Alex awoke to the smell of coffee and lavender. It was a strange combination to him, but it felt slightly comforting anyway. Rubbing his eyes, he noticed 5 people looking at him and he began to panic as he tried to grasp for an explanation as to how he wound up in a strange bedroom he had never been in before. The first of the five came over to his side and held his hand, and she smiled warmly at him. She was obviously the youngest of the group, and to him, she seemed really cute. Her dark brown/almost black hair in twin tails, and her slim body frame reminded him of one of his friends down at the Time Patrol main hub.
"Hi there sleepy-head!" she giggled, pinching his cheek softly. "My name is Kanako Urashima, The blonde lady is my mom Kasumi, Hiroshi my father is the man with brown hair, the old lady over there is Hinata Urashima but we call her Granny Hina, and the smoking lady with reddish brown hair is Aunt Haruka!" After the long introduction, the woman known as Haruka spanked Kanako for calling her aunt and making her feel old. Alex just laughed and muttered to himself about 'old times'.
"My name from my home world is Naketsu Cephon, but on Earth, I'm known as Alex Cephon. Um, I'm sorry if I caused any of you alarm. How did I get here anyway?" he blurted out, not really caring about what they thought of his origin. The room went silent for a few seconds, quite a few of them thinking 'home world?' or 'he's alien?'and it took a few minutes of awkward silence before he got a response.
"Um, Mr Cephon? I'm afraid I need to enquire; what do you mean by home world? You're not a human like us?" Hinata Urashima finally spoke up. The others stared blankly at her for a few seconds before looking to Alex for his reply.
"Well, I'm a Saiyan from planet Vegeta that was destroyed, and I went to the Time Patrol unit a month before the planet was destroyed. I kind of grew up a bit there I guess. I even fought a god, or is that gods? Whis was never very clear on his status..." Alex started as he went over his backstory and his many battles correcting errors in time created by Demigra's magic and his two demon helpers; Mira and Towa.
Hina took in his words with a grain of salt, thinking that if he was familiar with time and dimensional travel, then what he told her and her family was true. Kanako started to adore him after he told her about how he killed Demigra and saved all of time from collapsing in on itself, but was saddened when she was told about the time shard that bashed him in the back of his head inside the time chasm. "The time chasm is basically a gap in time and space. Think of it as a hole in reality itself, and that the fight between myself and Demigra caused it to collapse. I got knocked through the gap, and I'm guessing that's how I found myself here... Sorry about the back yard." Alex mumbled awkwardly, trying to avoid eye contact. Kanako just hugged him and whispered to him that he won't need to worry about being alone.
"You have me now Alex. Don't worry; even if you can't get back to your world, I'll still support you." Alex blushed and felt nervous for the first time in years.
After a short silence, Hina decided to speak. "Alex, since you have no home and no family, I will allow my daughter to adopt you. You will be Kanako's step-brother, alright? How Does Alex Urashima sound?" She grinned, noticing Alex's small smile. She knew he liked it and so she'd gone on the phone to set things up.
[2 weeks later...]
A small girl the age of 14 with blue-ish purple hair was passing the Hinata station on the way to her home, the Hinata Hotspring Inn. As she ran across the road, she failed to notice a sports car coming her way and screamed as it was about to make contact with her and possibly kill her. She closed her eyes and resigned to her fate, however; nothing happened to her. She opened her eyes to see a boy in a red hoodie holding the car in place with one hand and noticed he was angry. "Hey, asshole... The light was red. Red means STOP!" He growled as he picked up the car and flipped it like a pancake. The small girl was a little scared but hugged the person who saved her. "Don't worry Miss... You're safe now. Sorry if I scared you, I was a bit annoyed. My name's Alex; what's yours?"
She looked up at him and smiled, small streams of tears flowing down her cheeks. "My name is Shinobu Maehara. Feel free to come see me at the Hinata Inn when you can. I'd like to reward you for saving me."
He chuckled, and hugged her, rubbing her head. "I think the hug is reward enough Shinobu. I'll see you around, I have things to do." He then shot off into the distance; a red and blue blur. Shinobu ran towards the inn to tell her friends what just happened.
[A/N: Sorry that my story's taken so long to update, but it's kind of difficult to guess realistic reactions from the characters on the actions my OC takes. I'm trying my best and that's all I can really do. Next chapter will be more on how others will react to Alex.]
