8 Meeting the Rabbit

Fumio laid exhausted on her worktable, she underestimated how difficult it could be to hire high-quality tutors for homeschooling. She didn't know why, but everybody that was good was an eccentric too.

An example would be the math teacher, who requested to first get a difficult math question with the amount of his payment as end result before he gets actually paid, or the history teacher, that wants ancient currency as his payment, or the Russian teacher, she wants that we sing the Russian anthem with her, making the price cheaper too.

Negotiating with them all was tiring for Fumio and before she realized, it was early morning again and Fumio almost fell asleep in her business room.

Akane was a morning riser, a very early morning riser, she wakes up at 5.50 am and washes her face, brushes her teeth, does some housework and then it was already 7.10 am. Akane was doing her rounds of housework around the house again, until she came across her mothers' working room, where she saw her sleeping on her desk, it was a clear picture too, with how loud she was snoring.

Akane just shook her head upon that sight.

"Geez, mommy, you don't have to overwork yourself that hard for my sake!"

Akane walked towards her and started shaking her. Fumio just mumbles some incoherent words.

"Mommy, wake up, if you want to sleep, sleep in your bedroom, you can't sleep here you are going to get a cold!"

"Just five minutes more, please."

Akane was a bit annoyed at her mother's antics, so she just did what she did best, being spiteful. Akane angled the chair Fumio sat in a bit backwards, and the pulled it away from underneath her. Making her slump down in a comedic way.

"HUh! What's going on, am I falling?"

Fumio needed a moment to return from her half sleep mode, until she realized where she was. She turned around, seeing a moody Akane.

"Mommy, how often did I already tell you that you can't fall asleep in your work space, this is the place where you meet up with your clients! And as that you must keep it in top condition! Else disorder is going to arise!"

Fumio laughed at her daughters' antics, before she then started patting her head.

"Yes, yes, you are right my little cinnamon roll, but you know what happens to me if I am concentrating on my work, I forget the environment around me! So please forgive me, ok?"

Akane pouted for a moment, until she decided that it wasn't worth it.

"Did you get the home tutors?"

Fumio nodded at her daughters' questions.

"I did, and I got the best of the best, even if you are still this young, I can't let you fall behind your peers, no with your talent, you always should be in front of them, I know you can do it, maybe you can skip a few grades and immediately get to the more mature children."

Akane sighed at her mother's words.

"Mommy, don't you understand why these kids are beating the hell out of me when they see me?"

Fumios' mood suddenly did a 180 after hearing the heavy topic her daughter is about to speak about.

"It's because they are jealous mommy, I am nicer than them, I am more beautiful than them, I always shine brightly and act without a flaw and try my best to do my best."

"Then why are they..."

"It's because of this one obvious weakness, I am blind, and they are using this disadvantage of mine to stroke their own egos, I am behaving better than them, so they see the danger of the teachers playing favorite with me, so they decided to act preemptively before that could happen, trying to break me and my will, they are jealous and that's why they are hurting me!"

Fumio nodded at her daughters explanation, she understood what she meant with it, and she understood why she as an almost 4 year old didn't want to be put together with a bunch of older children, they would be even more so envious of her talent, they might hurt her even worse, or in other ways.

Fumio sighed, a child that young shouldn't think so much about heavy things, but here her daughter was, thinking about such topics in an almost accurate sense. Fumio hugged her daughter.

"I am sorry Akane, you are right, I let my emotions control me again, I am sorry, I won't send you too a school for a while, and when I do, I send you to the same grade as your peers, is that okay Akane?"

Akane trembled a bit inside her mother's arm, before she slowly started to nod.

"Good, you know what, haw about we go to the mall later this day, I buy you some sweets."

Hearing this Akane was excited for a moment, before she calmed down again.

"Mommy, I still didn't finish to clean the house, do my early morning jog and my morning shower, can that wait for a bit."

"Of course, sweetheart, then I am going to prepare breakfast for today."

Akane nodded.

"By the way, when is the first tutor going to come?"

"Tomorrow morning my cinnamon roll, I am a hard and fast worker."

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Akane was exhausted for a lack of better term, all of her tutors were extremely eccentric, their teaching policy, eccentric, their ways to teach something, eccentric, their payment, eccentric.

Akane was a prodigy, that much we could say about her talent in learning stuff, but that doesn't mean that she can't get tired from the antics of her tutors, the most exhausting thing for her was the politics teacher with the moustache, he wore a kind of suit and looked very lean, but the moment Akane answered with an exceptional answer, he would flex, he would flex in the kind of way were his suit exploded, revealing the build of a body builder.

Akane was tired after the week with her tutors, but she couldn't bring herself to hate them, they might have been eccentric, but each of them was great in their field and with that Akanes' learning speed increased exponentially. she already learnt what she should learn at 2nd grade.

And she was glad that her mother tried her best to give her the best.

Akane laid on the meal table, exhausted, looking like her brain would smoke. Her mother Fumio came and patted her head.

"Exhausting, my cinnamon role?"

She slowly nodded.

"Want to go to the mall, I am sure there will be things that will cheer you up."

Akane nodded again, so for today they went to the mall.

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Akane was at the mall, currently eating a candied apple, she was happy with the sweet treat in her mouth.

They both walked inside the mall, looking around the shops, until they were stopped by someone.

"Oy, Fumio is that you?"

Akane was on alert, who was that person that knew her mother.

"Oh! Rumi! It's good to see you again, how have you been in the last time."

Apparently, it was a friend.

"More than good. But you know that your sister Etsuko is causing trouble lately, right?"

"What do you mean?"

"I mean she acts like a cat and eats strawberry Häagen Dazs all the day, by scamming the newbies off of their money, that's what she has been doing lately, you know, I expected more from the number 10 hero."

"Rumi, you know I can't do much about my sister, she just loves her strawberry Häagen."

The bunny hero nodded.

"Who is the little toddler on your side on a side note, a lost child?"

"Oh, that is my little daughter Akane, say hello to aunt Rumi."

The bunny hero had a surprised look on her face.

"Eh? EH! SINCE WHEN WERE YOU MARRIED AND HAD A DAUGHTER!"

Fumio looked panicky for a moment.

"Rumi, don't cause a scene, we can talk about in a café, how about that there it looks interesting, what is its name? "Das Ahnenerbe"? sounds German, let's go."

And so, did a lawyer pull the number five hero into a café.

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"So that is what happened, you had it tough kid, you are lucky that Fumio found you that day, else you would be an unknown corpse by now."

"Rumi!"

"No mommy, she is right, I am more than aware about what could have happened to me."

Mirko nodded at the child in acknowledgement, that kid had at least a head on her shoulders. She stretched her hand out, for the kid to shake, there was silence for a moment, and Rumi started to get embarrassed, she just remembered again that the child was blind.

She wanted to pull her hand back and apologize, but then it was suddenly grasped by another hand, by the kids' hand, Rumi laughed at the situation.

"We didn't introduce us yet, so I am going to start. I am Rumi Usagiyama, also known as the Rabbit Hero: Mirko in the fifth place of the rankings in Japan, nice to meet you!"

"I am Seigi Akane, formerly known as Ai Akane, I am a prodigy that is going to show everyone how wrong they were about me."

Hearing this Rumi was first surprised, but then bursted out in a fit of laughter.

"Fumio! Your kid has guts, I already like her! Should I visit you or you visit me from time to time?"

Fumio smiled at the interaction between the two, she was glad that the situation worked out in such a good way.

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After they ordered food in the Ahnenerbe:

"Fumio, isn't your child, eating very much for a child her age?"

"Oh, you don't have to worry Rumi, Akane is just a glutton, she loves food over everything else, heck I am sure that even in the situation where she wouldn't like you, as long as you gave her something to eat she would warm up to you."

"Is that so?"

Rumi prepared to give Akane a piece of her strawberry cake.

"Here Akane, try this."

"Rumi, you shouldn't do..."

Too late.

Rumi, fed Akane the strawberry cake and she immediately spit out as a fast projectile into her face.

Rumi needed a moment before she realized what happened, she wiped her face clean with a handkerchief.

"WHAT! IS YOUR PROBLEM! I AM TRYING TO GIVE YOU..."

Rumi couldn't stay angry at the sight of the girl in front of her, the girl almost was on the brink of crying and a trail of saliva of disgust flowed out of her mouth.

"I hawe, swawberries."

She sobbed incoherently.

Seeing this, the motherly instincts of the rabbit hero awakened and she wanted to dote on her, so she hugged the girl close and tried to comfort her.

"Look, I am sorry for feeding you that strawberry Akane, can you forgive me?"

The girl looked up, calming down.

"I am going to calm down, after you tell me what the relationship between you and my mommy is."

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""What?""