Chapter 2 - Mysterious Boy Number Two

It was eight in the morning. Sakuno was sound asleep in her bed, dreaming about that boy that had "invaded" her home last night. She sure was excited to see him again. Wondering if he was actually going to keep his word after he said:

"You have someone to hang around now, be happy."

He was unclear about what he really meant by that. Did he mean that he was just going to be her friend for one night, come back every day to play with her, or was he just saying that? No matter the case, Sakuno would be welcoming him to her house again.

By the time Sakuno got up to go brush her teeth her grandmother had already made her breakfast. For breakfast today it was a traditional Japanese breakfast: miso soup, and a tamagoyaki. The tamagoyakis that Sakuno's grandmother made were always good, she always added a mix of shrimp puree, grated mountain yam, with some sake and more than enough egg, making the tamagoyaki into really soft custard-like cake.

Sakuno quickly ate her breakfast, not caring for the taste because she was too excited for Ryoma to come by. She literary stood in front of the patio door waiting for him until she got bored and decided to eat her afternoon snack at three in the afternoon while watching some TV sitting under the kotatsu. For today's afternoon snack, she decided to eat some chocolate pocky. Eventually, she got bored and started drawing a little doodle of Ryoma and his tennis ball, which was right next to her. She drew it with some crayons that she usually used at school. Using only a black, green, flesh, light green, and light brown crayon, she thought she was finished. Once she finished, she went to get a glass of orange juice. Once she came back to the kotatsu, she noticed an orange on top of the kotatsu that wasn't there before. Seriously, if this is Ryoma's way of showing that he was here, he needed to work on it.

Suddenly, a voice behind her said:

"Hi there cutie."

Sakuno quickly turned around and saw face, a face that looked exactly like Ryoma's. She couldn't exactly tell if it was really Ryoma or not, but he definitely looked older, he looked like a ten year old. Away from reality, she just noticed that his face was very close to her, almost in kissing range. Sakuno flushed red. She pushed him out of the way while she ran back to the kitchen. Back towards the corner of the kitchen, she was on top of the counter. The first thing she said to the older boy was:

"Umm, are you Ryoma-kun?"

The boy looked at her then started laughing, what was so funny?

"Oh, you know Chibisuke? Nope, I'm not him."

He pointed his thumb to his chest.

"My name is Ryoga Echizen, nice to meet you cutie."

Sakuno looked at the boy as if he was an adult. Judging by how he talked, he seemed like he was already interested in women, despite being a kid.

"Eh?"

Sakuno heard the sound of the refridgerator opening. Knowing that her grandmother was upstairs taking nap, she automatically thought of Ryoma.

She turned around and for real, it was him. He was as casual as usual as if this was his own home, taking out some ponta.

"Ryoooomaa-kuun, is that your big brother?"

Of all the things she could of said to him, she started questioning him on if Ryoga was his older brother or not, even though it was pretty obvious.

"Mada Mada Dane." Ryoma said.

"Of course he's my "Big" brother." Somewhat annoyed.

Sakuno hadn't taken note of his expression when he said that, instead she was cheerful and decided to change the subject to her drawing of Ryoma.

"Looky here Ryoma-kun. Is it good?"

She showed him the drawing of him and was excited to see what he would say about it. Was it good, was it bad, was is cute, or did it offend him?

Ryoma looked at the drawing intently.

"Isn't it kind of hard to draw someone you've only seen once good?"

He was sort of unclear of what he meant by that. He was complimenting her in a way, if it's that hard to draw him just after seeing him once, then it was good. He wasn't being totally honest anyway.

Sakuno started tugging on Ryoma's sleeve and looked intently at Ryoga. She must of wanted to talk about something private, especially since Ryoga was there looking at the picture too.

"Ryoma-kun, Ryoma-kun. Why is he here?" Whispering and pointing her eyes at Ryoga.

"How should I know? He just decided to tag along." Ryoma said in normal voice volume. He didn't really see the reason to talk quietly.

Ryoga didn't seem to hear much of the conversation. He was just like Ryoma, instead of Ponta he went to the fridge to get some orange juice instead but he was just as casual as Ryoma was.

Yawn.

Wait, a yawn?

The three of them heard footsteps coming down from the stairs. Oh no, it must've been Sakuno's grandmother.

"Sakuno, why do you keep opening the fridge? Are you that hungry for snack time?"

Sakuno was literally panicing around on what to do with those twins, hide them, let her grandmother find out about them or what?

Her grandmother stopped coming down the stairs about halfway, Sakuno had official been teased. Her grandmother didn't mean to tease her at all though.

"I-I was just really thirsty grandma!" Her stuttering didn't make it really convincing that she was just really thirsty.

"Hm, okay. Just tell me if you need help grabbing something in the fridge, I won't want you spilling anything or dropping something by accident."

Sakuno's grandmother went back upstairs to continue her napping. By the time she was upstairs in her bed, Sakuno was looking around where the two boys were.

"Ryoma-kun? Ryoga-kun?"

Maybe her grandmother had scared them off, they didn't seem like the types to be scared of getting in trouble.

The boys were "hiding" in the kitchen. Ryoga was on top of the fridge, by climbing up on the counter and getting on top of the fridge. Ryoma was just on the counter trying to get up to the top of the fridge, but he seemed like he couldn't.

"Mada Mada Daze, Chibisuke."

Ryoma seemed to be angered by that comment, what was all this mada mada dane or daze nonsense, catch phrase?

Ryoma made that expression on that face of when a person would say "Mou.." but apparently, he was too cool to even say such things.

"Ryoma-ku-"

"See ya." Ryoma went out of the patio door again, disappearing into the greenery of the garden.

Sakuno was left with Ryoga, what is she going to do with this bigger version of Ryoma?

A/N: Hi guys, it wasn't such a long wait for this chapter was it? Maybe four days. I wrote half of this when I was off on my fishing trip, during the time when we were resting for the afternoon and my parents were asleep, haha. It seems longer than the first chapter, and definately longer than the prologue so please enjoy it. I'll try to keep writing longer stuff for the next chapters. Follow/Fave/Review please. :)