A/N: In this story the "…." means a separation between the "Memory Lane" and "Reality" meaning that a series of "-" points out an interruption and a start or well the continuation.
The "XXX" means a separation in P.
The "000" means a restart which only happened in the déjà vu kind of chapter of the other story but just if it happens to occur here and so you know.
The " ***" means dream starting point or ending point.
"=" is for memory start point or ending point.
Note: Memories and dreams have text in italics
Warning! – This chapter is kind of rough on some parts… so bear with me, these stories are meant for a certain age group so if you are not good handling strong subjetcs or think this is a pink and rainbows kind of story, please stop Reading cause I didn´t write this for children x´D god, the thought on children Reading my stuff is scary… o_ó (but I doubt children or sensitive people would manage to get this far so… on with the story xD
Also! For people that don´t bother to read before they read… this arc comes after "PPGR: Reflections" so well, you are starting with the second part, if you don´t want to get confused then I suggest you starting with "PPGR: Reflections" (:
Chapter 3: Upsetting Memories
As I tried to calm myself from what had gone on, and is going on right now… I noticed the sound of the door opening, I stood still shocked for a moment though I then turned to see Barricade who had walked inside and was floating midway towards where Brazen was.
"I never said you could come back" I simply said.
"I wanted to know how things were going, we heard screaming and so we got worried" said Barricade.
"You shouldn´t be here" I muttered as I gave my back to him.
"Her… what´s the matter…?" murmured Jomo confused as he stared warily at me.
"I´m sorry, I understand I shouldn´t uh…" murmured Barricade as he suddenly went speechless, he probably just realized the gruesome amount of blood and Chemical X smeared everywhere "What? How is Brazen?" he asked sounding desperate.
"I may not have made myself clear" I said in a dangerous tone, I was getting very irritated.
"Ah?" murmured Barricade noticing me tensing up.
"I said I didn´t allow you to come here, you may not go against me or else" I said as I glowered at him with derision.
"Huh…? Why…? Did things go that bad…?" he asked never minding the contempt in my voice.
"Don´t you dare defy my orders" I said angrily as I accidentally released a powerful force which threw him against the wall with great force.
"Ack!" he exclaimed as he hit the surface, he then knelt down and so stared fixatedly at the floor "I understand, please save him though" Barricade said this as he retreated from the lab.
"Her…. Why did you do such thing?" asked Jomo, he was surprised I had hit him.
"I didn´t mean to okay…" I said while letting out a sigh, Jomo approached me and put a hand on my shoulder.
"Hey, we´ll figure something out so don´t be so harsh on yourself" said Jomo trying to ease my burden.
"Figure something out? How can we solve this when Brazen just-" I said cut off by the sudden cougher behind us.
"Mom…" groaned Brazen, seems he came back to life for some reason… or his heart stopped temporally, what? How can that be?
"Brazen?" I called startled, I didn´t think I´d hear his voice again. I approached him hastily and resumed what I was doing before, of course, I didn´t fail to notice a certain part of his body shining; I took a peek at it and noticed the light which enveloped the damaged organs and incredibly restored them.
"Mom…" he uttered as he started sobbing and shedding tears.
"I´m with you Brazen, hang in there… you will live with your brothers and nothing like this will ever happen again" I said with no certainty of that, yet it was so he calmed down, I could feel his intense desire to live and that was killing me; he was terribly desperate.
XXX
"Barricade, how was Brazen?" asked Bruise, I just shook my head, it couldn´t be wrong to say Brazen had died with the way mom looked…
"Bruise, Brazen is…" I said painfully, I couldn´t accept this, I didn´t want to.
"No… don´t tell me that he is…" murmured Bruise sounding scared; I then saw how he dashed towards the lab.
"Bruise, don´t go in there!" I exclaimed alarmed, he couldn´t see that… he just wouldn´t stand that.
"What is this…" murmured Bruise terrified, I approached him and so I got to see the horrible sight of Brazen crying and an immense quantity of blood cascading down to the floor along with a black liquid…
"Bruise, come on, we shouldn´t see this" I said as I tried to pull him away. Bruise covered his mouth and ran away probably towards the bathroom to vomit; I couldn´t blame him, the sight was sickening. The mixture of feelings that it produced me just ended making me want to throw up too, but I had to bear with it, I had to be strong for Bruise…
I went back to the living room and sat down with my head hanging and my hands over my knees, I darted to the lab´s direction and back to my knees, only one thing filled my mind ´´Please, let him be okay, I want my brother to be fine´´ that´s the only thing I had in mind and the only one I needed; I felt so useless…
After some time, Bruise came back and sat beside me, he looked frustrated and nervous as he sat with his legs against his chest. The sight of Bruise on the verge of crying made me even sadder and so I put an arm around him and pulled him closer, we stood like that for a while until the lab´s door opened abruptly startling us. We peered at the door expectantly and so Her came out cradling Brazen in her arms.
"Mom! How is he?!" exclaimed Bruise as we stared at Brazen´s unconscious face. Her approached us and placed Brazen delicately on the sofa, he was wrapped up with a cover so it wasn´t wrong to say he looked like a baby that way.
"It went fine boys, you may breathe now" said mom "He can only be here for a while, he needs to rest"
"Thank god!" exclaimed Bruise as he burst into tears of happiness; I hugged Bruise equally relieved that Brazen had turned out fine.
"Boys, just have in mind that Brazen cannot play roughly even if he wants to for at least two months, we want to make sure he is seriously okay" said mom, she looked equally content.
"Don´t let Her scare you, there´s a 99% guarantee Brazen will be fine, but just in case, take care of him for a while" said dad.
"Of course, I´ll always look after them" I said.
" I´ll go take a nap, I´ll come for Brazen in a while" said mom as she walked away to her room.
"I will go take a look around VileTown, I´ll be back in some hours boys" said dad as he walked towards one of the teleportation panels on the middle of the house.
After some minutes, Brazen groaned as he woke up and looked at us with half lidded eyes.
"Hey…" Brazen murmured as he smiled cheerfully at us.
"You scared us dammit!" exclaimed Bruise at him in a scolding tone.
"I´m sorry…"
"How are you Brazen?" I asked him, he turned to see me with a curious expression on his face and then grinned.
"Just fine, thank you- ow…" said Brazen as he then winced "My chest and tummy hurts…"
"I can imagine" I said while smiling at him.
…
"The memory stopped…" I murmured unsure of what had just happened, in that moment I heard how someone appeared behind me.
"Hey, Rurika is not happy with what´s going on with Mitsuki… mind telling me when he´ll be okay?" said Matt. How did he even get here?
"You know… you are not supposed to be coming here, in fact, how come you got here?" I asked seriously wondering about it.
"Huh? You placed a teleportation panel in my room and in Mitsuki´s, seems you put them so visible since you regulate who can activate them and who can´t" Matt said while smirking "Nicely thought"
"Oh, yeah… I did do that" I said, seems it had slipped my mind now that I was looking into the boys memories "How is Barricade doing?"
"Ah? You think I went to see him?" asked Matt looking skeptically at me.
"Yeah, so, how was he?"
"Jeez, nothing escapes you…" he said while pouting at me "That boy should be moved here, I don´t think he´ll get out from the comma any time soon"
"Oh, that´s interesting, why should he be here?"
"Man… because, he is too exposed there" said Matt flatly "He should be here, that will ease his brothers concern as well"
"Hmm… yeah, I guess I should bring him here then" I said, though I couldn´t do such thing since the Memory Lane took too much energy and another action would completely dissolve it.
"I understand" said Matt puzzling me.
"Huh?"
"I can see it in your face, you can´t do anything with that thing going on; I´ll go get the boy. Keep doing what you are doing" said Matt as he walked away.
"For some reason the memory was interrupted" I said.
"Interrupted? Why don´t you skip that one for now and move to something else? You can look back into it later" said Matt.
"Right… that might work, hope it does though" I said.
"Haha, anyways, I´ll back soon" he said as he disappeared, it was a nice idea to try; moving to another and then trying again later.
I remember this though… that time where Brazen died once, I´m sure he died yet he was brought back to life; how can that be possible? Maybe Brazen is indeed a monster…
"Huh…" I murmured as the image of Brazen as a child appeared in my head, he was giggling amused. Brazen wasn´t a monster, he couldn´t be… whatever I was thinking, I wouldn´t destroy him whatsoever; so if he was dying now… would it be for real? If he restored himself at a young age, wouldn´t he do so again?
After pondering this, I went back to trying the memory lane to work once more, as I closed my eyes and concentrated, I saw the scene of a blond child sleeping in his room. Seems it did skip the previous memory for some reason… but I would go back to it later.
…
Morning came rapidly and as I saw the pretty bright orange sky from the window, I then stretched and walked away towards the kitchen to do breakfast; mom and dad sleep until late on Saturdays so I wake up to do it for them. Dad works as a Journalist, he says he is one of the best; he is always carrying a camera around taking photos.
He sometimes startles me when taking pictures since he pops out of nowhere, he takes many of me for some photo album of his or so he says… Mom works as a nurse at Necromat Medical Center and arrives pretty late leaving me alone with dad sometimes, when dad is not home, I stay alone watching TV or doing something like cleaning the house; I´d always loved to clean!
I was doing pancakes for a while know, I always use a stool so I can reach the stove to cook, though as usual my dad crept behind me and wrapped his arms around my hips and gave me a firm squeeze from behind.
"Ah! Dad! Don´t do that!" I said surprised as he lifted me up along with the frying pan, the pancake almost fell because of that!
"How´s my son this morning, hmmm?" my dad whispered in my ear, that really tickled and I didn´t like it…
"Dad! Put me down! I can burn you with the frying pan you know…!" I said as he put me back on the stool I was previously on.
"Oh Miharu, loosen up a little! Don´t you like me carrying you?" asked dad as he held my shoulders lightly massaging them.
"Not when you startle me that way…" I said as I groaned "Go sit, the pancakes will be done soon"
"Dying to eat them" he said as he kissed my cheek and went to take a seat.
"Geez dad, you always eat them, it´s nothing new you know" I said as I smiled troubled at him, I then got surprised at the sudden photo he took "Stop doing things all of a sudden!"
"I can´t help it, my son looks adorable in any photo I take!" he said sounding happy.
"Geez dad… even my classmates find you weird" I said as I walked towards him and placed the pancake on top of the pile, he took one and put it on his plate.
"Weird? How?" he asked me as he looked at the piece of pancake on his fork.
"I don´t understand the meaning but they keep calling you a pedophile… I don´t like how it sounds so I get angry at them…" I said while pouting at the memory, Makoto had told me my dad acted funny but he never elaborated on how as for the others… they only look at me with pitiful stares.
"Haha those classmates of yours don´t understand our father- son bond, they are jealous cause they don´t have their parents doing a photo album of them" said my dad as I walked back to the stool, though I turned to see him with curiosity as he said that. I was then pulled closer to him and so he hugged me.
"Ah but…" I murmured uneasy about what he was saying, though I was once more startled by him; he suddenly fondled my butt and so I yanked away really puzzled.
"Dad! What was that?!" I exclaimed seriously confused, he then chuckled.
"See? That´s the kind of affection they don´t understand" said dad.
"Ah?" I murmured looking at him dubiously.
"Father-son bonding is really, really intimate… it´s normal they don´t understand, they are so young" he said, I then looked away still uneasy.
"If you say so… though I don´t think I can be ever fine with that…" I said finding myself freaked by such touching, was I wrong on refusing such contact? I started feeling guilty, if dad says it´s normal… why did I react in such way?
"Are you alright, Miharu?" he looked at me as he resumed eating.
"I´m sorry dad… I didn´t mean to react like that" I said noticing him smirking.
"Well, well… you´ll just have to make it up to me later then" he said as he kept smirking.
"Ah?" I murmured confused, what did he mean?
"Haha, I´m just joking son, you don´t have to make it up to me" said my dad as took a zip from his coffee.
"But I…"
"If you want to make it up to me though, you may want to wear some outfits for more photos" he said as he chuckled.
"Ah? Well, if you want to then fine" I said, I didn´t want my dad to get angry at me so I was willing to apologize in any way necessary.
"Oh? Really?" he asked looking skeptical, I then nodded slowly.
"Yeah…" I said then distracted by my mom walking in and smiling gently at us.
"Good morning dears" said my mother as she walked in.
"Good morning mom!" I said as I ran and hugged her, she then kissed my forehead and so took a seat.
"Good Morning, Miharu" she said as she smiled gently at me; Dad then cleared his throat gaining our attention.
"Rosette, you came late yesterday, you need to sleep" said my dad.
"Oh Tatsuya… it´s not that bad, I can´t be oversleeping, it´s not healthy" said my mom.
"Yes, but neither is not sleeping enough" said my dad as mom looked at him troubled. I gave mom a pancake too and then sat between the two.
"It´s so sweet of you to be doing breakfast for us, sweetie" said mom to me "It´s always pretty tasty"
"Thank you! I enjoy cooking for you both" I said happily.
"Miharu, would you go get these at the store?" my dad asked me as he handed me a list.
"Not a problem! I´ll go after breakfast!" I said as I kept it away.
"What a good boy you are" said my dad seemingly pleased.
"I´ll go with you sweetie" said my mom as she smiled gently at me.
"No Rosette, you need to rest, your health is quickly deteriorating" said my dad as he looked concerned at my mom.
"Oh Tatsuya, it´s not a bother for me, I can surely go" my mom said.
"Don´t worry mom! I can go for these on my own!" I said "I agree with dad, you stay here"
"But Miharu… will you be alright? I can really go…" said mom as she looked worried at me.
"Leave it all to me!" I said while grinning.
"Okay sweetie… but remember to be careful" said Mom.
"I will, mom!" I yelled in response, I then hurried to finish my food and left towards the store.
As I made my way to the store, I noticed a truck outside of the house aside of ours; It was weird since it had been empty for years.
So eventually, my curiosity took over me and so I went to take a look. I walked towards the front door though I came face to face with a boy slightly taller than me. He watched me momentarily before offering me a cheerful smile.
"Hello there! I´m new here, my name is Harumi, nice to meet you uhmm…" Harumi said sounding a bit troubled. He had chocolate colored hair and honey colored eyes and was mildly tanned.
"My name is Miharu, I´m your next door neighbor" I said with a smile.
"I see… that´s great!" said Harumi while nodding. A scary voice then broke the happy moment though…
"Harumi! I told you to get the beers you fucking retard!" a man shouted, it made me nervous just to listen to it…
"I won´t take long dad!" yelled Harumi back, he then looked at me kind of annoyed "I´m sorry you had to hear that"
"Don´t worry about it…" I said a bit nervous.
"Harumi… I´m going to make you miserable if you don´t go now!" his dad shouted…
"Ah!" Harumi exclaimed startled "I´m sorry, I have to go to the shop now, his threats mean business" he said while walking away a bit.
"Really? That´s nice, I have to go there as well" I said happily "Mind if I join you?"
"Sure, I don´t mind" said Harumi, we then left to the store in a hurry. Seems we have similar dads… though my dad hasn´t yelled at me…
"Your dad sure sounded angry…"
"Yeah, I´m already used to his attitude" said Harumi a bit down, he then turned to see me with a gentle smile "What about yours, is he an ogre too?"
"Hmm… well, no, not really… though…" I said trailing off wondering what to say, I had thought on something but I really wondered if it was important to mention; after a bit of thinking I decided to shrug it off.
"Ha,ha, you are so lucky" said Harumi as we crossed a street, the store was not far away, we only needed to cross another street and we would find it on the corner.
"How old are you?" I suddenly asked.
"AAh? I´m 6 years old" he responded looking curiously at me "What about you?"
"I´m 5 years old" I said.
"Oh! So you are a year younger than me" he said strangely excited.
"Ah? Is it such good news?" I asked since I noticed his strange smile.
"For me it is, you see… I´ve always been the youngest everywhere I go, It´s really nice to find someone younger than me for a change" said Harumi.
"Ha,ha, I see… do you have any siblings?"
"A younger sister, well, a baby sister" said Harumi.
"Aw! That´s so cute!" I said happily, I´ve always found babies to be so cute!
"Do you like babies, Miharu?" asked Harumi while looking at me with a smile.
"Yes! I certainly do!" I said giving a hard nod.
"Do you have any siblings?" asked Harumi.
"Nope, I´m an only child" I responded.
"I see… so you´re an only child. that must be nice" said Harumi with a sad expression on his face.
"Ah? Well, I´ve always wondered how it would be to have siblings"
"It´s not that good" said Harumi making me look confused at him, I then noticed him entering the store. After some seconds, he peeked out and looked sarcastically at me "Here it is! Hurry!" he said then retreated back inside.
"Ah! Yeah!" I said walking in, I then went to browse for the stuff dad asked me to buy. After a bit, Harumi called for me but I wasn´t done yet…
"Miharu, what´s the matter? Can´t find what you are-"he said silencing himself momentarily "Uhmm… Miharu, this is the adult part of te tore, we shouldn´t be here…" Harumi said kind of embarrassed "What are you looking for anyway?"
"Well according to this list… it´s mint condoms-" I said as I took a box though as I did Harumi snatched it while interrupting me.
"Whoa! Condoms?! Miharu, why…" he said while looking concerned at me.
"It´s not a big deal… I always buy them but I can´t find them, think they ran out?" I said while looking curiously at him.
"Miharu… your dad seriously sent you to buy that?" asked Harumi sounding shocked.
"Yes… is it wrong?"
"Of course it is! Let me see that!" said Harumi as he then snatched the list "Oh dear god…" he murmured after a while.
"What?" I asked confused.
"Condoms, batteries, Ap pills, beer, cigarettes… lube, chips, Ice cream" read Harumi "This is the strangest list I´ve ever read… how are you going to carry all this anyway?"
"I always manage somehow" I said.
"Well, at least I´m help to help you but still, not even my dad…"
"What did he ask you to buy?" I asked him.
"Beer and donuts" said Harumi making me blush for some reason.
"Ah, just that?" I said while looking down embarrassed "I feel awkward for some reason now…"
"Do you buy all that, always?" asked Harumi.
"Nope, just when dad runs out of it" I said with a grin shrugging of my embarrassment.
"I can´t believe this…" said Harumi "What else do you buy?"
"Huh? Well… some other days, I buy wine, soap, ingredients, bread, medicines; stuff like that" I said "I can´t seem to remember that well, but I do buy condoms daily"
"Has your father done anything to you, Miharu?" Harumi asked suddenly.
"What? No, he hasn´t, why would he?" I asked confused.
"Oh that´s nice, glad to- whoa! Miharu, what ar you doing?!" I heard him exclaim as I snatched the box back and went towards the counter to ask the person about the condom.
"Excuse me, are there any others similar to the ones mint flavored?" I asked him as I showed him the condoms; the man then arched a brow and stared at me in disbelief.
"Boy, I doubt your little thing can fill it" said the man, I then noticed Harumi looking agape at the man.
"Eh?" I uttered confused, I turned to see Harumi to ask what was wrong but he looked away uneasy while blushing.
"You can try them but you should wait a couple of years before trying that" said the man making me look intently at him confused. Harumi then took me by the wrist and pulled me with him to the snack area looking embarrassed.
"You can´t ask that!" He finally said, I knew he was struggling with something he wanted to say…
"Boys start stuff so early now…" said the man sounding confused too and kind of indifferent.
"Huh?! No Mister we are not- urgh!" exclaimed Harumi frustrated, he then kept quiet and silently helped me with the rest of the things on my list; after we paid then we left the store.
"Hey, thanks for your help!" I said sincerely.
"No problem… though tell your dad to get these himself… a child shouldn´t buy these…" said Harumi sounding a bit irritated.
"You seem to know a lot, how?" I asked seriously curious. Harumi was my age technically and he already knew so many things I didn´t understand…
"Well… uhmmm…" Harumi murmured uneasy making a really sorrowful expression, as if he was about to burst into tears by just recalling though before anything of that could happen, I only changed the subject.
"Anyway, want to come to my home? It would be fun!" I said happily.
"Sure! I just need to drop the beer at home" said Harumi.
"We can go watch movies or play videogames…" I said as I wondered what else we could do.
"Unbelievable" said Harumi then releasing a sigh.
"Ah?" I murmured confused, Harumi was deep red.
"It´s nothing… just that I can´t believe you asked that man about the condoms…"
"Harumi, do you what the condoms are for?" I asked him honestly wondering about it.
"Eh? That is…" murmured Harumi nervously "It´s for… ugh… Miharu! You are so dirty!" He exclaimed and then ran away embarrassed.
"Ah! Harumi…" I murmured while looking troubled towards the way he took. As he disappeared, I felt a raindrop splashing on my head "Eh? It can´t be…" As soon as I looked up, the rain poured down with force soaking me fully.
It was futile to run now so I only walked calmly towards home; that until a voice suddenly spoke to me making me stop.
"Hey kid…" someone said, I turned in the direction of an alley.
"Ah?" I murmured curiously, I then approached the alley and walked in hesitatingly "Is someone here?" a I asked that, someone jerked me forwards and so I let out a short yelp; I was then put against the wall.
"What a foolish boy you are" said the one who had called me. The person turned out to be a tall man with yellow eyes. I stared speechless as I felt how his stare dug deep into me.
"Ah! Don´t hurt me…" I said as I looked away uneasy. It was my fault… I just can´t seem to ignore my curiosity.
"Your body is perfect to experiment with" As he said this, he ripped open my T-shirt startling me.
"No! No! Let go of me!" I shouted as I frantically attempted to escape him; he had a scalpel against my chest, what was he trying to do?
"Why don´t we do an experiment? When the time is right, I´ll meet you again" he said while smirking at me.
"Huh? What do you- ah!" I yelped as he bit my neck "Nngh… uh… No…"
"Miharu!" I heard Harumi shouting but I couldn´t do anything as the guy bit me. After a bit, the guy released me and then stared at me.
"You have such interesting personalities, I will be glad to steal you away; after all, they don´t need you, do they?" as he said this, the guy touched my ear and massaged my earlobe causing me to shiver in dread.
"Miharu, come on!" exclaimed Harumi, he then came running and kicked the man who disappeared before Harumi touched him; that leading to Harumi falling on top of me.
"Harumi…" I murmured as I stared at Harumi on top of me.
"Miharu… are you alright?" asked Harumi.
"Harumi…I…I…" I mumbled as I continued shivering.
"Hey, I´m sorry… I shouldn´t have left…" murmured Harumi as he moved away from me and helped me up.
"I´m cold" I said as I tried to hide my shock.
"Miharu…" murmured Harumi while looking at me concerned, he then embraced me tightly "Don´t worry, you can cry"
"Eh…?" I uttered as I widened my eyes in surprise.
"I won´t laugh at you for crying, it was scary, wasn´t it?" said Harumi. As he said this to me, I started to sob.
"But boys shouldn´t cry, my dad says so…" I said as I hiccupped.
"You are human… you will cry sometimes so don´t worry" said Harumi as he squeezed me slightly causing me to cry at the gesture.
"Harumi…" I w-was s-so scared…" I said while sobbing and hugging him tightly.
My cries were silenced by the sound of the rain; after that, we went back home, Harumi dropped his things at his home and so he stayed over to sleep at my house.
…
"Well, well…did you find anything useful?" a voice spoke breaking my concentration and the image before me.
"What brings you here?" I said mildly irritated at the interruption.
"What is it that you would like to find? This is a fine example of privacy invasion" Matt said while chuckling.
"Seriously, why are you here?"
"I don´t recommend you prying into their memories, you will face a lot of ugly events" he said while looking at me with a serious expression.
"Oh… Are you saying you know?"
"Of course I do, plus when I kiss I can know the details" he said while winking. That had to be a joke "But seriously though, don´t wander in too much, there are a lot of things that can trouble you"
"Does that include-" I said cut off by him.
"Yes, it does include him… but I have a feeling that Makoto´s will be harder to take" He said.
"I see… well, can you scram?" asked him angrily, I was too annoyed for being silenced.
"It was just a warning, I don´t want to see you regret it afterwards" he said.
"I have to, I don´t like it but I…"
"You are desperate, am I wrong?" said Matt in an indifferent way "Hope that helps you. Anyway! I brought the orange haired, you might find this interesting.
"Find what interesting?" I asked. mild curiosity in my voice. I turned around and found myself staring at Barricade, though… his body had shrunk, he was back being 5 years old.
"I wonder how he changed back to being a child…" murmured Matt "I´ll take care of him, you go back to that"
"I´m going to have to ask you to give him a bath" I said.
"Huh?" murmured Matt puzzled "What? I cannot give him a bath…"
"Oh really… why not?"
"He can´t be without a respirator for long you know…" said Matt looking troubled.
"If that´s the issue then cover his mouth and nose with this" I said handing him a device.
"This is…?" he said after staring at it.
"A special tool for this kind of situation, give him a proper bath" I said as he stared fixatedly at the device.
"Ah… okay, just because he is a child…" said Matt while as he left with Barricade on his arms.
After this, I went back to the memory lane; it was highly improbable that the memory would continue.
…
I woke up with a really high fever, Harumi was aside of me but even though we were both soaked yesterday, I was the only one sick.
"Uh…" I murmured as I saw Harumi aside of me, he was fast asleep… I got up while panting; I had to go make breakfast…
I walked towards the kitchen and gathered the ingredients, after that, I pulled the stool close to the stove and so stepped on it, I planned on doing French toast.
"Good morning Miharu…" said my father as he approached me.
"Dad, I´m not in the mood for your jokes right now" I said as I panted heavily and felt his arms wrap around me.
"Oh, you are not in the mood huh" said dad sounding interested on what I was saying "And there are times where you are?" he asked confusing me.
"Huh? What do you mean with that…" I murmured as I stood puzzled. Dad crept a hand inside my shirt and stroke my chest in a circular motion "Dad… what are you doing…" I said as I panted, I could feel his cool hand easing the hotness I felt though it didn´t do much difference.
"Oh? You like this Miharu?" asked Dad as he pressed me against him and continued stroking my chest, I kept panting finding it hard to breathe for some reason.
"Dad… what… Nn…" I uttered, why was he doing that?
"Miharu!" exclaimed Harumi suddenly, my dad gave a step back and watched Harumi approaching me; Harumi stared at my dad and then turned to face me; his aura was a muddy red color, I could feel the anger building up inside him for some reason…
"Harumi…? I thought you were asleep…" I said looking concerned at him.
"Yeah, I was but I got surprised to see you weren´t aside of me" said Harumi "Miharu, you are red… why don´t you take a seat? I´ll do the breakfast"
"Huh? But I cannot let you do that…! You are a guest here, you shouldn´t be doing this…" I said concerned, I feared he wouldn´t come back after having to do such thing.
"Don´t worry, Miharu, you are sick. I´ll keep coming, so don´t worry, okay?" he said with a gentle smile though I was puzzled about the red aura that told me he was anything but happy. I slowly nodded and went to take a seat then watching him do the French toast I was going to make.
"Oh…" murmured my dad. I looked at my dad and noticed he had a weird smirk on his face as he stared at Harumi and his aura was bright red with black… does he always stares that way?
"Dad…?" I called him while looking seriously curious to know what he was thinking.
"Harumi, as my son´s friend, I´d be happy to ask your help for a photo shooting, what do you think?" asked my sad suddenly. Harumi stood still without moving for a bit, he then turned to see my dad with a confused expression.
"Photo shooting?" asked Harumi.
"Yes, I believe you would be a nice addition to the photos" said my dad making Harumi look worried.
"I don´t know… I don´t like being photographed" said Harumi.
"Is that so? With such cute face I think is a shame" said my dad making Harumi turn around uneasy for some reason.
"Is that so… is that like frequent?" asked Harumi sounding nervous.
"Not really, but when there´s photo shooting we do take our time" said my dad making Harumi tense up. I wonder what´s going on…
"I see… sounds fun, maybe I´ll try that another time…" said Harumi in a low voice, he didn´t sound cheerful as one would expect.
"Haha, if you are interested be sure to let me know" said my dad, he then grabbed a newspaper that was on the table ending the conversation.
"Harumi, should I help you with something?" I asked him though he shook his head slowly and turned to see me with a troubled smile.
"No, it´s fine Miharu" said Harumi, he then went back to focus on the French toasts.
"Thank you, I really appreciate it, Harumi…" I said sincerely, I then waited for a while until he was done; he grabbed the plate with french toasts and put them on the table.
"Hope you like it, Miharu, it´s been a while since I last did French toasts" said Harumi as he took a seat beside me.
"I´m sure I will" I said then nodding happily. I started eating, the atmosphere was kind of awkward and I couldn´t help but wonder what was going on with Dad and Harumi…
After breakfast I went back to the bed, Harumi followed me and sat on my left, he hugged the covers comfortably and leaned against the pillow happily.
"Ah… nothing like being in a bed in a winter morning" said Harumi as he sighed, I turned to see him and smiled troubled at him.
"Harumi… it´s not healthy to be in bed so much…" I said as I panted heavily.
"Huh? Well, you are sick so you need to be here anyway; I might join you as well you know" said Harumi as he buried himself with the covers.
"Jeez, you are so lazy…" I said as I looked at him sideways.
"And hey, you can´t blame me! You have the most comfortable bed ever!" said Harumi as he popped his head from under the covers, he then looked shocked and went back inside "Too cold for me, I better stay here"
"Oh…" I murmured. I released a giggle though it was cut really short for my eyesight becoming blurry.
"Miharu? Should I bring you something?" asked Harumi, I only looked at him in a troubled matter.
"No, you already did enough Harumi…" I said to him as I then closed my eyes.
"Did enough? Yeah, right! I´ll bring you a bowl of hot soup, wait here for a sec!" said Harumi as he got off the bed and ran to the kitchen.
"Soup huh… I wonder if I bought any" I said wondering about it as I fell asleep in my dizziness.
…
"Hey, I put their brother in the middle bedroom, I had no idea where-" said Matt cut off by my glare, why was he interrupting me again?
"Matt… you better have a decent reason to have shattered the memory lane once more" I said still glaring at him.
"Well… actually, the kid woke up for like a minute and then drifted off once more" said Matt looking a bit annoyed, seems something happened back in the bathroom.
"Oh? He woke up from the comma?" I asked sounding sincerely intrigued.
"Yeah…" he said while looking away "He looked terribly confused and asked for his brothers, he then noticed he was naked and got really embarrassed as well as violent; he sure is feisty"
"Oh? So did you give him the bath or not?"
"Huh? Well yes, after he yelled at me, he stared at me like if he was seeing a ghost and held my face like if I was some sort of ornament… he then drifted off" said Matt looking confused beyond words "That kid sure is weird"
"Is that so…" I said looking indifferently at him.
"Yeah! Though, he was kind of cute, heh" he said with a self satisfied smirk "Not that I would do anything to a child so young"
"That´s questionable" I said flatly.
"Huh?! Woman, I would never hurt a child that way!" He said sounding indignant, I just looked at him dully.
"Go on, you might bite your tongue" I said while smirking, that would be funny alright.
"Jeez, anyway… won´t you come see him or something?" asked Matt.
"Huh? No, babysit him some more" I said simply.
"Eh? That sounds lame… but alright, I´ll take care of the kid" said Matt "He´ll owe me something big, heh" he said as he walked away.
All these interruptions really annoyed me, but for the sake of knowing the truth I had to continue looking. That is, if Matt apparently allowed me to.