Chapter Two

When Keiichi had arrived home, he thought that it was impossible for him to be more exhausted, but he was wrong.

When he finished cleaning up his mess, he felt close to dead.

"I'm exhausted…" He mumbled to Megumi, who was in the middle of her homework. She turned to looked at him, pencil still in hand and a satisfied look on her face.

"Well…" She replied, turning back to her unfinished work, a smile stretched across her face. "At least you cleaned up."

"Not like I had a choice." Keiichi replied, too tired to yell. He lumbered over to the couch and sank into it, his eyelids drooping over his eyes. His whole body ached from school, and his arms and legs felt like lead.

"True, true…" Megumi agreed cheerfully, scribbling the answer to a question on her worksheet.

Keiichi just groaned in response, too tired to make an actual word. He buried his face in the sofa cushion, blocking out the sound of Megumi's voice as she asked him the answer to a difficult question on the worksheet.

"Keiichi?" Megumi asked, and repeated her question once more. Irritation showed in her voice when she asked the third and fourth time when he didn't answer.

Megumi sighed with frustration. "Keiichi?"

But he wouldn't answer; he dug his head deeper into the cushion, trying desperately to drown out his sister's bothersome voice.

Megumi tried in vain a few more times until…

"Megumi!" Keiichi snapped, his voice muffled by the pillow. "Will you please…?"

"Oh sorry…" she apologized, and she quieted herself down for a while, before…

Tap tap tap went Megumi's pencil as she rapped it against the surface of the wooden table absent-mindedly.

"Megumi…" Keiichi groaned.

"Oh sorry…" She replied, blushing. She stopped tapping the pencil, but moments later…

Crash crash crash went Megumi's pencil sharpener as she irritably banged it against the table, desperately trying to get a piece of lead unstuck from its hole.

"Megumi…" Keiichi repeated, rolling on his side so he could face her. She looked deep into his tired blood-shot eyes.

"Oh…" She mumbled. "Sorry…I keep forget-"

"Please," Keiichi interrupted her. "Just no more noise!"

"Alright!" Megumi exclaimed, turning to face him. "Calm down please!"

Keiichi just mumbled in reply, and shifted back into his original position, face down into the pillow. He heard Megumi's sigh, and then, to his great dismay, the tap tap tap of a pencil.

"Megumi! Please!" He shouted, sitting up so fast, all of the blood rushed to his head, making him slightly dizzy. "Peace and Quiet! That's not too much to ask for!"

"Sorry!" Megumi exclaimed. "I didn't mean to!"

Keiichi sighed, and let his weight pull him back down onto the soft haven of the couch. For a while, blissful silence broke out, filling the whole room…he was in heaven…but he knew the tranquility wouldn't last, for…

Crunch crunch crunch went Megumi as she thoughtfully chewed a crisp fresh apple.

Keiichi's eyes snapped open, and he glared at her. "Where did you get that?" He exclaimed.

"Oh," Megumi smiled, swallowing the piece of apple in her mouth. "I went into the kitchen for a snack." Keiichi let out a loud moan that tickled his throat. So that was why it was so quiet!

"MEGUMI!" Keiichi thundered his voice full of annoyance and fatigue. "I-AM-TRYING-TO-GET-SOME-REST!"

Megumi froze in mid-chew, a piece of apple jutting out of her mouth. She swallowed, and placed the apple down on the table with a small thud.

"Okay, okay!" She exclaimed. "Yeeesssh! What is your problem?" And with that, she quickly gathered all of her homework, pencil and pencil sharpener, and stormed off, leaving behind her apple, which rolled off the table and onto the carpet.

Keiichi buried his head in the pillow. Finally…a moments' pea-

SLAM went the door, as Megumi angrily shut it, knocking Keiichi out of his thoughts.

Keiichi sighed, and closing his eyes, slowing drifted off to…

"I'm home!" Sang Urd's voice, shortly followed by the sharp click or the front door being shut tightly.

"Oh no!" Keiichi cried out, leaping off the couch, and scampering down the long hall to his bedroom, leaving behind a startled Urd.

"Well that wasn't very nice." She pointed out as she pushed a long curly lock of silver hair out of her tanned face.

Megumi slumped down the stairs, and gave a brief glance at Urd.

"Why so glum?" Urd asked, looking at Megumi with concerned eyes. "And what is up with Keiichi?"

Megumi shrugged. "He's all cranky." She answered gloomily. Urd decided she should leave Megumi alone, and go tell Keiichi the news that had been jammed into her head ever since the day Belldandy was born.

She trampled off in search for him.

IY4ever: There is your second chappie...hope you like!
I was a little dissapointed with reviews...please everyone out there! I crave for reviews!
lol But seriously...it was a little blow to the ego though, because my other fictions faired pretty well...but I guess I deservered it...anyways...
I hope this second chappie earns me more reviews! lol
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