AN: Sky here with Erin Hasse (previously known as Aerisse Hasse), We hope you will like this short chapter everyone. And as stated before, we don't own any of the following characters involved in this story.
Chapter 2
Short, stubby and socked feet tip toed across the floor boards, slow and steady their pace. The owner of said legs' head craned, trying to spot a familiar head of sun-spun hair. When he found none, he let himself breathe a small sigh of relief. Taishi-nii didn't need to see this—
"What are you doing there, Aichi?"
Aichi yelped and jumped half a foot into the air, and his older brother's lips curved into an amused smile.
"Are you okay, otouto?"
Aichi flushed, just a little, then smiled when his brother extended a hand, "I'm okay." He said, and Miwa grinned before picking up his baby brother and spinning him high in the air. High-pitched giggling permeated through the air, and soon Miwa's laughter joined in, forming a cacophony of happiness.
Then, Aichi winced, and the laughter was abruptly cut into silence. Brows furrowing, Miwa set his baby brother's feet down to the floor again, though it wasn't all that high-up in the first place. Aichi's face was wiped clean of any previous glee, and his blue eyes casted downward, shoulders slumped and fingers twiddling the hem of his shirt.
A blonde eyebrow was raised, "Otouto," Miwa said, arms on his hips and done not unlike that of a mother scolding her child (never mind the fact that Miwa was barely a year older than Aichi), "What did you do?"
"Nothing." Aichi answered shortly, wide blue eyes narrowing, "I didn't do anything!"
Wincing at the tone directed at him, Miwa raised both his arms, "Woah, there, I just wanted to ask if anything happened."
"Nothing." Aichi huffed, and then blinked. The blue-haired child's anger drained from him, and he smiled apologetically at his brother, "…Sorry, Taishi-nii," he mumbled, and Miwa sighed, smiling, "No need for apologies, otouto."
Aichi smiled, then went up and wrapped his arms around his brother, "Thank you then, nii-san."
Miwa grinned and returned the hug. His otuoto was so precious, Miwa mused as he watched the blue-haired child run up the stairs, but… he wasn't quite good enough to outsmart him. Miwa's smile gradually faded, and he raised his fingertips to eyelevel, skin brushed with the red of blood.
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Aichi winced, then gingerly stuck up a Band-Aid on the small cut right between his shoulder blades. He only hoped that Taishi-nii hadn't noticed.
AN:
And that's all for now. The next chapter will be sky's chapter. Thanks for reading. Ja Ne
-Erin Hasse