"Hey Yuki! I told you he was alive!" A familiar masculine voice laughed from up ahead as Masamune approached the house.
Masamune breathed heavily as he got to the lawn feeling like collapsing right there. "Hey" He said with a wheeze.
"Hey bro. Woah!" Nobuyuki said, catching him before he fell. "Easy there."
"Thanks for the catch. Lot's of running and panicking okay i'm worn out" Masamune complained his voice shaking.
"You okay? Short breath? Pain?" Nobuyuki asked, looking him over.
"Just need to rest" Masamune said panting hard. Nobuyuki nodded and pulled him along up to the house, putting Masamune's weight on his shoulders.
"Yuki! Get lots of water and some ice!" Nobuyuki yelled, his voice much louder in close proximity.
Masamune flinched from the yell. Nobuyuki set Masamune on his feet, stopping to unlock the door and lead Masamune along into the house. Masamune stumbled into the house immediately gripping onto the wall and making his way to the couch. Nobuyuki ran along into the kitchen, as the two brothers could be heard talking quietly as there was the sound of the faucet on. Masamune flopped down on the couch with a relieved harsh sigh.
"Bro, calm down, you look like you're going to pass out." Nobuyuki chuckled as the two came in with glasses of water and ice.
"No! I thought he was dead! I will not calm down!" Yukimura shrieked.
Masamune chuckled weakly. "Didn't I tell you I wasn't gonna die silly" Masamune said his voice harsh from running around so much.
"You. You are in so much trouble." Yukimura growled, smacking down the cups of ice on the table.
"Can't you ever be happy that I made it?" Masamune said rolling his eye and reaching for a glass of water.
"No because you left me all alone to be cornered by Springtrap, and I was only saved by the clock." Yukimura growled.
"Sorry." Masamune apologized taking a gulp of water.
Yukimura gave a big huff and sat on the floor, crossing his arms and glaring at Masamune. Nobuyuki rolled his eyes at the two. Masamune gave a huge sigh of relieve.
"Much better. But I figured you be fine since you and Springtrap are such good friends. And last night I was also saved by the clock" Masamune said taking another gulp.
"Yuki, take a chill pill and calm down." Nobuyuki said, rolling his eyes.
"Shut your trap, Nobu." Yukimura snapped. "I am perfectly fine, and I don't need to 'take a chill pill'."
"She wanted to be a Veterinarian" Masamune said softly.
"Huh?" Yukimura looked confused by the randomness of the sentence.
"Carolyn. She wanted to be a Veterinarian" Masamune said.
"And that has to do with what?" Yukimura stared at him.
Masamune shrugged "I just wonder if she would have gotten the job or not if she had grown up" Masamune said.
"Probably not. I used to want to be a samurai. Then I found out they don't exist any more. Not all dreams come true." Nobuyuki spoke up, shrugging.
"Never know. I just wonder if she was to be the next one to find something out to help the world or not?" Masamune said
"Might have been. Guess we'll never know." Nobuyuki said, sitting next to Yukimura and putting an arm around his shoulders.
Masamune narrowed his eye at Nobuyuki's actions and took another sip from the water. Yukimura seemed to calm down as his brother put an arm around him, leaning into Nobuyuki and relaxing. Masamune huffed annoyed and looked away from the two.
"So this is your last night. Must be a relief, huh." Nobuyuki said, patting Yukimura on the back as he started to fall asleep.
"Yeah. Last night and then I hope these damn dreams, hallucinations and feeling of going back go away" Masamune said not looking over at Nobuyuki.
"Dreams? What kind of dreams?" Nobuyuki perked up, interested as Yukimura gave a grumpy growl, warning him not to move while he was sleeping.
"Weird ones. like they seem like some kind of old video game only with the animatronics" Masamune said.
"hm… Have you found a meaning behind them?" Nobuyuki asked, humming a lullaby as Yukimura started falling asleep.
"Not to all of them. And only some parts of the dreams have me and Kojuro actually placed the pieces together" Masamune said. Nobuyuki gave a nod, already putting the pieces together in his head and slowly moving Yukimura's head into his lap, Yukimura already giving quiet snores as he was sound asleep.
"Asleep like a baby." Nobuyuki chuckled quietly, fondly running his fingers through Yukimura's hair. "Nighty night Baby Bro." Nobuyuki mumbled, kissing Yukimura on the head.
There was a soft growl from Masamune as he took another sip of the water. Nobuyuki either didn't hear him or ignored him, sitting back and just quietly watching Yukimura with clear love in his eyes. Masamune rolled his eye and sighed looking away. Nobuyuki heard the sigh and glanced up, a slight smile on his face as he saw Masamune looking away.
"You know he's my bro, right." Nobuyuki said, one eyebrow raised.
"I know" Masamune grumbled
"And yet you keep acting like i'm attracted to him or something. You know i'd never do that to him. I don't see him as anything but my brother, who I love dearly." Nobuyuki said.
Masamune rolled his eye. "Yeah yeah. Your lucky you got a brother" Masamune said.
"Hey! As soon as you two do your thing i'm going to be your big brother." Nobuyuki said, keeping his voice quiet as Yukimura shifted away, curling into Nobuyuki.
"Half brother. Not blood related" Masamune sighed.
"At least i'm not the last in my line anymore. By this point me and Yuki are all that's left of our family. I've got him, he's got me." Nobuyuki said sadly.
"At least you got family that love you. I have myself in my family." Masamune said.
"You've got Kojuro. You forget about him? At least you've got a parent that loves you. Mine just pushed me and Yuki to our limits, told us we had to be exactly like dad. Just as good as him, and just as skilled." Nobuyuki said.
"Yeah but I mean blood related family. He's my Guardian but not blood related. Don't get me wrong I love him like a father and practically like a big brother. You think I don't have expectations to live up to?" Masamune said.
Nobuyuki sighed and looked back at Yukimura. "I remember the first time this little squirt came home. Mom showed him off, saying he was cute and everything. The first words out of my mouth were that I thought he was stupid and ugly." Nobuyuki chuckled.
"And now he's all you got, and he kinda grows on ya. I had my baby brother who I said i'd look after and protect. And now i'm the only one." Masamune said with a sigh.
"Eh, I was just bitter cause I had to be forced to share my stuff, and I was jealous that he was getting all new stuff, just cause he was small and could barely even be poked without bursting into tears. I guess eventually I started to get over it." Nobuyuki chuckled.
"While my brother started out cute and then turned into another annoyance" Masamune grumbled.
"It was weird how angry I had gotten his first day of school. A bunch of kids came up and started making fun of him. I didn't know why, but seeing them pick on him instead of me pissed me off so much. I ran up and punched one straight in the face." Nobuyuki chuckled.
"While my little brother soon became the center of attention and I became some outcast. He even tried to steal my team from me the little brat. He never was good in sports" Masamune growled.
"I guess I can say I know that feeling. I hated how Yuki was practically fawned over while I just got pushed to the back. Took me long enough to realize it's because Yuki couldn't do anything by himself, literally. Stealing teams? I taught Yuki soccer, so it's kinda the other way around, in that case. Not that I cared. I was graduating anyway, so he could have it if he wanted." Nobuyuki chuckled.
"Well I didn't much like that my little brother was trying to steal the team I worked hard to create an put time, effort, money and a lot of sweat into making the best around here. I can only imagine what happened after my team left the school" Masamune chuckled
"Did he ever actually get anywhere with it? Or did everyone just let him play because he was small?" Nobuyuki chuckled.
"He eventually quite seeing how most of my team liked me more than him and because he was slower and not good at position and didn't want to be called a waterboy" Masamune laughed softly.
"Ah yes, I heard about your little field wars." Nobuyuki chuckled.
"Well they shouldn't have cut one field off from school grounds." Masamune said.
"No way. They got rid of the other field?" Nobuyuki looked surprised.
"Yeah after you graduated the one used normally for soccer got cut and there was only the baseball field left." Masamune said.
"Dammit! And I spent all my years petitioning to keep that field!" Nobuyuki whined.
"Yeah the whole soccer team was in an uproar about it. Me and my boy's even complained to the princ. but he never got it back the bastard" Masamune grumbled.
"Dammit! I was even renting that field, just to keep it. Left a whole bank account to Yuki to continue renting it." Nobuyuki whined.
"I would have liked it they had kept it it was troublesome when they wanted to practice around the big games coming up and my boys needed to practice." Masamune growled.
"Well we gotta practice too, you know. I worked hard to whip those boys into shape and turn them into men. I won't see that talent wasted." Nobuyuki chuckled.
"Eventually towards the end of the year we got it where one team would have the field and the other had practice at the park. And we switched each time and if some big game was coming up that team had the field till the game" Masamune said.
"Did you or Yuki ever win anything, by the way? I'm hoping Yuki lived up to my legacy of making it at least as far as nationals for four years in a row." Nobuyuki chuckled.
"I think he made some you'd have to check in the back room we put all the trophies back there. I know my team when we were there made nationals and won all sorts of things" Masamune said proudly.
Nobuyuki gave a quiet clap and a big smile. "Good work! It's no mean feat, taking up nationals." Nobuyuki praised.
"Ah no biggie. Dad had always played with me when I was small, and whenever we could drag Kojuro along and my brothers it was really fun. Even if it wasn't like an actual game it was time I got to spend with my family and friends." Masamune smiled
"Ah, I kinda used soccer as a way of bullying Yuki during my period of jealousness. I'd essentially deliberately hit him. Guess he actually took something from that after all." Nobuyuki chuckled.
"Ah there was a few times when my little brother wanted to join that I purposefully hit him with a baseball." Masamune chuckled.
"I'd send Yuki flying like three feet in the air. It was like watching something that should have been in slow motion but it wasn't." Nobuyuki laughed quietly.
"Mmm. Nobu?" Yukimura mumbled, snuggling his face into Nobuyuki's legs.
"Sorry Bro. Did we wake you?" Nobuyuki chuckled, rubbing Yukimura's back.
Masamune smiled warmly at Yukimura. Yukimura's eyes blinked open looking sleepily up at Nobuyuki and whining, holding his arms out like a child asking for a hug. Nobuyuki chuckled, hugging Yukimura as the two stayed hugging for a while till there was a loud squeak from Yukimura and him slapping Nobuyuki on the arms. Masamune sighed looking away and standing up. "Excuse me i'll be right back" Masamune said walking over to the bathroom.
"Pervert!" Yukimura shrieked, with Nobuyuki laughing hard, releasing Yukimura.
"Oh come on! What's a little butt grabbing between bros." Nobuyuki wheezed, laughing.
Masamune sighed as he closed the door to the bathroom and looked in the mirror. 'Why did my brother turn out only to be like mother instead of a brother who would look up to me?' Masamune thought.
The laughter died down outside, along with the sound of the door opening and closing, signaling the two had gone outside. Masamune hit the mirror in anger it cracking a tad. "Damn it. Why am I so frowned upon by the world?" Masamune growled. Soon he felt the overwhelming pain in his knuckles, as small shards of the mirror had cracked off and embedded themselves in his knuckles, letting loose the warm flow of blood. Masamune pulled away his hand and sighed as he took out what he could by hand of the mirror shards. As he picked the shards out, he found himself watching the blood flow from his knuckles down into the sink. Masamune found himself chuckling a bit. "I guess you never grow out of habits" Masamune said grabbing the tweezers from the bathroom drawer. 'What am I doing? I thought i'd grown out of this' The reasonable part of his mind scolded him. 'You know how Yuki feels about blood and you getting hurt! How inconsiderate of you!' Masamune sighed pulling the very last piece out with the tweezers.
"Masa. You in there?" Yukimura's voice asked from the door, knocking gently. "Me and Nobuyuki are going out to town for a bit. We're just going to go looking around, i'm gonna show him the town."
"Ah okay, see you later then" Masamune said.
"See you later, love you!" Yukimura said, going back to the front door and leaving again.
"Love you too" Masamune called back and then sighed. 'All alone again. Might as well entertain myself, I guess.' Masamune sighed, wiping his hand of blood and putting bandaids on the knuckle. Opening the door and walked back to the bedroom. With a heavy sigh, he fell on his back on the bed, staring up at the ceiling.
