A/N: Written for the Mega Prompts Challenge, #028 – dysfunctional.
Kaede - More than One Kid
Why did parents have more than one child if they were going to only abandon one of them in the end?
Kaede thinks it would have been kinder if they'd only ever had one. That way they could have lavished his brother with all the love in the world and no-one would be lacking. Not like when there were two siblings, and his brother got all the attention while he would up stuck in the shadows.
He shouldn't have needed to go out and find another parent in the outside world. He shouldn't have needed to become so dependent on Youhei, and on Mika. He shouldn't have needed to become so dependent on billiards.
But he did need to, and he was. Like drugs – except it wasn't hurting anyone if he indulged in it. Except Mika for a bit, but that was because of the misconceptions of the world and not the nature of the task. Not like drugs – needlesticks and those chemicals messing about inside his body. It was just a stick and a bunch of balls he hit…
And, somehow, that was more a home than his own bedroom and bed.
