A/N: ENJOY!
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Hitsugaya Yuki was finally at Urahara Kisuke's shop by sunset. There were only about four boys with her. They were standing and conversing with each other right outside the shop door. Well, everyone except her and Urahara-san.
She finally saw Abarai Kimiko there. Yuki waved to her friend. Kimiko waved back.
"Konnichiwa, Yuki-chan!" Kimiko shouted with joy. "You're going to be at this camp thing, too?!"
"Yeah. Daddy says that I have a captain level reiatsu," Yuki said, calmly.
"Well, my daddy says that I have lieutenant type reiatsu," Kimiko said. Then she said, "Oh! You want to see my new tattoo my daddy gave me?"
"Sure." Kimiko raised up her sleeve and showed Yuki the super-cool heart tattoo on her forearm.
Meanwhile, Hinamori Rei and Kurosaki Sakura were walking toward Urahara-san's Shop.
"So, here it is. Urahara Shoten," Sakura announced. The two girls went inside.
After every kid was settled, Urahara made his speech.
"Hello, everybody! I'm Urahara Kisuke! And beside me is Yoruichi! We are both going to your instructors for the next three weeks!" Then he got serious and held his fan in front of his face. "I see that most of you are from the Soul Society. We seem to have a few from Karakura Town itself. I'm sure some of you have heard of Mod Souls. These are three of them." He pointed to the three mod souls. "Ririn, Kurodo, and Nova. They will show you to your rooms."
A few minutes later, everyone was in their rooms. Yuki and Kimi were roommates. They gently laid out their things, before Yoruichi came in.
"Alright you two, showers are to your right, Rec room's to your left, and Mess hall's straight ahead. Chow's at seven, twelve-fifteen, and six-thirty. Kisuke gives five demerits for being tardy, so don't be."
The next morning, six girls and six boys, all in shihakushos, had arrived for breakfast. The twelve kids spilt into two lines of six and approach a central buffet table.
In one line is Yuki. In the other line, headed right toward her, is Rei. Both Rei and Yuki were busy talking to their friends and didn't notice each other.
As Rei reached the front of the line and approached the buffet table, Yuki did the same. For a split second, they stood directly next to each other. Just as they were about to turn around and see each other, Urahara stepped between them with a plate full of food.
"Excuse me, girls ... I've just got to have a scoop of those gorgeous blueberries," He said, holding a large spoonful. He turned to Yuki. "Care for some?"
"Oh, no thanks, can't, I'm allergic." Yuki took her plate and moved off.
Urahara turned to Rei on his other side
"How bout you, dear? Blueberries?"
"Sorry, wish I could but I'm allergic," Rei said, apologetically.
Urahara was confused, and looked back to Yuki, who was nowhere in sight.
"Oh, yes, allergic." He paused. "You just told me that! How'd you get over there? Oh, well, first day of running a camp... You'll have to excuse the ol' man. At least I'm not putting salt in the sugar shakers yet. I mean, sugar in the..." he paused and turned back to Rei, who was also gone. "Now, where'd she go?"
Later that day, at a fencing match to bring up the kids' swords skills in the underground training room, two kids, a girl and a boy, each wearing nylon jackets and wire-mesh masks, were in the middle of a duel. The girl was whipping the boy's butt, and she knocked his sword out of his hand and pinning him against the wall. The other campers applauded and cheered.
Both kids took off their masks to see Yuki as the victor.
"Touche! Excellent, kids," Yoruichi exclaimed. She raised Yuki's arm. "The winner and still undefeated champ, Hitsugaya Yuki!"
Yuki took a bow and moved off with Kimiko. Rei and Sakura passed by in time to hear Yoruichi say, "Do we have any challengers?"
Rei pulled on a mask. "Sure. I'll take a whack at it."
She snaped on a vest, flipped the training sword into the air and caught it, then nodded to Yoruichi.
Yoruichi blew her whistle. "En garde!"
Yuki, still in her mask, turned to see Rei in her mask and vest. Rei saluted briskly with her sword. Yuki hesitates, but then did the same. They stood on guard... looking like bookends. Yoruichi blew the whistle again and the duel began!
Yuki lunged, Rei parried, then attacked. Yuki tried to knock the sword out of Rei's hand but Rei deflected the blade, whirled around and lunged. Point for Rei!
Yuki got the jump on Rei and came in low. Point!
Yuki lunged but Rei caught her sword and swept it in a full circle, pulling them together, mask-to-mask. They broke.
Yuki charged but Rei side-stepped and Yuki ran past her. Yuki stopped and whipped around to find Rei lunging toward her. Yuki stepped back, lost her balance and fell butt-first into a water trough, landing with a huge splash. The campers exploded with laughter.
Rei reached out to help Yuki but Yuki grabbed Rei's hand and yanked her into the trough. The campers cracked up as the two girls sat soaking, side-by-side. They climbed out together and angrily pulled off their masks. Yuki tossed her letdown hair as Rei squeezed her hair bun dry.
"Looks like we got ourselves a new camp champ. Miss Hinamori Rei! Let's shake hands, girls," Yoruichi shouted.
Neither girl turned around.
"Girls!"
Rei and Yuki turned, hands extended. And for the first time, they looked into each other's faces. They froze. They were speechless. It was like looking into a mirror. Yuki extended her hand. Rei reached for it. As their hands touched, something electric passes between them. Rei and Yuki looked down at their hands, then up at each other, not knowing what to say. Just then, their friends, Kimiko and Sakura, joined them and they immediately slipped their hands into their pockets, at the same time. Their friends stopped in their tracks and looked from Rei to Yuki, stunned at the resemblance. The lunch bell rang and everyone else in the training room ran toward the Mess Hall.
"Why's everyone staring?" Yuki asked.
"Don't you see it?" Rei asked.
"See what?"
"The resemblance between us."
"Between you and me?! A resemblance? Let me see, turn sideways…" Rei did. "Now the other way…" Rei did. "Well, your eyes are much closer together than mine. Your ears stick out, your teeth are crooked and that nose…well, don't worry, those things can be fixed."
Kimiko laughed.
"Want me to deck her for you?" Sakura asked. She did learn her karate skills from Tatsuki, her father, and her grandfather.
"Hold on, I'm not quite finished. You want know the real difference between us?" Yuki said.
"I have class and you don't? Or I know how to fence and you don't? Take your pick." Rei retorted.
Yuki angrily stepped forward but Yoruichi stepped in between them.
"Okay, ladies, time to break-up this little love fest. Rei…Yuki…" She pointed to Yuki when she said Rei, and to Rei when she said Yuki. "I mean, Yuki…Rei…" She corrected her mistakes.
The lunch bell rang again. Sakura pulled Rei away, as Kimiko pulled Yuki in the other direction.
"That girl is a major loser. Too bad you couldn't look like somebody cooler," Kimiko said angrily to Yuki.
"She has red hair, and I have blue," Yuki retorted. "We do not look alike."
"Do we really look as much alike as I think we do?" Rei asked her friend.
"It's just a weird freak of nature," Sakura slapped Rei on the back. "Please accept my condolences."
Rei looked back at Yuki, who was sneaking a look back at her. She quickly turned away.
One night later, Rei was sitting in the lounge with the other campers. She had her deck of cards out. She was playing poker with all the campers and she was winning big time.
"Sorry, ladies, read 'em and weep." Rei spread out a full house. The others groaned and tossed in their hands as Rei raked in the pot.
"So... that's it... no other takers?"
"You've already taken everybody..." a random boy said.
A crisp new five-dollar bill flew onto the Japanese-style table.
"Not everybody."
Everybody looked up to see Yuki standing over Rei with a smirk on her face.
As Rei dealed the cards, a series of quickshots of Rei and Yuki, were going one-on-one... shuffling, dealing, drawing, bluffing... First Rei raked in the pot... then Yuki... then Rei... it was back and forth... until finally the entire pot sat in front of Yuki, and Rei was down to her last dollar.
Yuki tossed in her bet. "Three bucks."
Rei checked her hand. She was holding a straight. She bit her lip, knowing she held a winning hand.
"Tell you what I'm gonna do, since you're almost tapped out... I'll make you a deal. Loser jumps into the river in Karakura Town after the game," Yuki said.
"Excellent."
"But nude."
"Even more excellent." Rei revealed her hand. "Queen high straight."
But Yuki spread a full house across the table. "Start unzipping, Hinamori…full house."
At the river, Rei's bare feet stepped away from her fallen clothes.
The other campers were huddled on the shore holding candles. Yuki stood in the center of the group with a content smile on her face.
Rei reached the dock, teeth chattering. She turned back, looks at the campers, with the boys holding their noses, trying not to get a nosebleed, even though Rei's body was covered by shadows. Yuki and Kimiko waved. Rei saluted them.
Rei gracefully sliced through the water in a perfect dive. Rei popped up in the water, and looked out at the campers but they had left.
Rei's wet feet hurried across the sand and arrived at where her clothes were but all that's left was her sandals.
"Let the games begin…Hitsugaya…let the games begin…" Rei said with venom seeping into her voice.
The next day before dinner, Yuki and Kimiko were trudging to their room after a kidou class. They were hot, sweaty and tired.
"I swear I heard that girl sneezing all the way across the mess hall this morning," Kimiko laughed.
"I'm so tired. I'm crawling back into bed and sleeping until dinner," Yuki yawned.
Kimiko stopped, looking into the room. "That does not seem like a possibility."
"Why not?"
"That's 'why not'," Kimiko said pointing into their room.
Yuki stopped in her tracks, and her eyes went wide. Their once-clean room was now a total pigsty.
"No way…"
That night, the door to Sakura and Rei's room squeaked open and Yuki stepped inside. She signaled "the coast is clear" and Kimiko tiptoed in carrying strange, unidentifiable objects. They both quickly went to work.
A jar of honey was opened and poured into a pair of Addidas. A can of shaving cream was squirted onto a pillowcase. A ball of twine was wound around a bedpost, and then zigzagged across the room. An industrial-size can of chocolate was emptied into a bucket. Wesson Oil was poured all over the floor.
In the morning, Kurodo played the wake up song on a bugle, very badly.
The room looked like one giant spider web. Mazes of string were everywhere. The sound of Emille echoed through the room as Sakura got out of bed. She slid in the Wesson Oil, got stuck in the honey, tripped over the string…lots of yelling and screaming. Rei stood dripping in shaving cream.
"She's without a doubt, the lowest, most awful creature that ever walked the planet!" Rei shouted.
Yuki and Kimiko were meanwhile peeking in the window, thrilled with their achievement.
"Thank you. Thank you very much," Yuki said in an Elvis voice. Kimiko laughed.
Just then, the Urahara and Yoruichi appeared behind them, clipboards in hand.
"Morning, girls."
"Morning, Urahara-san," the two girls said, not looking out of the window. Then they freaked out. "Urahara-san?!?!"
Yoruichi shouted as she neared the door to Rei's room, "Kurosaki, Hinamori, Surprise inspection! Ten-shun! Kisuke, why don't you do the honors?"
Urahara nodded and reached for the door handle but Yuki rushed to him.
"No, no, don't go in there!" Yuki said.
Rei put her ear next to the door and listened, wondering what Yuki was up to.
"One of the girls got sick last night and it's a big mess. Save yourself the aggravation. It's really disgusting."
"Well, if someone's sick, dear, then I must go in."
Urahara started to open the door, not realizing he was pulling on a string attached to a bucket that was about to tip right over his head. Yuki's eyes shot up to the bucket, then back to Urahara.
"No, really, let go of that door. I insist. She's highly contagious."
"Actually, we're all fine in here. Unless Hitsugaya Yuki knows something we don't know," Rei shouted through the window. Rei watched Yuki's eyes go up to the bucket. "Open the door and come on in, Urahara-san."
With that, Urahara slid open the door, tipping the bucket, which was filled with Hershey's Syrup. Urahara was instantly covered head-to-toe in chocolate. Yoruichi screamed, and slipped in the syrup, and tumbled to the ground. Urahara turned to Yuki, slowly wiping the syrup from his eyes.
"Well, congrats, ladies…"
A few moments later, Rei and Yuki stood side-by-side as Urahara paced in front of them, holding a towel, still wiping off chocolate. Yoruichi stood at his side, also spotted in chocolate.
"That little stunt was the most revolting display of hooliganism ever to take place on these hollowed grounds," Urahara said.
"Amen," Yoruichi said.
"And worst of all, coming from two sisters who should be setting an example for the entire…"
"We're not sisters, sir," Rei said.
Urahara turned, and looked at them.
"We've never even seen each other before," Yuki added.
"That's impossible," Urahara said. He remembered Toshirou's and Momo's huge fight.
"I'm afraid the look-alike thing has been the crux of the problem, Kisuke," Yoruichi said, also remembering the fight.
"Well, whatever the excuse, I recommend immediate dismissal."
"You're sending us home?" Yuki asked, afraid of what her father would say.
"That does somehow say we failed, doesn't it, Kisuke?" Yoruichi asked.
"All right, all right…let me just think…" Urahara said.
Yoruichi said under her breath, "Uh-oh."
Rei and Yuki both bit their lips, nervously awaiting their fate.
After lunch, the two ex-captains led Rei and Yuki away from their rooms and up a long winding hill on the training grounds. Yuki balanced her duffel bag on her shoulder, as Rei struggled, her arms full of luggage. The rest of the campers marched in a line behind them.
The two ex-captains caught their breath as they led Rei and Yuki into a bunk with just two cots and two trunks.
"We've got fourteen days left at camp, two weeks, and you two are going to spend every glorious one of them together. You'll eat together, bunk together and do all your activities together. Either you'll find a way to get along or you'll punish yourselves better than I ever could," Urahara said.
"You'll thank us for this, you'll see," Yoruichi told the two before she and Urahara left.
The two left, leaving Rei and Yuki alone and worse, with each other. Rei lifted her suitcases onto the bed and neatly started unpacking her things. Yuki, on the other hand, flipped open her trunk, unzipped her duffel and shook her things out like she was emptying a bag of potato chips into a bowl.
For the next five days, the girls did not speak to each other at all. Nada. On the fifth day, a terrible storm started brewing.
Yuki, in flannel PJ's and a sweatshirt, was pinning up postcards and photos above her cot. Rei, in a matching sweater and pants, played solitaire. Now and then, they each snuck a glance at the other.
A sudden gust of wind blew the door open, sending Yuki's stack of photos flying into the air. Yuki screamed, trying to save them, as Rei rushed to the door and bolted it shut. Together, the girls tied down the blinds. Rei found Yuki's favorite stuffed animal, Ryuu, lying on the floor and hands him to Yuki. Ryuu was a stuffed dragon, which is why she called him Ryuu.
"Arigatou," Yuki said, taking Ryuu.
"Any of your pictures ruined?" Rei asked.
"Only the beautiful Leo DiCaprio." Yuki held out a torn photo.
"Oh, your boyfriend?"
"Yeah, right," Yuki said sarcastically. "You've never heard of Leonardo DiCaprio?"
"I've heard of Leonardo DiVinci."
"How far away is your house anyway?"
"From here, six thousand feet. But sometimes, it seems much further. How far away is your home?"
"My house is actually in another world. Actually, here's a picture of the city," Yuki said, showing Rei a photo of Sereitei.
"Wow. It's beautiful." Rei was awed at the sight of Soul Society. "So, that's what Sereitei looks like."
"We've got this incredible porch that wraps around the whole house with rocking chairs and a hammock and stables back that away…and this great pool with a sliding board…" Yuki was talking about Division 10.
"How cool." She pointed to another picture of Toshirou whose back was turned. "Who's that?"
"Oh, that's my Dad... He didn't know I was taking a picture or he would've turned around. He's kinda like my best friend. We do everything together."
Rei reacted strangely, as if chilled. She rubbed the goosebumps on her arms.
"What's wrong?"
Rei pulled down her sleeves. "It's chilly in here, that's all."
Yuki crossed the room to her trunk and took out a bag of oreos. Then she turns and sees Rei watching her.
"Want one?" Yuki asked.
"Sure. I love Oreos. At home, I eat them with peanut butter."
"You do? That's so weird. So do I." Yuki was surprised.
"You're kidding? Most people find that totally disgusting."
"I know. I don't get it," Yuki agreed.
"Me neither."
The two laughed, feel a little guilty for enjoying each other's company, then laughed even harder. Yuki dug a jar of peanut butter from her trunk and opened it. The girls started eating.
"What's your dad like? I mean, is he the kind of father you can talk to or is he one of those workaholic types that says, 'I'll talk to you later, honey', but never really does? I hate that," Yuki said.
"I don't have a father, actually. I mean I had one, once, I suppose, but my parents divorced years ago. My mother never even mentions him. It's like he evaporated into thin air or something."
"It's scary the way nobody stays together any more."
"Tell me about it," Rei agreed.
Both girls were devouring their Oreos and peanut butter.
"How old are you?" Yuki asked.
"I'll be fourteen on February 14th."
Yuki choked. "So will I."
"Your birthday's February 14th?"
Yuki nodded.
"How weird is that?" Rei asked.
"Very," Yuki said. Then she looked out the window. "Hey, it stopped raining. Want to get a Popsicle or something?"
Rei walked to Yuki and looked her up and down, really studying her, playing with her lotus flower hair clip. Yuki, feeling her eyes on her, also played with her hair clip.
"What's the matter?" Yuki asked.
"Yuki, what's your mother like?"
"I never met her. She and my dad split up when I was a baby, maybe even before, I'm not sure. He doesn't like to talk about her…but I know she was really beautiful."
"How do you know that?"
"Because my Dad had this old picture of her hidden in his sock drawer and he caught me looking at it all the time so he gave it to me to keep. I'm really thirsty, you sure you don't want to go to the canteen and get something to drink?"
"Will you stop thinking about your stomach at a time like this?" Rei asked.
"At a time like what?" Yuki asked, totally clueless.
"Don't you realize what's happening?!? Don't you find it peculiar that we both look so much alike and have the same birthday and…oh man, this is beyond coincidence, and this is beyond imagination! I only have a mother. You only have a father. You've never seen your Mom. I've never seen my Dad. You have one old picture of your Mom, I have one old picture of my Dad but at least yours is probably a whole picture." Yuki listened to Rei's rant and then went over to her trunk.
"Mine's a pathetic little thing, ripped right down the middle…what are you rummaging in your trunk for?" Rei continued.
"This. It's the picture of my Mom. And it's ripped, too," Yuki said, taking out a ripped photo.
"Right down the middle?" Rei asked, a little spooked.
"Right down the middle." Yuki nodded, nervously.
Rei rushed to her trunk, wildly tossing out her things. She pulled out a small box, opened it and carefully took out her ripped photograph. She walked over to Yuki, holding it to her chest.
"This is so freaky. Okay. On the count of three, we'll show them to each other, okay?"
"One... two..." they both said together. " Three!" They held out their pictures.
"That's Dad!" Yuki said, pointing at Rei's photo.
"That's Mom!" Rei said, pointing to Yuki's photo.
The two torn pictures which, when placed next to each other, fit perfectly, forming one complete picture. In the picture, Momo sat cozily next to Toshirou. Behind the couple was a life preserver with the names 'Hitsugaya' and 'Hinamori' on it. They were both smiling.
The girls stared at the photo, then at each other. A formality of strangeness settled on them. They both reached for their hair clips. Then, the lunch bell sounded.
"That's the lunch bell," Rei said.
"I'm not so hungry anymore. So if your mom is my mom and my dad is your dad... and we're both born on February 14th, then you and I are... like... sisters," Yuki said.
"Sisters?!? Yuki, we're twins!!!"
Frozen, Rei laughed then tears come to her eyes. Yuki's eyes filled up and soon tears streaked her cheeks. They put their arms around each other and embraced, sobbing. They pulled apart, looked at each other, smiled, and then began to laugh. Yuki played nervously with her hair clip.
"What's that hair clip you're playing with?" Rei asked.
"Oh, I got it when I was born. It has my initial 'Y' on it."
Rei showed hers. "I got mine when I was born, too. Except mine has an 'R' on it.
"Now I've got goose-bumps," Yuki said. "Oh my God. I'm a twin?!? There's two of me! I mean, two of us? Wow! This is like... I have to sit down."
Yuki took a seat on Rei's bed.
Rei sat down next to her. "I think I'll join you."
They sat for a split second, then:
"Can I see your toes?"
"Sure," Rei said, pulling off her socks.
Yuki kicked off her shoes and they held their feet out in front of them, side-by-side.
"Identical! Hands?" Rei exclaimed.
They held out their hands together.
"Oh my god. Exactly the same. Except I bite my nails."
"You should stop. See how nice they could look," Rei advised.
"What's your favorite word?" Yuki asked.
"Taco."
"Oh my God! Oh my God!"
"If you could only eat one food for the rest of your life, what would it be?"
"I don't know. Pizza…" Yuki said.
"Topped with…?"
"Ham, pineapple…"
"And…?" Rei waited.
"Extra cheese."
"Oh my God. We are twins!"
The girls hugged.
At dinner, Rei and Yuki sat at their Isolation Table, talking a mile-a-minute.
"I don't know what our parents fought about but it must've been pretty dreadful for them to bisect us like this," Rei said.
"I can't imagine anyone not getting along with Dad. Everyone loves him," Yuki said.
"I know, same with Mom."
"Tell me about her, what's she like?" Yuki asked.
"She's a clothing designer."
"Get out!" Yuki exclaimed.
"She designs the most beautiful wedding gowns. That's her specialty. She's becoming quite famous, actually. A Princess in Greece just bought one of her gowns," Rei said.
"Wow."
"You know what's interesting - neither of them ever got married again. Has your…my… our Dad ever been close to remarrying?"
"Never. He always says I'm the only girl in his life," Yuki said, proudly.
"Mom's never come close either. You know what this means, don't you?"
"Not exactly. You're obviously the older one. You get everything before me. What does it mean?"
"Secretly, in their innermost heart of hearts, they must still be in love with each other," Rei whispered.
"You think so? Then why haven't they tried to see each other all these years?" Yuki asked.
"That's the way true love works. History's filled with stories of lovers parted by some silly misunderstanding. Anyway, Mom can be unbelievably stubborn when she wants to be."
"She can't be worse than Dad. Dad has an awful temper. He always yells at Rangiku-san."
"They sound exactly like us," Rei said, laughing.
That night, the peacefulness was interrupted by Yuki.
"Oh my God!"
Yuki bolted straight up in bed.
"I have a brilliant beyond brilliant idea." Yuki got out of bed and paced around the room. "I'm a genius. Rei, wake up, you're related to a bonafide genius."
"What are you raving about?" Rei asked, sleepily.
"You want to know what Dad is like, right?" Yuki asked.
"I was just dreaming I was on your front porch with him."
"And I'm dying to know Mom. So what I'm thinking is…Oh man, this is so brilliant, it's scary."
"What is it?!?" Rei really wanted to know.
"I think we should switch places. When camp's over, I leave as you and go back to Karakura Town and you leave as me and go to Soul Society." She noticed Rei's look. "We can pull it off. We're twins, aren't we?"
"Twins from different countries, with different accents, different hair-styles, different vocabularies…different everything. Yuki, we're totally and completely one hundred percent different." Rei had high doubts about it.
"So? What's the problem? I'll teach you to be me and you teach me to be you." Yuki got down on her knees. "C'mon, I gotta meet Mom."
Rei got out of bed.
"The truth is, you know, if we switch, sooner or later they'll have to un-switch us."
"And when they do, they'll have to meet again."
"Face-to-face. After all these years."
There was a small silence.
"I told you I'm brilliant," Yuki said.
The next day, Yuki wore her now red hair in Rei's red bun holder and Rei wore her now blue hair down. Yuki held a large pad on which she had drawn the layout of the Tenth Division.
"Okay, the rooms are all in this building. My room is right next to Dad's, which is right here. Training room's here…Dad's office is the first door down the hall. You have to knock, because if you don't, he'll get pissed off… Down here is…" Yuki said, pointing to each room.
After lunch, Rei and Yuki sat on the edge of a cliff, looking through a stack of photos, as the campers sparred behind them. Rei now had blue eye contacts and Yuki now had red eyes contacts.
"This is Kon."
"He's so cute. What do we call him?" Yuki asked.
"Kon."
"That makes sense."
Rei shows the next photo. "This is Keigo. He's our 'butler'."
"We have a butler?" Yuki asked. Rei nodded.
A week later, the walls were covered with charts, photos and diagrams of Rei's Karakura House and Yuki's Division Ten House. Yuki suddenly came to realize something.
"Oi!"
"What Yuki?"
"Can you do kidou?"
"Yeah, why?"
"Good, because we also have to switch powers too…" Rei frowned.
"You mean we have to…" Yuki nodded slowly.
"Switch zanpaktous…" But nonetheless, they switched them.
When camp was finally over, on the last morning, teary-eyed campers were hugging good-bye, as they separated into two groups.
Sakura and Kimiko hug each other goodbye, for they are now friends. Yuki was now dressed in Rei's red sash and Rei is dressed in Yuki's blue sash.
"Okay, so remember, you're going to find out how Mom and Dad met…" Rei said.
"…And you're gonna find out why they broke up…" Yuki finished.
"Hinamori Rei! Your group's leaving! Hinamori Rei, front and center!" Yoruichi called.
"That's you. Also, remember, you've got to figure out a way to bring Mom out to Soul Society," Rei explained.
"Last call, Hinamori Rei!" Yoruichi called.
The girls hugged.
"Give Dad a kiss for me," Yuki said.
"And give Mom one for me."
Yuki nodded and took off. Rei watched her, playing with her hairclip. "Oh my God! Yuki! I mean, Rei!"
Yuki turned around.
"The hairclips!" Rei called.
Yuki rolled her eyes, ran back and the girls quickly switched hairclips, hugged good-bye and Yuki took off again.
Rei watched Yuki from the crowd. Rei crossed her arms, and then crossed her fingers.
"Good luck, Yuki," Rei whispered.
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A/N: I hoped you enjoyed it!
