Liars and Inferno

The Chikamori Selfacy

Generation Two

Liars and Inferno

It just so happened that River heard about a nasty rumour about her going around town...so she decided to put a stop to it...and that meant heading down to the city hall/law courts and suing the pants/skirt off the guy/girl who started that rumour; it was either that or the Watcher would happily set that liar, liar pants-on-fire. After all, the Chikamoris couldn't have any old bad rumour going around town.

...besides, that would just be uncouth to allow the townspeople to think that what this low-life had said was actually true about them. That was why the Chikamoris fought tooth and nail in court whenever such scandals about them arose. And what was even worse was that the lowlifes had absolutely no imagination what-so-ever about whatever scandal they wanted to cook up. It was either rooting around in the garbage, cheating on a spouse or picking a fight with a sim. The problem with those three is that they were refuted all the time, however they were still using those same three tactics and that made River even more mad. After all, River was too dignified to root around in garbage cans, cheating on a spouse was absolutely out-of-the question since she loved her husband dearly, AND...well, the only time that she would pick a fight with a sim is when that said-sim had said something nasty about her family, like in this case and she wouldn't be letting her fists do the talking on this one though as a martial arts Lev 10 black belt the sim in question who started this rumour would be wise to not start a physical altercation with her.

Success was most suredly assured as she won in court handily defeating the loudmouth and receiving monetary recompense. In fact she should have gotten a couple million simoleons for that but she would accept what the judge handed out. Then she headed out and sold another painting to top off the amount so that they could pay the massive tax bill on the house that they owned. Yes, it appeared that they were certainly subsidizing the pockets of the Riverview aldermen. And considering what little they got back in return for the taxes that they paid out, it certainly seemed like a rum deal.

They went out that night to celebrate the legal win and well, Brianna saw that Mahmoud Yavari had moved to Riverview. They had a brief chat, having been at the same university. Mahmoud noticed the lines in Haruo and River's faces as they were roughly of the same age and had been schoolmates as young adults. Time flies, he thought as he looked pensively at the two parents of this young woman and ironically thought. Geez, am I really not as young as I used to be....

...after they got home, the Chikamoris all went to sleep;

...it seemed quiet, except at the family graveyard, where Momma Fiona seemed to be hanging around.

...checking out the mausoleum...

Brianna got up early to work on a book, because she'd been hankering to write something for quite some time now.

...and all seemed quiet until the wail of a fire-truck came down the quiet street doing a u-turn in front of their house and stopping at the house occupied by Kunio and Alanna. Gosh darn-it Kunio...what the hell are you doing?

Crackling sounds and muffled screaming greeted Haruo as he raced across the street. Evidently his daughter had gotten out, but that idjit husband of hers was still in the house. He raced into the home seeking to get his son-in-law out. When he got in there, he was blocked by a wall of flame separating Kunio from the desk which was ablaze.

"Move it, sir...so I can do my job..." the irritated fireman brusquely barked at Kunio as he pushed himself in between the distraught Kunio Yamada and his father-in-law and blasted the blazing inferno with a torrent of water from the firehose.

"What the hell happened?" Haruo snapped, rather irritated at being up this early...with interrupted sleep.

"I don't know, I don't know..." stammered Kunio as Haruo shook his head angrily and grabbed another fire extinguisher to help the fireman put out the flames.

As the flames died down, Haruo stepped back to let the firefighter extinguish the blaze on his own and turned to Kunio regarding him with a jaded eye.

"I entrusted the safety of my daughter to you..." Haruo said ominously. "First you get yourself targeted by the mob, then there's a fire in your home. What am I supposed to think?"

"I...I..." Kunio stammered.

"Look Kunio, you're a husband and if you expect to keep my daughter, you need to be more mature than you are. Because right now, you're not looking pretty good at the moment." Kunio knew that Haruo was seriously brassed off and looking at the burned out husk that was the desk, he knew that he had carked up.