Rewrite of chapter 1 after almost 2 years... wow.
Once upon a time, yes a very long time ago, lived a family Nobel and old, whose children were very close…
"Len! If you don't hurry up this means I'll win by default!" A young blonde boy yelled up the stairs to his slightly older brother.
"I'm right here! And no way you'll be winning, Rinto!" A boy the same age and height appeared from the west wing, hurrying down the staircase and over to get his boots laced up. The two blondes were the same in every possible physical way, except for their hairstyle and the fact that Rinto was a tad taller, not that the shorter would ever admit it. While Len allowed his hair to sit messily in front and long enough to pull into a small ponytail in the back, Rinto cut his about and inch lower than the nape of his neck and pulled his bangs to the side with four white bobby pins.
"Lucky for today. C'mon, Mother and Father are awaiting for our arrival at breakfast!" Len winked at their butler, who nodded back.
That butler's name was Paul, a loyal man who had witnessed the two grow since before they were born, he was faithful to their wishes and a friend from their father's home town. Paul was in charge of "keeping score" between the twins. The two belonged to a very rich family which owned a company that specialized in entertainment and their mafia-like armory, a weird combo right? Kagamine corporation was a very big name known over most of the world, and the one to beat. Naturally this would mean many want it to fall, this is how their mafia branch began. This being the case, their father had made their raising a competition for who would inherit the company, the loser would end up as either the Vice President or talent, which meant there would not be some giant let down at the end their competition. The Kagamine name could not be found on some stupid street corner. Rinto and Len had been raised as the best of friends and the most competitive of rivals, with their ability they often ended up in fights, but at the end of the day the two blondes could never hate each other.
"Begin today's scoring, Paul!" Rinto declared, as he followed close behind Len towards the dining hall. Entering the hall there was a table big enough to fit about sixteen people with only a man and woman sitting at the far end of the table.
"Good morning, Len, Rinto." The elegant lady at the end said, wiping her mouth.
"Good morning, Mother! Good morning, Father!" The twins said in unison.
Their father nodded in acknowledgement, the blondes waved back and sat down. Len decided on banana pancakes with a glass of milk, Rinto had a small bowl of whole grain cereal with two cut up oranges and milk. Lately, Len had been trying to get taller than Rinto, Rinto decided there is no way he would not let that happen.
Their father Leon decided to speak this morning, "Len, Rinto. In your training I believe you've both been lacking in your ability to think into the future and plan strategies." Both frowned a bit knowing it was true, but dared not to interrupt, "Today, you are going to travel into town and purchase a game set I have reserved at a local toy store, there will be mahjong, gô, memory, and chess, you may add on any good strategy games you see at the store. From today on these games will be added to your competition. That is all."
Rinto and Len looked at each other and smirked, one thought occurring in their like minds, 'You are so going down!'
On the way to town…
"I, for one, am very glad Father decided to add these games to our competition." Len said dripping with cockiness..
Rinto smiled back, "Yes, it'll be ten times easier to beat you every day." He replied in the same manner.
"Oh please, you're all bark and no bite." Len leaned back and smirked.
Rinto would have retorted but the driver called that they were there. "Young masters, we have arrived!"
Both bounced out, Len immediately looking at the other games, Rinto going to the counter to check their order. He pulled out his wallet, inside along with a moderate amount of cash were two debit cards, one for personal one to share with his brother, and a credit card to be used for other things such as errands like this.
"I'm here to pick up a big order for 'Kagamine'." Rinto was keeping an eye on Len out of the corner of his sight.
"Certainly," spoke a young female voice that made Rinto turn, "I'll get it right awa-"
Rinto and this new girl stared at eachother for a good minute, scanning each other. She had shoulder length blonde hair, a big white bow on her head, bobby pins keeping her bangs out of her eyes (just like his), but what really got his were her eyes... Cerulean... Rinto didn't know anyone with his color eyes. Even Len, his identical twin, had azure eyes, a shade darker.
Both burst into a small blush, "So..."
"Oh! Y-yes, the order!" She crouched down to get a large stack of boxes.
Rinto coughed then spoke, "I'm Rinto, Rinto Kagamine." He was slightly looking away.
The female blonde popped back up with the box on the counter, "Rin Lucifine, pleased to meet you." She held her hand out across the counter.
Rinto shook her hand and raised his eyebrow, "Aren't you a little young to work here?"
"Yeah, my sister and I are competing for who inherits the family business, so I took and extra shift!" Rin said proudly, putting her hands on her hips.
"Wow, my brother and I are the same! I wish our competition wasn't so intense though, you must have it easy." Rinto sighed leaning onto the counter.
Rin gave a questioning look, "Excuse me? Is it really that hard to be Mr. Manners? 'Ello poppet, care for a spot of tea?'" She mimed pouring tea on to where Rinto's hand laid.
"Oh and y-"
The song Popipo began playing, Rin smiled at the advertisement song as Rinto quickly flipped his phone open.
"Yeah, Len?...Yes...so?...ok I can do 15 minutes. Fine...get me some orange gummies then, the good ones with the sugar coating. ...ok see you there." The phone closed.
"Brother?"
"No idea how hard my life is..." He sighed.
"Mr. Big shot got it rough?" She teased, playing with a strand of hair.
He scoffed at her, "You wouldn't last a day in my shoes."
She gave him a pointed look and grabbed his phone, punching in her number, "One week!" Rin snapped.
"Excuse me?" Rinto leaned back surprised at her bold motion.
"In one week we should swap! You take my life for a week, and I'll play prince for a week. You can text me for the next few day to swap details about ourselves." Rin ran to the back and got a bottle of what was probably supposed to be gag hair growth shampoo, "Grow your hair with this, and come back again tomorrow so we can learn about each others lives!"
"What!? Wait I can't jus-", Rinto sputtered but was cut off.
"Ah, so you admit my life is harder?" Rin leaned in with a smug challenging look.
Rinto, raised and being the over competitive guy he is, retorted "No way in hell! You are so on, Princess!"
Every day for the next week the two met up, texted, and planned. Rin took quickly to all the manners Rinto taught her, and Rinto had fun learning how to make simple family food. They learned about each other's backgrounds and, in just a week, had become best friends.
By the end of the week they had mastered their 'mirror' image.
Rin learned of Rinto's twin brother, Len. How he was competitive, weaker emotionally, stronger physically, and 'd learned the layout of the mansion to the names of all the servants. How they only addressed their parents as mother and father seemed rather odd to Rin, but she didn't question it.
Rinto learned how Rin had an older sister, Lenka, it turned out she had a stronger attitude and was stubborn, both a strong and weak point in her personality. He'd learned about the town and Rin few other friends. Rin's father had hand made many toys and his mother made the sweets sold there. Rinto loved the idea of such a happy together family.
The day of the swap...
"Bad news, Rin. Father has called for a ball to be held for the company's 25th anniversary! That's in four days!" Rinto sat down at their usual cafe, where they both loved the orange cake and he would always pay.
"So? That's part of your life, and I being better can handle it!" Rin said confidently, then grabbed the fork in front of her, she hummed in appreciation of the sweet cake.
Rinto sighed and picked up his too, "Are you sure?"
"Definitely!" Rin gave a thumbs up, "You ready?"
Rinto held up a bag and smiled, Rin did the same.
After a quick change...
"Wow, I look like you!" Rin was dressed in Rinto's white dress shirt, some reddish black slacks, a vest lined in gold fabric that matched the pants, and a big golden bow tie with a large cerulean gem in the center. "Now just a little off the bottom..." Rin snipped her hair to look like how Rinto's was last week.
"Nice, how do I look?" Rinto had a gold shirt and yellow hoodie that said '50%' mirrored on both sides of the hoodie! and some regular flare jeans. Thank goodness for gender neutral figures!
"Sweet! Here ya go!" Rin brushed his hair out and placed her bow on his head. "Perfect, like looking in a mirror"
"Call me tonight then." Rinto held up her phone.
"Got it!" Rin held up his leaving first.
And on, and on it goes...