Sho was a good assistant.

Fukuda had said so. He was sitting at the other desk in Fukuda's office, Hatori's desk, because Fukuda had told him to sit there. Fukuda had told him to sit there and be a better assistant than Hatori had ever been. Sho had no idea if he was a good assistant or not, he had spent the day so far watching the hamster family live stream…hamsters were so cute….and as much as he was enjoying watching cute hamsters do cute things he really had the feeling that he was not doing what an assistant was supposed to be doing.

Because assistants were supposed to, you know, assist.

"For the love…oh course you're approving this…of fucking course." Said Fukuda. It was the 'fucking' that had gotten Sho's attention. Fukuda had been muttering to himself all day. He wasn't happy that dad had put big sis in charge over him….and Sho didn't know why. Big sis was a Suzuki and only Suzukis could run Claw. That was why he was going to have to get married and have a bunch of kids. That way the world would always be ruled by someone from their bloodline…like that was something that was important…or something. Sho didn't know. Dad said that it was important but fuck what dad thought…

Really, fuck dad and fuck what he thought.

He liked that word, fuck, because it fit into anything. things could be really fucking great or they could be really fucking bad or he could be really fucking happy or he could be really fucking sad…it fit into a lot of things, that word. Like how right now Sho was really fucking bored. Like how right now it was really fucking weird that Fukuda had said 'fuck'. Like how right now big sis was really fucking in charge even though she was a girl and the only reason that dad had even had Sho was because he needed a boy to inherit the world and stuff.

Not that he was mad at big sis.

Not that he was going to be like Fukuda and think that it was him, that he was the one who was supposed to be in that chair, because it wasn't. Big sis was older than him and she had done this before….well she had been younger when she had done this before….she had been the age that he was now…but he wasn't going to complain. He wasn't going to tell Fukuda that he needed to stop muttering to himself and cursing to himself because if anyone had a right to be there, in dad's chair, in dad's office it was him. She was up there and…and dad had told him for his entire life that he was the one who was supposed to inherit the world…and if she was the one running Claw then what was the point of him? What was he even here for?

Not to assist Fukuda, that was for sure.

"What the fuck are you cursing about?" asked Sho. He cursed mostly to make Fukuda squirm. That hadn't even sounded good. If Shimazaki had been there he would have flicked Sho over the head. Well Shimazaki was there…he was in the building at least. He was guarding big sis, mostly, he had been teleporting around all day and he'd probably been doing fun stuff and Sho…he would have loved to have gone along but…he had a lot to do around here.

He had to assist Fukuda because Hatori had gone down to the tech room so, of course, Sho was the only person who could assistant him.

And also the hamsters had a run running wheel and they had all been trying to run on it at once but they ran in different directions and then cookie, the black and white one, kept on trying to climb on top and Sho had to see if they ever figured out team work. So he had a lot to do today and it didn't leave him a lot of time to hang out with his best friend. That was all. He wasn't avoiding Shimazaki.

He just wasn't looking for him.

Maybe it was for the best that they didn't hang out for a while. Shimazaki must have still thought that he was uncool…and stuff…and also…also Sho really missed him. He missed him as more than a friend and he liked him as more than a friend and, lately, it had been getting worse. He had always thought about Shimazaki all the time, how great it was to be near him, but now…now it was like…like he still thought that he was great but a different kind of great and…and he just…he needed to fall out of love with him already! Once he was totally and completely out of love with Shimazaki Ryou then they could hang out again.

Not that he was avoiding Shimazaki or anything like that. He just had a lot going on, that was all.

"Language." Said Fukuda. Sho rolled his eyes.

"You cursed first." Said Sho in English. Well he had said 'language' and English was a language.

"You're right. I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said that." Said Fukuda right back in English. Sho decided that it wasn't as fun when Fukuda went along with it. It would have been more fun if Shimazaki had gone along with it, he could curse in a bunch of different languages…and he needed to stop thinking about Shimazaki and stuff…even though he could feel him teleporting around the building…and he was so close but so far and….

"No, you shouldn't have, no go sit in the corner and think about what you've done." Said Sho. He pointed at the corner. Fukuda shook his head and laughed. Fukuda could be fun too. Sho would have to make it fun being with Fukuda. Not as fun as being with Shimazaki, there wasn't anyone in the world as fun as Shimazaki, but Fukuda could be fun too…maybe.

"Your sister isn't still making you do that, is she?" asked Fukuda

"No, she never made me do that. That was mom." Said Sho. He knew that he wasn't supposed to talk about mom, about how he even had a mom, because she had left and she was a traitor for having had left the family. Dad had said, a million times before, that he wasn't supposed to talk about mom…but he wasn't here. He had been locked in his room and stuff for a while now. Mom had done the same thing. Big sis said that he might have had the same sleepy sickness that mom had before she left…and Sho was happy about that.

Maybe he would leave, then, just like mom had.

"Yeah…I remember that now….and to be fair you had it coming that day." Said Fukuda. Sho had no idea what day he meant. Mom had sent him to the corner or to his room a lot. When he hit big sis, or the other kids, when he threw things, when he got out of bed in the middle of the night and ate the desert that they were supposed to have after dinner that night…and about a million other things that he had done. There had been a lot of days and Fukuda needed to be specific…not that Sho wanted to talk about mom…or maybe he did. He never talked about her to anymore….because she had left….and he just…there were a lot of things he wanted to say…and a lot of things that he didn't and…and maybe it was ok to say things about her and…and he had to…he didn't know.

He didn't know but….well he wanted to talk about her. He never got to talk about her.

"Which day?" asked Sho

"That day when you tried to bring that squirrel into the house. Your mom said no squirrels but you tried to bring it in anyway…and remember? It bit you and your mom asked me to come over?" asked Fukuda. Sho remembered that day. He had found a hurt squirrel and he had been planning on bringing it back inside and doing first aid on it even though mom had said that it was a bad idea…and then when he had picked it up it had gotten mad…and it had bit him and ran away before he could even bring it into the house…

But Fukuda had the order wrong.

He had been over at the house already when that had happened. He and mom had been watching TV in her and dad's room. She had sent him and big sis to play outside and get some fresh air even though it had been kind of cold out that day. That was when mom had first started getting sick but she hadn't been super sick like she had been before. She had still been able to get out of bed…a little bit…and that was why Fukuda had been over so much. He had been trying to make her better but whatever had been wrong with her had been super serious….and now dad had it too….

Sho was glad that dad had caught it too.

"You were already over, remember? You and mom were watching TV in her and dad's room?" said Sho. He wasn't going to tell Fukuda that dad was sick with the same thing that mom was. He might try and make him better. Dad was Fukuda's best friend after all and Fukuda might have worked extra hard to make him better….and the world did not need dad to be all better. The world needed to have big sis in charge of it, at least she was nice, even if she wasn't a boy. Even if she wasn't Sho. Even if she had sort of taken Sho's job and-

And don't think about big sis.

He was talking about mom. He needed to think about mom…even though it hurt. Even though she had just…left. She hadn't even left them a note or anything. She had just left the house and their family and…and now it was just him and big sis. He wondered if she had ever gotten better. He wondered if she was laying down on some couch right now watching her shows about the people living in the past that dressed funny and had funny accents and stuff….he wondered if she was happy. Watching that stuff had made her happy…and he wanted her to be happy.

Even though she had betrayed him and big sis he still wanted mom to be happy.

"Are you sure that's how it went, because I remember it differently and I am older than you. You were only four or five, you know how unclear memories are from that time in your life." Said Fukuda. Sho shook his head. He knew that he was remembering right. He had a very good memory, that was a part of hyper cognition, that thing that dad said that he had that made him a good artist. He didn't like to think that he had gotten it from dad, being able to draw like he did, but he did like the idea of being smart and stuff….and it was sort of like dad had called him smart when he had said that…instead of something mean like an accident that caused accidents or a mistake that made mistakes or all of the other stuff that big sis had asked dad not to call him but he still did anyway.

"I know what I remember. I remember things good, dad says that I have hyper cognition like he does only not as good because I'm bad at math, and anyway I remember things that happen to me. You came over for breakfast and then you and mom went to watch TV in her room and she told me and big sis to go outside and play." Said Sho. He had no idea what Fukuda's aura was acting like that for. He was sitting there and his aura was pulling in…and maybe he didn't want to talk about mom after all. They had been friends and Sho…well losing a mom must have been worse than losing a friend…but maybe mom was like a mom to Fukuda too since his mom had died a while ago.

"Well. You remember things well." Said Fukuda after a second. It had looked like he had been planning on saying something else. Maybe he was just that pissed off that big sis had been promoted above him. Well if he wanted to be the boss of Claw then maybe he should have had one of those operations that turned you into a girl and then he could have married dad and then been a Suzuki and stuff. That would have been….the weirdest thing in the world….having Fukuda for a mom and stuff….but if Fukuda wanted to be in charge so bad that he was sitting at his desk sweating and shaking then, maybe, desperate times called for desperate measures.

"Yeah, I do. Thanks for saying that…and now say that I didn't have it coming. That squirrel needed a home and I had a home and mom shouldn't have punished me for that." Said Sho. Well Fukuda had come around fast at least. Good. He wasn't going to argue with Sho about how he was good at remembering things…and also he wasn't going to argue with Sho that he had done the right thing about the squirrel either.

"Fine, alright, you didn't have it coming. Your mom would have said yes if your dad didn't hate animals, you're right." Said Fukuda. Sho nodded. Mom loved animals, she used to work at an animal shelter before he and big sis had been born, but for some reason dad had always hated them. Probably for some weird dad reason that only he understood. Sho wished that he would just say why it was even if it was weird…then Sho could work around it maybe…and maybe he could find his baby snakes, too, because they were still so little and now they were running around Osaka with nobody to read to them or tuck them in at night…and stuff…

When Sho grew up he'd find those snakes and all the other snakes and animals in the world and bring them to live in his house with him, well him and his family, and they would agree to that because since he liked animals and Emmy liked animals then their kids would like animals too. That was genetics.

"Of course I'm right and when I grow up I'm going to fill my whole house with animals from top to bottom…and they won't live in cages, either, they'll be able to be free and happy. Emmy's probably going to like that. She likes animals and our kids are going to like animals too because they came from us and that's how genetics works." Said Sho

"Well it's nice to see you having high hopes for the future." Said Fukuda. Sho had no idea if he had high hopes for the future. He couldn't really imagine it. He knew that he would have to grow up and run Claw but…well it was hard to think of a world without dad in it. Without dad being there ready to tell him that he was wrong, that everything about him was wrong, and that he had to say this and do that and be this person that someone else had decided that he had to be. Sho…he couldn't think of a world without that…but he knew that it was coming….

And he was sort of looking forward to it.

He would have to marry a girl, Emmy, and he didn't really want to but…well she liked him and he was at least friends with her so it wouldn't be so bad. He would have to have kids, too, and he liked babies so that wouldn't be too bad. He'd be the one in charge, too, so he could decide if he had pets or not…and there would be pets. Everyone in the house would have whatever pets that they wanted. Him and big sis and his family and her family and Shimazaki and Shibata and Hatori…and Minegishi since they were big sis's best friend….yeah. Everyone would have at least one pet and they could have fun all day and…and it would be great.

So maybe he was looking forward to the future, then.

"Yeah…I kind of do, I guess. I mean things are going to be better once I rule the world I think…if dad gives me the world. He keeps on leaving big sis in charge even though I'm the same age that she was when he went on his long trip…and he's not even on a trip right now! Just…nothing. I'm fine." Said Sho

"Sho…your dad…he's a difficult man to understand unless you're used to him. He's leaving your sister in charge because in a lot of ways she's…more adult than you are. You act like a kid, like you should act, but your sister…well she grew up very quickly…and in the same way that your dad did. He has a lot of the same expectations for her that his parents did for him…and you should consider it a blessing that you still get to be a kid for a little while longer." Said Fukuda. That was the stupidest thing that Sho had ever heard. He wasn't a kid, well he was, but if he was a kid then big sis had to have been a kid too. It was getting to that part of the year when they were the same age. She was eleven and in a couple of months he would be eleven too. They would be eleven together. She wasn't that much older but….

But she was kind of like an adult already.

She took care of him and stuff…and she took care of him and dad and…yeah. Fukuda was right. It had been the stupidest thing that Sho had ever heard but he was still right. Sometimes the truth could be sort of stupid, like how Shibata was right that mashes cauliflower tasted just like mashed potatoes, and…well if the truth was stupid then Sho didn't want to deal with it. He was very busy and didn't have time to deal with stupid stuff…like the truth….and stuff.

He was very busy assisting with…stuff…and stuff…

"I'm going to go and get some jello, you want some too?" asked Sho. He was an assistant so he had might as well assist and get some jello before there was another jello riot like there had been the other day. He didn't want to have to fight any of the Awakened, big sis said that they were fragile and stuff.

"Sure, bring me yellow if they have it." Said Fukuda. Sho stuck his tongue out but didn't say anything. Yellow was the worst flavor and not just because it was supposed to taste like lemon. Well yellow wasn't always lemon, sometimes it was banana or butterscotch, but the jello that big sis ordered for the cafeteria was always lemon if it was yellow…and it could kill him…and Fukuda knew that…but Fukuda could always make him feel better, too, if he started to have an allergic reacting….

He hated having allergies.

He was infected by dad's genetics…and maybe mom's too. He didn't know why he had thee allergies, just that one or both of his parents had the genetics for it, and he hoped more than anything else that he didn't end up passing this down to his kids. It was the sort of thing that only made your life worse…and it was also the sort of thing that only got worse. When he had been little only his mouth had itched and now if he so much as touched a lemon his whole body itched and breathing got hard.

So that was why he would be getting green.

Green was just…green. There wasn't any citrus in it. He had no idea if there was any real lemon in the yellow jello but he didn't want to risk it. Green was the best flavor, well blue was, but he had no idea if there was any blue left. The Awakened were really into blue stuff, it seemed, since a lot of them had blue somewhere in their uniforms. Blue socks, blue hats, blue bows, blue necklaces, just…a lot of blue. It didn't go with the kind of red that these ones were supposed to wear…but he didn't say anything. It was best not to bother them when they were being weird…and they were being really weird. They were just….

Hugging.

It started when he saw one bump into another. Normally that would have started a great big fight but all that started now was, well, a hug. It looked more like they were trying to squeeze each other into paste than actually hug but that was still weird. As Sho walked through the Tokyo HQ he saw more and more and more of the Awakened hugging for some reason….and it was weird but these guys were weird by default. He didn't know if they started off as weirdos or being put through all of that made them weird but…well they were weird.

And Sho was not one of them.

He was the Awakened Child, that was what people called him, but that didn't mean that he was one of them. He may have been through the same thing that they had been through, he may have been covered in the same scars that they were, but he was not the same as them. He was his own thing. He was Sho and he was going to be their boss someday. Him, not big sis. She was just…keeping dad's desk warm for him, that was all, and one day he would sit there and he would be the one making the rules and…and he wouldn't be the Awakened Child anymore. He wouldn't be Sho anymore. He would be President Suzuki. He would be President Suzuki and dad would be gone or dead or just so old that he couldn't take care of himself anymore….

And that would be a good day….when that happened.

Dad was already on his way there, anyway, because he was tired all the time just like mom was. He had been in his room since they came back to Tokyo. Sho hoped that he lived in that room for the rest of his life. Sho hoped that he didn't come with on the London trip or the California trip after that and wherever else that they were going after that. He hoped that dad just stayed in his room until the day he died. That would have been pretty good.

Even better than green jello.

"God damn it!" said Sho as he made his way to the jello cooler in the lunchroom. There used to be a jello bar but too many people were sticking their hands in there so now they were back to little cups of it…cups that were all gone. There was nothing left, not even yellow, just an empty cooler that someone had drawn a dick on with condensation from the cold…probably because they were a dick. Whoever had taken all the jello was the biggest dick in the world! No, wait, was a good thing. Sho didn't know why that was a good thing but he knew that it was a good thing….so whoever had taken all the jello was a little dick…the littlest dick in the world…like a girl's dick or something! Wait, no, girls didn't have those….a better insult would come to him! He just needed a minute!

He didn't have a minute.

He had a second. He had a second before he felt the energy shift around him and something flicked him over the head. Sho couldn't move. How could he? He had spent the entire day avoiding…being too busy for…this person and now he was there and…and no progress had been made! The goldfish in his stomach was awake and he wanted to run away…and stay at the same time…and that was what love felt like…and it sucked! Love sucked and he wished that he could just…exorcise it from his heart and his mind and his stomach and….

And also he wanted jello!

"What was that for?" asked Sho finding some words. Shimazaki shrugged and leaned against the jello cooler. Sho tried not to look at him. He instead tried to focus on the group of Awakened over in the corner having a hugging match. He hoped that the big guy won, he seemed like the better hugger. He tried to focus on that and not how close Shimazaki was…and how he wished that Shimazaki would flick him over the head again…because at least then he would have been touching him…and stuff….

Love really sucked.

"Because you're overdue. Seriously, where have you been? It's been so boring around here without you." Said Shimazaki. Sho knew that he didn't mean it like he wanted Shimazaki to mean it. He knew that Shimazaki didn't mean it like he loved Sho and that he spent just as much time thinking about Sho as Sho spent thinking about him…and how things just weren't very much fun when he wasn't around…and he wasn't going to pick Sho up and kiss him or anything like that….and Sho was wrong for thinking about stuff like that anyway!

"I've been helping Fukuda with stuff. He needed an assistant and Hatori went back to working in the tech room…and nobody else likes him so I'm the only person who could do the job." Said Sho

"Uh-huh, and what are you even assisting him with?" asked Shimazaki

"I keep him company and listen to him complain and get jello for us…and stuff." Said Sho. Well when he said it out loud it sounded stupid…and that was because it was. Sho didn't know why he had said all of that. Now Shimazaki was going to think that he didn't like him…but he also had no idea what he was supposed to even say. He couldn't just tell Shimazaki that he was avoiding him so that he could fall out of love faster and then they could be friends again…not that they had ever stopped being friends but Sho…well he hadn't been a very good friend at all. Friends did not spend years and years and years secretly in love with their friends. That wasn't how it worked. Friends were just…friends…and they didn't think of their other friends like that at all. Ever.

"Wow. You've truly become an indispensable part of the organization." Said Shimazaki. Sho knew that he was just messing around, that he hadn't meant to be mean, and he knew that it was stupid that he felt the way he felt now…like someone had kicked him in the stomach with a pointy shoe…and he just…he was fine. Shimazaki just said mean shit sometimes but that didn't mean that he meant anything by it and…and stuff….and….

And he was just pissed off because there wasn't any jello left.

"Come on, don't be like that. You're a valuable part of the organization, the most valuable part actually. You're going to run this whole shit show someday…so stop with the long face already." Said Shimazaki. He flicked Sho over the head again…but that didn't make him feel any better…well of course it didn't, Shimazaki just flicked him over the head…but normally it felt good but now…well not he just…didn't feel good…

Became some dick took all the jello.

"You can't tell what face I'm making." Said Sho. He stuck out his tongue just to prove a point. Shimazaki had no idea how he looked, he had trouble with expressions, and Sho could have been the happiest person in the world for all he knew! Or at least happier than the guy who lost the hugging match…and he knew that the big guy would win. He wondered if Shibata would have won, he was strong but he didn't like to use it, and maybe he wished that Shibata had been there. Shibata and all the others. Maybe if all the others were there then Sho would have felt better…or at least less…like this. Whatever this feeling was.

"Yeah I can, you're sticking out your tongue, and before that you were really sad…and I can't stand sad people so I'm glad for the whole sticking your tongue out thing. Better you act like a bratty little shit than a sad little shit." Said Shimazaki

"I-I'm not bratty or sad! I'm just pissed off because some tiny girl's dick stole all the jello!" said Sho. He knew that people were looking at him now and he didn't care. He could say whatever he wanted and he could curse whenever he wanted…and he hadn't even cursed!

And he hadn't said anything funny either!

But Shimazaki was still laughing at him. He was laughing and…and Sho liked it when he laughed. He liked it when he laughed like that. When he laughed like he thought that something was funny...that he thought that Sho was funny…but he hadn't been funny…well he hadn't tried to be funny….but he had been…and he felt bad that he was being laughed at…but he felt good that Shimazaki was laughing and…

And the whole thing just kind of sucked.

"Girl's dick? I thought we went over this. Girls don't have-" said Shimazaki between laughs.

"I know that girls have dicks but whoever took all the jello drew a dick here because they are a dick-" said Sho

"Yeah, a big dick. Someone got to it before I could….fucking dick." Said Shimazaki

"No, they're a tiny dick. Big dicks are good…for some reason…so they're a tiny dick, then, like a girls dick would be if they had them." Said Sho. There was a pause, like the whole world had paused, and then Shimazaki went back to laughing…and Sho had never heard him laugh so hard in the entire time that they had known each other.

"A girls….God. Toshi is going to get such a kick out of….never change, Sho, never change…just….hang on one second." Said Shimazaki before he teleported away. He probably did that to tell Minegishi what he had said…and it wasn't worth it, teleporting over and telling them…because they had no sense of humor. They wouldn't know funny if it walked up and punched them in the face. Sho…he wished that he had told Shimazaki to stay but…but he knew that he shouldn't have felt like that and…

And now it didn't matter because he was back.

"Here, turn your shirt into a basket." Said Shimazaki. His arms were full of jello cups in all colors….and he got the feeling that Shimazaki was the dick who had took all the jello cups…which would have made sense…aside from the drawing…but he did kind of know how to draw….and stuff….

Sho wasn't complaining. There was jello!

Which was what he had set out to get…and now he had it…now he had it and now he could go back to siting in a room with Fukuda all day watching hamsters do hamster things. He had to go back but…but he wanted to stay. He wanted to stay and have fun with Shimazaki like they used to. He wanted to stay and go sock skating or mess with the Awakened or soap up a stair case or jump around on top of elevators so that people thought that they elevator was collapsing…or something like that.

But he couldn't.

He couldn't because he was in love with Shimazaki. The minute he stopped being in love with Shimazaki then he could do all of that…but right now he had to…to bring this jello back to Fukuda before he starved to death. That was a thing that might have been able to kill him, maybe, Sho didn't know how healing powers worked. He was psych kinetic and that was a whole different power set so for all he knew Fukuda was dying at this very second! And he couldn't let Fukuda die! Who would fix him up when he hurt himself?!

So, really, running right back to Fukuda was the thing to do.

"Thanks Shimazaki, for the jello I mean. I have to get back to Fukuda now but we can hang out later…and stuff." Said Sho. That was the hardest thing that he had ever had to say to Shimazaki…love sucked. He wished that they sold out of love pills or potions or he could just hit himself over the head with a rock or something just to make all the love stop.

"Wow, you really are busy today. Alright, go and have fun with Fukuda. I'll see you around, hopefully before this big party thing that your sister's throwing me." Said Shimazaki. Sho…he knew about that party. They had planned it on the plane. He knew that Shimazaki was having a party, well it was a big Claw party but it was still on his birthday, and he knew that he would have to go…and he wanted to go….and he just…he really hoped that he was out of love sometime before the twenty fifth otherwise he was going to be all weird at the party…

Like he was now.

"Yeah…we can hang out before then…and um….happy birthday!" said Sho before he turned and walked away. He bit his tongue as he walked away, he would have hit himself over the head but big sis would have been able to see that on the security cameras and then she would have been worried and stuff. Also his hands were full because he had turned his shirt into a basket…and he could have used his powers but…well he didn't trust them right now.

If he couldn't trust his mouth then how could he trust his powers?

He had said the stupidest thing. Shimazaki was still thirty. His birthday hadn't come yet. Sho knew that you had to tell a person happy birthday on their actual birthday. He wasn't dad. He knew how birthdays worked. He was such an idiot…no wonder Shimazaki didn't think that he was cool anymore. No wonder….well maybe he did think that he was cool…since he had asked to hang out and stuff…so maybe he liked Sho….

Not like that.

Sho knew that Shimazaki didn't like him like that and that was the last that he would be thinking about that. He made himself think about other things. He made himself think about the jello had in his shirt. He made himself think about how there were green ones in there even though Shimazaki couldn't tell which ones were green…..but he knew that Sho liked them…and he thought about how there were yellow ones in there and Fukuda liked those even though they might have been able to kill Sho….and he thought about how there were red ones in there…and how big sis liked red….

She would have liked this jello cup.

She liked red and he liked her…so he would bring her the red jello. She would like this and…and maybe he just…wanted to see what she was doing. Maybe he wanted to see how she was keeping dad's office warm for him when he finally got old enough to be the one in charge. It had nothing to do with how he knew that if he went back to that office all he would be able to think about was Shimazaki and his stupid birthday and his stupid laugh and the stupid stuff that Sho had said to him. No, he just wanted to visit his big sister….so that was what he would do.

He could visit his sister if he wanted to! It wasn't a crime!

So that was what he did. He made his way to dad's office, well to big sis's office, and he didn't even bother knocking on the door. Why would he have? Dad wasn't around and dad was the only one who cared about people knocking before they entered and stuff. Big sis wasn't like that, she was nice, she didn't care if he came right in and interrupted…whatever it as that he was interrupting.

"Ok, now Tomo you need to say sorry and talk about how you feel to Satoru and then hug and make up." Said big sis. She was standing between two of the Awakened. One had blood on his shirt and the other one had a bite on his arm. She was holding both of her arms up and trying to keep them from killing each other…maybe. One of them was crying…and the other one was looking down at his feet. Both of them had snowflake socks on, sort of like Frozen ones big sis wore, but the shade of blue was wrong.

"Yes Vice President Suzuki. Satoru, I'm sorry that I bit you because you dumped a cup of water on my head at lunch. When you did that I got scared and I forgot where I was. It was wrong of me to take a bite out of you. I would like to hug you now." Said the Awakened. Sho…well he knew that they didn't like water for the same reason that he didn't like water…and it felt like he had to say something but he didn't know what….or why. This wasn't about him, he hadn't even been around when this had happened, so he didn't say anything. He just stood off to the side while these two guys made up.

"Tomo, I accept your apology and I would like to be hugged by you." Said the other Awakened. Sho wondered if they had rehearsed that, it sounded rehearsed anyway. Like how he used to say sorry to the other kids back at school when he didn't mean it…but these guys sounded like they meant it….or something. Sho didn't know. The whole thing was super weird.

The Awakened had always been super weird.

"Ok, now you guys are friends again. Remember, if this ever happens again just talk about how you feel and hug so you can stay friends. Remember, nothing's more important than being friends." Said big sis. Sho took a step off to the side so those guys could get a clue and leave. They were staring at big sis like…well like he didn't know what. He didn't like it. He knew that big sis didn't like it when he was mean to the Awakened but if they didn't leave her alone then he would have no choice but to be mean to them.

"You're dismissed. That's all there is. There isn't anymore." Said big sis. That was what mom used to say to them when she was done reading them stories. He wondered if mom had any idea that big sis would be saying that same thing to a bunch of Awakened. He wondered if she would even have cared. He wondered if she even cared about anything. He didn't know. He just knew that he didn't want to think about mom. He had been thinking about her, talking about her, and he'd had…well he'd had enough of that for now.

He had enough of a lot of things for now.

Like these Awakened. He had only been watching them for a millisecond but that had been long enough for him to be tired of them. No wonder dad was always an asshole to them. They were…well they were tiresome. He hated using that word but that was what they were. Tiresome. He had no idea how big sis didn't just give them bats and let them fight it out until they were all super hurt….well of course she wouldn't do that. She was big sis and she was nice like that.

She was always so nice.

"Sho! Hi! How are you are? Is everything ok? Do you need-" said big sis. Now she was looking him over like she expected him to have a bite taken out of him or something. What, did she not see the jello? And why did he need a reason to come here in the first place? This was his office…well it was dad's office and if it was dad's then it was his and…and he was being a dick.

"I'm fine, I just wanted to know if you wanted some of this jello." Said Sho. He held out his basket shirt so she could take one if she wanted it. He wanted her to take one. She had to take one. If she took one then she would want him to stay…not that he needed a reason to stay because he could go wherever he wanted but….he just wanted to have jello with his sister! Was that too much to ask?!

"I do. Do you want to have some with me? Or are you busy? I heard that Fukuda made you his assistant. If you don't want to be then-" said big sis. Sho shook his head. He had a job and he could do it….he could.

"I'm fine. I'm fine just…let's have jello. What's your day been like?" asked Sho. He didn't want to talk about his new job or how he had gotten this jello or any other part of his day. He wanted to…to sit and here about her day. Even if it was boring and tiresome he wanted to hear about it. It had to have been better than his day, anyway, since she had actual stuff to do. He knew that Fukuda would understand if he was gone for a long time….and there was nothing wrong with hanging out with his big sis anyway. Besides, it wasn't like he actually had anything better to do anyway. He may have been Fukuda's new assistant but…well…

He would have been a better assistant if he'd actually had something to assist with.