It has been a week since Sora moved in with Misaki and Usagi and she's having a lot of fun; Sora would occasionally meet her band to practice and she would invite Misaki to listen and watch. Misaki thought that Sora's band was awesome; but the trouble with Usagi's older brother, Haruhiko Usami, still continues; Usagi-ani is sending Misaki strawberries almost every day; Misaki explains the whole thing and Sora understands, but she becomes interested in this Usagi-ani guy and wounder what he's like.
Sora thought that Usagi is buying them, but she thinks about why he buys them every day.
It was Friday and Sora didn't have work; the week she got her paycheck, she bought herself a tea party outfit.
It had a black top that was strapless and exposed her mid drift and exposed a little of her cleavage and she wore a long sleeve golden jacket that was as short as the top. It came with a black velvet skirt that went a little past her mid-thigh and was wearing a big black bow tie around her neck and wore a small top hat that was gold and black with a gold ribbon around it and had black boots that went to her knees.
School was over with and Sora and Misaki was walking towards the gate; when they were about two inches from the gate, Misaki froze and his face was in a shock state. Sora looked at Misaki with a confused face and looked towards the gate; there was a dark blue car in front and a tall man with glasses, short brown hair and was wearing a suit. He had an intense gaze as he looked at Misaki, he took a glance at her for a second and looked back at Misaki.
"It's nice to see you again Misaki" the man said in a deep voice.
"U-Usagi-ani, what are you doing here?" Misaki asked nervously.
"Usagi-ani, do you mean that this man is Usagi-san's older brother?" Sora asks.
"My name is Haruhiko Usami, and who are you?" Haruhiko asks.
"My name is Sorata Suzuki, but you can call me Sora instead" Sora said with a smile.
"U-Usagi-ani, I was wondering if you could stop sending the strawberries, you don't need to go through the trouble of sending them every day" Misaki said.
"Did I do something to displease you?" Haruhiko asked with a straight face.
"N-no, I appreciate that you're sending me them, but you don't need to send them every day" Misaki said nervously.
"Then I see no need to not send them" Haruhiko said and looked at Misaki.
"Haruhiko, can I talk to you alone?" Sora asks with a serious face.
"S-Sorata, you don't need to do that" Misaki said.
"It's ok Misaki, I can deal with this" Sora said with a small smile.
Misaki looks at Sora and back at Haruhiko, wondering if he'll answer.
"Ok, but we can't talk here, it'll attract too much attention" Haruhiko said and starts to walk off towards his car.
"Sorata" Misaki said in a worried tone.
"It's ok Misaki, I promise I'll be home soon, there's no need to worry, so you can go home" Sora said with a smile.
Misaki looked at Sora with a worried look in his eyes and then he nods, he starts to walk off and turns back to wave at Sora, she waves back and watches him walk off back to the apartment.
"Are you coming?" Haruhiko asks as he opens the passenger's side of the door for Sora.
Sora turns her head towards him and nods, walking towards the car and get in. Haruhiko gets in the car as well and drives off towards his home; after a few minutes of driving, he drives past a gate and parks near the large home.
"Whoa, this place it huge, it's so pretty" Sora says and walks to the nearest rose bush and smells them, they smell nice.
"You can come in if you want" Haruhiko says and motions her to walk with him.
When he opens the door, a man with slick black hair greets him and some maids follow in behind him.
"Welcome home Haruhiko-sama" says the man.
The man walks towards Sora and greets himself.
"Hello, my name is Tanaka, I'm the butler of this lovely home, and may I ask what your name is?" Tanaka asks with a smile.
"My name is Sorata Suzuki, but you can call me Sora" Sora says with a smile.
"Sora, I have some work to do, so you can have some tea in the living room and wait for me there" Haruhiko said and began to walk off.
Tanaka leads Sora to the living room and she haves a seat in the chair and Tanaka pours her some tea; Sora laughs a little and it catches Tanaka's attention.
"What's so funny?" Tanaka asked with a smile.
"I'm having tea and I'm wearing a tea party outfit, weird, I just wanted to wear this for fun, and now I'm having tea" Sora says and chuckles a little.
Tanaka smile and set the tea down.
"Haruhiko-sama might take a while with his work, it's rare to see him bring someone home, and the last visitor was Misaki-kun, I wonder how he's doing?" Tanaka asked himself.
"Misaki is doing great and so is Akihiko; I've been living with them for a while and it's so fun" Sora said with a big smile.
"That's great to hear; might I ask why you're living with them?" Tanaka asks.
"I used to live in an apartment with my band, but then there were some toxic fumes in there and we had to move, there are only three of us and two of them are living with a brother, I live with Misaki and Akihiko, I kind of like it there" Sora says and takes a sip of her tea.
She hums in her mouth when she tastes some of the tea, it was really good, and it was different from the tea at home.
"That's nice" Tanaka said.
Haruhiko walks in the door and sees Tanaka standing next to Sora; he walks over to the chair on the opposite side of Sora and Tanaka pours him some tea as well; Haruhiko send Tanaka out so he could speak with Sora alone. She sips some of her tea and he just stares at her.
"Are you going to make this more awkward than it is now or should I?" Sora says and laughs a little.
"You said that you need to speak with me?" Haruhiko asks and sips some of his tea.
"Yes, I was wondering what your relationship is with Misaki?" Sora asks and sets her cup down.
"We meet at a party of Akihiko's and we bumped into each other at the train station on the way to the hotel that was hosting the party; if you already heard it from Misaki, I want to let you know that I love him" Haruhiko says.
"No you don't" Sora says with a straight, serious face.
"What are you talking about, I do love him and I'm going to take him away from Akihiko" Haruhiko says in a serious way.
"Your love for Misaki isn't real, you only want him for yourself because he's with Usagi-san, I heard from Misaki that you would take some of Usagi-san's thing from him when both of you were children. You wanted his stuff because you thought that you would be happy because you would see Usagi-san happy; you wish to seek happiness, not possess everything that Usagi-san has" Sora said, looking into Haruhiko's eyes as they widen a little.
"How do you know any of that?" Haruhiko asks in a bit of a shock state.
"I have some kind of ability that lets me see a person's true form, and I can see yours" Sora said and gives a sad smile.
Haruhiko looks at her like she was crazy, but after hearing that entire story he stands up.
"I think that you should give up on Misaki, taking him away probably won't make you happy anyways" Sora says and stands up as well.
"How would you know?" Haruhiko asked in a somewhat cold manner.
"Because true happiness comes from what you love to do and when you accomplish that, you can be happy; like Usagi-san, he loves to write and now he's an author; to me, he seems happy, that's why you should find something you like. I also heard from Misaki that you designed an aquarium just downtown, I've seen it and it was really beautiful, he said you wanted to be an architecture, so why did you give it up?" Sora asks with a small sad face.
"Because my father didn't approve of it, and since I'm the eldest, it's my responsibility to take over the Usami clan." Haruhiko answered.
"But are you happy?" Sora asks.
Haruhiko stares at her with his eyes widened a little, not knowing if he should answer that or not, but Sora could see the answer already.
"If you wish to obtain happiness, you should tell your father how you really feel about what you really want to do; if your father wishes for his sons to be happy, he should accept what people really are, not hiding themselves to make others happy. We have to make ourselves happy first before we can spread it to others" Sora said with a warm smile.
Sora walked over to Haruhiko and stands in front of him, she looks up at him and places her right hand over his heart.
"You heart has to accept this for you to be happy, Isamu" Sora said with a smile.
"Why did you call me Isamu? Is it because you're switching the first and last letter of the name?" Haruhiko said, not amused by what she said.
Sora smiled and laughed a little.
"No silly, Isamu means courageous and that's what you have, but you're a little scared to show it; sooner or later, we all have to take that one scary step to be happy" Sora said smiling warmly.
Haruhiko stared at her with his eyes a little wide again; Sora removes her hand and walks towards the door to leave; she turns around to say one last thing before she goes.
"I hope that you find happiness and that we can get to know each other better by words and communication, Isamu" Sora said and walked out the door, leaving Haruhiko there, stunned by all that she said.
Sora soon arrives back to the apartment and walks in on Misaki with his shirt off, on the couch and Usagi lying on top of him.
"I'm home" Sora said with a smile.
Misaki pushes Usagi off with a blush on his face and puts his shirt back on, running towards Sora to see what she said to Haruhiko.
"What happened Sorata?" Misaki asked.
"It's ok, everything should be fine now" Sora said and walked into the kitchen to make some tea.
"Where have you been, I thought you were walking home with Misaki?" Usagi asked and walked beside of Misaki.
"I was, but then we ran into Haruhiko outside of school" Sora answers and pulls down a cup from the cupboard.
Usagi scowled when Sora mentioned his brother's name.
"What was he doing at your school?" Usagi asked in a scary tone.
"He wanted to see Misaki and then I met him, but before anything could get any further I stepped in, I wanted to talk with Haruhiko alone and I sent Misaki home; we went to his house to talked for a while. What I said to him might have stunned him a bit and I don't know if he'll leave Misaki alone or not, we'll have to see later in the future" Sora said and poured herself some tea.
"That would be wonderful if he would leave my Misaki alone, what did you say to him anyways?" Usagi asked.
Sora turned around and had a smile on her face; she put her index finger to her lips and winked at them, telling them she won't spill. Usagi just looked at her with an annoyed face and Misaki was just staring at her with a shocked face; Sora walks into the living room and sits on the couch, taking out a book and reading it. She smiled the whole time she was reading until it was time for bed.
I hope that Isamu finds what he's looking for to make him truly happy. Sora thought as she went upstairs.
