unpredictable developement

While Saya always felt herself better than everyone, she never felt that dumb. This was a first for her, and she enchained blunders on blunders. She had felt quite curious at the presence of the stranger in her home. Learning of his status had been surprising, even more, when they delved deeper into his background.

Unlike any other she encountered before, he didn't seem to fear her father nor cower in his presence. He hadn't even given more than a fleeting glance to the figure she was quite proud of. She saw his look and was surprised not to see him lustfully leer at her, like many others, and kept to her eyes. Even her mother hadn't been different.

She could see that he admired her body, but she was thankful that he wasn't a pervert. She couldn't hide that she had much more appreciated his heartfelt compliment, more so when he wasn't leering at her, giving more legitimate.

'Even that moron Takashi hadn't complimented me, only leering badly at my chest through my uniform. I know I'm partially at fault, flashing him like this, but couldn't he at least say something nice?'

Learning that he had a strong political standing had been another surprise, as much as discovering the fact that his clan seems to date from at least a millennium if she were to trust his words. Then she had to put her two feet in her mouth.

She wasn't accustomed to speaking to her with such a carefree but still serious attitude, and she found herself thrown off guard by his sudden bright smiles and eye.

'Kami those eyes! I swear they look like craved gems; that should be illegal! It infuriating; how could I know his character if he continues to catch me off guards like this!'

Rather than continue to suffer his sudden attack that wasn't good for her heart, she attempted to steer the discussion to another point, his political standing. She had been successful until he throws another bomb on her face.

'How could I know he was orphan! That unfair; I'm the one that normally traps others and makes them feel bad, not the contrary!'

After this yet again glaring social faux pas, she couldn't help but concede that while she was still unaware of his academical achievement, he was at least as much as a genius to be able to worm his way on the international court with just himself and the past influence of his clan as backing to secure his own future.

"That why you came here. Isn't it? With your domestic situation, the British government wouldn't be a stable backing anymore. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that it was once of their condition, that they were clear of the debt and get rid of you." State Saya, crossing against her arms under her breast, pushing them substantially while looking intently at him. She was agreeably surprised to see him only smile at her knowingly, his gaze staying fixed on her.

'Damn those eyes!'

~~~

"You had a bright daughter, Takagi-san." Said Alex, turning his gaze to Souichiro. "And yes, that the case, along with some other minor points, like our past dwelling on our natal land." Laughed Alex, under the outraged gaze of Souichiro, quickly understanding what the British government attempted." Too bad that I had moved everything out of the island!" Continued him to laugh while the couple looked at him with a serious gaze.

Like her parent, Saya was looking at the teenager she now knows to be only a year older than her, with deep expression. Unlike most of the ones she knew, Alexander had shown to be vastly more mature than others and possessed a cunningness that fooled another government.

"That why I asked for you to help me look at the land; I need a place to store the inheritance my family left to me."

"Aren't you a little too trusting?" Sneered Saya, trying to retake the hand in the game she miserably fails to hold until them.

"It's didn't matters; the only thing that I made transfers here are only some unimportant things, books. Even then, the only one for who they would hold any importance is my clan; it, after all, our history that consigned in those books."

"Your clan history?" Asked Yuriko, curious of what could a clan kept records in books today, rather than a computer.

"Mn, some unimportant thing, original of treaty ratification, and the like." Waved Alex dismissively while looking at the three from the corner of his eyes.

-You take too much teasing the girl, you know? It's evident that she sees herself as a genius, and here you are dangling knowledge lost from humankind in front of the noise.- Sighted CS at Alex childish behaviour. Even then, he was secretly happy; it had been long since he hadn't seen Alex like this.

~~~

On the other side of the table, Yuriko finally caught the state her husband was in. She had been curious that he kept quiet until then but chalked it at being already aware, having spoken of it on the way back.

When she saw he was ready to pass out, she couldn't help but felt something was off. Turning back the lightly chuckling teen that had be surprises on surprises till then, she asked. As a history enthusiast, she couldn't pass the opportunity of coming across some documents he may have in his possession.

"How old are those?" Asked her curiously at his, gathering the attention of both father and daughter.

Stopping laughing, Alex rapidly browsed through his memories, trying to remember the oldest document he had seen in the vault. All three were once again taken aback by his sudden mood change but could feel that he was genuinely thinking about her words. Hearing some squirming sound at her side, Yuriko threw a side glance at her daughter.

When she saw Saya lightly squirming on her chair, her cheek flushed and trying to escape to something she couldn't see, Yuriko looked in the direction Saya fleeting glance was coming and going. When she saw the slightly clouded eyes of her guest, she became stunned for a second before giggling.

"What wrong, dear, something making you skittish."

When her mother told on her, Saya couldn't help the light squeak before trying and failing to glare at her mother, her cheek aflame.

"M-Mama!" She spluttered whiningly before throwing some more glance at Alex side.

"Ara Ara, hufufu, did you found yourself a new crush?" Teased her mother, partially hoping it was the case. Not that she wanted to use her daughter to gain any political standing, but because, while she liked Takashi, she couldn't see her daughter end with him. The boy was too weakwilled and easily steamrolled over.

Like most of the young nowadays, the boy had no respect for the body of her daughter. She could understand that it was a delicate age for the young boy, but this didn't change the fact that the boy would leer at her daughter and not have the guts nor the mindest to be a man.

Like most, he would flush like a little girl and stammer at some indecency and be a total hypocrite as he still takes advantage of it.

Unlike any young male she had seen in the past years, Alexander hadn't even looked at them that way after the first time he looked at them. He had kept courteous and always looked them in the eyes. He also seems to take pleasure in ribs Saya' tsundere attitude, not leaving her enough time to act all tsuntsun on him, leaving only a flushing mess behind. Yes, while she knew Alex from the past hour conversation, she like more the sometimes serious, sometimes joking, childish but mature boy.

He was an enigma, and Yuriko knows that Saya had been hooked; Saya wouldn't let go until she knows everything she wants, a trait she inherited from her.

'Be careful, Saya, or you might bite more than you can chew and found yourself unable to let him go.'

Yuriko knows her daughter, and ever since her childhood crush, it the first time she saw her daughter like this. She was still unsure of what it was exactly. However, she knows it a mixture of his more mature demeanour, bright intellect and cunningness, while remaining his childlessness, a thing she knows her daughter had rapidly thrown away, much to her grievance.

~~~

While the mature woman was weighing how much influence he was having on her daughter, Alex and CS ran through his memories to found, said memory. Alex wasn't worried to leak that information, for the sole reason that other than a light compulsion pushing them to kept those for themselves, he saw how much those three seems to give importance to knowledge. The only ones present here wouldn't need any effort to know where the leak came from.

As much as those documents weren't existing here, they were authentic in Alex world, and his magic was enough to replicate them and made them seem as such.

He, himself, had been surprised with the knowledge and documents wealth amassed by the clan through the millenniums.

-I know!- CS suddenly burst while sending the memory to Alex. His eyes glazed from not a tenth of a second before he was back.

"I remember, I saw these documents not that look ago; it was while I was looking from information on this country that I found it out since it came from China!"

"How come you found such a thing while looking for Japanese matters? Shouldn't alphabetical order classify it?" Curiously asked Saya, seemingly able to snap of her severe boot of cheek's inflammation, now that he wasn't unknowingly deeply looking at her while looking through his memories.

'Those damnable eyes! I swear I will...' Her inner though died a painful death as she feels weak in the knee from diabetes, inducting sweet smile he made at her, taking her completely off guard and making the inflammation struck a good 11 on the Richter equivalent.

"Ara ara, be careful dear, or I might need to call for a rescue team to save the poor chair from a flood," whispered Yuriko wickedly to her daughter, unaware that Alex ears easily caught it.

Saya's brain needed a second to assimilate her mother teasing before spluttering and squeaked rather loudly, attracting her attention when she felt something get loose in her and something leak.

Mortified, Saya immediatly lowered her head and didn't dare to cross anyone gaze, and especially not Alex one, knowing that something irreversible might happen if she did. Regretfully for her, Alex sudden care and worried tone made her instinctively do it, no matter how much her reason was fighting against it.

"Are you Alright, Saya? You seem awfully bothered by something. I doubt it's that, but is there something you eat that made you unwell?" Truthfully asked Alex, looking worriedly at her.

~~~

On her daughter side, too, Yuriko was starting to worry. Usually, Saya would have bitted back, or whine or something, not stay quiet. This situation wasn't normal, and she feared that something had happened to her daughter.

On her side, her husband too seems to be preoccupied with his daughter unusual behaviour. While he doesn't appear to worry much for her, it was his manner to show his support. After the wedding Yuriko, he learned to trust his wife and the decision she made as they always turned to be the better choice, one reason for their actual wealth and influence. Added to Souichiro natural leadership, the couple had risen to a new height he know he would have never attained on his own. Throughout the years, he saw that his daughter had the same kin mind like her mother.

As a man and father, how could he not encourage this behaviour and ready to help the moment she failed to help her raise back, stronger?

But ever since he came back from the adjourned meeting, Saya had seemed off, her mind seeming struggling to keep with her mother playful banter and Alex mood swing. While it was true that those were slightly disturbing, he had affronted tougher and meaner mindsets before. He could see that Alex didn't mean harm and was more of his way to loosen the heavy pressure that their encounter had set.

Souichiro was starting to appreciate the young. While a little too playful for his taste, he seems to know when to stop and act as a man and not a whining midget like today youngster.

~~~

Attracted by the sound of his voice, Saya gaze snapped back to Alex before she could even understand it. The second Saya gaze' locked in him, she seems to completely lost herself in them and the floodgate open. She felt the thing that had constantly swelled inside her finally burst, releasing something she was completely unaware of and unknown to her, taking her off guard.

She could only release a soft 'skee!' before passing out, wholly flushed.

Before she crashes her head on the table and wound herself, Alex displayed nearly inhuman reflexes. Vaulting above the table, his feet came lightly pushing against the chair' back, Making Saya swaying head followed body course and recoil before being lightly caught by Alex's hands and gently plucked from her crashing chair.

Raising from his crouching position slowly, he frowned in feeling Saya alarmingly high corporeal temperature.

"I think something wrong with your daughter; you should call a doctor."

Alex serious tone snapped both adults from the borderline in-human display of speed and agility they saw Alex display. Souichirou raised without ceremony and rapidly strode to the double door, swinging them open in a forceful push and shout for the first servant he saw to call their family physician.

The servant immediatly abandoned his task and rushed to the nearest phone, rapidly punching the number they were required to memorise by heart to pare at any circumstance.

~~~

The servant ran the long corridor of the mansion, and Souichiro exited the house to rejoin his men at the estate entrance to wait and lead the physician; Alex was rapidly striding through the higher floor, bringing Saya back to her room, led by Yuriko.