Riku greets me when I arrived on my doorstep.

"Good evening, Onee-chan! Riku is waiting for you!"

Oh, Riku! How I love your adorableness! There's nothing in this world that I love as much as you! Please don't stop being the lovable you!

"Riku has done Riku's homework!" That's my boy! "But Riku is not confident of Riku's answer. Can Onee-chan look over it?"

"Of course, we don't want you to get a bad grade, do we? And you're my little brother, of course I will do anything for you."

Kyaaa! Riku smile is the sincerest smile I have ever seen! So radiant! So bright! I want to look but my eyes can't stand the glow!

"Oh right! Onee-chan want to soak in bath after a tiring day, right? Riku has prepared the hot water!"

I want to cry. Little Riku is growing up in front of me. Not even one week ago Riku will never do something like this. What exactly the catalyst for the change, I don't know. No, Riku! Don't change! Please stay as yourself!

"You don't need to do that, Riku. I can do it on my own."

Riku cutely shakes his head, "Riku wants to."

I put my hand to my mouth, and my eyes is holding back tears that wants to come out. I want to hug him there and now, but I'm all sweaty. This decides it. After bath, I'm gonna hug him! And then after that, when Riku is sleeping, I'm going to sneak into his room and cuddle him all night!

"Thank you, Riku."

"It's okay, Onee-chan."

I wordlessly go to the bath and soak myself in the bathtub. Haa~, it's so relaxing. After a hard day like today, just relaxing yourself in the bath feels good. I can't rid myself from imagining the smile that Riku showed me. Kyaa, you'll grow up to be a charming man, Riku! Oh no, if RIku ended up being a handsome man, then many other skanks will fall for him! I have to prevent that! Riku is mine! Nobody else can have him!

God, I sounded like a clingy jealous girlfriend. Well, as long as it's for RIku's own good, I can use my status as his sister to do anything, fufufu.

But there's something nagging in the back of my mind. For some reason, the image of Riku smiling his most sincere smile is overlapping with Hyoudou's image who smiles the same. Huh? It must be my imagination. I mean, I have never seen Hyoudou makes that kind of expression before.

Have I? let's see… hmm, in class, Hyoudou put up a faraway look, maybe he was imagining something perverted. Outside class, he put up this perverted expression when he was doing perverted things. Well, outside that, I never see Hyoudou's other expression. Ah, there was a distressed one, when he asked me for some advice without explaining anything to me. And also, a forlorn look was on his face when I saw him in the infirmar–Ow!

Huh? That's weird. Have I ever seen a forlorn look on Hyoudou? No, I think I mistake it for a despaired expression when he didn't understand our assigned task. Right? What task was it anyway? I can't seem to remember.

Well, I'll look it up later. It's time to end my relaxation time and hug Riku!

As I put on my towel and go to my room, Riku calls me, "Onee-chan. Riku looked at the fridge, but there's nothing inside. What is for our dinner, Onee-chan?"

I freeze up. That's right. I haven't bought any ingredients since two or three days ago. I truly want to facepalm, but I hold myself since there is Riku and I don't want to give a bad example. How stupid.

"Then I'm going to the supermarket to buy some things first, is that okay?" I see Riku nods at my question. Oh, Riku! I am truly blessed with having you as my little brother! I will not disappoint you ever! That's why I'm going to the supermarket in records time! "You are fine with anything, right?"

"Yes, Onee-chan. Riku likes every food Onee-chan made."

Kyaa! I want to smother you now! In fact, I'm going to do it!

"O-Onee-chan!" Riku yelps as I smother his head in my bosom. Rubbing his back, I smell his hair. Hmm, Riku is using the shampoo– hold on, was Riku using the shampoo too much? Well, as long as his hair is clean. In fact, I like this smell! I will buy Riku a bottle of shampoo too then! Use lots of it okay, Riku? So Onee-chan can smell it as long as she wants!

Huh? Why is Riku's face red? Usually when I hug him and shows my affection, Riku absorbs it all. So why is there an expression akin to reluctance in Riku's face now? I don't understand. Riku, what is happening? You can tell your Onee-chan everything, you know. Tell me how are you doing in class, tell me how is your day, tell me is the lesson hard or not, tell me how much you love me, tell me that you want me to hug you again, tell me that we have to hold hands forever to ward off evil, tell me that you love me, or something like that.

"Onee-chan…" Riku speaks. But his eyes are looking at everything but me. Why, Riku? Why?

"Yes, Riku?" I wait in anticipation. Tell me your thoughts, Riku!

"The towel fell."

I look down at my body, and finds it without any fabric. The towel that I use to cover myself after bath is lying down innocently on the ground.

Oh.

OH!

So that's why Riku avoids looking at me!

Normally, if someone is caught in this situation, there are only one response. Grab the towel, say sorry, and hope that the people who saw you will forget it while you go away and lock the door in shame. Other responses such as screaming 'kyaa' while punching the one who saw you and making a seductive pose while asking 'do like what you see?' only happened in fictional media.

But me, my response is different.

I have tears in my eyes.

I… I can't believe Riku doesn't like to see my naked body. Is there something wrong with my body? Ah, it's the breasts, isn't it? It's not big enough. Curse the Japanese genetics! Why is life unfair! Why can't I have a nice western genetics who holds the trait of big breast! Wait, isn't Himejima Akeno's breast is the biggest in Kuoh Academy? I remember stumbled upon the data in the infirmary, so Japanese or no doesn't matter. I just got unlucky with the drawings.

I break down crying from the shame of not having a body nice enough for Riku to see it without being embarrassed.

"O-Onee-chan! Why are you crying?"

"Riku won't look at my body…"

"W-Well, of course Riku won't! it's Onee-chan's body! It's not appropiate!"

To answer you, Riku. You can look all you want, in fact, I want you to look at it! And also, it's 'appropriate', not 'appropiate'.

In the end, it took Riku five minutes to calm me. He ushered me to my room and I went to the supermarket in a somber mood.