Future of the Sky

Tell Me...

Emiko enjoyed hanging out with Ieyatsu, even if he wouldn't ever tell her why it was his sister freaked out over exchanging numbers. Ieyatsu was a lot of fun though, and she liked him. Not like she had a crush on him, but as a friend, or maybe another brother. Emiko epically found it funny when he got all flustered by something.

The youngest Yamamoto also liked Amami as well, but she seemed to have put up a wall after the phone number incident. The other girl was nice to her, and friendly to a point, but she seemed to keep a careful distance like he didn't want to seem too close to Emiko and Kenji. Ieyatsu didn't have that wall up all the time, so whatever reason made Amami want to keep them away her younger brother obviously didn't agree.

Or at least Ieyatsu didn't agree to the full extent that his sister did. Emi wasn't stupid, every time she asked what it was that brought the Sawada siblings back to Namimori, or why Ami was being so distant she could see Ieyatsu's hesitation before he lied to her, or told her it was nothing. It was really frustrating, because they were friends right? More then that their parents were friends, so they should be able to talk about anything. Right?

When ever Emiko would express this frustration to her brother he would always sigh, and give her a lopsided smile as he tells her, "You can't force them to tell what ever it is they're here for Emi. Just give them time to choose when to tell us."

Every time Emiko would scowl, "But what if they never tell us Nii-chan! Maybe we could help them with what ever it is."

"Then that's their choice too." Kenji would always reply with the same smile.

After that Emiko would stomp away form her brother frustrated with him as well, because she knew he wanted to know why the sibling duo was in Namimori as much as she did. However one day, maybe the fourth or fifth time this exchange happened over a two-week period, Kenji followed Emiko to her room.

He closed the door behind her, and folded his arms as he leaned against it. "What if they're a very good reason they're not telling us about why they're here Emiko? Something that puts them in danger for knowing, and will endanger us, and mom, if we learn?" He asked softly.

Emiko blinked up at her brother who was watching her from behind his reading glasses, which made him look even more serious then if he wasn't wearing them. "Then they won't tell us because they're in trouble of some sort?" She asked.

Kenji frowned, and pulled his square, wire rimed glasses off his face before tucking part of them into his shirt collar, "I don't know Emi, but what if it is? Have you even thought about that?"

Emiko stared at her brother for awhile before asking, "What happened while you were out?"

Kenji blinked, and then gave his lopsided smile, "Nothing much, we were just almost hit by a speeding car."

A blank stare was directed towards Kenji from his sister as the girl processed this before she exclaimed, "You were almost hit-MMHMPH!" Kenji darted forwards to cover her mouth with his hands.

"Keep it down Emi!" Kenji whispered. "It's fine I'm not hurt, or anything." He added as he removed his hands.

"It's not fine Nii-chan!" Emiko whispered back heatedly before she crossed her arms and pouted. She was going to say something else when her cell phone rang.

Blinking Emiko grabbed it, and flipped the phone open to answer it when she saw it was Ieyatsu, "Yo, what's up Tsu-kun?" She greeted.

"Ah, Emi-chan, is Kenji-san alright?" The concerned voice of the younger Sawada sibling floated through the line, and Emiko looked suspiciously at her older brother.

"Kenji-nii seems fine, why do you ask?" Emiko asked slowly as Kenji blinked at her.

There was the sound of a door closing on the other end of the line before Ieyatsu responded, "Well Nee-chan had come home awhile ago saying she was fine, but I guess she sprained her wrist, and mildly twisted her ankle. She won't tell me why though." Ieyatsu admitted sheepishly.

Emiko blinked, and repeated back, "She only sprained her wrist, and mildly twisted her ankle?" The black haired girl looked at her brother, who was shifting worriedly. The girl realized that when her brother had said we, he had meant Amami and himself.

But that meant Amami and her brother were almost hit, and Amami just got off with two fairly minor injuries. Again Emiko looked suspiciously at her brother, no longer sure he was really, and truly all right.

"Mmhm, and Nee-chan let it slip she had been with Kenji-san so I was wondering…" Ieyatsu said trailing off.

"If I knew anything." Emiko finished off as she sat down on her bed. She ignored the signal that Kenji was giving her, with only one hand she noticed, to shut up, and not say anything. "Yeah, I think I know what happened Tsu-kun. Nii-san just told me that he was almost hit by a car. He had said we, so I guess Amami-chan was with him as well." Emiko reported to the boy on the other end of the line, which got her a dirty look from her brother.

There was a pause before the boy repeated his first question this time sounding more serious, "Is Kenji-san alright?"

Emiko looked her brother straight in he eye, and lifted her chin stubbornly before she said, "I don't know, are you really alright Nii-san?"

Kenji hesitated a second too long for his sister before he replied, "I'm fine, really."

Emiko sighed, "He's not, but he won't tell me. I don't think it's life threatening Tsu-kun." She replied.

"Alright, thanks Emi-chan." Ieyatsu said, he hesitated a moment before adding, "Be safe." Before he hung up.

Emiko blinked at her cell phone as she pulled it away form her face, "Be safe?" She repeated questioningly.

For a moment neither Emiko, nor Kenji said anything before Emiko looked up at her brother, "Kenji-nii."

"Yeah."

"I think we really need to know what going on with them now."

Kenji sighed and ran a hand through his short cut hair, "Just… wait a little longer. They'll tell us when they're ready, I promise." He said before he left Emiko's room to finish the homework he had been doing earlier.

Ieyatsu sighed, and flopped back onto his bed. So Kenji had gotten hurt because he had been with Amami, or at least that's what his sister thought. He figured it was more of a at the wrong place, at the wrong time thing himself, though the brunette would admit he couldn't be sure since he wasn't there with the two older siblings. Amami was really freaked out by the near accident, and was now insisting that they not get too close to the Yamamoto siblings.

The problem was Ieyatsu liked Kenji, and Emiko, and he was positive that his sister liked them as well. He didn't want them to get hurt, or in trouble because he and Ami were now involved with the mafia, but at the same time he really didn't want to cut them out. Besides, Ieyatsu felt that he and Amami needed friends now more then ever. Amami was just too stubborn, and too worried to agree that he was right.

That was why he kept talking to Emiko, other then the fact that the bubbly girl was fun to hang out with.

The brunette rolled over, and stared at the phone in his hands, "If you can't do something alone you do it with your friends…" He muttered to himself something he remembered his father saying.

Ieyatsu stayed there for a little while longer before he leapt off his bed and went over to his table. Setting his phone down he flipped open the lid of the box his mother had given him, staring at the two rings, and the strange smaller box inside. Sitting down on the floor the boy placed his cheek against his palm, and picked up his father's wedding ring in his free hand.

He didn't understand why he got his father's wedding ring. Of course it was important, and yeah it fit him, but what was the point? Did it have to do with the box as well? He didn't get it.

Granted he understood very little, and it wasn't like Reborn would answer their questions. He was curt, and distant with both Ieyatsu, and Amami, almost like he didn't want to get attached to them as he taught them.

Groaning, and sighing at the same time the boy rested his face on the tabletop, and stretched his arms out, the hand holding his father's ring playing with the thing. He stayed like that for a little while before taking his free hand and feeling around for his phone. Flipping it open his thumb hovered over the first number he needed to dial.

Lifting his face brown eyes stared at the phone before he punched in the number and lifted the device to his ear. He waited as it rang, and then gave a lopsided smile when the person on the other end picked up.

"Emiko, lets meet up tomorrow. I have something I wanna tell you." He told the girl.

He waited for a moment before he actually smiled at the phone, "Mmhm, I'll see you at the park then."

A/N: So this is the first of the new chapters. Obviously it focuses in on the two younger siblings of the Sawada, and Yamamoto families. I'm sorry this took so freaking long to get out, I've been slammed with work, and real life stuff. I know it's a pain that I just all of a sudden got rid of half of this arc, and redoing it, but I really hope you guys like this new stuff, and I thank everyone who's staying with me through this.

Anyways I hope you enjoyed this, I plan on the next one being with Kenji, and Amami. I promise it won't take two and a half months before the next chapter is up.

Please review with your dying will! Flames will, as always, be used to roast marshmallows with Byakuran.

Disclaimer: Akari-chan doesn't own Katekyo Hitman Reborn!, any of it's characters, places, or anything like that.

Edited 5/6/12

Edited 8/12/12