Because big sis' boyfriend could be kind of a baby sometimes now they had to have moving buddies.

He was avoiding Minegishi. Sho didn't know why he was avoiding them, the specifics of it, but he could imagine that it had something to do with how mean they were to everyone all the time for now reason. Would it have been so hard to be nice once in a while? If they had been nicer then they could have found some other friend and not tried to take Sho's from him. Why did they need to be friends with Shimazaki for? They had two other people in their group that they could be friends with. Shibata was nice and big sis' boyfriend was…a person who was alive….no, that wasn't nice. He was a nice guy even though, now, everyone had to have a moving buddy because he tried to hide and not move because he had to avoid Minegishi.

Which made no sense at all.

When you had a problem with someone you had to talk to them and stuff and then the problem got better. Shimazaki said so. He said that if Sho ever had a problem with someone then the best thing to do would be to beat him up. Shimazaki said that he would back him up and make him a good alibi too. Sho didn't really want to beat anyone up, well ok he wanted to beat a lot of people up, but he wasn't going to just go around hitting people. He was not going to be like dad. That was what dad did, he just hit people all the time, even though it was a jerk thing to do. Well Sho was not going to go around beating anyone up….

Unless Shimazaki said that they had a really good reason to beat up a particular person, that is.

Because teaming up with Shimazaki would have been the coolest thing ever! He fought so good! That had been his job since he had been a kid, fighting, so he was like this cool blind master type! And then Sho could be his student and then….then it would be so cool! They could go around beating up people who deserved it and then they could have other adventures too just the two of them and it would be the coolest thing ever and nobody else would be there. Especially not Minegishi with their meanness all the time and bad attitude and stuff. They could make their own friends. Like big sis. They could go off and have big sis adventures and then he and Shimazaki could go off and have Sho adventures. Also Hatori and Shibata could have their own adventures and then dad and Fukuda could also have adventures and then everyone would be off having adventures with everyone else! Like moving buddies only for adventures!

That would be a good idea.

Also it would be totally normal for Sho to have wanted to be all alone with Shimazaki then. Because they would have been off together having adventures and everyone loved adventures. Even big sis loved adventures. She and Minegishi had boring people adventures that were just going to Starbucks and reading….and Sho didn't even get it! Why did they go to Starbucks but then complain about how much the coffee sucked? Seriously! They said that they liked it because it sucked the same in every country…and that was so dumb! Why not find something that was awesome in every country! Like the fries at McDonalds or the chicken at KFC but not the pizza from Dominos. It sucked. Well Sho hadn't always thought that it sucked but then Shimazaki said that it sucked so now it sucked. The best pizza, he had said, was thin and you could fold it up and stuff…which kind of sucked but Sho had to agree with him because they were best friends.

Him and Shimazaki. Not Shimazaki and Minegishi.

He didn't know why they were always hanging out together. Even now. They had just gotten into the tiny plane that was going to take them to England, an ok place but the English they spoke there sounded weird but they had fried fish served in newspapers so it was ok, and then almost at once Shimazaki sat down next to Minegishi and he was trying to get them to read to him. Sho knew how to read. He would have read to him. It didn't even matter that they weren't moving buddies. Being best friends was way more powerful than being moving buddies.

He just wanted to be best friends, that was all.

"Read it again Toshi." Said Shimazaki. He had his head on their shoulder. They didn't want to be bothered. They wanted him to go away. They had said so. So he could have just gotten up and sat somewhere else and it would have been ok. But he wasn't. Why? Sho was right there. Sho knew how to read. He had much more interesting books in his table than…he turned his head to the side so he could read. That books sounded so boring. Les Miserables. The miserables. Why would someone want to read a book about people being miserable? Sho had a book about cats being warriors and going off to war and stuff. That was way more exciting about a book in French about people being miserable.

"No. I'm still upset with you. Now get off." Said Minegishi. He wished that Shimazaki would have listened to them. When someone told you to go away then you were supposed to go away. Also they should not have been talking like that to Shimazaki. They were always so rude.

"But I like this book. It's the one about the woman who has to eat her own children during the pacific war, right?" asked Shimazaki. Big sis gasped. Sho could have gasped too but he wasn't going to. Sure that book sounded terrible, eating people was scary and moms were not supposed to eat their kids because they were good people who loved you no matter what even if they did have to run away, he would not gasp or freak out in any way. He was ten now and ten year olds did not do that stuff. He couldn't look uncool in front of Shimazaki…and anyone else.

"No, this is the one about starving French people." Said Minegishi

"Is that a real book?" asked Shibata. He was knitting again. Sho really hoped that the green thing that he was knitting wasn't another sweater for him. He still hadn't grown into his birthday sweater and the scarf that Shibata had made him for Christmas was so long that Sho had to loop I around his neck four times before it stopped dragging on the ground. Shibata needed to stop using himself to measure out his knitting projects. Sho couldn't tell the future but he got the feeling that he would never be as big as Shibata. Most people in the world weren't.

"No, it's not. Sometimes I just tell him terrible stories in the hopes that it'll drive him away." said Minegishi

"Nothing could ever drive me away from anything ever. You know that. Remember the time when we were in that hog fat rendering plant? You said that I would leave before the stench made me pass out. You were wrong." Said Shimazaki. Sho didn't know what a rendering plant was but he bet that he could outlast Shimazaki. Nothing made him pass out. Not even that time when they had hung from trees like possums for over an hour and their heads turned colors.

"I said that we should leave before we passed out. You're the one who took it as a personal challenge, Ryou." Said Minegishi. There they went again using his given name like they were best friends or something. Sho didn't even use his given name and they were super close friends! Not best friends, though, and that kind of sucked…but there was still time to be best friends. Best friends and only best friends and nothing other than best friends and that one time Sho had thought about kissing him was just his brain being weird because he did not want to kiss his best friend. That would have been weird. Sometimes his brain was just a weird place, that was all.

"You guys go on the weirdest trips. Why were you even at a rendering plant in the first place?" asked Shibata

"I don't remember. One minute we were in a garden and the next we were in a rendering plant." Said Minegishi

"I think I just wanted to go to a rendering plant for some reason….nostalgia?" asked Shimazaki. Sho had no idea what nostalgia meant but he liked the way Shimazaki said that. Like he looked kind of confused there like he didn't even understand himself…and it was funny. Sho didn't laugh. He just put his hand over his mouth. He felt Fukuda looking at him. He pretended to get back to his game. It was rude to eavesdrop, Fukuda had said so.

"What's nostalgic about a rendering plant?" asked Shibata

"Don't ask. For the love of God don't ask." Said Minegishi. Who died and made them the boss of the plane? Why did they think that they got to be the boss of who asked what questions and when? Well dad was the boss of everything but when he died Sho would be the boss of the plane and he would be the one to be able to tell people what they were allowed to talk about and when and he would tell Minegishi that unless they had something nice to say then they needed to shut their mouth.

"Now I'm afraid to know…." Said Shibata

"Well when I was a kid, about fourteen, I finally got the whole teleporting thing down. So my father had to execute this guy and he let me have this one. I had to prove myself to the family so I just teleported this guy to the rendering plant and then-" said Shimazaki

"Please. Stop talking. I can fill in the blanks myself. God…that's….that's really messed up. You're lucky Hatori wasn't here to hear that. He's very fragile." Said Shibata. Sho wanted to hear the rest of the stories. Shimazaki always had the best stories. Like the time when his dad left him in the woods to die but he found his way back and stabbed his dad in the stomach and then twisted the knife. That was a good story. Not that dad would ever leave him in the woods to die, he only had the one son after all, and also Sho didn't think that he had it in him to stab dad in the stomach and twist the knife. Also he didn't get the feeling that dad would respect him as a man if he tried to do that.

"Where is the little grease ball anyway? I've got something for him." said Shimazaki

"It had better not be a speedball." Said Minegishi. He didn't know why Fukuda tensed up next to him or why he was looking over Sho's head and giving those guys dirty looks. Maybe he was just getting old. Sho had heard that about people before, that they got grumpy as they got old, and Fukuda was going to be forty four this year. That was pretty old. Maybe he was upset about being left out of their conversation and stuff…Sho knew that he was. But he had to stay with Fukuda because he was old and lonely and he had no friends besides Sho and maybe dad. Sho knew that it could have been worse, though, because he would have been next to dad like big sis was. Flying with dad was the worst because you had to be near him and he never let you have any fun. Also he was a jerk on the ground and being in the air made him even more of a jerk than he already was.

"How'd you know, Toshi?" asked Shimazaki even though he knew that Minegishi hated being called by their given name.

"Because I know you. Grease ball rhymes with speedball and you had better not give him anything. You know that he can't handle it. He's still ashamed of himself from the party…and rightly so. I can't believe that fucking grease ball actually-" said Minegishi

"Don't make fun of his skin, he's very sensitive about it. He can't help it that he has oily skin." Said Shibata. Sho didn't think that it was that bad, big sis' boyfriend's skin, it was fun to stick pieces of paper and candy wrappers to him and stuff. Also it was mean to make fun of other people, Shibata was right.

"But he IS a grease ball. He knows it, I know it, and if he didn't want people to make fun of him then he should stop being a grease ball." Said Shimazaki. He did have a point there. If he didn't want people making fun of his greasy skin then he shouldn't have had skin in the first place….wait…no. That didn't make sense. His brain could be like that sometimes. When he was around Shimazaki or Shimazaki was around him his brain just…didn't work as well as it should have, and he had no idea why. Because he thought about Shimazaki a lot…but in a normal way. He didn't want to kiss him or anything like that, he really didn't, and if he did that was just his brain playing tricks on him. Maybe he had broken his brain when he fell out of that tree, or when the bird pecked his head, or when he had been trying to jump over the house but instead hit his head on a tree branch…or any of the other times that he had hit his head.

"Come on, be nice. He can't help that he has oily skin and-" said Shibata

"Witch hazel. Clay. Oatmeal. About a million other things." Said Minegishi. They needed to learn how to stick with a conversation instead of just talking nonsense. Even big sis was better at talking than they were. They should have just found their own part of the plane to be all alone in. Yeah, that would have been good for everyone.

"Huh?" asked Shibata

"Toshi knows about skin." Said Shimazaki. He said a nice thing to them, which was fine he could say nice things to whoever he wanted to, but then he did that thing that he did when he wanted to see what people actually looked like. He could see where people were and how they were moving and stuff but he couldn't see their faces. Sho didn't know why he was doing that to them now, he knew what they looked like, and also it was rude to just do that to someone without asking.

"You should tell Hatori about that….that is if you forgive him…for everything. I understand if you don't. He really…he said a lot of things to you that were not ok…and also the thing about the sink…and some other stuff that I don't think that he remembers and I am not telling you about because then you'll tell him and it's already hard enough to get him out of the bathroom these days…not that he shouldn't be ashamed of himself for what he said to you. I mean…I know that I would be angry if…you know…if I was a…if I were you." Said Shibata

"I don't care. If he wants to make an idiot of himself then he can make an idiot out of himself. I don't care. If he wants to go around saying that watching hentai makes him good at eating people out then he can go around and scream it to the heavens. He is Hatori Nozomu and he has spent more hours watching porn than he has within one meter of a woman." Said Minegishi. Fukuda aura flared at that and Sho didn't get it. Sho had no idea what they were talking about but he knew that it had to do with eating people…which was wrong, very wrong, and stuff.

"May I remind you that there is a child here." Said Fukuda. Sho wished that he would have gone back to whatever it was that he was doing on his laptop. He shrank down in his seat as best as he could. He wished that he had been wearing his birthday sweater. Then he could have just disappeared inside of it. It wouldn't have mattered, though, because Shimazaki would still have been able to sense him. He was not a child. He was ten. Damn it.

"No, Mob's over there." said Shimazaki pointing over to where dad and big sis were. Sho smiled. Shimazaki thought that big sis was a child. He knew that Sho wasn't. Well he was because he was ten but he wasn't as much of a child as she was. Well he was younger than her but…but it was nice that Shimazaki didn't think of him as a little kid!

"I was talking about Sho. He can hear you…and so can his father." Said Fukuda. Sho wished that he would just stop talking already. This was Sho's fault for not keeping him busy enough. If he was kept busy then he wouldn't go around saying stuff like that to people. So what if they were talking about things that he got the feeling that he was not supposed to know about? It didn't matter in the least bit. Sho wasn't a little kid anymore. He could listen to adults talking. He had no idea what he had to add to the conversation, so he added nothing, but he could still listen.

"Yes, and I can hear thinly veiled threats. If you want to threaten me then threaten me. If you don't want to threaten me then don't. Honestly you're setting a terrible example for the future lord and master of the world over there." said Minegishi. They said the whole like they were bored…they said everything like they were bored. That was boring. Shimazaki was bored all of the time but he didn't show it at least…and also they should not have been mean to Fukuda like that. Even if he had been mean first by eavesdropping.

"I'm not threatening you, I'm warning you. Cut. It. Out. Not in front of Sho. Talk however you want to in front of Shigeko but not in front of Sho." said Fukuda. Sho was not a baby and he had no idea why Fukuda was talking about him like he was a baby. He wasn't that much younger than big sis. Big sis had been born in May and he had been born in February. They were only a year apart and if there was something that she could hear then there was something that he could hear too!

"Hey! Look out there! That sure is an ocean out there! And clouds, too!" said Shibata pointing out the window. He was doing that thing where he tried to distract people from how they were feeling. Like when Baby Sis got upset and he made faces at her and showed her his toys.

"I feel mocked right now." Said Shimazaki

"I didn't mean to-" said Shibata

"Don't tell me what to do." Said Minegishi. Sho looked away from them. They had scary eyes, sometimes, and their aura…could also be scary. He hoped that they didn't get into a fight with Fukuda. Sho would have to have Fukuda's back but then Shimazaki would have Minegishi's back and then he would have to fight his best friend…and he did not want to have to fight his best friend. Nobody should ever have had to fight their best friend…and also if he had Shimazaki's back then nobody would have had Fukuda's back and he couldn't just let Fukuda go into a fight without backup. That would have been a mean thing to do. Fukuda may have treated him like he was a baby, and may have disliked big sis for reasons Sho could not begin to figure out, but he was still Fukuda and someone had to have his back and that someone was Sho.

"Actually I can. Don't talk that way in front of Sho. He's too young for-" said Fukuda. Sho wanted to take him and shake him and tell him to cut off his leg and count the rings…or whatever they did to figure out how old people were. He was not a little kid anymore and Fukuda needed to stop embarrassing him like this! Big sis didn't even embarrass him like this! And she was big sis!

"I'm not a baby, Fukuda! Stop talking about me like I'm a baby!" said Sho. Fukuda was looking at him like he had slapped him in the face…for some reason. Sho didn't get what he was so upset about. He had been treating Sho like a baby in front of…Sho had been mean. Sho had been mean and he shouldn't have been mean and he shouldn't have shouted either because dad was there and now he could feel dad's aura and stuff….and that was never a good thing.

"Sho…come on, let's play that fighting game you like. Let them talk about…whatever it is that they're taking about." Said Fukuda the hurt face that he made was wiped away like words on a chalkboard. That was good. Sho was worried about hurting his feeling but now that it was all done with he could rest easy and play Smash…even though he didn't really want to.

"Don't get too into your game, kid, when Hatori comes out of the bathroom…if he ever comes out…I'm going out on the wing of the plane and I know you get a kick out of that. And, before you ask, no I can't take you out there with me anymore. Your sister was very clear on that and me and her…well we're cool but it's a shaky sort of cool so…yeah. Not risking your life for shits and giggles on this plane ride. Maybe next time we move." Said Shimazaki. Sho felt like someone had stepped on his stomach in pointy shoes. He…..he liked it when he went out on the wing of the plane with Shimazaki. It was fun. It wasn't scary at all because he knew that Shimazaki would never let anything bad happen to him. He was a nice person like that. He would never let anything bad happen to Sho….ever…

He felt weird.

Bad weird. He felt like…kind of like Shimazaki might have liked him less…or something….but that made no sense. Big sis was just worried about him dying for some reason. He hadn't died from being out on the wing of the plane yet and he wouldn't die ever. If he was going to die then he would have died already…and also Shimazaki would never have let him die. He would let a bird peck his head, he would let him fall out of a tree and hit every branch on the way down, but he would not let him die.

Friends did not let friends fall off of airplanes or get sucked into turbines.

"You go have fun with that." Said Fukuda in a tone that could not have been mistook for anything either than mean. Sho had no clue what he was being so mean for. This was why he had no friends. Even Minegishi, who was the emperor of meanness, had friends. Fukuda needed to work on being nicer for his own good. No wonder he and dad had been best friends when they had been kids and stuff.

"And you have fun over there with your passive aggression…you human spit sink." Minegishi muttered the last part but Sho had heard it. Fukuda heard it to and his aura flared when Minegishi said that. Sho didn't know why. That was such a weak insult. If they had called Fukuda a fucking human spit sink, or a god damned human spit sink, or a cock sucking human spit sink, or a god damned mother fucking cock sucking human spit sink then those would have been real insults. Not that Sho was going to give Minegishi any pointers when it came to cursing. If he gave them pointers then Shimazaki might have considered them a worthy opponent and Sho knew that he could not let that happen. Shimazaki spent enough time with them as it was.

"What did you just-" said Fukuda

"It's been a long flight and I think that we're all just a little tired. How about you and Little Suzuki play your game and then Minegishi you can go back to reading to Shimazaki and I'll just….try and get Hatori out of the bathroom. Yeah, that's what I'll do." Said Shibata. He got up, Sho could swear that the whole plane rocked, and went over to the bathroom. He knocked on the door and started talking to it in hushed tones even though he was strong enough to just break down the door and drag him out…though that wouldn't have been a good thing because he was in the bathroom and he might have been doing actual bathroom things instead of just hiding…and stuff.

"I do not have the patience for that man right now…that living scented tampon" muttered Minegishi like they were mad…which they probably were. They were always mad at something. They were mad and Shimazaki should have just gotten away from them…but no. He stayed right there with them. He stretched his legs out and leaned his head on their shoulder and…and he did that thing when his eyes were a little opened, because it was a reflex that he had been born with the same as everyone else, and he did that when he was relaxed…but he shouldn't have. Because they were mean and…and Sho tried to understand…but he felt Fukuda's hand on the top of his head turning him around like he was a doll or something.

"Hey!" said Sho. He was not a baby and he was not a doll and he could look wherever he wanted to. He was watching to understand. To understand what it was the Shimazaki saw in them. Maybe it was because he couldn't see….that was mean and he should not have been thinking mean thoughts about him like that. You were not supposed to think mean thoughts about your best friend…not that they were best friends yet. He didn't know when they would be…but he wanted that time to come quicker.

"Ignore them, Sho, they aren't worth it." Said Fukuda. Sho had no idea what he meant by not worth it. Sho had no idea what Fukuda was on at all. Minegishi was a jerk a lot of the time. That was just how they were. What else did Fukuda expect? They were a jerk but for some reason nobody seemed to realize this. That nobody, not even Shimazaki, could see what kind of a jerk they were. They were just so…so he didn't even know. Mean words. Stuff like that. Mean words, curse words, all the words. The words that Shimazaki had taught him. Well he had known some of them but Shimazaki had been the one to teach him how to put those words together.

He really wanted to have a cursing match with Shimazaki again.

Or whatever he wanted to do. He must have wanted to do something besides sit there and just let Minegishi read a boring book about miserable people in France to him. Why was he just sitting there with his head on their shoulder listening to them read? He knew how to read. He read brail and that was still reading. He had books he could have read by himself. His phone could read stuff to him too. Hell, Sho could have read him whatever he wanted to hear. Sho knew how much he hated being bored but he was letting Minegishi read a long and boring book to him…and Sho just could not begin to understand…and he wanted to understand. What made them so much better than him? Why did he want to hang out with them and not him? He didn't know. He didn't know but he had to know.

He kept on dying.

He was dying because his mind was over to the other side of the plane. Why did he keep on wanting to hang around them for? They were mean and boring. He hated boring people. Sho wasn't boring, he was interesting, and he was super interesting! But still Shimazaki just sat there and let Minegishi read to him. He sat there for the whole time it took for Shibata to get Hatori out of the bathroom. He sat there with them for so long that Hatori not only came out of the bathroom but also wrote a whole apology speech on his arm!

"Everyone, I would like to apologize for what I did at the winter holiday party. I said things that I should not have said an acted in a way that was not alright. These instances began at approximately…" He was reading from his hand…and then when he ran out of words on his hand he pulled his sweater sleeve down and read his arm. Jeez! What was with this guy? And what did big sis see in him? He was a crybaby!

He really was.

He yelled at the screen while he played his games regardless of whether or not he won or lost. He ran to Fukuda when he got a little baby papercut on his finger like he had chopped it off with a knife or something. Shibata hadn't even cried when he had cut the top of his finger off when he had been cutting meat for a meat pie, which Sho hoped to God he never made again, he had just gone to Fukuda and had him put his finger back the way that he was supposed to have it. With the tip on and all of his blood inside of his body where it was meant to be. Shibata hadn't cried once. He hadn't even been afraid even though he had lost a lot of blood…and stuff…

Hatori was such a crybaby.

Seriously. Why was he such a crybaby? And why did big sis LIKE that? Why did she like him? She said that she didn't like him as much anymore but he knew her and he knew that she loved love and really wanted a boyfriend. He…kind of got that about girls. Wanting to be with someone. Wanting to have someone to kiss and stuff. Kissing could feel good. Kissing could be so good. No wonder she wanted to kiss someone…even though he got the feeling that Hatori had never kissed anyone in his life. He didn't look like he would be good at kissing mainly because he just wasn't cool or good looking or anything like that. He was nice, though, when he wasn't being a baby. He was good at games, he was REALLY good at Minecraft, and he was always nice to big sis. He had really nice sweaters. This one had a mouse on it and rodents were awesome, well hamsters were the most awesome but rodents were awesome in general, and he was kind of tall…and stuff….

He was ok. Not as cool as Shimazaki but then again who was?

He was a crybaby though. He gave long crybaby apologies and he also he freaked out like a crybaby when Shimazaki did the look on the wing of the plane thing….and Sho wished that he could have been out there with him so bad…because that would have freaked Hatori out more and it was fun to freak him out because he was such a crybaby…even though it was mean to do to the him because he was going to be married to big sis someday and then they'd be brothers and stuff. So he should have been nicer…but he wanted to mess with him with Shimazaki…

Because Shimazaki was awesome…and Sho wished that they could have been moving buddies…and best friends…and stuff like that.