Lesson 7: INTERROGATIVE WORDS...?
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"Ryuko," Yuki said walking into kitchen. "Baka, I suppose this applies to you, too, so listen up! My father just called and he said he wants to see Ryuko. He wants us to come to Kyoto TOMORROW. Which means, he wants us THERE TODAY. Got it?"
"Hai," Ryuko said with a nod. "How is Ojii-San these days?"
"Same as always," Yuki said with a shrug, walking out.
"Oh, and, baka, please work on your lyrics," Yuki's voice came from behind the door. "Hearing them from Ryuko's room full-blast everyday doesn't do much for one's concentration."
"I don't have my cd's full-blast!" Ryuko defended. "I have my head phones in!"
Yuki sighed. "It's a wonder you're not deaf."
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"Are you sure you have everything?" Yuki asked later that day when everyone was getting the car. "Did you check?"
"And double checked, blah, blah, blah," Ryuko said, rolling her eyes.
"Let's go!" Shuichi chirped, but stopped as a certain pink rabbit flew out of nowhere and smacked him in the back of the head, bouncing into Ryuko's arms.
"Kumagoro-Chan? Where'd you come from?"
Everyone looked over as they heard Ryuchi's laughter. "Kumagoro Beam strikes again!"
"Kami-Sama........." Yuki groaned. "We'll never get to Kyoto at this rate."
"Ryu-Chan?" Ryuko asked. "What are you doing here?"
"Kumagoro-Kun wanted to visit," Ryuchi explained.
"We're about to go to Kyoto to visit Yuki's family, Sakuma-San," Shuichi clarified.
"Can I come?"
"No," Yuki growled. "That's the last thing Kyoto needs, is the three of you in one place!"
"Gomen, Ryu-Chan," Ryuko said with a sympathetic smile as she handed Kumagoro back to him.
Ryuchi shook his head and waved his arms. "Kumagoro would miss you too much. Take him to see Kyoto, it's okay with me."
"Thanks, Ryu-Chan!" Ryuko exclaimed, giving him a hug. "I'll take good care of him for you! Ja ne!" she added, getting into Yuki's car.
Yuki shook his head as he got into the driver's seat. His cousin really was too dense for her own good.
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"Tatsuha, what are you doing?!" the head of the Uesugi temple yelled at his young son. "Put it like this!" he commanded, correcting what Tatsuha had apparently messed up for the thousandth time!
Tatsuha tried to put whatever "it" was the way is father had suggested, but the old man just snatched it away and began to work. "I'm going to do the daily prayer. Go outside and wait for your cousin! It's been nine years since she's been back here and I don't want anything messed up."
"Whatever," Tatsuha said with a shrug. "By the way. Since you didn't let me get a word in edge-wise, Mika's here with Tohma. They have a surprise." The boy turned to leave. 'And I hope you have a heart attack when you figure it out!' he thought as he loped away.
As soon as Tatsuha got to the door, Yuki opened it.
"Hello, Onii-Chan," the younger said with a smirk. "Great day for a heart attack, ain't it?"
"Don't you 'great day' me," his brother growled.
"Come on, Yuki!" Shuichi chimed in. "It's a beautiful day!"
"So, you brought cotton-candy head, eh?"
"Where's Ojii-San?" Ryuko asked with a blink.
Tatsuha jerked his head in the general direction of where his father was. "He's saying the daily prayer."
Ryuko nodded and walked in.
"So, does he know about Mika's.........'condition'?" Yuki asked.
"Nope."
The brothers shook their heads as Ryuko walked up behind her uncle. "Heart attack number one........." they said in unison.
"Nani?" Shuichi asked, tilting his head.
"OJII-SAN!!" she screamed, ripping the man away from his concentration, throwing her arms around his neck. "What's the matter, Ojii-San? Why are you crying?"
"I'm just so happy to see back here again, my dear!" he said, wiping away tears.
"Yeah, right," Tatsuha grumbled.
"You're just upset that she messed up the daily prayer," Yuki added.
"I'm almost done with the daily prayer, Ryuko, if you'll just wait outside with your cousins, I'll be out there in a minute."
Yuki shook his head and let out a frustrated sigh. "Told ya," Tatsuha said with an eye roll and Ryuko walked out.
"We'll just put our stuff in the guest rooms," Yuki said after everyone was standing outside. "You remember where that is, don't you, Ryuko?"
"Actually," Tatsuha piped up. "Tohma and Mika are here, so we've arranged for Ryuko and Mika to sleep in one room while you, Shuichi, and Tohma stay in the other."
"I get to room with Mika-Chan again?" Ryuko asked happily.
"It's either that or room with those two," her cousin explained, jamming a thumb at Yuki and Shuichi. "But that's Tohma's job." He blinked as he saw something in Ryuko's coat pocket. "What's that?"
Ryuko looked down to what he was asking about. "You mean Kumagoro-Chan?"
"Yeah, where'd you get him?"
"Oh, well----"
Before she could go on, Yuki put a hand over her mouth. "I bought it for her."
"No, you didn't," Tatsuha said with a laugh.
"Yes, I did."
"No, you didn't."
"Yes. I. Did."
"Ryu-Chan!" Mika hailed, walking in "What are they going on about now?"
"I don't remember," Shuichi said with a sweat-drop.
"Neither do I........." Ryuko added with a shrug.
"Come on, let's leave these two to act like children and I'll show you to your rooms," Mika said with a smile.
"Ne, I was wondering," Shuichi said with a very confused look. "I thought Ryu-Chan was your cousin, but she was here a lot more than a cousin usually would stay."
"My parents died when I was really little and Ojii-San and Oba-San were my godparents," Ryuko explained.
Later that day, Yuki, Ryuko, Mika, and Shuichi were walking down a street in Kyoto to do some grocery shopping. Mika said exercise was good for her two bundles of joy. That her father still didn't know about. They decided it would be best to save his second heart attack until dinner. Tatsuha was at the temple to keep him occupied, and Tohma was there to at least keep him company.
"Nekomi-Chan!" a hyper voice behind them. "Correct if I'm wrong, but isn't that blonde man over there.........Yuki-Sama?"
"Hai!" another voice chimed. "And, Nanashi-Chan, isn't that guy next to him.........Shuichi-Sama?"
"Yeah! I've heard that Yuki-Sama is from Kyoto!"
"Just like us!!"
"You know what I'm thinking?"
"AUTOGRAPHS!!"
"Ano, sumimasen," the one called Nekomi said, walking up with her friend, Nanashi.
"Are you Eiri Yuki-Sama?" Nanashi asked.
"Hai," Yuki said with a strangely uncharacteristic smile.
"He's always like this around fans," Mika whispered to Shuichi and Ryuko.
"And are you Shuichi Shindou-Sama?" one of them asked.
"Hai!" Shuichi piped up
They each took out one of Yuki's books and one of Bad Luck's albums. "Can we have your autograph?"
(AN: is this just some fangirl code that I'm not aware of? To randomly carry any paraphernalia of anything??)
Yuki took out a pen and signed the books and handed the pen to Shuichi. Who signed the CD's. "Arigatou gozaimasu!" the girls chimed at the same time.
"Ne," Nekomi started with a confused face. "Yuki-Sama...who's the lady with the blue hair?"
"She looks a lot like you," Nanashi continued.
Ryuko got a very malicious grin on her face. "He's my Dad!" she exclaimed, grabbing Yuki's arm. "And this is my mom!" she went on, taking Shuichi's hand.
By this time, Mika had started to laugh. "And this is my sister," she finished, putting her head on Mika's shoulder.
By now, Mika was laughing so hard, she was crying.
Yuki's face had gone very flat.
Shuichi's was very confused.
So were the fangirls'.
The girls shrugged and walked off.
Yuki glared at Ryuko. "Let's go......Ryuko."
The two ahead of them stopped and slowly turned around.
"Ryuko........?"
"Uesugi...........?"
"EIRI, YOU IDIOT!! WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING?!" Ryuko bellowed, smacking Yuki upside the head.
"Too much English.........." Shuichi lamented, holding his head.
"Getting you some publicity."
"Uesugi-Sama," Nekomi said, walking up "We're huge fans!"
"I love Yama Inu and Chizuru!" Nanashi added. "They're so cute!"
"Yamai-Kun is so bishonen!"
"And Chizuru accepts him even though he was human before he was a werewolf and she was from a clan of natural werewolves that didn't allow any human wolves!"
After the girls stopped babbling they realized something. "Where'd she go?"
"Isn't it weird that she doesn't put a picture of herself in her works like most manga artists?"
"I know! But we met her in person!"
"But we don't have any proof."
"Ne, Nanashi-Chan.........what's that on your graphic novel?"
"She signed it!"
"She signed mine too!!"
"I think I'm gonna melt!!"
"I'll melt before you!!"
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Everyone started to file in after the head of the Uesugi family announced that it was time for dinner.
"Where's Mika?" the old man asked.
"I'm coming!" Mika's voice said from outside.
"Heart attack number two..." Yuki, Tatsuha, Tohma, and even Ryuko muttered as the door opened.
Mika walked in. "Sorry for taking so long, Otou-San," she said with a laugh. "I get around slowly these days," she added, patting her swollen stomach.
"Ah!" the old monk said with a smile. "From the looks of it, it's a son, right?"
Before Mika answered, everyone but Shuichi and the old man winced. "Two daughters, actually."
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While Tatsuha and Tohma were trying to get Uesugi-San back to consciousness, Mika and Shuichi decided to eat anyway and Yuki decided to try and start intelligent conversation with Ryuko, but she got a call on her cell phone. "Moshi, moshi?" she asked, putting the phone to her ear. "Oh, Ryu-Chan! I'm just fine. Hai, hai, he's still in my pocket," she filled a pause with a small laugh. "He's eating dinner. Hai, we all got here safe. We should be back in a few days. Ja ne, Ryu-Chan. Kuma-Chan says 'ja,' too." With that she hung up.
"He has your cell number?" Yuki asked in English.
"Yup...why ask?" she answered, keeping the language.
"No reason. So..." He decided to ask about America and asked her what she did.
Mika dropped her chopsticks and Ryuko's face turned very red. "What?!"
"Don't act stupid, you heard what I said," he growled.
Shuichi watched the conversation with a mouth full of sashimi. He didn't understand what they were saying, but he was now suddenly interested.
"That's sort of a personal question, don't ya think?!" Mika burst out.
Yuki gave his sister and cousin a strange look. And asked in Japanese.
Ryuko shook her head. "That's not what you asked."
"Yes, it was. I asked, 'who did you do?'"
"Baka!" Mika said the one word in Japanese. "'Nani' is 'what', not 'who'!"
Yuki sighed. Who needed interrogative words anyway?
"Well," Ryuko said, staying in English. "I did do a few things. I got married," she said with a smile.
"You did, my dear?" Uesugi-San said, suddenly perking up.
"Yes, uncle but..."
"But what?"
"He died two years ago..."
"Did—"
"No...sorry...we were never blessed with children."
"Oh."
"Heart attack number three..." Tatsuha, Yuki, Tohma, and Mika muttered.
"Besides...It's not like they could have inherited the temple anyway."
"Why is that, Ryuko-Chan? I'm quite sure your son would have made a fine monk. If you had one, that is."
"Because I....converted to Christianity?"
Tatsuha shook his head as he tried to revive his father for the third time that night. "There, there, Otou-San...It's not that bad."
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"Ryuko," Yuki said walking into kitchen. "Baka, I suppose this applies to you, too, so listen up! My father just called and he said he wants to see Ryuko. He wants us to come to Kyoto TOMORROW. Which means, he wants us THERE TODAY. Got it?"
"Hai," Ryuko said with a nod. "How is Ojii-San these days?"
"Same as always," Yuki said with a shrug, walking out.
"Oh, and, baka, please work on your lyrics," Yuki's voice came from behind the door. "Hearing them from Ryuko's room full-blast everyday doesn't do much for one's concentration."
"I don't have my cd's full-blast!" Ryuko defended. "I have my head phones in!"
Yuki sighed. "It's a wonder you're not deaf."
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"Are you sure you have everything?" Yuki asked later that day when everyone was getting the car. "Did you check?"
"And double checked, blah, blah, blah," Ryuko said, rolling her eyes.
"Let's go!" Shuichi chirped, but stopped as a certain pink rabbit flew out of nowhere and smacked him in the back of the head, bouncing into Ryuko's arms.
"Kumagoro-Chan? Where'd you come from?"
Everyone looked over as they heard Ryuchi's laughter. "Kumagoro Beam strikes again!"
"Kami-Sama........." Yuki groaned. "We'll never get to Kyoto at this rate."
"Ryu-Chan?" Ryuko asked. "What are you doing here?"
"Kumagoro-Kun wanted to visit," Ryuchi explained.
"We're about to go to Kyoto to visit Yuki's family, Sakuma-San," Shuichi clarified.
"Can I come?"
"No," Yuki growled. "That's the last thing Kyoto needs, is the three of you in one place!"
"Gomen, Ryu-Chan," Ryuko said with a sympathetic smile as she handed Kumagoro back to him.
Ryuchi shook his head and waved his arms. "Kumagoro would miss you too much. Take him to see Kyoto, it's okay with me."
"Thanks, Ryu-Chan!" Ryuko exclaimed, giving him a hug. "I'll take good care of him for you! Ja ne!" she added, getting into Yuki's car.
Yuki shook his head as he got into the driver's seat. His cousin really was too dense for her own good.
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"Tatsuha, what are you doing?!" the head of the Uesugi temple yelled at his young son. "Put it like this!" he commanded, correcting what Tatsuha had apparently messed up for the thousandth time!
Tatsuha tried to put whatever "it" was the way is father had suggested, but the old man just snatched it away and began to work. "I'm going to do the daily prayer. Go outside and wait for your cousin! It's been nine years since she's been back here and I don't want anything messed up."
"Whatever," Tatsuha said with a shrug. "By the way. Since you didn't let me get a word in edge-wise, Mika's here with Tohma. They have a surprise." The boy turned to leave. 'And I hope you have a heart attack when you figure it out!' he thought as he loped away.
As soon as Tatsuha got to the door, Yuki opened it.
"Hello, Onii-Chan," the younger said with a smirk. "Great day for a heart attack, ain't it?"
"Don't you 'great day' me," his brother growled.
"Come on, Yuki!" Shuichi chimed in. "It's a beautiful day!"
"So, you brought cotton-candy head, eh?"
"Where's Ojii-San?" Ryuko asked with a blink.
Tatsuha jerked his head in the general direction of where his father was. "He's saying the daily prayer."
Ryuko nodded and walked in.
"So, does he know about Mika's.........'condition'?" Yuki asked.
"Nope."
The brothers shook their heads as Ryuko walked up behind her uncle. "Heart attack number one........." they said in unison.
"Nani?" Shuichi asked, tilting his head.
"OJII-SAN!!" she screamed, ripping the man away from his concentration, throwing her arms around his neck. "What's the matter, Ojii-San? Why are you crying?"
"I'm just so happy to see back here again, my dear!" he said, wiping away tears.
"Yeah, right," Tatsuha grumbled.
"You're just upset that she messed up the daily prayer," Yuki added.
"I'm almost done with the daily prayer, Ryuko, if you'll just wait outside with your cousins, I'll be out there in a minute."
Yuki shook his head and let out a frustrated sigh. "Told ya," Tatsuha said with an eye roll and Ryuko walked out.
"We'll just put our stuff in the guest rooms," Yuki said after everyone was standing outside. "You remember where that is, don't you, Ryuko?"
"Actually," Tatsuha piped up. "Tohma and Mika are here, so we've arranged for Ryuko and Mika to sleep in one room while you, Shuichi, and Tohma stay in the other."
"I get to room with Mika-Chan again?" Ryuko asked happily.
"It's either that or room with those two," her cousin explained, jamming a thumb at Yuki and Shuichi. "But that's Tohma's job." He blinked as he saw something in Ryuko's coat pocket. "What's that?"
Ryuko looked down to what he was asking about. "You mean Kumagoro-Chan?"
"Yeah, where'd you get him?"
"Oh, well----"
Before she could go on, Yuki put a hand over her mouth. "I bought it for her."
"No, you didn't," Tatsuha said with a laugh.
"Yes, I did."
"No, you didn't."
"Yes. I. Did."
"Ryu-Chan!" Mika hailed, walking in "What are they going on about now?"
"I don't remember," Shuichi said with a sweat-drop.
"Neither do I........." Ryuko added with a shrug.
"Come on, let's leave these two to act like children and I'll show you to your rooms," Mika said with a smile.
"Ne, I was wondering," Shuichi said with a very confused look. "I thought Ryu-Chan was your cousin, but she was here a lot more than a cousin usually would stay."
"My parents died when I was really little and Ojii-San and Oba-San were my godparents," Ryuko explained.
Later that day, Yuki, Ryuko, Mika, and Shuichi were walking down a street in Kyoto to do some grocery shopping. Mika said exercise was good for her two bundles of joy. That her father still didn't know about. They decided it would be best to save his second heart attack until dinner. Tatsuha was at the temple to keep him occupied, and Tohma was there to at least keep him company.
"Nekomi-Chan!" a hyper voice behind them. "Correct if I'm wrong, but isn't that blonde man over there.........Yuki-Sama?"
"Hai!" another voice chimed. "And, Nanashi-Chan, isn't that guy next to him.........Shuichi-Sama?"
"Yeah! I've heard that Yuki-Sama is from Kyoto!"
"Just like us!!"
"You know what I'm thinking?"
"AUTOGRAPHS!!"
"Ano, sumimasen," the one called Nekomi said, walking up with her friend, Nanashi.
"Are you Eiri Yuki-Sama?" Nanashi asked.
"Hai," Yuki said with a strangely uncharacteristic smile.
"He's always like this around fans," Mika whispered to Shuichi and Ryuko.
"And are you Shuichi Shindou-Sama?" one of them asked.
"Hai!" Shuichi piped up
They each took out one of Yuki's books and one of Bad Luck's albums. "Can we have your autograph?"
(AN: is this just some fangirl code that I'm not aware of? To randomly carry any paraphernalia of anything??)
Yuki took out a pen and signed the books and handed the pen to Shuichi. Who signed the CD's. "Arigatou gozaimasu!" the girls chimed at the same time.
"Ne," Nekomi started with a confused face. "Yuki-Sama...who's the lady with the blue hair?"
"She looks a lot like you," Nanashi continued.
Ryuko got a very malicious grin on her face. "He's my Dad!" she exclaimed, grabbing Yuki's arm. "And this is my mom!" she went on, taking Shuichi's hand.
By this time, Mika had started to laugh. "And this is my sister," she finished, putting her head on Mika's shoulder.
By now, Mika was laughing so hard, she was crying.
Yuki's face had gone very flat.
Shuichi's was very confused.
So were the fangirls'.
The girls shrugged and walked off.
Yuki glared at Ryuko. "Let's go......Ryuko."
The two ahead of them stopped and slowly turned around.
"Ryuko........?"
"Uesugi...........?"
"EIRI, YOU IDIOT!! WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING?!" Ryuko bellowed, smacking Yuki upside the head.
"Too much English.........." Shuichi lamented, holding his head.
"Getting you some publicity."
"Uesugi-Sama," Nekomi said, walking up "We're huge fans!"
"I love Yama Inu and Chizuru!" Nanashi added. "They're so cute!"
"Yamai-Kun is so bishonen!"
"And Chizuru accepts him even though he was human before he was a werewolf and she was from a clan of natural werewolves that didn't allow any human wolves!"
After the girls stopped babbling they realized something. "Where'd she go?"
"Isn't it weird that she doesn't put a picture of herself in her works like most manga artists?"
"I know! But we met her in person!"
"But we don't have any proof."
"Ne, Nanashi-Chan.........what's that on your graphic novel?"
"She signed it!"
"She signed mine too!!"
"I think I'm gonna melt!!"
"I'll melt before you!!"
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Everyone started to file in after the head of the Uesugi family announced that it was time for dinner.
"Where's Mika?" the old man asked.
"I'm coming!" Mika's voice said from outside.
"Heart attack number two..." Yuki, Tatsuha, Tohma, and even Ryuko muttered as the door opened.
Mika walked in. "Sorry for taking so long, Otou-San," she said with a laugh. "I get around slowly these days," she added, patting her swollen stomach.
"Ah!" the old monk said with a smile. "From the looks of it, it's a son, right?"
Before Mika answered, everyone but Shuichi and the old man winced. "Two daughters, actually."
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While Tatsuha and Tohma were trying to get Uesugi-San back to consciousness, Mika and Shuichi decided to eat anyway and Yuki decided to try and start intelligent conversation with Ryuko, but she got a call on her cell phone. "Moshi, moshi?" she asked, putting the phone to her ear. "Oh, Ryu-Chan! I'm just fine. Hai, hai, he's still in my pocket," she filled a pause with a small laugh. "He's eating dinner. Hai, we all got here safe. We should be back in a few days. Ja ne, Ryu-Chan. Kuma-Chan says 'ja,' too." With that she hung up.
"He has your cell number?" Yuki asked in English.
"Yup...why ask?" she answered, keeping the language.
"No reason. So..." He decided to ask about America and asked her what she did.
Mika dropped her chopsticks and Ryuko's face turned very red. "What?!"
"Don't act stupid, you heard what I said," he growled.
Shuichi watched the conversation with a mouth full of sashimi. He didn't understand what they were saying, but he was now suddenly interested.
"That's sort of a personal question, don't ya think?!" Mika burst out.
Yuki gave his sister and cousin a strange look. And asked in Japanese.
Ryuko shook her head. "That's not what you asked."
"Yes, it was. I asked, 'who did you do?'"
"Baka!" Mika said the one word in Japanese. "'Nani' is 'what', not 'who'!"
Yuki sighed. Who needed interrogative words anyway?
"Well," Ryuko said, staying in English. "I did do a few things. I got married," she said with a smile.
"You did, my dear?" Uesugi-San said, suddenly perking up.
"Yes, uncle but..."
"But what?"
"He died two years ago..."
"Did—"
"No...sorry...we were never blessed with children."
"Oh."
"Heart attack number three..." Tatsuha, Yuki, Tohma, and Mika muttered.
"Besides...It's not like they could have inherited the temple anyway."
"Why is that, Ryuko-Chan? I'm quite sure your son would have made a fine monk. If you had one, that is."
"Because I....converted to Christianity?"
Tatsuha shook his head as he tried to revive his father for the third time that night. "There, there, Otou-San...It's not that bad."
