“You can’t leave me,” Kunikuzushi snaps, grabbing onto the back of your shirt. “I won’t stay here. Take me with you.” He’s clinging to you desperately. “You don’t want me to your little brother anymore? Is that it?”

He knows he’s overreacting. He knows he needs to calm down. But he can’t. It feels like he can barely breathe. All he’d woken up to was you leaving through the front door. No one but you, his older sibling, had wanted him. You can’t abandon him too.