Special 3: Dinner
Hi everyone here is the 3rd special to this story, now like always I do not own sword art online, but I do own my Oc's and the idea of the story, now with that over let's get this story started! Happy Reading!
"Ok, toothpaste check and done, shower done, clean ears done, hair done, clothes done and is on, socks and shoes done, hair done, phone in pocket just in case a emergency happens, like me getting punch in the face, and finally tie...should probably do that before heading out...and grab my wallet...*sigh*..." Ray muttered to himself in a tired voice, as he wore a nice tuxedo that was black, and had a white dress shirt, black dress shoes and socks, and with his hair it was cut and turned back into it's natural color black, but he had some trouble with the tie he was wearing.
"Dame man, you look like you are going to have a heart attack!" A voice called from his computer, and as Ray looked at his computer the person that was talking was Zane, which made Ray raise a eyebrow.
"Well sorry, if I have to go to dinner at a fancy restaurant with my girlfriend's family, with my family, and my brother's girlfriend, and her family, who were friends, with my girlfriend's jack ass of dad, and another surprise...my sister's boyfriend and his mom are coming, and I want Nijiki's mom to know I will protect her, her dad thought I just want to punch him in the face." Ray stated, which multiple voices on the computer laugh, which were all of his guy friends, except Sumeragi.
"Makes sense really, I probably would have done the same thing." Frank agreed, which made Ray laugh a bit.
"Knowing you, yeah you would, but let's not forget, Keiko met Asuna's mom, and she said she is very strict and a pain, while her dad is a very nice guy." Zane stated, which made a picture of Kazuto groan.
"Don't remind me, it is already going to be hard to get her brother to like me, but her mom is going to be worse, siblings is a bit more easy than parents...most of the time...I'm so fucked am I?" Kazuto questioned, making everyone gave a hum of 'yes', making Kazuto bang his head on his computer desk.
"Hey Don't worry, we all been though some tough shit...literally...when I visit Keiko's house a week after we came back for example!" Zane exclaimed as he rembered the day, as everyone stopped to listen.
*Flashback a week after leaving SAO at Keiko's house*
"You sure you want to come to my house? I mean it could end ugly." Keiko told Zane, who had a confident smile on his face.
"Don't worry I have full faith that nothing bad will happen! Plus we have to do this sooner or later, and if you remember my parents liked you, hell my brother even approve, and he does very crazy shit!" Zane told Keiko, who had a small nervous smile on her face but it was more of a worried face than anything else, until they came to a door and knocked on it and a man came out in a purple suit, and brown dress shoes, and had light brown hair and eyes, as he had a huge smile on his face.
"Sweet pea!" The man called out, which Keiko smiled brightly.
"Hi Dad! How are you?" Keiko asked, which the man who is Keiko's father smile, but then he frown a bit as he saw Zane, but returned to having a smile.
"I'm well, but um...who is your...friend?" Keiko's dad questioned with a twitch in his eyebrow, which both Keiko and Zane noticed, making the two teens nervous.
"Well...he is my boyfriend, from SAO and now in real life..." Keiko answered slowly, making her father have a poker face, which turned into a fake bright smile and hug his daughter and then her boyfriend but he just hold him longer.
"Hurt my daughter and I will kill you..." Keiko's father whispered into Zane's ear, making Zane shake a bit, but Keiko's father just gave up on the hug and gave a dark smile.
"Now come on inside for some dinner!" Keiko's father told the two, which Keiko smiled, but Zane became pale like a ghost and nodded his head robotically.
*Back to the present*
"It was the most scariest shit ever, I mean you and Kazuto have to do this shit now, while me and Agil got it done and over with, then there is Ryotaro who will deal with this when Rika is 18, but Frank and Rick don't have girlfriends so they are good, but Brian...I don't know man did you have to deal with something like that?" Zane stated to then asking Brian a question, which Brian had a bitter look.
"No...it is complicated just let's not bring that question up ok..." Brian answered with a sadden look, which everyone noticed, and silently agreed not to ask.
"Well back to the main problem, what should I do, got any advice?" Ray asked with a hopeful expression, as Kazuto did the same thing, which made the other guys think.
"Don't be a ass?" Ryotaro stated, making Kazuto and Ray look at him as if he was serious or not.
"Geez that is really helpful advice it is like I never knew, you know what Andrew do you have anything that could help in this situation?" Kazuto replied with a dead voice, which made Andrew surprise about being on the spot.
"Well, from my experience just be polite and be yourself, also show that you care about the girl you are dating, you already have one person of their family that likes you, except you Ray only the dad hates you, but he was like Nijiki told us, he is a ass, so you are good, and Sugu is in really good with her boyfriend's family, but Kazuto you have the problem of dealing with rich people, so be good enough so that they would like you enough to at least put some trust or any trust, then increase the relationship between you and each family member." Andrew told the two brothers, who were shock and happy about the information that Andrew gave them.
"That's a good idea...thanks Andrew, you know that sounds like something a father would say...to bad me and Ray's adopted father can't help...but you are like a father, so thanks." Kazuto said to Andrew, who was shocked and had a few tears in his eyes but he had a small smile on his face.
"Don't mention it, I will always be there to help." Andrew stated, till the guys were interrupted by a knock on their doors.
"Kazuto/Ray! Come on we have to get to the restaurant!" Two females called making Kazuto and Ray pale.
"We don't make it out alive do not take our stuff!" Ray called out as he ended the chat, turned off his computer, as he did a quick check of everything before coming out of his room to see Kazuto dressed in a black tux, with a grey dress shirt, with a black tie, as his duel color eyes looked nervous.
"Ready for hell?" Ray questioned, which Kazuto sighed and pulled at his neck.
"Hopefully, and I hate that we have to go to a fancy restaurant, since it fucking means we have to wear this fancy shit!" Kazuto called out, which Ray agreed.
"Kazuto! Language!" A voice shouted, making Ray hold in a laugh, as Kazuto was embarrassed from who called.
"Sorry Mid-Mom!" Kazuto replied with a thought into his words, making Ray chuckle lightly from Kazuto's misfortune.
"Jeez man your screw! Come on man let's go." Ray told Kazuto, who sighed a bit, but nodded in agreement as he followed Ray downstairs to the car.
*A few minutes later at a restaurant*
"So this is the place? This will be harder than I thought on making a impression." Ray stated, which soon two women appeared next to Kazuto and Ray
The first person was Sugu in a dark green like dress that had thin straps, and stopped close to the legs, but had a open cut on the right leg which stopped at her knee, with some black heels, a green bracelet on her right wrist, with her nails done.
And the person next to Sugu was their mother named Midori who had a dark blue dress that stopped a little pass her knees and had some frills that were black, and she had black heels, with a golden necklace that looked like someone had made the design themselves as a gift, also her hair was put into some curls and were blowing into the wind.
"Well what do you expect, this could be a test, Ray you have the problem that when you eat slow you somehow finish before everyone else, and Kazuto...just be calm and don't go crazy." Sugu scolded her brothers, who raised their eyebrows.
"Really, we could say the same thing to you." Kazuto stated, making Sugu blush, but it made Midori laugh a bit at the two.
"Ok you two break it up, so let's go inside the Yuuki's and the Karatachi's must be waiting." Midori told Kazuto and Sugu, who glared at each other but agreed, then as they went in and checked the list, and once they were by the table Kazuto and Ray looked shocked and blushed at who was in front of them.
"...dude are we seeing angles...?" Ray breathed, which Kazuto shrug with the same look Ray had, which made the two girls blush.
One of the girls was Nijiki, who was in a black slender dress that stopped close to the legs, and had one strap around her right shoulder, with a v cut on the left leg, with some black heels, and the dress had some fake diamonds, and her hair was ironed with a part of her bang was covering somewhat of her right eye, and around her neck was a golden necklace with a golden heart that had 'R+N'.
The other girl was Asuna, who had her hair unbranded and put into curls, she had a white dress that had black frills, said dress stopped at her knees, and had no straps, as she wore white heels that had some black to it, and on her left wrist was a golden bracelet that had the words 'our hearts are always connected as one'.
"C-come on we do not look that impressive!" Nijiki stated, which Asuna nodded her head in agreement.
"Yea, we are not anywhere close to angles!" Asuna sputtered with a massive blush, which made Kazuto think for a bit.
"Yea your right...you are way beyond angles, without getting dressed up you are an angel." Kazuto replied, making Asuna as red as a tomato.
"Same can be said for you Nijiki, but I guess your as beautiful as how you are on the inside." Ray stated, making Nijiki freeze and become so red, that her hair had to cover her eyes, till someone cough, making the two girls get their senses back together and they look at the boys, both had a different emotion and face.
"Ok so can we now join the table Kirit-Kirigaya-San?" Asuna asked a bit shaky and frowning, which made Kazuto look surprised, until he thought of the most logical reason, in why Asuna called him by his last name.
"Umm...alright let's go..." Kirito replied as he hold his arm out, which Asuna great fully took and walk with Kazuto to the table.
"Her parents are making her act all high, tall, and fancy?" Ray asked with a knowing look, which Nijiki nodded her head.
"Yep, I don't though, dad wants me to, but you know..." Nijiki started, which Ray hummed in a understanding tone.
"Yea I think I know, but shall we join my lady?" Ray said in a gentleman tone, making Nijiki giggle.
"Yes we should." Nijiki replied with a voice filled of joyful and with a small giggle, which Ray guided them to their table and in front of them was Nijiki and Rainbow's parents, with Rainbow sitting in the middle of them, and Sumeragi in front of the father.
Their mom was wearing a red dress that stopped at the mid of her legs, red heels, with her hair that is curled up, while their father was wearing the same thing he wore when he met Ray, Sumeragi was wearing a white suit, with a blue tie, and Rainbow was wearing a dark blue dress that was above her knees, and blue heels.
Another group was Asuna's family who were wearing their regular business clothes. (Just like in the anime)
Then there was two people left, one was Nagata who was wearing a black suit, and a lime green tie, and he was not wearing his glasses, but he is wearing some contacts, the second person was his mom who is wearing a forest green dress that stopped a little below the knees, with forest green heels.
"Ah, hello Mr., and Mrs. Karatachi." Ray spoke with his hand raised his hand to them, but after a few minutes he retracted his hand and hung his head, which Mrs. Karatachi glared at her ex-husband, who just rolled his eyes.
"Hello Ray, how are you today?" Mrs. Karatachi asked, which Ray looked up a bit.
"umm...I am good, how about you Mrs.-" Ray started, but Mrs. Karatachi shook her hand to Ray which confused him.
"I was good as well, but you can call me Crystal, we are practically family." Crystal replied, which made Nijiki and Ray blush, but Rainbow, Kazuto, Asuna, and Sugu silently laugh, but Mr. Karatachi was glaring at his ex-wife.
"A-alright, M-Crystal." Ray said, which made Crystal smile, but then she looked at Midori.
"So you must be his mother, right?" Crystal asked, which Midori look a hesitated to answer, but she looked at Crystal with a solid look.
"Yes I am." Midori stated, but Bill and Asuna's family did not buy it.
"Hold on, you took a while to answer, is there something wrong with Ray?" Bill questioned with a glare, which made Midori shake a bit, but Ray looked sadden.
"No nothing is wrong with him...he is just adopted, unlike Kazuto Ray was found by my husband." Midori answered, which then unknown to anyone Ray left to the bathroom.
*Flashback*
"Ok I will be home soon dear, ok by-ow shit!" A man yelled in his car by the sea, which he saw someone on a beach, it was kid that was 5 years old that had tan skin, and had black hair, and the kid wore a black shirt, grey shorts, and dark blue shoes.
"What the hell?! Why is there a kid at the beach!" The man yelled, what the man wore was a black suit and shoes, which he soon ran to the kid and saw that the kid had cuts and bruises, that all looked fresh.
"Ugh..." The kid groan in pain, which the man hurry to the kid and put him in the car and hurry to his home, which then he ran to the door to his house and put the kid on the kid on the couch.
"Midori! Get the first aid!" The man yelled, which made a woman hurry down the stairs to see a kid on the couch.
"Why-ow shit I'm on it!" Midori called, but unknown to them a little boy that wore black pajamas was watching everything going on, till Midori came back with the first aid kit.
"Ok now let's get his cuts clean and wrap them up." The man spoked, which he and Midori were cleaning the cuts and put band aids on them, and once they were done they let the kid lay on the couch, but after a bit the kid woke up, and looked around till he saw Midori and the man, which the kid fell off the couch and backed up to the wall with his eyes filled with fear.
"wow hold on! We are not here to hurt you!" Midori told the kid, who looked at her and saw the look in her eyes, which made him calm down a bit.
"So what is your name?" The man asked the boy, who shook a bit.
"R-Ray..." The boy answered, which made the two smile, but the boy that was looking at them with a curious look.
*Flashback end*
"And that is what happened to Ray, we asked if he rembered where he was before we found him, but all he said he remembered was a small house, no surprise though he was very young, but we know he is not from Japan." Midori explained, which everyone but Mrs. Yuuki had a sad face, and Bill was shocked.
"When...mom adopted Ray, he just watched us, at school he was very shy at school, and didn't talk to us, even worse our grandfather didn't even like him, when he wanted to do kendo he was brushed off, but he did watch and late at night he would copy the movements, then we tried to get him to do it, but he was just beaten by our grandfather, but a good thing was that it brought us closer." Kazuto added, which Nijiki bit her lip.
"Wow...um...I didn't know, I'm sorry..." Bill claimed, but Ray who came back just sighed and shook his head.
"Don't worry, I may not be related to them by blood, but they are my family, and they treated me like their own, so I'm not that depressed about it, I mean a lot of good stuff happened from it." Ray stated as he took his seat, while everyone looked at him.
"Emh, well Kazuto, I'm curious about a fact Asuna told me, it was about you making your own computer from scratch when you were around 8 if I'm correct, is this true." Mr. Yuuki asked, which surprised Kazuto, making him look at Asuna, who blushed a bit.
"Well yes, I made the designs and firewalls and so on, but Ray helped me get the items needed for the computer." Kazuto answered, which made Mr. Yuuki nod his head as he was impressed, and Asuna's brother looked surprised and amazed, but Mrs. Yuuki was giving a glare, but no one but Asuna noticed.
"Impressive, so I can take a guess that you like designing and the technology that Vrmmo's use?" Mr. Yuuki questioned, which Kazuto nodded his head.
"Yes, that is what I like..." Kazuto replied, with a bit of curiosity of where this is going.
"I'm going to be honest right now...Kazuto I like you, you remind me of myself when I was around your age, heh...might even be better than me in more ways than one, and I can tell that you are a kind and honest boy who would do anything for his friends and family, and I just got this from one dinner." Mr. Yuuki stated, making Kazuto, and Mrs. Yuuki shocked, but Asuna had a bright smile and the urge to hug her father, and Asuna's brother closed his eyes but if you look you can see a small smile.
"Your brothers really get into interesting situations don't they?" Nagata asked Sugu, who laughed a bit.
"Yea, but after what they go though, they should be happy." Sugu stated, which Nagata's mom smiled at Sugu.
"You are a very sweet girl Suguha, no wounder my little boy likes you." Nagata's mom told Sugu, who blushed and Nagata look like he just became dead.
"Thank you M-" Kazuto started till a ringing sound came from the whole restaurant, which made them look to a stage to see a waiter talking through a microphone, making the massive party wounder what is going on.
"Everyone! We have a event going on today, we are going to select two people to come to the stage and sing for everyone!" The waiter called, making everyone shock.
"Man whoever has to sing has terrible luck." Ray stated, till a light landed on him and Kazuto, making Kazuto glare at Ray, who was in shock.
"Really Ray...really?!" Kazuto exclaimed with a sigh, but Ray just smacked his forehead in anger.
"Dame it, good thing I order my food, so come on Kazuto let's get this over with..." Ray growled, which Kazuto nodded his head, order his food and hurried to follow Ray, which they soon looked at the song in surprise.
"Can they sing?" Mrs. Yuuki asked, which Asuna and Nijiki just giggled, as music started to play.
*Ozone by: Vistlip*
Ray- sing
Kazuto- sing
Both- sing
The Milky Way looms over the hill of despair,
The cold wind ruffles my stole again,
"Just once a year"
How does it feel?
The replacement alone made me cry,
"please let me see you, just for tonight"
My love burned, flying with the comets,
The place where we promise to meet,
"Still the same as always, huh?"
In the cloudy underground,
If there's no stars, we should just become stars,
As we cuddle up together,
As we vow to each other,
"Don't go" "Until you forgive me"
I want to love you more than yesterday, like Altair and Vega
When the rain of tears stops, may the magpies make a bridge
Connecting us!
The Milky Way looms over the low,
The scenery I see is different from what I imagine,
Have I gotten further than I did then?
The answer isn't no,
But it's not far enough,
A mean "God" is testing us,
I'll fill the empty seats and move on to the next stage,
If you ask what our relationship is, maybe we're more than friends..
Or maybe that's not quite right...
"A bond" is the right word,
As we fight with each other,
As we share with each other,
"Are you OK now?" "I still can't do it"
I want to do this for you
I hope we can still smile tomorrow
It's so hard, so hard
And we don't know when we're going to die,
That's why Spica is selfish,
I don't "wish" on a star I "vow" to the Milky Way
Listen to my monologue
"We'll stay together year after year", that's all I want to say
Swear forever
Repeat forever
The place where we promised to meet
"Still the same as always, huh?"
In the cloudy underground
If there's no stars, we should just become stars
As we make fun of each other
As we love each other
"Hey, where are you?" "In the earth"
I'm not an astronaut,
So going below the ozone layer is no problem for me
"Got it, I'll be right there"
You want to party until dawn, right?
In our precious place!
*Song~end*
"Woah!" Everyone cheered, as Kazuto and Ray panted a bit.
"Harder than virtual reality..." Ray breathed, as they walked back to their table, which Asuna and Nijiki gave their respective boyfriends a hug and a kiss on the cheek, making the two blush, and Sugu and Nagata laugh, with soon all the adults joining in, even Mrs. Yuuki had a amused smile on her face.
"I'll admit...you two really surprise me...but Kazuto I may have respect for you now, and I might let you and Asuna date for now, but I will set up some suitors...until you can prove yourself." Mrs. Yuuki stated, making everyone shock about what she said.
"What? Hurry up, our food is here." Mrs. Yuuki claimed, which made everyone who is shocked sit down and eat.
*After dinner back at the Kirigaya house*
"Well that was...an interesting dinner..." Ray claimed, which Kazuto nodded his head in agreement.
"Yea no kidding, first Mrs. Yuuki hated me, then she appreciates me, but I still have to prove myself, which I have no idea how to do that, plus I have to be fast about it, before she finds a suitor that she likes more." Kazuto replied, which Ray sighed and look at Kazuto.
"Alright we will deal with this later, so let's head to bed, cause I have to wake up early to get the tips of my hair red again." Ray told Kazuto, who rolled his eyes and gave a stiff laugh.
"Alright, I'll see you tomorrow, so night." Kazuto said, which Ray gave a wave, and thought about the dinner.
"Weird dinner, but at least the girl's parents trust us, but Bill looked at me weirdly...I hope he will lay off my back." Ray told himself, before he went to his bed and slept.
To Be Continued...
With the dinner done and over with what will happen now? What else will people learn of Ray's past? Will Mrs. Yuuki accept Kazuto? What will be next? Find out next time.
Hey everyone I hope you all enjoy the chapter, now I do not own Ozone the song belongs to the original creators, now I have decided that there will be two chapters to this story, but till next time everyone and remember R&R! Peace!
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