My name is Kusakabe Shimo, and like my mother and my big sister, I am a yuki-onna. I always felt bad for my sister Yuki, who had to leave our village with its long, comfortable winters for a big, hot city and a school where she'd have to hide her ajin nature. When she left, it was a pitiful sight. She looked like someone being sent off to prison. When we asked her about school, she said it was probably okay. But she was really unhappy. Thanks to a teacher there who likes ajin, I guess she finally made some friends and it seemed like she was getting a little more at home there. Amazingly, they have other ajin there. I think the city put all the ajin in the same school on purpose.

Anyway, she has two ajin friends, and one of them was coming with her to visit our home. Our mother teased her that she talked about the girl - Hikari something, a vampire, I guess - like she was dating her. And Yuki didn't say a word! And mother even stopped teasing her right away. I was going away on a trip over break when they were due to arrive, so I didn't think I'd get to meet her.

However, when I got back, she hadn't yet left to catch her train. She's really young looking, younger-looking than me. I was even surprised that she's the same age as my sister. She was really energetic, kind of an odd fit for a friend for Yuki. But then both her and my sister got quiet a lot. I am used to that from Yuki, but you could tell that wasn't typical for the Hikari girl. There was no plans for doing something at school or anything - just quietly asking, for instance "did you get everything?"

They almost looked like they were uncomfortable with each other, and I was hoping they hadn't had a fight while the vampire girl was here. At any rate, it was good to see Yuki home again, I wish she could go to school here. Eventually we all had to go back to school. I brought up the strange behavior of my sister and her friend. We all agreed that probably they'd had some sort of argument.

But one girl who was dating much older boys from the high school - and the rumor was, having sex even though she is a first-year in middle school - said "you are all kids. It's obvious - they were 'doing it.' It was probably their first time. You're all dazed and embarrassed the next day or so."

Talk about a shock. My sister was "doing it?" With a girl? What was "it" for a girl? How did you know when you'd done "it?" The only person I'd ever heard my sister talk about like she liked them was the teacher that was nice to ajin, and that was a man. I didn't say anything, but a cold mist started to swirl around me. Suddenly I didn't feel like finishing lunch. I ran out without saying anything and went behind the school to think.

Some of it was that some strange girl that looked like a middle-schooler was taking away my sister. Since my sister had a distant crush on an older man, it was probably that girl's fault. I didn't mind her when I met her. She smiled a lot and told Yuki I was cute .. did she mean cute like I want to date her or do things with her - me ... anyway, never mind.

When I got back home that weekend I went in Yuki's room. her camera had been left behind so I brazenly looked at the pictures of her and Hikari and a girl who carried her head around - Yuki says that's a Dullahan. Anyway a bunch of pictures were just Yuki and Hikari looking very cosy. In one of them, the sun was on my sister's neck and there was a really strange mark. Oh my goodness was it a "love bite" or something? And then I remembered she was dealing with a vampire. Maybe they really drank blood from people and Yuki was just being a friend. Still, she kept wearing a scarf until she went to her room, the whole time she was back after Hikari left.

There were a few pictures of us, her family, but most of them were about her school and especially about Hikari. I should have been happy, since we were so worried and upset about how depressed Yuki was. But I couldn't be - it still felt like something was being taken from me. If they visit again, I am going to give Vampire-chan a good talking-to.

A/N: In the manga, it really does say Yuki has a little sister who's very attached to her.