Everyone practically had question marks at their heads as the little girl finally said something.
"A-ah, she m-meant…" the boy started fiddling his fingers "If we're… allowed to speak… desu."
Syo and Tokiya, being the people exactly in front of the cute duo, had to look away and tried to cover their pink tints that brushed their cheeks.
Being like a mother hen Natsuki was, he gave a smile and said "Of course you can! Everyone here are friends and we're allowed to talk anything!"
The kids seemed to perk up to him and had sparkles around them. The girl was about to say something when humming was heard in the air. Everyone looked around, finally tearing their eyes of the duo. They knew where it was coming from and immediately ran towards him.
Syo was about to enter the forest when two little hands tugged the hem of his shirt, making him stop. He turned and was about to retort when he saw two pairs of sapphire eyes gazing up to him. "A-ano nii-chan…"
"What is it?" he crouched down to them so that he'll the same level as them, silently he was cheering inside his head that the kids had talked to him, next to Otoya.
"Hurt not?" the girl fiddled her fingers this time, her sentence was slightly not correct but still made sense to him.
"T-That nii-chan.." the little boy pointed to Ren, who was currently running not so far away from them. "H-he h-hit you e-earlier right-desu?"
"Hm? No-" he was stopped when he remembered that Ren hit him earlier for 'scaring them'. "Yes he did."
Their eyes widened and immediately checked his head for injuries. "Hurt a lot nii-chan?" the girl panicked, her voice was clearly trembling.
"W-where's the first aid-desu?" the boy started to look around, expecting to see a white box.
Slightly confused, Syo merely patted their heads and smiled. "Don't worry! It doesn't hurt at all!" he pumped his fist for emphasizing.
"B-but h-he hit you right?"
"He did, but it doesn't hurt at all…" he stood up "Ren is like that some times, but he never hurts friends… " he grinned and stretched out his hands "Let's go? Everyone's waiting for us."
The kids looked unsure yet again but still took his hand and ran with him, joining the others who stopped by a tree. Natsuki was currently hugging/cutting-air-supply Cecil, suddenly dropping on what he was holding.
"This is…" Otoya started
Syo peeked in, "isn't this Nanami's song?" the tanned male immediately took the paper out of Otoya's hand and hugged the paper protectively.
"Don't!" he shouted
"When did you get this?"
Cecil beamed a smile and said "Haruka gave this to me."
"What?"
Ren chuckled "So you finally got yours?"
"Eeeh~ Your so lucky to get one of Haru-chan's song!" Natsuki piped in, clearly amused
"Didn't you got one too?" Syo sighed at him.
"That's great, Cecil" Otoya gave him a thumbs up.
"I'm honestly happy for you" Tokiya just let a mused smile on his face
Dumb-founded at the idol's in front of him, Ceci just managed to say a "Thank you…"
"Lyrics, you haven't written them yet have you?" Masato acquired
"If you don't understand anything, just let us know." Tokiya said
"If you need phrases of love, I'd be happy to help you anytime." Ren added.
"That's great." Natsuki started "Your wish has finally come true! Now we're all friends that have received Haru-chan's songs~"
"Not everything could make you friends."Syo noted, slightly irritated.
The kids were merely watching, they were amazed on how close their onii-chans were, adding the tanned nii-chan before them. The hold on each other's hand tightened, feeling excited. They knew that… something in their past lives were about to turn to the change. They stared at the honest smiles they haven't seen before, those smiles... we're something to trust right?
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"Ne, ne you really don't remember anything?" Syo started, removing his shirt.
They we're returning to the river, planning to fish again. The food for the evening wasn't going to be enough so they decided to take the kids and take some fishing.
"I don't think you should ask like that Syo-chan…" Natsuki was worried, thinking that the kids would be scared of them again.
The boy looked at his sister "Do you remember something-desu?" the girl just shook her head. "We don't remember anything onii-san-desu."
Feeling a bit pride that the kids were calling him nii-chan, he wanted to get closer to them more. "Sou…." he ruffled the little boy's hair and grinned "Don't push into thinking much okay? We'll be taking you back home once we finish this camp."
The kids froze for a moment, fear taking over their eyes. But soon it vanished as Otoya placed a hand on the girl's head. "is something wrong?"
"I-Iie…" the kids shook their heads, still confused on why they froze like that. "N-Nothing's wrong Oto-nii…" even though they said that they still could feel something was wrong with the word 'home'.