Shadow: Yes, yes it's been many months since I've last updated. Gomenasai!! o I've just had a very difficult writer's block in me and I turn very lazy in the summer. TT-TT I don't deserve to live… -melting-
Hiro: I think I can make that happen. :D –throws mace-
Shadow: O.O –dodges- I didn't mean it that literally! I don't want death as a punishment! Pick something else for my punishment! Wait…doesn't that make me masochistic or something if I want to be punished? O.O
Everyone: After all this time?! O.o
(Later that day)
"Hn…a happier place eh?" I whispered. "I wonder if that's really true…"
I was at the very back of everyone and Kukai was walking beside me, holding my hand. He looked at me for a second. "What? Are you saying you're not happy after all that's happened?"
"Well, I am…but…" I sighed. "I don't know…it feels like there's still something missing…"
I looked up as the charas were chasing Yoru, who was wearing Kiseki's crown. "Tsuki…" I whispered.
An arm wrapped around my waist. I looked at Kukai. "Neh, don't be down because of that Haru-chan. Tsuki wanted you to be happy, remember?"
"Right…"
"And she'll always be with you. Right in your heart." He said as he put a hand over where my heart was.
"Right, right. Okay. I get i-" I suddenly felt a dark aura and stopped walking.
"Kuuuuukaaaaaaiiii!!" Hiro gritted as he stomped over to us. "Why do you have your filthy hands on my sister's chest??"
I blinked as I realized where Kukai put his hand at. We both turned super red as Kukai let go off me.
"U-uhh- err..it's not what it looks l-like-!!!" Kukai stuttered.
"Eh~? So soccer boy wanted to really do something with Birdy-chan, huh?" Ikuto teased with a smirk.
"N-no-!!! I-I didn't mean it!!"
"Really? Because it looked like you were enjoying it."
"THAT'S IT!! YOU'RE AS GOOD AS DEAD!!!" Hiro growled as an angel wing clip appeared on his head. He stretched out his arm, grabbing the white staff that appeared before him. "HELL'S FLA-!! ames..?" Hiro stared at the staff before him. He turned to his chara. "Kazuhiko!!! What happened to my scythe???" he whined.
"Baka. Angels don't carry scythes." Kazuhiko huffed. "Remember the time when I was evil because of you? I was once a devil before I got purified? Yeah. That's only the time when you get…ugh… 'Mr. Deathsickle.'"
"WHAT?!!!? SO MR. DEATHSICKLE'S GONE?!?!!?!?" Hiro cried and melted into a puddle. Our eyes were all twitching. He named his weapon? I dropped my head in shame. I can't believe I'm related to this scythe-naming-weirdo…
"Uwaaa… My scythe…come back to me…" Hiro moaned. He lifted and stared at his new weapon for a second(and he was still lying on the ground). He threw the staff away. "Screw that! I want my Death Scythe! I want my Death Scythe!"
"You just have to deal with the Angel's Staff for now. Besides, it's a good weapon." Kazuhiko said.
"It's a metal stick with wings on top! How can it beat a scythe like Mr. -"
Anime vein. "If you say Mr. Deathsickle one more time, I'm going to kick your ass. Chara Style."
"…" Hiro surprisingly stayed quiet, and admitted defeat. He even accepted his fate to go to the Corner of Woe(note: He's stealing Tamaki's corner! xD) We all sweatdropped as we heard him brooding about missing his beloved scythe.
"…d-does that mean I'm off the hook…?" Kukai asked. Oh, he shouldn't have, because after that, Hiro was out of his corner(how can there be a corner outside anyway?) and yelling out death threats at Kukai. Oh, and he was carrying a weapon too…if you can call a tree a weapon…
"Hey, if he dies, can I start dating you?" Ikuto asked as we watched Kukai run for his life. It's been 10 minutes…
I scoff and punch him in the arm. "Baka. No."
"I'm just saying…" he shrugged. "Shouldn't you be helping him anyway?"
"I don't wanna be killed by that tre- oh wait never mind. He has a whip now. Wait…when the hell did Hiro get that?" I scrunched my eyebrows. I sighed and shook my head. "Oh well… You know, I think you're better off without me, Ikuto."
"Oh? You think so?" his eyes gazed at me. I nodded.
"Yeah. And I can already see that someone is taking an interest in you after finally realizing her love." I grinned a little as I watched Amu take a few peeks at Ikuto and me. She seemed a little frustrated and confused seeing us, but puts on a smile when her friends spoke to her.
"Really? And who would that be?"
"Oh come on. You still haven't realized it? I thought you did a while ago." I sighed. "Oh well. I'm not telling~"
Hiro was walking toward us, feeling awfully triumphant. He was hiding some thing behind his back. I blinked. "Hiro…where's Kukai…?"
He smiled and dropped whatever was behind him on the floor. It was Kukai, wrapped up in rope with tape covering his mouth. His eyes were all swirly. I gasped and untied the ropes. Kukai sat up and ripped the tape off. He was swaying a bit. "H-he almost killed-ed me…" he slurred, and then fell back unconscious.
"…hm…maybe I should have helped him…" I mumbled. I looked up and glared at Hiro. "Nii-san. When Kukai wakes up, apologize to him."
"But…but-" I kept my glare until he sighed. "Fiiiiine…" he crossed his arms and turned away. "But this is the last time I'm going to apologize to anyone."
(Amu's house)
"Itai!! Sorry! Sorry! Sorry!" Hiro cried as I kept whacking him on the head. We were all hanging out in Amu's room and Hiro, being the idiotic ass he is, was telling an embarrassing story about…well, let's just say the four year old me wasn't really smart and thought that putting dish soap in cake batter will make the cake have fruit in it.
…Hiro once told me that dish soap was magical.
"You swore never to speak of that day again!! You asswipe!!" I growled as I continued to choke him while everyone kept laughing their asses off. I finally dropped him and huffed. "Nii-chan is a bad person…."
"Noo! Nii-chan is a good person!" Hiro clung onto my leg, trying to get me back. "Nii-chan is good!! He really is because…because…he'll buy you ice cream…?" My ears perked, but I shook my head.
'Control inner obsessions…control inner ob-'
"G-get me a Neapolitan and I'll forgive you." Dammit!
Hiro disappeared in a flash and came back a few seconds later holding an ice cream cone with strawberry, vanilla, and chocolate ice cream. There was even a cherry on top. "Here you go!" he smiled. I took it and mumbled a thank you, but kept glaring at the cold treat as I held it. I noticed I have got to work on my willpower.
Suddenly, the cherry disappeared. I blinked and looked at Kukai as he bit the red fruit. "Oi! That was my cherry!"
"You have the rest of that ice cream! Which, by the way, is going to melt if you don't start eating it!" he laughed and licked the top flavor.
"I am going to eat it!" I half-yelled and stared back at the ice cream with a small pout. I secretly glared at Kukai as he was waiting for me go with a smirk.
When I was about to lick it, the ice cream was suddenly shoved into my face! I blinked. Once. Twice, before turning to the person who did it.
"Ah. It seems I did it too early…" Ikuto muttered, letting go off Amu's wrist.
"Ikuto you bastard!" I yelled as I wiped the ice cream off. "Why did you do that?!"
He held up his hands in defense. "I didn't do it Birdy-chan. It was Amu's fault."
"Wh-wha-!? You grabbed my arm and made me push the ice cream!! You baka neko!!" The pink haired girl whacked him on the head, but Ikuto seemed unfazed.
"See? She confessed that she pushed the ice cream. I think she deserves to be kicked out." Again, he got whacked.
"This is MY house stupid!"
"Neh, neh, neh…for some reason, those two seem to have that 'angry couple' atmosphere…" Ran whispered.
"Like Nikaidou-sensei and Sanjo-san?" Miki suggested.
"Exactly!"
"Oi! We aren't like that!" Amu yelled at her charas.
"Riiiiight…." I giggled. I noticed Ikuto tilt his head and stared at me. I looked back at him and nodded with a wink. He gazed at Amu for a second and finally took notice of the little blush on her cheeks as she kept yelling at her charas. She was embarrassed. He chuckled a little.
I smiled and mentally cheered. 'Yosh! He finally noticed! I think he's going to be okay even without my help, so…' "Yatta!!" I accidentally yelled out loud, causing everyone to stare at me. I turned pink and covered my eyes. "U-um…ignore me!!"
(Two months later)
"1…2…3…"
"GOOD LUCK MINNA!!!!" everyone cheered as confetti was thrown in the air. People clapped and the graduates cheered. I was one of those graduates. Yes people, I finally graduated middle school. And it feels so good!!! Well, except for this kimono…
"Congrats Haru-chan!" Kukai smiled and patted me on the head. I smiled too and nodded thanks. Just then, I was tackled from behind.
"UWAAA!!!! My imouto-chan looks so cute in her kimono!!!!" Hiro cried as he kept rubbing his cheek against mine. "You're already going to highschool too!! It's too soon!! Too soon!!"
He kept crying(note: Omg.. I'm even tearing up a bit because of him. x'D), but I didn't know what to do so I just pat him on the back. "Congrats, Haru-chan!" The guardians cheered as they also came over.
"Anno…thank you." I said, but sweatdropped when Hiro bawled even more. "…can you help me…?"
"I got him." A voice said and Hiro was suddenly thrown over the person's shoulder.
"Ah! Thank you Ikuto!" I smiled. He just nodded.
"Waahhhh!!! No! No! Take me back to my imouto!!!" Hiro whined, earning him a punch from Ikuto.
"You're really annoying…" Ikuto muttered.
Hiro pouted a little. "Yeah…well… your face…"
Ikuto smirked and turned to me. "Neh, I heard there was going to be a festival thing for you graduates."
I nodded. "Yeah, it's going to be held at the back of the school. I'll show you- waahh!!" I was picked up by Kukai.
"Yosh! Let's get going then! Ikuto-san! I'll race you!" Kukai challenged. Ikuto smirked.
"Sure thing soccer boy."
"Whoever gets to the back of the school first wins. We can't use our charas, and we have to carry Hiro and Haruko too."
"Say what!?!" Hiro and I yelled.
"And the winner gets?"
"The winner gets to be treated to anything in the festival by the loser?"
"Deal." Ikuto smirked.
"Want to do the same thing Yoru?" Daichi asked. Yoru grinned and snickered.
"Wa-wait! Don't we have a say in this?!" Hiro asked.
"Nope! Ready, set, go!!" Kukai yelled and he and Ikuto charged at full speed with their charas also following, leaving the guardians behind. They just started at the trail of dust that was left behind.
"A-anno…" Amu stuttered.
"Heh…Looks like I won, soccer boy." Ikuto smirked.
"Yosh! Victory!!" Daichi made a peace sign.
"It was a tie!" Kukai panted. Yoru was too tired to complain and landed on Ikuto's shoulder.
"No…Ikuto-senpai definitely won…" Rin and Ran stated(note: remember them from the camping trip? :D ).
"And besides…" Ran started.
"…we think you killed Hiro-senpai and Haruko-san." Rin said, turning to us. The twins were wearing matching kimonos, but in opposite colors; Ran in blue, Rin in red. Ran poked Hiro with a stick. "Ran! Don't do that!"
The opposite immediately dropped the stick and shrugged. Soon, I woke up with a head ache. When my vision cleared, I immediately grabbed the stick and hit Ikuto and Kukai on the head. "Bakas!" I yelled.
The two rubbed their head in pain. Hiro finally got up too. "Meh…I feel like puking…" he yawned.
"Well, don't puke here."
"Yeah. It'll ruin my appetite." Ikuto snapped his fingers and looked at Kukai, "Chocolate taiyaki. Now."
"Eh?!! I told you, it was a tie!!"
"No. Ikuto-senpai won." The twins stated. The senpai smirked and Kukai finally gave in.
"Fine…but you're coming with me." Kukai said and grabbed my hand.
"Eh-?" I wondered as I was suddenly dragged away. When we weren't able to be seen, Kukai started running. Not his usual full speed dash running, but just running. We just passed the Taiyaki Stall. "Kukai. Where are we going?"
"Anywhere away from them!" He grinned. We stopped somewhere in the middle of the whole festival. "Neh, what do you want to do, Haru-chan?"
Daichi stopped floating. "Let's go in there!!" he exclaimed, pointing towards a small dark looking building. I paled.
"I-I don't know… I don't really feel like going into a haunted house…" Kukai's eyes sparked.
"Okay! Great, let's go!!" he cheered and started dragging me.
"What? I said no!!"
"And that's what reverse psychology is for!" he said.
"Kukai!!" I whined as we were just at the entrance.
"Alright, alright, I'll stop." He said but smirked. "If I can get kiss."
I turned red. "What?!?" He gave me a look that said 'You heard me'. I sigh with a pout and give him a peck on the cheek. "There. Come on, let's go." Kukai pouted a little and I smirked. I know he wanted a kiss on the lips.
He blinked and looked around. "Eh? Where's Daic-"
"WAAHHHH!!!!!!!" a little voice yelled and something bumped into Kukai's head. It was Daichi, looking as frightened as a mouse.
I chuckled. "See? That's why I didn't want to go." Kukai laughed too.
(With the others)
Amu sighed as she and the others tried to look for Haruko and Kukai. "I can't find them anywhere…"
"Where could they be?"
"It's your fault for not keeping an eye on them." Ran and Rin said to Ikuto.
"I thought soccer boy was going to come back with my taiyaki." The cat shrugged. He got hit in the head by Hiro.
"Don't you dare shrug at this situation! Because of you, my little imouto is gone with that.. that beast!!" Hiro started to cry, leaning on Ikuto for support. "Haru-chan…where are you..? Onii-chan misses you…"
Ikuto groaned and pushed the boy off of him. "They've only been gone for half an hour. It's no big deal. She probably doesn't need you."
Hiro half-heartedly smiled. 'Yeah. She probably doesn't…'
"Ikuto! Don't say mean things like that!" Amu scolded. Ikuto smirked and neared her face.
"Oh really, A-mu-chan?" Amu jumped and became red.
She was thankfully saved by Hiro, sort of, because he clung onto her, cheering. "Hwuaa!! You're so kind for caring about my existance!! Amu-chan is a good girl!! Right? Right?"
"Hiro, I think you should let her go." Ikuto twitched.
Hiro smirked. "Why? Jealous?"
"Yes." He whispered so only Hiro could hear. "And also, you're choking her."
Hiro blinked and turned back to Amu, who looked a little blue. He let go of her. "Wahhh!!! Sorry Amu-chan!! Please don't punch me like how Haru-chan does…!!" He blinked. 'Speaking of Haruko…'
Hiro put a hand on Amu's shoulder once she went back to normal. "Neh…Amu-chan..? Can you lend me a hand in something…?"
"Ngh!! Kukai!! Stop!" I yelled, trying to get away.
"Why should I? It's fun to see you squirm!" he grinned.
"You're so evil!"
"Yeah, but you know you love me."
"If you love me, then would you stop squirting me with that water gun? I already surrendered!" I whined. We were playing water tag with the water guns we won from the relay race.
Kukai and I almost went to every single place in the whole festival(almost because I still refused to go into the haunted house). Surprisingly, we still haven't been found out by the others. Well, we ran into Shizuka and the twins for a few times, but they told us they won't rat us out. And I'm scared of them because they were giving wink wink nudge nudge looks as they left.
"I just hope I don't meet them again…" I thought aloud as I recalled the flowing sparkles and stars they had around them.
"Eh? Who?" Kukai asked as we stopped at a tea stall and got some dango.
"Ah, just Shizuka and them…" I mumbled and bit into my dango. Kukai chuckled.
"Are you still freaked about the floating sparkles they had? Haru-chan, it isn't that scary." He laughed.
"B-but it's not normal!" I stuttered an excuse.
"Well, nothing in this world is ever normal, so it doesn't make a difference." Kukai finished his dango and left the skewer sticking out of his mouth. "Besides, the sparkles aren't that weird, is it? I pretty much saw a lot of them from fans back in Seiyo."
"..y-you had fangirls…?" I asked awkwardly. He nodded. I turned my gaze toward the cup of tea I was holding. I don't know…but I felt…
"Jealous?" Kukai asked. I looked at him and he gave a teasing smile. "Are you jealous that I had fans Haru-chan?"
My eye twitched. "Wha-wha?! N-no!!" He gave a small smile.
"Heh. Really now?" he asked as he grabbed my chin and leaned closer to me. "Tell me that again then, but look at me straight in the eye this time."
I shivered as he whispered those words. Dammit! He's a year younger than me and yet he has more experience in this type of stuff! What the hell?!
"Well.?" He whispered into my ear again. The blush I already had on my face darkened as I forced myself to face Kukai. My eyes widened a little.
'We're so close-!!'
My mouth parted open, but I couldn't say anything. I was too distracted by the fact that our lips were only an inch away. Instead, I found myself leaning in a little, like I was being controlled to do it. Kukai was unconsciously doing the same thing too. Just when our lips were about to touch, and our eyes were about to close, there was a loud crash, followed by students screaming.
"Useless! Useless!!" a small voice chanted, and there were more crashes and bangs. Our eyes widened.
"No way…" I said before going outside. I looked up in the sky and my jaw dropped. About ten, no, twenty X eggs were flying in the air, shooting out small discs at the festival. Four X charas were above them, snickering at the chaos below.
"Oh come on!!" I stomped my foot at the ground and looked back up in disbelief. "I thought we finally got rid of you pests after defeating Easter!!"
"Uselessssss?!!!" the eggs said as they turned to me. I sweatdropped as the X charas smirked.
"I-I probably shouldn't have said that, shouldn't I?" I asked. The leader X chara pointed at me.
"Aaaattack!!" it yelled, and the eggs began shooting at me. I covered my head and waited for the impact, but noticed it never came. When I opened my eyes, I was suddenly lifted into the air by Kukai, who changed into his transformation.
He grinned at me. "Neh, Haru-chan. You really should be careful."
I turned a little pink. "E-err..yeah…sorry about that, but I was just surprised that these things are back. We gotta find the others."
"Yosh! Hang on tight Haru-chan!" he said as he began flying around the school, looking for everyone while trying not to get hurt by the eggs trailing after us.
"Gah!!! This wasn't supposed to happen!!" a familiar voice yelled. I blinked as I looked down.
"Nii-chan?"
"Hiro you idiot!" I heard Nagehiko yell(which was sort of odd, since usually he's rarely angry).
"Found them!" Kukai said. The guys were on a stage in their transformations. It turns out that they already knew of the X eggs, because there were more down there, that were keeping them in uh…X chains.(they were tied up with X eggs circling around them, okay? .)
"Minna!" I yelled as we came down. Suddenly, the X eggs on the stage came to a stop when they notice the new arrivals. They slowly turned to us. I blinked.
"Useless!!!" they yelled and threw themselves at us.
"Wahh!!" I did my best to dodge them. I almost tripped over something. I looked down to see it was a metal pole.
"Useless!" the eggs yelled again as I immediately grabbed the stick and used it to block their attacks. Unbeknownst to me, I didn't realize that a faint moon clip appeared on my head. Hiro, however, did.
"..Haru..-" Hiro was cut off by an X chara hitting him in the head and snickering. He glared at the thing and tried to chase it, even though his body was still bound. "Why you little-!!! Get the fuck back here so I can rip out those tiny miniscule twigs you call limbs!!"
The chara look frightened for a second, but when it saw Hiro struggling, it just snickered and flew farther away. "Hey! Come back!"
"Hiro! Just use Angel's Staff! It can break the chains!" Kazuhiko yelled.
"No! I will never betray my Death Scythe! I love it so!" Hiro yelled back. The X chara laughed. "Hey! What's wrong with loving your weapon?"
"Everything! Now call out the staff, now!"
"No!" The X chara snickered. Hiro glared.
"If you call out the staff, I'm sure you'll be able to rip out that guy's limbs easily."
"…" Hiro opened his hand. "Angel's Staff, come on out-! Oh my god. I sound like a pokemon trainer…" he muttered as he grabbed his weapon and broke free from his chains. He landed safely on the ground. "Oh well!"
I finally got to see Hiro's new transformation. Hiro had an unbuttoned white coat over a dark blue T-shirt. A loose black belt was around his waist and he also had white pants with some sort of black pouch at his right leg. He turned to me and waved.
"Neh~!! Haru-chan! Do you like my transformation? It's called Guardian Angel!" Hiro smiled, but then pouted. "It isn't as badass looking as Devil's Knight…and Mr. Deathsi-"
"Hiro…" Kazuhiko gritted.
"..right..and my Death Scythe is gone, but…it's still good! Right? Right?" he asked.
"E-er…yeah…" I slowly nodded. Hiro shined his teeth and gave me a thumbs up. I twitched. Before I could tell Hiro that he looked like Gai-sensei, I lifted my staff to my side to block another attack.
My instincts are unusually more alert for some reason...
I slowly turned my head toward the X eggs. "Neh..Hiro… Kukai. You should really take care of these guys right now."
"Right." They nodded at each other. Kukai got on his board and flew up into the air, distracting the eggs. They chased after him.
Hiro gave his staff a small twirl and then halted it to the ground. "Heaven's Light!" he yelled, and a beam shot in the air and light spread around. The eggs were quickly purified and everything was back to normal. Hiro's move even repaired the damages the X eggs made.
"Nice job!" Kukai gave Hiro a thumbs up. Hiro pouted and glared.
"I still don't like you." he said and threw his staff at him. Luckily, Kukai dodged.
"How did the X eggs come back anyway? I thought we fully got rid of them." I wondered. Hiro flinched, and I finally took notice of the glares that were aimed at him. "Nii-chan. You brought out the X eggs?"
"N-no- No!" Glares. "…okay. Yes…"
"Why? And how were you even able to?"
"Well, it's pretty easy if you steal a little kid's candy and taunt him…"
"…you stole a little kid's candy?!?!!"
"Amu helped too!!" he yelled, pointing at his lovely assistant. She jumped.
"Y-you were the one who said you needed help!! And you blackmailed me too!"
"Eh? What was the blackmail about?" Ikuto asked, looking at her.
"I-it's none of your business!!" Amu turned away to hide her blush. Both Ikuto and I smirked. I turned to Hiro, looking serious.
"Hiro…why?" he let out a breath and ushered me to come with him. I hesitantly followed and we sat near a tree. There was just silence between us. I opened my mouth to say something, but Hiro beat me to it.
"Neh, Haruko. Am I annoying to you?" he asked softly.
I blinked. "…well, sort of.." I flinched when I saw him slouch. I waved my hands frantically. "B-but not that annoying!! You're still a good person!!"
"You don't have to lie to me." he half smiled.
"..it's still the truth though." I whispered. "The only annoying thing about you is your overprotective-ness, and a little bit of your idiocy…but that's just because you want me to be happy and okay, right?"
He gave a soft chuckle. "Yeah…but yet…" he trailed off.
"Yet…?" I repeated. He shook his head.
"It's nothing."
"…so…why did you bring back the X eggs?"
He scratched his head. "Well, you could kind of say that I was trying to test you…?"
"Eh? With what?"
"…"
"Hiro. With what?"
"…"
"Hiro!!" I shook him.
"Alright alright!!" I let go of him. "Well, this might sound weird, but I was trying to test you…to see how much you care about me and need me…"
"..what?" I asked. He huffed and stood up.
"See? I knew it'd sound weird." I grabbed the end of his sleeve before he walked away.
"Hey! Get back here!!" He still tried to move away, dragging me with him. "Oi! Stop! My kimono's going to get wrecked!!" I forced myself to stand up, but I tripped on my sleeve(my kimono has really long sleeves) and fell back, bringing Hiro along with me.
"H-haru-chan! Are you alright?" Amu asked, coming to check on me. I think that was a lie though, seeing that she had a bright red face and was just being sexually harassed by her perverted kitty.
"Yeah, yeah. Hiro and I are just having a sibling conference. You can go back to Ikuto now." I said, shooing her away. Her face turned even darker if that was possible.
"I-I don't know what you're talking about. A-and I think I should stay here since I did help Hiro." She smiled, proud of her excuse.
"Really. Is that a confession you should actually be proud of?" I smirked at her crestfallen face. "But…you're lucky I'm nice. You can stay." I turned to Hiro. "Care for an explanation?"
He sighed. "I don't have a choice, do I?" I shook my head. "Well, the plan with the X eggs was, if I were to be attacked, and no one but you can help me, I wanted to see if you care enough of me to save me. But then the X eggs got out of hand and…well, you know what happened."
"Why would you go through all this just to see if I even care for you? Of course I care about you. You're my older brother." He smiled and gave me a hug.
"Of course. And you're my little sister…" We stayed still quietly. A few seconds later, it started feeling a bit awkward.
"So…are we okay now…?" I asked, feeling a little suffocated from the hug now.
"Mhmm…"
"…so…can we let go now…?"
…
3, 2, 1.
"HWAAA!!!!! ONII-CHAN DOESN'T WANNA LET GO!!! IT'S TOO SOON!! TOO SOON!!!" He yelled in my ear. Damn, I think I'm partially deaf now. And where was that other Hiro, the one who wasn't so…
I continued to listen to my brothers bawling. People began staring.
…overemotional?
"H-hiro…it's been half an hour. Let go!!" I struggled to get away from my brother's tight grip. The others even tried to help but Hiro just wouldn't budge! (random note: I thought I'd like to share that I am now uncontrollably twitching b/c I have that damn Lollipop song stuck in my head. Damn Dell commercial!! D)
"Noo! No! I wanna stay with my little imouto-!!" Hiro flinched as he got smacked on the head.
"Shut..up…" Ikuto gritted. "And let go of Birdy-chan now."
Kukai nodded, pulling me tighter from the waist. "It's almost time for the fireworks too. We have to go back to the front of the school if we wanna get a good view."
"Wait, lemme try something." I said and I wriggled my arms out of Kukai's grasp. I poked Hiro on the neck, and he immediately fell asleep.
Everyone let go of us as I tried to hold my brother up. "Haru-chan…how did you do that…?" Nagehiko asked.
I blinked as I made Hiro sling his arm around my shoulders. "…you know what..? I don't know."
(Hiro's POV)
After a few minutes or so, I began to regain consciousness. I opened my eyes and clutched my aching neck. "Ugh…where am I…?"
"You're in front of the school. Now shut up and enjoy the soon to be fireworks." I heard a voice mutter. My vision cleared and I glared at the source of the voice. Ikuto.
"Oh yeah? Well, why don't you shut up and-"
"Hiro…" I heard someone warn. I looked at Haruko, my own little sister, who was giving me a look to stop. And because I love her so much(not in an incest way, cause that's gross), I had to obey.
I huffed and plopped on the floor with my arms crossed, acting like a stubborn child. Everyone slowly followed my actions, but in a more calm and civil way. I was in the very back though, while they were all in a conversation.
The principal of Haruko's school was standing in front of the sitting crowd, talking. I ignored him though and began to think. The words Ikuto said to me today are still stinging me, because what he said might be true. Haruko might not need me. My eyes softened.
Haruko…when she ran away from home, I was confused, wondering why she would run away from such a wonderful life. But it wasn't wonderful, not to her. She was the only one suffering, while I was having the spotlight from our parents. But I was suffering too, before when Mom was pressuring me to be perfect so Haruko wouldn't be influenced in doing bad.
But when I was working hard to become 'perfect', and succeeded, that didn't make Haruko look up to me. No, it made her hate me. When I try to do something to help her, it ends up in disaster.
I sighed. 'Well, I guess this is my punishment for being so dense. I have to be the suffering sibling now.' I looked at Haruko as she and the little bas…(come on Hiro, be nice)…she and..Kukai were cuddling with each other as they half-listened to the principal.
I twitched as Kukai whispered something in Haruko's ear and I noticed she was blushing. That bastard was saying H things to her, wasn't he!??
I was about to stand up and separate them before I heard a soft giggle from behind me. I turned around and I couldn't believe my eyes. Haruko's chara was floating in front of me. Before I could say anything, she put a finger on her lips, telling me to keep quiet.
The chara(Tsuki was her name I think) floated to me and sat on the grass facing me. "Yo." She said in a tiny voice. That's when I noticed something different about her. Her figure seemed to be faded.
I held out a finger to poke her. "A-are you…" my eyes widened as my hand went through her. She smiled half-heartedly and nodded.
"You know, Haru-chan doesn't hate you."
"I know." I sighed and held my head. "But it's just that, I want her to be happy from now on, and after that all we've been through, I wanna make it up to her…you know?"
I looked down at Tsuki and noticed she wasn't there. 'Where did she go?'
"Hiro-nii!" A voice called out. I looked up and saw Haruko waving. "What are you doing all the way back there? Come on! Principal Baldy is about to finish his speech!"
Principal 'Baldy' just happened to hear what she said and yelled at her. "Oi! Fujiwara! Just because this is your last year doesn't mean you have the right to insult me!"
She nervously laughed. "Yeah…sorry Principal Ba- err- Kujaze(note: Too tired to come up with a real name. -_-; But hey, it was either this or Jacuzzi..)."
He huffed and muttered something before lighting the fireworks just as I made my way over to the group. I looked at Haruko and her boyfriend first, but instead of coming between them, I decided to just next to Haruko.
'Damn, I think I made the wrong move..' I gritted as I forced myself to look up in the sky. I could tell Haruko was looking at me on why I wasn't acting overprotective.
I watched the fireworks explode and light up the dusky sky with colorful sparks. That's when I suddenly felt an amount of pressure on my side. I turned to Haruko, who was leaning her head on my arm. "Nii-chan, I'm tired…" she mumbled.
"Why don't you go to Kukai then?" I muttered. She shrugged.
"He might do something perverted to me while I sleep. You wouldn't want that, would you?" I was tearing up and hugged her tightly.
"No I do not!!! Hwaaa!! Haru-chan is finally learning!!" I cried, but then froze. Damn, this retardedly overprotectiveness might actually be real. I coughed. "I mean, uh have a good sleep, imouto."
I heard her trying to muffle her giggling. I cursed under my breath and turned my head away. When it was quiet, I sighed since I finally got the chance to relax. Minutes later, I heard Haruko whisper something. "Nii-chan…arigatou..for everything…"
I blinked and I looked back at her, but her eyes were closed. She was sleep talking. "..than..k you.." she mumbled again. My eyes widened. A drop of water fell on her hair. Ducking my head down, I put a trembling arm around Haruko to support her sleep.
"You're welcome, imouto-chan...you're..welcome.." I mumbled as more tears slid down my face. Kukai and another person watched our heart warming sibling-y scene.
"You did a good job." He whispered. The person shrugged, floating next to him.
"I only said one sentence to the boy before I almost got caught by my own owner."
"But still… Are you sure you don't want Haruko to see you?" The figure gave a weak smile.
"I have to. I know she wants to see me again, but she'll get over it. Haru-chan has to learn that sometimes, she has to stop looking back at the past so much and start looking at a brighter future without me."
Kukai nodded. "I guess you're right Tsuki." Kukai looked up at the fireworks. "This is it, right? Your time's almost up."
"Heh. I guess you're right." Tsuki bowed her head as her egg appeared. "Kukai, please take care of Haruko for me. I'm leaving you and Hiro to her."
"You got it." He smiled and gave her a thumbs up. Tsuki did the same before her egg closed her in. She disappeared as soon as the final fireworks vanished, the smoke finally revealing the starry night sky with a full moon as its main attraction.
Teh Ends
Shadow: Gah…I effin feel sad to make this chappie an ending..but 18 pages people! That's good, right…? –pleads with puppy eyes-
Haruko: Hah. You really ARE a masochist, aren't you?
Shadow: Shut up. T-T Etto desu neh.. thank you to all the people who have been sticking around for Broken Wings and Unlock Me for all this time, even IF I have been a horrible person for not updating much…Gomenasai for that.
Haruko: So, in order for this masochist –dodges flying books- to make it up to you, there's going to be an extra for you guys to read. What it's about, I don't know. –looks at Shadow- What IS it about anyway?
Shadow: You'll see. ^^ Though, I have a feeling you, Kukai, and Hiro might beat me up for it…
Haruko: Why? What's it about..?
Shadow: Oh, you'll see… hehehe…-evil grin- Ha! Not so masochistic now, am I?! I still have my murderous grin!!! HAHAHAA!!! -laughing maniacally-
Ja nai for now and I hope we will meet again.
