Prologue – Meetings and Silence
Today was a rare occasion in which the Asahina siblings were all gathered. The main living space was rowdy and spirited with the arguing brothers who would lightly tease each other. The only female of the group was seated on the couch anxiously awaiting her parents to finally arrive home. Chi hadn't seen her father since the wedding which was about 3 weeks ago.
"Ne, Masaomi just how long are you gonna make us sit here?" groaned Tsubaki slumping in his seat on the couch. The eldest brother smiled, "Otou-san and okaa-san said it was important for us to all be here. I suppose since everyone is all here I can tell you what's happening. "What do you mean? I thought we were together just cause they were getting home" said yusuke leaning against the couch. Masaomi nodded, "that's right they are getting here but they also have someone with them" the elder said purposely not saying who the person was.
"someone? Who is it? I wanna know! I wanna know!" wataru cheered jumping up and down while also pulling on masaomi's sleeve. Masaomi chuckled, he knew his brothers were anxious to know what was going on but they were getting restless. Which means they would soon start causing trouble.
"alright I'll tell you. Just calm down okay?" he said pointedly to the more immature members of his family. "well, the person who their bringing will be spending a lot of time with us. Mama and papa met them during their travels in America." Chi's eyes widened, "a foreigner! Are they visiting?" she asked curiously. She had never talked to a person from a foreign country before. "That's right but they'll be living here." He said pointing at the ground.
Natsume rose an eyebrow, a foreigner living here? Did he mean in their house? Or just in japan. Natsume felt uneasy about this whole predicament. He had a sudden premonition that life was about to change even more than it already had with Chi's arrival.
"The person is our new sister! Adopted though not a newborn." Clarified masaomi when he saw the shocked looks on everyone's face. "a new sister? Why all of a sudden?" muttered yusuke. "Hmm, now we'll have to pretty imouto's with us and chi will have another girl around the house" smiled kaname ruffling chi's hair who was seated beside him. Chi smiled and nodded, "Yes, I'm happy that another girl will be joining us." She said softly. The boys all smiled at her but then frowned. This meant they'd no longer to invest all their attention on chi. Now they had to share their attention with some new girl.
Was this really okay?
"And then there's the triplets! Tsubaki, Azusa, and Nastume! They…"
It had been like this ever since they left home. Miwa-san and Rintarou kept boasting about there amazing children and how she would love and be loved by everyone. Reiko doubted that they would immediately like her. She wasn't exactly a people person and she didn't even want to be adopted in the first place. She only had a little bit left to go to be rotated out of the system but then these two arrived and developed an interest in her. She didn't say anything but they had ruined her plans. It didn't matter anyway. In a year she'd finally turn 18 and then she'd continue as planned. This was a minor setback.
"We're here!" miwa cheered hopping out of the car. Reiko got out and stared up at the huge house with a bored look on her face. So this is where she was supposed to be staying now? It was ridiculously large but then again she now had 14 siblings. "Come on reiko I'm sure there all eager to meet you!" miwa grabbed her wrist and led her inside. It was fairly large inside as well. Soon, reiko saw a large group of people gathered around a couch. Well, this is the moment of truth.
"Mama! Papa! Welcome home" they chorused.
