With the dream to become a house husband, I always used to think about my marriage. I never wanted to have an extravagant marriage or something. Just a normal Japanese style marriage and a small reception after that. Even for the bride I never had some unrealistic goal, like she should be sweet and caring like Hinata or silent and understanding like Miho or tsundere-ish like Kurusu or sexy like Rias. All I wanted was a wife that can bear me and my attitude, accept me for who I am and support me financially.
Oho, you must be thinking that why am I telling you about all this nonsense. Then for you to understand, I have to take you all a day back in time.
(A day earlier )
Today is Sunday but it really doesn't matter now as it was the break time after my second year in high school. So be it a Sunday or a Monday all I do is laze around the house.
Even though by some miracle my parents are staying home today, I know all I will do is eat, sleep, repeat.
This kind of breaks is my favorite as we get no homework. So I can literally spend my days doing nothing. No work, no tension. Seriously these breaks are like god gift for us, slaves of an educational institution.
As I was laying on the sofa and enjoying some anime that was being aired the doorbell of my house rang.
Ting Tong.
As energetic as Komachi is, she ran to the door to open it. As soon as she opened the door she shouted in a high pitch voice.
"Ojii-san, Obaa-san"
Hearing 'ojii-san' was enough to make my blood run cold. I turned my head towards my father with a creaking sound, and saw the same fear in his eyes.
Well, my grandfather is the only man that can make both me and my father cry in fear(I am talking about men here otherwise there are many women that can do so). My grandfather was a colonel in Japanese ground self-defense force. As a former soldier, he was very strict and sometimes intimidating, for me and father at least. But as expected he treats Komachi and mother with a lot of care. Not that I can complain, no matter how you look at it my mother and Komachi are way adorable.
Since time immemorial he has the ultimate authority in our house. Though he doesn't live with us, but whenever an important decision is needed to be made he will have a final say in that.
Mother and Komachi don't question his authority out of respect and I and father don't do that out of fear. So his words are final with no questions asked.
The seemingly happy Komachi has literally pulled grandfather and grandmother inside our living room. When they came in both me and my father stood up and greeted them.
With this, all members of Hikigaya household got busy in hosting the guest. Tea and sweets were offered, small talk was started and soon enough everyone except me and my dad got busy in talking. Suddenly, I became the topic of their little chat.
"Hey Hiroshi I believe you have informed Hachi about that," said Grandpa.
"Dad you are still fixed on that. I thought even you would have understood by now that this kind of thing is not accepted in 21st century." said dad.
" 21st century or not, a promise is a promise and my soldier pride will not allow me to go back on my words." said grandpa.
At this point, everyone except me and Komachi had a serious look on their face. But one thing that I learned in childhood was not to interrupt grandpa when he is talking, so I kept my mouth shut.
"But I cannot ask Hachi to marry someone he hasn't met till now just because of some promise."
Oho marriage. Good goo... Whaaaaat?
Promise. Marriage. Hachi? Wtf is happening. Now I cant keep mum after hearing this.
"Dad, what are you talking about?" I asked.
My dad didn't replied. I waited for an answer for 2-3 minutes but none came. So I turned my head in my mother's direction to get an answer but she averted her eyes away from mine.
"Oho, it seems Hiroshi hasn't told you about anything"
I shook my head left and right in negation.
"So let me tell you. See I was in the anti-terrorist squad in JSDF and one day some terrorist group attacked a mall in Tokyo. Our squad was sent to the rescue civilians and eliminate the terrorist. During that mission, I saved a man who was about to be shot by one of the terrorists. That guy name was Takeda Shinzo, he was the owner of a small company at that time. He was very grateful and continue to contact me years after that incident. We became close friends and even after becoming a big shot in the business world, he continued this friendshipof ours. On one of the regular meeting, we promised to get our kid married to each other and turn this friendship into a relationship. But that didn't go well as both of our only born were boys. So the promise was shifted to our grandchild. And here we are Hachi, you are a boy and the son of Shinzo is blessed with a girl. So it is up to you two to complete the promise."
"And my completing the promise you mean, I have to marry that girl. Right?"
"Yes"
So basically I have to marry an unknown girl just because of a 40 years old promise between my grandpa and some other old man. Nothing is making sense now. My mind went blank and all I could think of is to jump from the roof of my house.
"Grandpa with all due respect, I cannot marry a girl just to fulfill your promise and it is also not legally allowed as I am a minor."
The look in my grandfather's eyes changed. Now he has a stern look in his eyes.
"Hachi, I am not here to ask your permission, I am here to tell you my decision."
The words struck fear in my heart. Seeing the fear in my eyes my grandfather let out a sigh.
"Okay, look Hachi I will not force you to marry her but at least you can meet her once just for my sake. I guarantee you, you will like her. She is a very sweet girl."
Even meeting her is not making any sense but I respect my grandfather. So at least I can meet her once. Plus I know if I reject now he will force me to meet her and not even fathrr or mother can stop him. Better accept it while he is asking nicely.
"Okay I will meet her grandpa but just this one time. Plus you should get the of marriage out of your mind, remember I am still a minor."
"Oho that won't be a problem, we can have engagement now and marriage after a year"
Seriously he is still stuck at that.
"But let's think about that afterwards. First, we have to focus on this meeting of yours."
"Okay you will be meeting her at the Ocean table restaurant tomorrow at 7 pm"
Damn you old man you already had planned this beforehand.
I was expecting my father to say something but knowing his fear of grandpa I think I was expecting a lot from him. With that, I slowly turned towards my father with an annoyed look on my face. He gave me an apologetic look and averted his eyes. After that, I turned towards my mother for help and she did the same as the father. At last, my eyes settled on my grandma and Komachi and they both were smiling.
Why god, why have you forsaken me?
Then I look again towards my grandpa who was smiling happily. After seeing that smile all my wish to refuse this meeting was gone.
Okay, it is just a meeting I can go and simply reject her or she can reject me. In any case, we can end this drama before it can even start. So no point in arguing with this stubborn old man.
I tried to get this marriage and the meeting thing out of my head but after every 5 seconds, my mind gets drifted towards it. Thus to distract my mind from all this I took help from Imagine Dragons and Linkin Park. Connecting my headphone with my smartphone I put all my ID and LP songs on a shuffle. Monster, what I've done, in the end, believer etc were enough to calm me down. My family continue to talk but I shifted all my focus on the songs. Komachi and grandma kept on asking about this supposed future wife of mine but I couldn't get myself to hear about it.
After that, we all had lunch and everyone went to their respective room to have a short afternoon nap. When I was alone in my room I started my research on Takeda Shinzo. Apparently, he was the owner of Takeda group, the biggest manufacturer of sports items in Japan. Plus he also have many subsidiary companies that are spread over a wide range of sectors. How in the hell my grandpa know this billionaire and he expects me to marry this guys granddaughter. No way, no fucking way I am getting involved with such a family.
All I have to do is to meet the girl and ask her to reject me, piece of cake. But knowing my Grandpa I doubt things will the way I want them to go.
A/N:- Okay, so I am writing this story as a practice to improve my writing. What do you think. Was the writing in this better than change. Or there is no improvement at all. Plz tell me.
Next chapter will have the meeting between Hachiman and the girl.
Lately, I have been busy wth all my exams and some other stuff so I was not able to update it.
Sorry for the delay, I promise I'll update it by the end of this week.
For HnB I wrote the next chapter but I a not satisfied with it so its being rewritten.
I'll update it soon.
