A Brief Case of Mistaken Identity

OCxKaoru

Hikaru was walking by himself across the university's campus to get to his Marketing class. Kaoru hadn't signed up for Marketing this quarter. In fact, Kaoru had plans today. He was meeting up with a girl from his Fashion Design class, but he was running a bit late and didn't have her cell phone number yet.

"Heeeeey! Kaoru!" a girl's voice called out to Hikaru. He wasn't exactly surprised, but he turned at the sound of his brother's name and saw a dark-haired girl jogging over to him. She stopped in front of him, panting, and adjusted the scarf she was wearing. "You're late," she pouted at him, fists on her hips. "And when did you dye your hair?"

Hikaru blinked at the girl. He'd never seen her before. "Who are you?" he asked bluntly.

She gave him a look of mock hurt with one of her hands on her chest. "How dare you forget me, Kaoru! We're going out today." Although now she just looked offended. But then she was smiling again. She grabbed his wrist and started dragging him in the opposite direction of his class.

"Hey! Hey! Let go!" Hikaru protested, attempting to pull his arm back from the girl's rather remarkable grip. "I have to get to class!"

"Whaaaat? Yesterday you told me you had a free day today!" the girl exclaimed.

"No, I didn't. I don't even know you, crazy girl. Now let me go. I really have to get to class." Hikaru finally got his arm back from the girl's grip.

"Geeze, Kaoru, that's a pretty terrible excuse – !"

"And I'm not Kaoru!" Hikaru interrupted the girl.

"Ah! Lizzy! Sorry I'm late!" And then a ginger haired boy ran up and stood next to Hikaru. "Hey, Hikaru, aren't you supposed to be in class?"

And now the girl was seeing double. Except that their hair was different.

"Yes, I do have a class," he huffed. "I'll see you later, brother." With that the black-haired boy walked away. He checked the time on his way and then took off at a sprint. There was an important quiz today in Marketing.

She stood there, confused for a few seconds. "Kaoru!" She turned to the redhead twin. "You didn't tell me you had a twin brother! Do you have any idea what I just did?"

Kaoru smiled deviously at Lizzy. "You called him by my name, didn't you?"

"Yeaaaaaaaaaghhhssssss!" she growled in a weirdly frustrated form of "yes". Her face turned red and she pressed her hands to her cheeks. "That's so embarrassing," she whined.

Kaoru laughed, though actually it kind of hurt that she mistook his brother for him even when Hikaru had dyed hair and he didn't, and apologized, "Sorry, Lizzy, I didn't think you would run into him anytime soon since campus is so big."

"I told you about my brother and you neglected to tell me about yours, though."

"Sorry, really, I am, Lizzy." Kaoru shrugged and gave Lizzy a charming smile. "Come on, let's go get that coffee, hm?"

"Fine, fine," she waved a hand dismissively. "You can make it up to me by buying me a large cookie and my chai tea latte."

"Because I wasn't going to do that anyway," Kaoru rolled his eyes.

Lizzy laughed. "Hehe, I love that in a guy," she commented.

"What, money?" he drawled.

"The willingness to buy me things before I even mention it. Your abundant amount of money matters not to me. Well, that's kind of a lie. It's nice that you have lots of money, but if you didn't have lots of money I would still like you just as much. And the sarcasm. Gotta love a guy who employs sarcasm well." Lizzy grinned up at the foreign boy. Kaoru laughed.

"Let's go then, shall we?"

Kaoru looked a bit distracted, Lizzy observed from across their two-person table. She had both of her hands wrapped around a rather large cup of chai tea latte. He had coffee in front of him.

She sipped her latte using the loudly coloured straw provided by the establishment. After a few moments of silence Lizzy decided to speak up. "You all right, Kaoru?"

"Hm?" Kaoru looked up a little startled. "Oh. No. I'm fine."

"You sure?" Lizzy tilted her head a bit. "Is it about earlier? When I mistook your brother for you? It's okay. I would be upset, too."

"It's…fine, Lizzy, really. It happened a lot back home," Kaoru explained. He didn't want her to worry or anything. Sure, it hurt a little, but he understood her confusion. It was partially his fault anyway.

"Oh, well, now that's just upsetting!" Lizzy shook her head, her black curls bouncing about her face.

"Upsetting?"

"I would be furious if someone I was friends with mistook me for my identical twin that had different hair! You can totally be mad at me! I would be mad at me!"

Kaoru gave her a confused look. "Do you want me to be mad?" he asked with a furrowed brow.

"Nnnnnoooooo, not really." Lizzy shook her head again. "Just saying I would get it if you were."

Kaoru let out a light laugh. "Lizzy, I'm not mad. It was my fault, I didn't tell you about Hikaru. I should have said something earlier. It was honestly my mistake."

Lizzy hummed and then took another sip of her latte. "Your English is much better, by the way."

"It's from talkin' to you all the time."

"Awwww, you're even droppin' 'G's off your words like a true English speaker! So cuuuuute!"