A.N: I know this one is short and it was meant to be uploaded last weekend but my sister got married and I was kind of recovering so it's here now guys!

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Chapter 10

Oji-san

Taking a fortifying breath, Kei looked up at the manor he had lived in for all of his life. Normally, he would need no preparation for his return home but this time, he was bringing Hikari home. For dinner. With his family. Sure, it'd only be his father and Sui there but there was a sense of foreboding that made him nervous. It felt almost as if something bad was going to happen and there wasn't a thing he could do about it.

Finally, they reached the front of the house and Hikari squeezed Kei's hand, most likely wondering why he was waiting to get out of the car. Finally pulling himself out of his lackadaisical attitude, Kei dragged on Hikari's hand to pull her out of the car. Once they had ascended the steps and entered the foyer, they were immediately greeted by Kei's father's shout of "Hikari-chan!" followed by the whoosh of air as Hikari dodged the incoming blow and parried with one of her own. Annoyed by the interruption and the loss of Hikari's hand, Kei pulled his girlfriend behind him and kept his father away with a hand on his chest.

"Keiiii, why did you stop us from fighting?"

"Because you were attacking my girlfriend." At the words leaving his lips, his father seemed to remember something and smiled slyly making Kei narrow his eyes in suspicion.

~[x] Hikari's POV

"Oh that's right, girlfriend. Hikari-chan, is Kei treating you properly?"

"Of course, he's very kind to me." Somehow she managed to avoid blushing too much. It would not do for oji-san to know how Kei took care of her, even Hikari saw that.

"Excellent. Dinner won't be for a few hours so why don't you two go and talk in Kei's room, hmm?" Unlike Kei, Hikari didn't notice the scheming look about oji-san's eyes and instead she smiled in response.

"Thank you for inviting me."

"Our pleasure, now off you go." He started shooing them towards the staircase and as soon as they had begun moving by themselves, scurried off into another room.

"I swear he's insane." Hikari heard Kei mutter under his breath and she withheld a giggle.

"I missed oji-san. You really should let us spar though." Kei gave a non-committal shrug and a small grunt before opening the door to his room and standing aside to let Hikari enter first.

"After you, Hikari."

"Thank you." She grinned and walked inside, marvelling at the spacious room. "I haven't been in your room in a while, Kei. At least you're not sick this time though." Kei simply nodded and closed the door. "Where is Sui?"

"In his room most likely. Come over here, there's something I want to show you." Hikari allowed Kei to lead her over to his bookshelf as he pulled out a thick album, opening it to reveal a large picture of all of the S.A.

"Uwa!" Flipping through the pictures, Hikari found a picture for all of their best times as a group. The final filled page was simply of a picture of her, smiling and waving at the camera. Blushing for no reason, Hikari smiled shyly up at Kei.

"That picture's my favourite." He whispered before kissing her chastely, a mere pull of the lips. Her blush deepened as she placed the album back on its shelf and turned, wrapping her arms around his neck and running her nails over his scalp through his hair, forcing his eyes to shut and his body to shiver in what she assumed was pleasure.

"That's very kind of you, Kei." She whispered into his ear, nuzzling his jawline and continuing her nails' path through his hair. He wrapped his arms around her small waist and pulled her closer to him, enjoying the feeling of her body pressed so tightly against his.

They stayed locked in their embrace for a few minutes until Kei pulled Hikari over to sit on the bed and fill up the hours before dinner with quizzes on their subject material for the next test.

~~ At dinner ~~

"Kei pass the salt please." Hikari didn't look up from her food at the request, simply feeling Kei next to her shifting to acquiesce. "So, how long have you been together now?"

"About two months." Kei responded, not able to keep the smile off his face.

"Two months? Excellent, excellent."

"I still don't see what you like about the stupid woman." Sui snarled bitterly, causing Hikari to look up at him in shock and the other two members of the family to glare at him.

"Don't say anything bad about Hikari, Sui. She isn't stupid." His words weren't harsh but his tone of voice brooked no argument. With a sniff of disdain, Sui returned to his meal, leaving a lingering awkwardness in the silence. Forcing herself to return to her eating, Hikari waited for someone to break the silence, not knowing what to say.

"Well… two months is a good foundation for a relationship and you've known each other for so long. Are you thinking of settling down yet?" Unfortunately, Kei had been drinking at the time and performed a cliché spit-take, so unlike his normal calm exterior that Hikari couldn't help but falling into peals of laughter. Sui wasn't amused and excused himself from the table, muttering under his breath about stupid women.

"Father…" Kei growled, which any other person would have taken as a warning to stop talking whilst they were still ahead, not oji-san though.

"I don't see any point in you waiting. You could get married at the end of the school year and before you both go to university. And this thing with your grandfather…" He was interrupted as the door to the dining room swung open abruptly. "Midori!" Oji-san was instantly out of his seat and greeting the woman that looked so much like Kei that Hikari had to keep looking between the two.