Chapter One: Relationships

I scratched the back of my head. Unbelievable. I can't get a single thing of this guy.

"So, are you sure you really don't like anyone, Onii-chan?" He groaned and flopped on our shared queen sized bed. We had this bed ever since we were kids so we were used to sleeping on the same bed and we wouldn't have different beds, even though our parents nagged about being at puberty stage and us doing whatnots. I snorted inwardly. As if. "Everyone will have a crush at some point in their lives. And now would be the highest point."

"How many times must I repeat myself, Imoto-chan…?" He complained. "If everyone has crushes, how come you don't have it?"

"Because I'm different." I huffed and leaned back in my roller chair, frowning at my computer. This should prove troublesome. One of the girls in my class asked me to ask my brother what he thought of her online. And, frankly, I don't even think my brother knows she exists.

My older brother, Sōhei Sasahara, looks up at the ceiling, deep in thought. I tapped a pencil to my lip, watching him curiously.

"Neh, how long do you want to stare at me, Sayuki?" He asked without looking at me, I grinned. "I'm going to draw you. Stay there." He shifted his weight, got up on his elbow and frowned at me. "Can't you take a picture?" I shook my head, grabbing my sketchbook from my bag.

"No, so lie down and look troubled." He raised an eyebrow sceptically and I gave him the most innocent puppy eyes look, "Onegai?" He smirked and flopped back on the bed.

"Do what you want." I laughed, "You're the best, Onii-chan~" He chuckled and I started drawing. Me and my brother shares our mother's dark green eyes and our father's dark brown hair. I let mine grow to a medium length down to my shoulder. I had it tied in a low side pony tail. While my hair is thick and slightly wavy, my brother, however, spikes up adorably, as a lot of girls says so.

"Neh, Onii-chan?"

"Hmm?"

"Do you like any girls in your school then?" Otosan and Okasan made us go to different schools because we were too dependent on each other and we didn't make any friends because of that.

But now, Onii-chan has oodles of friends from his baseball team and from what he told me, he's quite popular.

He's studying in Syoyo High School and I was in Ryukyu Girl's School. It's nearby Syoyo so I get to walk together with my brother when we were in different high schools. I'm 16 and Sasayan, as his friends and what I called him I was a kid, is 17 this year. I stretch and rubbed off some stray lines on the picture.

"Sayuki…" I heard my brother's voice piped up softly. He was ignoring my question, but I knew my brother too well so I didn't push him.

"Hmm?" I said absent mindedly as I concentrated on legs of the boy in my drawing.

"If I told you I liked a girl… Will you ask your friends to leave me alone?" He asked quietly. I look up from my drawing and cocked my head to the side, observing him wordlessly. He had his hands laced behind his head and he wasn't looking at me. I closed my eyes and smiled.

"Onii-chan…My friends are all boys…The girls I'm dealing with are your fan girls." I saw him smirked and continued drawing. "Besides, as far as I'm concern, if you told me you like a girl, I wanna make friends with her." He looked up at me but I ignored him. "I want to know what I'm going to be dealing with. If you both plan to get married or something." Sasayan laughed and scratched his head, "You're taking it too far, Sayuki." I smiled at him gently. We were silent for awhile after that.

"Neh~ Are you going anywhere during the weekend?" I asked as I made the finishing touches on the drawing. He nodded. "Yeah, I'm going out to buy materials for the chicken coop." I cocked my head,

"For Nagoya?" He nodded. "Ohh…With whom?" "Natsume and the others."

I nodded. "Can I meet them or something? Do they even know you have a sister?" I asked playfully.

He grins sheepishly, giving me the first real smile since yesterday when he was moping like a beaten dog. "They don't even know you exist." I puffed out my cheeks. He got up and sat opposite of me from the bed. "Don't worry. Are you going to play basketball then?"

"Of course!" I nodded vigorously. He smiles, "Then, I'll arrange an 'accidentally-on-purpose' meeting then~." I squealed and hugged my brother. "Arigato, Onii-chan~~ Onii-chan wa saikoda~" (You're the best~) He laughed and hugged me back.

I rolled off him and grabbed my drawing book. Sitting back down beside him, I placed the book on my lap and he observe my masterpiece.

"Look~ How much do you think I would earn if I made a copy of this for your fans?" He ruffled my hair.

"Don't you dare to get money out from my drawings, sis." I laughed, "And what would you do if I did?" He leaned back on his hands and the grin on his face mirrored mine. "I'll send hordes of fan boys at your way." I shrugged. "Deal. I have more than enough fanboys to cope with." Sasayan laughed.

Suddenly, our cat, Kurosaki, meows loudly, demanding attention. He squeezed through our slightly open room door and meow again. I got up and placed my drawing book on my desk.

"Oh shut up, Kuro. If there's no one at home except the both of us, you'll come mewling like a sodden kitten." He licked his paw and pounced to Sasayan, who laughed at the fat cat's clumsy attempt to wrap his tail around his fat body. I watch the cat in mock disdain and he yawned at me.

Everyone in this household loves that fat fur ball. But, when Sasayan had brought home that rooster, our cat became a coward and hid his fat body on the shelf for two nights.

I shook my head. Tomorrow might prove interesting however. I laughed inwardly. Maybe I can meet Sasayan's crush.

Who knows right?