A/N: Hello, this is my first kurobasu fanfic and this is mostly inspired by Kenkyo, Kenjitsu. And so I hope that you would enjoy MC's out of this world thinking(?) Please enjoy the story (๑• ̀ω•́๑)✧
I, Tenkou Rei, have memories of my past life or to be more precise, upon entering primary school I ended up remembering my past life.
Rather than getting bothered that something like a web novel from Syos*tu happened to me...NOTHING REALLY CHANGED FROM THAT LIFE?! RATHER THAN THAT I STILL HAVE THAT SELECTIVE INTEREST IN EDUCATION AND STILL INTO ANIME!
That's what really bothers and even though I can deal with liking anime and compared to my former life, I'm less of an introvert so good job present me!
"Is there something wrong, Rei-chan?" My older step brother, Akashi Heijūrou asked.
"I-I'm just nervous, Onii-sama." I answered as calmly as I could while holding tightly on his hands with my little chubby fingers.
Smiling kindly at me as he squatted down to see me eye to eye, he spoke gently,
"Rei-chan, I'm sure you're going to be fine."
Thank you Onii-sama.
"After all you're a cute and kind girl." He added as he gently ruffled my head. I knew it kind and princely Onii-samas are the best!
And so, gently tugging me ahead my high-specs Onii-sama led me to class. During that time, I grinned while as everyone looked at my Onii-sama.
Fufufu...that's right! Gaze upon my handsome and princely Onii-sama! When it comes to a battle of brothers my Onii-sama won't lose to anyone.
"Rei-chan, this is your class."
"Thank you, Onii-sama." I said with a cute smile and pulled his sleeves lightly.
Bending down to my height. I kissed my Onii-sama's cheek and bid him farewell. With this I won't have to worry about getting bullied fufufu. I turned to enter the classroom and as instructed by my step father Akashi Ukyou, I greeted all of them with a polite good morning.
It's a familiar name right? Hahahahahaha that's because I got reincarnated into KuroBasu and I am that Akashi Seijūrou's step cousin.
And so this too is bothering me, after all the past me was average in sports of all kinds. I had average looks and slightly above average intelligence. There was about a 25% chance that I'd get involve with the main story line despite that Fate is fickle mistress so I need to be prepared if I end up getting involve.
"Gokigen'yoh, Rei-sama."
Kita Kore!
My step cousin, Akashi Seijūrou had appeared and greeted me.
"Gokigen'yoh, Seijūrou-sama." I greeted him back.
"Goki?" I heard someone whisper and immediately realized that despite Teikou being an escalator school for well-off kids. It wasn't a private academy only afforded by the 1% wealthy families.
Just as I was contemplating on how to remedy it, my step cousin's soft laughter drifted to my ears.
THIS BASTARD?! HOW DARE YOU RUIN AN INTROVERT'S ONLY CHANCE AT ESTABLISHING A FRIENDLY PERSONA?!
"Rei-chan, It's fine if we drop the formalities right?" He said with a cheeky smile aimed at me.
This brat!
"In the first place you shouldn't have greeted me with 'Gokigen'yoh'... 'Ohayou' would have been fine." I complained as I sat on the empty seat and placed my bag on the side.
Seijūrou did the same and sat on the empty seat beside me.
"I'm sorry, Rei-chan." He said and so the two of us passed time by exchanging stories about what our father's did.
"Masaomi jii-chan is kinda pitiful..." I commented after hearing how Shiori baa-chan had aimed a pair of chopsticks at him and cracked the wall.
"But Papa is really cool in front of his followers!"
Ahhh...this bochan who doesn't know the word business partners is endearing. But forgive me because I can only see him as a gap moe adult.
Back at the Akashi Main Family Mansion.
"Achoo!" Akashi Masaomi sneezed as he read the morning newspaper.
'Is someone talking about me?' He wondered.
Seijūrou and I sticked to each other and played with each other, I was glad my step father enrolled me into a chess class instead of giving me a book about chess to read. Not that I hated my Dad for just giving me a book I do appreciate it. I just preferred that someone would teach me chess.
"You're getting better, Rei-chan." Seijūrou complimented me.
"Thank you." I replied.
Hmmm maybe I should invest in Shogi and Go as well? Then I can copy Iz*ya's board and find a job at Ikebukuro.
I moved my right knight to the left to eat Seijūrou's pawn.
He ate my knight and then frowned.
"Goshousama." I said as I moved my rook and ate his king.
"'Check' would have been fine." He said with a slight smile.
I hummed noncommittally and began fixing the pieces. Always the black piece and never choosing white.
Soon enough the day ended and my Onee-sama came and picked me up from my school while Seijūrou got led into his car. We said our goodbyes and I walked home with my Onee-sama. While my Onii-sama had burgundy hair and dark brown eyes, Onee-sama had light brown hair and light blue eyes which she inherited from Dad. I used to wish that I had inherited Dad's eye color instead of his sharp eyes but Umi onee-sama had told me that my eyes were fine as they were.
Despite that compared to my two outstanding older step-siblings, I was quite average. Even if I gained my past life's education my former country's education system is different from Japan's so it was basically useless information. I wonder if I can gain Katsur*gi Kenm*'s cheatlike ability?
I'll ask Heijūrou-nii the next time I sleepover at Chichiue's house.
"Tadaima!" I said as I toed off my shoes after entering the two storied house Umi-nee and I lived in.
It was a normal sized modern type house that had a master's bedroom and three rooms on the second floor. My room had a balcony facing the front garden while nee-sama's was on the side. Our garden consisted of a small farm where we grew vegetables , an apple tree and a grape vine.
The gates was western inspired and had the name "Suigami" written on the name plate.
Only the two of us lived here, I don't remember where Dad and my step-mom is and so does nee-sama but I don't really mind. Chichiue was a kind man and Kachan was the same as always. I also apparently had another older sister that was the same age as Umi-nee but no one would tell me where she was and sometimes I wonder why but Heijūrou-nii would smile sadly and Umi-nee simply wouldn't tell, so I left it at that.
Despite my complicated family background, family dinners have never been lonely and as I ate my Onee-sama's cooking I told her about my first day and so I found myself thankful for this second life.
Notes:
天后 礼 ( Tenkou Rei) uses the kanji for Queen of Heaven and Thanks respectively.
While Heijuurou uses the kanji for peace 平 (Hei), dwelling 住 (Juu) , and tower 楼 (Rou).
水神 海 (Suigami Umi) uses the kanji for water 水 , god 神 , and sea 海.
Gokigen'yoh is a very formal way of greeting someone 'Good morning', 'Good afternoon', 'Good bye' and 'Hello'.
Kita kore or ktkr is a japanese slang meaning It came . Used when something expected satisfactorily happened .
Chichiue is a formal and archaic way of calling your own father, transliterated to English it would be Honorable Father.
Syosetu is a japanese based writing platform where stories are ranked in different categories.