So this is kinda a day late... lol I sent this to my Beta last night to see if she had time to beta this before midnight but I kinda sorta fell asleep and when I woke up it was already the next day. Also my Beta never replied anyway so this is not only late but also un-beta-ed (which is totally a word that I didn't make up, well okay not really :P) but anyway my explanation for what I'm attempting is in my end notes and I'm off to write today's word which is actually useful unlike the one below :)

Word of the day for Sunday, June 19, 2011 – Virilocal

virilocal \vir-uh-LOH-kuhl\, adjective:

Living with or located near a husband's father's family.

Shinichi watched with bemused eyes as his husband did what he did best: magic. Just seconds ago, a little girl had come running around the corner, blue eyes shining with delight, clutching a piece of paper to her chest, before she crashed into the surprised Kaito, and fell back onto the hard concrete with a small cry. Before Shinichi even had time to react, Kaito held out a single upturned hand with words of apology and concern, his gentlemanly charm on full blast. The startled girl, whose clear blue eyes were shining with something other than delight after her fall, took Kaito's hand and let the strange boy help her to her feet. Kaito then produced a single red rose with a flick of his wrist seemingly from no where. After that, the little girl was all smiles, asking Kaito to show her more magic, which, of course, Kaito was all too happy to oblige to. Soon doves were coming from Kaito's clothes, balls and other small objects twirled through the air as Kaito juggled them, and candy seemed to appear from thin air. Shinichi glanced at his watch before clearing his throat to catch the thief's attention. He hated to stop Kaito, whose features almost identical to Shinichi's own were alight with a grin that rivaled the little girl's, but it had already been fifteen minutes and they were going to be late.

Kaito sighed, knowing what the sound his husband produced meant. He crouched down to the little girl's eye level and smiled apologetically at her.

"I'm sorry to leave such a pretty girl such as yourself alone, but I need to go meet with some very important people," Kaito told her gently. The little girl paused for a moment to consider his words, blushing with the flattery, before letting out a small laugh.

"Are you going to meet with your otou-san? I'm going to give this to my otou-san for Father's Day!" The girl said with pride, holding up the piece of paper she had been carrying. It was a drawing of two deformed figures, both with rectangle bodies, circles for heads, and sticks for arms and legs. The taller figure had a tuft of black hair on top of his circular head, which resided below the purple label of 'Otou-san' while the shorter figure had longer brown hair that curled up at the ends and was labeled 'Me' with the same violet crayon. Both of the two figures had one stick like arm reached out to it's neighbor until they met at the tip. They smiled, holding hands.

Shinichi grimaced as he saw his husband's poker face appear, hiding the pain Shinichi knew Kaito was feeling behind a sweet, innocent looking smile.

"He's something like that," Kaito told the girl. The girl beamed at him, proud of her deduction skills, before she waved goodbye and started running down the street again.

Shinichi looked at Kaito's back, which hadn't moved from his crouched down position from earlier, and Shinichi couldn't help but think how lonely that back looked. Without even really making a conscious decision to do it, Shinichi crossed the small distance between them and offered a hand to the magician, who was immediately encircled by Shinichi's arms when he used the offered appendage to stand up. Shinichi was determined to remind Kaito he wasn't alone anymore; that Shinichi was there to support him no matter what.

Kaito's mom had told them a secret after Shinichi's and Kaito's honeymoon last year.

It had taken Kaito a full year to come to terms with the news and decide to meet to meet them.

Only a few blocks away from their house.

His father's family.

They had been virilocal this entire time.

Yeah so... I kinda woke up this morning and was reading the second part of a Kaishin fic that I had fallen asleep to (it wasn't boring in fact it was so good that I was up really late/early and couldn't keep my eyes open) and I suddenly had random inspiration to try this whole word of the day thing (it's from dictionary .com) which i've been subscribed to for so long (a few months) but I remember almost none of the words. Anyway the I kinda got the idea to try a drabble/one-shot each day for Kaishin and this was my first attempt which unfortunately was about a really obscure word that's really hard to work into a sentence... Anyway this was my first attempt at something like this so keeping in mind that this was a really awkward word and my first attempt please tell me what you think :)

btw I'm going to play with different structures and writing styles while I do this, and some of you who have read my other stuff might notice this isn't my usual first person narrative altho I do admit I was rushed on time and couldn't do as much as I liked to make the emotions seem more real but yeah... PLEASE REVIEW!