Miyu shrugged. "She just won't come out of her room, and she won't open the door."
"Did she say why?"
"Only to reassure me that she wasn't angry or sad about anything."
"And you want me to talk to her?"
"Would you? You two have always been close and she listens to you."
"No problem," he replied and patted her on the shoulder, "Does she know that I'm home?"
"No, I don't think that she does," his wife said with a bit of a grin.
"Then this should be a bit of a surprise," Hiro said and knocked on his daughter's door. "Keiko, are you in there?"
"Daddy?" came her voice, "You're here?"
"I am, and I want to talk to you."
"About what..?"
"About the reason why you're in there like this. It isn't like you."
"I'm fine, really..."
"Then why won't you come out?"
"Because I can't..."
That made him frown. "Why not?"
"Because... I... I just can't."
"Is something the matter? I'm not going to yell at you if something wrong."
"Promise you won't freak out?"
"I can promise that neither of us will..."
"Okay..," Reiko told her father and opened the door.
Hiro blinked at the sight of his teenaged daughter standing there... and shrugged. "Is that it?"
"What? I thought that you would be freaking out or something."
He took hold of one of her now pointed ears and rubbed it slightly. "Just because of these and that big fluffy tail?"
"Well yeah..."
"Don't worry about it. Why don't we have a cup of tea and talk about it."
"How can you take it so calmly? I mean, it's not like it surprises you."
"I am surprised that it happened, but not of it. At least not now."
"Why is that?"
"Because he already... talked with me," Yumi said, with her own fluffy tail waving behind her.
Reiko stared at her mother. "You're a fox-girl too?"
"Seems that way."
The male of the trio sighed loudly. "Now I'm really in for it. I was out numbered before, and now I've got a pair of foxes to worry about."
"Daddy!" giggled Reiko.
"Well, I am..."
"Then I suppose that you'll need your piece of cake to make you feel better," Yumi told him.
"That'd be nice..."
"Come on then. The tea will get cold if we wait much longer," she told him and the girls took either side of him to lead him to the table.
Raijin looked in through the window from his perch in a tree and chuckled. It seemed that the family was getting along quite well. Which was a nice thing to see, but not the reason that he was in Ashaikawa in the first place.
He'd come to Hokkaido for a chance to find a bit of privacy for what he was thinking of doing. It wasn't that he had been there long, but he did plan on taking his time. After all, he needed to find someplace nice and private for his purposes. Several places to be completely accurate.
The reason for that had come during his watching of the situation down in Tokyo-3. He had seen the sudden explosion of new powers and had come to realise what this was.
It just happened to be a real life roleplaying game. They had plenty of players and a possible enemy, but they were missing one important thing. And that happened to be something that he had notice.
They didn't have cool and mysterious items to find when they were going around. There were no treasures to be found, items to be used, or weapons to power one's self up. That meant that they couldn't get any cool things to get after a long and possibly hard attempt.
As such, he was on the search for places to put them, so that they would be difficult to find, but not overly so. Once he had them, then he could go to a couple of the smith gods and get something to work with. Then he would put them into the hiding spots, and place ways of finding out about them.
And then he could step back and watch the people looked for them.
He was already imagining what that could be like, while:
(Posted Fri, 10 Oct 2003 04:49)
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