Yusuke's social life literally dies the moment he spots his classmate, Katie Walker, in the arms of his brother, Tsubaki, who is known to be a notorious lady killer, one day when he gets home from school. Not to mention, that girl happens to be his crush, someone he has longed for half a year, so far, but he is always watching her. And now he finds her in his home?
"You!" he freezes in shock, no it can't possibly be, he sprints down the stairs and bolts right in front of her face. Yup, green emerald eyes, dark brown locks, yup, he's screwed, "w-why?"
Just when he thinks things couldn't possibly get worse, "sorry do I know you?"
His will to live just decides to vacate the earth, and for some reason he finds his face on the floor along with his body, and he hears his brother laughing in the background. The girl of his dreams asks if he's going to be okay. Yup, everything is going terribly wrong, and maybe it's fine. He decides to ignore everything and pray that God will accept his corpse now.
"Tsubaki, I'm sure I told you to inform Yusuke of this…" Ukyo scolds, and the latter just continues to laugh harder at his younger brother's suffering.
Katie shakes her head, "you clearly gave the job to the wrong person" and Azusa just nods, believing that their new sister is already understanding the idiocy of their family, "oh~ so this is Yusuke, the one who goes to my school, aye?" Yusuke felt a brick drop on his head. He wants to scream, god damn it, the girl he likes doesn't even know he exists?
"I think you guys are in the same class" Ukyo smiles uneasily, and that just makes Tsubaki laugh even harder, now on the floor as he rolls around at his brother's misfortune.
Katie sweatdrops, "oh, sorry" it's like she doesn't even mean it! Well, of course she doesn't need to apologize, it's not like it's her fault that Yusuke lacks a presence in her life. He should have approached her, made a move on her or something. God, he's pathetic. He feels her touch his hair, and he reddens before getting up, standing upright.
"Hey there, brother!" She extends a hand to shake.
"I'll never accept this!" he states straight away, glad that he actually makes that clear with her. It's good to be direct, she needs to be aware that he has no plans to play sibling with her. He intends to be her boyfriend, not her brother!
But it quickly backfires.
"Hello darkness my friend…" she pokes her index fingers together as she shrinks into a dark abyss.
"What's she doing?" Tsubaki asks.
"Ah, memes" Azusa nods, as if understanding.
And just when she gets to the second verse he relents, "fine, fine, I guess I can accept you into our family" but not as his sister, he mentally adds.
"Red lipstick in my white Valentino bag!" she squeals before lunging at him with a warm embrace, arms wrapping around his torso, and Yusuke is sure he has passed away and gone to heaven.
"Don't worry, Yusuke! Being siblings and classmates is gonna be beyond awesome! We'll spend so much time with each other! Like walking to school"
He blushes, imagining their romantic daily walks, hand in hand, and in the train he would pull her towards him, protecting her from the dangerous predators of a crowded train, he almost smiles lecherously, what a beautiful sight.
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"Yusuke… you're so close to me… I can hear your heartbeat" she whispers, eyes longing as she looks up at him with love.
"You should know that my heart only beats for you, Katie, you make me feel this way…" he leans down to capture her lips.
"Oh, Yusuke…"
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"We'll eat lunches with each other at school," he sees them alone on the roof, her feeding him, and he pushes away the chopsticks, asking her to feed him with her lips instead…
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"That's so embarrassing, Yusuke!" she cries with flushing cheeks.
He smirks, leaning over her, "but don't you love me, Katie?"
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"We'll even do homework together," his fantasies lead him to his bedroom where they cuddle with each other, sitting on the floor by the table as they finish their English homework.
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"That's not right, Yusuke! You have to do it again" she points at a sentence, "are you sure you're not doing it wrong on purpose?" she pouts and he laughs, pecking her cheeks.
"You're so cute, Katie" he snickers before pressing his lips against hers, ignoring her mewls of protests.
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"You look pretty happy there, otouto" Yusuke breaks out of the dream when Tsubaki grins knowingly at him.
"Penny for your thoughts?" Azusa joins in to tease him.
"You two--!" he grits his teeth, ready to pounce on them when he realizes that Katie's hold on him hasn't loosened one bit. He looks down and finds her eyes twinkling, and he almost thinks that she's fallen for him, maybe just maybe.
"We'll be the dynamic duo, Yusuke!" she grins, "together, forever!"
"Till death do us part" he adds, mesmerized by her beauty, glancing down at her adorably pink lips.
"Yes!" she sighs happily, "the unstoppable BFFs for life!"
CRACK
"Did you hear something, Azusa?"
"Yes, I believe it was Yusuke's heart, breaking"
"You really are my twin, Azusa"
Yusuke's face is extremely pale, and his new best friend forever yelps in worry, chiding over his health and carries him to the couch for rest with ease. The red haired boy is sure that he is ready for the grim reaper to take him.
"Is he going to be okay?" Katie asks Tsubaki with worrying eyes.
He wraps an arm around her waist and pulls her close to him, "not to worry, my dear imouto"
Azusa steps next to her, hand gripping her shoulder, "he is merely facing the first few stages of a friendzone"
"For life!"
"Yeah, that's a lot worse"
Ukyo suggests that they leave Yusuke to recover, and move to the sofa to socialize. The blonde man tells Katie that he can handle tonight's dinner by himself, and that she should get to know her two other brothers, Tsubaki and Azusa while he prepares the food. Before she can insist that she is capable of assisting him, the older twin attacks with yet another hug from behind, and she gives up, promising that she'll help him tomorrow.
"So what do you guys do?" she asks, ignoring the subtle touches he makes to her hair.
Azusa kicks Tsubaki as Juli just shrieks uselessly, and he lets go immediately, "We're voice actors" Azusa answers, "so if you hear something that sounds weird from us, we're probably just doing a read over of our scripts", and her eyes sparkle in anticipation.
"Well, it's no wonder your voice sounds so familiar!" she squeals, scooting closer to him, "you've done some of my favorite characters, and to meet you in real life!" Katie shakes his hand, "It truly is an honor, sir!"
Tsubaki laughs, "What a refreshing reaction! We'd usually get attacked with 'I love yous' and 'marry me, Tsubaki-sama!', but you seem pretty relaxed, imouto-chan"
She smirks, "What can I say? I'm special"
"Ara ara, it seems Katie-chan's really getting to know everyone in the family" she looks up to see Kaname stepping down the stairs, wearing traditional Japanese clothing with a purple sash with gold patterns. Juli hisses at him, unafraid to show him hostility.
"Stay away from him, Katie-chan! He's super popular with the ladies, and I bet he's just waiting to get touchy-touchy with you!" he warns, and she rolls her eyes.
"Yeah, yeah, whatever" she disregards whatever the squirrel says and watches the man descend from the stairs. When he's finally on the same level as them, he approaches with his usual smile.
"I hope you didn't miss me much while I was gone" he teases her, sitting down next to Azusa.
She chuckles, "honestly speaking, I was kinda sad that the suit you had on wasn't going to stay for a while longer. You looked great in that, Kaname-nii" she tells him, eyes completely serious. Tsubaki rolls his eyes at Kaname's smug grin. "But when you came down in that. I was just like, looking up to God and saying, 'huh, well done!', I mean, wow!" The three brothers laugh. "Drop dead gorgeous, Kaname-nii!" she proceeds to compliment, giving him a thumbs up.
"Your compliments make you sound like an old person," Tsubaki adds, cackling like a child.
She shrugs, "Seriously, Tsubaki-nii, can I call you that? Look at him!" she gestures to the blonde deity-like human next to Azusa. "He's like a walking miracle!"
"Call me onii-chan, please!" he clasps both hands together, begging with sparkly eyes.
"Closet pervert!" Azusa coughs into his fist.
"Ooh, Azu-chan, you okay? You sound awful" Kaname pretends to rub his younger brother's back to soothe his fake coughs as Tsubaki scowls.
"Can you blame me? I finally have a younger sister!" he elaborates. "I've been wanting a little sister for years! Years, I say! But for some reason Mom keeps getting boys and boys and boys! Finally we have some feminine touch in this family! I can finally be an open and proud siscon. And she'll be the one person that can brighten any rainy day! Someone who can look up to me! When she's in trouble, she'll look for me and say 'Onii-chan, help me!' with the cutest voice! And when she gets scared at night, she'll sneak into my room and climb into my--" before much damage can be done, Azusa flings himself at Tsubaki and the momentum sends both of them off the couch, now behind the furniture as they wrestle. And somehow Juli gets into the action, screaming at the silver haired man in much vigor.
Katie wants to look at them, but as she turns her head, Kaname's fingers cup her chin, holding her gaze to his. "I think it best you leave them to it"
"Siblings sure get along, huh?" she asks with admiring eyes. "Are we allowed to do that with everyone in the family?"
Kaname wants to laugh but instead he just returns her smile. He wraps an arm around her waist and pulls her closer to him, decreasing the distance between them.
"Welcome to the family, Katie-chan"
"Get away from her, you wolf!"
SCRATCH
"Wow! Even when you're bleeding you still look handsome as hell!"