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Permission to marry!

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Kano counted the presence of everyone in the base. Descending from their ranking, Konoha was talking with Hibiya, Shintaro and Ene about the new online game, with the cyber girl chatting madly about how the HikiNEET would lose once he faced her. Snickering at Shintaro's annoyed face, Kano turned to the girls. Momo was playing with Mary's hair, putting all these bizarre coloured flower hairclips in them. He remembered the idol said something about 'Rapunzel', but didn't she have blonde hair? …Black? Brunette? Whatever, next.

Seto was sitting next to Kido as he flipped through the new animal magazine he picked up on his way home from work last night. The blond could see the green haired girl casting shifty eyes at the pages while pretending to listen to music through her earphones. Okay, everyone's here. The whole family was here.

Taking a deep breathe, he put on the mask of complete confidence before silently getting up. Only his pals seemed to have noticed his movements, but they ignored him anyway. Making his way up to the red member of their gang, Kano cleared his throat to get his attention.

"Shintaro-kun?"

The addressed teen looked up from the game he was playing, a sense of dread running up his spine once he saw Kano's calm looking eyes. "Yes?"

"What do you want now, ojii-san?"

Right after Hibiya's words, Kano suddenly fell onto his knees, bowing his head all the way to the floor with his hands folded in front of him. Shintaro only had a chance to gasp when everyone else looked up to see what was going on before Kano suddenly blurted out loudly:

"Please allow me to take Kido Tsubomi's hand in marriage!"

All activities the gang were doing ceased within a millisecond. The final hairclip Momo had in her hand and the can of soda Shintaro had in his fell from their grasp, yet their noises did not break the silence that loomed over them.

A whole minute passed and Shintaro's brain still couldn't compute the question that was asked. But it seemed like someone else's did, because while Kano was still on the floor, bowing at the lowest of the low, Kido came up with Seto's rolled up animal magazine and smacked it against the blond's head.

"What the hell is wrong with you, idiot!?" Both Shintaro and Kido yelled, faces as red as their Eyes. Shintaro however, backtracked as he shook his head. "No, scratch that. Why are you asking me?!"

Kano looked up at him, blinking at the question. "Well, Seto told me to…"

The accused boy raised his hands up in surrender, trembling at the full on glare Kido and Shintaro gave him. Even though he wasn't using his Eyes and only knew the 18 years old teen for a brief time, he could tell his rage and embarrassment was just the same as Kido's. "I-I-I-I don't know what he's talking about!"

"What? But back then!"

"Back then?"

Everyone was watching them in amusement, because that was what the gang mostly had for entertainment when they were not out on missions and going to Kagerou Days. Kano rolled his eyes at his friend's forgetfulness. "Remember? You said it is a tradition to ask for permission from the father to marry his daughter and-"

"Since when was I/he her/my father!?" Shintaro and Kido screamed again before the leader wacked the upside of Kano' and Seto's head, irritated by their idiocy.

While Kano rubbed his forming bruises, he gave off a laugh as he said, "No, that's the thing. We don't have a father and Tateyama-san is far from being a father figure," at this Kido, Momo and Ene had to nod in agreement, "and since Shintaro-kun is the oldest and is someone Ayano nee trusted as the hero, I think I should ask him." Oblivious to the gapping HikiNEET, Kano turned back to him and bowed again. "So please, Shintaro-kun, as much as I hated you before and find you annoying, I want Tsubomi-chan to be my wife!"

More smacks from the rolled up magazine was given to him by a very red faced leader of the Mekakushi-Dan. Momo was trying hard not to laugh at the scene, but it was too funny. Her brother looked too helpless and she was sure Ene was laughing in his laptop right now.

"Kano, I don't think you need to ask me for permission, I mean if you want I'm sure Kido-"

"Wait, Master!" Ene finally unmute the laptop to reveal herself giggling in glee. "Shouldn't you say something like 'As long as you can make my daughter happy, you can take her'?"

"I'm/He's not her/my father!" the reaction just sent Ene into another spiral of laughter, with Hibiya and Konoha watching her roll around on the screen and hitting some opened up windows and browsers in the process.

Mary tilted her head, blinking innocently. "But Kano, if you want to marry Kido, don't you need a ring?"

All eyes fell on the medusa girl, silent. Momo blinked before she suddenly got onto her feet and exclaimed, "Yeah, Kano-san! You need a ring to marry someone!"

"No ring means no marriage!" Ene managed to yell. "Every girl wants a beautiful gem sitting on their finger to show how much their man loves her!"

"Really? …But my mother's ring didn't have any gems…" Mary began to tear up at the new information given to her. Seto and Momo quickly tried to cheer her up, convincing her that a ring didn't mean anything.

Kido, glared at the blond by her feet. "Now look what you did."

Sitting up, Kano scratched the back of his head sheepishly. "Whoops."

He better not show off the ring he worked his butt of for then. Maybe tonight in Kido's room, he would ask her. That was if she was calm enough by then.

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Deceiver: …

"kazeotaku: Kano asked Shintaro's permission to marry Kido after he heard it was tradition to ask the father for permission first from Seto."

THIS IS SO MUCH FUN TO WRITE I HAVE TO WRITE THIS ONE OUT BEFORE I WENT TO BED. TOO FUNNY! TOO FUNNY! SORRY BUT I'M JUMPING AROUND XD

If you want to watch the entire thing again, ask Ene. She has the whole thing recorded ;P