Side note:"anything underlined and bold is text talk"

Chapter 4: The florist and the innocent

Saori arrives home after running a few errands,she settles her bags on the kitchen table and starts to put stuff in the fridge."I wonder if Snow is doing fine on his first day. I shouldn't worry too much. He has a nice teacher and Saya is there. Maybe what Hayato said is true, I do worry too much."

After Saori puts everything away she goes into the living room and sits down on the couch and turns on the TV for some background noise. Saori ponders on what she should do since this is the first time in a while she's had some free time to herself. Normally she'd be homeschooling Snow but now he's in a permanent school. Saori gets up from the couch and goes into her bedroom and opens one of the drawers on her nightstand and pulls out a black notebook and laptop. She closes the drawer and leaves the room and grabs a pen from the pen basket and sits back down on the couch. She flips through the pages of the notebook,it's filled with various ideas of her potential flower shop. Saori opens her laptop and searches for any vacant buildings for sale and finds one relatively close by where they live. She notices the number on the website and dials it into her phone. The phone rings for a bit and Saori is greeted by a man's voice.

"Uh Hi hello I saw that the number for this building and was wondering if anybody has bought it yet?" Saori hears typing in the background and the man decides to speak.

"No one has bought the property yet. Matter of fact you're the first person to even call about this listing." Saori is trying to contain her glee at the fact that she's finally gonna be able to start her passion project.

"Great and would you possibly know how I would go about opening a business with that building?"

"Yeah what you need to do is go down to city hall or call to book an appointment they'll want to see the proper paperwork and permits needed for said business."

"Thank you so much for your help and have a nice day sir."

"Glad I was able to help and you too miss." Saori hangs up the phone and dials the number for city hall. A couple rings pass and a female voice can be heard.

"Hi my name is Mitsuru, how may I help you today."

"Hi my name is Saori Arisato, I called the owner of a vacant building and was directed to call city hall to speak with a representative to book an appointment."

"Where is the building located, miss."

"It's in the west ward 4 and 11th." The representative types on her computer to find the building.

"Ok so today isn't that busy of a day so would 2:30 be alright."

"Hayato did say he was going to call me if he was going to be late and it's 1:30 now I should just text him really quickly to see if he's for sure going to pick up Snow." "Umm Mitsuru was it? just hold on one sec. I need to text my husband."

"Ok but make it quick." Saori quickly text's Hayato asking if he's able to pick up Snow.

Hayato hears his phone vibrate against his desk and picks it up. "A text from Saori?" Hayato reads the text."Hey I have an appointment with city hall in an hour and was wondering if you're for sure able to pick up Snow. It's ok if you're busy I can always reschedule."Hayto responds.

"Yeah I'm able to pick up Snow. I'm pretty much off duty until otherwise."Saori reads the text and a smile spreads across her face and quickly goes back to talking with Mitsuru.

"Hi Mitsuru, are you still there?"

"Yes I am. So does 2:30 work for you, Saori?"

"Yes it does."

"Great I'll write you down and I have to ask the reason for this appointment."

"I want to open up a retail store with that vacant building. I have the proper paperwork and my license ID for verification."

"That's great so we won't be taking up too much of your time. Can't wait to see you here."

"Thank you so much and have a nice day."

"Only doing my Job Saori and you have a nice day as well." Saori hangs up and goes into her bedroom to look for her paperwork and license. 30 minutes pass by and Saori gets in her car and drives off to city hall located in the heart of Aptos. Saori parks a couple of blocks away and makes her way towards city hall. Saori opens the front door and makes her way to the receptionist.

"Hi, I have an appointment at 2:30." The woman behind the desk looks up from her computer.

"Name please."

"Oh it's Saori Arisato." The woman types on her computer and finds Saori's name in the schedule.

"Yep you can head right in to your left." Saori thanks the receptionist and walks towards the office and knocks on the door. Saori can hear a faint "Come in" behind the door and decides to open the door. A man greets Saori and gestures to her to sit down.

"So you must be Arisato ,my name is Irie. It's a pleasure to meet you."

"Likewise ."

"So you inquired about the vacant building right, do you have the paperwork and license to open up a retail store?" Saori goes into her purse and grabs a folder of documents along with her license.

"Here you go." Saori hands over the documents to Irie and he goes over them carefully.

"So everything is an order. I'm gonna need you to fill out this form for the lease." Irie hands Saori back her folder and the lease form. "If you don't mind me asking what do you plan on opening here in Aptos.?" Saori takes the folder and license back and puts it in her purse and takes out a pen to fill out the form.

"Well I owned a flower shop a couple years back and it was basically my passion project. After I met my husband I haven't really had a chance to open up another shop but since we've settled down now would be a perfect time to reopen."

"That sounds like a great idea. We don't have any florists in Aptos. You'd be our first one. Another question: will you be running the business by yourself?"

"Guess I never put that much thought would probably help every now and again and maybe Snow when he gets older." Saori fills out the paperwork and hands it over to Irie. "Well my old flower shop was family owned. My mother and I were partners. I would like for the business to be family owned again but I wouldn't oppose outside help."

"Well I'm sure anybody here in Aptos would be happy to work for you. Everyone here is willing to help anybody and everyone."

"That's good to hear." Saori and Irie continue with the formalities of the business.

It's recess at Snow's school and he's unsure as to where he should go in the playground. Saya pops out of the cafetaria and finds Snow standing outside looking nervous. Saya walks towards Snow and surprises him. "BOO!" Snow jumps at the sudden noise and turns around to see Saya.

"Saya, why would you do that?"

"I don't know, I just felt like it. We should go to the swingset Snow come on." Saya grabs Snow's arm and pulls him towards the swingset. Saya and Snow sit on the swings and start swinging back and forth. Saya notices Snow having fun. "Good Snow doesn't look sad anymore." "Hey Snow how come you're here in school doesn't your mommy teach you?"

"Yeah but we're gonna be living here in Aptos so I don't have to be taught by my mom." Saya has a big smile on face upon hearing the news. When they first met Snow was home taught and living on the schedule having to move every 3 months so in an attempt to keep Snow's first friend Saori decided that video calls with the Sasaki's was a good idea. The two enjoy the remainder of their recess and head back to class for the remainder of school hours until class is over.

"Ok kids that's all for today pack up and get ready to be dismissed." Kids start to put school supplies back into their backpacks and start heading to the front while Haruka is watching over them. Once outside Haruka stands with the kids until their parents come to pick them up and one by one kids start leaving with their parents. Eventually a man with short brown hair,glasses,white button up shirt and black khaki pants arrives, his name is Akatsuki Sasaki. "Hi Haruka, I'm here to pick up Saya."

"Oh hello there Saya is right over there." Haruka points to Saya and Akatsuki notices a familiar boy talking to Saya. "Is that Hayato's boy?" Akatsuki walks towards the two and gives Saya a quick hug and starts to talk to the boy. "Snow is that you? What are you doing here in Aptos?"

"Oh hi , me,daddy and mommy moved here a month ago."

"Guess Hayato decided to settle down." Akatsuki and by extension his wife Yukina were of the few people who knew of Hayato's background. So to see Hayato settle down takes Akatsuki back but is happy for his friend. "Who's gonna pick you up Snow?"

"Daddy is gonna pick me up."

"Hayato is probably taking more jobs in the morning to make time for Snow and Saori." "Well when he does pick you up, tell him I said hi and that we should hangout sometime once he's free." Snow nods to Akatsuki and Akatsuki holds Saya's hand and walks off waving bye to Snow and Haruka.

"Daddy Snow looked kinda sad today, why's that?"

"Well sweetie you know how Snow and his family are always moving to new places. This is the first time Snow won't be moving so this is all new to him."

"How can I help him? I don't like seeing him sad." The two of them stop walking and Akatsuki notices his daughter has a sad look on her face and kneels down to her level to talk to her.

"Well sweetie, be there for him to make sure he doesn't feel alone. He doesn't have any friends and hasn't met this many people before so it's all so scary to him."

"I sat next to him at lunch and we played on the swingset together." Akatsuki puts his hand on Saya's head, giving her head pats and smiled at her.

"Then you're already doing a great job keep it up Saya." Saya smiles back at her father and the two start walking again. "Yukina we're home and I have some news to tell you." A woman with short blond hair wearing a black shirt and blue jeans emerges from the kitchen.

"Welcome home Akatsuki and Saya tell me about your day. I just made some tea and sweets." Saya drops her bag and hurries to the kitchen for snacks. Akatsuki picks up her bag and puts it on the kitchen table and takes Yukina to talk in private.

"So Hayato finally settled down." Yukina has a shocked look on her face upon hearing the news.

"He did? Not trying to doubt you but he's always talked about it but never actually did it."

"Yeah I saw Snow at Saya's school and was just as surprised. I'm happy for him, he deserves it."

"Agreed. I wonder where they live, guess later on today we can call Saori."

"Yeah it would be nice to catch up with them." The two walk back to the kitchen and join Saya.

"So Saya I hear Snow is in your school and in the same class as you."

"Yeah he sits right next to me too." Akatsuki starts to tell Yukina the conversation that he and Saya had before they came home. Yukina praises Saya for wanting Snow to feel welcomed in his new school.

"That's so nice of you Saya,this a scary time for Snow and we're all gonna help him feel welcomed." The family enjoy the tea and snacks and talk about what they did today while this is going on Hayato starts to leave his office and heads towards the parking lot. "I hope I make it in time to pick up Snow. I don't exactly want to get off on the wrong foot with his teacher."

Author's Note:

Alright I guess this would be considered fluff but this chapter gave me time to plan out what I want to do with the next 2 to 3 chapters and a timeskip is happening soon you'll guys will know when. There's not much to go over this time around so quickly the Sasaki family met with the Arisato's during the period of time of constant relocating. Seeing as how Saya and Snow pretty much hit off so well with being friends Hayato and Saori collectively thought why not befriend the Sasaki's. Eventually Hayato told them everything, be it through video calls or when they were in the hometown the Sasaki's lived in before they moved to Aptos. Hayato's backstory happens soon with an older Snow to find out his father's past. Naturally the Sasaki family have quirks Akatsuki has a simple speed enhancement quirk and Yukina has electricity manipulation but the caveat is that it needs to pass through something that can conduct electricity. Saya inherited her mother's quirk and works the same way. I'll see you guys in the next chapter it's gonna have a bit of action in it and features the entire Arisato family. take care til next time.