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Set about two seconds after this post, Leyu rushes down to the medlab to speak with her brother. There's lots of shouting and insulting, so Shiro finally tells his sister everything.

Leyu had spent the better part of the past two days bawling on Alex’s shoulder. She was terrified that Shiro had done something irreparable. While she and her big brother didn’t always get along, she knew she couldn’t live without him.

She was hanging out in Shiro and Alex’s room, her favorite haunting spot, when she saw Dr. McCoy’s post about Shiro waking up. She was flying down the stairs to the medlab in no time. After promising Dr. McTaggart she’d keep quiet and not make any trouble, he let her into Shiro’s room.

She promptly broke her promise by angrily walking up to his cot and smacking him upside the head. “You stupid idiot!” she shouted in Japanese, too angry to think in English.

“Nice to see you too,” Leyu-chan, he replied, rubbing his head where he’d been hit. Since when was she so strong?

“Don’t you ‘Leyu-chan’ me, you big dummy! Why did you go and try to kill yourself, huh?”

“I wasn’t trying to kill myself,” Shiro said, looking away from her. If anyone else had asked him that, he would have shouted back a retort, but he found himself unable to work up any anger at his sister (which was usually such an easy thing to do). “You wouldn’t understand.”

“Baka! None of that either. How can you tell me that I wouldn’t understand?” She was fuming now, and Shiro knew that no amount of apologizing would placate her. Why did she have to take all of his bad qualities?

“Leyu-chan, drop it,” he told her, speaking softly yet firmly.

“I will not!” she shouted. Where did he get off treating her like this? “You owe me an explanation, Yoshida Shiro. Why am I here? What did Keni-nii-san say to you? Why did you go out and almost blow yourself to pieces?” The final question she stammered through, fighting back another wave of tears.

Shiro winced. He never thought that he’d hurt Leyu so much. Sighing, he looked up at her. He had to tell her everything, no more sugar-coating. “Leyu-chan . . .” He suddenly found himself speechless and looked away again, feeling tired and defeated. “I’m sorry. I’m so sorry . . .”

Leyu was ready for another hour or two of fighting Shiro’s stubbornness, so she wasn’t prepared for his apology. After a slight hesitation, she took Shiro’s hand in hers and laid her head on his arm. “Nii-san . . .”

“Harada wanted for me to become a criminal.” Caught by surprise at her gesture, he put his other hand over hers and forced himself to talk, lump in his throat or no. “He is of the Yakuza, you know. And I couldn’t do it. All this time since Otou-san’s death, all Harada wanted of me was a weapon. So when I denied him, he cast me out. I took you with me because I couldn’t leave you with him. He would have used you and manipulated you just as he did me.”

“But-but, why did you go out and . . .” She made a gesture with her hands, signifying Shiro’s power release. “The adults say you did it accidentally, but I don’t think so. I know you better than that.”

Shiro couldn’t say he was surprised by that. He should have known that he couldn’t fool Leyu.

“I thought . . . I thought that if I could just get rid of my powers, then everything would become okay. Harada would lose interest, and so would anyone else. Then you and I could be safe.”

“Moron.”

“I know.”

“So what happens now?” Leyu asked as he laid her head on Shiro’s arm again. “Your skin is all dark. You look like Mr. Popo.”

That was harsh. “I suppose we stay here, Leyu-chan. This is our home now. Can you live with that?”

Leyu thought about it, then nodded. She would miss Japan and everything she’d been forced to leave behind there, but this new place was cool and exciting. “You’re still stupid, Nii-san.”

“Yes, Imoto-chan.”

Translator's note: baka means fool or stupid, imoto means little sister, and nii (which I've been using a lot without explaining) means big brother.