Tiger and bunny: Lucky to be a lady tonight

Chapter 9

That evening, Kotetsu got home and snuck past her brother going straight for the bathroom to draw herself a nice bath. It was relaxing, and she used some of the bubble bath that she normally kept under the sink for Kaede when she came to stay with him. Though she had used it more when she was younger.

It was relaxing, and she soaked in it for as long as she could, the water growing too cold before she got out, dried herself, and started to dress, discovering that she had forgotten her pajamas in her bedroom in her haste to skip past her brother.

With a sigh, she wrapped herself in a towel and hurried up to her room to change before going back down to order something for dinner.

Muramasa was on the couch, watching reruns of an old show that Kotetsu had no interest in. He heard Kotetsu moving around, but decided not to interfere with anything she was doing, as long as it didn't involve Barnaby.

"Hey, I'm going to order pizza, want any?" Kotetsu called from the kitchen as she grabbed the phone.

"Sure. Any kind is fine, just don't make it too incredibly unhealthy." The man turned up the volume a bit on the TV.

Kotetsu called in their order and then sat down next to her brother, she frowned at the show. "Can't we watch something else? I have a bunch of Mr. Ledged clips we could put on."

"Sure, whatever. It's your place."

She frowned, "You seem bored..."

"I'm not. What clips do you want to watch?" He got up and went over to the box that contained the tapes of Mr. Legend.

"I haven't seen volume six in a while..." she commented, watching him.

"Volume six it is then." Volume six was pulled out and put into the player, and almost instantly Mr. Legend's face was shown on the screen.

Crossing her legs 'Indian style' on the couch, she tried giving her brother  a smile as he came back.

Muramasa rolled his eyes, but a small smile cracked on his lips as he sat next to Kotetsu. "You're such a dork sometimes."

"Got you to smile a little, didn't I?" Kotetsu laughed, leaning against him, "You've been so grumpy, and if you are staying here for a few days I want us both to enjoy it!"

"Oh, don't worry. I'll enjoy it plenty. I just want you to get your mind off of blondie for a while."

"Bunny's my partner and boyfriend, you know I won't stop thinking about him, right?" She sighed and looked down, "Besides, before I changed...I had been entertaining thoughts of proposing to him..."

"Are you fucking kidding me?" Muramasa paused the movie and turned to Kotetsu. "You can't go a minute without thinking of him can you?! It's always about him. 'Bunny this', 'Bunny that'. I don't like you being with him, and I certainly won't let anything like a proposal happen anytime soon! You need to let him go. He can't have kids if he's stuck with you, so get rid of him before I do it for you."

"What do you care if Bunny can't have kids? He's gay. He only has an interest in men! He knows he won't have any kids of his own." She got up on her knees to make herself a little taller than him while he sat next to her, "Why can't you just be happy for me? Bunny's the first person to make me love again after I lost Tomoe! I'll propose to him if I want to!"

"He's using you! Do you really think he wants to marry right now? The guy can barely function under the slightest stress about Ouro-whatever. He's not capable of handling a marriage! He's unpredictable, unstable, and not our race. I don't know how much I can stress that, but Barnaby is white! Caucasian! American, whatever you want to call him, but he's not Japanese. How can you expect to understand everything we do in our culture? Every time he comes to Mom's house, he leaves his shoes on. Now tell me that doesn't annoy you."