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Breakfast Fail!
The weekend had finally arrived; there wasn't any tennis practice on Sunday so everyone was out doing what they pleased.
Mika made her way down the stairs groggily. Scratchy her stomach and rubbing her eye she looked around and noticed no one was around, "Strange…"
She walked into the kitchen did a quick scan, and since it was bare she made her way into all the other rooms looking for her father and brother but they were nowhere to be found. "Where the hell did they go?"
Letting out a sigh Mika walked back into the kitchen and noticed a note laying on the kitchen table.
"My Dearest Mika,
Your brother and I stepped out for a bit.
Love,
Your favorite father"
"How vague…" Feeling her stomach rumble Mika made her way to the refrigerator. She stood at the door looking at the massive amounts of food in front of her, now if only she knew how to cook.
It couldn't be that hard right?
She grabbed the eggs and placed them on the counter while she went and grabbed a frying pan. As she placed the frying pan on the stove she looked at the eggs and back to the pan. "What do I do now?"
The reason she never learned how to cook was simply because she found no need to. Her father or brother always did the cooking, although it would have been nice to learn how to prepare something. She picked up the eggs and examined it.
She saw her dad cook eggs all the time, he hit them on the edge of the frying pan and somehow it'd break in half land in the pan perfectly.
"Ok Mika, it's not rocket science. It's just a stupid egg…" Raising the small, oblong shaped egg in the air she brought it down smashing it against the pan, only to have the yolk run down her hand and onto the ground.
She could feel the muscles in her right eye begin to twitch. "Okay, so that wasn't right… let's try it again." Picking up another egg Mika gently brought it down on the edge of the frying pan only to hear a light 'clink' with the egg still intact.
"You have got to be kidding me…" If her dad could make something so simple why couldn't she? Letting frustration get the better of her Mika smashed it down on the frying pan again allowing it to break and leak onto the ground.
After five eggs Mika gave up on the idea of trying to make a hot meal for herself. She placed what was left of the eggs back in the refrigerator and decided to pour herself cereal.
Placing the carton of milk on the kitchen table Mika went up to the cabinet where the cereal was stored and stretched her arm. "Damn these short arms…" Why had her dad put the cereal so far up? More importantly why was she born with such horrible genes, both her father and mother were fairly tall, so why had it skipped over her.
Today was just not her day, why did Kaiji and her dad leave? Giving up on trying to reach the cereal without assistance, Mika pulled a chair over and stepped on it.
'I'm being reduced to using a chair, just perfect.' She opened the cabinet seeing her goal in sight. "Yes, lucky charms!"
Having to stand on her tip-toes, even though she was on a chair, Mika grabbed the box of cereal.
She felt the chair begin to wobble under her, and not having much balance while standing on her toes Mika felt herself fall backwards, hitting the ground with a thud with Lucky Charms flying up into the air… only to come down to hit Mika in the face.
She stayed on the ground for some time, trying to keep calm. 'One…two…three…" She began to count, only getting to four before she chucked the cereal box at the wall. To hell with trying to make herself breakfast, she was going to just go get some at the supermarket.
As she stormed out of the kitchen her foot stepped in something slimy, making her stop dead in her tracks and look down. Her right eye twitching un-controllably, she had stepped in the egg yolk from earlier.
Hopping all the way upstairs with one leg she got to the bathroom and began to wash herself off from this morning's atrocious attempt to cook.
Once she changed into something more suitable to wear in public, green shorts and a black tank top, Mika left the house leaving the mess she had made in the kitchen the way it was.
Meanwhile only a few blocks away Ryuunosuke and Kaiji stood in the arcade building.
"How do you know she's coming?" Kaiji asked while holding an air hockey puck and hitting it across the table.
Ryuunosuke calmly returned it. "Simple…she can't cook so she'll be forced to buy something…that's when we'll execute plan: Get Mika Popular!"
Both Kaiji and Ryuunosuke had an evil glint in their eyes while casually hitting the puck to one another.
Mika had almost made it to the super market when noise from the arcade shop distracted her. Turning her head to the side to see what it was about her eyes widened. It was her father and brother screaming at each other, practically climbing on the air hockey table to get to one another.
"You cheat!" Kaiji raised his fist.
"How dare you! I never cheat take that back!" Ryuunosuke grabbed Kaiji by the shirt and shook him.
'Oh no…this can't be happening. Maybe if I just keep walking they won't see-' It was too late; Kaiji looked towards the window, right on cue, and began to wave his hands.
"Mika it's you! Come here help me!"
Everyone inside the arcade looked towards the window all staring at her. There was nothing she could do, if she walked away they were sure to fallow, but if she went inside who knows what they would do.
She gulped and decided that keeping the chaos in a controlled environment was better than releasing it out in the public. She briskly walked in and went to her two family members with an enraged look on her face.
"What the hell are two doing!" she hissed while trying her best to hide her face, just in case someone from school recognized her.
"Oh Mika, my love…please help me." Kaiji reached out his hands.
Mika slapped his hand away from her. Wondering why he was talking like that again.
"So, the love triangle deepens." A familiar voice came from behind.
'Oh no…not here, not today.' She cursed to herself turning around to face the same red haired boy from yesterday morning.
"I just have one question for you Etsuko Mika." There was a long pause, as if Eiji expected a response. "Why are you stringing poor Momo along if you're going out with high school kid…who by the way isn't very good looking?"
Kaiji felt a vein pop out on his forehead. "Not good looking? I'll tell you something pip-squeak; I get compliments every day about how gorgeous I am!" Kaiji jumped off the air hockey table and stood behind Mika.
" I'm-" She was cut off by her father who had gently pushed her aside and opened his arms up to Eiji.
"My dear boy…you must understand my daughters conundrum." He then grabbed Mika and held her tightly against his chest. "When my daughter was young she got terribly sick, so this young man, a childhood friend, sat at her bedside every day until she got better, soon their friendship blossomed into romance…" He let go of Mika and fell to his knees putting the back of his hands across his forehead. "Alas, their love was never meant to be! For when I moved her to Japan she met a most unfortunate acquaintance…this boy you call Momo. Ever since that fateful day she hasn't been able to decide whom she loved more."
There was a long silence as Eiji stared at the man on his knees. Ryuunosuke looked up from the corner of his eyes to see the reaction his spectacular act brought.
Eiji blinked a few time thinking to himself what a strange guy he was. "So…your boyfriend followed you all the way to Japan?"
Ryuunosuke fell on is back. "That's all you have to say? After all the time I took to mak-" He stopped himself from reveling his plan.
Mika had about enough of this ridiculous scheme. "Listen um…"
"Kikumaru Eiji." He held up a victory sign and smiled.
"Okay, well listen Kikumaru Eiji this big oaf here isn't my boyfriend, this is, regrettably, my brother Kaiji."
Eiji tilted his head in confusion. "Brother?"
"There's about a 94% chance she is telling the truth." Inui pushed his glasses up while he appeared behind Eiji.
Jumping about ten feet in the air Eiji placed his hand over his chest trying to regain his composure. "Inui you really shouldn't sneak up on people like that."
Inui opened his journal and flipped a few pages before stopping. "Etsuko Mika, 160cm, in the same year as Kaidoh, and Momoshiro. Brown hair, green eyes and weighs about 107 pounds."
Mika listened in awe, how in the world did this guy knew everything about her, and where did he get it from?
"She moved here about a month ago from Germany. When she was ten she made it all the way to the J.R. National tennis tournament, before tearing her ACL in her right knee. Her father, Etsuko Ryuunosuke, shortly divorced his wife and moved his two children to Japan, the second child is unknown. Her mother is the owner of the number one law firm in Germany, currently single and not looking."
"Hey wait just a minute, second child unknown? I'm the second- no I'm the first child how is it that I'm unknown?" Kaiji ran up to Inui grabbing his journal and flipping through the pages.
Inui pushed his glasses back up on to his face. "Hmm, now there is a 100% chance that she's telling the truth."
Eiji sulked in the corner. "Aw, this was just getting interesting. Why do you have to ruin everything Inui?"
Ryuunosuke laughed heartily. "Mystery man in the glasses, you are quite knowledgeable about my family, but I doubt even you know of my past." The lights in the building seemed to dim while a spotlight shone on him.
Everyone, but Kaiji and Mika, seemed to be awed by the sudden change in scenery.
"You see, when I was just a boy I had a dream to be on stage. Every day I would practice plays such as Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and Carmen. Perfecting my talent so one day I may share the stage with the most remarkable actors of my time." Falling down to his knees Ryuunosuke pulled a rose from his jacket he was wearing. "But one day I got strep throat and was silenced…forever."
Sniffling could be heard coming from strangers and Eiji while they listened intently to the story.
"Miraculously with enough sleep and medicine I made a full recovery but my dream of becoming the greatest actor was gone. That's when I met her, my then, but now divorced, wife. She and I had produced two wonderful children, but unbeknownst to her my heart had a void waiting to be filled." He stood up and bright lights had turned on blinding almost everyone in the room.
"Then one day while I was at my incredibly mind-numbing job, as a bag boy, someone had seen my acting skills at the Christmas play in Germany and right on the spot they called me in to play the role of…poor boy and from there a star was made." The room went completely black signifying the end of the act, then came back on.
Eiji stood there with tears flowing down his face, clapping his hands he walked up to Ryuunosuke and shook his hands. "That's was touching and inspiring."
"Father you shouldn't lie so much." Kaiji popped up behind him.
"What? I'm not lying that's how it happened…very moving and inspiring just as this nice young man said."
Mika rolled her eyes. "That's not what mom told us. She said you've acted your whole life, and you were never a bag boy."
"The probability for the story to be true is a mere 3%." Inui said while scribbling something in his journal 'Ryuunosuke, tendencies of stretching the truth about 97% of the time.'
Ryuunosuke ran his hands through his black hair. "I don't know about anyone else but I'm starving. Let's get something to eat. You two, glasses man and red hair can come if you'd like. It's my treat."
Eiji's eyes light up and he began jumping up and down. "Thank you very much I love free food."
He followed Ryuunosuke. Inui decided to tag along since there wasn't anything better to do.
As they were seated in a booth Eiji kept staring at Kaiji intently. "So why did you make up this whole story about being her boyfriend?"
Placing his menu down Kaiji smirked. "I simply wanted to show my baby sister the joys of being popular."
Kaiji thought that the whole family was quite strange but as long as it kept him entertained he just shrugged it off.
As they all waited for their food Ryuunosuke scratched his chin while contemplating something. He snapped his fingers and grinned. "I have a favor to ask of you two strapping young men."
Mika listened intently; whenever her father asked for favors it was never a good sign.
"There is nothing I rather see than my daughter enjoying herself in a school club. Since she refuses to try out for the girl's tennis team I was wondering if it'd be all right if she tagged along with your team, maybe be a cheer le-" The hand came slapping over his mouth muffling the rest of his request.
Mika glared at her father, she knew exactly where he was going with this and it wasn't going to happen. "Ignore him…"
Eiji stifled a laugh; he was really enjoying this family, never a dull moment. "Seigaku doesn't have an official uh…cheering team but Mika I'm sure Momo would be very pleased if you were to tag along."
Ryuunosuke removed her hand from his mouth. "Then it's settled!" At that moment the food had arrived and he didn't explain any further.
'If I knew how to cook none of this would be happening.' Mika would have left but one, she was starving, and two her father and brother boxed her in and the only way out was to climb over or under the table.
The lunch went on quite ordinarily calm, surprising Mika on how normal her family could be if they really tried. Eiji and Inui thanked Ryuunosuke for lunch and went off.
As soon as the lunch was paid for the Etsuko family began their journey back home.
Kaiji patted his belly "Thanks dad that was delicious."
"You're quite welcome my boy." He turned to the side to look at Mika waiting for recognition. He continued to stare, making Mika slightly uncomfortable.
Turning her head to stare back her brows furrowed "What?"
"Isn't there something you want to tell your dear old dad?" His eyes lit up in anticipation.
Mika stopped walking, standing she placed her hand on her chin and began to think. "Hmm..."
Ryuunosuke bit his lower lip, the suspense was killing him. He never really got recognition from his daughter.
There was a long pause as Mika continued to 'think.'
"No." Mika shrugged as she continued to walk leaving her father on the verge of tears behind.
He ran up to her and grabbed her arm hugging it. "B-but why not?"
She tried to shake him off, but he kept his grip on her all the way home continuing to pester her.
"You really want a 'thank you' dad?" She opened the door to the house and walked in, her dad still holding on to her arm.
Shaking his head rapidly he followed his daughter to the kitchen. As she pointed in the room he kept an eye on her finger his gaze leading to the mess she had made earlier.
His eyes widened as his arms fell to his side. "M-my beautiful kitchen!" He ran in only to step in the egg yolk. A disgusted look came across his face as he saw the cereal scattered on the ground and five, or so, eggs that never made it in the pan.
"Thanks dad…" she smirked turning to leave. She made her way up the stairs and stopped by Kaijis room. She watched him comb his hair while smiling sexily into the mirror, laughing a bit she continued to her room and laid down slowly drifting off to sleep.
Feeling a presence Mika woke up only a few hours later to her father standing above her with an evil grin plastered on his face. "Wake-y Wake-y …I've got a surprise for you."
Mika rubbed her eyes; surprises were never good, ever. "No thanks." She rolled over pulling the covers over her face only to have them yanked off.
Holding up an unofficial Seigaku cheerleading outfit Ryuunosuke grin grew wider. "Look, I talked to the coach of the boy's tennis team, told her that you wanted to participate and she had her granddaughter send this over…you're going to be a cheerleader."
"Forget it, I'm not doing it." She sat up in her bed and glared at the outfit in her dads hands.
Ryuunosuke shook his head. "That's really too bad honey…cause if you don't I'll be forced to show everyone these…" He held up old pictures of Mika in a Tutu, with pig tails, and tears running down her eyes, and in some of them she was even holding a teddy bear while sucking her thumb.
She jumped off her bed throwing her arms up trying to take the pictures away from him. "Damn you, why the hell do you still have these pictures? I told you to burn them!"
He laughed, all he had to do was keep his arm up and there was no way she could reach it. "I think it's cute…you'll do as I say or else I'll blow this up and post it around your school."
She was left no choice, looking back at the cheerleading outfit Mika grabbed it glaring at it. "Fine…I'm pretty sure this is child abuse though."
"Hmm perhaps but that's what you get for making me clean the whole kitchen by myself, you're first game is tomorrow so practice your cheers." He walked out of the room laughing all the way downstairs.
"What a sadistic old man...I've taught him well." Mika threw the outfit on her dresser and started on her homework, thinking of what tomorrow would bring.
