K project: Untold Story

Chapter 8 - Two Princes.

The bell above the bar door rings in a rhythm, telling the bartender that a new customer has entered. The customer is a lady in her mid 20's, slim with Dark short hair whom is dressed in a professional manner. Holding her hand is a small albino girl dressed in a blue lolita fashion.
"Miss Kushina!" Izumo sings her name with joy at seeing his teacher again even Kasai smiles though Mikoto remains expressionless. "How may I help you?"
"Ah, Izumo." She giggles at seeing her student and smiles with pride as her student is starting a successful career. "May seem like an odd request for a bartender, but is there anyway HOMRA can look after Anna? I have work but I can't find anyone to look after her." she sighs.
Izumo looks at Mikoto for permission whom shrugs, "Sure! I don't see any problems with that." He chuckles.
Kasai runs over lightly on her feet as she kneels to Anna's height. "So you must be Anna?" The girl nods, "I'm Kasai" She holds out her arms at permission to pick her up, Anna walks to her as if to say yes. "That red head is our King Mikoto, he may look tough but he's like a big cuddly lion." Mikoto and the others watches her, Anna remains silent at her comment though Kasai can sense her giggling. "The one behind the bar is Izumo, the two in the corner is Shouhei and Bando." her voice remains sweet like a big sister, the two in the corner waves politely.
Though Mikoto wasn't a big fan of children, he didn't hate them just didn't like it when they misbehave; in his terms it was too much effort.
"Please can I have a drink?" The small girl leans and whispers in the other girls ear causing the older girl to nod, she walks to the bar and places her down.
"Juice and vo-" She starts her order but Izumo quickly interrupts her.
"You can't drink alcohol in front of a child." He smirks and offers a suggestion. "How about tea?" Kasai agrees with the suggestion and sits next to her, Mikoto on Anna's left, and Kasai on her right. Suddenly the bell above the bar's door rings as a familiar figure enters the scene.
"Tatara!" Kasai calls him waving, whenever Tatara is around the day seems to brighten up. It's a strange thought but something is special about him.
"Hello Kasai." He greets cheerfully, when wasn't he in a bright mood? He greets the others as he walks to Anna and bends to her length. "Seems we have a special guest?" He chuckles, the ring in his ear shimmers.
"Yep, this is Anna Kushina, we're babysitting her for today." She informs him with a sweet smile.
"Hello Anna, I'm Tattara." He does a small wave as he chuckles soon going to sit next to his King.
"Yo." Mikoto does a small wave to him.
"Yo~!" Tatara does a salute to him chuckling soon watching the two girls enjoy their drinks. "They're like mother and daughter," He says silently, "Mikoto can be the father and Izumo the uncle." His thought causes Mikoto to raise a brow which results in Tatara chuckling away.
"What's funny?" Kasai asks with a blank look,
"Nothing, nothing~" Tatara replies chuckling away.
"Tell me~!" Kasai begins to lose her patience.
"He's laughing at how stupid you look at drinking tea." Mikoto teases her once again but with a blank expression.
"You little shi-shine" She quickly recovers herself realizing a child was next to her causing Tatara to go from chuckling to laughing and Anna to get the wrong idea.
"Shine? Is he your star? Stars shine." The child looks up at her with confusion yet with innocence.
"Yes, I mean no!" She blushes for a minute then quickly hides it using her cardigan glaring at Mikoto. The king shakes his head before getting up and begins to leave.
"Walk?" Tatara reads his mind which causes the King to nod as he exits the bar.
"I'll go after him, just making sure he doesn't cause any trouble." He smirks as he chuckles soon going after Mikoto.
Silence fills the room soon Tatara breaks it as he notices something, "How do you do that?" He looks at Kasai's sliced and bruised knuckles.
"I got in a bit of a fight, it's nothing really." She lies, she didn't want anyone to know of what happened last night. Even if she did tell them, they will probably think she's batshit crazy.
"I'll go and get first aid." Tatara gets up and walks towards the kitchen.
"Wait, it's fine, really." She tries her best to stop Tatara though it fails.
"It isn't fine, if you leave it like that it'll get an infection and won't heal properly!" Tatara lectures her like a brother scolding his sibling before disappearing into the kitchen.
"Pretty red.." A quiet voice speaks, Kasai looks down to see the child in awe and amazement.
"Pretty red?" She questions what she heard.
"It's the only colour I can see.." The girl speaks quietly and soon compliments her. "Out of all red's yours and Mikoto's is the prettiest."
Kasai Looks at her in amazement then looks at her reflection in her drink, "Pretty?" she mutters to herself soon noticing Tatara returning from the kitchen with a green first aid box in his left hand. It didn't take long for him to start cleaning the wound, though it may not look painful but it was. Kasai fights the effort to curse in front of the child by biting her lip. What felt like an hour of cleaning Tatara proceeds to bandage the knuckles.
"Done!" He says with pride of his work.
"Thank you," Kasai thanks him as she rubs the bandage a little, opening and closing her hand. Making sure it isn't too tight.
"No problem." He smiles and chuckles. "You're lying about getting into a fight aren't you?"
"How do you know I'm lying?" She slightly glares at him.
"There were pieces of the broken mirror from the bathroom in the wound." He shows her the evidence, like a parent scolding a child. "Now tell me why did you break that mirror?"
"I saw him there.." She avoids eye contact.
"Who?"
"My brother.." She looks up. "The katana was acting strange too, it kept glowing."
Tattara sighs. "strange, it doesn't sound like PTSD nor does it sound or look like a dream. If it does happen again, tell me or Mikoto, he'll understand too." Kasai nods in agreement not knowing what else to say.