Author's note:
Chapter 8 yippee! I can't believe I've actually made it this far and you all are enjoying it so much! Thank you! I really want to thank all my reviewers, followers, and favoritors! This has been so awesome!
I have an important announcement to make at the end of this chapter.
ENJOY! ^_^
Tension. That's all I felt this morning. Was tension. It has been 6 days almost a week since the incident and I've managed to avoid both my brothers up till this time. Mom and dad are planning something, I'm not sure what though, they said it was a surprise... I hate surprises, I think I've had enough surprises from this trip.
We were all at the dining table, and awkward silence filling the room. Mom and dad were staring at all three of us, and sadly, I was in the middle of Hikaru and Kaoru.. UGH.
"We've noticed you guys aren't getting along anymore." Dad finally spoke up, though I could slightly hear the glee in his voice. Honestly, I would've never known that it was THAT obvious we didn't get along and if our parents noticed it, then you know it must've been REALLY obvious. Hikaru and Kaoru both glanced at me, but I didn't dare glance back.
Mom joined in, "And it seems the maids have informed me that Emiko, you've been eating your dinner in your room." Misaki.. She's such a snitch.. I bet she did it on purpose.. hmph.
"And?" My brothers asked at the same time, their voices monotone.
"This is unacceptable!" Mom exclaimed, looking like she was tearing up, she continued, "Emiko came all the way to Japan just to see you guys t-"
"Correction: Emiko was forced to come all the way to Japan." I corrected in a matter-of-factly tone. Mom slightly glared at me, before clearing her throat and continuing, "-Anyways, I was speaking to my friend, and she thought the best way to make you three get along is to spend bonding time with eachother!"
Oh dear no. NO. NO. NOOOO. I don't want ANY 'bonding' time with my brothers, especially with Kaoru, he would probably turn that 'bonding' into 'bondage'. And I've learned too many things from Stacy to know what that means. UGH.
"So! Your father and I have made reservations for you to go Sakai!" She gleefully exclaimed. NOOOOOOOOOOOO! I don't want to go anywhere, especially with these two!
"You guys will be spending there for two days, we rented the best hotel and room there and it has multiple bedrooms." My dad explained, come on dad! We need to rebel against this it CANNOT be happening!
"Any you guys are leaving tomorrow!" My mom finished, clapping her hands and I could feel myself go white as if I saw a ghost. This cannot be happening, I have to figure out something! When my parents both leave after the exclamation, my brothers once again glance at me to see if I was going to say anything. Well guess what? I WASN'T.
I grumbled, stubbornly getting up from my seat and leaving the room, leaving Hikaru and Kaoru and the dining room by themselves. I didn't have much of a care, I needed to get out of this situation.. And FAST!
I had texted in my group msg all the things that happened so far today. Well, nothing really happened except the 'family meeting', which was so pleasant. Then again, what family meeting is pleasant?
I sat on my bed, waiting for a response from my friends. It was about a 5-10 minutes before I got a response from two of them.
To: Stacecles, Emitterfly, Camster, Meggy-peggy.
Stacecles: That sounds horrible!... I'll totally write this in my fanfic!
Meggy-peggy: Hm.. That is totally uncool of your mom... BUT! This could be a major escape plan for you!
Stacecles: Yea! It could be! I've read it in some book before!
Me: I need all the ideas I can get, so I'm listening.
Meggy-peggy: Stace, you wanna explain, or me?
Stacecles: You can explain.
Me: WILL SOMEONE EXPLAIN?! Plzzzz! Operation: #TheEmiEscape
Meggy-peggy: Think about it, you could pack all your stuff, clothes, passport, bathroom entities, ect. all in your suitcase. Make sure to pack money though, because you'll need to buy a plane ticket.
Me: I like where this is going, continue :3
Meggy-peggy: Once you got all of that packed and you arrive at your hotel, make an excuse to leave, then go to the airport, book a flight and say hello to home sweet home!
Stacecles: O.O All hail the ol' wise Meg!
Me: That's a brilliant plan! Why didn't I think of that!
Camster: THAT'S A HORRIBLE IDEA!
I gasp in exasperation as Cami finally texted in the group messaging.
Camster: Em, your parents will be so disappointed in you, not to mention Koreen will be raging mad. Your brothers will be heartbroken that you ditched them! You can't do this! Your whole family was excited for you to come here!
Me: You know what, who caused the incident so I had to stay away from my parents and stay with Koreen? My brothers. Who's always causing drama for me everyday to come? My brothers. Who made me want to leave Japan? My brothers! They are causing me grief Cami! I don't know how much more drama I can take from then, I need to leave!
Meggy-peggy: Yea Cami! Come on, our poor babe just needs to get away from these people! Therefore it is our duty to help her.
Camster: Fine.. I'll help...
Me: Yay!
Stacecles: Whoop!
Meggy-peggy: :D
Camster: -_- But don't expect me to do much! I'm still slightly against this idea!
I smiled brightly at the text, I'm finally going home without a doubt. All I need to do is 'Play nice' with my brothers and then.. SAYOONARA SUCKERS! I cheerfully run up to get my suitcase. Packing all my clothes, I find my passport, and my money and start packing it up too.
The next morning, I heard Misaki knock on my door.
"Hitachiin-Imouto!" She called, waking me up from my sleep. I then realized, today is the day.. I go home. Smiling, I quickly got up and put on some long dark blue skinny jeans and a soft pink blouse, that I had prepared last night. I then open the door, to see Misaki smiling at me and saying, "Oh! You're up and dressed! Wonderful!"
I nodded my head and asked, "Is the limo ready?"
"Yes it is, if you could follow me please." She kindly asked and I nodded in response, following her as she lead me outside to the driveway, where I could see Hikaru and Kaoru also getting in. Well E, I guess this is it, it's now or never, I told myself, sighing and getting in. Misaki shuts the door behind me as I climb onto my seat, making sure I was making sure that I was sitting with my legs closed because of well.. him.
The car starts to pull off, and I sigh in slight relaxation, I can finally go home! I repeat in my head over and over again, making me smile. This is honestly going to be the best day of my life. I shifted my eye sight to my brothers who weren't paying attention to me at the moment. Kaoru seemed to be in deep though and Hikaru looked bored, typical them.
While driving to Sakai, I noticed Hikaru seemed like he wanted to say something, due to the fact that he kept glancing at me and opening his mouth, but then kept closing it... which was getting on my nerves.
"So... Sakai.. I heard it was pretty there.." I say, I don't know why. Both Hikaru and Kaoru shrugged in sync, but didn't really say anything. I was trying to be nice okay? This was typically hard for me to do, due to the fact because of THE incident and I don't even know if I can look either of them in the eyes.. it's way too difficult..
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Once we arrived at Sakai, we entered a hotel called the Lunar Star. What an interesting name, though it was a very pretty place. Everything looked so high class at the floors were made out of marble and the walls looked like they were made out of the Jade stone.
"Sugoi!" I exclaimed, clapping my hands together. I saw our driver pull our suitcases out and a hotel clerk who took out suitcases up to our room. When we followed the clerk, he opened the doors to our room, which was SO BIG. The walls and floors were made out of marble it was very bright.. but it almost looked a little too romantic for my taste as there were Sakura trees and petals around the main room.
Once the hotel clerk put all our bags in our room, he left, shutting the door behind himself. Hikaru and Kaoru both entered, but I went into my room (That I called dibs on ;D) and put my bag next to me, not daring to unpack it.
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It was now around dinner time and my stomach was starving.
I can get something quick at the airport, I reminded myself. Bringing my suitcase close to me as I peaked out of my bedroom door to see my brothers putting on a sweater.
"Emi-chan!" They both called, making jump back in surprise. I calmed myself down for about two seconds before opening the door, hiding my packed suitcase.
"We're going out to dinner, wanna come?" They asked, staring at me with blank expressions. I shook my head but felt a pang of sadness, as I knew that they were probably trying their best to get along with me. But I have to be strong! They both nodded their heads and went out on their own. I gave a small smile as I heard them close the main door.
I quickly got my suitcase, pulling out a sweater, as it was time to get out of here! Pulling my suitcase, I exited the hotel room, and went to an elevator. Once I pressed the 1 - Main Lobby button, the elevator brought me down to the lobby where I continued to pull my suitcase to a help desk.
"Excuse me, where can I get a taxi to the airport?" I ask the female, who then went to her computer typing a few things before she looked back up at me.
"I will call a taxi for you, excuse me." She excuses herself and I nod as she picks up a phone and starts dialing a number, the number to get a taxi... I guess.
She then put the phone back down and looked up at me once again, informing, "Your taxi will be here shortly madam."
I nod and thank the woman for her kindness, rushing outside to the taxi, which was more of a limousine, the driver got out of the car, opening it for me.
"Where are you going today, mam'?" The driver asked as he took my suitcase and put it in the trunk.
"The airport please." I replied politely, as I got into the car, he nodded his head driving off. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw something orange, but shrugged it off as the limousine drove off to the airport.
I was at the airport. This was it. I sighed happily as the driver got my suitcase out. I then opened one pocket of my suitcase, that was holding my yen, and gave the driver 8,000 yen. He nodded his head, thanking me and drove off.
I sighed as this was the airport in which I came here and it is now the airport in which I am leaving in. Pulling my suitcase along with me, I entered the doors of the airport.
"Emiko." I jumped, snapping my head up as I turned around to see Kaoru standing near a doorway, with an unpleasant look on his face.
I narrowed my eyes, "What do you want-"
"Where are you going?" He interrupted me, still with an unpleasant look. How did he even know that I would be hear in the first place.
"H-how?!" I stuttered out and he sighed, rolling his eyes.
He replied, "Your friend, Stacy, posted something on her fanfiction wall that said 'My BFF is escaping out of her prison! Let's support her #TheEmiEscape' or something like that. It kind of led me on that you were trying to leave."
I mentally cursed Stacy for doing that. UGH.
"Look I-" I started, but he interrupted once again, "Don't leave because of me, please. I may have made a grave mistake, but Hikaru hasn't done anything, I don't want him to suffer because of my actions."
Okay.. he actually sounded a little professional there.. FOCUS! I rolled my eyes and responded, "That's a little too late for that, don't cha' think?"
He sighed sadly and replied, "Yes, but... I don't care. I told you, yours and Hikaru's happiness matter to me. You both will be sad if you leave."
"And what makes you think I'LL be sad?" I asked sassily, crossing my arms. Kaoru is definitely a fabulous manipulator, but I can't back down now.
He calmly explained, "If you leave, you'll always have that guilty feeling, knowing that you ditched us. Not to mention, I bet Aunt Koreen would be definitely upset that you came back so early. If you leave, Hikaru will be depressed, knowing that you completely ditched him to go home, even though he practically did nothing."
I thought about that for a moment. It was true, Auntie would be very mad at me for giving up and Hikaru didn't really do anything to cause the war in the first place... It was just Kaoru.
I shook my head constantly, saying, "But I can't deal with this drama anymore, I'm sorry. I thought I could do this but I can't. You BOTH are way too hard to deal with and I don't feel like dealing with this anymore. Besides you always cause drama for me... I mean... Even when we were kids you caused drama.." I say the last part silently.
Kaoru started to walk up to me and asked, "What?"
I shook my head saying, "Never mind... I have to go anyways." Turning my head, I began to pull my suitcase into the airport until Kaoru grabbed my hand, pulling me back.
"No Emiko. What did you say?" He sternly said, keeping a firm grip on my hand.
I made an exasperated sigh responded, "Oh what? Don't tell me you don't even remember! You tried drowning me and you know it! I was only a kid! What did I even do to you to make you want to kill me?!" I rambled, not saying it very loudly as I fear someone would hear us.
"So is that it? That's why you hate us? Because you think we tried to drown you?" He asked, slightly raising his eyebrow. Well I mean DUH. It's not every day someone attempts murdering you and the next day you want to be buddy-buddy with that person.
"Well Duh!" I say, crossing my arms once again. Kaoru chuckled and I narrowed my eyes asking, "What's so funny?"
"The fact that you think that Hikaru and I tried murdering you that day. Wow, you do believe what anyone tells you don't you." He said, seizing his chuckling and giving me a serious face.
"You don't even know part of it, so why would you assume things if you don't the whole story!?" He raised his voice at me, some people started looking, which made me a bit uncomfortable. Kaoru relaxed his shoulders, grabbing my hand and pulling me along to our limousine.
"Just get in." He says, as the driver quickly got out and opened the door for both of us. I shook my head, once again turning around and going away from the car. And once again, Kaoru grabbed my hand, forcing me into the car and took the suitcase handle out of my hand, giving it to the driver. The driver looked truly confused, but Kaoru ordered, "Put this in the trunk."
The driver nodded at the order and put my suitcase in the trunk, Kaoru then climbed in, sitting next to me as I gave an unpleasant look.
"What the heck Kaoru?! I'm about to miss my fli-" I stubbornly say, but Kaoru interrupts... AGAIN.
"That's point. I'm going to explain to you what happened." Kaoru says. Explain to me what happened to what? Oh... What happened when I was a kid.
"Fine. Tell me the story, but I still get to leave here." I sassily said, putting my hands on my lap as Kaoru gave me a blank expression.
"Okay, if I tell you the story, you can still go BUT at least take into consideration about what I said earlier." He slightly begs, I nod and he takes a deep breath.
"When you were around four years old, our mother had left us inside our mansion to go talk to one of her models. We used to play with you all the time, but that one time, you started crying and we had no ides why you were crying. We got really sad, so we thought that making a bubble bath for you would make you stop crying, because that's what normally made us happy. We didn't really know how to start a bath, so we just turned knobs and dropped you in. Hikaru was trying to hold your shoulders, which made it look like he was drowning you and that's when our father came in and saw us doing it. Our father has never been a huge fan of us, so he made it seem like we were trying to murder you, just so you could get away from us." Kaoru explained.
I needed to sink that in. So... this was my father's fault?! I-What?
"I-huh?" I say, still trying to comprehend all that he said.
"We were just trying to help you, our father was the one who twisted the idea." Kaoru finished. I looked deep into his eyes, trying to see if he was lying, but he looked dead serious.
"O-oh." I say. Not really sure what I should do.
Kaoru opens the door and says, "Come on, you're going to be late for your flight." He gets out of the limo, but I stay in for a moment. I don't know what to feel... should it be anger towards my father, or anger towards me for not getting all the facts straight.
"K-kaoru.. I don't know if I really... want to go..." I say, knowing that my decision was probably for the best. His eyes lit up.
I cross my arms and stubbornly say, "B-but it's NOT because of the story... It's just because I-um... know that Auntie would be mad at me-"
I was cut off with a hug. Kaoru hugged me tightly and replied, "Thank you Emiko." I felt the car drive off and I knew that this was probably Kaoru's plan to make me stay, he was that good at manipulating, but I didn't care.
My brothers may be crazy, but they never leave me bored and they try to keep me happy.
Author's note:
I hope I did not leave you disappointed, unfortunately, this will be my finale chapter. I am actually leaving fanfiction as I am going to be very busy with my real life.
I'm sad to say, but I am discounting this story, but I didn't want to discontinue with a cliff hanger so I thought I would put this.
I want to thank ALL who have reviewed, favorited and followed my story, it has really kept me motivated. But too much is going on with my life.
Thank you all for your support! It's really appreciated and I can hopefully come back, but don't count on it. ;_;
Sayoonara~