11 Another Unexpected Visitor
"Hello, Kuro!"
The blonde woman greeted me as I opened the door, didn't last long though as I shut it as fast as I opened it.
"Hey! That's not a nice way to greet your future wife!"
I rubbed my head, hearing her nostalgic low-pitch, commanding voice has brought me memories of my training overseas.
"Hey!"
She repeatedly knocked on the door.
"Ugh, what do you want, Bella?"
"To see your face!"
She smiled as her perfume brought a wide variety of floral scents into my house.
"Papa? Who's she?"
Haruhi hid behind me and peeked at the door.
"... Papa?"
Bella's face grew longer which didn't fit her bright yellow dress at all. She looked at me with puppy eyes.
"What does this mean, Kuro?! But you said you were gonna marry-"
Before she could finish her sentence, I grabbed her into the room together with her bags.
"Don't make a scene! Also, I didn't say that!"
I put her bags down while Haruhi is still hiding behind me, wary of the "intruder". She's holding onto my legs.. well, not really "holding" more like "hugging" my legs.
"But, Kuro! I didn't know you already have a kid!"
"Bella, she's adopted."
"Adopted?"
She tilted her head to the side.
I told her to sit at the couch and wait as I take some beverages from the refrigerator. Haruhi went to her room as I started to explain to her what happened.
"Oh! So you basically rescued her from that mansion?"
Her face beamed and her gloomy atmosphere was instantly dissipated.
"Yeah, basically that."
I said in a matter of fact manner.
"Anyway, why are you here?"
I my coffee down the coffee table.
"You know how long I searched for you?! After your brief stint overseas, you disappeared and never came back!"
"Well, I finished my training so I just came back here."
Before Bella could even reply, a voice from outside the apartment rung.
"I'm coming in!"
A familiar mother voice has entered the battle!
The door swung open and Yume, together with Cerbie, entered the room.
"Mama Yume!"
Haruhi must've heard Yume's voice and immediately rushed to her.
"Ohh! Haruhi!"
Haruhi hugged Yume tightly.
"Aww, how are you?"
"I'm fine! It's just that Papa brought home another girl..."
"Huh?!"
Yume looked at me dead straight in the eyes and asked:
"Who is that woman?"
She said in a slow, eerily paced voice.
"Uhh.."
I struggled to find the words to tell her and before I could even think of a reply, I was already too late.
"I'm his future fiancee!"
Bella stood up as barked like a dog establishing territory and dominance. But she barked at the wrong dog.
"Ohh... Is that it?"
Yume said sarcastically, her mouth curled into an impish grin.
I want to go out.
Like... really.
"Yeah! In fact, I'm staying here in Kuro's house while I'm still in this country!"
She's trying her best not to feel intimidated as she pointed at her bags, but I can see her hands trembling.
Yume took a step forward and dropped Cerbie's leash so she could play with Haruhi.
"Well, is that true, Kuro?"
She looked at me with bloodlust in her eyes even I was intimidated... and I used to kill people for a living...
"N-No! It's the first time I heard of it!"
"If that's the case then I'm staying here too. Cerbie! Take care of Haruhi for a bit!"
Then she motioned her index and middle finger in an "I have my eyes on you" gesture.
"I'll be back with my clothes."
***
This is hell.
What did I do to deserve this?
It'd be funny if a Smash Bros "Everyone is here" meme just randomly popped here and everyone just goes home acknowledging it as a joke, but nope. Not gonna happen.
"Uh... Just so you guys know, I don't have enough ro-"
"I'm fine! I can sleep on the couch!"
"I'm fine! I can sleep on the couch!"
They said in unison, not taking their eyes off of each other.
"O-Okayy.."
Making them sleep on the couch?! That'd be troublesome! Ah, sweet baby Jesus, please just let this all end.
"Dinner's done!"
Haruhi claimed as she put a pot of stew into the dinner table.
"Come! Come! Let's all eat!"
Everyone made their way to the dinner table to grab some food, but the atmosphere isn't happy at all. Haruhi is confused as to what's happening. I'm scared of the two of them. They're both ready to pounce at each other.
What the hell is this dinner? We're all walking on glass shards!
We ate in relative "peace" (if you can even call it that) and are now lounging in the living room.
Then, I had a brilliant idea.
"You guys are not sleeping on the couch, Haruhi sleeps with me, both of you sleep in Haruhi's room."
Haruhi's room is wide enough for two people and her double bed just puts the cherry on top.
"Huh?!"
"Huh?!"
Another unified response.
"Yup."
I nodded.
"I'm sleeping with Papa?! Yay!"
Haruhi hugged me while jumping in excitement.
Now, you might be wondering why I'm gonna let these two people stay in Haruhi's room and the main answer to that would be
Fuck it.
These people are ready to pounce on each other at any given point but they wouldn't do it out of consideration for me. So putting them in a single room kind of like a Schrodinger's cat experiment might yield something unexpected.
Inside that room, we don't know if they're fighting, arguing, hugging, cuddling, or whatever until we directly observe it.
It IS a big gamble, but it's a gamble I'm willing to take.
***
"Hey! Stop touching me there!"
I heard a voice from Haruhi's room.
"Oh, shit! These are big!"
"Nooo!"
...
What the are they doing?
