Baby sis sure did like stories.

Maybe because she was too little to read. She could barely talk so maybe it was too early to teacher how to read. Sho couldn't remember a time when he couldn't read at least a little. Mom had taught him and big sis when they'd been about her age…or maybe younger. He didn't know, he couldn't really remember anything from before he was about three or four. He wondered if baby sis could remember things now. She knew who he was…and she sort of knew who big sis was…but also she asked to go home sometimes even though her home had a big hole in the roof. Maybe she just didn't get it, he didn't know, it wasn't like he was going to ask her.

No, now it was story time.

"….and then they all lived happily ever after. The end." Said big sis as she closed the book. That was one of their old books, well one of her old books, one of her old Disney books. It was a picture book, the kind that baby sis liked. She didn't really like manga even though that had more pictures….maybe because manga wasn't in color. She liked it when things were in color. She liked to look at pictures and stuff…and touch them….which was why he'd had to hide his sketchbooks from her…

But that was ok. She was little and she didn't know what she was doing.

"Again book please and thank you." Said baby sis. She was getting better at talking. She used to just sort of repeat what you said but now she was making sentences and stuff…and that was nice…even now. Even when she should have been in bed asleep half an hour ago. Her mom had wanted to put her to bed but big sis said that she could do it…and she hadn't listened to him when he told her that it was kind of hard…

Kind of really hard.

She was a lot like him. She didn't like to go to bed either. He didn't see why she couldn't just stay up as late as she wanted to it wasn't like she had school or a job or anything like that to get up for in the morning. She was little and if she wanted to sleep in then that should have been ok. Sho knew that when he grew up and got married he was going to let his kids do whatever they wanted to do whenever they wanted to do it…then they could be happy…but not if Emmy thought different because she was the girl and girls knew more about this stuff than guys did. Also he kind of owed her for the cheating and the thinking about cheating and…well pretty much for their entire relationship up to this point. He sucked…he was the worst boyfriend in the world….

But he could at least be a good big brother.

"But that was the third story." Said big sis. Sho decided to be nice and not tell her that baby sis didn't know what numbers were yet. She barely knew her letters. She knew mu because that was in her name but that was it. That was ok, though, because she was their sister and they knew the truth and now she could stay here with them forever. Dad was gone, big sis was here, and everything was perfect.

They even got bunk beds now.

Instead of two beds next to each other they had bunk beds. Mom hadn't wanted to get them bunk beds because they made her nervous. She had said that she knew that he and big sis would have been jumping off the top bunk all the time. She had been worried about them getting hurt even though that made no sense. If they got hurt then Fukuda could have fixed them up. He had been around all the time back then anyway and it wasn't like it would have been any extra work for him. Well that didn't matter now. There wasn't anyone around to tell him and big sis that they couldn't have bunk beds or…or whatever else they wanted. Like a little sister. Dad was gone and Fukuda was gone…and mom was never coming back because dad was a cheater and cheaters were the worst people in the world….so there was no one to tell him that he couldn't be with his little sister and be her big brother and sleep in the top bunk…but not let her sleep in the top bunk because she was little and he knew that she would hurt herself.

…and it would have been bad if she hurt herself since Fukuda was gone…probably forever….

"We can have more stories tomorrow…how's that sound, baby sis?" asked Sho. She had her arms crossed…it was kind of cute. She had her arms crossed and she looked mad, well she was mad, but it was always cute when she was mad because she was so little. Sort of like that grumpy cat thing that had been everywhere when he'd been little. She was like grumpy cat but a little sister…how had he never noticed this before? Probably because he went so long between visits…but not anymore…

She was here to stay.

She was going to be with them forever. She even had her own bed. It was pink. The frame was pink and the bedding was pink and she had a bunch do pink bears and other animals in her bed and her dolls had pink clothes on. He didn't know if pink was her favorite color or not, or if she even had a favorite color, but she wasn't complaining….about the bed at least…and if she didn't like it then they could always get her a new one. They could get her whatever she wanted. She was their little sister and she deserved to get whatever she wanted.

He was a good big brother, he could get her whatever she wanted, but only things that were good for her...and keeping her up all night wouldn't have been good for her even though he had no idea why.

"More." Said baby sis. She sat up in her bed and slapped the book in big sis's hands. Sho pushed her back down, just a little, so she was laying down again. She needed to go to bed. If she got up then she would want to play and then her mom would be upset because she wasn't in bed….even though she got more than enough sleep, in Sho's opinion. She took naps and went to bed at seven….and she got up really early….but then again he didn't know too much about taking care of babies. He knew how to be a good big brother, being nice and playing with her and stuff, but he didn't know a lot about this kind of boring mom type stuff.

Maybe this was why the moms were the ones who took care of the kids. They knew about stuff like this.

"But…we already read you three stories." Said big sis

"More please and thank you! Now!" said baby sis

"Mukai, come on. It's after seven, you have to go to sleep." Said big sis

"I'll read the next one, big sis. You can go and do something else." Said Sho. He loved big sis and because he loved her he was going to give her a break. She looked tired, her aura did anyway, and he kind of got why. Baby sis had way too much energy….and maybe they shouldn't have put her to bed so early. Maybe she would have had less energy during the day if they put her to sleep later at night…he'd talk to her mom about that. Moms knew about that kind of stuff, well all girls did, it was what they were good at. Dad had said so…he didn't care what dad said…but he had been right. Mom knew about kids and big sis knew about kids and baby sis's mom knew about kids. All girls knew about kids…well not Minegishi because they weren't a girl…but who cared what they did and did not know about?

"I can take care of my own little sister." Said big sis. Sho had no idea what he had said to make her so mad. She had been really mad lately even though she had no reason to be. Sure she had sent dad away but dad was a jerk. Now she could finally see what he had been seeing for his entire life. Dad was a jerk and he needed to go and be a jerk somewhere else so that everyone could be happy. He was gone and Fukuda was gone and…and he had been a jerk too…not as much of a jerk as dad…but if he had to be gone off to…parts unknown…in order for baby sis to stay and be a member of their family then…then that was ok…

He had been a jerk anyway…and big sis wouldn't have been upset about him leaving anyway.

Fukuda and big sis didn't get along. That was obvious to anyone who heard them talking to each other. She had no reason to be upset even though he was gone. Sho was the one who should have been upset. He was the one who had…he was the one who had lost someone….even though he knew that Fukuda was still alive. Nobody had died when the roof fell in, they just got really hurt, everyone he asked said so. Fukuda was alive and big sis…well she didn't have to feel upset about the roof thing…or…or anything! She should have been happy….he knew that he was happy….

He had his baby sis. He didn't have any reason to be unhappy.

"I never said that you couldn't. I just meant that I could help you." Said Sho

"I don't need help, but thank you, I have this. You can go and do something else while I read to her. You can even take a bath-" said big sis

"No. Not happening tonight." Said Sho

"But…you kind of need a bath." Said big sis. Sho shook his head. He didn't smell bad. He couldn't smell himself. When he started to be able to smell himself then he would go and take a bath but not before. Girls just took to many baths. Even baby sis liked to take baths…but maybe that was because nobody had ever tried to drown her…and nobody ever would.

"More bath." Said baby sis. That time she did manage to sit up. Maybe she didn't like her bed. Maybe it was too little. She had a toddler bed since a big kid bed would have been too big….even though Sho thought that a big bed would have made more sense because she was going to be with them for the rest of her life. Getting her a little bed was like saying that when she outgrew it she was going to go back to where she came from and…and stuff…but maybe that was just him being stupid. She had no reason to ever want to leave. She loved it here…and she loved him.

Even though he had been kind of a jerk for the first two years of her life.

He had just…left her. When Fukuda said that it was time to go then he just left….he left his own little sister. When she had been a baby, even, he had let Fukuda take her away. He had said that he found her a family…but she already had a family. He was her family. He and big sis were her family. She came from dad. She was his actual sister….and he was kind of stupid, he decided, because he hadn't noticed how much she looked like him. Well he had noticed but he just thought that she was another red haired person with freckles and blue eyes….but she wasn't just any other person. She was his little sister…and she was finally back where she belonged. With her family. Her mom was here, too, and…well she needed a mom. Not his mom, no, his mom would have been upset if she had been here and if she knew what dad done to her…not that she was ever coming back….but that didn't matter….

He had baby sis, now, and…and nothing else mattered.

"No, Mukai, you already took a bath. Too many baths dries out your skin, because of the soap and stuff. Besides, you're not the one who needs a bath. Sho is the one who needs a bath." Said big sis

"I do not." Said Sho. Big sis just took too many baths, that was all. He knew that he didn't smell bad. Shimazaki….Ryou…hadn't said anything to him earlier that day and he had a super sensitive sense of smell.

"You…kind of do." Said big sis. Sho…well if he had been meaner then he would have told her that if she thought that he needed a bath so bad…well he wasn't going to finish that thought because he was not a mean person anymore. Also baby sis was there and he didn't know what her powers were…and if she could read minds then she would have probably thought that it was ok to be mean to big sis and he didn't know if he could live with himself if he taught her how to be a jerk. He wasn't Fukuda…and Fukuda wasn't around anymore so he couldn't just go and ask him.

"I don't smell bad. I can tell." Said Sho

"Um….well you might not think that you smell bad…but other people might think that you smell bad…so maybe you should take a bath." Said big sis

"Sho smell bad." Said baby sis. She pointed at him and covered her nose. He brought his shirt up over his nose and…well he didn't smell good…but he didn't smell bad either. He smelled normal.

"I don't need a bath." Said Sho

"Sho….please? You don't have to wash your hair….I mean it would be nice if you did but you don't have to…and afterwards I'll let you have a poptart." Said big sis

"Poptart?" asked baby sis. She held out her hands, that was what she did when she was asking for something. She deserved all the poptarts in the world…even his…even though he had them all counted out. Big sis only ordered new food once a week….even though they delivered seven days a week. He only had twenty one boxes of poptarts to last him out the week….and if baby sis wanted some then….well then she could have some.

"Ok, but just one box-" said Sho

"For Sho, not you. I just brushed your teeth and if you eat then you'll just end up having to brush your teeth again." said big sis. She interrupted him…that wasn't ok…but he wasn't going to be mad at her. She did have a point. He knew how hard it was to get baby sis's teeth brushed, she liked to eat the toothpaste, and he knew that if she didn't brush her teeth then she could end up with them all rotting out and stuff. She only had baby teeth but he knew how much it hurt when one of your teeth turned black and broke off and stuff. He didn't want her to go through that.

"No toothbrush." Said baby sis covering her mouth with both hands and shook her head.

"That's right. That's why Sho gets a poptart and you don't." said big sis

"Poptart please and thank you!" said baby sis

"Mukai…alright…in the morning. I'll read you another story now while Sho takes his bath." Said big sis

"Hey, I never said that I was going to-" said Sho

"Please, little brother." Said big sis. Sho sighed. Why did she have to call him that? Now he had to be nice to her…not that he wasn't always nice to her….but now he had to be extra nice to her. He wasn't going to teach his baby sister to be a jerk. He wasn't Fukuda…he would never forgive Fukuda for turning him into a jerk…well more of a jerk than he had been before…and he hoped that Fukuda never came back…because if he did then Sho…well he would be really upset with him…upset enough to maybe even kick him in the back of the knees like Ryou taught him. That was what you did when you wanted to make it so someone couldn't run away….

He went to take his bath.

He had been having mean thoughts in front of baby sis. He didn't know what her powers were yet and if she could read minds then he was in big trouble. He didn't know how powers were passed down from parent to kid. He knew that dad was mostly telekinetic…well that was all that he had seen of what dad could do, anyway. Dad had told him when he had been a kid never to try and astral project because it hurt…so maybe dad could do that too. He could put up a really strong barrier too when he needed to….and he was really strong but that might have just been because he was way bigger than Sho and stuff. Sho had never really sat down and asked his dad about what he could do…at least not now when he was this age…it had been different when he'd been little….

He watched the bathtub fill up.

When he had been little he had wanted powers like dad's and big sis's more than anything else in the world…so badly that he had agreed to be Awakened…and even if he had known what it would be like he would have still gone through with it. The whole thing had been….bad….but also worth it. For him. Not baby sis….and she must have had powers….even if her powers weren't anything special he was still going to love her and if anyone tried to put her in an awakening machine then he would kill them.

Even if it was dad.

Sho pulled off his clothes and tossed them on the floor. This was the hard part, the part where he had to scrub down before he got in the tub. Mom had never made him do this. She had always just put him and big sis in the tub even though they were still dirty from the day. She had said that the water went down the drain anyway so it made no sense to scrub down before they went in. Mom had been nice like that…but big sis wanted him to take a bath the Japanese way because they were Japanese and in Japan and stuff. So that was what he did. This was…hard. Getting all wet…he freaked out when he got water on his head but he wasn't a big fan of getting it all over himself either. It sucked….it really did…and it was hard too. Killing dad would have been much easier than taking a bath.

Not that he had any plans to kill dad or anything.

He just thought about it sometimes. Killing dad…well he had spent almost his whole life thinking about how dad would die. About how he could choke on an omelet or get shot or lose a fight or just get old and never wake up. Then dad would have been gone forever and he could have been happy. Now…well dad was gone…and he should have been happy….but it wasn't…dad just….

He had cheated on mom and then he had just walked away.

That was the worst thing that he had ever done. He had cheated on mom and then he had left. Like…like it was nothing. He had made a person, Mukai, and not even…been her dad…or anything. He knew what kind of dad his dad was, not a god one, and if he had ever even thought about hurting Mukai then Sho would have killed him. If he had even thought about putting Mukai in an awakening machine then he would have killed him. There. Those were ok reasons to think about killing his own dad…so he was ok. There was nothing wrong with wanting to kill your dad and even trying to.

Ryou said so.

Ryou had been older than Sho when he tried to kill his dad….but it was ok because his dad had tried to kill him. Also his dad had shot his mom and if dad killed mom then…well Sho would have killed him. Sho would have killed dad if he did anything to hurt the people he loved and it was ok. Ryou said that every son, when pushed hard enough, tried to kill their dad. He said that even if you didn't manage to kill your dad then he would still respect you as a man and stuff. Sho…well he knew dad and dad would kill him if he didn't do it right…if he lived through whatever Sho tried to do to him…so he wasn't going to try…unless dad tried something first…because he just wasn't strong enough….

Sho wasn't even strong enough to take a bath let alone kill his own dad.

Sho scrubbed himself down as fast as he could. He used his own soap even though big sis's smelled really good. She didn't have the citrus stuff she'd been using before, no, now her soap was winterberry. She didn't know what winterberries were and neither did he but they both knew that they smelled good. He used his own soap though. It was that same Zootopia stuff that he'd been using for most of his life. Ryou said that he liked it. He said that the best part of the week was when Sho took his bath and smelled like soap instead of how he normally smelled. He trusted Ryou. He would always trust Ryou…he loved him. He loved him and…and he wasn't going to do anything…and stuff. Just….he knew that he was a bad person…and that he had done a bad thing…but….he was sorry and…

He scrubbed harder.

He had been as bad as he could be and…and he didn't want to think about this. He could hear, through the door and over the water, that baby sis had gotten out of bed. She was running and laughing. She was running and laughing and Sho…he needed to take his bath so he could go and play with her. They could hang out and play all night. That was…that was good. He could at least be a good brother. He was a terrible boyfriend, he was a cheater and cheaters were the worst people in the world, and…and he could at least be a good big brother…and a good little brother too…

Which was why he got in the tub.

He hated it. As soon as he sat down he hated it. The water was too hot…but it was always too hot. Unless it was too cold of course. He couldn't remember the last time he'd taken a bath and the water had been a good temperature. He loved…he used to love it when baths were just right…when he'd been little. Now he couldn't even be in the water…it was up to his stomach…not even his chest and…and he could feel it rising. Every time he sat in the water he could feel it rising and….and he wanted to get out. He didn't get why his baths had to be in two parts just because he was Japanese. Mom had never made him take baths in two parts…and dad didn't take his baths in two parts that often either. Mom and dad were half Japanese so they did that….but mom wasn't there and dad never cared if he took a bath or not…big sis was in charge of him and she had decided that he needed a bath…so that was what he did…

He took his bath.

He turned the tap on…maybe if the water was actually higher then his brain would stop freaking out. His brain would stop telling his body to be all tense and stuff. He wanted to get out and run…because he kept on thinking that the water would rise…but this was just a bath tub. This was just a tub and it didn't even go up high enough to drown him. The sides weren't that high…and this was a bathroom, not a lab…and he was fine. He had just give baby sis her bath and….and he wouldn't have put her anywhere dangerous. He was a good big brother and good big brothers did not put their sisters in dangers…and good little brothers did what their sisters said…

He let the water rise.

It didn't help. No matter how much he told himself that the water wouldn't drown him…his body still told him to run…and his brain was screaming at him…and his powers were turning the bathroom into a snow globe. Water was starting to float up and…and that was good. He had his powers…and since he had his powers he didn't need to be in the lab…so he was safe…he was safe and nothing was going to hurt him and…and it was like he had two brains. One of his brains was telling him that he was being stupid and that nothing was going to hurt him…and the other one was telling him that he needed to run out of there even though he was naked because he was going to drown and this time the water might not drain…he knew that there was a drain in the tub…and he could pull the plug at any time.

He reached down.

He felt the stopper…the stopper was there and he could pull it out at any time. He took a deep breath. He told himself, in his mind, over and over again that he was the one in charge of the stopper and that he was the one…he was the one who decided when he came out. Well big sis said that he had to spend at minimum fifteen minutes in the water…but when those fifteen minutes were up then he could get out…even though he deserved to drown for what he had done….

He didn't want to think about this.

His phone vibrated in his pocket…good thing that he hadn't put his pants in the hamper then. He hated it when his phones got washed…and he had just gotten a new one too. His old one had gotten lost in the woods. He didn't want to have to go and get a new phone and then get all of his stuff out of the cloud. It was hard to do that without Hatori…he did kind of miss him…even if he was friends with dad. Of course he would have wanted to be friends with Hatori since he was just like dad…wasn't he? He knew why his phone was vibrating. There was only one person who texted him….well two if he was away from big sis…but they were in the same house. That left one person. His girlfriend. Emmy. She was texting him…maybe it was morning where she was…it was. He knew the time difference. She was texting him and she wanted to hear about his day and what was new and…and he didn't know what he was supposed to say to her…

He wasn't going to say anything.

He…the right thing to do would have been to tell her the truth…but then she would have cried. She would have cried and…and he knew what it felt like to get your heart ripped out. It had happened to him. Back when everyone made fun of him for kissing Hideki…back when Ryou started telling Minegishi that he loved them….back when he'd left Ritsu behind….that one had been the worst. Ritsu had kissed him…for real. Not because they were playing a game...Ritsu had wanted to kiss him…and he hadn't just kissed him…he had touched him and held him and…and they had kissed like they did on TV and….and it had been the best feeling that he had ever felt in his life…

That was how he made Emmy feel.

She loved him. She loved him in the real way and…and he didn't know which was worse. Breaking her heart now or lying to her for the rest of their lives. She hadn't ever done anything but love him and…and this was one of those pragmatic choices, wasn't it? He slapped the water as hard as he could. Some of it ran down his face. Sho…he hated this. He hated being in this tub, he hated being in the water, he hated being Emmy's boyfriend, and he mostly hated being himself. Why…why couldn't he have been born anyone else? Then he could have been happy. Then he could have been with someone who loved him and who he loved back? Why….

He didn't even know who he was asking.

If Fukuda had been here then he would have been the person that Sho would have asked. Not in the tub, no, nobody had seen him naked in years. He would have gotten out of the tub and asked Fukuda what he was supposed to do…but Fukuda was a jerk…and he had told him the wrong thing…and he had lied about baby sis! He had lied about Mukai being his sister and…and Sho didn't trust him anymore. Sho couldn't trust him anymore. Sho…had always been able to go to him when something was wrong and…and now he couldn't. He couldn't trust Fukuda anymore…and Fukuda was gone and…and why did it hurt? Why did it hurt that some jerk….some guy who had been a jerk to him and big sis for years…no. Fukuda had always been nice to him…he had been a jerk when he lied about little sis…and he was always a jerk to big sis….but…he had always been there for Sho and…

He wiped his eyes.

That had been the wrong thing to do. Now he had water on his face. More water sloshed out of the tub…his powers. He reached out with his powers and grabbed the first thing that felt like a towel. He wiped his face and…oh. This was way too soft to be his. He used a Zooptopia beach towel because it was huge and got him dry really fast. This was big sis's towel. It was soft and smelled like strawberries even though it was all blue and glittery. He dropped it on the floor. He was fine. It was just a little water. If Ryou had been there he would have said something like 'you know I have to rinse out my eye sockets, right?' and then he would have splashed him because he liked to splash….and…and also Ryou would have been in the same room as him when he was naked…

He took a deep breath.

That…would have been weird. He settled on weird for this feeling. The one he got when the goldfish in his stomach swam out of his stomach and down his spine and…yeah. This was a weird feeling. It wasn't even a feeling that made any sense! So what if Ryou would have been in the same room as him when he was naked. Ryou was blind. He didn't know when people were naked or dressed….did that mean that everyone was naked to him? Sho shook his head. No, he was not going to think about that. That stupid goldfish needed to go away…or swim back up to his stomach…or something…and this was such a stupid way to feel! Unless Ryou actually touched him or something then he would have had no idea that Sho was totally naked right now and-

-and that had not been the thought to have.

Sho drew his knees up to his chest and closed his eyes. Nope. He was not going to think about it. About how he wasn't wearing anything and then Ryou would have been all…well he wouldn't have noticed until he touched Sho…but he wouldn't have had any excuse to touch Sho so there. He could see just fine with his powers and he wouldn't have had to reach over and touch Sho's face and then his chest and then…and then he would have been all 'oh, you're naked' and then he would have been all 'that's not fair, move over' like he did when Sho built a fort and then…and then….

That was crazy. There was no way that they both would have fit.

There. Now he could shut his brain up and his breathing could go back to normal and the goldfish that lived in his stomach could go home. It was hanging out…where it should not have been hanging out…and now he was being all weird again. He hated it when this happened. It happened before, when he had been little, at really random times. It still happened at random but now…well mostly the random times when his brain got all weird and he got all these weird feeling. He leaned back in the tub…he could feel the porcelain on the back of his neck and…and he just…that wasn't metal…he wanted to think about the lab and not…not how there was no way for him and Ryou to even fit in this tub together…unless he sat on his lap or something….

Nope. No way to for him and Ryou to both fit here.

Ryou was way too big and Sho was too big and anyway he hadn't shared a bath with anyone in years let alone an adult and if he wanted to share a bath with someone then it would have had to have been someone his own age and he didn't know anyone his own age. Well he knew his sister and…that was just gross. Ok…from now own he wasn't even going to REMEMBER that he had a sister when his dick was doing that weird thing it did sometimes. He just…he had to think about something besides Ryou and it would go back to normal…but not anyone in his family because that would have been gross. He shouldn't have been thinking about anyone….anyone at all….especially not who would be small enough to fit in here with him. The only person he knew who could fit in here was Ritsu and he was all the way in Seasoning City.

Now it was worse.

Because now he knew that Ritsu could have fit in here with him…and it wouldn't have been weird since Ritsu liked him. Ritsu liked him enough to kiss him for real. Ritsu had been the one to take his hand…and then to pull him close….and hold him like in the movies…and then Ritsu had kissed him and…and it had been the most perfect moment of his life and….and now he was thinking about it. He was thinking about it and…and if it had happened here, in this tub, then they both would have been naked and he had never seen another guy naked in his life…and he never would….but now he was thinking about it and once he started thinking about it he couldn't stop thinking about it and now he just….he wanted something but he didn't know what it wa-

"Sho? Are you ok? Your aura is really bright…um….it's kind of scaring Mukai." Said big sis as she knocked on the door. Sho immediately grabbed her towel from on the ground and covered himself with it…even though he was still in the tub. Great. Now it was soaked and she would be mad…but he was the one who had every right to be mad! She had just come barging in….by knocking on the door…and…and this was the bathroom! You weren't supposed to knock on the door when people were in the bathroom!

Well you kind of were….so nothing embarrassing happened….but still!

"Sho? Are you ok? If you're scared again I can-" said big sis

"I'm fine." Said Sho

"But your aura-" said big sis

"I said that I was fine!" said Sho. He shouted there…not the thing to do when there was a little kid in the house who needed to go to bed at seven o'clock at night for some reason….even though the sun was still up.

"But I know how scared you get when you take baths and-" said big sis. No. He didn't want to talk about any feelings stuff right now! Not about how scared he had been…and not about how crappy he felt all the time…and not about whatever the hell that weird feeling had been! That one was the worst! She couldn't know about that or-or-or anything! Why did she have to be so fucking nosy all the time!

"Shigeko! Will you leave me alone!?" said Sho…a lot louder than he should have. Big sis gasped….she was sad now…but he was mad! She had just…here he was sitting in the tub trying to take a bath and she was being all nosy! He wasn't nosy when she took baths! He left her alone and…and he needed to calm down…because he was a good brother and good brothers did not yell at their sisters.

"S-sorry….I was just worried about you. I just thought that you needed me and….I'm sorry." said Shigeko. She was sad. He could see her aura through the walls….great. That was his fault. He had been a really bad big brother there and…and he needed to stop being selfish and thinking about himself and…stuff. He had to be nice.

"Big sis…I'm sorry. I just…wanted some privacy in the bathroom, ok? And you-you're the one who made me take a bath and…sorry. I shouldn't have yelled at you. I'll be out in a minute…um…is baby sis sleeping yet?" asked Sho

"No, her mom is doing yoga with her now to get her energy out….I don't see how moving around is going to do anything but make her more awake…and stuff. I don't know…after she goes to sleep I'm going to go and hang out with Serizawa. You can come if you want." Said big sis. Sho…he did not want to go next door. He would have had to hang out with Ryou and…and he didn't want to have to look at him and talk to him after….what he had just thought about…but he wanted to hang out with big sis…but he could do what tomorrow.

"I'm going to stay home and draw. Sorry." said Sho. He really was. He just…maybe drawing wasn't the thing to do…since his drawings had been getting kind of weird now. He just….he couldn't wait until whatever this was passed. He was so sick of just…feeling like this…all the time. Weird about Ryou and guilty about what he did with Ritsu…and being in love with Ritsu…and also this sort of…aloneness….that had been sticking to him since Fukuda ran away….even though he wasn't alone….

Big sis was right there.

"No…don't be sorry. You love to draw and…um…I guess that it'll be good for one of us to be home with baby Mukai in case she gets up…well her mom is here but she doesn't have to do everything. She's our sister and we know how to take care of her." said big sis. She was still kind of upset, he could tell, but she would be happy when she went to hang out with Serizawa. He was her second best friend in the world or something…she would be fine….and he could make it up to her for being such a dick hole of a little brother before.

"Yeah…um…if she gets up then I'll read her a story. She loves stories." Said Sho. There. That was something that he could do….that was something good that he could do….and that was something that could take his mind off of…stuff. The good feelings, the bad feelings, and the downright weird feelings that his sister could never know about for as long as they both would live. He just…needed to get out of the tub and get dressed…in case he had to read baby sis a story…and she loved stories…

And he loved her stories, too, since they had nothing to do with….any of that weird stuff.