Chapter 44

I did the smart thing after waking up the next day and stayed inside.

 

I was really lucky, without my ability to fall asleep at will, I definitely wouldn’t have managed to get much sleep. The constant NCPD sirens throughout the night meant when I finally did wake up, it was to a groggy Jun drinking some caffeinated drink he had grabbed out of a vending machine while watching the news.

 

Me though? After eight hours I was perky.

 

“Couldn’t sleep?” I chirped at him as I rose up and stretched.

“No.” He grunted as he took another sip as I sat up and stretched. Then I hopped out and cleaned up a bit before grabbing my new testing laptop.

 

I settled onto the couch cross legged right next to Jun as I slotted my cord in, and went to work on another set of ICE.

 

“What are you doing?” He eventually asked, distracting me a bit, but I kept myself from getting booted out of the Breach.

“Netrunning training! I’m getting used to breaching through ICE.” I told him with a smile, one eye on him, the other taken over by a screen displaying the ICE countermeasures.

 

“Huh.” He offered, turning back to the news and taking another sip of his drink.

 

Silly Jun. I would have to get him a pair of earmuffs or something, if he kept having trouble sleeping.

 

I was practically buzzing though. I really wanting to go out and do something, but knew it was a bad idea. So instead I fell back on what was my favorite activity when I was stuck inside.

Grinding!

 

Although…

 

“Hey Jun?”

 

“Yeah?”

 

“Do you mind if I mess with you a bit?” I asked only to have Jun slowly turn towards me, mouth still buried in the can.

 

“Whatever you are thinking… No.” He responded after a moment deadpan.

 

“Aww.” I whined at him. “You don’t even know what I was thinking.”

“And I know I wouldn’t enjoy it so no.”

 

“I just wanted to send my quick hacks at you for practice. You probably have better ICE than most people I would see on the street…. Right? You do have ICE right?”

“I have the ICE provided for me, and my ECM.”

 

Oh right. The tattoos were actually not just tattoos but a ECM system the Tyger Claws preferred.

 

“Preem.” I told him. “So can I quick hack you? It’s just Ping.”

“No.”

 

“You are boring when you are sleepy.” I grumbled at him, but went back to my Breaching…

 

Of course. He might not even notice… I looked towards him out of the corner of my eye and just before I managed to send the Quickhack his hand reached out and grabbed my face covering my eyes.

 

“Ow ow ow ow!” I hissed as he squeezed a bit.

 

“I said no.”

“I give! Surrender!” I whined not really wanting to start a fight with my laptop in my lap.

 

Plus Jun was obviously grumpy right now. And I wasn’t sure I wanted to mess with Grumpy Jun.

 

He let go and I sighed as he gave me a single look before turning back to the news.

 

“Fine. See if I ever act as a Netrunner for you. You’ll be like ‘Motoko! My beautiful and genius little sister, please save me by hacking into this evil mainframe!’ And I’ll just be like ‘No way you jerky faced older brother! You didn’t believe in your glorious and slightly eccentric little sister!’”

 

“I would never say that. More like Annoying brat.” Jun replied and that I couldn’t allow that. So I kicked him which unfortunately was a mistake.

 

Grumpy Jun had no chill.

 

“Okay if I offer a cease fire can I at least reach my laptop?” I mumbled into the couch from beneath Jun.

 

The jerk had literally sat on me, and knocked my laptop out of my lap in the scuffle. So I wasn’t even able to grind!

 

Trapped beneath my stupid heavy brother who was definitely eating too many burritos.

 

The fatty.

 

I managed to swivel my head a bit and catch his eye. Then I realized to my horror what I was seeing. Those weren’t my Nii-chans eyes. They were the eyes of a Cyberpsycho.

 

Jun was too far gone.

 

“No.” He told me smiling the look of a monster as he reached down and continued to poke my face.

 

I couldn’t even retaliate! He had managed to pin both my arms while I was still playing around!

 

“My Vengeance… Will be legendary.” I told him but he didn’t seem to mind.

 

A few minutes of my pleading getting nowhere, we were both interrupted by the door to the apartment opening.

 

My inability to grab a gun and do anything was the only reason I wasn’t pointing my Lexington at whoever walked in without knocking.

 

“Akari. The door was closed.” Jun said grumpily as he glared towards the door which is when Alari appeared in my view.

 

First she looked at Jun, then down to me, then back up at Jun.

 

Then she sat.

 

The bitch sat on my struggling legs.

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“Vengeance.” I mumbled into the couch because I couldn’t even kick or wiggle with two heavy borg asses on me.

 

“Now now Jun boy, you should really knock on the door before entering my apartment. Got any more of those?” She asked, pointing towards the can of soda Jun was drinking.

 

“Akari.” Jun growled out.

 

“Oh fine. You are as always boring. Far too serious. But getting better since your cute little sister came around. How is she by the way? Not too flat?” She asked, but the fact I could see her wave her hands over her own plastic tits told me she was making a double joke.

 

“At least mine are real!” I hissed. “OW!” I yelped as she took a sharp nail and poked the bottom of my foot that was trapped under her plastic ass.

 

“Oh I’m sorry I thought I heard a-”

“Akari. Don’t stab my sister.” Jun said, sounding totally done with this as he stood up.

 

Freeing me.

 

“C’mon Jun b-” That was as far as Akari got, now freed I rose up, arching backwards, my knees digging into the couch as I slammed a bit into Akari’s side grabbing her shoulder wrapping my arm around hers and then flexing to literally toss her over my shoulder and off the couch.

 

Her absolutely shocked yelped was glorious as she went flying and landed off the couch in a massive thud.

 

“That’s for calling me flat.” I huffed a bit as I rolled a bit to get onto my feet. The Borg woman laying on her back staring up at me with a dropped jaw.

 

“Yeah Motoko does that.” Jun called out as he grabbed a soda and we both heard the hiss as it popped open.

 

Then he just started drinking.

 

“Don’t mind me. Carry on.” He offered waving his hand.

 

Asshole.

 

Akari though, instead of getting up and going on the assault, just started laughing.

 

“You really are a fearless little thing aren’t you? Last time I nearly went off on someone they started running away every time I met them from then on. Look at you, willing to literally throw me around? Jun, your cute little Imouto is gonna either get herself killed, or become a monster.”

 

“I’ll be a monster!”

 

“More like get me killed.” Jun and I said at the same time.

 

I just snorted at Jun being a jerk as Akari rose up chuckling still. “It’s kinda nice to be treated like a normal person again. Just be careful little Imouto.” Akari said and she was suddenly beside me her arm over my shoulders. “You might set me off some day.” She whispered into my ear.

 

“Akari!”

 

“Fine, fine. I’ll leave her alone. You big overprotective brother you. Fujimura-Sama is calling everyone in.” She said and Jun quickly put his can down.