CHAPTER 22

We clean up and return to her room to dress before we just relax and talk. Natsuko tells me about some of the 'forced compliance' that the new moralists are pushing and I think about an approach in case I get confronted again. Natsuko and I are only holding for about a half hour when we can hear her parents come in through the front door. I grab my jacket and follow her out to the living room. I've seen Junichi's and Natsuko's father before but this being a little different since it's a formal meet I get my game face on. I see him sitting in a cushioned chair like he's been waiting for me. He's dressed like he's going to the office, button up shirt, blue tie and slacks with thick black framed glasses. What really throws me off is that he doesn't look anything like Jun. He stands to greet me and I am looking down at a 5 '5'' Asian man and I take his hand and try to contain myself as I feel him try to grip test me in the handshake.

"You must be the young sensei that has my son walking around like a man and my daughter refusing to find herself a good boyfriend," Jun's father says to me gauging my reaction.

"Not a sensei, I just encourage people to stand up, and as for your daughter if she feels strong enough to be single and not need someone else that should say more about you raising her since I didn't give her that idea," I reply smiling and matching his grip.

"You take the compliment well and you turn the accusation into a compliment for my wife and me," Jun's father says smiling," You are either a very smart or crafty young man."

I thank him for the compliment and we sit in the living room while dinner is prepared and his children watch and wait to see if either he loses his temper at me or I pound him into paste. I don't want any sort of fight with an adult but Jun's expression is one that tells me he's waiting for something to happen. I learned in our conversation that he's an accountant for an overseas firm and has been privileged with a good life thanks to his company. I tell him about the 'tutoring group' that Jun helps me run and how we are working to get more students through school. I can tell he approves when Kimiko, Natsuko's mom, calls us in for dinner.

The meal is very traditional Japanese but we get to sit at a table with chairs. Kimiko at the end of the table, Jun and Lilly on one side with Natsuko and I on the other. It's Takehiko, their father, who almost has me laughing as he sits in a slightly taller chair so that he's taller than everyone else at the head of the table. We clear our plates when Takehiko decides to put the screws to me.

"So why are you not man enough to be the boyfriend of my daughter," Takehiko says to me with a little venom.

"I'd like to think I'm man enough to be her boyfriend but we both are content with our friendship," I reply as the table quiets to the conversation.

"So you do not honor her with even an attempt to be her boyfriend," He responds, getting upset.

"I honor your daughter by listening to her when she has advice and she has honored me with the wonders of Japanese girls and how amazing they can be," I tell Takehiko, smiling at my not so veiled statement.

"You dare imply that you have had sex with my daughter," Takehiko says standing up on what must be a step up bar for the chair.

"I'm not implying anything, I have had sex with her because she wanted to have sex with me," I tell him politely, remaining seated," and if she ever chose to stop because she found herself a boyfriend then I would be happy for her gain for as long as it lasted."

And while I don't speak a single word of Japanese I really don't have to deal with the expressions of everyone at the table except Kimiko. I can see Lilly and Jun are waiting for a fight, Natsuko has a death grip on my leg and the whole situation would be normally tense except for the fact that I am trying to keep from laughing at the scene. A small Asian man is yelling at me while standing on a step up to look down at me. I don't know where he is in his tirade and gesturing at everyone at the table but it's Kimiko who speaks loudly enough to cause her husband's voice to crack and go silent. Everyone sits in silence as she speaks to him and again I wish I had subtitles or some shit because while everyone is listening I'm the only one not understanding. I watch Takehiko take his seat and finally things seem to calm down.

"Husband, take Lilly home. Jun and Natsuko, I want you to go with your father and explain to him how your lives have improved with Guy's assistance," Kimiko says with iron-like resolve.

I watch the family get up from the table and Jun nods to me while Natsuko winks a little like everything will be okay as they head out. I check the time and see it's past six and start to get up to leave when Kimiko locks her brown, almost black eyes onto me. I slowly sit back down and wait for her to address me.

"I must apologize to you," Kimiko says with a little more humility than I've seen in her.

"It's okay, I figured that something might happen and just told myself to be calm and stick to polite but free comments," I reply smiling.

"No, not for my foolish husband, he's easily dealt with as you just saw," Kimiko says dismissing my words," I am apologizing for not contacting you at all since you first visited me last year."

"Oh, that… I figured you were just too busy or didn't want anyone to suspect that we had been together," I replied, a little stunned at her apology.

"You tricked me, yes but you have to understand that my husband is not very good at home and worse when he's in bed," Kimiko tells me, explaining," And with what you did last year it was something that I had been needing for a long time."

"I'm just glad I made an impression, honestly though, why did you marry him anyway," I ask curiously.

"Because he's successful, he comes from a good family with a good history," I watch Kimiko pause and smile wickedly," and when I got pregnant he was so desperate to marry someone that I jumped at the chance to get myself a good life. Now I have a good life but every now and then I like to indulge my more carnal needs."

"Wait, you said when you got pregnant. Jun isn't his is he," I ask smirking.

She shakes her head no slowly and we both laugh at the joke of it all. Laughing, I help her clear the dishes from the table and we continue talking in the kitchen. I tell her about my last summer and she jokes about taking me and my bike for a ride again. I shift in my pants being a little hard near an Asian milf goddess and she takes some notice.

"Problems from earlier," Kimiko asks curiously.

"Your daughter is really good but I guess she gets that from you," I leave out the thing with Lilly intentionally.

"Well considering my daughter's size I'm amazed that she can take you at all," Kimiko tells me, putting her back against the counter across from me and leaning on her elbows.

"Mrs. Nakamura, why do I have the feeling you're trying to seduce me," I reply, moving in but Kimiko stops me with a hand on my chest.

"Not tonight young man, I have to guarantee that my husband will learn that this family likes you and that you are much better than he believes and that means I don't put you against the refrigerator and see if you are any larger now than you were almost a year ago," Kimiko purrs to me putting me in my place.