Notes: Pax Silva, who wrote a super speedy review to the first part of this story... Your review was so funny. XD While the answer to your question is that I don't know when we'll be seeing anything like that, your words made me laugh a lot. XD So if you'd like, give me a prompt and I'll try to write one for the next update. Also, merissala, because I don't think I've ever asked you before for all the kind reviews you've left, drop me a prompt too. :D
Future AtoYuu Series: Teens
By Miki
03.
Yumiko's idea of fun hasn't changed much in the fifteen years since Yuuta first remembers encountering frilly dresses and pink lacy socks. She still finds fun in tormenting her younger brother, if only just to see him scowl, or have him glare at her and stomp off up to his bedroom.
The only things that have really changed are the fact that she now has an extra member in the audience, and if anything, Yuuta thinks it only makes her worse.
She hasn't always liked Atobe, but she finds it amusing to embarrass Yuuta in front of him and get two reactions for the price of one.
Yuuta doesn't think anything's out of the ordinary when Yumiko asks him to help in the kitchen once he gets home. Atobe's left to amuse himself with the family photo albums in the sitting room, and that's sort of fine with Yuuta since he knows Atobe's already seen the worst of them, so he takes the white frilly apron his sister hands him and commences piping icing onto white chocolate cupcakes.
Yumiko shoves a tray at him before he has time to de-frill, and he grudgingly trudges out to Atobe, halfway through the doorway when he feels something on his head and looks up, unable to see anything.
He frowns a little, feeling Yumiko's presence behind him and hearing her giggle. Then there's the flash of a camera and he looks at Atobe again to see him holding in laugh, cheeks turning pink at the effort.
Apparently Yumiko's embarrassing photos aren't enough for him, Yuuta decides. Atobe's rather intent on starting his own stupid collection.
04.
When Yuuta forgets a date with Atobe and ends up half-drunk at a karaoke joint with some girls from his old high school, they end up not talking for a week and three days. It's not a fight, Yuuta insists when Yumiko presses the issue, they're just not talking because they don't feel like it.
He knows it's only temporary, and at first he's so sure that Atobe will call him after a few days that he keeps wondering why there aren't any calls to his phone, why when he wakes up in the mornings, there aren't any messages or emails for him, and why when there are, they're from people he'd rather not hear from.
It was Atobe's fault, he tells Syuusuke when he asks, hmphing and going back to pretending to read his book. But it takes him two days to read ten pages, and Syuusuke ends up pulling the book from his hands and staring down at him as he curls up on the sofa.
"What?" Yuuta frowns, and tries snatching back his book. Syuusuke holds it out of his reach and keeps on staring down at him, tilting his head as he examines his brother, as though his behaviour really is abnormal.
"Yumiko's baking a cake in the kitchen. Why don't you go and help her instead of wasting your time like this?"
Yuuta ends up stalking off and letting Yumiko truss him up in a pink apron with love hearts all over, but only because Syuusuke won't give back his book and Yumiko promises he can lick the extra whipped cream from the bowl after she's done filling the centre of the cake.
Afterwards, Yuuta tells Atobe he didn't have anything to do with the parcel delivered to his doorstep, that he didn't have anything to do with cakes and it was all his sister's work. And then he wonders if Atobe knows he's fibbing, if he knows that the lopsided cake base was his fault, the slightly lumpy, slightly melted icing the result of his impatience and frustration, and the purple sugar flowers stuck on because they reminded him of Atobe.
When Atobe finds himself at Yuuta's house the next afternoon, Syuusuke opens the door and happens to mention that the next time they fight and Atobe makes his brother miserable, he'll be more than happy to bake something himself, but he can't quite guarantee it'll be edible.
At which point Yuuta walks into the hallway and spots Atobe, giving him half a glare before reaching out and yanking him all the way up to his room.
He'll forgive him, he says, but only this once. And the next time he doesn't call for a week, he's really in for it.
He hopes Atobe doesn't think that means he'll be getting more cake.
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