Saturday Morning, Ucchan's Okonomiyaki
Ukyou wiped her forehead free of sweat as she stood up straight. Putting a fist in the small of her back, she continued the stretch before looking around a room emptying after the breakfast rush.
'Sure hope that Konatsu writes soon. With the way that business has picked up in the last few weeks, I could use some help for lunch and dinner. If he isn't coming back from the teahouse, I need to start looking at hiring some help' She started scraping the grill clean. 'As long as he's been gone, I hope it wasn't anything serious.'
'Haven't seen Ran-chan in the last week and a half. Don't know if that's a good thing or not.'
With a clean grill and a few minutes to spare before school, Ukyou moved upstairs to change while reflecting on the situation in Nerima after the wedding disaster at the Tendou Dojo
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While preparing for the lunch rush, a knock was heard at the door.
Yelling from the storeroom, Ukyou called, "WE'RE NOT OPEN YET, PLEASE COME BACK IN HALF AN HOUR!"
"SPECIAL DELIVERY!"
"OH? FROM WHOM?"
"A KUONJI KAZUYA!"
"WHO'S THAT?"
"DON'T KNOW!"
"WELL, LEAVE IT ON THE STOOP!"
"SORRY, BUT I NEED YOU TO SIGN FOR IT!"
"Alright. Here, gimme the paper."
"THANK YOU! AND HAVE A *cough* nice day!"
Leveling a 'look' at the delivery man, Ukyou saw that the crate was on about 2 meter tall, and about a meter square, with a large manila envelope taped to the front. "Hey, couldn't you gimme a hand moving this thing into the back room?"
With the crate safely ensconced in the storeroom, Ukyou took the envelope with her and finished her business preparations. She glanced at it several times, but gradually put it out of her mind as the rhythm of her Art overtook her.
Once the lunch rush was over, her mind turned back to the contents of the crate and envelope. Grabbing it, she noticed for the first time that the thing was sealed with wax, bearing the hanko of the Kuonji family. Not an individual hanko, mind you, but the one used by the head of the clan.
"Ukyou -
"I hope that this message finds you in good health. We have not met before, but I am Kuonji Kazuya, your great-uncle on your father's side, and the present head of the Kuonji clan. I have assumed these duties only recently, due to the death of your great-grandfather."
"I realize that we have never met before, and therefore it might make the news I bring you somewhat more difficult to take. We Kuonjis have never been a numerous clan. Properous, yes. Long-lived, yes. But there have never been that many of us alive at any given time. As the only male of an appropriate age, it falls to you, Kuonji Ukyou, to take up the Kuonji Legacy and discharge the duty of your generation."
"Within the crate which I have sent to you is the Treasure of the Kuonji clan. Handed down through the generations, it has become the honor as well as the burden of the Kuonji family. It is a weapon of great potency against the evil which lurks in the dark corners of the world, and has been the death of many of our clan, yet holds great rewards for the worthy wielder."
"It is, in fact, -"
(Posted Tue, 10 Feb 2004 13:05)
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