Natsuko
“Um, Natsuko, are those your grandparents at the Kamidana? They look very gentle.”
She came in with a tray set with a small china teapot and two tea cups, she nodded to Koki as she set the tray down at the table.
"Yes, the pictures on the right are my mother's parents they passed away a few years ago, and the one on the left is her grandmother, my great-grandmother. She was a priestess in Okinawa where my mother is from... I never understood why my mother didn't go back to Okinawa after my father left" she shrugged and began to pour tea for Koki and then for herself.
"It's not as good as my mother's tea but it's not horrible either" she said with a gentle smile.
That's when the door was heard sliding open "I'm home Natsuko" was heard as Akiko walked in and found her daughter at the living room table with a young man. She was very surprised at first, her daughter wasn't typically very social and it was her first day of school in Yokohama she wouldn't have made a friend so quickly. She blinked a few times and then it dawned on her...
"My goodness Koki is that you?" she tucked a piece of hair behind her ear, he had grown to be a very handsome young man. In fact he reminded her allot of his father Nobuyuki, "I barely recognized you when I first saw you... my goodness you've grown up to be so handsome" she said with a smile.
"Mo...om you're embarrassing me" said Natsuko her face ten shades of red.
Akiko laughed a bit walked over and patted her daughter on the shoulder "I'm your mother it's my job to embarrass you. So I guess you were right about the shrine down the road who knew we'd end up moving so close to Koki without even knowing it" she turned back to Koki. "So Koki how is your father doing?" she asked.
Ryuichi
Ryuichi found himself in front of a large old building It reminded him allot of the houses on Jurai, he may have hated the planet and despised the royal family. But they new how to make a nice house... not that he cared about living in a house he was just as happy flying around in space. He never liked staying in one place too long that usually got him in trouble anyway.
There was an old man standing out in front of the building and Ryuichi raised an eyebrow "Hey old guy can you tell me where I am" he said with a mocking tone of voice.