'Oz'
'Reality'
Kazuma lead Daichi down a few of the hallways, the noises getting fainter and fainter the further they walked away from the main living room where the rest of the family was. Kazuma's mind was going a mile a minute thinking of what to say to this kid whom he believed to be younger than him. "So um…"
Daichi looked up through his hair at Kazuma looking a bit scared. Kazuma just sighed and opened the door to his closet. He walked in and wondered where his computer was, he motioned for Daichi to come in and take a seat somewhere while he went to go get his laptop and headphones. He walked out of the room after glancing at Daichi looking around like he was lost before taking a seat against a wall; he had put his backpack down in front of him.
Kazuma walked a bit further down the hall to his bedroom, thinking about the scared look on Daichi's face, where did this kid come from? Where does Wabisuke know him from? Kazuma thought as he walked into his bedroom and picked up his dark blue laptop and his silver headphones. As he was walking back to the closet he saw three nine year old exit the closet. That can't be good, Kazuma thought.
He rushed into the closet to see Daichi sitting there on an apple red HP laptop, looking totally calm and spaced out. Quiet and quick typing could be heard from his area; Kazuma walked over to his low table and set down his laptop and headphones. He turned to Daichi, "You ok?"
Daichi kept silent, just kept typing away as if he was playing a computer game. Wabisuke did say that he would just sit and play on the laptop. Kazuma opened the laptop and pressed the power button for a few seconds before releasing. It booted up and Kazuma logged onto Oz.
King Kazuma walked around the martial arts areas of Oz. He had already beaten a few opponents already and he had only been there for forty minutes. There was a quick motion to his right, something dark was trying to hide. King Kazuma kept walking when the 'bing' and a familiar voice sounded 'New Challenger: Yuushu.'
'Challenge Accepted.' It only took a few second for a dark gray and black blur to jump out from his hiding place and threw a punch at King Kazuma's face.
King Kazuma jumped back as Yuushu regained his footing. Punches and kicks were thrown, some landed and some missed. They were fighting for almost half an hour and quite a crowd had gathered. Some of the family was even there after getting home from work. Mansuke was there cheering on his grandson as each fighter tired to gain the upper foot.
Yuushu staggered a little, King Kazuma took his chance and kicked out Yuushu's feet from under his body causing him to fall backwards. King Kazuma earned himself another victory.
Kazuma smiled as the word victory danced around his Oz screen, speech bubbles popped up all around congratulating him on his win. He glanced back to Daichi and he looked just the same as an hour ago. There was a knock at the door followed by, "Kazuma? Would you and Daichi like anything to drink?"
"Sure, thank you mom," Kazuma said back. Daichi's eyes followed the exchange silently.
Yuushu: You fight well, where did you learn?
Kazuma looked surprised at the message.
King Kazuma: My Grandfather taught me, where did you learn?
Yuushu…at school, they had a club.
King Kazuma: I see, how's the family reunion going?
Yuushu: It's alright I guess… they're really loud though, luckily the one teenager was nice enough to let me come into the quiet closet with him…even if my guardian had to ask him.
Kazuma looked surprised and turned around, "Are you…Yuushu?"
Daichi just nodded and kept typing.
Kazuma quickly lost the surprise look and went back to fighting in Oz until he heard the familiar shouts of dinner over his music. Sighing, he knew someone would be coming to get them soon.
"Hey Daichi, Kazuma. It's time for dinner," Wabisuke leaned through the open door. Daichi looked up and nodded. Both boys shut their computer lids and stood up to follow Wabisuke.
Daichi glanced at Kazuma and walked out the door to head to the living room where dinner was held. "He's actually calm," Wabisuke said aloud.
Kazuma looked up at him.
"Well he is usually only calm around me and one of the professors at the University I was at in America." Wabisuke looked a little sad, "He doesn't usually warm up to people so fast." He patted Kazuma's shoulder and had a sad smile on his face. "Just don't yell at him ok?"
Kazuma nodded, Wabisuke smiled and walked down the hall as well. Kazuma stood there, dumbstruck. Crickets started to chirp as he walked over the wooden floors thinking of Daichi. A slight breeze went through the house and the noise of dinner grew louder and louder.
The dining room was as full as every summer. Almost the whole family was there; everyone was talking, laughing and telling stories about their years. Shota was yelling about Natsuki being with Kenji, as usual. Mansuke was telling the older parents about the clan's achievements. Daichi sat between Kazuma and Wabisuke. He was quietly eating while glancing around the table, looking curious. Kazuma was deep in thought until he heard some questions being rapidly fired in his general direction.
Mansuke was asking Daichi about something, "So where ya from kid? Why ya here with Wabisuke?"
Daichi got a panicked look on his face, as if he was afraid of some reactions, "I…umm..." He looked down into his lap.
Wabisuke looked over at his charge and sighed, "He is a friend of mine from America's son. They were living near the campus and Daichi was around a lot."
Daichi relaxed a bit before… "So why he here with you instead of his parents?" and he tensed again.
"Because…there was an accident…" Daichi spoke, quietly with his head down.
The whole family looked shocked and sad at the same time. Mariko spoke first, "We are very sorry dear, why don't you tell us about your middle school?"
Daichi and Wabisuke looked confused and said at the same time, "I'm 17." "He's 17."
Mariko blushed and looked embarrassed, "Oh I'm sorry hunny."
"It's alright," Daichi looked surprised.
"So does anyone else have anything else to announce?" Mariko smiled and winked at Kenji, who blushed.
"Natsuki and I do ma'am," Kenji smiled while blushing bright red.
Natsuki smiled and took his hand, "This time we are actually engaged and we would like to be married this time next year." They both smiled at each other.
"I CANNOT ALLOW THIS! NATSUKI WHY DIDN'T YOU RUN THIS BY YOUR SECOND-COUSION SHOTA FIRST?" Shota shouted, Daichi flinched back a bit but not that much.
The whole family started laughing, even Kazuma chuckled. Daichi looked around confused. Mansuke helped and filled him in on the events that happened three years ago.
Dinner lasted longer than usual with all the stories, jokes and outbursts. The women started to clean the table, Daichi yawned a bit. "So kid…Why you so quiet?" Mansuke pressed Daichi.
"Umm… I don't know sir." Daichi blushed a bit.
Wabisuke smiled and looked to Kazuma, "Would you mind sharing your room with Daichi? I think we finally filled this house." Kazuma nodded and looked to Daichi, who was falling asleep against his guardian.
AN: Sorry this took so long…I got sidetracked with other things like finding a job and catching up with school and totally forgetting where the file was…oh well it's up now :D
Rells: Well I think you find out in this chapter and I kind of want Wabisuke to settle down but he's a little too young still for me to worry about him now XD (and we watched this when I was a freshmen in college in a club meeting owo)
Kur0Kishi: I'm trying to make the OC gradually open up (not that much) to the family and be more open with Kazuma before the real relationship starts :3 and he will sorta grow a pair XD not too much cause then he wouldn't be Kenji :D
: Thank you ^^ Sorry about the wait ;;
Hitsugaya1995: It's getting there, I'll attempt to remember that I have the files XD
BehindThoseGreyBlueEyes: Woo :D
JoiZ. D: Sorry about the very very long wait ;;
AlexYoshida: Yes I know you would considering I was next to you when you read this XD
Princess Thil Galel: Sorry about the insanely long wait D: I'll try to be faster ;;