They gasped together and saw the little girl was crying out loud and caused everyone to stare at them with curious look. Seijurou cursed inwardly meanwhile Satsuki was squatting in front of the little girl. Her hand patted softly on the top of the little girl's red hair before finally she carried her into her hug.
"Hey cute girl, don't cry, okay? What are you crying for?" Satsuki stared at the little girl with her shady fuchsia eyes.
"I-I'm scared, oneechan…" she said while sobbing.
"What make you scared?" Satsuki asked again as she hugged the little girl again.
Suddenly the kid was pointing at Seijurou. "I'm scared of ojisan."
"Pfft—"
"Hey, why you call me ojisan meanwhile she got oneechan?" Seijurou protested and it made the little girl almost crying again.
"Sei, stop it," Satsuki told him.
Jeez.
"It's okay," he yielded.
"Hey, what if we play together?" Satsuki asked them and the children seemed glad with her idea. Of course not for Seijurou. He didn't really like children because he thought they were annoying and noisy.
"I will go somewhere—"
"No," Satsuki grabbed his arm, "You stay here with us."
"I don't want to play anything."
"Just see that," she said and made him curious about what would she do after this. He sat on the bench while saw Satsuki and the children made a snowman. He grabbed his phone when it was vibrating in his pocket. He saw Shigure just sent him a message. It said every detail about his report during Seijurou's absence, such as expenditure and receipts in the office and also some new employees who signed up yesterday.
Honestly, Seijurou had his respect on Shigure but hardly to admit it because the conflict between them and his father. But after saw this one, well perhaps he just had paranoid over Shigure. He stopped to daydream when someone just threw a snowball onto his head. The little girl almost crying when her old brother gasped and Satsuki—oh, Seijurou just found the suspect.
He looked at his wife as he walker closer. "You did something wrong and don't blame me if I do something more than what you did to me, Satsuki."
"What do you mean? I did nothing. Don't look at me with those eyes," she pretended like knew nothing. Suddenly Seijurou threw back a snowball toward Satsuki and it hit her shoulder.
"Seijurouuu," she tried to hit him with her snowball again but it missed because he had already been avoided it. After they played snowball-war, they were heading to play ice skating with other people. And because of that, he just found out that Satsuki couldn't play ice skate and he had to teach her how to play that sport.
"I can't believe you are horrible at ice skating, besides cooking of course," he sneered as he held both her hands with his own, trying to balance their body on the slippery court.
She pouted. "Stop talk about my weakness. It's really annoying if you're always up with that topic. I think you don't interest enough to waste your time just for insult me."
"Don't take it serious—"
Suddenly they fell down on the court with Seijurou's back hit the court meanwhile Satsuki was on his body. Everyone gave their attention toward them as the children came to them and helped them.
"What happened, Auntie?" the old brother asked Satsuki.
Satsuki shook her hand. "Nothing, everything's alright."
"Your answer is suck—hey! Don't pinch my arm!"
"Watch your language in front of the children," she warned him and making him snorted.
"Whatever. We should go home now, it's almost dinner anyways," he told her as he stood up and handed his hand to help her stood too.
"Well, you're right," she agreed before looked at the children again, "What about you? I don't see your parent until now."
"Mommy is working in her office and usually she always goes home after we have dinner with Nanny. Meanwhile Daddy, um I don't know. I never see him again and my Mom never wants to talk about him. But Nanny is sick now and she should take a rest on her bed, so I want to take my freedom for a while with my sister," the old brother answered her question innocently.
She stared at them. "You both have a strong Mom. Well, if so, we go home together. We will walk you both to your house so we can make sure that no harm happens to you."
Finally, they walked together toward the children's house. Seijurou should be grateful that the house wasn't far enough from the festival and their place. It was a small house with a small beautiful park and fountain in the middle of the park. After said goodbye to them, that spouse were go home together.
"Hey, Seijurou," she opened the topic, "Can I ask you something?"
"What?"
"Why you don't like the children like you said meanwhile you always stared at them with those eyes?"
"What do you mean by those eyes? I looked at them in the normal way. Besides the reason why I don't like children; they are such a troublesome, annoying, noisy, and all they can do just crying and peeing carelessly. What a spoiled brat."
"Don't say something harsh like that. You act like you never being children before. Don't tell me that you were not born as a baby."
"Whatever—hah, finally we arrive. I'm really tired now," he told her as they came into the house. When they passed through the family room and saw Grandma was doing something so serious. Her wrinkled forehead was frowning.
"Granny, we home! What are you doing?" Satsuki came to her Granny.
"Hi, sweetheart. I'm trying to concentrate with this," she pointed something with her chin. And after found out what was that, Seijurou smirked after knowing that Grandma played this game and got an idea. Because it was shogi, his favorite game!
"So, Grandma, I don't know you like to play shogi," he said, "Well, it's not challenging if you play it by yourself."
Yeah.
Grandma threw her gaze to him. "What do you mean, young man? I don't want to make you crying like the first day."
He snorted before sat in front of her with his smirk. "Let's see it, Grandma. We will find out who will end up as the winner and the crybaby in the end?"
And the game began.
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