Ichiwa-hen
It had been only hours since Sonozaki Shion had escaped from her horrid boarding school. In the midst of her escape she had her trusty body-guard, Kasai, take her to her siblings estate in secret; for she had not seen her twin in years. The thought of seeing her twin was somewhat overwhelming, she didn't know if her twin would welcome her with open arms or alarm the dreaded oni-baba.
But as it happened to be, the escapee had met eye to eye with her twin, who indeed welcomed her with teary eyes and a bone crushing hug.
In secret the two made they're way to the well clothed Twin's room.
Shion felt a pang of nostalgia wash over her as her sister dragged her through the halls in silence. The girl looked at everything in a daze,It...It's...It's just how I remember it...Nothing's changed. The smile Shion wore quickly dispersed as her twin walked her past they're grandmother's room.
Shion's eyes widened, then narrowed into slits. Her eyes pierced the crack of the sliding door as she took sight of the old hag laying down in her futon. Wretched old hag...
The Harlequin haired female suddenly felt herself run into something soft, she looked up and noticed that her sister had stopped before a door, assuming it was her room as she pulled the sliding door open.
Both butterflies and excitement filled in the young Sonozaki girl's heart as she was finally reunited with her precious sister. The two of them had so much to talk about! Surely Shion had her stories while Mion was already thinking about ways to bring her sister to the club room.
However, such ideas would probably be in vain... after all, Shion's presence there was a complete secret. If Obaa san was to find out about Shion's being there.. surely it would end badly.
Nonetheless! Mion had to be optimistic and happy! After all, she hadn't seen her sister in so long! Just the thought sent tingles of joy throughout her body, and all of this which could easily be seen by the big grin on her face.
"Here we are!" Mion whispered, her voice trying desperately to keep composure as she just wanted to burst out in a loud an happy laugh.
As she and her sister successfully snuck in, Mion closed the door behind her. She then turned around and looked at her sister with a bright and happy smile. "It's good to see ya again.. sis."
"Don't worry, just treat it like the old days" The tomboy added as she walked over to the closet and stuck her arm inside to fish for a certain something before she finally found it. Pulling it out, she revealed a bag of chips which she opens and put on top fo the table for the two of them.
The idea that the two would be together again did nothing but fill Mion's heart with glee as she found it rather difficult to find something to say without looking like a crazy fool.
"So..." she began as she searched for something to say. Finally giving up, the older twin jumped on her sister with a big ol hug. "It's been wayyy too long!"
Shion was slightly thrown back from the sudden hug and quickly found her stance to support the newly extra weight against her. Softly, a smile made its way against her lips, "Yes, far too long indeed."
Pulling away from the hug Shion held her sister by the shoulders and looked her sibling in the eyes. She couldn't tell what she saw, because there was almost too much. But what she did remember seeing was the eyes of her sibling as a child.
She clenched her teeth at her memories and grasped her sister in a hug. Tears began to perk from the edges of her eyes as she tried her hardest to fight back the urge to wallow in her suffering. But she was finally here. She was finally home. She was finally with her twin, her other half, she could be whole. For too long had she been sailing this sea with no sail, but now with her sibling in her arms, she felt the wind beating hard against the newly found fabric, carrying her across oceans. She wanted to cry, truly cry, where she could weep and whine in her sisters arms. Mion was always the more sturdy one, never really showed her sad side, when they were younger, whenever Shion got hurt Mion would let Shion cry in her arms until the pain went away.
All she wanted was to do that right now, cry in Mion's arms until this pain in her heart went away. It was a horrible pain, like water was filling into her heart and breath was thick and heavy to the point where she couldn't breathe. But, she knew she couldn't do such a thing. She wasn't a little girl anymore. She was Sonozaki Shion, and she had to be strong.
She pulled away wiping the tears from her eyes with the back of her hand. She sighed slightly and smashed her lips into a straight line, "I ruined my make up huh?" She smiled slightly, "I probably look like one of those girls from mama's Soap opera's crying over their 'lover' that left them for another girl~" The girl went on then slightly snickered as she referred to the streaming mascara on her cheeks.
As Shion pulled away and began looking at Mion's eyes, the younger sister paralleled such actions as she calmly stared back. It was rather ironic, for being twins and holding the expectations of looking exactly alike, their eyes were completely different. Sure they were both pairs of sparkling emerald orbs, but they each told different stories and different beings.
Mion gave her darling sibling a meak, yet happy smile as Shion began to tear up. Mion wasn't very good at these kinds of moods or settings, but she was still able to confort her sister in a warm and gentle hug.
As Shion cried, Mion hugged her tighter, this was her job afterall, to be the strong one that would hold both up. And yet, Mion was never able to trully do that, neither could Shion. Yes, both had to work together to keep eachother standing strong, that was the true strength in which their relationship showed.
As her darling sister pulled away once more to brush away her tears, Mion could feel a lump swell from inside her throat too. She wished she could cry as easily as her sibling but for now she had to be the one to comfort Shion, the one to sit there and gently smile at her darling sister as Shion tried to regain her composure.
As Shion brought up her make up, the tear welling scene between the two began to clear up and leave room for a new one. Even though the two hadn't seen eachother for years, it was funny just how easily they could return to their normal natures when with one another.
Reaching over to get the tissue box for her twin, Mion chimed in "nah sis, you're boobs aren't plastic enough to make it on mama's show" There was a teasing look to her face as she then pretended to look rather serious.
"That is... unless your lover was the doctor dying of a brain tumor!" The reference was to one of their mother's episodes that actually had a plotline that cliched. When younger, the two would irritate their mother by laughing at those shows whenever they were put on. Even as children the Sonozaki twins had their devilish sides. Along with the jokes however, Mion felt a pang of sadness from the tearfilled face that her darling sister possessed. Even when crying, Shion was the prettier of the two, though Mion wouldn't let these slight thoughts of envy affect her mood. Afterall for her, she was just happy to see her sister again. Lord knew how long it would take if Shion didn't leave that school of hers.
"New years..." Shion answered her sister without her sister even asking, "I wouldn't have seen you until New years... I could tell by the look on your face." She touched her forehead to her sisters and smiled, "Remember, were twins. We got this telekinesis thing going on."
Walking away, Shion laid back onto Mion's bed, "Ahhhh~ It feels so good to lay on a normal bed," She giggled and sat up, "at that stupid school those bed were horrid. So, hard and lumpy! I had to put like ten pillows under me so I didn't have to sleep directly on it!" the sad thing was she wasn't exaggerating, "You'd think a fancy, rich school like that would at least have nice beds? They can have 500 thread count Drapes, but not at least 200 thread count sheets? and cotton stuffed beds!" She rested her hand against her back showing the aches and stiffness it brought her.
"I'm just so glad to be out of there!" She smiled.
Shion was indeed homesick and it was a bit embarrassing but how could you not miss the place you grew up with, with your twin none the less~
"Sometimes, I wonder..." Shion stopped herself in mid-sentence not wanting to finish that thought. It was a bad thought. Something, she shouldn't need to think because there was no true answer for it. Shion was never happy about being separated. Neither when they're names were pulled apart, they're homes were pulled apart, and when they were physically pulled apart. But, why? Why did she have to be the one who was strangled...I wasn't.
Shion sat up with a blank look on her face, her eyes were relaxed and so were the corners of her lips. Her shoulders fell down from the tension she had and her hands were hand-over-hand in her lap, "Sometimes, I wonder what it would be like if you had gone through with being Shion and I gone through with being Mion..." Her gaze didn't change, she spoke solemnly and earnest.
Mion glanced at her sibling when Shion stated the truthful fact regarding their original encounter date. The idea of how long they'd been away from one another felt as if it was only just sinking in even further as Mion silently let her sister continue.
"Yeah" Mion added with a small smile, followed by an unusually humble chuckle. At school she was arrogant and loud, but only when with her sister could Mion truly be herself. Even if Mion tried to be something else, Shion was always able to see through it. She would never openly say it, but that ability that Shion had, the ability to see through any of her sister's acts to hide her emotions... it was something Mion both loved, and needed.
"After all these years, you can still read me like a book." Mion joked as Shion walked over to her sister's bed. Mion couldn't help but smile as Shion's behavior lightened the mood. Unfortunately, Mion didn't posess the same talent as Shion in deciphering between when someone was being truthful or not, so she simple laughed off her sister's comments about the beds. If Mion knew that her sister was serious however, oh how she'd react much differently.
"Well when I become head, that'll be the first thing to change!" Mion stated, referring to Shion's captivity there. She hated the idea of her sister being forced into a place against her will. That the only way that the two could see eachother was when Shion was able to successfully make it out of there. The idea suddenly wandered into the younger twin's mind. 'Has Shion ever been caught before...? If she did... what would they do to her?'
Mion kept her smile up until the point where her sister began to say something. Mion glanced up at her twin with an innocent, yet puzzled look as she wasn't sure if Shion had been thinking out loud or what.
Shion then seemed to have changed moods completely as she turned twoards her younger sister. Mion felt a chill run down her spine by the manner in which Shion looked like. In a way... she didn't even look like Shion.
That's when the question was asked. That question; the elephant that always rested in the room, the skeleton that resided in their closests... the question that Mion had tried to block out of her mind for years.
"I don't know.." Mion answered, the air began to grow thick with tension as she tried to avoid her sister's gaze. "Maybe it's better if we try to forget about it.." That's right, if they avoided the topic then perhaps the awkward aura that was filling the room would vanish. Even if it was the truth, Mion would much rather pretend that nothing was wrong than to bring up things that did nothing but cause both girl's grief. This was supossed to be a time to be happy, not distressed.
"Do you want some more tea?" Mion asked with a meak smile, hoping to change the topic.
Shion twitched slightly at her sisters words, I don't know... They echoed through her head. Over and over again. Shion knew Mion knew exactly what would have happened, "I would have been the happy one..." Shion spoke in a low whisper. Her eyes were constricted as she suddenly fell to the ground, feeling weak in the knees. All her thoughts were overwhelming her to the point to where she felt like she was going to throw up.
I'll never just put the thought aside... How can I?
The same thought resided in Shion's head,Why wasn't she Mion...It wasn't fair, Shion always got the short end of the stick and Mion got everything. Why couldn't she have grown up with the demon and Mion grow up in some stupid academy. Why did she have to have a miserable life?! Shion clenched her fists into a tight ball as her twin went onto trying to change the subject. Shion knew she was only saying to forget about it so she didn't have to feel guilty because she got the greater goods in life rather than Shion.
A sudden anger began to boil deep down inside the Sonozaki, one that had been dormant for quite a long time. "I want her back..."
Shion looked up at Mion with narrowed eyes, her tone was cruel and solemn once again. "You may have that stupid Tattoo on your back showing your title as the 'next head' of the Sonozaki Estate. But, that should be mine... I should be the next head. I should have gotten all the attention for Oni-baba. Not you! You took my happiness away, Mion!" Shion jumped up suddenly and grasped the throat of her Twin sister, forcing her to the ground, choking her.
"I wasn't the one strangled as a baby, it was you! Shion! " Shion clenched her hands tighter around her siblings throat, feeling the life drain from her as she slowly choked her to death.
"Mion has always been mine! I just let you borrow her! Give her back! Just give her back! you've had your fun now its my turn!" The Harlequin hair female screamed at the top of her lungs as she started to scratch at Mion's skin as if she was getting rid of something that wasn't there physically.
"Give her back! Give her back!"
[a/n; I believe my hiatus deserves a slap on the wrist yes? Well I have something to make up for it (: A on-going roleplay between a Roleplayer and I, I Being Shion and Her Mion. I also take on the roles as Oryu, akane while she will be playing the role of Satoshi.
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