Author's Note: YOOOOOOOO~ How's it going my lovely reading muffins? Enjoy this latest chapter, I must warn you that you might cry while reading it so please take said warning seriously.
Disclaimer: Black Blood Brothers and Kingdom Hearts are not mine, but my OCs are mine. If you wish to borrow any of them please do ask for permission first.
Bluefire smiled softly as she plated the fresh waffles she made. Surely the others would be hungry after a long night's sleep.
"Mimiko, its morning. Time to wake up and enjoy the most important meal of the day," Bluefire sang as she shook Mimiko's shoulder to try and wake her up. The brunette moaned as she rolled over and her eyes fluttered open, revealing the blonde standing over her.
"Ugh, why are you so cheerful this early in the morning?" Mimiko complained as she sat up with a stretch. The younger female smiled sweetly at her.
"I got a very nice sleep and I made waffles!" Bluefire replied before skipping out of the room to wake the guys up. Mimiko merely sighed before shutting her door to get dressed.
Kotaro and Sora were very easy to wake up, the promise of home-made food that was sure to be delicious was enough to send the two bounding to get ready for the day. Jiro, however, was an entirely different story.
"Jiro-nii-san, get up sleepy head! Its a lovely morning! The sun is shining, the birds are singing, time to face the world!" Bluefire said sweetly as she shook Jiro's shoulder. He moaned before turning his back to her and snorted before continuing to softly snore.
'Come on Bluefire, you can handle this. He's just one guy, you've dealt with much worse than this,' she thought before trying a different approach.
"Come on big brother, I made some super yummy breakfast~ I even made chocolate-chip waffles, just the way you like them." Jiro was still asleep, but licked his lips unconsciously at the mere thought of chocolate.
Bluefire huffed and crossed her arms over her chest, trying to plan her next move when a thought crossed her mind. Bluefire took a staff from under the bed across from Jiro's coffin before smacking herself in the forehead with it and quickly stowing it under the bed (A/N Please don't try this my muffins, it would hurt me more than it would hurt you). Whipping up some quick tears the blonde started weeping, which gained Sora's attention quickly, for he was passing by the room when she started crying.
"Baby, what's wrong? Why are you crying?" Sora inquired as he held her delicate hand in his own. Jiro woke up to the noise, only seeing his baby sister crying, a welt on her forehead and Sora in the room, which was a very bad equation.
"You! What did you do to my sister!?" Jiro shouted as he made it to Bluefire in the blink of an eye, holding her in one arm and ready to hit the Keyblade wielder with the other.
"I-I didn't do anything! She was crying when I came in here!" Sora replied, a rather hurt look on his face. Here Jiro was accusing him of hitting his own girlfriend. His only options were to continue denying Jiro's accusation or to lie and say he did hit her, but that it was an accident. The either option would mean losing the girl he was starting to fall in love with, and all because her older brother was an over-protective hot-head.
"Just get out you stupid boy," Jiro stated coldly before shoving Sora out the door to tend to Bluefire's wound. Sora merely huffed before walking into the kitchen, a fake smile plastered on his face. He didn't want to worry either Mimiko or Kotaro.
"Are you sure you're alright? I could get you some ice if you'd like," Jiro inquired as he bandaged the slightly bleeding area on Bluefire's forehead. The blonde merely shook her head, a sad look becoming prevalent in her eyes.
"Thanks, but I don't want to trouble you," Bluefire answered as she clenched her hands in her lap, staring down at them to avoid her brother's intense look. She didn't have to even look up to notice the sudden shift in her sibling's mood, he's always been very predictable and easy to read when one interacts with him on such a personal level.
"Why would you trouble me? You're my little sister, I would never be troubled by any request you make," Jiro questioned as he wiped away the tears that ran down the blonde girl's cheeks. As much as she wanted to smack his hand away Bluefire knew she couldn't, she had hurt him enough as it is. He was so fragile at times that he could mentally break in an instant.
"You wouldn't understand or even remember that time clearly," Bluefire replied. Jiro took a hold of her hands suddenly, causing the younger Black Blood to look into his eyes.
"Try me," Jiro stated, an earnest expression on his face as he spoke.
"It has been ten years since that accident," Mimiko said as she flipped through a newspaper as she drank some tea leisurely. Sora and Kotaro looked up from their card game, which Sora was totally losing in by the way, when Mimiko finished.
"What accident Mimi?" Kotaro asked as he placed down yet another winning hand and cleaned Sora out of the last of his pocket money and candy.
"There was some sort of mechanical malfunction at an old theme park on an island not too far from here. Apparently the only casualty was a young girl who went to school in a small town on the outskirts of Tokyo," Mimiko answered as Sora got up from the floor and walked over to read over his sister's shoulder.
"Uwah! That girl looks like Bluefire-chan!" Sora exclaimed as he looked at the photograph above the article. Kotaro rushed over to look as well.
"That does look like Sister! Like from the pictures in the photo album she and Brother have!" Kotaro cried as he looked at the photograph with the older occupants of the room.
"But why is she alive now? It said she died in the accident," Sora inquired as he, Mimiko, and Kotaro tried to make sense of this situation.
"Do you remember ten years ago? About an accident in an amusement park?" Bluefire asked as Jiro sat next to the girl. He nodded, recalling the headline of a particular paper during the Crusade and how horrified everyone was about that accident.
"I do, why do you ask?" Jiro replied, noting the slightly pained look in his sister's eyes.
"I was that girl in the accident. The one who died," Bluefire sighed, refusing to meet her brother's gaze as this information sunk in.
"I-impossible, she was impaled through the heart! H-how can the two of you be one in the same?!" Jiro cried as he stood up in shock. Bluefire rose from her seat and pulled her shirt's collar aside to reveal a large, pale scar in the shape of a circle above her heart.
"I was turned into a vampire by someone," Bluefire answered as Jiro's fingers gently brushed against the mark.
"Who? Who turned you?" Jiro implored, desperation becoming clear in his voice and on his face. Bluefire remained silent as she looked away. Jiro was about to ask her again when Bluefire suddenly looked into his eyes, a serious look on her face.
"It was you," she answered.
Author's Note: Dun, dun, dun! Cliff-hanger! Will Jiro be able to handle this starling revelation? Will Sora be able to learn why Jiro is being such an ass towards him? And will Kotaro learn the truth about who he is ment to be? Find out in the next installment of Love Between Red and Black.