Shiro: Yui's Step-sister

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(3rd person p.o.v)

"HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!" they said in unison

Shiro stood there frozen and unaware of tears slipping down from her eyes, her lips curled up and mouthed 'thank-you' since she was still too emotional to talk

They smiled, Karl went up to her and wiped her tears "now now, you don't want to ruin your make-up"

Shiro hugged him tight "I was.. worried.."

Karl hugged back"Yes... we're sorry.. but we have to make sure you don't find out... we wanted it to be perfect in every way"

"Thank you... thank you" She said

Karl chuckled at her "hahaha come on now, the others are still waiting"

She nodded and went to them, she was first hugged by Kanato and Azusa "Shiro!" They said in unison, she hugged them back

Then the others also went up to give her a hug

"Cupcake!" Ayato said

"Dolly!"Laito said

"Shiro" Subaru

"My lady" Reiji said

"Shiro..." Shu said

"Bunny"Yuma said

"Shiro!!!" Shin hugged her tight "I'm sorry for what I did!"

"It's fine... but I did worry" she pulled away and hugged the next person

"Usagi-chan!" Kou said

"Shiro"Ruki said

"..shiro.." Carla said

"I'm glad you're all alright, I got very worried" Shiro said and waited for Kino to come

Kino gave her a hug "sorry about that, I needed some kind of an excuse to get you moving"

"It's all right" she pulled away

"Did you like the necklace?!" Kou asked

"Yes."

"That's our apology gift, sorry it took so long, amd we're sorry for our behavior before" Reiji said

"Each stone was found and polished by us, it was Azusa's idea" Ruki said

"....Shiro... admired... the gems..that were... attached..to some..of my ..knives" Azusa said

"Thank you! And I forgive you" Shiro said

"By the way, that dress is the Tsukinami's gift" Karl informmed

"Really?" She asked

"Yeah. It was easy finding one cause we had a lot of connections, we asked Kou to find us some good dressmaker" Carla said

"Hahaha credits to me! I have lots of connections with tailors!" Kou said

"The earrings are from me" Kino said

"And the shoes are from me" Karl said

"Thank you everyone! I love it" Shiro smiled from the bottom of her heart

"Not so fast!" Ayato said

"Did you think we would come here without a birthday gift?" Yuma asked

"We have one too" Subaru said

Kanato grabbed a box from behind the Sakamaki's and Azusa grabbed a box behind the Mukami's

"Open ours first!" Kanato said

"No... ours.."Azusa said

"Hey how about rock paper scissors?" Kino asked

"Rock- paper- scissors- shoot!"

"I won" Kanato said

She grabbed hold of the ribbons and pulled them

The Sakamaki's gift was cupcakes, there's a purple one that's nicely done, a dark red one with a kiss candy, a slightu sloppy brighy red, a white one that had a rose candy, a blue one, and a yellow one

"Wow... I didn't know all of you could make this" Shiro said

"We can't. But we heard from the Mukami's that you like things being made for you so we individually made cupcakes with the help of Kanato" Shu said

"Took a hell a long time" Subaru said

"Yeah. Espesially since Ayato kept wanting to eat them" Kanato glared at Ayato

"Hey! I was hungry!" Ayato defended

"Dolly~ taste it" Laito said

Shiro took a bite at the purple one "it's delicious!"

"Of course it is! We made them with you in mind" Reiji said

"Thank you guys" Shiro gave them each a peck on the cheek as they either blushed or hide their faces

Now time for the Mukami's present, she opened it and it revealed a picture frame

"Oh lovely! Only thing missing is a picture" Shiro said

"That's where they come in" Kou said as some photograpers came in

"All right huddle up" the photograper said

They stood in a straight line, Karlheinz, Carla, Shu, Reiji, Subaru, Laito, Kanato, Shiro, Azusa, Yuma, Ruki, Kou,Shin, and Kino

*snap!*

They printed it out and placed it in the picture frame "oh thank you so much!" Shiro gave them each a peck on the cheek as well, but no one tried to hide it

"Come on let's dance!" Shin said

"Before that!" They turned their attention to Karl, whose expression just turned serious "Shiro, I want to talk to you... in private"

"Ok..." Shiro followed Karl to the balcony where they closed the door

Unknowingly Shin, Kino, Ayato, Laito, and Kou went to eavesdrop, pushing their ears to the frame of the door to listen

"Hey!" Ruki said in a hushed voice

"Father will get mad" Reiji said

"We won't gat caught" Shin said

"Be sure you won't" Carla said

(On the balcony)

"Shiro..." Karl softened his eyes and braced himself on what he's going to tell her, it might hurt... for him, but this was the right choice, he took a deep breath

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"Shiro... I want you to be the next queen... and for that to happen.. you need to marry one of my sons..."

" .  .  .  .  .eh?" Shiro stood there shocked, and was still processing the thing he said but was cut off by noises inside

"EH?!"

"Did you hear that?!"

"Yeah!" 

"Hey you guys are going to get
caught!"

"Well your voice is too loud!" 

"What did you hear anyway?"

Before anyone one could answer that question, Karl opened the door and the 4 eavesdroppers fell to the ground, Karl gave out a fake smile "care to explain?"