Battle high: not your average high school
After Battle twelve
Kirai meets his brother
Alex blushed a bit more and then looked around with her. "Hmmm...nope I can kinda hear it"
Sora looked at his mother and grabbed her by the collar and slammed her into the wall not rougher than his father.
"You listen to me. You call yourself a mother but you're not! You're arguing over two kids. One will never come back! The other is with me and the others! I will not let either or any of you see him ever! Because unless you can prove your parents you get to see him. Your no different than from his other family when he had a father."
"You argue over one who's dead and the other who I will not let you see. But as you argue you abandon your other two who try their hardest to get your attention. You call yourself parents, well you're not. Or are you gonna prove me wrong?!," shouted Sora. She released her grip on his mother and then loaded her bow and shot one arrow at his father in his leg. "Prove you're a real father."
Prism sighed. "It's probably just me. That's pretty much normal." She looked to her left and still thought she could hear something. But it was just a figment of her imagination.
His father tried to contain his cry of pain but it didn't work so well. Minoru's younger sister arrived at that instant. "Daddy!"
"Hanako go back to your room," Minoru ordered. She looked up at her brother, her eyes shining with tears. "But Noru-"
"Go!" he insisted desperately, turning her around. She ran into the hallway and Minoru heard her door slam. Hanako didn't need to see this. She needed to be protected from their parents.
"P-please.. don't hurt us.. you already have enough!" his mother said to Sora. Her husband shot her a look but it went unnoticed.
Alex caught her by surprise and then hugged her into a pile of leaves.
"Hurt you? You're lucky I don't kill you and your husband. I told your son I wouldn't. He told me why you fight. He told me that he and your daughter aren't enough to fill their places! Your kids are not tools to use just to try and wonder if they can be replacements. You are not parents, your users."
Sora turned and looked at his father, "You're the one who keeps this up as well, you're a father right? Wrong. You're a user too. You don't notice how they try to make you happy, of course they can't take the other's place, but they don't want to. They want to be in a place of their own as special to you. You are not fit. To be their parents. Either of you," Sora growled at him. She loaded another arrow and aimed it at the stove to start a fire and held its position, "Tell me why I shouldn't set that ablaze and then have someone take them away from you."
"Nyaa!" Prism laughed. "So this is what it feels like to be hug-tackled?"
His father stared at the arrow in fear, pleading it not to hit the stove. "B-because even if they hate us.. they'd s-still be crushed if we died," he stuttered.
Minoru stared at him. Would he be crushed? Hah. No. But his sister would. She was oblivious to the fact that they didn't love her as much as they missed Kirai and Mari. So he'd put up with them for her sake. He wouldn't tell Sora that what his father had just said was absolutely incorrect.
Hopefully she could figure it out on her own.
Alex laughed,"Yes it does"
Sora looked at him with cold eyes. Not letting the arrow stray from its target.
"Really? They would? Are you sure? I mean, after all, you two only care about Kirai and your little Mari. All the arguing. Hmmm, he doesn't seem like he would care, I mean I could even take him with us to stay with us, but Artemis wouldn't allow it he would let them both find a new home with his help."
Sora waited for his next response as she pulled back more on the arrow, "Now. Prove to me that you are parents."
"And why did I receive a tackle?" Prism asked with an amused smile.
"Of course they would!" his wife cut in. She glanced at her son who was looking at her expressionlessly. "We're still their parents!"
"She just told you that you aren't," Minoru whispered. His father was surprised at his bravery.
"How?" his father interrupted his mother, who was about to speak again. "How do we prove ourselves?"
"Because you need to be cuddled," said Alex as he cuddled her.
"He wouldn't miss you. She would since she's little but she would get over that," Sora told his mother.
"How? You have to figure that out yourself. You're their parents, I'm the one to kick your ass to get the message through," said Sora as she lowered the bow and put the arrow away in her quiver.
"Now...If you don't mind I'll be taking this one with me, because to prove it, you need one on one with your kids and you're starting with that one. This one will come with me to get fixed up," Sora told them. Prism smiled at him and snuggled him happily.
"Oh okay. I can agree with that."
"You..you can't take him!" his mother argued. "You can't take another one!"
Minoru sighed. He was really tired of his mother. One minute she wasn't paying him any attention and now it was terrible that he was leaving. "She's not taking me. I'm going with her," he corrected.
Alex smiled at her. He got comfy snuggling her and ended up falling asleep holding her.
"I'm not taking him permanently away, its temporary. I'll be back in a month with him and if I see no improvement with her then you get no chance to prove it with him. And then they both come with me and I take them away," Sora growled. She placed a hand on his shoulder and started to lead him out the door.
Prism expected that would happen, and let herself fall asleep too. She hadn't noticed how tired she really was until she closed her eyes.
"Minoru.. don't leave! We're sorry!" his mother pleaded. Minoru shook his head and didn't look at her. "You should've said that before your life was threatened."
He looked at the door and sighed. "Tell Hanako I'll be back and her teddy bear's still in the forest," he told them quietly, before opening the door for him and Sora. Sora looked back at his parents, "One month, to fix everything, when I come back it better be fixed," Sora said to them both with an icy glare. She led Minoru out the door and down the path towards the forest.
"We can pick the bear up on our way back you just need to let me speak to Kirai about you," Sora explained to him. Minoru nodded without a word. He was really nervous inside. Was he actually going to get to meet Kirai? Really?
His parents spoke so highly of him. Sometimes he wondered if it was only out of the fact that they missed him.. after all, Kirai was only six when he was taken away. He couldn't possibly have been that amazing at that young.
He also hated Kirai to an extent. Minoru could never match him. He'd always be less than perfect Kirai. Sora led him down the path through the forest and stopped where she had accidently shot him and looked around.
"So where's this bear? I wanna find it fast and then get back to Kirai," said Sora. She tried to hide her excited voice about getting to tell Kirai about his brother and then just hugging the life out of Kirai. "Um.. well.." Minoru looked around. He really had no idea.
"She climbs in trees a lot..so.." He looked up in search of the stuffed object. It was a wonder she dropped it in the first place since she carried it everywhere and-
"Oh. There it is," he said, pointing to a tree where it was hanging by a bow around its neck. Sora rolled her eyes when she saw the bear.
"I'll get it, you wait here," she said to him. Sora leaped at the tree and jumped from branch to branch until she reached the bear and grabbed him careful not to tear him. She came back down from the trees silently and handed him the bear, "There you go. Now let's get going," said Sora as she led the way. "Thanks," he said quietly. He looked down at the bear and sighed. Oh how distraught Hanako would be without it.
Minoru became increasingly apprehensive about meeting his brother as they got closer to wherever they were going. What if he didn't like him? What would he do then?
Sora finally reached back the area before anyone else, when Sora saw Kirai she hugged him from behind and giggled, "Surprise!," she told him. She held onto him and gave him a kiss on the cheek.
Kirai was rather surprised at Sora. He didn't even hear her walking back. "Surprise?" he asked, slightly confused but smiling nonetheless.
Minoru stayed several feet back, too scared to move any further. So Sora and Kirai were together. Figures.
"Yes surprise, you didn't expect my hug," Sora laughed. Then she went around to hug him properly and then looked up at him, "Kirai~ turn around pwease~," Sora said to him. She looked up at him innocently with wide eyes. Her red eyes sparkled a bit in the sunlight as she looked at him and she then snuggled him.
Kirai looked at her, suspicious of her sudden cheerfulness. "..why..?" he asked, and slowly turned around like she'd asked.
He looked at the boy in front of him and then at Sora, confused. "Who's this?"
Kirai tilted his head at him. Minoru only looked back at Kirai without words. "And why does he look like me..?"
Sora looked at him ,"I found your family Kirai," she said to him, "Thats your younger brother, Minoru."
She looked at Minoru and shook her head at him to hide everything he had learned and heard today.
"He came with me saying he wanted to come see you, your parents were busy so they couldn't come," Sora lied to him making sure he couldn't find out it was a lie. Kirai stared at Sora in shock.
"You... what?"
He looked at this Minoru kid. That was his brother. He was actually related to him.
Minoru looked back. This was the famous Kirai. He wondered how much his parents hated him right now for getting to see him. "...hi."
This was extremely weird.
"Hey..," Kirai looked at Sora when he noticed something. "Wait.. I've been missing for twelve years and my parents were too busy to see me?" he asked, feeling a little hurt. "They wouldn't tell me the story, they refused to tell me why Kirai, I even asked many times for the story," Sora told him sadly.
She looked at Minoru and nodded to him to help her keep up this story and hoped he was a better liar then Kirai was. Kirai stared at a rock on the ground, thinking, when Minoru spoke up.
"They said.. that they're sorry they couldn't come. They wanted me to go with Sora that way I'd finally get to meet my brother even if they can't see you again," he said in a quiet voice.
"Were you..there...when I was taken away?" Kirai asked.
Minoru shook his head. "I was born a week after."
"Oh..happy late birthday then," Kirai said, trying to maybe lighten the mood a little. Everything seemed so sad.
Minoru almost smiled. "You too."
"We need to give you both a party!," Sora said happily, "But what should we do?..Hmmmm this needs planning," Sora giggled.
She looked at Kirai and pouted when he stayed a bit sad, "NNnnnoooo you can't be sad this needs to be a happy moment," Sora pouted. "Well I can't be happy, this is really sad," Kirai told her with a saddened smile. "He's been alive for like 12 years and he's known about me and I didn't know he existed. That's sad."
Sora pouted at him.
"But you can't be sad..if your sad then he will be sad and little brothers don't like to see their big brothers sad," Sora told him quietly sadly.
"That's true y'know," Minoru said quietly. Kirai looked at him and then at Sora. He sighed. "Ah fine. I'll be happy," he gave in. He looked at his little brother, slightly concerned. "Uh.. what happened to your arm?"
