Breaking Through to My Heart

Chapter 35: Last Farewell

[Tsuki – Three Days Later - Morning]

"Hey, Tsuki?"

Sonomi and I were back at our usual spot outside the wall, our feet cooling in the river as the clouds floated above us.

I turned my head sideways against my arm, chewing absently on the piece of grass I'd pulled. "Yah?"

She turned her head sideways towards me, mirroring me almost exactly. "What would you do if you found out you had a half-sister?"

I stared at her and thought about it. "Well... I don't know really. Is there any reason why you asked?"

She turned her face back up towards the sky and rocked her head back and forth. "No. I just wanted to ask."

I let out a small hum and turned completely onto my side, my feet pulled out of the cool water and cushioned by the grass. "I never really thought about something like that. I always wondered what it would be like if I still had my siblings... but not if I found out I had a half-sister."

She sighed. "It would be weird, wouldn't it?"

I spit the piece of grass out that I'd chewed all the way up and grabbed another piece, sticking it between my teeth. "No, I don't think it would be weird. It might actually be pretty cool to have a half-sister. I'd finally have a sister again, and I would be able to talk to her about things I normally can't talk to people about."

Sonomi rolled over onto her left side so that she was mirroring me again. The sun was making the brown in her eyes almost a soft hazel amber. "Would you like to be my sister, Tsuki?"

I smiled. "Of course I would love to have you as a sister. I think we already are. We're always training together, and in the morning we're hanging out by the river. I feel like you're already my sister."

Her face lit up and she reached out and took one of my hands in hers. "I feel the same way! I don't think of you as just a friend anymore, I think of you as my older sister."

I laughed and quickly pushed myself up into a sitting position, pulling a small kunai out of one of my pockets. I held my hand out to Sonomi. "Sit up."

She did so and stared at me. "What are you doing?"

I laid the kunai against the palm of my right hand and made a little cut until blood started pooling out. I held the kunai out to Sonomi. "Let's make it real then. We can be blood sisters."

She stared at me for a second before taking the kunai from my hand. She held her right hand out as well and made a quick cut across it. As the blood started to pool out, just like mine, she held it out towards me.