Brother
By Chaomi
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It was the end of the Christmas and a certain blonde heiress sat on her desk chair, her brows furrowed, tongue sticking out of her mouth, and her eyes glued to her task at hand with abundant determination.
The cold wind from her open window didn't break the girl's concentration instead it fueled her to keep going…it is almost finished…
A sudden knock broke her working spell and the girl hurriedly stuffed her things on the drawers and loudly and snottily shouted, "Open!"
A boy slowly opened the door and peered unseeingly inside the room. His eyes strayed from the open window towards the girl sitting quite comfortably on her chair.
"What were you doing?" the boy's tone accusing. He entered the room fully and sat on the girl's bed without permission.
"Arg. I don't 'av to answer to you! I wasn't doing anything…just sitting." The girl pouted petulantly. She jumped from her chair and pointed at the boy. "And you…why are you here?"
"It's my job." He answered blandly and rolled his eyes.
Thinking of an appropriate retort and coming up with nothing, the girl glared. "I don't need you…I am per-per-fect-ly fine on my own!" She grimaced for she had bit her tongue pronouncing "perfectly".
The boy saw this and shook his head. Shrugging, the boy stood from the bed and went to the window. He closed it and mockingly turned to the girl and said, "Yep. Perfectly", emphasizing the second word.
"I do that on purpose! I like cold air! And I was waiting for the snow, you bad, bad! A-choo!"
"You're welcome", came the boy's response.
"I was not saying thank you! At-choo!"
"Yeah, yeah. Settle down and go to bed. I'll call Maria-san to check up on you. Your fat cheeks are red and you looked like Rodolf the Red-nose Reindeer."
"I-I-I'm not fat and Maria said that I'm cute!" The girl sniffled. Her nose really looked like Rodolf's.
The boy just shrugged and went to the girl touching her forehead and checking her temperature.
"Just a cold…" and from his usual cold monotone, his voice suddenly emanated warmth. "Go to bed, Nagi. I mean it." He flicked the girl's forehead gently and took her little hands in his and tucked her in the bed.
The boy was about to leave the room when the girl's voice stopped him.
"Wait…there…" her finger pointing on her desk drawer "in the drawer…I made it for you…"
The boy went to the girl's drawer and opened it. Retrieving a sketchpad, he looked curiously at the girl.
"Happy Christmas, Aka!" The girl beamed, her pearly whites showing, a big contrast to her already sickly color but in the boy's mind he agreed to Maria that indeed, their mistress is cute.
"I hope you like it…" She started shyly watching the boy flipping the sketchpad. "I really made it just for you, Aka. Its title is "Red Brother Hero*" because you are like my big brother that always beats bad bad people for me!"
"…."
"Isumi read it and she said that it's the best and-"
"….."
"I should make more!-"
"..."
After a minute of Nagi's nonstop narration of the creation of Red Brother Hero
"So, what do you think, Aka-nii?" (beam)
"What crap is this?" the boy muttered to himself. His usually emotionless face scrunched in absolute confusion. That comment was not meant for Nagi to hear, nevertheless, she heard it. Smile gone from her face, she was the picture of a woman hell hath scorned.
The boy was busy trying to understand the work, unaware of the building anger from the girl of his comment. He was completely caught off-guard when a pillow nailed him on his head…hard.
"Baka! Baka! Baka! Baka! Get out!"
"Nagi?"
"I said get out! I wanna sleep."
"Alright…" Thinking it was just one of Nagi's infamous tantrums, Himegami was about to leave when again, Nagi's voice stopped him but unlike the first: shy Nagi, she was back to her snobbish self.
"Leave my sketchpad."
The boy did what the girl said and returned the sketchpad inside the drawer and with a last shrug, the boy left the girl's room.
Inside the room, Nagi pulled the comforter until her nose and mouth were hidden. She grumbled and cursed the boy in her head.
"Stupid Himegami"
Rolling agitatedly and sniffling on her bed, Nagi felt a budge. She sat up and looked under her comforter. There, she saw a doll that looked a bit like her. Taking the doll and looking at it with big shining eyes, she scanned the mini replica and her eyes stared at the stitch on the hem of the doll's frilly blouse. Happy Christmas chibi Nagi.
"Stupid Aka…"
Author's note:
Chibi- little, small
Baka- idiot, stupid
Aka-nii- Brother Aka
Aka- red (in this story, Aka is Nagi's nickname for Akane Himegami)
*Red Brother Hero- yes, a very lame title for a manga (that Nagi made here). It was supposed to be Kamen Aniki Aka but I dunno…I only know a little Japanese so I disregarded the idea.
The redundancy of the words "girl" and "boy" made my head ache but I blame myself for my very limited vocabulary.
This is a pre-Hayate no Gotoku story focusing on Hime and Nagi because, yeah, I'm a crack shipper. Nagi here is around 5-6 years old and Hime…hm…I'm clueless of their age difference! This is a brother-sister relationship fic for Nagi and Hime.
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