by Ranma Inverse ^_^
part four
Author's notes: Thank you, those who reviewed!
I appreciate it alot! Please review this part too! ^^;
-WATCH OUT! Bad language and..a little bit more dark/angsty now.- Remember
though, All my stories have happy endings! ^_^;;
. . .
A few years later...
"What did you say?!" A now thirteen-year-old Akira yelled at a group of boys at the back of the school grounds. The tallest boy out of the three cornering him smirked and crossed his arms.
"You heard me. Your little sister's a slut! And what's with you? You look like a girl. Why do you and your sister keep your hair so long? Is it because you wanna be just like your sister? You wanna be a little slut like her? Or is it the fact that your sister is also a lesbian and ya wanna make her think you're a girl too?"
Akira growled and clenched his fists. "I can take insults about me, but...if you say one more thing..about Mei.."
"The slut? That reminds me, she's really good-lookin, eh guys? Maybe we should take her to our house tonight.." The leader of the trio looked to his two friends, who snickered.
Akira let out a cry of anger and tackled the leader. The boy-leader's friends pounced Akira. For someone's first fight, Akira did pretty well although even someone like him could not win his first fight in a three vs. one battle. He lost.
He went through the rest of the school day avoiding Mei, but knew he couldn't avoid her when they got home.
. . .
As predicted, when he came through the doorway in a messed up, dirty and slightly torn school uniform with a cut lip, bruises and a swollen eye, his little sister showed concern almost immediately.
"Oniiichaa--" She stopped her cheerful welcome home and ran to him. "Oh my god! Akira, what happened?" She reached out to gently touch a bruise. Akira flinched slightly as he felt the featherlight touch, but kept his gaze on his sister.
"I got into a fight." He said trying to keep his voice normal, but the protectiveness came through . Mei smiled sadly and shook her head.
"Why did you get into a fight?" Before he could answer her question, she had taken his hand and headed him over to a chair and pulled out a first aid kit from underneath it. Mei opened it up and took out some salve for infection and some bandaids. She smiled. "Akira, you wouldn't fight without a reason. Whatever it was, I hope it was an important one." She rubbed some salve on his cuts and then put bandaids over them.
A very important reason, Akira thought. You're important.
His sister smiled when she was done and hugged him. "Oniichan, I'm glad you didn't get hurt worse than you did.." At this, Akira smiled back and returned the hug. She looked up at him.
"Father's coming home from another one of his 'business trips'." Mei looked slightly afraid, but spoke with a small ammount of bravery. "I hope he only stays a day or two like usual, to see if "everything's in order". I wish he didn't have to ever come home. Ever since he dismissed Mrs. Berley we've done fine on our own..."
Akira's grip around her tightened slightly, protectively. "I know. I wish it too."
Mei smiled. "Well, I'm gonna get started on my homework. If you need any help, you can ask."
It didn't take long before a knock on her door resounded. She stiffled a giggle and opened up the door. Akira stood there holding his school books with a confused, embarrassed look upon his face. "Uhm...you're always better than me at mathmatics and stuff..." He mumbled and he sat down next to her.
"Alright, which problem are you having trouble on?"
"All of them!" Akira blurted out, scratching the back of his head. Mei did giggle this time. He looked at her, "I don't get how to do any of these."
"It's 'I don't know how to do any of them', Oniichan."
"Oi..alright, alright." Her brother grumbled, but had a smile on his face. She leaned over his schoolwork and noticed the problem.
"I see what you're doing wrong! You're supposed to have x over y and then times it by 25c." Mei pointed out, and Akira blinked. Leaning over her shoulder he looked over it once more and wrapped an arm around his sister's shoulders.
"Thanks, Mei! Now, about this part..."
Mei giggled and pointed. "Here you put that over this, then times that by that..." Akira smiled as he listened to her words. She was smarter than him, and he was a year older than her. He should've been jealous, but he felt happy. He caught the scent of her hair and breathed in it's pleasent arouma.
If only their days could be like this forever. . .
. . . But he didn't realize the emotion that was beginning to form between them. An emotion that could either bring them to heaven...or hell. The question is, however, which way will they go?
. . .
Just in case someone mistakes the last bit, no, I don't mean heaven and hell by saying "incest is a sin" o.O; In my opinion...love is love. I don't care who or how someone is. o.o; Love is love. Pure and simple. I mean heaven and hell by saying...will they let other people's opinion strike them down? Or will they ignore them...and admit how they feel?