Chapter 2: Bedtime
"Whoa!"
Koyomi startles awake and sits straight up.
"...Huh?"
He looks around.
He's in his bed in his own room, his familiar yellow chair beside him, the morning light begins to pour into the room as he feels his brain wake up. Koyomi removes a wet rag that was on his head and swings his feet to the edge of the bed.
"Was it…all a dream?"
He sits on his bed and looks down at himself, now realizing he has pajamas on.
"What? Wait. Don't tell me"
Suddenly the memories from yesterday begin to flood his brain.
"Did I...do something forbidden with my sister?"
Koyomi pulls the covers away, expecting to find Karen, but instead finds a small red spot on his sheets
"Oh no, that can't be-"
"Can't be what, Onii-chan?"
Koyomi jumps as he registers the soft voice that came from his doorway. Karen walks in carrying a pile of his freshly washed clothes.
"Good morning Onii-chan!" Karen's sweet upbeat tone reaches his ears.
"Karen!" Koyomi exclaims in a mixture of relief and fear. Koyomi crawls over to Karen on all fours, and clings to her shirt.
"Wah!...You sure are being weird this morning." Karen eyes him nervously.
Koyomi suddenly becomes lost in thought.
'Did I do something bad with my sister? Does she even know about intercourse and stuff?'
Karen continues to stare and her weird and awkward brother as he lets go her and begins clutching his head and rolling all over the floor.
'Karen is reaching that age in a girl's life where she starts to get curious, or worse! Promiscuous! If anyone is going to guide Karen properly into her journey through adult things it should be her caring and doting brother!'
The idea of Karen being aware of intercourse suddenly fills him with indiscriminate rage.
'I think I'm going to kill her boyfriend…'
"Only I can educate Karen through her journey into womanhood!" Koyomi absentmindedly proclaims to himself aloud, when he is suddenly struck by a freshly washed pillow.
"Jeez! It's too early for you to be yelling weird things like that!" Karen's face glows bright red as she tosses the pile of clothes she was holding at Koyomi.
Koyomi pulls the clothes away from his face and faces his sister.
"Karen did we-?" Koyomi looks into his innocent sister's curious glance, and begins to feel awkward about saying it aloud. He begins making awkward hand gestures trying to convey what he wants to say.
"Nii-chan I don't understand sign language." Karen says impatiently.
Koyomi then makes one hand into a circle and proceeds to push his finger through it.
Karen suddenly realizes what Koyomi has been insinuating, and her pale face shines crimson.
"W-what?! No! You fainted from a nosebleed! Your forehead was really hot, so I dragged you over here and changed you into your pajamas!"
"Oh..." Koyomi's response holds a hint of disappointment in its tone. Karen makes a mental note of it.
Koyomi turns to Karen's bright red face, scrunched cutely into bewilderment. He adopts a very serious tone.
"Did you see it?" He says sternly.
"See what?" Karen asks.
Koyomi sends out telepathic signals using his antenna like hair towards Karen.
Her hair begins to twitch and she begins to turn a new shade or red. The message was received.
"O-of course I did...Onii-chan...I had to swap you out of those sweaty clothes! You were all sticky! Just like when you did it for me...with that incident with that conman."
As Koyomi is lost relishing the memory of his sister's bare body, Karen's eyes start to wander over down his chest, as a button is open near the collar, allowing her a small peek.
'When did he get so fit? He has rippling muscles.' Karen comments.
When Koyomi notices, Karen has been intensely staring at him, he turns his head down to look right up at her
"Hey, my eyes are up here." Koyomi says lazily.
Karen quickly turns away, visibly embarrassed.
"A-anyway! Tsukihi said to tell her when you wake up, cuz she's going to murder you for getting your nosebleed blood all over her outfit."
Koyomi visibly flinches. Remembering that Karen was wearing Tsukihi's borrowed clothes.
'Oh crap did I do that? I better figure out a way to avoid those infamous tantrums of hers...'
Karen suddenly approaches Koyomi, and wraps her arms around the nape of his neck. Koyomi notices Karen's scent from her shampoo is very pleasant, he alludes it to his vampire senses intensifying the aroma. He stares down into those deep pools of puppy dog eyes, as her closeness puts a vice on his heart. Karen smiles at him.
"Hey…you promised if I won that toothbrush game you'd introduce me to Kanbaru-sensei...if you make good on your promise now, I'll buy you a stay of execution from Tsukihi."
While Koyomi finds this agreeable, he is filled with thoughts of playing with and smooching his cute little sisters rosy cheeks.
"And..."
Karen begins to blush. Koyomi perks up.
"M-maybe we can finish our dare game..."
Koyomi's eyes go wide.
"I-if you want to that is..."
Koyomi relishes his sister turning away in embarrassment, yet stealing glances at him, waiting for his answer.
'She is so damn cute,' Koyomi feels his heart lighten at the sight of her.
"I wouldn't want to disappoint my beloved sister now would I?"
Karen smiles as Koyomi rises to get dressed.
But just then, he feels a tug on his collar as Karen lowers him down and plants a kiss on his cheek.
"Thanks Onii-chan! You are the best Onii-chan in the whole wide world!" she exclaims, and bounds giddily out of the room.
Koyomi rubs his cheek.
'Karen…I think I'm falling for you…'