𝑾𝑯𝑶 𝑰𝑺 𝑺𝑯𝑬? 𝑴.𝑭𝒖𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒈𝒖𝒓𝒐

V

There were many times in her life when Shiori believed she should've been the oldest out of her and her siblings

And it was times like this, when she placed her bruised, and splintered fingers from training into a the bath to cheek the temperature when she knew she was meant to be the oldest

"Satoru" She spoke in a soft voice, her older brother bing curled up in her bed after his second mental breakdown

Could she blame him? Definitely not, it was Christmas Day and he had just killed hi one and only the night before, dragging his dead body to the girls and shoko

That didn't end well for Sayuri who upon seeing her former role models lifeless body, started to sob uncontrollably

"No.." he muttered

"Satoru your baths ready, please." She said in a hushed tone, Sayuri sleeping in the next room whilst their parents? Yeah she didn't know what their use was

"Shiori I'm fine" He muttered, covering his face with a pillow as to avoid looking his sister in the eyes

"No satoru, you're not." Shiori said in a stern voice, grabbing the make and sitting him upright

"I don't care if you're the strongest sorcerer, I don't care if your the clan head or if you feel like you owe it to your students to present yourself as fine but you're not!"

"You're a person satoru, who lives, mourns, cries and sleeps. I know, it's though, I might never understand just how horrible you feel, but you're my big brother and I cannot bear to see you like this once more!" She yelled, satorus eyes widening

"So you're gonna get up, take a bath whilst I order food for the three of us, change and rest. Don't rush your healing process!" She declared, Sayuri opening the door

"What's going on.." She muttered, her eyes still puffy from crying
"Oh hey megumi" She yawned, the zenin who had been as still as a statue, peaking his head through the door

"Hey"

"Megumi??" Satoru and Shiori blinked, the look on the boys face telling them he'd heard everything

"Uhm, I just came to give these as a condolence" He spluttered, blacking a box of chocolates down "I-I'll be on my way"

"Megumi" Shiori began

"Hm?"

"Have you ordered any dinner?"

"No not yet"

"Good, then you can eat with us." Shiori spoke, Sayuri flopping into the bed next to satoru

"I don't want to eat I want him back" the girl said, her voice being muffled through the covers

"Yeah well he's not coming back, and don't make this harder for satoru, we've talked about this" Shiori sighed

"When we were five! When he first left" She muttered, Shiori wearing a desperate look on her face as she turned to megumi

"Please may you go to the bathroom and run some more hot water megumi? Could you also try and take away any dangerous objects?" She requested, megumi nodding and rushing to get the job done

"I think you should've been the oldest" Satoru said with a faint smile

"Yeah, I should've. But you're still a great older brother, and Sayuri, you're my other half"

"This is so sappy" Sayuri sniffled, the three sibling sitting like that for a moment

Geez I need to apologise to megumi for roping him into all this

It was odd, despite their grieving. The siblings still found comfort in one another and just being in each other's presence

"Megumi" Shioris voice called out, making the zenin drop one of the supplies he was confiscating

"Yes Shiori?" Megumi asked, placing them into a bag

"Im sorry I dragged you into this, I understand if this isn't the type of environment you'd to be in so you don't have to have Dinn—"

"Its fine Shiori" Megumi said with a reassuring smile

"When tsumiki was first curse in sure I was horrible to deal with, but you three still let me stay in your part of the estate and would tke me to see her whenever I wanted" Megumi reminded her

"Youre a very giving person, it's admirable. And you've help me throughout the years so why don't I try and give it back"

Shioris unreadable expression had morphed into one of a grateful smile as she made her way out of the door

"Thank you, Megumi"

He didn't know why he liked hearing the way his name sounded from her

"Shiori, how do you feel about all this, you know..getos death?" Megumi asked, being under the impression no one had asked her that's yet

And telling by her shocked expression, he was right

"Well, obviously I don't feel too good, in fact I really miss him. But I was not as close to him as satoru in the slightest, and I didn't admire him like Sayuri, so they're more affected" She nodded

"That's why I need to focus on them for now"

"You need to think about yourself aswell" Megumi blurred out, ironic coming from him

There was a few moments of silence before shuori spoke once more "I do, but u also recognise that my siblings need me"

"Well then" Megumi began

"I'll look out for you in place of yourself" He nodded "no stings attached, I just want you to relax a bit more" He said with a faint smile on his face that seemed to affect shiori aswell

"Thank you" She nodded moving towards the entrance of the bathroom

"I'm going to order some pizza if that's alright with you, Sayuri and Satoru are picky with savoury dishes so it's one of the only things they'll both eat" She explained, Megumi's arm suddenly stopped her

"I don't mean to pry, but Shiori. Your hands seem to have more injuries every time I see you"

Megumi's observation shocked her girl who swiftly placed her hands behind her back

"Its just from training" She spoke, avoiding eye contact with the zenin, a habit of hers whenever he pointed these type of things out

"You do know you don't have to prove to them anything? We haven't even started jujutsu tech yet and you're already a grade-two sorcerer" Megumi reminded her

"Plus gojo put in an invoice for your promotion" He said in a hushed tone

"He did?" she repeated, her eyes wide before her face returned to that of a frown "that doesn't mean I should stop training"

Megumi knew it was pointless to argue "if you say so" He muttered

"Pepperoni or meat feast?" Shiori yelled as the two made their way back into the room to find Sayuri playing with Satorus hair

"Oh yeah Megumi I heard you got suspended again" Satoru spoke, seemingly in a better mood

For the meantime

"Oh..uhm" He muttered

"Eh? Why's a goody two shoes like Megumi getting suspended?" Sayuri gasped

"Because he likes to attack our upper-classmen" Shiori stated, taking a seat next to her siblings

"Not attack, fight." Megumi explained to the three gojos

"Is there supposed to be a difference?" Sayuri blinked

"Yes" Megumu sighed