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Scales of the Heart
Ch. 9
Draco felt like she gotten shot. The letter in her hand may as well have been a firing squad with their guns aimed her. It is a cool Wednesday afternoon and Draco had just come out the house to check on the mail. Yet as she came back inside, scanning through the mail, she felt utterly terrified.
"O-Ok. Just breath. He doesn't have to find out." Draco smiled as she slowly folded up the letter. And not noticing Kimihito right behind her. "I'll just call them and tell them to comeback another-"
"Call who?"
"Kyah!?" Draco shirked and jumped in the air like a cat. And like a cat she stuck to the ceiling upside down with her claws. And dropping her letter.
"Hm?" Kimihito picked the paper and much to Draco's horror, opened it up.
"Ah wait! Don-"
"Oh, your parents are coming over today?" Kimihito smiled warmly. Much to Draco's dismay. "I wished you had told me sooner. I would have cleaned up some more."
"NONONONONO!" Draco franticly dashed passed her boyfriend and tore the paper up.
"Parents!? What parents!? I don't have any! Ha ha ha!"
As dim as Kimihito can be at times, even he can tell that his lover is hiding something. Well that, and she kept looking every but at him and she is sweating. Even though she's a reptile. And he has a feeling it has something to do with her family.
'Well it's not like my parents don't embarrass me from time to time.'
Before Kimihito could say any sort of words of encouragement, Draco started pushing the befuddled human to his room. With her lips desperately rambling to keep him off topic.
"Look let's go out today! All day! On a date to-er-the Netherlands! Yeah! Let's go there!"
"Um That's not in japan-"
"Even better! You go get ready and I'll-"
The doorbell sounded like a death gong to the young Dragonnewt.
"Oh, that might be-"
"NO ONE!" Draco shouted as she pushed Kimihito in his room and slammed the shut.
Draco swallowed with a heavy heart. For over three months her and Kimihito's relationship have been utterly blissful. Dates every other night. Happily spending time with each other.
Lots and lots of sex. That last one made the poor girl's face turn red.
The reptilian girl has been on cloud nine with her lover. And now it is about to nuked by visit form her strange and downright insane parents.
'No way am I going to let them ruin this! You can do it Draco!'
With her heart in her throat and fist clenched, Draco opened the door.
"We are here to raid your fridge!"
"Give us food…"
As Kedea, and Hinoka happily walked into their friend's home with growling bellies and greedy expressions.
"We aren't a restaurant!" Even when stressed out, Draco is still on top of being the straight man.
"Sorry Draco." Hana, who had walked in behind them, sighed in defeat. "We er….ate all out lunch and well Kimihito's cooking is so good and-"
The growl of the dragon woman's stomach stopped their conversation.
"…."
With a sigh, Draco let her boss in through the door way
"Eh? What are you all doing here?" Kimihito, coming out of his room, raised a brow at all of Draco's coworkers.
"Yo lover boy! Cook us something good!" Hinako snickered as she pulled up a sit.
"This isn't a five-star restaurant…." As Kimihito walked to the kitchen, Draco felt herself relax a little.
'Maybe…that letter was sent on the wrong day or something. Mom can be kind of forgetful.' The reptilian woman thought hopefully. As much as she loves her parents, well, her mother, she desperately doesn't want Kimihito to meet them.
At least until both him and her are in the grave.
"Hey! Hinoka! Don't eat all those chips! There mine!" Draco yelled at her friend before rushing over to claim the lays bag form her harpy friend.
-OOO-
"Ah…This meat is so good…"
The chicken in Hinoka's mouth melted in how tender it is.
"Ah…such heavenly flavor…" Hana sighed at the fish in dancing on her tongue.
"Good…" While Kedea sighed in bless of her bulging full stomach.
"You guys have black holes for stomachs." Draco grumbled as she ate her own dish. "And you are so taking us out to pay us back for this!"
Kimihito chuckled at his girlfriend and her friends antics, yet a knock on his door turned him away from the peaceful show.
"Coming!" The young human shouted as he walked to the door. Drying his hands on his apron.
"Hello-ack!?" Kimihito jumped in shock at the six foot three tall dragonnewt standing before him. Granted the man is rather handsome with somewhat soft face and lean muscle, but it all marred by the scar along his left eye, piercing red eyes, and fangs. His wings are tattered with holes like he's been in a bloody battle.
"The hell you looking at human?" The man snarled right in Kimihito's face. Who could only spurt and sputtered in surprise.
"Now now honey. Leave him be."
A sweet voice spoke up from behind the freighting man.
A young dragonnewt woman, petite with a heavenly smile, placed a hand on the older man's shoulder. Her hair is long and the color of bright honey. The utter opposite of the man, her wings are neat and clean. Her yellow sun dress fit her tiny lithe form as her smile lit up the area Kimihito caught himself staring at her with a blushing face.
"Oi!" The man yanked the human up in the air by the collar of his shirt. "You staring at my husband!?"
"Eh!? No! I-wait huh?"
"Ai-chan! Please put him down! That's Draco-chan's home stay." The woman(?) fumed at the older man. Her cheeks puffing out cutely.
"Kimihito! Are you ack!?" Draco rushed out of the house to see what the commotion was about.
"Mom!? What are you doing!?" Only shout at the tall male (?) Dragonnewt holding up her boyfriend by his shirt.
"Mom?" Kimihito looked god smacked and then even more surprised by the next words that came out of girlfriend's mouth.
"Gah!? God damn it dad why do you still dress like that!?"
"Oh! Draco-chan! Your looking well." Draco's father(?) giggled happily.
"Th-These are your parents!?" Kimihito supported as Draco's mother(?) snarled at him.
"….Wow Draco's family is strange…" All the while Draco's friends all peeked around the corner. With Kedea munching on Draco's chips.
-OOO-
"This is a very nice house you have here, Kurusu-kun." Draco's father complimented the young human as he sipped his tea. After getting Draco's mother off of him, Kimihito invited them in his home. Much to poor Draco's worry.
Sitting on the couch in the living room Kimihito sat beside his very nervous girlfriend across from her parents. Draco's friends joined them. Looking out of place in the heavy atmosphere. And it didn't help that Draco's mother, Ai, kept glaring at everyone.
"Tch. And that's about all your good for human." Ai growled making her husband sigh.
"I am sorry about Ai-chan. We just wanted to come over to see how our daughter was getting along."
Akio smiled sweetly at Draco's friends. "And judging by all her friends here, she's getting along nicely."
Hinoka and Hana blushed at how beautiful Aiko is. Even dull witted Kedea is taken in by the lovely man. And Draco looked ready to vomit.
"It would be better if you would stop dressing like that…."
Hinoka, as blunt as always, asked what was on everyone's mind, "So are you just some insane crossdresser or are you actually just a woman screwing with us?"
"You questioning Akio-kun's manliness!?" Ai stood up in rage at Hinoka. "Akio-kun has beaten whole armies of dragons and minotaur's! He's punched through a tank! He's been a bunch arm Ryu-jin-"
"Ai-Chan~…."
As sweet as Akio's words were, the air of death and violence permutated the air. Akio's smiled looked like the grim reaper making a dark promise.
"Please stop talking about a past that doesn't exist~."
Ai swallowed hard in fear. Utterly opposite of her overwhelming air of rage. "Um…y-yes dear…"
As she sat down, everyone in the room had the same revelation running through their heads.
'So, he dose wear pants….'
"Ahem." Hana coughed to regain a balance in the room. "Well it's a pleasure to meet you Akio-san. Ai-san. I am Hana. Draco's boss and good friend."
Politely and with pose, Hana bowed to the parents of her underling. "She is a great worker and has taken great care of me and my business."
"Hm. How polite." Ai nodded soundly. "As expected of a Ryu jin. A better introduction then some human…"
Kimihito swallowed hard at the dark glare aimed at him.
"Nah don't let our boss fool ya. She's a total shotacon-bah!" Kedea's taunt was met with her face kissing the desk rather hard by Hana's hand.
"Do you all have homestays as well?" Akio asked the other girls.
"I stay with Akira-kun. Although…" Kedea answered but then titled her head in question. "Do homestays normally have se-"
"Yes!" Draco slammed her friend's mouth shut with her hand. "Th-They have homestays too! Their very nice just like this one."
Aiko rise her eye brow at that but smiled at the human to address him. "So Kimihito-kun?"
"Er!? Y-Yes?" The human stuttered.
"What do you think of our little Draco-chan?"
"Err well-"
"Excuse us for one moment!" Draco suddenly grabbed Kimihito and dragged him off into the hallway away from her parents.
"….." Leaving them with her friends who were just as nervous.
"…So, are you really a woman?" And Hinoka just has a death wish as it seems.
-OOO-
"You can't tell them we're dating!" Draco hissed at Kimihito. Ignoring the sounds of Hinoka being chased around the couch.
"Do your parents hate humans?"
"N-No. It's just…." Draco fumbled with her words. While her mother brandished the coffee table as weapon in the back ground.
"My mother always wanted me to date a strong Dragonnewt like my dad."
"So…you want me to cross dress?"
"No!" Draco growled with a horrid blush. While her father knocked her mother out with a single chop on her neck.
"I just…I don't want them to try to take you away so…" Draco couldn't find the right words to say. The stress and worry about her family treating Kimihito has her mind in tizzy.
Yet Kimihito gently patted her head. With a blush on her face Draco felt herself calm down.
"Don't worry too much. We can handle this ok." Kimihito smiled
"Ara!? You too are dating!?"
The couple jumped in horror at Aiko's cheery voice beside them. The girlish husband having snuck up on them while his wife sat on the couch knocked out. With only the whites of her eyes showing. And Kedea was poking her cheek.
"Er-Well-He and-"
"That's wonderful!" Akio cheered happily and wrapped them both in shocking strong hug.
"Hugh!?"
"Ack!?"
That picked both the human and dragonnewt off the ground rather easily.
"Oh, I had hoped you'd find someone! And Kimihito-san seems like a nice boy too! I knew there was something going on between you two!"
"Wai-ho-hold on a sec dad!" Draco wormed her way down form her father's grip. While Kimihito feel to the ground to catch his breath.
"I..I thought you and mom wanted me to marry another reptile?"
"Oh, that was your silly mother's idea." Aiko waved off the accusation. "She wanted you to marry someone 'as strong as me' and 'would have to beat both her and me in duel for your hand'. Honestly she reads way too much Shoujo manga."
"So…You're ok with us…"
"Of coruse!" Akio beamed. "Although we should keep it a secret form your mother that your dating a human-"
"DRACO'S DOING WHAT NOW!?"
"Oh crap! The beast is back up!" Kedea swift ducked behind the couch with her friends as Ai shot up death glare at Kimihito.
"Ah!? Clam down mom! Put down the tv!" Draco rushed over to try and clam her raging mother. Leaving her mother to sigh and Kimihito to worry about his house.
"I just want to thank you Kimihito-kun. We honestly were worried about her making friends because…well you know." Akio giggled a little too perfectly behind her hand.
"If you haven't really noticed Draco hasn't had it easy because well…" Akio made a nervous chuckle at herself. "having a father look like this doesn't help with making many friends."
He sighed in regret, "It's my fault she was so obsessed with being so manly. It would have made more sense if she was into girls but…."
"I…" Kimihito said with awkward scratch of his cheek. "I don't really think that was all your fault. I actually think it made her a more interesting person. Being a parent can't be easy for any race. You and your wife did your best and…well I l-like Draco no matter what so…"
The young man's face heated up in embarrassment at what he was saying.
"Fu fu fu…Thank you." Akio giggled just like an angel. Much to Kimihito's worry. "With you around Kimihito-kun. I don't think I'll have to worry about my daughter."
Kimihito accepted the praise. With a nervous but handsome smile.
"You know…" The dangerous look in his eye made Kimihito worry. "You would very good in a dress…"
"Err…"
"You stay the hell away from him old man!"
Be careful of falling into the dark side, Kimihito-san.