"There's something wrong with Yui, Reiji. Can't you give her something-anything at all?" Ayato asked as he paced the space of Reiji's room and he looked at Reiji who raised a dark brow softly at him.

"I've never seen you in this kind of state, Ayato. I thought Yui didn't matter to you." Reiji said as he looked at his younger brother who just scowled both angrily and rather defensively.

"Shut the hell up. Just tell me there's something you can give her!" Ayato snapped out as his eyes narrowed dangerously and Reiji just raised his brow and there was a a slight irritated look in his light red eyes.

"There is nothing I can give her Ayato. She needs time, as most women do. She was in love, time can only heal what has been broken for her and if it never heals then she'll figure it out. She'll know what to do, but until then stop pushing her so hard Ayato. You'll do nothing but make her retreat more and more into herself and more towards Kino." Reiji explained as he placed his palms on his table as he looked at his brother who looked back at him evenly. "Do you understand that?"

"I do. Of course I do, but nothing of this is fair. Not how I feel and not how things turned out for her. It's all HIS fault." Ayato growled as he began pacing once again and Reiji just sighed adjusting his glasses.

"Ayato, think of how those children will be if you suddenly become their new 'Daddy' instead of their Uncle they know and love. How do you think that will affect them?" That seemed to stop Ayato from pacing as his green eyes flickered once before becoming cold and distant.

"You're screwed up in the head for bringing them up." Ayato snarled as his eyes narrowed and Reiji's own eyes finally narrowed back softly as they glared at one another and the normally calm, cool and detached Reiji was looking angry.

"You know better than anyone that those children shall be affected by your decision and pushing more than even Yui shall be. Is that what you wish to do? Force yourself upon them knowing that it'll be a long time before they can love you as their father and even realize their mother doesn't love you the way she did their birth father? Give them that angst in their lives? For the love of all in this world Ayato just think!" Reiji snapped as his hands clenched into fists briefly before he turned facing his beakers and the bright liquids flipping one of the pages in the book.

"That's not fair! You can't just use that against me in that way! It's-" Reiji's head snapped around glaring at Ayato before moving around his table in what seemed like a blur and pinned Ayato to the wall clenching his hand around his throat tightly cutting off both Ayato's words and his air supply.

"What isn't fair is you acting like a spoiled brat! Life isn't fair! Yui loving YOU isn't fair! Those children not having a father isn't fair! The way things turned out isn't fair! Grow the hell up Ayato and realize nothing in life is ever fair!" Reiji shouted as his light red eyes took on a strange hue like glow as his lips curled into a snarl that revealed his sharpened teeth as Ayato pulled and scratched at Reiji's hand but the elder brother didn't even seem to feel it. "You need to get that through your thick skull that nothing is ever fair and nothing ever will be! The only thing we can do is go with it and find some small shred of fairness in the sea of unfairness so don't come bitching about it! Got me?"

"Y..Yes!" Ayato gasped then Reiji let go of his throat letting the red head slump against the wall and he couldn't even muster a glare at his brother, knowing it was just all true.

"Now leave. I don't want to see your disgusting, selfish face right now. Nor do I want to see it for the rest of the day now go!"

With that Ayato sped out of the room slamming the door behind him and he took two steps forward and his head thumped pressing into the wall hard and he clenched his jaw tightly when something wet dropped onto his cheek. The hell? He raised his hand swiping just beneath his eye softly and pulled it back revealing wetness. He was crying? Him? He sniffled gently surprising him but the thing that surprised him the most was the hard, piercing hot pain that grabbed his chest and heart painfully which caused more tears to well and slid down without his permission. What the hell was he going to even do?


"Satsuki, do you think Mama is happy?" Satsuki turned his big copper rose eyes to his sister, her face thoughtful even as her hand moved across the paper quickly with a crayon so quick that it caused her curls to bounce with the movement but she stopped briefly staring up at her brother.

"I do. Mama loves us and we love her back, that makes all Mama's happy! I don't know why she wouldn't be happy." Satsuki replied pressing one finger to his chin thoughtfully as he looked at his sister who frowned a bit, her small pale brows coming together causing little creases to form between her brows.

"I know we promised not to tell Mama but...I feel like we should tell her about Daddy." Tsukiko said softly making Satsuki's gaze sharpen, making him look like anything but a sweet five year old and he watched guilt swarm over his sisters face.

"No! We promised not to say anything! Don't you remember? Come on Tsukiko, you're good at keeping secrets! Think of it, this is for Mama and Daddy!" Satsuki whispered fiercely then held his small hand out and Tsukiko placed her own hand in his and their fingers intertwined together softly and she held his hand tight.

"It feels bad though, keeping it from Mama. We tell her everything." Tsukiko said softly as she looked down, a shadow seeming to pass over her cut face and through her eyes softly.

"It'll only be for a little while longer. It's for them both, you know that Tsukiko." Satsuki whispered softer as he stood up a crooked smiled curving over his lips and Tsukiko responded to it with a soft sweet little smile of her own. "Let's go see if Mama has made anything for lunch!"

"Okay." Tsukiko replied smiling then held his hand tighter as the pair rushed out of the room, their small feet carrying them down the hall to the kitchen rather quickly and they looked around slightly before walking into the living room hand in hand and looked at Yui, who was sleeping peacefully on the couch, which was pretty big and they smiled gently.

Without really speaking Tsukiko climbed onto the couch cuddling into her mother's left side and Satsuki climbed up and cuddled into his mother's right side. Just a little longer, that's all Tsukiko could think as she laid there listening to her mother's slow breathing and played gently with a small little curl of her mother's hair. She couldn't keep everything inside, she was only five! She needed her Mama more than anything but the last thing she wants to do is hurt her.