A/N: I loved writing this part! And 3046 words! O.o Wauw!

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Powerful Rikkai Dai

11 – Fujika Family Dinner

Normal POV

Bock!

Bock!

Bock!

Bock!

"Ah, I never get tired of this!" Niou exclaimed, hitting yet another ball against her. Bock! Nadjai's eye started twitching, but pulled in air quickly, trying to calm her senses.

Bock!

"Tell me …" She muttered to herself. "Why again I took him with me to practice – this is starting to get annoying!" She had thought it as funny to bring him, since he didn't have any healthy hobbies – unless you count sneaking dead birds into the principal's office? – so! Tennis would be just the thing for him!

Bock!

… Or … So she had thought. But the only thing he did was to hit balls at her, hitting with precise accuracy – in the head. "Would-"

Bock!

"-You-"

Bock!

"-Please-"

Bock!

"-Stop-"

Bock!

"-THAT!"

Bock! Bock! Bock!

Apparently not …

"Or you could just quicken your pace …"

Bock!

Sanada and Yukimura both watched by the fence, a little bit worried – but also a little curious to know, who her new friend was. "I told you to stop already!" She started yelling at him, starting to hit the ball back at him. But shortly after, they were both chased around on the courts by the boys' captain. Apparently, being a girl on the boys' courts weren't really something, she was allowed to. "WAH! I was trying to get people to join! You shouldn't chase away a person giving you members! DAMN'IT!"

And now the captain had also found out his racket and started bombing her with tennis balls. "WHAT HAVE I DONE WRONG?!"

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Your POV

"RUN!"

"Yes sir!" You wailed out, as Captain Zen had caught you in the end (as you tried crawling the fence) and handed you over to your own captain. And who was the most sadistic and mean on the two? Hum, hum? I wonder … Of course, the answer would be sweet, innocent captain Miku.

The second she saw you, your orders were "600 laps around the courts!" – lucky you! When done, you'd have beaten the record – by ten-folds or something – if you survived, that is. Crying in your mind, you swore revenge on every living person in the world that played tennis. I'll kill them all! I swear!

"I'LL DESTROY YOU ALL!"

All heads turned and stared after her, as she continued with her Death March.

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"Wah …" Riku slowly patted the back of her best friend, while you cried out, rubbing your ankles. 600 laps were the perfect opportunity to trip in your shoelaces – more than once. And you had of course sprained your ankle too. "It hurts … It hurts …!" You wailed out, just when the captain walked over with a bag of ice. Rolling her eyes, she dropped it onto your foot.

"Just keep holding it down hard – it'll ease the pain." She said, poking your foot a little. "Yup, definitely swollen."

You stared annoyed at her, tears in your eyes. "I could have told you that without having you poking me." The two girls shook their heads at you, but you only stuck your tongue out annoyed. "Bah!"

You watched as the captain suddenly went 'captain-mode' again and ordered Riku to get back practicing. "What are you doing? Stalling?!" You chuckled happily, as you finally were able to watch someone else being tormented by the captain. This time is ain't me! Mwuhaha!

Just then you looked around and noticed a person, whom you should actually have talked to some time ago. "Oi! Gen-chan!" You called out, grabbing the boy's attention. At first, he only looked at you for a second, but then walked on, but when you called out again (a notch higher), he sighed and walked over.

"What?" He asked annoyed. "I'm in the middle of practice."

"And?" You asked, raising an eyebrow. "It's not like the cap' will kill you. Or- well, your captain probably won't. If it was …" You glanced at Miko, who one again was yelling at your friend. "Then I guess you wouldn't survive. But! It's Zen-san! You'll be fine! Just fine …" He only waited to hear, whatever you were trying to tell him. He raised an eyebrow questioningly. You looked at him, blinking. Then it hit you. "Oh, right! I should ask from my mom, if you wanted to come home to us for dinner today?"

"Ah … sure, now your mother asks."

You glared. "What do you mean by that? You only want to since it's my mom?! What if I had asked you?!"

"Then no."

You gaped at him. Ah …

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Normal POV

"Ohh! Gen-chan!" Sometimes, he really, really deep inside wanted to take out a machine-gun and blow that annoying girl into pieces. Sometimes was perhaps not the right word … "OI! GEN-CHAN!" All the time would be better suited. And just why, WHY?!, did she have to call him that?

"Gen-chan?" He suddenly felt a light tap on his shoulder and he looked down on her. She was looking puzzled, yet still smiling, up at him. Now would be the perfect time to just grab one of those pencils in his pocket and stick it through her eye- OK! Hold it! No murders allowed on school grounds – he had to be a good boy and follow the rules.

She would live for now …

"You seem awfully absentminded lately?" She stated, while they started walking for the bus, walking through the gateless opening into school. Sanada did nothing to retort to her statement, but continued staying quiet and just focus on … walking. Yes … Keep the killer mind at bay. That's the spirit! "Hm … You know, is there something wrong? Do you have a fever? Or perhaps it's something with the heart? Are you … love sick?"

All he had to do was breathe … It wasn't hard. He could do it … He would not kill her!

"Is there someone you like? Have you confessed?"

She just wouldn't stop, would she?

"You know … I love you."

She was so … absolutely de-

WHAT?!

Not able to keep his poker face, he stared at her. Mouth opened. Eyes completely widened. Did she just say … that? Did she say the word? He had stopped, dead in his tracks and Nadjai quickly followed suit. She only continued smiling. That smile just never left her face, did it? Not even when she had just said something that would obviously make people freaked out. "Or something like that …!" She waved it off, starting to walk again. Her hands folded on her back, she happily walked up ahead.

He stared after her.

How can someone just drop a BOMB and then think nothing more of it?!

She smiled, when he had finally decided to get going again and was now standing in front of her at the bus-stop. Nadjai was casually sitting at the bench, eyeing the road and expecting the bus to come any second – racing from the sky or whatever that went through her mind.

Then she beaming turned her attention back to him. "Fufu! Got you good there, didn't I?" She asked, grinning broadly from one ear to another. "Made you snap out of it! Just as planned! Perhaps it was a little over-board but I couldn't come up with anything else … But, hey! It was effective!"

So it was all just something to make him snap out of it?

"But … I still love you."

Wiiiiiiiii! Bombs away! …

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Your POV

"Ah, Genichirou-kun!" Your mother quickly opened the door and greeted you and your friend. After you had, err … messed a little around with Gen-chan, he had stayed silent for the rest of the time. Did I cross the line? You pondered, as your mom helped Sanada with his jacket and bag.

"So, how's school coming along?" She asked him, while guiding him into the living-room. "I guess you are doing great as usual? And how's your love life coming along?"

Somewhat, Sanada wished he was dead. Like mother like daughter apparently?

"Mom!" You chipped in, pushing her into the kitchen, so that Sanada wouldn't hear your argument – you know; private stuff. You gave him a quick, innocent smile, before you disappeared behind the door into the other room. But of course he was able to hear everything quite clearly, as … discretion wasn't something that ran in that family.

"Don't you dare start questioning him about anything at all! It's annoying!"

"Not like you don't do that yourself!"

"It's different!"

"No, it isn't!"

"Yes it is! He's my friend!"

"So, what?"

"So what everything! Friends are allowed to question each other!"

"Oh?"

"Oh!"

Sanada stared at the closed door, eyebrow raised. What happy family time those two shared …?

"Perhaps, when I came in on the subject of love life, you became jealous?"

All of that was followed by a few seconds of silence, but then … "WHAT?!" You spluttered. "Jealous?! Why on Earth would I be JEALOUS?!"

"I don't know why not …"

"Oh really?"

"Then again … You have been friends since forever and it's always bound to happen …" Your mother trailed off.

"What is?"

"You know … the two friends suddenly start acting weird around each other … and both starting to develop feelings and then, without knowing, they're in love and happily married!"

"… Seriously, what a quick development …" Came your annoyed retort.

"What? It happens!"

"As if!"

Sanada's POV

In the end, you decided to just let the two be and not listen to their argument – it was normal and he was used to it. In stead you walked over to the mantelpiece and picked up the nearest picture-frame. You smiled- Scratch that, your mouth twitched up ,00001 per cent - so, for you, you guessed, it could be called a smile. The immortalized moment showed a smiling Nadjai, though looking rather pale, a just as pale mother, glancing towards the restrooms, and … you.

You remembered that time quite well. One day, a weekend, in the middle of the morning, Nadjai had suddenly stood in front of your door. She tried doing the jingle-bell, knocking on the door. Before you knew of it, you had been tied up, dragged out of your house and into their car. At the seats in front, her mother and father sat, grinning just as broadly as her.

After that you had found yourself in the nearest amusement park, stuck in a rollercoaster with Nadjai by your side, yelling down at her parents, as they had forced her to try it. She never really did enjoy those sorts of rides … But in the end she had been forced to try it – more than once.

The picture had been taken just after the fifteenths time. She and her mother both were born cowards, so they were close to fainting in the end. You, on the other hand, didn't even find them interesting.

Just while you were getting consumed by the good old days, the door got opened again and the two, still arguing, emerged into the living-room. Nadjai held a plate in her hands, where she was trying not to spill the hot, boiling tea all over. Her mother was right behind her, trying to take it away from her. "Come on, honey! It'll go a lot easier if you just give it to me! You'll just get hurt!"

"Mom!" She whined, dodging her and spilling some on the floor. "I can handle it quite well, thank you!"

"Doesn't look like it!" She exclaimed, now depressed staring at the soon-to-be spot on the ground. Then, with a sigh, she left for the kitchen to get a cloth. In the mean time, Nadjai carefully placed the tray on the sofa-table and took out the cups and kettle. Then she poured it up, doing real graceful.

Her mother returned and right away went into a fit; mouth a gap and staring at the water now all over the table too. "Why couldn't I get a normal child … Why …?"

Oh, God, how had you just ended up in this house again?

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Normal POV

Nadjai was starting to get really annoyed at her mother and really, REALLY hoped that her father would soon get home … just so she would annoy someone else but her daughter. She glanced out the window while sipping up the tea. Sanada was sitting next to her on the couch, just looking ahead of himself, remembering the jolly events that had happened earlier in the room.

Nadjai had nearly been murdered by her mother, as she had forgotten to put something under the warm cups. "I have told you a million times to do that, or else there'll get rings on the table!" That had been followed by the child getting choked by the mother.

Just then a car door slammed outside the house and she quickly peaked up, once again glancing out the window. "Mom!" She called out. "Dad's home!"

"Then open the door!" Her mother snapped. "I'm getting attacked by the salad, so I'm a little busy!"

Rolling her eyes, she jumped up from the couch and ran for the door, just as the bell rang. Sanada was able to hear the sound of the door, getting slung open and the girl greeting her father. "Hi, dad! Had a nice day? Here, let me take your coat! God, I'm glad to see you!"

Somewhat; how people just could make out her sucking-up voice at that moment. "Do you need money or something?" The father asked, knowing she wanted something, as he had known her since birth.

"W-what?!" She spluttered, acting completely innocent. "I'm just happy to see you, dad!" Trying to fool him, she guided him into the living-room. "Oh, yeah! Gen-chan's here!"

"Nice to see you, Genichirou-kun, how are you?" Her father asked him politely.

"Dad!" She laughed nervously. "Don't start asking him questions too!"

"Oh … so it got something to do with your mother, does it?"

"Ah …"

Reassuring her, he walked out into the kitchen to void her mother's attention towards something else than tormenting Sanada about his love life. She let out a sigh of relief and plumped down into the couch once again. "Thank God for that!" She muttered.

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"Dinner's served!" Her mother called, head popping through the door.

And so the three family-members and the good friend gathered around the table and a rather … strange family dinner began. Of course, as this family was – what most people would call it – mentally unstable, it did go a little past normal …

"No. No. and NO! I will NOT eat it!"

"But, huney, you need your vegetables!" Her mother chipped in. "You need to grow up!"

"Wha'?! I am grown up!"

"No way!" Her father joined the fun. "You call 1.55 meters grown up?! You're a shrimp and you know it!"

"You people are so mean!" Nadjai pouted, poking to the carrots on her plate. "You know … this is a quite normal height for a 12 year old girl, don't you think?"

"If you want to become a model later on, then at least grow twenty centimetres more."

"Since when did I want to become a MODEL?!"

"Since your dad and I talked about it."

"… I have no comment at all …"

"That's good! Now, eat!"

"NO!"

"Then … let's say … you have to eat at least three carrots, one squash and four tomatoes?"

"Nu-uh!" Pressing her hands against her ears, she shut out her mother's reprimanding voice. "I'm not listening! La la la la la!"

"Now, behave young lady! You might act like this normally, but not when we got a guest- oh, Genichirou-kun, would you like another portion of rice?"

"-la la la la-"

"Yes, thank you." He put out his bowl and the – still arguing – mother quickly poured some more over in his before returning her attention to the daughter.

"-la la la la la la-"

"Stop it! What do you think Genichirou-kun is thinking of you!"

I-di-ot would probably suit quite well …

"-la la la la la la la la-"

"Well, even though I've been told not to ask any questions, but how is school coming along."

"Just fine." Sanada answered, leaning back in the chair, as a carrot went flying past in front of him. Real lucky him, he found Nadjai on one side and her mother on the other. That's what you'd call a tight spot …

"I take it that you look after my daughter too?"

"As much as it is now possible."

The father laughed. "Of course, she can be a little hard to, err- control …"

"-la la la la la-"

"True …"

Once again, another carrot wooshed pastby him; this time coming from the side of the older woman. Nadjai's father sighed, wondering if his wife had slipped a love-potion into his drink when they had started dating. Because, really, he had no idea how he had ended up in this situation.

"-la la la-"

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"See you tomorrow, Gen-chan!" Nadjai yelled after him, as he made his way down the isle towards the street outside. She waved and happily beamed after him. "Hope you had a nice time with us! Uh- and, sorry 'bout the carrot through the eye thing … Bye!"

When he was out of sight, she closed the door with a sigh out relief. That didn't go too bad … well, not as bad as predicted, but by normal standards … it would go by the word disaster. Then she made her way into the living-room again, where she found her parents in busy talking among each other. "That went smooth!"

"I can't wait till you two get married!"

Complete, utmost silence …

"WHAT?!"

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