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Harem Management - The Morning After
I wonder why I feel my chest so heavy. I remember the girls swimming classes in the gym, my girlfriend, a black haired girl kissing her, the telltale flash of light of a winging, mess after. Father and the rest of family, dinner and then everything else is a -blank-.
I crack my eyes open, and my head pumps pain in protest. Fuuko and Yukiko are snuggled against each other on my chest. 'Oh, last night…'
"Hi sweetie, pleasant dreams?" Fuuko said sweetly as Yuki cracked her eyes open. She of course backed down in surprise and fell from the bed, "Ack!" and her loud complaint sparked a thousand needles of pain in my temples.
"Root, I'll never drink anything that so much as passes near Riko again. I feel like a bike had overrun my head."
"Aoshi?" She calls me in surprise. Then she looks a bit to my side and we see Fuuko in all her underwear-clad glory. "Explain that, Ao?" She stood up and demanded instantly.
"Huh, that is my sister Fuuko. Your Sekirei, remember?" I offer quickly as her feet tapped the floor in an increasing speed.
"I don't remember last night at all." Her face drew blank. Fuuko smiled pleasant and I noticed my girlfriend wasn't wearing more than her black stockings and a shirt. And I'm only in boxers too.
"Last night was A.W.E.S.O.M.E!" Fuuko singsonged.
"If your idea of awesome involves Kiri making a jumping ham sandwich and Kaien burning the kitchen table to ashes, nearly getting himself winged to Eiko and being displaced to root knows when… whatever. Dad asked me to warn you that breakfast is served." Chisame said from the door. "And make sure that the door is closed when you do that. If it were Takeshi to come wake you, well… you know." She made undulating motions with her hands and a supposed scary face. I snorted and she left.
"Your family is weird, you know that." Yukiko was still looking at the door where Chisame left. "Didn't she mean God knows where?"
"I thought we already got over the weird part yesterday. And she did meant when. Long story, we will explain during the summer break."
"Huh. I don't remember yesterday at all. Well except for the weird gym explosion. Did the gas pipes passed under the pool or something?" then she looked down as a little breeze entered the window.
She screamed and I cringed. Fuuko was already dressing by then.
"Ouch, my head."
"What have you perverts did to me!" I choose that moment to retreat to under the bed. Blue or not, there are thing a girl in 'punisher mode' can do to a boy that… I'm so not going there.
"I'm not sure myself?" I offered from bellow the bed. "My sister probably gave us some weird to drink yesterday. Then we kissed, cuddled, and slept together. That is what I remember."
She looked between us. "You slept with your sister?"
"Yes, I think I kissed her one or two times…"
"Five actually. You're quite good at it." She pointed. "But she is better."
"How can you two be so calm about it!" Yuki all but screamed. "And I am better… WHAT? I kissed you!"
"Lower please, Yuki-chan. I have quite the hangover."
… Outside …
What in the assorted underworlds is happening there! Ulf stared at his brother's door. He just came to return Aoshi's copy of 'Advanced Theory in Structural Grasping on Structures' when he heard the screaming. He almost blasted the door down to rescue whoever was in need at time when he remembered that time he caught Haru and that Blue and Pink haired girlfriends of his on one of the TV rooms. Nothing going on Apollo's *ss.
"The door will not open if you don't push it, you know? That works only Karin's door." Kiri said from behind him.
"…not going there, NEVER! I just don't swing that way! Never, ev-" came from inside the room.
"Nevermind. I'm going to breakfast. I believe Shinta was asking about you taking a book on Electrical Energy and Mana Combination or something of the effect." My older brother just ignored the other suggestive moaning from inside the room.
"Isn't that Fuuko's voice?" I asked one octave higher than my usual.
"Perhaps."
"Oh. It was 'Properties of Magical Reinforced Electrical Currents in Electronic Appliances' by the way." I hacked my mind for something else to think about. Aoshi's book could wait. He was quite busy at the moment anyway.
And I totally didn't fantasy about Fuuko for a Second, no I didn't.
…
As the three of them showed to the breakfast, Fuuko was sporting a slap mark on her left cheek, and Aoshi was rubbing his head and mumbling apologies. Yukiko was looking embarrassed, but quite satisfied.
"Haven't you three settled things yet? Last I saw you lot yesterday, you haven't even stopped sucking each other's tongues to give me good night." Riko teased.
"You." The trio said at once. "What have you put on our drinks!"
Riko just saluted, grabbed a sandwich and jumped in the nearest air vent before any of them could catch her.
I think Ulf just blew the thing out of proportion again. He tends to do that from time to time. It doesn't look like they- wait! Is that a bruise on Fuuko's cleavage? Maybe he was not that wrong afterall… maybe they were wrestling.
"I told you Shinta." He said from my side.
"Well, she might need the training. But why can't they do that on the gym?"
Gekkou's head met the table. "Shinta, sometimes you're an idiot." Me moaned.
"What do you mean?" I ask and regretted immediately.
"They were loving each other!" My sister said with sparkles in her eyes. There is something inherently wrong when Kumako knows more about a subject other than fighting than you.
My eyes met Reiko at my left, and she muttered one cryptical phrase that haunted me for weeks when I discovered the meaning: "… Biology III, chapter 5…"
…
"I can show some proof if wan- Wait! You believe me!" I asked in surprise.
"Compared to what I saw since yesterday, magic is the only logical explanation I can think of." Yukiko looked at me from the couch. "Wait! Are aliens real too?" To my left Kaien fell from the coach in surprise, losing in the game he was playing. He also had the audacity to give me a glare, like it was my fault! Save games are there for a reason, use them!
"Yeah…" I trail off.
"Ok. Maybe I shouldn't have doubted my ex-neighbor when she told me she saw small green dwarves." I laughed at that. "What?"
"Well, what makes you think that all aliens look green and weird?" I asked.
"They're not Green?" She mused. "Wait! Have you actually seen one?" She asked in surprise.
"You saw more or less a dozen yesterday," Kaien dropped the bomb. Saying 'Alien here,' while pointing to yourself would have being more subtle, bro…
"What! Where!"
"Hi, my lovely Ashikabi." Fuuko said, embracing Yuki around her neck. My girlfriend blushed head to toes in response.
"Can you... release me? Knowing that I kissed you is already awkward, I don't want to get physical."
"So she kissed Fuu-chan? How's that fair?" A new voice asked from my back.
The first thing I noticed was long black hair and a cute face, then my eyes drifted down to a nice pair of breasts, slim hips, and shapely thighs. Sumire, as Nee-chan called her. "Erm, hi?" I offered my hand dragging my gaze up.
She smiled knowingly, much to my surprise. "You're Ao-kun, right? Fuuko told me a lot of stories about her family!" Then she smothered me to her chest.
"It seems they're getting along nicely, right Yuki-chan?" Fuuko's voice brought me back from 'marshmallow land' back to earth.
"Yeah, ve~ery nicely." My girlfriend said darkly. I laughed nervously.
"Oh, come on. You share me with Sumire-chan there, what's wrong with sharing otouto too?" I extracted myself from the heavenly valley to hear my sister proposing that.
"I don't mind sharing you, but Aoshi is…" She turned even redder, unknowingly to me if in embarrassment or anger.
"I am?"
"Never mind. What is she doing here?" Yuki pointed to Sumire.
"I decided to make things official, so I called her over. We're going to explain a few things to you so we just have to do it once." Fuuko explained.
"Ah, right! He was just telling me about the aliens. He said you keep like a dozen here, but I haven't seen one yet."
"I think you got it wrong." Fuuko hand met her face. "We…"
Her face lighted up in understanding: "You're part of an organization that helps Aliens that want to live on earth peacefully to adjust to daily life?"
I looked to my sister at the same time she looked at me, and we both conceded to her point. "Err… Somewhat. My father discovered himself as the heir of the MBI as he was 22, and he joined a 'game' (of very bad taste, mind you), that involved a mating ritual with an Alien race that crashed on earth repeated times through history." I exposed.
"…" She blushed.
"What was that?"
"You said… mating. As in sleeping with?" She turned even redder.
"That has nothing to do with sleeping, fufufu." Karin dropped on the couch at Kaien's side and picked a second controller.
"Nevermind her! Anyway, dad had two girlfriends at the time, and ended up getting two more later, one of them a childhood friend, and then a few more, in incidents I never really heard about. They had kids, and here we are." I summed it up.
"You mean a few of your mothers are Aliens?" Sumire asked in disbelief.
Kaien opened his mouth again. "Yeah. Others are Magi, or mages if you will, Heroic Spirits, i.e. people that ascended into legends immortalized in time, and a goddess of sorts." I punched his arm, hard. "What?"
"Legends, like what?" Sumire asked first.
"I think I saw an Elf yesterday, she had the ears at least…" my girlfriend mused. Elf? Who?
"Medea-kaa, you mean. She is one of the legends, Medea of Colchis. We also have Medusa, and you girls will love this…" Karin's smile widened, along with the girls eyes. "King Arthur!" She exclaimed happily, and Sakuya choose that time to join us at the couch and picked a third controller. They weren't even gaming.
The duo blinked. Twice, three times. Yuki then dropped her hand into her open palm. "The nanny, of course! Blonde, handsome, strong-looking."
I felt mildly jealous she doesn't describe me that way. But mostly I felt amused they think Uncle Gil is King Arthur. "Wrong King there girls, that's Gilgamesh, King of Sumeria…" I pointed out.
"YOU MONGREL FORGOT KING OF HEROES, DEFEATER OF ARMIES, FIRST HERO, AND FIRST KING OF HUMANITY, OWNER OF ALL THE TREASURES OF THE WORLD, CONQUEROR OF THIS KITCHEN AND MAINTAINER OF THIS PLACE!" came the shout from the kitchen. Karin dropped the controller and was rolling around laughing on the floor.
I sigh. "…Aaand, our lovely nanny. And he hates when we mess up his titles." I finished, "The thing is: King Arthur was a woman."
"Nice joke. How much of that is actually true?" Sumire asked from another couch.
"Which of them?" Yuki asked. I'm quite surprised she believed everything. Then again, she remembered everything after a bit of hypnosis from Keiko so she already saw that the usual insanity of our family disregards any common sense. "Was Arthur, I mean?" She finished.
"It's Arturia. The green-eyed blonde with the hairbun." Ulf answered from behind my couch.
I kind of lost it. "WHAT IS THIS? A CIRCUS SIDE-SHOW! GET BACK INTO THE WOODWORK YOU CRAWLED OUT OF, OR I'LL BLUE YOU SORRY A*SES INTO ORBIT!"
Riko disappeared in the vent she was watching from, Ulf entered the first door he found unlocked together Karin. Kaien disappeared to somewhere else with Sakuya giggling madly, and Shinta, who was pretending to read a book, retreated into the kitchen.
"Where did we stop?" I asked calmly as I turned to face the girls again. Yuki had one of her sudden laughing fits, and Sumire and Fuuko joined her soon enough. I sighed once more. It would be a long morning explaining magic.
Sumire was the first to recover. "Did you seriously threaten to paint them?" Fuuko laugher grew louder in response.
"Not really." I suppressed the urge to facepalm.
I threw a little amount of The Blue in the pillow Karin was sitting at the floor, and the thing exploded and disintegrated at once. Fuuko and Yuki stopped laughing immediately, and Sumire's eyes widened.
"Ladies, I present you the Fifth True Magic: The Blue." I bowed from where I stood. "The most efficient way of destruction ever conceived."
"It could use a better name though." Sumire observed. "Maybe 'The Disintegration' or 'Absolute Erasure', something threatening, you know."
Fuuko Laughed again, hysterically. "You three wait her for a second? I'll be right back."
"Where are you going?" Yuki asked.
"I'm going to threaten Kyon or Chisame into explaining the rest. I don't think I have the gift for this exposition thing."