𝐛𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐝𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐨𝐧'𝐬 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬 | 𝐖𝐚𝐤𝐚𝐬𝐚 𝐈𝐦𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐡𝐢

[7]

—year: 1996

Shinichiro

"So, this is [first name]-chan's school?" said my childhood friend, Takeomi, who's looking at the school in front of us. I hummed in response as I look at the entrance of the school, patiently waiting for my sister.

"She's in middle school now, right?" Takeomi asked, causing me to look at him. "Yeah, why?"

He gave me a weird look, "You know she's like 13 now right?" he said, raising a brow at me. "And?" I said to him, giving him a questionable look.

"Well..I just think that it's time for you to stop babying her." he said to me, crossing his arms at me a little. I chuckled at his words, "How's picking up my little sister from school my way of babying her?"

He gave me a serious look and said, "Shin, you treat her like she's an 8-year-old.."

I flinched, "Huh? No, I don't?"

Then we heard the school bell rang, causing both of us to turn our heads and look at the entrance of the school, and we saw a lot of students coming out, somewhere even running.

Then a girl with black long hair caught my attention—it was no other than my younger sister. I smiled brightly and began waving enthusiastically to get her attention, "HEY! [FIRST NAME]! OVER HERE!" I saw how her eyes grew wide when she saw me and Takeomi. I wanted to laugh at her right now because she looks like a very gentle girl when she's wearing her uniform—she would always style her hair in a ponytail with loose strands cascading the sides of her face. "What the—! I thought I told you to stop doing this??" she asked, walking her way to us. "I can walk home by myself!" she yelled.

Then her eyes went to Takeomi, "And why did you bring Takeomi-san with you?"

Takeomi sighed, "He kinda forced me to come with him, [first name]." he said, eyeing me like I did something wrong.

I took [first name]'s school bag and put it over my shoulder, carrying it for her. Then I looked at her and Takeomi, "Let's go, we can't keep them waiting." I said to them with a warm smile on my face. Takeomi tilted his head at me and said, "Huh? We're heading straight there?"

I chuckled at his reaction, "Yup!" I said in excitement. [first name] knows about me having two new friends, but she hasn't really met them yet, that's why I decided that she should finally meet them..this very day. It may be so sudden to her, but it's alright because it's kinda part of my plan. I wanted to surprise her. I can see the slight shock on [first name]'s face as she looks at us, "Huh? Where are you guys going??" she asked as she stood beside me, looking up at me.

"You're coming with us." I said to her as Takeomi and I began walking. I can still sense her giving me a confused look behind me, I looked over my shoulder to look at her and said, "Come on, [nickname]. Don't walk behind us, walk beside me."

She blinked, then she shook the feeling off and gave me a nod. I smiled at her as she went into the middle of Takeomi and me. I heard Takeomi chuckling softly, "Wow, [first name]-chan, you grew a little taller huh." he said, examining her height. I laughed at his words--that is true, [first name] did grow a little taller. She's 13 now, and I heard that a lot of boys kinda have a crush on her—and of course, I'm not really happy about it.

Wakasa

I looked up at the sky above us as I leaned against a wall with a lollipop in my mouth. I took a quick glance and Benkei and saw that he was sitting on the stairs. We're both at the shrine, waiting patiently for a friend of ours. I took the lollipop out my mouth and spoke, "I told you we're a little early.."