Scales of the Heart
Ch. 10
The sun shined in the early morning of late spring. Kimihito's home is a quite one with Draco herself just getting up and the young man himself slowly starting his day.
"Ahhh…." With a loud yawn the young human stretched his back out as he walked out the bathroom. Finished with his daily morning wash and began walk to the kitchen to start breakfast.
The day where Draco's parent had visited had come and go. Both of them leaving with different opinions on his and their daughter's relationship.
Still Kimihito can't complain as the quite days are back so he can enjoy them with his lover.
However, the suddenly ringing of the door bell seemed to be ready to change that.
"Hm? I wonder who that could be?" Kimihito raised a brow as he went to open his door.
"Yo."
Kimihito went a little pale as he is greeted by a very large muscled young man with scars and red hair. He looked like a thug and the tall dark-skinned foreigner next to him, who looked at him with a stoic and cold look form his blue framed glasses.
"You Kurusu?" The delinquent looking man growled at Kimihito who squeaked out a response.
"Y-yes?"
"Oh! Kimihito-san?"
"Good morning Kimihito!"
The voice of Kenchi surprised the young man that Kimihito met at Kobold gym, and the fluffy Kobold made the young man blink in shock to seem him smiling among the group.
"P-Plot-san? Kenchi? What are you doing here?"
Hana and the rest of Draco's coworkers squeezed between the tower of men. Both Hana and Kedea holding letters.
"Yo!" While Hinoka greeted the young human raised her wing in a cheery grin.
"Ah. Good morning Kimihito-kun." Hana smiled before showing him a strange note. "Did you send these letters?"
Kimihito relaxed a little seeing familiar faces, but his confusion still stayed. "Letters?"
"KYAH!?"
Draco's fearful yelp made everyone run down the hall just in time to see a body fly down the hallway and slam into the wall. The body belonged to an older man in a white lab coat whose head is stuck into the wall.
"Oh! Such flexibly and strength in the tail!" The man, even with his head stuck in the wall, diligently took out a notepad and started to jot down notes.
Draco, in her towel ran down hall at Kimihito, pointing at the body in the wall. "T-This pe-pervert came out of no where and-ack!?"
When she noticed the new house guests, Draco hide behind her boyfriend. "Wh-What are you guys doing here!?"
Although Kimihito is more concerned at the figure dangling out of his wall.
"Dad!?"
"Ah! Kimihito my boy! Your girlfriend is quite the spit fire!" Kimihito's father, who is still stuck in the wall, gave a thumb up. "I approve!"
"That's your old man?" Akira asked as he pointed at Kurusu senior.
"Hm. The integrity of this wall is a tad soft. Maybe we should reinforce it with some Kevlar steel." Who is currently giving the wall a very keen investigation.
"Y-Yeah…" Kimihito sounded as if he really didn't want that to be true.
"…. You have my condolences man…" Akira gave a weak pat on Kimihito's shoulders.
"Ah. Good. Your all here."
The cool voice of a stern woman made every turn back at the entrance. She looked more like a super model then a scientist as her white coat would suggest. Her long slender legs hugged in her black pantyhose traveled down form her pencil skirt and black button up shirt. Although the buttons on her shirt seemed…. stressed from her large bust.
A stern face made her look cold and heartless. And icy chocolate eyes didn't help either. Yet there is no way to deny how beautiful she looks with the beauty mark under her lip, sticking red lipstick, and light dark blue eye shadow under her red framed glasses. Her long jet-black hair is done in a very neat bun with not a single strand out of place.
"Mom?" Kimihito blinked in shocked. "What…What are you doing here?"
With that same stoic look on her face, Mrs. Hitomi Kurusu answered. "An experiment."
-OOO-
The group of monsters and human couples all sat on the couch facing Kimihito's parents. All of them having small white boards and markers. Well everyone besides Hinoka. Who is just eating popcorn and was just watching for her own amusement.
And with his head out of the wall, everyone can Mrs. Kido Kurusu's face. A large muscled man, that seemed to stretch out his lab coat and plain black tee-shirt a little. He is the complete opposite of his wife who is stern faced and stoic. Kimihito's farther is cheery with a wide grin and fatherly stubble on his chin.
He has scruffy face, while not like a young model, the few wrinkles and rugged looks would make a few women swoons. It makes one wonder how Kimihito came out with such a plain look.
"So, you really just want us to paly a game?" Kenchi asked as he sat next to Plot.
"Not just any game my friend!" Kimihito's father grinned. "A game of love!"
"We are here to study the relationships between human and monster girls. By asking a series of standard questions we will found out how your relationship. How it works, what you know about each other, and so on." Hitomi said with stoic adjustment of her glasses.
"Couldn't have you just gave us a survey through our emails?" Akira grunted.
"Nope! Too boring!" Kido grinned while his wife nodded.
"Now then let's being."
"Wait just like that!?" Akira retorted but was promptly ignored.
"Vincent." The stoic woman turned to the young foreigner.
"?" The quite man titled his head at the sound of his name.
"What is Hana's favorite dish?"
Quickly, the westerner wrote his answer on his board and showed to everyone.
"Karaage! He's right!" Hana swooned with a blush on her cheeks. "Of course, my Vincent would know me so well~."
'Well…' Kimihito smiled a little. 'This doesn't seem so bad.'
The young human's parents have always been a strange bunch and he was worried that they would do some sort of awkward experiment. Playing a game like this isn't so bad. Still Kimihito wondered why his family would come over just play a game.
"Now Hana." Hitomi looked at the dragon woman as serious as ever. "What is Vincent's favorite fetish?"
"Eehh!?"
'And there it is…' Kimihito held his face in his hands trying his best not groan in disappointment.
"What the hell kind of question is that lady!?" Akira roared in anger.
"A simple scientific one." Akira didn't trust the odd gleam in the older woman's glasses.
However, Kido was the one who explained everything. "By knowing what type of sexual activities, you do in the bed room we can understand how, and what monsters and humans how in common when it comes to reproducing!"
With an oddly inquisitive and wise voice.
'So, he just looks like an idiot…' Everyone thought with mild amusement.
With blush on her cheeks, Hana shyly wrote down the answer.
"Butts. Hmm. Interesting…." Hitomi nodded as she wrote down some note. While Vincent gave some happy thumbs up with his stoic and calm face.
"Ohh that's true. The boss has an ass the size of Tokyo-gah!?"
The board Hana was writing on fly through the air and slammed into Hinoka's forehead.
"Draco!" Kido shouted proudly at his son's girlfriend with wide cheery grin.
"M-Me!?" The young dragon newt jumped at her name being called.
'Wh-What questions are they going to ask me? His favorite food? What he likes to do-do do in…'
Draco didn't finish her thought only swelling in nervousness. However, as she looked that the analytical face of Kimihito's mother, her bravery skyrocket.
'It doesn't matter. I am going to prove to them that I am right for Kimihito!'
"Bring it on!" With her eyes filled with fire Draco pumped out her chest in pride.
"If you take one hundred hard working Kimihito's squared by the seven cute sleeping Kimihito's multiplied by eight anger Kimihito's divided by eleven cooking Kimihito's, how many Kimihito's will you have left to cuddle with?"
"…." The deafening silence of the room felt like mountain.
"THE HELL KIND OF QUESTION IS THAT!?" Draco took a page out Akira's book and roared at the top of her lungs in anger.
"Buzz~! Wrong answer." The buzzing sound Hitomi made would have been cute if it wasn't for her stoic face. "
"The answer was- " Hitomi flipped her card over. "Two cute Kimihito's."
"They weren't even in the equation!"
"Oi. The hell was that…" The scared young man grumbled in confusion along with the confused looks of everyone else.
However, Vincent was nodding his head in understanding.
"Don't act you get it!" Akira's job as the straight man is never done.
"Kenchi!" Like the wind Kido whipped over to the young man next to Plot. "What is Plot's favorite thing to do in bed?"
"Ack!? Y-you can't ask that!" Plot turned utterly red under her fur. Looking at her boyfriend who is just as embarrassed as her.
"Sorry but he must answer." Again, the glare in Hitomi's glasses.
"It's for science!" And Kido was there with his usual burst of encouragement.
"Oh, ermmm well… "Kenchi blushed looking at Plot but wrote the answer down none the less. Even with his lover covering her face in shame.
However, everyone else couldn't hold their curiosity on what such a canine like monster girl could be into.
With baited breath everyone watched just what was written on the board.
"He-Head pats…." Kenchi squeaked.
'Uwaa~ How wholesome….' And everyone couldn't help but think the same thing.
"Now Draco." Hitomi turned back to the frazzled Dragon newt.
"Oi. Aren't you going to ask- "
"The next question." And ignored Akira's question. "If two cute Kimihito's are in the kitchen cooking and three anger Kimihito's are scolding you for not cleaning your plate, which Kimihito to cuddle with?"
"Seriously what is with these questions!?" Draco roared.
"Buzz~ Wrong answer." Hitomi said once again in her normal deadpanned manner. "The correct choice was, the Kimihito dressed as a cat. You get minus thirty points."
"Since when are we doing points for this!?" The young Dragonnewt's skill with being a straight man is getting better.
And Kimihito just sighed heavily.
-OOO-
The questions went on like that for a while. All the parties getting strange and embarrassing questions while Draco just got the utter odd ones. Mostly form Kimihito's mother. And much to her horror as she kept getting more and more negative points. Somehow, she as a negative one million points.
Hitomi gave a sharp tilt of her glasses. "Quite the abysmal display. A woman like you are trying to pass off dating my-Ahem. Kurusu. Maybe you aren't really ready to date him?"
'Even though all the questions you asked had nothing to do with me…' Kimihito thought with a sigh.
Draco however wasn't going to simply roll over. She bared her fangs and shoot out her seat. Her anger and pride boiling over as she defiantly pointed at Hitomi.
"You know what!? Go ahead!" Draco stood up with her eyes burning with defiance and anger. "Ask whatever questions you want! Give me all the negative points you want! But I am still going to love everything about Kimihito! His stupid brown eyes! All his cooking is fucking great! And- "
"Dr-Draco!" Kimihito shouted to stop his girlfriend. Covering his blushing face as he didn't look anyone in the eye. "I…I think we get it…th-thanks…"
"….." Draco's face blew up in a flame of red.
"IamsorryisaidtoomuchIamlovleypervertedreatile" Draco mumbled to herself as she huddled in corner. Hana and the other girls patting her on the shoulder to help ease her embarrassment. While Hana, and Plot helped while Hinoka just laughed through it.
"…. One hundred."
"Eh?" Draco looked up from her fetal position to at Hitomi's stoic visage.
"You get plus one hundred points." Hitomi said with a stern adjustment of her glasses. "Maybe if you try a little harder maybe you can get one thousand points."
"But I'll still be the negatives!" Draco bellowed as the older woman got up out her seat. Seemingly finished with test and leaving everyone a massive sigh of relief.
Kimihito sighed. Rubbing his head in a mix of relief and confusion as it seemed that everything was over.
"Heh heh. Your mother's really adorable, isn't she?" Kimihito's fathers wrap his warm around his son with a beaming smile.
"She was so worried about you-BAH!?" A flying drop kick sent the man flying through the door and outside. Where he was stopped by a lamppost.
"An excellent drop kick honey!"
"Your old man can really take some punishment huh?" Akira noted to Kimihito as he took out a cigarette. Both of them watching the steaming pile of Kido try and pull himself form the lamppost.
Kimihito scratched his cheek awkwardly as he admitted, "Well he was Tokyo's youth heavy weight MMA Champion all throughout his school life."
"The hell!?" Akira nearly bite his cigarette in two in chock. "Your old man was the raging dragon of the east!?"
"Eh?" Kimihito tilted his head in confusion. "He had a name like that?"
'No. that actually make a crap ton of sense if what Kedea told me about this guy is true….' Akira thought with a deadpanned gaze as he remembered what his girlfriend had told said about Kimihito being able to take a lot of punishment.
"Hm. Hm." Vincent who was standing beside the two of them nodded his head in understanding.
"Will you stop acting like you get everything ya dumbass!?"
"Ahem." Hitomi coughed to get her son's attention. Her eyes as clam and cool as ever. But Kimihito could tell, just form the tiny way she didn't seem to want to look him in the eye.
She was nervous. Kimihito could nearly see a cat's tail ears swish around nervously.
'She's not very honest sometimes.' The young man thought.
Kimihito simply smiled at his mother. "You could have just called."
"…That would have been…" Hitomi shifted her feet a little as her face turned in coy shade of pink. "Insufficient. I wanted to make sure you were doing well."
"Ah Hitomi my dear!" Kido, looking oddly fine, slung his arm over his loving wife. "If you wanted to see our son you could have just asked. You're such a worry- "
"Hmph!"
Hitomi grabbed her husband and lunched him over her shoulder back into the wall.
"Nice throw! However, pivot your hips a little more my dear."
'This guy's parents are more like monsters then the girls.' Akira let that scary thought fall into the back of his mind.
Hitomi looked at the embarrassed figure huddling in the corner of the house. Her gaze a little softer then before.
"The dragonnewt is a fine... person for you." Hitomi nodded. "A little odd, but she is very kind. However, she better help out more with house work."
"Yeah we'll work on that." Kimihito chuckled.
"Well then." Hitomi nodded with a cool adjustment to her glasses. "We have all the information we need. So, we will be off."
"Be well my boy!" Kido grinned with cheery thumbs up. "And give me and your mother a bunch of grandchildren-Bah!?"
Hitomi's fist slammed into the older man. Hard enough to push his head through the concert.
"Hmph! A pure ten on that right rook!" Kido pulled his head up cheerily. While Hitomi nodded in agreement.
"I see. I've been improving. Then should we move on to karate?" The scientist and her lover continued to walk down the street.
The boyfriends watched as the married couple walked down the sidewalk with rather tired expressions.
"That was fucking tiring…." Akira sighed before looking at Kimihito. "Yo. Kurusu. Mind if I use ya kitchen? I need to make somethin to clear my head."
"Ah. S-Sure. I'll help if you don't mind." Kimihito nodded as he fallowed the guff young man.
With Vincent fallowing behind them with the intention of adding his own cooking skills to the mix. Crazy parents aside, it is nice to know that Kimihito can have some help in the kitchen.