[Pippa] Egao ga matteru
Egao ga matteru
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Genfic; KAT-TUN, post-KAT-TUN, plus assorted others. For grapewhine because we need Happy Kame. ♥
The cupboards on the kitchen walls are covered with bits of paper. Some are the size of a broadsheet newspaper, obtained from craft stores; others are straight out of the printer. They all have pictures on. They are in a variety of media: crayon, felt pen, finger paint. There are pictures of the house, of flowers, of something that may or may not be Uncle Koki (or possibly a hedgehog). There are pictures of a turtle (the kanji wobbly and imprecise but almost legible just the same), and of a small, waggy-tailed dog.
Then there are the others, the ones which are at grown-up eye level: Mummy, Daddy, and Yoshiko-chan… and then, later on, Mummy, Daddy, Yoshiko-chan and Takamasa-kun, too.
Everybody is smiling.
Mummy and Daddy take it in turns to do the cooking. Mummy always says she’ll cook, because she likes making sure that everybody eats properly, but there are times when Daddy wants to stand in the kitchen as he waits for the rice to cook, just looking at the pictures all over the walls.
Sometimes Daddy calls up Uncle Jin, but it’s expensive to call Hawaii too often, and Uncle Jin is not always home when he says he will be, but little Jack always knows when his daddy will be back, and he likes practising his Japanese with his extended family across the world.
Uncle Tat-chan is much better around children than he used to be, and even though he’s frequently in Europe or busy with work, he remembers everybody’s birthdays and Yoshiko-chan and Takamasa-kun used to squabble about who got to play on the big rocking horse he sent one year, until he sent them another one as well.
Uncle Yuichi’s girlfriend doesn’t want children yet, but that’s okay because she teaches at a school with lots of children about the same age that Takamasa-kun is now, and Uncle Yuichi helps out at the school as well, and he makes lots of funny noises with his mouth, like pretending to be a tractor, or a boiling kettle. Uncle Yuichi is fun.
Uncle Junno and Auntie Rina always have really fun parties, and they have lots of children, and friends with children too so the parties are really big and loud and there’s lots of laughter. They have a really big one every summer, with a swimming pool and a barbeque and somebody usually eats too much ice cream and throws up, but Uncle Junno just smiles and gets the mess cleaned up and sits with the poorly child until they feel better again and laugh at his jokes. Uncle Junno is funny, and Yoshiko-chan doesn’t understand why Uncle Koki always tsukkomi’s him, but they laugh when it happens so it’s not like when people get bullied at school.
Some people think that Uncle Koki is a bit scary, but Yoshiko-chan and Takamasa-kun have known him all their lives and Daddy says that he knew Uncle Koki when he even had hair, but Yoshiko-chan thinks that Daddy is lying because she’s never seen Uncle Koki with hair and she can’t imagine it.
Mummy says that she’s really glad that things are as they are, now. Daddy plays old-fashioned rock music and they all go to the park to play baseball, and sometimes Daddy goes to work at the radio station, but he only does it during the morning when Yoshiko-chan and Takamasa-kun are at school. So, when school ends in the afternoon, Daddy is there in the playground with Takamasa-kun already holding his hand, and Yoshiko-chan runs out to give him a hug and he picks her up and spins her around until she shrieks with laughter.
Everybody is smiling.
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Genfic; KAT-TUN, post-KAT-TUN, plus assorted others. For grapewhine because we need Happy Kame. ♥
The cupboards on the kitchen walls are covered with bits of paper. Some are the size of a broadsheet newspaper, obtained from craft stores; others are straight out of the printer. They all have pictures on. They are in a variety of media: crayon, felt pen, finger paint. There are pictures of the house, of flowers, of something that may or may not be Uncle Koki (or possibly a hedgehog). There are pictures of a turtle (the kanji wobbly and imprecise but almost legible just the same), and of a small, waggy-tailed dog.
Then there are the others, the ones which are at grown-up eye level: Mummy, Daddy, and Yoshiko-chan… and then, later on, Mummy, Daddy, Yoshiko-chan and Takamasa-kun, too.
Everybody is smiling.
Mummy and Daddy take it in turns to do the cooking. Mummy always says she’ll cook, because she likes making sure that everybody eats properly, but there are times when Daddy wants to stand in the kitchen as he waits for the rice to cook, just looking at the pictures all over the walls.
Sometimes Daddy calls up Uncle Jin, but it’s expensive to call Hawaii too often, and Uncle Jin is not always home when he says he will be, but little Jack always knows when his daddy will be back, and he likes practising his Japanese with his extended family across the world.
Uncle Tat-chan is much better around children than he used to be, and even though he’s frequently in Europe or busy with work, he remembers everybody’s birthdays and Yoshiko-chan and Takamasa-kun used to squabble about who got to play on the big rocking horse he sent one year, until he sent them another one as well.
Uncle Yuichi’s girlfriend doesn’t want children yet, but that’s okay because she teaches at a school with lots of children about the same age that Takamasa-kun is now, and Uncle Yuichi helps out at the school as well, and he makes lots of funny noises with his mouth, like pretending to be a tractor, or a boiling kettle. Uncle Yuichi is fun.
Uncle Junno and Auntie Rina always have really fun parties, and they have lots of children, and friends with children too so the parties are really big and loud and there’s lots of laughter. They have a really big one every summer, with a swimming pool and a barbeque and somebody usually eats too much ice cream and throws up, but Uncle Junno just smiles and gets the mess cleaned up and sits with the poorly child until they feel better again and laugh at his jokes. Uncle Junno is funny, and Yoshiko-chan doesn’t understand why Uncle Koki always tsukkomi’s him, but they laugh when it happens so it’s not like when people get bullied at school.
Some people think that Uncle Koki is a bit scary, but Yoshiko-chan and Takamasa-kun have known him all their lives and Daddy says that he knew Uncle Koki when he even had hair, but Yoshiko-chan thinks that Daddy is lying because she’s never seen Uncle Koki with hair and she can’t imagine it.
Mummy says that she’s really glad that things are as they are, now. Daddy plays old-fashioned rock music and they all go to the park to play baseball, and sometimes Daddy goes to work at the radio station, but he only does it during the morning when Yoshiko-chan and Takamasa-kun are at school. So, when school ends in the afternoon, Daddy is there in the playground with Takamasa-kun already holding his hand, and Yoshiko-chan runs out to give him a hug and he picks her up and spins her around until she shrieks with laughter.
Everybody is smiling.