Akito hummed to himself as he was on his laptop as it was a lazy day off from school and he wondered what to do. Emi wasn't online yet, so he would have to wait for her, though he hoped she wouldn't be too busy through the day. He soon got an email invitation. "Hm, what's this?" he wondered before clicking into the email invite to see what it was all about.
And where it was an invitation for Akito and his family to attend a birthday party of the oldest living relative of the Jinnouchi clan since the Fudo clan has been friends with them for generations.
"Hmm..." he hummed in thought.
Cherry and Atticus came through the door together.
"Thanks for having lunch with me, Cherry, it was just like old times." Atticus smiled.
"Sure, I was rather starving since my last meal..." Cherry agreed.
"How much blood did you drain?" Atticus asked.
"Eh, probably half as much this time..." Cherry shrugged.
Akito came over. "Hey, Dad, I have a question... Um, hello, Aunt Cherry."
"What is it, son?" Atticus asked Akito.
"Do you know who Jinnouchi is...?" Akito asked before squinting his eyes as he took out his phone, trying to pronounce the name he got in his email.
"Akito, Jinnouchi isn't a who, it's a what and it's the name of a clan," Atticus said. "Their family and our family have been friends for generations, so what's the online invitation for?"
"It's a birthday invitation because someone named Sakae is turning 90 this year." Akito told him.
"Let me see that..." Atticus took his phone.
"Didn't you babble about this sometime during college?" Cherry asked Atticus about the name Jinnouchi.
"I did and looks like the family and I are going to be going to Japan to celebrate the oldest Jinnouchi family member.
Cherry yawned already.
"I told you how important that clan was to me." Atticus reminded Cherry.
"Yeah, yeah..." Cherry said before realizing something. "Wait, isn't it impossible for someone who's mortal to live that long?"
"But Aunt Cherry, isn't Uncle Forte 300 years old?" Akito asked.
"Yes, but he's a vampire and remember the curse?" Cherry asked.
"Oh, right." Akito said.
"That's impressive though." Cherry said to Atticus about the old woman.
"Yeah, she's lived this long." Atticus smiled.
"I just got an invite, can I go?" Akito asked.
"Yes, along with the rest of us." Atticus said.
"Well, I guess I'll go out of the story then." Cherry began to walk away.
"You can come too if you want." Atticus said.
"And it says here we can come a few days or weeks before the actual day." Akito smiled.
"Well... Okay." Cherry agreed.
"Yay!" Akito smiled.
Once Atticus informed the rest of the family, they all packed up and got to their flight to Japan. Atticus checked out the email with Akito.
"Well, I'll be..." Atticus smiled. "What an honor!"
"I know." Akito smiled.
"So, who sent you this email?" Atticus asked just to make sure.
"Natsuki Shinohara." Akito pointed to the name in the email sent to him.
"Our plane is here." Mo said.
Akito and Atticus eyed each other oddly.
"A plane..." Felicity said before taking deep breaths in and out from a paper bag as she was very anxious about flying, even when they went to Paris with Tommy, Chuckie, Phil, Lil, and Angelica.
They all soon got to their plane as it was ready to take off. Felicity did her best to relax as she joined the others.
Akito was checking out the email as he was excited and curious to visit a 90-year-old woman on her birthday. "So, um, Dad, how does our family know this other family?" he then asked curiously.
"Our families met many years ago and to not let our families AKA clans to go into war; they wrote a treaty." Atticus explained.
"Here he goes again..." Cherry mumbled as she overheard this.
"I guess I'll tell you later, but nothing can ruin this." Atticus chuckled.
"Daddy, look who's here!" Estelle beamed as she hugged Lee's arm. "Won't this be fun?!"
"Oh, this should be entertaining." Cherry smirked.
Atticus nearly shook his body as he saw Lee and Estelle together.
"So, where do you wanna sit?" Estelle asked Lee.
"You are sitting with the family, young lady, Lee can sit with his own family!" Atticus told his daughter.
"Dad!" Estelle glared.
"I think I handled that pretty well." Atticus smiled.
"You are the dumbest smartest guy I've ever met." Cherry said.
"Huh?" Atticus asked.
"You keep splitting them up, that's just gonna make her run away with him." Cherry told him.
"Fine, I guess they can sit together just this once." Atticus sighed.
Lee and Estelle smiled to each other.
"I'm watching you." Atticus warned Lee.
"Y-Yes, sir." Lee gulped.
Estelle sighed to her father's behavior.
"When are you going to let her grow up?" Cherry sighed to Atticus.
"Soon, I promise." Atticus said.
"Mm-hmm..." Cherry shrugged.
"So, Dad, this family..." Akito then asked about the clan who had invited him to the birthday celebration.
Atticus began to tell Akito all about the Jinnouchi clan. Akito listened with a smile as he found himself very interested as he learned more while Cherry was annoyed since she already heard about this when she and Atticus were teenagers.
"You guys hear of OZ?" Tony smirked.
"Yeah, we met the Wizard..." Cherry told him.
Tony pouted at a grown-up for butting into conversation like that. "Not that OZ! OZ is a virtual world where people from across the globe can come together online to enjoy themselves." he then explained.
"Ohh, yeah, doesn't that virtual world control everything that's connected to every electronic?" Atticus asked.
"That's what I heard, sir," Tony replied as he made an OZ avatar. "You can use anything electronic to get it."
"Yeah." Akito smiled as he soon showed them his OZ avatar.
"No way, you have one too?!" Tony asked.
"How do you think Dad knows about it?" Akito chuckled.
"Now it makes sense," Tony smiled. "And where your avatar looks so cool!"
"Thanks, Tony!" Akito smirked.
"You should add me!" Tony told him.
Akito and Tony then added each other as friends.
"Can I see what your avatar looks like?" Forte asked Akito as he got on the plane.
"Erm... Sure, Uncle Forte." Akito replied.
"Great." Forte said before putting up his luggage.
Akito wondered what his uncle would know about OZ, after all, he was from the 18th century.
"OZ is so cool..." Megan smirked.
"Yeah, it is." Tony agreed with his sister.
"John and Yoko?" Mo asked before chuckling. "That's the guy from the Beatles and his wife."
"They're also the guardians of OZ." Vincent told his mother.
"Yeah, they're those two whales." Akito said.
"I see..." Mo replied. "Ah, I can't believe how far technology has come."
"Same here," Vincent smiled. "I wonder if we'll see Uncle Atlas and Aunt Connie and Hercules and Alexandrite there."
"I still can't believe you guys saw Connie and Atlas when you met Jirachi..." Atticus smiled. "What a small world."
"Uncle Atlas asked a lot about you, Dad." Akito replied.
"I don't blame him, we are like brothers." Atticus chuckled in memory.
Atticus's cell phone soon rang.
"How long until we take off?" he then asked his wife.
"I think we have ten more minutes, I hope it's not work." Mo replied.
"Same here," Atticus said before answering his cell phone. "Hello?"
'Hey, Atticus.' Atlas's voice replied.
"Atlas, hi!" Atticus smiled. "We were just talking about you."
'I hope it was all good.' Atlas teased with a laugh.
"Oh, yeah, all good," Atticus laughed back. "What's up?"
'We wanted to know if you and your family would like to come to Japan.' Atlas said.
Atticus chuckled. "Funny you should say that because we're on a plane right now."
'Really? By any chance, would your family be going to the Jinnouchi family house to help celebrate Sakae's birthday who is the oldest woman in the Jinnouchi clan?' Atlas asked.
"Yeah, it turns out that clan is friends with my family," Atticus replied. "You know them too?"
'Yeah, she helped my mom when she was a little girl and got lost in the Mall.' Atlas told him.
"What a small world..." Atticus smiled. "I guess we'll see you guys there."
'Yep, it sure has been a long time since we saw you at your god ceremony.' Atlas said.
"Yeah..." Atticus sighed with a proud smile before teasing. "I'm not bad for a little boy, huh?"
'Hey, you were too good for that circus, but I was glad to meet ya.' Atlas replied.
"Same here." Atticus smiled.
'So, we'll see you at the airport?' Atlas smiled.
"Great!" Atticus agreed. "See you then, I better get off the phone before we take off."
'Okay, I'll see you later then.' Atlas replied.
"See ya, Atlas," Atticus smiled before hanging up. "Okay, bye."
"Is Uncle Atlas meeting us in Japan?" Akito smiled.
"He sure is," Atticus smiled back. "Turns out he knows the family too."
"Wahoo! This trip is getting better and better!" Akito cheered.
Atticus chuckled. The pilots made their announcements and everyone soon got settled in as it would be a rather long trip to Japan, and where after the announcements were said, their plane soon took off. Everyone got as comfortable as they could as it would be a rather long flight.
"You all look like Miss Darla's friends." A man commented.
"We're her family, you know our aunt?" Estelle asked.
"I'm her lawyer's chauffeur, Koki." The man replied with a friendly smile.
"Nice to meet you." Estelle said.
"Nice to meet you too," Koki replied. "I took Miss Eloise and her nanny around Paris when Darla invited them to come visit before she had to go to work into London for a while."
"I'm so glad Aunt Darla has more time for Eloise now." Estelle replied.
"Yes, it is good that she has more time for her daughter." Koki said.
"So, what brings you to Japan?" Estelle smiled to him.
"Visiting friends back home," Koki replied. "I'm having my first vacation for the first time in three years."
"Cool." Estelle smiled.
Koki smiled back.
Later on, the flight got a little dull, so many people fell asleep. Felicity tried to settle herself down as she was afraid of flying in airplanes. Akito was now chatting online with someone named Kenji Kojso. Vincent groaned as he put on a sleep mask and turned over from the bright screen from Akito's device. Akito smiled as he made his avatar which was like a puppy dog, but with a cape, mask, and boots like a super puppy of some sorts and even had a bandanna like he did. And where it had muscles and was the size of a strongman. Akito smiled as he played on his little app of OZ. A little man with mouse ears came to Akito's avatar as they chatted.
"I hear you're quite the math whiz." Akito typed to his new friend.
"I sure am." Kenji said.
"You should meet my friend Marc, he's a math whiz himself, he gets straight A's." Akito chuckled.
"And what about you?" Kenji asked.
"I am pretty smart, but I'm more of a sports boy myself," Akito replied. "Though I am smart, especially when it comes to building stuff."
"Cool," Kenji smiled. "Wish I was smart like that, but I'm just a math whiz."
"Heh, my sister likes Math sometimes, she tutors her boyfriend." Akito replied.
"Oh, you have a sister?" Kenji asked.
"Yeah, I'm older by five minutes." Akito said, revealing he was a twin.
"Wish I had a sibling." Kenji frowned
"Being an only child does sound lonely..." Akito replied.
"You don't know the half of it." Kenji told him.
"Well, maybe I'll be able to meet you in person when me and my family and my sister's boyfriend land in Japan." Akito said.
"That sounds great, you sound so cool, Akito." Kenji replied.
"Oh, I wouldn't say that..." Akito said before yawning.
"Well, I'll see you when you arrive, by the way, why are you coming to Japan?" Kenji asked.
"I was given this invitation for a birthday party." Akito replied.
"Who sent it?" Kenji asked.
"Natsuki Shinohara." Akito informed.
"What? No way, I'm going with her to celebrate one of her relative's birthday," Kenji said. "Though I don't know why, it's part of a job she wants me to do."
"Cool! Sounds like I'll get to see you soon." Akito replied as he sounded excited.
"Sure sounds like it," Kenji smiled. "Well, I better let you sleep."
Akito nodded in agreement, he then signed off, saying goodbye to Kenji and then logged off and pulled his bandanna over his eyes to get some sleep. Unknown to anyone, this visit would be an adventure and would be an intense adventure. Everyone fell asleep and the sun slowly came up as the plane continued to fly. And where they soon arrived at the Japanese airport. Everyone soon woke up and were ready to get off the plane to visit Japan.