A/N: For all those reading this, thank you...

Mitsui's apartment, morning

Mitsui is cooking breakfast.

Fuuko is drying her hair and stretching her hamstrings and ankles.

Ganko happily talking to Kaoru in the phone.

"Neechan, Kaoru-niichan said that he is going to take the 8 AM train. So I should be at the station by 9. Then we'll board the 9:30 train." Ganko informed Fuuko.

"Uh-huh. Kurei isn't really good with timings, ne Ganko?" Fuuko said thoughtfully. When she called Recca, she was surprised to hear Kaoru's in there waiting for her to call. It seems that Kurei is going to America and will settle there with his Uruha. He asked Kaoru and Ganko to stay with them just for this summer. He said that it would be his pleasure if they said yes. And Fuuko's not the one to stop a possible good relationship be created by Kurei and the two children so she agreed to let Ganko go with them. 'Oh well, there's still a lot of summers to come for niichan and Ganko to spend together with.'

"I'll go with you. Then maybe after that you would like to come with me in our practice." Mitsui informed her sister.

"Okay, Uhm Mit-chan, I'm really sorry about last night. Its just that, well, uhm-" Fuuko stuttered

"Neechan doesn't like THAT kind of attention you see. It reminds her of Domon-niichan and lets just say that he's always seeing the stars in the sky, literally." Ganko happily supplied the information.

"Ganko-"

"It's alright Fuu-chan. Besides I still remembered what you did ten years ago with that poor boy." He chuckled when he saw her blushed. "Besides, that redhead and kistune deserves those once in a while. And you gave us something memorable last night."

"Okay, breakfast's ready"

"Itadaikimasu!"

In the middle of eating breakfast, Ganko asked what's been hovering in her head since the introductions. She's curious as to why her niichan and neechan have different family names, and more so, neechan's calling niichan in his family name. Why?

Mitsui answered her questions. "Well you see Ga-chan, Fuu-chan and I have different parents and while she's still a cute little baby, my father took them in our house and offered them help."

Fuuko continued, "You see my father just suddenly woke up and told my mom that he doesn't want anything to do with us. Then came Pa-Mitsui. He has been nice enough to let us in."

"Soon my father fell in love with Ma and decided to get married. They still have to wait though for the divorce paper to be signed. But still we grew up in the same roof, in our minds and heart we are siblings."

"But something drastic happened. My father doesn't want to sign the divorce papers. He said that he had made a huge mistake and wanted to take Mom back and me. Mom loved Pa-Mitsui but she is still in love with Dad soo…"

"Uh-huh but we still lived under the same roof for a year and we really became siblings, soo…"

"And about why I call him Mit-chan that's pretty simple. You see Mit-chan is taught that he is a Mitsui right? And when he introduced himself, he told me he is Mitsui. But of course I'm only a year old then, so what do you expect? All I can manage is Mitsah. So when I got older, I kinda get used to calling him Mitsah. And somehow it evolved to Mit-chan!"

"Uh-huh. And of course I have the knowledge to know that she is Fuuko but because she is my imooto, I called her Fuu-chan. The same reason I'm calling you Ga-chan."

"Oh"

And now that all her questions were answered, she continued eating her breakfast. She can't believe this. First she has a big sister and now she has an instant big brother too. They're family may not bear the same family names but still they are now her siblings, her guardian, and she can never be happier in the world.

TBC...