Family
Kane Yamashita and Hiro Kinomiya stared at one another across the dinner table. Tyson, pleasantly oblivious to the tense, wordless power-struggle, bickered with Daichi over who was more entitled to the last shrimp. Neither of them noticed that Kane and Hiro, for the past hour of contact with one another, had been competing—for Tyson.
It began with the airy introduction: "Kane, that's Hiro—he's my brother and sorta coach; recognize him? Hiro, this is Kane, he's the leader of the Psykicks and pretty much our brother too; he's staying for dinner. Be nice to each other, 'cause we're all related."
Kane hadn't known Tyson had a real brother. Hiro hadn't known Tyson had a fake brother. They didn't like it, both having felt secure in their roles up until that moment. Glowering into each other's eyes, the two young men mentally listed the reasons that they were better brothers. They wanted to know who was more entitled to Tyson.
And then Rei walked into the room. Kane and Hiro immediately shot the Chinese boy a glare that he blinked at, and then returned three-fold, equally unwilling to concede his own position as Tyson's brother.
Tyson cheered, having won the shrimp.