Kuwabara and Okubo kicked about a soccer ball in Okubo's front yard. While they were kicking the ball, Kuwabara noticed a girl about his age across the street yelling at a younger girl. Kuwabara paused, his heart tugged by the look of absolute misery on the little girl's face.
"What's going on over there?" Kuwabara asked.
Okubo barely glanced over before answering. "That's just Yumi. She yells at her sister all the time like that."
Kuwabara frowned. That was no way to treat you younger sibling. Sure, Shizuru yelled at him sometimes, and hit him too if he was being especially stupid, but Shizuru had never made Kuwabara feel as miserable as that little girl looked.
When Yumi pushed her sister causing the girl to burst into tears, Kuwabara could take no more. After looking both ways, he marched across the road and called to her, "Hey, quit doing that! You're making her cry!"
The girl turned on him with a sneer. "Go away. It's none of your business what I do with my sister."
Kuwabara bristled at her haughty tone. "I can't stand by and watch anyone get picked on."
Yumi tossed her long black hair. "That sounds like a personal problem."
She turned back to her sister and, irritated, Kuwabara reached out and grabbed her shoulder. Yumi whipped around with a hand out to slap Kuwabara, and he reacted without thinking. Raising one arm, he blocked her blow as his other hand shot out and hit her on the cheek.
Yumi fell to the ground sobbing with blood pouring from her busted lip. Her little sister started shrieking loud enough to raise the dead.
Horrified, Kuwabara ran.
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