Chapter 2- Her Answer

I arrived at the station and hour earlier than when Kuroneko and I had decided to meet up since I was worried that I might have gotten off at the wrong place. But, just as I was looking around to make sure I didn't make any mistakes, I spotted Ruri.

"Oiii!"

I waved my hand back and forth after calling out to her. Did I mistake the time and arrive later than we planned?

When she spotted me, she didn't wave back but instead looked down at the ground. What's her problem? I ran up to her once all the cars cleared out of the way and it was safe to cross the street.

"What are you doing here at this time?"

Kuroneko said with a seemingly irritated face, but ironically her face was slightly blushing at the same time.

"Was I late?"

"N-no, in fact you're 30 minutes early."

"Haahhh?"

I came earlier to make sure that I wouldn't be late, but why did she come here early? This station's the one close to her house so she couldn't have mistaken it for somewhere else. There was no reason why she should have come early… Wait, could it be…?

"Hmmm~ if you wanted to see me sooner you could have just told me you know."

I made a sadistic smile as Ruri's face became even more red.

"N-no, since I didn't want to arrive later than the insolent pervert, I arrived before we planned to make sure that you would be put to shame."

She made a face as if she were more superior and placed her hand on her chest elegantly.

"Lie all you want. You can't fool me!"

"Are you an idiot? Why would I have to lie to the likes of you? A great man once said, 'To lie is to put your enemy on the same level as yourself'. I am not going to put myself in the same group as a pervert who drools after little girls all day."

"Little girls? They are more than just little girls! They are cute and sweet little sisters! Who would want to chase after any plain little girl?"

"That's even worse."

A look of disgust appeared on Kuroneko's face as she took a step back away from me. It was then when I noticed that a small crowd was staring at us. No wonder. Of course two 15 year olds quarreling in the middle of the street would attract attention. Not to mention one is dressed in a frilly black and white Victorian styled dress, and the other in designer clothes with brand name shoes and a purse.

I leaned in towards Ruri in order to not allow the people passing by to be able to hear.

"We're attracting a lot of attention. Maybe we should leave."

She glanced around to confirm if what I said was true and quickly flushed red. We then left the station as fast as we could and tried to avoid the gazes of the curious watchers.

After having entered her house, I looked around. It was a traditional styled house with more Japanese-style furniture than Western. The house was not too different from many houses in Japan-in other words, a commoner's house. As I followed Ruri into the living room I heard a voice call out.

"Welcome back Nee-chan!"

A cute girl looking around the age of ten with a short hime-cut hairstyle somewhat similar to her older sister's barged into the room and grabbed onto Kuroneko.

"Tamaki, we have a guest over, don't be too loud ok?"

"Kawaaaaiiii! Is she your imouto? She's so cute! Can I hug her? Can I kiss her? Can I do even more with her?"

"Nee-chan, her mouth is foaming…and she looks scary…"

Tamaki was teary-eyed and clung to Kuroneko's leg while trembling and looking in my direction. Oh god she's too cute!

"Disgusting. Get away from my little sister you sick pervert. Tamaki don't mind her. She won't do anything to you as long as you stay next to me ok?"

Still clinging onto her Nee-chan, Tamaki joined us in the living room. Seemingly having had recovered from her recent trauma, Kuroneko's imouto pointed to the TV.

"Nee-chan, can we watch Meruru?"

After pausing for a bit and staring in my direction, Kuroneko nodded.

"Sure, the DVD's are on the table. Onee-chan and her friend are going up into my room, ok?"

"Ok!"

Tamaki switched the TV on and inserted the Meruru Season 1 part 1 disk.

"Ehhh? I also wanna watch Meruruuu!"

I complained about leaving, but Kuroneko declined and I ended up going into her room with her. What a disappointment. It would have been my first time watching with an imouto-chan.

After having settled down in her room and having been served some tea, Kuroneko and I sat there with no plans whatsoever about what to do for the day.

"So…in the end why did you call me over if we were just going to sit and do nothing? I should have just stayed home and played with Kyoko-chan."

"…You still haven't answered my question."

"Hah?"

Not getting what she meant, I tilted my head in confusion.

"Wh-why didn't you tell me you'd go to America? Why didn't you call me? You had a computer right? You could have at least e-mailed me to ask how I was doing!"

Ruri started to sob and left me in bewilderment. At first I couldn't comprehend, but now I understand. She's mad at me.

"Don't you know how hard it was for me? If it wasn't for your brother I wouldn't have been able to stand it! It felt lonely without you here…"

Her hands were covering her face. She probably didn't want me to see her crying.

"So? What's your answer, huh?"

"I-I didn't want to hurt you. I was too much of a coward to tell you that I was going to leave. And when I was in America, I decided to cut ties with you. I figured you would be mad at me, and that it would make you feel worse to have received messages from me after I lied to you."

I felt guilty, but she probably felt worse. She kept sobbing even though I gave her an answer. I had to comfort her, but how?

I made up my mind and reached over to her. I placed my hand on her shoulder, but Ruri slapped them off.

"Do you think just merely apologizing is enough?"

"I know I've hurt you, but that's all in the past. I won't go to America anymore."

After promising her, I tightly embraced her in an attempt to stop her from crying.

"Kirino?"

Kuroneko's face lit up in embarrassment and she tried to pry me off of her.

"I-it's alright now. I feel much better…"

At that moment the door swung open.

"Nee-chan! I'm hungr…"

Having had seen her sister in this awkward position, Tamaki must have been really surprised. She slowly closed the door and retreated back into the living room.

Author's note: Man, I haven't written this much in a long time. I'm the kind who likes to procrastinate and do things in a slow pace, but this time I wrote two chapters in a row. The second chapter was much longer than the first. Anyway, in case any of you are wondering, this isn't the end of the story yet. I will write more chapters about these cute lolis. Hopefully you will be able to enjoy them. Thanks for reading!