Alanna Moves Back In and Tatsuyoshi Carks Up

Alanna ate cake after her youngest aged up to child.

I'm sure Haruo was getting tired of all the kids moving back in and out of the house. Time to pull up your bootstraps, kids and adult yourselves. You're now grown up and can't rely on the heir's money in order to make your way in life. You gotta do it yourself. Shikata ga nai, eh?

Kunio promptly freaked out after Alanna went into labour. Well, good heavens, man, are you a man or a mouse? Straighten up that spine and get your rear-end to the hospital.

Alanna had another son.

Braden got leave from the RCN to stay at home to take care of his toddler and teach her how to walk, talk and poop in the can. And Alanna also spent time teaching her toddler how to do the same. As it was life was great at this point.

On the 'Brianna' front, Tatsuyoshi and she were getting rather cozy.

Though, of course, Tatsuyoshi was very wary about personal displays of affection while in the house. He wanted to keep breathing, after all...and well...ticking off his fiancee's father would not be the best way to keep breathing after-all. Most fathers when they see their daughter and her significant other (if not married) together; there'd better be daylight visible between the two of them or the fathers' eyelids start twitching and their trigger finger starts convulsing of their own accord (probably wise to not have a firearm within reach of ol' Daddy at that particular moment).

Let's just say that Tatsuyoshi was feeling rather nervous...OK...nervous was putting it lightly. He was scared poop-less. His fiancee's father was looking at him with an expression that an eagle uses on a rabbit or a goat...that his fiancee's father was a predator and that Tatsuyoshi was the prey. Being prey was not such a good situation and well, Tatsuyoshi knew that he was in a precarious spot. "uh...Brianna...um...your Dad..."

"What about my dad...?

"He's in the room..."

Haruo cleared his throat, meaningfully, narrowing his eyes.

Tatsuyoshi's voice went up a few octaves. "Oh...poo"...he said as Haruo strode towards them.

"Tatsuyoshi...you have designs on my daughter?" Haruo asked, giving him the third-degree glare. "Exactly when was I going to hear about this?"

"I...I...I...um..."

"Normally the proper procedure before proposing to my daughter is to ask for her hand in marriage..." Haruo said dourly.

Tatsuyoshi realized that he had majorly carked up. Respect for one's elders involved realizing that the fact that any woman that you were interested in, her father had to be considered as far as permission was concerned. Since Braden was looking after his father and his grandfather, he would inherit everything as heir. Everyone else had to make their own way. He had been kind enough to let Tatsuyoshi and Brianna stay with them, but eventually they would have to make their own way in life. But right now...he had this sinking feeling that he was going to get tested...and that test could potentially be painful.