"Ah, Japan's just as great as I remember it..." Atticus smiled as he looked out his window. "What's your favorite time in Japan, Mo?"
"I think when we met the Teen Titans." Mo smiled back.
"Yeah, that was a great time." Atticus smiled in agreement.
"What's yours?" Mo asked.
Atticus paused to think before smiling thoughtfully. "Probably the time my little sister found out she was connected to Sailor Moon."
"Aw!" Mo smiled.
Once the plane came to a stop, everyone got their luggage.
Cherry popped her bubble gum and even blew a bubble as they waited for their stuff.
"I wanna ride that sometimes..." Akito smirked with a chuckle as he watched the luggage flow down from the machines. "But I doubt that will happen."
The others chuckled to him. Estelle saw Koki going to his family and she smiled to him and gave him a friendly wave. Koki waved back as he reunited with his family and went to finally have a vacation. Atticus was soon tackled playfully by Atlas by surprise. The two soon laughed as they reunited with each other and shared a hug after the tackle.
"Still haven't lost your touch." Atlas laughed as he ruffled Atticus's hair.
"Hey, Atlas." Atticus greeted between laughs.
"Atlas, how nice." Cherry noticed the former circus strongman who was now friend to both her and Atticus ever since their time with Dumbo.
"Cherry, is that you?" Atlas smiled. "I hardly recognized you."
"Hey there." Cherry replied.
"Wow, Mother Nature's been good to you..." Atlas noticed. "You still look like you're in high school."
"Thanks." Cherry replied.
Estelle soon got a text from someone that had an avatar that looked kind of like a Japanese cat person. "That's almost like Hello Kitty." she then commented about the avatar's design.
"What's the text say?" Akito asked.
Estelle showed her twin brother the text. Akito read the text and then began to look for the girl they would also meet.
"Is that who sent your email?" Estelle asked as she didn't recognize the name.
"Yep." Akito said.
"This is really creepy..." Estelle replied. "I hope she's nice."
They soon saw a teenage girl looking like she was waiting for someone.
Mo picked up one bag and soon stumbled which made Atticus take it. "Sheesh, Vincent, what do you have in there?" she then asked with a laugh.
"Paper, paintbrushes, pencils, erasers, charcoal brushes, color wheel..." Vincent listed his numerous art supplies, ever since that adventure he had with Rapunzel, he's been quite the artist.
"Whoa." Atticus said.
Vincent smiled sheepishly.
"You really had fun with Barbie's art lessons." Mo giggled to her older son.
"You have no idea." Vincent smiled.
They all then collected their bags and went together out to the front doors.
"I think I found one of our transportations." Cherry said.
They then walked ahead to the girl.
"Konichiwa." Atticus greeted and bowed to the girl.
"Oh, konichiwa, you wouldn't happen to be Akito, would you?" The girl asked.
"Oh, um, no, I'm his father, Atticus..." Atticus smiled sheepishly before looking down to his younger son. "This is Akito."
Akito came up to the girl and bowed to her, remembering cultural manners, especially around Yuko and her family when they came to the Plaza Hotel for the first time.
"That makes sense, anyway, my name is Natsuki Shinohara." Natsuki introduced.
"Oh, it's so good to meet you!" Akito smiled. "You sent me that email and my sister a text."
"Yes, I did," Natuski smiled back. "It is nice to meet you at last."
"How did you get our emails?" Estelle asked curiously.
Natsuki showed their emails on OZ.
"That makes sense." Atticus said.
"Well, it's nice to finally meet you." Akito smiled.
"Oui." Felicity agreed.
"Come on, we better get going," Natsuki told them with a smile back. "Oh, wait, I have to wait for Kenji to arrive."
"I was talking to someone named Kenji last night." Akito replied.
"Yeah, and your screen got in my eyes..." Vincent complained to his younger brother.
"Sorry." Akito smiled sheepishly.
Soon enough, they saw a Japanese boy running to them.
"That must be him now." Felicity hoped.
Natsuki smiled to the boy as he came beside her so they could meet the American visitors.
"Am I late?" Kenji asked Natsuki.
"Nope, Kenji, you're right on time." Natsuki smiled.
"Hey, Kenji." Akito greeted with a bow.
"Oh, greetings, Akito-san," Kenji said with a bow before looking to Natsuki. "Whatever needs doing, just say the word and I'm on it."
"Thanks a lot," Natsuki smiled to him. 'For starters, how about grabbing these?" she then gestured to the luggage.
"Wow, that's a lot of stuff." Mo said.
Kenji then picked up everything the best that he could.
"Here, let me help you." Akito offered since he was rather strong.
"Thanks." Kenji said.
Lee also decided to help out. Akito and Lee smiled to each other as they helped Kenji.
"So glad that you guys could make it to the party." Natsuki told the Fudo family as she went to collect some food for her great-grandmother.
"So, where are we going exactly?" Estelle asked Natsuki. "I mean, I know we're going to somewhere to celebrate your, uh, great-grandmother's birthday, but where is it?"
"We'll be going by train to her house." Natsuki replied.
"More traveling?" Felicity asked nervously. "Oh, well, at least we aren't in the sky anymore."
"That's right." Cherry nodded.
Felicity sighed as she shook off her fear of flying. They then got set up and they left the airport, only to go to the train station.
"Going on a train ride makes me think of when we went to Hollywood with Eloise and we met Debbie Lincoln," Estelle said as she stared out the window. "I wonder whatever happened to her?"
"Who knows?" Lee shrugged. "Who did you say she was again?"
"We met her on the train ride to Hollywood," Estelle told him. "She was going to be in a movie, but then she got bratty and bossy until Eloise took her place."
"Sounds like Tammy." Lee chuckled.
"Yeah." Tony also chuckled in agreement.
They then took a ride on the train, luckily, they were given food.
"Oh, this food is so much better than the plane food..." Akito smiled in relief, he then took out his phone with his OZ Avatar on screen. "Oh, here you go, Uncle Forte." he then showed his uncle the avatar as promised.
"Whoa, looks strong." Forte smiled.
"Thanks, the only one that seems to be my rival on OZ is named King Kazuma." Akito told him.
"Fascinating." Forte replied as he examined.
"So, how are you going to represent Japan anyway?" Natsuki asked Kenji.
"Huh?" Kenji asked as he blushed slightly from his seat.
"Sakuma mentioned that you came close to representing Japan in something," Natsuki asked before giggling as she saw Kenji still blush. "Aw, come on, what's all the blushing about?"
"Well... I almost got to go to the Math Olympics this year." Kenji replied before he took a bite of his rice.
"Whoa, really?" Akito asked.
"An Olympics for Math?" Vincent asked. "I think Marc said something about that."
"Oh, yes, it's a dream of mine." Marc smiled as he sounded esteemed about going to such an event.
"Then you must be pretty good, huh?" Natsuki said to Kenji.
"Good thing, cuz I suck at everything else..." Kenji replied quietly.
"Seriously?" Megan asked. "So, then show us what you got."
"All right... One of you tell me about the year and day that you were born." Kenji then said.
"Alright, my birthday was on July 19th, 1992." Natsuki told him as she was about to drink her water bottle.
Akito and Kenji both knew what day that year was on.
"On a Sunday," Kenji told Natsuki after short seconds. "That's what day of the week July 19th, 1992 was. It was a Sunday."
"He's right." Akito agreed.
"You're saying you memorized all the dates?" Natsuki gasped.
"No, we used modular arithmatic." Akito and Kenji said.
"What does that mean in English?" Tony asked Marc.
Megan and Tony both looked to Marc to know what that meant too.
"Basically a system of integers where numbers wrap around upon reaching a certain value." Marc explained before sighing in exhaustion.
"Ohh." Megan and Tony said, now understanding.
"So, were we right?" Kenji asked Natsuki.
"Uh, I don't even know what day it was." Natsuki chuckled sheepishly as she took a drink from her bottle.
This caused for the group to anime fall.
The train then made a next stop to Ueda.
"My great-grandma is turning 90 in a couple of days, crazy, huh?" Natsuki asked Kenji.
"She was born in 1920?" Kenji then replied. "Talk about a long life."
"Natsuki?" A voice asked which made everyone turn to see another girl. "Natsuki, it is you!"
The girls beamed and ran up to each other with glee.
"Aunt Mariko, it's so great to see you!" Natsuki smiled.
The others smiled to this and decided to meet Natsuki's aunt as she was accompanied by a couple of little kids.
"Hi, there!" Estelle cooed to the little kids, based on her experiences with babysitting Max and Emmy.
"Hello." The little kids greeted.
Estelle smiled to them as she waved to them playfully and friendly.
"Oh, you must be the Fudos." Mariko smiled to Atticus and his family.
"That's us." Atticus smiled.
"So, how long has the Jinnouchi clan been around?" Lee asked Mariko as they got on their next transportation.
"We Jinnouchis go back sixteen generations." Mariko informed as they boarded the subway and Estelle played games with the little kids to keep them busy during the ride since they were a little bored.
"Wait, seriously?" Kenji asked in surprise.
"Wow." Lee said in surprise.
"We have graves as far back as the Muromachi days," Mariko informed. "We made a quite a bundle in the silk industry during the Meiji era. We were rolling in the cash! Then old Grandpa, rest his soul, managed to fritter all of it away!"
Their stop soon came and where they soon got off.
"Yow!" Felicity yelped as she nearly fell out of her seat.
They were then on a bus and met another one of Natuski's relatives who was her Aunt Yumi.
"So, tell us more about your family." Marc said as they got on the bus.
"Kid, we used to kick butt!" Yumi giggled. "These days we got nothing. No factories, no mines, not even a measly wholesale store! I still can't hardly believe it when I see Granny's New Year's cards pouring in. Big politicians and CEOs! Man, it's nuts!"
"Wow." Marc said.
The bus soon dropped them off.
"Ugh... I hope we're almost there..." Cherry groaned as they had been traveling for what felt like years.
"I have a feeling we'll have to walk the rest of the way." Forte said.
CHerry then took some stretches since she's been in vehicles this whole time.
"Welcome home!" A woman called out from across the street.
"Thanks, Nana!" Natsuki waved to her.
"So, can you tell us more about Sakae?" Hercules asked Mariko, Yumi, and Nana.
"Yeah, maybe that's why Granny says such terrifying things sometimes, even now at the ripe old age of 90." Nana commented.
"It's that warrior blood, I'm telling ya." Mariko suggested.
"Oh, she's gonna have fun with you!" Yumi giggled.
"Sounds like it." Alexandrite smiled.
Atlas and Connie hugged Atticus and he hugged them back.
"I'm so glad to see you both," Atticus smiled to them. "This is really a small world."
"It sure is." Atlas smiled.
"Uh, guys, you might wanna see the estate." Mo said as she was now at the entrance.
"Coming, Mo!" Atticus called to his wife. "I love that woman..."
"You two always did make such a cute couple." Connie giggled.
The rest of them soon came to Mo and where soon jaw-dropped at what they saw.
"Whoa... They live here...?" Kenji felt blown away by the sight.
"This entire estate is where they live?" Tony asked jaw-dropped.
"It's beautiful..." Megan whispered in shock and awe.
"This was worth the wait." Felicity commented.
"It sure was." Felicity said.