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Brothers

Chapter 2

Kenshin awoke the next morning and went about his usual morning retchual of getting dressed and putting his hair back in a pony tail, and then walked to his little brothers room. He just did what he normaly did. He went over to Ryan’s crib and let down the bar and slowly rubbed his back intil his eyes opened.
“Hey big brother.” Ryan said sleepishly rubing his eyes and giving his brother a big smile.
“Hey lil bro, did you sleep well?”
“I was intil you woke me up.” Ryan said siting up and crossing his arms.
“Aw, I’m sorry lil bro I’m just doing what I do every morning.”
“That’s alright big bro.” Said Ryan standing up in his crib and giving his brother a big hug.
Kenshin smled and huged his brother.
“Now lets get you changed and ready for the day.” Said Kenshin picking him up and walking over to the changing table. Kenshin proceded to lift up his brothers shirt and blow into his stumic which made Ryan laugh and wet himself even more. Kenshin smiled to and proceded to change him.
“Now that that’s done what do you want to wear today?”
Ryan pointed to a Transformers shirt and jeans.
“As you wish.” Kenshin said with a smile and dressed his little brother.
“Now I don’t know about you but I’m starving.”
“yeah, I am too.”
“Kenshin and Ryan ran down the stairs to the kitchen were they found a fully prepared breakfast and a note which read:

Dear Kenshin and Ryan,
Your dad and I have to work today and we won’t be home intil later tonight, Kenshin your in charge. Be good and be responcable.
Love you both, mom

Kenshin read the note to himself and then aloud to Ryan.
“Well looks like we’re on are own for today.” Kenshin said with a smile.
“Then lets eat.” Ryan said giggling.
There ate there breakfast, talking about random things and within 15 minutes they were done. They put the dishes in the sink and went into the living room. Kenshin turned on the tv so Ryan could watch all his Saturday morning cartoons and then Kenshin got on his computer and started playing a game of Go inline with one of his friends. After all of his shows were over he walked over to to Kenshin on the computer.
“What are you doing big brother?” Ryan asked with a puzzling look on his face.
“I’m playing Go.”
“What’s Go?”
“It’s a board game invented by the Chinese about 4,000 years ago. I found this anime called Hikaru no Go about a year ago and thought the game looked interesting, so I started searching online to is if I could find out more about the game. I found what I was looking for when I stumbed on this site and started talking to people. They told me the ins and outs of the game and I got hooked.”
“Wow big bro.” Ryan said with a gleam in his eyes. “Can you teach me how to play the game?”
“Sure.”
Ryan jumped into Kenshin’s arms and hugged him.
“Thanks big bro!”
Kenshin just smiled and hugged Ryan and then sat him on his lap.
“Ok lets get started. First of all Go is played on a boared of a few different sizes, you have the 5 x 5, 6 x 6, 9 x 9, 13 x 13, and 19 x 19. Do you understand?”
Ryan noded so Kenshin went back to explaining.
“Go is played between two people using stones, one person using black the other using white.”
“Ok this doesn’t seem that hard.” Smiled Ryan
“The object of the game is to capture your enemy’s stones and have the most teritory at the end of the game.”
Ok, so how do I capture my enemy’s stones?”
“You have to seround them on all sides and then the stone is considered dead and the stone is yours.”
Kenshin started typing on the computer telling his friend that he was teaching his little brother how to play and asked him if they could play a teaching game, his friend agreed and they started the game going slow so Kenshin could show Ryan what to do and Ryan started getting it after a while. After about 20 minutes in the teaching game Kenshin had beat his friend and said good game.
“So you’ve seen how the game is played and you have a disent understanding of what to do, do you want to give it a try?”
“Yeah.” Ryan said really excited.
“Ok then.” Kenshin said smiling and then told his friend that his little brother wanted to try out a game and asked if that was ok, he agreed and they started playing. After a few minutes Ryan lost the game and started sobbing into Kenshin’s sholder.
“I don’t get it big bro, I did everything right why didn’t I win?
“It’s ok lil bro, it’s true you lost but it’s ok you did better then I thought you would and it’s kinda good that you lost because you can learn from your mistakes.”
“Ok big brother, I’m going to keep practising and maybe one day I’ll be able to beat you.” Ryan said as he stoped sobbing and looked at his brother with a smile.
“Good, I look forward to it.” Kenshin said with a smile and pated his brother on the head. Then Kenshin logged off the computer and looked at his brother.
“So what do you want to do now?” but just then something hit him thought all of the exsitment Ryan had wet himself, so Kehsnin picked him up and took him took him to his room and changed him. After that it was 12:00 and they were both getting hungery.
“Oh man I’m starving, lets get something to eat.” Said Kenshin holding his stumic
“Yeah, I’m hungery too.” Kenshin picked Ryan up and took him to the kitchen, sat him down and started maked griled cheese sanshiches
“So after we eat what do you feel like doing?” Said Kenshin.
“I wanta go to the park!” Said Ryan acting really hyper.
“Ok settle down.” Said Kenshin he put a sandwhich in frount of him. “We’ll go to the park but first you got to eat so you hav energy to play.”
Ryan noded and started eating, Kenshin sat down and did the same. After a few minutes they were down and they went to Ryan’s room to get a diaper bag ready with everything they would need like diapers, wipes, a few toys and some juice boxes.
“Ok looks like were ready, so lets get going.” Said Kenshin putting the bag over his sholder.
They went down to the kitchen and Kenshin wrote a note for there parents just in case there parents got home before they did and left it on the kitchen table, then walked out locking the door behind them. They went in the garage to get Ryan’s carseat from there mom’s car and put it in Kenshin’s car, a used black 2001 Mustang his parents had given him for a birthday present. Kenshin straped Ryan into his carseat which he didn’t really like because he knew he was a big boy and didn’t need one.
“I’m sorry lil bro, but mom and dads orders, I know you’re a big boy but because your so small you still need to be in a carseat when we take you anywhere it’s just cause we love you and we want you to be safe.”
Ryan still didn’t like it and had a frown on his face but that all changed with Kenshin turned on the car and put in a Black Sabbith CD and turned it up real loud, but soft enough so it wouldn’t hear Ryan’s ears. Kenshin looked at Ryan as he backed the car out of the driveway and Ryan had a big smile on his face.
They drove for about 10 minutes and then pulled into the parking lot of Ryan’s favorite park and his eyes lit up with joy and he started squarming in his carseat. Kenshin parked the car and took Ryan out of his carseat and walked him to the jungal gym and let him run free, while Kenshin watched him from a near by bench.
Ryan ran around for an hour or so playing with all of the other kids and making new friends, but then so kids that looked to be about 12 came over to him and started teasiing him. Kenshin watched as this was going one knowing that he needed to step in and stop this, but he also knew that Ryan needed to learn to fight his own battle becausse Kenshin wasn’t always going to be there to protect him. The kids didn’t stop with teasing they started to beat him up and that was the last straw. Kenshin ran over and pulled the boys off of Ryan, through them to the ground and looked to see if Ryan was ok. He didn’t look to bad the only visable make was that his right cheek was a little swolen. Kenshin then walked over to the2 boys.
“What the hell do you guys think your doing?” Kenshin yelled at them.
“Picking on a little kid, that’s really low.”
“You think we care?” One of the boys said.
“We do it because it’s fun.” Said the other
“Oh really you think it’s fun to pick on little kids?” Kenshin said cracking his kuckles. “Then why don’t you pick on someone your own size?”
Unforchanetly for these boyrs Kenshin was a foot taller then them and a lot stronger, but Kenshin went easy on them and gave them both a black eye.
“Don’t you ever let me catch you picking on him or anyone else again or it will be much worse next time.” Kenshin said stareing the boys down.
They noded and ran away. Kenshin then walked over to Ryan who was siting on the ground crying and was covered in dirt. Kenshin picked him up and brushed the dirt off of him and then hugged him and saw that he had wet and messed himself in fear when the boys here picking on him.
“Hey lil bro, I’m here, I’m here, it’s gonna be ok now.” Said kenshin as he held his little brother in his arms.
“Big brother I was so scared.” Sobbed Ryan as he barried his head into Kenshin’s sholder.
I know lil bro, big brother is here and it’s alright I took care of them, maybe next time they’ll think next time they want to pick on a little kid, come on lets get you home.”
“Kenshin held Ryan in his arms and grabed his diaper bag and walked back to the car. Kenshin put Ryan in his carseat and they drove home in silance. When they got home Kenshin took Ryan out of his carseat and carryed him to the door were Kenshin unlocked the door and carryed Ryan into the kitchen and sat him how at the table and went to the freezer and wraped some ice cubes in a warsh wrag and dabed Ryan’s cheek lightly to try and get the swelling to go down and it did after having that on after a few minutes.
Kenshin then put the ice in the sink and took Ryan to his room and layed him on the changing table and took off all this dirty clothes and changed his diaper and then dressed him in a sleeper.
“Now you wait right there and I’ll be back in a minute.” Kenshin said with a smile.
Kenshin came returned a few minutes later with a bottle of warm milk. He picked up Ryan and sat down in the rocking chair by his crib and cuddled him as he drank his milk and just rocked him slowly and when he was done kenshin took the bottle from him, layed him in his crib and handed him a stuffed aniamal and rubbed his fingures throught his hair.
“Night lil brother, sweet dreams.” Smiled Kenshin., and with that he closed the certions and turned on his night light and left the door a crack and then went to clean the kitchen. Once he was down with that kenshin layed down on the couch and fell asleep.