N was motionless as he scanned the tiny little town of Kanoko with no real interest. Touko clung to his arm with some sense of apprehension and his eyebrows knitted together in an open expression of distaste for the whole situation. But she had insisted, and he could not find it in himself to deny her the simpler things in life.

"Do we really have to do this?" His voice made her flinch and he smiled a little, leaning in closer to her reddening face. "There's always another day." Touko shook at the heat on her cheeks and scowled.

"Don't dodge the issue." She huffed, hoping it effectively hid the sudden flash of heat in her being. N moved back from her to reassume his sizing up of the town, which she had been born and raised in. It was quaint and obviously one of those places where everybody knew each other and were constantly there to help if the occasion called for it. Such a place made sense for someone like Touko to have come from, but it made him uneasy. He had grown up around the battered souls of Pokemon and had never really known any true feelings of compassion until he had met Touko.

Touko squeezed N's arm and felt her own doubt bubble to the surface in the face of him actually meeting her mom. Her beginning as a Trainer had been as his opposition, and something like that would probably be hard to over look. He held back a short laugh as he watched her expression and wondered again if this was a good idea.

"Are we going to stand here forever?" While N held back his laughter, he could not hold back the need to tease her and was rewarded with one of her cuter looks of anger. A flushed face with her nose crinkled in a scowl. All the while her eyes glittered with the need to say something angry, but unable to really come up with anything that might deter his behavior. It drove him to entwine his fingers with hers and invade her space; his nose mere inches from her own. Her eyes widened and he smiled at her shock.

"I-if you don't want to…" Touko found her voice growing quieter with every word as she lost herself in his eyes. He closed the distance with the softest of kisses that ended far to fast for her and blinked the haze from her eyes as she looked into his suddenly serious face.

"I've never had a family…a true family. And I find myself wanting nothing more than to be a part of yours."