Chapter 1

*Flashback*

"Nii-san? Where are you carrying those backpacks to?

Nii-san, are you leaving? Where are you going?

Nii-san! Am I going to be alone?

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Ne, answer me, please... Are you...

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Ever coming back?"

Kagura's eyes flung wide open, immediately awake.

"Wha... What's with those dream?!" She glanced around nervously. Just as her eyes met the alarm clock beside her bed, she jumped out of her bed. "KUSO! OI MEGANE! WHY DIDN'T YOU WAKE ME UP?!"

Just then, a sleepy voice was heard from another room. "What is it, Kagura-chan?"

"..."

"ARGHHH!"

"HURRY UP! We're LATE!" Shinpachi shouted.

"That's what I've been telling you, megane!"

The two of them quickly took an 'express' bath and dress up for school in their own room. Both of them rushed down the staircase and grabbed their breakfast.

"Ara, Shinpachi, Kagura-chan, why don't you sit down and have a cup of coffee before you go?" The 18-year-old sister asked.

"There's no more time, Aneue! It's already 7.45! If we don't reach there before 8 a.m we'll have to clean the toilet!" Shinpachi said as he gulped down the hot coffee.

"GAHHH! IT BURNS!"

Meanwhile, Kagura who didn't even bother to touch the coffee took the rice pot instead.

"Kagura-chan! Why are you taking the rice away? I was about to make onigiri with that." Otae said with her threatening tone.

"My breakfast! Then, Anego! I'll be on my way now!" Kagura said as she rushed to the main door with her 'breakfast'.

"Ah! Wait for me Kagura-chan!" Shinpachi said as he followed Kagura with a piece of bread in his mouth.

"Kagura, make sure you bring back the rice pot!" Otae reminded her.

"Okay aru!"

Shinpachi slammed shut the door after Kagura.

"Oh my, they forgot their bento." Otae said as she realized their bento is still on the dining table.

Kagura and Shinpachi ran to the school as fast as possible.

"K-kagura-chan! Slow down, wait for me!"

All of a sudden Kagura stopped. Shinpachi who failed to notice knocked onto her and fell on his butt. "Kagura... Chan...?"

Shinpachi looked at her to see her staring at a bunch of male students.

"They're from our school, right?" Shinpachi said as he examined their school uniform. He noticed that one of them is a brown-haired boy that both of them know. He then got up and took Kagura's hand. "Let's go, Kagura-chan."

Kagura just nodded and she only followed Shinpachi while she tried her best not to make eye contacts with any of the boys.

*KI~N... KO~N... KA~N... KO~N...*

The school bell rang.

Shinpachi and Kagura had just barely made it. Both of them were in front of the school gate.

"Kagura-chan, meet me infront of the staircase for lunch." Shinpachi said referring to the staircase infront of the canteen.

"Eh, don't we always hang out in the garden?" Kagura asked.

"Yeah, we slept in right? On the way I just realized we forgot to take our bento, so we have to buy something at the canteen later." He sighed.

"Ha~i..." She whispered.

As Kagura stepped in her class, she noticed that all her female classmates are standing by the window while all the boys cover their ears.

"KYAAAA!" All the girls shouted in unison.

"Huh, what's with them?" Kagura asked.

"Well, the basketball club members decided to have their practice early in the morning. Do you know the senpai who shoot perfectly and never misses his shot?" One of her male classmate spoke up while his hands are still covering his ears.

"Yup. It seems like he have a lot of fangirls from our school. It's so annoying, my ears could bleed like, right now!" Another boy said.

"What's his name again? I think it's Ka.. Mi... Mu.. Ah! It's Kamui! Kamui-senpai, right?!" The boy looked towards his friend and receives some nod in agreement.

Upon hearing his name, Kagura flinched and froze, still standing in front of the door.

"Oi! Move, will you?!" An annoyed brown-haired boy stood behind Kagura.

Kagura didn't turn around, as she knows whom the voice belongs to. Instead, she quickly walks to her desk, which is located way behind the class in a corner, beside the notice board in the class. Putting her bag and sitting down, she took a book and began reading it until she noticed a group of students coming near her.

"Ne, ne.. Kagura-san." She turned towards the voice.

"You're Kamui-sama's sister, right?" A girl from the crowd asked her for confirmation.

'What the hell is with those sama?' Kagura thought and frowned.

"Yup. But there's no use asking me about him. We've never talk to each other since 8 years ago." Kagura replied coldly leaving the girls speechless. She turned her attention towards her book, ignoring the girls' stare.

Lunchtime has arrived and Kagura waited at where Shinpachi asked her to. She caught a glimpse of a hand waving to her and turned towards the direction.

"Kagura-chan! Sorry, Chemistry class dragged on. Let's go to the canteen. What do you wanna buy?" Shinpachi asked.

"Whatever is fine." She replied.

Shinpachi paused for a while before continuing,

"Kagura-chan, why are you still carrying that attitude of yours? Replying to people harshly, glaring at people and even coldly talking to them. At home you're a cheerful innocent girl, I thought you have changed just a little bit. Kagura-chan, if you keep this up, you won't have any friend. Aren't you lonely?" Shinpachi said with concern.

"I don't need any friends. " She pouted.

"You don't have to meddle into my life."

"Look, we have been living together for almost 5 years now. You are like a little sister to me. It's only normal for me to be concern of you."

Kagura looked down at her shoes. She knows that what Shinpachi said was true.

"Ahh... Looks like we'll just going to get the leftovers today... It's not fair, giving the senpai priority for the food." Shinpachi sighed seeing all the senpai pushing each other to buy their food.

"Anyway, what do you want to buy, Kagura-chan?"

"I don't know, it's been a long time since I last went to the canteen so I forgot what the menu was. I don't think I want much." She replied.

'Kagura-chan inside and outside of home are completely different. She usually eats more than average but now it's as if there were two different person.' Shinpachi thought.

Kagura looked around to see anything that she might be interested in.

"Ah, melon bread." She unknowingly said it out loud.

"Do you want melon bread?" Shinpachi smiled.

"Kind of..." Kagura lowered her head

"I don't think the melon bread's stall is packed. Let's go get it." Shinpachi takes her hand.

Kagura just nods.

As soon as they arrived, Kagura grabbed a melon bread, which is wrapped in a plastic packet. She was about to pay for it until the senpai from the next stall were pushing each other to her. She loses hold of the melon bread and fell down but the senpai didn't stop. They didn't notice poor Kagura on her knees, in pain. Shinpachi tried to tell them off and help Kagura but they just glared and ignored him.

Kagura stood up, completely pissed off. The senpai, once again was bickering and this time, they started punching each other. When the guy successfully dodged the hit right beside Kagura, it's up for Kagura to take the hit.

She closed her eyes shut, expecting the hit to land on her face, but nothing happened. What she saw when she open her eyes was surprising.

A brown-haired glaring boy tightly grabbed the wrist of the senpai.

"What are you? Kids? Fighting just for food?"

When he released his grip, the senpai was frightened by the visibly red mark on his wrist, swollen. Both of the senpai ran away in fear.

"S-sadist..." Kagura muttered. She bit her lips regretting what she just said.

"He~hh... You still call me by that nickname?" The boy looked at her with his unchanging expression.

"Okita-san!" Shinpachi glared at him.

Sougo sighed. "Fine, fine. I get it. I promised not to bother you for the rest of my life. My bad." He closed his eyes, turning his back on them. "Consider my own feelings," he whispered.

"What feelings? You hardly have any feelings at all." Kagura shoot back at him.

Sougo paused for a bit before continuing his walk.

"Let's go Kagura-chan, don't let him get in your way." Shinpachi led her to the garden.

They went to their usual spot for lunch, the garden. Nobody is allowed here during lunch or break, afraid that all the flowers and trees might be destroyed. Shinpachi is considered the top student in their school so he was allowed to use it anytime, within his own responsibilities.

They picked this garden as their lunch spot because Kagura couldn't eat anywhere. She would always force Shinpachi to eat somewhere where there's no people, somewhere where no one will keep staring and glaring at her.

It was relaxing. The garden is a closed area, an air-conditioned room about fifty meter by sixty meter wide. There's a small artificial lake along the pathway to the 'small house'. The trees and flowers was blooming beautifully, with their petals dancing around the garden. The only animal there was the fishes and the white fluffy rabbits happily hopping around. [You can pretty much imagine it. I wish I had a garden like this T^T]

After eating their lunch, they returned to their classes. There're only two lessons left until they could go back home.

While on the way to her class, she looked below like she always do, but she failed to notice the person who was walking from in front of her. As a result, they bumped each other and Kagura fell to the ground.

"Ah... I'm sorry." A hand reached out to her.

Kagura looked at the person before taking his hand.

'White clothes, white hair... Smoke?' She silently thought.

"Are you… A new medical sensei?"

"Nope, can't be. Just because I wear this doesn't make me work in medical field. It's not white, it's silver! Oh and this isn't smoke, it's a lollipop." The man took out his lollipop and showed her.

Kagura was dumbfounded. ''How the hell did that lollipop produce that smoke?'

"Wait... How did you know what I was thinking?!"

"I don't know, wild guess." He shrugged. "The bell is ringing soon, go back to your class, Kagura-chan." He pats her head and waved at her.

Kagura paused for a while. "HOW DID YOU KNOW MY NAME?!" She shouted, afraid of why he knows so much.

After school, Shinpachi had extra classes so Kagura decided to wait for him. She was too afraid to walk by the gate alone because there are still many students there. She took a stroll around the school, as they were no student around.

Some part of her wanted to meet the silver-haired man she met at lunch but some part of her just wanna breathe some fresh air.

While occupying her mind with the events that happened with Sougo before, she unknowingly reached the outdoor basketball court. She mentally shoots herself for being in the place she would rather die than entering.

She rushes to exit the 'hell' but stopped when the door to the changing room opened and a familiar face showed up.

They were now standing face to face. Kagura's eyes widened and turned to the other side to escape.

"Ah... I thought you died." Kamui said.

She stopped and glared at him.

"Don't blame me, I haven't seen you for years even though we were in the same school." He raises his eyebrows.

Kagura ignored what he had said and continued to walk away.

'Freaking bastard!' She fastens her pace.

He was the one who left her alone. He was the one who walked away and disappeared without any trace. No goodbyes, no explanation, just a smile that she despises the most. He was also the one who made her life miserable.

That's right, he was the one who she hates the most!

"BAKA ANIKI!"

"We're back!" Shinpachi and Kagura took off their shoes before entering.

"Welcome back! Ah, glad you bring the rice pot back." Otae smiled while taking the rice pot from Kagura's hand.

"How was school?" She asked.

"Just the usual thing, I guess. Aneue, stop asking us every single day, it's already February." Shinpachi sighed.

"I'm just worried, Shin-chan." She frowned.

"I'll... Be in my own room, doing homework." Kagura said before taking the stairs.

"Kagura-chan..." Both of the Shimura siblings said.

Kagura flopped down on her bed, not bothering to change her clothes. She sighed and recalls about the events that happened.

She met someone she hasn't seen before but she feels as though they were connected. Well yeah, he somehow knows her name.

She talked to someone who have hurt before and even accidentally called his nickname that none other than her have used it before. Then she talked for the first time with her own blood-related brother after 8 years.

"I wonder what will happen after this." She then fell asleep, not caring to change her clothes.

So.. Do you guys understand this chapter? If not, please ask. I'll gladly answer.

By the way, I'm curious about Kagura's past between Kamui and Sougo. Hehe~