Chapter 1
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Crow pulled out a bowl from the cabinet and began to spill cereal and milk within it. He cleaned out the bowl faster than he had ever done before. Then he opened the fridge, looking at the drawer within it that had the same mark on his right wrist. He placed his wrist beside the drawer, a glow emanating off both the mark on his wrist and the mark on the drawer. The drawer made a click, as if having a lock, before Crow pulled the drawer open and took out one of the packs of donated blood.
I have to be ready for basically anything now. Someone may try to attack Airi. I’ll stop them before they even touch her.
As if on cue, Airi had come down the stairs. She looked at Crow.
“So~, are you going to feed me some breakfast or will I have to get it myself?”
Crow smiled, “just what would milady like to eat?”
“Hmm…” Airi appeared to be in thought before she answered. “How about some of those kick-ass pancakes you make?”
Crow giggled, “Yeah, I can make those.”
He laid the bag of blood on the counter before turning around to get his griddle pan and all the needed ingredients for the pancakes, a box of pancake powder, a carton of eggs, a cup to fill with water, and a half-full gallon of milk from the fridge. He prepared the ingredients and started to cook one when he felt a presence behind him and arms wrap around his body. He was embraced from behind by Airi. He couldn’t help but smile, he hadn’t felt the warmth of another person in a while.
“I’m sorry…” she apologized softly.
“What are you sorry for?”
“Last night… I stopped you… I know how much you wanted to… but that didn’t stop me from stopping you.”
The previous night they had cuddled together, nothing more.
Crow kept his eyes on the soon-to-be pancake, “it’s nothing to apologize for. It’s fine.”
He flipped the pancake before turning around and giving Airi a smile. He caught a glimpse of her wearing some of his clothes, a t-shirt and a pair of his boxers.
He put his hand to his chin appearing to be deep in thought, “you know I’m starting to think that they might look better on you than they did me.”
Airi laughed before turning around and heading toward the table, “just make your pancakes, we wouldn’t want them to be burning now.”
Crow turned around to his pancake, it was done. He picked it up with the spatula and laid it on a big plate before continuing to make another one. He would occasionally turn around and look at Airi’s long black hair. Before he knew it, he had made a pretty big stack of pancakes.
Crow silently laughed at himself as he grabbed plates to place the pancakes on and serve himself and Airi. He took the plates of pancakes to the table, placing one in front of Airi and one beside her, where he would sit.
They began to eat.
Crow would take a bite of his pancakes and look at Airi. He couldn’t seem to keep his eyes off her for long.
Airi noticed and looked into his eyes.
The two slowly began to come closer together when suddenly footsteps could be heard coming down the stairs. They quickly turned to the plates of pancakes in front of them, both having a red hue appear on their faces.
White had come down the stairs, the smell of cooked pancakes luring him to the kitchen. When he walked to the table on his way to the kitchen, he noticed the faces of Crow and Airi.
“So~, what’s happening here?” White asked, suspicion reflecting from his eyes.
“I-I don’t know what you’re talking about.” Crow stuttered.
White grinned. “You guys are dating now aren’t you?”
Crow’s face had gone completely red, he shoveled pieces of his pancakes in his mouth to avoid answering.
Airi looked away from Crow and White, avoiding eye contact with either.
White laughed, “I guessed right!” When he had stopped laughing, he turned to Airi. “Hey, take care of him, okay? He can be quite weak but I can see how much stronger he’s become since he met you.” He smiled at her before turning to Crow, “and you, you best take real good care of her! I don’t want anything to happen to her!” He had scolded his older brother.
Crow laughed a little, “you like her?”
“Out of the few girlfriends you have had, yeah I do. She’s good.”
“So now I need your approval?” Crow chuckled, “Okay then.” He became slightly annoyed.
White walked toward the kitchen to collect his plate of pancakes. When he came back to the table, he looked directly at his older brother.
“And you need to take care of Airi. She may seem strong but I’m sure she has an easily breakable heart.”
Crow nodded in response, “I will take care of her.”
The two smiled at each other before eating their pancakes.
“Hey Airi, did you see if he’s actually making these from scratch or just reheating some from IHOP?”
Airi and White both laughed.
“Hey that’s not funny. Sure, I get that my pancakes look just like theirs, but I am making these from scratch! On my own!”
He kept a serious face before breaking and laughing along with them. The first one to stop laughing was White.
“Oh yeah and Crow?” His voice sounded grim.
Crow looked to his younger brother, his laughter ceased.
“What is it, White?”
“No more of your borderline hentai.”
“Hey, they are not hentai!”
“You gotta think about what Airi will think when she sees you watching that.”
This caught Airi’s attention.
“What’s ‘hentai’?”
Crow looked White dead in the eye, “don’t tell her, she’s too innocent.”
White smirked, looking at Airi, “you know what p**n is right? Well it’s anime and p**n combined.”
“Dude!” Crow’s voice cracked.
White laughed a bit.
Airi’s face began to turn a red color, “y-y-you watch that?!”
Crow looked in her direction pleadingly, “It’s not actually hentai though…”
“Then tell me what this ‘not hentai’ is then?”
Crow looked away blushing, “I think it’s better if you don’t know…”
“One’s Highschool DXD.” White answered.
Airi pulled out her smartphone in response, looking it up on the web. She scrolled through the images, her face appearing redder and redder as she did.
Crow put his hand over the screen, “that’s enough now.”
She looked down muttering something under her breath.
“What was that?” Crow responded.
“I said ‘you like them big don’t you?’”
Crow immediately wrapped his arms around her in an embrace.
“No, size doesn’t matter to me.”
She then hugged back, “I… I believe you.”
Suddenly a flash of light appeared.
- Writer
