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Ch. 10: Crazy Party Part 1

"This is it right?" Taruto asks, entering the building. Both Pai and Kisshu are already inside and they're looking around the club. All three of them look human right now and they're pretty much wearing the same thing earlier today, but Pai has different clothes since he got wet. It's still the same style though.

Pai reminds, "That was what the sign said outside."

Taruto asks, "But did the wait have to be that long for us to get in? We were in that line for an hour!"

"Well be grateful that we came here at eight instead of nine. The kids would have been irritated."

After looking around a bit, seeing the lights, the bar, the chairs, the tables, the dance floor, and the stereos, Kisshu turns towards his brothers and ask, "Does this place seem familiar to you guys at all?" That got Pai and Taruto's attention.

"Excuse me," a human tells them. They see them and back away from the door to let the other humans come in.

After Kisshu mentions that the club looks familiar, both Taruto and Pai look around to get a good look of the place. Pai says, "You're right. This place is familiar but how?"

Taruto says, "I feel like I've been here with the girls before." After he says that, they all got it. Now they remember why this club looks so familiar.

Nineteen years ago after Ichigo quit her job at The Garden because Kisshu recommend it, she was looking for a club that was appropriate for her age to work at. Both Kisshu and Ichigo came here to check it out and she got the job after a singing contest. Then after the whole drama at Nevada and after a production of a school play, they came here for a party. Ichigo, Lettuce, and Pudding became a little group and sang for them. That was when the boys were going crazy for them as they were drooling over them. Remembering that, doom was dumped on top of them. Kisshu became the first one who was ready to head for the door.

"That's it!" he tells them. Both Pai and Taruto watch him as he says, "I am waiting outside for them and as soon as I see Kokoro, I am out of here!"

"Uncle!!"

All three adults think, 'Oh shit!!' They look up to the corner of the club and they see Hannya waving at them, motioning them to come over. Hannya, Kanjo, and an unknown girl are at a table and they're staring at them. Hannya jumps off her seat and heads for Pai as the girl get off and walk behind her. All three of them are confused because that unknown girl is not Kokoro.

Hannya greets, "Good evening, Uncles! Hannya is glad that Uncles are all here today!"

All three of them think, 'She talks third person when she's this age?' Then the girl came up behind Hannya.

Kisshu asks, "Hannya-chan, who's this? I thought it was you, Kanjo-kun, Kashu-kun, and Kokoro?"

Hannya turns around to the girl and she's just shaking her head in disappointment. Hannya says, "Uncle! This is Kashu-san!" The expressions on them were priceless.

Kisshu asks, "Kashu-kun's a…girl?!"

Kashu signs, "Sorry about that. I feel uncomfortable with boy clothing but since we're going to a club, might as well dress like my gender even though it feels weird."

"No, no!" Kisshu tells her, "We should have seen this. You see, my son dresses like a girl and he's a pretty one too."

"Oh, Kokoro-san?" Hannya asks. "Yes, Kokoro-san is a beautiful girl but he's a cute boy." Now all three of them are just bewildered with these kids.

Pai asks, "You know that Kokoro is a boy?"

Kashu tells them, "Not that hard." Now they just feel pathetic.

Hannya grabs Pai's hand and he looks at her confuse. She tells him, "Come, Uncle! Kanjo-kun is waiting for Hannya and family so let's go!" She starts pulling his hand towards their table. Kashu grabs Kisshu's arm and now he's confused.

She tells him, "Since I'm dressed like a girl, might as well act like one. Let's go, Uncle!" She smiles at him and starts pulling his arm. Taruto just fallows without anyone pulling his arm to the table. But while Hannya is holding Pai's hand like a kid, Kashu is pulling Kisshu's arm like a date.

"Kanjo-kun!" Hannya calls. He looks up and waves at them.

"Hey!" he greets. "You three came!"

Taruto reminds him, "We said we would, didn't we?" When Taruto looked at Kanjo's ears by chance, he saw Pudding's jade earrings. He silently gasps at the sight of them but looks away with a pain filled face. Kanjo saw that and looks down to lightly touch his ears. He still has them on and they hurt Taruto.

Kisshu looks around and asks, "Where's Kokoro, by the way?"

Kanjo answers, "He's not here yet. He said that he's running a little late."

All three of them think, 'He better not be running away or I swear he's dead!' Kashu can clearly see the disappointment and danger coming from them and she seems bored by that. Reality, Kokoro has his hat on and he's watching them from the bar side. He has a bottle of soda as he was watching them from the safe side.

About an hour later, Kokoro still hasn't arrived and now his father and his uncles are getting restless. Hannya asks them, "How long has Uncles been here?"

Pai answers, "We just arrived today."

"What made Uncles come here? Uncles on vacation?"

'I wish,' they thought.

Kashu touches her throat and then grabs Kisshu's arm. He looks at her surprise as she tells him, "Let's get some drinks! I'm dying of thirst." She turns towards the others and asks, "Anyone else want?" Hannya and Kanjo raised their hands as if they were asked on how wants to do the math problem on the board. Kashu gets off the high chair and pulls Kisshu with her. "Let's go! I need someone to order for me incase the bartender doesn't understand sign language."

"Hold on!" he tells her. He looks at Taruto and Pai and asks, "You guys want that?"

They both answered, "Yes, please."

But Taruto warns, "But none for you!"

"I'm not as dumb as you think." Then with that, he allows Kashu to drag him to the bar.

Taruto and Pai look at Hannya and Kanjo and Taruto ask, "Why can't Kashu talk? Obviously she can hear so…?"

Both of them answer, "It's complicated."

Since the bar was on the other side of the club. They had to push and squeeze through a few people to get there. Quickly when they were really close, Kashu thinks to Kokoro, 'We coming over so hide yourself.'

Kokoro looks behind in a sneaky way and nods when he caught Kashu's eye. He bends over like a tired teenager when they came and Kisshu didn't see him. The bartender saw them and asks, "What would you like?"

Kisshu looks at Kashu for an answer and she tells him, "Hannya likes water, Kanjo likes orange juice, and I'll take some Mountain Dew."

Kisshu raises his brows from that. He turns to the bartender and tells him, "We need a bottle of water, orange juice, Mountain Dew, tea, and two cold sake's."

The bartender asks, "Can I see your ID?"

Kisshu asks, "Do I look younger than 21 to you?" Kokoro got a little nervous after Kisshu asked the bartender that. There was silence for a bit before the bartender walked away. Kisshu vents, "Geeze! Humans these days are so annoying."

Kashu thinks, 'Tell me about it.'

"Sorry."

Kashu looks at Kisshu in surprise and asks, "About what?"

"For not enjoying the party," he tells her. He faces his body towards her and says, "You see, the reason why we came was because we thought that Kokoro was going to be here. You see, he ran away and I guess it was my fault that it happened." Kokoro looks at them in surprise as Kisshu moves his hair back as she curses, "Damn it."

Kashu looks at her father in surprise but then looks down to the ground. She wonders, 'Does mother feel like this now?' Kokoro looks from his father to her after that. Kashu looks back up at Kisshu and taps his shoulder. He looks at her as she smiles a smile of reinsurance. He didn't expect that. She signs him, "Just out of curiosity, why won't you have some alcohol? If you're so down then why not live it up?" She thinks, 'Even though I already know. It will be weird not to ask.'

Kisshu chuckles a bit after hearing that. He answers, "It's because I am very, very sensitive to alcohol." Kashu raised a brow at that. He tells her, "I'm serious. One drop and I act like I've been drinking nothing but whisky for two hours straight. When I married Ichigo, I couldn't even have champagne because it was too much for me. We tried before the wedding and next thing I knew, the bed was broken."

Both Kashu and Kokoro felt sick to their stomachs after hearing that. Ichigo is a vampire so she could probably handle it but still, that was something they didn't entirely wanted to hear. Kashu kept her composer as she asks him, "You're married to Aunty Ichigo? Seriously?!"

He lets out a sad laugh and tells her, "Yeah, kind of. We're separated right now."

"Well you guys are not getting a divorce are you?"

"We've been separated for fourteen years. A divorce would have been sweeter than hearing that she had a child with another man." Kashu was ready to just to scream and ask about that but then she remembered his last encounter with Ichigo and the others. They said that they were looking for their kids and when they announced that their minds are at that age in which they suck everything up, the guys probably thought that they had kids who are probably ten or younger; not fourteen.

Kashu told him, "Aunty Ichigo is not married to anyone else. She's still working at the café Mew Mew and she's always irritated." Kisshu stares at her in surprise after she said that. Kashu still continues while still pretending that she doesn't know anything, "There was always a day in which she acted like an animal. She would get so angry that she would try not to open the café and there were times when she was so angry that she would grab a piece of raw meat and sucking on it like a vampire. I was terrified at first but she told me that she does that as her own way of relieving stress and it's not real. But after the blood-sucking bit, she would eventually brake down crying. There were a few times I saw Aunty Lettuce and Aunty Pudding cry and act like that as well."

Kisshu was just staring at her. It was starting to make Kashu really nervous. Maybe she said way too much to act like just a friend to her mother. Minutes later, Kisshu asks her, "What exactly is your relationship to Ichigo?" Now she's stuck.

"Here's your orders," the bartender interrupted, delivering all of the drinks they ordered. They both got side tracked for a bit as they looked up on the counter to see the drinks. "You can just take them."

"Wowowowo!" Kisshu lets out, stopping the bartender before he left to go get other orders. He asks, "Don't we have to pay these?"

"No need," he told them. "Apparently, someone else bought them for you."

"Who?"

"Some guy and I would watch out if I were you. He was looking at your daughter like a chocolate cake." Both of them turn bright red at that comment as Kokoro stood up straight with a very shocked expression.

Kisshu quickly tells him, "Oh no, she's not my daughter!" Kashu flinches in pain after hearing that.

The bartender goes, "Oh." He looks at Kisshu and then at Kashu before looking at Kisshu and tells him, "Well make sure that your date doesn't get hurt." Then he started to walk away.

Kisshu yells, "She's not even that!!" But he was long gone and the music is too loud. Kisshu slouches on the counter and lets out a deep sigh. "There was a reason why I hated humans as soon as I got here!"

Kashu heard him but she didn't think much of it. Instead, she grabbed the drinks and teleported to the table. She was too angry to care if he saw her or not; he didn't. When she was gone, Kisshu looks up and starts looking around for her. Kokoro slouches back down on the counter before Kisshu turned to his direction.

"Kashu-kun? Kashu-kun!"

Kokoro looks from his father to the glasses across from him. All he could think of is, 'Poor Kashu-san.'

Kashu arrives at the table and just puts the tray on the table. The others jump when she just put the drinks on the table. After that, she jumped on her chair and she looks pissed off. Luckily, no one saw her arrive at the table through teleportation.

When Kisshu looks at the table, he sees her and she's leaning on the table with her palm hold her face. He lets out a sigh of relief before heading for the table himself.

Hannya asks, "Kashu-san? Are you okay?" Kashu looks at her with angry eyes and then uses one hand to make a line in front of her throat. She did so fast and so furiously, they got the idea to not ask anything more about that. For those that know, Kashu defiantly has her mother's temper.

But Pai asks, "Where's Kisshu?"

"Right here!" he announces, finally arriving. He looks at Kashu but she's looking away from him. He's confused but he starts passing the drinks around. He gives Hannya the water and Kanjo the juice. "Kashu-san says that you two like these."

"Thanks."

"Thank you very much."

Kisshu passes Kashu the Mountain Dew but she just took it with attitude. Now he's deeply confused and a bit hurt from her behavior. He continued.

"Here's your sake and I got some tea." He passes them the sake and they started to pour them a cup.

"Thanks."

Then the discussion continued but this time, Kashu didn't get involved. She was too busy staring at the wall in anger.

'Damn idiot. Now I know why mother is so angry with him!' she screams in her mind, still angry after ten minutes after the little bar thing.

Kokoro hears her and lets out a sigh. He couldn't help but think, 'He didn't know.' Surprisingly, Kashu heard him.

She flinches in surprise as she asks, 'Kokoro! Did I just…hear you?'

Kokoro gasps as he quickly asks, 'Kashu-san?'

'Oh my god. I can hear you? How?'

Kokoro was at a lost for words. 'Um, ah…. Maybe it's because it's still improving. My powers I mean!'

Kashu laughs after Kokoro concludes that. 'Even in your mind, you're still shuttering.'

Kokoro turns a bit red from that but afterwards he reverts back to what Kashu thought before the whole discovery of his power improvement. 'You can't blame him, you know. He doesn't know that you're his daughter.' Kashu was actually hoping that he wouldn't go back to this subject.

She tells him, 'I know that! I know that I know that but when I heard him say those words, it just hurt is all. I never had a father and now that he's sitting right next to me, it's an experience I will probably never forget but he didn't need to say those words.'

'Kashu-san, listen. I know that hearing those words hurt but like you said, you never had any daughter and father experiences. So how about we try and not let those words ruin what's going on now. Sure he doesn't know, but are you going to be angry with him all night that it will ruin this time you have with him now? If we fail, you might not get this chance again.'

Kashu's mind was completely blank for a good long minute. Kokoro's words were like the truth written in the Wise Book. After some silence, she chuckles again and tells him, 'Since when did you become a therapist?'

Kokoro turned bright red after that. He had no idea what to say. But besides Kokoro, Kisshu notices that Kashu was chuckling at the wall. He was curious about that; so curious that he was just staring at her. He was staring at her so much that he accidently picks up the wrong drink; Taruto's. When Taruto's drink was already at Kisshu's lips that was when both Pai and Taruto notice what drink he has.

They both call, "Kisshu!!" But it was too late. The kids heard them, as well as Kashu and they look at Kisshu. He took a good sip of Taruto's sake and now both of them are really nervous.

Kashu quickly tells Kokoro, 'Kokoro…We have a problem.'

'What?'

'Our father just took a good long drink of Uncle Taruto's drink.'

'What?!!'

Hearing that, Kokoro turns around to see Kisshu pause after having a drink of Taruto's. He carefully and slowly put the sake cup down on the table. Then suddenly, he brushed his hair with his free hand, his cheeks are flaring red, and his eyes look angry. "The hell are you all staring at?! You want a fight or something?"

Taruto, Pai, and Kashu had one thought, 'Oh shit!'

As both Kashu and Hannya think, 'Oh no.' Kanjo's mind is all but a blank as he sees Kisshu's sudden attitude change.

Taruto tells him with stern voice, "Kisshu, calm down."

"Why should I?" he asks, leaning over him; his breathe smells like alcohol. "This is a party right? We should go all out!" Okay now he's crazy. He turns around and says, "I'm getting another drink! We need more life in this party!"

Quickly both Taruto and Pai grab him and pull him back. Taruto tells him, "You are not going anywhere and you are not drinking anything!" As he pulls him back, he whispers to Pai, "Thank god Kokoro took all of the pills that can turn us human and allow us to use our powers." Kashu heard them clear as day.

'Good thing indeed.'

'What?'

'You taking all of the pills otherwise this would have been very dangerous.'

Kokoro was silent after that. He was actually thinking the same thing. Then the things really started to heat up when someone with two drinks in hand was walking by. That person caught Kisshu's eye and he smirked with a devilish thought crossing his mind. Too bad that Kokoro is not attuned to his mind like how he is with Kashu's.