~ Chapter 15 ~

No Purpose … Just Come!

- Meet the Family: Bad First Impression!! -

                "So … what you're saying is … you've come from her world," Mitsukake gestured to me. "…to take me with you…?"

                "Hai no da …"

                "But why?"

                Chichiri groped for an answer, making all these weird faces and hand gestures, before he finally turned to me.

                I sighed. "Well, as stupid as it may seem, we really don't have a specific purpose, we just want to take you back with us." I leaned back in the chair and rested my right arm over my stomach, the arm with the God-forsaken talking bracelet. Tasuki seemed to have a better interest in his tessen, as he made him self more than comfortable at the table and examined it with great boredom.

                Mitsukake cocked an eyebrow at Chichiri. "No purpose?"

                "Iie … suminasen no da …but would you please come with us anyway na no da?"

                A pause. "Let me introduce you to my family, first." He stood up.

                I looked up from the bracelet quickly. "So you're coming?!"

                He turned around and grinned. "Sure! I'm a lot younger than I was, and I'd like to do something rather than sit around here!!" He ran off.

                I lowered my head to the bracelet again and whispered under my breath, "Doumo … all for the best, I'm sure."

                "HE'S COMING?!?!"

                "YES!!!" I shook my fist and looked around; I was outside the shack, in the front yard. "Stop yelling so loud!! I can hear you just fine … and I think I already made a bad first impression on Mitsukake!! Not to mention I'm scaring the crap out of Chichiri and Tasuki …"

                "That's okay! You're just insane anyway, so this isn't any different from anything else!"

                "Mou …" I drooped my head, but it raised just as quick as I felt a light tap on my shoulder. "Huh?" I turned around. It was Chichiri.

                "Come meet Mitsukake's family no da! You won't believe who his sister is no da!" He pushed me back inside.

                It was a full family of four: a mother, father, and a sister … including Mitsukake, as the younger brother. Mitsukake definitely resembled his father's physique and looks, and carried his mother's gentleness. The sister looked exactly like the mother. Blonde hair, thin … she almost seemed familiar …

                "SHOKA!!!"

                I seethed between my teeth. I'll just talk to her later… ignore her now … talk to her later … ignore her now …

                "I HAVE A CHANCE! YES!!!" There was little party noises and singing that was barely audible, then she started singing on the top of her lungs. "SHOKA'S JUST HIS SIIIISTERRR!! SHOKA'S JUST HIS SIIISTERRRR!! YEAHHH!!!!"

                Holy crap … I couldn't take it anymore … I couldn't even hear a word any one else was saying to me!!

                "SSSSSSHHHUUUUUUTTTTT ………… UUUUUUPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!" I bellowed into the bracelet at the top of my lungs, in the loudest voice I could muster. I started hyperventilating, my eye twitching, and my breathing starting to calm as there was complete and utter silence on the other end … some say silence is golden … I believe them now …

                I looked up to find Mitsukake's entire family, including Mitsukake, staring wide-eyed and gaping at me. Chichiri WAS behind me, now he was with Tasuki on the other side of the room. I guess I yelled too loud … ?

                I laughed nervously and grinned with my fangs. "Sorry …" I held up my wrist with the bracelet on it for a second time and poked it with my left hand pointer finger. "She's a little … talkative … when she's in a good mood."