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It began with some hushed murmuring, leading up finally to cross voices and harsh tones. Jyou wasn't sure what his brothers were talking about, but it certainly was making them angry. He tried listening in to their conversation, but his attention kept getting caught and ensnared by the family of birds bathing in the fountain next to them. Splashing around and fluttering their wings as they got clean, the birds implanted in Jyou's mind the urge to go swimming at the pool.
"Can we go swimming today?" he pleaded to his brothers, returning his attention to them.
Neither Shin nor Shuu seemed to notice Jyou's inquiry. Shin was shaking his head slowly at whatever Shuu had said earlier. Their desolate expressions were so out of place in the wide, open park that Jyou felt like he was in a weird dream, where nothing was as you expected it to be.
He tried asking again, this time louder.
Shuu turned to him and replied, "Maybe some other time, Jyou. We're discussing something right now."
"What are you talking about?" he wondered, swinging his legs and probing his older brothers with curious eyes.
Shin chuckled, "Something called 'a father's expectations'."
Shuu hit him in the arm, grinning slightly as Jyou continued to be left in the dark.
"It's nothing important," Shuu consoled, "we're just complaining to each other, that's all."
Jyou didn't pick up on what they were complaining about, but instead remarked, "If it's not that important, can we please go swimming? I really want to!"
Both Shin and Shuu burst into laughter, agreeing with giggles that yes, they could go to the pool now.
Jyou was too young at that moment to fully understand what 'a father's expectations' meant, but would surely find out in the coming years…
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