DISCLAIMER : I DO NOT OWN BROTHERS CONFLICT IN ANYWAY SHAPE OR FORM

Subaru had just returned home when he saw Natsume's car pulling up in front of the condo, right in front of at least two cars he didn't regonize.

"What are you doing here?" he asked.

"I was concern about the social worker coming back and the visit from Kimi's teacher and principal. I wanted to come see how it went," Natsume explained.

"Hmm," muttered Subaru, "that woman really got under my skin yesterday. It made me feel kind of powerless, that there wasn't anything I could do to try and keep her from taking Kimi away."

" That was probably her intent. She figured none of your older brothers would be there that could counteract her," said Natsume as they came up to the door.

"Hmm, well if she ever shows up again, I won't let her get the better of me!" Subaru insisted.

"Good," said Natsume right as the woman came to the door herself.

"Oh, you again," said Subaru.

"Is this the so called social worker?" Natsume asked.

"Yeah, I hope she's not here to try and take Kimi away again," said Subaru.

"Out of my way please, " Ms. Yakki sneered as she tried to rotate around the two men.

"Are you here to try and take Kimi away?"Natsume asked.

"Please, just let me be," Ms. Yakki insisted as she kept trying to get past. Then she noticed a new group heading towards the house. "Is that the Ichigi family?" She asked.

"Now what are they up to?" Natsume asked annoyed as his coworker and his family approached.

"Asahina!" Ichigi snapped mad,"you know what your little brat of a sister did today?!"

"I think you're mistaken. Neither of my sisters are what I would call brats," said Natsume.

"Oh yeah? Then why did your sister beat up our boy?!" Mrs. Ichigi asked as she coddled her son close to her. As if on cue, the boy started to cry.

"She was so mean to me!" he insisted as he kept acting like he was crying.

Both Natsume and Subaru looked at the boy's face and neither one could see any kind of mark on him.

"Where are your other brothers? I want to talk to them!" Ichigi insisted.

"Sure, I'm sure they've been wanting to talk to you as well," said Natsume.

" Maybe I should stick around for this as well, just in case," said Ms. Yakki.

"You're Ms. Yakki," Mrs. Ichigi said in delight, "you were the one that helped my husband's friend from his old company with that slut halfier."

"Yes it's good to see you again," said Ms. Yakki.

"You helped in that case too?" Natsume asked.

"Yeah so what?" Ichigi asked.

"Just seems like an odd coincidence is all," said Natsume.


"Mr. Asahina, please forgive us for waisting your time with such a thing like this," Ms. Tannin said as she and Miss Hogo bowed in respect to the Masaomi and the rest of the Asahina family who stood in the living room. The only two not present were Wataru and Kimi.

"No please, it's fine," Masaomi said calmly, "hopefully we won't have to worry about such a problem in the future."

"I hope so too," said Miss Hogo, "um, actually, now that this whole ordeal is over, I was actually wondering...,"

"Masaomi," Natsume suddenly called out as he and Subaru came into the room, "you have company." Before Masaomi could ask who, he saw the Ichigi family and Ms. Yakki coming back into the room.

"What are they doing here?" Yusuke asked what everyone was thinking.

"We're here because your little sister beat up my son!" Ichigi snapped as he walked up to Masaomi and Ukyo, "Something she probably picked up from the two of you!"

"Kimi beat up your son?" Masaomi asked as he walked over to the boy who once again started to cry as if he was just putting on an act.

"It's true, she hurt me!" Aiji whined.

"Here let me look at you," Masaomi insisted calmly in a gentle tone.

"Why what are you going to do to my son?!" Aiji's mother asked in a panic as she tried to shield her son away from Masaomi in a protective manner.

"I'm a doctor Madam, I just want to see if there's anything I can do to try and help whatever injury Kimi apparently inflicted on him," Masaomi explained kindly. "Please, let me just take a look at him."

"No thank you!" snapped the woman. Masaomi took a deep breath.

"Very well, but how are we to tell exactly how serious Kimi beat him up?" he asked.

"She didn't," Ms. Tannin spoke up, "I didn't see her do anything to the boy and I was outside there after school."

"That's not true, she really did beat me up!" Aiji shouted as he suddenly tore away from his mother and everyone could see he didn't even have a scratch on his face.

"He looks okay to me," said Masaomi, "are you sure Kimi did something to him?"

"Yes," said the entire Ichigi family.

"Really,because like I said before, I didn't see anything," said Ms. Tannin. "What about you Miss Hogo?"

"Uh, all I saw was Aiji running away crying, but I didn't see Kimi attack him or anything," said Miss Hogo.

"See, I would think your son's making things up again," said Ms. Tannin.

"I am not! I am not!" Aiji shouted as he stomped his foot.

"Calm down sweet heart," said his mother, "we know you're right in this situation. We know you're the victim in all of this."

"Thank you Mommy," said Aiji as he buried his face into his mother's stomach.

"Oh god," muttered Yusuke.

"Mr. and Mrs. Ichigi, I don't know what happened today or in general between your son and our sister, but please, this really has gone on far too long. Please, can't we just agree to have your son stay away from Kimi and we promise we'll do our best to keep Kimi and Wataru away from him. You have my entire family's word," Masaomi promised. As he did, all his brothers and Ema all bowed to the family.

"I supposed we can try that," Mrs. Ichigi said. She looked towards her husband, "right dear?"

Ichigi didn't reply. He looked like he was seriously thinking about something.

"Dear?" his wife asked again.

"I, is there a bathroom around here?" Ichigi asked.

"Upstairs, to the left," said Masaomi, pointing the way.

"Thank you," Ichigi said calmly as he walked up the stairs. His wife meanwhile moved over towards Ms. Yakki.

"Did you find anything that proved that the girls should be removed from the house?" she whispered.

"No, especially after I got an earful from her parents. The mother was extremely mad about it!" Ms. Yakki whispered back.

"You mean, she's staying?" Mrs. Ichigi asked sounding both worried and annoyed.

"At this point yes," said Ms. Yakki, "and to think I had a family lined up to ship her off to in America."

"You know it's rude to whisper like that in the presence of others," Kaname said to the two ladies from where they stood.

"Oh don't worry, we'll be out of your hair soon," said Mrs. Ichigi.

"Weren't you supposed to be gone right now anyway?" Ms. Tannin asked.

"Well, when the boy mentioned he had been beat up by the girl, I figured it might be something worth looking into," said Ms. Yakki.

"Uh-huh," said Yusuke, "does anyone here actually think that Kimi could do any real damage if she took on that kid?"

"Excuse me?" Mrs. Ichigi snapped, "Are trying to defend your stupid sister?"

"Hey, don't call her stupid!" Yusuke.

"Yusuke, calm down. Don't you and Ema have homework? Go do it?" Masaomi suggested.

"Yes, let's go do it," Ema said. She gripped Yusuke's elbow and pulled him towards the stairs.

"In the meantime, madam, why don't you and your son wait for your husband outside in your car?" Ukyo suggested, "and Ms. Yakki, you were leaving as well?"

"Let's just go for now," said Ms. Yakki. She, and Aiji quickly left.

"Good riddance," said Tsubaki smugly.

"Let's hope that's the last we have to deal with those people," said Azusa.

"Well, maybe you don't, I still work with the man," said Natsume. "What's taking him so long anyway?"


Ichigi looked at the different doors around him, each had a name on it to indicate who lived in what room.

'What room's hers?' he thought as he looked. He didn't know what he was planning to do when he saw her, but sometimes was making him feel the need to look for her. Finally, he came to a room that had Kimi's name on it. It was opened a crack and he could hear Kimi talking in it.

"What do you think Juli?" Something started chirping in the room.

'What's that in there with her?" Ichigi thought.


Ema had just rounded the corner to come to her room when she caught Ichigi standing outside Kimi's room.

"Um, excuse me sir," she spoke up. Ichigi jumped at the sound of her voice.

"Oh, it's you, the other sister," he said calmly.

"What are you doing here?" Ema asked.

"I uh, thought I heard your sister's voice and thought maybe I should try talking to her," said Ichigi.

"About what?" Ema asked cautiously.

"About her beating up other people," said Ichigi.

"Oh that, I really don't think Kimi beat up your son. No offence or anything," said Ema.

Ichigi stood up right and walked over to Ema. He came at her with such a force, that Ema found herself backing up until she was practically pinned up against the wall. Ichigi grabbed one of her arms.

"You are such a sweet sister you know that? I bet is this little girl is around you more often, she could turn out halfway decent," he said.

"What are you talking about?" Ema asked scared.

"I'm afraid my wife doesn't want to let this go so easily. She's very protective of our son. However, I might be able to help persuade her that it's not necessary since she has a sister like you to help guide her down the right path," Ichigi said. Ema wasn't sure if she liked where this conversation was going. Something about the way the man was holding her and the way he was talking was telling her he wanted something in return.

"Please let me go," she asked softly.

"No, wait, I was just going to ask if you would like to join me for something like dinner so I can get to know you better and know if you're as great a sister as you're claiming to be," Ichigi said.

'I knew it!' Ema thought.

"No, that won't happen. Whatever you and your wife may try to do in taking Kimi for whatever reason, won't work. My family won't let it happen!"

"Granted, but don't you think you could spare everyone the grief and just come have dinner with me. Just one dinner and I'll convince my wife to comply back off," Ichigi insisted.

"No, I'm sorry but I can't do that," Ema maintained.

At that, Ichigi started to look mad. "Think really carefully about what you're saying. I don't like being told no and in case you haven't noticed my wife and I are fighters who are not afraid to keep fighting your family until our dying breath in order to get your sister away from here!"

"Help!" Ema finally started to cry out.


"Just about done Juli," Kimi said.

"Good job Little Chi," Juli said proudly.

"Suddenly they heard Ema's cry for help.

"Chi!" Juli shouted as he dashed out of the room. Kimi followed fast. Both came out to see Ema being pinned to the wall by Ichigi.

Wolf!" Juli shouted, not waisting a minute as he ran and jumped onto Ichigi's head, yanking at his hair.

"Ah, get this thing off of me!" Ichigi shouted. Ema moved from the wall and over to Kimi.

"Are you okay Big Sister?" Kimi asked.

"I, I think so," Ema Sputtered, clearly still shaken.

"Ema, you okay?" Yusuke asked as he came running around the corner. He stopped when he saw the scene of Juli attacking Ichigi. "What did this basterd do?!"

"What was that screaming?!" Masaomi asked as he came behind Yusuke, along with several other brothers. They too saw the struggle between Ichigi and Juli.

"So Juli finally met Juli huh?" Louis said calmly.