Grace's Family scenario one

Shun yawned. He was used to getting up early, usually, but since coming to the New World he had begun to sleep in more. While in The World, there had been important things to train for, such as fighting The Essence, while in the New World nothing much really happened. So naturally, the now-nineteen-year-old had thought it fine to sleep in a little.

But now he was awake at 7:30 am for no reason other than the fact that he was awake. He was a little bit surprised when the rest of his family (excluding Ryo, Annabelle, and Blue) gathered downstairs only a few minutes later.

"I had a dream," Grace announced. "I know all of you hate me and you don't want to know what it is…"

"We don't hate you," Shun interjected. It was true that this woman could never replace his real mom, but she certainly tried.

Grace smiled. "…but I'm going to tell you what it is anyways."

"I hate you," Deidara suddenly declared. "You never let me blow up the house, un! Just let me blow up the house and then get Creston and Eliza to bring it back."

"Creston and Eliza have other things to worry about, hun," Grace sighed. "I'll let you blow up the forest in a minute, though."

"Really? Yes!"

"OK. So in my dream, there was this giant porcupine and it was brushing its teeth, and then I walked up behind it and was all, 'you! I wanna take you to a gay bar!' and I don't even know why, because one: I'm not a lesbian, nor am I gay, nor do I like gays and lesbians unless they're Makoto's fangirls or Ryo's fanboys because those people are funny, and two: I'm already married to a glob of anger management on a stick." Grace paused. "You got all that?"

Her children nodded.

" , after that he got all excited—the porcupine, that is—and so we went skydiving and I don't even know why, and then all this other stuff happened that I can't remember." She looked out over her "audience". "Hey, did any of you kids have dreams?"

"I had one," Deidara announced. "I was sitting on a bunk-bed playing with Barbies and then I fell off. I've had that dream a lot. What the heck does it even mean? Oh yeah, and this time I blew the bed up after I fell off. Heh. Heh heh."

Grace nodded approvingly. "Anyone else?"

Yoh raised her hand slowly. "Last night, I dreamt that I was a man and I was married to Shuri. And then there was a flash of light and I had grown a watermelon. So I ate it with Shuri," she said.

"That's a very nice dream."

"Thank you."

Leo plopped down at the table next to where Shun was sitting with a bowl of cereal. "I didn't dream last night," she declared. "But the other night, I remember I had this dream about a giant anthill. Either that or I was just tiny. And then, when I tried to kick it down, the ants came after me and ate me. That was the end of the dream."

Grace chuckled. "Nice," she offered. She looked at Shun. "Shun? Did you dream?"

Shun shook his head.

"Did you dream any other night?"

Shun shrugged.

"What does that mean?"

"I don't remember," Shun elaborated. "But I know that I had a dream pretty recently."

"You just don't remember what it was."

"No."

Grace blinked. "Try to remember," she urged. "Dreams are the insight into one's soul."

"My soul doesn't even like Barbies!" Deidara protested. "My dreams don't provide insight into anything, un."

Yoh blinked. "…my soul is a man?"

"My soul is not tiny!" Leo complained.

Grace blinked again. "…OK, maybe they're not. But still."

Blue wandered down the stairs, holding Annabelle. Ryo followed him closely.

"I had a dream," he announced.

"Me too," Grace, Yoh, and Deidara answered.

"I had a dream a few nights ago," Leo offered.

Blue grunted. "I had a dream, but I forgot it! It's so annoying!" he huffed, placing Annabelle on the ground.

"I had a dream where we all lived in a castle made out of sugar," Annabelle said loudly. "And then we all lived happily ever after~"

"That's a cute dream," Grace squealed.

"I remember my dream."

Everyone turned to look at Shun, who calmly took a sip of tea before continuing.

"We were peasants growing up in an upside-down castle. And Makoto was the lord of the castle. And Chazz was the princess."

"That means you miss Chazz and Makoto," Grace explained, satisfied with her genius conclusion. "I never wanted to abandon Makoto…"

"Then why did you?" Leo asked. "I never even got to meet her…"

"Because Jo was like, 'oh, what a great idea to abandon Makoto and Sasuke so that Azusa and Kakashi can adopt them'! So I did."

Yoh blinked. "On the bright side…"

"Yeah?" Grace prompted.

"…I'm sure she can marry into the family through Ryo." Yoh offered her younger brother a smile.

Ryo blushed. "Th-that's ridiculous," he muttered. "We don't like each other that way."

"But I like that you don't like each other that way because I like you that way even if you don't like each other that way, but I don't like YOU that way, I like YOU that way," Grace said.

"What?"

"I don't know." Grace laughed.

"Back to my dream," Shun said quickly. "There's something I don't understand. Why was Makoto a man and Chazz a girl?"

"It was an upside-down castle," Yoh pointed out. "Perhaps you have to train your subconscious in the correct genders of your friends."

"I have to train my friends in the correct gender of my self," Leo said, shrugging. "Does that count?"

"No."

"Oh. Well, it really stinks."

"In my dream, everyone was a pony. And we all ate rainbows. And pooped butterflies. It was weird," Ryo commented.

"Was I a pretty pony?" Grace asked.

"No, we were all ugly…"

"Aw…" Grace muttered.

Ryo looked over at Deidara. "Except for Deidara-nii. Deidara-nii was a gorgeous pony."

"Did I have tongues on my hooves?" Deidara gasped. "Because that would be so cool."

"I think so…"

"That's awesome!"

Grace surveyed her family. Only two of them, Leo and Shun, were actually eating anything. She sighed. "Well…we should probably eat," she advised.

Blue grabbed a bowl of oatmeal. "Why the heck am I eating oatmeal? I don't even like oatmeal. Why do we have oatmeal if none of us like oatmeal?"

"I like oatmeal," Ryo and Leo chimed.

Blue sighed. "Whatever, I'm having toast."

And so, everyone ceased talking about their dreams and ate some food. And that was a glimpse into Grace and Blue's family matters.