My friend from a few chapters ago helped edit this chapter. I'm a little angry because while editing it an extra time I almost deleted a few words of it. Thanks for the reviews over the years. Please read and review.
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Gero and Aoshi did as planned as they went to the park. Gero stretched his muscles first as a curious Aoshi looked on with innocent awe.
"Why are you doing that Gero-oneechan?" She asked tilting her head.
When Gero saw that notion it hit him right in the feels! 'She's just so cute! Why couldn't I have a cute sister like this?'
Even though he was tempted to just scoop her up and take her for his own sibling and be charged with a crime he answered her question with a smile.
"It's so my muscles don't cramp when I run around kicking the ball." Gero responded as the girl gave a little nod which hit him in the feels once again.
As he finished Aoshi started doing her own stretches which was adorable. Gero soon asked her the same question and to his amusement she responded with "I don't want my muscles hurting!" She was determined!
Gero soon produced the soccer ball. "Ok this is what happens; I'm going to kick the ball to that goal," He pointed, "And it's your job to get the ball from me and get it to your goal on the other side. You get it?"
Aoshi nodded. "I got it Gero-onichan!" She even pumped up her fist.
Then the two started with a practice run as Gero explained the rules and the like.
"You're pretty good at this." He complimented her. 'It's nice to play against someone who doesn't play like a robot once in a while.' Gero thought in his head as they soon started.
Gero soon started and kicked the ball a little and ran at a decent pace. "Ok Aoshi, get the ball from me!"
Seeing the tall teen running the girl sprinted at him and as he gave the ball another a small kick the ball rolled a little and she got close to it and picked it up.
The green-haired girl held up the ball with triumph! "I got it!"
Even though Gero was enthralled by her chibi like factor he knew he had to set her straight with the rules of soccer. Approaching her Gero shook his head.
"That's not how you steal the ball, Aoshi."
"It's not?" She asked with shock which was cute in way.
'Dammit, control your urge to hug her!' "No; in soccer the player is always going to kick the wall away from you. You need to get in front of where they are going to kick and you have to block them by jumping to the ball."
The little girl responded with, "But what if they turn around so fast I can't get the ball?"
Gero scratched his hair. "That's a risk you have to be willing to take. So you ready?"
Aoshi nodded, even though she wanted to use her hands she wanted to make Gero proud of her. "I'm going to do it!" Her smile was like a star being born.
Gero soon placed a hand over his heart. 'The feels...right in the fucking feels! Fuck this, if Sankarea don't want her I'll be her honorary big brother!'
Minutes pass.
"You see now." Gero said as Aoshi blocked the ball before he got the ball back from her with ease.
Aoshi frowned. "But you didn't take the ball away from me."
"Exactly, It's always probable that when you run to get the ball from someone their going to kick it away." He explained. "Sometimes they don't know where so they kick it to the left and that's when you speed up to the ball and take it."
Light blue eyes looked thoughtful as Gero soon passed her the ball. "Here why don't you go practice?"
"I will Gero-oniichan!" She cried taking the ball to kick it around a little.
Gero smiled before his students came around; a total of eight boys.
A boy with spiky brown hair and black eyes, named Daiki, who looked rather mischievous, spoke for the squad.
"So what's the teacher going to teach us today?"
"Yeah, what'cha going to teach us?" Two twin boys with red hair styled in a bowl haircut and brown eyes answered at the same time. They were named Yoshi and Hidaku.
Another boy with glasses and black hair frowned. "It better not be stupid!" This one was Satoshi.
"Probably going to be hilarious watching him teach us something!" The one named Jin laughed; he had brown hair too but was longer and put in a tail.
One with blond hair and green eyes, named Larry, murmur out, "it wasn't so fun last time."
"Ah come on dude, won't be that bad!" Kensuke replied; he had grayish hair.
The last one, Yusuke, straight up black hair sneered. "Don't bore us teach!"
'Talk about a bunch of rascals...' Gero thought about the amount of energy they had. Holding out his hands Gero started taking charge.
"Ok calm down everyone. Today I'm going to teach you how to use your heads." Gero stated as he had another soccer ball ready in the wings.
The boys remained quiet.
"As you know in soccer hitting your head against the ball is always going to give you a headache, so I brought helmets." He replied grabbing some helmets from a sack that he brought with him (why the editor didn't write that down before all this is a mystery).
The group of boys gave him strange looks as Yusuke yelled out, "Come on that's kind of stupid Gero-sensei!"
Gero just glared at Yusuke. "Quiet you."
Larry soon spotted an anomaly and pointed. "Gero-sensei why is there a girl on the field?"
The teen smiled. "I'm glad you asked Larry, she someone I was watching."
When he said the nine-year olds minds raced at the prospect of a teenager watching a little girl.
"Isn't that what we would call 'Stranger danger?" Yoshi loudly whispered to his brother.
"Yeah it is who knows where Gero-sensei got her!" Hidaku replied back with a snicker.
Hearing all this Gero dropped his head. "Stop making it sound like I kidnapped her you brats!"
They snickered like a bunch of gremlins having a party at night.
Seeing the commotion going about Aoshi waltzed over and waved happily at them, Gero kept a kind of hawk gaze over the kids; who know what a group of boys would do to an innocent girl like her? Tease her of course.
The braided girl waved and introduced herself as she bowed. "Hello my name is Aoshi and I was asked by Gero-oniichan too-!"
She didn't get to finish as Daiki flipped her skirt for all the boys to see! Gero was too shocked to do anything at what happened!
Daiki exclaimed with shock! "Look her underwear doesn't have any teddy bears or strawberries on it. It's adult underwear?"
Yusuke, Satoshi and the twins couldn't believe their eyes; the underwear was also lacy and black?!
Aoshi didn't know how to react at first until she got embarrassed and gave a squeal! "Eeeeeeekkk!"
POW!
Daiki soon had a knot on his head! "Owww; why did you hit me, sensei?"
Gero scoffed as he made sure Aoshi was fine before answering. "Flipping a girl's skirt is not something to do on a soccer field. In high school when you're playing with any female they will hit you so hard your brains will fall out. As punishment you..."
"Come on dude, it's Daiki!"
Gero nodded, he wasn't the best with these guys' names. "Gotcha, Daiki you're not allowed to have a helmet on."
The boy got indignant as the others held back laughter.
"But I'll hurt my head if I don't wear a helmet, sensei!"
The silver haired teen smirked and gave him a wink. "That's kind of the point." He then spoke to all of them. "Now I don't want you teasing or doing anything to Aoshi, you understand me? She's our guest and I want to show her that not all boys are rambunctious little turds! Now let's get this practice started!"
The boys put on the helmets (except for Daiki) and had their game faces on.
Gero used his feet and kicked the back! "All of you against me!" Gero commanded as he called out to Aoshi, "You watch as I show these dweebs how it goes Aoshi!"
Aoshi smiled and cheered. "Good luck Gero-oniichan!"
That cheer was all that Gero needed as he soon concentrated on the group of boys sprinting at him.
The dastardly duo; Yoshi & Hidaku were on each side of Gero and Hidaku tried getting in front of the teen but he stopped but Yoshi got the ball and laughed at by sticking his tongue out! Yoshi soon ran in the other direction. Gero sprinted after him but was met by Jin and the rest of the gang. The teen also got the ball and started bouncing it on the top of his head perplexing the kids and seeing them distracted Gero gave a mighty kick and got the ball in the goal!
And that's how the game continued.
It took some time and careful maneuvering but Gero ended up getting the ball back from the boys and scoring a couple of times! Afterwards the boys had some disgruntled looks with Larry going as far going into his emo corner.
"Geez he kicked our butts!" Larry muttered gloomily.
Kensuke patted his friend's shoulder. "Ah it wasn't that bad dude!"
Daiki and the rest got a couple of mutters of "next time!" and whatever kids say when they get their asses handed to them.
Gero wiped his hand across his forehead getting rid of some sweat and smiled. "I hope you all learned important lessons from today's practice, today!"
Jin raised his hands, "Then why did we have to pay a fee in order for you to teach us?"
The others nodded in agreement with the twins almost crawling on Gero's shoulders before he answered.
"Because...uhhhh" Gero couldn't reveal the truth, Kami probably looked down on shit like that! He was about to give an excuse until he saw a miracle. "Hey look, here comes your parents! See ya!"
He grabbed Aoshi by the hands and high tailed it out of there until they were out of the park and in the shopping district. Gero soon found a bench for them to sit down in with Aoshi cutely asking, "Why did you run away from their parents, Gero?"
Head dropping in minor embarrassment he answered.
"I'll tell you since you're a very smart girl; I'm not really their teacher."
"You're not?" Aoshi said with a perplexed expression.
Gero concurred. "Their first teacher ran away from them like a coward. I'm there teaching them for a fee. I know it's wrong but I'm teaching also teaching karate lessons because I broke the teacher's back as well."
The white haired teen gave a somber smile. "I'm even. Am I an evil person for asking for a little money?"
Aoshi shook her head. "You're not a bad person Gero-oniichan; you took me playing so you can't be a bad guy!"
This made Gero smile and his heart go a flutter.
She than asked him something. "Can I have some money?"
Holding up his hands Gero had to veto that idea. "Whoa, I never give money to children unless I know what their spending it on."
Aoshi soon got gun shy for a moment before telling him. "There's this Angel Fighter Action Figure releasing today and I want it."
She sounded excited as her face got happy!
Gero appeared surprised as she continued going gaga over the Angel Fighter.
"So you want to use the money to buy an Angle Fighter Figurine?" 'Who'd of thought she was getting into the otaku culture?'
An enthused nod from the child's head. "Yes. They're really cool."
Keeping a bemused smile Gero asked, "Why do you like Angel Fighter that much?"
Her eyes sparkled as if it were Christmas. "Because he helps people who have died passing on by helping the people who lost and his fights are awesome!"
'Yep, an otaku in the making!' "Tell you what. I'll buy you the figurine and I'll give you all my Angel Fighter's comic books"
She gave a dramatic gasp! "You have Angel Fighter comics?"
"Yeah not that big of a deal; growing up I needed something to help me when my mother was bringing strange men to our house." Gero responded with indifference. "Sometimes when listening to her I wondered if she would be happy if I was never born?"
Seeing how the child looked enthralled he decided to lay off that subject. "After reading Angel Fighter I decided to help her and her nihilist boyfriends."
He then said something a single word. "Stupid,"
The girl blinked. "Did I say something wrong, Gero?"
"Hmmm, oh no Aoshi, I was talking about myself. I completely forgot to ask you how you were doing after you had your skirt flipped by Daiki. I'm sorry it came to that." Apparently Gero still felt guilty about that.
He continued. "When I was a boy I liked to flip the skirts of girls I liked. The girls may have been older than you but I'm sure he just thinks the same way about you."
"I don't really care about that." She said with the maturity of a girl half her age. "I like the attention boys give me. My mother was beautiful...I just hope some of her beauty could rub off on me."
Aoshi soon had a sad facial expression. "I'm sad because my sister will never look at me as a 'real' sister. Sankarea will only see me as someone she doesn't like because father made us both unwanted. He likes having children but he doesn't want us to live with him."
The girl had some tears in her eyes for a moment before Gero placed a hand over her head making her squeak.
"You know if this were a movie this would be the part where I tell you your father loved you with all his heart. But in the real world there are some fathers who have done terrible things to their children, from abuse to even committing suicide in one story."
Gero continued speaking. "In other movies parents aren't what they're like in real life and that makes you want to stay away from them. I have a friend named Ian and he told me how your father was part of the Chinese mafia, the yakuza, and every time Ian talked about your father he wished more and more that he would become his father. Foxy's father fights with honor, he said."
This made the girl blink. "Who is Foxy?"
"She is another half-sister of-!" He didn't finish as Aoshi looked shocked.
"I have another sister? Unbelievable."
'Oh boy, I better get ready for the water works….' "I know; I'm sure I would be mad if my mother-"
"I have another sister; hurray!" Aoshi cheered putting her arms in the air!
Gero smiled. "Or it could be the greatest thing ever."
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