Chapter 6
Outing Part 1
"Chiaki…"
A voice called out to me in the mist of darkness.
"Chiaki…"
A deeper voice called out to me now and this time it was much closer.
"Chiaki."
All of a sudden, I was being embraced from behind. A hand patted me on the head lovingly. The funny thing was that I wasn't surprised or shocked by it. Instead it just felt as though I was right at home.
"You have grown up so much…"
The voice from behind whispered tenderly to me. Despite not knowing how they look like or sound like, I knew that the people behind me were my parents.
I desperately trying to turn around to look at them, I couldn't. An invisible force was stopping me from doing so. I couldn't even mutter a word out. All I could do was to stand there.
"How we wish we were there for you…"
"We are so sorry…"
I could feel that my back was getting wet. Mum was crying. Dad stopped patting me and was hugging us now. I wanted to comfort them and say that it was okay, I didn't blame them for anything at all.
After a long moment, I was released from the warmth embrace. Cold air started to surround me as the warmth drifted away.
"We have to go now. We are glad that we can finally meet you again…"
"Goodbye my sweetie…"
With their final words, I could hear them started walking away. I was still trapped in the same spot, try desperately to move and get to them. Tears started flowing down my face as I screamed with sound coming out.
With all my strength, I was finally able to turn around. When I did, I saw two back figures from a distance that almost going to vanish into thin air.
"Mum! Dad! Don't go!"
I shouted as I ran after them. As I got closer, I reached out to them to grab a hold of them. It was then they disappeared into thin air.
"Mum…? Dad…?"
My expression warped into a shocked one. Falling down onto my knees, the tears didn't stop coming. Soon my vision was blurred by my tears.
"Onee-chan…?"
I opened my eyes and refocus my vision to find Wataru-kun beside my bed, looking worried.
"Wataru-kun…?"
I got up, confused of what just happened. Then I slowly began to realise that all of that was just a dream.
"What's wrong Onee-chan? Did you have a nightmare? You were crying."
"Crying…?"
I touched the corner of my eyes. It was wet and warm. Wataru-kun was right, I was crying.
Wataru-kun seemed to have an idea and started to climb up onto my bed. Standing right front of me, he hugged my head and patted me. It was very similar to my dream.
"Wataru-kun…?"
"There, there. It's okay. I will protect Onee-chan from the nightmares."
Wataru-kun released his hold on me and smiled. His smile made me smile back at him too.
"Thank you."
Wataru-kun got off the bed as I got out of the covers. There was a question at the back of my head that I wanted to ask him.
"Wataru-kun, why are you in my room?"
I was pretty sure that I locked the doors to my room.
"I came here to wake you up. I rang the doorbell but you didn't answer so I asked for the key from Ukyo-nii."
"Wake me up?"
"We are going to the aquarium today, remember?"
Wataru-kun answered me with a rather cheerful face.
Recalling the conversation we had yesterday, I nodded.
"Then, I better get ready."
Smiling at him, I got out of the bed to get myself ready as Wataru-kun made himself comfortable with the chair next to my desk.
"Morning."
Taking a seat, I greeted the rest of the family who were at the table eating their breakfast. Everyone glanced up to give me a nod before resuming their meal.
"I have already made bentos for your lunch. It's at the counter."
Looking at his watch, Ukyo-san stood up.
"I have to go now."
And Ukyo-san took his dishes to the sink in the kitchen. Waving us goodbye, he left the room.
"Where's Nee-chan?"
I asked the brothers as I began eating my breakfast.
"She and Yusuke are already on their way to school."
Azusa-san explained to me before Tsubaki-san interrupted us.
"Azusa and I are coming along for the outing!"
Tsubaki-san gave me a grin before getting hit by Azusa-san to go back to his seat.
"Fuu-tan also said that he will be joining us for lunch!"
Wataru-kun added on. My mood suddenly went down the slumps.
"Eh?! That brat?!"
"Tsubaki, don't bad mouth Fuuto."
"But he is a brat, a spoiled one too."
I am glad that I am not the only one that dislikes him. I nodded in agreement to Tsubaki's words.
"Why did he decided to tag along?"
Tsubaki-san asked, sulking now.
"Apparently, he's filming an advertisement for the aquarium so he said he will join us for lunch."
"A trip to the aquarium?"
A voice spoke up, turning to look who it was, I saw Louis-san on the stair coming down to us. Please don't come here, please don't come here…
"Kari-chan?"
Louis-san approached me, tilting his head slightly while smiling at me. I gulped, suddenly feeling a whole lot smaller.
Help.
It took an hour or so before we finally managed to get out of the house to make our way to the aquarium. Louis-san had arranged my hair into a high ponytail saying that at least I can move around easily without messing up my hair. But honestly I didn't care as long as he hurried up with it.
Now we were at the aquarium. Azusa-san has gone to queue for the tickets while the three of us took a seat on the bench nearby.
"I didn't think that the queue would be so long…"
Tsubaki-san whined as slumping over Wataru-kun who is looking very annoyed by his actions.
"It's a new attraction after all. I guess there's no helping to it."
"Or maybe it's because Fuu-tan is here too?"
Wataru-kun suggested as he finally removed himself from Tsubaki and cling on to me now. Both Tsubaki-san and I glanced at each other with a look of 'why haven't we thought of that'.
"We should have gone somewhere else…"
"Yeah…"
At that moment there was dark aura surrounding us. The people who walked by us felt it and scrambled as far as they could.
"What's with the dark mood?"
Azusa-san came back, puzzled with the looks on our faces. Wataru-kun immediately ran over and hid behind him. I think we scared him a bit too much.
"Nothing."
The both of us answered together, obviously our mood was still sour.
"Wah! Onee-chan, look! This fish looks funny!"
Wataru-kun plastered his face on the glass, staring at the puffer fish that just suddenly blow up. It's probably because Wataru-kun gave it a scare. Wataru-kun tried to imitate the fish by puffing up his cheeks. I laughed at the scene.
"It's been a while since we been to the aquarium. Right Tsubaki?"
Azusa-san commented as he watched the fishes in the tank swam by. After a long moment, Tsubaki-san didn't answer him. Turning to look at him, he found that Tsubaki-san was plastering his face on the glass just like Wataru-kun.
"This fish kind of looks like Masaomi-nii."
"Tsubaki…"
Tsubaki-san didn't pay attention to Azusa-san's words.
"Wah! It's true!"
Wataru-kun moved closer to Tsubaki-san to take a look. Azusa-san sighed and gave up on his twin brother.
"It looks like it's in a daze, just like Masaomi-nii."
"Hmm…"
The both of them stared at that fish for a long time. The other people that were around us started to wonder what is wrong with them. It was Azusa-san that finally made them stop it.
"I think that's enough you two. Time to head on to the next one."
Azusa-san grabbed the both of them by their arms and dragged them away. Meanwhile I hurried to follow them along giving a sheepish smile to the people watching us.
At every tank we went to view, Wataru-kun will imitate some fishes while Tsubaki-san would comment on which fishes looked like who.
"Onee-chan! Look at this fish!"
Wataru-kun pointed out to me with a bright smile on his face. All of a sudden, his stomach started to growl. I chuckled at him as Wataru-kun tried to cover it up from me.
"It's almost lunchtime I guess."
"Yeah. And I am getting pretty hungry now."
Tsubaki-san added on. Meanwhile, Azusa-san was staring at the tank in front of him.
"What's wrong Azusa-san?"
I asked him, wondering what he was looking at.
"It's Fuuto."
"Huh? Which fish?"
Tsubaki-san asked but earned a smack on the head by Azusa-san before being held by the head and forced to look into the tank.
"There. Look. It's Fuuto."
Although not quit visible, but on the other side of the tank was indeed Fuuto.
"Fuu-tan?! Where?!"
Wataru-kun joined us as I pointed out to him where Fuuto was across the tank.
"Let's go and meet up with him. I am sure it's lunchtime for him too."
"Fine."
Tsubaki-san muttered while I wasn't feeling quite excited like Wataru-kun to meet him. With that, we all headed to the other side to find Fuuto.
"Fuu-tan!"
Wataru-kun rushed up to hug Fuuto who was surprised with Wataru-kun's sudden attack.
"Hey."
"Fuuto."
Azusa-san greeted him while the rest of us stood behind him.
"Oh."
That was Fuuto's only response upon seeing us. His eyes were staring me to be precise.
"Fuu-tan. Is it lunchtime for you now? Come on, let's eat!"
Breaking his eye contact to me, Wataru-kun pulled him along. Fuuto had to gestured to the staff members that he was off for lunch.
"How was your shoot getting along?"
Wataru-kun asked as I took out the bentos that I had been carrying the entire day. He managed to find a place to have our lunch. However there were eyes on us since Fuuto is an idol.
"I'm half-way done."
"So Fuu-tan isn't going to join us?"
Wataru-kun gave a very endearing pitiful face to him.
"Come on Wataru. Fuuto is REALLY busy after all."
Tsubaki commented, emphasizing on the word 'really'. Fuuto just gave him a glare in return.
"Tsubaki."
Azusa-san was giving a stern look to him.
"Fine. Fine."
"I'm going to get some drinks."
I announced before getting up.
"I want Match!"
"Same here!"
"Just get us all the same then."
"Got it."
I was getting ready to leave before Azusa-san said something.
"Fuuto, go and help Chiaki with the drinks."
"Eh! Why me!"
"Eh! Why him!"
The both of us shouted at the same time, earning stares on us.
"It would be a handful if Tsubaki or Wataru followed along."
"Then why can't you?"
Fuuto questioned him.
"Leaving Tsubaki and you alone will escalate to a fight later on. I don't want that to happen."
"It's not like its making things easier for me."
"Hey! The world doesn't revolve around you!
I snapped back at Fuuto for his remark. He should seriously learn to hold his tongue.
"Both of you, that's enough. It's only getting some drinks. It won't kill you."
Azusa-san gave his final word. Fuuto sighed at the sternness of his brother.
"Fine."
This is only the first part to it. Someone will join in the fun in the next chapter. XD
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Meanwhile, my updates will not come in frequently now. I am starting University next week and I probably won't have time to write as much. I am focusing more on my other story than this one because I am going to start a sequel for my other story after I am done with the current one.
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