The next morning was a lazy morning for the two brothers. They slept in till early afternoon. Then, they ate the snack that they bought yesterday. There wasn't much to be done and their stiff muscles from cleaning yesterday were just starting to relax. It seemed like a good way to start the day.
Around 11:30 am, Yukio announced that he needed to go to a meeting. So, he took a quick shower and changed into a uniform.
"Nii-san, I'm leaving," called Yukio from the dorm entrance.
"Kay. If you come back early, I'll have some dinner ready for you," promised the older brother.
"But we didn't buy any ingredients yesterday. Can you make dinner?"
"I'll manage something with things I brought from home," grinned Rin.
"Fine. I might be able to get home around 5:00 in the evening," said Yukio as he left.
Rin watch his brother's back as he left. He never realized it but Yukio had broad shoulders, strong back and thick waist. When did his timid little brother grow up? Yukio used to get bullied a lot when he was young and he would come crying to him. Then, Rin got angry and started a fight with the ones who bullied his brother using his inhumane strength which in turn got him in trouble. Rin chuckled as he remembered the times Yukio had hid behind his back. Well... there would be none of that now. His brother seemed to have grown while he was dealing with his own problems.
After Yukio left, Rin stated by cleaning the kitchen first. The kitchen was fairly big for the one in dorm, and it took him longer than he imagined. The kitchen had its own kitchenware which are in dire need of cleaning too and with the things he brought, he could make a simple dinner; fried noodle with tinned meat and tinned vegetable. Well, that's all he had on his hand, so they would have to make do for dinner with it.
After he prepared dinner, Rin glanced at the clock. It was little over 5:00 pm, but there were no shadow of Yukio coming back. So he decided that he could take a bath as he waited for his brother.
As he relaxed into the bath, he dozed off into dreamland.
He was drifting; drifting in the blue, blue sea. There was no end to it but just a blue expense that seemed to stretch to the horizon. He was alone in the whole place, and it was so quiet that when he moved his hand the splash sound came out too loud.
He didn't mind though because it was relaxing. The blue liquid that flow around him was soothing, and cool to his feverish flesh.
Then he heard the consistent splashing sounds as he liquid started to rub his body affectionately like a cat asking for his attention. He paid it no mind, but just relax his body and let it drift along that liquid.
After a while, the liquid started coiling around him, and he watched with fascination how the thick blue liquid made a stuck contract with his pale skin. Even when the liquid squeeze his body too tight to make him uncomfortable, he continued to watch with the same fascination, but his concentration started to get unfocused as it got hard for him to breath. And there also seemed to be a faint voice calling him from a distance. "Nii-san" It sounded so much like Yukio.
"Nii-san!" called Yukio urgently as he shook his brother a little violently, "Nii-san, wake up! You might drown."
Rin woke up with a startle and looked around himself. Yukio looked worried but nothing seemed out of order. "Did I actually fall asleep?"
"You shouldn't sleep in the bath, Nii-san. You might drown," scolded Yukio calming down, "Get out of the bath. It's cold already." Yukio grab the towel from the nearby shower rack and gave it to Rin. Then, he quickly left the room with "Come downstairs when you're done. I'm starving." He didn't need another episode like yesterday even if he was worried.
When he got home earlier, he arrived later than he promised; so he had came into the dorm expecting too see Rin waiting to tell him that he was late. However, he was met with silence when he got home, so he check the whole place to find Rin in the bath, sleeping soundly. At first, it seemed normal as it was so like his brother to fall asleep in the bathtub, but when he tried to wake up his brother, he wouldn't wake up. He even shook him in vain. He got worried as it seemed like his brother was being taken away from him again but this time without even Rin realizing it. To his relief, Rin woke up when he tried to call his brother again.
The incident was later forgotten as the brothers settled into their dorm life nicely. Both of them were already familiar with the dorm and the school ground, and they had bought all the things he needed from the market while making sure not to meet the headmaster who had a habit of popping out of nowhere at the strangest of moments. They had also got used to their new roles as housemates.
Just like that a week had rolled by uneventfully, and today was going to be an opening day. The two brothers had woken up early, clean up and eat their breakfast. Well actually Yukio was the one who woke up early to prepare for the first day of school and he literally kick his older brother out of bed to wake him up. Still, all was good as they both arrive at the opening ceremony on time with a little time to spare.
The opening ceremony at the True Cross Academy was just as boring as any school openings and Rin was getting sleepy listening to that old man talk on and on about something or the other. That was until they called up Yukio to give a speech as the freshman representative. That caught Rin's attention immediately. He knew that Yukio was smart but he didn't know that he was that smart. And it seemed Yukio was already famous among the girls. Rin could hear them talking and giggling about yukio among themselves. 'Well Yukio was quite handsome with strong, tall body and to top it off, he passed the entrance exam at the top of the year. And he had a big dream to chase after,' thought Rin proud of his brother.
After the ceremony, the girls drag away Yukio not giving him any chance to find his brother. They flock around him like flies to the roadside lump.
Rin watched his brother from a distance. It was easy to spot him with all the girls squealing around him. Truth be told, he felt lonely. Since he was a kid, everyone shun him like a plaque because of his inhumane strength and Yukio was the only true friend he had and he was the only one Yukio could rely on. But now things had changed. He watched as Yukio blushed with something a girl said and he smile at her kindly. He wanted to go in there, grab Yukio and tell all those girls to stop bothering his twin brother.
"Why such a long face? It ruins your beauty," said a voice from behind as they grab his ass.
Rin jumped at least two feet up into the air with a heavy blush tinting his cheeks. "Stop grabbing me, you stupid clown principal. And I don't have a long face," shouted Rin.
"Well excuse me. If you hadn't tantalized me with that expression, I wouldn't have grabbed you."
"I'm doing no such thing!"
"Are you sure?" By now, the headmaster of the True Cross Academy was getting dangerously close to his student with his face inches away from Rin's.
However before anything could happen, Rin was pulled away from the back of his shirt collar by none other than Yukio. "Oh...? The principal himself is welcoming his students personally. How diligent but please refrain from doing so only to one student. Other students might think you're playing favoritism," said Yukio with his smiling poker face.
Since he saw his brother talking, quite animatedly might he add, with their principal, he had wanted to intervene them. He didn't want anything to happen, especially with this many students around them, but the girls were so persistent and seriously where did they get such power to hold him in place? He couldn't even move an inch. However, his blood boiled when he saw the clown man getting too close to his brother, and with new found strength which he didn't know where it came from, he pulled away from the girls and got to the student and principal duo in time to interrupt them.
"Well, if you don't want to lose your wife, you better take good care him," said the clown man with his signature grin plastered across his face. "If he is lonely, it just make easier for others to snatch him away." After saying that, the principal disappeared with a poof of cloud, leaving behind him one pissed off brother and one confused brother.
