Disclaimer: I don't own Eyeshield 21
Summary: Sena and Monta have returned from two years abroad in Notre Dame. They're return to Japanese amefuto scene has caused waves throughout. Unfortunately for the other colligate superstars, Sena and Monta aren't the only ones joining the Enma Onis.
Pairings: Sena×many Montaxmany KarinxKotaro(?) SuzunexTakami(?)
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Chapter 3: A Visit Home
The ride to the new apartment was quite the quick ride, but that was probably due to it being close to their university and Sena's apparent need for speed. Too bad no one thought to warn Karin or Suzuna about that, the two shorter girls clutched their chests, as they slowly climbed out of the car, thankful to be able to feel the ground under their feet.
"You maniac! What's wrong with you?! Why would anyone in their right minds drive like that!" Hollered a distraught Karin, her eyebrow twitching as Sena looked at her with the confused baby-doe eyes she looked at everyone with. "Don't you dare try that with me missy! I am immune to your eyes!"
Monta, at the trunk of the car, snickered to herself as she started to pull out the luggage, "don't worry you two, you'll get used to it very quickly."
Karin just stared dumbfounded at the tan girl, unable to comprehend why she was totally fine and why her legs didn't feel like jelly, like her's and Suzuna's did. Monta just shook her head, if they thought that was fast, boy were they in for a surprise, "girls, be thankful, Sena was actually going slow for the two of you. Well, slow for her anyways."
Sena huffed indignantly, helping Monta pull out the rest of the luggage, "what are you trying to say Monta? That I can't drive well?"
"No. Just that you drive too fast for normal people to feel safe," she retorted closing the trunk. With everything out of the trunk, the girls finally looked up at their new home. Actually they had to crane their necks to see their apartment, since Hiruma had decided that they would get the top floor. They looked back down at their luggage and back up to the top floor, and sighed in sweet relief and thankfulness that their reserved parking spot was the one closest to the front entrance.
Each if them picked two things and walked through the front entrance, there was no way they were going to make multiple trips from their apartment to the car. They made their way to the elevator and got on once it opened. "Ne Sena-chan, are you gonna where that to the BBQ tonight?"
"Hm?" she asked turning towards Karin, "maybe," she said shrugging, "I'll probably change the top though. I didn't think it'd get so cold so quickly. Oh Japan."
Within a few second the elevator door pinged open and the four girls and two animals walked out and towards their apartment door. Suzuna ran up ahead and unlocked the door, "hurry up girls! We gotta put all your stuff away quickly!"
"Suzuna, you and Karin already unpacked and organized all your stuff already right?"
"Yep yep!"
Monta's eyebrows came together in a what-the-hell fashion, "then why do the two of us have to hurry? The four of us together will be able to do this quickly, even if we were to work slowly."
"Mou, Nana! Tell Monmon to quit it!"
"Suzuna," Sena and Karin said together in an exasperated tone, walking through the doorway. They took of their shoes and happily took the first step into their new home. "Sena-chan," Karin said leading Sena over to the right side door, which was the closest to the living room, "this is your room and Tanaka-chan that's your room." She said pointing to the first room that was to the left of the living room.
"Thanks Karin-chan! Alright girls we have about four hours to get this done. Plenty of time, but Monta and I have to go say hi to our families, so once we're relatively finished, we'll be on our way. We'll meet you inside ok? Now let's start."
"Hai!" They three of them said mock saluting. Karin went into Sena's room while Suzuna joined Monta.
Inside Sena's room, she and Karin put down her stuff on the floor, Karin and Suzuna having left their own bags outside. The room was very, very nice. It was big and spacey, the bed was in the middle on the other side of the room. Her unusually large vanity table was to her left and to the left of that was without a doubt her own walk in closet. Sena sighed, what was she going to do with all this space, not that she was complaining. At least there was enough room for Raiden's bed, which would be coming soon.
"Well...let's get to it."
Within minutes the two girls had everything out of the suitcase, the clothes were going into the closet, the undergarments into drawers on the side of the closet. "Sena-chan! Come out here and pick a bed spread. Monta-chan! You come too!" Sena walked out of her closet and looked at the six bed spreads laid out on her bed.
The one that caught her eye was black with white flowers and simple designs. She picked that one up as Monta and Suzuna came in. "Ohhh this one is so pretty!" Monta said coming in a picking up red and royal purple spread with intricate designs.
"Ok...well...that was easy," Suzuna grabbed Monta's arm and started dragging her back to her room, "come on Monmon, let's finish."
As they walked away, Karin took all the bed spreads and put them on the floor, before taking the spread from Sena's hands and opening up the pack. "Sena-chan, I'll put on the spread, you go finish putting all your clothes away."
"Thank you Karin-chan, but I'm done with my clothes, didn't have that many you know. I guess that means we're going to have to go shopping soon huh?"
"Ehhh, I guess so. Come help me then."
It took a few moments but the two were done quickly. They threw away all the garbage and tidied up the room. Sena looked around, her room was beautiful. True, it was kind of empty right now, it only had her bed, a table and a chair at the window that was facing north, her laptop and phone, their chargers and her books for her courses were already on it. Her closet held all the clothes she had on hand. There was a pretty circular red and white rug on the floor; her bookshelf was a bit to the right of her desk. And that was it. Her room was pretty bare, but that wasn't something a little shopping won't fix of course, but, ugh, the thought of going shopping so soon was...ugh.
Sena sighed and walked into her closet, she picked out a long sleeved, black crop top, took off the top she had on and put on the one she picked out. She couldn't wear that see-through lacy shirt to see her family, the only reason she even wore it hat was because she threw it into her bag without thinking about it. Nor could she wear the shorts, which she changed out of and replaced it with a pair dark blue skinny jeans. She walked to the door and looked out the the living room the see that the other three were sitting there themselves.
"Hey guys, apparently we're all done, and look it's only 5:30. So I'm going to go...home. If I'm not back by 7:30, go ahead without me. I'll meet you guys there. To be honest, I'm pretty sure that's what's going to happen."
"Alright," Monta agreed, "Can you give me a ride home?"
"Ah...I'm not going there Monta-chan...I'm going to the...other house."
"Ohhhh. Ok. Come back to us alive."
Sena laughed, "I'll try my best. See you later guys." She said, getting her keys and walking out the door. The trip to her car was quick. She started it up and put on her seat belt, for all her alleged need for speed, safety was important and came first.
It took her about thirty minutes, even with her fast driving, to get there. She parked her car in the front and turned off the engine. She took in a deep breath, it was now or never.
She got out of the car and walked to the entryway. Sena took in a deep breath hoping what was going to happen next wouldn't happen, yet, no such luck.
"Okaerinasi Oujo-sama!"
Sena tensed before relaxing her body, "tadaima minna-san."
She walked up the stone path way and toed out of her shoes at the entryway, "Toei-san, is Ouji-sama busy?"
"For you, Oujo-sama, no."
Sena smiled at the older man, "then I'll just wait in-"
"Follow me Oujo-sama, he's waiting for you."
Sena's smile slipped of her face, "is he mad?"
"Not...exactly."
"Ugh...Toei-san."
Toei sighed, as he slid the shouji door to the meeting room open, "Oujo-sama, you...you-"
"From the time you arrived, it has taken you four plus hours to get here."
The two of them turned to the handsome older man sitting with his legs crossed on the floor.
"Kumicho."
"Ouji-sama-"
"Sit."
Sena smiled nervously and sat seiza in the meeting room, it was going to hurt in a few minutes, after all she hadn't sat like this in almost two years.
"Ouji-sama, I-"
"No. I talk, you sit and listen." Takiya Hideo cut in, his tone ice cold.
Sena tensed and sat up straight, "hai."
"Not only were you gone for two years, you barely called, and when you did it was barely for a more than twenty minutes, we rarely knew what was going on with you, and mostly importantly it took you four fucking hours to get here!"
Sena winced, she couldn't exactly rebuke him, all that he said was turned but how was it her fault that she had to focus all her energy on surviving in a place she had no family in, were she barely knew the language, where she would be going to a brand new school with her best friend, who also didn't know the language, and where she would be playing her favorite game with people she and Monta didn't know.
"Ouji-sama, it wasn't on purpose. I really, really tried to talk as much as I could, but everything was so new and different and I was so tired for so long."
"So for two years, you were tired?"
"Ouji-sama it's not like that. I-"
"No. It is like that and you know it, you forgot about us, your family. Us, your blood."
"No! It wasn't like that and you know it!" She yelled back, finally raising her voice. Unfortunately, as she got older, her fuse got shorter and shorter. "Ouji-sama," she started, taking a slow calming breath, "you are my Ouji-sama. You are the person I go to, to help me with trouble, before I ask Genji nii-sama or Otou-san. You are a father to me and yet, you sit there, accusing me of forgetting about my family? About forgetting about the blood we share between us, about abandoning you. How dare you," her voice raising and raising, as she leaned forwards and slapped her hand against the tatami mats, "did you call me? You know phones share a two way street right? You could have just as easily called me, it wouldn't have mattered the time, and I would have happily sat there talking to you, but you didn't and that is not my fault. Why are you really angry?"
"Because you left!" He screamed back, getting up quickly and standing in front of her.
"What?" Sena asked, shock and confused to hear this coming out of the mouth of her immovable uncle. She watched with wide eyes as he slid down to his knees in front of her and pulled her into his arms.
"You left, Sena. You left and I had no way of keeping you safe. I had no idea how you actually were, if you were truly alright, if anyone was bothering you, if you were ever hurt. Nothing. I couldn't do anything to stop any of that from happening and all of it scared me. You are the daughter I never had and for you to be so far away from me for the first time, in another country and as a sixteen year old no less, it scared me more than you'll ever know."
Her eyes prickled with unshed tears as her arms wrapped themselves around her uncle, "gomen Ouji-sama, I hadn't meant to do that. It's just that everything got away from me and I just...gomen."
Takiya Hideo, Kumicho of the Ryuusekai, sighed and patted her head, "I'm not mad, just frustrated and worried, but you're home now. Which is something else," he said, grabbing onto her biceps and pushing her away from his chest, "why are you living in an apartment and not here?"
Sena smiled sheepishly and cleared her throat, "I-ugh-I'm living with my friends, Ouji-sama and it's really close to the University, plus, it's pretty cheap."
"And it's free here."
"Ouji-sama," Sena groaned, "I'll visit, if I'm not completely busy every three weekends."
"Every weekend." He countered.
"Every other weekend." She shot back. The two of them maintained eye contact for a minute or so, before Hideo caved in, "fine. Every other weekend. Make sure you come or I will come and get you myself."
"Hai!" Sena agreed, her bright smile beaming up at him. She looked behind him and seeing no one there she looked around, "Ouji-sama is Otou-san and Okaa-chan here? And where is Gen-nii anyways?"
His eyes narrowed and let out a scoff, "you parents are waiting in the other room and that idiot son of mine is in Saitama right now. He should be back by 21:00(9:00pm). Toei! Bring in Mihae and Shuuma in."
"Hai, Kumicho."
As two listened to the fading foot steps, Hideo looked at Sena and took all her changed in, "Sena."
"Hai?"
"How tall are you now? You gotten so much taller."
"Hai, I'm 176cm*(5'9"*) now."
"176 huh? Well, you've certainly got our genes."
"Ouji-sama...it's not funny, I'm taller than the average Japanese male!"
"Then we're just going to have to find you a tall man."
"Man? You? For me? No thank you. I can take care of that myself."
"Oh really?"
"Ouji-sama stop. I value you input, you know I do, but I decided who I date, and yes, you get a say and if you really don't like him ok, he's gone, but I get the last say. You and I agreed on that when I was in junior high remember?"
"Yes I do. That was before I thought you were going to be this beautiful. I mean, I knew you were going to be pretty, no one in our family is ugly, but I'm going have to keep someone on your tail all the time Sena. I trust you, but definitely not any man that will be around you. Sena, are you-"
"Sena!" A female voice cut in, as a small, petite body slammed into the eighteen year old, tumbling them both to the floor. Sena couldn't help the laugh that came out of her mouth, "Okaa-chan-hahaha-I missed you!"
"Sena-chan you bad, bad girl! How could you?! Why didn't you let us come pick you up?!"
"Okaa-chan, calm down. I brought my car over, so you picking me up would have been a waste," she said picking herself up, and pulling her mother up with her, "besides there was all the luggage, I had to get to school, and I sincerely doubt Ouji-sama wants his car to smell like animals, no matter how nice Megumi and Raiden smell."
She smiled at her mom, she had missed this little worriers. Her head turned to her left as she felt herself being embraced again, only this time she wasn't tackled to the ground, but it was just as tight. "Tadaima Otou-san."
"Okaeri, Sena."
They stood like that for a few moment longer, before her mother interrupted, "Ok Shuuma dear, let go of our daughter so we can see her fully."
The man let out a soft smile and released his only child. The three parents took a step back and observed the little girl that wasn't so little anymore. They took in her now long hair, her beautiful face, her-regrettably, yet admittedly-shapely body, her long fit legs, that ring that dangled on her belly and that tattoo that peeked out of the top of her jeans. Their little girl had grown, some would say too much, but Takiya's were never one to follow rules or other peoples expectations.
Shuuma looked at his older brother-in-law, "I assume there will be people following her?"
"Without a doubt."
"What?! Otou-san, Ouji-sama no! Why would you do that to me?"
"Because, Sena, two years away from us is two years too much."
"Otou-san!"
"He's right. Nothing you can say will stop us."
"Ouji-sama!"
"Oh come now, we'll talk about this during dinner tonight."
"Uh...about that, I sort of already made plans for tonight."
"Excuse me?"
"Gomen, but Monta and I are meeting everyone else for a 'homecoming' dinner."
"'Everyone else', huh? Well what about our welcome home dinner for you Sena-chan?"
"Kaa-san don't be like that. It's just tonight, I'll be back by 23(11pm)ish and we'll all party until the sunrises! Besides I don't want to have a celebration with everyone, without Gen-nii here."
"Fine. But be here at 23:00."
"I'll try! And if I'm late by more that an hour...have Gen-nii pick me up."
Hideo grunted is acceptance and looked at his watch, "it's 18:25(6:25pm), when are you supposed to meet your friends?"
"20:00(8:00pm)."
"Great that leave us with sometime, sit." Instinctively the three Kobayakawa's quickly sat on the tatami mats.
"Toei!"
"Hai, Kumicho," Toei said popping his head in from the hallway.
"Bring some tea and sake, my niece and I are going to have quiet the talk for the next while."
Sena and Toei exchanged glances, her send him a pleading look and him sending her back a look of sorry-no-can-do, "of course."
"Nii-san, what about us, aren't we going to get to talk wit h our daughter?"
"No Mihae, the two of you will sit there and listen."
So it went, her uncle asked questions, and she answered to the best of her knowledge. Her parents interrupted, were reprimanded, and then they asked some more, until all three of them were asking her questions left and right.19:00(7pm) came and went, just like 19:30(7:30pm), Sena looked up at the clock, 20:10(8:10) it said. The questions were slowing down, but even if she left now, she wouldn't reach there at least by 20:50-21:00(8:50-9:00pm), that was if she left now. She felt her butt vibrate more than a few times, ugh, she was so gonna be late. It would be best to cut in now and leave, lest she wanted to forget all about the BBQ and eat here, but she had made a promise so, really, she had no choice.
"Oji-chan! I have to go now. It's already 20:15(8:15pm), and if I'm lucky, I'll reach there by 20:50(8:50pm). So as much as I'd like to keep answering your questions, I can't right now. I'm gonna go now. I'll see you all in a couple of hours." Sena bowed and ran out of the room, house and was in her car, before they could say anything, sure he'd be ticked off for a little bit, but he'd forgive her. Plus, she knew her uncle well enough to know that he was just trying to get her to stay late, in order for him to convince her not to go out somewhere so late at night. She wasn't going to fall for that trick again. She put her keys into the ignition and listened as her baby roared to life. She put on her seat belt, put the car in drive and hit on the gas pedal.
Monta looked down at her phone's screen, 20:55(8:55pm), the screen showed her. Monta sighed, she knew Sena would be late, but definitely not this late.
"Chibi where is your other half?" Her eyes slightly narrowed, she'd been asked this same question, but in various forms, since the moment Karin, Suzuna and she showed up at the bbq house without Sena.
"Hiruma-senpai, if I knew, I would have told you. So stop asking me, Sena will come when she does. And stop calling me chibi! I'm and taller than the average Asian female, thank you very much."
Hiruma snorted in disbelief, "oh yeah? And how tall is that?"
"168 centimeters(5'6")!"
"Is that so?"
"Yes it is!"
"Hn. And what about Sena? How tall is she now?"
"She's...175, I believe, maybe 176."
"175? Well I didn't expect that from someone who was 155 centimeters just three years ago."
"Well, her family is tall."
"No they-"
"Sorry! I know, I'm late but I had other things to take care of first."
Speak of the devil and she shall appear. Monta smiled at her 'other half', "you're late. What took you so long?"
"We talked and he was beyond wanting to let me leave so soon."
"Oh? Then how'd you get out."
Sena smiled as she took the empty spot next to her best friend, "I made a deal with him that I'll be back by 23:00ish so..."
"Sena! That's in two hours!"
"I know Mamo-nee, but I didn't have any other choice, it was either that or I couldn't come at all."
"Brat what is this? Did you lose the spine I worked so hard for you to get?"
"For your information I always had a spine, it was just easier to go with the flow."
"Whatever you say chibi."
"Chibi?"
"Leave it Sena, I've been telling him but he's not gonna stop."
"Well it was worth a shot."
"Onna, where were you?"
Sena turned to the gruff voice of one Kongo Agon, she smiled indulgently at him, "onna? I have a name you know? How about instead of calling you Agon-san, I start calling you 'male with dreads', 'other Kongo Twin', 'the one with anger management issues'?"
"I dare you to try."
Sena's eyes lit up at the challenge, "oh, really? Okay then, Ego the Size of Mount Fuji-san."
She inwardly chuckled at the growl he emitted, for someone of his strength and caliber, he had always been so easy to anger.
"Agon-san. come on. There's no reason to start an argument right now. We are here for their welcome home party, not to start a fight."
"Shut up, Yamato."
"Ya! Shut up Fucking Dreads. You're annoying me."
"Fuck off you pointy eared trash."
Sena and Monta shared a smile. It was good to be home. "So Sena, how'd it go?"
"As good as it could, I supposed. We came to an agreement before an argument broke out."
"Sena-chan?"
The two turned to Mamori, taking notice that everyone was indeed listening in on there conversation, not that Sena mind, it really wasn't any sort of secret.
"Yes Mamo-nee?"
"What agreement?"
"I go to the house every other weekend since I won't be living there."
"So he wasn't mad that you came here to party with us instead of spending the night with them?"
"Ah...he was but, I said that I'll come back around 23:00 and we'll have a celebration then. Oh. I can't wait there's gonna be so much food, sake and I think the whole family will be there. Plus Gen-chan doesn't come back till," she looked down at her phone and pushed power button, "21:00...which it's passed. Huh, would you look at that."
"And if you don't get there by 23:00?"
"Gen-chan will be going out to pick me up in all his 188cm(6'2") fury."
"Gen-san...will be coming to pick you up...here?"
"I would believe so, but it's unlikely. I didn't tell them I was coming here. And since Gen-chan was in Saitama when I was home..."
"Please, Sena, you act as if he's going to hurt you, when we all know that he would sooner shoot himself or allow himself to be shot before ever doing that."
Sena giggled, "yep. He's the greatest. Of course, you already know that, didn't you Monta?"
"S-shut up Sena."
Sena stuck her tongue out at her best friend, the shorter girl was to cute when flustered. She shook her head and looked around them. The meat was almost out, not that she blamed them, she was an hour late, who was she to complain that they ate.
"Baa-chan!" She called out to the hostess, "can we get more meat here please?"
"More meat coming right up!"
"Thank you!" She replied enthusiastically, it had, after all, been a while since she was able to eat like this with all these people. Within a few minutes, another platter of meat was brought to the table, just as the older woman was about to leave, she looked at Sena, "Oujo! Is that you?"
"Konbanwa, Simure baa-chan, how have you been?" Sena asked standing up to bow and hug the elder woman.
"I have been very good, but forget about me, what about you? How was America? Are you back for good? Have you seen your family?"
Sena giggled, "I'm very good baa-chan. America was fun, but it was hard for the first couple of months, you know, until I learned enough English to be able to have a passable conversation." She let out a scoff, remembering those hard times for her and Monta, "I will, more than likely, be staying here. I can't be to sure, it all depends on what he says. As for my family, yes, I actually just came back from there in fact."
"And how was that meeting? He told me that he was mad at you for not calling."
"It wasn't that I wasn't calling, he was mad because I apparently didn't stay on the phone long enough."
"Ahhh. I see, so how about Gen-chan? Did you see him?"
She shook her head, "no. I was told that he was in Saitama, but he's probably back by now."
"Hahaha, okay then. Here I'll get out of your way and you all can get back to eating." The elder said walking to another customer.
"Hai. Thank you baa-chan!" Sena called back as she sat down. There was a moment of silence as everyone stared at her. She lifted her head up from her drink and looked around, "I came her a lot with my family, so we know all know each other."
"Ah."
Sena just smiled at the awkward moment and nodded her head. She figured there would be a lot of moments like this when her life really came into light. She really wasn't looking forward to that, she knew their views of her would drastically change. Oh well, she thought, it would be better that way.
Without wasting anymore time, Sena started to put the meat on the grill. There was no reason for her to keep think of things that were bound to happen anyways. Thankfully the little interruption was placed in the back of every ones minds, as the meat began to sizzle in the hot grill. The night continued on smoothly, everyone questioned the two girls, as they questioned them back, on how the past two years had been. It continued on happily and calmly, yet loudly, like that for the next two hours, until the clock struck eleven.
Everyone was having the time of their lives, most of them anyways-who weren't all that experienced the the pleasures the world had to offer-until a bomb dropped on the men. It came in around 23:15(11:15), it was dressed in a black fitted, three piece suit with a white shirt and black tie. Blond hair was slicked back, and it-he-stood at around 180cm(5'11) tall. Conversations in the rest of restaurant stopped when he came in with a group of people similarly dressed, though not as neatly. They were yakuza, there was no denying that. The group of men walked by their area, just as Sena laughed at something Mizumachi said.
"Sena?"
Her head whipped forward at her name, and her eyes widened as she looked at the man standing in the walkway. She stood up slowly and walked around the group, but stopped right in front of the table as she took the sight of the man in. Her eyes teared slightly, and a blush danced across her cheeks, as her lips stretched themselves into a smile.
"Shun-san." She said quietly, before running into the open arms of the man. He spun her around, his arms around her waist, like she weighed nothing at all. Sena laughed in delight, this was one of the things she had missed most when she was in America. He softly put her back down on her feet, but didn't release her from his embrace, neither did she, he. They stood like that for another minute before pulling away. His hands rose from her waist to cup her face, he caressed her cheekbones with his thumbs, then suddenly, his attitude took a one-eighty, and he pinched her cheeks tight.
"You idiot! Why haven't you called? Do you know how worried we've all been?!"
"Ow ow ow ow! Shun-san! Let go! It hurts!"
"It's supposed to!"
"Alright, alright! I'm sorry!"
He finally released her cheeks, but his eyes still showed that he was mad, "I have a call to make." He said before quickly turning around and walking to the door and out. Sena stood there for a moment, then did the smart thing and chased after him. The entire restaurant was silent as they processed what had just happened.
Kongo Agon was the first to break the silence, he needed to know who that guy was and what the relationship between the two of them was. He especially wanted to know what the look that Sena got in her eyes, when she looked at him and ran into his arms, meant.
"Monta," he stiffly growled out, "who was that yakuza-wannabe?"
Monta stared at him for a while, then ran her eyes over all the man who had the same look of jealously in their eyes as he did. She scoffed softly, her mouth forming into a smirk, oh this was going to be fun. She shared a look with Mamori, who nodded her head.
"His name is Izaki Shun and he's not a yakuza-wannabe, he's the real deal."
"What? Why would Sena-kun know a yakuza?" This time it was Yamato Takeru who spoke up.
"Well she's known him way before he was a yakuza. He went to school with Gen-san."
"That means nothing, woman!" Agon interrupted, "what is their relationship now?"
Monta raised an eyebrow at him, rude, but damn she couldn't wait to see how they would react to the bomb she was about to drop, "as I said, he went to school with Gen-san. That's how she knows him. As to their relationship with each other...he loves her, and she's in love with him. He's her first love."
Oh, how spectacularly that bomb went off.
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So yay! A Chapter! Hehehe, don't kill me.
*yes, i know 5'9" is tall for an Asian female, but Sena's profile said that he was 5'10" at 18, and I didn't want to change it too much so I chose 5'9".