The Seventh Division was boring as fuck.

All of the Divisions were boring when Shimazaki wasn't around….Shimazaki and everyone else. Baby sis was there and she was a friend…sort of. He loved her and she could be fun sometimes but she was nine years younger than him. She liked to draw and color and stuff…but in her own way. Her own little two year old way. Sho loved her more than any other two year old in the world but…well…it could be kind of boring here.

Kind of really fucking boring…no offense baby sis.

"Sho do too." Said baby sis as she shoved a crayon into his hand. He looked down. This was one of hers. All big and fat and covered in her little bite marks. That was what babies did, they bit things. Sometimes she bit him…like now. She took his arm in her little hands, brought it up to her mouth, and bit him.

And then she laughed.

"Come on…you know I don't like that." Said Sho as he pulled his arm back. He had deserved it, of course, for not coloring. This was coloring time and during coloring time he was supposed to color with her. She was the one who had told him that it was coloring time and what the rules were. Well she had mostly just thrown crayons at him and told him to color with her…and this was fun.

This was supposed to be fun.

"Sho draw now." Said baby sis. She didn't yell it at him, she just looked him in the eyes and said it. Like she outranked him or something. She didn't. She was a baby, she didn't have a rank, and even when she did get a rank then she still wouldn't end up outranking him. That wasn't how it worked. Only big sis could out rank him.

He wondered what she was up to now.

She was in Norway…no. They had moved to Germany now she had said. They were in Germany, the beer was good, Shimazaki was acting like a crazy person, and dad was coming home with blood on him. Also Shibata had learned to make schnitzel, whatever that was, and Serizawa could get himself up in the mornings now. Also Hatori had tried a new soap and he smelled good. That was the latest update on everyone. He mostly just cared about Shimazaki and what he had been doing. What crazy stuff had he been doing…and without Sho!? They did stuff together and…and that was not how it worked! Shimazaki didn't just get to do things on his own and-

There was a crayon in his eye.

"Sho. Draw now. Draw picture. There." said baby sis. She slapped her hand against the paper just incase he had forgotten how drawing worked. Sho sighed. He loved her, he really did, but he just…he wished that everyone else could have been there. Shimazaki loved kids. He wanted to have a bunch with Minegishi but they were being a bitch and not having kids even though that was what you were supposed to do when you had a boyfriend. If Sho had been Shoko then he would have had kids with Shimazaki…maybe then Shimazaki would stop treating Sho like his kid…but Sho wasn't Shoko, he was himself, and baby sis was the best that he could do and he knew that if Shimazaki had been there then he would have had a lot of fun playing with him and baby sis.

Even if he couldn't really draw….being blind and all…

But Sho would help him! Sho would help him and…well if big sis had been there then she would have tried to help Shimazaki…but only because she was nice like that! She didn't like him like that at all. She and Minegishi were best friends and best friends didn't steal each other's…boyfriends. He hates that word. Boyfriend. He hates how Minegishi, who didn't even want to be a girl, got to have Shimazaki for their boyfriend…and he hates how he's stuck being Emmy's boyfriend for the rest of time…

Well until he grows up.

Then he'll be her husband. He'll end up being her husband and they'll live together and have kids together….and then he'll never have a chance to be with…well he knows that he doesn't have a chance with Shimazaki. When Shimazaki thought about him he thought like 'wow, I wish that Sho was my kid' instead of 'wow, I wish that Sho was my boyfriend' and Sho…he knew that he could never have a boyfriend. He knew that he could never be Shimazaki's boyfriend….or Ritsu's….

And he doesn't even want to be Ritsu's boyfriend!

He was…he was weird! Yeah! Who the hell just went around holding hands with another guy where people could see?! Anyone could have seen and then they could have thought….well Sho knew what people thought when guys liked other guys. They thought that it was gross and weird and then they would be all 'look at those guys being gross and weird' and Sho didn't think that he could go through with something like that again. He was probably overthinking it. Ritsu hadn't meant it like that. He had meant it like…like how girls held hands with each other. That was just a thing that he'd seen girls do even when they weren't in a girlfriend and girlfriend thing….so Ritsu didn't like him like that….

But he liked Ritsu…as more than a friend…and a hell of a lot more than getting poked in the eye with a crayon.

"Mukai, do you have to do that?" asked Sho

"Yes." said baby sis. Sho blinked…and then got a crayon in his eye. That had been his fault for letting his guard down…but he hadn't been able to help it. Baby sis…well he knew that she spoke Japanese. She mostly just repeated the things that he said…or shouted and pointed. She never just…answered questions like that. Without shouting…and looking at him…like she understood him….

She was getting older…and Sho didn't know how to feel about that.

"Do you understand me?" asked Sho. She was two now…well her birthday had been in February so she was two and two months old…almost two and three months old…so of course she would have gotten better at talking…and understanding. He remembered when she'd been tiny enough that he could hold her with one arm…and also back when she'd cried all the time and thrown up on him and peed on him on purpose….

These times were better than those times…even though one day she would be his age and he would be dead.

"Yes." said baby sis. She looked him in the eyes. Looking into her eyes was like looking into his eyes…and dad's eyes too. She had the same eyes as them. He wondered what was up with that. He had heard what people said, that baby sis's mom had done gross, sick, disgusting, inhuman things with dad and that was how Mukai got there….but that made no sense. First of all dad and mom were married and married people were only allowed to do that with the person that they had married and also…also dad hated the Seventh Division because this was the Division that had lost that kid from a few years ago so he never would have done something as gross as stick his dick in baby sis's mom….Sho felt like throwing up all over himself just to feel cleaner after that thought…..so baby sis was not actually his baby sis….

Even though if dad had been cheating on mom then…then her running away would have made sense…

"Can you…stop poking me?" asked Sho. He had to focus on baby sis and this new, amazing, earth shattering discovery. She could understand him…well he knew that she had always been able to understand him…but now she could really understand him! She was so smart! She was the smartest baby sis in the whole world…even if she hadn't come from mom and dad….she was still his baby sis and she was the smartest baby sis in the whole wide world!

And also she could be kind of a jerk sometimes….but no more than he had been.

"No." said Mukai as she tried, again, to stab him in the eye with her little baby crayon. Why did she have to do stuff like this? He…was not going to get mad at her. She could understand him and that meant that he could reason with her…so that was what he would do. He would reason with her….with reasons. Not like how dad had always yelled at him…no…he was going to be nice and reasonable.

"Please? Come on, I don't poke you." Said Sho

"Poke you!" said baby sis before she stabbed him in the arm with a crayon again. Sho sighed. He needed a drink. Even though it tasted either like burning or throw up he needed a drink. Big sis…had he been like this when he'd been little? Well he had been worse, he had hit big sis all the time, so no wonder she drank so much. When he saw her again he was getting her one of those fancy bottles of whatever it was that dad kept in his office for guests. Also a lot of those cartridges she liked to smoke.

Big brothering…and big sistering….was harder than it looked.

"Baby sis…I think that maybe you're bored. I….sometimes I do stuff like this when I'm bored and I bet that you're bored too so…so how about we….go outside? You want to go outside and go for a stroller ride?" asked Sho. He knew that he got overly tired sometimes, Fukuda and big sis's words, and when he got like that he could turn into a total dick hole….and since baby sis was a lot like him then maybe she turned into a total dick hole too when she got tired…

Not that he would have ever called baby sis a dick hole. He wasn't an asshole…at least not to her.

"Yes! Go outside!" shouted baby sis. She threw her crayon on the ground and ran for her baby gate. He didn't know why her mom kept the baby gate up. Baby sis could easily climb over it now. Well sort of easily. Her dress got caught on the top. Sho gave her a hand with his powers and helped her over.

She didn't say thanks.

She knew how to say thanks…but she didn't always say it. But that was ok. She was little. She was little and she was excited. She ran over to the genkan and tried to put her shoes on. Sho put their crayons and papers away with his powers as he got up. Her mom didn't like it when they trashed her house. Moms liked it when things were clean and stuff.

That was just how moms were.

He knew. He used to have….he didn't have time to think about mom. He had to help baby sis get her shoes on…and he had to get her stroller unfolded too. That was kind of hard…it never wanted to fold or unfold…but he had to take it with him. She had little baby legs and she couldn't keep up with him. Also she didn't like to be carried for long distances.

He had a lot to do.

"Hang on, baby sis. Those are the wrong feet…and also you're putting them on backwards too." Said Sho as he knelt down in the genkan and took her foot in his hand. She tried to kick him…but that was just how she played. He knew that he should have told her to stop and that if she didn't stop then he wouldn't take her outside, the sort of thing that his mom would have said, but he wasn't going to do that. He wasn't mom. He was Sho.

And he was always nice to his little sister…even when she kicked him in the face with her little baby foot.

That didn't hurt…not that much…and also it didn't bother him that she wouldn't stop asking to go outside. Even though she knew that it took a while to unfold her stroller. Even though she knew that it took a while to buckle her in when she wiggled around like that. Even though she knew that it took him a long time to tie his shoes when she kicked and screamed.

She was a baby and this was just how babies were.

"Outside! Go outside now!" said baby sis as he pushed her stroller through the opened door. She was doing that thing where she rocked back and forth in her stroller. He…well he wasn't going to get annoyed. She was just having trouble being patient, that was all, and that was just because she was little.

Little people had trouble with…everything.

Big sis had always said that. When he'd been an asshole to her she had just said that he was little and he didn't know what he was doing…or that she had done something to deserve it…and stuff. Big sis…she was nice like that. She was nice and…and Sho had to be nice too. Baby sis might not have been his actual baby sis….he didn't even know if he wanted that….but he still had to be a good big brother. He had to use everything that he had learned from big sis when taking care of her.

He had learned from the best after all.

"We are outside? See? We were in your house and now we're outside your house." Said Sho. She understood some stuff but not all of the stuff…but that was ok. Maybe when she turned three then she would understand all of the stuff….like the talking stuff. He hoped so. He loved her a lot, he really did, and he wanted her to be happy and stuff…but also his head was starting to hurt. Everything was a game of twenty questions with her…and he had never like playing twenty questions.

"No! Outside!" said baby sis. She reached over and now she was tugging on his coat. Her hand had been in his pocket. He pulled it out. She could have ripped it…it was starting to get broken in places…and this was the only coat like it in the world because it had come from Shimazaki and he had trusted Sho with it and-

And he needed to calm down.

He took another deep breath and started to count in his head just like the book said to do. Right. He just…had to calm down and help his baby sis figure out what she wanted. She just…was having trouble with words. Maybe because they were in Japanese, she was Korean after all, and he had never heard her speaking it…so maybe speaking it to her now would have just confused her more.

She already seemed confused enough as it was.

"Look, see? Inside. Outside. Inside. Outside." Said Sho. He opened the door and stepped in and out of the doorway. There. Now she knew what words were and they could go and play….ok. She didn't know what words were and now she was going to turn red and kick her little baby feet so hard the stroller rocked back and forth.

"No come in! Go outside!" said baby sis. Sho pushed her stroller away from the door. Well that had just made things worse. Were all babies this complicated? Maybe this was why girls were supposed to be the ones who took care of babies. Dad had said, before, that a woman's job was to take care of her family and a man's job was to provide for his wife and children. Sho….he knew that dad was crazy and an asshole but even crazy asshole could make sense sometimes.

He hoped that Emmy knew more about babies than he did….well if she didn't know then big sis could teach her.

"No, no, we are outside, see? We're outside now." Said Sho as he pushed the stroller down the hall. She had spent her entire life in this place, well most of it, and she should have known that when the walls and floor where white and shiny she was outside. She…well she knew a lot of things….and he knew more things than she did too so…so he as just going to calm down and keep calm.

Even though she was still shouting and kicking.

"No! Want go outside!" said baby sis. She was making sense…in her head. Not his.

"Mukai…can you please just show me where you want to go already?" asked Sho. She stopped yelling…which was good. She just stuck her hand out and pointed down the hallway.

"There!" said baby sis. She pointed down the hallway. Sho did as his baby sis asked. This was better. She had stopped yelling. Now she was just pointing. She was pointing and kicking her feet when he didn't walk fast enough. He wondered if he was like this. He could walk around on his own but…well he could be kind of bossy…like she was being now. But she was two and he had no excuse…and he…well when he came back to the group then he was going to be less bossy.

And also he was going to be really nice to big sis from now on.

"There now." Said baby sis. They were going down, now, he picked up her stroller with her powers and walked down the stairs. With every step she kept on telling him to keep on going down…maybe she had wanted to explore? Maybe this was just her telling her that she wanted him to help her explore her home and…

And there weren't going to do that much exploring.

"Baby sis, no, we aren't going down there. That's where they make Awakened and it's…bad. Bad things happen there and-" said Sho as they got to the ground floor. She was still telling him to move….but the Awakening Lab was on this floor and he was not going to take her to the Awakening Lab. She didn't need to know about that place or what happened there. Even if she lived here. Even if this was going to be her home for the rest of her life…she did not need to know…anything…about what happened down there.

He would lie to her face if he had to.

"Outside! There!" said baby sis. She was…pointing in the opposite direction. Sho…well that was a relief. He didn't want to have to lie to her face or deal with her getting upset because he wouldn't take her where she needed to go…well maybe he hadn't dodged that one. The only thing that way was the big front door….that led to the woods…

Babysitting means that the baby stays here and you sit.

Her mom had told him that….and he knew that he hadn't asked if he could take baby sis outside…and also they weren't wearing coats but…well she wanted to go outside and he loved her and when you loved someone then you did what they wanted. You did whatever you could to make them happy…and that was what he would do. He was a good big brother.

He had learned from the best.

"Do you want to go outside to the woods? We can do that….but don't tell your mom, ok?" said Sho. She wanted to go outside and…being outside would have been a hell of a lot more fun than being inside all day. He'd been here for weeks and weeks now….and for weeks and weeks they'd be doing the exact same thing every single day. Coloring and playing and watching TV and stuff….they did the same thing almost every single day….

And that got pretty fucking boring after a while.