Well here the new chapter, it was tough but I had fun writing it, and for all of those who reviewed so far thank you all very much! Anyway Enjoy!
Chapter 4: Welcome Home!
Afterward when everything was set up for dinner we all sat out in the living room waiting for Kim. Hanyu and Antoine were on the floor playing with his cat, Bernkastle, while me and Rika sat near the couch at the coffee table playing an intense game of chess. Which I found out Rika was surprisingly good at.
"What the hell is taking Kim so long? We've been waiting for a entire half hour," Antoine pouted. "Hey, Kev, why don't we just start eating without her."
"Be patient, Ant'. She'll get here when she gets here." I said, not looking up from the broad on the table, I thought for a moment before moving my rook, taking Rika's Bishop. "Hehe~ your move, Rika."
"I'll admit that was a good move, but this is a better one," she moved her Knight, taking my rook but at the same time putting my king in check, forcing me to move it.
Now I found myself completely trapped, I had more pieces then Rika but she still somehow manged to trap me, if I move my king to the right there was her 2nd bishop, if I moved it down there was a pawn there, and if I tried moving it up there was Rika's queen waiting for the kill. I was completely and utterly trapped, it was checkmate, game over.
"Damn ...okay, you win Rika, I give up." I said with a sign. "Your way better then I expected, who taught you to play?"
Rika smiled and answered. "Well ...I taught myself to play, and sometimes I'd play a game or two with Hanyu when I was bored or alone at home."
At that point I was sorta confused. "Wait, I'm confused, how could Hanyu play chess when she couldn't touch anything until now…?"
"Oh, that's easy, I'd move her pieces, sometimes people saw me and thought I was playing alone, but Hanyu was there telling me what pieces she wanted me to move for her." She explained. "Hanyu's pretty good herself, you should ask her to play with you sometime."
"Hmm~ I'll be sure to do that." I nodded, and started putting up the chess pieces and the broad, I never knew Rika liked playing chess ...but I guess that's one of the things they don't you in the Anime, Manga or visual novels.
I walked over and put the chess game at the bottom of the TV set, where we kept the over broad games, it was just then that I heard a car pull up outside.
Antoine ran over and looked out the window. "Finally! It's about fuckin' time!"
"Um ...Antoine-San, it's not good to swear," Hanyu said shyly.
He turned to her and gave a nervous chuckle. "Hehe~ ma bad, it sorta just slipped out."
"Is that Kim?" I asked, walking over to him.
He gave a nod. "Yeah, it's her ...and David too."
"Okay then, Rika, Hanyu, I want you both to be as cute as possible. Alright?"
Rika nodded, smiling cutely. "Mii~ I understand sir."
"Auauau~ I'll try my best," Hanyu said.
"Antoine, you just ...uhh... be yourself."
He gave me a thumbs up, "Gotcha!"
"Okay! Operation: Hook up shall now commence," I said loudly.
The door bell ranged, then there was a knock on the door. I walked over and put my hand on the nob. Sigh, I guess I'll have some explaining to do in a moment. I unlocked the door and turned the nob, opening the door for them.
"Hey Kim, welcome back," I greeted with a wave. "It's nice to see you again, David, it's been a while."
"Yeah I know it's been way too long sense I've last seen you," David said with a smile.
I smiled at him, David hadn't changed much. Which wasn't really surprising, it had only been 3 months sense I last saw him. He had light blue eyes, white skin, peach colored not pale, chestnut brown hair and he had on a pair of blue jeans, a red shirt with a white T shirt under it.
"Um ...are you going to let us in anytime soon, we can't hold these bags forever!" Kim said, lifting her arms slightly. I'll admit I didn't notice the big bags until now, though I was sorta curious of what she brought.
"Oh ...sorry," I moved to the side and let them both walk in before closing and locking the door behind us.
Antoine ran up to Kim and gave a cheeky smile. "Whats up, Kim! It good to see ya again David."
David smiled, "it's nice to see you again too, still short as ever in see." He said with a laugh.
"Hey! I'm not that short, just you watch I'll be wayyy taller by next year!" Ant' said back in anger.
Kim then looked at me and asked, "so how was he today? Bad or so so?"
"Actually, he was pretty good today, he didn't pull his usual stunts," I answered. "But I really need to talk to you, it import-."
"Who are those two?" Kim asked looking behind me where Rika and Hanyu were standing quietly. They both walked over to us, near the front door and smiled, though Hanyu's smile was slightly nervous.
"You see, uhh, this is Rika Furude," I pointed to the blue haired girl, "and her ...uhh ...cousin, Hanyu," then I pointed to the miko clad girl. "Guys, this is my older sister, Kim."
Hanyu gave a slight bow. "It's nice to meet Kim-san."
Rika smiled cutely, bowing also. "It's a pleasure to meet to sir."
Kim blinked a few times then looked at me, "did she just call me 'sir'...?"
"Um ...yeah, but Kim I really need to talk to you, it really important."
"Is it about them?" She asked, pointing at the two girls.
"Yes ...but can we talk somewhere more private, ya know, where Kevin can't hear."
"Psst, Fine."
I grabbed her hand and lead her into the dinning room by the table, were no one could hear us, Kim gave me a look and said in a serous tone. "Start talking, what's this all about?"
I sighed, "okay, ...do you remember that monkeys paw Grandma got me?"
"Yeah, what about it?"
I started my story from the beginning, hoping she won't be too mad about this. I told her everything about Rika and Hanyu, I also told her about the wish I made that brought them here. As I continued telling her what happened Kim's face went from shocked to annoyed.
"Wait wait wait! Stop right there, you mean to tell me that those 2 girls out there are from some Anime you watch?"
I nodded. "Yeah. Not only that but until I can get them home, they'll need a place to stay."
"They're not staying here if that's what your thinking!" Kim said without hesitation.
"But Kim, come on! It's not like the girls are dangerous or anything. And besides are you going to throw 2 cute little girls out on the streets," I said.
"Look ...I'm not trying to be mean or anything, but this is too much," she said back. "I already have to take care of you and Antoine, not only that but the house is too small. Where would they sleep?"
"Um ...actually, me and Antoine were going to share my room, while they used his room."
"Okay, so they have a place to sleep. But what about cloths, they have nothing here, do you know how much buying all that stuff is going to cost! ...No, I'm sorry but they can't stay here."
"But, Kim-!"
"Don't 'but Kim' me, they're not staying here!"
Oh man, this is bad, what the hell do I do now! Once Kim makes up her mind it's hard to change it but still I have to convince her somehow.
"Kim, please I'm begging you, it's my fault they're stuck here, I know it was stupid to listen to Ant'. But you have to let them stay," I said with pleading eyes. "I'll do whatever it takes, hell, I'll even get a job just please don't kick them out, Kim."
Kim raised an eyebrow and crossed her arms in front of her chest. "You'll do whatever it takes, huh?"
"Yeah I'm totally serious," I said nodding.
She sighed and rubbed her temple, looking at me with an annoyed expression on her face. We stood there just starring at each other for what seemed like hours. Then Kim sighed again, shrugging. "You know what. Fine, if you feel so strongly about this ...then they can stay here for as long as they have to."
I let out a sigh in relief and gave Kim a thankful smile, "thanks a lot Kim, I promise you won't regret this!"
"I hope not," she said walking back to the living room, then she stopped and turned back to me again. "Oh yeah, one more thing I forgot to mention."
"Uhh ...what is it?" I didn't know why but I suddenly got a bad feeling, and the grin that slowly appeared her face didn't make me feel any better about what she was about to say next.
"Just to make this clear, whatever has to be brought for them ...Comes out of your allowance money."
"What! But why my allowance money, why not Antoine's?" I asked pouting.
"Because your the one who made the wish, and besides weren't you the one saying 'I'll do whatever it takes'?" Kim said with a smirk.
She had a point, I did say 'I'd do whatever it takes', and it was my fault that they were even here to begin with. God, why did I have to be so stupid and listen to Antoine ...But I guess losing my allowance money is better then them being sent to somewhere else or being put on the streets.
I sighed again, "Fine ...you can use my allowance. It's better then them being kick out."
Kim smirked, nodding, "Alright then, now lets go eat, I'm sure everyone's hungry."
"Yeah."
And with that said we both walked back out into the living room. Antoine sat on the couch while David and the girls were all talking having a normal conversation.
"-and that's why I became a cop, so I could protect innocent people from those who might try and hurt them."
"Mii~ I think it's really good that you became a policeman to protect people, sir," Rika said with a cute smile.
"You really think so, huh?"
She nodded, "yes I do sir."
"Well thanks, you know if you wanted to you'd probably be a good cop someday, Rika."
I chuckled at the image in my head of an adult version of Rika wearing a cop uniform, handcuffing a drunk person saying 'you have the right to remain silent'. Though, that would be pretty kick ass. "Hehe~ I doubt that's the right job for her, David."
"Oh come on, I'm sure Rika could pull off being a cop, no one thought I would and just look where I am now," David said. "So what were you both talking about?"
"Nothing much, just a little family problem I caused." Yeah right, as if wishing someone from an Anime world into the real one was a 'little' problem.
Antoine looked over at me with a hopeful expression. "So what did Kim say? Can they stay here?"
I nodded and smiled, "yeah. She said it was fine, though I won't be getting an allowance anytime soon but aw well, I'm cool with it. Anyway let's all get something to eat!"
"Auau~ I thinks that's a good idea," Hanyu said.
"I agree, let's eat everyone!" Rika said as she, Hanyu and Antoine walked into the dinning room. David stood up and we followed after them. Now there's just one thing left to take care of now, the plan to get Kim and David together.
~ ~ ~(Part2)~ ~ ~
Everyone sat at the dinning room table happily chatting with each other. Hanyu and Rika were in the kitchen fixing the plates and taking the food out to the table while I got the cups and the drinks.
"Alright, Rika you take this tray and you take this one, Hanyu," I said passing them each a tray, each tray had 3 plates on it so it wasn't that heavy.
The two girls nodded and took the trays from me before going back out into the dinning room. I walked over to the cabinet, taking out a 1 liter bottle of Ginger Ale and 6 cups out the dish rack, then I got a bag of ice out the deep freezer, before walking out into the dinning room myself.
When I took my seat at the table, sitting next to Antoine and Hanyu; David and Kim were talking about what happened during the day on their patrol through south Philadelphia.
"So the guy was just standing there, with his back turned to us while we sat in the car. David was the first one to voice that he looked suspicious and I thought the same thing. So we both got out the car and approached him to ask what was up and the second he saw us he jetted straight down the street and me and David started chasing after him. Umm~ you can take it from here Dave, you know I not that good at telling stories," Kim said facing her partner.
I started pouring the drinks as David took up where Kim left off. "Okay if that's what you want, anyway, so we started chasing the man down the street and then he turns down a alleyway in the middle of the block, on 13th in parish. Sense Kim was the fastest runner out of the two of us I told her to run around the corner to stop him at the other end of the alley while I continued to chase him from behind. The plan worked pretty well at first until he figured out what we were trying to do, but it was too late by that time and Kim was already waiting for him at the end of the alleyway.
"Now you would think a guy cornered by the police would stop, right? But nope he kept on running and sense he was bigger and taller then Kim, he tried to ram his way pass her and that where things got funny."
"Auauau~ what happened next?" Hanyu asked, she seemed to be really into the story.
"Yeah, what happened! Don't just leave us at a Clift hanger," Antoine said.
"Haha~ okay I'll continue, so he was running at full speed towards Kim, but she wasn't even worried, she just wore a grin on her face as the man got closer and closer, then at the last minute, right before he made contact. Haha! She side steps him and sticks her foot out, the guy trips and gos flying into a the side of a parked car face first, it was the funniest thing ever, man if I had a camera with me that would go right on YouTube, Hahaha!" David started laughing and so did everyone else at the table, me included. After he got out the last of his laughs he continued talking. "Anyway, so we arrested him and checked him for weapons, we ended up finding 6 small bags of marijuana and a 9mm pistol, after that we too him down to station and that was that."
I took my seat at the table and asked, "so what was he, a drug dealer?"
"Yep, so now that my stories over lets dig in, huh?"
"Alright, lets eat!" Antoine said right before stuffing his face full of food only to be scolded by Kim seconds later for eating like a slob before she started eating also.
Though it only happened rarely I enjoyed times like this, when family and friends would come over and eat together. It also made me really happy when everyone started praising me for making a fine meal.
"You've really out done yourself this time, Kev," Kim said taking another bite of her food. "Keep cooking like this and you'll be opening up your own 5 star restaurant one day."
David nodded in agreement eating his own food. "Yep, your mom would be real proud of you Kevin, no doubt."
"Aw come on, big bro always makes good food, it's waaayyy~ better then Kim's cooking ...Ow! What was that for!" Ant' said rubbing his head where big sis chucked a chicken bone at him.
"Less talking, more eating, brat." Kim said smugly.
"Your just mad because it's true, you can't cook for shit ….Ow!"
Hanyu turned to me and smiled shyly, "Auau~ you really are a good cook, Kevin-San. This food is very ...um, good."
"Mii~ I sure Kevin-San well make his wife in the future very happy with cooking skills like these," Rika said nodding.
I blushed slighted and continued eating, I wasn't really used to so many people praising me at once, I mean big sis and Antoine always said good things about my cooking, but it was way different when it came from someone outside of the home. "Well, I wasn't the only one cooking this time, Rika made the cabbage and help with the briskets."
"Oh ...so that's way the cabbage tasted different, I thought you were just using a different recipe," Kim said, eating more of the cabbage. "It's good though. Keep it up, Rika. You know they say a way to a mans heart is through his stomach."
"Hahaha~ well if that's the case, I doubt you'll get married anytime soon with your cooking skills, Kim," Antoine laughed.
"Shut up! Or do you want something worse then a chicken bone thrown at ya!" Kim said, blushing slightly out of embarrassment and anger.
"Oh yeah sure, and what are you goin' to throw? A gun," Antoine said, then he stopped and glanced over at me out the side of his eye before smirking. "Actually, now that I think about it, didn't grandma get you a gun the other day for a gift …?"
David looked up from his food, asking. "Really, what type of gun was it, Kim?"
"Oh ...it was a 1930s Beretta M1935," Kim answered.
"Hmm, that's a nice gun, pretty modern but at the same time still old school," David gave Kim a smile, "is it okay if I see?"
"Um, sure, just wait right here and I'll go get it for you." Kim got up from the table, walking out the dinning room and up the stairs.
I looked over at Ant', giving him a thumbs up, while mouthing to him. "Nice job."
He nodded and went back to eating, now it was my turn. "So David, can I ask you something?"
"Sure, what is it?"
I took a deep, nervous breath before I started talking, "how much ...do you like my sister?"
"Huh?" David gave me a curious look, "is that a quick question ...?"
"No ...but I just really want to know."
"Okay, well, she a nice person, funny and easy to get along with, and I care about her a lot. But why are you asking me this anyway?"
I didn't really know how to tell him that Kim liked, no, loved him. It could go a bunch of ways but I had to do this, if he ended up falling for someone else, big sis would be heart broken. I sighed, "David, I'm going to tell you something really important, but you have to promise not to tell Kim, okay?"
"Agreed, so what is it?" He asked, curiously.
"David, you know how Kim always looks at you funny and how she always seems a bit shy around you?"
"Yeah, what of it?"
"Well ...Kim really, really likes you, she felt this way ever sense she was in high school. I wanted to ask you if you liked her back, and if not then can you stay her best friend; big sis has done so much for me and Ant' ...I just want her to be happy."
I could see the look of surprise written on his face, "Wait, so ...Kim likes me?"
"Yeah, she's liked you for a long time, she just never had the guts to tell you because she was afraid of rejection."
"Wow, that's just, wow. Who would have thought Kim had a crush ...and on me of all people." David said in awe, then a smile appeared on his face. "And let me guess, you want me and your sister to start going out together?"
Antoine nodded, "yep that was sorta the reason for tellin' ya. So what do ya say?"
"Hmm, I don't know, believe it or not I've never really got into a relationship before and if something bad happens between us, it could ruin our friendship." He said in a unsure tone.
I thought he might need a little more ...motivation, and what better to motivate him then the two cutest girls in the house.
Yep, this was perfect, I thought as I looked at Rika and Hanyu, then nodding towards the cop.
Rika nodded back and got up out of her seat, followed by Hanyu, and went over to David, who just gave them a kind smile. "Do you two need something?"
Rika shuck her head, giving a smile that seemed to brighten up the room. "No sir, but I think you and Kim-San should go on a date, I'm sure she'd be very, very happy." Then her smiled got bigger and cuter as she beamed. "Nipaa!~"
"Awe! Aren't you the cutest little thing," David cooed as he patted her on the head.
Come on Hanyu, you can do this, just one more push, I said mentally.
"Auau~ David-San, I think you should try to have a relationship with Kim-San, and ...um," she blushed slightly and looked down at her feet, shifting her weight a little. "A-and, I-I ...I think you two would look really cute together!"
Antoine with a one-side grin, said. "Hey Hanyu, your really cute when your blushing."
Saying this only made the poor girl blush even more.
I leaned towards my brother and whispered harshly, "Stop hitting on Hanyu, Ant'!"
"Aw come on, I'm just messin' with her, besides even you can't deny that she's cute when her face is all red like that," He said.
Damn! I hate it when he's right. I sighed, turning to David. "So what do you say, you'll give it a try right?"
"I really don't know but," He looked at Rika again, who just smiled at him. "I guess one date won't hurt any."
"Yes, success!" me and Antoine exclaimed at the same time giving each other a high-five.
The girls walked back over and sat in their seats. I gave them a thumbs ups, "nice job you two."
"Mii~ It was all part of the plan, sir," Rika said.
After a few minutes, Kim came back down into the dinning room with her gun in hand, "here it is, you wanted to see it, right?"
David nodded and got up, walking over to her. "Yeah I did. But, Um, Kim can I talk to you in private." He asked nervously.
Kim raised a eye brow and looked over at me and Ant'. "What did you two do?"
"We didn't do anything, just go talk to him, sis." I say in a reassuring tone.
She gave me a wierd look but obliged, walking with him out into the living room. I got up and tip-toed over to the dinning room entryway, motioning for the others to follow.
"Come on, it's time to see how this turns out," I say in a whisper. When they came over, we peeked out from behind the entryway listening in on their conversation.
"Soo, what did you need to talk about, Dave?"
The brown haired cop rubbed the back of his neck nervously, from where we were standing it was easy to see the slight blush on his face. "Well, Kim, I've been thinkin' and I wanted to know, would you ...like to good on a date sometime?"
Kim looked at him with wide eyes, "y-you want to g-go on a date, with me?" She said in a surprised tone.
"Yeah, buts it's okay if you don't want to! I just thought it'd be ni-." He stopped talking when Kim put a finger on his lips.
She smiled and blushed. "You don't know how long I've been waiting for you to ask me that, do you?"
"To be honest, no, lets just say a few little voices told me."
"It was my brothers, wasn't it?"
"Uhh ...Yeah."
"I should have know as much," Kim said in a unsurprised tone. "So about this date …?"
"Well, I was thinking maybe we could go out somewhere tomorrow night, I'll pick you up at 7, then we can-" before he could finish his cellphone started ringing, David groaned and took his phone out his pocket to answer it.
"Hello! ...oh hey mom, what's up ...alright, ...he did what! ….okay I'll be home soon! …love you too, bye." He sighed and hung up the phone. "Sorry Kim I've got to go, my dad's drunk out of his mind again, I'll talk to you tomorrow, okay?"
"Sure, just don't forget our date."
"Hehe~ don't worry, I won't, tell the others I said bye."
Kim moved over to the front door and opened it for him, it was already dark outside, if I had to guess I'd say it was around 11:30ish maybe. David walked outside, but not before giving big sis a quick kiss on the cheek, then hurrying to his car.
Kim closed the door and locked it, then she touched the spot where David had kissed her and smiled. I walked out to her and sat on the couch acting as if I didn't see anything.
"So how did it go," I asked smirking.
"You and Ant' really are something ya know that, right?" She said, slightly annoyed, "but ...thanks."
"Don't thank just us, Rika and Hanyu helped out too, you should also be thanking them." I then stood up and stretched, yawning. "Man I'm beat, I'm gonna go hit the shower and go to bed, can you help clean the dinning room and the kitchen for me."
"Sure, go take your shower, I'll see you tomorrow."
"Alright then," I started walking up stairs to my room, but stopped halfway when Kim called me again.
"Oh yeah, Kev?"
"Huh?"
"Thanks again, for ya know, helping me out."
I nodded and continued up the stairs to my room. "No prob, that's what siblings are for after all."
~ ~ ~(Part3)~ ~ ~
I woke up at around 2:15 in the morning, I had to pee badly, so I rushed out of my room to the bathroom. Making sure not to make any noise to wake up everyone else. When I was done, I walked through the hall back to my room, Rika and Hanyu were a sleep in Antoine's room, and Ant' was in my room on a sleeping bag at the foot of my bed. Deciding that my sleep could wait I walked over to Antoine's room to check on the to Furude family members.
I turned the nod and opened the door slowly so not to wake them, only thing was that they weren't a sleep at all. Rika was sitting on the window seal with the window wide open, looking out at the view of downtown Philadelphia, drinking what looked like grape juice. But knowing her character I knew it was most likely some wine from Kim's collection.
Hanyu sat by her on the floor, talking to her, looking out the window also. "The city looks amazing, doesn't it Rika?"
"Yeah it does, it's nothing like Hinamizawa at all," Rika said taking a sip of wine. "But sometimes change is a good thing, so I'm not complaining."
"That's good to hear," I said surprising the both of them.
"Oh, Kevin-San, we didn't hear you come in." Hanyu said.
I closed the door, so that Kim won't see Rika drinking if she woke up, and walked over to them. "Ya know Rika, minors aren't suppose to be drinking, it's a law around here."
"Well, as long as I don't get caught, it should be fine," Rika said with a shrug, and continued drinking the alcohol.
I sighed, if she does get caught I'll have to explain to Kim why a 12-13 year old is drinking wine, and I'm really not looking forward to that. But her drinking wasn't the only problem here. "Um ...Rika, why are you in the window?"
"Huh? What do you mean, I do this all the time back in Hinamizawa?"
"Yeah that's true, but ya see, here we have a lot of shoot ou-." Before I could finish my sentence, 5 loud gun shots rang out from outside, I hurried and pulled Rika out the window spilling wine on my clean undershirt, and Hanyu let out a surprised cry, dropping to the floor covering her ears.
After I was sure the gun shots were over, I pulled the window down to a crack, sighing.
"Auauau~ Kevin-San, are they done?" Hanyu asked, I could tell from her shaky voice that she was really scared.
I bent down and patted her head, "yeah, they stopped shooting, you can get up now."
Rika gave me a shocked look and asked, "do they shoot guns often here?"
I helped Hanyu to here feet, nodding. "Sadly yes they do, rule number one of living here: never stick your head out the window when the street lights come on, follow that rule and you'll survive here."
"But ...w-why were they s-shooting?" Hanyu asked in a shaky voice.
"To tell the truth, I have no idea, drugs maybe," I said, then I smiled at her. "Now you two get some sleep, I'll see you in the mornin'."
"Okay, Oyasuminasai, Kevin-San." They both said, though Hanyu's voice was still a bit shaky.
"Oyasuminasai, to you too, sleep tight, and no more sticking your head out the windows," I said closing the door behind me. Yep, things were defiantly going to get a lot more interesting.
The next chapter will be out soon, now I'm off to bed, rest is the best thing for a creative mind. Peace~