Petunia always wanted an adorable daughter to pamper. She was honestly jealous of her sister Lily for the her little bundle of joy. Oh she knew James was sterile; but even if her sister was unfaithful (with a foreigner no less!), it was still a bright little girl!
But seeing that very same little girl on her doorstep made Petunia fall down to tears. Later when she pulled herself together, Petunia brought the little girl into her home. She threw away the letter already knowing it would tell tales of how Lily and James died. The magic of the letter went unnoticed and unactivated.
She went over to the downstairs bathroom and began running a lukewarm bath for the little girl. This was where she got the surprise of her life. Unwrapping the strange silky cloak, the woman saw a tiny pair of bat wings on the toddler's back. The wings were small and delicate in appearance. So she gently washed the child wings and all. The child made little to no fuss. The only problem was the delicate wings that Petunia took a soft rag to.
She carefully covered the wings up so that her dearest Vernon wouldn't see the abnormal appendages. The cloak wrapped round the little girl like a dress. Her eyes were the only thing odd now, but Vernon shouldn't react too badly.
Sadly, Vernon was reacting was a lot worse than Petunia had hopped...
"WHAT THE HELL IS THE SPAWN OF THOSE FREAKS DOING HERE!" Vernon yelled at the breakfast table. He then threw the table onto its side, narrowly missing said child.
"What's wrong with my sister's child?!" Petunia yelled back. The loud noises making both children cower, but Dudley was the only one to cry out.
"What's wrong is that thing is a FREAK!" The whale of a man yelled in rage.
Water welled up in her eyes as Petunia yelled back, "she's all I have left of my sister!"
Vernon turned a putrid shade of red while he glared down at the little girl. He tried to grab the child, but his hands slipped from her every time. Finally, the oaf got the clue and yelled at his wife with every ounce of rage he had, "GET OUT NOW! I REFUSE TO HOUSE A FREAK OF NATURE!"
Petunia grabbed both children while she rushed further into the house. She closed the door, knowing that Vernon couldn't open it while he was so angry. It was the only way she had ever survived his drunken stupors…
She ran up to their room and grabbed the emergency bag she kept hidden for an incident like now. It was one of Dudley's baby bag with money she had saved up through the years. It also had every letter Lily had sent to Petunia.
The most important were the letters about Kuronue. A Bat Yokai her little sister met on a diplomatic trip to Japan. She wrote about all the fascinating things Kuronue and his closest friend Yoko Kurama.
Petunia was honestly really glad she had at least some idea of what to do.
Afraid of what her husband would do about her running away. She knew the man had friends in high places, and wasn't afraid to use them. The only thing she could think of would be to live in the land Lily met Kuronue, Japan.
On the way to the land where the Sun Rises Petunia learned just how hard it was to raise two children. Especially when her little Dudley developed a small pair of horns on his forehead. She easily hid the horns with a little hat.
In the Real estate agent's car, Petunia immediately hit it off with the other woman the agent was showing around. Both woman whispered while their children sat in the third row. They let the secrets of their children out within the first few minutes; but that just made the two woman closer. By the time they got to the first (and last) house, the two seemed as if they had known each other for years.
They were given a tour and by the end the two decided to keep the house together. Both liking the idea of having help caring for their children. Petunia took extra care to clean the building top to bottom once she got the chance.
Petunia was the first to start repairing the house while Hana worked on growing a large garden. Petunia enjoyed repairing the house so much that she began repairing and rebuilding the other homes on the property.
The children got along as well as the parents.
Petunia was happy to see that her little red Oni getting use to being himself, and Anser was developing well into her Fox Bat side. It was even nicer to see her children get along with Hana's.
Hana was was delighted to meet Petunia and her two children. That woman was what Hana had been looking for ever since he died. Her little ones Anser and Dudley were much needed as well. Her daughter Yuki had been asking (begging) for play mates for quite some time. And she found a wonderful play mate in Anser, while Dudley stayed back with Ame.
Both women grew into the roles they liked the best. Petunia with her building and Hana with her farming. Both women traded off keeping an eye on the four children practically teeming with energy.
Dudley quickly started to show signs of his not so human heritage. He was far stronger than he looked and his skin began turning red. Besides the two horns he had as a toddler, the growing Oni developed a smaller pair a little lower on his forehead. He could change between his human appearance and his Oni self, but both the mothers encouraged him to stay in what ever form he liked better (as long as nobody was over).
Yuki and Ame were both growing up as well as they could as well. Ame was still shy, but Yuki more than made up for her brother's shyness. She was always full of energy and dragged her brother around wherever she went.
When Anser began showing early signs of plant based magic, she began helping Hana farming. She even started growing her own crops (Grape Vines) when she was good enough at growing plants.
Anser liked the grapes so much that she had one of the plants growing in her hair. The roots were wrapped around the base of her high ponytail and woven into the hair on her head while the rest of the vines were wrapped around the ponytail. At about her waist the vines were braided with her hair rather than wrapping around her hair.
Over the years they grew many plants, giving Anser the opportunity to gather lots of seeds and leaves. Each seed found a place in the roots of her grape vine while the leaves were wrapped up in the smaller branches of the vine.