Chapter 61 - Chapter 63

"Dragon, why did you come back now? Didn't Gildarts want to stay on your island any longer?" Sylvia layed in bed with Dragon and she was snuggled into his embrace and enjoying the warmth of it.

"I was planning on staying on Paradise island and training him for a while. But when I told him about who I am, he showed great interest in travelling to another world. So we came here to ask you to join us in that adventure." Both Dragon and Sylvia were laying down with closed eyes.

"Absolutely I am onboard for that. I can't think of something more exciting than travelling to a different world." Sylvia smile and opened her eyes to look at her husband that was relaxing there in bed.

"Okay, so there is something you should know about the other worlds I have visited." Dragon said in a serious tone and also opened his eyes to look at Sylvia. His gaze said it all.

"That serious?" Sylvia asked after meeting his gaze head-on.

"You kind of.. Have another son in the world we're travelling to." Dragon said and Sylvia's eyes slowly opened up more and more.

"YOU SAID WHAT NOW?" She yelled straight into his face.

"You have another son.."

"HOW? YOU CHEATED ON ME?" Rage suddenly became the one and only emotion present in her eyes.

"no no, I adopted him when he was three years old and lived in an orphanage." Sylvia got her emotions back on track when she heard his response. What Dragon didn't expect was the waterworks that appeared afterwards.

"I..I have another son?!" Sylvia found herself crying. Confusion and happiness filled her whole body.

"Why am i crying? I don't even know him.." Sylvia asked herself and sat up in the heavenly bed.

"I think any kind of decent person would be happy if they found out that they have a child. That's what I believe." Dragon kissed her forehead while simultaneously caressing her back.

"Then why do i also feel like i let him down? I don't even know his name." Sylvia said between tears.

"Naruto.. That's his name."

"And everything else falls on me. i could have fought to come back sooner or never leave in the first place. But i didn't. I let what i thought was fate control me and use me like a puppet." Dragon looked miserable and full off guilt.

"I let something control me and i blamed that for me not returning. But maybe i could have fought it before."

"Naruto.. We have to go! i have to see him." Sylvia felt an incredible feeling of longing when she said his name out loud.

"We will. Tomorrow we will leave for that world." Dragon kept caressing her and spoke with a calming tone.

"Wait. When you left you told me you had no choice. Did you lie?" Sylvia asked curiously.

"Let me explain."

"I am a being that is the only of it's kind. As far as i know, there is no one like me. The only ones that come close to count as one of my own are my children. Except for us, there is no one else."

"But.. I didn't just come from nowhere. I was created by someone. And that someone could be seen as my father. He is also the one that forced me to leave back then." Sylvia listened intensely without interrupting him.

"I was a different person before we met. Try and not judge me when i say this next part." Dragon started to visibly shake at this point and Sylvia herself got slightly worried now.

"Love, hate, comfort, longing, belonging.. None of these concepts or any other emotions used to be a part of me. My "Father" made me to be an emotionless killer. And i was for many years just that. A shell for his own amusement. Or that's what I think he created me to be."

"How can that be true? I know no kinder soul then you?" Sylvia couldn't see anything off the person he was describing at all.

"When i met Mavis, Yuri Warrod and Perch. They opened my mind and heart to something i had never known. Friendship."

"And when I met you, I knew for certain that I had changed to someone else. But it took many more years for me to identify exactly what I had become."

Dragon sported a smile on his face now, and a silent tear made its way down his face.

"What you had become?"

"A human, I guess. I never saw myself as a human before. When I adopted Naruto and became the light in his life. It finally clicked for me. What I was feeling when he hugged me when he held my hand as we were walking from school to our house. That this place and with these people is where I wanna be and where I belong."

Dragon's eyes were red and he smiled from ear to ear.

"So when I left twelve years ago, it didn't click with me that I might have had a chance to fight it. So don't feel like you let Naruto or me down. I should have realized sooner that I might have not needed to live according to his ways any longer."

"I am just happy you returned to us. What you were before, I don't care about. To me, you will always be that bright and handsome figure that saved all those people years ago. Nothing else matters."

Sylvia jumped in for a hug and both Dragon and her shared an emotion-filled hug and a kiss that put all Dragon's anxiety and worry to rest.

"Have i ever said, i love you" Dragon smiled at his wife.

"I don't think so, maybe you should try it and see what happens." She answered with a mischievous smile.

"I love you!" As soon as the words left his mouth, Sylvia jumped him with her entire emotional supply packed into one single kiss.

The kiss ended and Sylvia stayed on top of Dragon as they layed there in bed and relaxed in bliss.

"Oh, another quick thing regarding the family situation." Dragon suddenly sat up and placed Sylvia in front of him. She stared at him in confusion.

"Yes? You're not gonna tell me i have another son, right?" She laughed but stopped when she saw his face.

"We have another son named, Bradely. And also two grandchildren named, Robin and Byakuya. BYE!" Dragon summoned a portal behind himself and dropped back right into it. He disappeared just as the death claw from his wife came, aiming for his throat.

"DRAGON!! COME BACK HERE!!" The portal quickly closed and Sylvia was left alone inside the cafe.

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