Chapter 1: Sunako's Cousin
They were sitting in the living room doing the same thing as any other day. Yes, Sunako was what Auntie would call a lady, but she wanted them to turn Sunako into even more of a lady. That was already just bout impossible. Sunako was Sunako and would always love creepy stuff. There was no changing it for the world.
The phone rang and again it was Ranmaru that went to answer it. "Hello, Auntie. What? You want us to… But Auntie, it's hard enough with just Sunako." They looked at him. He looked about ready to cry. "Fine. We'll do it." He hung up the phone.
"What was that about?" Kyohei asked. The other two nodded.
"It seems Auntie has another niece. She wants us to look after her. She hasn't really told me much, only that she's going through some things with her family."
"What's the catch this time?" Kyohei looked uninterested.
"Well, since we haven't really had much progress with Sunako, if we can cheer her other niece up then we won't have to pay rent," Ranmaru said.
"That should be simple enough," Takenaga said.
"But if she gets anymore withdrawn we'll have to pay four times the rent."
"WHAT!" Kyohei fainted.
"We should probably tell Sunako her cousin is coming to live with us," Ranmaru said.
"Cousin?" Sunako asked from the door way.
"Sunako." They looked at her. "I think your aunt said her name was…"
"Kagome," she finished. Kagome had always been so adorable. "Another bright creature," she murmured. "I'm going to go make dinner." She left the room think about her cousin. She hasn't seen her for a while now. Last she heard, Kagome was always ill.
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She looked at the house and sighed, taking the few possessions she had and walking to the door. She rang the doorbell and looked down at her feet, waiting for someone to answer the door. She knew it was around dinner time so was expecting a delay. The door opened and she didn't dare look up.
"Can I help you?" A voice asked.
"I was told I was going to be living here," she whispered.
"You must be Kagome then. Come in." He moved aside and waited for her to enter. "You are just in time for dinner."
"I'm not really hungry. I just want to go to sleep."
"A room was prepared for you. "I can take you there." He looked at her. He had yet to see her face, just her black hair. She was in baggy clothes that seemed several sizes too big for her. "Come on." He led her up a set of stairs. "It isn't anything grand, but you can do whatever you want with it." He opened the door for her and watched her walk past him. "Are you sure you don't want anything?"
"Yes, just rest." She closed the door behind her.
"A bit anti-social," he murmured before heading down stairs. Sunako was cooking friend shrimp and if he wanted to eat any of it, he had to hurry or Kyohei was going to eat all of it. He entered to see Kyohei eyeing his friend shrimp. "Don't even think about it." He sat down and started to eat his food.
"Who was at the door, Ranmaru?" Yukinoji asked.
"Kagome. She wasn't hungry so I showed her to her room," he commented as he continued to eat. Sunako didn't seem to believe this. She had prepared oden because she knew it was Kagome's favorite food. She placed a lid on the bowl and placed it on the tray before heading up to the room she knew her cousin was going to be in. She knocked on the door.
"Kagome?" She called, seeing all the lights off and hearing some crying. She placed the tray on a table. "Kagome?" She sat on the bed. "I made you some oden." Sunako was unsure of how to go about finding out what was wrong with her radiant creature cousin.
"Oh, Sunako." She hugged her cousin around the waist and continued to cry into her cousin's lap.
"What's wrong?" She looked down at the raven set of hair.
"Everything I knew is gone," she mumbled.
"You still have your family," she reasoned.
"No I do not," Kagome cried, her sobs becoming louder. She hugged her cousin tighter. "You are all I have left," she admitted, her tears slowing and exhaustion taking over. She was asleep in moments.
"Poor, Kagome." She laid her cousin out straight and covered her with a blanket before picking up the tray with the oden. She left the room and closed the door quietly behind her. She wondered what had happened to her radiant creature cousin that had her in such tears.
...1.1.1
"That was good," Kyohei said, patting his full stomach. They all turned to see Sunako coming in with a tray with a bowl on it. She seemed a bit more depressed and creepy than usual.
"Is something wrong, Sunako?" Yukinoji asked.
"Please keep it down, Kagome is sleeping." She continued to the kitchen to do the dishes.
"That was creepier than usual," Yukinoji said in a whine. "She seemed really depressed."
"Her cousin must be affecting her somehow," Takenaga said.
"Whatever. I'm going to go take a bath," Kyohei said. He stood and left.
"Kyohei and his baths," Yukinoji grumbled.
"You know how he gets, Yuki," Takenaga said.
"But every time he takes a bath something happens," Yukinoji said. There were two screams after he said that.
...
Kyohei was relaxing in his bath when the bathroom door opened.
"I told you I was taking a bath," he said irritably. He looked to see a female, long black hair cover her face. She gave a scream because he had stood up. He screamed and covered himself as the female fainted. Moments later the others were in there, Sunako looking down at the figure.
"Is she alright?" Yukinoji asked, looking down at her.
"She better be or I'll kill you, Kyohei," Sunako said, the dark aura growing and going rampant around her.
"She's the one that walked in on me," he reasoned.
"You should have locked the door!" She glared at him.
"Ittai, my head," Kagome said. She looked around her to see her cousin and three males around her, and a forth still standing in the tub, nothing covering him. "Do you mind putting some clothes on, or covering yourself?" She looked away, her messy bangs covering most of her face. He blushed and quickly wrapped a towel around his waist. She sat up. "Cannot even go to the bathroom in peace," she mumbled. She shook her head. "Is there another bathroom I can use?"
"I'll take you," Sunako said. She glared at Kyohei. She left with Kagome.
"So did anyone happen to see her face?" Kyohei asked.
"Nope. Her bangs are worse than Sunako's was," Yukinoji said.
"Just great. At least we don't have to turn her into a lady," Kyohei said. "Can you guys leave? I'd like to finish my bath." They left, closing the bathroom door behind them.
...1.1
"Sorry about that," Sunako said. "It happened to me too when I first got here." She opened the door. "Here you go." She watched Kagome go in the bathroom and close the door. A few minutes later Kagome came back out.
"Is there still anything to eat?" She felt her stomach rumble.
"I'll go heat up the oden." She walked back to the kitchen with Kagome. She watched Kagome sit down at the kitchen table. She entered the kitchen and turned on the stove. When the oden was heated up she turned it off and placed some in a bowl before placing it in front of Kagome with chopsticks and a spoon.
Kagome looked at it and held back her tears as she ate. She missed her mother so much. She used to always make her oden when she was upset or sick, and now her mother was never going to make oden for her again. Tears started to trail down her cheeks but she continued to eat, not making a sound. It would take her a while to get over this. She had no one that knew what she had been through. Her family was the only ones that knew, and now she didn't have them to turn to. All she had left was Sunako.
"I'm going back to bed," she said as she stood and left. She closed her door behind her and climbed into bed before curling around a pillow and crying herself back to sleep.
...1.1
Sunako sighed and headed up to her room. She closed the door, the flickering of the television from each scene the only light. "Hiroshi, how am I supposed to cheer up my cousin? She seems so depressed and nothing like I used to remember. She used to be so cheerful and adorable, like those radiant creatures." She looked him in the eye. "She used to always cheer me up and I want to do the same for her." She sighed and climbed into bed.
"I have school in the morning, no matter how much I don't want to go." She turned off the television and fell asleep, thoughts of how to cheer up her cousin going through her head instead of the usual thoughts of Jason and other things people were afraid of.
...
They sighed. None of them had seen Sunako's cousin's face.
"I really wanted to see what she looked like," Yukinoji wined.
"I wanted to see if she was a cutie," Ranmaru said with a sigh. "We saw what Sunako could look like. She must be cute if she is related to auntie."
"Is that all you ever think about?" Takenaga asked.
"Who am I to deny a beautiful maiden?" Ranmaru asked.
"What about Tamao?" Takenaga asked.
"She really isn't my type," Ranmaru said.
"You should stop dragging her around. You know how she feels about you," Takenaga said.
"I wish to see no beautiful maiden upset." He sighed. He really did think he was kami's gift to women.
Author's Note: I watched the first twenty-six episodes of the Wallflower and came up with this. I wanted to get some feedback before I continued to write. And does anyone know if the series went beyond twenty-six episodes? But read, review and ENJOY!