The Matsuno brothers were at home, mostly trying to survive on their own as their parents went off to rekindle their marriage. They'd be gone for a good 2 weeks or more if things were better than ever. It was some fancy couples retreat to get disgruntled spouses to love again. You know..like The Love Boat. They left with a boisterous "This house better be in great condition before we come back you NEETs!" Making meals three times a day for five people was hard. Especially when they didn't appreciate how much effort you put in making it. "HEY! WHY THE HELL AM I THE ONLY ONE COOKING?! I KNOW SOME OF YOU CAN COOK! WHAT HAPPENED TO TEAM WORK, MY BROTHERS?!" Karamatsu screamed in agitation. He threw the fry pan to the floor, hard enough to make a dent on the wood. "Ehhhhhh!?" Todomatsu whined, looking up from his phone. "But I cooked 6 days ago! Go scream specifically at Chorofappiski-nii-san. I'm sure he needs the boost." "CHOROFAPPISKI MY ASS! I'M THE ONLY ONE CLEANING THIS WHOLE DAMN HOUSE!" The otaku brother of the group argued, all the way from the end of the hallway. Even with the vacuum on, he still heard Todomatsu's snarky remark. "WHERE THE HELL IS ICHIMATSU AND OSOMATSU-NII-SAN?! DIDN'T THEY PROMISE TO VACUUM THIS TIME?!" As if he was in deep thought Karamatsu put his hand to his chin. "Oh yeah.. I forgot. Ichimatsu went to take a dump, and Osomatsu-nii-san.. is out to play PACHINKO DAMN IT!" "DAMN IT THOSE BASTARDS ARE GOING TO PAY!" Karamatsu then asked, "Does anyone know where Jyushimatsu is?" Shaking his head, Choromatsu answered, "I saw him going outside, and that's about the only time I last saw him." "Argh.. at least he could have taken the couch with him or something! I'm getting tired of the stench!" Todomatsu groaned in annoyance. He looked out the window hoping to spot his younger sibling, and he did! Only to see... him.. pushing the couch to the river? PUSHING THE COUCH TO THE RIVER?! Todomatsu started sprinting towards Jyushimatsu, desperately shrieking, "AHHHHHHHHHH! JYUSHIMATSU! STOP!" Karamatsu and Choromatsu confused about why on earth Todomatsu sprinted off screaming, looked out exactly where he was looking at from the window, only to instantly find out what exactly made their younger brother become a maniac. They both screamed. "JYUSHIMATSU! OH MY JYUSHIMATSU! WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO OUR COUCH JYUSHIMATSU?!" Karamatsu panicked letting his usually what he thought was smooth voice, become cracked, like when a child was maturing into a teen. The second youngest brother laughed in reply. "I'm tired of this smell! It's making me want to rip my head off you know? Haha! It deserves to just disappear!" In just one second Jyushimatsu pushed off his brothers who were holding him back and pushed the couch in the river, while he screamed his favourite quote from baseball, "homerun." "JYUSHIMATSU!" Back in the house… Ichimatsu, the fourth oldest son, finally came out of the bathroom only to hear his brothers screaming hysterically from outside. He ran out only to see four familiar figures wearing the Matsuno's iconic sweaters, each in different colors. Osomatsu wore red, Karamatsu wore blue, Choromatsu wore green, he wore purple, Jyushimatsu wore yellow, and Todomatsu wore pink. He saw them wearing blue, green, pink, and yellow. Which indicates they were Karamatsu, Choromatsu, Todomatsu, and Jyushimatsu, who were in the river trying to.. get their couch back?! He called out asking what the situation was. "OI! WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED?!" "ICHIMATSU! TOOK YOU LONG ENOUGH!" Choromatsu yelled gasping for air as he struggled pulling the couch back to dry land along with his brothers. "ICHIMATSU-NII-SAN HURRY UP!" Todomatsu screamed. "AHHHHH!" He shrieked when the water splashed on his clothes. Angry, he called out to his older brother, "JYUSHIMATSU-NII-SAN THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT!" Ichimatsu quickly ran to his brothers to help. By the time the couch was finally pulled out of the river the sun was already setting. The five tired Matsuno brothers dropped to the ground in exhaustion, trying to catch their breaths. "O-oi! What happened to you guys?! Why are you all wet?- and what happened to our freaking couch!?" Choromatsu looked up to his Osomatsu running towards them empty handed. Which only meant one thing: he lost all the money their parents gave them from Pachinko. Having enough he screamed, but this time louder than ever before. "I'm tired of being around you useless assholes!" A fish from the river sprung up into the air and slapped him in the face with its tailfin 3 times before flopping into his shirt. "GAH!" The Brothers began to laugh as he danced around trying to get the fish out, something light throughout this horrid week. Their chortles coming to a stop as a gruff voice began to echo, Choromatsu's shirt beginning to glow. "Sensing your distress the World has bestowed upon you 6 a simple fix!" The fish slipped back into the water. "What the hell!?" They all exclaimed, watching as it grew to the size of a Shiba Inu. "I am a Wish Fish!" "You mean like the-!" Interrupted Jyushi, having remembered the old folktale. "Holy crap that's real!?" A bewildered Osomatsu spoke. "Why'd you have to torment me though?" Choromatsu whined while rubbing his cheek with a pout, Ichimatsu said nothing. "Homerun!" An irk mark appeared on the fish's head. "OH! Doesn't that mean you grant any wish we want?!" Karamatsu mused, grinning at all the possibilities. "Eep eep eep!" Wish Fish interjered, pointing his fin to the sky. "Yeah so because of all the shite that happened in the past we have been forced to do 2 wishes only. 3 if you find a different variant of my kind, I'm a Koi so I can only do two. No asking for more, or anything that can set the world into chaos." They all slumped over. "Boo, that means we have to be careful with this." Osomatsu grumbled. Choromatsu, usually the more mature one, hummed. "Well we can use one to fix the house. You know, clean it, put the couch back..etc." "Right!" His right eye twitched. 'How could they not think of that?' "Is that one of your wishes?" The brothers nodded quickly, the fish snapped his no-fingers and magically the boys were back home. Watching as it was being revamped and reorganized, mopped and buffed. "Yeah, yeah!" Jyushi flapped his arms in excitement, cheering on the show. "Now we have to keep it like this for at least 2 more weeks. So please let's try to be mature and responsible." Choro ordered pointedly, the brothers groaning but with slight agreement. "Our second wish should be something useful, like a lot of food or a good amount of money because Shitty Eldest used it all in Pachinko." Todomatsu glared. "Is that your last request?" "Yes and make it snappy!" They all looked over to the floating fish deity and their oldest brother, giving his trademark smirk and nose rub. "NOOOO!" The Koi snapped his no-fingers again and with a big flash of light he was gone. "You guys were the weirdest wishers ever. Don't expect us to come back." Osomatsu was tackled by his brothers "Shitty Eldest what did you do? We could've been rich and famous!" Todomatsu cried. "Mother and Father would've been so proud of us." Choromatsu solemnly said, kneeling dramatically on the floor. Ichimatsu picked him up by his hoodie collar. "What did you waste our wish on?" "OCTOPUS HOLD!"
Meanwhile~
In America, a different universe one, lived a girl in MA. Walking back home, she tugged her Cheeseburger Backpack in place and gave a long groan. It was still bright out, if anything afternoon. "Another ruined interview." Her hands clenched and unclenched as her anger and anxiety began to set in, she hit her head a couple times with her left wrist. "They take one look at my work difficulties, call my Agent and tell me they'll call me if I'm accepted." "I'm never friggen accepted, even in a Pet Store where I know I'll strive the best!" Her body shuddered. "I hate this. I want a donut, like a pure sugar donut." People passing by gazed at her judgingly as she talked to herself. "Yeah a donut sounds good, gonna try for another job and then that.". At home it was lunch time, so she grabbed up that previously mentioned donut and flopped down into a single chair by her desk. She lived in a foster home, 22 years old and having trouble living in the world. She begged to live here even though she should've been out by 18, it's mostly just due to her disabilities that the city is at least giving her leeway of being here. She makes slight cash by helping around the house but has a room shared with her foster sister who she got along well with even though she's like 12. It was weirdly better to make friends with kids than adults, kids don't judge her issues and adults run away as soon as she has an anxiety attack because the toilet flush scared her. "Ugh…I wish I didn't have this thing.." She sat on her bed with her many plushies and picked up a pillow with a special cover on it. It had a character from one of her favorite animes, , with their many different outfits and faces. She wanted all 6 pillows but was happy to have at least one from when she had a summer job many years ago, she saved up a good bit of money for savings and some to spend on herself. Apparently the anime isn't that famous around here, or at least the Otaku store she went to they just had one item from the show and it was a pillow of Karamatsu, her second favorite. Even then after that day her room was always covered in the anime that she loved. One Piece was number 1, she was sad it was in its last Arc but she can't wait for it! She stroked Pillow Karamatsu's face with a slight frown. "They'd probably understand me, …what a weeb thing to say." She scoffed, moving off her bed to the desk in the shared room to get on the computer. "Back to job hunting.." She pulled up Spotify and had it go through her liked songs, it went to a Gorillaz song first which began to calm her nerves. A job pop up came through, the ones where they ask you to come in for an interview because your work history looks good for them. "Huh look.." She said to no one at all. "'Idol Partner Short term needed.." "Yes, click apply." She told herself, not at all reading the rest. "Get back to me soon!" She hoped many times with fingers crossed. "How about you get back to us?!" She jumped from the sudden voice, almost panicking from it as she heard a snap and began to glow. "Oh god I'm dying! I knew it'd end like this!" "And now to replace you with a copy so this world doesn't fall apart.." Another snap and in popped the same woman, going on with life like nothing happened. "Now you come with me!" A phantom hand appeared and tugged her through a portal, she screamed as she passed by many versions of herself, all leading different lives. "What the frick frack is happening?! Is this what death is like?!" "Calm down, it's okay. Here, have a drink in this cosmic emptiness." The voice had soon appeared as a big fluffy cartoon bee, the woman gasped with wide happy eyes. "Awe a fluffy bee!" "Well I appear as what you're most comfortable with and you like Bees. See you calmed down quickly." She nodded happily with a small sad smile, always wanting a mother that cared as much as this cartoon dog for her own family. "I got a nice cold sparkle water for ya here." She snapped it open for her own instinct, being a mother and all, this girl was an adult but she was happy to have someone do that for her. "Thank you, so um..what's going on?.." Getting to the point, she looked over to her different selves. Her legs kicked in the air as her hands drummed on her thighs. "Eh some guys wished for a girl that'd get along with them and do stuff with them." "So they asked for me?" "Noooo, no. They apparently asked for someone super sexy, stacked, open to anything, and loves them a lot. But we don't do those at all, though we're giving them that wish." She blinked. "So why am I here?" "You fit the bill, with you there it's actually going to spice things up." "Also this place is just a waiting room while you're being added into this world. Gonna be working with an Idol and live a little better life than what you had over there." She blinked again. "You get any of that?" "Uh..uh huh, ye-yes." The Bee sighed. "Yeah okay, you're going now and you won't remember any of what happened here. Enjoy your new life!" "Wait!" With a big flash of light she found herself laid out in a fancy looking apartment. "Whoa..it feels like I just had a bad trip." She rubbed her eyes with a groan. Upon opening them fully she looked around with a semi-tired gaze. "I guess redecorated the room.." She closed her eyes with a soft yawn, a few seconds went by before they snapped open with her shooting up to sit up on the floor with a scream. "Where the frick am I?!"
This child… who nobody knew was Autistic, struggled to sit still for family photos, meals, conversations, school… struggled to be still in general.
This demand avoidant child often was punished for being Autistic, scolded for not listening, respecting, and "obeying the wishes of adults around them". Tormented because she couldn't control herself.
This child, who nobody knew was also ADHD, struggled with energy regulation & was punished for struggling with attention, and other ADHD traits.
This child was traumatized by the education system that told them they were not trying hard enough, or applying themselves.
The education system treated this child like they were a problem.
This child was put into special education, mainstream education, public schools, private schools, different districts, and even a gifted writing/literature program, but none of it was right for them.
This child, who nobody knew was anxious, struggled with remembering things and nervous outbursts, when they got overwhelmed.
This child was never taught about emotions, they grew to feel nothing for most of their life and moments of happiness being limited. Anger was hard to process, they cried when Anger was towards her and when she was angry themselves.
When this child couldn't take being misunderstood anymore, and became overwhelmed, they were punished again.
This child, who nobody knew was Sensory Sensitive, suffered regular migraines, insomnia, and sensory related stomach/digestive distress for most of their life - because nobody knew to avoid sensory triggers.
This child soon grew depressed, being told day in and day out that they should just get over it, or that they had nothing to be depressed about (resulting in them keeping quiet about their sensory overload and migraines and living in unnecessary pain for the next 14 years of their life).
This child was now an adult, and her name is Queenie. Continuing on with her life even though it seems unnecessary in her head.
