She nodded " alright" She said lightly " but hurry back Michi's worried" She said before climbing back down and walking away

Riku smiled to himself, "I doubt that..." He whispered and his words were carried away by the wind.

((time skip?))

(( yup))
yasmin had gone back to teh manor and fell alseep in his bed like ussual, she hoped taht whens he woke up in the morning he would be home. however when she did wake up she did not see him thinking perhaps he was somewere in teh house she went to go cheack on michi

Michi sat in the kitchen eating a bowl of cereal slowly. Her eyes trained on the window, awaiting the return of her brother. Alli sat next to her, napping. Michi turned her head at the sound of approaching footsteps and gently shook Alli awake. the vampiress raised her head and rubbed at her eyes for a moment, "Good morning Yasmin." She greeted the young hunter.

She smiled at her " Alli go to bed, before you drop from exughstion" She said lightly sitting down, wondering where riku was

Alli let out a short laugh, "I suppose I should. I'll be going the Michi." She said, ruffling the little girls hair slightly. Michi nodded and put another spoonful of milk and cereal into her mouth. She waved to Yasmin since she had food in her mouth and couldn't speak.

yasmin smiled and nodded " have a good sleep," She waved back at michi and made her self some toast

"How is Bwig Sis fweeling?" Michi asked softly, swirling the last of her milk around with her spoon, watching the powder left behind by the cereal swirl in pattens.

She came over to sit beside her " I'm fine, hey michi what would you like to do today?" she asked her wanting to distract teh child from her older brother's absences.

"Sleep." was the instant reply. Michi hadn't felt much like doing anything else recently. And what was the point of doing something else anyway? The tension around the house could kill anyone.

Yasmin sighed " I'm sorry michi but you can't sleep now its the day time" She said lightly determined to fix the child's renigad sleep schduale. " perhapes something else though? would you like to go play at a park?" she asked thinking if she got her out of the house for a bit it might do her some good.

Michi shook her head, "The other kids at the park no like Michi." she replied. "Maybe...colowing?"

Yamin nodded " ok we can color" She said with a light smile,

Michi slipped from her seat and took Yasmin's hand to drag her out of the kitchen and back up to her room, casting one final glance out the window.

Yasmin fallowed the small child up to her room,

Riku landed softly on the balls of his feet after jumping from one of the trees on the outskirts of the forest. His eyes traveled to the second floor of the manor and then to the back door. He walked towards it and pulled it open after unlocking it. "Anybody home?" He called out softly.

Upstairs Michi sat with her tongue tucked between her upper and lower teeth, coloring meticulously. She was trying to keep within the lines. It didn't help that she had pretty much used up her entire crayon collection so she was coloring with stubs. She looked up at Yasmin, "Can Bwig Sis go get my crayons for me? They in kitchen."

Back downstairs Riku had noted the dirty bowls in the sink and had rolled his sleeves up. Now he was covered with water and soap up to his elbows as he scrubbed at the dirty dishes. The scent of artificial lemons filled the room and he sniffed lightly when a bubble landed on his nose. 'Does nobody clean when I'm not here?' he wondered.

Yasmin smiled as she watched the small child, " Alright I'll be right back then" She said as she rose and walked out of the room and down the stairs she walked into the kitchen and saw him cleaning up ans sneaking up behind him and gave him a light tap upside the head.

Riku turned his head almost instantly and blinked, still scrubbing the dish he held in his hands, "Hello love, did you need something?" Maybe she would help him with the dishes? He had miscalculated and there was definitely a lot more dishes than he had thought. Especially when he opened the cupboard closest to the sink. Apparently, dishes were used once then placed into the sink until there were no more dishes left. To Riku's left was a stack of cleaned but still wet dishes. To his right, an equally large stack of dirty dishes.

She shook her head lightly, " leave those and go see michi, here take these as well" She said to him handing him the crayons. " I'll do the dishes" She told him before he complained

"And leave you to do all this alone?" Riku thought about it for a moment, "Why don't you bring Michi down and then you can dry? It'll go by faster like that." Riku offered up as an alternative. He felt kind of bad leaving all the work for Yasmin to do, even if she did volunteer for it. "And anyway, may arms and hands are already covered with soap suds and water." he added as an afterthought. That made his argument seem to make more sense, what use was it if she just got her hands all soapy when his already were? There was no point to it.

She sighed and handed him a towel " now" She said firmly " Michi is depressed and as her brother you need to go speak to her" She would not budge on this.

Riku let out a short laugh and rinsed the plate he held, "She's not depressed." He closed his eyes briefly as his hands automatically picked up the next plate, he guessed it could have looked like she was depressed by the way she acted when he wasn't around to watch her. "She doesn't know what to do with herslef anymore. She's a growing child love, she's confused by a lot of things and being raised by a older brother whose not even mortal can add to that confusion. It's how she deals with things. I've tried to talk to her about it. She's a smart kid and tries to hide it when I'm here. You'll have to talk to her about it."

She sighed and nodded " alright I just thought her brother should but if you have already tried" She said lightly she set the towel down " I'll take her out for some sweets later then" she grabbed a dish from the wet clean pile and dried it off before setting it away.

"i suppose that could work." Then he tilted his head in the general direction of the staircase, "Michi! Little one!" A loud squeal was heard, followed by an exclamation of pain and then two pairs of footsteps came down the stairs, one small and running, the other larger and walking. Riku smiled, "See?"

She chuckled and rolled her eyes " shush" She said to him going back to work on drying the dishes.