Published 1999 by Flower Comics ISBN 4-09-137135-3

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NOTE: The small text/words are usually outside the bubbles or in small text (usually handwritten). I seperated each line according to the bubbles or chunk of words each character uses. I think everything else is pretty self-explanatory.

All translations done by Crystal. Please do not copy unless I give you persmission to. Thank you!

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********PART 1*********

**Pg. 5**

{Kasumi, as a child, sitting underneath the house}

Yoshiki {as a child}: Kasumi-chan.

**Pg. 6**

Yoshiki: You were here, huh? I was looking all over for you!

Kasumi //hiki// [crying]: Yochan...I got into trouble by dad. He told me it was dangerous to play with the knife. He said that I hurt the house a lot too.

Yoshiki: Yeah, I just saw the scratches on the post. But I don't like dad for making you cry. So, here, look.

Kasumi: ?

{Yoshiki pulls out a knife}

Kasumi: Oh no! You shouldn't be holding a knife! You're gonna get in trouble too!

Yoshiki: That's alright. I'll just bury it here. So then, you weren't cry anymore, right? This is just our secret, okay?

**Pg. 7**

Yoshiki: Kasumi-chan.

Kasumi: Yeah?

Yoshiki: Sorry.

//jiriririri// [alarm clock rings]

{Kasumi turns off the alarm clock}

**Pg. 8**

Kasumi: A dream?

Kasumi's thoughts: Was it really a dream? Or is something from my past?

Kasumi remembering Yoshiki's quote: "Sorry"

Kasumi's thoughts: Why is it "sorry"? What did Yoshiki say after that?

**Pg. 9**

Kasumi's thoughts: It's been a week since Yoshiki left the apartment. I wonder where he is living by himself...

{At Yoshiki's place}

Kyoko: Good morning.

**Pg. 10**

Kyoko: Yoshiki, you better wake up too. You have classes today, right? If you would've went to T University, we could've went together...

Yoshiki: Kyoko...

Kyoko: Well...if your reason was to switch to Meitokuin University to get closer to your sister that you haven't seen in years, there's nothing I can complain about. But if this was for a woman, I wouldn't forgive you.

**Pg. 11**

{At Meitokuin University}

Kasumi's classmates: Kasumi!! Introduce us to Yoshiki-kun! I heard that there was this good-looking new student in the social science department and come to find out that it's your brother!?

Classmate 2: I know him! I saw him at the goukon.

Kasumi: I can introduce you, but he has a girlfriend.

**Pg. 12**

Classmates: I knew it! Boo! Boo!

Kasumi: She's beautiful and the daughter of the professor at T University...speaking of him...

{Kasumi sees Yoshiki}

Kasumi: Yoshiki!

Yoshiki: Neisan.

Kasumi: I haven't seen you in awhile. You suprised me by leaving all of a sudden.

Kasumi's thoughts: Hm...is it just me, or is he acting kinda cold...?

Kasumi: So, where are you now? Let me know your address.

**Pg. 13**

Yoshiki: Who cares where I'm at.

{Kasumi is shocked and hurt}

Kasumi's classmates: Yo-shi-ki ku-----n!

Yoshiki:  Nice to meet you.

Kasumi's classmates: We're your sisters friends.

Kasumi remembering Yoshiki's quote: "You're important to me, so I can't live with you."

**Pg. 14**

Kasumi's thoughts: He was saying that, but was the real reason because I was bothering him? I wonder if he tried to become friendly with his new sister, but felt like it was too much? Huh, Yoshiki?

**Pg. 15**

{In the school cafeteria}

Kazuki: Hey, new student, can I sit here?

Yoshiki: Kazuki-san.

Kazuki: I just can't believe you're really here after you could've gone to that noble T University. What a drastic move!

Yoshiki: Did Neisan ask you to come here?

Kazuki: How'd you know?

Yoshiki: You're a nice person, so I was able to tell right away.

**Pg. 16**

Kazuki: Well, in reality...Kasumi is really worried about you. You left all of a sudden, right? She was telling me that you didn't even give her a reason or tell her where you're at. I know it's annyoing to have your family interfere with your life, but at least let her know where you're staying at. I'm...envious of you. Just by being her brother, she thinks about you unconditionally.

**Pg. 17**

//gata// [Kazuki gets up]

Kazuki: You guys can never be seperated. Don't make her worry too much.

Yoshiki {watching Kazuki walk off}: I'm...jealous of you too, Kazuki-san.

Yoshiki remembering Kasumi's quote: "Yoshiki"

**Pg. 18**

Yoshiki: Because you're an unrelated person.

Yoshiki remembering Kasumi's quote: "Yoshiki"

**Pg. 19**

{Kasumi's apartment at night}

//RRRR RRRR// [phone ringing]

Kasumi //doki// [Kasumi's heart thumps]: Yes, this is Suzumura...mom!?

**Pg. 20**

Kasumi's mom: So, how are the two of you doing!?

Kasumi: G...good. Everything's okay over here. Yoshiki's doing good too.

Kasumis thougthts: I can't tell her that Yoshiki left the place!

Kasumi: So, what's up with you, mom? Why are you making an international call?

Kasumi's mom: The realtor just called me here in New York and someone wants to buy that house.

Kasumi: What house?

Kasumi's mom: You know, that house that your late father and Yoshiki lived in...you lived ther 15 years ago too. Well, I put it up for sale...

**Pg. 21**

Kasumi's mom: But the buyer wants to tear it down and build a new house. I know it's an old house, but I thought I'd let Yoshiki know since he might have a lot of memories from that place.

Kasumi: Hey, mom...

Kasumi's mom: Huh?

Kasumi remembering her dream: "I hurt the house a lot." "I just saw the scratches on the post."

Kasumi's mom: Playing around with your father's knife? Hmm...I can't recall anything like that.

**Pg. 22**

Kasumi: Oh, okay. Nevermind. I'll tell Yoshiki, okay?

Kasumi: So, it was just a dream after all.

//pi// [Kasumi hangs up the phone]

Kasumi's thoughts: So now I have an excuse to get a hold of Yoshiki. Even if I don't know his address, I can call his cell phone...

//pi pi pi// [Kasumi dialing the number]

**Pg. 23**

Kasumi remembering Yoshiki's quote: "Who cares where I'm at"

//RRRRR// [phone ringing]

//dokin dokin dokin// [Kasumi's heart beating nervously]

Kasumi's thoughts: What am I going to do when he sounds like he's bothered?

//PR...// [phone stops ringing]

Kasumi's thoughts: He answered...!

//doki// [Kasumi's heart thumps loudly]

**Pg. 24**

Kyoko: Hello?

//putsu// [Kasumi hangs up the phone]

Kyoko: How rude.

Yoshiki: Hey, don't answer other people's cell phones.

Kyoko: Sorry. I was debating whether or not I should, but it was ringing for a long time. But as soon as I answered, they hung up.

//dokin dokin dokin// [Kasumi's heart beating]

**Pg. 25**

//dokin dokin dokin// [Kasumi's heart beating]

Kasumi: Wh...what am I doin g? I just hung up.

Kasumi's thoughts: Kyoko-san is so close to him that she answers his phone for him.

**Pg. 26**

Kasumi's thoughts: Maybe he's not living on his own. Maybe he's living with Kyoko-san.

Kasumi: I guess it's annoying to have a sister worry about you when you have a girlfriend. Geez, what a brat. ha ha

Kasumi remembering her dream: "It's a secret between us, okay?"

Kasumi's thoughts: We don't have anything that ties us together right now and it might be my desire to have something with him.

**Pg. 27**

Kasumi remembering her dream: "Kasumi-chan."

Kasumi's thoughts: To be infatuated by this dream about him, I, I...

{At Yoshiki's place}

Kyoko: Hey, is your Neisan okay? I would like to chat with her sometime. Can you call her over here next time?

Yoshiki:  I haven't told her about this place.

Kyoko: What!? Why!?

**Pg. 28**

Kyoko: Yoshiki?

Yoshiki: I want to hurry up and grow up...

Yoshiki's quote in Kasumi's dream: "Sorry."

Kyoko: Yoshiki...

**Pg. 29**

Kyoko: What are you going to do if you get any bigger than that?

Yoshiki: ...Anyway, shouldn't you go home already!?

Kyoko: I told my parents that I'll be studying at Megumi's place. Hey, what do you mean about getting bigger?...

{Yoshiki thinking about Kasumi}

Yoshiki: Nothing. I was just talking to myself...

**Pg. 30**

{At Kasumi's old house}

Realtor: Then after you're done, if you could give me a call and I will come back to lock the doors.

Kasumi: Thank you very much.

**Pg. 31**

{Kasumi looks around the house}

Kasumi's thoughts: I don't remember at all, but I lived here before. It's kind of a weird feeling.

**Pg. 32**

{Kasumi sees some markings on a post}

Kasumi: Oh, ha ha! There's some markings comparing our height. I remember finding this with Yoshiki at father's funeral service. We were both so small.

{Kasumi notices some more markings towards the bottom of the post}

Kasumi's thoughts: There's some more knife markings this low...? This isn't comparing heights...

**Pg. 33**

Kasumi remembering her dream: "You're the one who hurt the bottom of the post, right? It'll be dangerous if you hurt yourself too."

Kasumi's thoughts: It wasn't a dream!

//waaaaa// [some kids shouting]

//kachiiiiin// [a ball hitting the baseball bat]

{Kasumi goes out in the yard}

**Pg. 34**

//gaku// [Kasumi shovels the ground]

Kasumi's thoughts: Where!?

Kasumi: I know it was underneath near the post.

//zaku zaku zaku// [Kasumi shoveling the ground]

Kasumi's thoughts: Where is it at?

**Pg. 35**

//za za za// [Kasumi shoveling feverently]

Kasumi's thoughts: Please come out. Show me some proof that Yoshiki and I were together for sure. That it wasn't just a dream.

//waaa waaa// [boys playing outside]

//kiiiin// [boy hits the ball]

Boy: Stupid, where are you hitting...Oh no!...

{The ball comes towards Kasumi}

Kasumi's thoughts: A dream like it was a memory...

**Pg. 36**

{Kasumi looks up}

//gashyaaaaaa// [the window shatters]

Kasumi's thoughts: Please don't shatter it.

**Pg. 37**

{At the hospital}

//bata bata bata// [Yoshiki running into the hospital]

Kazuki {calling Yoshiki earlier}: Yoshiki-kun, it's Sawamura. I called Kasumi's cell phone...and some stranger answered it...

**Pg. 38**

Kazuki (on the phone}: Now...now I'm at the hospital, but the doctor said that he wants to contact a family member, but doesn't know where to contact you, so listen calmly...

{Yoshiki runs through the hospital}

Nurse: Please don't run in the hospital!

Kazuki {on phone}: Kasumi...

**Pg. 39**

Kazuki {on phone}: Kasumi got pinned under shattering glass and...

//ban// [Yoshiki thrusts the door open]

**Pg. 40**

Kasumi: Yoshiki! You came! I only cut my finger, but the person that was there panicked and took me to the hospital.

//haaa// [Yoshiki out of breath]

Yoshiki: I thought you were pinned under shattering glass...

Doctor: I just told him that she was underneath the glass.

Kazuki: Sorry, Yoshiki-kun! I was so shaken that I misunderstood!

**Pg. 41**

Kasumi: I was just at the old house. I'll tell you about it later.

Kasumi's thoughts: Oh no...I think Yoshiki's mad. I think I make Yoshiki worry about nothing and cause him a lot of trouble. It's no wonder he thinks that I'm a bother...

{Yoshiki hugs Kasumi}

**Pg. 42**

Kasumi: Hey...Yoshiki? What...? Everyone's looking.

Yoshiki: ...you're warm...you're alive. I was wondering what I would do if you died...I'm glad.

Kasumi's thoughts: Yoshiki is trembling...?

Yoshiki: I already have a memento.

**Pg. 43**

Yoshiki {looking at Kasumi}: You're my memento. Father gave me something so important.

Kasumi's thoughts: You don't think I'm a bother...?

**Pg. 44**

Kasumi: Then my memento is you?

Yoshiki {holding Kasumi's face}: Yup. You don't like it?

Kasumi: What a big memento.

//gyu// [Yoshiki hugs Kasumi again]

Yoshiki: Not yet...I'll grow even more. I'll hurry up and be an adult so I can hurry and protect you.

Kasumi's dream/past: "Sorry..."

**Pg. 45**

Kasumi's dream/past {continued}: "If I was bigger, I could've protected you and you wouldn't have to cry. I will hurry up and be an adult, so I can be near you."

Nurse: Those siblings get along so well.

//gachya// [door opens]

//patan// [door shuts]

{Kazuki stands there and watches them}

**Pg. 46**

{Yoshiki and Kasumi hugging each other}

**Pg. 47**

{At Kasumi's place}

Kasumi: Kazuki, thanks for coming to the hospital and taking me home. Is coffee okay?

Kazuki: How about a beer for all my greatfulness.

Kasumi: No, you're driving.

Kazuki: Alright, alright.

Kasumi: I'll give you a really dark coffee, okay?

Kazuki: Hey...Kasumi. Um...You and Yoshiki...

//RRRRR// [phone rings]

Answering machine: Noone is home at the moment, if you would like to leave a message...

Kasumi: Oops! I forgot to turn off the answering machine.

Kazuki: Who cares. If they don't want to leave a message, they won't.

Kasumi: Geez, Kazuki.

//piiiii// [answering machine beeps]

**Pg. 48**

Yoshiki (on answering machine): Neisan, it's me, Yoshiki. You're still not home?

//doki// [Kasumi's heart thumps]

Kasumi: Yoshi...wait, I'm here...

{Kazuki grabs Kasumi's hand and stops her}

Kasumi: Kazuki?

**Pg. 49**

{Kazuki kisses Kasumi}

Kasumi: Kazu...what...

Yoshiki (on answering machine): I was really suprised today, but I'm glad that you were okay. Neisan...

Kazuki: You two are siblings, right?

**Pg. 50**

{Kazuki tears open Kasumi's shirt}

Kasumi: No.

Yoshiki (on answering machine): I thought that being apart from you would be the best thing for you, but the truth is, for a long time, I...

Kasumi: ...no.

Kasumi's thoughts: Kazuki is serious.

**Pg. 50**

Yoshiki (on answering machine): For a long time, I...

Kasumi: ...no, No, NOOOOOOOOO!

*******Part 3*******

**Pg. 52**

//gashyaan// [glass shatters on the floor]

Yoshiki (on answering machine): Neisan...the truth is, for a long time, I...

//gatata basbasa// [things falling down]

**Pg. 53**

Yoshiki (on answering machine): ...about you...

Kasumi: ...stop.

Yoshiki (on answering machine): ...sorry. I'll call again.

**Pg. 54**

//piiiiiiiii// [answering machine turns off]

Kasumi: NOOOOO!

**Pg. 55**

Answering machine: The message has been recorded.

**Pg. 56**

{Kasumi grabs Kazuki}

Kasumi: If you can't mess me up, move. Tell me that you won't be nice to me.

Kazuki: Do you want to go to the bed...?

Kasumi: I like it here (on the floor).

{Kazuki kisses Kasumi}

**Pg. 57**

Kasumi: I'll feel like you're doing a terrible thing to me.

{Kasumi has images of Yoshiki}

Kasumi's thoughts: I'm a horrible person...

**Pg. 58**

Kasumi's thoughts: I'm imagining my sexual desire...

**Pg. 59**

{Kazuki puts his clothes on}

Kazuki: I'm not going to apologize. I've always wanted to do this because I love you, Kasumi.

**Pg. 60**

{Kazuki leans over Kasumi and touches her}

Kazuki: Good night.

//kachya kachya kiii// [Kazuki opening the door]

//kiiii batan gachyan// [Kazuki shutting the door]

//zaaaaaa// [Kasumi taking a shower]

Kasumi: I told him to not to be nice to me. Stupid Kazuki...

**Pg. 61**

{Kasumi gets out of the shower and looks over at the answering machine}

Kasumi: Oh yeah...what was Yoshiki saying...

//gashya gashya piiii// [the answering machine rewinds and beeps]

Yoshiki (on answering machine): Neisan, I still...I'm glad you're okay. I thought that being apart from you would be the best thing for you, but the truth is, I have always...

**Pg. 62**

Yoshiki (on answering machine): I have always...

Kasumi: Be near me.

{next day}

Kyoko: I'm sorry I came all of sudden. I just thought that you'd probably be worried, so this is Yoshiki's address. Please don't let him know that I was here.

Kasumi: Thank you. I guess Yoshiki doesn't want to tell me after all.

**Pg. 63**

Kyoko: I don't really understand either. He changed colleges to be near you and then he decides to live on his own all of a sudden and not tell you where he is...I wonder if I should go ahead and say it...I...I'm a little jealous of you. After Yoshiki found out about his sister that he hadn't seen in 15 years, I feel like he's changed. Because if you change colleges, that's like changing your future, you know? Besides that, sometimes I feel like I don't even know him.

**Pg. 64**

Kyoko: I've always been an only child, so I don't really understand, but are siblings that "strong" of thing?

Kasumi: Oh...

//doki// [Kasumi's heart thumps]

Kasumi: B, but, to me, it's seems more like an obligation. Besides, haven't you guys been able to go on more dates ever since he started living on his own?

Kyoko: Oh, ha ha, actually, that's true. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to complain. But! But I really like you, Neisan! It's like I have a sister too.

Kasumi: I'm such a midget, tho...that's a nice scent. Is that yours, Kyoko-san?

**Pg. 65**

Kyoko: Yes. It's called Spellbound and it's a product of Estee Lauder. Isn't it a sexy scent? I like it too.

Kasumi: Be careful.

//gachyan// [the door shuts]

Kasumi's thoughts: "Spellbound"...I'm the one who's jealous. ?????

**Pg. 66**

Kazuki: I have tickets for lodging at the plateau! Let's go together!...Well, that's if you want to...

Kasumi: ...Don't turn all red. It's making me embarassed. But this says that 5 people can go for one ticket...

Kazuki & Kasumi's Friends: What, what, what!?? You got free tickets to stay at the cottages? How lucky! Let's all go together!

**Pg. 67**

Kasumi's Friend: Hey, Kasumi, let's invite your brother too!

Kasumi: What...

Kasumi's Friend 2: Oh, there he is! Yoshiki-kun!!

{Kasumi's friends go up to Yoshiki and ask him}

(Kasumi and Kazuki both seem a little uneasy}

Kasumi's thoughts: Why does it turn out this way?

**Pg. 68**

{at the cottages}

Friend 1: Wow, what a pretty place!

Friend 2: So, meals don't come with the tickets, right? Are there any stores nearby?

Friend 3: There's nothing.

Friend 4: What!? Are you serious!?

Friend 5: Hold up! Let's decide on who's staying in which cottage.

Friend 6: Let's see...there are 2 cottages that can fit 4 people and 1 cottage that can fit 2 people...there's 5 girls and 5 guys, so...Oh, I got it!! 4 girls and 4 guys in the 2 cottages and the leftover cottage will go to the Suzumura siblings! It's done!

**Pg. 69**

Kasumi: Hey! Don't decide on your own!

Friend 6: Well, there's no couples in our group, so this seems the most logical. Alright next is the meal duties...

Kasumi's Friends: Kasumi, do you want us to trade with you?

Kasumi: NO.

Friend: So, why do we have to kick the can to decide on who's going to get the meal duty!?

Friend 6: We don't have a tennis court or Gameboy or anything around here, so this is the closest thing...

**Pg. 70**

{Kasumi seeing Kazuki in the walking into the woods}

Kasumi's thoughts: Oh no, Kazuki is pouting. It became a group vacation and on top of that, he has the meal duty...

//zu// [Kasumi slips]

//gasa sa sa// [Kasumi about to fall and making sounds with the leaves]

Kasumi's thoughts: Oh no! He's going to see me...!

//gashi// [Yoshiki grabs a hold of Kasumi and covers her mouth]

Yoshiki: Are you okay?

Kasumi: Yoshi...mmm...

Yoshiki: Be quiet. Kazuki-san is coming this way.

**Pg. 71**

{Yoshiki holds onto Kasumi}

//dokin dokin dokin// [Kasumi's heart beating]

**Pg. 72**

//dokin dokin dokin// [Kasumi's heart beating]

Kasumi: He...he went. You can let go now.

Yoshiki: You're so soft.

**Pg. 73**

Yoshiki: Did you get fat?

Kasumi: Yoshiki! I'm going to kill you!

Friends: We found you, Suzumura siblings!

{Later on that night...Kasumi in bed}

Kasumi: Nn..

**Pg. 74**

Kasumi: Bathroom...

{Kasumi looks over at Yoshiki's bed and sees that he is not there}

Kasumi: Yoshiki...?

//gachya// [Kasumi opens the door and goes outside]

**Pg. 75**

//zaaaa// [leaves rustling in the wind]

{Yoshiki stand outside and has an image of Kasumi sleeping]

**Pg. 76**

{Someone comes up behind Yoshiki and covers his eyes}

Woman: I found you!

Yoshiki //muka muka muka// [annoyed]: ...Geez...you don't even know how I'm feeling!...

//gui// [Yoshiki grabs the woman's hand]

Yoshiki: Hey, what are you so innocently...

**Pg. 77**

Yoshiki: ...Kyoko!?

Kyoko: Ha ha ha. Are you suprised? I followed you here. I'm staying at a nearby hotel.

Yoshiki: Geez, don't scare me...

Kyoko: I was going to secretly go into your cottage, but you're taking a walk at this hour?

Yoshiki: Yeah...something like that.

Kyoko: ...If you can't sleep, maybe you can sleep well after some exercise?

**Pg. 78**

Kyoko: Will you come to my room?

{Kasumi goes to Kazuki's cottage}

Kazuki: Kasumi! Do you want to come in too? Everybody's already drunk...

Kasumi: Is Yoshiki over here? When I woke up, he was gone, so I thought he would be over here...

**Pg. 79**

//ban// [Kazuki slams the door]

Kasumi: Kazuki?

Kazuki: Yoshiki's not a kid, you know? He's a man, so you don't have to worry about him!

Kasumi: ....I'm going to look around a little more...

{Kazuki hugs Kasumi from behind}

Kazuki: Open your eyes already!

**Pg. 80**

Kazuki: You're just confused about having a brother all of sudden and thinking of him as a man! You're just hallucinating!

Kasumi's thoughts: Hallucinatin...? My feelings are...? I can do such a thing with hallucination? I can feel so wrong by hallucinating?

Kasumi: I think your feelings towards me is a hallucination.

**Pg. 81**

Kasumi: Because I'm a much worse person than you think I am.

{Kasumi runs off}

//zaaaaaaa// [leaves rustling in the wind]

Kasumi's thoughts: That time, while Kazuki was on top of me, I was dreaming that I was being held by Yoshiki...

**P. 82**

{At Kyoko's hotel}

Kyoko: Yoshiki, you're not going to stay over?

Yoshiki: Neisan is probably worried, so I'm gonna go back. If it's alright with you, let's have lunch with everyone tomorrow.

Kyoko: I want to be together with you! Why are you so worried about your sister!?

{Yoshiki does not say anything}

Kyoko: Yoshiki...don't go.

//gachya// [Yoshiki opens the door]

**Pg. 83**

Kyoko: Why....? Who's more important? You're lover or your sister!?

**Pg. 84**

{Yoshiki goes back to the cottage}

Yoshiki: Neisan, you were awake?

Kasumi: ...I was worried...

Yoshiki: Sorry, I couldn't sleep, so I went for a little walk.

Kasumi: Oh, okay.

//ho// [Kasumi lets out a sigh of relief]

Kasumi: I need to stop worrying too much...

//basa// [Yoshiki puts his jacket on the bed]

{Kasumi notices a scent}

Kasumi's thoughts: "Spellbound".

Kasumi: Kyoko-san is here?