Chapter 2

Likes and Hates

"Ahn~!"

I yawn as I made my way to the dining room. Still sleepy, I slowly descended down the stairs. The moment I woke up, I did what I needed to do before coming down.

"Good morning Chiaki."

Nee-chan greeted me.

"Good Morning Onee-chan!"

Wataru-kun who was seated at the table, greeted me as well.

"Morning…"

I nodded at them and rubbed my eyes.

"Ah! Good morning…?!"

Ukyo-san who just came out of the kitchen with some bowls, suddenly looked shocked.

"Hmm…?"

I tilted my head sleepy at him in confusion. Just then, I heard a snicker at the back. I turned around to find Yusuke-san seated at the table holding in his laughter. As for Subaru, he looked away from me, blushing.

Feeling a tug on my sleeves, I found Wataru-kun by my side.

"Onee-chan, your hair is like a fluff ball."

"Huh?"

I touched my hair and remembered I didn't do my hair.

"Oh…"

Naturally, my hair was more to the curly type. Every morning, I have the bed head. I knew it wouldn't work out no matter how much I arrange my hair. Thus I always simply tie and clip up my hair, hoping the curls would go down. That's the troubles of being a girl.

Nee-chan giggled, seeing everyone's reactions to my hair.

"Chiaki-chan always have bed heads in the morning."

"Then would you like me to call Louis to help you in that?"

Ukyo-san asked as he placed the remaining bowls down on the table.

"No thanks. I wouldn't want to trouble him."

After refusing his offer, I began doing my hair.

The moment I sat down on my seat, Tachibana and Yamamoto, the two classmates that I am close to came flooding to me with questions.

"So… How is your new family like?"

"They are nice."

"Are your new brothers good looking?"

"Define the term good looking again?"

"Hinata-chan!"

Yamamoto exclaimed as I laughed at her.

"Hinata, do you think you can introduce some of them to us?"

"Wait a minute, how did the conversation ended up like this?"

"Tachibana-chan is just desperate for a boyfriend."

Yamamoto snickered at her.

"Shut up!"

Watching the two of them bickered, I smiled in amusement. It was only when Sensei came in that they finally stopped.

After club practice, I made my way home. Ukyo-san drew me a map since Nee-chan mentioned to him that I always have the tendency to get lost.

"It should be this way right?"

I looked at the map that was drawn on the piece of paper. No matter how I look at it, I couldn't understand a single thing.

As I was about to turn, a familiar voice called out to me.

"Onee-chan? Where are you going?"

I turned my back to find Wataru-kun running up to me.

"Wataru-kun."

I greeted him as he stopped in front of me.

"Where are you going Onee-chan?"

From the way Wataru-kun says it, I was heading the wrong direction.

"…I'm lost."

I gave him a sheepish smile. I hate to admit it, but I am lost.

"Then, I'll lead the way. Follow me!"

With a proud look, Wataru-kun took my hand and pulled me along. I chuckled at his display of trying to be manly.

"So how was school today?"

I asked him as we made our way back home.

"Boring… And I got homework to do…"

Wataru-kun pouted unhappily while pulling me along.

"I also have some homework to do. If you like, we can do our homework together."

I suggested to him to cheer him up.

"Really?!"

Wataru-kun looked up to me with sparkly eyes. I nodded at him with a smile.

"We are home!"

Wataru-kun and I announced ourselves as we entered the living room.

"Ah! Welcome back."

Ukyo-san, who was in the kitchen, greeted us.

"Welcome back."

Nee-chan also greeted us as well. Nee-chan looks like she's helping Ukyo-san with the cooking.

"Onee-chan!"

Wataru-kun rushed over to Nee-chan's side, smiling at her. Nee-chan patted his head and Wataru-kun's smile got even brighter.

"Dinner is about to be ready soon. Why don't you two head back to your rooms first and change. After you are done, mind helping me call the Fuuto down for dinner?"

"Fuu-tan is back?!"

"Huh?"

I had a look of confusion before remembering them mentioning that Fuuto was one of the brothers.

"Fuuto just came back from work today. He's pretty tired so his sleeping in his room."

"I actually met Fuuto-kun earlier."

Nee-chan added on.

"I see. Then I'll do it Ukyo-san."

"Thank you."

Uyko-san gave me a gentle smile in return.

After putting down my stuff and changing my clothes, I headed down to where Fuuto's room is, stated by the floor plan that Ukyo drew out for me and Nee-chan yesterday.

"This must be Fuuto's room right?"

I muttered to myself as I stood in front of the door to Fuuto's room. Looking over to the room plate which states Fuuto's name, I was positive that it was his room.

Pressing the door bell, a ringing sound could be heard from the door. After a while, I heard a shuffling sound with footsteps following from within.

"Who the hell is it? What do you want from me?"

An irritated voice said before the door slammed open, stunning me for a moment.

There stood the guy that I have seen countless of times on tv and advertisements on the streets. The famous idol, Asakura Fuuto, as people called him.

"Who are you?"

Fuuto glared at me, not pleased that he was disturbed.

"If you are someone's girlfriend, you got the wrong room. Plus you won't get anything out of this."

I could feel my veins bursting when he said that. Clenching my fist, I tried to hold it in.

"Ukyo-san asked me to call you down for dinner, but it seems like you don't want it. I'll be sure to tell him that."

Giving him one of my forced smiles, I quickly turned away and walked off.

"What?! Wait! Don't go around sprouting nonsense!"

Fuuto grabbed a hold of my arm to stop me from going further. I turned to face him. Irritation was shown clearly on my face.

"Really? You seemed annoyed so I thought I would do you a favour."

"You…!"

Fuuto seemed furious at me. However, before he could even lash out on me, someone interrupted us instead.

"Fuu-tan, Onee-chan, what are you guys doing?"

We turned to find Wataru-kun standing there with a curious face.

"Wataru-kun."

Wataru-kun walked up to us before pulling one my hands.

"Onee-chan, come on, everyone is waiting."

"Hold on, don't tell me you are Baka Onee-san's sister?"

Fuuto had a shocked look for a moment, before he recovered. However, my concern wasn't that.

"Wait, did you just called Nee-chan Baka?"

Seeing it as a chance, Fuuto grinned at me.

"Well, she didn't deny she was an idiot."

"You…"

How dare he call Nee-chan baka?!

"Come to think of it, that makes you a Baka too."

At that point, I snapped at him.

"If that's the case, you don't mind me calling you Aho right? Since we are now family."

"Why you!"

At least I managed to get back at Fuuto.

"Onee-chan?! Fuu-tan?!"

Wataru-kun who was watching us, got worried.

"That's enough kids."

Suddenly a pair of hands came in between us and pushed us back a little. Looking up, it was Kaname-san that did it.

"Kana-nii."

"Kaname-san."

"At much as I would like to see you two bicker, can't you guys wait till after dinner?"

Kaname-san gave us his charming smile.

"I'm going back to my room."

Fuuto had just finished his dinner. Without saying anymore words, he got up and left.

"Hmph!"

I pouted angrily.

"Chiaki-chan, don't be so angry."

Nee-chan tried to calm me down with no avail.

"But he called you Baka! I can't believe him! He's all boastful!"

"Fuuto has always been like that since he was young."

Azusa-san explained to us as Tsubaki nodded along.

"He's annoying."

Yusuke-san added on. I agree with Yusuke-san on that.

"Well, Fuuto don't usually get to socialize with people around his age."

Ukyo-san who was clearing the table, spoke up.

"Really?"

Nee-chan who was curious, asked. I wasn't really interested with that guy in the first place.

"Since becoming an idol, he's been busy. He doesn't usually spend time at home either."

Kaname-san continued on as he placed his arm on the back of the chair.

"Well, I was hoping that Chiaki would be able to get along with him since you are the same age as him. Looks like I was wrong."

Ukyo-san glanced at me sadly.

"Let's not ask too much of Chiaki-chan, okay?"

Masaomi-san quickly changed the topic for me as he noticed that I felt out of place.

"If that's the case…"

Wataru-kun got up and head over to me.

"Let's go do our homework together! Onee-chan promised me after all."

I nodded and smiled at him before getting up to leave the room with Wataru-kun.

Now I was doing my homework with Wataru-kun in his room. I managed to help him with some questions here and there before he finished them. However I was still stuck with my own. Wataru-kun seemed to notice that I had trouble with my homework.

"Onee-chan, you can ask one of my brothers to tutor you."

Wataru-kun suggested to me.

"But…"

"It's okay. I am sure they don't mind."

Wataru-kun dragged me out of his room in search of one of his brothers.

Along the hallway, we met Subaru-san.

"Suba-nii!"

Wataru-kun called out to him. Subaru-san stopped in his tracks to turn to face us.

"Onee-chan has trouble answering a question. Do you mind helping her?"

Subaru-san took a look at me. I nodded my head at him.

"If you are free, please teach me!"

I bowed at him. Subaru-san started to panic and waved his hands at me.

"You don't have to do that! I'll... help you."

That's how we managed to get Subaru-san to help me. By the way, I noticed that Subaru-san wasn't the brightest out of all the brothers.

"…Urm…Well this is how you do it…"

"…Subaru-san… If you don't know, you don't have to force yourself…"

I sheepishly smiled at him. It took me a while but I have already long figured out the answer to the question as he tried to solve it. I just didn't know how to tell him that since I know that guys are all about pride.

"It isn't due till Monday anyway."

That was my last attempt to try to make him stop.

"Oh. Then okay."

Subaru-san sighed in relief. I wanted to do that too but I know I can't.

"Hurray! Now Onee-chan can play this game with me!"

"Game?"

Wataru-kun held out a game disc for me to see.

"Yeah! Suba-nii, do you want to join us too?"

Looking at Subaru-san, Subaru-san hesitated for a moment.

"Okay then."

Soon we were engaged in the game. It was a game on virtual basketball.

"The movements are all wrong…"

Subaru-san muttered to himself. However I overheard him say that.

"Yeah, it is."

Surprised that I answered him, Subaru-san looked at me in question.

"You know about basketball?"

"Yeah, I help out with the sports clubs here and there so I picked up quite a number of things."

I explained to him as I continue meshing the buttons on my controller.

"Oh yeah, you did mention that before."

"Subaru-san is a basketball player right? Since you seemed to know a lot.

"That's right! Suba-nii is really good at playing basketball!"

Wataru-kun who was sitting alongside us, answered for him.

"Is that so?"

I smiled back at Wataru-kun.

"I play on my school's team, that's all."

Subaru-san was looking pretty shy now, turning away to hide his embarrassment.

"Chance!"

I suddenly said, shocking him. Next thing he knew was that I have scored a 3 pointer in the game and the game ended with me winning.

"Huh?!"

Subaru-san was stunned as Wataru-kun and I gave a high-five at each other.

I am amazed at all the people that are following this story. Really! I didn't think that people would actually do that. That means a lot guys, thanks!

Anyway, I added a title for the first chapter but the content hasn't changed much. It's only correction for some mistakes, that's all.

Time to answer some questions from the reviews!

Aoi Kazuya 7/15/13 . chapter 1

Just curious, but how old is Chiaki-chan anyway?

This is a nice start, I can't wait to see what you do with it :)

I didn't mention in the last chapter but I did for this one. Chiaki is the same grade as Fuuto but she the younger one.

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