Meeting the Parents

Shibuya

The Next Day

Akira and Ann were sitting in a booth at the diner since they had to wait for Akechi. So they figured that they'll spend the time off from the Metaverse together.

"It feels like forever since we last went out on a date.""I've always wanted to ask this, why do you get to go on dates with Akira, but I can't with Arsene…" Carmen whispers. "And what are you two supposed to do?" "Let him hold me and kiss him for hours, I'm fine with just that." "Uh huh...that's not at all what you will try to do."

"Yeah, even though the last time we ate out somewhere together, was at the culture festival with Ryuji and Hifumi." "Speaking of them; I wonder how they are doing together."

Ann smiles; "You know, I wonder how they are doing as well; I keep forgetting to ask him." "Hopefully they are doing well. Ryuji has a way of speaking before thinking"

Akira laughs; "I'm sure they're doing fine. Ryuji would have been calling me in panic if he was having trouble with Hifumi." "I'm sure she doesn't mind him speaking before thinking. She even said that she likes him the way he is now."

"Yeah, Ryuji would do something like that." "That young man isn't bad; he just needs to learn to think before speaking."

"Anyway, is there anything you want to do?" He says holding her hand. "Well you kind of do that when it comes to sexual things."

"But, I'm an seductress, of course I like to talk about sexual things." She smiles feeling his hand; "Actually, I've been wanting to ask you something. I was wondering if you wants to meet my parents?" Carmen squeals.

"Well she's ready to move to the next next step huh?" "In my time, this would be considered a step towards marriage." Arsene whispers. "Yeah, and like I said before, I'm not sure she's not ready for that, hell I'm not." He smiles holding her hand tighter; "I would like to."

Ann squeals from agreeing; "Yes! Um, do you want to come over tomorrow?" "Oh, I can't wait to see this!"

"Yeah that sounds good." He then laughs; "So as a precaution, how big and strong is your father?" "Yeah I kind of imagine Ann's father being a big and strong guy."

Ann laughs as his assumption; "Big and strong? He's like the size of Yusuke and kind of flamboyant." "Ann's father is basically where Ann gets her blond hair and blue eyes as well as most of her personality from."

"Well that's interesting…" "Well I'm no longer worried then.""So I'm assuming you mother is the one, how did Ryuji say it? Who wears the pants of the marriage?"

Ann laughs again, "Yeah, basically, she's the one who runs the business aspect of their company. She's really nice though but can be stern so just make sure you don't get her mad." "Don't forget, she's where you get your teasing abilities from but you don't use it." Carmen whispers. "Please don't remind me…"

Akira laughs; "Well now I know where you get your anger from. I can't wait to meet them though." "I'm excited to meet them too."

"Well, should we get going then? To get ready for tomorrow? Besides it's getting late." "You know, I usually hate when we have to be apart. But, I think tomorrow would be worth it."

"Yeah let's get going then." "Yeah, tomorrow should be interesting."

After School

Akira and Ann were walking on the street where Ann says her house is located at.

But Ann looks to the side and notices that he was tense, making her laugh; "Don't be so worried, my parents are nice people." "Yeah, I'm sure they'll love you darling."

Akira sighs, "Well yeah, but aren't guys usually supposed to be afraid of their girlfriends parents?" "He does have a point."

"Yeah? And aren't girls supposed to act like a sweet girl to them but I called your ex-dad a fucking dick." "Yeah, but he deserved it though." "Besides didn't…Emily, have you meet her parents?"

"Well I met her parents before we confessed to each other and they loved me." "Maybe you should have lied there." Arsene whispers.

She looks down hearing that; "Oh…well I guess that's nice." "Would you stop bringing up that vile woman?" Carmen whispers.

He holds her hand in comfort; "You know, it's cute when you're jealous." "Good job, you just opened Pandora's Box."

Ann glares at Akira going red in the face from anger; "Hey! I am not jealous of Emily!" "You're really not disproving his point dear."

"Seriously though, Ann. I've proven to you many times that I will only love you." "Where have I heard that before…"

"Hey! Don't take my words and use them against me!" "But, he does have a point though. He has shown you plenty of times he's only loves you." Ann sighs; "Yeah, you're both right, sorry." She looks back forward and sees her house; "Well we're here!"

He looks at the house that they stopped in front of and sees that it was pretty big but not as big as Haru's. It was light blue and looked tall enough to have two floors with two big windows by the door on each side and two small windows on the upper part of the building which he presumed where the rooms were at. There was also a garage next to the house with a pathway leading to the front door of the house and there was a white car as well as a light blue car in the driveway, "Well this is…unique." "You can say that again."

She sighs never liking the color of the house; "Yeah…the light blue coloring is because it's my dad's favorite color. I'm still surprised mom even allowed this. So, of course, we have people outside looking at the house with confusion…and sometimes laughter." "Yeah, your father may be a famous fashion designer but when it comes to color for a house, he's terrible." "Anyway, you ready to go in?"

"Yeah, I'm ready." He says even though he was nervous. "Good luck."

They start walking up to the door and make it to the front door which was white. Ann knocks on the door and Akira hears a male say 'coming'. And soon, the door opens and a man around thirty-four with short blond hair and light blue eyes wearing a light blue collared shirt with white dress pants as well as wearing white dress shoes as well.

"Princess? Why did you knock on your…own…door?" The man starts speaking slowly when he notices Akira; "And who may you be?"

"Well dad, this is Akira…my boyfriend..." She says nervously afraid that he wouldn't approve of him

"Your boyfriend!?" He yells with his eyes going wide; "You never told me you had a boyfriend!"

Akira looks at Ann with amusement; "So Ann…why did you hide me from your father?"

"W-well, I-I didn't think you would approve of him…" She says looking away

Ann's father looks at her with sadness in his eyes; "Don't lie to me! It's because you're embarrassed of your dad!"

Ann was starting to feel bad; "Hey! I'm not embarrassed of you! You're the greatest dad ever!"

Akira was trying his hardest not to laugh; "This is beyond hilarious." "Yeah, I definitely see that she gets her personality from her father."

"Honey? Who's at the door and why are you yelling?" A woman around thirty-five with long brown hair, that went to her waist, who was wearing a white cardigan that was buttoned up and wearing a black long skirt with black heels came to the door; "Oh! Hello my dear and who is this handsome young man?"

Ann sighs not expecting it to go this way; "Hey mom...this is Akira…my boyfriend."

Ann's mother put a hand over her mouth gasping in surprise; "You finally have a boyfriend! So this is Akira...and here I thought you were imagining our mannequin being your boyfriend that you named, Akira."

Akira couldn't take it anymore after hearing that and starts laughing; "Y-You imagined me being a mannequin!?" Arsene starts cracking up as well; "That is kind of embarrassing!"

Ann felt like she was going to die from embarrassment and puts her head in her hands; "Somebody please kill me…" "Well I was not expecting this."

Ann's mother rubs her head; "Aw. Don't be like that dear." She then looks over at Akira; "Now would you like to come in Akira? I would like to know more about the man who stole my daughter's heart."

Akira smiles and bows to be respectful; "It would be my pleasure, Mrs.…?"

"Oh! Respectful and handsome. You really did get a winner Ann dear! Now...my name is Orika Takamaki and this is my husband, Lukas Takamaki."

Lukas starts to feel a little jealous from giving Akira compliments; "So you don't think I'm handsome anymore after being with you for fifteen years!?"

Orika smiles and walks behind him hugging him around his neck; "Aw...is my honey jealous that I called another man handsome? Well you'll always my number one most handsome man and to make up for making you jealous, I'm going to wear that lingerie you love and give you the best mouth present I've ever gave you tonight."

Lukas gulps hearing that; "O-Okay...I'm not jealous anymore..."

Ann looks at her parents in disgust; "Really...? I didn't need to hear that…" "You know dear, this could be your future if you just do what I tell you. Just think, you could have Akira be putty in your hands just by words alone." Carmen whispers. "Putty in my hands huh? I like the sound of that!"

Akira looks at the two in amusement; "So Ann's mother is basically Carmen but keeps her teasing somewhat subtle." "Well that explains why Carmen is her hidden self." Arsene whispers

Orika let's go of her husband and gestures Akira to come in and once they go in. The first thing that Akira notices, is that there was a brown staircase leading upstairs to the second floor that had white walls that covers the upper half of the staircase. To the left, was a living room with white walls with a white furry carpet and two light blue large three cushion couches one against the wall facing the entrance and the other facing the opposite side of big window that were touching each other by the corner tip of the arm rests and the open corner between the couches had a small table with a lamp on it. Across the room, in front of the big window, was a large flat screen TV with a blu-ray player that was on a big white TV stand with movies filling the two selves of the stand. And next to the TV stand were bookshelves filled with pictures. He then looks to the right and sees another big room with a big table which made him assume that it was a dining room, "Huh...I've never seen a house that looks like this before." "Maybe it's an American style house."

Orika laughs like she was used to the response; "I wouldn't doubt it. When I went to America, I loved their house designs so much that I had a house built with one their designs here. Now come in, let's have a seat." Akira nods and follows them to the living room then they all sit on the couch with Ann seating next to Akira while her parents sat on the other couch, "Now Akira, why don't you tell us a little about yourself?"

Akira clears his throat; "Well I'm top of my class at school and I'm working multiple part time jobs."

Both of Ann's parents looks at Akira with admiration, "Ah, so you're saving to go to college then with all these part-time jobs? How magnificent!" Lukas says

"I…" Akira looks down in worry because this was the one thing he was afraid to tell Ann's parents but then he feels a small soft hand wrapping around his making him look over seeing Ann mouth 'Don't worry, I'm here' making him feel a little bit better so he looks back at his parents; "I won't be able to go to college because I have a criminal record…"

That's when their faces turn into shock but then Orika glares at Akira that making him feel worried because he was afraid of this reaction; "And why do you have a criminal record…Akira?"

Lukas puts a hand on his wife's shoulder; "Now calm down honey, I'm sure Akira has a perfectly good reason why he has one."

Akira sighs; "Because I was falsely accused of assaulting a woman…"

Orika glares harder at Akira, obviously not believing him; "And how were you falsely accused of assaulting a woman?"

He then tells them everything that happened including the aftermath. After he gets done, Ann's parents start talking to amongst themselves. And soon, they both nod and Orika gives him a stern look which was better than a glare to him; "It's surprising that this man was able to convince this woman and the police to go after you instead of him. But also, he was able to get the judge to hand you a guilty verdict without proof. It's so unorthodox that we have no reason to believe you.

He looks down because the good mood he was in was now gone; "You're right…you have no reason to believe me." He gets up; "I should go..."

Orika shakes her head and smiles; "But because seeing how Ann trusts you and loves you. We know that you're not a bad person especially after what my daughter has been through with that Kamoshida, she would have a hard time trusting any man. So…" She gets up as well as Lukas and they walk up to Akira holding out their hands; "We accept you as Ann's boyfriend and hopefully in the future, part of our family."

Akira smiles and shakes their hands; "Thank you, Mrs. Takamaki and Mr. Takamaki."

"You're welcome my dear but there's one thing that we want to know though. After your probation is up, are you going to be moving back in with your parents in your hometown?"

"No, my parents disowned me but now I have a new family here, so I'm going to be living here now."

Orika smiles; "I'm sorry that your parents disowned you but I'm glad that you were able to find a new family. So Akira, now that you're welcomed here, would you be staying for dinner?"

He nods; "That sounds nice but only if you would like me to."

She laughs, "Of course we would like you to." She looks over at Ann; "Come dear, help me prepare dinner with me." She walks through an archway leading to a back room.

Akira finally notices the opening; "Huh? I wonder why I didn't notice that doorway." "Because we were too busy being nervous about her parents." "Quiet you."

Ann had a look of confusion when her mother asked her that since she was never asked to help out with dinner but she gets up and follows after her mother to the back room that lead to the kitchen.

Kitchen

Ann walks into the kitchen noticing her mother getting everything prepared for their dinner making her realize that she asked her for help to have girl talk; "Thank you for believing Akira. Even though it looked like that you weren't going to at first."

She laughs; "Actually, I believed him right away."

Ann glares at her; "Then why did you act like you didn't believe him!? You seen the look on his face! He was devastated!"

"I know dear and that's what I was hoping for because I wanted to test him. Because if he really was a criminal, he wouldn't be upset about me not believing him. Him being upset proved that to me that he was telling the truth."

Ann smiles remembering the first time she met him; "You know, it kinda reminds me of when I first met him. Because I thought the same thing when I first met him. He looked so alone that I couldn't believe that he was a criminal."

She looks at her daughter with pride; "I'm glad you're able to see that actions speak louder than words, my daughter." She then smirks, "So when you told him about his disownment. Did you "comfort" him?"

Ann sighs remembering what had happened; "No...I was planning on doing something to make him forget about his disownment. But he found out when I was ranting to his dad instead of just telling him."

"What do you mean about him finding out? Did you not tell him right away!?" Orika says in a harsh tone

Ann flinches from it because she usually used that tone whenever she did something terrible; "W-Well I was scared to tell him. Because I was scared to see him hurt or what he would do after he found out…"

Calming down, Orika sighs; "I guess I understand dear, but next time you need to tell Akira anything that you think would hurt him emotionally and if you're afraid to see him hurt because of it. Then it would be up to you to make him feel better, that's one of the things about being a significant other is. Just like he would do for you and does he do that?"

Ann didn't even skip a beat, "He always does."

"That's great to hear but you need to do the same for him. I mean, just look at what I did with your father when he got jealous, I comforted him by saying that he was the only handsome one for me and I even sweeten it by promising him pleasure tonight."

Ann sighs, "I know mom and again I don't need to hear about what you're going to do to dad."

She rolls her eyes; "Oh stop acting like you're disgusted in what we do in the bedroom…and sometimes the living room…and one time on the dining table but it broke somehow."

Ann looks at her with a mixture of disgust and shock; "Is that why we have a new dining room table!?" "You know, I haven't heard your mother talk like this. She's usually more subtle about it. I like this side of her."

She pretends to not know what she was talking about; "I don't know what you're talking about. Anyway, haven't you had 'alone time' with Akira? I know that I haven't been around to talk to you about it."

Since Ann heard about alone time from Carmen, she knew exactly what she was talking about; "W-Well, um, no, even though we've been together since June…"

"Wow, you've been hiding it for this long…I'm impressed. But I can't believe you haven't done it with that young man. If I wasn't married and in love with your father, I would have done things to the young man that would have…"

Ann quickly interrupts her; "Mom! I don't need to hear what you would have done with my boyfriend! It's creepy… and no, I haven't done anything because…I'm waiting till either Christmas or Valentine's Day, just don't tell Akira." "What! This is the first time I heard of this!" "Because you don't know how to keep your mouth shut when it comes to this kind of stuff. Besides, I did keep saying either Christmas or Valentine's Day whenever I looked at the calendar." "I was wondering why you kept saying those two holidays." "And if you ruin this surprise, I will make Zorro sing love songs to you." "I have no idea what you're talking about dear." "Good."

Orika smirks; "Well, I think it should be on Christmas because I have the perfect outfit for you. Come with me dear." She starts walking to the living room with Ann following her but stops when she notices something oddly pleasing; "Um honey? Why does Akira have his shirt and pants off?"

10 minutes earlier

Once the girls left, Akira and Lukas were sitting in the living room in total silence.

Akira was looking down trying to figure out what to say; "Yeah...this is really awkward, I don't know what to say." "Just ask him something about Ann or if there is something else he would like to know about you." "Yeah that sounds like a good idea." He looks up then over at Lukas and was about to ask him a question but notices that he was looking at him up and down like he was checking him out.

"Akira...have you ever thought about being a model?" Lukas says when Akira looks at him.

That definitely caught Akira by surprise; "I, uh, no. Why do you say that?"

"Because you have the face and the body that would be perfect for modeling. So I was wondering if you would like to model for my clothing line. I'm sure my princess has told you that me and my wife are fashion designers."

Akira was definitely in shock now; "I honestly would not expect to be offered a modeling job visiting Ann's parents." "You know, a lot of good and interesting things have been happening to you, hopefully nothing bad happens soon." "Yeah...don't start jinxing us now. But I think I should take the job. It's better than what I can get with a criminal record…" He nods; "Yeah, Ann did talk about you and your wife about being fashion designers and yes, I will accept the offer of being your clothing model."

Lukas beams hearing that; "Yes! This is wonderful news! Now, can you take off your shirt and your pants so I can fully see how you look because we are doing our summer wear soon."

Hearing him say something like that so easily, made Akira look at him like he grew a second head; "Okay...? But can we at least do it not in the living room because you know, the ladies might come in." Arsene starts laughing; "Well Akira, it looks like you're able to charm even men." "Go to hell…"

He laughs hearing his shyness; "Come on, no need to be shy. It's just going to be a quick look and they're busy making dinner."

"I haven't even shown my half nakedness to Ann…but here I am showing her father before her…" "I wish I had one of those camera thingies right now." "You better not say anything to the others or I will kill you. Remember I can replace you…" Akira sighs then slowly and hesitantly starts taking off his shirt then his pants leaving him only his boxers and socks on.

Lukas starts looking Akira up and down while circling him while talking to himself; "My word, you have one of the best bodies I've ever seen. I was right, you will be perfect to model for our old and new clothing line."

Akira was really getting uncomfortable with his compliments; "I feel so violated…" Arsene starts laughing hysterically.

"All done! You can put your clothes back on."

"Thank God..." Akira was about to go grab his clothes when he hears Ann's mother's voice;

"Um honey? Why is Akira not wearing his shirt and pants in our living room?"

Akira's eyes went wide,"Oh God...why have you forsaken me..." He slowly turns around seeing Orika with a smile and amusement in her eyes as well as Ann. But with Ann, she had wide eyes staring at him with drool slowly coming out of her mouth. She then slowly starts looking him up and down and was having a hard time fighting the urge to ravish him; "Oh my god…I want to touch him…right here right now…" "You're finally starting to feel the urges to ravish him!"

Orika leans towards Ann while smirking then speaks quietly enough for only her to hear; "So my daughter. Are you going to be able to last till Christmas after seeing this?"

Ann turns to her mother in confusion too busy focusing on Akira to understand what she said; "H-Huh?"

"Oh!" Lukas turns to them; "I'm sorry you two, I was just asking Akira here if I can view is body because I asked him to model for our clothing line. I just wasn't expecting you two to come in here so soon."

"For me being half naked in front of his daughter, he seems really calm." "Maybe because he accepts you as Ann's boyfriend or he's still excited for you agreeing to be his model." Arsene whispers.

Ann quickly turns to her father even though she was having a hard time trying not to look at Akira; "So Akira's going to be modeling for you and mom!?" "The perfect modeling couple! Oh, I love it already!"

Orika laughs at her husbands usual antics; "While that explains why he's only in his boxers, I thought that you were trying to have your way with him. But I do like the idea of Akira being our model. Maybe next time you should do this in privacy than in the living room though. Even though I know how excited you get in having a new model."

"I'm sorry, my love. I was just so excited about having a model for our clothing line and it happens to be our princess' boyfriend! So that's why I'm even more excited!"

She smiles at his excitement because she was excited just as much; "Well we have to find a modeling agency for him. I can ask some business friends to find me some male modeling agencies for me."

Akira finally got his clothes on and walks over to Ann smiling; "Well, I guess I'm going to be a model too." "Well that's one thing that I never accomplished."

She smiles big excited about it; "Yeah! Maybe we can do some shoots together! That would be fun!" "Well you can always model for me Arsene but it would definitely end up becoming nude modeling."

Orika smiles at them; "Well dear, are you ready to finish dinner then? I'll show you the outfit later."

Ann nods and they both go back into the kitchen

30 minutes later

The Takamakis and Akira were eating dinner with the latter really enjoying the meal; "This is great Ms. Takamaki." "Yeah it kind of is good."

Orika smiles hearing his compliment; "I'm glad you like it Akira because Ann help out with the dinner."

He turns over to Ann smiling at her; "Really? Well no wonder why it's great."

Ann blushes a deep red from his compliment; "Thanks…Akiree." "Next you should give him a massage to make him do anything for you."

Lukas smiles at the both of them; "You two really are sweet to each other, I think it's wonderful."

She looks at him; "I'm glad that hear that daddy. Actually, I was surprised that you didn't get angry when I said that Akira is my boyfriend because I thought you didn't trust boys. And that's why I didn't tell you two about Akira."

He looks at her confused; "You're right about not trusting boys because of what you went through with that man but I didn't say anything about not wanting you to have a boyfriend."

Hearing that made her angry causing her to glare at him; "Are you serious!?" "I could've had Akira stay over here!" "Well that's disappointing…" "Wait…he didn't trust boys to sleepover but is fine with a boyfriend…Oh my god! What kind of girl does he think I am!?" "What kind of girl do you think I am daddy!?"

"W-What do you mean princess?" He asks, honestly confused

"What!? Do you think I would just have random guys sleep over!?"

He starts sweating because like her mother, her anger was not to take kindly; "N-no o-of course not! I'm just looking out for you! You know, being a father…"

"Actually no! A dad doesn't just assume that his daughter sleeps with random guys!"

"I-I'm sorry my princess…" He says looking down

Orika chimes in with a smile; "Actually...I thought you and Shiho were going to be together. You never did have any interest in boys and she was the only person that you would hang out with."

Ann looks at her mom in shock and then puts her head in her hands in embarrassment; "I can't believe my dad thinks I sleep around and my mom thought that I was into girls…" "Well there were times I had to seduce woman." "Not helping Carmen!"

Akira laughs; "So Ann, do I have to worry about you wanting to cheat on me with Makoto?" "Well Anat did kind of fondle Carmen's chest a month ago, so I wouldn't doubt it."

"…please stop adding fuel to the fire…" "Oh yeah, it feels like such a long time ago and it felt really good too."

"Ahem!" Lukas cleared his throat rather loudly desperately trying to change the subject; "So Akira, how did you two meet?"

Akira smiles thinking about it; "Actually, it was on my first day transferring here."

"Wow! That's pretty fast! Maybe meeting each other was predestined."

"Heh, maybe. But, that's when I found out about Kamoshida and what he was trying to do to Ann and Shiho…"

Orika looks at Akira in appreciation; "So you were the one to help our daughter with that man. I thank you for helping her deal with him, truly I am."

Akira nods; "Of course, I couldn't just do nothing. I'm just glad that I was there to stop him." He felt bad for not including Ryuji but he couldn't tell them about the Metaverse.

Ann wraps an arm around his arm; "Akira was like a hero to me. If it wasn't for him, I would've given myself to Kamoshida…"

"I'm glad Akira was able to convince you to not do it but I wished you would've told us that disgrace of a man was doing to you dear." Orika gave no one in particular a menacing look; "I would have ripped his balls off and shove them down his throat."

Lukas chuckles nervously; "My wife's not kidding…you should have seen her when Ann told us after we got back. Ann and I had to hold her back from not going to the prison to confront him."

Akira laughs; "I actually would like to see that." "Ann's mother is kind of cool and scary."

"Now you see where I get my anger from when I wanted to kill S. Kamoshida." Ann whispers to him "Ann's mother is the greatest!"

"Yeah...no kidding." He whispers back. "I'm still surprised you were able to stop her."

Ann's Room

After dinner, Ann brought Akira upstairs to show him her room and once they walk in. He looks around and saw that it was a medium sized room a little bit bigger than his room but smaller than the Leblanc attic. And on the floor was a red furry carpet and the walls were all white. He also sees a red large size dresser across her door with a big mirror on it with makeup on each side of the mirror. On the other wall of the room was a medium size TV stand in front of her bed with a 20inch TV on it, there was also a body mirror next to the TV stand. Across the TV stand, was a small bed against the wall with a white bed frame and a red sheet on it as well as the Jack Frost doll that he had won for her and on the wall next to the end of the bed was a window. Next to the bed was a nightstand with the picture they took at the airport and a picture of Ann and Shiho when they were younger.

Akira had amusement in his eyes; "Well it seems your favorite color is red and white." "I could just tell from her outfits."

Ann sighs, "Yeah…I kind of went overboard." She turns to him seeing him with a smirk; "Hey! At least it's red instead of light blue!" "I still think it looks elegant."

He laughs; "Relax Anki, I think it looks great." "Yeah, it's a unique look to a room." But upon closer look in between the makeup was an uneaten banana; "Um Ann, why is there an uneaten banana on your dresser?"

Ann looks at him confused; "An uneaten banana?" She looks over her dresser seeing the banana and that's when her eyes go wide remembering why the banana was there. That's when she quickly grabs it and opens her window then throws it out the window. And then they both hear a girly scream making them both look out the window seeing Lukas holding his head and she sticks her head out; "I'm sorry dad! Uh, can you throw that away!?" She yells out

Akira laughs at what she had done; "Maybe you shouldn't forget to eat food." "Are you serious Akira? You really are an innocent young man." "How does telling Ann to eat food making me an innocent young man?"

"Because darling, Ann here was using the banana to practice…" "Singing! Yes! I was practicing singing!"

"Um okay, I don't know why you need to practice singing, you already have a beautiful voice." "Yeah, you really are an innocent young man…"

"Changing subject!" She quickly sits down and pats her bed indicating that she wanted him to sit next to her making him look at her confused by the way she was acting but he just shrugs and sits down next to her. Once he sits down, she sighs; "I can't believe how embarrassing my parents are…" "I'm sure they don't mean to do it dear."

"I like your parents. Your dad is a bit eccentric and is really flamboyant like you said and your mother is basically Carmen which means she's great." Arsene laughs; "I can definitely see both of them in Ann."

"I guess I am like my parents." "Aw, you think I'm great Akira. Well I think your wonderful darling."

Akira laughs; "Thanks Carmen." Arsene laughs; "Hey now, don't start trying to take Carmen away from me."

Ann smiles; "Do you ever know how to turn your charming self off? My mom was wanting to do things to you if she wasn't with my dad." "Well he does ooze charm." "Speaking of charm, you know how hard it was to not pounce on you when I saw you just in your boxers."

"Well you did have drool coming out your mouth. So I would assume a very hard time." "She had the same look that I would have looking at a diamond."

"Hold on..." Ann says stopping him when she sees a shadow in front of her door; "I would pounce on you right now but I know my mom's probably outside my door listening in!" "She is?"

"No, I'm not! I-I was just walking by!" They indeed hear Ann's mother yelling that

Ann sighs in frustration; "Just come in!"

The door slowly opens and her mother walks in like she wasn't caught eavesdropping; "Hello dear! What do you need?" Ann didn't say anything just glaring at her; "Oh fine then! Yes I was standing outside your door eavesdropping."

"And why were you standing outside my door?"

"Well I was going to show you that outfit that would be perfect for you but I then heard you two talking about us so I wanted to hear what Akira thought of us."

"Why didn't you just ask him!?"

"Because he wouldn't lie to you." She then looks at Akira; "And it's nice to hear from Akira that I'm great like this Carmen person unlike my daughter who thinks I'm an embarrassment." She says with some sorrow in her voice.

Ann looks down in shame, "I'm sorry mom…"

Orika sighs; "I forgive you. Anyway, can I see you for a bit dear?"

Ann nods; "Y-Yeah." She says nervous that she might get punished but gets up and walks to her mom.

"Don't worry Akira; I'll bring her back in a moment." They both leave and close the door

While he was waiting, Akira's phone goes off; "Huh? I wasn't expecting a text message." "I wonder who it is." He brings out his phone and sees that it was Shiho who texted him; "Why is Shiho texting me? Oh crap! I forgot about Ann's surprise birthday party!" "That was perfect timing..."

[Hey there Akira! I'm going to be arriving around 12pm tomorrow. Have you already talked to Nijima-san about distracting Ann?]

"Crap…I also forgot to call Makoto…" "Now I don't condone lying to female...even though I usually did..."

[Yeah, I just got done talking to her.]

[Great! I've got some ideas we can talk about already! But we just have to find a place to have it.]

Akira smiles already knowing the perfect place

[Don't worry about, I already have the perfect place.]

[Whoa! Look at you Akira, you actually was prepared! Now only if you could've used that preparation in finding out when Ann's birthday was.]

"Well someone's snarky..." "She's like a completely different person."

[Haha, well thank you and next time I will remember to do that, Miss Suzui.]

[Well you're welcome, Mister Kurusu. I've got to get going so I'll see you tomorrow then! Have a good night.]

[You have a good night as well.]

"Well you two are fast becoming well acquainted." "Well I am dating her best friend so I'm sure she wants to quickly become friends with me." "Hopefully, she hasn't given in to your charms." "Do you want Ann to kill me? Also, it's not like I do it on purpose. Anyway, I got to call Makoto." He presses a few buttons on the phone then puts it to his ear. After a few rings, Makoto answers.

"Good evening Akira, I wasn't expecting a phone call from you." "Good evening, Arsene-san."

"I'm sorry, am I disturbing you?" "Good evening to you too, Anat."

"No, of course not, it's just…nevermind. How may I help you?" "So Arsene, can I speak to Satanael?"

"Well it's Ann's birthday next Sunday and Shiho wants to throw her a surprise party. So tomorrow, she's coming back, so her and I can plan it out. Now I wanted to ask if you can hang out with Ann tomorrow to distract her." Arsene sighs; "Yeah…give me a moment. He said that he misses you dearly and hopes you're doing well."

"Oh! Shiho's coming back!? Ann would definitely like that. So yes, I will help you distract Ann." "Awwww, tell I miss him as well and I'm doing okay. I just want to see him again."

"Thank you Makoto, I owe you." "He said that when he sees you again, he wants to kiss you all over your body."

"You don't owe me anything. I just want to help you with whatever you need." "That's all? I want him to do more than that and it involves pounding into…" "Alright, we're done here. Good night, Akira." and she quickly hangs up.

"I think Carmen has been teaching Anat some of her skills." "Maybe it's because she's the goddess of love and fertility. But, I think Satanael got the hint of what she really wants because he's speechless right now."

Meanwhile

After they left the room, Ann and her mother starts walking towards the latter's room. Ann was still feeling bad about calling her mom and dad an embarrassment; "Mom…I'm sorry for calling you an embarrassment. I was just upset that you told Akira what I did with your mannequin and that you thought I was going to be with Shiho."

She sighs; "I know dear, I went overboard with my teasing. I was just so happy that you found a man you can love. Especially after what happened with that disgrace of a man, I was afraid that you wouldn't want to be with a man. Not that I mind you being with a girl."

Ann looks down because she was right; "I understand mom. To be honest, if it wasn't for Akira, I would be afraid to trust men. He's always there for me even when he barely knew me. He means everything to me."

"I'm glad to hear that my daughter. So when do I get to prepare your wedding?"

She smiles at her; "That's all up to Akira. I'm sure he wants to wait till after we're done with school."

Orika laughs; "Good because I want grandkids as soon as possible."

"I don't know about 'kids' but maybe just one."

Orika rolls her eyes; "I highly doubt that." Once they make it to her room, she goes straight to her closet and takes out a what look like a Christmas outfit…a Christmas outfit that looked more like a something you would wear for your significant other when you're ready for some 'fun time'.

And seeing that, makes Ann blush; "Mom! W-What kind of outfit is that!?"

Orika beams; "An outfit that would make Akira instantly ready for you when you two finally get intimate."

"Oh okay…" She says sighing with relief; "I thought that was outerwear…"

"Haha, go ahead and wear it outside, if you want men to be all over you. Now then try it on." Orika then hands her the outfit.

Ann grabs it then takes off her clothes. She puts on the outfit and walks over to her parents' body mirror. The first thing she noticed was that the red shorts weren't really shorts but more like jean underwear with a black belt. The top was a halter-top that was red with white on top of it and black buttons holding it together covering just her chest but still showing a lot of cleavage.

Ann surprising starts slowly liking the outfit; "You know, for only being for private time, it does look great on me!" "This outfit is absolutely beautiful darling!"

"I'm happy to hear that you're starting to like it dear. But I forgot to give you the shoes and the accessories." She goes back to her closet and grabs some things as well as red boots with heels. She walks back to Ann and hands her the stuff.

Ann grabs the things and looks at them. She sees two red evening gloves, a red hair band with red panther ears and a red panther tail; "Uh…this can't be a coincidence. These ears and tail looks like the things I wear in the Metaverse! Except it's a hair band instead of a mask!" "It looks like your mother likes to dress up like a panther." "I really don't want that imagine in my head..." She puts on the things and looks into the mirror; "Yeah it definitely looks like I'm wearing my rebel outfit but I'm not wearing my latex suit and the boots still go up to the knees but look like regular heeled boots instead." "It looks great mom!"

"That's great dear! Now you'll be ready for your first time with Akira."

Ann smiles; "Yeah. Actually, around Christmas would be the best time because it's Akira's birthday in December."

Orika smiles at her; "Well then you're going to give him a birthday that he'll never forget."

"Oh yeah!" She then takes off the outfit and puts her old clothes back on then grabs the Christmas outfit; "Thanks mom! This outfit will work perfectly!" "With this outfit, Akira would be on you in seconds!"

"I'm glad I can help you dear." She says smiling at her appreciation; "Now if you need help with anything involving sexual things, just ask."

"Okay I will. Oh yeah, I'm going to be staying over at Akira's house tonight." "Yes! Finally!"

"That's fine dear; hopefully you'll be able to stay off him till Christmas." Her mother says smirking because she was about to tease her daughter one more time; "Do you want to borrow our mannequin so you can pretend to be with two Akiras tonight?"

Ann sighs with annoyance; "Just when you finally did something helpful and non-embarrassing today, you just had to say one more embarrassing thing. Sometimes I hate you…" "Now you shouldn't say that you hate your mother dear."

Her mother laughs not at all taking that to heart; "And I will always love you, dear."

Ann rolls her eyes; "I'm going to get Akira so we can start heading out."

"Okay, I'll grab your father and meet you downstairs at the entrance."

Ann nods and they both walk out the room.

Ann's room

Ann walks into her room seeing Akira thinking about something

"So what are you thinking about?"

"Gah! Akira jumps a little because she brought him out of his thinking and looks up at her; "Oh hey. And nothing, just thinking about today."

She smiles; "I kinda figured. But I'm glad that my parents love you and you even got a modeling job from them!" "Yeah, that modeling thing was really surprising."

He gets up smiling at her; "Yeah, things have been looking up for us ever since a few days ago." "Sometimes we have to go through bad things before we see greatness."

"Yeah." But she looks down because even though she told her mom she was staying over Akira's house, she realizes that she didn't even ask him first; "U-Um...I kinda told my mom that I was going to stay over your house...So...can I stay over…tonight?" "You better say yes!"

Seeing her nervousness, He walks over to her and embraces her; "Well it is Saturday right? I did promise that every Saturday you get to stay over."

She instantly melts into his embrace; "I know...but I wanted to make sure." She reluctantly pulls away; "We should go downstairs...my parents are waiting for us."

"Okay, let's go then."

"Let me get my pajamas real fast then we can start heading downstairs."

Akira nods while Ann grabs a backpack and puts some clothes as well as her pajamas in them. Afterwards, they walk out of the room and downstairs seeing her parents by the door.

Orika smiles at the both of them; "Ah...there are the two lovebirds!"

Lukas smiles at them as well; "It was great to meet you Akira. I'm glad my princess as found a man such as yourself."

He felt great hearing Ann's father praise him; "I'm glad that I meet your expectations, Mr. Takamaki."

Orika laughs from what Akira said; "You have more than meet our expectations dear. You will now be considered part of our family." She walks up to him and hugs him.

Akira was surprised at first hearing that he was considered family and hugs her back; "I'm glad to be consider part of the family." Ann and her father started tearing up seeing them hug.

And after they were done hugging, Lukas goes up and hugs Akira; "If you need anything at all. Just let Ann know! We'll be there for you!"

He smiles; "Thank you..."

After they let go, Ann and Akira said their goodbyes and start heading back to Sojiro's house.

Akira's Room

Akira walks into the room tired from today. So He gets into his home clothes while Ann was in the bathroom changing. Once he got done, he went onto his bed waiting for Ann, "So are you excited about having Ann spend the night with you?" "Of course I am even though we did in Hawaii; I got the best sleep I ever had that night from holding her."

After a bit, Ann walked through the door wearing red silk pajamas but she still had her hair in pigtails. And to his surprised; she didn't even hesitate getting into bed with Akira and instantly holds him with her head under his chin.

Akira smiles feeling her hug; "I'm surprised that you weren't nervous about this." "Like you said, you both have done this before.

Ann laughed as well, "That's because you don't know how long I've been wanting to do this again." "She kept saying that she felt empty sleeping without you ever since the Hawaii trip."

"You should have told me then."

"Well I was too preoccupied with other things…"

"Oh yeah…" Akira starts playing with her pigtails to change the subject; "So do you always go to sleep with your hair still in pigtails?"

She giggles hoping that he would ask that; "Of course not. You're just going to wait till we have our first time together." "That's a weird way of showing him how you really look." "Excuse me; I don't see you undoing your pigtails in the Metaverse, Carmen."

He chuckles; "Wow, you're even using your hair as a special moment." "Well no one has seen her hair without pigtails besides her parents and maybe Shiho I'm assuming.

She smirks; "Well just think of it this way. When you see me with my hair down that's the sigh that I'm ready for you. How about that?"

"That sounds weird but good as well."

"Good." "He doesn't even know what's going to be in store for him on his birthday! I can't wait to see the look on his face when he sees the outfit!" "Oh yeah, Makoto texted me while I was in the bathroom. She wants to hang out. Would that be okay if I hang out with her?"

"Thank you Makoto." "You don't need to ask me for permission to hangout with a friend Ann. Besides, Ryuji's been bothering me to hangout."

"Well, I just wanted to make sure and yeah, I can kind of see Ryuji bothering you to hangout since we barely have time now."

"Well it has been kind of hectic. But, that will all end hopefully soon." "Yeah, hopefully the Metaverse doesn't disappear though because we might too." "Really Arsene? Don't joke about that stuff."

"Yeah, Arsene. I can't imagine losing Carmen she's like a sister to me." "Really!?" "Of course Carmen, we argue like sisters all the time, I can't imagine losing you." Carmen starts crying from happiness: "I feel the same dear!"

Akira smiles at hearing them but then yawns; "We should get some sleep since we're going to be busy tomorrow." "Yeah, let's go to sleep."

"Yeah, I agree, goodnight my Akiree. I love you." "Good night, my darling Arsey."

"Goodnight, my dear Anki. I love you as well." "Good night, my sweet Carme."

First, I want to give a quick shoutout to PRemington900 for giving me the names for Ann's parents (because I suck with naming characters), I highly suggest reading their Persona 5 fic: Trickster vs. Champion which is a Akira/Ren x Ann story and a Shiho x OC story. Even if you don't like a story with an OC sharing the spotlight with Akira/Ren and having a bunch of OCs, it's still a great read especially if you are a Shiho fan, he really knows how to write her since we only get to see her broken self in the game and she's plays a big part of this story.