And More (Part II)

"What are you doing here Jordan?" Miyuki asked yawning, "and what's for breakfast?"

"Well, I'm here to eat breakfast of course. Your mom's a great cook," he said, "and you mom's making French toast and breakfast sausages."

"Suck up," she hissed.

"Ohayou gozaimasu," Sendoh said cheerfully, "can I help you with anything, Saori-san?"

"And you call me a suck up," Jordan hissed back.

"Nope. I'm fine, thanks though," Saori said.

"He's just well-manned, unlike you," Miyuki retorted.

"Oooh, protective. Guess it's to be expected. You two did sleep together," Jordan smirked.

"How did you know," she asked, "mom, where's daddy, and Alex and co.?"

"They went to pick up Kaede. He's arriving today with Akira's sister."

"Rika's here too?" Sendoh said frowning.

"Why? Is something the matter?" Saori asked.

"Who's going to take care of my dog?"

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"Kaede! Kaede over here!" came shouting.

'You got to be kidding me,' Rika thought, 'he even got fans here?!?'

Rika looked over at the little kids, 'Ok, not exactly what I expected.'

Rukawa walked over and actually hugged them.

"Oh, hi. You must be Akira's sister, Rika, ne? I'm Kaede's father, call me Reijiro. They're Alexander, Christopher, Jonathan, and Gabriel."

"You're Kaede's girlfriend?" Alexander asked.

"Eeeew!" Gabriel said.

"Gabriel…" Reijiro warned.

"What? Kevin said girls go cooties."

"Why do you listen to Kevin so much? Kevin said this, Kevin said that. How come I never hear you say dad said this, dad said that?" Reijiro asked.

Gabriel looked really thoughtful, "Because you're not cool."

"Dad…about Miyu and Sendoh?" Rukawa asked.

"We're forcing them together. It shouldn't be a problem, I can tell she likes him too."

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Miyuki looked at the tram car and all her friends, 'Why are they all here?'

"Miki, your boyfriend's cute," Samantha said.

"He's not my boyfriend."

"But Jordan told me he was."

Miyuki laughed, "You know your boyfriend can't be trusted."

"I'll have to teach him a lesson about lying later. Why don't you give him a chance though? I heard he chased you all the way here."

"Where did you hear all this? And I am giving him a chance…"

"Really? How?"

"Enabling me to see a shooting star…"

Samantha stared at her, "That's not a chance. That's more of an excuse."

'I never said it had to be the real thing. I don't even know why I'm giving his such a hard time. Anything he comes up with I'd probably let him pass. What am I doing?' Miyuki wondered.

"Miki your boyfriend's hot," Melissa said.

"He's not my boyfriend," she stated.

"But I heard you guys were going out."

"From how?"

"Jordan."

'I'm going to kill that guy.'

.

"Your friends are cool," Sendoh said.

"I'm glad you think so," Miyuki muttered, 'they're acting so annoying today.'

"What?"

"Nothing," she said with a smile, "lets see if Rika and Kaede are here."

The moment they got inside they heard loud wailing.

"Change her diapers,"

"Your mom asked you to take care of her," Rika said.

"Rika," Sendoh said and rushed to the living room.

'He's eager to see her.'

.

"Rika where's Sunshine?" Sendoh asked.

"What happened to: Why are you here? How have you?"

"You're obviously fine and here because of Rukawa," Sendoh said brushing it off, "so where's Sunshine?"

Rika rolled her eyes, "Pet hotel."

"Someone change her diaper. I can't hear the TV!" Chris yelled.

"Miyu, you're here. Change her diaper," Rukawa said holding out Jessica.

"Yeah change her diaper!" her brothers said.

"Since you all put it that way…no! You rugrats are such lemmons. I'm not disturbed by shrieks of annoyance and I can actually read close caption. So someone else change it," she said.

Rika sighed, "I'll do it."

She walked off with Jessica.

Sendoh looked at Rukawa, "Are you sure? Last time she baby-sit, she mistaken baking soda for baby powder and got fired."

".." Rukawa frowned, 'mom put me in charge of Jessica. If anything happens to her…"

He sighed and got up.

.

"Really? You want to become an oceanographer? One of my friend's dad is a marine biologist, and has a lot of those sort of pictures. I can introduce you to him."

"Really?"

"Yep. How about tomorrow? He doesn't live that far away."

"But my English isn't that good and…"

"That's why you should take this chance to practise. From now on I'm going to speak English to you."

Rika smiled, "Ok."

"Lets sleep then, he gets up so early you won't believe it."

.

"Just show her a video of meteors," Rukawa said yawning.

"Wouldn't that be getting her on technicalities? I think she means the real thing."

"So?"

"…" Sendoh was silent, "why did you take Rika here anyways?"

"…" Rukawa frowned, "quiet. Sleepy."

"But I'm not sleepy yet," Sendoh said, "you like her don't you?"

"…"

"Well since you didn't say now that's must mean yes. Did you tell her? She'll be very happy about it."

'Tell her? How? I can't just tell her,' Rukawa thought, "quiet."

"Is this better?" Sendoh asked in a whisper.

"Do'aho," Rukawa muttered.

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"Where did you and Rika go so early in the morning?" Saori asked.

"Friend's house."

"Who?" Rukawa asked.

"What's it to you?" Miyuki asked, "a gentleman unlike you. Not helping her when she was being picked on by a pervert on the plane."

"She scared the guy silly," Rukawa retorted.

"How?" Reijiro asked, "she's seems so sweet. Right, Sendoh?"

"No comment," Sendoh said.

"She's scary to you because you're a wuss and that pervert was a chicken," Miyuki said.

"What's pervert?" Gabriel asked.

"…"Rukawa looked at Miyuki, "you used it."

"You'll know when you're older," Miyuki said.

"I'm 4!"

"Not old enough."

"How old?"

"I don't know. However old you are when you know," Miyuki said with a shrug, 'tautologies are so wonderful.'

.

Rika got out of the car, "Thanks for taking be back Mister…"

"You're welcome," he said, "just call me, Antoine. Come visit again."

"Ok."

Rika got into the house.

"Where did you go?" Rukawa asked.

She wish she could pronounce Bielkiewicz, "To Antoine's house."

"Antoine?"

"Yeah. He's interesting and he introduced me to his kiss." [A/N: I think kiss and kids would sound kind of alike if pronounced using Japanese hiragana.]

"His what?!"

"His French kids."

Rukawa turned and to his brothers, "Lets go swimming now."

'What's up with him?'

.

"Why is he so moody?" Rika asked.

"Guy's PMS?" Miyuki suggested.

"What?"

"Uh…never mind. He was fine this morning. Maybe he drank too much chlorine at the pool or something. Or maybe he got groped," Miyuki with a smirk.

"No. He was mad before that. Right after our conversation."

"Conversation about what?"

"Antoine. I mentioned his kids and Rukawa walked away."

"Pardon? His what?"

"You sound just like Rukawa. Kids."

Miyuki smiled, "You mean children. I know why he's mad and grouchy. Because he's jealous."

"About what?"

.

Rukawa watched Sendoh play Bomberman with his brothers. He couldn't believe Rika would kiss some stranger.

"So you like him, huh? Wait until I introduce you to some of my other friends. I know these really cool guys that are girlfriend hunting," Miyuki said.

He snort.

"You got a problem with that?"

"If they were that amazing they wouldn't be single," Rukawa stated.

"You're single," Rika said.

"My friend are funny, interesting, social and well-mannered, unlike you Kaede," Miyuki said, "don't worry Rika, you'll love your date with them. I'll phone the three best candidates right now, and you guys could have your date and tour of San Francisco at the same time."

"Kaede is better than your friends," Jonathan said.

Rika and Miyuki exchanged looks and laughed like maniacs.

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"Rukawa go prove them wrong," Sendoh said.

The Sendoh, Alex and co. began chanting, "Prove them wrong! Prove them wrong!"

"Don't make a fool of yourself and back down," Miyuki said with a smirk.

Rukawa glared at her, "I will prove it."

Rika and Miyuki laughed even harder.

.

"Where are you taking Rika?" Sendoh asked.

No reply.

"I know you're not asleep. I don't hear snoring," Sendoh said, "she likes aquatic stuff."

"I don't need your help," Rukawa stated.

Sendoh smiled, "You like Rika a lot, don't you?"

"…"

"You were worried when Miyuki said she'd introduce guys to Rika."

"…"

"And you-"

"If you have that much time, think of a solution to Miyu's problem."

"Don't worry. I got a plan. Now back to you…"

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(Next Evening)

Rika was annoyed with Rukawa. He sank back to his three word vocabulary and two action self. The three words were: baka, do'aho, whatever. His two actions were sleeping and breathing.

"You make the world's worst date."

He snorted.

"What's wrong with you?" she demanded.

He turned his head away from her which really pissed her off, so she kicked him in the shin.

Rukawa glared, not amused.

Rika kicked him again harder, wanting a reaction out of him.

.

"Where do you think Kaede and Rika went? The rugrats are asleep and they're still not back."

"Maybe they're having so much fun they lost track of time."

"More likely that baka fell asleep and Rika was too kind to awaken him," Miyuki said.

"Lets go look for them."

"Where?"

Sendoh grinned, "San Francisco's make-out spots."

"Kaede doesn't know any make-out spots."

"I know where they are," Sendoh declared.

He said it in such a dramatic way, Miyuki had to say, "To the bat mobile."

"The what?"

"Nothing," she said, "so where to?"

"The park."

.

Rukawa stepped on her shoes, "Enough."

She punched him not so softly on his arm, 'Ouch.'

Then again on the very same spot and again. He grabbed her arm, "Stop it."

He was afraid she'll start biting him or something, "what do you want?"

"What do you mean what do I want? You're the one who's giving me attitude. I thought we were pass that."

"I didn't think you'd kiss a guy you just met."

Rika stared at him and laughed.

.

"They're not here," Miyuki pointed out.

"I said I know where they were. I didn't say I was going to take you there," Sendoh said grinning.

Miyuki shook her head, "You've been around me way too much. You're starting to sound like me."

"Lay down."

"Sendoh! I can't believe you!" she exclaimed with mock shock.

"Cooperate and you will not be harmed," he said.

She laughed, "Ok, ok. Though I'm going to get grass stains on me."

"Now look ahead."

"Why? What is there to see?" she asked.

.

He toss one of the lucky stars he folded over her, then another.

"Are you littering?" she asked.

'Littering?'

"It's very immature to be throwing spit balls."

"They're not spit balls!"

"What is it then?" she asked.

He sighed and handed her a folded star.

"A lucky star? Did you write your wish inside? It suppose to come true," she said.

"Yeah. Did it really look like spit balls?"

She laughed, "No, not really. But it was fun to see your reaction."

"Does this mean I pass?" he asked hopefully.

She smiled, "That depends on what's written inside this star."

.

"What are you laughing about?"

"Because I'm happy," she said, "you're jealous."

"Am not."

"Oh, yes you are. You're such a baka."

"Do'aho."

"I didn't kiss any guy. I said kids. He was Miyuki's friend's dad."

"…"

"Well get off me already. You're heavy."

He let go of her and muttered, "Gomen."

Rika grinned, "So…do you like me?"

"…"

.

"You got to stop grinning like such a hentai."

"Trying to change me already," Sendoh said with a dramatic sigh.

"Got to begin right from the start," she said with a smile, "it's hard to teach an old dog new tricks."

"Dog? I'm hurt," he said, "hey, isn't that Rika and Rukawa?"

"Look they're holding hands. Quick, we got to run home before they spot us."

"Why?" he asked pouting, "are you ashamed to be seen with me?"

She rolled her eyes, "I want to see if they're going to make out at the door step."

The End

A/N: I'm finally done! *grins* Did it seemed a bit rushed? I'm trying to finish off some of my old stuff so I can start my newer stuff. *sheepish look*