boy gave a shaky salute before opening a portal.

“ Why Marx’s office of all places?” Charlotte asked with a somewhat confused frown, Yami just chuckled mischievously. Charlotte couldn’t help but sigh at her husband and his antics.

#black clover fanfiction #black clover second generation #not all ocs are mine #oc: hikari sukehiro #oc: solara equinox #oc: alistair vangeance #oc: leonidas vermillion #oc: cyraleona vermillion #oc: ezio roulacase #only the vermillion ocs are my own #and solara ofc but she's pretty much a vermillion #took me forever to proof read

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