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HAKIRI!!!!!!!"

Uo's raging yell echoed through her apartment, followed closely by a childs laughter as the young son of Hakiri Soma ran into her living room, chased by the blonde American whose face and hair was drenched in a slimy mix of water, flower, corn, and eggs Hakiri had prepared to attack her with if she tried to force him to go to school today. Unfortunately his plan to blind her with the sop and make a getaway through the front door had been fouled when he found the door was completely locked with the slide chain and dead bolt too, and he didn't have time to undo them all, otherwise, Uo would have nabbed him then and there.

Now she was in pursuit to grab him, and probably punish him for not only waisting food and time, but splattering her with it as well.

He dashed behind the couch and crouched down, getting eye level with the back, shifting his legs left and right, ready to run in either direction as he kept his eyes locked on her malicious glare, her hair greasy and dripping with the gooy, chunky concontion.

"I'm gonna kill you brat!" She screamed, trying to scare him into giving up. Hakiri only stuck his tongue out defiantly, pushing the envelope with Uo, who leaped over the couch in an almost cat like pounce, and tackled him to the floor.

POOF! A bright pink cloud puffed and Uo stood up with a triumphant look at the small struggling cub in her arms.

"Lemme go! Lemme go!" Hakiri whined, squirming wildly, trying to wriggle out of her grip.

"Your dead meat when you turn back…" Uo growled, crouching down and carefully picking up his scattered clothes on the floor without jeopardizing her hold on the young cub.

"I don't wanna go!" He complained as Uo grabbed her keys. "I hate school!"

"Well too bad, you have to go," Uo replied with a sharp tone. "And stop squirming. Someones gonna see us and Hari won't be happy with you."

At the mention of Hari, Hakiri huffed a sigh, ceasing his struggle and just settled his paws over her shoulder. Uo grabbed his backpack and shoved all his clothes inside it along with his school things before opening the door slowly, looking left and right, making sure no one was there before she ran out quickly and carefully as to not drop him as they made for the car before anyone could really see Hakiri.

She dumped him in the back seat along with his things and got into the driver seat, and drove away.

Hakiri curled up on the seat, his back turned to her in contempt and he shut his eyes, pretending that he was going to sleep.

Uo glanced at him through her rear-view mirror and sighed. Now he wasn't gonna talk to her for the rest of the day until Hana would come and pick him up a few hours after school ended.

It had been six years since Uo had been let in on the secret curse of the Soma family. It happened because Hana needed someone she could trust to babysit him, but she refused to leave him in the care of those at the family mansion. Uo was her best choice, now that Tohru was too busy attending college and keeping a job.

So, after many arguments, Uo was allowed to know about there curse.

And now, she still babysat the brat often, because Tohru was now constantly working as an intern at the local hospital to pay off her student loans, and Yuki was busy at the office all the time.

Even though he often got on the bad side of her, she still couldn't help but love him as an aunt would a nephew.

They were about a block away from the school when the puff of clouds exploded in the back of her car and Hakiri sat naked and curled on the backseat. She pulled off to the side, parking where there wouldn't be any onlookers as Hakiri pulled on his clothes.

"You better not look!" he warned her.

"eew! Why would I want to?" Uo retorted.

After he was finished, Uo started up the car again and drove him in to the front of his elementary school, and got out of the car as he hopped out. She crouched down to his eye level, seeing the one normal bright green iris and the other, a slit pupil that he inherited from his father. He had the same hair too, not to mention the attitude, but there were good hints of Hana as well in his face. Uo often wondered if he would get into the dark arts just as Hana did, but that was still yet to be seen.

"You be good okay?" she said, hugging him. "Try not to get into another fight…"

She heard him sigh with annoyance as she stood up and he walked away, trudging toward his class as the bell rang across the school campus.