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[52] Altercation

Kagami had walked home with her brother in silence after the incident. She refused to forgive him for letting her fall.

"I will never buy you a book ever again."

"I don't see what the book has to do with this."

"If you hadn't been reading that book you could have done something."

"Kagami, you could have dodged him easily."

"I didn't anticipate the chair tipping over."

"Well I didn't either."

"You could have easily caught us."

"I was reading."

"Which is why the book is part of the argument."

Now, sitting at home in bed, she is still mad at him. She is laying on her side, Her eyes glancing over the words in her book. She lazily writes down the words she doesn't know in her notebook, her motivation lacking. She glances at the window every now and then to watch the sun fall further and further past the horizon. She listens to her brother walking around the house, hoping he trips on the kitchen steps.

'That is a little mean, Kagami.'

'Oh hello Yua, have you decided to stop ignoring me?'

'I wasn't ignoring you.'

'Oh?'

'Yes, I was ignoring the old men.' Yua growls lightly, obviously not liking her new company.

'They are alright.'

'They are teaching you things you don't need to know.'

'Yua, I'm thirteen.'

'Kagami, you are thirteen,' The spirit huffs.

'Ah,'

The guardian suddenly realised something, 'Isn't your birthday soon?'

'Mhm, and?'

'Tell your brother.'

'Absolutely not.' Kagami writes down another word, lightly tracing the pencil on the paper.

'And why not?'

'Because I have decided,' Kagami flips over the page in her book, pressing the crease down firmly to keep the page from flicking up once again. 'He doesn't need to know.'

'And why doesn't he need to know?'

'Nobody needs to know, Yua.'

'And why not?'

Kagami's frustration begins to grow, it would seem that all she has done all day is argue with the people around her. She is also upset that it seems a little tense between her and Shikamaru because of the incident.

'When's your birthday Yua?'

'None of your business.'

'You should tell Masaru.'

'Now why would I tell Masaru?'

'Exactly,' Kagami snuggles into her bed, thinking she has one the argument, but no.

'Kagami, Masaru is not my brother, which means it is not exactly, but it is exactly different.'

'Can you just leave it?'

'No,'

"Well then I'm cutting you off now.'

'Bye, bye!'