Chapter 3.
Umibouzu certainly had his reservations of travelling with his son and the harusame fleet. And just as he suspected, both his children had spent the majority of the time tormenting the fact that he had no well-functioning arms. He had been given temporary sticks with clamps while his mechanical arms were being repaired. Kagura enjoyed the game of choosing clothes with the most elaborate buttons and zips to watch him suffer when he needed to go to the toilet. They both liked placing items that were close to him but hard to angle his sticks to clamp onto. And the bald jokes certainly didn't let up. Umibouzu really had to wonder where they both got their over the top sadistic streaks from, he didn't recall Kouka ever being that bad, and it certainly wasn't from him.
Another thing that plagued Umibouzu to sleeplessness during the entire trip were the hoards of yato males that just couldn't keep their eyes, hands and a 1 km distance away from his daughter. It didn't help that whenever she was slightly bored, she would ask for opponents in the games of kick the can, hide and seek/chasey or even duck duck goose. The yato men 110% willing to get completely pulverized by her in these games, and always much too happy about it. Umibouzu spent nearly the whole journey following behind his daughter, and greeting every single one of them that came within her peripheral vision with death threats, death eyes or just plain death. He highly suspected his son was doing something similar. Kamui must have taken out half of his own fleet during their journey. His men couldn't even say the syllable "Ka-" without finding themselves with a trip to the infirmary courtesy of their commander. Abuto was in a state of constant illness throughout the time they were there.
However, all in all he had never seen Kagura happier in their company since the days Kouka was still around. His wife was right, of course, as long as Kagura's here, the family bonds will remain.
When they reached their destination and set to leave, they had all stood at the ship entrance saying their farewells. Kamui, Abuto and all of the injured yato men squeezing in the tiny space to bid goodbye to Kagu- them. Abuto seemed to be feeling a lot better that morning. As the father and daughter set off though, Kamui followed suit. Everyone wore puzzled expressions on their faces, especially the two walking off the ship gawping at the uninvited individual. Abuto sighed resignedly, "Hai hai taichou, take care. Don't get into too much trouble and remember, you need to attend the captains meeting in 2 months." Saying that, Abuto turned and headed back into the space ship.
"Thanks Abuto, I knew you'd be fine taking care of things." Kamui replied with his usual cheerful expression, then turned back to his father and sister. "It's just that what you guys are doing seem to be a lot more fun!" The harusame ship's engine started roaring, fire emitting from the outlets beneath, ready to take off. The yato men still standing agape by the entrance scrambled to get back inside and close the gate, some tripping over and falling to a fiery death. And just like that, the ship flew off, dumping the captain of the most notorious space pirates with the universe's most powerful alien hunter and yorozuya Kagura. Thus began their space adventures as the alien hunter family.
Umibouzu was walking down a random street in the far away planet when a young alien boy ran up to him huffing.
"A, A, Are you the great Umibouzu-san?" The young male stuttered. At the affirmative nod, the boy took out an envelope and presented it. "Please, sir, I was told to deliver this urgently."
Umibouzu gave a brief glance at the letter and the content written at the front. It was another job request.
Without touching the letter held out to him, Umibouzu turned back to the young alien. "Please tell whoever sent this my apologies. We simply can't take anymore jobs. We're at full capacity."
The fame of the three member alien hunter family had become universe renowned, no parallel has even been heard of in history. It had only been a few months since both his children and him started travelling together, taking on jobs to destroy aliens on request. At every stop, their exploits had become legendary, well above what he accomplished alone in the past and at such an alarming rate. Job requests had soared through the roof, it was simply impossible to accomplish them all.
With a nod, Umibouzu set off again at a brisk pace. Surprised, the boy took some time to gather himself and run after him. "Please, please, please wait! You have to take it! I was told it's very important! The, um, the one who sent it told me tell you it concerns some planet called, umm, Earth."
That made Umibouzu stop, he traced back to where the boy was catching his breath and snatched the letter off him, then turned again and strode away.
He made his way into a restaurant, looking for two familiar red haired heads. They were not hard to find, not because of their distinctive appearance however, not an inch of their body could actually be seen. But the monumental amount of dirty dishes surrounding one table was a dead giveaway. Umibouzu headed there, the waitress floundered about after him seeming to want to stop him. Glancing at her, he requested: "5 dishes of pork belly on rice please."
The alien lady floundered some more. "I'm so so sorry. I was just trying to say that we no longer have any ingredients left. I'm sorry!" Bowing a few times for good measure, the man in front of her was scary at the start, but his expression now was paralysing.
The two similar looking red heads were lounging at the dining table rubbing their bloated stomachs contendedly when a large bop hit them both firmly on their heads.
"OUCH! BALDY, WHAT WAS THAT FOR?!" The female version of the two shouted.
"I thought I told you to leave me some!"
"It's not our fault if the restaurant doesn't keep enough stock. Tsk." The older of the siblings leaned back into his pyramid of empty plates.
"Who do you think pays for all this! Huh!" His spread arms not even reaching the ends of the dish pile.
"Hey, we work!" His children replied in unison.
"All you guys do is fight cause it's fun! There is a lot of paperwork involved, I could always use a bit of help with th- HEY!" Before he could finish his sentence, both his children were making a beeline to the door. Umibouzu's stomach growled loudly.
"Scoundrels! Get back here!" Umibouzu sighed and looked down at the letter in his hand, thinking about all the extra paperwork he would have to fill out and clients to contact in order to cancel the next few jobs. He figured this trip to Earth would take a while.
