"Blood is Thicker than Water"

Chapter 4: I Want to Know More About You

Everything was so white. You looked around the room you were placed in, your view being obstructed by the whitewashed bars surrounding you. You do your best to stand however you lose your balance very quickly and stumble into a sitting position.

You were lonely, you began to panic and felt tears beginning to build up your wide blue eyes. You hear a faint creaking sound behind you. You turn you small body around now lying on your stomach looking at the large door slowly opening. You grabbed your pink blanket and hide under it, frightened of the sudden visitor. You hear tapping against the base of your crib. You poke your head out of the soft blanket and saw two wide blue eyes, just like yours looking at you. It was another girl.

When she saw you she smiled widely at you, she had long dark hair and strangely large eyebrows for her age. The little girl grabbed on the bars and scaled to the summit of your crib. You crawled away from the sudden invader blanket in hand. You watch her ungracefully plunder onto the mattress. She didn't appear to be in pain as she still had that mesmerized smile when she looked at you.

Confused at what was happening you began to bawl holding your blanket close to your cheek. The girl in front of you waved her hands trying to calm you down.

"Please…please don't cry I didn't mean to scare you sorry, sorry please!" she pleaded. You looked up and noticed that her smile was missing and instead was a concerned gloom on her face. "My name is Satsuki, you can call me Nee-chan!" she introduced in a calming smile. Your crying was halted as you tried to speak but you could only muster a couple of whimpers. "I don't think Mother or Father gave you a name yet, I think I'll call you,"

"Ryuko,"

The younger sister woke up with a start eyes adjusting to the darkness that surrounds her. The winter morning provoked a black sky continuing the pattern established by the evening of the previous day. Ryuko felt her older sister's arm rubbing the back of her skull. She looked up and found Satsuki fully dressed kneeling on the mattress next to her.

"Ryuko are you awake?" she asked still rubbing the back of Ryuko's temple.

"I am now, what's wrong?" Ryuko responded drowsily.

"I felt bad leaving you yesterday without saying a word, so I wished to not repeat that mistake," she bluntly answered, it was there when Ryuko fully awoke as she sits up maintain the same level of eye contact as her sister. "My classes finish early today so maybe we could do something this afternoon how about it?" she inquired.

Ryuko is as thrilled as Mako was when she saw their school's cafeteria for the first time. "Holy shit, a date with Satsuki, no wait idiot, it isn't a date it's a sister day out, stop trying to make things confusing," she conflicted internally. "Yeah, I'd be up for that," Ryuko enthusiastically answered.

"Wonderful I'll be back home at around two o'clock so we can decide then okay?"

"Okay,"

"See you then, imouto," Satsuki she saluted before planting a supple kiss on Ryuko's forehead. When Satsuki closed the door behind her Ryuko tossed the covers over her head, figuratively dead from embarrassment, kicking her feet up the air and shouting into a pillow.

As the redness in her cheeks begin to fade Ryuko laid the bed sheet down on top of her chest to regain some oxygen. She looked out to her window that had a view of the local pier with the sun beginning its ascension over the horizon. Ryuko laid there pondering a little longer. "The fuck was that dream?" she wondered listening to the sounds of the seagulls flying over the ocean. Ryuko turned away from the light and closed her eyes to search for the answer.

Ryuko was awoken by the sound of her ringtone going off on her bedside table. She held it up viewing a 'selfie' she and Satsuki took one night and answers it. "Hello?"

"Hey Ryuko I'm just on my way home now, do you have any ideas on where to go today?" her sister asked on the other end of the call.

Ryuko paused then turned to a clock in the shape of a "G Clef", she observed the time discovering that it was half past one. "I fell asleep for almost 7 hours, what the fuck?" she thought.

"Ryuko are you still there?" a concerned voice asked on the phone.

"Um…yeah…yeah still here Sats, I was just thinking of places, do you have ideas? You know this town better than I do," Ryuko answered as smooth as she could while trying to get herself dressed. Ryuko put her mobile on loudspeaker as she changed her underwear.

"Well I suppose we could go to the shopping district, maybe you could buy some souvenirs for Mako?" she proposed.

"Oh yeah that's perfect see you in a half an AHHH!" Ryuko yelped falling over losing her balance while trying to put on her jeans.

"Ryuko….Ryuko! What's wrong are you hurt?" Satsuki cried through the loudspeaker.

The only thing that was harmed was Ryuko's pride as she crawled over to the phone. "I'm fine Sats, I just slipped, it's nothing," she assured with the waist of her jeans wrapped around her knees.

"Oh thank heavens, well I'll meet you at the apartment in half an hour, try not to kill yourself when I arrive, okay?" she replied after breathing a sigh of relief.

"I'll do my best Sats, see you in a while,"

"Farewell,"

Ryuko closed her phone and flopped on the floor and started laughing hysterically. "I wonder if Jakuzure ever got Satsuki to sleep in here?" she wickedly wondered.

As planned the girls spent the remainder of the afternoon in the shopping district. It was such a relaxing transition from what they dealt with the day before. Ryuko wore her Sukajan jacket over her blank tank top, along with her red scarf, a pair of jeans with upgraded sneakers she got from Sukuyo. Satsuki was wearing the hat Mako and Ryuko bought her on their date, along with a sky blue trench coat with dark knee high boots complimenting the dark tights she wore under.

Ryuko knowing her best friend more than anyone purchased her nothing but food and sweets for her coconut headed companion. She also found a cute backpack for school, Mako's current one was in tatters and for some strange reason sent a chill up Ryuko's spine whenever she saw it. She also purchased a box of her favourite cereal hoping for an actual breakfast the following morning.

Satsuki wasn't in that much of a shopping mood, all she desired was to spend some bonding time with her little sister that wouldn't end in tears. This was the first time that Ryuko and Satsuki spent time alone together socialising in this manner. If the two were involved in a get-together they would always have had company with them such as Mako or the Elites. Satsuki couldn't have asked for a more satisfactory day.

The two took the weight off their feet when they decided to stop by at a local café. As expected, Satsuki ordered her lemon tea as the younger sibling ordered a piping hot chocolate to combat the cold weather. The pair conversed sharing humorous stories from their lives and revealing some juicy gossip.

"No…fucking….way," Ryuko drawled wide eyed.

"Oh come on imouto, it's quite obvious," the older woman replied.

"What do ya mean obvious!?"

"Well have you seen the way he acts around her, it's quite amusing seeing him blush and stumble his words when talking to her,"

"You pay way too much attention to stuff like that Sats, how come I've never noticed it,"

"Because when you are ever in the same room as them you always end up passed out from drinking too much and not remembering anything the morning after,"

"…You do have a point, but still I don't think she's his type ya know, let's put a wager, if nothing happens you use your REVOCS money to buy me a new motorcycle,"

"What do I get if they do end up together?"

"Name your price," her sister cockily replied stretching her arms behind her head. Satsuki placed a finger on her chin and after nearly a minute a devilish grin spawned on her face.

"If they do get together, you have to be my slave for twenty-four hours," she proposed. Like a thermometer's reaction to the sun, Ryuko's entire face was crimson from such a suggestive wager and slammed her face on the wooden table and shot straight back up facing Satsuki with a small bruise on her forehead. "…Are….are you alright imouto?" her sister asked, dumbfounded at what transpired.

"Ehh…life fibers…I'm good," Ryuko winced "So do we have a deal?" Ryuko asked holding out her had across the table she just headbutted.

"Deal," Satsuki agreed, completing the contract by shaking Ryuko's hand. "It'd be nice having someone else do my errands for me," she added withdrawing her hand from the shake, taking her last sip from her tea

"Oh…yeah that would…suck for me," Ryuko laughed fraudulently gulping down her hot chocolate giving herself a heartburn.

"Imouto, what was Father like?" Satsuki asked in a more serious tone.

"Dad?…well as much as I'd like to tell you, I don't have that many memories of him. When I was really young he would play with me and shit but after that he'd just send me to the cheapest boarding school he could afford, when I'd come home for the summer he'd make do chores so in fairness we didn't have that much of a relationship," Ryuko explained.

"You said he used to play with you when you were very young?" Satsuki reminded.

"Yeah what about it?"

"Did he ever play treasure hunt with you?" Satsuki asked eyes lighting up like a child on Christmas morning.

"…Yeah we kinda did, he drew out a little map and you go to where the "x" was and you find the sweets," Ryuko remembered.

"Yes, yes that's the one, I loved it when we played that," Satsuki reminisces clapping her hands together.

"If you keep putting up this "cute" act you're gonna give me a heart attack you know that?" she yelled internally. "You do know he made that game up just so we won't bother him when he was working right?" Ryuko revealed.

Satsuki's smile cascaded to a disappointed 'o' shape then frowned looking at her empty teacup. "I see, that makes sense" she sighed melancholically twirling her finger around the rim of the cup.

"Good fucking job Ryuko, you're after ruining our day, think! There must be something that hunchbacked pirate did for you besides making you an exhibitionist," Ryuko plotted. "This one time," she began waiting for Satsuki to raise her head. "It was my first Christmas home from boarding school, the kids thought I looked dumb because of this thing," she narrated twirling her life fiber highlight on her hair. "Anyways it was Christmas Eve and I heard someone downstairs, I thought someone broke into our house so I grabbed my kendo stick and nailed the intruder downstairs." She continued.

Ryuko looked up seeing her sister's smile beginning to widen again. "God she's so pretty," she daydreamed, melting to the smile Satsuki was making,

"Well what happened next?" Satsuki implored excitedly.

"Oh right umm… I hit the guy with a kendo stick and turned on the lights and it was this guy wearing a big red coat and hat, and I thought it was Santa"

"You struck Santa Claus with a kendo stick?" Satsuki giggled.

"That's what I thought anyway 'Santa' got up and had an eyepatch for some reason and was all like 'I should be giving you coal for Christmas for that you Naughty girl!' I was shitting myself 'cos I thought I wasn't getting presents that year, so then 'Santa' said 'However since you've been such a good girl all year and dealing with all those nasty bullies I'm willing to give you a pass'" she further narrated with the her best Santa Claus impression, that made Satsuki let out a quiet giggle.

"That was nice of him," Satsuki responded, playfully investing herself into Ryuko's tale.

"We weren't the richest family so all he gave me was this," she concluded removing her scarf and handing it to Satsuki.

"Santa… I mean father gave you this scarf," she deduced holding the scarf and feeling its soft fabric.

"Yeah…and now I'm giving it to you nee-san," Ryuko pronounced. Satsuki paused and looked straight into her sister's ocean blue eyes with her mouth agape. She looked at the scarf in further detail discovering a beautifully knitted inscription of "Ryuko" near the bottom of the crimson scarf.

"…No…please I couldn't, it's your only memento he left-"

"Please, consider it as an early Christmas present," Ryuko interrupted "I have plenty of things to remember him by, you're the one who needs a memento from him, you see 'Santa' said that 'If I ever felt scared, alone or cold just cover your mouth with it and make any wish you want, and it will come true,' slowly but surely it did," Ryuko explained.

"What did you wish for imouto?" the elder sister asked gripping on her newly acquired gift.

"I wished for friends, to be happy and to be with my family," the younger sister recited. Satsuki gazed at the 'wish granting' scarf and wrapped it around herself.

"I will cherish this for eternity Ryuko, arigato," Satsuki thanked. She pulled up the scarf to the bridge of her nose and made her own wish.

"Oi what are ya wishing for?" Ryuko interrogated playfully.

"Wishes are supposed to be kept secret imouto, or else they won't come true" Satsuki replied engulfing herself in the warmth of her new scarf.

"Fair enough let's head home then," Ryuko suggested picking up her shopping bags. Satsuki complied and followed her little sister to the exit of the café. On their way back to Satsuki's apartment their journey was halted when they were at the traffic lights. Satsuki looked to her left to view the sun setting over in the distance. While watching the sunset something interesting caught her icy sapphire eyes.

She nudged Ryuko's shoulder requesting her attention, "Ryuko may we walk along the park, I hear it's lovely this time of year," she suggested. Ryuko blinked and looked at the direction of the park's entrance.

"Sure why not, we're in no rush," she agreed, as the two began walking to the entrance of the park. As they trot, darkness fell and the lights flickered illuminating their path. There was no one there only Ryuko and Satsuki together.

"Oh look over there Ryuko," Satsuki signaled pointing at a lone cherry blossom hanging over a stream depositing its petals on the water to be slowly drifted away one, by one. "It's very pretty would you agree imouto?"

"Not as pretty as you," was what she wanted to say so desperately, instead she only hummed in agreement. One other thing she wanted to do, was to reach to Satsuki's hand, hold on to it and to never let go.

Ryuko took one long gulp and went for it as Satsuki was distracted by the elegant tree, she wrapped her hand around the covered hand of her sister. Satsuki turned around looked down the source of the sudden physical contact. The younger sister panicked and withdrew her hand quickly.

"I'm so…so sorry Sats I should've asked you fir-"

Ryuko was interrupted by a woolen mitten clutching her sweaty palm. "Your hands are freezing Ryuko would you like my spare pair?" Satsuki asked with a gentle grin.

"S…sure I'll wear 'em," Ryuko replied stumbling her words. Satsuki pulled out a pair of red-knitted gloves from her white and tan handbag. Ryuko put them on and rubbed her hands together. The two resumed their walk home, holding each other's hands.

Satsuki stepped out of the bathroom first wearing her fluffy robe and drying her hair. Ryuko was waiting at the door for her turn to use it after her sister. "Hey…um do ya need me to stay with you tonight?" she asked rubbing her upper arm vertically.

"Do you?" Satsuki replied.

"I asked you first,"

"I'm fine Ryuko, now do you need nee-chan to keep you company tonight?" she toyed with a mocking voice.

"Agh…no I don't, I'd rather have the Student Council President version of you that was trying to kill me, stay with me tonight," she argued stepping into the restroom. "Night Satsuki," she muttered.

"Good night Ryuko," Satsuki reciprocated as she made her way into her bedroom giggling to herself.

Ryuko stripped off her clothes and entered the shower. She turned the dial and quickly leapt from the icy cold water escaping the shower and quickly changed the temperature by turning the metallic dial next to the initial dial. Ryuko's muscle memory made her inspect her surroundings for probable peeping Tom's after her excessive run-ins with Barazo and Mataro.

The delinquent grabbed a bottle of ivory lavender body soap and proceeded to wash over her body. Intoxicated by the alluring scent which was strangely familiar, Ryuko closed her eyes and felt her body in a more sensual fashion then she normally would. She brought the suds up to her shapely breasts and teased herself, squeezing its soft ripe flesh and rubbing her nipples in slow circular motions.

Keeping her left hand occupied with her breast, her right hand almost acting on a mind of its own trailed down between her legs. Ryuko took four of her fingers and began rubbing her swollen folds. Eventually her middle finger brushed her clit causing her to tremble, the hand that was once occupied with her breast was now pressed against the tiles on the wall. Having her eyes closed this time Ryuko didn't notice the familiar pale hand on her hand against the wall.

"Enjoying yourself, imouto?"

Ryuko gasped, swings her neck around only for her lips to be collided by the silky lips she has desired for what felt like an eternity. Ryuko pulled out to find that her own older sister was hunched over her wet naked frame completely exposed. "S…Satsuki what are you-"

Ryuko was cut off from another assault in her mouth. After a much longer smooch, it was Satsuki who pulled away leaving a trail of saliva bridging between the lower lips of the sisters. "Ryuko I know you love me, and I feel the same for you," she confessed

Ryuko was nearly hyperventilating at the sudden confession of her sister. "Really! You really love me?" she begged hoping Satsuki repeats her answer.

"Yes, Ryuko I know it's wrong however, I'm sure we can be an exception, I'm sorry for toying with your emotions for so long, I was just scared, I didn't want to lose you," she explained rubbing her hand on Ryuko's cheek. "Now let your nee-chan demonstrate how it feels to truly be loved," she stated plunging both of her fingers up Ryuko's entrance and rotated them moving Ryuko's insides around all directions.

"S-Satsuki!" she cried as tears began to flow that are immediately washed away by the drops from the shower. Satsuki used her free hand to dry the tears of her sister and planted a soft kiss on her lips letting the warm water wash down between them.

"Please don't weep my love, turn around for me, I want to see your luscious breasts," she requested. Ryuko complied with her older sister and turned around exposing her front for the first time to Satsuki. She took her free hand and interlocked her fingers with Ryuko's and held it against the wall behind her sister. Satsuki lunged for her left tit and gently licked her sensitive nipple. Ryuko let out another yelp but was silenced by the left hand of Satsuki squeezing her right hand.

Satsuki continued pleasuring her younger sister rubbing her clit with her free thumb making Ryuko squeeze her toned thighs together almost crushing Satsuki's hand. Satsuki was now suckling the neck of Ryuko, who at this point was trying not to pass out, breathing heavily throughout the pleasure her sister was giving her. Ryuko felt something building up in her lower body like a volcano was about to erupt between her legs. This sensation was familiar, it was what she felt before Ragyo and Nui…

Ryuko gasped remembering the aftermath of what happened then. "Sats…stop! I'm gonna-"

"Don't worry imouto, I am not them," she said moving her mouth from Ryuko's collarbone. Quickening her pace with her right hand and cupped her little sister's face with the left. "Let it all out Ryuko, nothing bad will happen I promise," Satsuki assured, planting one final kiss to Ryuko. As worried as she was Ryuko trusted Satsuki and breaking the kiss she screamed as she came on her sister's fingers.

Ryuko's knees trembled and she descended to the floor of the shower, exhausted. Above her Satsuki turned off the shower and knelt down next to her, pecking her forehead. "I love you, Ryuko," she whispered leaning down for another kiss on the lips. Ryuko waited for her tongue to enter mouth once more, only to find that no one was there.

"S…Satsuki?" Ryuko called to thin air, she disappeared. Ryuko was sitting alone in the floor of the shower with her own juices on the tips of her fingers. Without saying a word Ryuko got up, dried herself off and went to bed.

"Today was going so fucking well," she reflected feeling tears in her eyes beginning to fall with no shower water to disguise it. She did need her nee-chan to keep her company that night, instead she fell asleep crying alone, clouded by the forbidden desires that possessed her.

A.N Ha got ya there didn't I? But seriously thank you for making it this far, I hope all of you have a healthy and safe new year Love you lots

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