KazuMiri

KazuMiri is the family ship between Kazuki Kurusu and Miri Unasaka from the Buddy Daddies fandom.

Canon
The first meeting between Kazuki and Miri was in a hotel, where Kazuki and Rei had to entry to a Christmas party by pretending to deliver a cake, so they could get closer to their target and kill him. Kazuki, disguised as Santa, gets inside an elevator with the cake, but as soon as the the door starts shutting, Miri rushes in after him, chasing the cake. Miri, believing he's Santa, asks Kazuki if she can have some cake, to which Kazuki, looking at the girl's happiness, he nods. While eating, Miri asked Kazuki to assist her in finding her father, and he agrees at random, but tries telling her that he will find him if she stays still. As the elevator arrived to their floor, Miri runs out of the elevator with full of excitement as soon as the doors open, notifying the security upstairs. Kazuki loses Miri in the rush, only to discover that the target has taken her hostage. Rei suggests shooting the target through Miri, but Kazuki objects out of fear for her life. Desperate, Kazuki grabs a tray to use as a shield to get closer to the girl, and as soon as he is close enoguh, he rips out his Santa disguise and exclaims, "I'm your papa!" and rushes to her aid. Rei shoots the target's legs, loosening his grip on Miri and allowing her to jump into Kazuki's arms. When Miri is secured, Rei manages to shoot the target, Hayami Atsuhi.

After completing their mission, Kazuki and Rei return to their residence with Miri. They put the sleeping child on their living room sofa while Rei chastised Kazuki for being able to bring a kid at home when he was not being given permission to have a cat. In order for them to determine Miri's identity, Kazuki went through her bag and had discovered some pictures in it. The photographs revealed that the assassination target they gunned down at the derailed Christmas party was her biological father, Hayami Atsuhi.

From there, Kazuki and Rei are forced to look up and take care of Miri, as they were the responsibles her father's death. As some days go by, they had to take her to one of their jobs (as Kazuki and Rei weren't able to leave her alone in their home), but their plan ends up being a failure thanks to Miri interrupting it. Kazuki gets sick of trying to raise a kid, so he immediately tries locating her mother. Although he wants to turn her back as soon as possible, Rei notices he got attached to her, and frequently asked him if he really wanted to give her away. Kazuki was trying to evade that topic, but the moment he got to locate Miri's biological mother, Misaki Unasaka, and had a discussion with her, realized Miri doesn't deserves to be back with such an hostile environment, and so Kazuki and Rei decide to keep her.

Some weeks passed by and Kazuki realized he had to sign her for a daycare, so Kazuki and Rei started looking for one, and even went shopping to find all the materials she needs. The day when Kyutaro, the one who assigns their assassin jobs, knows about Miri, he admitted she might be able to change both Kazuki and Rei, and as he notices both of them got attached to her, Kyu warned them to be prepared for the consequences they will face for bringing people into their lives.

As the time passes by, Kazuki became very protective over Miri, cooking her the best bentos for her schooldays, trying to talk and have conversations with her about her day, and even becoming jealous when a little boy grabbed Miri's hand. But over time, he learned he has to trust more in Miri.

When Misaki tries to come back and take Miri with them, Kazuki angrilly tries to stop her from doing so, and if it wasn't for Rei calming him, he would've left a bad image of him infront of Miri's daycare. At the end, Kazuki and Rei have to accept it and leave Miri under Misaki's care, but not without having a fun day the three of them, to commemorate their last day together. During the whole day, Kazuki was trying not to show his sadness infront of Miri to avoid worrying her. They got inside a ferris wheel and saw their city from the top, and from there, Kazuki confessed his gratitude towards Miri for everything, and shared to Rei his wish for letting Miri have a normal life, with normal happiness. At the end, Misaki went and took her daughter back, and before leaving, Kazuki wraps his scarf around Miri.

Weeks passed by, and Kazuki and Rei's life is seen to be pretty sad and gloomy, as Miri is not around anymore to brighten their day. As Kazuki decides to leave Rei's department, he suddenly receives a call from him ahouting to go check on Miri, and without hesitation or asking, Kazuki does it and goes directly to Miri and Misaki's residence. He arrived too late, as Misaki was shot by Ogino, a man from the organization Rei's fsther is leading, and after having a fight with him, he finally finds a way to make him leave the residence. Kazuki runs to Misaki and holds her in his arms as he asks her to stay with them, since Miri needs mother.

Later Kyutaro arrives and takes Kazuki and Miri to his residence, where Rei srrives and is relieved to see Miri. Kazuki and Rei went to the balcony and talk about everything that just happened. A depressed Kazuki suggests to erase every trace of Miri so they can send her to an orphanage and then she would be save, but after Rei reasons with him about wanting to become a real family, he snaps, and as both of them are willing to become a family with Miri, they decide to bring the organization down.

The next episode, Kazuki and Rei leave Miri at daycare as she is having a Christmas Show, and they promise her they will arrive to see her sing. Later, they get ready to go take the organization and fight. As they arrive to the Suwa Residence, Kazuki and Rei start shooting and fighting, and together in the kitchen they killed Ogino. Rei later directs to his father and has a talk with him, and after it, he directs to Kazuki so they can go back to the daycare. Despite being injured, they make it to Miri's Christmas program on time, and as Miri sees her fathers entering the place, her eyes get filled with joy.

The story then flashes ahead ten years to the future, whey Kazuki, Rei and Miri found their way to live overseas and finally become a real family, having their own diner together.

Fanon
Because of Miri's young age and Kazuki being her adoptive father, fans prefer to ship them as a family or as a friendship, but there have been those who have shipped them romantically, as they make Miri older or age down Kazuki to her age, telling the story as if Kazuki met Miri but never adopted her. As this cases are petty low on the fandom, fans tend to focus on the family bond they share as Kazuki is shown to act as a genuine father to Miri, to the point Kazuki constantly recalls how Miri has his genes, when she isn't even his biological daughter. As Kazuki acted as Miri's putative father from the beggining to protect her, he stands by it and treats Miri as if she were his actual kid.

On AO3, the ship has over 40 family fanfics. Most fanarts are about Kazuki spending time with Miri, like him teaching her how to cook and baking her bentos, Kazuki brushing Miri's hair and doing her hairstyles, and playing or sleeping together, and they normally include Rei. Considering he presumably has a soft place for children given his previous life, he lets Miri enjoy the cake he baked just for their mission at their first encounter. This family ship tends to rival ReiMiri, which is the family ship with Rei and Miri.

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Variations

 * Kurusu Family — the ship between Miri, Kazuki and Rei