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Tweak says, "Squee!"

Shiro Yoshida (hikagi) wrote in x_flashback_x,
@ 2008-11-01 18:53:00

Current mood:	bored
Entry tags:	sunfire, sunpyre

Brother and sister reunited
Who: Shiro "Sunfire" and Leyu "Sunpyre" Yoshida
When: November 30, 2008
Where: Front porch, X-mansion
What: Shiro and Leyu are reunited after five years of separation.
Rating: PG for maybe some swearing?
Status: Incomplete

It wasn't a particularly special day for Shiro Yoshida. He went to school, did some danger room training, and just got done doing some extra training on his own. The day before, he went on a clean up mission. There was some excitement in that when vampires attacked but it wasn't anything he couldn't handle. With a name like Sunfire, you'd think that would be a vampire's worst enemy. Or so that is what he'd like to think. He had help since there was other X-Men too. Although Shiro felt pretty sore, he felt he had to still continue his martial arts training. He was a glutton for physical punishment it seemed.

However, after a shower, he wore a pair of black pants and a red silk shirt untucked. He needed a smoke. Putting on a pair of flip flops, he slipped to the front porch. After lighting up and taking a deep drag, he looked up at the sky, the sun was behind some clouds which made him a little sad. Cursing a little under his breath, he leaned over the bar pondering what he planned to eat if he would make his own or wait until Gert made food for everyone else. He expected the evening to be rather boring. After he ate, he would have to do homework unfortunately.

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hikagi
2008-11-02 01:48 am UTC (link)

Nope. Shiro was not expecting that. No one told him that his sister was coming. Maybe they wanted to surprise him or didn't want him to do anything impulsively stupid. He would have tried to find her himself if he knew that she was going through the same thing he did five, close to six years ago. That first year was intense hell for him; not knowing where to go, hating himself because he was a mutant, feeling intense shame and the fact he felt not good enough. Then, he spiraled further out of control and joined a gain... or rather, he was recruited. They paid him decently enough but he felt like cattle. He had many different masters, coming to them under many different circumstances. Mostly it was in a trade or lost him because he was bet in a gamble. No, he would not want Leyu to go through all that. While he eventually did find his father, he could not look him in the eye the entire time. Not after the people he killed or maimed. How could he still call himself the son of a great man who has tried to do so much for the world in the UN?

Shiro wished the sun was out but instead just watched where it was behind the clouds and took a long drag of his cigarette. Then he heard a familiar voice, well, one he recognized when it sounded younger. Now, it sounded much more mature. His immediate reaction was to answer in Japanese the word for "yes", "Haaai." But it took him a moment to let it sink in. Finally, he spun around. There she was... his precious baby sister but she was no longer a kid like he last remembered her. She was a young woman. His father had given him the option of seeing her before he came but he was so shameful, he couldn't do it. Now, there she stood. He was so overwhelmed with emotion, he didn't know some ashes fell from his cigarette as it burned up.

"Leyu-chan..." he muttered. He didn't know if he should run up to her and give her a hug or what. He wanted to, but he felt a little numb from it. All what was described in the first paragraph came flooding back to him and his eyes fell to the ground. In their native tongue, he asked somewhat mumbling, "What are you doing here?"

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sunpyre
2008-11-02 09:26 am UTC (link)

Silence fell over them for the briefest of moments, but it had gotten thick enough that one would probably be able to cut it with a knife. While Leyu was undoubtedly happy to see her one and only brother, she was also upset. She had gone a long time thinking her brother was dead, then she discovered he had been safe and sound all long, and living in America. And only was she able to get into contact with him after a cure for the so-called 'Cure Virus.' It was cruel and unfair to go on thinking a certain way for a long time when it wasn't true.

Leyu took a step forward. He wasn't the only one that didn't know how to act, but she was trying to let her heart lead her; and her heart was feeling pretty hurt now. "Why," she began, tears filling her eyes, "why did you not come see me?" Why had you let me go on thinking you were dead?, she had wanted to say, but her thought process wasn't exactly functioning normally. "Father told me that he said you could come see me... long ago, but you didn't. Why didn't you?"

Had he been ashamed? Scared? What? Either way, she didn't think any of those reasons justified her brother's actions, or his absence in her life. Didn't he know that she wouldn't have cared if he was a mutant? She loved Shiro, no matter what he was or what he would become.

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hikagi
2008-11-02 09:51 am UTC (link)

Shiro may have spent a long time away from his sister but he knew when she was upset. He could tell she was angry at him. He didn't blame her really. While he had been described as a bit of a loose cannon, Shiro could never get angry at her. He'd get angry at himself first before he'd get angry at her. As she asked him why he hadn't seen her, he turned his back against her. He didn't want her to see the fact that he had tears in his eyes. He resumed to take a long drag out of his cigarette as he pondered a response. He couldn't lose his composure, not around her.

Finally, he mumbled out, still talking in his native language, "What did you want me to do, Leyu? I couldn't go home! You know how uncle is not that understanding..." He didn't want to continue. He had killed two people that night. Yes, it was in self-defense but he was also anti-mutant up to that point. He was certain he scared away the girl he loved too. "Besides, I'd rather you believe I was dead then live with the shame of who your big brother was." He didn't answer her question entirely. It still gave no reasoning on why he hadn't seen her when he was reunited with his father.

He decided to turn questions back at her, "Why are you here?" He hoped she wasn't a mutant too. It would no doubt throw her into this huge mess. "I doubt it is to ask me those questions."

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sunpyre
2008-11-02 01:10 pm UTC (link)

"You could have found another way, Shiro, and you know it." Leyu's gaze shown brightly, mostly due to the tears brimming in her eyes, but partially due to the frustration she felt at her brother's lack of an appropriate response. "Anata wa baka desu," she told him rather bluntly, while she wiped at the corner of her eye with a sleeve-covered hand. Sniffle.

"Do you have an idea how abandoned I felt when I learned the truth?" Leyu said, once she had taken a moment to compose herself. "First mother died, then father left us with Uncle Tomo... then you left me, just because you were ashamed of something you have no control over." And now her father had left her behind once again to do his work, supposedly.

"Why do you think I'm here, Shiro-niichan?" Why else would she be here if she wasn't a mutant like him? If she had come for a simple visit, their father probably would've been accompanying her. "I'm like you now."

OOC Translation: Anata wa baka desu = You are an idiot/fool.

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hikagi
2008-11-02 01:22 pm UTC (link)

Shiro felt his temper momentarily surge as she accused him of not looking for another way. Resting his forehead on the railing, he kicked the gate. She just didn't understand. At least his father understood somewhat. Of course, he did give Shiro the scolding of his life. Saburo's solution was to contact him. It was a bit difficult considering Shiro spent the first year going down a shame spiral and going down a self-destructive path. He took a long drag of his cigarette and put it out in a nearby ashtray. He quickly reached for another one and lit it up with his own ability.

Finally, he turned back around to face her, his nose in the air. This position was to make him feel more confident in himself, "Another way? You're kidding right? What did I do most weekends? I put out flyers. Attended rallies. Updated the website and I became what I hated. What Uncle hated. And you wanted me to come back and pretend that everything is okay? Well, it wasn't."

He suddenly felt a twang of guilt at his tone which he showed with a small winced but quickly gained his composure. Years with the Yakuza taught him how to feel confident when you didn't. When she confirmed his fear, he gave a simple, "Ah." He said with a bit more calmly, "What do you do?"

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sunpyre
2008-11-02 06:33 pm UTC (link)

Leyu had finally come to stand beside him and she turned to prop her hip up against the railing.

"You still could've at least found a way to tell me you were okay," she insisted. He could've sent her a letter or something, but she supposed she could just let it go. Past was past, after all. And it wasn't like he was ever going to admit that he had been wrong, anyway. Why were men always so stubborn?

"I can 'absorb solar energy and other radiation to generate the process of ionized matter through a mentally-triggered unknown biochemical process, so that it is converted to plasma, the superheated state of matter,'" she quoted one of the X-Men who had come along to pick her up. She really didn't know much about her new found abilities, other than the fact they were extremely dangerous. She had already bared witness to the destruction she was capable of, and it frightened her severely.

"They told me I have the same abilities as you do - is that true?" Leyu had no real reason to doubt what the X-Men had told her, but she had no reason to trust them either.

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hikagi
2008-11-03 01:13 am UTC (link)

Shiro looked at his little sister out of the corner of his eyes. When she made that comment, he winced for a second from guilt. He knew he should have but like hell he would admit to it. He just wanted to keep her safe, away from the hell he was going through. He felt like a tide pool and that if anyone got too close, they might get sucked in. Leyu was the last person he wanted that to happen to. He sighed a little and took another drag before responding, "Honestly, bakamono, I know you. If I sent you a letter, you would want to try and find me. And I didn't want you to get hurt." He didn't want her to know about how many people he killed and maimed or the fact that he worked for the underground.

When she made mention of her abilities, he studied the ground intently. He really wanted her to be normal and not get mixed up in all this crap. He heaved a sigh again, "I was hoping that you were coming to visit me and that you weren't here to study. But yes, we share the same ability. I'm surprised Tousan didn't tell you that. It makes sense, since it is genetic." He sighed again, half wondering what caused her x-gene to activate. It was said it was linked to stress if you weren't born with it. "What happened? I mean, how did it happen?"

He turned to face her again, his expression serious for a moment, "How old are you now? 13?" He said it with such a deadpan expression, he had to be joking. It was hard to take in she was practically a young woman now. He still remembered her as the girl in the school uniform, her hair in pigtails. He wished she were still that. She'd be ignorant to all this mess.

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sunpyre
2008-11-03 10:47 am UTC (link)

"Maybe," she teased slightly. Well, Leyu probably would've gone looking for him if he had found a way to contact her without their Uncle catching on. And even if she couldn't find a way, it still would've been nice to know her brother was still alive. That would've brought her more comfort than he would ever know. But she supposed it was neither here or there now.

"Father wasn't very talkative when I saw him," she said, looking faintly annoyed at recalling the last memory she had of her father. They had only spent a few hours together and most of the time, he was busy making arrangements for her departure. "I guess it does make sense that we have similar abilities, though."

Since discovering she was a mutant, she often wondered who they might've inherited it from. Or maybe they were the first ones in their family?

Leyu sighed when he asked about how her powers came to fruition. She honestly didn't feel like talking about it now. Not only was she beginning to feel the pull of sleep, but it was much too painful to rehash. Even now, she could still smell the acrid smell of scorched earth and burnt corpses.

"I'm tired," she said while rubbing at her eyes, sleepily, pretending she hadn't heard his question. However, Leyu looked up abruptly when the subject changed to her age. "I'm not thirteen," she replied rather indignantly, even though she knew he was only saying it to get a rise out of her. "I'm nearly eighteen now." Thank you very much.

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hikagi
2008-11-03 11:20 am UTC (link)

"Oh don't play innocent..." Shiro smirked a little at his sister although there were some tears in his eyes. He took another take of smoke and put it out in the ashtray. Glancing up at the clouds, he said in the most dismissive way possible, "I miss-... It's good to see you, Leyu-chan." His heart still ached to see her, however. He tried to ignore it, though.

"How is the old man?" Shiro asked lightly as he tried to hide is actual curiosity. "I haven't seen him since he dropped me off here." He wasn't too wild about the mansion. He felt stifled but he did make a promise to his father and after the pain he put him through, he had to.

When Leyu side stepped his question, Shiro didn't press the question any further. He looked at her curiously but he didn't want to talk about his first time either. "Maybe you should sleep. We can... talk more when you get up."

"Almost 18? When is your birthday again?" Shiro was serious about that comment. He honestly forgot.

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sunpyre
2008-11-03 11:48 am UTC (link)

"About the same as always." Preoccupied, busy. But he seemed to be fairing just fine when she had him the other day. He didn't look hurt or like he'd been put through the ringer, but she suspected he had had a nice, cozy spot to hide out in while the world went to hell. No surprise there.

"I suppose we'll have plenty of chances to talk now," she said, a ghost of a smile playing at the corners of her lips. Even though she had been highly inconvenienced by the appearance of her powers, it was still nice that she had an excuse to be near her brother again. "I think I'm going to go do that." Sleep, that is.

But just before she turned around to go back indoors, she glanced over him with a bemused expression on her face. "It's December 5th, idiot." She couldn't believe he had forgotten when her birthday was, when she had never forgotten his. Men were forgetful fools, though.

"Goodnight, Shiro-niichan." And with those words she turned and disappeared through the double-doors. Perhaps living here wouldn't be such a bad thing after all.

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