A/N: This takes place on the day of Ayu-nee's funeral. Also, all six drabbles were written at about twelve in the morning and only took about an hour for all of them, so they might not be as good as you hoped. They are all rather short and should take only a few minutes of your time to read through them. I think maybe they're TOO short, but this is the first time I've ever written drabbles, so I hope you enjoy them. Reviews and constructive critiscm are welcomed greatly!
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters from Peace Maker or Peacemaker Kurogane. I only manipulate them. AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA!!
The International Manual—by Ichimura Tetsunosuke
The small boy looks down and makes an odd noise in his throat. "Who-o-oa..." he mutters to himself. "We're so high up! It's funny how you never notice until you're up there..."
He watches the boy slowly get his footing on the first step of the ladder passively, draping his coat around his shoulders. He looks up as the boy's head pops up over the tiles of the roof. "By the way," the boy says, "what I said this morning... I take it back, okay?"
He doesn't respond. Instead, he flings himself against the hard tiles, thinking to himself that he should be the one to take back his words. "Hey, Susumu!" the boy's red head of hair surfaces again. He would have wondered, if he had had the time, how many times the boy intended to do that. "Your sister told me to teach you all kindsa stuff, so starting tomorrow, I'm going to be your revered teacher, so you had better be ready!"
The boy grins widely. "Now, I want you to go get a good night's sleep and take a bath, 'cos there's no way in hell I'm going to go easy on you!" That said, the boy prepares to take another step down. Before the boy can leave, he calls out: "Wait!"
The boy looks peeved. "What?" he asks, sulking already. "I'm not going to start any later, even if you beg me to, you kn--"
"No. What did you call me?"
The boy looks clueless for a moment, then blushes a deep pink. Quickly, he slips down the ladder to avoid the awkwardness. He begins to think that the boy really is nothing but a little brat. "Hey!" the boy calls from below. He looks up. "I have a policy to call all my friends by their first name!" The boy sounds a little embarrased to say that.
He stares at the place where the boy had, up until now, recently been and he thinks he feels his face go slightly hot. He puts it down to lack of sleep.
"Aah! Tetsu! So that's where you've been!"
He hears a feeble whine from the boy.
"Get down! Get down right now!"
"Aaarggh!! Tatsu-nii! Don't shake it! No! Don't- GUAAAGGGGHHHH!!"
Susumu smiles to himself and decides he had better get down soon. He has no doubt that Tetsunosuke's training will require a lot of energy.