Together Forever?
Prologue
*Onibaba: Demon Grandmother
Spring (Newborns)
The warm sunshine shone through the large windows of the Hitachiin mansion and onto a bright blue crib where the three newborn Hitachiin heirs slept. The youngest of the triplets was cuddled cozily between his slightly older brothers who each had one of his hands entwined with their own.
Their mother giggled softly as she saw this and teasingly tried to separate them. As soon as she did though, the three newborns all let out their own piercing screams which had their grandparents and father rushing to see what had happened. All three of them looked unamusedly at Yuzuha who was laughing as she struggled to calm the three newborns.
Autumn (2 Years old)
Even at the young age of 2 the Hitachiin triplets were a force not to be trifled with as they rained havoc around the mansion with their pranks. The only one who could stop this was their grandmother, Kazuha, who the triplets saw as their arch enemy. They had yet to succeed pranking the 42 year old woman but as they saw her sleeping figure beside a large vase of flowers an idea sprang up in their head.
"*Onibaba asheep." Kaoru whispered.
"Pway pwank!" Hikaru exclaimed.
"Fuawers in air!" Takeru giggled.
Three identical smirks were plastered on the triplets' faces as they began putting flowers into their grandmother's hair. When said woman woke up and headed to the bathroom the triplets snuck behind the door to listen to her reaction. Their smirks fell instantly when she came out and continued to 'play' with them with the ridiculous hairstyle still intact. Their frustration only grew when Kazuha continued to show up with the same hairstyle for years and years until they slowly forgot that they were the ones who made the 'piece of art' that stood on her head.
Summer (5 Years old)
The triplets hated it when their mother dressed them up for parties. She'd always make them dress up in animal costumes or dresses with long wigs. Takeru would never tell his brothers but he kind of liked the way he looked as a girl. Then again if he was the only one with long hair everybody would easily be able to tell them apart. But~ it didn't hurt to hint out his preference right?
"Hey Kaoru, Hikaru do you think I look cute?" Takeru asked pointing to his green dress and ponytails.
Hikaru shrugged at him while Kaoru nodded and smiled. "Yeah you look really cute Takeru."
A small blush formed on Takeru's cheeks. Smiling happily the youngest Hitachiin took his brothers' hands and pulled them outside to the garden party. For a short while they were able to play alone until one of the guests came up to them.
"Aww look at you. You three look so cute today, just like little dolls." She said gushing at them. "Now the triplet with the blue hair is Takeru, the triplet with the green hair is Hikaru and the triplet with the pink hair is Kaoru right?"
"No, you're wrong auntie." Takeru said trying to hide his disappointment.
"Takeru is green, Kaoru is blue and Hikaru is pink." Hikaru added.
"You always get it wrong you must be dumb." Kaoru finished.
"I'm sorry boys. It's just that you three look so much alike."
"And you know what you look like to us auntie? A frog." The triplets opened their entwined hands to let two slimy green frogs that jumped onto the guest's face. As soon as the guest let out a surprised scream their nanny came running alongside the other quests.
"You little trouble makers." She scolded before helping the lady up. "I'm so sorry madam."
Takeru felt a little bad after being scolded and troubling their nanny. After they were tucked into bed he tried to convince Hikaru and Kaoru to go with him to say sorry to her. Reluctantly they did but while doing so they realized the door to the safe room was open so they went in and were shocked to see the maid trying to open the safe.
Upon seeing them the maid shouted in surprise and fell to the floor. "Ah! What are you three doing in here?"
"We're night exploring." They quickly answered.
"Well now that you've found me out. I guess I have to make sure you stay quiet." Their nanny said suddenly flashing out a knife from her pocket.
Unfazed by this the three took out the emergency button that hung around Hikaru's neck.
"If we push this button all of the security guards will come running." Kaoru said smirking.
"Should we try~?" Takeru giggled.
Ready, set~." Hikaru was about to push the button when their nanny shouted, "No! don't do it!"
With his smirk still intact Kaoru took out a folded piece of paper and said, "We have the combination for that safe."
"If you play with us for a little while." Hikaru started.
"We'll give you this piece of paper." Takeru finished.
"Fine. So what would you like to play?" Their nanny asked gritting her teeth.
"Let's play the which one is Hikaru game!" The three said happily.
Their nanny stood dumbfounded while the triplets skipped back to their room. They climbed back into their bed with Takeru between them as usual but this time they held him a little tighter as they felt his body trembling beneath the covers.
"Don't cry Takeru. It's okay." Kaoru said, trying to comfort him.
"Yeah, I'm sure she'll be able to get it right." Hikaru added.
Takeru didn't answer his brother who in return stayed quiet. The three slowly dropped off back to sleep but were awoken by the alarm. Shocked they leaned out their window to see their nanny climbing down on a rope ladder.
"Why did you break your promise?" They asked, the hurt clearly showing on their faces.
Their nanny face softened slightly at this but it was clear to the three Hitachiins that it was all an act as a string of hurtful words began pouring out her mouth. "Sorry boys but I didn't have a choice. I can't tell you three apart. You're identical. You know it's possible that no one will be able to tell which ones which." With that she disappeared into the night leaving the triplets even more broken than before
Winter (5 Years old)
Snow lay thick on the winter grounds of Ouran Kindergarten. Classes had been dismissed for the day and the children had been allowed to play outside in the snow. Most of the children happily began making snowmen or started snow fights but the Hitachiin triplets simply sat quietly on one of the benches. One of girls approached them and asked them to play.
"Hey you wanna make a snow man with me?" She asked.
Kaoru was the first to answer. "Which one are you talking to?"
"All three of you silly." The girl said giggling as she thought they were just joking.
"There's nobody here named all three of you." Hikaru said.
"Okay then I'm talking to Hikaru, Kaoru and Takeru." She said.
"Oh really then which of us is Kaoru, which one of us is Takeru and which of us is Hikaru? Can you tell?" Takeru asked.
A moment of silence past before the girl pointed at Takeru and said, "Well I think you're Hikaru."
"You guessed wrong." The triplets replied in sync.
"I'm so sorry please don't cry." The girl said, her voice trembling as she tried to apologize.
The three siblings were shocked at the girl's words and once she had ran away they looked at one another to see the tears trickling down their cheeks.
"I wonder why they can't tell us apart?" Takeru whispered, his eyes still filled with tears. "Why can't they understand?"
"We don't need their understanding." Kaoru said wiping away his triplet's tears.
"We don't need them at all." Hikaru chimed hugging Takeru gently.
"We only need each other. It's okay if they don't understand." The two said smiling at their brother. "So don't cry anymore Takeru okay."