By the time lunch rolled around Hana was covered from head to toe in soot and dust. The two older girls had handled most of the demons except for this one upper class demon that wouldn't leave Hana alone, so Hana took her spear Gabriel and pierced the demon, purifying the twisted soul, with her demon flames. Her flames also brought out several more demons, so they had to deal with them.
"Finally, they are gone." Hana said sliding down the wall to the ground, tired and sweaty, she watched as Kamiki sempai and Moriyama sempai did the same.
"What kind of spear is that Hana-Chan?" Moriyama sempai asked panting in her spot against the wall next to Kamiki sempai.
"This spear is known as Gabriel, and it is a treasure of the O'Connor family in Dublin, Ireland. It's one of three holy trinity spears named after three out of the four archangels." Hana said running her hand through her messy hair. It was than that Suguro sempai came up the stairs carrying a tray with two bowls of soup and some more bottles of the special citrus green tea. Hana quickly got to her feet and took the tray from him so that she would have an excuse to go into her brother's room. She didn't want to bother Rin, while he was sick.
"I'll take it to my brothers sempai." Hana said a pop to her step as she walked toward her brothers' room.
"Okay Okumura-Chan; when you finish wash your hands and come back down stairs so that you can eat too." Suguro sempai said before shaking his head and heading back down stairs with Kamiki sempai and Moriyama sempai following behind him. Hana carried the tray down the rest of the hallway to her older brothers' room. Shifting the tray slightly so it was leaning on her left hip; Hana knocked on the door before pushing it open, she found Yukio fast asleep at his desk and Rin sitting up in bed drawing again. Hana tried to get a look at what her brother had been drawing but he quickly held it to his chest. Clearly still embarrassed by that fact that he was good at more than just cooking. Hana wanted to tell her brother so but she also knew that if she tried to push him, Rin would just shut down again, she sighed.
"Hello Bean, what did you bring up?" Rin asked setting his sketch pad on the bed next to him. Rin had been working on a birthday gift for Hana's upcoming day.
"Your favorite miso soup, Suguro sempai also sent up some more citrus green tea." Hana said setting the tray on Rin's desk before turning to Yukio and shaking his shoulder vigorously. Yukio sat up eyes still closed; paper stuck to his face.
"It's time for lunch Yukio." Hana said still shaking her brother's shoulder until he smacked her hand away. The whole time Rin was laughing at the show of his little sister mothering their brother.
"Yukio, it would be better to do as Hana says. Or did you forget what happened the last time one of us didn't listen to her." Rin said moving to get at one of the bowls on the tray.
"You're not helping Rin. Okay I'm awake Hanako, don't you have something more important to be doing." Yukio said as he smacked her hand off of his shoulder; Hana quickly turned and set about putting a bowl of miso soup in front of Yukio along with a small plate of bread. Hana handed Rin a bottle of the citrus green tea before reaching into the basket and pulling out a bottle of the mix berry tea for Yukio.
"Okay, I am heading down stairs to eat lunch with the others. Then me and the sempais plan to get some more cleaning done. Also, I had to use Gabriel already today, because there was this pesky mid-level higher demon that just didn't want to leave us alone, though my flames drew several other to us, making it a lot worse." Hana said sitting down at the foot of Rin's bed, while petting Kuro's head.
"How far did you get?" Rin asked pushing his spoon through the soup not really interested in food, but now that both Hana and Yukio knew there was no point in hiding it. Rin put his bowl back on the desk for later before picking up his sketch book.
"While me, Kamiki sempai, and Moriyama sempai got the whole second floor done except for this room. I don't know about the Kyoto trio, but they said that they would get the first floor done. But I can see that Yukio still keeps the room tidy and in order." Hana said thinking about it.
"While you should go eat with the others. And don't forget to drink something." Yukio said shooing her out of the room so that she wouldn't bother Rin while he ate. That and he could tell that the smell of the food was starting to get to their sister and she was turning slightly green around the gills.
"Yes, Yukio. I'll bring up dinning later. But if you need anything before that than have Kiba come and find me okay." Hana said reaching out to scratch behind her twin brother's ears. Kiba was enjoying the scratches when Hana stopped and got up. It was than that Hana's cell phone started to ring, her favorite hymn Hallelujah. Right away she knew who was call.
"Hello Finn, how can I help you?" Hana said holding her phone to her ear.
"Hey Hannah Rose, I just wanted to let you know that we landed in Kyoto, and it will be a few hours before we reach True Cross Academy. Also, Gran wanted me to pass on the good word that she is becoming the new dorm mother at the dorm we will be staying at." Finn said clearly just getting off of the plane. Hana groan at the shortened period of time they had to get the dorm cleaned up to the standard of Professor O'Connor. Chiyo O'Connor was a different matter altogether, seeing as she actually gave a damn about what happened to the children in her care, unlike her daughter-in-law.
"I'm going to pretend that I didn't hear that groan, Hannah Rose. Also, the twins said that they can't wait to meet your brothers." Finn said his accent coming in clear as day. The whole time that Hana had been in England, she had been in the care of the O'Connor family and the head of its Chiyo O'Connor. Now Chiyo was a strict old woman who could banish a demon with the rest of them. It was their father that had introduced Hana to the O'Connor family a few months before his death.
"Okay, but fair warring if Professor O'Connor starts her complaining about the dorm being run down, then she is just going to have to take it up with the headmaster. Do the twins still have the directions that I gave them?" Hana said rotating her neck in a circle trying to get her spine to pop.
"Yeah, they do. We will see you in a few hours Hannah Rose." Finn said before hang up his phone. Hana turned to her brothers who were watching her waiting for the other shoe to drop.
"While the English team of Exwires will be here in a little over three hours. Yukio, I know that you want to keep an eye on Rin but I need all hands-on deck." Hana said turning to look at her brothers. Right away Rin got up from his bed and started to clean his side of the room. Yukio quickly followed suit and did the same. Making the last room on the second floor cleaned and ready for the English Exwires team.
"Okay Yukio do you have the information on which room everyone is moving into?" Hana asked after helping to straighten up their desks. Yukio reached past her and pulled out a green folder with the word dorm written on the tab, before handing it to the girl.
"Can you pass those out to the Exwires down stairs and than put the signs on the door so that everyone can find their rooms. Your room is also being moved to the one next door." Yukio said as Hana looked through the folder, trying to find the floor plan, and there it was at the very back of the folder along with the signs for the doors.
"Sure, thing Yukio. Rin it would be a good idea if you took a nap before they get here." Hana said turning towards her oldest brother and pushing him back onto his bed. Hana didn't stay long to listen to Rin's responds to her comment as she had other things she had to do starting with the papers in her hands. Quickly Hana made her way down the stairs to see everyone was still eating their lunch fully enjoying the simple meal of soup and bread, she sighed.
"Okay everyone, you will all be moving into this dorm. You have three hours to do such. You all will be helping the exchange students from the England branch of True Cross Academy adjust to their transition here. I have the forms for the room change that have already been approved by the head master." Hana said handing out the forms to their respected intended.
"You got to be joking?" Suguro sempai said looking the form over.
"No, I'm not. To tell you the truth Yukio's was meant to be give you those forms today which would have given you a week to move everything here. I was meant to come until next week with the English team of Exwires, but when I heard that Rin was sick, I came back early. So, when the new dorm mother who is coming heard that I went back early because one of my brothers were sick, she insisted that she come to take care of him, in honor of our father whom she taught and a fellow exorcist." Hana said laying the folder on the table.
"While we better get going before, they get here. Will the doors have signs on them telling us which room we are in?" Shima sempai said getting up from the table. Hana nodded her head before picking up the file again to pull out the signs and showed them to her sempais.
"Look here this is the one for Finn O'Connor and Takara's room seeing as they are the only 17-year-old boys we have. Let's see here Yukio put Patrick O'Connor with Suguro sempai which might not be a good idea with how hot tempered the two of them are, I might have to talk with Mrs. O'Connor. Ryan O'Connor is with Shima sempai and Riley O'Connor is with Miwa sempai. Amelia Anderson is with Kamiki sempai while Sophia Bond and Ava Taylor are in a room together just like they were back in England. I have a room to myself unless Moriyama sempai chooses to move in so that she can be a part of the group. Any questions?" Hana said holding up the sign to show them that it had both Japanese and English, her chest heaving with the effort needed to talk as fast as possible, saving as much time as needed.
"Nemu Takara is a second year. Are you sure about that Okumura-Chan?" Suguro sempai said clear confused about the information she had just given them.
"I'm sure look here this is the room exchange form and it clearly states that he is a 2nd year high school." Hana said holding out the form for the older boy to see. Hana was holding the form out when a hand snatched the form from me.
"Thank you for sharing my information with the others." A soft voice said behind her. Hana turned her head to look at the light brown-haired boy, talking through his pink rabbit puppet. Hana had met the older boy once before when she had been just started her training before going to England to be apart of that team.
"I only told them that you were a second-year high school student." Hana said before turning to the older boy. She could tell that he was getting agitated with her but right now she didn't care because they didn't have the time to be talking,
"You still didn't have any right to say something…" Takara sempai said through his rabbit. Hana sighed running her fingers through her messy long hair; again, she didn't have time for this.
"Okay enough of that. We have to get's everyone's stuff here. Sempai you can scold Okumura-Chan at a later time. Okumura-Chan, you go move your stuff into the correct room; than put the signs on the doors." Suguro sempai said dissolving, the situation. Hana looked longing at the lunch laid out on the table before picking up the folder and turning to head back up stairs; or that was before someone grabbed her arm. It was Suguro sempai. Suguro had noticed Hana longing eyes when she came into the room; she had wanted to sit down and join them like a normal girl but she couldn't.
"Okumura…no Hana-Chan come and eat first." Suguro sempai said, pushing the girl over to an open chair between Miwa sempai and himself. Hana reached for a bowl of soup before picking up a slice of homemade bread from this morning.
"Who ever made this bread, has a real gift." Miwa sempai said, turning to her a smile on his face.
"Thank you." Hana said smiling while pushing her spoon through the soup, not making an effort to hide the fact that she wasn't going to actually eat anything.
"You made this Okumura-Chan. That is amazing, where did you learn how to bake?" Miwa sempai said surprised at this innocent fact.
"I learnt everything from my mother's recipe book. Me and Rin used to experiment all the time with her recipes, I love baking and making sweets. While Rin was always interested in the main course." Hana said still playing with her soup.
"Okumura-Chan is something wrong?" Suguro sempai asked while watching the girl play with her spoon. Hana looked over at him before quickly taking a bit of her soup.
"Everything is fine…" Hana said fight the urge to get up from the table. In the last few months, Rin wasn't the only person to have withdrawn from eating for periods of time; Hana mostly had problems around the anniversary of her grandfather and brother's deaths. Which was coming up pretty soon. After Hana had taken about three or four bites of her soup, she pushed the bowl away and put her hand over her mouth, trying to stop herself from throwing up.
"Okumura-Chan what's the matter?" Miwa sempai asked putting a hand on the girl's shoulder, and that was the final straw before Hana took off to the washroom to get sick. She was violently throwing up when someone started rubbing her back while humming her favorite hymn. It took her fifteen minutes before she started to calm down.
"Shh, bean you're okay…let it out, I know this is a hard time of the year for you." Rin said as Hana looked over at her brother. She was sitting on the washroom floor her head leaning against the loo's seat, Rin right behind her trying to offer her some comfort. Hana whimpered before leaning forward as she got sick again. All this stress was taking a toll on her body and stomach.
"Shh Bean just relax it will all be over soon." Rin said the whole time rubbing her back. By the time she had nothing left in her, Hana was tired and worn out, she needed a nap more than anything but she didn't have the time to be getting sick. They still had the rest of the dorm to clean; not to mention the outside.
"Do you want to try drinking some tea Bean?" Rin asked as she sat up. Hana slowly shook her head before turning to get on her feet. Hana at first stumbled before catching herself and straightening up. Rin the whole time not leaving her side until she reached the sink, so she could wash her hands and brush her teeth.
"Yukio said that he would move your stuff into the right room. I can make some tea, to help your stomach. How about some peppermint chamomile and lemongrass with a hint of citrus?" Rin said rubbing his hand over her back and shoulders.
"What about everyone else?" Hana asked leaning her head against her brother's shoulder; as he led her down the hallway to the common area and game room. Once there he got Hana to sit on the couch before walk across the hallway and into the kitchen to make a cup of tea to help sooth his sister's stomach. He knew that with the date fast approaching he would have to start making tea for the young girl again. Rin made two cups and carried them into the common area, where he handed one to his little sister.
"Here you go Bean my special peppermint, chamomile and lemongrass tea with an 1/8 cup sugar and a hint of orange juice. And some peanut butter cookies." Rin said as he came around the couch to find Hana almost sleep with her head laying on the arm of the couch.
"Thank you, Rin." Hana said taking the cup from her brother. Rin had been making tea for Hana since she was four years old, and he always made it perfectly, light and sweet. Always easy on her stomach. And he could already see the effect of the tea taking affect, as the tension in her upper body seemed to relax. But she was playing with the spoon again and that was never good.
"No problem, Hana; so, you want to talk about what is bothering you this time? The date is close to three weeks out." Rin said sitting down next to her on the couch. He took a sip of the tea and sighed; before leaning back on the couch and wrapping his arm around her shoulders, pulling her into his side.
"I'm being bullied by one of the English Exwires and the Professor in charge of them. He's been making my life miserable since Gabriel picked me over him…" Hana said setting her cup down on the table in front of them, not even taking a sip.
"Is it the one that is being put in the same room as Bon? I heard you say to everyone that arrangement wouldn't turn out good seeing as they both are hot tempered. I'm guessing that you've gotten into some very bad fights with this guy, because you are just like me and Bon; hot tempered." Rin asked leaning forward so he could look in the girl's eyes. Hana nodded her head before wrapping her arms around her knees as she brought them up on the edge of the couch.
"Patrick O'Connor, he's a nasty person who loves to make fun of me because I'm a half demon; although in England we call half demons half-bloods (here's a Harry Potter Reference). He gets his kicks off on making people, like me and you, miserable. And I can't go to the Professor because she actually encourages such behavior. But I can go to the dorm mother who just so happens to be his grandmother, and she would often yell at him. And yeah, I've gotten into a few fistfights with Patrick because of how he treats both demons and animals. I won't lie I down right hate this guy and I can already see that he's going to get on everyone's nerves with his 'greater than thy' attitude." Hana said curling tighter around herself.
"What, the teacher lets him get away with it. How is that fair?" Rin said sounding surprised.
"The teacher just so happens to be his mother. But Patrick is the only one that acts that way because he thinks that he is so important because he would have been able to breaking the traditions of the three holy trinity spears." Hana said pushing a bit of her hair behind her ear.
"Why is that, Hana?" Rin asked setting his tea cup on the table next to his sister's.
"You know my spear; while it's a family heirloom of the O'Connor clan. Patrick is the second oldest son of the professor and was expecting to take up Gabriel four months ago. But the first night I was in England, my spear came to me in my dreams, in the form of the archangel Gabriel, he told me that even though I was a child conceived out of sin I was worthy of wielding him. Patrick was not happy when the morning came and a half blood took the spear from him. See there are a set of rules for each generation, following the 2:1 ratio. The last generation to use the spears, which was the generation before our father's, had two girls to one boy, all with in a year of the owner of Michael, the next generation isn't allowed to be chosen until all the spearmen from the last generation have passed on. At lease one person must be from the O'Connor clan. So, these generations rules are as follow one girl to two boys, both the boys are from the O'Connor clan, Michael wielder is 13 years old and his twin brother is the owner of Raphael. So, this generations girl had to be between the ages of 12 to 14 years old. While before I showed up there was no one that fit the qualifications set out by the rules, so if that happened it would than go to the next closes O'Connor clan member that would have been Patrick." Hana said mumbling into her knees. While playing with the spear charm on her bracelet. In truth the charm was Gabriel just shrunk down. Hana was about to grab the charm when the sempais entered the dorm building.
"Hey Okumura or Okumura-Chan do either of you know if the teach put the signs up?" Suguro sempai asked his bags slung over his shoulders and a box in his hand.
"I think so…I've been down here trying to get Bean to open up. She is been very forthcoming today; which is very odd because she has never been much of a sharer." Rin said leaning back on the couch so he could talk with the sempais. Hana curled up tighter in her ball her hand gripping the spear charm.
"Okay, I got to ask why do you call Hana-Chan bean?" Shima sempai asked leaning over the couch to get a better look at the two siblings.
"When Hana first came home after being adopted, she was about the size of an 18-month-old girl; only about 80 centimeters. But by April she was at 99 centimeters. Our dad used to say that Hana sprang up because of our love and the care that we gave her. That and it was the nickname that her grandfather used to call her by, but be that as it may Rin cares on calling Hana that; I prefer to call her flower as her name means." Yukio said coming down the stairs her cellphone in his hand. Hana reached out to take the phone, when she noticed that he hadn't been talking to someone but recording the conversation between her and Rin.
"Hey four eyes give me the phone." Rin said holding his hand out to our brother, his head down. Yukio was quick to send a copy of the recording to himself before handing the phone to Rin, who handed it to her. Hana quickly deleted the recording before pulling the charm off of her bracelet. The charm changed the minute it was released from the spell that bound it. In a flash of bright light, the charm changed form to its full size, point held firmly under Yukio's chin.
"Delete that recording Yukio Okumura. Or do you want to be ran through with one of the holy Trinity spears. You must have forgotten that you also have the blood of the devil running through your vein's laddie." Hana said letting her accent bleed through into her words. Yukio held his hands up in surrender before turning to pull his phone out of his back pocket when someone called Hana's phone. Right away she knew who it was as she flipped her spear and willed it back into a charm.
"This isn't going to take long. Hello Finn how can I help you?" Hana said holding up one finger to her brother while holding her phone to her ear.
"Not Finn Love." Riley said over the other side of the line.
"Oh, hey Ley are you guys at the school gates?" Hana asked looking at her watch to see what time it was. She could hear the commotion on the other side of the line and was confused because there was rarely anyone at the school gates.
"No, we umm…got kicked off of the train and have to wait until the next one comes through, which might not be until tomorrow. But the reason I was calling is because Michael started to heat up, meaning that either Raphael or Gabriel was used. And Ryan is standing right next to me so it couldn't be him. So, what got you so upset that you pulled Gabriel out?" Riley asked holding the phone so that his twin brother could also hear her answer.
"Ley, I will tell you two everything that happened when you get here. I currently have too many ears listening in on my side. Have Finn call me when you get to the school gates." Hana said before hanging up her phone.
"Bean what's the matter?" Rin asked watching as the girl sighed and placed her hands on her stomach as it started turning again. Hana wasn't sure if it had something to do with her using Gabriel for unjust means or if it was the anxiety of her team finally getting to the dorm which could still use a lot of work.
"I'm fine Rin." Hana said putting a smile on her face so as to not worry her older brother anymore than was necessary. She could tell from looking at Rin that he wasn't 100 percent just yet and would technically never be a 100 percent even again.
"No, you are not Bean. I can tell from just looking at you. You don't have to force a smile, Hana." Rin said reaching out to push a strand of fallen hair back behind her ear. Tickling her cheek with the frayed ends of her hair. Hana laughed lightly but her laughter soon turned to sobs and tears. She couldn't understand what was going on with her but she knew that it needed to stop as tears would do nothing to help her. Or that was until Rin pulled the crying girl onto his lap while burying her head into his shoulder trying to block her from the outside world and all the pain that she was suffering from.
"Shh, Bean, you're alright no one can hurt you while I am standing guard. Remember I am a brave knight strong enough to drive even the nightmares away and as long as I have my mighty sword and heavy shield, I will always save you Bean." Rin said running his hand over the girl's shoulders and back, trying to calm her down even a little bit. After 15 minutes Hana still hasn't stopped crying and it was starting to worry the older teens.
"Rin, I'll carry Hana up stairs if you want to go get that out from under your bed." Yukio said moving around the couch to pick up the slightly thinner girl. Only to get a slap to the cheek and a foot to his stomach.
"Yukio, you know that Hana hates being carried. But you are right I'm going to get Angel along with her favorite blanket." Rin said watching his brother rub his sore cheek and stomach, before getting up and moving towards the stairs. Rin came back five minutes later carrying Hana's old teddy bear and the massive heavy blanket that she loved to curl up in.
"Here you go Bean." Rin said laying the thick fleece blanket over his younger sister before putting Angel next to her. Hana looked at the bear before looking up at Rin confused.
"You kept Angel, Rin?" Hana asked, her eye larger than saucers.
"Ah course I kept it. That was the last birthday gift you got from your grandfather. Meaning it's special and that even when you said to get rid of it, I couldn't. Look I even patched it up." Rin said leaning over the back of the couch to play with the bear's paw.
"Thank you, Rin." Hana said pulling the bear against her chest before laying her head on top of it. Hana was soon off in her own little world like when she had been a little girl and was struggling with her emotions or whatever was bothering her.
"Okay everyone I put signs on the doors. Find your rooms and put your things away. There will be an inspection of your rooms in an hour. Hana takes a nap." Yukio said clapping his hands before turning to the quite child on the couch.
"Rin, stay here and make her take a nap. But if you want, I can go get some…" Yukio said before both Rin and Hana's heads shot up, shouting no at their brother. Yukio held up his hands and slowly backed away from the two on the couch.
"Stay out of the kitchen Yukio Okumura." Hana yelled at her brother.
"I would listen to our sister Yukio. Because otherwise you might end up with a spear ran through you. And Bean calm down now." Rin said as a warning to both of his siblings. Yukio sighed before moving around the couch to look at his little sister. She was sitting on the couch with her knees pulled to her chest, and teddy bear close by.
"Hana I wasn't going to actually make anything. I'll leave that up to you and Rin, because I have no aptitude for cooking or baking. But what I was going to say is that I can get some pudding if you want it?" Yukio said picking the fleece blanket off of the floor, and laying it back over his sister's legs, the whole time smiling at the small girl.
"I gave the rest of the pudding to the cram school students after everything happened this morning. I sent up a helping for each of you and than gave the rest to the others." Hana said laying the back of her teddy bear against her legs while playing with it's paws like when she was a little girl. Rin wrapped his arm around his little sister's shoulders before reaching around her and making the bear wave at her. Hana started giggling before her giggles turning to heart wrenching sobs. Rin pulled the crying girl into his side while their brother took a sit next to them. Together the two brothers wrapped their arms around the girl trying to protect her from any outside force. Or that was before the cram school students all started to make their way down the stairs not so quietly. If you asked Hana they sounded just like a herd of elephants.
"Hey teach you said something about an inspection…Okay we're going to let you three have some alone time." Suguro sempai said coming into the common area before back peddling. Hana looked at both Rin and Yukio before wiggling her way out from between them.
"There is no need for that Suguro sempai…I better go straighten up my room because I'm sure that Yukio didn't put anything in the right place. And as for the room inspections they will happen either tonight or tomorrow after the English team get here and had a chance to put their things away. It most likely will be 30 minutes before evening tea tomorrow." Hana said gathering both her blanket and Angel up so she could take them back up stairs.
"Quick question Hana when is evening tea?" Shima sempai asked as the girl tried to move past the cram school students.
"17:30 sharp until 18:15." Hana said looking at her watch, trying to remember the times that Mrs. O'Connor had been drilling into her head for the last four months. It was than that Hana noticed that she had yet to change the time on her watch when she got back to Japan. Hana mumbled under her breath something about hating dealing with different time zones, as she carried her blanket and teddy back up the stairs towards her bed room. Only to find that Yukio had put her things in her suitcase, and her suitcase on her bed. Quickly Hana set to work on putting her clothes into the closet at the foot of her bed before moving to put her books on the shelves on the inside of her bed. The 3d wooden puzzles that Hana and Rin used to put together when he was recovering were put on display on the right far corner of her desk surrounding her lamp, while several of her photo album was in the opposite corner. The folder file in the top drew on the left. Her pens went into the mug that she had brought back from England on the shelves above her desk. Once her desk was set to the way she like it she moved to make her bed, first the soft off-white sheets than her simple sage green comforter laid out neatly on top, her two pillows in sage green pillow cases were stacked at a slight angle, Angel in front of them, her thick olive-green fleece blanket was folded neatly at the foot of her bed. She was about to put up a few of her pictures when someone knocked at the door.
"Come in." Hana called out to her oldest brother. Hana could tell that it was Rin because of the way he knocks, slight almost as if he didn't want to bother her. Yukio would have been sure and stead fast.
"What are you doing Bean?" Rin asked coming to stand behind his little sister.
"Trying to pick which pictures to put up. Any comments?" Hana said holding up some of her favorite pictures that she had put in the frame when she had been younger.
"I think the one of your fourth birthday, your first day of school and the family picnic under the cherry blossoms. But if you ask me this is my all time favorite of you Bean. The day you came home for the first time. It's a shame that you never put it in a frame but kept it in your photo album." Rin said laying out three of her framed pictures before reaching out to grab her photo album and run his fingers over the picture of her first day as their sister.
"I never could find a frame that I liked for that photo hence why it stays in the photo album." Hana said sitting down on the edge of her bed to look at the photo next to her brother. She ran her finger over both Rin and Yukio who looked so close to each other.
"You two used to be so close to each other, what happened Rin?" Hana asked looking at her oldest brother.
"Yukio grew up and got stronger, now he doesn't need me and I can't move on from that time. I wish I could grow up but some small part of me wants to hold on and keep trying to help him in anyway that I can. But all I seem to do is cause trouble for Yukio and you Bean…" Rin said looking at her hand.
"You will never cause trouble for me Rin. I might not always admit to needing help but I know that you will always be there to support me and help in anyway that you can. And I know that's how Yukio feels too." Hana said looking at Rin. She could tell that Yukio was listening outside the room to the two of them talking, most likely ashamed of how far he's pushed Rin away, trying to protect him. Hana sighed before standing up and opening the door, making Yukio fall flat on his face.
"Yukio, you still have a bad habit of listening to other people's conversations. Now the three of us are going to sit down and talk. Starting with fixing the rift between the two of you. Just give me a few minutes and I will bring up some tea and biscuits. You both still like shortbread biscuits, right?" Hana said helping Yukio back to his feet before forcing him to sit on the opposite bed. Hana hadn't been planning to do anything today but it was better to get it out of the way before the English team get here, she didn't want the others to see her brothers get into one of their fights.
"Hana…I think you should let me and Yukio work that out for ourselves." Rin said still sitting on her o. Hana stopped in her tracks before turning to her beloved oldest brother.
"Rin…if I leave, what ever this is, for you two 'to work it out' it will never happen until one or both of you blow up." Hana said pinching the bridge of her nose in frustration, but that was before she saw their shocked expressions.
"Look, I'm trying to give you two a safe place to work through whatever is trying to break my super tight older brothers, that always had each other's back. What happened to my heroes?" Hana said turning her back to her brothers, so they didn't see her tears.
"I'm going to go get some tea and biscuits; if you two want to work through this than stay. If you don't then get the heck out of my room and don't…don't bother me when you two come to your senses." Hana said fighting to keep her voice level, so that she didn't give herself away. Hana walked out of her room into the hallway where she slid down the wall to sit on the floor, knees to her chest crying. It took Hana close to fifteen minutes to gather herself before slowly making her way down the stairs to the kitchen so she could make some tea for her brothers. It was just a pot of strong black tea, because she didn't feel like putting in anymore effort than what was needed. Hana than pulled out the tin of authentic English shortbread biscuits, she had brought home for her brothers to share. Hana was putting everything on the tray from earlier, when the Kyoto trio came down the stairs.
"There is a pasta dish in the fridge, I made it yesterday…" Hana said trying to hide the fact that she had been crying.
"Are you okay Okumura-Chan?" Miwa sempai asked trying to get a better look at the girl's face.
"I'm…I'm fine; while as fine as anyone can be when dealing with Rin and Yukio Okumura, and this is coming from their little sister." Hana said letting her emotions get the better of her, luckily her back was facing the older teens; so they wouldn't see her tears.
"Do you want to talk about it Hana-Chan?" Suguro sempai asked leaning his elbows on the island counter.
"There is a picture of us, Okumura sibling with a note under it, in that photo album…read that and you will understand." Hana said picking up the tea tray and headed back up to her room; where she had left her brothers.