005. Join in mocking Chizu.

Chizu chased after it on her hands and knees, but I stepped down on the round yellow vegetable to keep her from it. The young **** girl, about my sister's age, looked up at me, but said nothing.

With disdain, I looked down as if only just noticing her. "What do you want?"

"Matsumoto-kun, Chizu have food please?" the foreign girl meekly begged.

I knew what she meant, but her poorly constructed sentences and lack of knowledge of our language was my opening. "You want to be fed?" I asked and she just nodded up at me, dirty from pawing in the dirt. I decided to be bold and figured she wouldn't know these words, so said, "I bet you would love some fresh cock, wouldn't you?"

Natsumi had stopped to scowl at Chizu as she had crawled away, probably about ready to leave, but she paused to watch our exchange when Chizu answered with a perky, "Yes, please."

"You want my cock right now?" I pushed her father into the misunderstood conversation as I rolled the onion around under my foot, clearly implying that 'cock'</font> was just another word for the vegetable and exploiting her error.

"Very much Kenji-san," she insisted again, but looked back with worry as Natsumi started to laugh.

"Fine, here it is then," I said and opened my pants and whipped it out in her face. Chizu fell back on her ass in surprise causing Natsumi to crack up completely. "What's wrong?" I jeered, you said you wanted my cock."

Chizu inched backward, shaking her head in fear. She might have thought I was going to **** her, but I couldn't afford that. With Natsumi here as a witness I'd at least have to pay her owner, Azami Takahashi, exorbitant whoring prices that I had no way to afford, and most likely Natsumi would stop me anyway. But I could at least have a little fun.

I stood back from the onion and pissed a few rings around it. Natsumi laughed even harder and as I tucked myself back before walking over to her while we watched together for Chizu's reaction. The small **** fearfully stood and stepped carefully over the darkened wet ground to retrieve the lost foodstuff. Quickly she snatched the onion up and then jumped back out of the ring before running to escape back to her mistress. Natsumi and I laughed together for a long moment until she calmed from her enjoyment of my performance.

"Oh, thank you, Matsumoto. It was nice to laugh like that again," then she looked at me differently than she ever had before. My entire life that I'd known her my dad had always been scared of her, never even speaking to her as far as I could tell, and with good reason. Even when I was a kid and Natsumi was a much younger woman she was still intimidating and mean.

Then she said something that bothered me, "You reminded me of your father, before he started drinking." I pondered that for a moment, but I'd never known my dad except as a drunkard. She continued solemnly, "He wasn't always a worthless louse, and was a pretty good guy once." Then she looked at me stone cold in the eye and got serious, but at least wasn't yelling at me anymore, "Do yourself a favor and stay away from the bottle." Then she turned and walked back into her dojo, leaving me alone on the street.

I realized I never said anything while she was talking to me and a hundred things to say now flooded my brain, but it was all too late. I replayed her smile and laugh in my brain as I started walking home. The sun had set and the nearly full moon was still red on the horizon. Until it got higher in the sky it was going to be a bit dark very soon, so I ended my search for Ushi and began walking home.

I was just getting to the top of the hill when I heard the distinctive chewing and hoof sounds of an ox from inside the old temple. I hadn't planned on going in there, but changed course and sure enough, Ushi was standing right there nibbling on the vines around the stone obelisk. That couldn't be good for his digestion, I worried as I cautiously walked up, not wanting to spook the large beast again. Then I grabbed the harness, but Ushi had calmed down and allowed me to pull him away from the vines.

The moon was much brighter and pale white by then, when something made me look at the hole in the vines where Ushi had chewed away to expose the stone underneath. There chiseled in on the rock was the character for 'healthy', but it was also the first character of my given name. I pulled back the vine to look at the next character in curiosity and was surprised that the next one was 'rule', completing 'Kenji'. Then I had to continue, though I knew it was probably just some crazy coincidence. The preceding characters thought really freaked me out. 'Pine' and 'base' declared 'Matsumoto'.

I told myself I was just being silly however, since my name was actually a fairly common one. This was probably some history or tribute to some ancestor of mine. I release Ushi's harness to pull more and more on the vines, exposing the text around my name, but there wasn't any. It was only this name as far as I could tell. Breathing hard from ripping away the vines Ushi turned as he cocked his head and started to walk away. I moved after, not wanting to lose him again, but then I could hear Kouki's voice carrying from our home as she called out "Kenji!" to call me home.

Ushi was similarly called, so I caught up and took his reins again and walked him back before yelling "Coming!" I stabled Ushi back in the barn and returned to our small home to find Kouki had dinner ready. Neither of us spoke about what had happened earlier as she served me up a small bowl of rice and vegetable stew.

After eating in silence I just had to talk so I asked, "Did you know my name is on that old stone obelisk in the temple ruins?"

She sighed and scowled at me, "Please don't tell me you are a vandal now!"