Lit's here, unveiling a new drabbly collection. I love drabbly collections; aka, collections of short stories too short to be on their own.

Children of Many Faces basically sums up the events that happened in the Hitachiin twins' middle school lives, before they meet Tamaki, but after they were betrayed by their maid. I found the title after I wrote the first drabbly, but it fit because both Hikaru and Kaoru do have many faces.

This first drabble doesn't really center on anything. It was written because I just wanted to write twincest and well, it ended up having a small little moral near the end. If you find it, cookies to you. ;D Of course, that moral isn't entirely mine. So hats off to the person who slipped it into my mind.

this brotherly love

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There's something about them that's different.

It's not hard to see, really, Kaoru thinks, leaning calmly against the edge of table and pretending to wait for his way too late brother.

His classmates are annoying, but quiet, because they know he's there, standing, waiting against the shadows.

Hikaru comes back into the classroom, a frown on his face, and without another signal, Kaoru follows him back out.

It's nothing much, Hikaru half-ponders, half-clenches his hand, his other hand carefully entwining itself around an identical one. Kaoru doesn't answer, knowing that if he did, Hikaru would actually admit it, and he doesn't want him to.

This is going too far, the silence between them beckons, but they ignore it, words buzzing along the confines of their mind.

This love.

This brotherly love.

"Kaoru, Mother called me and told me she wants us in separate rooms," Hikaru finally says, leaning against the pillow, a gameboy in his hands.

"What did you say?" Kaoru asks conversationally, leaning back on the computer chair. He flips to another page of the book, eyes half-lidded.

"Like what I always say, we're going to think about it," Hikaru answers, pressing the buttons on a battery-dead gameboy. Kaoru doesn't notice and simply peruse the English words.

"I don't want separate rooms, Hikaru," and that's all that's needed to end the conversation.