DISCLAIMER I DO NOT OWN BROTHERS CONFLICT IN ANYWAY SHAPE OR FORM
"Here you go Kimi try this one on," Ema said when they group arrived at the clothing store. Ema held up a pink jacket just Kimi's size with a blue lining.
"Oh pretty," said Kimi. She heard Futo give off a groan from where he was standing off to the side.
"I keep telling you pink is not the way to go," he muttered.
"And no one asked for your opinion," said Yusuke as he flipped through a rack of coats meant for boys, "Here, you might like this one." He handed Wataru a dark blue coat that had a light blue bunny patch on the front.
"Yay, it has a bunny on it!" Wataru shouted with joy.
"Good, let' get it and get out of here," said Yusuke.
"Well hang on," said Ema, "Kimi is this the coat you want? You don't have to get just because it's pink."
"No I like this one," said Kimi.
"Here why don't you try it on then," said Ema, "Futo can you hold Kimi's backpack for her?
"Shh not so loud! Do you want to give me away?!" Futo shouted.
"Just shut up and hold the bag!" Yusuke ordered.
"You hold the bag!" Futo retorted.
"I'll hold it!" Wataru offered.
"Thank you Wataru," said Ema handing him Kimi's backpack and helping the little girl put on the coat. "Does it fit okay Kimi?"
"Yeah!" said Kimi happily looking over the coat on her. It felt really comfortable as well, "I want this one!"
"Okay," said Ema smiling. Kimi noticed both Yusuke and Futo both stopped their fighting when they noticed Ema was smiling and were slightly blushing. She thought it was a bit weird but guess sometimes brothers did that.
"Okay and Wataru are you sure that's the coat you want?" Ema asked her little brother.
"Yay, I love the bunny on it!" said Wataru.
"Do you want to try it on first?" Ema asked.
"Can I hold your bag Wataru?" Kimi offered.
"Don't worry about it I'll hold it," said Yusuke as he took both bags.
"Oh please, I'll hold it," said Futo, "We shouldn't make you strain your back now would we?"
"It's only like that seeing as how you're the reason I had to climb the tree!" said Yusuke.
Kimi trembled at seeing her brothers arguing.
"So Wataru does it fit?" asked Ema.
"Yeah!" said Wataru "I get a coat with a bunny! I get a coat with a bunny!" Ema giggled.
"Okay we'll go pay for them," she said. She took both coats to the check out to pay for both and let both children wear their new coats out of the store.
"We look so great don't we?!" said Wataru with pride as he walked down the street.
"If you say so," said Yusuke, "I'm surprised how quickly it went. At least it didn't take all afternoon and we can get some of our homework done."
"Uh Ema?" Kimi suddenly spoke up. She remembered what Miss Hogo had asked the class to d that day.
"Yes?" Ema asked.
"Can you help you get a picture of a real elephant?" Kimi asked.
"What do you need that for?" asked Futo.
"It's for class. We're going to the zoo and Miss Hogo wants us to learn about the animals we're going to see," said Kimi.
"A zoo field trip really? Those are so boring," said Futo.
"Don't worry Kimi I'll help you find a real elephant photo okay?" Ema promised, If not me, then one of our other brothers can okay?"
"Okay," said Kimi with a smile.
"We're home," said Ema walking into the house. Only Azusa and Tsubaki were there at the moment.
"We got our new coats!" said Wataru excited.
"Oh look at them," said Tsubake, "you two are looking stylish!"
"Do you know if Ukyo is home? Should Itry to get started on dinner for everyone?" asked Ema.
"Well we just got home and we haven't heard from him," said Azusa.
"Oh I should at least go ahead and get started on it then," said Ema.
"But what about my elephant picture?" asked Kimi.
"Oh I'm sure I can help you with that after dinner," said Ema.
"What's this about an elephant picture?" asked Azusa.
"I need a real elephant picture to take to school tomorrow," said Kimi.
"Oh I see, well I can help you with that," said Azusa leading Kimi to the stairs.
"I can do it! I can do it!" Wataru insisted.
"Wataru, don't you have your own homework to do as well?" asked Azusa. Wataru groaned slightly annoyed, "You should go do some of it before dinner."
Soon Kimi and Azusa came to Azusa's room and Azusa got onto his computer. Kimi stood next to his desk and watched him work.
"Okay Kimi here we go," said Azusa finally. He picked her up and put her onto his lap, "Go ahead and pick whichever elephant you want."
"Uh well," Kimi said out loud as she looked at the picture. Then she saw one that had a brown elephant standing next to a tree. It reminded her of Bennjee. "That one!" she insisted.
"Okay, we'll just print that out," said Azusa selecting the picture and hitting print.
"Thank you Azusa!" said Kimi once the picture was printed giving him a hug.
"Oh no big deal," said Azusa. Both were distracted by the sound of hissing and saw Juli had somehow appeared on the desk in front of the computer.
"What's his problem now?" Azusa asked, "Ema's not even here."
"What do you think you're doing in here with Little Chi?!" Juli demanded to know.
"Azusa's just helping me with my homework Juli," said Kimi quickly showing him the picture Azusa had just printed out.
"Hmm that better be it," said Juli jumping onto Kimi's shoulder, "Is Chi home?"
"She's downstairs helping with dinner," said Kimi.
"How many wolves are down there?" Juli asked in alarm.
"I don't know about wolves but at least four of my brothers are down there," said Kimi.
"I got to get down there right away!" said Juli as he dashed out of the room.
"I swear that thing is seriously high sprung.," said Azusa, "Well anyway was there any other homework you need to get done Kimi?"
"No," said Kimi.
"Why don't you go play then or go see if Ema needs some help," Azusa suggested putting her down, "Just don't forget to put your photo in a safe in your backpack for school tomorrow okay?"
"Okay," said Ema as she hurried off back downstairs where she left her bag.
When she came down she found Ukyo in the kitchen talking an cooking together. She poke her head in to see them both working on the cooking with Juli on Ema's shoulder.
"I'll try to be better next time in letting you know if I'm going to be super late and you have to start on dinner," Ukyo said.
"It's fine I really don't mind," said Ema.
"Well I appreciate that because I may be late quite often this week and next week due to my case I'm working on," said Ukyo.
"Don't worry I can handle making dinner for anytime you need it," Ema assured him.
"Thank you I appreciate that," said Ukyo moving over to the schedule and looking at it, "It looks like Masaomi is going to be doing a lot of night shifts as well. I don't know how much we'll be seeing of him at this point."
"Oh that's too bad," said Ema, "Does anyone else have a really busy schedule?"
"Oh nothing too serious, but it does look like everyone's going to be busy for a while," said Ukyo.
"I guess this doesn't mean we're going back to the park anytime soon huh?" Kimi asked.
"Oh Kimi I didn't realize you were," said Ukyo, "And unfortunately it doesn't look like no park at the moment."
"Oh that's okay," said Kimi.
"No, no it's not okay!" insisted Wataru suddenly running into the kitchen, "I want to go back to the park! I wan to go back to the park!"
"Wataru," said Ema as she walked over to her little brother, "You'll have to be patient and wait. I'm sure at some point we'll make it to the park."
"Hmm!" Wataru muttered in disappointed.
"Don't worry Wataru, I'm sure at one point we'll make it back there," said Kimi.
"There see Wataru, Kimi understands. You should try acting more like her once and a while," said Ukyo.
"Okay I'll try," said Wataru.
"Wataru, why don't you and Kimi go and play until dinner's ready," Ema suggested. Wataru perked up at that.
"Yeah! Let's go Little Sister!" he insisted.
"Okay, what will we play?" asked Kimi as she and Wataru headed back upstairs.
"I think we should try doing something loud and fun!" said Wataru.
"Hmm I better go with them just in case," said Juli as he jumped from Ema's shoulder and onto Kimi's, "Don't let your guard down Chi."
"Oh Juli," said Ema.
"I don't want to do something loud," said Kimi, "I kind of want to play with my tea set."
"Sure, I'll be the daddy then and you can be the mommy!" said Wataru.
"Hmm, now I'm glad I came along!" said Juli, "That kind of play just leads to trouble!"
Kimi sat and watched Wataru drink his "tea". He seemed happy enough at least and not upset over not going to the park.
"Wataru are feeling better now?" she asked.
"Yeah, playing with you always makes me feel better!" said Wataru, "Don't you think so?"
"Yeah," Kimi agreed with a smile.
"I'd feel better if we were at the park though," Wataru suddenly added.
"Don't worry we will remember?" said Kimi.
"But I really liked that park, even if we had to deal with that bully," said Wataru.
"Yeah him," said Kimi.
"Hmm?" said Juli as he listened.
"Is he still being mean to you at school?" asked Wataru.
"It's not that bad," said Kimi.
"I should teach him a lesson!" said Wataru.
"No Wataru, you'll just get into trouble!" said Kimi, "It's fine really!"
'Hmm,' Juli thought, 'So Little Chi is having problems with a bully huh? Looks like I'll have to protect her from another wolf!'