The Familiar Face
Chapter 6
What Weird Parents
"Mum! Dad! Joey! I'm home!" Wally called, "And I brought a… friend!" He added. He soon heard running footsteps into the room. Then popped in Mrs. Beetles in her regular cleaning everyday outfit.
"Wallabee! You should have texted me if a friend was coming over!" She said, "Especially if its a girl! Hello dear, I'm Wallabee's mother, you can just call me Mrs. Beetles though." She held out her hand to Kuki, which Kuki gladly shook.
"Nice to meet you, Mrs. Beetles. My name is Kuki-"
"Kuki? Oh my goodness! I almost didn't recognize you!" Mrs. Beetles cried out both Wally and Kuki stood confused as Mrs. Beetles laughed at the realization that the two don't remember.
"Huh?" Kuki asked in question.
"Oh, it's been positively 'forever' since you've come here! A little more then 2 years!" Mrs. Beetles said. Kuki looked at Wally in question, Wally decided to figure this out or knock some sense into his mom. All in all, he wished that his mom wasn't embarrassing him anymore.
"Um, Mum? I… don't remember Kuki coming over, mind explaining?" He asked.
"You don't? That's crazy! Here, your dad will remember." Mrs. Beetles said, "Honey! Guess whose here? It's Kuki Sanban!" She called.
There was once again the sound of running feet, tumbling each other like a herd of elephants. In popped in Mr. Beetles who looked like he was just about to go to work with his professional clothes all messed up with his tie undone and the mark of stress on his face.
"Kuki Sanban! How positively terrific it is to see ya." Mr. Beetles cried.
"Umm, thanks… you too?" She said uncertainly.
"Yes! I thought ya and Wally got into a fight or somethin' ya haven't been here, for quite awhile." He said.
"Um, dad, how did I meet Kuki again?" Wally asked.
"Huh? I don't know. I mostly know her parents, they work with me and are quite an success." Mr. Beetles said.
"Oh, you work with my parents?" She asked.
"Yeah! Of course I do! I remember when we first figured out you two were always hanging out together! It was a Tuesday, and-"
"Okay, dad. We don't need a work story." Wally said quickly, his dad's stories took 'forever' and could easily bore someone to death.
"Alo'righ then, I just remember when I took ya to father-daughter work day and you just hung with her the whole time."
"Father-daughter?" They both asked.
"Well, I gotta head off." Mr. Beetles kissed his wife's cheek and then Wally and Kuki stepped out of the way of his way and he grabbed Kuki's hands before leaving.
"Good to see ya Miss. Sanban and I beg of you. Please come more often." He said, and with that, he was out the door.
"Well, I got to get back to my cleaning, Wallabee, why don't you two head to your bedroom alo'righ?" Mrs. Beetles said.
"Yeah, Mum." Wally said, "C'mon Kooks." He grabbed her hand and electricity ran through both of their hands. They blushed as they headed up the stairs, hands still connected.
"Oh! I knew she was gonna come back!" Mrs. Beetles said happily.
"… Umm, well your parents are… nice." Kuki said as they reached his room.
Wally scoffed, "You mean weird Heck yeah, takes foreva to get'em off my back." He said as he opened the door and the both walked in and took a seat on some orange-yellowish bean bags that were in front of his bed.
"Yeah, and… I don't remember being here before." Kuki said. She muttered something else, but Wally couldn't hear it.
"What'cha say?" He asked.
"Nothing!" She said. There was then silence.
"But, you know. The fact he brought up Bring-Your-Daughter to work day…" Kuki said.
"Father-Daughter…" Another flash came by.
"Aw, c'mon dad! I don't wanna do 'this' again! Ya made me go last year!" Cried Numbuh 4.
"Oh, don't worry 'bout it Wally! Besides, I'm working higher now! Besides, I think one of your little friends are here too. What was her name?" He said, Wally blushed, he definitely remembered who else's parents worked here.
"Loki? Moki?" His dad kept muttering.
"…It's Kuki, dad." Numbuh 4 muttered.
"Ah, yes, Miss. Kuki Sanban. Her parents work close to me, so you can play with her all you wanna." He said.
Wally was silent as he thought about this, a blush came in his face when he figure out his answer, "…Fine."
"Ello there Mr. and Mrs. Sanban, how are you two?" Asked Mr. Beetles.
"We are quite good. You bring your son?" Mr. Sanban asked.
"Ah yes, I don't have a daughter, so I just bring little Wally here." He said patting Wally head with his hand.
"Well, of course we brought Kuki along. She's always so bright, she'll come for anything. She was quite excited to see 'you' Mr. Wallabee." Said Mrs. Sanban.
"It's Wally." He muttered, but blushed at the mention of Numbuh 3.
"She should be around here… Kuki?" Called Mr. Sanban, no longer then a second later did little Numbuh 3 appear.
"Sorry Daddy, I was side tracked. Hi Mr. Beetles, Hi Wa-Numbuh 4." She said, quick lying remembering her parents being around.
"Um, hi, Numbuh 3." Numbuh 4 said.
"Now you two go play now! We have to do some adult things." Mrs. Sanban said.
Numbuh 3 and 4 walked off, they both sighed as they got out of the room.
"Man, I don't like these kinds of places! They are so boring!" Numbuh 4 said.
"I don't like it either, they don't let you play games on the computer!" She pouted, this gesture made Numbuh 4 blush.
'Cutie sheila.' He thought inside.
"Can… I say hi again?" Numbuh 3 asked blushing.
"Ya just did, but alrigh'." Numbuh 4 said.
"Hi there Wally!" She said brightly, she gave him a hug, Numbuh 4 blushed and hesitated before wrapping his arms around her.
"H-hi Kooks." He said. They both smiled at each other before Wally noticed they were just doing nothing.
"Alo'righ, what should we do then!" He cried, happily. Numbuh 3 just smiled as ideas came to their heads.
He blinked a couple times then looked up at Kuki. She looked up at him too, they held their gaze for awhile, they came closer together. As if they were magnets being drawn together.
They were so close, until, they both chickened out. They looked away and blushed, both wanting to change the subject someway.
"U-umm, Wally?" Kuki asked. Wally looked up at her, but she wouldn't meet his eyes and blushed harder when she asked.
"W-why did you call me 'Numbuh 3' while we were walking here?" She asked.
Wally remembered that, why did he do that? He remembered he had another one of those memory flashes again. He doesn't remember what memory, heck he doesn't remember what happened. Besides, why call her a number? That's so weird!
"I…I don't know." He said honestly.
"O-oh…" She said, "It felt… weird… like I've been called that before…"
"C'mon Numbuh 3!"
Kuki shook her head at the weird voice. Wally was almost stunned, did she really think that? When he called her that… he had his flash again. It disappeared into his locked section, he couldn't reach it. Maybe, Kuki had something like this…
"Hey Kooks?" He asked. Kuki looked up in question.
"Do you… uh…" Man, what was 'wrong' with him! It wasn't like he was saying he liked her! Which he doesn't! (Says the guy who just almost kissed her) Yet, he felt nervous, unable to ask such a question.
"What is it, Wally?" The girl asked.
"Ummm… I know ya haven't been 'round long but… have ya noticed people actin' weird? Like see ya and get in their groups and talkin' about some meetin'?" Wally asked. Sure, it wasn't the other one, but at least he asked something he wondered about.
When Kuki's eyes widen in recognition, as a matter of fact now that she thought about it. That was why she was earring alone, everyone was talking about some sort of event and she thought it was like a dance, so she didn't really wanna get involved. However, Wally completely got the wrong idea.
"Ya know, maybe I'm just being crazy, forget wha I said." Wally quickly said. 'Man, I bet she thinks you're crazy now!' He thought.
"No! No, no, no… I mean, I was thinking the same thing. I thought 'I' was crazy, or maybe it was just the new girl thing. This is so different though." She started to explain, "People have been doing that, I heard that there is some kind of big meeting in the gym on Saturday."
"Really?" Wally asked, Kuki nodded.
"Well, then." Wally got up from his seat. "I guess we will have to crash that meetin' to find out wha's goin' on." Wally said.
Kuki got up too, "This will be fun! Like a… mission!" She said, until she took what she said. Wally felt weird about the word she used, 'mission'. Like it was going to be a duty to go to this meeting.
They both stood quietly until there was a knock on the door, "Come in!" Called Wally. The door opened to show a little boy with blond hair similar to Wally's. He had on a navy dark blue shirt with a long white sleeved shirt underneath it. He also had on some lighter blue jeans.
"Hi Wally." He called.
"Oh, hey there Joey." Wally said. Joey looked at Kuki, she looked familiar to him, he is pretty sure he had seen her somewhere…
"Oh, Joes, this is my friend Kuki. Kuki, this is my little brother Joey." He introduced.
"Hi there!" The girl said kindly, she knelt down next to him. She then looked at him more and gave out a "hmmm…"
"Why did ya 'hmmm'?" Asked Wally. Answering Joey's question.
"He looks about my sister's age. Maybe even younger, yet he also looks familiar…" That's when it hit him. She must have a sister who is in Kids Next Door! He, himself is part of the Kids Next Door as Numbuh 4.5. He knew that his brother was the original Numbuh 4, known as the best fighter in Kids Next Door history, part of the Legendary Sector V.
"Really? Maybe they know each other." Wally said.
Kuki smiled, at Wally before turning back to Joey. "Do you know a girl named Mushi?"
"Mushi?" He asked. That was it! Mushi, or Numbuh 3.72 was his teammate in the Sector V2. That's why… wait, that means…
"Oh! You do know her!" Kuki said happily, noticing the look of remembrance oh his face.
"Yeah… I know her." Joey, or Numbuh 4.5 said. This, was the Legendary Numbuh 3 of Sector V. Known to be the funniest one around. She was also the last of the sector to be decommissioned. She just so happened to be decommissioned right as Joey left for the Antarctica to train for the Kids Next Door. Everyone was so disappointed when she left, it was hard on everyone to see Sector V, the greatest sector in history, all grow up.
"What were you two talkin' 'bout?" He asked.
"Just a weird rumor that has been going around our school. Kooks and I are gunna investigate on Saturday. Some big meetin' or somethin'." Wally said.
"Meetin?" Joey asked, the look of panic on his face, he knew if teenagers were having a meeting it would have a certain group of wanna-be adult teenagers be there.
He needed to call up to Moonbase, or Sector V2, or someone! He just had to get outta there.
"O-oh! I see! See ya later! Nice meetin' ya again Kuki. Well, not again, we just met, just a feeling I get lots of weird feelin's sometimes. Gotta go!" He zoomed out of room before 'go' even left his mouth.
"That was…"
"Weird?" Wally asked.
"No, interesting." Kuki said, "Is it crazy that I think your brother may just know something about this?" She asked.
"Nah, I think he is just dyin' to get to his treehouse. Been there quite a lot, down in the park, pretty big." Wally said.
"Treehouse?" She asked.
"Yeah, never been there. But I've seen it. It's impressive building skills." Wally said.
"I bet it's not as good as Nigel UNO's treehouse." She said mentioning the treehouse that was a block away from her house.
Wally scoffed, "Yeah, their treehouse is good. But Nigel UNO… that thing is huge." Wally said.
"Yeah, I see it before I go to bed. For some reason… I feel sad when I see it." Kuki said.
"Yeah…" Wally said. That treehouse always brought him a twinkle kind of feeling. He felt like he was watching the sadest part of a movie everytime he saw that thing.
They both looked out Wally's window, down the road on the next street. You could see a treehouse. A treehouse with faded paintings on it, standing tall and proud.
Wally and Kuki both had felt drawn to that. For the first time in a long time, they smiled at the tree. As if smiling at an old friend. Wally reached for her hand and grabbed it, the two unknown childhood friends smiled at each other then back out to the treehouse, feeling the most comfort a teenager could have.
Not that those two knew. But, if you went across the street and four houses over. You would see a teenager who Wally just just met awhile ago. He had on a blue collar shirt left open for a white t-shirt under it with some old jeans. He had brown-reddish hair and strangely had goggles planted over his eyes for one not to see. Looking out his own window at the standing tall treehouse; smiling at it.
Then, if you went two streets over and looked on the roof, you would see a girl with long brownish hair that was pulled to a loose ponytail that held at the bottom of her hair. She also had on a pink cap, that so naturally covered most of her face. She wore a long dark blue t-shirt with a white medium sleeved shirt under it and some white skinny jeans. She had her headphones in, ignoring all the stress downstairs of her parents talking with her sister. She was looking up at a treehouse and giving it a smile.
Then, if you traveled to a sidewalk that was quite close to the treehouse itself. Where two people, a girl with brown hair pulled into a braid that was on the side. She also had geeky glasses that she always felt kinda embarrassed about but could never get rid of. She had a slim body and had on a jean vest with a yellow shirt sticking out under it. She also had on a dark blue skirt that matched her vest and white leggings. She looked over at the boy who held her hand and was looking up at the treehouse.
The boy was bald, not really something you see in a teen. Yet, he didn't mind it. He had on black sunglasses, even if it was nighttime. He had on a red buttoned up collar shirt and tan colored jeans. Other then the rest of the groups that were looking at the same location, these two talked.
"Nigel?" The girl asked.
"Yeah?" The boy answered.
"That treehouse, do you ever feel like it's apart of something?" She stated looking up at the treehouse. "I mean, I don't remember much! But, it feels like that treehouse meant something. Is that weird?" She asked.
"No. Not weird at all." He squeezed her hand and smiled at the treehouse.
Yeah, I like Lizzie. I always thought as her character interesting and how Nigel cares for her. This is now is kinda the part when my future fanfic kinda crosses over with this one, you have been warned!
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