Author's Note: The first part of the story is a little dark, but I hope you enjoy it.
Shouichi didn't know what Byakuran was doing. Since the day he first showed up, he was visiting more
and more often to the point, that he was quasi living in the Irie family's flat. He came over to eat lunch,
played a game with Shouichi or watched a movie with the Irie siblings. By the time he was ready it was
already time for dinner, so Hitomi invited him to eat with the family. After dinner he chatted with them
about their day, his day or whatever interesting thing happened to him. That interesting thing often
involved Shouichi too, so he couldn't just ignore him, after all he could be feeding his family lies. After
that he helped Hitomi with the dishes or talked with Kouta, Shouichis father. By the time he was done
it was already to late to go home, so he stayed for the night. Of course in Shouichi's room, Byakuran
was his friend after all. His family welcomed him, because of that, but Shouichi just felt
uncomfortable. He just didn't want Byakuran in his life anymore. He was terrified of him. While
Tsunayoshi-kun said that he redeemed himself, and believed in it, he couldn't trust him. After all it
wasn't Tsunayoshi-kun who worked with him for over four years. He wasn't the one who had to see
people getting killed, just because they went to the same school as the tenth Vongola boss. Shouichi
was the one there, when he gave the order to eliminate innocent people. Byakuran had more blood on
his hands, than Tsunayoshi-kun could imagine.
Every time he was in their flat, snoring softly in Shouichi's room, Shouichi couldn't sleep. Nightmares
kept waking him up disturbing his family's sleep. Every time that happened he was screaming in fright,
seeing destruction and blood, oh, so much blood. It was everywhere, covering corpses of people he
once knew and copses of people he never had the chance knowing. In those nightmares the Vongola
couldn't stop Byakuran. He was the ruler of the world, the almighty king. He could do anything, and he
did. He could see the slaughtered masses and the surviving people going on about their lives, their eyes
dull and lifeless. He hated it. It always reminded him of his mistake.
"Shou-chan, how did you meet with Byakuran-sama?"
Shouichi blinked at his sister, the book he was reading forgotten in his lap. Akiko looked at him with
her big brown eyes and Shouichi could practically see the hearts floating about her head. Although
Byakuran didn't put in effort, his sister fell in love easily. Too easily. She always talked about him. How
handsome he was and how happy and cheerful and nice he was. She could go on and on talking about
him and his perfectness. Sometimes he thought she forgot that Byakuran was Shouichi's friend. But
then she would say something or ask something and then he realized that she hadn't forgotten. Like
now.
"How I met him?"
"Yes, Shou-chan. How you met Byakuran-sama." she exclaimed with a patient air.
"Well, umm, that was..."
"Yes?"
Shouichi was suddenly nervous. He didn't know what to say. He couldn't say, "Oh I met him in college.
We studied together and after graduating I worked for the Mafia Family he led." His sister would think
he is joking, or worse that he was insane. What should he do?
"We met thanks to Spanner-kun." Byakuran explained. He was in the kitchen, baking cookies with
Hitomi and only came to answer the question. "He is a really good friend of mine and really likes
Japanese culture. Once he came here to a holiday and asked me to come with him. Of course at first I
didn't want to come, because there aren't any shops here that sell marshmallow, but then he persuaded
me to come. And it was worth it, even if there aren't any marshmallows, because I got to met Shou-
chan.~"
After he was done, he went back to the kitchen to beg Hitomi for some more cookie dough. Akiko to
Shouichi.
"And how did you met in Japan?"
Shouichi just sighed.
"Spanner is my friend too, Aki-chan."
"Ohh." She at least had the decency to look embarrassed. "I didn't know."
"Yeah, I figured it. I don't know your friends either."
The two siblings sat in awkward silence. After a couple of minutes Akiko broke the silence.
"I think we should get to know each others friends."
"Are you saying that so you can spend more time with Byakuran-san?"
"No! Of course not. I just want to know more about you. You are my brother after all."
Shouichi just looked at her.
"Okay, I want to spent more time with Byakuran-sama. But that is not the only reason. I really want to
know more about your friends. I don't know any of them. And you said you don't know my friends
either. So you could come with us tomorrow. My friends and I want to go to the new amusement park.
It will be fun."
Shouichi hesitated. He heard that that park was really good, but it will be really awkward if he goes
with people he doesn't know. On the other hand he could use a relaxing day without Byakuran. And
going to an amusement park is always fun. He made up his mind.
"I will go with you."
"That is great. I will go and tell them that you are coming too."
She left to phone her friends and Shouichi was relieved. He would finally have a day without
Byakuran. It will be wonderful.
I don't know what I am doing.
