If She Must Choose
Chapter Three:
Three weeks have passed since Ema moved in with her brothers, and she is finally starting to adjust. She now had her own duty that she was to take care of three days a week and even though Ema would have preferred to cook over doing laundry, she was still grateful that there was a place for her.
After the party, things with Subaru were awkward to say the least. Ema wasn't certain whether he remembered what happened or not, or whether he had intended to kiss her, or if he was just caught up in the moment. He was completely wasted so she wouldn't be surprised if it was all a mistake. But even so, Ema couldn't forget how good his lips felt on her own. It was like electricity being pumped through her body and she constantly found herself yearning for more. That wasn't going to happen though if things were to continue as they were going. Subaru wouldn't speak to her, if they were left alone together he immediately bolted from the room, and if their eyes met at dinner his face would flood with red before averting his gaze.
Unlike Subaru, who Ema couldn't bring himself to acknowledge her, things with Tsubaki went in the other direction. His flirting became a daily occurrence, more suggestive than it had previously been, constant touching, and he had brushed his lips over her neck, licking and sucking on the collarbones and her pulse point but for some reason he still hasn't kissed even though it was quite obvious that she wanted him too. He left hickeys on her every other day, which she didn't mind so much, it felt good, but hiding it from her brothers and friends was getting expensive. Things were starting to get out of hand. Ema had just finished hiding three hickeys that Tsubaki had left the night before, and to her horror, the bottle of cover up was almost empty. It definitely wouldn't be enough to cover them again the following day for school, which means Ema was going to be making a trip to the market today to get more. While she was at it, she may as well get the newest issues of her favourite manga since she was already going out.
So here she was, looking through the new release section at the book store, carrying a bad which the recently purchased cover-up. She picked up the latest releases of Shingeki no Kyojin, Ao no Exorcist and Sekaiichi Hatsukoi. Content, Ema decided to browse around the store for a little while longer. Turning down the next isle, Ema found Fuuto looking through the stores movie selection. Ema let out a slight chuckle at Fuuto's terrible disguise. "Fuuto-kun?"
His head shot up from worry that someone had found him out. Finding Ema standing at the end of the isle, he quickly strode over to her. "Don't call me name so loudly, idiotic woman!"
How could Ema do something so stupid? He was wearing a disguise for a reason. Looking down, Ema noticed the large stack of movies that Fuuto was carrying. "Are you going buy all of those?" That had to be at least 10 movies.
"It's for work. I'm doing research." He explained
"Fuuto-kun! Are you going to be in a movie?" Fuuto covered her mouth with his hand to stifle her words but it was too late. They both heard the store start to buzz with excitement. Fuuto roughly pushed his stack of movies into Ema's arms with a slight growl.
"Take responsibility and buy these for me. I'll wait for you at home." Then Fuuto walked past her and out of the store without looking back. Ema went to pay seeing as she had gotten what she was here for, handing over 20000 yen, Ema paid for her books and Fuuto's movies. Ema walked out of the store and was instantly swarmed.
"You know Asakura Fuuto?" "Are you his girlfriend?" "Did he say see you at home?"
Ema was starting to panic. She couldn't release any information, regarding their relationship, lest they figure out where he lives. Looking for an escape route, Ema spotted Azusa and Tsubaki walking towards the crowd. Those two were always coming to her rescue.
Thanks to the twins, Ema made it back to the house without doing any further damage. The elevator stopped on the fourth floor, dropping Ema off, as the twins made their way to the living room. As Ema turned down the hall to go to her room, she was once again met with the sight of Fuuto. His head was resting against her door, eyes closed and humming a tune that she faintly remembered hearing. Racking her brain, she tried to identify the song, Fuuto opened his eyes to see Ema standing in front of him, and he started singing the words. Now Ema was certain she knew this song, Ema blushed listening to her brother singing a beautiful love song to her. Memories of her first night in this house flashed through her head, everyone sitting on the couch, watching Fuuto's concert. This was the song he was performing when they flipped on the tv, but the version he was singing now, was slower and softer. Ema thought it sounded far more beautiful like this.
Fuuto stopped singing, momentarily confused, Ema realized that the song was over. Fuuto stood up.
"I'm sorry about what happened at the store." Ema could understand why he wanted Ema to shut up in the store. After being harassed by those girls, she could only imagine how bad it would have been if it were actually Fuuto.
"You're completely wrong if you think an apology will satisfy me." He leaned in to whisper in Ema's ear, his breath tickling her neck. "As punishment, I'll have you do all sorts of things for me. In your room of course." Smirking, Fuuto backed away from his blushing sister.
Ema just stared back at Fuuto, beat red and stuttering. "God damn wolves! All of them!" Juli yelled, shaking with rage on Ema shoulder.
"Hurry up and open the door already" Fuuto demanded. Obediently Ema opened the door as he had asked and he stepped closer to Ema. Pushing his chest up against her back, bringing his lips up to her ear again. "It's sexy when a girls submissive." He breathed out then passed Ema, pushing the door open further.
Juli was preparing to leap when he saw Fuuto sitting on Ema's bed, peeling off his sweater. "You need to put that thing somewhere. Kaname-nii-san said it's violent and I can't have my face all cut up. I am a pop star after all." He had a point. Ema picked Juli up off her shoulder and placed him outside her window and closed it. Fuuto closed the curtain, cutting off Juli's view, and returned to the bed.
"Put in the top movie for me." Ema did just that and sat next to Fuuto. "I can't see from this angle." Fuuto mumbled and slid closer to Ema. Their thighs were pressed together, and Fuuto placed his hand on the bed behind her.
'I feel nervous somehow' Ema thought looking at Fuuto as he concentrated on the movie. Looking back to the screen, Ema lost herself in the movie as well, seemingly forgetting how close Fuuto was to her.
"I've gotta say, that was amazing!" Fuuto smiled at the tv. Ema leaned back, surprised when she found an arm around her. "The acting was incredible. To be able to put on such a casual performance is the hardest thing you can do." Amazed by the passion in Fuuto's eyes when he talked about acting, Ema was finding it difficult to look away.
Fuuto met her gaze. "I want to be an actor. It's not like I can be a pop star forever."
"That's incredible!"
"Are you making fun of me?" Rage flashed across his face.
"Not at all." She assured. "Hearing you talk so passionately about your dreams made me think that I need to learn from you. It's truly incredible that you have something you can be so serious about. I envy you a little."
"You really are stupid aren't you?" He let out a brief laugh. "And here I was, thinking of letting you off the hook after this, but…" Fuuto brush a piece of Ema's hair out of her face, hand finally resting on her jaw. "…then you had to go and say something so cute." Fuuto closed the distance between them. Bringing his other hand to rest on her hip, he tilted his head, putting more force into the kiss.
Hesitantly, Ema placed her hands on Fuuto's thigh. Feeling the pressure of Fuuto's teeth biting down lightly on her bottom lip, had Ema herself running her hands up from his thigh to his hips, over his flat stomach, then his chest, and finally resting on his shoulders to pull him closer, and pushing her chest into his.
A soft moan snuck its way from between her lips and Fuuto took advantage and pushed his tongue past her lips. He explored her mouth, causing Ema to let out a string of muffled moans. Fuuto could feel himself getting hard so he pulled Ema up to sit on his lap. He could feel her body trembling beneath his warm hands as he ran them over her chest. Ema let out a whine that had Fuuto smirking against her lips. Fuuto moved his hands down to her hips. Breaking away from the kiss, panting against her lips. "I want you so bad." Fuuto lowered his head to her neck, sucking and nipping, while pushing down on Ema's hips, grinding his hard cock against her. Quiet pleased by her gasp, Fuuto repeated the action with more force.
Ema had never done anything like this before. Sure she got off from time to time but her experience with guys consisted of Subaru, Tsubaki and now Fuuto. The feeling of his dick rubbing against her was completely new and the pleasure she experienced was far greater than anything she had ever imagined. Ema pushed herself down harder on him, whimpering into his ear.
Groaning, Fuuto grabbing the back of her neck with one hand, while the other stationed itself on her ass, and pulled her into a heated kiss.
He was so close. Thrusting himself up into Ema, he could feel her wet heat soaking his pants. His thrusts grew harder as his organism drew closer.
Releasing another whimper Ema started picking up the pace. She was going to cum from rubbing herself on Fuuto's cock any moment now.
A knock on the door halted their movements. "Ema?" 'Yuusuke.' Ema climbed off of Fuuto, glancing down at his wet crotch, seeing the obvious bulge in his pants. . "I have a form you need to fill out for class. Ema?" 'Fuck!' Ema took another moment to try and compose herself before opening the door.
Having first noticed Ema's beat red completion, he looked past her to see Fuuto laying in her bed, with a rather pissed off expression. Yuusuke dropped the paper, marching up to Fuuto, pulling him out of her bad and dragging him from the room.
Ema blinking a few times, surprised by Yuusuke's actions, then turned picking the sheet up off of the floor then closed her door.
'Parents meeting for university prep' she read. Placing the sheet on her desk to be filled out later, preferably when she wasn't this horny, Ema returned to her bed, removing her soaked shorts and panties. "Guess I have to take care of this myself." She mumbled to herself.
Sitting in her classroom, Ema looked down at her completed form for the university meeting. The only spot left blank was the parent signature. Ema wasn't sure what she was supposed to do about it, her dad was still overseas. She assumed one of her brothers would go as her guardian but which brother did she put down. Were they too busy to come to the school? Getting up from her seat, Ema made her way over to Yuusuke.
"Do you know what you're doing yet?" Yuusuke look dejectedly at his blank page. He didn't know what he wanted to do with his life. Even if he did know what school he wanted to go to, could he even get in? He wasn't smart, he had bad grades and so far he wasn't particularly motivated.
Ema showed him the sheet. "More or less. I just wanted to know whose name I should put down."
"Put down Masa-nii's name for now." Yuusuke told her.
"Arigato Yuusuke-kun! I'll see you at home" Ema waved and walked out the door of their classroom. He wanted to leave with her but he failed his last test so he was stuck doing a make-up test for the next hour.
'What am I doing? She's my sister.' Yuusuke ran his hands through his hair. 'I don't know how to feel about this anymore. Sure our parents are getting married, but none of my brothers seem to care. Just yesterday I found Fuuto in her room, and it was obvious that something was going on, seeing as the elevator ride consisted of him complaining about me being a cock blocking bastard. Ema didn't seriously like that asshole did she? No, she was caught up in the moment, or he's blackmailing her because there is no way that she could like him. Maybe it wouldn't be wrong for me to go for it. Since we are living together it's a good chance for me to get close to her. I won't lose to my brothers! Especially not Fuuto!'
Ema walked down the stairs leading to the living room, easily spotting Masaomi reading through some documents on the couch. "Umm, Masaomi-san?" Looking up from his work, Ema met his beautiful eyes. "I don't mean to brother you while you're working but I was wondering if you would have time to come to the school for the parent meeting about university."
"Of course." Handing him the paper, Masaomi looked through, nodding. "It's a good school. You're going to have to work really hard but I know you can do it." He said as he signed the bottom. "There, that should do it."
"I'm sorry I had to ask you to do this when you were busy." Ema bowed her head.
"I don't mind. If there is anything else you need, don't hesitate to ask me okay?"
"Alright, Arigato gozaimasu" Ema was so grateful to have family. Juli hoped on Ema's shoulder, looking down at the paper in her hands as she left Masaomi to his work. "It's been a really long time since I've had family come to my school" She told him.
Ema and Yuusuke sat across from their teacher, waiting on Masaomi. The silence they had been sitting in was finally broken by Ma- "Kana-nii?" Yuusuke stood.
"Thank you for looking after my unworthy otouto and adorable imouto" Kaname closed the door and headed towards the empty seat across from his siblings.
"Why are you hear?" Yuusuke questioned.
"Masa-nii got called away to an emergency so he asked me to come." Kaname sat as did Yuusuke.
It's not that Yuusuke didn't like Kaname but his brother was a massive flirt and when he was directing it towards Ema, he got pissed. The guy is extremely charming and he doesn't want Ema to fall for it! Yuusuke could feel warmth engulfing his hand, unsure of what it could be. He squeezed his hand and noticed Ema face go slightly pink. His eyes flickered down to their linked hands, and he quickly released hers. 'When did that happen?' Yuusuke cleared his throat and asked if they could hurry things along.
"Hai, so imouto-chan, you top choice is the university that Subaru attends. It isn't to be close to him is it? I'm going to cry if that's the case."
"It was only a coincidence." Ema wasn't going to deny that it would be a plus that Subaru goes there but it really wasn't to main reason. It wasn't as hard to get into as some schools, but it was still a good school and they still had interesting programs.
"Yu-chan, your list of preferred schools is blank. Are you not planning to go to university?"
"I want to go there too." He mumbled. Well that wasn't exactly true, he wanted to stay by Ema's side. He would go where ever she did. "I'm going to go to the same university."
Kaname let out a deep chuckle. 'Of course you do otouto-chan. You want to be with the girl you love.' "Okay well you're going to have to work a lot harder because at the moment there is no way you'll get in."
"I know that! Are we done here? I have some studying to do." Yuusuke stood, and faced his teacher who nodded. Yuusuke stormed out of the room, leaving the others confused.
"Did he not want a ride home?" Kaname asked Ema who just shrugged. Ema thanked her teacher and she left with Kaname. They got in the car and started back towards their home. "Are you sure you don't want to go there for Subaru?"
Why was he so persistent? "He isn't my reason for choosing the school, however it wouldn't be a bad thing to know someone there."
They were stopped at a red light when Kaname tucked Ema's hair behind her ear. He gently turned her face and leaned in, connecting their lips in a soft kiss. He leaned back and waited a moment for the light to turn green. "I'm glad that he isn't the reason. It really would have broken my heart." Ema had nothing to say. She simply turned to look out the window, for the remainder of the drive.
Ema was in the kitchen making herself some coffee when she hear the door open. She could hear someone shuffling around in the hall before they started to make their way towards the kitchen. It was sometime past 2am, Ema actually had no idea what time it was anymore, last she checked it was 1:50am but who knows how long ago that was.
Ukyo poked his head into the kitchen and visibly flinched. "Oh, I had no idea you were still up. Studying?" 'I guess I startled him' Ema thought.
"Hai. I needed something to wake me up a little." Ema was truly exhausted. She had been studying none stop for the past 4 hours, and she was still nowhere close to where she needed to be. She guessed she would probably be up for the next hour or two at the very least. She could feel a migraine setting in and grabbed a bottle of pills.
"Brings back memories. I don't miss those days at all." Ukyo let out a chuckle. "Grades are important, but your health comes first, okay?" He placed his jacket over Ema's shoulders and smiled tenderly. "You mustn't catch a cold before the wedding next week."
Ukyo placed a kiss on her forehead and Ema said a quick thank you before turning to grab her coffee. She was startled by a beautiful woman standing in the doorway. The woman strode towards her and enveloped her in a hug.
"I've been dying to meet you." She let go of Ema and took a step back. "It's nice to meet you, I'm Hikaru." 'That name sounds familiar.' "I'm the fourth son"
'Son?' "What?" This beautiful woman was a man. He didn't look like a man at all.
"Despite the way he dresses, Hikaru is a man through and through."
"I look forward to getting to know you, imouto-san" Hikaru reached out his hand, looking for Ema's.
"Likewise." Ema shook his hand, then grabbed her coffee and returned to her room.
"When did you get back to Japan?" Ukyo hadn't seen Hikaru in well over a year, and suddenly he shows up in the middle of the night.
"Did you miss me that badly?" Hikaru just smiled. "Truth is I need to speak with Ema about something for mom."
"She's staying in Natsume's old room but please don't bother her. She's busy with her studies."
"Mmm…" Hikaru just turned and left the room, with every intention of speaking with his sister.
Knocking on her door, he could hear shuffling within the room. Within a minute he was staring down at Ema who looked surprised. "May I come in?" Ema opened the door further, granting him access. "I realize it's late but our mother sent me baring gifts."
Hikaru presented Ema with a large box. "It's a package sent with love." Ema took the box and sat on her bed. Upon opening it, Ema found a note placed on top of a pretty pink dress with brown laced collar. Ema opened the letter, 'I picked this out with Rintaro. Thank you for giving me the joy of picking out a dress for a daughter.' Ema picked up the dress and held it against herself.
"You're going to look so cute."
"Arigato Hikaru-san" Ema hugged the dress against her chest before placing it on a hanger in her closet. "May I ask a question. I don't want to be rude."
"I already know what you are going to ask." Hikaru smiled. "I'm a writer. I write about horrifying and disturbing things, murders, mafia business, and the like. But for me to write about them, I need to do research. Most people find a female less threatening than that of a male so I dress this way so that I can trick men into telling me about their work. I deal with all types of people, many of them dangerous as well, so it doubles as a disguise. Ema was awestruck, she had simply assumed that he was transgender.
"Well, you make a very beautiful woman." Hikaru had heard that his brothers were falling for their sister, he could certainly see why.
After Hikaru left, Ema thought better of returning to her studies. She could barely keep her eyes open, so it wasn't like she would actually remember anything she went over. Instead falling into her bed, she wrapped herself up in her blankets. The clock read quarter to 4, and she had to get up at 7:00. Groaning Ema burying her head into her pillow, and rolled onto her back to wait for sleep to take her.
Ema was greeted the following morning by an incessant beeping, and her head pounding along with the unwelcome alarm. Rolling out of bed, she took an extra moment to let the dizzying feeling subside. It was going to be a long day, she just knew it.
'I hope that I got enough done last night. I really can't fail this test.' Ema went to the kitchen, ate her breakfast, grabbed a coffee and Yuusuke, and then left the house in a hurry. Their test was during their second period of the day, which did not leave much time to go over her notes.
First period flew by, leaving Ema only somewhat prepared. It was long and strenuous, but she managed to answer every question. Then, before she knew it, second period was over and she was handing in her test. 'Well that didn't go so bad.' But now Ema was tired and her early morning headache was coming back to remind her of the lack of sleep that she had gotten.
It was during third period that Ema passed out. Yuusuke watched from behind her, as her head dropped to her desk with a thud. "Asahina-kun? Could you please bring Hinata-kun to the nurse's office?" Why him. 'Couldn't you have asked someone else Sensei?' Well actually it made sense. They are siblings after all. But he would have much appreciated not embarrassing himself in front of his class.
Yuusuke rose from his seat and knelt next to Ema. He shook her slightly to wake her, but it was of no use. Yuusuke pulled her head off her desk and placed in on his shoulder, then snuck his arm underneath her knees, lifting her from her chair.
He could feel his blush spreading down past his shoulders when Ema nuzzled her head against his neck. Someone at the back of the room left lose a wolf whistle, probably his best friend Ryousuke, seeing as he was the only one who knew about his feelings for Ema.
Having made it to the nurse's office, Yuusuke placed Ema in one of the beds and dialed Masaomi's number.
"Yuusuke I'm a little busy, what do you need?"
"Ema passed out in class. She sleeping in the nurse's office but I think she needs to go home."
"Okay, let me see if someone has time to come to the school. If not I'll be there soon." Then the line went dead. 'What am I supposed to do? Do I go back to class, or wait till someone gets here.' Why was he even asking himself this? Obviously he would chose Ema over school. Pulling up a chair right next to the bed, Yuusuke placed his hand over top over Ema's and gave it a slight squeeze.
It was another 20 minutes before Ukyo showed up, still dressed in his suit from court. "What happen?"
"She passed out in the middle of class."
"Is this how she watches her health?" Ukyo lifts Ema off of the bed, to bring her to his car. "Go back to class Yuusuke."
Nodding Yuusuke left the room, leaving Ukyo to take Ema home.
Ema opened her eyes to find herself in the living room. How did she get here? She could hear someone in the kitchen and followed the sound to see Ukyo on the phone. He hung up and turned, finding Ema standing in the entrance way.
"How are you feeling?" Ema sat herself at the large table sniffing at the air.
"My heads pounding." Ukyo placed a bottle of pills in front of Ema, along with a bowl of soup. 'No wonder it smell so good in here.'
"When did you go to sleep last night?" Ukyo asked sitting next to Ema.
"Around 4." She said before starting her soup.
"When you finish eating, get some sleep. Once you've gotten some rest you can help me with dinner."
Ema finished her food and went to her room to get some sleep. For the most part she was feeling okay, aside for her diminishing headache. She laid down in her bed, and welcomed the darkness.