Mob didn't really like kendo.

She didn't get it. Dad had explained it to her a bunch of times before, and she had listened, but she just didn't get it. What was the point of a game where all you did was hit someone with a wooden sword? That seemed mean and painful. Boys were so weird sometimes…well most boys. Serizawa didn't get it either but he was a lot nicer than most boys. Sho would have liked this…if he'd liked dad…and if dad liked him…but Sho didn't like dad and dad didn't like him. Sho was locked in their room right now, she didn't know why he locked the door and he wouldn't tell her, but if he had been here and he and dad had gotten along then she knew that he would have had a good time.

A better time than she was having, at least.

"Is it over yet?" asked Mob. One of the guys finally got hit, and in the head too. Maybe now it was over and dad would pick something else for them to watch. She could have just gone and slept in the living room, she would have been able to watch whatever she wanted on the big TV, but then she would have been all alone. If she was all alone then Shimazaki would have asked her to hang out with him. She could have gone and had a sleepover with Serizawa but Minegishi was next door and they kept on asking her to talk.

She knew what they wanted to talk about.

Mob was clueless, not dumb, she knew that Minegishi wanted to talk about how Mob had been kissing their boyfriend. There was no way to justify what she had done. She hadn't wanted to kiss Shimazaki, she hadn't asked to kiss Shimazaki, and if she had a time machine then she would have gone back in time and made sure that she never did whatever she did that made Shimazaki want to kiss her. But she didn't and she couldn't so all she could do was avoid her best friend for the rest of her life because she had made the biggest mistake that she had ever made in her life.

And, yes, she was counting the time she accidentally put a metal fork in the microwave.

She…she missed Minegishi…and how things used to be with Shimazaki…but she was with her dad and dad was….ok. She loved her dad. Even if he was a jerk sometimes, most of the times, and even if he had done a lot of really bad things, like hit Sho or call Mukai a mistake, she still loved him. Love was complicated, she decided, complicated and kind of…maybe random? Like she loved her dad but he was kind of a bad person sometimes….and Shimazaki was IN love with her and she was…her. She wasn't as pretty as Minegishi or as smart as them and she had never done any of the stuff that she knew Shimazaki and Minegishi did together so she probably would have been bad at it if Shimazaki asked her…so, really, she had no idea why he was in love with her. Love was weird and complicated and…and she just didn't get it.

Love was like kendo only without the swords.

"No, not even close. That was an illegal move…honestly. A child could have done better." Said Suzuki as Shigeko leaned in closer to him. He adjusted the blanket around her. She'd been seeking him out lately and, finally, was he ready for visitors. He felt like he was coming out of his strategic retreat…though feelings should not have factored into this at all. He should have just gotten up and gone on with his life like usual. He had kissed Fukuda. It happened and now it was over. His feelings, these inane emotions, should not have been affecting him at all.

But they were.

He wondered if he was getting old and losing control of his mental capacities. That would have made sense. He had lived his entire life with near perfect control over his emotions and now, at the age of nearly fifty, he was reduced to a reclusive wreck just because he acted on feelings that…that he'd managed to keep under control for decades. Love was complex, too complex for him. He wished that love were more like kendo.

He understood kendo.

At it's core kendo was about strategy. Simultaneous attack and defense. Knowing your opponent and knowing that you were better. Love was…more like a team sport. He'd been a kendo prodigy in his youth, as soon as he'd been able to lift a shinai under his own strength father had taught him everything that he knew. Kendo was a solitary sport, you against your opponent, and there was no need for anything else. You didn't have to keep track of the movements, strengths, and weaknesses of your teammates. You didn't have to come up with a play, a plan, with anyone else. You didn't have to take anyone into account but yourself and how you were best going to beat your opponent. Love…wanting to bond with someone….even sex were all team sports…

And Suzuki had never been good at those. Tadashi had always been better.

But Tadashi was….Tadashi was both the teammate and the opponent in this situation. He wanted…he wanted a great many things at this point in his life. He wanted to rule the world. That was, somehow, the simplest of his goals. He was going to take the world within the decade at this rate. He just had…well he had a great many things which required his attention. He should have been in the Philippines now, specifically Manila, because there was an asset there that he needed to deal with personally…and there were whispers of an uprising being planned in the Hong Kong offices….and he'd heard rumors, well they'd reached him, of infiltration by the Japanese government. Also Mukai really wanted to go to the big water. He wasn't sure where it was but she had assured him that you needed an airplane to get there. He had places to be.

But he couldn't leave.

He couldn't leave Shiori. She was…less complex than Tadashi. He loved Shiori with every fiber of his being. He knew this. He could recognize this. He had never had a woman that he didn't love at least a little. He loved her more than a little…and what he felt for her was certainly stronger than whatever it was that he felt for Tadashi. There was…a great deal of sexual desire when he thought of Fukuda…but it wasn't romantic. He knew sexual desire, it came and went without any rhyme or reason, and Shiori had told him to act on it. She had told him to get that aspect of himself sorted out before he pursued any sort of a relationship with her…a more secure on. They were so…he couldn't leave her. She wasn't his wife.

Leaving Masami had been easy.

She'd been his wife and he'd had the reasonable assurance that she would have been there, in their home, when he came back. He sent her gifts, her and the children, and he had her watched as well so there was no need to correspond with her. He had Shiori watched too, of course, though more carefully since she considered this not to be an act of love and caring but an invasion of her privacy. He had no idea why. He'd made himself perfectly clear that they were to only watch her house, her work, and to monitor her comings and goings. They were not to look into her windows no matter how curious they were…the Awakened were so like children sometimes. Shiori was…odd…at times but he knew that he loved her and if him having sex with Fukuda was a contingency of their nuptials then, yes, he would have sex with Fukuda.

At least it should have been simple in theory.

Things were seldom as simple in life as they were in theory. In theory he should have been able to walk right up to Tadashi and tell him point blank that they were going to have anal sex, Tadashi giving and him receiving, and it was going to end at the point of mutual orgasm and then after that they were never going to speak of it again. It should have been simple…but these sorts of things were never simple. Tadashi had humbled himself, something that he never did without being forced to, and then all the trust that Suzuki had lost in him came back….and then all of those other emotions too….and the next thing he knew he had been sitting on his desk trying to get Tadashi to take him right then and there….and now here he was. Hiding from the world in in his room with his daughter…

At least he had good company…even if this was shaping up to be a terrible kendo match.

"Oh…alright. After this do you want to watch something else?" asked Mob

"Such as?" asked Suzuki

"I know an anime about a kendo club. It's in high school and the club needs one more member or it's going to be shut down so they ask this transfer student and they think that she's a boy but she's just a girl with short hair who wears the boy's uniform because she's too poor for a girl's uniform and she doesn't think that she's pretty but she is and all the boys fall in love with her but she doesn't go out with any of them because she's shy and she doesn't realize that they're all in love with her. Also there's an episode where they play baseball." Said Mob

"There….are all sorts of things wrong with the program you just described to me." Said Suzuki. This was the state of entertainment now? Well when he ruled the world he was going to be making several serious changes. All television shows were going to have to be one hundred percent accurate. No more creative liberties…well….aside from science fiction of course….and the editing choices made in the reality shows Shiori loved would have to stay since they created drama and Shiori loved drama.

"No, I got it all right. Oh! I left out the episode where they all went to the beach…but I don't really want to watch that one….you wouldn't like it." Said Mob. The last thing she wanted to do was watch an episode about cute boys with no shirts on doing beach things with her DAD of all people. Gross. Even with her mom it would have been weird. It wasn't weird with Minegishi, though, since they were her friend….well it would have been weird now….but Mob had nobody to blame about that but herself.

"I…would not want to watch something like that with my daughter either…well any of my children…but that is not my point. Kendo clubs are never in danger of being depopulated. On the contrary, we used to have to turn away dozens of perspective members. Secondly a female student on a kendo team would not have been an odd sight even when I was young. Thirdly a young woman receiving romantic attention from multiple men would have surely noticed and chosen one by the time the series ended. Kendo is time consuming, I know this from firsthand experience, but not so time consuming that someone in that stage of their life would have turned down attention from the opposite sex." Said Suzuki. He thought that he had argued his point well. Shigeko, on the other hand, seemed to think different. He must have said something, he had no idea what, but she must have found it incredibly disagreeable since she had pulled the neck of her nightgown up over her face and was shaking her head.

"Dad! Don't say that!" said Shigeko

"What specific part of what I said do you disagree with?" asked Suzuki

"The…the part where you said the s-word." Said Mob. Why did dad have to go and say things like that?! Gross! Her dad was NOT allowed to say that word, ever, even if she wasn't in the room to hear it! Dads were NOT allowed to talk like that!

"What? Sex?" asked Suzuki

"Dad!" said Mob

"Sex as in gender, Shigeko, not sex as in intercourse." Said Suzuki

"You said it again!" said Mob as she pulled the blanket over her head. She wondered if it was possible to die of embarrassment. Her dad was NEVER allowed to say that word! Saying that word meant that…well she knew how she and her little brother and sister had gotten there but….gross! She…well she knew that it was a thing that adults did…and she thought about stuff sometimes but she did not want to talk about it with her dad! She didn't want to ever talk about it or…or even think about it…even when there was no one around!

Thinking about stuff like that made her think about Shimazaki.

She didn't want to do that stuff. Thinking about it was one thing. She thought about a lot of things. She thought about stealing all the cats in the city and then taking them with her to live on a giant dairy farm where they could have all the milk they wanted…even though cats were allergic. She never would have done that because stealing was wrong and the cats would have gotten sick if they drank the milk. She thought about, sometimes, just using her powers to open her bedroom door when Sho locked himself in there for hours and hours because she wanted to change clothes and charge her phone and sleep in her own bed. She also thought about kissing boys and letting them touch her and stuff…stuff that she had done and stuff that she had only read about or seen in movies…well the movies always cut away once the boy and the girl got into bed together but she was pretty sure that she had pieced together all the things that people did together…and she knew that she didn't want to do those things. If she wanted to do them then she would have had to do them with Shimazaki and…and kissing him was hard enough! She didn't even want to think about doing things like THAT with him!

And she certainly didn't want to think about things like that while she was sitting in bed next to her dad!

"You're being ridiculous and I can say whatever I want to say…but for your sake I'll stop." Said Suzuki. She was being annoying in her ridiculousness but it was a sort of annoying that he liked. She wasn't there yet…at least he assumed that she wasn't. Even when he had gotten to that point in his life he had always tried to run and hide when his parents tried to talk to him about sex and the like. Not that he would have ever talked to her about it…he didn't want to know. When she did take a lover…hopefully not Shimazaki Ryou or Suzuki would have had to kill himself….he did NOT want to know. One day her children would just appear and, as far as he knew, she had found them in a cabbage patch or they'd been delivered by a stork or something along those lines. She was only twelve…but that was about the age that he had been when he'd started stealing mother's department store catalogs and pointing his telescope at the neighbor's window and not up to the heavens….and she had been spending quite a bit of time with Shimazaki as of late…and he had been seeking her company out….

Suzuki wondered if he could actually go through with killing himself…he probably couldn't…but he couldn't kill Shimazaki either…someone in this scenario had to die….he'd have to think about this some more later….

"Thank you." Said Mob as she took the blanket off of her head and pulled her face out of her nightshirt.

"You're welcome….and you don't need to overreact like that." Said Suzuki

"Yes I did, you were saying gross stuff." Said Mob

"The word has two meanings. I was using it to refer to gender." Said Suzuki

"I know, you said so already, but it's still a gross word." Said Mob

"Well I'm glad you feel that way." said Suzuki

"But you just told me that I was being ridiculous." Said Mob

"You were but it was the sort of ridiculous that I like. Ridiculous in the sense that you're acting like a child…and I'm happy about that. It shows me that you aren't having se-intercourse with anyone yet." Said Suzuki

"Dad! Don't say that word either! And…and of course I'm not! I'm twelve!" said Mob. Gross. Dad thought about her doing…that…too! It was hard enough when it was just Fukuda…why did everyone think that she was doing things like that? She didn't even have a boyfriend…or at least she thought she didn't. She didn't want Shimazaki to be her boyfriend, she wanted Teru to be her boyfriend, but she had no idea where he even was….and…..and she was never going to get a boyfriend or get married or have babies and…and that was ok so long as she didn't have to do those things with Shimazaki…well she did like babies…but to get a baby she had to do…things…and she didn't want to do those things with Shimazaki so instead of babies she was going to just get five or ten cats.

"I know what age you are. I also know you've reached sexual maturity-" said Suzuki

"Dad!" said Mob

"What, you have. You menstruate, you have body hair I'm assuming, you have breasts now, and your hips are filling out. Your hair and skin have also been very oily for some time now. Those are all the signs that you've entered puberty….well menstruation is a sign of sexual maturity….so of course it would only be natural for you to act on the sexual desires which I'm sure that you have. I won't be asking you about them, of course, because they're none of my business and I have no idea what I would ever do with that information anyway." Said Suzuki. He thought that he'd been very precise in his langue. He hadn't shamed her for going through puberty as his own mother had shamed him. He had simply stated the facts as he saw them. She had a woman's body, she menstruated, and obviously with that came the same desires that all sexually mature people possessed. She really had no need to overreact like that. Really.

An explosion was not at ALL necessary.

He could see it coming and he acted accordingly. Her face turned red, her pupils practically disappeared, and her aura became painful. She gave off excess energy and he absorbed it as soon as it bubbled to the surface. Really the only thing that happened was the bed jumped, the house shook a little, and something somewhere shattered. It had been nothing, really, and yet she had exploded…or come close to it.

Shigeko could be so ridiculous sometimes.

"Dad…." Said Mob as soon as she came back to where she was. She had been about to die. She had felt it. The world had been about to swallow her up. Time went slower. She walked right outside of her brain. She wished that she had died, or at least been swallowed up by the ground, or even that her soul had walked out of her body. That had been too much. Dad…he was NOT allowed to talk about her body or…or her period….or….or anything! And her skin and hair were fine, she washed them every single day!

"You're welcome." Said Suzuki

"For what?! You…you were talking about my…you were talking about me!" said Mob

"Yes. I stated the facts of the situation. You are now inhabiting the body of a grown woman and with that comes-" said Suzuki

"Don't talk about my body!" said Mob. She pulled the blanket around herself like she was freezing to death. She wished she knew which box had her giant birthday sweaters in it. She needed to hide. It had been bad enough when Fukuda talked about her….this was her DAD! Dad just…he was not supposed to think these thoughts about her….why did EVERYONE have to look at her and…and think thoughts about…about how she was older and how she was probably having sex and how she had breasts and…and she didn't even WANT them anymore! It didn't feel good when boys, well Teru, touched them and they made her back hurt and sometimes if she wore a shit without an undershirt under it then everyone could see her…her….

Why was everyone in the whole world so fascinated by her breasts!?

"I wasn't talking about your body. Talking about your body would imply that I had opinions about it. I am your father, I don't, and even if I were another man I still would not have talked about you like that. With opinions. You're twelve years old, that would be wrong." Said Suzuki

"Just-just-just don't talk about me like that or in any way or…or at all! And don't look at me either! I wish that…I wish that the floor would just eat me and then I could be gone and then….and then nobody would ever look at me or talk about me ever again!" said Mob. There was some silence, there, and she didn't pull the blanket off of her head to see what it was about. She didn't care…well she cared a little if she had hurt dad's feelings, she shouldn't have been yelling at him, but…but he shouldn't have been talking about her like that! She didn't care if he had opinions or not! He had still been talking about her!

"Oh….you're embarrassed." Said Suzuki. She nodded…and she still hid under her blanket. It seemed that he'd miscalculated….this was on him. He had to make this right. He reached over and freed her from the prison of her own making. She wasn't looking at him, though, her eyes were closed. He had no idea what she was so embarrassed about but he knew that he was the cause of all of this…and the last thing that he wanted to do was harm her in any way. Even with all that had transpired between them he knew that he never wanted to do anything to harm her.

He loved her.

"Leave me alone. Leave me alone to die." Said Mob

"I don't have another seventy to eighty years." Said Suzuki

"Why not?" asked Mob

"Because I'm forty five." Said Suzuki

"Then….then can you leave me alone for the rest of your life instead of the rest of mine? I just…I want everyone to leave me alone forever." Said Mob

"I can't do that, Shigeko, because I need you…and trust me, you don't want me to pretend like you don't exist. My mother and father often treated me like that and it's very cruel. There's a reason I never ignored either of you for days….weeks…even months on end." Said Suzuki. This seemed to get her attention, she slowly pulled the blanket from her head. First he saw the top of her head, then her forehead, and finally her eyes.

"Grandma and grandpa used to ignore you?" asked Mob. She didn't know how anyone could have ever ignored dad. His aura was so bright…but then again grandma and grandpa had been normal people, dad had said….it was so weird. Thinking about them, her grandparents. Grandma and grandpa….such weird words…well weird to her. She'd never had to use them before since both of her parents were orphans….

Poor mom and dad...mostly dad, though, since mom never talked about her parents.

"Yes. When I transgressed in some way and they did not feel like shouting…the shouting was better…not that I'm going to shout at you. You've done nothing wrong. I'm the one who made a mistake. I've embarrassed you….I'm not sure why you're embarrassed but I do know that it's my fault and I apologize to you, Shigeko." said Suzuki

"You…you just…you were talking about me and…and how I look now and about the stuff that happens to me….but I guess you wouldn't get it since you're a boy and nothing happens to boys." Said Mob

"Boys go through the same process as well, just with different results…as well as different trials and tribulations." Said Suzuki

"No, boys have it easy." Said Mob. They really did. They just got bigger and stronger and had to shave. They only had to shave their faces, too, not their legs and armpits and stuff. They didn't have everyone in the whole world looking at their breasts and thinking that they were running around having sex and stuff.

"I….am not sure if this is something which can be quantified. Male puberty is just as treacherous as female puberty….well there is no real equivalent to…something which you are for some reason not comfortable with me speaking of…..but there are all sorts of embarrassing things which happen to boys." Said Suzuki. She was female and therefore had no need to know about all the terrible things that came with male puberty. The voice cracks, the fact that no matter how many baths you took you always smelled terrible, the fact that at least fifty percent of your conscious thoughts involved the opposite sex in some way, the constant and unexpected erections, waking up in a sea of your own semen….unpleasant, disgusting, and nothing that Shigeko ever needed to know about.

Sho on the other hand….

He was at that age…wasn't he? Well he had come home covered in hickeys after spending the night with another boy….Suzuki didn't want to think about that….and Sho stank to high hell, too, even after a bath….and he had started doing his own laundry too. Suzuki had been about his age when he'd started trying to do his own laundry. Mother hadn't let him, of course, since it was her job….and she had been very upset with him when she'd found out why he wanted to do his own laundry. She had threatened to tell everyone he had ever met in his life about how terrible he was…even though it had been completely out of her control…luckily father had calmed her down….but then father had lectured him too and….and maybe it was best that he stayed out of this part of Sho's life completely.

Yes, to do otherwise would have been cruel…and he was many things but he was not a cruel man.

"Like what?" asked Mob

"Nothing that you'll ever need to know about." Said Suzuki

"But if bad things are going to happen to Sho then I should know about them…I mean at least to warn him." said Mob

"He'll figure it out on his own. The embarrassment you feel right now…well your brother would probably feel the same way if his sister attempted to discuss puberty and all that came with it with him…so it's best to just leave him alone. He'll figure it out on his own." said Suzuki. Bathe frequently. Use deodorant even if you thought you didn't need it. Wash your sheets and pajamas in the dead of night. Either think of math or masturbate before you went to sleep for the night. Don't speak while your voice was breaking so nobody had to hear it. Put toothpaste on acne to get rid of it. These weren't complicated things to figure out. Sho may have been annoying but he wasn't stupid. He'd figure all of this out on his own in time.

"Oh….I don't want Sho to be embarrassed….but I don't want bad things to happen to him." said Mob

"It isn't a bad thing, it's a natural thing, and yes it can be embarrassing but it's not a bad thing. I would never shame any of you for going through something like this. It's difficult enough as it is, I won't make it any worse on you." Said Suzuki

"Thanks…but….maybe I should know what happens to boys. I mean I won't embarrass Sho but what if I have a boy baby? Won't he need me to tell him what's happening?" asked Mob. She didn't know what happened to boys but she did know that getting her period without knowing what it was had been really scary. She didn't know what she would have done it Minegishi hadn't been there to help her. Dad was a boy so he didn't really know about these things that well and mom had left without telling Mob a single thing. It wasn't like it could have slipped her mind. Minegishi said that this was a thing that happened to most people who had been born with girl's privates. Mom could have taken five minutes to warn Mob that one day she'd just start bleeding for no reason….mom was kind of a b-word…but Mob would do better if she ever had a daughter…if she ever saw Teru again…and Shimazaki ever stopped being in love with her….so probably never…but still! She didn't want her daughters, or her sons for that matter, to ever feel as scared and embarrassed and ashamed as she'd felt.

"You…your husband or boyfriend or…or consort…can explain that to him…."said Suzuki. He searched her abdomen for signs of life. She didn't seem any bigger….and she had been eating normally…he would have noticed if she had been vomiting…..and also even the word 'sex' sent her into a fit of embarrassment. She wasn't pregnant….but she would be one day…and he so looked forward to helping her raise their, her, children…but as for where those children came from he was going to have to pretend that they just appeared out of thin air.

For the sake of his sanity.

"Ok….I guess….but maybe I should know too. I mean what if my husband or boyfriend or…whatever a consort is…runs away? When mom…when she ran away she didn't teach me anything." Said Mob

"Shigeko…no. The man that you choose to be your partner will not be running away. If he so much as thinks of leaving you then I swear to God I will murder…no….murder is too good for him. I will have his arms and legs broken in a way so that they never heal. I'll have him kept in a cage and fed with a long straw. I'll have him suspended a thousand meters in the air over an active volcano-" said Suzuki

"Daddy! That's mean!" said Mob. He always did what she asked when she called him daddy instead of dad and right now she really needed him to stop talking. That was horrible…it had been horrible from the start but he just KEPT GOING! She didn't know what she would ever do if a boy really did leave her like mom left dad….probably keep it to herself. Yeah, that seemed like the best thing to do.

"I know. I don't care. I won't have anyone treat you like that. You are my daughter, you…well you and your sister, are my greatest treasures in this world and I will never let any man treat you as anything less than the drop of perfection come down to earth from heaven that you are. Is this in any way unclear to you?" asked Suzuki

"Um….you're being very clear….dad…" said Mob. She knew what he was saying and she didn't like it one bit. She loved her dad and she loved that he loved her…but she did not love the way that he was being. If her future boyfriend or husband or whatever wanted to leave her then, in her opinion, he knew where the door was and he could use it. She didn't want anyone to be unhappy with her…and she didn't want to be in love with someone who didn't love her back. She had her dad, her brother, and her friends. They could help her take care of the baby…not that she had one….not that Shimazaki had asked her have one with him…

She was saying no if he asked…if she even could say no.

"Good. I will never let anyone harm you. Remember that." Said Suzuki

"I will….but…if someone doesn't want to be with me then I don't want to be with him." said Mob

"That's understandable, which is why I won't be torturing him anywhere near you or your household. I will not force him to be with you but I will not let him treat you like that. You're my daughter and I'm your father. Just as I have a responsibility to chase away unwanted suitors I also have one to make sure that nobody ever shows you that level of disrespect….makes you feel that pain…it's a pain that never leaves you….and you don't need to carry that sort of pain around with you. Do you understand me? Am I making myself clear?" asked Suzuki

"Yes….um….I mean it's good that you don't want me to get hurt…and anyway I don't have any suitors and if I did and…and if I didn't want them….please don't hurt them." Said Mob. She knew that if she told dad about Shimazaki then he'd make Shimazaki leave her alone…but with torture and hitting and pain…and she never wanted to be the cause of something like that. She liked Shimazaki as a friend and…and she wouldn't have even wished that on her worst enemy….not that she had one but if she did she wouldn't have let her dad torture them.

"I won't if they don't give me a reason to. You're still young and life has been kind to you…and I'm going to make sure that life stays kind to you. I'm a man, I know how men can be, and I know…well I know that you prefer the company of men to that of boys your own age. Not that boys your age are much better, they're just as bad but in a more juvenile way. Men…can be terrible…and I don't want you to ever know what they're capable of." Said Suzuki

"I-I won't…I mean….I'm not in love with anyone anyway so it doesn't matter." said Mob

"Love…is not what I was referring to…but be wary of love. Love can…well love can lead you to do the strangest things. As it was said in your song, the one with the rock trolls-" said Suzuki

"Fixer upper." Said Mob

"Yes. That one. Love is a force which is powerful and strange. You….you're going to find yourself in love one day, truly in love, and it's going to be the most frightening emotion that you will ever experience. It's going to hurt. Being apart from the person you love is going to hurt…but so will being near them. When you're near that person, your most perfect person, you're going to feel like the most powerful being on earth….but with one word, one action, one gesture she can reduce you to nothing…he can, since I assume that you're heterosexual. Sexuality in and of its self….it doesn't always follow love….but it can and…and it can be difficult to separate the two. You can wake up one day not knowing if you desire someone physically or romantically or both and…and it can be so confusing…and then when you act on these feelings….if you choose to…you can end up making such a mess that you won't even know where to begin…" said Suzuki. He needed to stop talking but he just…couldn't. He had to warn her about everything, he had to make sure that she knew…he had to make sure that….that this didn't happen to her…that she didn't end up like him.

He was her father and if he couldn't protect her from…from this…then what could he protect her from.

"Dad…that's…um….ok." said Mob. Dad was being weird here. His voice was all…like that…and his aura was all sad and…and she kind of wished he was back to being clueless and embarrassing her. She at least understood clueless and embarrassing dad. This dad was….not the sort of dad she had ever seen before…or at least not that she could remember off the top of her head….not that she wanted to remember off the top of her head….

"Good…good…anyway, Daughter, why don't we watch…whatever you wanted to watch. The ice queen or…or that program you were telling me about…I'm curious to see why a kendo club would ever play baseball. The skills don't transfer over at all…."said Suzuki

"Um…ok…sure! I can put that on and…and we can watch without talking. Yeah, it's a really complicated show." Said Mob. She was lying, it wasn't complicated at all, but she just didn't want to talk to dad anymore. She didn't want to talk about love or…or the other thing. She just wanted to relax and…and shut off her brain for a while…so that was what they were going to do. Sure she was embarrassed and stuff but at least they didn't have to watch kendo anymore.

She didn't really like kendo…though she liked weird and embarrassing talks with dad even less.