HA2 24.3 – Sleeping Together
Once they arrived at their house Hide and Aizawa immediately arranged the grocery they just bought.
As he gave Aizawa a box of tea bag and a box of sugar cube Hide asked, “Do you still remember the place to put these two?”
“These are Daddy’s black tea and sugar. We put them in the rack next to cup holder, second level and place the new pack behind the old one,” Aizawa cheerfully replied.
After a smile Hide said, “Help Big Bro put it over there then.”
“Mhm,” Aizawa happily nodded and took the tea box and sugar cube box. After putting the two in its place, she came back to Hide who still arranged some apples and pears into fruit basket on the dining table. “Big Bro, what’s next?”
“Please help Big Bro arrange them in the fridge,” Hide said as he pointed at row of big boxes of soymilk, small boxes of fruit juice, and various snacks on the table. “The fruit juices are for daddy. Put them next to our soymilk. As for the snacks, just put it in usual place.”
“Mhm,” Aizawa nodded before carrying out the task.
Then, Hide arranged the rest of the grocery. Almost every morning his father would fry eggs and bacons and enjoyed it with two slices of toast, so Hide would make sure the kitchen always had them as staple food.
This week, his father also ate some portion of Britiss muffin, frozen mini gyoza, and rice cracker octopus he prepared as daily snack for him and Aizawa. So, for the next week he added one extra portion for each daily snack he bought.
A few days ago when he tidied up his father room before he returned home, Hide also found empty boxes of orange juice, so he bought various fruit juices from similar brand, put it in the fridge, and left a note for his father that he specifically prepared the juices for him. He also added a message that his father could write it on a sticker memo and left it on the fridge’s door if he needed something else.
Each month Hide’s father would transfer most of his salary to Hide’s bank account and only held around 85.000 Ren for himself. After using it for his lunch, dinner, and some alcohol, Hide’s father wouldn’t have much left. So, if he needed something else there was possibility he couldn’t afford it. Unfortunately, Hide realized this situation only after he saw the empty juice boxes.
‘I’m too focusing my attention on Aizawa and neglect almost everything else,’ Hide muttered as he arranged bunch of seasoning, sauce, and vegetable oil to the rack on the kitchen. ‘That’s not totally wrong call, but it’s time to put some attention on father too.’
While his mind was full of thought about his father, Hide continued arranging the grocery. There was lot of grocery he had to arrange and it was already 9 PM when he started, but everything went swiftly because Aizawa helped him. Once everything was neatly arranged in its place, Hide and Aizawa regrouped in the dining table.
“Big Bro, can Aizawa have the fruit juice too?”
“You can. We buy some extra after all,” Hide gently replied. “But you have to choose between fresh fruit and a box of fruit juice. You can’t have both in the same day.”
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“Okay,” Aizawa happily replied.
“Now, let’s take a bath before going to the bed. You can use the bathroom first.”
“Mhm.”
Wasting no time Aizawa went to take a set of tracksuit and then went to the bathroom.
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After taking a bath Hide didn’t immediately go to sleep. While sitting in his bed, he took his time to check Aizawa’s group chat. He did this routine once a week and he had to do it using back door access because Aizawa didn’t let him join the group chat.
Aizawa firmly said that her group chat was for girls only, even though Takeo’s mother, Kaede Sensei, and Hanna who technically were not girl anymore was part of it.
It was easy to access the group chat because it was not part of mainstream social media platform that had layered security means. The group chat was part of online gaming platform called Play with Me. A small team of programmer from Finn created it. At first, it was only online platform to facilitate children with disability from various cities in the country to gather, play, or compete through board game such as chess, Othello, deck card, monopoly, mahjong, Sudoku, etc.
However, less than a year after Play with Me was launched, it grew into a platform with members from various countries on earth. Kaede Sensei knew this platform from her friend. She then introduced it to Kana, who then introduced it to Aizawa, Rei, Kei, and the rest.
The chat in Aizawa’s group was pretty mild, no toxic or offensive topic. From their way to express their thought Hide could guess their real ID, even though they used animal as their codename and PFP.
Other than the game they played against the other group, most of their chat circled around on their favorite food, latest song and movie, and a complaint or two about people around them. It was pretty much girls chat. After he found nothing he had to worry about, Hide immediately slipped into under the blanket. He was tired as hell, so it felt damn comfortable when he finally could lay his body on a comfortable and warm bed.
Tomorrow was Monday so he had to get up early. Wasting no time Hide closed his eyes and calmed his breath. However, a moment later he opened his eyes again as a series of light footsteps closing in into his room. With ease he guessed that it was Aizawa.
Even before Aizawa opened the door to his room, Hide already fixed his gaze on it, and once he made eyes contact with Aizawa, he immediately asked, “Do you need Big Bro’s help?”
“No,” Aizawa calmly replied. “But can Aizawa sleep here with Big Bro tonight?”
Hide instantly nodded. “Sure you can.”
Without further ado Aizawa entered the room, closed the door, and climbed to Hide’s bed while having big smile in her face. Pretty much like the last time she slept with Hide, this time she also used Hide as her happy pillow. She happily hugged him and put her head on his shoulder.
“Aizawa super-duper love Big Bro,” Aizawa happily said.
“Big Bro also super-duper love Aizawa,” Hide replied. “And, if the next time you want to sleep with Big Bro, you find Big Bro already fall asleep, just hop up to the bed and sleep next to Big Bro.”
“Mhm,” Aizawa happily replied.
After making a big rub on Aizawa’s back, Hide then fixed the blanket to cover the two. A moment later, Aizawa already fell asleep peacefully. As for Hide, he couldn’t help but having a small smile in his face.
From now on until she was 12-years-old, Aizawa would be in her most adorable phase. After that, like any other kid, she would face two routes. First route, she wouldn’t have side effect from her hormonal transformation. Under this route, she wouldn’t have a problem to stick around with adults around her or listened to their words with level head.
Second route, her hormonal transformation sent her into a state where she would always get irritated by adult around her, especially the male. She would also have the impulse to say no to whatever the adult around her said regardless the right or wrong. She would even tried to stay away from them as far as possible.
Hide would be very happy if Aizawa had the first route and stayed at his side. At the same time, he would accept it if she turned into a rebellion teenager. In short, whatever the route Aizawa went through to transform from a kid into a young adult, he would just support her.
It was natural process that made human became a human after all. It was also inevitable that no matter which route she took, Aizawa would make mistakes along the way. However, total control to ensure she won’t make mistake was a bad call. Other than killing her chance to learn, grow, and fully developed her inner self, it could also lead into the creation of ticking bomb deep down in her heart.
Therefore, as long as she didn’t go too far like using drug, got pregnant before she was ready to raise a child, developing an obsession to blow up a building full of people, or developing a habit of stacking body count in the backyard, Hide would tolerate whatever idiocy she did in her journey to shape her identity. He would also do his best to help Aizawa got out of trouble whenever she fell into one, without irritate her in the process of course.
Hide would calmly wait until Aizawa’s restless and rebellious heart subsided on its own. It would take around 10-12 years along with immeasurable patience, but if he did it correctly and didn’t incite Aizawa’s eternal hatred, then she would definitely return to his side and became his adorable little sister again, and it worth every drop of his effort.
‘I will not repeat that stupid mistake again. Forcefully make things go my way without Aizawa’s consent.’
Hide’s eyes flashed as he strengthened his resolve. For Aizawa’s sake, he would do everything. He would become his brother, father, mother, and best friend, and gave her as much love and attention as he could.
Then, he gently put Aizawa to the side before hugging her from behind. A moment later, he fell asleep while having a big smile in his face.
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