Genji x Reader

Dinner

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While washing your face, you thought about your grandmothers request on inviting the Shimada boy over to enjoy dinner with the three of you but you were abruptly interrupted by the knocking coming from the wooden door.

"[Y/n], are you in there Yousei?" Your father knocked gently on the door.

"Yes papa, I'm already done!" You grabbed the cloth that was hanging on the wall and began to rub your face removing the water and any excess dirt. Once done you opened the door to reveal a tall, muscular warrior type man standing right in front of you. He smiled when you appeared behind the door as if you were showing him a magic trick. Your father was a warrior back in the day but now he stopped and decided to work as an imperial guard for the Lord Shimada Sojiro. That's how you and Genji became friends; every time they would hold a celebration Sojiro would only accept the families who he is friends with or cares about, and let them join him, his wife and his two sons, luckily your family was one of them; Still just because your father was a trust worthy guard for the lord Shimada, doesn't mean he protects Genji outside of the castle; he has his own guards for that reason, but sadly it looks like they can't even do their job.

"Papa can you please try to convince Lord Shimada if Genji can come for dinner again, please papa I'll do extra chores!?" You got on your knees and begged your father; you of-course knew his answer but you at least tried.

"Yousei, you know I can't be doing that all the time, it's to dangerous for the young boy to come out at this age." Your father never knew about Genji escaping the castle time to time just to come play with you. You got up from the ground and dusted your knees. With a disappointed look you walked away.

[Time skip]

You knelt down on the tatami floor and saw the exquisite food on the chabudai table; today you were eating a bowl of gohan, a bowl of miso shiru, tsukemono and fish/meat. Typical food you eat mostly everyday but you loved it so you didn't mind, but today you weren't feeling it at all. Maybe because Genji wasn't here and he loved eating this too. You sighed which made your mother notice how despaired you looked.

"Otto..." Your mother bobbed her head to the side signaling her husband to follow her to another room.

"Excuse us for a moment." Both your parents bowed their heads in a unison and walked to another room.

"Akiyama you see how our little enaga looks, I can't stand seeing her like this." Your father reached out for your mothers hands and brought them towards his lips.

"Hanako, my love, you know I cannot risk for being blamed if something happens to that boy, they can kill us and our family, and I would never let that happen." Your mother gulped and smiled at the thought of her husband being a great man of the family. Before going in she planted a kiss on his cheek and walked in-front of him leaving him speechless.

[Inside]

"Grandmother Machiko I think I'm going to head to bed already if that is okay." You made no eye contact with the elder lady in-front of you.

"Take this." Grandmother Machiko handed you a bag filled with warm food.

"Why, do I need this?" You questioned as to why your grandmother would give you food. 'Is the world going to end' You thought to yourself. Your grandmother didn't respond but it didn't matter to you. While approaching your room you heard a loud bang which caused you to run away from your room and back to grandmother machiko.

"Machiko, Machiko!" You ran quickly down the stairs until you bumped into your fathers torso. You hugged him tightly and warned him about an intruder being in your room. Your father scrunched his nose and furrowed his eye brows; he was angry, 'it's been months since that indecent happened and it was going to happen again.' You thought to yourself. Your father released you from him and handed you to your mother who was trying not to show fear. Your father walked into the kitchen and grabbed the nearest knife and signaled you's to stay down here and to not make any noises but you three never listened and were to worried if something were to happen to the man in your life so you three followed behind stealthy.

Your father had kicked down the door and ran in throwing the person on your bed while holding him down. Akiyama couldn't believe it, it was the young Shimada boy pinned down by him.

"Genji!?"

[At the dinner table]

After the incident that happened, your mother requested Genji to stay for dinner since it was the getting dark and no one would know where the poor boy would be. While eating your father had been scolding Genji for leaving the castle without permission, but the only excuse he had was that he wanted to play with you. No, your father did not hate Genji but he was worried that Sojiro would do something to your family since Genji is an important boy.

"When your done with dinner alert me so I can escort you back home."

"Mr.Watanabe please don't tell my father that I escaped the castle, I think I've had enough scolding from you." Genji bowed his head down in forgiveness but my father just scoffed at how foolish the boy was. You on the other end were happy that your best-friend could join you and your family for dinner.