He began to worry. What is he going to say to father when he comes back and ask her whereabouts? It was going to be dawn soon but she has still not shown up. He must go and bring her back, he thought and carried a weapon just incase he will be needed. And if she was not found before the night he was surely getting into a trouble real bad.
So he wanders here and there and at one point of stop his eyes were caught by some stainted blood in an around the ground on fallen leaves and hopefully followed the traces that it might lead a way to his sister yet wishing to be somebody else's or a non human blood. But it was a restricted private area where outsiders were not allowed to pass through or stop by so there was a higher possibility of being them.....
He heard her screaming from a distance.
He saw her on the ground with the wolf on top of her. He saw it move its nose over her. He saw her becoming the prey of those wild beast. His heart and hand trembled with contempt to kill the beasts that was trying to devour her.
He ran and grabbed her and saw blood and holes from fangs in her arms and lower leg. So small and tiny if held any longer she might dissolved into the thin air he thought in his inner mind.
He was ragged to kill every single of them and even succeeded in doing so. The entire peck was erased in just few days after he demanded. And though it was illegal, it remained a secrecy behind the cold woods, untouched by the outsiders.
A week later I finally came to gain my senses. I was bed ridden and finds brother Daichi sleeping alongside with me. He must have fallen asleep staying up all this time. He look tired and exhausted, just how many days has he gone through sleepless nights for me? I lean back on the bed and starts stroking his thick black hair softly assuring not waking him up.
I was suddenly held by his hand guess he was only just half asleep. He opened his dazzled eyes and watched me piteously before wrapping me in his arms with the tenderness of a snow, "Dummy."
"Brother?" I held him back and he continued to embrace me silently like he was trying to hide his emotions through the hug.
"Why are you so dumb little sister? Don't you know how people left behind feel? We thought we will never have to see you again."
".....But brother I-"
He wasn't going to listen to any of my reasons, "-You do not know when to keep your mouth shut. You have become such a bad girl it makes me want to punish you for acting so reckless there." He sounded cold yet there was a feeling of concern and affection in his tone.
He won't let me see him even for once. I would like to know what is he keeping it out or hiding from me, "Look at me Iam all fine now.." I squeeze him closer. "This sister is willing to receive any punishment so forgive me?"
"Dummy why are you apologising when Iam the one to be blamed for letting you go..." He finally looses it and release me, "I shouldn't have listened to you." Wished the hug had continued for a little longer until I had fallen asleep.
Because only if I knew the cost of wanting to see him I wouldnt have sorrowfully seek for an escape from his painful eyes but I was helplessly imprisoned in his cage forever. "I-Iam sow-wy..."
It was piercing me heart painfully. My voice cracked on the last word causing me to bite on my tongue.
After the incident I was confined to the four walls of my room let alone be out in the sun and play with my brothers. Mama was very mad at me while papa became over protective about me. Ever since then I never heard of Yuuma again. He isn't the person to act in this way and realised there was something wrong with him. So after so much of persisting I was granted permission to go out just for this one.
"Hey, it's been a long time isn't?" He wasn't around when I came to meet him so the only place he could be now was our secret base.
"Are you not gonna ask me how have I been?" He was sitting hugging his knees and I put my hand behind my back to warmly smile at him. A gust of wind flip the ruffle of my skirt but it did not come to cross my head that he might have noticed my panty as he seem to blush away, growing more withdrawn from me.
He was unusually quiet, he was not in his self. He tried hard to smile back but rather made an apologetic face, "Iam finally at ease now that you are as healthy as before."