Meeting of Clan 9

before nurahiyon restarted the meeting, ryouma went to rihan's place and poked him with his finger.

seeing ryouma's action, kubinashi sigh at him as he reprimanded ryouma.

"ryouma-bochama, please don't poke your father like that. if you find it fun to poke him, still it didn't mean that you do that kind of thing alright."

"huh kubinashi-san, you're so uptight when concerning oyaji. but still, who the one that can punch oyaji with that many people huh?? i wanted to know the trick for that."

kubinashi wanted to say that it was otome. but, he knew that before he said that. he going to end up like rihan. so with a stiff smile, he said a word to ryouma.

"well ryouma-bochama, if i didn't know about that great person that can incapacitate your father. then, i need to send your father to the infirmary. also ryouma-bochama, the meeting was started few minutes ago. so you need to be there right?"

"ah yeah I forget about that, thank you kubinashi-san"

ryouma with his smile waved to kubinashi. kubinashi also waved at ryouma with a smile on his face. after ryouma was in the hall, kubinashi exhale his breath because of the tension that he wasn't going to say something unnecessary to ryouma. so with that, kubinashi ordered some youkai that still in the garden to grab rihan and send him to the infirmary.

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after that little stunt, nurahiyon coughed and said his word to someone outside of hall.

"natto kozo, you and with tofu kozo ask someone to help you repair that door that rihan broke a while ago."

natto kozo, He has a Natto for a head and wears orange clothing with tofu kozo, a tiny man that had one eyes on his face, bowed their head to nurahiyon as they said.

""yes, commander!!""

"Please don't call me commander. after all,-"

"after all, the one that you should call commander is me!!!!!"

suddenly a familiar voice said those words with a cheeky tone.

""ryouma-bochama!!!!""

"huh, you shameless grandson of mine. what the hell are you saying?? you are still wet behind your ear to become commander of this clan. keep your delusional thought until you have your own hyaku hyaki."

"ehhh!!! it's pain in the ass, grandfather. why I should gather my own when I had your and oyaji hyaki hyako??"

someone answered ryouma's question. it was mokugyou.

"ryouma-bochama, because it's the requirement for you to become the commander for this clan after all. to begin with, we are too old for this so I teach my successor to succeed me."

with mokugyou's word as a trigger, majority of the member was nodding agreeably.

ryouma saw that became confused and he asked some questions to everyone in here.

"why you are retire mokugyou-ossan and why everyone agreed with mokugyou-ossan word??"

hitotsume answered ryouma questions instead mokugyou.

"well bochama, we are not young any longer. after nurahiyon-sama gave the title to rihan-sama, we should be retired. but, some circumstance happened so we didn't retire. after you were born, we taught you our specialties like survival, martial arts, and many others. you were so quick to uptake our specialties that we thought that you are going to become splendid commander so the majority of us are ready our successor to support you."

then gyuki added some word following hitostume.

"well, you must convince our successor to follow you ryouma-bochama."

"eh, but gozumaru and shoei are my friends. so why I need to convince them to become my subordinate?"

the one that respond to ryouma was hihi.

"We know that you three are good friends when i and gyuki taught you three about leadership. but this was a different case. i already say to shoei that he must see your worth so that he can ascertain that you are the most fitting to lead this clan."

"i don't wanna."

without panicking, hihi then ask ryouma.

"why you don't want about, ryouma-bochama?"

"because shoei and gozumaru is my friend, not my subordinate. i always thought of this clan as one big family, not strangers!!!"

everyone member had a smile because of ryouma thought about them.

hihi with a happy voice said something to ryouma.

"fufufu, we touched by your word ryouma-bochama. but, outside had some set of rules so we must follow it. but in this very headquarters and with your presence, we always act the same. after all, we always do whatever we want."

"really!!!!???"

"yes"

"ok!!! but still, i need to gather my own hyaki hyako huh... well, what should I start with??"

then someone giggle, ryouma look at the source of the voice. it was otome as she suggested ryouma.

"well sweetheart, how about your vision about your future?"

"future?? mama, i am the heir of this nura clan right?? so what future do i need?"

"silly boy, come here for a second."

with a nod, ryouma came to otome side and sat beside her with seiza posture.

seeing ryouma like that, otome with a motherly smile said a word to ryouma.

"you know that your father is still here right?

"hm"

"then you don't have to worry about being the commander. instead, I wanted you to think about the future that you are going to make when you begin to build your hyaki hyako."

"future??"

"'giggle' yes sweetheart, let's just say that it is a dream. a dream that you want to accomplish before you become the commander of the nura clan."

"dream huh?"

then ryouma suddenly remembered the book that he read when rikuo's friend given him.

that book had a group of people that embark on a journey to defeat some kind of evil king that wanted to destroy the world.

then with an excited look on his face, he said with vigor about his dream.

"I want to become a hero!!!"

"hero??"

"yes. after all, a hero is a person that protects the weak and fights against the evil of this world. so with that, i want my hyaku hyaki to be a righteous group that can help weak people that we came across!!!"

"wonderful sweetheart!!! i think that you have the qualification to become a hero you know."

"REALLY!!!!???"

"YES SWEETHEART!!!"

"YES!!!"

"'sigh', you can excited elsewhere but this is not finished yet you know. otome-san, don't forget about your continuation of that story. if I was teasing you but still I'm also curious about where do you find that knowledge alright. als-"

"before that nurahiyon-sama."

"what is it, natto kozo?"

"i want to ask your time for a little bit because we wanted to let ryouma-bochama know about something. right tofu?"

tofu then nodded his head.

with him was talking about. ryouma then ask natto kozo.

"what is it,natto-san and tofu-san?"

"ryouma-bochama, we found some hut in the forest that leading to a land of god!!!"

"huh? a hut? what are you talking about?? I never know about that hut."

"no, it's real ryouma-bochama. after all me, tofu,sannokuchi, and ko-oni saw that hut with our own eyes!! right tofu?"

tofu kozo the nodded his head hard.

then with a curious look, ryouma ask the important question to natto kozo.

"then, why you wanted me to come with you natto? that hut must be ordinary, right?"

"well because there was a barrier that surround that hut!!!"

with that information, everyone in this hall became tense.

nurahiyon as representative asked natto about that hut.

"natto, that barrier. is the formation of that barrier was being made by onmyoji ?"

"no, I don't think so nurahiyon-sama. in fact, that barrier was being made by one of us."

"then why ryouma?"

"because we know that barrier reacted to tokii. so with ryouma-bochama isn't possess tokii, we wanted to ask ryouma-bocahama to check that place for us."

otome with a stern look spoke to natto.

"Are you implying that my sweetheart to become a scapegoat?"

"of course not madam, we just said this because we knew that ryouma-bochama is going to become interesting with that hut, right tofu?"

natto said that with tremble all around his body. tofu nodded his head hard enough that it was going to fall down.

before otome rejected natto request. ryouma with vigor spoke first.

"OK!!! LET'S GO AFTER DINNER!!!!"

"sweetheart!!!! it's dangerous to go to that hut!!! mama don't approve that!!!"

"mama listen to me first. i had a feeling that hut is going to have a treasure that going to reach my goal as a hero!!!!"

"but-"

"ok, i approve of that."

"father!!!"

"otome-san, it's okay. i don't let him go alone with those four. karasu, sent your daughter for this excursion. also, kurotabo you should go too."

"huh"

"eh? is that okay, nurahiyon-sama?"

"it's okay. ryouma, you must back before 12 pm because you need to go to meet this maruo kid, okay??"

"okay!!! yeah, i can go to that hut!!!"

""yeah!!!!""

otome with dissatisfied look ask nurahiyon about this.

"Father, are you sure about this?"

"it's okay. you are too overprotective. also natto kozo and tofu kozo, what the hell are you dallying around like that? if you don't hurry to repair this door, i don't approve this excursion alright?"

""YES, NURAHIYON-SAMA!!!!!""

with nurahiyon's threat, those two quickly went out to find the other two to help them repair this door before dinner.

then nurahiyon coughed and began to speak

"well, let's restart this meeting for real"