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A/N: Sorry no witty commentary from Sarah today, I pulled a couple all nighters at the hospital with my mom which is why this is so short. Hope you enjoy everyone! Please Review!
"What d'ya mean I can't marry Johnny?" Takao screamed into the phone as his grandpa watched him pace back and forth in front of the kitchen table.
"Well Takao, before your mother moved to Japan with your father she had this friend. A best friend actually. They did all the silly little things friends do, like promise to be friends forever and be each other's Maid of Honor and all that jazz…unfortunately by choosing to marry an outsider, Shizuka was exiled from her home village. She felt so bad that she agreed to promise her second child to Aiko's first born. It becomes even trickier if you take into account the fact that neither knew the family names of their future husbands. All we and they have to go on is their former maiden names," Shun Souta, Shizuka's friend and former lawyer explained.
"You're telling me my mother promised her best friend that I'd marry her first born child before we were even born? Before they themselves were ten! How the hell can that be legal?" The twenty year old(1) artist raged. "I mean they didn't even know what our genders would be back then! And it was only a verbal contract wasn't it?"
"It's complicated Taka. It's actually how we met, your mother and I. I was working in China at the time and I guess she just picked the first law office she saw, she didn't even care that I was a young, inexperienced kid. She just sat down and demanded that I draw up the contract. It was stupid of us but we never added your father's last name, in fact we sort of ignored him throughout the process. But then again, I never really did like him. Either way, it's entirely, legally binding. Gender means nothing these days. The only way to get out of it is to get the one you're promised to, to release you from the contract."
Ryu watched avidly as his grandson became more agitated, a vein appearing on his forehead. 'The little dudes gonna have a stroke at this rate,' he thought to himself.
"I'm marrying Johnny and that's that! Why can't Hitoshi do it?"
"Because he's the first born! They both needed someone to carry on the family name so Shizuka's promised her second child- which is you! Look Takao, all you have to do is go to your mother's birth village and ask to be released from the contract! Technically the contract doesn't say you have to marry him or her- just that you can't marry anyone else unless he or she agrees! Go there and show whoever they are that you'll make a lousy wife or something. And hope to Kami-sama that they don't know how much you're worth!" With that the aging lawyer hung up the phone.
The blue eyed (2) man threw his cell phone at the wall in anger before crumpling down into the chair he had abandoned once the phone call had turned sour. Who would've thought that a call to his surrogate uncle would be so catastrophic.
"So…you're not marrying the Scottish gaki?" Grandpa asked hesitantly.
Takao puffed his cheeks in annoyance. "Why do you have to call him that? I really like him!"
Grandpa waved his hand dismissively. "You may like him but you don't love him. So what're you gonna do now? And what're you gonna tell the gaki?"
Takao groaned before burying his head in his arms. "I'm not telling Johnny until I get this cleared up. He'll kill the poor guy or girl if he finds out. So I guess I'm going to China…"
1. The ages are odd for some of you I'm sure. I've been told that in the original Jap.version that Takao was ten when the series started. I'm sticking with their aged version though because when I was fourteen I didn't focus on my future that much, and most fourteen year olds can't get into college, even if it is an art college. So Takao was 12 when the series started, 13 during his first World championship, 13-14 for his 2nd, 14-15 for his 3rd, and 16 for his 4th. Since he's twenty now, approx four, nearly five years have passed since his conversation with Kai.
2. Yeah I know his eyes are really brown. But Kai's eyes aren't usually red either (it's normally a trick of the light). Why can't animators stick with one color? It would be so much simpler.