Several men stood in the authors penthouse, conversations happening and quickly being translated into english for the single person that didn't know Japanese.
Many you know. the romantics, Misaki and Akihiko. The Egoists, Nowaki and Hiroki. But two were. . . different, although they looked familiar.
One much taller with those familiar deep blue eyes and raven hair, but it reached far down to his broad shoulders and no smile was on his face, save for the warm ones he gave to his counterpart. The other was almost a mirror image of Misaki, but his hair curled softly and he had an air of confidence about him as he fluently translated for his companion.
Marcus Ashton had happily introduced himself as Misaki's twin over the phone several months ago and once again to the other shocked couple in the room. They were there because of Nikolas Reed, Nowakis younger brother by several years.
"Does Nikolas have a place to stay?" asked Nowaki, when he found out that he had a real flesh and blood brother, he fainted from shock.
"Hn? Yes he's staying with me." Replied Marcus, poking the larger male to indicate they were talking about him.
"W-where are you staying then, um, mar-kun?" Misaki flustered over not being able to properly pronounce the name, after Marcus repeating several times to just call him by a simpler nickname, he came up with one.
"Well, we plan on staying in a hotel for a while. We don't have a permanent residence because neither of us know if we want to stay. Nikolas has a restaurant back in the U.S. after all" he explained.
Nikolas had a small café that he owned and worked as manager and chef for a very long time, since staff wasn't an issue he was able to make the trip.
"Marcus, if i may ask, what is your profession? is that also keeping you from permanent residency?" the author asked in english, his accent surprising the two Americans.
"Marcus is a scientist." Nikolas' low voice finally reached everyones ears at this statement, raising a few eyebrows at the difference in the brothers voices.
"Ah, that's quite surprising really, your brother here needed tutoring. When did you graduate?" The rabbit mused. Marcus smiled a bit "Age nine, I went straight into biological experiments after graduating" he could have gone into more details but that was boring, and besides he was busy watching this guys eyes pop out of his head.
Later that night, as Marcus was reciting exact quotes from books he had skimmed a few moments ago for Hiroki, who hadn't believed him when he'd said he had a photographic memory. He had thought about something rather interesting.
"Kamijou, how do you know Nowaki?" they hadn't admitted their sexualities to the newcomers yet, and hadn't thought about how to explain how the egoists would ever be friends.
"U-uhm, well, I tutored him way back and we just sorta stayed friends"
"Oh, I see." Marcus chewed his bottom lip as he thought over something.
"Misaki, can I talk to you for a bit?" he gave him a meaningful look. Misaki had simply nodded and led him to another room.
"What's the matter Mar-kun?" he asked in private
"Misa-tan, are you prejudice?" he had dropped his confident posture when he was alone with his long lost brother.
"What do you mean?" ever since he found out about his twin, a wall seemed to have lessened in his memory, it was no longer solid but more of a fog, but it was still too dense to see what he had forgotten. but Marcus was familiar and relaxing, from the moment he had seen the identical boy, he felt safe. safer than he had felt in a very long time.
Marcus seemed nervous, his eyebrows drawing up and his teeth digging into his lips.
"Misaki. . . are you and that Usami guy in a relationship?" he asked. Panic had set in. how did he know? did Usagi do something? did he hate him? . . . would he leave him? All this and more had gone through the boy's brain, and apparently also his face. A sigh of relief escaped the curly haired brother and a gentle smile shown in the darkening room.
"Misa-tan, I'm gay." he said simply.
"O-oh" Misaki relaxed again, that's why he asked.
"y-yea, Kamijou-sensei and Nowaki-san too." he said, his smile seemed to match the others, he felt more confident by his side. Without thinking too much about it, the brothers that had separated for most of their life shared a hug with no awkwardness. just peaceful understanding, and Misaki could tell the fog was lifting.
Back in the front room things were a bit different.
"So, Nikolas, are you and Marcus fucking?" Usagi asked bluntly. Nikolas choked.
"W-we aren't a couple. but he is gay. . . and I do love him. . . and we have had sex. . . several times." he was trying and failing at explaining, cheeks turning red.
"Usami, what are you asking him?" Nowaki was upset that he couldn't properly communicate with his brother, but Marcus had promised to start teaching Nikolas Japanese.
"Nothing just some things I'll pass on to you lot later" He replied, glancing at the door.
"now tell me how you aren't in a relationship?"
"Well, I told him how I felt, but he doesn't believe me, and the only time we actually had sex was . . . well he's not a good drinker. that's pretty much how we really got to know each other."
"Alcohol, eh?"
"Try it and I'll break your leg"
A/N: this is a re-write of a story I made a long time ago, I would appreciate any feedback as I feel I am a poor writer. Junjou Romantica does not belong to me, any questions will be answered as quickly as possible, I'd love any suggestions you have for me too. Please comment, I also plan on drawing for this story. My Deviantart is Randomestkitty.
Information you may find interesting:
Nikolas is the Russian spelling, and is not incorrect
Usagi is from England, so he probably has a British Accent
Nikolas' nickname is Nikki, When I introduce it I will use it more often.
Marcus and Nikki have a "Michigan Accent" which is a bit weird, for instance instead of saying "Mi-Shi-Gahn" we usually say "Mish-gin" (Mackinac is pronounced Mack-a-naw) It's weird and no one notices when you live here.
The whole Misaki and Marcus have M's and Nikki and Nowaki have N's is COMPLETLY BY ACCIDENT. And i laughed a lot when I noticed it.
A certain Russian works at Nikki's restaurant and may or may not make an appearance later on.
Marcus has a cat.
