Kairi didn't wait for Lea to make the first move. He was the evil dragon, after all, and it was her job to defeat him for her fair princess! "Hya!" She called as she lunged towards him, trying to seem more intimidating than she was.
Lea easily parried her ineffective blows with frisbees, barely having to move them as the small girl seemed to be aiming for the weapons rather than Lea himself. The older boy tried to hold in his chuckles as he watched this little one-sided struggle. "Had, enough, yet?" Kairi asked between strikes.
Lea burst into laughter at that, almost tearing up. Kairi stopped attacking and stared up at him in confusion. What was he doing?
"Right, right, sorry," Lea said as he tried to catch his breath from laughing so hard.
Kairi crossed her arms across her chest, glaring at Lea now. He was laughing at her! "Lea!" she demanded. "The dragon isn't supposed to laugh at the knight!"
"Well, you make it hard not to," Lea quipped. "Why do you even have that thing if you don't know how to use it?"
"I can use it!" Kairi protested, waving her wooden blade eccentrically, almost managing to hit Lea's legs.
"Okay, okay!" Lea stumbled back before the hard wood hit his legs. "You asked for it! Roar!" Lea spun his frisbees in his hand for a moment, standing tall and trying to imitate a dragon. When he saw the small girl giggling at his impersonation of a dragon, he took the chance to strike, but he only tapped her gingerly with the frisbee, remembering that she was just a little girl.
Just that was enough to excite the small child, though. Kairi flitted around her room as Lea gave chase. There were few places for her to run, so she turned around and tried to parry him back. Again, Lea was able to evade all her attacks, but now it was Kairi chasing him.
He was even more restricted in the space he had, so he quickly fumbled with the lock on the door and pulled it open, rushing out into the opening as Kairi managed to slightly nick his leg.
Some laugh off a bit of unexpected chaos they encounter. Some embrace it, some even play along. Isa was no stranger to this, as his best friend had gotten them both into quite a few ... Awkward situations, to say the least.
But when Isa saw the door fly open and he was knocked back, catching only a glimpse of red as his eccentric best friend and their charge for the afternoon, Kairi, ran past him towards the living room, he was not about to laugh it off or let it slide for either of them. He reddened in anger as he felt one of the juice-boxes leaking onto his favorite jacket. This brought-out an unusual side to the stoic bluenette, his eyes pinched shut, and a nerve stuck out, "That's it," He yelled, "Both of you-"
He was cut off by the sound of a loud crash and shattering, followed by the sounds of someone crying, made him open his eyes shock. Isa tried to put aside his anger for the moment as he ran to see exactly what had happened.
Of course, the one crying was Kairi. She wasn't wailing, or being obnoxious about it; she sniffled and whimper as tears rolled down her cheeks. Much differently than Lea did as a child, Isa recalled briefly.
Isa noticed broken pieces of clay on the ground next to Kairi, while Lea stood back, looking a little shocked about it. So the shatter had come from one of them knocking over a vase. From Kairi breaking the vase, it seemed. "What happened in here?" He asked, although he already had a good idea.
Kairi pointed at Lea and said, between sniffles, "Lea broke my vase!"
"What?" Lea asked, waving his arms innocently. "It wasn't me!"
"Yes it was, I saw you!" Kairi shot back.
Isa stomped his foot loudly, refusing to sit through an argument between these two children. "Kairi, go stand in a corner," he ordered. "Lea, I think I saw the broom and dustpan back there. Clean up this mess."
Kairi gaped at Isa in disbelief. "But I didn't-"
"GO!" Isa shouted, causing both Lea and Kairi to jump in fear. He rarely got this angry, but when he did, it was best not to exacerbate matters.
Kairi ran to the corner nearest to the door while Isa accompanied Lea down the hallway, still obviously fuming.
Kairi pouted and wiped away her tears. She was the one who should be mad! Lea broke her vase! And now he was blaming her!
Kairi was already tired of having babysitters. She wanted her grandmother back, instead of these meanies. And Kairi refused to stay here with them another second.
Kairi turned away from the wall and stuck her tongue out in the general direction of the boys, knowing they couldn't see her. Then, she opened the door and ran out, trying to guess where in town her grandmother might have gone. She would still be in town, right? "Grandma?" the girl called, hesitating to leave her yard for a moment. She glanced at her house once more before she took off running towards town.
"Lea, I'm not playing a game! What were you two imbeciles doing in there?" Isa yelled, still enraged from before.
"I'm telling the truth we were just playing some game she came up with! Princess!" Lea stood with his back to the wall, and his voice shook only slightly as he tried to explain his situation to his friend. "Okay, not like regular Princess with the tea parties and crap, but where she was the knight and I was the dragon and we were fighting over a princess. I didn't mean to hit that vase, though, I wasn't aiming for it but my frisbee-"
"So you broke the vase!" Isa groaned, annoyed. "How foolish can you be... And I haven't forgotten about you, either, Kairi!" Isa called, towards the front of the house. "That wall is not your punishment!"
Lea grabbed the dustpan and broom, knowing better than to argue with Isa when he was this mad. Lea left Isa in the hallway to give him time to calm down while Lea cleaned his mess. He stopped in his tracks as he noticed the door ajar and no one waiting in the living room. "Isa, I think Kairi ran away," Lea called.
Lea could hear a loud thud- Isa hitting the wall, probably, before his friend finally calmed a little and said, through clenched teeth. "Go. Find. Her."
"It'll hardly take any time at all, Isa. I can catch a kid, no problem. Just leave it to me! Got it-"
"Lea!" Isa shouted, clearly near to the point of partial insanity.
Lea jumped, "I'm going; I'm going!" Lea muttered "memorized" as he slipped out of the door, trying to think of where Kairi might have gone.
Isa, on the other hand, took breaths to calm himself down again. "I am never babysitting again," he said to himself before he went to clean the broken clay up. He'd follow after Lea in a few minutes, but for now, he really needed to be away from both of them.
