Marionette

Skies, Chapter Fifteen - Murasakino [紫の]

[Remember guys, as mentioned in the Omake last part, those events didn't happen. It was just something fun for you guys, mmkay?]

Confinement and agitation - That was the remainder of Amayas weekend before Monday morning.

After the events following her awakening from that nightmarish memory of hers and she'd stopped crying like a child, she was ordered to stay in bed and actually rest, and it wasn't just the evil, bossy redhead that insisted upon it.

Yuta with all his nagging frustrations had been unleashed, and while Karma wandered off sometime Sunday morning, Yuta maintained his disapproving observations and would quip, snap and whine whenever Amaya would so much as make a move to leave her bed.

No matter how much insisting that she was fine, her brother wouldn't hear a word of it.

No matter how much Reiko insisted that Amaya needed to be able to leave her bed to use the bathroom, Yuta would fume.

So, Reiko decided she was going to hide out in Amayas room with her, if only to escape her nagging twin brother on a temper-rampage. They'd both ended up sleeping for most of the time, because it was just too dangerous to leave the room with Yuta throwing such a spitting tantrum like he was.

Amaya offhadedly wondered what it was that Karma had told the eleven-year-old to have him suddenly start breathing fire like that, but decided it was best to leave it alone.

Its not like Karma would tell her anything, anyway.

Thankfully an emotionally-influenced illness was short-lived when one got a handle of themselves, and Amaya was back to normal on Monday morning.

It was a relief for her, because 24 hours of Yuta throwing his weight around like he had been was about the most she could handle, and Reiko wasn't much better. So now that she'd recovered, Amaya could honestly tell him to calm his temper down unless he wanted to invoke her wrath.

She didn't need to let the boy know, however - The moment Amaya had woken him up just like normal, he became rather meek when he noticed she was perfectly well again, much like he was about to round on her for being up, but thought better on it.

Either that, or he'd got the feeling that he shouldn't push his luck any further.

Today was going to be a good day, though. Amaya had decided that she was going to leave early, make a stop at the store she'd been eyeing off for the past week, and spend a portion of that money Shigure had given her to finally replace her music player.

She was going mad without it - Her phone could only hold so many songs, and all of her instrumental music was gone.

And she'd rather leave the phone to keep its battery as charged as possible - constantly listening to her music on her phone was just draining it way too fast.

Plus, the more she played with it, the more likely Karma was just going to do something evil or steal it to go prying, like he'd done before.

So, after avoiding the usual rabble of scowling people and delinquents in the process of waking up around one of the usual convenience stores in the centre of Kunugigaokas shopping district, Amaya made her way into the electronics store she'd been thinking about.

She wandered through the expansive store for what was close to an hour, just looking around and familiarizing herself with what there was.

The clerk had eyed her suspiciously for the whole time, even worse when she found herself standing in the middle of the aisle for laptops and tablets.