Chapter 8
Michiru slowly opened her eyes one morning, even thought her alarm clock was set on three more hours to go. It was a school day that morning and she didn't feel like sleeping more. She slowly got up from her bed and got dressed for school, putting on her school uniform. The green skirt and white blouse, with it's matching green sailor collar always seemed to just grow on her, but this fact didn't mind Michiru. She had gotten her welcoming letter to Mugen Gakuen High School, but that was after Junior High and this made Michiru glad, as well as Hoshi. The thirteen year old slowly stepped out of her room, after putting her schoolbooks together and into the black school bag. The house was still silent, but Michiru knew that Hoshi would be up any moment, having a seventh sense when it came to Michiru getting out of bed early.
Michiru quickly walked down the stairs, hoping that no one would hear her, even thought Taiko wasn't home. The woman had gone to work in the middle of the night, wanting to sleep over at the office to be up early. The café was going to move from the old place in the mal and into new and fresher place on the other side of the city, which only meant more driving for Taiko. Michiru placed her school bag by the opening to the hall before she walked back to the stairs, and after listening to the master bedroom open and close, she walked down to the studio. She turned on the dim lights and walked across the room to her violin, which was packed down into its case. She picked up the case and left the room, turning the lights off after her and slowly started her walk up the stairs, now finding Hoshi walking down the stairs, wearing her black and blue morning robe over her night shirt and long pants. "Good morning." Michiru smiled as she stepped onto the middle floor.
"Morning." Hoshi smiled with a sigh. The woman looked tired, with her out-of-bed-morning-hair, which was always a treat to see, even thought the woman could look like a monster from time to time. "You're up terribly early." Hoshi whispered after a while, brushing some strands of her hair behind her ear.
"I couldn't sleep after seven hours." Michiru replied and was about to walk into the bathroom.
"Would you like some breakfast?" Hoshi smiled at the girl before she entered the kitchen.
"Yes please!" Michiru shouted as the door to the bathroom closed behind her.
Hoshi nodded for herself as she poured some water into the coffee maker. She had time to make toast, coffee for herself and tea for Michiru, and she had also time to make up a fast-eatable lunch for Michiru, which she knew the girl always wanted.
Michiru walked out of the bath room, with her hair brushed and the bow tied onto her chest, and slowly she walked to the dining table, were Hoshi had set the table for breakfast.
"What's on your agenda today?" Hoshi asked as she walked to the table, where Michiru had sat down.
"I was thinking on staying over a school after hours." Michiru replied. "That is if Omaha-sensei is willing to help me with some work."
"I see." Hoshi nodded as she sat down across the table from her daughter, picking up her coffee cup. "I was thinking on going into town to have late lunch with Tenoh-san." She continued. "He rang yesterday and wanted to meet me for some more work opinions." She added while she looked at Michiru from behind her cup. "He wants med to help his daughter with her piano playing." She added with a gentle smile, knowing that Michiru would look at her with her grand blue eyes, which of course the girl did. "Miss Tenoh isn't so much into her playing these days you know. Sports is more of her thing, and Tenoh-san is starting to get worried."
Michiru smiled and picked up her teacup. "Was this the morning gossip mother?" She asked before she took a sip from her tea and placed down the cup.
"You could say so." Hoshi nodded, while a smile played over her lips. "So you know if I'm not home when you come back from school."
Michiru just nodded at her mother, as she picked up some toast from the basket lying on the table.
Hoshi slowly stepped out of her car later that day, which she had parked outside the restaurant where she would meet up with Tenoh-san later that day. She slowly closed the door after herself, keeping her eyes on the place, which a typical Sushi restaurant. Hoshi was wearing a white blouse, which had its three first buttons open and a pair of blue jeans, while she carried a blue jacket over her shoulder, and her hair was pulled back into a ponytail. She sighed once more before she put the jacket on, before she walked to the entrance and inside, stopping by the entrance to look inside the restaurant, which was filled with people.
Soon a young woman walked over to her, wearing a kimono, which seemed to be five sizes to small on her, while her long black hair was tied back into something that Taiko would have called a Geisha bun. "Are you looking for someone, Miss?" The young woman asked as she bowed towards Hoshi.
Hoshi bowed back to the young woman and soon looked over her, the young woman wasn't tall which made it easy for Hoshi to look over her. "I'm looking for Tenoh-san." She replied before she looked at the young woman. "I was going to meet him here for lunch." She added.
"Ah, yes!" The young woman nodded. "This way. Tenoh-san and his daughter are here." She added and soon showed Hoshi into a smoking free part of the restaurant, where surely enough Tenoh Ryoshi and his daughter were sitting by a table close to the window.
Ryoshi was wearing a white shirt with a black tie, while his black blazer was hanging on the stool beside him. Haruka on the other half was wearing a black boys school uniform, with it's high collar and matching black pants, and Hoshi couldn't help the fact that he girl looked very much like a boy. Ryoshi spotted Hoshi as she walked into the room. "Ah! Suteki- san!" He said in a high and clear voice as he got up from the chair. "Haruka, stand up." He whispered, hoping that Hoshi wouldn't hear, but she did and more than well.
Hoshi stopped by the table and shook hands with Ryoshi, only to look at Haruka who slowly got up from her chair and held out her hand towards Hoshi.
"Nice meeting you." Haruka mumbled and sat down just as slowly as she had gotten up, after shaking hands with Hoshi.
Hoshi nodded towards the girl and soon sat down beside her. "So." Hoshi stared while looking at Ryoshi.
"Nice to have you with us today, Suteki-san." Ryoshi started and soon a waiter walked over with three cups and a steaming pot of tea. "You know why you are here today, and I hope that you will say yes to the offer." He added as the cups were placed down onto the table, and slowly filled by a shaking waiters hand.
Hoshi nodded and looked at Haruka, who was gazing out the window. "I'll do my best... But I don't think Haruka-chan really need to skip sports, if that really is what she wants to do." She pointed out.
Ryoshi sighed and picked up one of the three cups. "Suteki-san." He said suddenly, sounding very serious, which captured Hoshi's attention, while Haruka just gazed out the window. "Do you really think a girl, even thought she is good at sports, should really want to live the rest of her life training something, other that music, which she is good at?"
Hoshi looked at the man, seeing that his gaze was at Haruka, who had scooted back a little with her chair.
"Isn't it a little bit too boyish for my daughter?" Ryoshi continued and ended up taking a sip from his cup.
Hoshi looked at the man, having a gut feeling about him that made her feel slightly ill. She looked at the two cups under silence and soon sighed, crossing her arms. "I really think that Haruka-chan is allowed to do what she likes in life, and you are absolutely not the one, even thought you are her father, to tell her what not to like and what to like." She replied now looking at Ryoshi, who was staring at her with slightly widened eyes. "She is a teen, just like my own daughter, to whom I have no rules for anymore since I know what she wants in life. And I wont stop my daughter from her future and her own faith, that she is more than welcome to change as she likes, with her own hands."
"Suteki-san, I do not ask about your ways to take care of your family, but I am a man who wants only his best for his daughter. Sure, I wished Haruka to be a boy at first, but that doesn't change the fact that she is my one and only child."
Hoshi felt the ill feeling only growing. Who does this man think he is? She thought while keeping a straight face, while trying to hide the ring on her finger under the table.
"But I don't want to just play the piano dad!" Haruka suddenly exploded. "Why can't I practice sports and play the piano for?" She continued, now looking at her father with slightly widened, but angered eyes.
"That is enough Haruka." Ryoshi said, trying to keep his calm.
"No dad! I want to be the boss of my own life!" Haruka protested, getting up from her chair. "You can't change me, how much you would want to!"
"I said that is enough, Haruka. Sit down." Ryoshi replied, closing his eyes.
"I wont listen to you!" Haruka shouted and pushed the chair from behind her to the floor.
"Haruka! Sit down!" Ryoshi lost his calm and cool and just stared at his daughter. "I allowed you to have your so called school uniform, and the only thing that I allowed you to do your way! And now you want to be a boy, is that it?"
Haruka just stared at the man, not minding the slightly worried gaze from Hoshi. She stormed out of the room and probably out of the restaurant.
Hoshi looked at the door way, trough which Haruka had ran out of but only for a while, before she slowly got up from her chair. "I believe this meeting has ended." She said in a low voice before she looked at Ryoshi, who was rubbing his forehead in despair.
"Suteki-san..." Ryoshi suddenly whispered.
"Yes sir?" Hoshi blinked, keeping her eyes on the man.
"I have never wanted anything more than Haruka's happiness. But I know I am a lousy father from time to time. And the fact that I haven't been there for her still haunts me." The man said and slowly ended up with a deep and long sigh.
"I understand sir, but you shouldn't have a iron grip around her neck." Hoshi suggested. "Let her try on life, as she wants to. I know you will end up happy and proud over her, when she has found her ways." She added and bowed her head towards the man, before she left the room and out of the restaurant. Hoshi sighed deeply, as she stepped onto the side walk outside the place, feeling a slight relief as her lungs were filled with air. I kind of pity that man. She thought and put her hands into her pockets, while gazing at the ground under her feet. She suddenly blinked and looked up from the ground, seeing the blonde girl slowly walking on the other side of the street, kicking something on the ground. Should I have a talk with her? She thought and before she knew it, she was running over the street. "Haruka-chan!" She shouted after the girl who stopped in her tracks. Hoshi walked over to the girl, seeing the tears in her green eyes.
"What do you want? Pound me just like my dad?" Haruka whispered while staring at the ground. "I only wanted to make him proud..." She added and closed her eyes tightly, kicking the pebble on the ground as far down the street as she could.
Hoshi looked after the pebble and soon sighed, before she put her gaze on the girl. "You shouldn't take his words so hard, Haruka-chan." Hoshi said with a calm and warm voice. "Something parents only want the best for their children..."
Haruka slowly lifted her gaze from the ground, only to look at Hoshi. "You're probably a better parent than mine are." She whispered, now letting a tear run down her cheek. "Dad doesn't want me to go to Mugen Gakuen either..."
"Mugen Gakuen?" Hoshi's eyes widened a little.
Haruka nodded. "I sent my papers there and got an answer. They want to have me there when I end my junior high school."
"I see." Hoshi nodded and carefully placed a gentle hand onto Haruka's shoulder. "You know what I think, Haruka-chan?"
"What?" Haruka looked at the woman with a slight shine of hope in her eyes.
Hoshi smiled gently at the girl now, seeing that she truly was listening to her. "You should go to Mugen Gakuen. It's a perfect school for the students who enjoy sports and the arts." She replied. "And if your father doesn't see that you are happy there..."
Haruka's eyes widened a little. "I shouldn't care?" She blinked.
"Correct." Hoshi nodded. "And if you don't want to, I wont be your extra tutor in music. It's all up to you and what you want." She added, looking over the girl with a prouder gaze than she probably never had on her.
Haruka's tear tried right before Hoshi's eyes and soon the girl nodded. "I think I'll listen to you, rather then I listen to my parents." She said and slowly a smile appeared on her lips.
Hoshi just smiled at the girl and nodded. "But do listen to your parents as well. One is to respect the elders, just keep that in mind. And I don't think you want to make your father or your mother into your enemies." She added with a slight wink. "They might come in handy someday."
Haruka's smiled only grew and soon the girl nodded. "I have to go to practice now. But thanks for the pep talk, Suteki-san! I really appreciate it!" She whispered with the proud shine growing in her eyes, and after a while she gave Hoshi a quick hug before she ran off.
Hoshi smiled after the girl and soon sighed, letting her gaze end up at the sky. I really hope that she'll take good care of Michiru when the time comes. She thought, now knowing that the girl was to become her own beloved child's partner. A gentle shine appeared in Hoshi's eyes. Thank you, Pluto, for showing me to her. She thought now, as she slowly walked to her car and got in.
"Honey! I'm homo!" Taiko shouted from the door later that evening, looking tired but at the same time happy. She had been at the café, ordering people around, which was one of the things she loved about her new job.
Hoshi was standing in the kitchen, cleaning up some dishes. "In the kitchen." She replied to the woman, who soon skipped into the kitchen and wrapped her arms around Hoshi, hugging her tightly from behind. "How was work?"
"It was great!" Taiko grinned, picking up Hoshi from the floor and hugging her tighter. "I feel like a gay version of Hitler!"
Hoshi held onto Taiko's arms around her waist with a smile. "So how many straight people have you gassed to death today?" She replied and was placed onto the floor after a while of hanging over the floor.
"About three, I should think." Taiko grinned, now leaning her head against Hoshi's back, looking extremely childish with her large eyes and stupid grin over her lips. "And I think they all hate me by now." She added with a made up laugh, which sounded like a crows.
Hoshi smiled at the slightly shorter woman over her shoulder, and at the same time the door was opened and closed. "Welcome home!" She shouted, as she looked at the clock.
Michiru soon walked into the kitchen, carrying her violin case and school bag.
"Hail Michi!" Taiko cheered while holding her left arm in the air, while the hand was hanging downwards. "And to become one of my Gay- Gestapo's?" She added with a grin. "I'll allow you to wear leather if you want."
Michiru smiled at the 'nice' welcoming and placed down her thing by the staircase. "I think I'll pass." She replied as she walked over to Taiko and Hoshi, giving them both quick pecks on the cheeks. "I'll be in my room, doing my homework." She added and was soon walking up the stairs with her things.
"She seemed down." Taiko blinked, crossing her arm while leaning against Hoshi's back, like if she was a wall.
"She's been to school since seven, so it doesn't surprise me." Hoshi replied, while leaning against the counter doe to Taiko's weight pushing her.
"Don't you think she's working just a bit to hard at school?" Taiko asked, putting more weight onto Hoshi's back while leaning more of her body against the woman, pressing her against the counter.
Hoshi twitched slightly with an eyebrow at the pressing feeling to her stomach. "She does as she wishes, and I wont stop her from working." She replied, trying to push Taiko away from her back, but without any use. The woman was a professional when coming to holding people back.
"But I think you should force her to be home a little more, and just be a child, you know?" Taiko noted while grinning. "Maybe we should all go see a movie or something." She recommended after a while of fighting back Hoshi, who was struggling to get loose. "There's a new movie showing that I think Michi-chan would like."
"If she want to, we could go." Hoshi gasped form behind the woman, feeling that the pressing was actually hurting her stomach now.
"Does she have any friends at school she would want to be with?" Taiko asked, like if she wasn't listening to Hoshi, while at the same time pressing her back against Hoshi's more. "She seems so lonely, and I don't want her to be like that, if she now is without friends." She continued while placing her hands behind her head, still leaning against Hoshi and now having all her weight on her.
Hoshi's gave was turning red. "Could you remove your self from my back?" She hissed under her breath and soon had her hands between herself and the counter, trying to keep the sink from pressing against her stomach.
Taiko looked over her shoulder with a grin. "I like being on top, even thought this position wouldn't make anyone happy..." She replied while sticking out her tongue at the woman behind her.
Hoshi smiled a painful smile and closed her eyes. "You should keep that tongue in your mouth, before I rip it out and serve it to you for dinner." She whispered trying her best to push away from the counter.
Taiko winked at Hoshi now. "I like it when you talk dirty." She tried to sound somewhat sexy, but she could hear that she was sounding like a fool. She soon removed herself from Hoshi's back, giving the woman space to breathe once more while holding her stomach. "I'll go help Michi-chan with her homework." Taiko chirped and kissed Hoshi on the lips, before skipping up the stairs while laughing like a crow again. Taiko knocked on the closed door to Michiru's room. "It's obasan!"
After a while of silence from the room, a sigh was heard. "Come in."
Taiko opened the door and stepped into the room, finding Michiru sitting by her desk, gazing down at her schoolbooks. "Any help wanted?" She asked as she sat down on the windowsill. "I was a straight A student myself, you know." She added with a smile.
Michiru smiled while keeping her eyes on her books, and soon she looked at Taiko. "Thank you, Tai-obasan." She replied and nodded slightly.
Taiko soon got up from the windowsill with a gentle smile planted onto her lips, as she walked over to Michiru, looking over the girls shoulder to see the schoolbooks lying on the desk.
Michiru slowly opened her eyes one morning, even thought her alarm clock was set on three more hours to go. It was a school day that morning and she didn't feel like sleeping more. She slowly got up from her bed and got dressed for school, putting on her school uniform. The green skirt and white blouse, with it's matching green sailor collar always seemed to just grow on her, but this fact didn't mind Michiru. She had gotten her welcoming letter to Mugen Gakuen High School, but that was after Junior High and this made Michiru glad, as well as Hoshi. The thirteen year old slowly stepped out of her room, after putting her schoolbooks together and into the black school bag. The house was still silent, but Michiru knew that Hoshi would be up any moment, having a seventh sense when it came to Michiru getting out of bed early.
Michiru quickly walked down the stairs, hoping that no one would hear her, even thought Taiko wasn't home. The woman had gone to work in the middle of the night, wanting to sleep over at the office to be up early. The café was going to move from the old place in the mal and into new and fresher place on the other side of the city, which only meant more driving for Taiko. Michiru placed her school bag by the opening to the hall before she walked back to the stairs, and after listening to the master bedroom open and close, she walked down to the studio. She turned on the dim lights and walked across the room to her violin, which was packed down into its case. She picked up the case and left the room, turning the lights off after her and slowly started her walk up the stairs, now finding Hoshi walking down the stairs, wearing her black and blue morning robe over her night shirt and long pants. "Good morning." Michiru smiled as she stepped onto the middle floor.
"Morning." Hoshi smiled with a sigh. The woman looked tired, with her out-of-bed-morning-hair, which was always a treat to see, even thought the woman could look like a monster from time to time. "You're up terribly early." Hoshi whispered after a while, brushing some strands of her hair behind her ear.
"I couldn't sleep after seven hours." Michiru replied and was about to walk into the bathroom.
"Would you like some breakfast?" Hoshi smiled at the girl before she entered the kitchen.
"Yes please!" Michiru shouted as the door to the bathroom closed behind her.
Hoshi nodded for herself as she poured some water into the coffee maker. She had time to make toast, coffee for herself and tea for Michiru, and she had also time to make up a fast-eatable lunch for Michiru, which she knew the girl always wanted.
Michiru walked out of the bath room, with her hair brushed and the bow tied onto her chest, and slowly she walked to the dining table, were Hoshi had set the table for breakfast.
"What's on your agenda today?" Hoshi asked as she walked to the table, where Michiru had sat down.
"I was thinking on staying over a school after hours." Michiru replied. "That is if Omaha-sensei is willing to help me with some work."
"I see." Hoshi nodded as she sat down across the table from her daughter, picking up her coffee cup. "I was thinking on going into town to have late lunch with Tenoh-san." She continued. "He rang yesterday and wanted to meet me for some more work opinions." She added while she looked at Michiru from behind her cup. "He wants med to help his daughter with her piano playing." She added with a gentle smile, knowing that Michiru would look at her with her grand blue eyes, which of course the girl did. "Miss Tenoh isn't so much into her playing these days you know. Sports is more of her thing, and Tenoh-san is starting to get worried."
Michiru smiled and picked up her teacup. "Was this the morning gossip mother?" She asked before she took a sip from her tea and placed down the cup.
"You could say so." Hoshi nodded, while a smile played over her lips. "So you know if I'm not home when you come back from school."
Michiru just nodded at her mother, as she picked up some toast from the basket lying on the table.
Hoshi slowly stepped out of her car later that day, which she had parked outside the restaurant where she would meet up with Tenoh-san later that day. She slowly closed the door after herself, keeping her eyes on the place, which a typical Sushi restaurant. Hoshi was wearing a white blouse, which had its three first buttons open and a pair of blue jeans, while she carried a blue jacket over her shoulder, and her hair was pulled back into a ponytail. She sighed once more before she put the jacket on, before she walked to the entrance and inside, stopping by the entrance to look inside the restaurant, which was filled with people.
Soon a young woman walked over to her, wearing a kimono, which seemed to be five sizes to small on her, while her long black hair was tied back into something that Taiko would have called a Geisha bun. "Are you looking for someone, Miss?" The young woman asked as she bowed towards Hoshi.
Hoshi bowed back to the young woman and soon looked over her, the young woman wasn't tall which made it easy for Hoshi to look over her. "I'm looking for Tenoh-san." She replied before she looked at the young woman. "I was going to meet him here for lunch." She added.
"Ah, yes!" The young woman nodded. "This way. Tenoh-san and his daughter are here." She added and soon showed Hoshi into a smoking free part of the restaurant, where surely enough Tenoh Ryoshi and his daughter were sitting by a table close to the window.
Ryoshi was wearing a white shirt with a black tie, while his black blazer was hanging on the stool beside him. Haruka on the other half was wearing a black boys school uniform, with it's high collar and matching black pants, and Hoshi couldn't help the fact that he girl looked very much like a boy. Ryoshi spotted Hoshi as she walked into the room. "Ah! Suteki- san!" He said in a high and clear voice as he got up from the chair. "Haruka, stand up." He whispered, hoping that Hoshi wouldn't hear, but she did and more than well.
Hoshi stopped by the table and shook hands with Ryoshi, only to look at Haruka who slowly got up from her chair and held out her hand towards Hoshi.
"Nice meeting you." Haruka mumbled and sat down just as slowly as she had gotten up, after shaking hands with Hoshi.
Hoshi nodded towards the girl and soon sat down beside her. "So." Hoshi stared while looking at Ryoshi.
"Nice to have you with us today, Suteki-san." Ryoshi started and soon a waiter walked over with three cups and a steaming pot of tea. "You know why you are here today, and I hope that you will say yes to the offer." He added as the cups were placed down onto the table, and slowly filled by a shaking waiters hand.
Hoshi nodded and looked at Haruka, who was gazing out the window. "I'll do my best... But I don't think Haruka-chan really need to skip sports, if that really is what she wants to do." She pointed out.
Ryoshi sighed and picked up one of the three cups. "Suteki-san." He said suddenly, sounding very serious, which captured Hoshi's attention, while Haruka just gazed out the window. "Do you really think a girl, even thought she is good at sports, should really want to live the rest of her life training something, other that music, which she is good at?"
Hoshi looked at the man, seeing that his gaze was at Haruka, who had scooted back a little with her chair.
"Isn't it a little bit too boyish for my daughter?" Ryoshi continued and ended up taking a sip from his cup.
Hoshi looked at the man, having a gut feeling about him that made her feel slightly ill. She looked at the two cups under silence and soon sighed, crossing her arms. "I really think that Haruka-chan is allowed to do what she likes in life, and you are absolutely not the one, even thought you are her father, to tell her what not to like and what to like." She replied now looking at Ryoshi, who was staring at her with slightly widened eyes. "She is a teen, just like my own daughter, to whom I have no rules for anymore since I know what she wants in life. And I wont stop my daughter from her future and her own faith, that she is more than welcome to change as she likes, with her own hands."
"Suteki-san, I do not ask about your ways to take care of your family, but I am a man who wants only his best for his daughter. Sure, I wished Haruka to be a boy at first, but that doesn't change the fact that she is my one and only child."
Hoshi felt the ill feeling only growing. Who does this man think he is? She thought while keeping a straight face, while trying to hide the ring on her finger under the table.
"But I don't want to just play the piano dad!" Haruka suddenly exploded. "Why can't I practice sports and play the piano for?" She continued, now looking at her father with slightly widened, but angered eyes.
"That is enough Haruka." Ryoshi said, trying to keep his calm.
"No dad! I want to be the boss of my own life!" Haruka protested, getting up from her chair. "You can't change me, how much you would want to!"
"I said that is enough, Haruka. Sit down." Ryoshi replied, closing his eyes.
"I wont listen to you!" Haruka shouted and pushed the chair from behind her to the floor.
"Haruka! Sit down!" Ryoshi lost his calm and cool and just stared at his daughter. "I allowed you to have your so called school uniform, and the only thing that I allowed you to do your way! And now you want to be a boy, is that it?"
Haruka just stared at the man, not minding the slightly worried gaze from Hoshi. She stormed out of the room and probably out of the restaurant.
Hoshi looked at the door way, trough which Haruka had ran out of but only for a while, before she slowly got up from her chair. "I believe this meeting has ended." She said in a low voice before she looked at Ryoshi, who was rubbing his forehead in despair.
"Suteki-san..." Ryoshi suddenly whispered.
"Yes sir?" Hoshi blinked, keeping her eyes on the man.
"I have never wanted anything more than Haruka's happiness. But I know I am a lousy father from time to time. And the fact that I haven't been there for her still haunts me." The man said and slowly ended up with a deep and long sigh.
"I understand sir, but you shouldn't have a iron grip around her neck." Hoshi suggested. "Let her try on life, as she wants to. I know you will end up happy and proud over her, when she has found her ways." She added and bowed her head towards the man, before she left the room and out of the restaurant. Hoshi sighed deeply, as she stepped onto the side walk outside the place, feeling a slight relief as her lungs were filled with air. I kind of pity that man. She thought and put her hands into her pockets, while gazing at the ground under her feet. She suddenly blinked and looked up from the ground, seeing the blonde girl slowly walking on the other side of the street, kicking something on the ground. Should I have a talk with her? She thought and before she knew it, she was running over the street. "Haruka-chan!" She shouted after the girl who stopped in her tracks. Hoshi walked over to the girl, seeing the tears in her green eyes.
"What do you want? Pound me just like my dad?" Haruka whispered while staring at the ground. "I only wanted to make him proud..." She added and closed her eyes tightly, kicking the pebble on the ground as far down the street as she could.
Hoshi looked after the pebble and soon sighed, before she put her gaze on the girl. "You shouldn't take his words so hard, Haruka-chan." Hoshi said with a calm and warm voice. "Something parents only want the best for their children..."
Haruka slowly lifted her gaze from the ground, only to look at Hoshi. "You're probably a better parent than mine are." She whispered, now letting a tear run down her cheek. "Dad doesn't want me to go to Mugen Gakuen either..."
"Mugen Gakuen?" Hoshi's eyes widened a little.
Haruka nodded. "I sent my papers there and got an answer. They want to have me there when I end my junior high school."
"I see." Hoshi nodded and carefully placed a gentle hand onto Haruka's shoulder. "You know what I think, Haruka-chan?"
"What?" Haruka looked at the woman with a slight shine of hope in her eyes.
Hoshi smiled gently at the girl now, seeing that she truly was listening to her. "You should go to Mugen Gakuen. It's a perfect school for the students who enjoy sports and the arts." She replied. "And if your father doesn't see that you are happy there..."
Haruka's eyes widened a little. "I shouldn't care?" She blinked.
"Correct." Hoshi nodded. "And if you don't want to, I wont be your extra tutor in music. It's all up to you and what you want." She added, looking over the girl with a prouder gaze than she probably never had on her.
Haruka's tear tried right before Hoshi's eyes and soon the girl nodded. "I think I'll listen to you, rather then I listen to my parents." She said and slowly a smile appeared on her lips.
Hoshi just smiled at the girl and nodded. "But do listen to your parents as well. One is to respect the elders, just keep that in mind. And I don't think you want to make your father or your mother into your enemies." She added with a slight wink. "They might come in handy someday."
Haruka's smiled only grew and soon the girl nodded. "I have to go to practice now. But thanks for the pep talk, Suteki-san! I really appreciate it!" She whispered with the proud shine growing in her eyes, and after a while she gave Hoshi a quick hug before she ran off.
Hoshi smiled after the girl and soon sighed, letting her gaze end up at the sky. I really hope that she'll take good care of Michiru when the time comes. She thought, now knowing that the girl was to become her own beloved child's partner. A gentle shine appeared in Hoshi's eyes. Thank you, Pluto, for showing me to her. She thought now, as she slowly walked to her car and got in.
"Honey! I'm homo!" Taiko shouted from the door later that evening, looking tired but at the same time happy. She had been at the café, ordering people around, which was one of the things she loved about her new job.
Hoshi was standing in the kitchen, cleaning up some dishes. "In the kitchen." She replied to the woman, who soon skipped into the kitchen and wrapped her arms around Hoshi, hugging her tightly from behind. "How was work?"
"It was great!" Taiko grinned, picking up Hoshi from the floor and hugging her tighter. "I feel like a gay version of Hitler!"
Hoshi held onto Taiko's arms around her waist with a smile. "So how many straight people have you gassed to death today?" She replied and was placed onto the floor after a while of hanging over the floor.
"About three, I should think." Taiko grinned, now leaning her head against Hoshi's back, looking extremely childish with her large eyes and stupid grin over her lips. "And I think they all hate me by now." She added with a made up laugh, which sounded like a crows.
Hoshi smiled at the slightly shorter woman over her shoulder, and at the same time the door was opened and closed. "Welcome home!" She shouted, as she looked at the clock.
Michiru soon walked into the kitchen, carrying her violin case and school bag.
"Hail Michi!" Taiko cheered while holding her left arm in the air, while the hand was hanging downwards. "And to become one of my Gay- Gestapo's?" She added with a grin. "I'll allow you to wear leather if you want."
Michiru smiled at the 'nice' welcoming and placed down her thing by the staircase. "I think I'll pass." She replied as she walked over to Taiko and Hoshi, giving them both quick pecks on the cheeks. "I'll be in my room, doing my homework." She added and was soon walking up the stairs with her things.
"She seemed down." Taiko blinked, crossing her arm while leaning against Hoshi's back, like if she was a wall.
"She's been to school since seven, so it doesn't surprise me." Hoshi replied, while leaning against the counter doe to Taiko's weight pushing her.
"Don't you think she's working just a bit to hard at school?" Taiko asked, putting more weight onto Hoshi's back while leaning more of her body against the woman, pressing her against the counter.
Hoshi twitched slightly with an eyebrow at the pressing feeling to her stomach. "She does as she wishes, and I wont stop her from working." She replied, trying to push Taiko away from her back, but without any use. The woman was a professional when coming to holding people back.
"But I think you should force her to be home a little more, and just be a child, you know?" Taiko noted while grinning. "Maybe we should all go see a movie or something." She recommended after a while of fighting back Hoshi, who was struggling to get loose. "There's a new movie showing that I think Michi-chan would like."
"If she want to, we could go." Hoshi gasped form behind the woman, feeling that the pressing was actually hurting her stomach now.
"Does she have any friends at school she would want to be with?" Taiko asked, like if she wasn't listening to Hoshi, while at the same time pressing her back against Hoshi's more. "She seems so lonely, and I don't want her to be like that, if she now is without friends." She continued while placing her hands behind her head, still leaning against Hoshi and now having all her weight on her.
Hoshi's gave was turning red. "Could you remove your self from my back?" She hissed under her breath and soon had her hands between herself and the counter, trying to keep the sink from pressing against her stomach.
Taiko looked over her shoulder with a grin. "I like being on top, even thought this position wouldn't make anyone happy..." She replied while sticking out her tongue at the woman behind her.
Hoshi smiled a painful smile and closed her eyes. "You should keep that tongue in your mouth, before I rip it out and serve it to you for dinner." She whispered trying her best to push away from the counter.
Taiko winked at Hoshi now. "I like it when you talk dirty." She tried to sound somewhat sexy, but she could hear that she was sounding like a fool. She soon removed herself from Hoshi's back, giving the woman space to breathe once more while holding her stomach. "I'll go help Michi-chan with her homework." Taiko chirped and kissed Hoshi on the lips, before skipping up the stairs while laughing like a crow again. Taiko knocked on the closed door to Michiru's room. "It's obasan!"
After a while of silence from the room, a sigh was heard. "Come in."
Taiko opened the door and stepped into the room, finding Michiru sitting by her desk, gazing down at her schoolbooks. "Any help wanted?" She asked as she sat down on the windowsill. "I was a straight A student myself, you know." She added with a smile.
Michiru smiled while keeping her eyes on her books, and soon she looked at Taiko. "Thank you, Tai-obasan." She replied and nodded slightly.
Taiko soon got up from the windowsill with a gentle smile planted onto her lips, as she walked over to Michiru, looking over the girls shoulder to see the schoolbooks lying on the desk.