Lessons
Some quality guy time with Duke and Shizaa's brothers. Enjoy!
1 week later, February
Duke walks into the large building nervous as hell. He had indeed thought it strange that he would get a call from Shizaa's father asking him to meet with him that afternoon at lunch, but no one said no to their family, he knew that much from dating Shizaa for near five months now. Going up to the receptionist desk, he waits patiently for the woman to look up.
"May I help you?" she asks.
"I'm here to speak with Mister Hinotami." Duke says. Quickly the woman verifies the appointment and then directs him where to go. Getting to the door, Duke took a deep breath in before knocking quietly.
"Enter." The loud voice called out. Duke opens the door and walks in to find Shizaa's father waiting patiently.
"Duke, good to see you." Mister Hinotami smiles.
"Good to see you too sir." Duke says with a polite bow.
"Now, before I bring in my sons, tell me Duke, do you have any experience at all with any weapons?" Mister Hinotami asks.
"Knives mostly, then again, I do live with your daughter." Duke jokes as Mister Hinotami chuckles.
"True enough. What about guns?" Mister Hinotami asks.
"Other than virtual, no. But I would be interested in learning." Duke says.
"Good. The boys will take you to our private shooting range." Mister Hinotami says. Duke smiles as the three brothers walk in.
"Ready for quality male bonding?" Lee asks.
"Phrasing brother, phrasing." Nobu chuckles. Duke chuckles as they all leave and get into the limo.
30 mins later
They had arrived at the shooting range and Okazu was going over all the guns, how to load them, reload them, and shoot.
"Think you're ready?" Okazu asks as he hands Duke a pistol. Remembering about how to hold the pistol, Duke takes aim, keeping both eyes open and shoots, hitting all but one of the targets. Duke looks to the others and smirks at their faces.
"And you said you've never fired a gun before?" Nobu asks.
"Beginners luck?" Duke asks.
"We'll see." Okazu chuckles as he resets the targets and hands Duke a rifle. Again, Duke takes aim and fires, this time, hitting all of the targets. Needless to say, Okazu is impressed. Resetting the targets again, Duke is given another gun and hit's all the targets again.
"Ok, we've had enough of the guns. Now, let's get to the daggers and machetes." Lee chuckles.
3 hours later
Panting for air, Duke manages to gulp down the water in his water bottle.
"You kept up. I'm impressed." Lee chuckles. Duke chuckles once he manages to catch his breath.
"I do a lot of working out with my friends, fighting and stuff, but never with weapons. Adds a whole new dimension to it all." Duke chuckles.
"Good. Just so you know, there may be times in the future where we need your help with some of our jobs. We are first and foremost a security detail, secondly, private investigators, and then hitmen." Okazu chuckles.
"Ah, so this was your way of seeing if I'm worth or something like that?" Duke asks.
"More or less." Nobu laughs.
"And even I'm impressed." Mister Hinotami laughs from a distance. Duke turns to see Mister Hinotami and clearly his wife.
"Thank you sir." Duke says with a bow.
"This was also a way to see if you're worthy of our daughter. We want a man that can defend her, even if she really doesn't need it. And seeing as how you picked up on each weapon quickly and effectively, you've proved yourself." Misses Hinotami smiles.
"Thanks." Duke smiles back.
"Yes, and you have my full approval as well Duke. Just know that anytime my sons aren't busy, you may ask to come over, hell, bring your friends, and use the weapons room. I'm sure they would enjoy that." Mister Hinotami chuckles.
"More than you know sir." Duke chuckles as they show him out.
Later that evening
"I'm home!" Shizaa calls out cheerfully.
"In here." Duke replies. Shizaa walks into the living room to see her rather tired looking boyfriend.
"Why do you look so tired?" Shizaa asks.
"Just spent the day with your brothers and dad." Duke chuckles. Shizaa pales for a moment.
"Well, you're still in one piece." Shizaa says.
"Yeah, lots of weapon training today. Apparently I impressed your family enough to earn their full approval." Duke chuckles. Shizaa rolls her eyes at her families antics.
"Anything else?" Shizaa asks.
"They said that when your brothers aren't busy that my friends and I can use the weapons room." Duke says, looking over to see Shizaa's eyes wide.
"It took them at least a week to say that about my friends." Shizaa groans.
"Well, I guess they figure it would be best for them to know multiple ways of defending you girls, even though you don't always need it." Duke says.
"I guess that makes sense. It certainly does to my family." Shizaa huffs.
"They may come to regret it." Duke chuckles. Shizaa rolls her eyes at her boyfriend, but couldn't help but be happy that her family approved of Duke. Even if it was in a weird way, it oddly seemed to fit with them.
Odd, I know, but do you expect anything less from Shizaa at this point, or her family? Moving on!