Listening to "Say Your Name" by Plumb while writing this. The song is really good I suggest you listen to it after you listen to I want you here by the same person.

August 24th: Hello, Father

Dear Diary,

Today I met them again. Oh, how I hated them. They followed me all over town! I tried to lose them. They just don't know how to take a freaking hint. It ended up with my brother and i having a long heart to heart talk, diary. It was kinda weird. He didn't even sneer at me. I'll tell you all about it in a minute. I have to go hide in a corner again. They are calling my name around town again...

Okay, I'm back, little friend. They managed to not find me. Ever since they saw me in the throne room, they have wanted to have a little "chat" with me. I don't want to hear anything they want to say. Especially since all of their little chats involve a beating of some kind. So I guess I will tell you what happened today. It started this morning when I was walking down to the bakery to buy some breakfast for Fa. Since we are in town now, he has to put the harsh, "I'll kill you in the blink of an eye" persona. However, he has been a little bit more lenient. He'll elt me go fetch him food as long as I have a guard. So Chow is my guard today. It works out perfectly. No one else knows that we are friends except for his group. So um, yeah.

I was just done delivering breakfast to everyone in the camp, when Mother, Father, and Longwei stalked up to me. I was sitting my Ming Hua's gravesite. I normally do this in the morning. You know, I normally did this with Chun Hua. Now I do it with Ming Hua. I tell her all about my family at the Jade Palace. It seems to work. I don't feel as crushed visiting her nor do I feel as lonely without my family being there. "Scum-breather." I looked up at them. I haven't heard the nickname in years. "Hello." I said politely. I motioned for them to sit. Longwei was the only one to take my offer. "What brings you to the here, where the daughter you killed lies?" I accused. Longwei looked down at his paws, but my eyes were fixed solely on my birth parents. "We didn't kill her, scum. We murdered her. Just like we'll do to you once we get our hands on you." I hissed back at them and they sneered before turning to walk off.

"LONGWEI!" My father bellowed. Longwei jumped to his feet and scampered away a few feet and stopped. I was already on my feet. I remembered baba teaching me how to achieve inner peace. I thought about all of the memories of my past and jsut let them flow. A solitary tear trickled down my cheek and landed on my paw. Going through the Tai chi movements, I swirled it around before letting it drop onto a small flower petal. The petal dipped and the tear dropped into a small rain puddle near my twin's grave. I opened my eyes and sighed. Peace overwhelmed me. All those years of harboring the pain and guilt and anger. Gone. Just like that.

"That was really cool." I looked behind my shoulder to see my brother. He had a look of awe on his maw.

I dipped my head in acknowledgement and gratitude. "Thank you. Shouldn't you be going with them." I flicked my tail contemptuously towards the direction my parents went.

He shrugged his shoulders. "I wanted to talk to you. I keep having these nightmares. Of when I was a baby and you and Ming Hua were protecting me and Father was beating you two. Then the dreams keep getting worse. I keep seeing all sorts of horrible things and

things I've done to you and her. I wnted to apologize. I know that it is long overdue. But I want to make things right. I want to do this right." His voice broke off as if he was trying to not cry. " I HATE THAT WE DROVE YOU AWAY! I HATE THAT BECAUSE OF A STUPID ACTUON I DID YOU WERE KICKED AND LEFT FOR DEAD! I'M SORRY FOR EVERY MEAN THING I'VE SAID AND DONE! I JUST WANT MY SISTER BACK! I'M SORRY! I'M SO FREAKING SORRY! PLEASE BELIEVE ME, PLEASE!" I was frozen in shock at his outburst. He took several shuddering breaths as tears fell down his cheeks. "I-i'm- i'm- I'm so- I'm so sorry!" He hung his head and wept loudly. I sat there, still frozen by shock.

Then as if something broke inside of me, I cried with him. I crawled over to him and wrapped my arms around him. "Shush, shush shush. It's okay. I promise. You'll be okay." I stroked his head and wrapped him tighter. He snuffled into my quipo and buried his head. I purred soothingly and gave a few comforting chuffs. HIs body wracking sobs lasted for a good few hours, but they soon subsied into a sniffle every now and gthen. I patted his back and we both drew back. I used my tail to wipe the few stray tears away from his face. He nuzzled my paw when I touched his cheek.

The sun was just setting behind the trees when we finally stopped crying. "When do you have to be back?" I asked.

He looked at the sun and shrugged. "Anytime I really want as long as I don't do it too often."

I smirked and playfully shoved him. "Lucky."

He playfully shoved me back only to shake his hand. "Wow! You have some hard muscle underthat fur!" I laughed out loud. "I train. I am a Kung Fu Master in my own right. Besides some of this is scar tissue from attacks and battles."

He parted my fur at my throat to find the one from the rhino attack. "Is this one?"

I nodded. "I almost died from that one." He nodded and we sat there. All of a sudden I jumped up into the peach tree and pulled two peaches down from the branches. He looked at me as if I was crazy. "Sorry. I normally do this with my new baba." He nodded and took the proffered peach. "Take a bite, Longwei. It's really good. I love peaches." He nodded and took a big bite. I giggled as juice dribbled down his chin. "What?" he asked.

I giggled uncontrollably as I told him. "You have peach juice down your muzzle." He looked mocked surprised and wiped it off. We continued to eat our peaches in silence.

Before too long, two figures came up the hillside. A low growl situated itself in my breast as the scent reached my nose. Longwei looked in the direction I was looking and he hastily got to his paws. "I better go before they see that I'm talking to you. Ya, know before he blows a casket." I chuckled at the way he described my dad's temper.

However it was too late. "Longwei son, why are you here with this flea-bag?' I snarled under the insult.

Longwei looked mother in the eyes. "Mama, she is my sister. She has always been my sister. I will not stand for you to talk about her that way infront of me." He looked at father. "And you father, you need to treat my sister with respect. She is a Master of Kung Fu and a daughter of a Kung Fu Master as well as a Kung Fu Master's granddaughter."

Both of my birth parents looked sheepishly at their son before walking away. "Son, come home after you're done talking with her." I smiled at my little brother. He grinned back at me. "Thank you, little brother." "Anytime, big sis." I hugged him before walking over to pick you up, dear book. He looked at my book a little weird and I rolled my eyes. "Honestly, Longwei. I went to school with the Emperor Wu's daughter for the longest time. I know how to read and write and do almost the same as she does." He nodded understandingly. "Okay, I get it. I won't judge." I gave him a quick smile. "Thank you, Longwei. Now I have to get back, before my guard gets their panties in a wad." He snorted and let mego. I turned back once to see him bowing to Ming Hua's grave. I allowed another small tear escape from the corner of my eye before walking down the hill the rest of the way.

Fa came and looked at me. "So how'd it go?"

I smiled at him. "I reconciled with my brother after almost 12 years."