#kunigiri as parents

[headhedgehog]

Kunigami happily accepted a cup of tea from his sister-in-law as she joined him on the couch. His husband was sprawled on the floor next to his tiny niece, watching with rapt attention as she reached for toys just out of her reach.

"Okay, kiddo, warp speed," Chigiri said to the baby, gently scooping her up and moving her closer to the toys. "Uncle Hyoma will have you running all over the place before you know it."

"Hyoma, please, I've only got so much energy," Chigiri's sister moaned from the couch. "Let her take her time to start running, okay?"

Chigiri shot her his best annoying-little-brother grin and turned his attention back to the baby.

"He's better with her than I expected," Chigiri's sister said to Kunigami. "He's never been much of a kid person. Classic youngest child, y'know?"

"She may have converted him, he talks about her all the time. He's very excited to be Bad Influence Uncle Hyoma when she's older."

"Goddamnit." She took a beat, watching her brother with a soft expression on her face. "Have you two thought about having your own?"

"What, by magic?"

"Stop it, you know there are plenty of ways for gay couples to have children."

"Now you sound like my mother." Kunigami watched his husband giggle at the baby's attempts to mimic his expressions. "I always thought I'd be a father some day, but when we got married I let it go. Hyoma told me he didn't want kids before I proposed and that's okay with me. Hyoma's enough."

The baby started to fuss, and Chigiri stood and scooped her up, snuggled her to his chest. She settled almost immediately and cuddled closer to her uncle. Within a few minutes, she was asleep.

"Sorry Hyoma, I think you might be stuck like that for a bit," his sister said.

"I don't mind, let her sleep."

Watching Chigiri sway gently with the sleeping girl, his thumb gently rubbing the back of her head, did something to Kunigami's heart. Chigiri just looked right holding a baby, in spite of his prickly, anything-but-gentle personality. Kunigami had always been the more domestic of the two, had always valued a peaceful, comfortable home life above almost all else after his turn in the Wild Card program. But even he didn't have the same ease with children that Chigiri had with his niece.

Maybe, he realized, he wasn't totally ready to give up on the idea of fatherhood.

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Whether Kunigami was ready to be a father or not turned out to matter less than whether he was ready to broach the subject with his husband.

Over the following weeks, Chigiri fell into a depression that left him tired and crabby. They'd rode out several episodes like this before, and Kunigami knew from experience it was no time to ask Chigiri to think very deeply about anything. Kunigami turned his attention to making sure Chigiri ate a decent amount and drank water.

Unfortunately, a depressed Chigiri was not a chatty Chigiri, which meant Kunigami had space to spiral.

By the time he sat on the couch two weeks later, Chigiri's head on his lap, Kunigami had convinced himself that not only would his husband never want a baby, but that even suggesting a baby would be the end of their marriage.

"Okay, Hero, what's going on with you?" Chigiri asked, eyes still closed as he leaned into Kunigami's fingers scratching his scalp.

"What do you mean?"

"I'm laying right next to your stomach, babes, you've got a riot going on in there," Chigiri heaved himself up so he could look at his husband. "And usually when I'm in a funk you talk at me constantly and you've been quiet for days. What's bothering you?"

"It's nothing, just a work issue that's been stuck in my mind, nothing to worry about."

Chigiri narrowed his eyes. "A work issue? What's happening at work?"

"Argument with a player. They...are refusing to follow concussion protocol."

"Who?"

"You wouldn't know him."

"Ren, you're a medic for Manshine."

"Right."

"I play for Manshine. I know all of the players. Nobody's been out for a concussion lately."

"It just happened...in the weight room. Yesterday."

Chigiri scooted further away to better look at Kunigami's whole body.

"Why are you lying to me, Rensuke?"

Kunigami looked away. His cheeks were hot.

"If you don't tell me what's going on right now I'm going to lose my goddamned mind."

"You look really adorable and happy with your niece and I want to talk about kids with you! But you've always said you don't want them and I'm afraid you're going to get upset!"

Chigiri blinked at him.

"You want a baby?"

"...yes. I think so. Or I want to think about it? Maybe a kid, if we adopt?"

"Didn't we decide we weren't doing the kid thing?"

"Yes, that's the point of revisiting the subject."

Chigiri blinked and sat back onto the couch. Kunigami's ears were ringing and his heart was racing. He wondered, distantly, if he was having a stroke.

"I don't hate the idea as much as I used to," Chigiri said finally.

"What?"

"You're right, I've really enjoyed helping my sister with the baby. And I like watching you take care of people at work, you're really good at it. So...yeah. I don't hate the idea of having a kid as much as I used to."

"Is that a yes?"

Chigiri laughed, leaned in to kiss Kunigami's cheek. "It's a 'lets think about it.'"

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Kunigami's alarm went off and he rolled over, intent on cuddling his husband for a bit before getting up. But the other side of the bed was empty, the blankets tucked tightly around his body.

Confused, he padded out to the kitchen only to be met with the adorable sight of Chigiri making breakfast while holding their baby girl on his hip, happily chatting with her as if she were responding.

"How long have you been up? I didn't even hear her cry," Kunigami said as he kissed them both.

"She didn't, I'm just on her schedule now."

Kunigami hummed and took the little girl so Chigiri could use both hands to cook. Kunigami's sister had been their surrogate, and she was Chigiri's clone with soft pink hair and eyes and features that looked angular even with her baby fat. Even so, Kunigami could see hints of his family in her expressions and height, far taller than average for her age.

She giggled and tugged at the loose ends of hair sticking out of Chigiri's bun. Kunigami grabbed her tiny hand, her fingers wrapped around his thumb. He grinned, kissed Chigiri again. He'd never been so happy.

[choki-the-rich-cactus]

I know we talked a lot about Kunigiri adopted Reo after Nagi left.

But let’s take a moment to appreciate how perfectly Kunigami captured the caring parent energy in this scenario.

He knelt down to Reo’s eyes level like when you wanted to talk to a little kid and made them feel like a grown up. Dude literally said ‘Are you alright?’ ‘What’s wrong?’. It seemed like he was genuinely concerned about Reo’s well being. Which was rare in Bluelock. Especially when they were not even friends.

Chigiri also played a perfect role of a dad who meant well but didn’t know how to handle emotional stuff so he redirected Reo’s energy to something else. Like when Reo started to spiral and was clearly thinking about Nagi as a person and not about soccer, Chigiri would abruptly said something like ‘Yep! That’s good, Bud. Save that energy for the match!’ Or he would just let Kunigami took the lead and chimed in.

And the way they looked at each other with parental telepathy before hyping Reo up when Reo asked why would they even wanted him was just so cute and heartbreaking. The way Reo perked up at their praises that was clearly just them trying cheer him up (I knew they actually meant what they said, but the way they delivered the praises was clearly to make Reo felt better about himself) was so adorable and sad.

Also, this.

Like, in Bluelock, you can see people practicing all night all the time. There was no reason for them to get worried when Reo didn’t come back to bed. But they knew the fragile emotional stage Reo was in, so they went to check on him like a good parent.

They way the manga/anime portrayed Kunigiri to have that domestic, old married couple vibe made the adoption made even more sense.

I can look at these two and be like, yep, they are definitely in that stage of their journey together to add a new member to their family if they choose to do so.

[maochira]

kunigiri for ur new event pls i love the sm theyre literally my parents (real)

They are now also my parents I am your sister (real)

Requests open! - event list - masterlist

Kunigami and Chigiri as your parents!

Tags: gn!reader who's Kunigami's and Chigiri's child, they're both professional players and Kunigami got therapy so he's mentally stable again, no specific age for reader just general headcanons, kinda obvious but reader is adopted

-Chigiri and Kunigami knew for a long time that they want a child one day, but they were always unsure if they were ready to be parents. But once they got you, all the doubts disappeared and they got so confident in becoming great parents

-Kunigami has always been the one mostly trying to prevent you from getting any injuries, but whenever something happened, Chigiri would be the one to take care of you and your wounds, while Kunigami would be the one to comfort you with words

-Kunigami is the more overprotective one. He gets afraid of bad things happening to you more easily, but Chigiri is always there to reassure him you're gonna be fine. Even though he tends to get more worried than needed as well

-Chigiri LOVES styling your hair in all different kinds of ways. He'd also be open to dyeing your hair in any colour you'd like!

-in general, both of them are supportive of whatever style and aesthetic you want to express yourself

-they try really hard to keep their work-life and parent-life separated. They don't want you to be a big part of their soccer life because family is a whole different thing from their career. But sometimes they have no other choice than to involve you a bit, so you get to come along to their practices and watch, and sometimes you even get to travel with them. It can get stressful, but they love to show you the world!

-whenever you come along to watch their practices, they stay a bit longer after their teammates have already left, so they can play soccer with you for a bit

-they don't pressure or push you into it, but they'd love it if you got into soccer as well. They would be really supportive, but Chigiri would also be a bit worried about you getting injured and Kunigami would get worried about what if you weren't mentally strong enough to deal with the world of soccer

-they know you're capable of a lot of things and how strong you are, but no matter how much you grow up, a part of them will forever have the little child (Y/N) who needs to be protected in the back of their minds

-if you have another passion or dream, they will be very supportive as well. But even in that, they find reasons to be worried about you. But seeing the person you're becoming as you grow up just makes them happy, knowing they did a good job as parents

[redrocketpanda]

#1 Miri's First Swimming Lesson - We Are Made of Memories - A Buddy Daddies Scrapbook Series

Miri's first swimming lesson is in a few days time. Kazuki's gone all out to make sure that she has everything she needs for her big day and everybody is excited for Miri to take her first plunge into the pool. Its all going swimmingly, until Anna-sensei announces that parents are welcome to attend the class and of course Miri wants her papa's to go with her. There's only one problem. Kazuki can't swim.

I came up with the idea for a cute Buddy Daddies scrapbook fic series some time ago, started writing the first entry, got distracted by Kunigiri week at the start of May, and have only just gotten back on track with this fic.

Shout out to the amazing Buddy Daddies fandom for continuing to make such stellar content for our little family & for keeping the love alive. Hope you enjoy this bite-size serving of silly, wholesome domestic fluff <3

Feel free to send me prompts for little (or big) memories you want to see included in the scrapbook

[maochira]

I'M GETTING SO MANY GOOD REQUESTS AAHHH HOW IN THE WORLD AM I SUPPOSED TO FIND THE TIME WRITE ALL OF THEM.... Big brother!Ego??? Big brother!Chigiri??? Big brother!Reo??? GUUYYSSS YOU'RE SPOILING ME I LOVE YOU FOR PUTTING THESE INTO MY HEAD😭😭😭

Currently working on Kunigiri as parents for the writing event!! Idk what I'll write afterwards but all of these requests fueling my brainrots so good😭😭

[maochira]

hiiii i noticed the post from earlier and i was wondering if you could do kunigiri as parents <3

Hi anon!! Someone else requested this as well, still answering to your ask so you'll see it, though. It's right here!!