It was another day at school for Shindou brothers and of course for all the children.

*YAWN*

A big yawn came out and Hikaru felt the drowsiness coming back to him. Shiro turned around to find Hikaru with his opened mouth, still yawning and rubbing his eyes. He couldn't help but whispered to his best friend curiously.

"Pssshh… What's wrong? Not enough sleep last night?
"…."

"OH. Don't tell me you spent all night playing Netgo? Man, you are such a go freak."

Shiro teased Hikaru and smirked at the sleepy boy behind him. Hikaru glared at him with his slightly red eyes, making him flinched in his seat.

"Whooops! Was I wrong?"

"…It's because of that damn Sai."

"Huh?"

"That Sai! He made me explain about the Netgo the whole night. Even we were already in bed, he kept pestering me about it. I couldn't get enough sleep because of it! Damn it!"

"Wow... Fujiwara-san is so extreme. Maybe even more than you..?"

*SMACK*

Hikaru smacked Shirou's head.

"Ouch! What's that for...!"

Hikaru was ready to burst out his answer when they heard a loud voice coming from their teacher.

"You two! Pay attention to the lesson or I'll have you both standing outside!"

"Y-Yes! We are sorry!" they said in unison.

Hikaru mouthed 'It's your fault' while Shirou just grinned and shrugged his shoulders with no remorse on his face.

If felt like the time moved very slow that day, especially for hikaru. He had retorted to solve some go problems that he wrote in his small notebook to keep him awake during the class. He glanced at his teacher's direction every now and then to make sure he didn't get caught this time. And finally the class was over…

"Ne, Hikaru… Want to have a match later?"

Hikaru looked up and saw Shirou grinning at him.

"…Soccer? It's too hot today. Anyway, I can't keep my eyes open for any longer…"
Hikaru slumped over his desk and closed his eyes. It felt like he could just sleep there and went home later after his drowsiness subsided.

"Whaa… Hey, don't sleep here! I was talking about a GO match by the way… Ah—"

Shiro suddenly stopped talking. Wondering what happened, Hikaru lazily opened his eyes to find the same face he saw in the mirror when he brushed his teeth every morning, minus the blonde bangs.

"…Since when our class has a mirror?"

His 'supposed to be reflection' smiled and reached out his hands to flick Hikaru's forehead.

"Ouch! That hurts!"

"Are you awake now?"

That smile was still there. The creepy smile he knew too well since his childhood. Hikaru grumbled something inaudible and let Hideaki dragged him out of the class. He was too sleepy to fight back as all he wanted was a good sleep. Shirou just laughed and said something like even the almighty Hikaru couldn't win against his twin brother.


As soon as they arrived at home, Hikaru just threw his bag and jumped on his bed. Just when he thought he could get at least an hour of nap, he heard a loud voice called his name the moment his head touched the pillow. He was thinking he would just cover his ears and ignored it but the voiced suddenly got louder until suddenly he could hear that familiar voice right beside him.

"Hikaru! Let's continue what we were talking about yesterday! I want to have matches against everyone from all over the world too. Ne, Hikaruuuuuuu~~"

"NO."

And with that, Hikaru ignored Sai who keep questioning with 'why' until someone entered the room.

"You are bullying Sai-nii again, Hikaru?"

Hikaru got up in an instant and glared at the newcomer.

"I am bullying him? I am the one who being bullied here! If you are my brother, you should've sided with me!"

"What seems to be the problem now?" Hideaki asked again with a calm voice as he always did.

"I wanna play go like Hikaru too!" one childish voice happily joined their conversation before Hikaru could answer.

"Hear that?" Hikaru sleepily said with his closed eyes.

"Just let him play then." Hideaki answered again.

"To register on the site, we need an invitation. Well, I can ask Shirou to send it. But to begin with, we don't have internet connection here, right? So that's it. I am going to slee—"

"We do."

"You hear that, Sai? We do have- Wait, what..? We do? Since when?"

"I asked Grandfather because I said I need it to do research for school's project. It's been connected for almost a month now. If only you pay more attention to what I do, you'll know. Hikaru is such a cold brother. Aniki is very sad…"

"Gyahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Stop with that kind of talk. You are making me having goosebumps all over!"

"What's wrong with it?"

"Everything!"

"Even though you just said something cute like you wanted aniki to side with you just now… Aniki is hurt."

"Aaaaaaaahhhhh! S-Stop it! I-I'll call Shiro and ask whether it's possible to send one more invitation!"

Hikaru ran out of the room with lightning speed. It seems like his sleepiness was gone completely. Hideaki laughed softly at his brother's attitude.

"You teased him too much." Sai said, but there's an amused tone hidden in his voice.

"My bad. His reactions are so interesting, I can't help it." Hideaki answered with a smile on his lips.

After a few minutes, Hikaru came back into the room and said that it will take some time before the invitation can be sent because Kai was currently couldn't contacted. But looking at Sai's sad face, Hikaru sighed and said that Sai could look at his matches when he was playing which of course immediately made Sai excited. And soon, all three of them crowded around the computer in the study room.


"Quick, quick, Hikaru. Turn it on! Ahhhhh~ I can't wait any longer."

"Say that to Hideaki, I have no idea how! Quit pushing me, you are heavy!"

"You'd better learn to do it yourself, Hikaru. I won't be with you forever, you know."

"I'll ask Shirou then. Problem solved. Just turn it on now."

"That's not what I meant… You are impossible… There, it's on. Here, type your login."

"Ummmm… Can you look over there for a minute?"

"What? It's not like I will use your login. I am not interested in playing netgo anyway."

"That's not it!"

"Then type it now."

"Hikaru, quick! I want to see you playing go!"

"Nggghhhhh… F-Fine. Don't laugh, okay!"

Hikaru grumbled and proceeded to type in his username and password while Hideaki and Sai looked curiously, wondering why Hikaru being all secretive. And then they saw it.

"…Pfffftttt!"

"Hey, I told you not to laugh! Hideaki!"

"B-But, your username… Pfftttt… It's… RAMEN? What were you thinking, Hikaru? R-RAMEN! Hahahahaha!"

Hideaki burst out laughing while Hikaru glared at him with red face, either from anger or embarrassment. Sai didn't say anything but it was clear that his shoulders were shaking a bit. Sai tried his best to stifle his laugh and covered it with coughs. Thankfully Hikaru was too busy glaring at Hideaki to notice.

"N-ne, Hikaru, why don't you try playing someone now? I want to see you play!" Sai said after he finally regained his composure.

"Fine. Let's just ignore this baka." Hikaru said with pouty face.

After glaring at Hideaki once, he faced the computer once again and scrolled through the list of online members and challenged a random person. Not long after, his challenge was accepted and the screen changed into grids similar to go boards. The match begins and Sai exclaimed in surprise at every little thing going inside the screen and Hikaru just grinned at his reactions. Soon, Hideaki joined , commenting that Hikaru sucked and he was surprised to see that he was currently winning which of course made Hikaru mad and argued with him while Sai was too occupied by the game. Starting then, Hikaru started to play NetGo more often…


A/N:

ruhiko : Thank you! Glad to hear that :)

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petites sorcieres : None of it but you knew what the username is by now XD

Let me say honestly that I kinda forgot about this until I checked my emails and found notices from ^^;

I thank you for the support. I hope you enjoy this chapter as well. Got the basic idea down but haven't really write for some time so it's kinda awkward to write again somehow. I myself can't wait to insert Akira into the story and begin the fiery rivalry~! 8DD

Well then, until next time!^^