"Shin, come here for a second," Mitzi called out to her son. She was in the kitchen chopping up onions while Shin was watching Action Bastard. The moment the child heard his voice being called, he made for the bedroom. He hated doing any sort of chores that his mother gave him. Judging by the smell of soup brewing, he knew his mother was about to either ask him to clean the table or take something to the table. Didn't she know his favorite TV show was on? Even if his chore wasn't cleaning the table, she knew he would just become too engaged in Action Bastard and end up dropping the food on the floor.

He took off for the bedroom and made for the closet, wiggling to the back behind one of the boxes his mother was too lazy to unpack. She'd never find him here. It'd be a while since dinner would be done nevertheless he came prepared. He had hidden some of his dad's nude magazines he had stolen from behind the toilet, a soda, and chocobees. The one important thing he forgot where he dropped his Action Bastard flashlight.

"Here is it?" he muttered to himself as he felt around the closet. Meanwhile Mitzi was still calling his name but was getting no answer.

"Little brat, where is he?" she looked around the living room. Hima was playing with a toy dog her paternal grandmother had sent her while Action Bastard was playing on the TV in the background. Sneaking over to the curtains, she snatched it back only to find that her son wasn't there. Then he had to be hiding in Whitey's dog house she thought with the snap of the fingers. She went outside to look, but he wasn't there either.

Then he had to be hiding in the bedroom. Just as she checked her underwear drawer, she heard her son let out a muffled, "Aha! Alright, come to papa!"

This was followed by giggling and complimenting the swim suit on Miss April. Mitzi groaned the moment she heard that come out out of her son's mouth. Her stupid husband and those damn nude magazines he often snuck home. He had too many of those darn things and she had told the dumbass to toss them out. For one thing, Shin was already such a perverted kid, so he didn't need to have those especially in the house. That aside, it offended her that he'd rather look at a bunch of sluts posing nude in a magazine. What was wrong with her body? Oh who was she kidding. All she had was a big ass, small boobs, and a body ruined by having those too. She blamed her husband for her making her insecure about herself by him bringing in those magazine with those busty, beauty women. She remembered the last arguement they had about them. Hiro had pointed out that plenty of the the women in the magazine he bought were MILFs and it wasn't his fault Mitzi didn't know how to make herself look better after her pregnancies. This resulted in her tossing him out the house for whole two whole weeks right after burning his magazines right in front of him. She shook her head clear of these thoughts before slowly opening up the closet. Shin had his flashlight on while drooling over a woman wearing a bikini. It was probably one of the tamest picture in the damn book. She snatched it away from him.

"Hey I was..." he gulped the moment he saw his mom. "Oh h-hey mom! I found one of dad's magazines!"

"And you also found something else didn't you?" she gave him an evil smile.

"W-w-what was t-that, m-m-mom?" he stammered as she pulled him out.

"A noogie attack!" she said as she took her fists and did her signature "guri-guri" on her son. "How many times have I told you to not read your father's magazines!"

Once she dropped him down, she handed him a wash cloth. "Here. Wipe the table and then come set the table. Make sure it's nice and shiny because we're having our neighbor's over."

"She knows how messy this house is," said Shin. "You gossip with that noisy old lady* everyday, complaining about the mess you made!"

"First off, you mean nosy," she corrected him as she scooted him towards the door. "And it's not all my mess! You make up at least 95% of this mess! Anyways, we're no inviting her over. It's the new neighbors. I figured we owe it to them after a certain someone peed on their carpet."

"Well SOMEONE had the nerve to steal her panties just because she couldn't fit into her regular ones because she's a big fat cow with no boobs."

"Since you want to mouth off to me, no dessert young man!" she fumed as she went back to the kitchen to resume cooking.

"But...!" Shin sighed in defeat as she went back to cooking.

He mumbled about her being an old hag, which was heard by his mom but at this point he didn't really care. As he wiped the table, he heard his father announcing he was back home. The boy prayed his father wouldn't go searching for that magazine he had "borrowed". The little sticker read 4,277 yen ($40) on it which was quite expensive. Hiro had purchased the magazine from his limited allowance so he would be pissed to find out his limited edition Play-Bunny magazine. Usually all his father would do was be angry and, at times, disappointed he wasn't at least more discreet about it, though he would more mutter this to himself than his son. However his dad promised him to take him to the pool the next day if he behaved himself. Normally Shin wouldn't care too much unless it was a hot day. However after finding out about the new cute life guard at the pool, he was excited about going. It would all be ruined if his mother told his dad about it. He rushed over to his father at full speed.

"Dad, you have to get out of here! Mom invited a nasty tentacle monster to come suck your brains out!" he tugged on his pants. "Did I forget to mention it wants to eat your noodle too?"

"Shin, not now. I'm hungry. We'll play later, m'kay?"

"Shin, what did I ask you to do?" asked Mitzi as she came out with a tray of food. "The neighbor's will be here any second now and..."

Mitzi paused as she stared right at her husband's white shirt. Almost immediately, her expression darkened before she placed down the food, walked over to her husband, grabbed him by the shirt collar, and pulled him upstairs. As she went up stairs as Hiro questioned as to why they were going upstairs, she looked over at her son. "Shin, why don't you turn up the tv a bit more? I don't want you to hear this."

"Uh okay mom," as he turned up the tv, one could still hear his mother screaming at the top of her lungs at her father for the lipstick on his shirt. As Shin popped a piece of sushi in his mouth, he thought about if he should walk in on that mess of a fight to tell them Hima, with makeup on her face, had been in the laundry right before Mitzi found her and wiped it off. He decided to wait until his mom came down since when his mom was mad at his dad, it was scarier than Miss Katz after someone pointed out how much of a love-less loser she was.

*I don't remember her Funimation dub name, but the wiki refers to her as Kitamoto or Goobers.