"Absolutely not, Kiyoshi you carry Akuma. Let's—" Shen's urged his brothers.
"Shen, you dragged your brothers and friends into drinking all night; it'd be rude to leave so early." Shinah unaffected by his aura, playfully plucks out a feather from one of the serving girl's dresses.
Shinah pulls out a small sheet of paper and dabs her feather in a ink vile she pulled from her Mindscape and started drawing a flower. "Big Brother don't be in such a rush to leave, introduce me to your friends."
"I'm Um-"Umi leans towards Shinah looking up at his toned muscular chest with an infatuated stare.
"But Little Shin'er, this isn't a place you should be, let's talk at home." Umi's face was star-fished by Shen's hand, while he intercepted his greeting.
"Oi you Pig! Let goo."Umi pushes Shen's hand off his face in irritation.
"Oh? Then why is it okay for my brothers?"
"-cough- Well it's not, I was wrong. Let's go home and I promise I'll never come back here again." Rai Shen pulled Shinah closer to him noticing Umi's odd expression.
"So Umi was it? Do you happen to like Cyclamen flowers?" Shinah focuses on coloring in the drawing of her flower with a rogue red.
"I do.. how'd you guess?"
"Such a radiant red, how can one not love the color. Oh, the flower is beautiful too of course." Shinah brushes a loose strand of Umi's hair behind his ear lightly tracing his tattoo behind his ear.
Umi's face burns red with Shinahs teasing caress. Shinah passes the drawing over to Umi, she then helps Akuma stand up."Let's go Shen, you carry Kiyoshi."
"Umi... the heat from your passion will reveal your hearts greatest desire."Shinah slightly pokes Umi's tattoo and then the drawing again before walking out with her brothers.
Umi stares at Shinahs retreating back gripping the drawing with an indescribable amount of strength.
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In the Carriage.
Shen and Kiyoshi sat on one side facing Shinah and the sleeping Akuma.
"Soooooo ....are we gonna talk about how Shen lost his 'favored brother' status? Or you two gonna continue to share the same face and have a stare off?" Kiyoshi intervened breaking the silence..
"I didn't lose my status!"
"Hahaha Way to prioritize Shen."Kiyoshi gives his brother a thumbs up.
"I didn't... did I?" Rai Shen looks over at Shinah anxiously.
"Why didn't you come home after Second and Third brother called for you?"
"... I didn't feel like going home yet."
"That sounds like an excuse, for you to use to justify running away from your problems?"
Rai Shen flinched as if he were burned he held his head down in shame. "I'm sorry Shin'er."
"We'll talk about things later when your sober. Your not in trouble for drinking. Your in trouble for getting caught, especially at a dirty place like Mu Ran's. If you enter that place again I will come home with hundreds of brother-in-law's for you!
Before entering an establishment like that ask yourself if it's a place you'd take me. Besides this proves my point; if we opened a place, we could start by cleaning up our town and getting rid of those kinds of exchanges."
. . .
The cold wind shook the closed carriage curtains. The brothers stood outside of the carriage guarding the little princess inside. After listening to copious amounts of pleading, Shinah changed out of her male disguise and back into the cute double bunned little princess her brothers adored.
"Im done, you guys can come back." Shinah's sweet girlish voice beckoned her brothers.
Slight thumping pulled her attention towards the carriage door.
"Kiyoshi that's not funny don't dream of scaring me! Where's Shen?"
-Silence-
-Knock..Knock..knockknockknockknock."
Shinah swiftly kicked down the door her small sword drawn pointing towards the opening.
"Well... I wasn't expecting that!" A bright voice cheered from under the smashed door.
"Uncle Siyan!?"
"Little Heathen..? You're here too? Come give Uncle a hug."
Shinah runs out and hugs Siyan, taking notice of the three sleeping brothers piled against the carriage.
"Uncle ..you put them to sleep? Wow you even got the drop on Shen too! Say Uncle ...How long will they be out for?"
"Hehe the twins about six-eight hours but a half hour at the most for Shen. Hehe what are you planning?" Siyan smiled at the mischievous gleam in her eyes.
"Brilliant.. Uncle want to draw on their faces?"Shinah pulls out colorful pigmented jars.
"Hehe.. I'll do Kiyoshi, that little shit braided my little Quinces fur onto your Aunties favorite fur coat and you know how squirmish your auntie is with animals .... I'm still getting reminded of it to this day. Your Auntie sure knows how to hold a grudge you be sure to remember that and avoid my mistakes okay, Little Heathen."
"Poor little Quince, then how about we dress Kiyoshi in lady's clothing and makeup?! Later we can leave him outside a bath house and watch him freak out!"
"Oh! That's genius Little Heathen.. let's get your other brothers into the carriage first!"
"Emel ...take my brothers home, Uncle and I are going into town. Bye." Shinah waves goodbye while Siyan tosses Kiyoshi over his shoulder as they walk towards Siyan's carriage. "Thanks Knight, be sure to tell Brother Shin I kidnapped these two for a bit of fun."