Sorry for taking so Long and sorry about how long this one is.
(Mayune's POV)
Laughing I turn and look down at Akiko as I hearing koujo step up right behind me before I feel him place a hand on my lower back as he stands to my right. Smiling I look at the others and put Akiko in front of me as I say, "Thank you for letting us take care of the situation, Koujo and I wanted her mother to know that Akiko would be safe with us. Akiko, I want you to met some friends of mine and Koujo's as you already know my friends that you met at my house well these are some old work friends that I use to work with a few years ago." I say as I crouch down beside her I then begin to point at everyone providing a name for a face to Akiko I then say, "The women with red hair is Ayako she is a shrine maiden, the guy with his hair up us Takigawa he is a monk, next to him is John he is a priest, the pretty lady in the kimono is Masako a famous medium, then there is Madoka a researcher, and lastly the guy with the glasses is Yasuhara also a researcher."
"Hi.." says Akiko as she glances at each one before looking back at me and asking, "So what happens now?" she says as she plays with the hem of her shirt.
"Sadly you have to stay here but as we promised we will be back every day to take you to training, also you are going to meet your soon to be grandparents it seems that they are anxious to meet you." I say as I look her in the eyes hoping that she understands that she is cared for.
"Hum..." says Akiko as she nods her head and puts her hands behind her back before smiling back at me as she rocks on her heals.
Koujo then spoke up by saying, "Well now that everything is settled lets all go sit down and enjoy the day." Nodding my head I agree with him as I stand up while holding Akiko's hand before heading towards one of the benches under a tree. Taking a seat on the bench I turn and pull Akiko up onto my lap causing her to giggle before placing her arms around my torso to hold onto me. While she was doing that Koujo sat next to me allowing me to lean my head on his shoulder as I bask in his touch before I let my eyes close briefly to enjoy the sensations and emotions I feel surrounding me in that moment. While I have my eyes closed I feel the sensation of a vision coming upon me. Acting quickly I quickly place Akiko on Koujo's lap before scooting a few inches away from them with my eyes still closed. As I settled in my position a few inches away from them I felt my back go rigid as the vision consumed me.
I open my eyes to see Akiko across from me bouncing up and down in her seat giggling. When suddenly I hear koujo's mother's voice, "Relax little one... you will get dessert soon enough." I smile and shake my head before saying, "Akiko do as your grandmother says or you wont get any dessert."
Akiko quickly snaps her head towards me with wide eyes before she stopped bouncing in her seat. "Okay mama I'm sorry."
"Akiko you don't need to apologize but don't bounce around at the table from now on okay..." I say as she smiles at before nodding her head in acceptance. As my eyes glace over the room I can tell that we are in china at Koujo's parents' house. Sitting there I feel the vision begin to leave me, opening my eyes I see everyone look at me I know I had not really open my mouth when I had spoken in the vision. Glancing over at Koujo I see him smiling at me I quickly smile back at him as I say, "I am fine every thing is okay... don't worry." I grab onto his hand and give it a small squeeze signaling that I was really alright.
Watching him I see a glimmer of happiness in his eyes as he say, "Okay...so what was it about?"
"Oh it was about our future as a family." I say as I smile up at him before glancing down at Akiko on his lap noting her eyes wide as she stares at me. Without thinking I ask, "Whats wrong Akiko?"
"I saw it I saw you across from me and I called you mama and an older lady was there she called me little one." Says Akiko as she stares at me causing a cold shiver to travel down my spine at the realization that she had just latched onto the vision and had seen everything from her point of view.
Koujo then spoke up with worry lacing his voice, "Akiko...are you telling me you just experienced the vision as well?"
"I guess..." Says Akikoas she glances back down at her lap before I quietly place my hand under her chin lifting her face up to look her in the eyes.
Looking deep into her eyes I say, "Akiko do not fear it...this just means that you are very powerful and we will just have to train you to feel and block yourself from feeling others powers and from connecting with them, I will also train with you so I can block you from having them as a precaution because I don't want you to have a vision of something very scary. Do you understand me Akiko?"
"I understand..."Akiko mumbles as she looks back down at her lap after I had let go of her face, yet as she does I see a trace of a smile gracing her lips. I pat her head with my right hand showing her that it was okay for her to show her smile. She quickly look up at me allowing me to see her smile and I let mine also shine through my eyes as I smiled at her. AS I started to pull my hand away from her she garbed my hand and interwove our finger together as she smiled up at me.
The rest of the day went quickly as Akiko had to go back inside the church orphanage, and Koujo and I hugged before going different ways. Koujo went to work at SPR and I went back to the house with the others after everyone had packed all of the equipment up. That night dinner was simple, afterwards I dragged Koujo to our room by his hand before grabbing my pajamas and going into the bathroom. I quickly was my body and hair before I came back into the room and laid down next to an already sleeping Koujo. The next day went by very quickly because nothing happened that day meaning no cases had come in for us to take.
Then the next day I am sitting at my desk when my cell phone starts to blare Thank God for Hometowns by Carrie Underwood signaling that it is Koujo's mother calling. Reaching over I quickly pick it up and press answer before placing the phone to my cheek as I say, "Hello Meihui how are you?"
"Oh I am good sweetheart just wanted to inform you that Dingxiang and I will be arriving shortly." Meihui says as I hear honking coming from the other side of the phone.
"Why didn't you call to tell us what time you would be arriving today I would have gone to pick you guys up at the air port?" I say as I quickly stand up and leave my office as I do the gang sees me I quickly place my hand over the mic of the phone and say, "clean up Koujo's parents are almost here... Oh and Karin you are going to share a room with Kevin. Koujo's parents are going to need a room on the bottom floor the one closet to mine is the only other room on this level so go and get your stuff moved into his room."
I remove my hand from the mic and hear Meihui say, "Sweetheart don't worry we can handle getting to your place Dingxiang and I are taking a cab there now so see you in about ten minuets. I only wanted to warn you that we are almost there see you soon."
I hear the line go dead and as I turn around to clean I see my shiki are almost done cleaning I stop in my tracks and say,"Thank you... all of you when they get here please help me get their stuff into the house." I smile at them as I feel their happiness at feeling like they had been help full to me, feeling this I then say, "Thank you...all of you are always helping me it makes me so happy to have shiki like you, that are willing to help me with thing shiki would normally never do unless forced to."
After I say that Sakura turns and looks at me and say, "Master you are important to us and we only want to help even if you didn't ask us to we would have done this either way just to ease your nerves." Sakura then bowed at the waist as did the other shiki before almost all of them except Sakura and Yang who whent and stood by the door waiting for Koujo's parents to arrive. Turning I summon Shen and he appears in his orb from and then I say, "Shen go and inform Koujo that his parents are in town and they will be at the house when he arrives also that I love him please."
He quickly take off to Koujo to tell him what I said within a few minuets I feel him return to my side when he says, "Master say okay and that he loves you as well."
"Thank you Shen you may rest" I say allowing Shen to disappear and rest to regain his strength. Six minuets later I hear the bell of the gate ring I quickly walk over and say, "Lau residence Mayune speaking."
"Hello I am here to drop off Mr. and Mrs. Lin" Says the taxi driver.
"Okay come on in." I say as I press the unlock button allowing his car to pass through the gate. I exit the front door and watch as the taxi pulls up in front of me smiling I walk down to them as they get out of the cab and smile up at me. Meihui smiles at me and rushes up to me before she enfolds me in a tight embrace.
"Oh Mayune it is so good to see you I have missed you." Meihui says as she pulls back and smiles at me.
"I missed you too so how long are you guys going to be staying in town?" I ask.
"Oh well we were thinking of staying till two days before the wedding then Dingxiang and I will head back to make sure everything is done correctly for the wedding. In other words we will be here for about a week and a half." She says as she takes a step away from me as she smiles up at me.
At her words I realize that what I had asked may have sounded rude I then quickly say, "I am so sorry if it sounded as if I was not wanting you around for a while, I just wanted to know so when Koujo and I go shopping we will be able to get enough food and hose supplies for everyone that is staying here." I say as I watch her face.
"I know sweetheart don't worry I didn't think that you were implying anything of that sorts so no I did not think you were being rude." Says Meihui as she turns and starts to head towards the front door. I couldn't help but think that she did think that I was being rude but in reality I know that she understands what I was saying because she had asked me one of the times I had come to visit them both. It was also the same situation that she had been asking about. I quickly allow myself to stop from thinking about this situation. While we had been talking Sakura and Yang had come outside and were already gathering their things out of the trunk of the taxi.
Turning back towards the house I then say, "Come on Meihui and Dingxiang let me show you to your room." I smile as I gesture for them to follow me to their room. I hear their footsteps as they follow me as I am walking I pay that Karin is already out of their room. I place my hand on the handle and turned it opening the door, only to find Sakura and Yang fixing the bed. Smiling Sakura turns away from the bed and picks up the sheets and comforters off the floor before standing off to the side allowing us to enter the room. Once we are in both Sakura and Yang leave presumably to do laundry because every time they make a bed they always end up doing laundry without having me ask the to do it.
"Mayune this room is amazing, it is so beautiful I feel like I am at a hotel." Says Dingxiang as he glances around the room.
Smiling I look around the room to double check to make sure everything of Karins is gone before I say, "Thank you...I loved the way it look when I first got it so I decided to leave it this way."
"Well Mayune what time will Koujo be home?" Ask Meihui as she looks at me I smile.
I then say, "Let me check real quick." I close my eyes and connect my mind with Koujo's and ask him My love when will you be home today your parents want to know? I then hear him respond, I will be home in two and a half hours tell my parents I love them and I love you my ling hun ban lv I quickly responded I love you to my ling hun ban lv see you when you get home. I open my eyes and look at his parents and say, "He will be home in two and a half hours he also told me to tell you that he missed you both and that he love you both and cant wait to see you." I watch as their eyes light up at my words that he loves them both I know that they are happy to hear it because he was never open about his emotions until we started to date that was when he became more open with how he was feeling.
"Hum..." say Meihui as she wipes tear off her cheek. Smiling she looked me in the eyes and ask, "So when are we going to be able to meet our soon to be granddaughter"
I respond with a small sad smile on my face and say, "Tomorrow... it would have been today if she had not come down with a fever the day before from staying up late. Father James said that it is best that she relax and get better today since her fever broke last night...he called me earlier this morning to tell me how she is doing, she is still resting so far she has slept most of the day away other than when they woke her to eat and take her medicine. "
"Oh my...that is just terrible I hope she feels better tomorrow." says Meihui as she places her hand on my shoulder with a sad smile on her face.
"I do too...you know she is excited to meet both of you, she never met her grandparents when she was with her birth family." I say as I look between Dingxiang and Meihui noticing the happy glimmer in their eyes in anticipation of meeting her tomorrow.
"Oh that is just so sad...well then I guess that we are going to have to spoil her all the time." Says Meihui with a bright smile on her face in excitement at the though of spoiling her soon to be granddaughter.
The two hours pass by very quickly until Koujo came home because his parents and I including everyone apart of of LPRS had been talking. Though his mother ended up helping me cook dinner for everyone. AS soon as Koujo walk in the front door I shout from the kitchen, "Welcome home my love go get cleaned up dinner is almost ready."
Koujo responds, "Okay will do." Once he was done he walked into the dinning room where all of us have sat down and are already eating. He walks up to his father who stands up and greets him with a hug followed by his mother who also receives a hug, before he sat down next to me before turning towards me and placing a chaste kiss on my cheek before turning to eat his food that I had served for him while he was getting cleaned up. After dinner Koujo and I cleaned up the kitchen, during the cleaning Meihui and Dingxiang informed both Koujo and I that they were retiring for the night and that they would see us in the morning. Soon after we finished we also retreated to our bed room.
I remember watching Koujo slip out of his work shirt as I say, "Koujo..."
"Hum..." says Koujo as he glances over his shoulder at me.
"You know I have been thinking...you should keep working at SPR...I know you love your job and that if you were to do anything other than what you are doing now you would not be happy, and I want you to happy." I say as I watch him move about the room getting ready for bed.
He stopped moving when I said he should keep working at SPR turning around to face me he says, "My love I am choosing to do this so we can have more time together."
"I know it's just that I feel that if you do quit you are not going to be happy." I say as I glance down at me feet before sitting down on my vanity stool.
"Is the same feeling you get when your on a case?" He ask as he approaches me and kneels in front of me. Slowly I nod my head.
Looking up into his eyes I say, "Why don't you just tell Oliver's parents that you will continue to work there but that you just want to take a leave of absence for a while and that you will inform them when you want to return." AS I speak I watch his eyes widen a little before he smiles and places a hand on my face.
"Are you really okay with this aìrén... I though you would want this." he ask as he looks me in the eyes.
"I know but I know that I will sooner or later accept all of their apologies and forgive them also I want you to be happy as well." I say as I stare back into his eyes as I place my hand on his cheek. "Also I don't want you to regret anything later on because I don't want you to quit doing things that you love." I say as I remove my hand from his face and place it in my lap. As soon as my hand is on my lap his hand encloses mine.
I quickly look up into his eyes as he says, "I had only given my letterer of resignation because I though you would want me to."
"No I never wanted you to do that because I know you always enjoy your job...the only thing I ask is that you talk to his parents and see if they can work with you on giving you more time off to spend it with your family." I say as I yet again stare into his eyes.
"I understand aìrén I will talk to them...I will also tell them that I will be taking about six months off after our wedding as a leave of absence...I will tell them tomorrow morning and I will ask them to hold off on telling Oliver and that we are going to tell him." He says, as he gets up before kissing my head. "Now you should get ready for bed my love we need to get some sleep before tomorrow it is going to be a big day with my parents meeting Akiko." nodding my head I get up and grab my pajamas and go into the bathroom and change my clothes before brushing my teeth once full done I go back into the bedroom and find Koujo laying on the bed. I quickly climb under the covers and snuggle up to the side of his body before the world faded into darkness and a dreamless night engulfed me.
(Next Day Mayune's POV)
Light trickles into the room through the slightly parted curtains. Opening my eyes I find my self still snuggled against Koujo's side, slowly I move away from him and slip out of bed though as I do so I hear Koujo say, "Where are you going..." turning around I see him siting up before he glances at the clock and sees that it is seven in the morning. He then got out of bed before shuffling around to me and encircling me in his arms and holding me tight against his body.
Giggling I say, "Oh come on you know we have to get up plus your parents are here and you know them they are always up at dawn. Now let me go so we can get ready so we can introduce your parents to AKiko." As soon as I said Akiko's name he released me and turned to get ready with a big smile on his face at the though of having Akiko being his daughter. As I turn and look through my clothes Koujo goes into the bathroom and takes a quick shower before coming out fully dressed for the day in his normal attire of a white button up and a black tie with black pants.
I quickly head towards the bathroom as he says, "I will be in the kitchen I will make breakfast how does pancakes sound."
"That sounds great...I will see you when I am ready." I say as I slip out of my clothing as I hear the bedroom door shut and hop into the shower. I wash my body and hair before turning the shower off and drying off and getting dressed before doing my make up very simple. I exit my room closing the door behind me and continued to walk down the hall towards the kitchen as I approach I can smell the pancakes cooking as I enter the kitchen to find Koujo and his mother cooking. "Good morning everyone" I say as I take a seat at the island in front of the stove watch them cook.
"Good morning Mayune." Says Meihui as she flips a pancake before she glances up at me.
Smiling I respond, "How was both yours and Dingxiang sleep last night?"
"It was wonderful the bed was so soft both of us almost didn't wake up at our normal time this morning. Though I did managed to wake up right after Koujo started to make breakfast so I decided to help him to help move the cooking along faster because I feel that the others are going to wake up very soon." Says Meihui as she removes a pancake off to the side once it is finished cooking.
"Well thank you for helping Koujo finish cooking." I say as I pull my phone out before I say, "I am going to find out how Akiko is doing I will be in the living room please come and get me when the food is done." I say as I turn and retreat from the kitchen as I select father Jame's phone number and press dial.
I listen to dial tone waiting for him to pick up the phone. I hear the click as Father James answers the phone by saying, "Father James speaking."
"Hello father James this is Mayune Lau." I say as I sit down on the sofa listening to the sounds on the other side of the line.
"Aw..Miss Lau how are you?" He ask me over the line.
"I am fine... I am actually calling to see how Akiko is doing." I say as I begin to twirl a strand of hair around my fingers waiting for his response.
"Oh well she is doing much better she is actually out playing right now... and this morning she ate all of her food...are you wanting to come get her for training?" Father James ask as children could be heard laughing in the back ground.
"That is very good and yes I was thinking of coming to get her for her training." I say as I stop playing with my hair and placing my hand under my leg to prevent myself from fighting any more.
"Ah...well I can have her ready to leave in about an hour if that is fine for you?" Father James calmly says.
"That would be perfect I will see you then." I say listening to the line.
"Okay then she will be ready in a hour see you then by..by." Father Jame's says.
""You too see you then." I say in response to his farewell before the line went dead. Getting up I turn and find Koujo leaning against the entrance frame of the living room watching me. I smile and say, "She is good we can get her today. So is the food ready?"
"That is good and yes food is ready...you know I was just admiring my soon to be wife as she fretted over our soon to be daughter." Koujo said as a smirk graced his lips before he wrapped his arm around my waist and pulling my body flush with his, before he leaned down and gave me an intense kiss causing me to lose my breath.
Stepping out of his arms I say, "Wow...maybe I should fret more often if this is what it gets me." I say as I let out a small laugh. both Koujo and I turn and head towards the kitchen where the dinning room resides. AS we enter I find that every one is there ready for the day and are already eating their food.
"So how is she?" ask Dingxiang as he cut a piece of the pancakes to eat.
"Akiko is fine and she will be ready to be picked up in an hour."I say as I sit down in the chair that Koujo had pulled out for me before he took the seat next to me.
"Wonderful I can't wait to meet her." Says Meihui after she finished eating the food she had in her mouth. The time flew by quickly and by the time we could pick her up we were just arriving at the church to find Akiko jumping up and down next to father James by the entrance of the church. I quickly hop out the van as soon as it came to a stop and crouched down and Akiko ran at me and collided with my body I wrapped my arms around her as she giggled in excitement.
I pull slightly away from Akiko as I say, "Akiko I want you to meet your soon to be grandparents." As the last word left my mouth Akiko screamed as she released me and ran towards them in pure happiness and excitement and launched herself at them.
I watch as they quickly embrace her back as Akiko begins to cry at how happy she is before Dingxiang picked her up and kissed her cheek, before saying, "Beautiful girl you are just perfect, and we are going to spoil you so much. I already love who you are." He says again as he kisses her head and Meihui kisses her as well but is unable to say anything except cry at how happy she is she then grabs Akiko out of his arms and holds her to her as she whispered sweet words to her about how excited she is to have her in her life.
Smiling I turn around and tell father James, "We will have Akiko home before 2pm..."
Father James quickly interrupts me by saying, "No...I want you spend as much time with her while your soon to be in laws are here so have her back here before 7pm."
"Oh thank you very much!" I say as a smile graces my lips before I say, "Father Michel is siting in the van waiting so we best get going and thank you again for allowing this."
"No problem...All I want is to see Akiko happy and she is the happiest when she is with you guys, so have a fun day and please do bring her back before 7pm." Says father James as he looks between me and Akiko. I quickly bow at the waist saying goodby to him before standing up straight and turning around the others as they were getting into the van, I quickly jog to the van and hop up into the passenger seat in the front since Meihui and Dingxiang are sitting next to Akiko cooing her smiling I turn around and buckle up as Koujo puts the van in revers before driving to the house.
Though as we are diving through the city Meihui says, "Lets go to the shopping mall I want to get some thins." Nodding my head I see Koujo glance at me before turning the van towards the nearest shopping mall. Once we arrive Koujo find a parking spot close to the entrance and quickly parcks the van before turning the engine off. All of us get out of the car Looking to Akiko I see that she is holding Meihui's hand and is smiling from ear to ear. We enter the building only for Meihui to drag us directly into a toy store where she turns and looks down at Akiko and says, "Now Akiko go pick out anything you want so when every you go to Mayune's house never mind that pick out two things you want...my treat."
"Mother!" Koujo says as his eye became wide at hearing his mothers words. Smiling I turn to watch Akiko take off into the store as Dingxiang folowed behind her.
"What...I want to spoil her once we leave back home we might not see her for a while until the adoption goes through." Says Meihui as she shrugs her shoulders before heading off to find Dingxiang and Akiko.
Smiling I turn and grab Koujo's hand before following behind her as I say, "Just let her, she enjoys spoiling the grandchildren you know this come on." as I tug him along behind me. In the corner of my eye I see Koujo sigh as he allows me to tug him along.
As we near them I hear Akiko say, "This...This I want this." coming around the corner I see her holding a Ulela kids phone smart watch.
"Akiko why do you want that?" I ask as I crouch down next to her.
"So when I want to talk to you I can call you, plus it is not that expensive and it has many more capabilities." Akiko says as she looks down at the item in her hands. I nod my head as I can understand where she was coming from yet I can't understand why she didn't chose any toys.
"Is there anything else you want as well?" ask Meihui as she looks at Akiko. at her words Akiko looked sad before placing it down on the self next to her. It was then that Meihui said, "Sweetie I meant is there another item you want as well so you will be getting that as well as what ever else you chose." At her words Akiko's eyes widden before she reaches over and picks up the watch again. Then she turned around and went over to a shelf with a bunch of stuffed animals on it, I watch as she looks at them before reaching out and grabs a rabbit off the shelf.
As she turns back towards us she smiles before saying, "I want this I have never had one before." At her words I am shocked that she never had a stuffed animal before. As if she heard my thought she says, "My daddy use to say that toys and stuff animals were useless and that they were never allowed in the house." At her words I feel a ping in my heart out of sadness and as if sensing my internal pain I feel Koujo place his hand on my lower back causing me to look up at him only to see sadness in his eyes as well.
As I look back at Meihui I can se that she feels the same way before she says, "Well then I guess we will just have to get one fore you."