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The soft hiss-thunk of her knife was the only noise in the white kitchen. Sango Nishikawa was diligently cutting up an orange to bring up to her brother Kohaku, who was sick.

Sango mused as she created segments out of the orange halves; he never really ad been the same after he got into that accident. Now he got sick so easily and was really frail. She was so worried about him.

Sango carefully arranged the shimmering sweet fruit segments on a plate and made her way towards Kohaku's room.

"Ko, are you awake?" She softly tapped on his door; he might have fallen asleep since he requested the snack.

"No, I'm up sis." His voice was hard to hear. Sango opened the door, revealing an almost surgically clean room, white bed, white walls, and white curtains. Their mother had gone on a rampage and stripped Kohaku's room, turning it into a hospital at home. Sango missed the posters of his favourite comic heroes and various video game characters. The floor was empty too; no clothes or papers littered the white carpet.

"Careful not to get juice on your blankets, ok?" She smiled and passed him the plate.

"Sure thing sis." Kohaku gave her a wan smile and shifted so he could eat.
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Sango made her way downstairs with the empty plate, Kohaku had fallen asleep. The phone rang, she picked it up.

"Hello?"

"Hey Sango, are we still good for tonight?" It was Miroku. Sango winced and then pulled on a cheery face.

"Yeah we're good. So you'll get me at 8?"

"Yep, see ya then!" Sango sighed and put the phone back on the stand. She had completely forgotten about their date. Finding she was hungry she went back into the kitchen and pulled out another orange. Hiss-thunk.

"Aieeeee!" She screamed as she pulled the knife away, it was dripping red. She took a minute to catch her breath, realizing it was simply a Ruby-Punch orange. Sango finished cutting the citrus fruit and arranged it on her own plate.

She took her plate into the family room and switched on the T.V. The same boring shows that had been on yesterday were seemingly on constant repeat. Sango decided to watch her favourite anime, Moment by Moment.

The plot was eerily similar to her own life. The tragic heroine hiding a dark past, the handsome suitor trying to find her secrets, sometimes she had to turn it off, it was too similar. She bit into her orange slice.

It's not always easy to hide things like a blood orange.