Ichimatsu sat alone in the wide open space of the local park, staring at the sunset like he often did if he had the chance to see one. It was weird, he loved watching the sunset over any part of the city but he never made an active attempt to actually go see it, he usually only saw it by chance.
This would be a nice change considering where he had just spent the last hour and a half of his life. Ichimatsu had been attending therapy sessions for a couple years now. He'd hope it would help with whatever dysphoria he had but most days, it didn't seem to be working. His mother was the only one who had known of his problem. He had been born the first of two girls amount 6 children. Jyushimatsu had proclaimed himself as agender nearly a year ago, which left Ichimatsu as the only girl. His brothers still called him by his birth name, Ichiko, as they didn't really know of his situation. That was fine, he didn't feel ready to tell them yet, though the dysphoria was something he was still working on and he couldn't blame them because they didn't honestly know any better.
Jyushimatsu had almost caught him on several occasion either going to or coming back from the therapists, but it was never so much that his little secret would come out. Ichimatsu wasn't ready to tell any of his brothers yet because he wasn't sure how they would react. When Jyushimatsu told them, they all looked shocked at first, like they weren't sure what to think, but they were very accepting of it and helped him any way they could. But that doesn't mean they would be as accepting of him. What if they hated him for it? What if they mocked him for it? What if they did everything they could to stop him?
Ichimatsu wasn't sure, and that subtle fear kept him from telling them. Ichimatsu looked back up to the sky as the last rays of sunlight dipped behind the trees surrounding him. Rising to his feet he began his walk back to the Matsuno household. He was still pretty far from the house so it would be a little while until he got home. That was just fine with him, the longer he got to cool off after one of his sessions the better. His brothers didn't need a reason to question why he was so mad for seemingly no reason.
By the time he reached the front door, he had already calmed down significantly. Although he wasn't really ready to face his family and them asking why he had stayed out so late, he walked inside and slid off his shoes. Sliding the door shut as quietly as he could so he wouldn't attract any unwanted attention, he trudged into the living room. Jyushimatsu was the only one in there and they were busy watching a baseball game on the television to notice that Ichimatsu had come home. This was odd since Jyushimatsu seemed to notice everything a lot of the time but Ichimatsu didn't dwell on it.
Creeping up to the bedroom the six siblings shared, Ichimatsu shoved his hands in the pockets of his hoodie. He reached the window and opened it, climbing out onto the roof as he went. Each of the sextuplets had found peace on the roof at one point in their lives or another. They always found the roof to be a calming or safe place despite the fact that Karamatsu had fallen off on numerous occasions. They had even been helpful to each other while on the roof. It always seemed easier to talk about them while up there which didn't really make a lot of sense to them but that was alright.
Despite the difference in gender, the sextuplets had always been incredibly close over the years. It got bad during high school for each of them but they still managed to pull through together. This was good since it was hard to find balance if any one personality went missing for whatever reason. It was a nice balance.
Each of them had their own secrets, some came out and others didn't. Osomatsu had the largest porn collection of any of the siblings, Karamatsu had more pairs of sunglasses hidden throughout the entire house that haven't been touched in ages, Choromatsu had idol merchandise throughout the house where he thought no one would find it, everyone was certain Todomatsu was hiding something, or multiple somethings that were quite dirty on his phone but no one would be able to get it away from him long enough to check.
After a while, Ichimatsu heard the rest of his siblings come home from the public bath house. So that's where they were. Jyushimatsu must have decided against going. He climbed off the roof and back inside the window before any of them got suspicious about his whereabouts.