-Sixes and Seventeens-f o u r t e e n- Now we know about the pumpkin-

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All fairytales should have a happy ending; even if real life doesn't.

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Hikaru thought fairytales were for babies, girls, sissies, the like. He grew out of needing a bedtime story by the time he was four years old. However, Kaoru didn't, but he never argued that he wanted a bedtime story either.

That's probably why, as a high school student, he found console in Cinderella...

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'Hika-kun! Story!' Kaoru yelled, bouncing up and down on the mattress. Hikaru mentally slapped himself. Why hadn't he been more careful in trying not to wake him? Why did he have to jog up the stairs? Because now Kaoru wasn't tired; in fact, he was the complete opposite. He was hyper.

Hikaru sighed as he sunk down onto the bedside, 'What story do you want?'

Kaoru grinned as he fell back onto the bed, 'make one up Hika-kun!'

The elder let out a deep sigh, trying to come up with a story. 'Okay, how about...once upon a time in a land far, far away, there lived a magical dragon?' he asked. Kaoru's eyes widened, shining with curiosity as he beckoned Hikaru to continue.

'But this dragon had anger issues, so for no reason whatsoever, he decided to attack the neighboring castle one night, and eat everyone there. But then he died of over consumption. The end, now get to sleep!'

Kaoru had a look of complete and utter shock etched on his face before it hardened into disbelief. 'Where's the happy ending?' he asked pathetically.

'That's life, kiddo. You don't always get happy endings,' Hikaru stated bluntly.

The younger's eyes welled up with tears. 'Buuut, Nii-san...' The small Hitachiin stuck out his bottom lip and let it quibble.

Hikru tried to resist the begging look, but to no avail. Giving in to Kaoru's look of despair combined with the honorific. 'Oh fine!' He huffed.

Kaoru smile then gave a giggle of content and hopped beneath the covers, waiting for the new story.

'Once upon a time, there were two princes. And their family was pretty messed up, but we won't get into the details of the shadowed mother, the insane father, or cute sister or—'

Kaoru blinked then snuggled under the covers more, his head mostly covered except for his eyes peeping out.

'Anyways,' Hikaru continued with a wave of his hand, 'one day, for reasons unknown, the younger of the two princes was cursed—'

The small Hitachiin's eyes began to droop.

'—he turned a quarter of his usual size and less than half his age. The older prince was shock, and wanted nothing more than for things to go back to normal.—'

Kaoru willed for his eyes to open again, only to have them droop farther.

'—he tried, the king tried, the whole messed up family tried to put him back to normal but—'

The small boy's eyes closed.

Hikaru stopped. Kaoru was breathing softly, with his eyes closed. He smiled and was about to get up from the bed when Kaoru softly asked, '…where's the happy ending?...'

The older Hitachiin chuckled and pulled Kaoru's covers up higher. 'And somehow, they live happily ever after…'

Kaoru smiled. Soon his breathing was smooth and even; his petite form curled into the duvet.

Hikaru's smile softened. 'Somehow, Kaoru, somehow...' he whispered.

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Everything around him was white, with patches of...bleak, unknown colours. But Hikaru didn't care about that. What he cared about was the normal sized mirror image a few feet in front of him, head down, face masked by his bangs.

'Kaoru!' he called out.

Kaoru glanced up, his eyes meeting Hikaru's. His eyes were shining with unshed tears. 'Hikaru...,' he breathed as he took one step forward. Hikaru took twelve steps forward until he was directly in front of him.

'Kaoru...I missed you...,' he mumbled softly as he pulled his twin in a tight embrace.

'Figure it out,' Kaoru breathed in his ear in an equally hushed voice.

Hikaru loosened their hug so he could look his brother in the eye. 'Huh, Kaoru, what do you mean?'

'What do you think it means?' Kaoru answered.

'Kaoru,' he muttered, 'I don't understand...'

Kaoru's face was rapidly coming closer to his own, their noses almost brushing.

'Figure it out,' he repeated, coming closer and closer to a blushing Hikaru. Closer and closer until-

Hikaru woke up in a cold sweat, glancing down at his still chibi-fied brother who had attached himself intimately to his older brothers leg, meeping slightly in his slumber. He brushed his hair out of his eyes, blushing heavily and breathing hard.

Figure what out... The reason to why I'm having dreams about kissing my brother?

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