Yes, We Have Six Children

Izumi Eiji is twenty-eight, talented, accomplished, with an impressive resume and a skill that earns him a living. His only failure in the dating scene is that, due to his "ability," he had four children without ever marrying. After hearing "You're a good person" one too many times, he finally saw the light:

If love isn't going well, make up for it with your career.

To reach new heights in his career, and for a few small personal reasons, he moved to Yokohama with his family in tow.

Hardworking people are always lucky, so on his very first day, the beautiful city of Yokohama presented him with one of its specialties:

Izumi Eiji, a truly upstanding citizen, stared at the young man whose severed arm he'd just fished out of the water, then at his bizarrely defiant hairstyle, and silently reached out to check for a pulse.

...Damn it. Wouldn't it be more reassuring if he were dead? Izumi Eiji thought blankly as he sat in the police station.

Fortunately, happiness is all about perspective. After finally getting settled, Izumi Eiji cradled his coffee and watched the amnesiac young man in front of him, now a dependable employee and his lover, bustling about. He smiled in contentment.

Finding love while pursuing his lifelong dream was an unexpected delight. Even if a certain troublesome person kept disrupting his plans, Izumi Eiji was more than happy with his life now.

There was just one secret he still couldn't tell his lover.

Unfortunately, things never go as one wishes.

When the forbidden door swung open, the red-haired young man stood holding a lantern. His smile was as gentle as ever, but his garnet-green eyes looked inscrutable in the dim light.

The warm yellow glow cast hard shadows across the young man's face and illuminated the human limbs scattered carelessly across the floor.

"'The fruit on that tree is the sweetest of all. Eat it, and you will become like God.'" Izumi Eiji lowered his eyes and sighed. "What a pity that curiosity leads away from Eden."

", I seem to remember telling you not to come here, Suguru-kun?"

Reader's Guide:

1. The story takes place before the main events of Bungo Stray Dogs. Bungo Stray Dogs is the focus in the early chapters, with extensive timeline changes.

2. Updates follow the rankings.

3. Couple: Suguru x Izumi Eiji, with no other romantic interests.

4. Despite the blurb, he's a good person. It's just a misunderstanding TnT.

Theme: Love needs no blood ties.