Hey everyone, I'm here with new story. I had another story in the making, but the file got insanely corrupted that I couldn't even try to salvage it so I'm going to have to start from scratch with that one. This is going to be an AU, rated for a list of reasons, expect character bashing and I have tried to write something like this on a number of occasions, but ended up failing for one reason or another, so if this seems familiar to some readers…you'll know why. I'm just going to be using a different series from the previous attempts.
With the opening A/N out of the way, please enjoy the first chapter.
Five families sat outside, enjoying the warm summer air when they saw a black SUV pull into the driveway in the house across the street from them with a moving truck close following close behind it. Seeing several movers climb out of the truck and walk around it, they watched as they opened the back and began unloading it as a blue-haired young man walked stepped out of the vehicle and closed the door before walking around and opened the rear passenger door and took a small child out of the vehicle, "What the hell?" a woman with auburn hair shook her head, "Hey kid!" the young man looked up with narrowed eyes, "Come here!"
"Pretty sure we can talk while standing on opposite ends of the street!" came the reply, surprising the families, "What is it? I have my daughter with me and we just moved into this house and I want to make sure-"
"Just get over here!" a woman with long blonde hair snapped and the young man groaned before looking up and down the street before he ran across.
Standing in front of the families, the young man narrowed his eyes as he held the child close to him, "What? Like I said, my daughter and I just moved here and I'm paying these jokers to not destroy anything an-"
"What's going on here, kid?" a man with long, red hair shook his head, "How old are you, how can you afford a house by yourself and that car?"
The young man groaned and shook his head, "You're a bunch of nosy idiots. You call me over and start playing twenty questions. Fine, I'll play your stupid game. I'm almost nineteen, and my grandpa got me the car after I graduated and he helped me get this house, now can I go?"
"Where's her mother?" a woman with long, green hair asked, "Surely she's coming too. Is she just coming later or-"
"I don't know where she's at, I don't care to know where she's at and she's not coming,"
The families stared at him as the young girl looked up and frowned, "Okay daddy?"
The young man looked at his daughter and slightly smiled, "Yeah, daddy's okay, Stella." He sighed before he looked back up at the families and shook his head, "Look…I'm sorry for being rude…my name is Iruma Suzuki and this is my 2-year-old daughter Stella…and you people are?"
"My name is Alyssa Valac and this is my husband Jack," the woman with the green hair, pointing to the man with the short green hair beside her, "And our children," she gestured towards six green-haired individuals, "Our oldest son who is twenty-five, Urara, our oldest daughter who just turned nineteen Clara, our twin boys Keebow and Konchie who are fifteen and our twin girls Ran-Ran and Sin-Sin, who are seven,"
"Heh…big family,"
Alyssa smiled as she hummed and nodded before the man with the long red hair spoke, "Henri Azazel," he wrapped his arm around the auburn-haired woman beside him, "My wife Rika and our daughter Ameri," the young woman with long red hair stared at Iruma.
"My name is Kari Crocell," a woman with light blue hair spoke in an emotionless tone before gesturing to the older woman beside her, "My mother Miya, and my children, my 23-year-old son Davis, my 19-year-old daughter Kerori and my 13-year-old daughter Chima,"
Iruma stared at the emotionless family and he shook his head, "Okay…went from a big family to an expressionless one…great,"
"How about a fun-loving family, big boy," the blonde woman smirked and winked at him, "My name Luna Ix, and this is my husband Takashi and our 19-year-old daughter Elizabetta,"
Iruma looked at the tall blonde beauty as Elizabetta smiled and blew him a kiss, "Flirtatious is more like it…and please don't do that in front of my 2-year-old daughter," Stella flinched and Iruma frowned as he rubbed her back, "Daddy's sorry he yelled, sweetie. He's just a little agitated right now, but after we meet our new neighbors, we can go home, okay?" Stella moaned and nodded as she leaned up against her father and Iruma looked up and sighed, "Can we finish the introductions please? I'd like to make sure the movers are screwing around and then I have to put Stella down for a nap,"
The woman with short blonde hair cleared her throat and stepped forward, "My name is Yuno Oni, my husband Yuki and our 18-year-old daughter Eiko," Iruma nodded at the blonde young woman and nodded before Yuno spoke again, "So…what do you mean you don't know where her mother is at and you don't care to know?"
Eyes locked on Iruma as he sighed and shook his head, "Look, I don't care where she's at, all I know is she's not moving in with us."
"But she has a right to see her daughter and your daughter has a right to see her mother an-"
"Look…because of some…reasons, she's rarely going to be in Stella's life. She'll see her on the weekends and that's only if either me, my grandpa or his butler Opera are there with them,"
"And why is that?" Rika crossed her arms and arched a brow, "Do you not trust her or something? Did you have a fallen out or-"
"Look," Iruma groaned and shook his head, "For reasons, I don't feel comfortable leaving Stella with her mother alone and my lawyer advised me not to get into with anyone," the air between the families grew still before Stella yawned and rested her head on Iruma's shoulder, "Look…I need to get inside to make sure they're doing their job and then I have to put Stella down for a nap before I start unpacking," he turned and walked away.
The families watched as Iruma stepped into the house and closed the door behind him before Luna hummed and narrowed her eyes, "A lawyer? So there's a legal battle going on? And why is the girl with him and not his mother? There's no judge alive that'll separate a child from their mother,"
"Unless something happened and the mother is proven to be unfit…but we shouldn't make assumptions now, should we, love," Takashi sighed and shook his head, "And if he said his lawyer told him not to talk about it, then we shouldn't force it," the others nodded before they turned and walked away as Ameri, Clara, Eiko, Kerori and Elizabetta stared at the house across the street.
This chapter is only meant for introductions, nothing really major. Stella's mother will be revealed in either the next chapter or the following chapter. Please enjoy.