"You don't look sickly anymore."

"Thanks for noticing Rin."

The girl walked around the house with her blanket wrapped around her body, keeping her warm. "Are you going to school tomorrow? I heard Isagi presented your project without you." Rin said, following behind her. "Yeah I am. I kinda feel bad for him. I kinda wrote a lot." Seiren yawned, falling onto her bed, her face slamming onto her pillow.

"Grab me my medicine."

"I'm not your dog."

"Gooooo..!" She groaned, getting comfortable on her bed. "Get my medicine Rinnie!" Seiren mumbled against her pillow, tucking her hands underneath her chest. "I'm not your maid." Rin stated. "Well you're younger so yes you are. Now go..i'm sick..!" Seiren faked a cough knowing well it was already gone. Rin rolled his eyes, abiding to her anyways as he left her room. She then reached for her phone, pressing on his contact name.

yoichi

seiren 🐞
did you read a lot today

yoichi
hi sleeping beauty

yoichi
how was your well rested days
off while i put in the hard work
for our project?? (im joking. plz
just go along with me)

seiren 🐞
oh i slept wonderfully btw!! my
maid (rin) is currently fetching my

medicine as we speak. thank you for
your outstanding work today. sending
prayers towards your way!!

yoichi
LMFAOOA you got rin being
your maid??😭😭

yoichi
thats honestly

yoichi
hilarious

yoichi
he hates listening to anyone, even sae

seiren 🐞
oh ik

seiren 🐞
im the favored sibling!!

"No you are not."

Rin threw the medicine at her after peeking at her messages. Seiren sighed. "Yoichi tells me you're a big meanie." she said, opening up the medicine bottle and pouring herself a dose. Rin looked offended. "Me? Have you seen him on the field?" Rin scoffed with all he had. "Uhm..no actually? Why?" This suddenly got her attention. Seiren coughed at the disgusting taste of medicine that coated her mouth, sticking her tongue out as she gestured for Rin to grab her water.

The younger Itoshi quickly passed her the cup, watching her spill some water onto her sheets. "Ew. Ew." she muttered. "Isagi's a mouth you get tired of hearing. Especially when we're playing. It's annoying. He's annoying." Rin sat beside her. "Like how?"

"Come tomorrow and see."

———

So there she was, standing behind the fence as she watched the team start their practice match against some no name high school.

Seiren wasn't too sure what to be expecting, she thought her brother was exaggerating. Her eyes turned over to Isagi, he seemed to blend in with his teammates, possibly hiding himself in between them. She furrowed her eyebrows. Isagi seemed normal as usual except he had a focused expression plastered on his face but other than that, he seemed normal—

"Move it Chigiri or get off the fucking team!"

Excuse me?

Seiren stumbled on her feet, her eyes slightly wider than before. Get off the team? Get off the team?! IS he serious?! She noticed how his teammates didn't seem to flinch at his words, almost like this was normal. Chigiri said something back, the two both grinning with menacing smiles before scoring a goal. "Is this some type of fuel? Some type of way to encourage others..?" Seiren said in disbelief.

"Are you fucking brain dead?! The hell was that?!"

Yeah. Seiren was intrigued. Possibly more than she thought she would be. A smile reached her lips. Rin turned back, hoping to see his sister stunned by the boy's madden words but instead she was smiling. Smiling? Smiling. Is she serious right now? Rin rolled his eyes, turning his gaze over to Isagi. "Oh Seiren's here!" Isagi's face became softer, making eye contact with the girl while giving her a gentle wave hello.

"You two are fucking weird." Rin said.

"Says you." Isagi scoffed.

Isagi carefully glanced at his team, their opponents were taking a timeout so he jogged over to where she was standing. Seiren watched the sweat bead off the strands of his hair. "Hey." he whispered out of breath. "Hey." she tilted her head. "The game just started." Isagi placed his hands on his hips, sucking his teeth to feel if there was any grass. "I know. I've been here." Seiren leaned further into the fence.

"Really? Since class ended? Did you miss last period?"

"Yeah I did. Teacher wasn't here."

"Oh okay.." Isagi paused. "Are you staying for the whole game? I mean it's just a practice match." he continued on, looking back to see the timeout start to finish. "Yeah I am." Seiren cleared her throat, catching her brothers' gazes, she averted her attention back to Isagi. "Wanna stay with me after? I wanna show you something." he said, slowly backing away from her to get ready to play again. Seiren fought the urge to smile, the corners of her lips twitching.

"Mm sure. Buy me food?"

"I got you. Don't worry."

Seiren's grin grew the second he turned his back on her. Isagi glanced over his shoulder, catching her off guard. The girl froze momentarily before mouthing him a good luck. He then whispered her a thank you. She was far enough to not notice the growing blush on his cheeks but Rin was close enough to scold him about it.

"I hope to never see you across Renny at the alter."

"That's not for you to decide."

———

Seiren used all her force to strike the ball straight into the net, not giving Isagi a chance to take control.

"I thought you were going to show me something Yoichi?"

"I'm..trying?!"

Isagi stood in front of the goal net, shaking his head, wondering how she was even doing this in her school shoes. "You sure you don't want to get your cleats?" he said. "I think I have an extra pair in my bag." he added on, resting his hands on his hips. "I'm sure we're two different shoe size..?" Seiren sighed, sitting herself in front of the ball. "Oh right.." he cleared his throat, eyeing her.

"So show me what it is you were talking about." She leaned back, her arms stretched out behind her, waiting for him. "Oh right now?" Isagi blinked slowly. "Yes right now." she rolled her eyes, pushing the ball over to him, watching him stop it with his feet. "Okay.." he whispered.

Before she knew it, she watched him achieve the exact replica of what she had done to that girl— instead the ball went straight into the net.

"You're kinda impressive Yoichi."

"Ugh I know. So cool am I right?"

"You're being smug..I take it back."

Seiren managed to laugh, staring up at him with a smile before she pushed herself up. "Let's go one on one." she said, taking the ball for herself before running down to the other side of the field. "Wait no warning?! This is cheating?!" Isagi yelled, chasing after her but by the time he caught up, the ball was already in the net. "You cheater. You play dirty Seiren." he pouted off to the side.

"Mm get used to it. I'm sure Rin and Sae are the same way."

"I hate that you're not wrong.."

"Let's get food now. I'm starving." Seiren dragged her feet back over to the benches, plopping herself next to her school bag while Isagi did the same. His eyes followed her gaze, she was staring right at the field. "Why don't you join the girl's team?" he asked her, passing her a water. "It's not my thing. Football gets me tired and I'm too lazy to go to practice. Plus I have to keep up my grades." she said.

"Sounds like Nagi, except he just somehow passes everything without trying."

"I envy him."

"Please don't."

The two shared a laugh. "Food!" Seiren reminded him, standing up and grabbing her bag, throwing it over her shoulder. "Fine! Lead the way Princess." Isagi placed his hands on her back as she rolled her eyes at the given nickname. "I'm not a princess." she grumbled, crossing her arms. "You sure act like one." he said. "Whatever.." Seiren rolled her eyes, picking up the pace as Isagi fell to her side. The two sharing the sidewalk to the connivence store.

"Where's Renny?"

Sae popped his head into Rin's room after noticing how his sister's room was empty. "Huh? You didn't see her with Isagi after practice?" the younger scoffed while completing his homework. "No? They're together?" He said, walking into the bedroom, peering over Rin's shoulder to see what he was doing. Rin flipped his paper over. "They were practically making eye-love on the field during our practice game. It's disgusting and horrifying. Make it stop."

"You want me to stop Seiren from being..happy?"

"Yeah. I mean you did that to us so what's the difference."

"Touché but I apologized."

"You gave us..popsicles."

"It worked didn't it?"

"Leave my room now."