"Well, some of my questions should be pretty obvious." Riku said before gulping down the chicken. "Who the hell was that? What's your relationship? Why does he hate you?" He paused for a moment. "...What has he done to you?" He stabbed another piece of chicken with his fork, eating it then slurping up some noodles.
Nishida froze for a moment before sighing and nodding. "I'll answer all of those questions and any more you still have left afterward..." She continued to eat for a moment before setting her fork down and looking up into Riku's eyes, Riku's gaze already fixated on her.
"Hiroshi Nishida is the president of the all boys organization: Apollo, an organization a lot like mine but for young men with bright futures. He's also one of the few people in this world that possesses magic, been considered a genius since he was young, and...my older brother." She averted her eyes a bit and ran her fingers through her hair.
"Doesn't seem like the older one..." Riku muttered.
Those words made Nishida smile a little bit. "I'll take that as a compliment." She giggled, twirling a piece of her hair around her finger. "Anyways...the reason he isn't very fond of me is because of how smart I am myself. My grades, athletics, and awards are all on par with his."
"I see...so he's the type that prefers to be on top and not let anyone else be there with him."
"Pretty much, but there's more to it than that..." Riku looked up at her, waiting for her to continue. "My brother is three years older than I am. He was nice to me at first, like any normal older brother, but when he saw that I was just as smart as he was, he started to hate me. I'm assuming he felt threatened or challenged, but eventually I think he actually started to enjoy the things he did to me. He sabotaged my assignments and projects, ruined any hand crafted assignment I made, insulted me at every turn, and even began to bully me here and there." She paused, remembering those moments.
Riku frowned, but moved forward with his question. "Bullied how..?"
"...Well, what you'd expect... Pushed me and bumped into me purposely whenever we passed, stole my things, gave me the worst insults you could think of... It got worse the older we got. He started to actually beat me up in middle school, and got his bitches to do it in high school..." She rubbed her arm, clearly remembering some horrible event and trembling slightly.
Riku didn't make any movements, feeling that trying to touch her in any way might make it worse. "What else..?" He whispered, knowing there was something worse. He knew that he was pushing her, and that it was almost rude in a way, but he also knew this was something she had to get off her chest and talk about rather than keep locked away forever.
Nishida's expression went blank as she spoke, her eyes glassy. "W-Well...as he got older, there's puberty and whatnot... He didn't do anything bad at first...but he could never get a girlfriend, just like I could never get a boyfriend, so...eventually..." Riku clenched his fists slightly as he listened. "One day... He was about 17 and I was 14... He forced a kiss on me suddenly. I was so surprised because I thought he was going to hit me. I didn't know how to react at first... When he pulled away, he left, leaving me there completely confused..."
Riku cringed at the story, thoughts of disgust flowing through his mind. "Resorting to incest cause you can't get a girlfriend... How disgusting..."
Nishida continued. "From then on, every now and then he'd demand kisses. The older I got, the more he'd demand. He'd force his tongue in my mouth...touch my body...move his hands under my clothes.." She shivered slightly as she hugged herself.
"But couldn't you protect yourself with your magic..? You should totally be able to kick his ass!" Riku shouted out of anger.
Nishida shook her head. "Even though our grades and such were the same, we couldn't be more opposite... I have a love for magic...and his own magic nullifies it..."
Riku's eyes widened slowly. "I was right... Fuck..!" He thought to himself, thinking back to when he grabbed Hiroshi's wrist to stop him from slapping Nishida.
"Eventually, when he was 20 and I was 17, he tore my clothes off and started kissing all over my body... I begged him to stop, but he threatened to beat me up if I made another sound... He raped me that day... It was the first time..." She teared up slightly. "It wasn't all that bad at first... Only a couple times a month... Then it turned to once a week...then a couple times...then once a day... He got rougher and rougher each time. He pulled my hair, bruised me, even made me bleed..." Her voice cracked. "This continued until I turned 19 and moved out. It's been two years since then... And now he's back to do it all over again..!" She looked down and slipped her fingers in between her locks of black hair, balling it up in her fists, the tears in her eyes spilling and her voice began to shake. "He's gonna take everything away... He's gonna take me back... He's gonna hurt me all over again..!" She cried.
Riku, now in front of her, hugged her head into his chest. Her eyes widened and she stopped speaking, not moving. "He won't be able to lay a finger on you...because I won't let him. I'm going to beat whoever I'm put up against and him if I have to. He'll never touch you again. He'll have to kill me first..." Riku spoke softly, gently rubbing her head, trying to calm her.
More tears spilled from Nishida's eyes as she began to cry once again, hugging Riku tightly and burying her face in his chest, nuzzling it. Riku didn't say anything else, just hugged her and let her cry, as he berated himself internally. "How could I be such an incompetent idiot after all the years I've dealt with people like this..? It's not her fault she's the way she is...it's never directly anyone's fault... If someone isn't able to handle even a tiny bit of the pain she's experienced, then of course she wouldn't want them on her elite team of magic users... I'm such an idiot..!"
They stayed like this for a while, Nishida still hugging him even as she stopped crying. Riku rubbed her back gently, running his fingers through her hair now. "Talk about the good things...like when you set up the organization, your love for magic, and everything else you can think of." He continued to speak softly, but clearly.
Nishida nodded, speaking, but not moving from their position still. "My brother created his organization when he was 19... Funny enough, that's the exact age I was when I thought of my own..." Riku could feel the small smile on her face, smiling a bit himself and hugging her just a bit tighter, and she leaned on him more as a result.