Fuyu: chapter 1: return

And so the days passed for about a month until the whether grew cold and it began to snow. By this time Shinnihaku and I had gone out many times to museums and parks together. We were what one might call thoroughly in love. But that didn't stop us from keeping certain boundaries. We both kept all our clothes on; depending on the season this might vary, but for now that was quite thick clothing. We both always told each other when we were leaving the house where we were going and for approximately how long. There had been a few mistakes, for example when one of us missed the train or got lost, but we were usually quite accurate. Our class had gotten used to her presence and it was an open secret that we had a little more going on then just that we just were student-tutor, but no one truly understood our situation.

Because of all of this, we began to expect my parents with both dread and excitement. They had been gone a little more than a month on an archeological expedition and hadn't sent a single letter, so I didn't know how they were, but I guessed that they were all right because that usually meant they were to busy digging to realize that any time had passed at all. Even so they would probably be home soon and I wanted to know what to tell them about Shinnihaku. They would probably just accept her as 'their little baby' growing up into a 'grown man,' but I was not certain. I just hoped that Shinnihaku could win them over. That hope was probably not very farfetched but I still didn't know about exactly how they would react.

Moving on to today's matters, we were walking home from a half-day at school. As we got home I check the mail and saw a letter from my parents in it. We went inside and then I opened the letter.

Dear Geishinni,

It is so nice for us to be able to send you this letter of good news. We have discovered many things and opened up a tomb that no one knew anything about. We have something that we think you are old enough to start thinking about to talk about when we get home. Hopefully you have all ready broken some ground with this subject, but we want to make certain you are moving along. We will be home within a week of your getting this letter.

Love,mom and dad

"Well that settles it." I said. "You need to be ready for a cross-examination and so do I. That will probably occur tomorrow, although it might occur in two days. If we are lucky, they will want us to go all the way, if we aren't, well, I don't want to even think about it."

"That doesn't sound too hopeful." Shinnihaku said soberly.

"No, it doesn't, but the fact that you are an angel helps me out quite a bit." I said with a smile.

"I am an angel who can kiss." Shinnihaku said indignantly as I closed in on her.

"But still an angel," I whispered as I leaned in to kiss her.

We held our kiss for a few moments before we decided that it should wait a few hours before we really get into it. We had lunch and then we polished off the little bit of homework assigned to me.

"Now that all of that is done, and the house is clean, and all the rooms are clean we are able to relax. Although…" I said.

"I'm not interested in relaxing." Shinnihaku said annoyed. "I want to push you down and keep you down until tomorrow."

"I'm game." I said walking towards my room.

"Not in your room. I want you on the couch. With the lights dim and the TV on." She said stubbornly.

"You picked this off of TV, didn't you? Well, we've never done it before so I'm game." I said walking down the stairs to the couch.

"I'll take care of everything." Shinnihaku said as she pushed me down on to the couch. "It'll be an adventure for the both of us, right?"

Then she leaned in began to do things I had never seen or felt. I was paralyzed because of the stimulus, but that didn't keep me from enjoying it.

"Shinnihaku! Oh, Shinnihaku! Yes, oh yes." I moaned to her as she continued. "I love you so much. And I will love you. You are not only an angel, you are my angel, and mine alone."

We both fell asleep relatively quickly because we weren't used to that kind of pleasure, but when we woke up I discovered that somehow my shirt had been removed. I went to go get another but as I put it on I noticed some marks on my chest. I ignored them for the moment but I wanted to have Shinnihaku explain what she did. As I walked back to the couch I noticed Shinnihaku still sleeping so I kissed her to wake her up.

"Huh? Is it morning all ready? Why do I have such a headache?" Shinnihaku moaned.

"Did you drink anything last night? Like alcohol or sake? You look like you were drunk." I said curiously.

"I think I drank some soda or it looked like soda. Soda never did this and that 'soda' tasted weird." She said a little annoyed. "Can you talk a little quieter?"

"Yeah, I'm going to go check some of this 'soda' out." I said and walked over into the kitchen.

There I found the perpetrator of drunkenness, beer, sitting on the counter. I checked it and it was only half full, so Shinnihaku must have gotten drunk off less than four ounces of beer. I chucked the can in the garbage and went back to Shinnihaku.

"Please don't drink that stuff again. That which you drank was a substance called alcohol, or in this case beer. It makes individuals drunk soon after they drink it. Being drunk is a slurry state in which one loses full control and memory of their actions." I said. "The results of those actions are not usually very pleasant at all."

"Got it. Alcohol has terrible side effects. Thus don't drink it. That works for me." She said as she got up. "I need a shower."

"Go ahead. I'm all most ready to go. Once your ready we'll leave." I declared promptly. "Take some aspirin, it's supposed to help."

I packed up my stuff and glanced at the calendar before realizing there would be no school. Today was the day the school was founded on. I left my backpack on the chair where I had it and wondered what to do today. Maybe the beach or maybe we would just stay home or go to a museum or maybe -.

"HEY, Geishinni! Can you give us a hand with our stuff?" I heard my father call.

"Um yeah! One moment!" I replied and ran out to my parents.

"How are you doing, kid?" My father asked.

"Just fine, thanks." I said.

"Can you help us carry these artifacts in?" my mother asked.

"Sure. Just so you know I have a friend over and they are in the bathroom right now." I said.

"Oh, a friend, is it? We won't bother them," she said reassuringly.

"Thanks." I said as I picked up a box of ancient artifacts. "Where do you want these?"

"Put them in the living room and hallway. They'll only be here for a few hours so you and your friend should go out while we take care of them." father said.

I carried the box into the living room and set it down. Then I went back and made a few more trips back and forth between the truck and the living room before Shinnihaku got out the shower and came down to the living room.

"Hi," I mumbled as I set down a huge box of artifacts.

"Hi. What are you doing there?" she asked as if she was oblivious of the obvious. "Why are you carrying that box?"

"My folks are back." I said. "They brought their excavation home. It now needs to be inside."

"Oh! Can I meet your parents?" she asked excitedly. "I want to meet them."

"Let's get out of the way for now. You'll be able to meet them later. For now it is best we leave the area." I said assuring her. "Let's go to a museum."

"Okay. We can go to a museum and then we will go and meet your parents." Shinnihaku said determinately.

"Exactly. Now let's get out of the way." I said urgently. "We should go now."

And with that the two of us left my houses premises. We walked to the train station and rode off into the downtown area of our city before walking to a museum we had never been to before. We went inside and paid our fee before going to explore the museum.