Chapter 36

"You look super sexy without your shirt you know." Namiko said as she reached a hand out and began to run her hand over his exposed but not ridiculously large muscles.

Ritsu felt it tickling his chest as she ran her fingers over his muscular build. "Don't tell me that's the only reason you wanted my shirt off." Ritsu said as Namiko sat upon the dryer, swinging her legs back and forth.

"And if it was?" Namiko counteracted. Without hesitation she grabbed ahold of Ritsu and pulled him to her forcefully. She heard the gasp from Ritsu but she didn't care. Once their lips touched, she was in bliss, hoping she was giving him the same intimate, but also sweet and innocent feeling. She remembered vaguely hearing a light thub on the floor but she didn't pay attention as she snaked her arms around his neck and into his rose red hair.

Ritsu was shocked, but had to admit that it was a little bit of a turn on when she grabbed him. He couldn't it when he felt the urge to hold her closer to him. He then began to wrap his arms tighter around Namiko's waist, molding their body's together. He moved one hand to the back of her shoulder blades and the other to one hip.

"Mmm," Namiko moaned as she kissed Ritsu. She barely pulled away from him, still smiling, when suddenly out of nowhere, she saw what looked like a bat coming fast against Ritsu's head! She tried moving him out of the way, but...

WHAM!

"Namiko!" Kyo said loudly as he stood in front of her, still in his bat swinging pose. Off to the right, Ritsu was flat against the wall with cracks still forming.

"Our wall!" Nobu sputtered.

"Did you just hit Ritsu into the wall with a baseball bat?!" Namiko squeaked, still in shock. She went to help Ritsu off the wall but was kindly stopped by Kyo.

Kyo smiled and patted Namiko on the head, "You silly-billy, why didn't you you let us know you were home? You scared us, made us think we had burglar braking in!"

"I may have preferred a burglar!" Nobu said, still looking at Ritsu and the damage wall, right as Ritsu finally fell off, leaving a huge human sized hole.

"Uh Dad-K?" Namiko tried to say.

"I know, it is kind of late for your other father and I to still be in bed, but we did have a long night last night," Kyo continued, totally ignoring the situation to the right of him.

"M-M-Mr. Fujioka?" Ritsu said shaking and rubbing his face.

"Oh and look, you're so sweet doing the laundry like this! What a wonderful girl we have. But oh what's this?" Kyo asked taking Ritsu's wet shirt from Namiko, "I don't recall ever owning this shirt. And I don't believe your other father did. Hmm, must be a rag of some kind. Might as well just throw it all away."

"Please, sir, I can explain," Ritsu tried to say as he reached up. Suddenly Kyo's foot stomped down hard on Ritsu's chest.

"Oh dear, looks like I've found more trash to throw away!" He said in an obvious angry tone. He grabbed Ritsu by his pant leg and started to drag him away. However, he stopped at the last second and looked at the wall with the big hole.

"Hmm, say Nobu, do you think this room could use a new paint job? I think so," he added like it was nothing, before he continued to drag Ritsu away.

"Dad, stop it!" Namiko finally shouted as she ran after him quickly and blocked his path, she ripped Ritsu from her dad's grasp and started tending to this head to make sure nothing was damaged. "You're being extremely rude to Ritsu!"

"Extremely rude to who?" Kyo asked, picking Ritsu's leg up again and trying to drag him away.

"To Ritsu!" Namiko shouted, pointing at the poor boy.

"Hmm? Namiko, since when did you date garbage?" Kyo asked.

"Kyo, let him up. Enough is enough," Nobu finally spoke up.

"We'll excuse me for having standards and one of them being that a young man does not come into our home and starts kissing our daughter shirtless!" Kyo snapped.

"He. Is. Not. Garbage! I let him in!" Namiko said mad, "and I told him to take his shirt off!"

"What?!" Both her fathers said.

"No! Where did our innocent little girl go?!" Kyo hysterically cried.

"He got soaked when the automatic sprinklers turned on and so I said I'd wash his clothes for him. And after, he took it off, I kissed him," Namiko finally explained.

Both her dads stared at her with blank stares.

"Now, Dad-K, please let my boyfriend up." She requested.

"Boyfriend?!" Nobu cried.

Kyo turned around and looked towards Ritsu, "did she really call you her boyfriend young man?"

"Uh yes sir," said Ritsu scared.

"Hmm," Kyo said, purposely dropping Ritsu's leg down hard on the floor. Ritsu moaned in pain and Namiko quickly ran over to him.

"Are you okay?" She asked.

"I think so," Ritsu said.

"So, after only a three day trip, you have already managed to seduce my daughter into thinking you and her are now boyfriend and girlfriend?" Kyo was quiet for a moment, "So, What do you want? Men are only after one thing!" Kyo questioned.

"Uh well sir, you see," Ritsu sputtered. Kyo twirled around fast in a dramatic form.

"No, you see, if you're going to declare yourself good enough for our daughter, you're going to have to put your money where your mouth is. And I know just where you can start! Nobu!"

"Right!" Nobu said as both pulled Ritsu up and linked arms with him, pulling him along with them.

"Dads, where are you taking him?!" Namiko shouted as she ran after the trio.

"Don't worry dear, we're just going to put him to, The Test!" Kyo said.

"The Test?!" Namiko said in fear.

"What? What's the test?!" Ritsu asked in a panic.

"Oh you'll see," said Nobu as both he and Kyo pushed him into a room. Ritsu looked around scared before realizing he was in the kitchen.

"What am I...," Ritsu started to ask.

"I want an omelet, with bacon and a nice cup of orange juice!" Kyo ordered.

"And I want pancakes, also with bacon and black coffee with lots of cream and just a small amount of sugar, just a little!" Nobu also ordered.

"Wait, you want me to make you breakfast?" Ritsu asked confused.

"Yes and you had better hurry!" Kyo snapped.

"We'll expect it to be done or close to be once we're both done showering and dressing!" Nobu added, "and then afterwards we'll have your other chores prepared."

'Other chores?" Ritsu repeated.

"Yes, starting with the laundry," Kyo said, "lord knows how much you soiled Namiko's clothes on this trip!"

"So hurry up and get going! You have much today before dinner time ,which you are also going to make for us!" Nobu order one last time before both men walked away.

Once they were gone, Namiko sheepishly slipped into the kitchen, "sorry about that. This is all my fault," she apologized as she wrapped her arm around him innocently.

"It's okay," Ritsu assured her, "but are your dads really going to make me cook and clean for them all day?"

"They always said they would do something like that anytime I'd dare bring a boyfriend home. They claimed that they were going to make him quote-unquote prove my love for me by working his butt off," said Namiko. She sighed. "But don't worry about dinner. I'll be making that. You could help me with dinner if you'd like."

Ritsu smiled kindly. "Alright, now... I've never cooked or cleaned before... so,"

Namiko smiled. "How about we cook and clean together? I'll get the stuff and show you. It could be fun." Namiko suggested and winked.

Nobu and Kyo entered their room and sighed heavily. "I can't believe that our innocent Namiko initiated the kiss..." Kyo said, not sure what to do.

"I mean, if she did kiss him first, you can't get angry with the boy... but at the same time, you can since he reciprocated." Nobu stated, as he and Kyo joined in on a shower together to speed up the process.

Once done, each dressed in robes that they found on their bed, along with a note.

Dad-K, Dad-N, I'm sorry about this morning. I got these for you two while in Okinawa, so... I hope you like these. P.S. Ritsu paid for them. I tried paying but he wouldn't let me... anyways, love you guys.

Namiko!

Nobu and Kyo looked at one another and put them on before going to the kitchen.

"Okay, you should be able to flip those now," they heard Namiko say as they walked back in.

"Like this?" Ritsu asked as he tried flipping a pancake.

"Good," Namiko praised before opening a cupboard to pull out some plates and cups. Just then there was a ding from the microwave. "Bacon done." She pulled it out herself and placed it on the kitchen table.

"Should we be letting Namiko help him with these chorse?" Kyo asked.

"Well, maybe, I mean how much manual labor do assume this young man has done in his life?" Nobu pointed out.

"But," Kyo tried to protest.

"Let's just wait and see how much he work he actually does on his own. If he's slacks off too much we'll intervien. But maybe seeing how well the two work together might make it easier to decide if he's good enough for our daughter," Nobu insisted.

"Fine," Kyo allowed calmly.

The two men quickly took their places at the table.

"So," Nobu spoke up, "is our nearly complete?"

"In a minute Dad-N," Namiko said.

"Could we at least have our orange juice and coffee?" Kyo asked.

"Right, the coffee and orange juice!" Ritsu said hurrying over to the coffee maker and pulling the pot out. He carried it over to the tabel, "which one wanted coffee?"

"That would be me," Nobu said holding up his mug.

Ritsu did his best to keep his hand steady as he poured the coffee, " here you are sir."

"Thank you," said Nobu, "but aren't we forgetting something?"

"Uh," Ritsu tried hard to remember.

"The cream and sugar," Nobu reminded him.

"Right! Yes!" Ritsu said looking around quickly.

"Psst," Namiko hissed slipping him some cream and sugar packets.

"Thanks," Ritsu breathed a sigh of relief. He presented them to Nobu, "here you are sir."

"Thank you young man," Nobu said, before holding back up his mug, "please add it to my coffee."

"What?" Ritsu replied.

"Add the cream and sugar to my coffee young man," Nobu ordered with a smirk. Kyo had a similar smirk as well.

"Dad-N, he's not a servant you know," Namiko protested.

"Namiko, this is your fathers thing, let us handle it," said Kyo.

Lord Kasanoda sat peacefully on his terrace reading his newspaper. He looked up however when he heard Tetsuya cleaning up the table next to him.

"Tetsuya, why hasn't my son return yet?" He asked.

"I don't know, I just thought he was going to drop off his lady friend at her house," Tetsuya said.

"Hmm, we'll I supposed I can't degrudge the boy a little time with friends. But do let me know when he has returned home," Kasanoda said before returning to his paper.

"So Dads, how was your meal?" Namiko asked as she and Ritsu leaned against the counter watching the two men eat.

"Coffee had a little too much sugar in it," Nobu muttered.

"Dad-N!" Namiko snapped.

"And is this a premade instant omelet? " Kyo asked, "why didn't I get a made from scratch meal?"

"Because we only had a short amount of time to make you your full breakfast before you got done with your showers and changing," Namiko explained.

"Namiko, please," Kyo said, pointing his fork towards Ritsu, "we need an explanation from him!

"Uh, it's like your daughter said sir, we only had a short amount for me to learn how to cook something and since you were all out of instant pancakes, we had to use a precooked omelet," Ritsu explained, trying not to sound nervous.

"Hmup," sneered both fathers before looking back at each other.

"Let's hope he doesn't try toomany excuses forthe other choreshe does all day," said Nobu.

"Indeed," Kyo agreed.

"Dads!" Namiko groaned.

"Dishes," both men suddenly shouted as they finished off what was left of their meal. They then stood up and handed their dishes off to Ritsu.

"Clean them good now," Nobu said.

"And you betterhand wash them. These plates are very delicate, too delicate for the dishwasher," Kyo added.

"No they're not!" Namiko tried to protest.

"Namiko," Kyo said, " remember this is your dads' thing. Let us handle it."

'It's going to be a long day isn't it?' Namiko thought, 'god I wish we were back at the beach right now!'