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Brothers

Chapter 5

They drove in silence on the way to Kadis’s house and within 10 minutes they were there. Kenshin popped the trunk and Kadis got out and grabbed her bag and then gave Kenshin a kiss.

“Now you two stay out of trouble ok?” she said with a smile.

“We will.” Said the two brothers in unison with Ryan fidgeting in has car seat.

“Aww does my little guy want his hugs and kisses?” said Kadis looking at Ryan with a smile. He nodded and she unbuckled his seat belt and picked him up and he wrapped his little arms around her neck as she held him in her arms for a few seconds and then gave him a kiss on the forehead and told him to be good and not to give Kenshin any trouble. He nodded once more and kissed her cheek and she buckled him back up and closed the door and waved good bye and Kenshin drove off toward there house.

On the way there Kenshin started talking.

“So did my little bro have a fun day at school?”

“Yeah, we started learning about the planets today.”

“Oh really what have you learned so far?” said Kenshin with a smile because he had been studying space and the planets ever since he was Ryan’s age.

“Just that there are 9 planets and that they all revolve around the sun.” he said with a spark in his eyes happy that his big brother wanted to know.

“Good, if there’s anything that you ever want to know about the planets just come to me and I’ll tell you. Did anything else happen today?”

“I got an owie at PE today because we were playing basketball and I tripped and cut my knee and the coach sent me to the nurse which was a good thing because I also needed a change too.”

“Ok I’ll take a loot at it when we get home.

About 5 minutes later Kenshin pulled into the driveway of their two story home and parked his black 2001 Mustang and got out and walked to the other side and got Ryan out of his car seat and then grabbed their backpacks and walked into the house with Ryan close behind.

“Ok so come on to the kitchen and lets see that knee.”

Ryan nodded and Kenshin lead the way and Kenshin sat Ryan at the bar and looked at his knee which was alittle swollen and was red where it had been bleeding just a few hours before.

“You look ok, let me get the peroxide and that should help it a little bit.”

Kenshin walked to the bathroom and returned a few minutes later with a diaper bag containing a bottle of peroxide, band aids, cotton balls and diaper changing supplies. He took a cotton ball and dipped it in the peroxide and dapped it on Ryan’s knee causing Ryan to flinch from the sting but he toughened up and acted like it didn’t hurt. Kenshin took our a band aid and put it over Ryan’s knee and then ruffled his hair for being a good boy and not crying and then felt Ryan’s diaper and it was wet.

“Ok time for a change.” He said as he laid out the changing mat and Ryan jumped down from the bar stool and took off his shoes and pants and then laid down and let Kenshin change him and when he was done let Ryan put his pants back one and throw away the used diaper and packed up all of the changing supplies.

“Ok I have some history homework that needs to get done, do you have any homework tonight?”

“Nope.” Said Ryan with a smile. “I got all of it done in class.”

“But don’t you have a spelling test to study for?”

Ryan’s smile quickly turned sad. “Yeah but I need help studying.”

‘Ok go ahead and watch TV and I’ll help you study after dinner. Come get me if you need anything.” Said Kenshin grabbing his bag and taking out a notebook and an American History textbook and sat at the table and started working.

Ryan nodded and walked to the living room and turned on the TV and watched Sponge Bob until Kenshin came in an hour later and sat on the couth and Ryan cuddled up in his lap.

“Are you done big bro?”

“Yup, so what do you want for dinner?”

“Fried chicken!” he said with a big smile

“Ok wait right here and I’ll go get it started.”

Kenshin got up and walked back to the kitchen and took a bag of fried chicken stripes from the freezer and put them in the oven and then went to the fridge and pulsed out a root beer for himself and filled sippy cup full of juice for Ryan and then walked back to the couch and gave him and he took it with a smile and sat up in kenshin’s lap as the watch cartoons until they heard the oven timer go off and they walked to the kitchen and Kenshin turned off the oven and took the strips out of the oven and set them off the stove and fixed two plates of chicken strips with BBQ sauce on the side for Ryan and himself and set them on the table and helped Ryan into his booster seat and started eating.

During dinner they talked about random stuff and Ryan said how much he missed there parents and Kenshin reassured him that they would be back before he knew it and that made him smile.

After dinner was done Kenshin took the plates and put them in the dishwasher and then looked at Ryan.

“Ok study time go get your list for me and lets see what you have for this week.”

“Awww do I have to?”

“Do you want to fail the test?”

“No.” Ryan said with a grown and got his spelling list out of his backpack and brought it to Kenshin and they make flash cards and went over every word to make sure that Ryan understood them.

At about 8:30pm they decided to stop for the night and Kenshin gave Ryan a bath and put him in a fresh diaper and his favorite Blue’s Clues sleeper.

“Ok little guy do you think you can do big bro a favor?”

“What’s that big bro?”

“I want you to try and sleep in your own room tonight and if you get scared you can come sleep with me but I really want you to try to sleep in your room ok.”

“Ok big bro I’ll try.”

Kenshin smiled and told Ryan to go to his room and that he would be there in a minute to tuck him in. Ryan nodded and went to his room while Kenshin went down stairs and warmed up a bottle of milk for him and then walked back up to Ryan’s room and sat in the rocking chair slowly rocking Ryan as he drank his bottle and when he was finished Kenshin walked to Ryan’s crib with a sleepy Ryan in his arms and laid him in his crib and gave him his binkie and his Blue plushie and kissed his forehead and smiled.

“Sleep well little bro, I love you.”

He kissed his forehead once more and turned on Ryan’s night light and the baby monitor just in case Ryan woke up and then left the room leaving his door cracked a little.

He went back down stairs and turned on the TV to watch a little more before bed when the phone rang and he picked it up and answered it.

“Hello”

“Onii-kun can I come over?” said Kadis her voice somewhat shaken.

“I don’t know, I just put Ryan to bed and was about to go to bed.”

“Please I really need you right now.

“Ok come on over.”

They hung up and within 15 minutes a scared and shaken kadis knocked on the door and as soon as Kenshin opened the door she throw herself into his arms.

“What’s wrong Kadis?”

She looked up at him not with the eyes of a 15 yr old but with the eyes of a scared 5 yr old.

“Kensin my parents are dead.”