"C'mon! Hurry up! Remember onee-chan is bringing a stranger here!"
"Waah! Keep the door open!"
"This wouldn't take so long if you didn't bring the gerbil."
"Hamster! It's a hamst- waah!"
"I thought it was a guinea pig..."
"I told you it's a-"
*Clack*
"I'm home!" Ayano walked inside her house, her short hair swaying along with her scarf.
Shintaro followed Ayano into her house, sighing, "Why am I here again?"
"Ham?"
Shintaro paused and looked downwards.
"'Ham'...?!"
First, Shintaro thought he heard a hamster, second, he now sees a hamster, third, he's stepping on a hand of a boy with a white hoodie who seems to have frozen once he was spotted.
"CRAP! Sorry!" Shintaro panicked and took his foot off of the boy's hand.
"Shintaro! Don't use that word in front of kids!" Ayano scolded.
*Creak*
They looked over to a closet which had a boy with a black hoodie and a girl with a purple hoodie in it.
...
...
...
"What are you guys doing at the entran-" Kenjirou (or Ayano's dad) paused at the sight of everyone frozen.
"Oh!" Ayaka (or Ayano's mom) appeared from behind a wall, "Welcome home! I bought some sweets if you guys want~!"
"Again..."
Shintaro was now in Ayano's room with the three children and of course Ayano.
"Why am I here again?"
"B-Because my father told-er-asked you if you would help me study so I won't fail and get held back and you said yes!"
"-Sigh- I guess..." Shintaro stared at his piece of strawberry shortcake her mother bought for the kids.
"Who are they?" he looked at the three kids who immediately averted their gazes at him in unison.
"Oi..."
"Uh...!" Ayano was worried at what would happen if he saw their red eyes.
"The boy with the hamster is Seto, my younger adopted brother, along with the boy with the black hoodie, Kano! The girl with the purple one is Kido, my younger adopted sister!"
Shintaro was starting to get a bit annoyed by their constant "avert your eyes from strangers!"
"Jeez, let's just get started okay?"
-A few minutes later-
"You got everything?" Shintaro was about to eat the strawberry when he caught Ayano looking more confused then ever.
-Stare-
Shintaro could feel someone's gaze and when he turned Kido was sitting right beside him.
What the?! When did she get there?!
"I'm guessing you want my strawberry?"
He tried to catch her glance but she pulled down her hood even more to cover her eyes.
That's it...!
He didn't like being rash but this was definitely irritating him.
He pulled Kido's hood off and actually caught her eyes.
"Try looking at me in the eye for once, okay?!"
Kido hesitated a bit before she finally looked at Shintaro is the eye.
"C-Can I have your s-strawberry?!" she whispered in a panic.
"Here," Shintaro picked up his fork with the strawberry on it and gave it to Kido.
"E-Eh...?"
He started getting more annoyed now, "What do you mean 'eh?'! Here!"
"Ah...! Thank you..." Kido murmured as she took the fork and strawberry and nibbled on it.
Shintaro sighed and patted Kido's head.
"You remind me a lot of my little sister, except for the part about asking, she just takes what she wants from me..."
"A-aren'tyougoingtocallmeamonsterandrunawayinfear?" Kido quickly said.
[Processing what Kido just said]
"Why would I call you that?"
"Becausemyeyesarered..."
[More processing]
"Like I said you remind me a lot of my little sister, she has those same red eyes."
Kido brightened up while nibbling on the strawberry.
Kano then tackled Shintaro but of course didn't knock him over.
"Then you're not afraid of us?" Kano asked with a smirk.
"No."
"Hear that, Seto? Now stop playing with your gerbil and get over here!"
"Hamster!"
"Whatever!" Kano grabbed Seto by the arm and ran back to Shintaro and clung onto his sleeve with a grin.
"I wonder..." Seto tried reading his thoughts on purpose for once and he got nothing. He still shied away though.
"Come on, how many times do I have to say it? I'm not afraid of red eyes!" Shintaro patted Seto's head.
"Hey! Pat my head too!"
Shintaro patted Kano's head.
"Heehee, you're really good with little kids, huh?" Ayano was also glad that he didn't run away or feared their red eyes.
"By the way, I'm done!"
Ayano handed over her homework to Shintaro, who grabbed it and scanned over what she done.
He then got out a red marker out of his backpack and started marking on the first few questions... which were wrong.
"W-Waah! Shintaro what are you doing?!"
"I'm helping the teacher by giving him less work..."
"Shintaro don't do that!"
Kido, Kano, and Seto laughed.
Ayano was worrying over what Shintaro was doing and sweating but she smiled at this little antic.
And Shintaro continued marking what was wrong but he was making a slight smirk.