##OO2 who are you
wrapped it up boys,
not everyone can
be a dad

[2005]

when draken wake up he didn't expect that the first thing he would see in the morning was his best friend drooling on his sleep. he made a disgust face before sitting down on the futon and yawning. he look to his right side just to see tobio laying like a sea star with his blanket long forgotten besides him.

the long haired boy took the blanket and put it over the kid. he stand up and stretched going towards the kitchen.

"sup dude." a spiky blonde man with various piercings and the distinctive pink apron from eri greet draken on the kitchen. the man was preparing omurice, or at least trying to.

"you eri's man aren't ya-" he pointed the chopsticks at him, "you look a little too old to be dating a fifteen year old, but i ain't gonna judge ya." he said continuing cooking.

"who are you and what are you doing here?" draken asked crossing his arm in a defensive manner not answering to the comment the man did.

the older man turn off the stove and let the chopsticks on the counter. he turned around and chuckled at the sight of the youngster's frown, "i'm the owner of this house, who are you?" he said challenging him.

"oh, kenchin you already met eiji!" eri said entering the kitchen already with her school uniform and makeup done. she gave a peck on the cheek to kenchin and did the same to eiji.

"i- no, who is he?" the boy asked the girl who was throwing at the trash the failed attempt of food eiji made, "he's tobio's father." she simple answered taking the apron off eiji and putting it on herself.

"eh?" draken mouth opened pointed with his index finger at the man who was now drinking directly from the juice's carton, "he's your dad!?" the boy shouted in a shock state. in all his years of knowing eri he never met, neither personally or even from stories, eri's parents, not even mikey knew about them.

"what? no!" she squealed.

"what's with all these screaming? you wake me and tobio up." mikey pouted entering the kitchen with tobio on his arms, "oh, who are you?" mikey stopped, looking from up and down at eiji.

eiji turned around to looked at eri and cynically grinned down at her, "ne eri now that i think about it, why do you have two boys in the house?" eiji asked the girl, the realization of two strangers being on his house finally hitting him.

"you know what would be a great idea? let's go have breakfast out!" eri grinned taking a cheering tobio off mikey's arm so she was the one holding him avoiding for completely the man's question.

"eri no-"

"i will wait on your car eiji...and mikey, kenchin please clean yourself up and put your uniforms on." she told them before storming out.

×××

inside the fast food restaurant everyone's eyes were on the table besides the window. it was quiet a view to look at and something you couldn't avoid thanks to all the noise they were making; a punk man playing with a little boy on pajamas, a delinquent looking teen painting the color sheet they give on the kid's menu, and a girl braiding another delinquent looking teen's hair while they seem to be on a intensive debate of hair care products.

"okay now it's done!" eri's eyes gleamed with proudness at the braid she made to her friend, "we can go now!" she said standing up with intentions of going out of the restaurant just to be stopped by mikey's hand taking her wrist, "riri but you never told us who's that hag~" he told her pulling her towards his lap and pointing at the man besides him.

the man gasped dramatically, "oi! i'm not that old, i'm just 20!" he shouted at him offended to be called old.

the girl sweat dropped at the interaction, "well...you know...he's tobio's daddy." she said nervously fidgeting her fingers.

draken's eye twitched in annoyance,"eri you already told us that."

mikey teasingly squeezed her waist, "mmh don't be shy and just told us the truth." he muttered to her making the girl's face warm up.

"it ain't even a big deal, so i will just tell you seeing that eri for some reason doesn't want t-" "no! i will tell them!" eri interrupted him, "look...tobio is actually my nephew. he's the son of my sister and eiji."

mikey hugged the girl, "you see, it wasn't that hard to tell us♡!" he patted her head.

a loud crash was heard. with one hand on the collar of eiji's shirt and another on the table, draken was standing holding angrily at the blonde man, "so where have you been? why are you letting a teen raised your kid? don't you have shame on that?"

eiji's eyes darkened, "look kid, just because i know you're not aware of the whole situation i'm gonna pass this one." he chuckled taking draken's hand off him. he patted tobio's head before silently started walking towards the exit door.

"tobio can you please take care of this two meanwhile i go to talk to your daddy?" eri still sitting on mikey's lap looked at her niece with a tight smile.

the boy excitedly nodded his head, "yes big sis!" he then stand up on the chair and pointed at the blonde boys, "be good boys like me and stay sit!"

the girl jumped out of mikey's lap and went running towards the exit opening abruptly the door. from the window that was far away from the table the boys were, eri was seen slapping eiji alongside the ringing shouting voice of her.

the girl, by taking the man's ear, brought him back inside the restaurant not caring at all about the looks they were receiving."look eiji you're gonna pay for the fucking bill and then, then you're gonna get us back to my apartment. not yours, mine-" she let go of eiji's ear, "-tobio still need to dress up for school, so you better make it quick." she hissed going back to the table.

×××

running through the hallways eri was searching for the brave yet stupid blonde boy. after taking tobio to school and noticing they were late for their own classes, the two teens dragged their friend towards the school of mikey's new 'bitch'. that boy really had eri and mikey around his fingers without even knowing it.

"ta-ke-mi-chi, where are you?" she sing over her breath. "found ya!" she stopped running once she saw the classroom they told her he would be. at differences from the boys, she took her time of asking what class takemichi was, and for her luck, a cute girl told her were he was.

the girl opened the door slamming it to the side at the process, "takemichi!~" the girl purred looking at him with a playful smile.

"huh?" the boy with wide eyes looked at the girl who was walking towards him.

"come on, me and mikey wants to play with you!" she stretch out her hand waiting for him to take it. the boy hesitantly looked at eri making her pout, "michi i don't bite, i'm not mikey~" she grabbed his hand making him stand up.

"sensei i'm sorry but i'm taking him with me!" the girl slightly bowed before trying to leave the classroom with a blushing takemichi just to have mikey and draken blocking the entrance.

"oh, you found him!♡" mikey smiled at eri. the girl nodded, "mmh and he's ready to play so, chop chop! move baby!" the girl moved pass them finally getting out of the classroom and seeing the mess the boys did.

"they pissed me off. so i knocked 'em down a peg."

takemichi looked with shock at the scene and at what draken just said. a massacre of boys from third year whose bodies were all splattered around on the floor just because they pissed him off.

eri put two fingers under takemichi's jaw closing his mouth, "is not really that surprising once you get used to it michi."

takemichi sweat dropped, "what's all this?"

"huh? all this? you mean all the trash?" draken asked the boy, "all of you guys, line up right here. lay face down." he pointed down to the floor.

the third graders with questioning looks and comments did as they were said laying on a line. "ne if you let that much space between y'all it's gonna hurt y'all backs very badly." eri told at the boys on the floor waiting for them to get more close to each other before going up on the first one in the line, "now the human carpet it's ready! please boys don't move and thanks for your service!" she started running on the boys.

the girl came back running again just this time by the floor and went to stand by takemichi grabbing again his hand intertwining their fingers together. the boy, trying not to get red, looked down at their hands before looking up at the girl who was carelessly smiling.

the school's bell rang and students started going out of their classroom alongside the flowing chatter and mutters that were surrounding the four teens.

"you fellin' okay?" draken who was now on solid floor put his arm around takemichi's shoulder leaning a bit so he could matched his height.

"well it's so soon after yesterday." ths boy nervously said avoiding eye contact with draken.

eri gasped dropping takemichi's hand, "it's true! how are your injuries michi?" she softly cupped his face checking him like a mother would do with her child, "get your heavy arm off him, don't you see he's injured!" eri glared at the taller boy pushing without any shame his arm off takemichi.

"well i'm-"

"so you're free today, aren't you?" mikey smiled at takemichi.

the boy uncomfortably laughed putting his hand on the back of his neck, "er...well, not really."

"let's hang out for a little while." mikey started, "wonderful idea! that way i can take care of you michi~" eri carefully of not hurting him, put her arm around his waist leaning her head lovely on his shoulder.

"in that case-" he nervously chuckled.

"hold it right there!" a girl shouted taking big confident steps towards the four teens that were in front of her.

"michi do you know her?" eri whispered at him still with her arm around his waist. takemichi nodded separating himself from eri, "she's my girlfriend." he scratched his neck, "i'm sorry hina...today is actually busy for me so-"

and just like if things went into slow motion, hina's hand went against mikey's cheek. a harsh slap was heard and then the silence after the storm came in.

draken face contorted into an angry one, he was popping veins almost as if he was holding himself of doing something he would later regret. in other hand, takemichi expression was pure shock and fear; his eyes were almost literally getting out of their sockets. finally eri's expression was a pure shock opened mouth smile.

"takemichi-kun, let's go!" hina grabbed takemichi's wrist and started walking just to be stopped by eri walking in front of her and putting her hand on the back of her head grabbing a fist of her hair.

eri tilted her head smiling at her, "give me a good reason why i shouldn't beat the fuck out of-"

the ringtone of eri's flip phone started playing, "hina-chan it's not okay to go by life slapping strangers." eri dropped her hand from hina and started walking out of the place to answer her call.

##O2.1 characters unlocked
congratulations! you
have unlocked a new
character

the one who belongs
to the streets!
1985. omori eiji

##O2.2 the more you know
small details
of another
normal day

» eiji rarely visit his son, he just send money to eri so she can raise properly his kid.

» when asked about her parents, eri changes the topic dismissing the question completely.

» the one who called eri was baji.

» eri didn't have any intention of actually hurting hina, she just wanted to scare her. but if hina wasn't takemichi's girlfriend, well that would have been a different story.

end of ##OO2

venus!
just edited a paragraph and...how did y'all read and understand that😀 i'm so sorry guys