Mother of the Cloud

Tanaka, The Butler

"Tanaka!" Miyu shouted from the kitchen. "Do you know where they sell fresh salmon?" 

Tanaka whipped out some sunglasses, "Miyu-sama, as the butler, it is my duty to bring you freshest salmon from Alaska!" 

"Ah?"

"Approximately when do you need the salmon Miyu-sama?"

"E-eh? uh, by dinner time?"

Tanaka furrowed his eyebrows, as if burdened with an important mission. "Alright, Miyu-sama, I will bring you the salmon by dinner time!"

Without another word, a helicopter landed in the yard as Tanaka boarded, some foreign people stepping off and handing him his earmuffs. Miyu watched speechlessly as Tanaka flew away in the copter, her phone midway about to search 'fish near me'.

Hibari stepped next to Miyu, a glass of water in hand. "...Is he, always like this...?"

Miyu - "...."

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Tanaka's daily routine was precise to the second.

He wakes up at 5:00 am, gets ready and dressed at 5:20 am, and by 6:00 am, Tanaka is already up and about, doing his job.

Miyu-sama wakes up at 6:00 am, and young master wakes up at 7:15 am.

Tanaka didn't need to worry about breakfast for Hibari, since Miyu has always insisted that she cook for him, 'a mother's lovey-dovey meal for her beautiful, wonderful, smart, (insert 100 or more compliments) son' he was glad though, it showed that Miyu-sama and young master had a nice relationship.

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Tanaka has been working for the Hibari Family since he could remember. His father worked here, and his father's father (grandfather), as long as the Hibari Family was still there, the Tanaka family worked for them.  He had grown up with the idea/belief in him that he was going to be the butler for the Hibaris when he grew up.

Rather than a butler, the Hibaris treated them like brothers, his father grew up with Hibari's great grandfather, and he ended up growing up with Hibari's grandfather. He watched Hibari's father growing up, and in a certain sense, he was almost like a second father to him. 

When Hibari's grandfather died, a bit of him died with him too. He was there for Hibari's father, he watched him grow, watched him take over the company, fall in love, get married, have a child.

That's why it hurt so much more when Hibari's father died in the accident. He watched Miyu distance herself from Hibari, blaming the accident on their only child. Tanaka couldn't do much except for comfort the young Hibari.

Just when he thought everything was going downhill, something in Miyu changed. She no longer blamed Hibari, but treated him just as a real mother would. Tanaka was relieved, no matter how much comfort he could give him, nothing could beat a mother's love.

It was wonderful, watching the cold and dark mansion become chattier, lighter...

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Tanaka held the large 70-pound salmon by its tail, sweat running down his face. Eyeing the salmon, he sighed, shaking his head, "I'm getting too old, I could've caught larger fish when I was younger."

The other people on the boat tried ignoring Tanaka, clutching their barely 30-pound fishes to themselves. 

He glanced at the old fashioned watch on his wrist, perfect, just in time. He got his equipment as he motioned the others to start to head back.