Omake 21
"I'm home!" Fuuma walked into his house, only to find it was seemingly empty. "Ah nuts, Dad must've gotten called into work on Christmas Eve of all nights." The teenager brushed the snow off his cloak as he walked in.
"Shame Subaru and Hokuto couldn't have joined me and Kamui; it was fun building the snowman."
Hanging his cloak up in the closet and starting to walk to his room, he heard the piano being played. Was his father home after all? Then again the song being played didn't exactly sound too Christmas-y.
Walking down to the room where the piano sat, Fuuma was greeted not with the site of his father, but his older brother.
Fuuma sighed. His brother must've had another falling out with their mother again. Thankfully at least Seishirou could apparate now so he didn't walk here and catch hypothermia like he had in the past. Daring to get closer he strained his hearing to hear what his brother was playing and singing.
"I give You my destiny
I'm giving You all of me
I want Your symphony
Singing in all that I am
At the top of my lungs I'm giving it back
So I lay my head back down
And I lift my hands and pray
To be only yours
I pray to be only yours
I pray to be only yours
I know now you're my only hope."
"I knew it."
Fuuma was met with an intense amber gaze. "And pray tell, how long have you been standing there little brother?"
"Long enough to know that you're in love with Subaru."
There was a slight bang sound that had emerged from the tip of Seishirou's wand. "Don't speak such nonsense, it's impossible for us to be together with me being who I am."
"Love is blind Seishirou."
The younger brother found himself pinned to the wall with a wand to his throat.
"I am of age now, I can hex you. I came here to distract myself from the fact that I can't be with Subaru, not be reminded of it."
"AHA! You admit it you're in love with him! VICTORY!" Despite having a wand to his throat the younger brother threw his arms in the air like he had just won the Quidditch world cup.
"Perhaps, but as Mother said, it will never work. Our families aren't exactly known for getting along."
"So what? They're them and you're you. You and Subaru have been friends since you first laid eyes on him. Moreover, I've seen you change because of him. Now if you don't mind, kindly lower your wand…I would think tonight of all nights you wouldn't want to let your dark side out."
Amber eyes narrowed but nevertheless the wand was returned to the hiding place in the sleeve. "I'm feeling a bit better, no need to tell Father I was here, I'm heading home. Mother should be at work by now."
Fuuma didn't get a chance to get another word in. With a slight pop his brother was gone.
~#~
The seventeen-year-old flopped onto his bed and threw his arm over his face.
This is cruel, why did I fall in love with someone I can never have?
"Love is cruel bigger brother, but I will thank you for showing how much I meant to you to keep coming back here despite how mean Mommy is to you."
He moved his arm off his face and looked at the pearly white apparition sitting on his windowsill. "You really will keep seeing me until I graduate and move on won't you?"
"That's right."
~#~
A few years ago, Seishirou had stood in the graveyard by his sister's grave to pay his respects to her, however, it wasn't long until his emotions got the best of him and he turned his attention to the sky. "Why her huh? WHY NOT ME? She had her whole life ahead of her! She was only a child!"
"Silly bigger brother, you were only five years older than me in life, and yelling at the sky won't bring me back. Nor will shutting yourself out."
"Kotori…but….you…"
"No spell can reawaken the dead bigger brother. You have to be yourself again. I've been watching you. That boy you're with, he seems very nice! So stop trying to shut yourself out as punishment for my death. It's not your fault and I would never in a billion years blame you."
"Why?"
"Because I love you. I always knew Mommy didn't like me much, and when she said that day she was going to start using her magic on you to train you, I told her and made her promise not to until you could fight back. In exchange for it she killed me."
"So I am the one to blame then..."
"No. I did it of my own choosing because if I had lived to see it, I probably would've gotten in the way and ended up worse than dead. Besides, being a ghost I can keep an eye on her, and if she tries to hurt my big brother or bigger brother I can do mean things to her." The young ghost girl smiled softly at her brother as she hovered above her grave.
"Where did you learn such things?"
"You learn a lot when you're dead, just like I know what Mommy did to you that night."
The inverted pentagram flared and he sighed in defeat.
"So I'm going to keep an eye on you from now until your last promise to me is fulfilled!"
~#~
"So now then, tell me more about Subaru. I only get peeks at him; I wish I could meet him one day."
"Subaru…I can't even describe him in words…"
"I was right then."
"What are you talking about Kotori?"
"One day you'll see. I need to go for now though. Merry Christmas bigger brother." In a wisp of smoke she was gone, but that fatal memory was still in her brain.
"Mommy? Why do you hate me?"
"You have no magic you insolent child."
"Why do want to use magic on bigger brother?"
"I need someone to follow in my footsteps; you nor your mudblood brother could do it."
"I won't let you hurt bigger brother; he can't use his magic to defend himself."
"And what are you going to do?"
"Kill me instead, in exchange; keep him safe until he can defend himself in which he'll be able to beat you anyways."
"Confident in him aren't you?"
"I am, I believe in bigger brother, he's a much better magician than you."
"You realize you'll break his heart don't you?"
"I do, and this is selfish of me, but he'll soon find his destiny awaits elsewhere and that will be your downfall."
"And what makes you so sure? When I'm done with your precious brother, he won't know what emotions are anymore."
"Magic isn't always about waving a wand and making good or bad happen Mommy. You'll see, he'll fall in love and in doing so will end you."