Go was not meant to be played with three people.
Mob was trying her best, she really was, but the game of go only had two colors. There was white and black and that was it. There were only two colors and that had always worked out just fine for Mob in the past. She and Sho always took turns switching between white and black. Sho was white, she was black, and Mukai…well she had a mixture of white and black pieces…pieces that she didn't even know what to do with.
Maybe go wasn't a good game for someone so little.
"I win!" shouted Mukai as she slapped the board with both of her hands.
"Did she?" asked Sho. He didn't know which pieces were his and which were Mukai's. Baby sis half white and half black…and she controlled one corner of the board…and it was kind of complicated. That was weird. Go was easy to play, he and big sis had been playing go since they had been little….but not as little as Mukai was now.
They should have played Mario Party. Mukai could sort of play that.
She just kind of slammed her pieces down on the board in any old place. She hadn't won….at least he didn't think that she had…but so many of the rules had been changed for her already. They should have just played videogames. Her mom had this thing about her having too much screen time. Mom had been the same way…he didn't get it. Videogames were fun and easy…and also Mario Party had really easy games that baby sis could figure out.
Games that were meant for three people.
"I…can't tell…" said Mob as she looked over the board. She had no idea which pieces were hers and which were Mukai's. She thought that…well she didn't know what she thought…and it was hard to think much of anything at all with Mukai trying to flip the board over. Mob held the board down with her powers. She didn't feel like turning the living room upside down looking for go pieces again.
"I win!" shouted Mukai as she hit the board again.
"Wait, we're seeing if you won or not." Said Mob. Mukai could be kind of impatient sometimes. Sho and dad were the same way. She must have took after mom, then…or maybe…she didn't know. She kept on looking at the board. She didn't look like mom or…or act like her. No, they were completely different. She would never leave her little brother and sister…even when her little sister was being kind of impatient…like her little brother always was.
"If your sister says that she won then she won. Let her have her victory." Said Suzuki from the kitchen. His back was to the children but he could sort of hear what was happening. They were playing go of all things…badly, from what he could hear. He needed to teach them how to play…well he had taught Shigeko already…but of course Sho wouldn't know how to play. He'd have to…well…no. He was going to leave the children to their game….
Besides, if Mukai said that she won then she won.
She didn't like to lose, he could understand that. He hated losing too….not that he had lost at anything in a while. Especially not this game…that he may have been playing in between tasks. He had so much to do…but as soon as he checked one task off of his list he ended up with something else right there to replace it…so he'd earned this break…
Not that he ever had a break, not really, when his children were near.
"I won!" shouted Mukai again. This time she pointed at the board so everyone could see. She put the pieces on the board and that was how you won this game….so she won!
"You won….but don't let dad trick you." Said Sho. He glared at the back of dad's head. He was trying to hide that he was playing Minecraft again. He hated fun…baby sis would learn that later on. He would rather she learned about how dad could be now so she wasn't disappointed later when she realized that their dad was a dick hole's dick hole.
"I don't think that dad's trying to trick her…I think that he actually likes her." said Mob. She followed the path Sho's eyes took. His aura followed…he was mad at dad. She didn't know why he was so mad at dad. Dad had apologized for what he did and he hadn't done anything wrong since coming home…actually he'd been pretty nice so far. It was weird but maybe…but maybe he'd learned his lesson. If he'd learned his lesson then there was no point in getting mad at him…or staying mad at him.
"I don't know why…" said Sho. Dad was clearly trying to trick her…but why? Why was dad being like this? Dad didn't want her or like her, that was why he's made Fukuda take her away when she'd been a baby. Why was he being nice? What did he have to gain? Why was he treating her so much nicer than Sho could ever remember….ever remember dad even being capable of? And how…how was that even fair? How was…life wasn't fair….that was it. Life just wasn't fair.
"Little brother!" said Mob. She covered Mukai's ears. She was maybe too slow at it….but at least she'd tried. How could Sho be so mean to her!? She was right there and…and ok, it was weird how much dad liked her…but Mukai didn't need to know that! She needed to know that she was loved and…and she couldn't question that…because love was never supposed to be questioned! People needed to be loved and…and who wouldn't love Mukai? She was the best little sister in the whole world.
Even if she was trying to lick Mob's arm now.
"What? He's an asshole. He was an asshole to us, well me, when we were kids but he's weirdly….nice…to her and shit." Said Sho as he pulled baby sis from big sis's arms. She had been trying to turn around and lick big sis…and then of course once she started licking the biting would follow. She liked biting and…and one day she was going to bite dad and then he'd get pissed and hit her…or maybe not. Maybe he would just pet her on the head and then tell her to go away and…and Sho didn't know why that bothered him…
Maybe he was just a sucky little brother.
"Why are you complaining about that? I know how dad was mean to us-" said Mob
"To me!" said Sho. He shouldn't have said that…or maybe she shouldn't have said. Ok. He may have been shouting but…but she was the one who'd made him shout! She had said…she had said something so completely wrong that…that of course he got pissed off…but maybe he should have tried to be calmer…since he had scared baby sis away…
Right to dad.
"Don't shout at your sister!" said Suzuki as Mukai ran to him. He picked her up and sat her down on the table. She reached over to touch his laptop….hadn't he gotten her one? He made a mental note to get her another just to be safe. There was a phone on the kitchen charger….Sho's….he handed it to Mukai with his powers anyway. Sho was the reason that she'd come running over here anyway so she had every right to touch his phone.
Really. That boy.
Suzuki had never been like that when he'd been young. No, mother and father would never have allowed that. If they'd been around then they would have told him that he needed to be a better father, that instead of an heir he'd given them a nightmare, that…well it didn't matter what they would have said because they were long dead. He reached over and patted Mukai's head. He was just thinking of them because he was, once again, a father. These thoughts had come out up when Sho had been born, too. They would pass.
In time…and if his son could just behave for one moment.
"Shut the fuck up, dad!" said Sho. He would have said more, he could have said more, but big sis stopped him. She threw herself forward and put her hand right over his mouth. There were go pieces everywhere but she didn't seem to care. She didn't care that he was licking her hand, either, but maybe she had gotten immunity to that since he'd been doing that since they'd been really little.
"How dare-" said Suzuki. He did his best to keep his aura and voice level. Mukai was playing some game on Sho's phone, something that had to do with explosions, and she didn't need to see a real one. Suzuki was so close…so very close…but that would have done neither of his daughters any good. He had to put their wellbeing first and foremost….and that meant letting Sho carry on in this way.
"I've got it, dad! Just stay over there and do…whatever you're doing." Said Mob. Dad nodded and then went back to his laptop. He had Mukai sitting up on the actual kitchen table…she maybe needed to go over there and get Mukai's booster seat. She could fall off the table…but Sho…he was mad and….and he was more likely to make dad mad. He liked Mukai and if she fell he could have caught her with his powers…
Mob decided to stay by Sho's side.
"Fuck dad." Said Sho as big sis went back to her side of the go board. She was collecting the pieces with her powers now and setting up for another game. He didn't see what the point of playing was. They had only been playing became Mukai found that game in a box and asked to play. Go wasn't even that fun…well nothing was that fun right now. It was impossible to have fun with dad right there in the other room. He killed fun….he killed fun for fun. He was an asshole and he had no idea why baby sis would rather have been over there with their asshole of a dad, the same dad who gave her away, instead of her brother and sister who'd cried like babies back when she'd been taken away. Fuck dad for brainwashing her…fuck him sideways with something sharp.
"I know how you feel. Dad was a lot meaner to you than he ever was to me…but…you know he used to hit me too, right? Back when we were kids he used to hit me…but then he decided that he loved me…and too much of dad's love is kind of…smothery." Said Mob as she set the board up again. She didn't really want to play again but she knew that the best thing to do right now was to keep Sho occupied. If she didn't keep Sho busy then he would just go over there to where dad was and then dad would lose his temper and he'd had such a good few weeks…also Mukai would get upset. Why did everyone in her family get upset so easily? Even her…maybe that was just a Suzuki thing….she wished that it wasn't…
It was hard work keeping everyone happy all the time.
"Then save Mukai if having dad love you is so bad." Said Sho. He crossed his arms and looked away from her. He hated it when she was like this. She was his sister, and he loved her, but she said the stupidest stuff sometimes. Dad loving you was better than dad hating you. When he loved you he just wanted to hang out all the time. When he hated you he hit you and slapped you and slammed you through walls and broke your bones and made you bleed…but she didn't know that. The worst that dad had ever done was slap her…and he didn't want her to know how bad things with dad could be…but also…maybe he did…just a little. Just so that she would know what he was talking about….
He hated himself for thinking thoughts like that….bad thoughts like that….
"I…don't know if there's anything that I need to save her from. He treats her differently than he treats…treated…treats me. Dad is just…he's different." Said Mob. She had never seen dad this nice before. Maybe…maybe it was because he had been away for so long. Maybe he'd just needed space from everyone. Sometimes she and Sho needed space from each other or…or it felt like everything little thing he did was annoying….even though she was a good big sister and good big sisters didn't feel that way about their little brothers. Maybe she had been right to banish dad….since he came back so nice…
Too nice.
"Well…he shouldn't hang out with her and pretend he loves her and shit…" said Sho. Dad must have been pretending. Dad wasn't nice like this. Sho couldn't remember one time when dad let him sit that close…when dad wanted to play with him. Sometimes, when they'd been little, dad had let him and big sis play on the floor of his office. Never just Sho on his own…even back then dad had always called him names….like nuisance…or even worse things. Sho….he didn't get dad right now…
He must have been planning something….but no matter how much Sho thought about it he didn't understand what dad even had to gain from being nice to baby sis.
"I'm glad that he loves her…it's better than him ignoring her…" said Mob. Dad had ignored Mukai since the day she'd been born. Dad may not have always been the best dad but…but it was better to have him now than to have never had him at all. Wondering where your mom, your DAD, was…lying away in bed imagining why she, why HE, wasn't there anymore…wishing as hard as you could that she, HE, came back…she didn't want Mukai to go through that…and now she didn't have to! So this was a good thing…a weird thing….but a good one.
Right?
"You don't know what you're talking about." Said Sho. He wasn't going to yell at her…even though she had no idea what she was talking about. She just…she was really nice but she didn't know how bad things could get. How bad dad could be. Sho knew…he was covered in scars….he knew how bad dad could be. What he did to people….and part of him wished that big sis knew. Part of him wished that she would just…know….so she stopped talking like that. That was the worst part of him talking, That was him being an asshole…and he had no reason to be an asshole. She had never done anything but be nice to him…and now here he was being an asshole. He sucked. He really, really, really sucked as a little brother…and she would have been better off without him.
"I know that I want her to be happy and right now dad's making her happy…and I'm sorry that dad treated you the way he treated you…but there was nothing that I could do back then…and I made him stop-" said Mob. She had made dad stop, didn't that count for anything? Didn't Sho know how hard that had been for her, yelling at dad like that? Threatening to leave him if he didn't stop? Didn't Sho get it? Mob…was not going to get upset…because she had no reason to get upset. She didn't want Sho to figure out how bad it could be. She loved him and when you loved someone you only wanted the best for them.
"I know." Said Sho. He knew that she made dad stop. How many times was she going to throw that back in his face? Why did she have to brag like that? She was the one that dad loved. She was the one that dad cared about. She was the one who was in charge here. She was in charge of him because dad liked her best. She wasn't even a year older than him and-
And he needed to calm down.
His aura was flaring. He needed to go to his room…to their room…or to some other place where he could lock the door and be away from her. Fukuda's house had always been a good place to go and be angry in…but now Fukuda was an asshole. He was…well he had said sorry, and he'd meant it, so maybe he wasn't such an asshole. He had even said that he could sneak Sho over to Seasoning City to see Ritsu even though he knew how thin the ice he was on with dad was. Sho could see which Minecraft world dad was in right now, and who was with him. Hatori and Serizawa. Not Fukuda. Dad didn't really like him anymore, it seemed, and Fukuda…he would have risked his whole life to make Sho happy….not that he was going to take Fukuda up on his offer…
He was never lying to big sis again…even if he did really want to see Ritsu…and to put some space between himself and his sister…his older sister.
"I want you to be happy too…but sometimes it's hard…it's hard for me because there are two of you now…but I can do it. I can make you happy and…and I want you both to be happy. So do you want to play go again? That's fun." Said Mob. She didn't know how she could be there for the both of them at once. Mukai was sitting by the edge of the table and she could have so easily fallen over…but dad….dad was there. Dad had never been there for Sho, and he hadn't been there for her until she got older, but he was there for Mukai. Sho had nobody who was there for him…nobody but her…and right now he needed her so this was where she would be.
Mukai was very close to the edge, though, close enough that if she moved just a little bit….
"I guess…" said Sho. He really didn't want to play with her. He wanted…he needed to put some space between them. He knew what happened when he got mad at her and…and he had no reason to be mad at her. Even though she…dad loved her…and he put her in charge…and she could do wherever she wanted. If she wanted to go to Seasoning City then dad would have just made her take Minegishi. Dad never let Sho go places on his own…he always said 'ask your sister' and then…and then sometimes she said that they had to stay for dad's stuff he had to do for Claw and…and it really sucked sometimes! Like, really! It just…it wasn't fair…..
But life wasn't fair. That was how it worked.
"Are you alright?" asked Mob. Sho's aura was covering him like a blanket now. He was either sad or cold…she would go with sad. He was wearing his coat and it was September…she wished that she knew what he was upset about. She wished that he would just give her a list of all the things that made him sad so she could check them off. Mukai was a lot easier. As long as she had enough sleep, had a snack, and also something to play with then she was fine…not that she liked either of her siblings better. They were both a lot of work.
They may have been different kinds of work but they were still both kind of….a lot….sometimes.
"Do you really want me to be happy?" asked Sho. He would have been happier being away from her…well away from everyone. He wanted to go to their room…he wanted to go to Fukuda's house…he maybe wanted to take Fukuda up on that offer to take him to Seasoning City…but he mostly just wanted to go on his own.
And not just because he as mad at big sis.
He…he thought about Ritsu sometimes…he tried not to think about Ritsu but it was hard. He knew that it was cheating, what he and Ritsu did, and he knew that it was wrong that he wanted to do it again….and some other stuff….but it wasn't like he was going to Seasoning City to kiss Ritsu! Or even to talk to him!
"Of course!" said Mob. How could he think that she wanted anything other than his happiness? Didn't he know how hard she worked for him? Didn't he knew how much she thought about him? Didn't he know how much she had done for him over the years? Didn't he-she was being mean. She did good things for him because she loved him, not because she wanted him to thank her. Besides, she had just been doing her job when she took care of him and she didn't need someone to thank her for doing what she was supposed to do in the first place.
"Not so loud!" said Sho as dad's aura went over to stare at them. He pushed it away. He didn't need dad listening in on this…why did he have to be so nosy all the time!?
"Of course." Said Mob more quietly. Sho looked at her, then at dad, and then at the go board. It took him a while before he looked at her again. She didn't know what all of that was about….but she hoped that it wasn't anything bad. She didn't know how she would deal with something bad. She had enough to deal with as it was.
"Then…then I need you to cover for me." Said Sho after a while. He was…he was going to do this. He wasn't a baby, he wasn't Mukai, he could go places on his own….and anyway of course he wouldn't take Fukuda with him. He'd promised to keep Sho's secrets but it wasn't like he hadn't promised that before. Sure dad hated him now but…well if Mukai was anything to go off of dad could be a real weirdo when it came to people sometimes. Sho didn't need dad knowing about Ritsu.
"What do you mean?" asked Mob. She knew what those words meant. Sho wanted her to tell people he was one place when he was another….but why? And where was he going? And why didn't he just go to wherever it was he wanted to go? Unless…this was something bad…something he shouldn't have been doing….
"I have….something to do in Seasoning City…" said Sho quietly. He watched dad. He was showing baby sis Minecraft right now. He was too busy to listen, it looked like, but Sho didn't want to risk it. If dad knew that he knew where Ritsu was….that he'd helped Ritsu escape…then they were both done for.
"What do you have to do in Seasoning City? The only people there are the builders…and they don't need to be checked on…and even if they needed to be checked on we have people for that. You don't even rank so even if you wanted to go then you couldn't." said Mob. Sho had no rank and nothing to do in Claw…also Mukai lived here now…so there was no reason AT ALL for him to go so far from home.
"It's…it's not a Claw thing. There's just…there's a guy-" said Sho quietly. He wasn't going to keep any more secrets from her. He was tired of doing that. He had kept baby sis a secret for years and…and it had been the hardest thing that he'd ever had to do. He was going to tell big sis…everything….
That is if she could keep her mouth shut.
"A boy!?" said Mob. She knew that dad was looking at her now. She covered her mouth but it was too late. She should have been quieter. She knew that Sho liked boys but dad didn't…and he could never know. Mob didn't care who her little brother loved, she just wanted him to love someone and to be loved by that person right back, but dad wanted more from him. Dad wanted Sho to get married and have a lot of kids so they could inherit the world after he died. Also old people didn't like it when boys liked boys for some reason. Dad had promised her that he wouldn't punish Sho for being the way he was…
But dad also had a really bad temper and didn't always think things through before he acted.
Like now. She knew, even though her back was to him she knew, that he was looking at her right now. His aura was on hers. She got ready to defend Sho, to tell dad that he had no right to tell Sho who he could and could not love, and that there was nothing wrong with Sho wanting to go to Seasoning City to see a boy…even though he had a girlfriend and stuff…well cheating was wrong but there was nothing that she could do…well she could tell him to stay…but if she did that then she was no better than dad…right?
She would worry about dad right now and then she could try and figure out what was happening with Sho and Emmy…and this boy he wanted to see.
"What about boys?" asked Suzuki after a moment. Shigeko was heterosexual, she was interested in boys, and hopefully Sho had the good sense to keep them away from his sister. Suzuki had been a twelve year old boy once, he knew how they thought, and nobody was going to think that way about his daughter. Shigeko didn't know how boys, and men, could be….and he prayed that she never knew how truly disgusting…but she would when she got older….and she was older….
Mukai tried to close his laptop.
He pushed her hand away. She was at a good age. He didn't have to worry about these things with her. He didn't even have to worry about…well much of anything…when it came to her. Even being on the table wasn't a worry. If she fell he could catch her and if he missed, by some miracle he missed, then he could just take her to see Fukuda. As loathe as he was to spend time in Fukuda's prescience…well…it would be worth it to help Mukai. To protect her…it was so much easier to protect her now at the age of two….
The difference a decade could make.
"Sho is a boy! Over there!" said Mukai. She pointed, too, just in case.
"Nothing, dad!" said Mob quickly. Maybe Mukai would distract dad. Maybe dad would go back to playing Minecraft with his friends. Maybe he would get bored of the conversation. She just…she didn't need anything else to deal with tonight…and if dad found out about how Sho was well she knew that she'd have to spend the rest of the night, and she didn't even know how many days, stopping the two of them from fighting and hurting or maybe even killing each other.
"Stay away from boys…aside from your brother!" said Suzuki before he went back to his work. Sho would protect her. The boy had always been…himself….but he loved his sister. He was almost twelve, and he had a girlfriend, he knew how boys his age thought and he knew better than to let someone think thoughts like that about his sister…or worse…act on them.
"Ok, dad." Said Mob. She didn't even know any boys besides Sho, well the rest of her friends but they were a lot older than her so they didn't count. They were way too old to be her boyfriend, that was what dad was worried about, and if he was worried about her having a boyfriend then promise or no promise he was NOT going to take it well that Sho had a….boy he liked in Seasoning City.
"See? He's always listening…so you shouldn't yell! Fuck! I wish I hadn't said anything." Said Sho
"I'm sorry, I really am. I was just…surprised. That's all. I just…you never mention boys and…and you have a girlfriend…do you still have a girlfriend? I mean you never talk to her…or talk about her…" said Mob quietly. Dad wasn't listening, no, he was explaining Minecraft to Mukai now. That was good. Mukai didn't even know how to play go and Minecraft was about a hundred times more complicated than go…so he'd be busy for a while….long enough maybe for her to get to the bottom of this.
"Yeah…me and Emmy are still together…" said Sho. He hadn't talked to her, not over the phone, in weeks. He still responded to her texts, eventually, and they'd been trading gross stories about accidents and weird hospital stuff for a while...but he just…he didn't want to see her or talk to her. She loved him and not only did he not love her back but…but he lied to her…and he kept secrets from her…and he was in love with another guy! Well two of them….Shimazaki was never going to love him back but that didn't mean that Sho was automatically going to stop loving him. He didn't know if he even could fall out of love with Shimazaki….or anyone he was in love with…
"So you're going to go and cheat on her? Little brother…no. You know better than that." Said Mob. She didn't like being mean to him…but this was one of those times when he needed someone to be hard on him. She didn't like it, being like this, but her little brother was not a cheater. She hadn't taught him that. She had taught him the direct opposite of that.
"I'm not-! I'm…I just want to make sure that he's ok, that's all. He was there when the Seventh Division exploded and…I just want to know if he's ok." Said Sho. He wanted to kiss Ritsu again. That had been the best kiss of his life, better even than the one he'd had with Hideki, and…and he wanted to feel like that again…and also…it wasn't just about the kissing. Ritsu was…he got him. Ritsu got him and…and he was an esper too…and Ritsu liked him. Ritsu liked HIM and he liked Ritsu BACK. That had never happened before and…and it was enough to make his heart feel like it was going to beat out of his chest. He wanted nothing more than to be Ritsu's boyfriend….but he would settle for making sure that he was ok.
"Ok….I get it." said Mob. Sho had told her before about the boy he saved. His Teru. She couldn't be mad at him. Dad would have been mad at him, Sho had helped someone escape and also fallen in love with him, but Mob wasn't dad. She may have come from him but that didn't mean that she took after him. She wasn't mad at Sho…she was sad for him. She knew how he felt, leaving the love of his life behind, or at least someone he liked…and…well checking in one someone wasn't cheating.
She would have done the same if she knew where Teru was.
Well she also would have kissed him…but she didn't have a boyfriend. She wouldn't have been doing anything wrong. Well dad would have seen it differently but dads were weird about girls. She had seen it on TV. Dads were always trying to chase away the main character's boyfriend, if the dad was even around. Not a lot of people had parents in anime and she wished…this was not an anime, she didn't want to be an orphan, and anyway dad was back and things were good…and this wasn't even about her! This was about Sho and what he wanted….
And what she would do for him.
"So will you cover for me or not?" asked Sho. He didn't know who she'd side with, him or dad. She had always been dad's favorite….and she had never been good at keeping stuff from him. That was why he'd had to keep the thing with Mukai a secret, she would have told him, but….well she loved him…and also Fukuda had been the one to tell him to keep secrets from her…and Fukuda didn't really like her so that might have contributed to him making Sho keep secrets. He didn't know. She was thinking…and dad was right there…and this whole thing had been so stupid! He shouldn't have said anything at all! They should have just stuck to playing go!
"Of course." Said Mob. Sho was staring at her…what? That was what he had wanted to hear…right? She didn't know. This was complicated. She wished that she could have been Mukai's age. Sure things were complicated for her but at least she had no idea how complicated things were. As long as she had something to play with then life was good. She didn't have to worry about anything or anyone…not even herself…
"You promise you won't tell dad where I went? If he finds out about Rit-if he finds out about this kid then he'll have someone kidnap him and shit…and I know that you don't want that to happen." Said Sho
"I won't say anything at dad, Sho, anything at all…and anyway, I get it, you're feelings I mean. Why you want to do this…and you…you can trust me about this. I won't tell dad where you went. I don't think that he'll ask anyway but…but I won't tell him." said Mob. She could keep a secret. She didn't like secrets, of course, they were bad for you. You couldn't be trusted if you kept secrets but…but dad was making her keep secrets from him. She didn't know why he couldn't just be nice to Sho….and she didn't know why he couldn't mind his own business either. He didn't like boys, that was fine, but he didn't have to go and try and tell Sho who he loved….and he didn't have to tell her not to like boys either. Why did he care so much who other people loved and…and kissed…and the other stuff. Maybe if he hadn't made mom leave, or done more to keep her at the house, or looked for her better, or just not divorced her then he would have had someone to love and he could have been less obsessed with everyone else's love…and other stuff….life.
"Thanks….now come on. Let's…let's play go. I'll be white this time and you can be black." Said Sho. There. It was settled and…and this was actually happening. He could do this…he was going to sneak off on his own for the first time. He didn't know how he'd get away or what he'd tell big sis to tell people…but…but this was happening. He wanted…he still wanted to go to his room…to be away from dad…
But not from big sis.
She was taking a huge risk for him….so the least he could do was play go with her. They never played together anymore, it felt like, and…and he could fix that. He was going to be away from her for…he didn't know how long…but he at least could play with her. She was smiling, with her aura at least, and…and she was happy. He had made her happy. He was being a good little brother…which was what he should have been in the first place. He owed her for this.
He owed her for being such a good big sister…and also friend…if sisters could count as friends.
"Whatever you want, little brother, whatever you want." Said Mob. If he wanted to play go again then that was what they were going to do…even though dad was right there…and he could have heard the whole thing! But he hadn't…he had been playing with Mukai the whole time. He liked her the best. She didn't know why he was so nice to her and not to Sho…but she wasn't going to bring this up with him now…or ever. She wanted to spend time with her little brother, and he wanted to play go….so that was what they were going to do.
Go was a lot easier to play with just two people, anyway.