Family Moments

by aesylthryth


Chapter 8: A certain morning

Usui Misaki trudged sleepily to the kitchen, inhaling the mouth-watering scent of the bacon being cooked while rubbing her eyes. Sure enough, the patriarch of the family, Usui Takumi, was there in front of the stove, flipping the pancakes with one hand and adding salt to the bacon with the other like he was a professional chef or something.

If truth be told, he should be, but he didn't want to.

"Morning, perverted outer-space alien." She had always used this nickname when they were alone. She didn't know why, but it brought back high school memories.

"Morning, Misa-chan." And this was Takumi's nickname for her. None of them seemed to complain with it anyway.

He pecked Misaki on the cheek and received a light smack on the back of his head in return. This was supposed to be their way of showing intimate affection to each other.

Misaki set up the plates on the breakfast table as their son went inside the dining room, wide-awake and flashing that killer smile of his early in the morning. This was Keiichi Usui, nicknamed Kei-sama by the girls in his middle school, has dark blonde hair slicked back with a few strands casually hanging on his forehead, bespectacled striking green eyes, tall with enough bulk in his body, and of course, is a natural genius and an awesome athlete. In short, he also inherited the pheromone-excreting gene from his father.

Turns out that he was a younger version of Takumi, except that Keiichi wasn't stone-faced to women, he was sort of a hunky nice guy that actually declines relationships. Why? Because Misaki strictly told him before his first day of his first year in middle school that if he ever played with a girl's heart, he shall experience hell until his last breath. The event got stuck into his brain's skull so tightly he practically has a phobia of blushing girls (and guys) that stare at him.

"Hey, mom! Mornin'." Just imagine some flowers blooming as his background; that will add to his charm.

"Good morning too," Misaki said back with a yawn afterwards.

Soon enough, Hikari Usui was running down the stairs like an angry bull, then dashed her way into the dining room, and yelled cheerfully, "Good morning, all!"

So here was Hikari, who was as much of a genius and an amazing athlete as her older brother. The cute 10 year old girl naturally radiated activeness and happiness to at least ten meters around her. She had flowing darker blonde hair that was always tied up in a neat ponytail, twinkling green eyes, and an inherited demon aura that surrounds her when boys started to misbehave.

"Morning, Hikari-chan," muttered their mother before yawning again. Misaki noticed that everyone in her family were all morning people excluding her.

"Mornin' little sis," said Keiichi with another killer smile.

Hikari's face immediately showed anger. He pointed at his brother like she was accusing him of some terrible crime and yet again, her demon aura started to surround her. "Stop that expression of yours! It's disgusting!"

Now, Keiichi seemed to be excreting pheromones again as he lightly chuckled. "Is it really? I certainly wouldn't identify a smile as an expression, would you now, Hikari?"

"Disgusting... stupid brother..." muttered Hikari through gritted teeth, glaring at his smiling brother as she sat down on the seat opposite to his.

Just then, Takumi arrived at the breakfast table with a plate of pancakes and bacon on either hand.

"Thank you for the food!" they all said and proceeded to the consumption of the edible objects before them.