DISCLAIMER: I do not own the Wallflower/ Perfect Girl Evolution.
Yuki sighed. Today was the day, the day that they sent their demon of a daughter away to be tamed by Sunako. The rest of the old roommates were sending their children away, too. Their kids didn't expect a thing because they had never seen Sunako before. Although Sunako constantly visited it was usually only for a couple of hours when the kids weren't there.
Sunako had gone back to Hokkaido right after Noi's wedding, so the old gang asked her to take in their children over summer break. It was pretty scary, observing your kids and seeing that they didn't know a thing about life.
Yuki remembered the conversation that led them to sending their kids away in the first place:
"What are we going to do about Seiji and Keiko? Seiji acts like the cold Oda. The Oda who was bound by tradition. And Keiko…she's been dating older men and acting so hateful," Noi whined as Takenaga held his wife's hand.
Yuki sighed, "Etsu acts like Machiko's father. Critical and just plain mean." He said as waterfall tears cascaded down his cheeks.
"Hey!"
"Sorry honey, but she didn't get that spite from my side of the family. She didn't get it from you or your mother, either," Yuki said to his wife, Machiko. She sighed before dejectedly agreeing; remembering how rude her father was when he first met Yuki.
Ranmaru sighed as Tamao looked at her husband and then her friends with sad eyes, "Uhei is such a player."
Ranmaru laughed nervously, "He reminds me of myself before I met my love, Tamao."
Takenaga snapped his fingers: "That's it. Our children are like us, only the version of us that never lived together or met one another."
"What are you getting at, Takenaga?" Ranmaru asked.
"Sunako has a big empty house. Plus, she was the one who basically ignited the drastic changes in each of our lives. I didn't start dating Noi until after I met her. Tamao would have never survived the 'early' Ranmaru without Noi, and Yuki became more of a man after living with someone as scary and unpredictable as she was." Takenaga explained.
Yuki pouted at the last line as Machiko nodded, solemnly agreeing.
"Sunako-chan also helped us become less selfish. Because she was always willing to help us no matter what, we matured," Noi added with a smile.
"That, too."
"So…" Ranmaru started, liking where the conversation was going.
Takenaga smirked, "We send them to Sunako's house in Hokkaido over the summer. They'll never be the same again."
Yuki smiled happily. It was a win-win. Therapy would be provided by their good friend Sunako, and he could have "hot married sex" for three entire months with Machiko. Yuki giggled just thinking about it.
Yuki was still shocked at Sunako's eagerness to tame the "little beasts" as Kyouhei called them. Takenaga sent her videos of their kids acting out, to make sure she understood the, "heaviness of the task that they required of her." But when she saw the recordings, she sounded surer than when she had first accepted the challenge. It scared but pleased them.
Of course they haven't told their kids that, after driving to the park and hanging out for a couple of hours, they'll be boarding a plane with a woman they've only heard of. And their "precious" summer will be spent with her.
Good riddance.
The excited parents had secretly packed their children's things the night before and hid them in their trunks. Today they would be set free, today they would be relaxed and able to act thirty-three again. Today would be a great day.
"What are you two smiling about?" Yuki's daughter rudely asked.
Etsu Toyhama; age: 14; Yuki and Machiko Toyhama's daughter.
"None of your bees wax," Machiko snapped. Machiko had very little patience, and their daughter knew exactly what to say to make it run out.
"Just because you're my parents doesn't mean I'll ever care about your feelings," she hissed from the back seat. Her arms crossed and her eyes burning passionately.
Yuki and Machiko's veins popped. Yuki sighed, "I wish you would use your passion constructively instead of bottling it in and lashing out at your innocent parents."
Etsu glared at the floor, but didn't utter another word.
They pulled into the park's parking lot and got out of the car. Etsu ran to her long time child-hood friends who were hanging around the swing set. Luckily the park was empty.
"Hey Keiko, Seiji, and Uhei!" Etsu greeted.
Seiji Oda; age: 14; son of Takenaga and Noi Oda.
Keiko Oda; age: 14; daughter of Takenaga and Noi Oda; twin sister of Seiji.
Uhei Morii; age: 14; son of Ranmaru and Tamao Morii.
"Sup," Uhei said.
Keiko smiled and hugged Etsu while Seiji nodded, acknowledging her presence.
"I can't believe my parents! They are so annoying!" Etsu loudly exclaimed before she relayed to Keiko the events that had recently transpired during the car ride to the park.
"Oh I know! So stupid," Keiko said in agreement.
A few moments of silence lapsed. Uhei, who was beginning to feel awkward, spoke up:
"I heard that Kyouhei's coming," Uhei stated while picking dirt from his finger nails. He was trying his best to look nonchalant and indifferent. But Seiji knew better. Uhei simply wanted to get rid of the uncomfortable silence.
The girls blushed while squealing with delight. Seiji covered his ears, scowling.
"Keep it down will you? This isn't the time to imitate farm animals," a smirk played at his chapped lips, aware of the daggers that Keiko and Etsu were currently pointing at him.
Uhei chuckled, "it's kind of gross, too. Two underdeveloped teenagers dreaming about a man in his thirties," he stated, earning a look of approval from Seiji.
This is why these four children are being sent to "boot camp" A.K.A. Sunako's house.
Seiji is cruel yet smart. He says things that are true and harsh at the same time; making your self-esteem level drop to about zero. He does it to everyone. He's also too engrossed in himself to notice the feelings of those around him and often crushes other's spirits. Much like Takenaga did before he moved into the mansion.
Keiko is popular and prettier than Noi was at the age of fourteen. This is a dangerous combination. The bad thing about it is that she's secretly been dating older guys. This in turn makes girls wary of her; thus resulting in a lack of female companions, intensifying her desire to be doted upon by love-sick guys.
Uhei is a nice and composed boy. Until he's around girls that he's interested in. When he is, he becomes sarcastic and Ranmaru's old and ignorant version of "charming." But that's not his true personality. Plus he's disrespectful to girls that he deems "ugly."
And last but not least, Etsu. She's very disrespectful and saucy-mouthed towards adults, especially her parents. She has no respect for anyone over 22. She believes that only the young and beautiful deserve "kindness."
The kids continued to talk about useless things and make fast forgotten jokes as a car pulling into the park came into view. The girls smiled broadly, recognizing the car to be Kyouhei's almost immediately.
Uhei and Seiji scowled.
Kyouhei drove up and parked his car; he could feel Etsu and Keiko's stares, fully aware of their infatuation with him. He sighed.
Sunako smirked at him: "What's with the stares?" She asked, glancing at the pre-teens on the swings.
He sighed again, "It really is a pain to have the kids of your best friends obsess over you. I remember babysitting them and changing their diapers. They're like daughters to me," he explained.
Sunako rubbed his arm in order to encourage him. Kyouhei smirked at her as he tried his best to control himself and not kiss the life out of his favorite girl.
She's not ready for that.
He took off his seatbelt and got out. Sunako followed suit with a smile.
Keiko and Etsu stared at Kyouhei's car ferociously; there was someone in the passenger's seat. It was obviously a woman. Their blood boiled as a green poison pooled in their eyes.
I've never been alone with Kyouhei before.
They continued to stare, unable to make out who it was because of the sunlight. But what emerged was a beautiful, gorgeous, tall, fair-skinned, and sexy woman. She had alluring purple eyes and a beautiful face.
Kyouhei and the mysterious woman strode awfully close to one another towards the lunch tables. The kids left the swings and ran over to their parents, who were waiting with broad smiles and dreamy eyes. Almost as if an obvious fact hung in the air, never to be spoken aloud until the right moment.
Uhei looked at the two adults with impressed eyes, they look good together.
The woman smiled as she and Kyouhei finally made it to the lunch area. Seiji and Uhei blushed ferociously, captivated by the thirty-something beauty that stood before them.
"Hello, I'm Sunako Nakahara," her voice rang. The boys sighed. Kyouhei's eyes laid on the woman softly and gently.
Keiko glared mercilessly at Sunako. She coughed, "I've heard of you, Sunako-san. You were my parents' housemate in high school, correct?" She asked.
Sunako nodded, "I was basically the maid."
Etsu crossed her arms critically as she sized up the woman before her: "What 'services' did you provide, exactly?" Her provocative tone made Noi cough.
Yuki smacked his head on the table while Machiko spit out her drink, both glared at their daughter.
Sunako smirked: "Don't you know? I did some dirty things for them. It was a fun couple of years for us."
It isn't a total lie. Sunako thought as flashes of sex-old underwear and a moldy bathtub penetrated her mind.
The kids smirked before Kyouhei cracked up, revealing the falsehood of her response: "She cooked all of our meals, cleaned the house, and did the laundry," he explained while clutching his stomach.
Sunako began to laugh too as she watched Kyouhei try to compose himself.
Tamao smiled, "That's right. Her food was so good that any bentos offered to them by other girls simply weren't acceptable. But, Ranmaru did force himself to try my horrible cooking once. I really believed that it was good until I tasted it myself and heard him wrenching in the bathroom," she explained with pink cheeks.
Ranmaru smirked before kissing her hand: "I just wanted to make you happy, my love."
Tamao blushed as cute little flowers appeared around her, her affection for her husband showing on her face and dancing around her in the air.
Uhei silently gagged while pointing at his mouth, Keiko giggled at his antics.
But Keiko's laugh and Uhei's jokes were immediately squashed and destroyed by Sunako's next statement: "Wow, you guys weren't kidding when you showed me those videos."
Seiji narrowed his brown eyes at his parents: "What videos?"
Sunako winked at their parents before turning to the suspicious teenage boy, "They still like to keep secrets until the last minute, huh?"
Seiji felt his cheeks flush as anger began to boil within him. He was already catching on as his parents paled and looked at Sunako anxiously. He had seen his father put a suit case in their trunk earlier that morning when he was out for a walk; assuming that it was work related.
He stomped over to his mother's purse despite her protests and snatched her keys. He growled before running over to his parent's car and opening the trunk.
"Wow, intense isn't he?"
Seiji ripped open the suitcase, seeing what he already figured would be inside. His own clothes.
He slammed the trunk shut before sighing and running a hand through his cherry red hair. He walked back to his parents and threw his mother's keys onto the table: "Why are you here again, Sunako-san?"
Noi and Takenaga sighed, "He gets that scary intelligence from you, you know," Noi whispered.
Takenaga scoffed, "Well, his drama most certainly came from-"
Seiji punched the table, silencing his parents, "I asked you a question-"
Sunako grabbed his wrist and twisted it. Seiji yelped as his knees gave out and several gasps resounded.
"That's no way to talk to me," she muttered darkly.
She shoved him onto the ground. He rubbed his wrist, terrified for the first time in his life.
She smirked at the scared boy before her, "For the next three months, you, your sister, Uhei, and Etsu will be living in my home," she answered.
"What?" Etsu and Keiko screeched, their eyes bulging and their mouths open.