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"I'm not sure about this Natsuki." Arinna said softly as her friend tugged her along the hall to the main living room.

"It will be fine!" Natsuki smiled over her shoulder. "Everyone will love you guys."

Lifting Vincent into her arms, Arinna frowned, not overly confident. "It is not exactly Vincent or me I'm worried about." She mumbled to herself, glancing over her shoulder at Rei, who slowly trudged behind them.

"It is alright." Kenji said with a kind smile. "Natsuki's family is really welcoming."
"Thanks Kenji." Natsuki beamed at the compliment. Turning into the living room, Arinna could see the family had already set up dinner and had started to sit down.

"Here, follow me." Natsuki yanked Arinna and her siblings to sit at the front of the table. Quickly sitting down to join the meal, Arinna placed Vincent next to her.

Nervous to see so many people, he scooted a little closer to his older sister, practically trying to hide in her shirt.

"Everyone!" Natsuki called to quiet down the family. "I want you all to meet my friends!"

Pausing from their conversations, the family turned to smile at Arinna and the others.

"They will be staying here for a few days to help Kenji with some work for OZ." Natsuki added.
"Oh? The genius needs help?" Naomi, a red headed women, gawked.

Smiling sheepishly, Kenji rubbed the back of his head. "I'm… only human." He said shyly. The family laughed at this, nodding in understandement.

"Okay, introduction time." Natsuki announced, pulling out a paper of the family tree and handing it to Arinna to look at. "Might wanna keep that."

"Oh uh… okay." Arinna nodded, shocked at all the names. As she looked forward at all the people at the table, it was probably for the best.

"Okay, here we go. This is Aunt Mariko and her two children, Rika and Riichi." She motioned to the elderly women Arinna saw at her arrival and the two people who rode in on their motorcycle.

The three nodded to Arinna. She nodded back.

"Okay. Yeah. Mariko, Riichi, and Rika. Gotcha." Arinna thought with a smile.

"Next, Uncle Mansuke with his two kids, Tasuke and Naomi." She motion to a very Tan fishman sort of guy, and his two kids, a red head, and a guy with glasses.

"There is also Mansuke's daughter Kiyomi and Tasuke's son, Shota."

A kind looking women nodded to Arinna. Shota, who was the man in that cop uniform Arinna saw before, nodded as well.

"…Ah…. Lot of names…" Arinna thought as her smile began to fall.

"Then we have Uncle Mansaku. He has three sons and each son has a family."

"Hello." Mansaku, an elderly man with glasses smiled.

Arinna waved a bit back.

"There is Yorihiko, who isn't here yet, and his wife Noriko." Natsuki pointed to the very first member of her family Arinna met at the first stop earlier that day. She had been the woman that had the two kids.

"Kunihiko and his wife Nana," Natsuki continued. "Kunihiko isn't here either. He will be soon though."

"Oh…" Arinna nodded, her mind still wrapped up in all the names. "Okay, Nana is the women we met at the base of the hill."

"Then Katsuhiko and his wife Yumi." She pointed to the baseball fan women.

"Oh okay, I think I maybe… sort… kind of, got this." Arinna felt herself waver a bit, but tried to remember the names to the best of her ability.

"Oh yeah." Natsuki snapped her fingers. Arinna looked to her in shock that there would be more names. "Then there is Yumi's sons Yuhei and Kyohei. And this is Nana's daughter, Kana." She pointed to the four year old girl, the two years old little boy, and the 9 year old boy with the glasses who was playing on his DS earlier.

"And Noriko's kids, who you have met already, Shingo and Mao."

The two kids she pointed at were currently arguing to each other over something.

"Oh and that little girl right there is Kiyomi's daughter, Kizuna. Oh, and although he isn't here right now, Kizuna has an older brother named Kazuma." (I wasn't' sure what Kazuma's sister was supposed to be names, so I just chose one. Hope you all don't mind!)

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh…..hhhhhhhhh,…. Heeeeeeee… wait… Kazuma? …Yeah, no. Brain still at a loss." Arinna mentally began to panic at the large assortment of names. She could not be the only freaking out at how many people are here.

"You get all that?" Natsuki turned to Arinna, who sat there, dumbfounded.

"I…uh…" Arinna rubbed the back of her head.

Kenji patted her back comfortingly. "It is okay." He assured, remembering his own struggle when he first got her.

"Careful Natsuki." Rei suddenly spoke up, shocking everyone. "Or you will make her brain explode."

"Ah-" Natsuki blinked, before she realized when Rei has said. "Oh! Ha-ha." Natsuki laughed nervously, shocked when Rei suddenly spoke up like that. She definitely hadn't been expecting it. And for Rei to make a joke no less, very shocking.

"Hey." Arinna turned to her younger sister with a huff. "It is hard to remember all those names at once."

"And that still isn't' everybody." Natsuki laughed. "We still have a lot more family coming. Though they wont be here for a while."

"Eh? It isn't?" Arinna gawked at her, feeling like her brain might just actually explode if she were told one more name.

"Nope." Natsuki smiled calmly, as if hundreds of people coming over all at once was normal.

"Jeez." Arinna looked at her hands. "That is impossible."

"Not really." Rei mumbled, leaning her cheek against her hand.

Arinna looked to Rei, not believing her words.

"Oh really Rei? And I suppose you have memorized every single name?" Arinna asked in disbelief.

"There is Mariko, Rika, Riichi, Mansuke, Tasuke, Naomi, Kiyomi, Shota, Mansaku, Yorihiko, Noriko, Kunihiki, Nana, Katsunhiko, Yumi, Yuhei, Kyohei, and though Natsuki didn't say him just now there is also their son Ryohei, the baseball kid Yumi mentioned on the train. Then there is Kana, Shingo, Mao, Kizuna and Kazuma." Rei said dully, playing with a pea on her plate.

The room fell silent, staring at the young teen in awe.

Slowly looking up from her plate, Rei blinked to find everyone staring at her, dumbfounded.

"And… that introduces Arinna and her little sister, Rei. The girl with a very large memory." Natsuki announced with a clap.

The family slowly smiled, clapping too. "Good job." They cheered.

"Not many people get it the first try." Yumi laughed at the end of the table.

"Please to meet you!" The whole table grinned.

"Pleasure is ours." Arinna smiled back at them. "Oh uh… I'm Arinna. Arinna Kentin. This is my sister Rei."
Rei didn't look too enthusiastic about it, but lifted her hand in slight greeting. "Then this is-" Arinna paused to find Vincent hiding behind her. "Eh, Vincent. What are you doing?' Arinna looked over her shoulder at him.

He frowned, hiding into her shirt. Smiling a bit, she took his hand. "It is alright, they wont pick on you or anything."

Not sure if he should trust her, Vincent slowly shuffled closer to the table. Grabbing Arinna's sleeve, he peeked his head out.

The family smiled when the small boy began to appear behind Arinna. Slowly stepping out, Vincent looked at the table.

"Aww, he is so cute." Nana cooed at the end of the table.

"Hey little guy." Naomi smiled at him. He blushed a bowed.

"…Hewwo." He said in a soft voice.

The family cooed at the small little boy, waving at him.

"Hello." The grinned back.

"And that finishes the introductions." Natsuki dropped to her knees next to Kenji, who chuckled.

"…Large family." Arinna bowed her head to them all.

"You have no idea." Mansuke winked, reaching out to grab a piece of meat from the plates.

Taking that as a sign to start eating, everyone grinned. The family instantly began to dig into their meal, happily munching on their food.

Hesitantly at first, Arinna slowly reached forward, taking a small glass and filling it with orange juice.

"Here you go." Arinna handed it to Vincent, who placed it on his coaster. Reaching forward, she made Vincent his plate first and handed him a fork, since he couldn't use chopsticks very well.

When he had his food, Arinna than made a food for Rei, knowing she would never get one for herself. Especially since she was staring off into space right now.

"Here you go Rei." Arinna snapped her out of her daze by placing the plate in front of her. Looking to the plate, Rei blinked.

"…Thanks." She mumbled, reaching for a fork.

Smiling, Arinna then began to make her own plate.

"So tell us a bit about yourself Arinna. As well as your adorable siblings." Noriko smiled across the table, making Arinna pause.

"Oh well… what do you want to know?" Arinna smiled nervously, continuing to place food on her plate.

"Well, you are here to work with Kenji right? What sort of job do you work for OZ?" Rika, the women with the glasses, asked

"I handle the trash bin disposal area." Arinna answered, placing her plate in front of herself.
"The junk yard of OZ?" Shota blinked, scarfing down some meat.

"Yes." Arinna nodded to him.

"Oh wow. What is that like?" Tasuke asked in awe.

"Quite a handful." Arinna admitted. "It is very nice though. It is like looking at a museum every day. You see all sorts of neat things."

Tasuke nodded. "That does sound really cool."

"I didn't even know OZ had a Trash bin." Yumi blinked.

"Well, we call it the Trash Zone. Not many know of it I guess because you have to have a code to get into it."

"Oh, so you can't just go into it whenever you want?" Nana inquired.

"Well if they allowed people to do that then anyone could go through OZ's old data files, as well as large companies." Riichi said next to Arinna, taking a sip of his drink.

"Exactly." Arinna nodded. "That is why there is a code put in place. They change the code though every few months, just to be safe."

"They are smart to do that." Kiyomi smiled from down the table.

"OZ aside," Naomi cut in. "How old is little Vincent over there?" she pointed to Vincent, who paused from his eating to stare at her.

"Well, Vincent just recently turned three." Arinna looked at him. "How old?" she asked. He held up three fingers to show everyone.

"Oh my, what a big man you are." Naomi chuckled.

He lowered his hand with a sheepish smile, moving a little closer to Arinna.

Patting his head, she smiled. "He wasn't able to start preschool last year, but he is going to start it when it starts up in a few months."

"Ah, preschool. A true sign of a growing boy." Mansuke nodded in approval.

Arinna chuckled.

Smiling, Vincent grabbed Arinna's shirt. "I…I wike Tennis." He announced.

"What was that?" Mariko blinked, not hearing what Vincent said.
"Speak up." Arinna coaxed with a smile.
Blinking wildly, he opened his mouth wide. "I wike Tennis!" he squeaked.
"Tennis is a great sport!" Rika beamed at the younger boy.

"Baseball is better.' Yumi called down the table.

"No one asked you Yumi." Rika glared at her, instantly smiling as she turned back to Vincent. "Do you want to play Tennis?"

Vincent nodded. "I need a wecket."

"Racket." Arinna corrected.

"…Wacket." He nodded.

Kiyomi and a few of the other mothers in the family chuckled at how cute Vincent was.

"And what of-" Nana paused. "Rei was it? How old are you Rei?"

"Rei is a softmore in High school." Arinna turned to her younger sister.

"Oh, so then are you 15 Rei?" Nana asked.

Rei slowly lifted her head from looking at her plate to stare at the family. "…Yeah." She answered.

"What sort of hobbies do you like to do? You are the same age as Kazuma, Kiyomi's son." Mariko smiled.

Rei lifted her head a bit more at Kazuma's name and glanced at Kiyomi. "…I don't have any hobbies."
"Eh? None? At all? You don't like to read, or draw?" Tasuke questioned.

Rei didn't look anyone in the eye, but lifted her head. "…Music. I like music."
"Music is nice." Naomi nodded, finding it a little awkward to talk to this girl. She was so distant, just like Kazuma was sometimes. "Do you make it? Or just listen to it?"
"I saw you with a guitar when you first came in. Do you play?" Mansaku asked, pushing up his glasses.

Rei didn't answer immediately and looked at Vincent, who was struggling to hold the spoon steady as he brought it to his mouth.

"…No." She said, reaching forward to grab the spoon from his hands and hold it up to his mouth. Blinking, he opened his mouth and took a bite.

Arinna smiled at the sight, yet could see the family was confused when Rei answered the question to if she played a guitar, even though she carried one around with her.

Arinna smiled nervously at everyone, knowing they were probably confused. Rei was a hard girl to get along with sometimes.

Not sure what else to asked she gazed at the faces at the table. Seeing Kiyomi, she decided to change topic.

"Oh, you said you have a son that is Rei's age. Kazuma, right? Is he here?" Arinna inquired, looking around the room.

"He is. It isn't often that he joins us for dinner though. Probably off somewhere playing on OZ." Kazuma's mom sighed, lifting a napkin up to whip the food off of Kizuna's face

"That sounds familiar." Arinna looked to Rei, who kept her eyes on her food.

"Oh, you like OZ Rei?" Mansuke grinned, chomping down the squid he had brought in.

"…No." she poked her fork at her food.

Arinna sighed a bit. "She usually goes off somewhere though whenever it is dinner time. I'm actually surprised you decided to join us tonight." Arinna gave Rei a little look.

Rei glanced back at her and shrugged. "Hungry."

Arinna blinked, looking to Rei's food. She hadn't taken a single bite yet. "…Oh well, that's a shock." Arinna nudged her playfully.

Kenji chuckled a bit. This was his first time getting to know Arinna's little sister. She was quite the handful to get to know, just like Kazuma. Though even Kazuma seemed a little bit more open then this girl, not by much though.

"Do you not like the meal then Rei?" Rika asked. "You haven't touched anything on your plate."

Rei paused from poking her fork, slowly scooping some food onto it. "...It is fine…" she mumbled, placing the fork full in her mouth. Arinna sighed at the sight, shacking her head.

Rei had always been like that. She just didn't like to eat. It worried Arinna to no end how little Rei ate sometimes.
Smiling apologetically at the family, the glanced at each other. As if they were used to this sort of personality they shrugged, smiled, and continued to eat.

"So how long are you staying?" Noriko asked.

"A few days, three at most." Arinna answered.

"So you and Kenji will probably be really busy, huh?" Tasuke mused.

"Probably." Kenji and Arinna sighed together, causing the family to laugh.

Smiling back at them, Arinna glanced towards her siblings. After a few minutes of eat, she began to notice they were slowing down in how much they were eating.

"Are you tired?" Arinna asked, seeing that Rei's chewing was slow and lazy.

Rei blinked, looking at her. Slowly reaching forward, Arinna poked Rei's nose. When she didn't react, Arinna smiled. "You are tired." She noted. "Why don't you head off to bed with Vincent?" she motioned to Vincent, who was beginning to doze off.

Rei sat there for a few seconds before slowly nodding and getting to her feet. The family watched with small smiles as the young teen moved to Vincent, who held his hands up, wanting to be picked up. Reaching down, she lifted him up so he could rest his head on her shoulder.

"You remember where our room is?" Arinna called as they moved to leave the room.

"Yes." Rei answered.

"Good night." Arinna called.

"Good night!' The family echoed.

Pausing, Rei glanced over her shoulder. "…" She said nothing and exiting the room and moving into the hall.

When they were gone, Arinna turned back to the family, who were giving her grins.

"They seem like sweet kids." Kiyomi smiled.

"A little awkward though." Shota muttered. Next to him, Yumi bopped him on the head.

"Ow." He glared at her.

"Haha, it is fine." Arinna smiled. "I apologize for how un-motivated Rei seemed. She is a little hard to talk to, but I think it was worse since she was tired. Vincent and her have never had to travel that far before."

"We understand." Natsuki smiled.

"Arinna, how could you tell Rei was tired?" Natsuki inquired.

"Huh?" Arinna looked at her friend, confused.

"Oh, it is just, I saw you poke her nose just now. How did that prove she was tired?" Natsuki explained. The family looked at her, wanting to know the same thing.

Blinking, Arinna snickered a bit. "Little secret." She announced. "Whenever you poke Rei's nose, she makes a funny face. When she is tired though, she wont react at all."

"Hah, that's a little weird." Naomi chuckled.
"A little bit, but it works." Arinna agreed with a laugh.

-000-Rei and Vincent-000-

Readjusting Vincent on her shoulder, Rei moved down the hall, the voices in the living room beginning to die off the farther she got. Turning left, Rei glanced around, not sure if she was heading the right way or not. Moving a bit further, she found she once again recognized the building and moved towards her room.

Rei paused when she saw a light coming from the open room to her right. Looking in, she could see a 15-year-old boy leaning against the couch, typing on his computer. Lifting his gaze to her, he blinked at the sight of Vincent and her.

"…Who are you?" he mumbled. "You need something?"
"…Rei… Not really"

"What are you doing here?"
"Kenji invited my sister, we tagged along." Rei paused. "…Kazuma, right?"

He blinked at her.

"That is bad for your eyes to use a computer in a dark room." Without another word, she continued down the hall with Vincent. Blinking a few times, Kazuma slowly trailed his eyes back to the computer screen.

"Weirdo." He mumbled.

YAY! NEW CHAPTER! THANK YOU ALL FOR THE SUPPORT! We are gonna start getting into the plot in the next chapter! :D