Tiger and bunny: Lucky to be a lady tonight

Chapter 10

In the hall Anju and Kaede had finally arrived and hurried to Muramasa, the old woman breathing hard as she came to a stop. "How is she?!" She asked, looking up at her eldest child, worry in her old eyes.

"She's doing better... but she's probably still a little loopy. She hit her head pretty hard." Muramasa led Anju and Kaede to the room, letting them enter first before he went in himself.

Barnaby saw them enter and got up quickly from the bed. "Good evening, Mrs. Kaburagi. Hello Kaede~"

"Mr. Brooks." Anju nodded as she approached her daughter, "How are you feeling, Kotetsu? Any dizziness?" she touched Kotetsu's cheek.

"Yeah, lots, but that was my fault..." Kotetsu groaned.

Kaede stayed back, her eyes wide. "Dad's...really a girl..."

"Believe it or not." Barnaby smiled at the girl and went to put an arm around her. "But your dad is still as stubborn as ever."

"I thought it may have been a hoax for ratings or something..." she admitted.

"Nope. Your father has completely switch genders on us."

"It's not...contagious, is it? I don't want to become a boy..."

"It's not contagious, that much we do know." Barnaby looked back at Muramasa, then at Kotetsu again.

"Good." The girl finally hurried to her father's side.

Barnaby, Antonio, and Muramasa, stayed out of the way of the women. The two heroes smiled and laughed at the interactions, while the brother picked random objects around the room to focus on to control his emotions.

"All jokes aside, Kotetsu, you need to start cleaning up your place better. What if Muramasa hadn't been there when you hit your head? What was it on, beer bottles?" Anju questioned.

Kotetsu blinked, "But my place is clean...Bunny insists."

"Well, it has been better recently. But he didn't slip on bottles. I was at his place just last night and the place was near spotless." Barnaby's posture changed a bit, his expression hardening.

"Then how do you explain Kotetsu got hospitalized after tumbling off his couch?"

"Ask her brother. I wasn't there to see it." Barnaby looked at Muramasa with a glare, to which Muramasa returned.

"I was just being careless." Kotetsu insisted.

"We were fighting." Muramasa spoke the truth to his mother, and he was going to attempt to tell the whole truth.

The woman looked at her two children, "You two were fighting...like children?"

"Yes, and over something both of us should have avoided. I'm the reason Kotetsu fell off the back of the couch."

Anju crossed her arms, "You are both old enough to know better."

Muramasa looked at the ground and sighed. "I grabbed her by the shoulders... rather hard. And I left bruises on her."

"Where? Kotetsu?"

"They're...gone." Kotetsu muttered, sinking.

"On the tops of her shoulders... They should still be sore." Muramasa straightened a little, eyeing Barnaby out of the corner of his eye.

"Kotetsu healed them for the most part by activating his power...he also caused himself a wave of dizziness and nausea with that stunt." Antonio stated awkwardly, "But she is still sore where the bruises had been."

"They were pretty bad too." Barnaby moved closer to Kotetsu and pulls down the collar of the gown a little. He pointed out the faint outline of the bruise. "It was more prominent earlier, but it was in the shape of Muramasa's hand."