The twins were sitting on a rock, back to back. One gazing at the small water stream that graced that small place they both adored, while the other admired the beautiful trees that were surrounding them. That tiny bit of clear land in the middle of the forest had always been their secret place.
"It's a pity… such a nice place to be flooded", the melancholy of those words didn't match the beautiful smile he was wearing.
"Yeah…"
"How much time will they take? Building a dam must take long." he continued talking as he stood up. "It's truly a shame… after all, we had such nice memories here. Right, Fay?"
Fay turn to look at his brother's smiling face but as soon as he laid eyes on the dark patch covering the others left eye, all the happy memories that they made together vanished from his mind.
"Fay?"
Fay shook his head as to keep those memories away and managed to give his twin a small smile. "Yes… it's a pity."
Yuui caressed his brother's face, still smiling but Fay could sense how worried he was.
"You shouldn't think about that, you know?" he said, kneeling by his brother and pulling him into a hug. "It wasn't your fault."
Fay hugged back, resting his head in his brother's shoulder. "I know…" he whispered, breathing in the familiar scent of Yuui's hair that always seemed to calm him down.
They stayed like that for some minutes. It was peaceful. Fay wished they could stay like that forever, in their own little world where nothing could stand between them. But reality didn't worked that way and one day or another, they were destined to lead different ways. How he wished he could change that.
He's thinking about something bad again. Yuui was about to say something reassuring when he caught a glimpse of bright red light. He looked up but it was gone.
"Yuui? What is it?"
He shook his head. "Nothing. I… thought I saw something."
"What?" They both stood up.
"I don't know. It was there." Yuui said, pointing towards a group of trees.
Fay looked but saw only green. "What was it like?" he asked curious.
"I don't… know. It looked like… a butterfly."
They both looked again and Yuui moved to stand in front of his brother.
"There! Do you see it?" He pointed again and started to move forward, but as soon as he started to walk Fay grabbed his hand.
"Don't go running like that…" he said with a worried look.
Yuui looked at him and smiled, nodding. "I'm sorry. Let's go together then."
Hand-on-hand they started to walk towards the forest, following that red glow. It really was a butterfly, with a haunting beauty. Blood red with tiny golden dots, but the glow… that glow, it was so alluring. It felt like it was calling them, telling the twins to follow it, deep into the forest.
They were walking faster and faster, trying to keep up with the strange being. But suddenly, it vanished into thin air.
"Where did it go?" They both looked to the trees around them, it was getting dark already.
"Hm… I think we should go now." Fay gave Yuui's hand a squeeze.
"Yeah." they turned around. "Do you remember the way?" he asked with a smile.
"Yes." He started to guide his brother but stop near a strange stone with what seemed ancient writings and drawings. "I… don't remember seeing this here before."
Yuui peeked over Fay's soldier. "Me neither. What is it?"
"I don't know." he replied, kneeling. "It looks so old." he let go of Yuui's hand to touch it. It felt so strange… as soon as skin and stone connected, Fay felt sick, like he was about to loose something. "Ugh!" he quickly removed his hand, turning around to look for his brother's. "Yuui?" he asked, but no one was there. Panic started to grow inside him. "Yuui?" He looked around him but was only greeted with darkness. His brother was nowhere to be found. "Yuui? Yuui! Answer me!". Some not so distant memories started to flood him and panic was growing faster and faster. Until a glimpse of blond caught his eyes and he ran as fast as he could. "Yuui! Wait!"
Finally he reaches him, grabbing him by the shoulder. "Yuui! What's wrong? Why didn't you wait?" He turned his brother to face him but his expression was blank. "Yuui?" He shook him gently by the shoulders.
"Fa-fay?" Yuui brought his hands to his head, shaking it a little. "S-sorry. I saw the butterfly again. I started to follow… I don't know what happened."
Fay threw his arms around his brother's neck, holding him tight. "Please… don't do that again!"
Yuui gave a small smile, hugging back. "I'm sorry…"
"Come on." once again, Fay grabbed his twin's hand. "We really need to go back home."
He turned away and started to walk, grabbing his brother's hand harder, but stopped abruptly to look at what seemed to be an old shrine gate.
"This wasn't here before…" he looked around worried. Where were they?
"Let's go over there." Yuui pointed at the top of a small hill beyond the gate. Nodding, Fay led the way.
It's been a while. I'm terribly sorry! So to compensate, I made some changes to the first chapter. I'm also working on the plot.
Just a small piece of info... I'm trying to write them according to their personalities when they were young and trying to develop them from there. So I apologize if it seems ooc.
And thank you to those who reviewed before! It made me really happy and I hope you enjoy the rest of the fic.
