[Shi'ai Long/Orion Black]
- Happy Anniversary -
Luck favored the Kitsune prince; he lived a blessed life back home in China being groomed to take on the mantle of his clan once his father passed on. However, from Shi'ai's view, this proved too complacent a life to live for someone who would in due time lord over his people and lead them to greater dent prosperity; so he left. In having stolen himself away from his sheltered kingdom to see what the world outside his closed walls actually held, the young man experienced one incredible encounter after the next. Stowing aboard a cargo ship to travel halfway around the globe, to exploring an oceanside city filled with all kinds of strange creatures including a variety of shifters he'd only heard stories about. From there he backpacked across the country to opposite shores where he met a Bunyip that he'd bumped into but briefly nearly three thousand miles back.
Orion Black, a woman who could run her mouth a mile a minute, far faster than the Kitsune could comprehend with his limited knowledge of the English language. Besides that, she talked with what he would learn was a New Jersey vocabulary and accent that he could only be astounded by. A shifter on hard times, Orion gladly took advantage of Shi'ai's naivety and genuinely decent nature, as well as his small horde of coin and gems pocketed from his clan's coffer. The pair could be only barely be considered roommates at first, but to Orion's surprise, Shi'ai couldn't be further from the legends of a trickster fox that his kind was known to be, at least inadvertently. With an almost childish innocence and a smile that could hardly be thought of as anything but good-natured he'd slowly won over the drug peddler against her better judgment, and the two moved into a more permanent living situation together sharing a modest apartment in downtown Seattle.
Unbeknownst to the rather simple Shi'ai, the bunnykin had been with child, quadruplets to be precise. Several times she had to explain that they were not, in fact, his children, despite the pointed feline ears. Subsequently, she had to then describe the unfortunate circumstances involving Rei and how none of this was his responsibility if he wanted out. After all, he wouldn't be the first man to skip out on her. Partly out of defiance to prove himself of a higher moral fortitude than those that had come before, and partly out of his youthful stubbornness, did the Kitsune stay with Orion and become far more invested in her life than likely either thought would occur.
The coming months were interesting, to say the least, Shi'ai worked odd jobs with what nonexistent skills to be brought to the workforce and Orion continued to wheel and deal in her chosen trade, to which Shi'ai assumed was something akin to a pharmacist as he never pried with any real conviction. Orion repeatedly stressed that it was dangerous to try and live solely off of the Prince's knicked treasures, especially if the wrong individual caught wind of their worth. Pinching their savings, when the time for the children to be born came around, Orion made the decision to continue walking the streets as soon as she recovered, as Shi'ai, much to his arguing, could not be trusted to keep out of trouble without a chaperone, at least not in a sense to rely on him for an income.
Shi'ai had to teach himself how to keep house as the stay at home figure. Luckily, as Orion showed him with a dumbfounded expression on her features, there was all the information he needed on something called the Internet. The babies were a handful beyond anything he expected especially with four in total to manage. Everything was a learning experience to the fox, certainly when Orion came home one night to him cooking rabbit stew and screamed at the top of her lungs for the better part of an evening did he finally understand that Bunyips were vegetarians. In which, Shi'ai became quite accustomed to tofu for many of his meals, until they reached a compromise that it would be acceptable to eat fish now and again.
The Bunyip kids had sprouted like weeds in the blink of an eye, and at four years each, they were getting to be nearly impossible to keep up with for the Kitsune. Still, he kept them occupied by telling them stories from his homeland and teaching them Chinese here and there when Orion wasn't paying attention.
Tonight would be a special night, he thought to himself as he checked on the simmering miso soup while preparing the other ingredients for their dinner this evening. It was the first time the two had met at the One Night Stand those years ago. How things had worked out the way that they had, the man could only attribute to the winds of fate. With bright looks about their faces, four sets of eyes watched on from their chairs around the kitchen island counter as Shi'ai began to set up the sushi mat to roll the tuna rolls.
With all the mouths he had to feed, sushi was hardly efficient with the amount of effort needed to be put in, but he loved the process in doing so as well as the presentation of it all, and after he laid it all out on the dining table, the man knew it was worth it in the end. As if on queue, the sound of a key being inserted into a lock could be heard, and the patter of feet commenced before the guest of honor would even be able to open the door. Several shouts of 'mom' and grasping hands for her own would give her a struggle in getting the door shut much to Shi'ai's amusement. "Welcome home!" The man cheerfully beckoned with a shine of his impossibly bright smile. "Jeeze, you really went for it tonight," she sighed on approach, tired from the day, but still carried the slightest curve to her full lips.
Passing the Kitsune by with a kiss on his cheek, she'd retrieve a tall bottle that had been in a plastic bag hanging from one of her hands. "I'm glad I stopped and picked this up then, should go well with dinner tonight." Setting it down on the table, Shi'ai leaned over to peer at the red-hued rice wine she'd brought.
"Did you pick this out yourself?" He mused while motioning the children to their chairs, but before she had a chance to rebut, the Kitsune continued, "It's quite popular back where I'm from, a fine choice." Not surprisingly, compared to when he'd first arrived in the west, his English improved tremendously, though he still had quite the accent which would probably never truly go away.
"You never stop talking," Orion said, this time having him take a seat before joining. "I'd have to be as dim as you can be to have not picked up on you mentioning it at least once."
"Happy anniversary," Both Shi'ai and Orion spoke in tandem as they turned to look at each other in a brief moment of awkwardness before they both broke out in a fit of laughter.
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