I stood there for a stunned moment, then I gave a flabbergasted expression. "Take you BOTH with me?!" I asked.
"Yes," Kagero said. "I want to leave this country behind and be with you so much, but I cannot leave my last daughter behind here and alone with those slayers hunting for us. She is the only living descendant of my first husband and the last proof of his existence. If she is left alone they will surely find her and murder her, or worse... just as they did with all of my other daughters and children from my first marriage!"
I took a few moments to think about it, then I replied.
"Kagero, I desperately want to grant your wish, but one does not simply 'Walk into my country..." trying my best to sound like 'Boromir' from 'The fellowship of the ring'.
"... since I entered this country as a bachelor, it was already probably going to be hard enough to say that you and I were now married during my travels. And getting an entry visa for just YOU as my wife was going to be difficult enough... But to gain legal entry into my country for your daughter as well would take at least months, if not years! In this era she would even have to have proof of nationality residency to begin with, especially if she was to find someone who she wanted to marry as well. And even if we used your powers to teleport us there, I don't know if you're powerful enough to get us all the way there. Then even if by some insane miracle you were able to teleport us there, the first thing that my own countrymen would want to know is 'how I bypassed 8-9000 miles of checkpoints without using my own government issued visa passport and ended up all the way home.... Instead of going through my own country's official entry points that I left from'... In fact they would DEMAND to know! And also without those proper permissions and identifications required, they may inquire and eventually find us out and forcibly separate us... possibly sending you back into enemy hands or worse."
"This is something that we definitely want to avoid..." Kagero said.
Suddenly, there was a knock on the room door.
"Housekeeping," a female voice calling out in Japanese.
We looked at each other in a sudden panic, then i said: "Quick, the closet!"
Kagero and Hitomi immediately went to the closet in my bedroom and softly closed the door just as a female maid who appeared to be in her late 40's or early 50's entered the hotel room.
"Konichiwa sir! I'm here to see if your room needs cleaning or there's anything else you need?" The maid asked in Japanese.
"Other than the trash I think I'm okay. But isn't it late to be cleaning the room?" I replied in the same language.
""Ooooh you actually speak good Japanese! That's rare to see from a young American!" The maid replied. "Forgive me for the inconvenience young sir, the person who normally does this job fell ill and I am filling in for them and am just running behind. Is there anything else that you require?"
"Sure, can I perhaps get a couple of extra bath towels?"(I had already mostly cleaned up my room when Kagero first got here.)
"Certainly! I'll just vacuum the room then take out the trash and be right back with your towels, sir!"
After she took both the trash basket by the desk and the one in the kitchen out to empty them. After completing both the vacuuming and emptying the trash, she went to the hall and immediately returned with 3 towels.
"I brought you an extra one, just in case sir!"
"Thank you!" I said as I escorted her to the door, doing my best to be polite and tipping her $20.
"Oh, domo arigato Sir!" she said excitedly.
"Domo arigato." I said in response.
30 seconds later after I heard her move on to another room, I went up to my hotel bedroom closet door and softly said "You can come out now, she's gone..."
Kagero and Hitomi emerged from my closet and then went to lay on my bed. Wasting little time after that, I then turned to my MacBook on my desk on my hotel room, and began an online search for different ways to obtain passports for multiple people. Before I realized it, I have been searching for over a couple of hours while Kagero and Hitomi sat and laid on my bed, watching me. All of my searches seemed to be fruitless however, as homeland security regulations were as tight as a drum, with little or no weak spots to take advantage of... even for a millionaire. After a while, I felt like I was getting nowhere. my eyes were starting to burn with fatigue and getting tired, and I stood up from my chair and stretched out to take a break.
I gave out a loud and audible sigh. "We have got to find a way where we can get both of you out of here with me legally, and in one shot... there must be a way."
"This indeed seems to be a difficult task, but I have a feeling you'll find the way my husband," Kagero replied. "The answer may present itself later on, we probably just need to be patient..." Kagero was looking sleepy as she spoke.
"Are you OK?" I asked.
"I am just a little tired after today's events, and using my teleportation to move to a blind location has taken a small toll on me,"Kagero said. "I just need a little time to rest and recover."
"Well, you and Hitomi are safe here for the moment and.you're welcome to stretch out and sleep on the bed if you want to," I replied. "I think I'm going to take another shower to help me think."
"But I already washed you earlier today, my husband." Kagero said.
"I know," I replied. "But some of my best ideas come to me when I'm in the shower, so maybe I can think of something while cleaning my body and clearing my thoughts... kind of like 'meditation under a waterfall." I said, as I smiled at her as I went over to my suitcase and got some fresh clothes. "By the way, my computer is unlocked so feel free to use it and see the world and its recent events as much as you want to while I'm in the shower!"
I then entered the shower room and closed the door. I immediately disrobed and turned on the hot water in the shower. When the water reached the right temperature, i entered the shower and began cleaning myself.
Whilst cleaning myself and feeling the steamy hot water splashing across my skin, I began pondering any type of plan that I could actually used to help get Kagero and Hitomi both back home with me. I could possibly get married to Kagero and take her home with me. But I didn't know if their teleportation could or would reach all the way from Japan to the midwestern United States region... and if that plan failed, Hitomi would be left behind here and surrounded by enemies... and from what her mother tells me, only god knows what they would do to her if they managed to find her....
Buy a Private plane or a boat? I think I'd probably might have enough money for either one of those, but I'd probably run into the same problem with a regular airport or dock and harbor securities for an international flight. and with less chance to escape if we were found out... not to mention making sure we had plenty of fuel to get home. and besides that, once I've bought them, where am I gonna KEEP them?! what else can we do?...
A cargo boat? Nah, Too slow... and who knows how many border patrol agents there will be watching for illegal immigrants?! And besides... a guy who has just won the lottery taking a slow cargo ship home? even I don't have to be a detective to know that story just SCREAMS 'this guy's up to something shady over here'!
Let's just face the facts... I am just one man that's trying to move away a mountain solo! I know that even a miracle needs a hand sometimes, but this is shaping up to be an insanely BIG miracle! If I'm going to pull this off, I'll need a lot more people with a lot more connections who can help!
As the water from the showerhead above washed around my head and my ears, I began to wash my hair with my shampoo. Because of the intense shampoo lather around my head at the time, I failed to hear the shower curtain slightly and softly opening behind me. I was a bit shocked for a second when I felt a couple of hands behind me on my back, but because of the soap in my hair and face I couldn't turn to see who it was that entered the shower. At first, I thought it was Kagero, and told her:
"You didn't need to come help me shower this time, Kagero honey... But if you want, can you scrub my back again?"
A few moments later, I felt one of the bath loofah's scrubbing on my back. I then continued washing my hair until I was squeaking and completely cleaned. The scrubbing on my back, continued until I began to rinse the shampoo out of my hair.
As I turned around and completed rinsing out the shampoo from my hair and away from my ears and eyes... I then opened my eyes to find that I was not in the shower with Kagero, but her beautiful daughter Hitomi... VERY naked, VERY sexy and WAY too close to explain away if Kagero found found us!
I let out a yelp, but Hitomi immediately covered by mouth shushing me... "Not so loud, mother will hear us..."