Getting To Know:
Usako should have been visiting her son in care of Yosaku needing to know the progress of how his arm was. Knowing her end of the deal she made with Yosaku could be paid off at this moment. Instead she found her self wedged or cornered between rekindled love of her life and Sani. Sitting within a health food restaurant in one of mini-cocktail dress with sweet heart neckline, and spiked heels. Her hair swayed to the left side of her face that was voided any form of make-up then flesh colored lipstick. Beside Coco trying to make her feel comfortable with situation.
Since before her was someone she CLEARLY stated didn't want to meet while she was here for her son. Not that Sani cared why Usako never 'dropped' in to say hello once she started her new life with a son. One he found out had his excepted hair coloring down to the trio colored blends. Was explained to a T by both Usako and Coco that wasn't any way biologically related to him. While other was the odd staring contest that formed between Usako and Sani before waiter came to the table.
"No way is this appropriate to start off a reunion after long separation." Coco tried to get one to talk.
"..." Usako wasn't going to be the first to break.
"What's his name?" Sani asked about her son.
"Lexxion and again...he's not yours." Coco repeated the same conversation they had before about Usako's son not being Sani's child.
"I know that." Sani sat back in his seat pouting.
"Why did you ask about him?" Usako finally spoke. "...And stop staring at me."
She knew Sani always admired beauty in all forms since she carried an unnatural attractiveness within her self. She knew about since during her childhood she earned a strange nickname from her father, Ichiryuu. Not that she ever lived up to that nickname during times she hunted with him or by self.
"Let's just order before we get into important stuff." Coco noticed a waiter coming their way.
"You're right. You're right." Usako comes to agree with Coco.
Sani would have objected if the scene-taking place before him didn't stick a cord with in his chest. Way Coco smiled toward Usako when she smiled back at allowing her to peer at beverage section of his menu. Taking her hand she whispered something to him that gave him quite a startled expression. Got him a kiss upon his unguarded face by her had softened whatever mood Sani was in. Before Coco announced they were jointly ordering bottle of collected Champagne Rain. They were wiling to share with Coco before and appetizer was to be ordered to go with their drinks.
"I am talking then thinking about food at the moment." Sani hadn't touched his menu.
"Well you can't beat a dead mechinisu horse for to long." Usako knew how stubborn Sani was.
"You talk." Coco knew they had some chatting to do. "I'll order."
"All right." Usako kissed him once more before facing Sani.
Conversation started with a difficult question that Usako had prepared her self to answer for years. Being why she had up and left them just when they started to develop from boys into young man. Aside from how she cut her self completely from only family she ever known and helped raised.
"It's called starting a family of my own." Usako reaches for her purse. "I couldn't always stick around with growing boys."
Out she pulled was wallet size pictures she meant to give Coco before she even agreed to sit down, and have meal with Sani. She would hand over to him pointing out how had to get Lexxion to pose for them. Each one was the youth smiling awkwardly into lens of camera she held at the time. What he held in his arms was a small tree held in a small cooking pot shaped from clay. Rest of him from the waist down couldn't be seen since the pictures were of him from waist up. Wearing worn clothing covered in stains made of dirt with background of Usako's green house behind him.
"Flourite is teaching him any and every thing about plants." Usako points out what Lexxion was doing when she took the pictures. "That bonsai was Flourite's gift to Lexxion when they first met. "
"Seems they get along quite well." Coco wasn't bothered by bond Lexxion shared with Flourite.
"If you only knew..." Usako agreed with Coco.
She ended up shifting attention from admiring pictures she taken her self for Coco to watchful Sani. Giving him a single picture of Lexxion asking if he ever wanted to meet the young man in a while. Had Coco objecting to having someone like Sani coming face to face with someone like Lexxion. If wasn't for familiar expression on Usako's face that had Coco backing out of the conversation.
"I'll see." Sani stared the picture.
He was taken back by the young man's natural beauty he had inherited from his parents and Grandfather. Way strands of his hair stood without being done up by use of hair jell, moose, or type of spray. Dilated pupils of his terrified eyes at the sight of being caught off guard by his mother wanting snap shots of him. Wrinkling of his nose and lips weren't to distorted in his frighten state.
"I was thinking of entering him in the Harvest Pageant." Usako brought up Gourmet World's Co-Ed beauty Pageant.
"You sure about that?" Coco asked knowing Lexxion wouldn't be into that kind of thing.
"Who knows..." Usako shrugged.
Waiter with enough courage approached their table asking them in his loudest voice what they wanted. What he got was right away answer from Usako asking for price list of liquors while Sani gave his order. After the waiter sent a fellow staff member to fetches Usako 's request before she grew in impatient. To be given a to-go dessert order in the form of a sherbet apple topped with crumbled jungummi. By Usako before walking off not asking why she ordered knowing Sani already did.
"Lexxion and Rin share a sweet tooth." Usako brought up a trait of her son's Sani wasn't happy to hear about. "Odd thing about it is ..."
She didn't want to bring up that no matter want sugary treat her son put ingested he never gained a pound. Instead he usual experiences energy burst that last for only a few second before he crushes. Other half the time he just enjoys the sweetness what he taste buds after bypassing his mouth.
"I blame dad for always spoiling him when I left him in his care." Usako could never get over how Ichiryuu treated Lexxion.
"Just shows how much he loved him." Coco reminds her.
Smile that spread across her face after she was assured that Lexxion was like every other young man his age. Would be shot down by Sani sitting back in his seat rather roughly clenching his menu. Not pleased that someone her son's age didn't have a much more healthy habit in eating or food in general. Mumbling that he should sit the boy down and have 'long' talk with him about his imposed tastes in food.
"Acting like an uncle already." Coco was touched by Sani's rambles.
"Better then how Toriko and Terry Cloth introduced them selves." Usako could still remember the introduction. "One of those times I'm glad Lexxion's arm was still broken."
Not that she was disagreeable about Toriko one of the first Four Heavenly Kings that made an impression on her son. She just never like how he confronted the youth with grin on his face mile long. Beside him was a battle wolf that blankly stared at Lexxion while names were exchanged during 1-side conversation. Ended with Toriko suddenly raising Lexxion into the air like a rag doll insisting he touch or sit on Terry Cloth. Swinging the youth back and fourth not noticing how easily nauseated Lexxion was getting. To only forcedly place the youth on back of the Battle Wolf rather harshly.
"Toriko didn't know that Lexxion ha terrible case of motion sickness he witnessed first hand." Usako remembered how Toriko discovered that attribute. "Since he ended up throwing up after dismounting Terry Cloth."
"Will Toriko have always been enthusiastic person." Coco knew Toriko was trying to get to know his nephew.
"Makes me think how Zebra will take the news... " Usako knew Lexxion could only take so much.
"He has a high tolerance." Coco figure Lexxion could handle Zebra.
Sound of Sani dropping his menu upon the all-wooden table had the two turning toward him frozen expression. Not that either one needed to worry about what was going through Sani's mind. By his lack of movement showed a protective bond was forming that Usako hoped her son would welcomed (with out objection). To only have her doubts put to rest when Coco ended up taking her hand in assuring gesture.
"Let's worry when we get to that obstacle." Were the words that sooth her heart.
Would had Sani complementing them both on there combined beauty making perfect picture of romance. If image of Lexxion even knowing of Zebra's existing didn't have an of kind paralyzing effect on him. That was welcomed well for the rest of time they had way after the drinks were delivered. Just trying to get an answer out of Sani about what he wanted to order in the form of a food dish. Was a problem since only signs of consciousness he showed was blinking and twitching. Leaving Usako to rely on her developed sense of touch or knocking that she honed.
"Waky -Waky Sani!" She angled one of her hands on the table in Sani's direction just enough to start a gently tapping rhythm on the surface. Sending a form of vibration through the air in a repeated matter aimed for Sani's eardrums. Entering his eardrums at the right tone drawing him out of his stupor long enough to notice his surroundings.
Coco was quite impressed with simple tapping on her nail had done to pull Sani from his self-induced trance. Had him offering to pay for a spa visit if she told him what type of nail polish she give her nail gloss appearance. To the floor his answer came when Usako's Dobbra barked a few times. Baring his elongated fangs to Coco while he noisily woofed ready to stand and walk to Usako's side.
"I milk the venom from his fang with a little coaxing." Usako signaled for her Dobbra come down. "When I get enough to fill half a bottle..."
She didn't want to give away all her beauty secrets since her French tipped done up nails layered with clear polish. Was one of few features Sani noticed about her done self from her primped up hair to clear coated nails. Had him wanting to ask about the supposed 'beauty secrets' Usako used.
"Have you ever gotten bit?" Coco asked out of concerned.
"Doesn't look like it." Sani mumbled unable to find a single scar on her skin when his eyes looked over.
"Once or twice." She looked to her nails. "Sometimes I allowed Lexxion to watch."
Her lonely hand on the table would end up being taken up by concerned Coco while Sani look a little terrified. This made Usako roll her eyes at how Sani's reaction to her son being exposed to danger. Coco was more linnet to knowing why Usako was experimenting with poisons and toxicants. Figuring in his own way she did what she did to become more closer to him due to own toxicity. Be set aside for them to enjoy this meal together before leaving to check on Lexxion.
Remembering that youth was left in the care of a Class A Saiseiya with a sketchy reputation and terrible smoking habit. Where his dormant paternal instincts started to awaken at thought of further hurt Lexxion. To had the his hands squeezed by Usako as if she sensed he was stressing over their child. That ended with him being gently kissed on the cheek by her gloss covered lips. Gave him a tingling sensation that Komatsu told always left him lights headed and rather dizzy.
"We need to speak about your relationship with 'Matsu ..." Coco thought Usako needed to know.
Sani ended up agreeing after his most recent chat with him about how their favorite chef was falling for Usako. They way she had been stringing innocent Komatsu around since meeting him.
"You're both right." She knew this would come up. "...This isn't right for either him...or me..."
"You one tough cookie." Yoksaku comments on Lexxion's pain tolerance. "This doesn't prove your Ichiryuu's grandson..."
For the 100th time that day Lexxion turned his head the other way so he wouldn't have to inhale Yoksaku's smoke. He wished the guy stop breathing on his while his bones were being re-set or put together. Not that he was already trying to block out the repeated pain that came from Yoksaku treated him.
"You sound like my mom when you say that." Lexxion just sat there.
"Glad to know." Yoksaku looked arm over.
He tried to not fletched when a plastic brace was replaced his cast while liner scars made wrapped around his limb. To only be told that wasn't much to be done to a broken bone like Lexxion. Every bone in his limb had been popped back into place while half fracture was turned into hair break.
"Thanks for doing this." Lexxion wanted to thank him some how.
"When you get better..." Yoksaku grinned. "Come visit me sometime."
"Will do." Lexxion freely moved his fingers.
Young boy showed promise for the role of a Saiseiya when he describes the names of plants all around him. Even pointing out the types of medical classified insects swarming around just by first glace that had. He carefully moved around despite being poked and probed with all types of bone mending treatments. Bringing up how his mother had a section of her greenhouse filled with herbs.