Different Strengths
Preface: Protective
"Maria, you can't go in there."
Maria Kiryu looked up at the speaker. However fragile she was, she did not like others telling her what she should and shouldn't do.
"Why not, Zero-kun?" she asked.
"Ichiru's resting," he answered, giving his younger sister a glare.
"So?"
"He has a cold. Mother and Father don't want you – or anyone – to catch it. Or rather, Mother and my father don't want…"
"Shut up!" Maria screamed at him at the top of her lungs, and immediately broke out, coughing tunelessly. She couldn't help it, Zero frustrated her so much!
The bedroom door swung open. Ichiru Kiryu stood there, looking down at his half-sister.
"Maria!" he exclaimed, bending on his knees and cradling the angelic girl in his arms.
"Ichiru, don't! You're sick!" Zero shouted, yet somewhat helplessly. His weaker twin's attachment to their younger sister was unbreakable.
"I'm not that ill, Zero. Mother and Father and you don't need to isolate me every-time I sneeze!"
Maria coughed into her tiny fist. "Ichiru!" she cried happily, reaching out to give her older half-brother a hug.
"Zero, stop being mean to her about Mother and Father. It isn't her fault."
Zero knew there was no excuse for what he had said. "Okay," he answered.
Ichiru never stood up to Zero unless Maria was involved – Ichiru was extremely weak in comparison to his stronger brother. Maybe that was why Ichiru and Maria got along so well. Ichiru was cursed by the legend that twins born into a vampire hunter family; Zero was strengthened by the very thing Ichiru was weakened by.
The twins' mother had cheated on their father with Maria's father: a powerful aristocrat – and Maria was the result. The twin's father had forgiven their mother, though it could never be the same. When Maria was born, due to the fact that she was a crossbreed between a human and a vampire, she was extremely weak. Ichiru (aged eleven) was four years older than Maria, so many people tended to wonder why they were so close as half-siblings… he was closer to Maria than he was to his own twin brother! But anyone who wondered that just didn't understand.
Another Time-Filler fic, so don't expect regular updates, just expect random updates! ^_^
