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Tie 337 Hikaru/Karou
Summary: Things can tie us to places, keeping us from moving on. And so can people. Hikaru and Honey think about their ties...
Hikaru
A twin. The dictionary definition is someone who is born at the same time as you from the same mother and the same father. Looking further down the page and you'll find an extra bit on identical twins. An identical twin is someone who shares your exact genetic material from the division of a single fertilised egg cell into two. And so on and so forth...
But an identical twin is someone much more than that, Hikaru thinks. At least in his experience it's true that they are so much more. Karou doesn't just have his genetic material; Karou has half of his soul. The two of them are one person. One soul. Take Hikaru from Karou and you have two halves a person. Put them together again, and you get a single, functioning, complete person. They are mirror images of each other, perfect carbon copies. But the same-ness runs deep than the surface. They have perfect halves of traits; Hikaru is brash where Karou is quiet. Hikaru is loudness to Karou's quietness. Hikaru's tendency to speak before he thinks is contrasted with Karou's inbuilt think before you speak persona. Karou is HIkaru's perfect opposite. Hikaru's A to Karou's B.
And everyone thinks that. No one realises that Hikaru likes Western Punk-Ska and Karou likes J-pop. No one cares that Hikaru is starting to dislike behing always one of two. He is always Hikaru-or-Karou. Never just Hikaru. Few people can bothered to take the time to tell them apart. Fewer people get it right. And Karou knows that; he likes the completeness of the two of them; the perfection of the mirror images. Karou wants them to be together and if it's forever, Karou wouldn't mind. He would enjoy it, most likely. Hikaru wouldn't. He wants to go out and be an intrepid fashion designer by exploring tiny little jumble shops in the back streets of London to find the perfect material. He want' to go the best fashion houses in Milan to choose the best cut of a dress. He want to go to Paris to see the most famous models strut his wears down the catwalk. Karou doesn't. Karou thinks they should stay togther, have everything bought to them. Live together, be togther...die together. Hikaru doesn't agree.
One day he'll break away, Hikaru knows he'll leave to go on his own jouney. Hikaru knows that. Not yet though. Not yet. He'll stay a while longer, live his brother's dream a little longer. Because Karou is Hikaru's tie and Hikaru's not quite ready to let go yet. Soon maybe...But not yet.