"Ui~!" Called out the bored girl as she walked into the kitchen sluggishly. "Can I help?" She said as she saw her younger sisters solemn face.
"Nope, I've got it all under control. If you could grab me the rice though, that would be great." Ui spoke flashing a weak smile towards her sister.
"Okay…Is something wrong?" Yui set the rice on the counter, looking towards her sister with worry etched on her face. "Did I do something?"
"Oh, no you didn't do anything at all!" Ui spoke waving her hands in front of her in defense "I'm just worried about this weekend" She added looking away.
"Why? We get to have fun with all of our friends, Azunyan's coming too!" She said excitedly "And it's the start of summer break!"
"But mom and dad are thinking about coming home early…what happens if they do?" She turned back to the uncooked food in front of her. "I don't think they would like that we are hanging out with everyone."
"So what if they do?…They can't tell us who to be friends with. And…they only get mad at me anyway." She looked away momentarily "So you won't get hurt again!" She said clinging to her sister. "So please~ let them come!"
"ohhh, alright…why not." Just don't annoy Azusa-chan to much." Ui said after much deliberation. "Anyways! Let's get the rice going!" Grabbing the rice to put in the cooker.
"I know! Let's make Mochi!"
"Ehhhh…Yui, you know that rice isn't a side dish right?"
"awww, rice should be a side dish! Like okonomiyaki and rice!"
"oh alright, I'll make mochi, but really onee-chan…it's not a side dish."
"Oh…I forgot…" The older of the two replied sheepishly.
"Why am I not surprised?" Ui said shaking her head. "I wonder if there's a song about this out there somewhere?" She thought for a moment before throwing out such an idea. "No way, there can't actually be a song like that. Who would even think up such an idea?"
Super Fast Plot Convenient Time Skip to 8:00 o' Clock. Go! (PS: It's not like I time skipped because I couldn't come up with anything else to write about in between scenes…Baka!) _
RRRRiinnngggg~ RRRRRiinnngggg~
"Coming!…Onee-chan can you grab that!"
"I wonder what's taking her so long…do you think they aren't here?" The drummer said out loud ringing the doorbell for a third time.
"Ritsu, it's been like thirty seconds, give her some time will you?" The Raven haired girl said to her companion, too tired of her tricks to head chop her yet again.
"Ah, but thirty seconds is to long, isn't it?" Ritsu said looking over to her friend. "ahh…here she is!"
As the door opened they saw Yui standing in the doorway looking like she just ran a marathon. "go-me-n…Ui was busy…and had me open…the…door."
Mio spoke as she walked in and bowed "No problem, we appreciate the invitation" She smiled, giving Ritsu a shove with her shoulder.
"Yeah, yeah…thanks for having us." Ritsu looked around slowly as she sat on the couch. "What happened to Ui? She didn't leave us alone with you right?"
"Awww Ricchan that's mean~" Yui said leaping on the couch "Ui's in the kitchen getting everything ready to cook! And guess what!"
"What?" They both said synonymously.
"We're having mochi!" Yui cheered happily "Isn't that great?"
"Ehhhh, Yui we hate to break it too you but New Years is still a little while off" The drummer said
"And rice isn't really a side dish anyway, right?" Mio added
"That's what I told her, but she insists that it 'Should be a side dish, like okonomiyaki & rice'."
"What! Yui~ It doesn't work like that~" Crack! "Oh come on Mio! What did I do this time!"
"I don't know, I just got this really strong feeling telling me to smack you all of a sudden" Mio said, with an odd amount of calmness in her voice.
"Anyway! Dinner won't be done for awhile, what would you like to do until then?" Ui interjected before everyone felt any weirder…if that was possible.
"Hey! Let's hang out in my room! I just cleaned It!" Yui yelled while running up the stairs to her room.
Meanwhile in A Land Far Far Away…No, It's Yui's Room.
"Awwwww~ I don't want to study!" Yui said flopping onto the floor dramatically.
"Private Yui! You can't give up already! For the fight against the dangerous Queen has only begun." Ritsu said running over and catching her. "Yui, Yui! No!"
"Commander Ricchan…I must ask for one thing." The "Helpless" girl said lying on the floor faking an injury. "Please…Please…take care of Mio-chan" She said finally breathing her "last" breath.
"What? What are you talking about?" Mio said a blush beginning to show on her cheeks. "Take care of me…I can take care of myself."
"Well, what happens if you try to cook then you see a bunch of barnacles in your cabinet?" Ritsu asked seeing the other girl shudder. "Or you're walking down the hall to go to bed and out of nowhere…BAM!"
"AHHH! Baka Ritsu!" The slightly taller girl yelled head chopping her friend and crouching into a ball.
"Mio-chan…are you alright?" Yui said slowly crawling over to Mio and shaking her shoulder. "Ritsu…Fix her! You did it! Fix Mio-chan." She begged with teary eyes.
"I didn't break her! You started it you know! You fix her!" Ritsu said sitting down on the floor and waiting for her to go back to normal. "She'll be fine tho, she should be coming back to normal any moment-"
The door into the hallway opened interrupting the conversation before closing again. "Everyone I got a call from Azusa-chan, and she said she would be a bit late. But she did say that Mugi-senpai is going to be coming with her." The voice of Yui's younger sister spoke.
"Ah neat! When will they get here?!" Yui asked excitedly looking up from a book she was "reading".
"She didn't say, but she did promise she would be here tonight" Ui said
"Awww~ I need my Azunyan energy..." Her older sister said with a pout.
"Well you should be fine for now Onee-chan" She said shaking her head humorously "By the way, Yui can you come down and help me with dinner?"
"Okay!" She said getting up quickly and running over to her sister. "What do you want me to do?"
"Just wait for me in the kitchen, if that's alright." Ui said watching her sister nod and then run off. "Ricchan, can I ask you a question?"
"Sure what's up?"
"Why is Mio-senpai curled up in the corner like that?" Ui asked pointing towards the corner of the room.
"Oh that, she does this a lot, I'll take care of it" The drummer answered, waving Ui off and waking over to talk to Mio.
As the rain begins to patter against the roof and hail falls we now find ourselves watching as the two Hirasawa sisters. As they have now finished cooking and are setting the table.
"I hope that Azunyan and Mugi-chan are okay..." Yui says from the living room watching the news coverage of the impending storm.
"I'm sure they're doing just fine onee-chan" The younger of the two says sitting down on the couch before continuing. "It's quite a storm though, It's supposed to rain like this all night."
"Yeah I guess so..." The elder of the two said while curling up on the couch, and putting her head on her sisters lap. "How long till dinner?~" Yui asked looking up at her sister.
"well the food is just simmering right now so maybe thirty minutes?" Ui said smiling down at her. "Why? Are you hungry?"
"Ui I'm always hungry, my stomach is like a bottomless pit. Hehe" Yui said giggling softly. Her left sleeve pulling up to her forearm uncovering two or three large bruises.
"Yui where did you get those bruises?" Her sister asked with strictness and a strong sense of worry.
"Oh these?" Yui said sitting up "I got them falling and stuff, you know how I am..." Yui said laughing it off anxiously.
"Okay…If you say so onee-chan" Ui said sounding very unconvinced, but deciding not to push the issue, didn't say anything more.
"Anyway Ui, what do you thi-" Yui was cut off by a bang and the sound of angry footsteps entering the household. Along with the sound of voices. "Hey It must be Mugi and Azunyan!" Yui said getting up and starting to run to the door.
"Yui wait! I have a bad feeling about this, just stay with me for a minute, please?" Ui spoke motioning frantically for her sister.
"Okay..." She said sitting down and waiting.
Meanwhilein the Kitchen
"Bloody hell it's pouring out there! Look at me Saki! I'm a mess!' Kaito said kicking off his shoes angrily.
"Just make Yui wash them, she needs to get her ass to work anyway" Saki said in a monotone voice, as she grabbed two brown bags with heavy bottles contained within them, and slammed them on the counter.
"Where are they anyway?" Kaito said before yelling "Yui, Ui! Get yourselves down here!
About five minutes later two girls walked into the room. The eldest looking extremely scared, and the younger not showing any emotion.
Now With Ritsu and Mio
"What's that noise?" Mio said getting up from the warm kotatsu, and going to the door.
"Yui you've got to be kidding me! You can't even make dinner on your own without help?!" The sound of a man yelling could be heard clearly even through the door.
"Hey Ritsu, come here a second" Mio said putting her ear up to the door. "What do you thinks happening?" She asked Ritsu
"Bu…But I hel…helped…" The sound of Yui's voice was heard barely. "I…I'm sorry" even without seeing her you could tell she was scared.
"I have no idea but it doesn't sound good" The drummer said after a moment. "Do you think they're fighting?"
"Shhh…that's obvious, I think Ui and Yui's parents came home early." Mio said putting her finger over her friends lips effectively quieting her.
"Dad stop, onee-chan didn't do anything wrong! She just has trouble with simpler tasks sometimes!" Ui said standing up for her sister. "Please stop, We shouldn't be doing this!"
"Ui honey" Her mother, who was obviously high on something, said with a start. "You didn't do anything wrong, Yui is the one who keeps fucking up. So why don't you go up to your room and let us deal with her?" She said with a strict glare that would make anyone's blood run cold.
"No! Look at her! She hasn't done anything and you did this her!" Ui said pointing to her sister who was curled up in a ball of tears.
"Ui I said go upstairs!…Now!" Her father said pointing towards the stairs. "If you don't go upstairs on the count of three!…1-"
"Ui…Just go…please…" Yui said weakly
"O…Onee-chan I'm…sorry" Ui said knowing she had no choice but to go up to her room.
Meanwhile, Mio and Ritsu are waiting for her at the door quite confused as to what's going on.
"Ui, what's wrong!" Mio said pulling her into a hug. "Who's downstairs?"
"It's…our parents, they came home early" Ui said pulling out of the hug. "We need to do something but there's nothing we can do without risking one of us getting hurt" She spoke shakily, sitting down to try to calm herself.
"Well, how bad does it get?" Ritsu said cringing at the yelling going on downstairs. "I mean there has to be something we can do. We can't just sit around doing nothing while Yui gets treated like this!" Ritsu said raising her voice angrily.
"Ritsu-senpai, I understand how you feel, she's my sister, but she won't let anyone help her. She said she doesn't want anyone else to get hurt." Ui said back
"Well why not just call the police?" Mio chimed in.
"We already did, our parents left and forced Yui to play it off as a prank call." Ui shifted uncomfortably before continuing. "And if you think my parents are bad now, you have no idea what they were like after the police left."
"It's just so hard sitting here well she gets yelled at like that, especially knowing there's nothing we can do." Mio said resting her chin on her hand, thinking.
"At this point I think we should just go down there and confront them." Ritsu said getting up "I mean seriously, no matter what happens we should be there for her, we should have her back. Instead of sitting up here hiding." Ritsu said with a strong voice and more maturity then usual.
"Ritsu I don't know if that's a good idea" Mio said getting up and walking over to her.
"Do you have any better ones?" Ritsu countered opening the door and letting in the yelling that was coming from outside.
"No…I guess not…Fine, I'll do it…Yui doesn't deserve this." The Raven haired Bassist said, gaining confidence after every word.
"Ui are you coming with us?" Ritsu asked looking over to the younger Hirasawa with a look of determination in her eyes.
"I don't think there's anything else we can do at this point." Ui said getting up and walking over to the others. "And I hate seeing onee-chan like this more then anything in the world."
"Okay then let's do something about that!" Ritsu said walking to the top of the stairs with the others in tow.
"You know what, you can actually be really mature when you need to Ritsu. I like that about you." Mio said descending the stairs and preparing to face what she was about to see when she turned the corner.
"Th…thank you" Ritsu said blushing, "but I think right now we should focus on what's around the corner."
"Ui, Mio? Are you ready?" Ritsu said looking back one last time before she walked into the room that was the source of the yelling and whimpering.
"Yeah" Ui and Mio said in sync. Although still less then enthusiastically, but what would you expect in such a situation?
"Okay, here goes nothing" Ritsu said before turning the corner into the living room with the others in tow.
What they walked into was something they probably wouldn't be able to forget for a long time. Standing in the middle of the living room was what they guessed was Yui's father. Along with her mother, who was sitting back down on the couch after lifting herself away from the coffee table. Which seemed to have lines of white powder thrown haphazardly onto it.
And curled up in the corner of the couch farthest away from her father and mother was Yui. Who had been scared into a state of weak whimpers and crying by the yelling of her father. As well as the constant verbal attacks by her mother.
"How do you not understand what we're telling you! It's simple!" Kaito yelled angrily before taking another gulp of what they could only guess was some sort of whiskey. "Ui understood it just fine! And guess what? Unlike you we don't do this with her!"
"Come on Yui, why is it that hard to understand? All you need to do is be more like you sister. Because right now she's doing perfect unlike you." Saki added in a vegged out tone before leaning back into the coach with her own bottle of spirits.
"HEY! Mate, just what do you think you're doing!?" Ritsu said with a start standing in the doorway as Mio and Ui ran to help Yui.
"Yui… Yui! It's us…are you okay?" Mio asked kneeling down by her friend. "Ui would you go deal with your mother while I take care of her?" Mio said looking over towards the woman sitting on the couch, spewing vile things, without any understanding of where she was, or what was happening.
"What the hell are you doing here! Ui I told you not to leave your room! And much less bring any friends over!" Keito yelled both at Ui, and the headband wearing drummer.
"Well I would like to ask you the same thing. What do you think gives you the right to yell at your daughter like that?!" Ritsu shouted right back at him.
And as this whole situation was playing out Mugi and Azusa we're driving up to the house in her personal car.
"It's going to be nice to have another sleepover isn't it?" Azusa said looking over toward her peer. "I mean it's not like I'm excited to see Yui in particular or anything…It's just a good break."
"Yeah I know what you mean" Mugi said looking back at her and smiling. Feeling it was easier to ignore her Tsundere speech pattern then to dig deeper.
"Are going to be there soon? The rain is really starting to scare me" The cat-like kouhai said nervously.
"Yup we're just pulling up right now." Mugi said getting her umbrella and stepping out of the car as her door was opened for her.
"Tsumugi-ojousama would you like me to stay here till I know that you've gotten in safe?" The man now opening Azusa's door said with a start. "Going by the noise coming from inside, I would say that we should."
"I would appreciate that greatly if you could, it's probably nothing, bet then again that does sound like yelling." Mugi said back to her driver before walking towards the house. "Azusa? Are you coming?"
"Ah yeah I am, sorry about that" Azusa said as she approached the house apprehensively behind Mugi.
"Leave! Now!" Came the voice of an enraged man as they opened the door and ran inside.
"Papa please stop…I…can't…please..." Yui's broken voice was barely audible through the yelling of her mother and father.
"What On Earth Is Going On Here!?" Mugi yelled, effectively silencing the enraged father. "Look at her! How dare you, she's your own daughter!" Mugi continued, defending Yui.
"Now look here…Young lady! Ya…you better not t…talk to me like that!" Keito drunkenly shouted back, still loud enough to scare a girl such as Yui. "Look, I can do whatever I want to" he said walking over to Yui, grabbing her by the wrist, and pulling back to where he was.
"I can talk to her the way I want, I can scream in her ear, I can tell her...what to do, I can do whatever I-" He said before being cut of by a crying Yui.
"P…please papa stop" Yui said between sobs, picking up her head, begging for some form of forgiveness. What she did though, was nothing at all.
"Did you just Interrupt me! What do you think you're doing!" Keito yelled in her face.
SLAP!
"Something stung the young girls cheek as she fell to the ground in a heap. Tasting blood in her mouth. "W…Why…?" Yui shuddered, now shielding herself from her father.
"Never do that to me again! Hopefully…t…that will teach…teach you a lesson!" He yelled at her as all the others sped into action.
"How dare you!" Azusa yelled running up to him and punching him with all her might. Effectively knocking him off his balance.
"Come on everyone, let's go!" Ritsu said running picking up Yui and running to the front door. "We have to get out of here before he gets back up!" The drummer said waving everyone over.
"Thank god my driver didn't leave yet!" Mugi said running out with them. "Now get her in the car, we need to get her out of here!"
"But where to!" Ui asked, watching to make sure her father didn't come out, while they're put Yui in the car.
"Take her to my house, my parents aren't home till next Sunday!" Mio yelled over the storm.
"Oh yay…we get to go to Mio's house…but…I don't wanna do homework…" Yui spoke quietly as they loaded her into the car and got in themselves.
"Don't worry Yui, you won't have to do any homework, this is just going to be a visit for fun." Mio spoke to Yui in a motherly voice. After giving Mugi's driver her house address.
