Just when he had properly put Iiana on the bed, he heard a ruckus around the house.
Walking briskly downstairs, he saw the whole family were looking kinda frantic.
"How can this be??!"
"Those double crossing Sol family!!!!"
"What happened?" He asked. Grand Elder Sei look at him, giving him a knowing look at him which he doesn't understand at first.
"The Sol family suddenly attack three of our branch family estates ten minutes ago. They declared a war against us!" Grandpa Oki said in irritation.
"Then why not attack them back?"
"They hold some of the heads of family as their hostage"
"Coward, they are coward!"hissed Mio. "They choose the cowardly way."
"And they shall die, as a coward" said the other elder.
"I am sorry, Kuro but it seems that we had to cut our stay short. We had to go. But we'll come back later."
Kuro nodded in understanding. Ailee and Miya had woken up, rubbing their eyes.
"What's wrong?" Asked Ailee.
"They're going back"
"So fast???" Miya eyes were wide open now, in disbelief. She look at Ailee in exasperation.
"They don't like this place? Or was it because of us?"
Seira look at both of them in pain. She swiftly envelopes them into her embrace and rain them with kisses.
"Never, my dear. Who would have the heart to hate both of you?. You guys are gift sent from heaven" she snuggled them even closer.
"Then.. is it our mom? She can be rather strict sometimes but we promise that she is not a bad person. She's the best!"
Tooga laughed and patted at Miya that was trying her best to convince them about their mom.
"I am sure she is or this one over here won't fall for her.. but I'm sorry, dear. We have an emergency and we must to go back to settle these matters as soon as possible"
Miya and Ailee face turn to gloomy but nevertheless, they nodded.
"Please come again and visit us. Or better yet, maybe we'll visit you guys later" that prospect suddenly made them excited. When was the last time Shoa tribe had welcome youngling into their family? It was a known and sad fact that Though Shoa had flourish in wealth, fame and status.. they child birth rate had gone down the drain. Not for the lack of trying. It doesn't help when younger generation such as Mio and Kuro won't settle down and build their own family. Most of them prefer solitude and the life of bachelorette which appalled the older generation.
Both of the little girls look at Kuro with their puppy eyes and he look at them, while folding his arms. He was weighting down the pro and cons of bringing them to his family's main house..
A great place to train but dangerous the same.
"Only if you get to level up your beast pet to 20."
"But, that's like a long long time. Mine is just level 5" said Ailee with exasperation. Miya grabbed Ailee arm as if signalling her to stop. She gave her a few blinks, which He doesn't get.
Ailee eyes widen and then nodded. Miya look at me with her cheeky smile.
"Okay, daddy. Level 20. Deal"
Tooga and Seira laughs at him, as he was sporting a dumbfounded look.
"What just happened?"
"You just got conned by your daughters" scoffed Mio. She walked toward the kids and gave them sweets.
"I like you guys. Make him more miserable, okay?" Mio laughed and then excused herself. Not giving the kids any chance to rebuke her.
"Is she a tsundere?" Whispered Miya to Ailee. Ailee shrugs.
"Who knows? Maybe"
Moira who was just enjoying a sip of his tea with a longing, cough out loud as he heard the tsundere word. He was taking his sweet time to wait for the others, it seems every one of them unwilling to part from this place so soon.
By the way, The kids really need to learn how to whisper silently.
Kuro had to hold his laugh, since Moira was the type to get angry when he felt embarrassed.
"Where did they learnt that word?"
"Their mom" said Kuro, masking his face to professionalism seriousness.
"How did their mom knows that?" Everyone knows, words like that were a guarded secret that wasn't leaked to other than main family. Called that family's dark secret. Ancient characters to classify types of people though.. from the look of it, it's a common knowledge from where they come from.
"Learn what?" Ailee perked up, realising that they were talking about something..
"Shoa words, where did your mom learns that?" Asked Moira again.
"From manga and anime, of course."
"What is that?"
"Hum… from books and moving drawing that tells stories about shoa. Yeah, something like that."
"Can you guys read shoa writing?" Moira was even more excited. Truth to be told, only Few people excel in how to read shoa writing, Grand Elder, Kuro and Seira. Other than that, most of them could only grasp the basic ones only.
"We can read the basic of it. But our mom can."
Moira eyes widen in surprise and he laughed whole heartedly.
"This is good news. She is becoming more and more interesting. I expect not less than that."
When Ailee saw them leaving, she asked me where her mom is. Kuro told her that she was fast asleep. Ailee ran toward the refrigerator, took some things and then went to the cupboards before putting it all inside a basket.
"Grandpa Sei!" Ailee ran after him and I followed her. Sei turned around, and saw a basket was offered in front of him.
"My mom is asleep, but she already promised you some of this things. Please take it home with you and enjoy it." Sei smiled and took it. Instantly, the whole basket went into his spatial ring.
"Thank you child." He patted Ailee head.
"As a present, take this" he gave her a white, normal looking fan.
"If you ever find yourself in a pinch, open the fan and try to fan it. I'm sure you'll see something amazing"
"Oh, okay. Thank you" smiled Ailee, bringing the fan with her and then storing it inside her ring. Kuro was impressed that Ailee get to have the beloved fan left by Sei wife. I would've thought he wouldn't part away with it.
"Until we meet again" Sei look at them with a smile and vanished into thin air. A black mass appear behind Kuro.
"Make sure they reach home safely" his ordered was absolute and the black mass trembled before dispersing into thin air. Ailee and Miya look at Kuro In askance.
"What was that? A ninja?" Asked Ailee. Kuro smile bitterly.
Why does everyone around here know about his secret guards? It doesn't surprise him anymore that this family is full with eccentric and amazing people and that He is lucky to be part of them.
"Yes. They are ninja"
"Cool" Ailee and Miya said in unison before excusing themselves to their own rooms. No surprise, that his secret guards didn't amazed them long enough to hold their attention. He sigh.
He truly like kids. But how will he make them truly feel that he is their father? Maybe he really had to start that treehouse project as soon as possible.