Ch.2 At The Beginning
Disclaimer: I don't own S.K, but I do own Aki's whole family and Kyoshi
In a room hidden in some corner of the Tao's home... Pure white, fluffy snow fell from the skies above outside the castle of the Taos and over Japan but that bone chilling winter cold did not bother the four people sitting at each corner of a square table playing mahjong while sipping piping hot Chinese tea occasionally.
As the shuffling of the tiles and the racket the 4 people are making, the echoes through the dark and empty hallways disturb every living soul in the Tao's home from their sleep
"Hahaha… Yuan, this will be your third time losing the game of mahjong to me" said by a masculine voice.
Tao Yuan looks up from his mahjong tiles and glares at his good friend, Feng Quan.
He replied coldly "Quan, it is too early to say that you have won. Besides that, what makes you so confident that you will win this round? Perhaps this round's winner will be me?" Then, he smiles at his wife.
A lop sided smile lit up the slightly wrinkled face of Feng Quan.
After a while, the mahjong game ended with Tao Yuan winning the mahjong game. Tao Yuan roared with laughter, as his wife looked at him with her widen almond shaped eyes behind the Chinese fan she carries with her all the time.
Tao Yuan snickered at his friend, the emperor like Chinese robes he wore rustled when he stood up.
"What a game! Don't you think so, my pal?" he exclaimed excitedly.
Feng Quan dusted his beige turtleneck sweater and stood up.
"Yeah, it was. As the rules apply, how much do I owe you?" he replied dryly.
Tao Yuan pondered for a moment or two.
"I don't want you to pay me. As you can see, my son, Tao Ren is eighteen years old this year and he is still single..." he ended, in the hopes that Quan will get his so obvious hint that his son, Tao Ren needs a wife.
Feng Quan arches his right eyebrow. He stares at Tao Yuan, trying to get his point and Tao Yuan stare back at him. The two women in the room giggle softly at the scene displayed before them.
He widens his eyes "You want my daughter, Aki to be betroth to your son! My darling, Aki will literally kill me if I do that!"
Dead silence fell upon them as Feng Quan's wife, Hanako stood up silently.
She adjusted her black kimono with pink Sakura flowers petals trailing down her both of her sleeves and kimono and said, "I think that Aki should be getting married. But let her live with Ren for a couple of months then she can decide whether she wants to marry Ren. Even though we're her parents, that doesn't mean that we have the rights to interrupt in her love life "
Feng Quan smiles at his wife lovingly. They look at each other as though they are conversing psychically.
He smiles " Alright, Yuan! Aki will live with Ren for a couple of months, but if she doesn't want to get married to Ren, that shall be none of my concern."
Tao Yuan chuckles, " Don't worry, my friend. My wife and I and of course Ren will take very good care of your precious daughter"
(Scene change to the Feng's manor in somewhere of Japan…)
"I AM WHAT!" yelled Aki while she approaches her father with slow steps. Her black electric guitar is held dangerously high above Feng Quan's head.
Feng Quan's sweat dropped and waves his hands in front of him frantically and said, " my cutie pie… you do know that daddy and mummy love you and we are very concerned about you. You just have to stay there for a couple of months only, besides you can still come back home if you find the environment there not suitable for your songs writing and drawing."
Aki gives her father a death glare. If looks can kill, her father will be lying on the floor dead.
"What about my band, Lost Ones! We have 2 concerts in San Francisco in somewhere around March! We have practices every now and then to perfect our performance. You can't expect me to abandon my band and go live in some mountain area with your perhaps crazy friend for a couple of months!" she exclaimed angrily.
She continues, " Dad! How can you do this to me? Although I am not attached at this age, doesn't meant that I'm abnormal or something! My heart will still flutter whenever I see a handsome guy walks past me. We're at the twenty first century, no parents in this century will arrange marriage for their children!"
Feng Quan sprawls on the dark carpet floors with fear. His daughter may be a tomboy but he trusts her that she will not kill her father with her precious guitar. Today's scenario is totally unexpected.
(Flashback…)
A girl entered into a room with light blue colored walls with famous rock bands and female singers posters pasted all over them, five white big cushions lie in the right corner of the room while her black glittery electric guitar was placed on the one of the big, fat white cushion. She unceremoniously dumped her bag onto the dark purple carpet floors; she lays flat on the king sized bed after she kicked off her white ballet flats.
Aki screams in frustration. "What kinda Fine Arts College is that! The teachers in there are slave drivers! On the first day of school and they gave us tones of projects to do already! And expect us to hand them up on the following day?"
A man that appears to be in his twenties, dressed in black suit with a crisp white T-shirt inside emerged out of nowhere in the room.
Kyoshi snickers at the sight of his mistress. "Well, that is the fine arts college you have signed up for."
"…."
She threw her pillow at him to let him know that she didn't need his so-called advices dripping with sarcasm.
Kyoshi dodged it effortlessly. But the pillow greeted Feng Quan when he enters his daughter's room.
Feng Quan picks up the fallen pillow and throws it back onto her daughter's bed. "My darling, Aki… What's wrong?"
"Is nothing. What's up, dad?" said by a muffled voice beneath the pillow.
Aki's father frowns with concentration while he thinks of a way of breaking the "bad news" to her daughter. "Aki, daddy wants to tell you something."
"I'm all ears…" replied Aki.
Feng Quan takes in a deep breath. "Sweetiepie,yourengagedtotaoren."
Aki sits up on her bed "What? Dad, can you please repeat yourself again? I didn't catch what you said just now."
Aki's brain started to replay what her father told her just now. She widens her hazel brown eyes to inhumane size.
(End Of Flashback…)
Authoress Note: Second chapter is revised and edited. Yoshh! Finally second chapter is up, plus it's much longer than the first chapter.
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