DISCLAIMER I DO NOT OWN BROTHERS CONFLICT IN ANYWAY SHAPE OR FORM
"And done!" Kimi exclaimed as she finished drawing her picture. She held it up to Natsume, "What do you think?"
Natsume took it and looked it over throughly. "It's very good Kimi. Do you like how it turned out?"
"I thought it was pretty," said Kimi.
"Good," said Natsume patting her head, "Let's take this over to Mr. Hogo's computer so he can animate it." Both brother and sister walked over to Hogo's computer. Wataru and Masaomi were still there watching Wataru's drawing.
"That's very nice Wataru," said Masaomi.
"I know, I'm great!" said Wataru.
"Let me see!" Kimi insisted as she moved to the computer. Mr. Hogo hit replay and let Wataru's character start moving again with the animation.
"Isn't it great Little Sister?" Wataru asked.
"Yeah it's really good," said Kimi.
"Did you have a drawing?" Mr. Hogo asked.
"Oh yes here," said Kimi holding up her drawing.
Mr. Hogo took it and raised an eyebrow as he examined it. "This is good, reall good."
"You think so?" asked Kimi.
"Oh yes, I know real talent when I see it," said Mr. Hogo.
"I told you," said Natsume.
"However, it may take me some time to get this animated since there's so many characters," said Mr. Hogo.
"Is that bad?" asked Kimi.
"No just letting you know," said Mr. Hogo, "Maybe one of your brothers can take you to look around for a little bit while I work on this okay?"
"That sounds like a good idea," said Natsume, "I can show you some more art that others with your kind of talent have done, huh Kimi?"
"Okay," said Kimi.
"Come back in like ten minutes or so," Mr. Hogo called out as the four siblings. As they started to leave the children's area they were surprised to bump into another family coming in. It was Kimi's friend Mura along with her parents.
"Hi Kimi!" Mura shouted.
"Hi Mura!" Kimi replied just as excited.
"Nice to see you again," said Masaomi.
"Yes you too," said Mura's father, "Are you leaving already?"
"Oh no, since Kimi's animation is going to take longer than usual we're taking her and Wataru to go look at some of the art pieces they have on display," Masaomi explained.
"Oh sure," said Mura's father moving out of the way for them.
"We'll be back soon," said Masaomi as he led the kids out, "Have fun, this whole thing is really exciting."
"Sure," said Mura's father. He watched the four start to walk off.
"Are those the people you were talking about?" his wife asked as they led their daughter to a coloring table.
"Yeah," said Mura's father, "I don't mean to judge but I can't help but think a girl Kimi's age, especially one that's been adopted, should be with a family where the parents are around more."
"Well I'm sure that orphanage wouldn't have let the family take her if they didn't think they'd offer a good home for her," said Mura's mother. Neither one noticed Mr. Ichigi, Aiji's father, looking over at them.
"I supposed you're right," said Mura's father, "I'm trying not to make a big deal about it. I guess I'm not use to such a thing."
"Maybe you should feel reason for concern," Mr. Ichigi spoke up suddenly walking over to them, "My son goes to the same school as your daughter and that other girl you're talking about. I think it's a bit weird that the parents would simply adopt a child and then just dump her off with their other kids. That can't be good for her."
"You think so too?" Mura's father asked.
"Very much so. Maybe we should look into having a social worker look in on the girl and her living conditions," Mr. Ichigi insisted.
"Ichigi, shut-up, you don't know what you're talking about," Mr. Hogo spoke up from his computer.
"Oh don't I? I'm a father and I know that there's some environments that are good for kids and there's some that aren't," Ichigi insisted.
"Yes but my sister's also the girl's teacher and if she thought there was something wrong with the way the girl's living she would have done something by now about it," said Mr. Hogo, "Plus you know Natsumi. He and his family has always been good people. Even if I don't like how cozy his older two brothers are getting with my sister, I don't think they'd treat that little girl any different than if she was in house with both parents present."
"He's right," said Mura's mother, "It doens't look like the little girl is doing bad. We shouldn't push it. Just let it be okay?" She turned her attention back to her own daughter. "So Mura what would you like to color?"
Mr. Ichigi however moved over to Mura's father and started to whisper into his ear. "I still think we should do something about this girl. We should at least have someone look into her home living."
"Well maybe, I'll have to think about it," said Mura's father, "I mean I don't want to stir up trouble."
"Okay but just remember the more we avoid this the more likely there could be trouble for that little girl," Ichigi insisted as he moved back to his computer. Mr. Hogo looked over at him with a glare, not liking what he saw and heard going down. He figured he'd bring it up to Natusmi and his brother when they came back to the children's room.
Wataru ran up ahead of his brothers and sister as they came to some of the art works on display.
"Look-Look!" he called out pointing to one of the pictures, "I remember playing that game!"
"Oh yes, that's a nice game," said Natsume as he looked at it.
"Oh and I've seen this one too!" Wataru insisted running to another.
"Wataru don't run off too far ahead," said Masaomi.
"Look it's a princess!" Kimi said pointing to a picture on the wall.
"Hmm this is from a real old game, like from when our parents were kids," said Masaomi looking at the info of the picture.
"Wow, that must have so long ago!" said Wataru.
"They're not that old Wataru," said Natsume.
"Are there any with elephants?" Kimi asked, "Or maybe a giraffe?"
"I think there were some from various games," said Natsumie, "Let's try going this way."
"I'm telling you I voiced him!" they suddenly heard Tsubaki say. They could all see him, Azusa and Ema rounding a corner and coming into view.
"Tsubaki, according to the caption, the game came out when you were still in high school," said Ema.
"Quit trying to take credit where it's not due," said Azusa.
"Oh come on," said Tsubaki right as he noticed Kimi and the others. "Kimi!" he whined hurrying over to her and picking her up, "Can you believe that Azusa and Ema are calling me a liar?"
"Are you?" Kimi asked.
"No!" Tsubaki insisted.
"Yes," Azusa said quickly after.
"Hmm, everyone's against me. Well everyone except you, right Kimi?" Tsubaki said looking at his sister.
"You're a good boy but, you shouldn't lie," said Kimi. Ema had to hide her mouth behind her mouth as she started to laugh.
"You're right Kimi, Tsubaki is a good person but he shouldn't lie," said Azusa.
"I'll do my best not to okay Kimi?" Tsubaki promised. Kimi nodded and kissed Tsubaki's cheek.
"Sometimes I think Kimi's too good to be Tsubaki's sister," said Natsume.
"What, are you crazy?" Tsubaki asked.
"How was the children's exhibit going?" Azusa asked.
"It's going good. It's just going to take a while for Kimi's drawing to get animated, so were taking a quick break to look at the art they have up," said Masaomi.
"Oh I can't wait to see Kimi's drawing animated," said Tsubaki.
"I bet it looks great," said Ema.
"Mine looked great too!" Wataru insisted.
"I'm sure they can see it when we go back to look at Kimi's," said Natsume.
"Hey by the way where's Ukyo? I bet he'd like to see it too," said Masaomi.
"Oh, he went off for some alone time with Kimi's cute teacher," said Tsubaki in a dream like voice.
"He what?" Masaomi said in a loud voice. His tone surprised all his siblings.
"Masa are you okay?" asked Ema.
"Oh yes I'm fine. I was just surprised Ukyo would want to go off on his own. Where did they go?" Masaomi insisted on knowing.
"Uh to this house hold exhibit the musuem's also hosting," said Ema timidly.
"Where's that at?" asked Masaomi.
"I think it's towards the back of the museum," said Natsume.
"Excuse me," said Masaomi as he hurried off.
"Where's Masa going?" asked Kimi.
"Hmm should we go find out?" Tsubaki asked as he started to follow Masaomi along. The other siblings also followed.
"Wow, would you look at this?" Akemi Hogo said looking at a fake adobe oven. She fiddled with some of the controls to see the fake flames come up around the fake bread. "Could you ever imagine getting to cook with an over like this?" She asked Ukyo.
"I would love a chance to try it," said Ukyo standing next to her looking at the oven as well.
"This whole exhibit itself is amazing I think," said Akemi as the two moved onward to a different kitchen, "I wonder if my students would enjoy such a thing."
"Well they'd have fun with the kinds of things you can mess around with," said Ukyo, "Although I think they would prefre going to the zoo instead."
"Yeah you're right. This might be a nicer place to maybe take older kids. Not only could they have fun but they might actually learn from it," said Akemi.
"Do you like working with the little kids?" asked Ukyo.
"Oh I love working with little kids. I love my job," Akemi insisted.
"I like my job too, even when it gets highy demanding. Both my job as a lawyer or as my role in my family," said Ukyo.
"What kind of rold is that?" asked Akemi.
Ukyo blushed and rubbed the back of his head in embarrassment. "I'm kind of the mother figure I guess you could say. I usually do a lot of the cooking and cleaning and things like that." He heard Akemi giggle.
"I kind of got that vibe from you, no offence or anything. I think it's sweet that you're willing to help out in that way," she said.
"Oh, well thank you," said Ukyo. However his face dropped when he saw Masamoi hurrying into the exhibit. He felt like a deer in headlights. He kept wondering if he should try and move Akemi away where she or Masaomi couldn't notice each other. However before he could make up his mind he saw his other brothers and sisters walking into the exhibit as well.
"Oh wow this look like fun!" Wataru shouted looking around, "I wonder what that does over there!" He ran over to one of the interactive kitchens.
"Wataru, don't rush off and cause trouble!" Natsume called out.
"Is that your brothers and sisters?" Akemi asked turning to the sound of Wataru and Natsume's voices.
"Uh yes looks like," Ukyo said trying to hide the dissapointment in his voice.
"Look there's Ukyo and Miss Hogo," Kimi said pointing, still in Tsubaki's arms.
"Oh would you look at that?" said Tsubaki with a smirk.
As Masaomi looked at his brother with Kimi's teacher, he tried not to show his anger at seeing the two of them together.
"Hello everyone," said Miss Hogo as she walked over to the family, "Hi Kimi are you having a good time?"
"Yeah, your brother is bringing my drawing to life right now. It's just going to take a while before it's ready," said Kimi.
"Actually it should be ready by now if you want to go back and check," said Natsume.
"Oh I can't wait to see it!" said Tsubaki.
"Plus we can see Wataru's too right?" said Ema as the family, along with Miss Hogo, headed back to the children's area.
"So Ukyo," said Masaomi as the two brothers all walked back. The two were lingering back behind the group, "Did you have fun with Miss Hogo?"
"Yes as a matter of fact. We were having a really nice time before you showed up," Ukyo said. He made sure to put a lot of efficient on the word you.
"When you say you, you're not referring to us as group are you?" Masamoi asked.
Ukyo was quiet for a moment before he admitted, "No."
"I see," was all Masaomi would reply as the two brothers kept walking onward. Each could feel the tension coming from his brother but at the same time, they could also feel the guilt coming from each other as well.