"You got into another fight at school, Ichimatsu?"

A voice of his fifteen year old brother, Choromatsu, rang through Ichimatsu's ears making him wince slightly as they walked home from school, but only for a meer second before he answered sternly. "He deserved it for making fun of Jyushimatsu."

"What was said this time..?" Choromatsu asked a bit hesitantly, looking over to the seven year old Jyushimatsu-whose eyes were usually full of life, but now dull. His usual happy smile was nowhere to be seen. Just seeing his younger brother like this made Choromatsu feel a slight pain in his chest.

Jyushimatsu quickly changed his expression when he saw both of his brothers had their eyes on him. He have a somewhat hurt smile and tried to reassure them he was fine. "Really, it was nothing..!"

Ichimatsu and Choromatsu both knew that was a lie.

They arrived home and were greeted by Karamatsu who was laying on the couch reading some sort of pamphlet before quickly hiding it under his body as they entered. "How was school today?" He asked.

Ichimatsu looked up at the third oldest brother; Choromatsu swallowed and without even looking over to the younger brothers, answered, "It was fine-"

Karamatsu interrupted him and came over to them, noticing something off about Jyushimatsu.

"Jyushimatsu, my dear brother, what is wrong?"

"..." Jyushimatsu started tearing up now and latched onto Karamatsu, who rubbed his back gently to comfort him.

Ichimatsu watched this scene and looked down to the floor. He was about to open his mouth to speak before the door flew open again and Osomatsu stepped in carrying Todomatsu on his back.

Jyushimatsu flinched, but turned around to face his oldest brother with his usual happy smile like nothing had ever happened now. "Osomatsu brother, can I play with Totty!?"

"Sure thing!" The oldest brother set Todomatsu, or Totty as they nicknamed him, down on the ground. Todomatsu grabbed onto Jyushimatsu's arm and they went off to play in their room-the oldest of the two laughing away as they left. Osomatsu grinned as they did so, but sighed soon after. "No luck today, either."

"What!? Were you even looking for a job or were you screwing around again!?" Choromatsu shouted before being silenced by Karamatsu.

"Choromatsu, take Ichimatsu and go play with your brothers. I need to talk to Osomatsu."

Choromatsu sighed, but did as his brother asked him too. Ichimatsu was already half-way to their room when Choromatsu ran after him and closed the bedroom door.

Osomatsu stared at Karamatsu a few moments, waiting for him to speak.

"Oso..." Kara started, only to stop and sigh.

"I know, Totoko threw a bitch fit over it, but I have a plan that'll get us enough money to pay her back and-"

"Pachinko isn't going to keep a roof over our brothers heads or keep food in their bellies, as much as I wish it did. We are lucky we have her to watch Todomatsu while we're out looking-if you can call it that- for jobs."

"I know," Osomatsu took a seat on the couch and picked up the pamphlet Karamatsu had left there. He looked at it for a few moments before his red orbs grew wide. "No, Karamatsu-"

"It was just an option, brother."

"No, its not! Not anymore!"

Osomatsu started to rip the pamphlet up before it was quickly snatched out of his hands by his younger brother. "Look, if it ever came down to it, I could have the money sent back here to you guys."

"Its not going to come down to it, because I wont let you!"

"Well, what other options do we have?!"

There was a loud smack that the other four brothers heard from their room. Every noise that had been coming from there stopped and made it obvious they were listening to their older brothers fight.

Jyushimatsu's yellow eyes floated over to meet Choromatsu's green eyes, nothing was spoken, but Choromatsu could tell what his younger brother was asking.

Todomatsu had a play phone in his tiny hands. He looked up to Choromatsu too, but spoke. "Choro, what happened?"

Choromatsu simply bit his lip, looking down at his younger brothers sitting on the floor before he got closer to them. "Don't worry about it..it's just adult things."

"I never want to be a adult." Todamatsu said after a long moment of awkward silence