Drabble: Big Brother (Andy Yukimura, PGish, 1870 Words)
Title: Big Brother
Author: Ociwen
Rating: PGish
Wordcount: 1870
Warning: Everything you can possibly think of, and then some. Spoilers for 40.5 and the entire series.
Disclaimer: Konomi owns all, except for spawn of Satan.
Summary: Andy's parents are missing.
Author's Notes: This is drabble related to Dénoument, We'll Always Have Kanagawa, Accidentally All Right, and Push/Pull. It won't make sense without having previously read the other fics in this verse. Happy birthday, mayezinha!
He wakes up on Saturday and his parents are missing.
He turns on his computer screen, the same as he does every morning. His dad is not in the bathroom. The tennis bag is still in the hallway, where he dumped it last night.
His mom is not in the kitchen. She's not in the washitsu, either. And the last piece of chocolate cake is still in the fridge. Andy looks around. He takes the box out of the fridge, and carries it into his bedroom. A popup sits on his computer screen. He clicks, "Proceed" with a defragmentation. It makes his games run faster.
The door opens. There's voices in the hallway. Andy's stomach growls. He licks the frosting from his fingertips, and walks out.
Kirihara-san looks down at him. "You're awake."
Hana pops out from behind her mom. "Hi," she says.
"Hi," Andy says.
Kirihara-san says she went out to Familymart for breakfast. "Do you like omelette bentos?" she asks. Andy sits at the table. Hana sits across from him, where his dad usually sits.
Andy pushes his glasses up. "Where are my mom and dad?" Hana swings her feet under the table. She hits Andy's knee and giggles. Andy hits her back.
"They're at the hospital," Kirihara-san says. "They called me to come stay with you."
"I'm fine," Andy says. He swallows a mouthful of egg. Hana slurps on her milk tea. "My dad was supposed to take me to Akiba to get a new computer fan," he says. He frowns. Kirihara-san winks at him, and says Andy's dad was busy with something else today.
Andy scowls. Stupid baby, he thinks.
Kirihara-san says it's really hot in here, does Genichirou always keep it this temperature? She cranks up the a/c. Andy shivers. The sky is grey outside, and it'll probably rain later. Kirihara-san opens the glass slider to get the laundry off the balcony. Humid air blasts inside the house. Andy wipes sweat from under his nosepieces. His glasses slide down his face.
"Ne," Hana says. "Guess what I got?"
"What?" Andy asks.
Hana takes the last slurp of her milk tea. The carton crumples. "Guess?" Hana says.
"Dunno," Andy says.
"My dad found his old gameboys in a box. And his Pokemon Diamond games."
"With Grotle and Starly?"
She nods. "Yeah, but it was before Pokemon Super Ultra Deluxe."
Andy's mouth hangs open. "Before Tiltmotion consoles? That's…so old."
Hana keeps nodding. "Yeah, and before Smellovision too!"
"Hey!" Andy shouts. He kicks her under the table. He looks out to the balcony. Kirihara-san is still unclipping the laundry. The cicadas are loud this morning, and the wind whips around the kitchen. Andy pats down his hair.
Hana says, "Don't worry. I only told my mom. She thought it was a cool idea."
"But I have to invent it first," Andy says.
They go into his bedroom. Hana shuts the door. Andy sits on his bed. Hana takes the consoles out of her backpack. Andy holds one up to the light. He pushes his glasses up to see better. "How do you turn it on?"
Hana points to the on button.
"And there's no instant game pick-up from other consoles," she says. She plugs a cable into the side of Andy's console. She hooks up her own to the other end. "Pretty cool, huh?"
Andy says okay.
Hana wiggles closer. "Say, are you excited?"
Andy looks at her. His avatar blinks on the screen. "About what?"
She grins. She pulls on his glasses. Andy frowns, and pushes them up. "About the new baby!"
"No."
"Why not?"
Andy shrugs.
"My mom said your mom is excited."
Andy looks at her. He scratches his temple. "I guess so."
She flops back onto his pillow. "I'm jealous. I want a baby brother or sister, but my mom said she's had enough."
Andy picks a Pokemon. Chimcharr. The graphics are pixellated and the music is grainy. He squints to see better. "You could take one of the Yagyuus. No one would notice."
Hana rolls her eyes. "Kidnapping's illegal. Duh." She presses a couple buttons on her console. "Did you know that Kuwahara-san once tried to kidnap Jennie to Brazil?"
Andy says no.
Hana nods. "It's true. My mom talked about it once. Marui-san got it wrong and it was just a vacation, and the police got mad at him." She presses the buttons harder. She shakes her console. "This is so…"
"Analog."
"Yeah…ooh! I'm going to get a Cherubi. It's really cute!"
Andy sighs. "That's so girly."
Hana smacks him in the arm. "I am a girl!" she says.
Andy shrugs.
***
At lunch, the door opens again. The other Kirihara-san walks through. He says hi to Andy. Andy says hi back. Hana says hi daddy. Kirihara-san holds up a plastic bag and says he got the food Kirihara-san told him to get.
"Did you get the cat food, too?" Kirihara-san asks.
Kirihara-san's smile falls. "Uh…oops?"
They eat seafood ramen noodles, and shrimp gyoza, too. Kirihara-san said his practice finished early. Kirihara-san pours more tea. Andy's cup is wet and drippy on the outside. He fans at his face.
"I tried to call Yukimura-san, but he didn't answer," Kirihara-san says.
"Hn…" Kirihara-san looks at the clock. "It'll be a while yet."
Kirihara-san looks around. He spots the tv in the main room, and he turns it on. There's some sports game on. Andy slurps more of his noodles.
"That's the real reason you ended practice early, Akaya," Kirihara-san says.
Kirihara-san laughs. He scratches the back of his head. "Yeah, but it's Mexico against Japan! Everyone's gonna be watching."
"Did Genki and Kento get to cram school okay?" Kirihara-san asks.
Andy looks at Hana. She pushes her ramen cup away. They go back into his bedroom, and close the door.
"Is that tennis?" Andy asks.
Hana says it's soccer.
"That's boring, too," Andy says.
Hana picks up her console. "I hope we saved the games right. It's weird not having the automatic pause screen."
Andy says yeah. He jumps off his bed and says he'll be back. He goes to the toilet room to pee. Through the wall, he can hear the sounds of cheering from the tv. Kirihara-san is shouting, "Yeah! Yeah! Fucking point to us!" Andy shakes himself off, and zips his shorts. He runs his hands through the washlet, just so he doesn't get the console wet like he did last summer and he didn't tell anyone but his mom said he'd better be careful with his next gameboy, or else.
In his room, Hana's on the computer. The consoles sit on the bed. Andy pushes her out of his chair. She pushes him back and takes up half the room. Her leg is sticky. Andy grabs the mouse. "Is my download done now?"
She nods. "The Creat-a-Critter expansion pack for Zoo Zombie Wars popped up and said it was done, so I checked for you."
"Cool," Andy says.
Hana looks at him.
"I can make videos with the zombie pandas now," Andy says. "And you can make them go after the Chihuahuas. That's what it's supposed to do."
Hana's eyes glow with the start-up screen. "That's kinda gross."
"Kinda cool."
"Yeah, kinda gross, but kinda cool, too. Do the Chihuahuas make the same funny noises that the people did with Zoo Zombies?"
Andy clicks 'Start' on the program menu. "I hope so," he says.
***
Kirihara-san yells at the fucking Mexicans every time they score a point.
Just before dinner, but after he and Hana have prawn crackers and milk, the door buzzes. Again. Andy's computer shuts down. He presses the restart button. The screen's still black. Hana tries to fan the hard drive. Andy shakes his head. "I need my new fan."
Natsuko and her boyfriend are here. They have a plastic bag from the department store supermarket. It smells like BBQ eel. Andy's stomach growls. So does Hana-chan's. She says she's hungry. Andy asks when supper's gonna be.
"Is the game on?" Yagyuu-san asks. Andy doesn’t know which one it is. All the Yagyuus look the same, even the babies. Kirihara-san glares at him, but he says yeah, it is, and they're fucking down 6-1.
"Like tennis," Natsuko says. She hands her mom the bag and says it was 2900. Kirihara-san says she'll give Natsuko the money later.
Andy frowns.
"How are you?" Natsuko asks him. She bends down to look him in the eyes. "Are you excited for your new brother or sister?"
Andy says no. Hana laughs and says it'll be fun.
"Any word yet?" Natsuko asks her mom. Kirihara-san says no. She tells Hana and Andy to set the table for dinner. Hana passes the wooden chopstick packs around. Andy sets cups out for more tea. Natsuko unwraps the eel.
"Akaya!" Kirihara-san calls. "It's ready."
Kirihara-san gets up from the couch. So does Yagyuu. They sit on either side of Natsuko at the table.
"Are Genki and Kento still-"
Kirihara-san laughs really loud. "They're at cram school," he says. Natsuko nods slowly. Yagyuu blinks at her. Andy takes a piece of eel with his chopsticks.
"Let me just check the news for a moment," Kirihara-san says. Before Kirihara-san can stop her, she grabs the remote and changes the channel. The broadcaster talks about blah blah World Cup, Japan's in trouble, then to Oota-san reporting live from the cosplay fest in Akibahara.
Kirihara-san looks at Kirihara-san. Kirihara-san sips on his beer and looks away. Kirihara-san has her hands on her hips and says, "Cram school, Akaya?"
Kirihara-san looks at his eel.
Andy looks at Hana. She leans over and whispers, "We weren't supposed to tell mom about that." Andy nods. He pushes his glasses up. Across the table, so does Yagyuu.
Then the phone rings. Everyone turns around. Then, everyone looks at Andy. With a sigh, he gets up. He picks the phone up. "Hello?"
"Andy!" his dad says.
"Hi, dad," Andy says.
"We're at the hospital, and your mom just had the baby." His dad sounds excited, and he's breathing hard, kinda the same way when he calls after a match. Andy pushes his glasses up. He wipes the sweat from under his nose with the back of his hand.
"You're a big brother," his dad says. "You've got a baby-"
Andy hands the phone to Kirihara-san. Kirihara-san smiles into the receiver, and says she's happy, and won't Genichirou be happy, and congratulations. Andy eats the rest of his eel. Hana bounces in her seat.
"So?" Kirihara-san asks.
Kirihara-san sits back down. She smiles at him. "You owe me a thousand, Akaya."
"But I didn't say it wasn't going to be!"
Kirihara-san hums. She sips her tea. Natsuko turns up the a/c, and she grins. The rain pours outside.
Kirihara-san pulls a five-hundred yen coin from his pocket. He flips it across the table. Kirihara-san catches it, and tucks it into the pocket by her chest. "That's all I've got," he says.
"I went to the bank yesterday," Kirihara-san says. "I'll give you your allowance later." She has a little smile. Then, she turns to Andy. "Are you excited for your little-"
Andy puts his head in his hands and groans.
Author: Ociwen
Rating: PGish
Wordcount: 1870
Warning: Everything you can possibly think of, and then some. Spoilers for 40.5 and the entire series.
Disclaimer: Konomi owns all, except for spawn of Satan.
Summary: Andy's parents are missing.
Author's Notes: This is drabble related to Dénoument, We'll Always Have Kanagawa, Accidentally All Right, and Push/Pull. It won't make sense without having previously read the other fics in this verse. Happy birthday, mayezinha!
He wakes up on Saturday and his parents are missing.
He turns on his computer screen, the same as he does every morning. His dad is not in the bathroom. The tennis bag is still in the hallway, where he dumped it last night.
His mom is not in the kitchen. She's not in the washitsu, either. And the last piece of chocolate cake is still in the fridge. Andy looks around. He takes the box out of the fridge, and carries it into his bedroom. A popup sits on his computer screen. He clicks, "Proceed" with a defragmentation. It makes his games run faster.
The door opens. There's voices in the hallway. Andy's stomach growls. He licks the frosting from his fingertips, and walks out.
Kirihara-san looks down at him. "You're awake."
Hana pops out from behind her mom. "Hi," she says.
"Hi," Andy says.
Kirihara-san says she went out to Familymart for breakfast. "Do you like omelette bentos?" she asks. Andy sits at the table. Hana sits across from him, where his dad usually sits.
Andy pushes his glasses up. "Where are my mom and dad?" Hana swings her feet under the table. She hits Andy's knee and giggles. Andy hits her back.
"They're at the hospital," Kirihara-san says. "They called me to come stay with you."
"I'm fine," Andy says. He swallows a mouthful of egg. Hana slurps on her milk tea. "My dad was supposed to take me to Akiba to get a new computer fan," he says. He frowns. Kirihara-san winks at him, and says Andy's dad was busy with something else today.
Andy scowls. Stupid baby, he thinks.
Kirihara-san says it's really hot in here, does Genichirou always keep it this temperature? She cranks up the a/c. Andy shivers. The sky is grey outside, and it'll probably rain later. Kirihara-san opens the glass slider to get the laundry off the balcony. Humid air blasts inside the house. Andy wipes sweat from under his nosepieces. His glasses slide down his face.
"Ne," Hana says. "Guess what I got?"
"What?" Andy asks.
Hana takes the last slurp of her milk tea. The carton crumples. "Guess?" Hana says.
"Dunno," Andy says.
"My dad found his old gameboys in a box. And his Pokemon Diamond games."
"With Grotle and Starly?"
She nods. "Yeah, but it was before Pokemon Super Ultra Deluxe."
Andy's mouth hangs open. "Before Tiltmotion consoles? That's…so old."
Hana keeps nodding. "Yeah, and before Smellovision too!"
"Hey!" Andy shouts. He kicks her under the table. He looks out to the balcony. Kirihara-san is still unclipping the laundry. The cicadas are loud this morning, and the wind whips around the kitchen. Andy pats down his hair.
Hana says, "Don't worry. I only told my mom. She thought it was a cool idea."
"But I have to invent it first," Andy says.
They go into his bedroom. Hana shuts the door. Andy sits on his bed. Hana takes the consoles out of her backpack. Andy holds one up to the light. He pushes his glasses up to see better. "How do you turn it on?"
Hana points to the on button.
"And there's no instant game pick-up from other consoles," she says. She plugs a cable into the side of Andy's console. She hooks up her own to the other end. "Pretty cool, huh?"
Andy says okay.
Hana wiggles closer. "Say, are you excited?"
Andy looks at her. His avatar blinks on the screen. "About what?"
She grins. She pulls on his glasses. Andy frowns, and pushes them up. "About the new baby!"
"No."
"Why not?"
Andy shrugs.
"My mom said your mom is excited."
Andy looks at her. He scratches his temple. "I guess so."
She flops back onto his pillow. "I'm jealous. I want a baby brother or sister, but my mom said she's had enough."
Andy picks a Pokemon. Chimcharr. The graphics are pixellated and the music is grainy. He squints to see better. "You could take one of the Yagyuus. No one would notice."
Hana rolls her eyes. "Kidnapping's illegal. Duh." She presses a couple buttons on her console. "Did you know that Kuwahara-san once tried to kidnap Jennie to Brazil?"
Andy says no.
Hana nods. "It's true. My mom talked about it once. Marui-san got it wrong and it was just a vacation, and the police got mad at him." She presses the buttons harder. She shakes her console. "This is so…"
"Analog."
"Yeah…ooh! I'm going to get a Cherubi. It's really cute!"
Andy sighs. "That's so girly."
Hana smacks him in the arm. "I am a girl!" she says.
Andy shrugs.
***
At lunch, the door opens again. The other Kirihara-san walks through. He says hi to Andy. Andy says hi back. Hana says hi daddy. Kirihara-san holds up a plastic bag and says he got the food Kirihara-san told him to get.
"Did you get the cat food, too?" Kirihara-san asks.
Kirihara-san's smile falls. "Uh…oops?"
They eat seafood ramen noodles, and shrimp gyoza, too. Kirihara-san said his practice finished early. Kirihara-san pours more tea. Andy's cup is wet and drippy on the outside. He fans at his face.
"I tried to call Yukimura-san, but he didn't answer," Kirihara-san says.
"Hn…" Kirihara-san looks at the clock. "It'll be a while yet."
Kirihara-san looks around. He spots the tv in the main room, and he turns it on. There's some sports game on. Andy slurps more of his noodles.
"That's the real reason you ended practice early, Akaya," Kirihara-san says.
Kirihara-san laughs. He scratches the back of his head. "Yeah, but it's Mexico against Japan! Everyone's gonna be watching."
"Did Genki and Kento get to cram school okay?" Kirihara-san asks.
Andy looks at Hana. She pushes her ramen cup away. They go back into his bedroom, and close the door.
"Is that tennis?" Andy asks.
Hana says it's soccer.
"That's boring, too," Andy says.
Hana picks up her console. "I hope we saved the games right. It's weird not having the automatic pause screen."
Andy says yeah. He jumps off his bed and says he'll be back. He goes to the toilet room to pee. Through the wall, he can hear the sounds of cheering from the tv. Kirihara-san is shouting, "Yeah! Yeah! Fucking point to us!" Andy shakes himself off, and zips his shorts. He runs his hands through the washlet, just so he doesn't get the console wet like he did last summer and he didn't tell anyone but his mom said he'd better be careful with his next gameboy, or else.
In his room, Hana's on the computer. The consoles sit on the bed. Andy pushes her out of his chair. She pushes him back and takes up half the room. Her leg is sticky. Andy grabs the mouse. "Is my download done now?"
She nods. "The Creat-a-Critter expansion pack for Zoo Zombie Wars popped up and said it was done, so I checked for you."
"Cool," Andy says.
Hana looks at him.
"I can make videos with the zombie pandas now," Andy says. "And you can make them go after the Chihuahuas. That's what it's supposed to do."
Hana's eyes glow with the start-up screen. "That's kinda gross."
"Kinda cool."
"Yeah, kinda gross, but kinda cool, too. Do the Chihuahuas make the same funny noises that the people did with Zoo Zombies?"
Andy clicks 'Start' on the program menu. "I hope so," he says.
***
Kirihara-san yells at the fucking Mexicans every time they score a point.
Just before dinner, but after he and Hana have prawn crackers and milk, the door buzzes. Again. Andy's computer shuts down. He presses the restart button. The screen's still black. Hana tries to fan the hard drive. Andy shakes his head. "I need my new fan."
Natsuko and her boyfriend are here. They have a plastic bag from the department store supermarket. It smells like BBQ eel. Andy's stomach growls. So does Hana-chan's. She says she's hungry. Andy asks when supper's gonna be.
"Is the game on?" Yagyuu-san asks. Andy doesn’t know which one it is. All the Yagyuus look the same, even the babies. Kirihara-san glares at him, but he says yeah, it is, and they're fucking down 6-1.
"Like tennis," Natsuko says. She hands her mom the bag and says it was 2900. Kirihara-san says she'll give Natsuko the money later.
Andy frowns.
"How are you?" Natsuko asks him. She bends down to look him in the eyes. "Are you excited for your new brother or sister?"
Andy says no. Hana laughs and says it'll be fun.
"Any word yet?" Natsuko asks her mom. Kirihara-san says no. She tells Hana and Andy to set the table for dinner. Hana passes the wooden chopstick packs around. Andy sets cups out for more tea. Natsuko unwraps the eel.
"Akaya!" Kirihara-san calls. "It's ready."
Kirihara-san gets up from the couch. So does Yagyuu. They sit on either side of Natsuko at the table.
"Are Genki and Kento still-"
Kirihara-san laughs really loud. "They're at cram school," he says. Natsuko nods slowly. Yagyuu blinks at her. Andy takes a piece of eel with his chopsticks.
"Let me just check the news for a moment," Kirihara-san says. Before Kirihara-san can stop her, she grabs the remote and changes the channel. The broadcaster talks about blah blah World Cup, Japan's in trouble, then to Oota-san reporting live from the cosplay fest in Akibahara.
Kirihara-san looks at Kirihara-san. Kirihara-san sips on his beer and looks away. Kirihara-san has her hands on her hips and says, "Cram school, Akaya?"
Kirihara-san looks at his eel.
Andy looks at Hana. She leans over and whispers, "We weren't supposed to tell mom about that." Andy nods. He pushes his glasses up. Across the table, so does Yagyuu.
Then the phone rings. Everyone turns around. Then, everyone looks at Andy. With a sigh, he gets up. He picks the phone up. "Hello?"
"Andy!" his dad says.
"Hi, dad," Andy says.
"We're at the hospital, and your mom just had the baby." His dad sounds excited, and he's breathing hard, kinda the same way when he calls after a match. Andy pushes his glasses up. He wipes the sweat from under his nose with the back of his hand.
"You're a big brother," his dad says. "You've got a baby-"
Andy hands the phone to Kirihara-san. Kirihara-san smiles into the receiver, and says she's happy, and won't Genichirou be happy, and congratulations. Andy eats the rest of his eel. Hana bounces in her seat.
"So?" Kirihara-san asks.
Kirihara-san sits back down. She smiles at him. "You owe me a thousand, Akaya."
"But I didn't say it wasn't going to be!"
Kirihara-san hums. She sips her tea. Natsuko turns up the a/c, and she grins. The rain pours outside.
Kirihara-san pulls a five-hundred yen coin from his pocket. He flips it across the table. Kirihara-san catches it, and tucks it into the pocket by her chest. "That's all I've got," he says.
"I went to the bank yesterday," Kirihara-san says. "I'll give you your allowance later." She has a little smile. Then, she turns to Andy. "Are you excited for your little-"
Andy puts his head in his hands and groans.