My Childhood with You

Chapter 1

A black-haired girl with beautiful golden eyes sat on the piano chair, her head bent down as she examined the music notes in her lap. The piano cover lay closed as she looked over the sheets she had found, ignoring her twin brothers sitting just outside the door. Eventually she did look up and raise the piano lid cover and the girl placed the book there, on the first page, as she rested her hands on the keys, about to strike a high note. Then the younger of the twins Kamui rushed past behind her COMPLETELY RUINING THE DRAMATIC TENSION! The girl twisted and gave him a playful yet hard blow on the head, "Kamui-chan!! You completely ruined the dramatic tension that is required before this piece of music!"

Subaru sighed as he watched his sister, Hotaru settle back into the piano seat and Kamui walk out, harboring no hard feelings but rather, he was simply rubbing his head with a small, mischievous smile on his face. Amongst normal, human children, an argument would most likely have broken out, ending with parents pulling them apart but Hotaru, Kamui and Subaru were very close and never had any long arguments. Their disagreements, if any, ended in mere seconds.

Later that day, Hotaru was still playing joyful and elaborate melodies on the grand piano while Subaru and Kamui had climbed over the garden fence, making her promise not to tell their mother, Akemi, about their little adventure to the brook some distance away. Of course, the trio knew that Hotaru was a horrible liar and the twin boys intended to return quickly, to save both themselves and their beloved sister from some type of horrifying punishment their mother would inflict on them. Unfortunately for all three, Akemi had decided that her two sons and daughter would go all the way to the other side of town to retrieve a package from a friend of their mother's.

"Okaa-san!" Hotaru said in surprise, breaking the piece she was playing and looking up at her mother, "Is there something wrong?"

Akemi shook her head and sat down next to her daughter on the seat in front of their piano, "Nothing terrible. I was about to go out to the Westerly Tower to visit Mio-san but then I get one of Rei's blue-birds saying he's got one of those special-edition silver bells that are ever so hard to find. So I need someone to get it for me." Her mother, amber eyes aglow, turned to Hotaru, "So can you and Kamui and Subaru go there together to get your mother her silver bell?"

Hotaru was amazed, her mother looked so mature and elegant yet…she acted like a child, "Oh…okay I guess."

Akemi had flowers and stars twinkling around her, "Thank you so much Hotaru-chan! My little firefly! When I get back I want to see that bell on the table!"

As her mother left, Hotaru breathed a massive sigh of relief, "I'm so glad she didn't ask about Kamui-chan and Subaru-chan but now I have to find them and get to Rei-san's place…" The young vampire frowned as she noticed the fence outside seemingly tilt as Kamui and Subaru climbed over and dropped onto the grass, narrowly missing the flowerbed. Hotaru raced outside and grabbed them, dragging them to the front door at high speed while explaining. In the end, the favour they had to do for Akemi turned out to be a race, as they returned, carrying the silver bell, a relay that involved carrying something ridiculously heavy to replace the baton.

Subaru pushed open the door, panting and entered, while his siblings held the door open for him. The young vampire placed the bell, intricately designed, onto the table in the hallway and went outside with his brother and sister, both panting, sat on the grass, watching butterflies wander from one flower to the next. The trio stayed there for hours, in fact, until the grandfather clock chimed to signify 10 'o clock. It had been four hours since they returned when Akemi finally returned and squealed with delight after seeing the bell.

Afterwards, Kamui spoke, "You know, we could have spent ages moving that and okaa-san wouldn't have noticed when she came back."

Hotaru and Subaru nodded, "Or maybe she got the key stuck in the door for three hours." Hotaru said.

The twins sweat-dropped but when you thought about it, I wasn't that unlikely.

Author's Note: LOL XD the siblings used so much effort just to bring that bell back and realised that they had an extra three hours. And Hotaru's name means firefly ^^