5.
The four had known one another for years, enough time for even the stiff Tieria to become relaxed around all of them, well relaxed for Tieria anyways. Lockon had smiled brightly wrapping his arms around the three other pilots and pulling them into an awkward hug. Every time he would claim that they were family, that they were brothers.
Still every time the four managed to sit down for a meal, "Because families who eat together do better!" Lockon yelled quoting an outdated commercial from way back when the millennia was new, they all noticed one thing about Setsuna.
He hated it when they wasted food.
At first they hadn't really noticed that Setsuna was being cold to them, he didn't have an overly warm personality to get much colder. Then as time went by and Setsuna warmed up to them and they started to consider him a little brother. It was during that time that they realized that Setsuna was generally cold to them sometimes after mealtimes.
Considering the sheer amount that Setsuna had warmed up to the group when he went back to the way he had been before they considered each other brothers was very unnerving. They all handled their littlest brother suddenly reverting in different ways. Lockon would usually mope around a bit when Setsuna was mad at him. Tieria would go and hide out in Verda until he got a warm response from Setsuna, while Allelujah would compliment Setsuna at the drop of a hat and do various nice things for him.
One time after a week of the harsh attitude Allelujah was at the end of his rope and Hallelujah came out.
"What the hell are you mad about? I haven't done anything wrong! I've done nothing but compliment your performance!" he screamed golden eye shining as he held Setsuna up by the collar of his shirt, "Tell me so that I can fix it!" he bellowed. Even Lockon was surprised to see Allelujah's violent alter ego this upset.
"You didn't appreciate it…" Setsuna muttered his bangs covering his eyes.
"I didn't appreciate what Setsuna? What did I do?" Allelujah asked silver eye trying to look into the brown eyes of the teen.
Setsuna's head snapped up in an instant his eyes locking with Allelujah.
"You threw out a whole meal." Setsuna spoke evenly looking at Allelujah/Hallelujah calmly without the slightest hint of a joke in his expression, "Food is a very precious resource. Don't waste it." Setsuna said his eyes narrowing angrily, "I hate it when people waste food like that." he slapped Allelujah/Hallelujah's hand and walked away leaving the rest of them there.
Never again did any part of a meal go uneaten.
Food couldn't have been too easy to come by in his rebel group. I imagine Setsuna finds food to be very important.
Five more chapters.