Warning: Tetsuya, Kazuma and Marui's mom's name are mine
From now on, I'm mentioning Marui's hair as pink. It's just easier than saying red-pink.
"Married?" Marui asked with wide eyes. 'No this can't happen!' his inner chibi yelled. "Why? What about dad?"
Rika bit her lip. She knew this was going to come up. Marui had always been close to his father. Not as close as his younger brothers, but still close.
"We talked it over, and decided to get divorced," she said.
The bubblegum Marui blew deflated, just like his heart. He felt like his whole life was changing. 'They're divorcing, and mom's marrying Echizen's father?' He was trying to process the thought in his head, but all it did was give him a headache. Rubbing his temple, he said. "This is too much."
"Bunta, I know it's hard to take in, but please try and be reasonable," Rika said rubbing his arm.
She was trying to keep him calm, but it only caused him to explode in anger. "Be reasonable?! You and dad are divorcing so that you can marry Echizen's father! What about Tetsuya and Kazuma? Do they even know about this?"
"They know," his mother told him. "They were upset but were happy for me."
Marui paused at that. 'That does sound like them' he thought. The twin's got over things easily, or they just didn't care. 'So that practically mean's I'm the only one in this family that's not happy with this.'
The pink haired boy looked over to Ryoma, who had been sitting quietly by his mom. Ryoma must have gotten up at some point during the argument, because now he was drinking a can of Grape Ponta.
"Say something," he said to the smaller boy. Ryoma just stared at him with his big golden eyes. "You can't actually be happy with this."
"I'm not," Ryoma told him. "But, there's no reason for me to keep oyaji from being happy."
Looking to his father, Ryoma asked, "Does Ni-san know about you guys are divorcing?"
Nanjirouh rubbed the back of his head, and then grinned stupidly. At least that was what Ryoma thought. The greenette already knew the answer to his question. He sighed and thought 'Ni-san won't be happy about this.'
"Don't worry," Nanjirouh said. "I'll tell Ryoga when he comes to visit next week."
The dark-haired boy looked at his dad with a raised eyebrow. He didn't know about that. After all, it wasn't everyday Ryoga came home.
Marui was a bit confused. 'Echizen has a brother?' He was now curious about what his other new 'step-brother' looked like. 'He probably looks just like Echizen.'
"Idiot oyaji. Why don't you just call him now and tell him?" Ryoma asked.
"Yes dear," Rinko said. "Why don't we let him know now before I leave."
"Leave?" Ryoma asked. "Leave where?"
Rinko smiled down at her son. She ran her hand through his hair. "I'm moving back to America."
"Why?" Ryoma was confused.
"Well…I got a job there. So, you'll be staying here with your father so that you can finish school," Rinko said. Turning to Nanjirouh she finished with, "I'll send the divorce papers to you once I finish signing."
Nanjirouh nodded. He then looked to the two boys and pointed between Marui and Ryoma. "Speaking of school, which one of you is willing to transfer?"
"I'm not transferring," Ryoma said automatically.
"I'm happy at my school, thank you." Marui crossed his arms and glared at the man.
Rika sighed. She knew her son didn't want to switch schools. She was hoping Ryoma wouldn't mind transferring; it looked like she was wrong. If the boy was anything like Nanjirouh, then that meant he was too stubborn to leave. Looking to her lover, she said, "Now what are we going to do? One of them can't stay at their school."
"What do you mean?" Marui asked.
"They mean that we either move closer to your school and I transfer, or you and your mom move here, and you transfer," Ryoma said.
"Exactly," Nanjirouh said.
Rinko stared at them. Sometimes her husband could be an idiot. "Or you could find a house in between and let them stay at their schools."
She stood up and started towards the kitchen. "I'm going to start dinner. So, take the time to discuss housing if you must."
"Neither of you is willing to transfer?" Rika asked, more towards Marui than Ryoma.
"Nope," Marui said blowing a piece of gum.
Nanjirouh didn't even need to look at Ryoma to know he wasn't leaving his school. Naturally, he would have transferred him without telling, however he noticed Ryoma enjoyed being on his tennis team.
"Fine," Nanjirouh said. "I guess we'll be going house searching."
"When?" Rika asked.
"How about tomorrow?"
"I'm picking the house," Ryoma said to his father as he started to the kitchen. Marui was behind him.
"Why do you get to pick it?" the pink haired boy asked.
"I always do," was his answer.
Marui frowned and walked by him into the kitchen. Rinko was just now setting the rest of the food down on the table. She looked at the two boys, as Marui said, "Not this time pipsqueak."
"You're short too," Ryoma said sitting in his usual spot.
"Not as short as you," Marui said sitting across from the other boy. He looked to his right as his mom sat down.
Nanjirouh sat at the head of the table. He picked up the newspaper he'd been reading earlier that morning. Rinko snatch the newspaper out his hand, causing a book to fall to the ground. Rika and Rinko looked from the book to Nanjirouh.
"DON'T READ THIS CRAP AT THE TABLE!" Rika yelled.
"I'M BURNING ALL YOUR PERVERTED BOOKS AS SOON AS WE FINISH EATING!" Rinko yelled, smacking the man across the face.
"NOOOOOOOOOO! NOT MY PRECIOUS BOOK!" Nanjirouh cried, as Rika tossed the book out the window.
Marui looked at Ryoma. He asked, "Do you deal with this every day?"
"You'll get used to it," Ryoma answered. Breaking his chopsticks, he said, "Itadakimasu."
"Itadakimasu," Marui said, after taking the gum out his mouth and wrapping it in a napkin.
They stuffed their faces, ignoring the yells and cries of their parents.
So how was it? Hope you liked the second chapter. Please review and let me know.
