Hi guys, only want to thank all of you for your support on this story, and just wanted to say that the fate of Arrluk, and also of Sangilak, will be revealed until the sequel, so we´ll don't see them again on the fic, but we will on the sequel, only for you to know, so enjoy the chapter:
Kenai threw Koda into the hair and then he catches his little brother.
"Another!" exclaimed Koda excited while he was laughing "Another time Kenai!"
Kenai did what Koda said two more times until Denahi appeared.
"Hi Denahi" said Kenai as he catched Koda for the last time, then he putted him back on the ground "What´s up?"
"Nothing special, but can you give me a hand?"
"With what?"
"I need to give Tanana a pile of wood, but my back hurts, so can you help me with that?"
"Sure, just look after Koda while I´m doing it"
"No problem"
Kenai rubbed Koda´s head and then he walked where Kenai had instructed him where the pile was, then he disappeared and Denahi come closer to Koda.
"Koda, Kenai´s birthday´s on two weeks"
Koda opened his eyes in surprise.
"His birthday?"
"Yes, he´s going sixteen years old"
"Oh, and you are seventeen years old right?"
"Yes, but I´ll be eighteen years old this March, so Kenai and I will only have a year of difference from January to March"
"Oh, I´m still have to wait until November for my birthday, nine years old"
"Cool, but now we have to talk about Kenai´s gift, have you plan anything?"
"No really" said Koda "I want to make something special for him, like he did for us on the winter, remember" he added showing his bracelet.
"And also, I want to do something that make him forget the disaster of the past week, remember?"
"Koda" said Denahi "That´s on the past, Kenai and I have forgot it, like we said the other night, people angry said things they don´t really mean, you didn´t mean anything of what you said that day"
"Nothing, non a single word"
"And Kenai and I knows it, so you don´t have to worry about that anymore, but remember, you have to learn to control your emotions, because angry people also does bad things that hurts other peoples, so we have to learn to control our emotions"
"I know Denahi, I´m making an effort" Koda. "I´m not letting bad feelings guide my actions"
"That´s great, and besides, Arrluk has disappear for good, I never liked him"
"Neither I, even if I didn´t get to know him, but I don´t want to know him"
"Yeah, we better cut that off; have any ideas for Kenai´s present? Like you said I also want to make something special for him, this year we have been through a lot, Sitka´s death, our misunderstanding, and your arrive Koda, which has been the best thing that had happened us"
"Thanks Denahi" said Koda smiling "So, what we can do for Kenai?"
"I don´t know, I´ve been thinking for the past few weeks and still I haven´t come up with something"
"Mmmm, I´ve got an idea; tell me a special moment you and Kenai had when you were younger"
"Okay, let´s see" said Denahi remembering "Ohm the first time Sitka go on hunting with dad, Kenai and I were jealous because we also wanted to go, so we did our own campsite outside of our parent´s tent"
"Really you did that?"
"Yes" said Denahi smiling "We were kids and we had fun, even if Kenai almost burns the entire tent"
"Oh yes, Nana told me that Kenai was a trouble maker when he had my age"
"Yes, even there was a time when he felt he was a just an accident to both our parents, and us, because he get in too many troubles, I usually was mad with him and we get into fights, even Sitka get mad with him at some time, he was a pain on the neck, he still is if you ask me, but at the end, we always forgive each other"
"Because you love each other right?"
"Yes, and, after all, we are brothers, and if brothers do one thing well is fight"
Denahi then knock down Koda, playfully, and started to tickle him.
"No Denahi! Not again!" begged Koda while he was still laughing.
This time Denahi released Koda really soon, but the younger one quickly threw himself to his older brother and knock him down, then Koda sit down on Denahi´s stomach.
"Don´t forget about my moves Denahi!"
"Okay, okay" said Denahi tired "You won this one Koda"
Then Koda go off of Denahi.
"Anyway, I think I´ve got an idea" Denahi "Been on the ground helps you think"
"Oh, then tell me what you have in mind" Koda.
"Okay, this is the plan" said Denahi as he whispered his idea on Koda´s ears.
…
On January sixth, Kenai slowly opened his eyes, since the day before he had a lot of work and he didn´t had a single moment to rest until late night, he was tired and for some reason, he felt Denahi wanted to torture him for all the work he had put him the day before, but the sleep make him feel better and now he was ready for another day of work, but the first thing he saw was Koda standing beside him with a smile on his face.
"Good morning Koda" said Kenai, then he yawned "How are you?"
"I´m good, but not so good like you are!"
"And why´s that?"
"Because today´s your birthday!" said Koda as he launched to Kenai and knock him down "Happy Birthday Kenai!"
"It´s my birthday?" asked Kenai, who had forgot that his birthday was that same day "Spirits I forgot it"
"Luckily you have your little hairball that remembers you important thinks" said Koda smiling, Kenai looked at him surprised.
"So you´re starting to like your nickname?"
"I´m getting used to it"
"So you are?" said Kenai as he grabbed Koda by the waist and put him on the ground, then Kenai made a raspberry on Koda´s stomach. The younger one laugh and then Kenai hug him "Thanks Koda, and where´s Denahi?"
"You´re welcome and he´s outside, we have a surprise for you!"
"Surprise? Made by you and him?"
"Yes!"
That explained why Denahi had put him so many work.
"That´s a little disturbing" Kenai.
"Come on big brother! It will be fun!"
"Sure it will be" said a voice on the entrance, it was Denahi, he started to walk to the bed of his younger brother "So the birthday boy is awake, thanks to the Spirits, party can't start without him!"
Kenai smiled and stand up.
"Always so happy?" he asked Denahi.
"Well, not all the days your baby brother turns sixteen years old"
Instead of been mad, Kenai smiled and Denahi hugged him.
"Happy birthday little brother"
"Thanks big brother"
After the hug, Kenai pushed playfully Denahi.
"Hey, I´m now sixteen, you´re only one year older than me!"
"Not for too much bro, so enjoy your time, it won´t be longer"
"I don´t care! Sometimes been the youngest one has his perks"
"Hey! I´m the youngest one!" said Koda.
"He has right" Denahi.
"Well, the middle one isn´t bad either" Kenai.
"Totally agree" Denahi "But now he have to get moving, Koda and I have prepared you a surprise"
"Yes, I´m not too excited about that"
"Then I´ll give him his gift right here" said Koda, from a basket near him, he pull out a death salmon "Here´s your gift Kenai"
Koda was holding the death fish to Kenai, who looked at the salmon with both surprise and horror.
"Koda told me that the favorite gift for bears all salmons" Denahi whispered into Kenai´s ear "So he thought this will be perfect for you"
Kenai looked at the fish and then to Koda.
"Thanks Koda" said Kenai taking the death salmon from Koda´s hands "Well, at least I´ve the dinner already"
Koda laughed.
"But that´s not everything, come on, we´ll show you" Koda.
"Yes, but fist, no eyes" said Denahi as he put out of his pocket a piece of clothing.
"You have to be kidding me" Kenai.
"Nop" Koda "It´s necessary"
Kenai sighed, but he allow to Denahi to blind him with the piece of clothing.
"Don't worry" Denahi "Koda and I we´re here Kenai"
"Yeah, that´s the thing that´s scares me" Kenai.
Koda and Denahi laughed.
"Let´s go" Denahi.
They lead Kenai until the tent they both had assemble last night when Kenai was asleep, on the inside of the tent there was a wooden table and another basket beside the table, they sit down Kenai near the table and then Denahi removed the clothing from his eyes.
"Surprise!" Denahi and Koda said in unison, Kenai looked around him and smiled.
"Hey, it´s like when you and me camp outside our home!" said Kenai to Denahi.
Denahi nodded with the head.
"Yes, we wanted to make it special for you!" Koda.
"Well, you´re doing a good job"
"And there´s more!" said Koda, below the table there was a wooden tray which have a burned salmon on it and some berries around it.
"I made you the breakfast!" said Koda smiling.
"Oh" said Kenai as he saw the burned fish, it didn´t seem too delicious.
"Koda spend a long time doing it" Denahi "You don´t want to disappointing him right?"
Koda was still smiling, and Kenai couldn't do nothing against his little brother smile, it was too cute and innocent, so Kenai send a look of I hate you to Denahi, the oldest brother only smiled, so Kenai started to eat the salmon and surprisingly it was really good.
"Wow, it´s good Koda" said Kenai.
"See? I told you he liked his salmon burning!" said Koda to Denahi.
Denahi rolled his eyes.
"I´m thinking in making him the cooker"
"Well, that wouldn´t be a bad idea" Kenai "He cooks better than you"
Once Kenai had finished the salmon, Koda and Denahi sited down beside him.
"Now´s time for presents!" said Koda excited.
"I hope it´s not another death fish" Kenai thought for himself.
First Denahi gave his gift, it was a knife, the blade was sharped and on the handle it had Kenai´s name and down the name it was write:
My little brother bear.
"What a detail!" Kenai exclaimed "Thanks Denahi!"
"It´s a pleasure bro" said Denahi, he lifted his hand and Kenai joined his hand with his brother.
"Koda, your turn" said Denahi once he and Kenai had separated hands.
"Okay" Koda.
From the basket Koda pull out a wooden figure, it wasn´t the best, it was clearly that had been made by a kid, but it was good, in the figure there was a young man holding on his arms a little bear cub.
"It´s you and I" Koda "When I saw you on your human form on the mountain where the lights touched the earth, I was so afraid of you on that moment, and now, look at me, living between humans"
Koda deliver the figure to Kenai, who take it and examined.
"Koda, it´s beautiful, you made it?"
"Yes" Koda nodded with the head "Denahi helped me when I start it"
"But he learn quick" Denahi "Soon he didn´t needed me anymore"
"Well, Koda, it´s beautiful" Kenai "And you capture yourself perfectly, you look so scare" he said holding a laugh.
"Yes, but on real life I wasn´t that scare!"
"Yes you were" Denahi "I remember like if had been yesterday, a little scared hairball"
"O yeah, now I think on it, he looks so cute when he´s scared" Kenai.
"Hey, I´m not cute when I´m scared"
"Yes you are" Kenai "Specially that night, why do you think I hug you so much?"
"Because you love me"
"Besides that"
The three brothers laughed.
"Well, I love it Koda, it´s so amazing"
"Thanks, I want it to represent our love, that despite we are from different species, we love each other no matter what, because we are brothers" Koda.
"You´re right Koda" said Kenai hugging him "Brother forever"
"And Kenai, I promise that I´ll never again be afraid of you, no matter your form or appearance, because I love you and I know you love me" Koda.
"And nothing´s going to change that ever" Kenai.
Once they separated, Denahi was looking at Kenai with a malicious smile on his face.
"What?" Kenai.
Denahi put out a pillow.
"You know what it means" Denahi.
"Oh no" Kenai.
Denahi punch him on the face with the pillow, Kenai hide the figure on the basket, to make sure it will be safe and also the knife so no one will get hurt, then Kenai grabbed another pillow and started fight Denahi, soon the two brothers were into a fight while they laugh, and Koda joined the battle, also laughing.