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I was bored

Happiness Comes to Those Who Smile

Chapter 1

"WE WANT FOOD! WE WANT FOOD! WE WANT FOOD!" The Nura mansion echoed with hungry spirits.

"Where's the food, Kino? Kubinashi asked as he walked towards the kitchen. "They're getting restless."

"They're coming out right now!"Kejoro yelled walking out with a tray full of food.

"What took you so long?" Kubinashi asked. Suddenly there a noise of breaking class coming from the kitchen. Then a voice saying "Gomen nasai!" followed. The two ayakashis rolled their eyes and walked inside the kitchen. "Gomen. I'll clean it up right now!"

"That's okay Wakana-sama! You don't have to!" Yuki-Onna exclaimed, desperately trying to stop the young master's mother. Unfortunately, the thirty two year-old woman bumped a pile of dirty dishes and knocked them down.

"Gomen nasai!"

"Wakana." The Supreme Commander of the Nura Clan, Nurarihyon. "Hai?" Wakana asked. "Bring me some sake." he replied. "Hai!" Wakana got up and left the room to the kitchen.

She remembered her first time entering the Nura mansion. She looked at the plum blossom tree at their garden. 'My, it has really grown over the years.' Wakana thought. The plum blossom tree was a gift given to her from her husband on their wedding day. 'I can't believe it has been so long.' She thought. Sometimes, when she found herself alone, not doing any chores (or creating more), she would think about her dead husband. At first she would feel sad and lonely. But that would instantly change when she look at the beautiful son she created with her husband. Rikuo reminded her of Rihan so much. It pained her to see her son grow up and lead the Nura Clan without his father with him. She did the best she could to fill his role as yokai father, but she was only a human. Thank the heavens for his grandpa and the rest of the Nura Clan.

She remembered the first time she met him. In her family's restaurant. In was an interesting encounter. She never knew the man who was robbing her family money would ever become her husband.

"Gomen nasai!" a young girl with short brown hair. She accidentally spilled hot tea on a customer eating at her family's restaurant.

"Miss, I didn't order this." another customer at another table said. "Gomen nasai!"

"Excuse me. When we be getting our food? We've been waiting here for an hour." another customer said. "Gomen, I'll ask the cook. Please wait a little longer." As she was walked to the kitchen, a man with long black hair stopped her at the table he was sitting in.

"Excuse me, can I have more sake?" He often came to their restaurant, but he never talked to Wakana before. "Hai!" Wakana replied as she passed her mother.

"Wakana!" her mother called out.

"Hai, Okaa-san?" Wakana asked.

"That man, what did he want?"

"Oh, he just wanted some more sake"

"Tell him he will not get anything until he pays his tab!"

"But I have to take care of all the other customers."

"I take care them. Your clumsiness would make the situations worse. Surely you can tell one man he needs to pay his tab without causing any physical or financial damage!"

"But-"

"Go tell him!" Her mother said and left in to the kitchen. Wakana turned around and walked to the table near the corner where the man sat. Wakana felt nervous. She was never good at confrontation.

"Where's my sake?" the man asked.

"Um…well, you have to pay your tab before I can give you sake." Wakana said, blushing.

"Is that so…?" the man asked.

"Miss! We've been waiting for food for over an hour!" the customer from earlier said.

"I'll be right-" as Wakana turned around to attend to the man, she bumped into a waiter holding a tray of empty glasses. "Gomen nasai! I'll clean it up!" But as Wakana turned back around, the man who was suppose to pay his tab was gone.

"Gomen nasai, Okaa-san, Otou-san!" Wakana cried. It was the end of the day and the family just closed the restaurant."I didn't think he would actually leave without paying!"

"It's okay Wakana-chan!" Her father said. "That man has been dine-n-dashing for a month now!"

"You mean, he's done this before?" Wakana asked.

"Hai. But we'll get him someday, Wakana." her mother said.

A week after their incident, the man showed up at their family restaurant again.

"Can I have some sake?" he asked Wakana. Wakana blushed, "I'm sorry, sir but I can't give you anything until you pay your tab."

"Don't people usually pay after their meal?" he asked.

"Um…well, yes but you didn't pay after your other meals so now I'm not allowed to give you any food or drinks." Wakana explained.

"What happens if I don't pay?" the man asked.

"Then," Wakana started. "I have no choice than to call the police." The man laughed loudly so everybody in the restaurant heard. "What's so funny, sir?"

The man smirked. " I'll tell you what. I'll pay the entire tab, if you sit here and pour sake for me to drink." Wakana gulped. "If I what?" Then he smirked again. "If you accompany me while I drink."

"Um, I don't think I should-"

"Do you want me to pay or not?" The man asked. Wakana thought for a moment. 'Okaa-san and Otou-san could really use the money.' "Deal." she said holding out her hand. The man placed some money into her hand. "Half now, half later." he said. Wakana nodded as she sat next to him and poured some sake into his cup.

"Aren't you gonna drink some, too?" the man asked.

"I'm only seventeen." Wakana asked.

"Really? Too bad." He said. "I wanted to get you drunk."

"You can't do that, sir!" Wakana exclaimed."I'm under aged and I work here!"

The man laughed. "Relax, I was only joking."

"Oh." Wakana said. She took this moment to observe the man. He had long black hair tied in a pony tail at the back. He was also wearing a black and green stripped kimono with one arm outside of the sleeve. He always had a smirk on his face and golden eyes, one of which was closed. He had a very handsome face. Wakana blushed at the realization. She never looked directly at him because she had trouble confronting him about his tab.

"You can stop calling me 'sir'." The man said. "My name is Rihan. What's yours?"

Wakana blushed again. "I-I'm Wakana." She cursed herself for stuttering.

Amused at her reactions Rihan held up his cup. "Well Wakana-chan, I'm out of sake." Wakana blushed at the suffix he added to her name as she grabbed the sake bottle with her shaky hands only to accidentally spill it on RIhan's kimono.

"Gomen nasai!" Wakana jumped from her seat and tried to use the napkins to soak up the spill on his clothes."I get a towel!" She ran to the kitchen. But when she got out, Rihan had already left the restaurant.

"Gomen Okaa-san, Otou-san!" Wakana cried during closing time.

"That bastard!" Her father yelled. "If only I kept a closer watch!"

"Well, he did pay half of the tab." Wakana handed her father the money.

"It's better than nothing Wakana-chan." her father explained. "You did better than you mother and I."

"I'll do better next time!" Wakana exclaimed. She would wait for the man to show up and call the police. She would no longer wait for his explanation. She would just hand him over to the police and let them handle it.

"There you are!" Kubinashi yelled as Rihan came home. "Where were you? Kejoro sent you out for groceries and you went missing for seven hours! Everybody's looking for you!"

"Relax, Kubinashi. I Just went to get a couple of drinks." Rihan casually explained.

"You were drinking sake, weren't you?" Kubinashi asked. " Are you drunk?"

"Yeah." Rihan smirked. "I was drinking with a very pretty girl." Kubinashi rolled his eyes.

Rihan laughed. "But I don't think I can go back to that place. I think she's gonna be very mad if I go back."

Wakana was walking home from a long day of school. She had just finished final exams. Of course being the straight A student that she was, she wasn't too worried about them. Her mother never allowed her to work in the restaurant during school days, so she was looking forward on taking a nap when she went home. 'Oh, I almost forgot," Wanaka thought. OKaa-san wanted me to pick up some supplies and groceries.' Wakana turned around and walked towards the market.

After buying everything she need she left the market with large bags on each hand. She was too busy focusing on not dropping the food, she bumped into someone. "Gomen, I wasn't watching where I was going." she said.

"Yo, Wakana-chan." A familiar voice said. Wakana looked at the person she bumped into. "Eh? Rihan-san?" He smirked at her. Wakana noticed that he was carry a small glass vase under his arm.

"Oi, that's a lot of stuff you're carrying there." Rihan observed. He held out his hand, "Want some help?"

Wakana was reluctant on allowing him to help her, but she gave him some to carry because they were getting really heavy. 'He wouldn't leave with my things, would he?' Wakana thought. "My house is this way, Rihan-san." Wakana said as she led the way to her house. There was a moment of awkward silence until Wakana decided to speak first. "You didn't pay the other half of the tab last time."

"Oh that," Rihan started to explain. "Well, I didn't have the rest of the money."

"You had money to buy a vase that looks really expensive." Wakana observed.

"Oh…."Rihan quickly thought random excuse to lie to the girl. "This vase belongs to my family. I ,uh, took it here to get cleaned." he said with his most convincing fake smile ever. Suddenly Wakana tripped dropped the bags she was holding. Fortunately, Rihan caught her as she was falling down. Unfortunately, he dropped everything as well, including the vase.

"Gomen nasai!" Wakana said. "I made you break your family's vase!" Suddenly an idea popped into Rihan's head. "Now what am I suppose to do? That vase was very important to my family! It was worth a lot of money! "

"Gomen nasai, Rihan-san!" Wakana formally bowed. "Please forgive me! I didn't mean to!"

Rihan smirked, "You dare ask for forgiveness? I can sue you and your family!"

"Ah! no please don't!" Wakana cried. "I'll do anything you want, just don't sue my family!"

"Well," Rihan started, waiting for her to respond.

"What is it?" Wanaka ask desperate to find something to get her out of this situation.

"You could get rid of my tab and call it even." Rihan said. Wakana looked at him, shocked. "But-but you owe us a lot of money!" she said. "Well, that vase costed a lot of money." Rihan said back. "and if this is settled in a courthouse, your family may end up paying even more."

'Oh no!' Wakana thought. 'Okaa-san and Otou-san can afford that much money! We've already struggling financially!' Wakana sighed, "Fine. But only for you existing tab!"

"Deal." Rihan said while smirking. Little did she know the vase was actually shop lifted from the store around the corner. 'I am a genius.' Rihan thought to himself.

Wakana took the bags from Rihan's hands. "I should go now; it's getting late. Thank you for your help and I'm really sorry." Wakana bowed to Rihan again and left in hurry. Rihan noticed Wakana dropped something while she went away. It was her wallet. He took the wallet and looked inside. He took money inside. 'Should I give this back to her?' he asked to himself. He sighed and decided to stop by the restaurant and give it back to her. 'I am such a good citizen.' he thought as he walked into a store to buy a snack with the money he took from Wakana's wallet.

Wakana was close to the restaurant when a fire truck past her. She looked as the fire truck as it went to a building filled with smoke. Then she noticed where the smoke was coming from. Wakana dropped the bags of groceries and ran to her family's restaurant. "Excuse me, sir, can you please tell me what happened?" She asked the nearest fireman as the fire began to die down. "Young lady, please step back for your own safety." He answered. "You don't understand, this is my family's restaurant! Are my parents okay?" "Excuse me, miss?" Another fireman called out. "Were your parents working this evening?"

"Yes. They wouldn't let me work on school days so it was just them."

There was a pause when the fireman spoke again. "I'm sorry to tell you this, but your parents didn't make it through the fire."

"What? No!" Wakana felt tears forming in her eyes.

"Experts are saying the fire started from the stove." the fireman explained.

"That's impossible!" Wakana screamed, "It's past closing time, and Okaa-san always checked the stove before closing the restaurant!"

"I'm very sorry for your loss." he said. But Wakana was already on the floor, crying for the death of her parents.

Rihan was walking along with a bag full of snacks humming a cheerful tune. He finally saw Wakana sitting on the curb of the street. "Yo Wakana-chan!" He called out. But he stopped when noticed her crying face and the burned building behind her. Then he realized the building used to be the restaurant where he would eat and drink without paying the bill. Wakana looked up at him with swollen eyes. "What happened, Wakana-chan?" he asked, but he already knew what happened. He sat down next to her as he waited for her to answer.

Wakana sniffed with her runny nose and spoke, "There was a fire," she began crying again, but she managed to say, " and Okaa-san and Otou-san didn't make it out alive!" She began huffing as it was getting harder to breathe and large tears fell from her face. Unable to say anything, Rihan wrapped her around his arms and pulled her closer. Wakana turned around and sobbed in his chest, letting her tears be soaked up in his clothes. Rihan patted her back as he waited for her cries to stop, but they only got louder.

After twenty minutes of uninterrupted sobbing, the two got up and left the burned building. Rihan was gentlemanly enough and walked her home.

"Thanks for walking me home, Rihan-san." Wakana said. "You really didn't have to."

"No, it's fine." Rihan smiled. "It's really late." They stopped at front of her house. "Are you sure you're going to be okay here, all by yourself?"

"Yeah, I'll be fine. Thank you Rihan-san." Wakana turned and went towards the house.

"Oh wait, Wakana-chan." Rihan held out her wallet. "You left this at the market." Wakana took the wallet. "Oh, thanks."

"And," Rihan held out the bag of snacks. "I bought this with the money inside. You can have it if you want."

Wakana gave him a weak smile and took the bag. "Thanks." she said. "Good night, Rihan-san."

"Good night Wakana-chan." Rihan replied as he watch her close the door.

Wakana went inside the house and placed her wallet and the bag of snacks on the table. She crawled into her bed and cried herself to sleep.

So there's my story on how Wakana and Rihan met. Thanks for reading! I'll try to update as soon as possible.