Still here? Well, on with the show then!

“Say no more,” Hanbei stated calmly. “It would be an honor.”
“Wonderful!” Bowser lept forward, and bear-hugged Hanbei vigorously in delight. “Thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou…oh, and did I mention, THANK YOU! And of course, you can be sure I’ll gladly make it worthy your while.”
“Please. You know your money is no good with me, sir.” Hanbei said as he freed himself from the large Koopa’s hug. “But I believe we can work something out…”
“…Yeah?” Bowser asked, bushy eyebrows raised in interest.
Hanbei’s eyes had a bit of a fiery desire to him as he looked Bowser dead in his eyes.
“…I think you have a good idea of the only thing I could really desire from you.”
“Oh….OH!” Bowser then grinned mischievously.
“We have an understanding, then?” Hanbei just continued to smirk.
“Of course! It just so happened that I’m free for the next few days, so that I can soak up all the goodness relating to my son’s big night and so forth! I’ll be happy to give you a re-match! That is, if you ain’t afraid of getting more of what you got last time!”
“Excellent,” Hanbei said, satisfied. “I do indeed look forward to our next contest.”
“That makes two of us! You Kagamis have always been too much fun!” Bowser smiled with glee. “I can’t wait!”
The two then had their individual fists meet, as if to make it an official vow that they had an “appointment,” of the most interesting variety.
Junior’s father would not be the only one eager. Both Junior and Roy alike already knew what was up, and gave each a sideways smirk to let each other know.
Wendy, on the other hand, was not as enthused, but nonetheless amused.
“Boys will be boys, no matter how old they get,” she giggled as she rolled her eyes.
“Hey, watch it, young lady! You’re starting to sound too much like your mother!” Bowser snickered.
“Then I’m doing my job, ain’t I?” she smiled.
“Heh…that you definitely are,” her father chuckled in reply.
Hanbei smiled as well, as he gathered the pictures together, before giving them back to their owner.
“Well, in any case, it would simply be a matter of running back home to Charm City, getting my things and…” Hanbei started to list his trail of thought.
“No need to worry about that. Everything you need is here already!” Bowser smiled broadly.
“Oh, really? Father hooked you up with a means to get into the place?” Hanbei looked at him quizzically.
“Well...no…but after Gaisei and I talked, it was kinda hinted that such things were ok…” Bowser trailed off, diverting his scarlet gaze from Hanbei’s eyes.
“B-san…” Hanbei said firmly.
“Aw, c’mon! I’m the head of a Global Hotel Conglomerate! A guy like me has plenty of means open to him in the realm of acquiring skeleton keys, and having plenty of people being able to move stuff quickly on a moment’s notice…!” Bowser explained rapidly.
“...breaking and entering into my own home, and lifting my things from the premises. I must admit, I didn’t think there was anything more that you and your kin could to surprise me,” Hanbei sighed in a deadpan manner.
“Well, look, in the end, everything is all here and just waiting for you to set up. And as I always say, the most direct way of doing things, is definitely the BEST way of doing things!” Bowser said.
“…more like the ‘Koopa way of doing things’…” Hanbei said with a wary smile.
“Best way? Koopa way? Same difference!” Bowser concluded with a wide smile.
“Well said, Pops!” Junior matched his father’s smile with his own.
“Back up in the midst of things for a couple of minutes, and it is already crazy. What have I gotten myself into…?” Hanbei said softly.
“…Don’t you worry, Bei-by!” Wendy added. “All of your equipment and things have been handled with the best of care. And I, personally, have seen to it that one of the guest rooms has been converted into a suitable dwelling for you.”
“…guest room…?” Roy said softly. At that level, only Junior, who was standing right next to him, was able to actually hear him clearly.
Obviously, that one room that he and Roy had a brief tussle in earlier today was the room that was intended for their favorite guest. Good thing that their little rough-housing session did not do anything to mess up the room…much.
But, more over, Junior pondered briefly about the meaning of Roy’s question. Was it merely to ask a question he likely already knew the answer to, or was there a bit more than that?
Before he could psycho-analyze any further though, Hanbei spoke again.
“I have no doubt in my mind that you did your best, Wendy. I just merely ask, ‘will it be big enough?’” Hanbei asked with a smile.
“Hmm? Everything I saw looked like it could fit into the room with little trouble at all.” Wendy mused. “…Unless you bought that much with you back from Japan?”
Hanbei continued to smile as he walked back towards the limo he arrived in. “Funny you would put it that way. I actually did bring with me a number of surprises for my ‘second family.’ But possibly the biggest surprise is right here in the limo…”
All Koopa eyes were on Hanbei as he walked back over, and then leaned down to peer into the still open door on his side.
“Well, now…are you guys planning to sleep the entirety of your first day in America, or…?”
It was then that Hanbei was surprised by two forms that leapt out and surprised hugged him. Obviously, the original intent was to attempt to tackle the wartortle, but he had already “braced” himself adequately for such a thing. So the two forms had to settle for the bear hug they ended up with.
Coming clearly into view, Junior was able to see for himself just who had tried to tackle Hanbei. Two kids of obvious eastern draconic descent, both of which could not be older than 14, stood in front of Hanbei, after the latter broke from them. The two seemed to be perfect twins, at least at first glance. Each had the same pair of red eyes, a matching pair of horns on his head, aqua-marine colored skin, the same height that Junior would wager to be about 5’ 7” and were dressed in their own gakuseifuku, which was a dark blue color, as opposed Hanbei’s white.
Junior allowed himself a smile. A part of him was always interested in twins. His first exposure to such interesting people was back in 6^th Grade, when he was friends with a pair of tawny feline sisters named Tia and Tamera Meowry, who were actually a grade ahead of him. His favorite thing to do was to find some way of vexing them, usually on a more perverted tip. This usually led to a stereo chorus of them saying “GO HOME, JUNIOR!”, or maybe just a smack upside the back of his head. He snickered at the thought of that familiar shout echoing in his memory.
The Meowries were probably the closest friends that Junior had, aside from Hanbei and Roy. And he enjoyed the days they had together, until they graduated from 8^th grade, and moved away to Detroit, last he heard.
And now, fate has given the young Koopa a chance to get acquainted with a second pair of twins. The prospect enthralled him to no end.
“Well, hello there, guys!” Junior said, turning on his trademark charm. “Name’s Junior. And you are…?”
The two twin dragons looked at each other.
“Shall I?” one asked.
“After you, dear brother,” the other replied.
“Alright…We are the ‘Double Draco’ twins! I’m Billy Li!” the first one stated.
“…and I’m Jimmy Li!” the second one followed.

“And it is a pleasure to make your acquaintance!” they said in unison, followed immediately by a synchronized quarter-bow.

Junior allowed himself to chuckle. He was beginning to like these two already.
“As my older brother stated though, such things like ‘bowing’ are not needed here! ‘Specially not with me. A good handshake is fine, though! Put ‘er there!” Junior said, extended both of his hands towards them.
Both twins tentatively outstretched a respective hand to meet with Junior’s own.
A twin’s hand in his left and his right, Junior continued to grin.
“See, now that wasn’t so bad now was it…?” he started to ask.
But before he could finish, each twin had already started making quick movements. The twin on Junior’s left pushed forward slightly, which made Junior off balanced. This was only worsened when the one on his right hooked a foot underneath Junior’s right foot, and that caused Junior to topple onto his back.
Next thing he knew, he was looking up to both twins, each with confident smirks on their faces, and a fist cocked at Junior’s own.
“We have you at our mercy, sir,” one twin said.

“Do you surrender?” the other asked.

“BOYS!” Hanbei shouted. “That is NOT the way you introduce yourself to some one new!”

“But we saw you do it!” Billy stated excitedly.

“Yeah, to that big guy!” Jimmy added.
“…That’s different.”
“How so?!” they asked together.
“Because, that big guy you are talking about is your big brother’s best friend. We have history together. We trained together. And that’s one of the ways we like to greet each other sometimes, by putting each other to the test,” Hanbei explained.
Roy snickered.
“…But in any case, we know each other. Therefore, it’s okay for us to do as such. You two, do not know Mr. Junior like that. So, apologize, and help him up. Right this instant,” Hanbei stated with utter seriousness.
The twins then hastily helped Junior up, obviously not wanting to provoke any more of Hanbei’s ire.
“We’re sorry, Mr. Junior…” they said together.
Junior, however, was all smiles.
“I see you guys all into that chop-socky stuff, as well! That’s fine! But you know what’s not fine? Calling me ‘Mr. Junior’. I hate that kind of formality, especially for two guys who I’m sure I’m going to be cool with soon enough!” Junior said with a wink.
“Really?” one twin said.
“Cool!” the other replied immediately.

While Junior and the twins quickly were on the ups, and getting introduced to Wendy and his father in turn, Roy pulled Hanbei aside.
“So…details. How da hell did this come ‘bout?”
“Well, it’s a long story, my friend. But to make that long story short, while we made a stop over to visit an old friend in Hong Kong…we ended up picking up two new additions to our family.”
“Ahhh…” Roy mused.
“Technically, Gaisei-sensei adopted them. But beyond all that, they’re my charges. So, that makes me their ‘big bro’, as it were.”
Roy then snaked his arms around Hanbei’s neck yet again.
“If what I just saw was anythin’…you must drive ‘em pretty hard.”
“It’s good for them. They have potential to do a lot of great things…if they just stay focused enough, and are put on the right path. Sound like anybody you know?” Hanbei gave a sly grin to Roy.
“I gots no idea what chu talking about, man,” Roy smiled back, albeit a bit nervously.
“Oh, I’m sure, you don’t,” Hanbei replied. “But in any case, you should know, this was all due to you, in a way.”
“…really? Why come you say dat?” Roy queried.
“Well, I’ll be honest. Seeing the way you and Junior were so tight when we were growing up…the way you took him under your wing, doing your part to help make a man out of him, and such? That struck a chord with me. And with that, I think a part of me always wanted a ‘lil bro’ of my own, as well.”
Hanbei turned aside, looking at Junior, already teaching his two new friends various things, like the proper way to walk with some “swagg in your step,” among others.
“So, when the opportunity was clearly looking in my face back then, a year ago…who was I to say no? Especially when there was definitely a need…?” Hanbei concluded.
“…Heh. Well, who'da thunk I would have made such a positive impression on ya, Bei-bei? And here, ol' boy ‘Lude the Prude’ continues to think I’m such a bad influence on you…which, of course, is still correct, don’t get me wrong!” Roy quickly added with a grin.
Hanbei just smiled gently, with a bit of a blush that was not easily missed on his normal, blue complexion.
“…But I’m mad tho’!”
“…at what?” Hanbei asked.
“What, you think you can just go ahead and get two youngins’ to look after, while I had just one? Thinkin’ you can go one-upping your partna', like 'dat?” Roy looked with a smile.
“…Roy, you have FOUR younger brothers, including Junior.” Hanbei deadpanned.
“…Oh yeah! Easy to forget, seein’ dat Junior’s da only one I actually like!”
“…So sad…” Hanbei shook his head as best he could.
“But true!” Roy smirked. “’Sides, our own, not-so-little-any-more Bow J was the only one who really needed the help, much less actually wanted it.”
“Looking at him, now? I think you did a fine job. He’s definitely still got that ‘play’ about him, which I don’t think he will ever outgrow. But I see that he’s become a fine young man. You should be proud,” Hanbei praised.
“…Oh, f’sho…but, don’t tell him I said all 'dat though. Bow J doesn’t need dat big head of his to get ANY bigger than it already is!” Roy laughed, with a bit of a blush himself. “’Sides…ain’t like I can take all 'da credit. What’s dat saying about a village....?”
“Takes a village to raise a child, based off of the Nigerian proverb ‘Ora na azu nwa’. Used a great deal by many politicians, including, but not limited, to Former First Lady Clinton” Hanbei rolled off effortlessly.
“…thank you, my walking, talking, Wikipedia,” Roy squeezed his arm around the wartortle’s neck.
Hanbei chuckled out in reply.
“But seriously, tho’…I am proud of dat lil' rugrat. Just can’t bring m’self to think that he’s getting ready to graduate from High School…and hell, getting ready to go to college! And even worse…he’ll be ‘legal’ in a few weeks! Jus let dat notion sink in!”
“God help us all…” Hanbei said, as the ideas fully registered in his mind.
“You ain’t never lied…” Roy agreed.

Meanwhile, as Junior was now teaching the twins from Hong Kong the intricacies of some American slang, he had heard most, if not all of the conversation his two “big brothers” shared. A smile crept to his face at the praise they emitted on his behalf…and for another reason that was for him, alone.
“…So, ‘killing it’ means to actually slay something?” one twin asked, snapping him out of his thoughts.
“Nah, nah! See, ‘killing it’, in this school of thought, means more along the lines of you’re DDT-ing it, or ‘doing the damn thing.’ This means you’re doing it exceptionally well! That make more sense, Jimmy?” Junior corrected.
“I’m Billy!” the Dracomon corrected.
“Oh, I’m sorry, man! I’ll get it right…eventually!” Junior smiled.
“And what is this ‘damn thing?'” the real Jimmy asked.
“Stick with me guys, and you’ll pick it up along the way!” Junior winked.
“OK!” both twins answered.

Such as it was, and always will be, Junior’s family was now all together. With two new additions, no less! As the twin 14-year-olds hung on every word the young, American Koopa uttered, he had to admit it: there was indeed something to be said about being the “big brother” that made for a nice change of pace from him always being the youngest at home.
It was then, that Junior caught a faint scent in the air. The all-too-familiar scent of his favorite dish wafted into his nostrils, and only proceeded to make his mouth water with delight. His father must have specifically requested his favorite dish for tonight’s meal, and now, he was even more eager to sink his teeth into it.
"Mmmm…steak…" Junior thought to himself wistfully.