Disclaimer: Me do not own Naruto characters. kapish? yesh, kapish. good.
AN: well, here's the 6th chappy xD all about Airi's past...
"Nee-san! Nee-san!" Airi ran to her sister. "Please play with me, Hikari-nee-san!"
Hikari looked down at her sister's smiling face. "Sorry, not today. I have something important to do." She gave a weak smile and walked away.
Her smile...It was cold... Airi had her first taste of loneliness.
Over time, Hikari spent less and less time at home. Their mother was always out partying, and Airi was left alone to take care of herself. She did her best in school, cleaned the house, and eventually learned how to cook. When she needed money to buy necessities, she did small jobs for her neighbors, who paid her large amounts of money and gave her treats in their pity for her.
When the other kids at school found out about her living condition, they bullied her. She came home everyday with cuts or bruises. When the pain was too much to bear, she cried herself to sleep.
One day, she came home to an odd sight. Hikari and mother were actually home! She was so happy. Airi was about to call out to them when she realized that they were arguing.
"You can't do that!" Their mother hissed at Hikari. "You're only 14. And who's going to take care of your 'precious, little sister'?"
Airi couldn't help but notice how she said those last few words with hatred. It hurt; to hear her mother say that broke her heart.
Hikari wasn't at all affected by mother's words. "Sister?" she spat out. "If you hadn't noticed, mother, I haven't cared for her these last few months."
A sharp pain went through Airi. Hikari-nee-san...?
Mother laughed. "Oh, really? So you finally see why I don't like that little brat? Damn clone of your father."
Hikari stood her ground. "Regardless of what you say, I am leaving the house." With that, she turned away.
Mother grabbed her arm. "Oh, no you don't! You need to stay here and go to school. You need an education. You need to take care of the house. You need-"
"Don't tell me what I need and don't need!" Hikari shouted. She broke through mother's grasp. "Airi can do all those things. I want to leave, so I am leaving. That is that, it's final."
She turned and opened the front door. There stood Airi, who had heard everything that had taken place. Hikari jumped. "You...you heard everything?"
She nodded. Tears flowed down her cheeks onto the ground.
"Well, it's no use trying to hide it." her sister said, with cold, unmoving eyes. "I despise you. I may have loved you before, but now is an entirely different matter. I hate you. I wish you had never been born." She turned to her side so that she may address both Airi and mother. "I'm leaving to the Land of Waves." With that said, she stormed past Airi and slammed the door.
Airi was now alone with her mother. She glared at her. For a moment there, Airi thought that she would beat her. Instead, she dug into her bag and handed Airi money, checkbooks, and credit cards. "Do whatever you want. I won't be coming back." She left the house and hopped into a car waiting outside. Airi caught a glimpse of a man driving. Her boyfriend no doubt, or one of her boyfriends in any case.
She cried all night, replaying the scene in her mind. It just can't be true!
Airi awoke next morning, and dismissed the previous day's events as a dream. She stored it into the back of her mind, out of memory, out of sight. That being done, she lived her hard life, still believing that her sister and mother would come back to her...someday...