Greetings ladies and gentleman to my new fic, The Family of Family Sakai. This is essentially the sequel to The Romance of Shana and Yuji. The first chapters or so I had already published before as their own thing. But I decided to make a compilation story and I want to include these stories, so I'll be taking them down. So I apologize to those of you going into this expecting new content.

Speaking of which, I do have a few ideas in my head for chapters, I just have yet to sit down and write them u. But I hope you enjoy regardless. Anyway, enough ramble. Enjoy the fic!

It was late Friday night around 9 PM in the Sakai household. Yuji was at the desk in the couple's bedroom filling out some paperwork that he needed to fill out for work for some things like job locations and the like. Needless to say, it was a very slow and tedious process. He still had a fairly medium sized stack of papers that still need to be looked over and signed.

His wife had just walked into the room to check on him and set a cup of coffee down for him on the desk. He set his pen down on the desk for a moment to take a sip as she placed her hands on his shoulders and began to rub them with her thumbs.

"Why don't you take a for a bit, honey?" She said softly. "You've been sitting here all night filling those out. You're got to be tired of doing them by now."

"Trust me, I would." He sighed, leaning back in his chair. "But I just want to get these done and out the way as soon as I can."

"Poor thing." Shana cooed, combing his hair and pressed a kiss to his scalp. "Okay, just don't push yourself, alright?"She said before leaving the room.

~Later that Night~

About an hour or so later, his daughter Mana had stepped into the room with a beaming smile on her face. "Hey, Papa!" She greeted giggly.

"What's up, kiddo?" He asked, smiling when he heard her voice. He couldn't help but love the bright smile she always wore and the happy attitude she always had.

"I was thinking that since it's Friday night, you, Mama and I could stay up late and do something together like watch a movie or something!" She said enthusiastically.

"Yeah, sure. I don't see why not." He smiled at his young daughter. "Just give me a little bit and I'll be in the living room, alright?"

The young Mana puffed her cheeks out and pouted. "Aw, C'mon, Papa!" She started tugging on his arm lightly. "You've been sitting there doing papers for hours!"

"I said I'll be done in a bit, Mana." Yuji responded in more stern voice. "Just be patient."

"You can't take a short break, Papa? C'mon!" She accidentally tugged on the sleeve of his arm a bit too hard causing the recoil of her own arm to hit the cup next to him, spilling the coffee onto the desk. Fortunately, none of the liquid got onto any of the papers, but...

"Dammit, Mana!" He shouted, making her flinch. He grabbed a towel from the closet and started to clean the coffee off of the table.

"I-I'm sorry," She apologized frantically. "I-I didn't mean t-"

"Stop pestering me and let me finish my work!" He shouted, causing the the younger girl to flinch again. However, he hadn't registered what he said until he saw the hurt expression and tears that clung to her eyes and dash out of the room. "Mana, wait!"

He grit his teeth and growled, angry with himself as he sat back down and held his head in his hands. He couldn't believe what he just said to his own flesh and blood. His daughter.

"Dammit..."

Shana was walking down the hallway back to their bedroom to check on Yuji, when she walked past Mana's room. She looked through the doorway and saw Mana's face burring into a pillow crying.

"Mana?" She called her worriedly. "Are you okay, honey?"

Mana looked at her mother through the tears and sat up on her bed with Shana kneeling down in front of her. But Mana didn't respond.

"Hey," Shana placed a hand on the girl's cheek, moving her thumb along her jawline. "What's the matter, sweetheart?"

"I...I think I made Papa mad..." Mana said quietly.

"What makes you say that?"

"When I went into there to talk to him about doing something with you and him tonight, he yelled and me and called me a pest..."

Shana instantly glared at that last part. The fact that her own father called her a pest made her absolutely livid. She didn't care who it was, nobody called their daughter a pest. She was far from one.

She kissed Mana's temple lightly, "I'll go talk to him."

Shana stomped to their bedroom with a glare in her eyes and in aggravation. "Yuj-" When she walked in, her expression softened into a frown when she saw his posture. He was slumped over in the chair with his head held in his hands. She walked up behind him and lightly placed her hands on his shoulder, with him responding by placing a hand on her's rubbing gently with his thumb.

"You okay?" She asked gently. Shana was able to tell that Yuji really regretted what he had done.

"No..." He said with a quiet and ashamed tone. "I can't believe I said that to her. I would never consider her to be a pest." She could hear him sobbing. There was no doubt that Yuji hated and was belittling himself for what he said Mana. "I made her cry. Something I've always tried to prevent..."

He had always made sure that not even a single tear touched the floor of the house. He always did everything he could to keep his two girls from crying. But the fact that his daughter was currently crying because of something he said, made him hate himself. He would never make either of the girls cry intentionally.

"Hey..." She bent down and lightly kissed his hand. "It's not your fault, Yu-chan. It's the exhaustion and stress that did the talking, not you. Don't blame yourself, okay?" She said soothingly.

He sobbed a bit more with her repeatedly kissing his head. He sat back up as Shana pulled his head back against the front of her shoulder and pecked his forehead, softly combing her fingers through his hair.

"It doesn't matter if I was exhausted or not," Yuji sighed relaxing into his wife's touch. "What I said to her was deplorable and I had no excuse to yell at her or call her that."

"Go talk to her." She smiled.

"Huh?"

"Go talk to Mana," Shana smiled. "Go talk to your daughter and make up with her, you can finish these later on. You're done for the night."

"Yeah," He nodded. "Thanks, honey." He pecked his wife lightly on the forehead as well as the lips before walking to his daughter's room.

He walked into the doorway and lightly knocked on the wooden door to get Mana's attention. She acknowledged him before she turned away frowning, her eyes looked a bit blood shot from her crying. Yuji cursed himself for what he said to her and hoped she would forgive him. He sat down to her on the bed, wrapping an arm around her shoulder.

"You alright, Mana?" He asked in concern.

"Do you really think I'm a pest?" She asked in a heartbroken. She then looked up at him with light tears in her eyes. "Papa, do...you love me?"

Those two questions she asked him stung him hard in heart, causing him to hate himself even more, especially that second one. The fact that Mana was actually question her father's love and affection smashed his heart into pieces. He wrapped his arms tightly around the girl and repeated kissed her head as the younger girl sobbed quietly into his chest.

"Of course I do, Mana." He said remorsefully, with sobs of his own. "I'm so so sorry, Mana. I should have never those mean things to you. You're nowhere close to being a pest. I love you, Mana. I love you more than you could ever imagine." He looked at his daughter with a loving smile, wiping her tears away and placing against her forehead. "You know I would never hurt your feelings on purpose. Even if I was exhausted from work, I should never have said those things to you. Can you forgive me, kid?"

Mana pulled away from her father's chest and smiled happily at him nodding. He smiled back kissed Mana's head again and stood back up. "I'm glad."

He started walking toward the door before turning back to the girl with a smile across his lips. "Why don't you get your mother? Feeling doing something tonight?"

She beamed instantly and ran toward her father hugging tightly around the torso, giggling. "Love you, Papa!"

"I love you too, Mana." He lightly pat Mana on the head and ruffled her before she ran off toward the bedroom to get Shana with bright smile across her lips. The father was glad that his daughter was back to her usual happy and energetic self, as if nothing had happened.