Brotherly Bonds
Ch 11
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The trio turned around to see Yuki standing wide-eyed in the doorway. They quickly split apart.
"Yuki, how wonderful to see you! How was your student council meeting? Sit down, you look tired." Aya practically threw himself at Yuki, asking him question after question and steering him into Shigure's empty chair.
"We were hugging. Friends sometimes do that you know." Shigure told Yuki teasingly.
Yuki looked up at him. "Sure." He obviously didn't believe him.
"It's tru-ue!" Shigure whined, making Yuki roll his eyes and look away.
"Shigure stop it, it was just a hug." Hatori scolded Shigure, who pouted and then walked over to Aya's chair and leaned against the back, making faces.
"Gure, your making fun of me." Aya pouted, pretending to be mad. "No, of course I'm not Aya! I would never do that!" Shigure pretended to be surprised and then started being theatrical.
"I don't believe you." Aya stated, bending over.
"Oh Aya, don't be upset. I could never live with myself knowing that I had made you upset." Shigure confronted Aya, wrapping his arms loosely around his cousins neck.
"Gure your choking me." Aya told Shigure, pretending to be choking. "Let go please!"
"Not until you admit that I wasn't."
"Gure!" Aya gagged louder and harsher.
"Shigure stop it. You're the one who should apologize to Ayame. You were making faces." Hatori scolded them, raising a critical eyebrow.
"Fine." Shigure pretending to give in and loosened his arms. "Aya, I'm sorry, I wasn't trying to upset you." He turned to look sideways at his cousin. "Friends?"
Aya stuck his bottom lip put, and then there was a slight pause. "Friends!" He agreed enthusiastically.
"Alright!" They shouted happily, giving each other the thumbs up.
Hatori rubbed his forehead as he leaned against the wall. Sam was staring at Shigure and Ayame, wondering how they could go from being mad at each other to being friends again so quickly, and what was 'alright'?
"Alright come one Shigure, we're leaving." Hatori informed his cousin, as he went over to him and helped him get up out of the chair.
"Why? I want to stay here!" Shigure whined. "Do we really have to go?" He asked, giving Hari his puppy eyes and refusing to stand up.
"Yes, we do." When Shigure opened his mouth again to protest Hari added, "Because we're paying for these sessions and I'm sure Miss Dalton would like to actually get something done during this time."
Shigure rolled his eyes, got up and followed Hatori to the door, then he abruptly swung back around again and informed Sam, "Ms Dalton, since this is your last appointment why don't you come over to my house afterwards for dinner. I'm sure Yuki and Aya can show you the way. I'll see you then!" He waved and disappeared again, not giving time for Sam to say yes or no. The last he could be heard was asking Hatori if he could drive home, and if he could have the keys to the car. O.o
"Well, alright then." Sam said, running a hand through her hair and looking at her clipboard, disguising her confusion. "I guess we should start, especially since we only have," she looked at her watch, "half an hour left." And silently groaned.
"Miss Dalton I'm sorry if my cousins or brother did anything to upset you. It's just when the three of them get together, they can be a little overwhelming." Yuki apologized to Sam, sorry that he hadn't tried to stop them.
"Oh don't worry about it, I'm fine." Sam said, flipping through her notes in her notebook. Yuki gave her a look that clearly said he didn't believe her and then looked away out the window.
"Miss Dalton, can I call you Sam?" Aya gushed, and when she nodded continued rapidly. "Sam you will just love coming over to Gure's house! Tohru's food is sooo delicious, it's nearly gourmet!" Ayame told Sam, waving his arms around and talking loudly.
He went on for a few more minuets, describing how wonderful Shigure's house was, and about Tohru's cooking. Sam looked over at Yuki who was still staring absently out the window. "Can't you just thwack him?"
Yuki blinked and turned towards her. "No, Hatori's the only one who can do that. He's the only one nii-san responds to." Then he moved so he could watch his brother.
"And he just left." Sam sighed and put her head in her hands hopelessly.
"Nii-san, do you want me to kick you through the roof?" Yuki asked Ayame icily.
Aya turned around to stare at Yuki, his golden eyes wide and bottom lip stuck way out. "Yuki, you would never,"
"See? At least it stopped him." Yuki told Sam, glancing over at her. Sam stared at him, looked over at the still pouting Ayame, back at Yuki and asked in all seriousness. "Would you really kick him through the roof?"
"Yes." Yuki answered shortly and looked away again.
"Well, okay then." Sam said. "So" she looked up at the brothers. "What do you think caused such a large rift between you two?" When they looked surprised and then looked at each other, she added, "If its too personal, then,"
"No, its alright Miss Dalton. You are here to help us after all." Yuki reassured her, smiling slightly.
"I suppose," Aya started to say, leaning back in his chair, "it's mostly the age difference. Since we're ten years apart, and all."
"Yuki, what do you think?" Sam asked, a little surprised at Ayame's seriousness, who knew he could be serious.
"I don't know." Yuki said, rubbing the back of his head and then looked coldly over at Aya. "I suppose that ten years doesn't help. That and," he glanced out the window again, "he wasn't there for me when I needed him."
Sam was surprised by Yuki's comment, what was he talking about? But clearly Ayame did, because a look of guilt and pain crossed his face, and then he tilted his head down so he was looking at the floor.
The Sohma family was so interesting to Sam. When hadn't Ayame been there for his brother, and why? She wanted to ask more, but what if she got in trouble for doing so? So what? She told herself and began to ask another question when she caught a glimpse of the brother's faces.
Ayame's enthusiastic and dramatic mood had been broken and instead he was sitting silently in his chair. Yuki was once again staring out the window and he had put up his barriers again. He seemed to want to shut himself away from the world, and wanted it to stay that way.
Sam wished she could ask more about it, but it seemed like a personal family matter that they wanted to keep secret.
But wait, she was a therapist, it was her job to ask personal questions. "Do either of you want to tell me what you're talking about?"
Yuki answered shortly, "No."
Ayame looked up at her and gave a small smile, but still said, "No, its more of a family problem. I don't think we're allowed to talked about it."
Sam gave a small, 'hmph' and asked, "not allowed by who, exactly?"
(Enter Darth Vader theme song music: dum dum dum, dum de dum, dum de dum)
"Not allowed, on my orders." A cold, dark voice said from behind Sam.
"A-Akito!" Yuki started, and Sam turned around to look after hearing the barely hidden terror in his voice.
Standing, leaning against the doorway, was a young man who, creepily, looked a lot like Yuki, except he was older, had black hair and was dressed completely in black. The mans eyes were cold, and haunted, as he moved into the room the look in his eyes sent shivers down her spine.
"Hello Yuki. Don't worry, I heard you and your brother were here today and decided to come visit." Akito walked over to Yuki's chair and sat down on the back of it. "And also to say hello to Miss Dalton of course." He said smiling at her, once again sending shivers down her spine.
"And Ayame, how have you been? I haven't see you lately, you aren't at the main house very often." Akito had walked over to Ayame's chair and was leaning over the back, his head right by Aya's stroking his hair.
Ayame turned his head slightly towards Akito, but didn't say anything in response.
"Akito." A voice said slightly reproving from the doorway and they all turned to look. A man with red-brown hair, shielded brown eyes and looked around Ayame's age walked into the room.
Akito looked up angrily, "What?"
"You said we would stay for a few minutes," the man paused slightly at the look on Akito's face, "and its been longer then that." He briefly glanced over at Yuki and Ayame.
Akito sighed and stood up straighter. "Very well. I'm glad I was able to see you Yuki and Ayame, please come visit me soon. It was nice meeting you Miss Dalton." He walked out the door and the other man bowed and closed the door after them.
There was a stunned silence as they sat stiffly in their chairs, no one wanting to make any conversation.
Then a loud, annoying beeping sound abruptly started, they remained like statues until Sam leapt up and over to her desk. Papers flew everywhere and banging and crashing sounds with no source could be heard, and finally the beeping abruptly stopped again.
Sam grasped at her desk, and slowly rose herself up into a sitting position, stumbled back into her chair and landed in it with a small 'puft.' He hair was mysteriously disheveled and her clothes were wrinkled.
"Sam, are you alright?" Ayame asked, slowly standing up and walked over to the desk to stare at her.
"Who-who was that man?" Sam stumbled over words, not able to get rid of the feeling of cold terror she had felt.
Ayame opened his mouth to answer, but stopped when Yuki quietly stood up and left the room. When the door shut again, Aya told her confidingly, "He was Akito, the head of our family." He sighed. "Just to warn you, Akito is an object of terror for Yuki, so please don't talk about him a lot around my brother." Then Aya stood up and took her hand. "Now we are off to see Gure!" He gently led her over to the door and waited as she turned off the lights and locked the door behind them.
Hee hee, did you like the Darth Vader theme song? I thought that would be funny and is now Akito's theme music from here on. And this is where the SamXAya fluff starts, sorta. Last note, this is the last chapter of BB that I have written, so from now on I have to start writting again. So just to warn you it might take a while to update again, because I'm not sure where the story is going from here.
Okay boring notes over. And now for my reviewers:
shadow: Im glad you think its funny, its meant to. And Aya's a boy, but it is hard to tell sometimes with him.
Tuki: yes, that was supposed to be funny, hope so anyway. And while he's trying to get her to fall in love with him, she and Aya are falling in love. Cu-ute! Im glad you liked it, and isnt that the way that Gure and Aya are meant to be?
Yanikei: Yes, exactly, you really feel sorry for him. Not sure squish, but something else sure. And yes, there is more AyaxYuki moments coming up, there was sorta one in this chapter, but not a big one I admit. I promise to keep writing and Im glad its still funny. Good.
Winter's: Goody good. Me too, snow days GOOD. Im sry u didnt get one. Actually my school rarely ever gets a snow day so it was really suprising. I promise to update again as soon as I can.
Indigo: Im glad its funny. And yes, it was sweet wasn't it?
Dolphin: Yep, yippe yay. yeah, sry about any typos, I need to watch those. oopsie. I like the trio too, they bring funnyness or comic relief, w/e. Yeah, Yanikei told me about that so I read it and realy liked it. She updated again and Sam was in the new chapter too. I promise to update and try to make them longer. Promise.
Okay everyone, thats it for now. Next chapter is dinner at Gure's and more AyaxYuki and AyaxSam. Promise. See yall soon! -miji-chan (I gotta go get my choclate chip cookies: YUMMY!
