A/N: Wow...I seem to be on a roll! Go me! It seems easyer to type the chapters after I hand-wright them...Of course that then means I have to go back and decipher not only my horrible spelling, but also some of my not-so-neat handwrighting. Normaly I love my handwrighting, it's neat and clean. But when I get on a roll with a story, it becomes tiny, slopy and some of the worst handwrighting I have ever seen...And if you've ever seen some of my classmates handwrighting, that's saying something...

Chapter Three

"Nee-san, what are you doing?" Tobi asked as he watched his sister tear apart her normally clean room.

"Packing," Kai simply responded. She emptied her back pack and was putting a few changes of clothing in it, a lot of underwear, some small wrapped packages, toothbrushes and toothpaste, soap, washcloth, a towel, and a blanket as well. She then got out an old diaper bag and put some more clothes into it, followed by a pillow, two of his favorite stuffed dogs, another blanket, a flashlight, a box, more underwear, and some more towels. It was amazing how well she could pack things.

Then he saw Kai stop and look at him. He could see the worry in her eyes. "Tobi, I want you to try and get some sleep now. I'm going to wake you up in a couple of hours; when Moki goes to sleep. We're going to have to be real quiet, understand?" Tobi nodded and climbed into the bed. They were going somewhere, perhaps to a place where the mean lady and mean man couldn't separate them.

Kai watched as Tobi drifted off to sleep, then went downstairs. She wasn't an uncommon sight in the house's "night-life", she would often come down when Tobi had fallen asleep."

"Poor thing was stressed out?" one of the other girls, Siki, asked, seeing Kai.

"Yeah. I'm going to grab a few snacks then head up and finish my homework. " Kai responded. It wasn't that Siki was concerned about any of her half siblings, she just loved to gossip.

"Homework is over-rated. Anyway, Misiki is 'attending' to another customer. She said that she'd be gone for a couple of days." Siki said. She hated the fact that she was named after the woman who gave birth to her: She had already figured out Kai's plan and was subtly hinting that she would help, if only to spur that woman.

"Thanks, Ki-senpai. Can you sneak up anything later?" Kai asked grateful for the older girls help.

"Money and food. Anything else you want?"

"Don't tell Moki."

At this, Siki burst out laughing. "That moron? Does he even realize that he's in love with the woman who gave birth to not only him, but seventeen other kids with seventeen different men?"

"Don't think so." Kai responded. She still found it a little disturbing that her half-brother was infatuated with the woman who was his supposed mother. There were definitely issues.

Siki was as good as her word and soon delivered a couple of boxes of snack foods, along with a stack of hundred dollar bills, along with a few twenties.

"Don't worry, it's Misiki's. She'll never even notice it's gone, let alone miss it." Siki said, seeing Kai's worried look. "I also got you this." She continued, handing over a box. Kai opened it, revealing pictures of all the siblings, during some of the happier moments.

"Ki-sempai, where did you get all of these?" Kai asked, holding back tears.

"I figured you could use them more, just so you don't forget all us little people stuck here. I've been taking them for years, but I don't really need them." She replied. Kai threw her arms around the older girl.

"Thank you for your help. If nothing else can be found in this household, at least there is friendship." Kai said, a tear finally making it's way down her cheek. "Thank you."

It may have been an awful one, but it was still a home

Wow, this one was accualy more than a page! Sorry that the chapters are sooo short, but I'm wrighting in a really tiny notebook, so I feel like I've written a lot more than I have...

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