Great i dea : You are right. Adrian is supposed to be an amazing actor and should know Aiden enough to be able to act as her acting as him. Especially the favorite color. Mixing up the twins when he hasn't been around them much and only knowing about them through Aiden's description of them can be complicated. The twins switch their hair daily and they try to make it hard for anyone to tell them apart. What stuck out to Adrian was Aiden mentioning that Kaoru seemed more 'approachable' and that was why he mixed the twins up. He believed that since Hikaru approached him that it was Kaoru. Adrian did mess up but even actors slip out of character (why we have bloopers) and sometimes forget their lines. And there are other factors that contributed to him slipping up that will be made clearer this chapter (or at least I hope so). I hope this clarifies why I wrote Adrian screwing up. He was convincing to everyone else though. Thank you for your review. It made me realize that I may need to write more clearly in order for readers to understand certain decisions I've made to the story. ^_^ thank you!

Enjoy! XD

Chapter 7

A Discovery

I walked inside the classroom with tired eyes as I made my way to my desk. The day before had been the physical exams and I had taken the day to play video games all day. You'd be surprised how tired it made you. It had been a while since I had played and I took advantage of it. I learned that I would regret it the next morning though.

"Good morning, Yukimura-san!" I was greeted by some girls.

"Morning," I mumbled as I walked towards my friends, "Morning, Haruhi, Kaoru, and Hikaru." I made it a point to look at each of them as I said their names before sitting in my regular seat.

"You look exhausted," Haruhi said as she turned around in her seat to look at me.

As if on cue, my mouth opened in a yawn as my hand came up to block it. "Mhm," I let out as I rubbed the sleep from my eyes.

"Wow. Even tired he still gets our names right," Kaoru said in astonishment.

"Yeah…" Hikaru replied.

I turned to them, "Is something wrong, Hikaru? You're zoning out." I tilted my head to the side as he seemed to look right through me or be in deep thought.

He snapped out of it, "No. Just nice to have you back." I blinked at him, wondering what made him say something like that. As far as he knew, I had seen him just yesterday.

"Didn't you seem him yesterday?" Haruhi asked him just as confused as I was.

He shrugged as he turned to go to his own seat, "Who could say?"

Haruhi and I looked at each other in confusion before we shrugged our shoulders. We turned our attention to the teacher who had walked in to start the class. Throughout the day, I couldn't help but notice how strange Hikaru was being. I often caught him looking at me or say something weird that didn't make much sense. Needless to say, all I could think about was Hikaru and that made me feel odd.

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I was standing in the makeshift changing room in the host club trying to figure out how to put on the kimono that was given to me to wear. Maybe it's this way? No. I just couldn't figure it out. I tried without looking at the mirror and tried while looking at the mirror. However, all I could do is make it look a mess. I had never worn something like this before and had no idea how to put it on.

"Aren't you done yet?" I heard Hikaru's impatient voice on the other side of the curtain, "It's not rocket science." I stayed silent as I attempted once again to get the damn thing on as I concentrated on the mirror in front of me. I heard a sigh as he pulled back the curtain to step inside my changing room. I turned to look at the displeased look he wore, "Really? You honestly can't put on your own kimono?"

I frowned at him, "It's a lot harder than it looks like, okay?" He continued to stare at me before his eyes wandered down to my chest. I turned around to give him my back.

"You should that your tank top off," Hikaru said, "You're not going to need it." I looked over my shoulder to look at him. My eyes wandered to his body. I couldn't deny that he wore that kimono well. My cheeks even heated up a little from the small amount of his chest showing.

Calm down. It's only Hikaru, remember? And he is a pain.

"I'd rather keep it on," I said as I turned back to once again fail at putting the kimono on.

"You didn't seem to mind the girls gawking at your chest yesterday," Hikaru said as he stepped closer to me. He was so close that I could feel the heat coming off of his body. "What are you hiding?"

"I don't know what you are talking about…" I let out as my heart began to pound in my chest. I wasn't sure if it was because of his close proximity or the fact that I was afraid he had found me out.

His hand was placed on my shoulder to turn me around to look at him. His piercing gaze was directed right into my blue eyes, "Yesterday you made two mistakes. Can you tell me why that was?"

Now I was confused, "Two mistakes? What are you talking about?"

He watched me as if he were taking note of my every reaction, "For starters, you called me Kaoru."

My eyes widened and my mouth opened at that. Adrian, you idiot. I had told him everything I could for him to be able to tell them apart. And he still made a mistake. He was supposed to be a genius actor. What the hell? How could he make that mistake?

"...I see…" I said, "Sorry about that. I must have been off my game." I hoped I was convincing enough but judging by the look he was giving me he wasn't having it.

"And you somehow forgot that your favorite color is burgundy," he said as he crossed his arms over his chest, "You said it was blue at first."

Wow. That was my brother's favorite color and my old favorite color when we were kids. Had he really forgotten for a moment that my favorite color wasn't blue anymore but burgundy? How could he have screwed up like that? Did he forget his line in the middle of playing the part of me pretending to be him or something? I guess it was getting complicated even for him. Jesus. I was still going to kill him for putting me in this situation. I mean, it hadn't been long since I had come back in his life again but he could have at least remembered my new favorite color, right? Especially since he was supposed to be a genius actor.

Well, it is like we are getting to know each other all over again, I thought. It has been 5 (almost 6) years since we were together. No amount of emails could change that. I had changed and so did he. We were twins but had turned strangers. I knew my brother was doing all he could to make it seem like we had never been apart but… 5 and a half years was a long time. A lot had happened in those years. I guess I couldn't exactly blame him for screwing up. Maybe he had been holding on to the past when my favorite color was blue and when life was simpler with our parents still alive.

"Like I said," I said as I gulped, "I must have been-"

"Cut the crap," he said with a glare, "I know it wasn't you yesterday." I paled at his words. He found me out. No, he couldn't have. "I'm right, aren't I? Was that a double or something?" I looked away, unable to look him in the eye anymore. "What I can't figure out is why you would need an imposter to take your place."

I wasn't quite sure how to respond to that. He had figured parts of it out on his own. I hadn't thought he had paid that much attention to me that he would be able to figure out that Adrian wasn't me. I wasn't sure if I should be happy or afraid. My eyes widened as he stepped forward, I moved back until my back hit the wall.

This is awfully familiar.

He placed both of his hands on either side of my face as if to block me from escaping him and his hard gaze. I had closed my eyes, my hands to my chest as if trying to get my heart to stop beating so hard.

"I- I can't tell you," I finally was able to stutter out.

"You're going to have to," he said. This caused me to look up at him. He was serious as he spoke, "If I find out what you are hiding on my own then I will tell everyone your secret."

"You can't!" I told him in a panic.

"Let me guess," he said, "Because you would lose him?"

I frowned at him, "Yeah."

He smirked down at me, "Well I guess you are going to have to tell me and make me promise not to tell anyone." I looked at him as if he had grown an extra head. "You either tell me and I can keep your secret or I will tell everyone when I figure it out." He moved his head to whisper, "And I will figure it out."

I pushed him away from me. I glared at him in anger, "That's not the way to make me feel like I can even trust you with my secret. You could just tell everyone anyway. And then…" I began to feel the tears about to break through. In a hushed whisper, I said, "I would lose everything…"

There were a few minutes of silence before he shouted, "What the hell do you take me for?!" I looked up at him with a stray tear falling from my eyes as they widened at his outburst, "You really believe I'm that heartless? That I would do that? What would I really gain from it?" He looked away with a 'tsk'.

I shook my head, "It's not like that." I sighed, "I'm sorry, Hikaru. That's not what I wanted to say. I'm just… Afraid…"

"Is everything alright in there? I heard yelling," we heard Kaoru's voice.

"Yeah," Hikaru answered without missing a beat, "Just helping Adrian put on the kimono. He is hopeless at it."

"Oh, okay. I'll be waiting," Kaoru said as his footsteps sounded further away.

Hikaru turned back to me, "I promise. Whatever it is that you are hiding I won't tell anyone." Somehow, I believed him. It was in the way he was looking at me.

"You would even keep it from your brother?" I asked him. I couldn't believe I was even considering telling Hikaru my secret or at least part of my secret.

He sighed, "I don't really want to keep anything from him but yeah. I won't tell Kaoru unless you tell me that it's okay."

"Why?"

He blinked at me in confusion, "What do you mean why?"

"Why do you want to know so bad if you're going to keep it to yourself?"

He shrugged, "Honestly, I am still figuring that out. But I won't break the promise." He looked at me expectantly.

I bit my lower lip as I thought about it. I didn't want to risk losing my brother. I also know that I couldn't trust many people. Could I really trust that Hikaru wouldn't tell anyone my secret? His eyes seem to tell me that I could.

"Not even when you are mad at me? Because you seem to get angry at me a lot…"

He looked annoyed at me, "Yes."

"I…" I started, "I can't tell you the whole secret… Not right now… I'm just not ready for that yet… But…" I looked away to the side for a second before taking a deep breath and taking a step forward to whisper in Hikaru's ear, "I will tell you that I'm a girl and that is why a guy needed to take my place yesterday." I stepped back to gauge his reaction. His eyes were wide as saucers, his cheeks flushed.

"What?!" he shouted, "You're a g-?!" I cut him off with a hand covering his mouth.

I shushed him, "Don't go broadcasting it everywhere, Hikaru. I'm trusting you with this secret." He nodded his head. I slowly moved my hand away from his mouth. He was still at me like a gaping fish out of water. I frowned, "Is it really that shocking?"

His cheeks flushed as he looked away, scratching the back of his head, "Well can you blame me? You're on tv and you're supposed to be a guy." He turned to look at me for a minute before turning away, "But I see it now. The guy yesterday had a little bit sharper jaw." I was surprised he noticed. My brother and I were identical in the face and hard to distinguish to other people. But if you paid careful attention my features were a bit softer than his.

I smiled at him, "Thanks I guess." I shook my head, "No. I mean, really thank you. It means a lot that you were able to know it wasn't me yesterday."

His face became a deeper shade of pink, "Yeah. Whatever. We've wasted enough time." He moved towards me, "We need to get that kimono properly on you." With that, he didn't look me a single time as he worked to help me in my kimono.

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"Yukimura-san," I turned to the girls sitting where Hikaru and Kaoru were sitting on a black futon couch. They smiled at me as one of them continued, "Would you please sit between Hikaru and Kaoru?" I blinked, confused that they would ask me to do that.

"Oh, yes," I turned to look at Ootari as he pushed up his glasses as he turned to look at me, "I must have forgotten to inform you three that today we had a new request from these beautiful young ladies for the three of you at the same time." The way he was looking at me meant I couldn't refuse. Now it made sense why I hadn't had guests. It was because I was sharing them with the twins.

I moved towards them to sit between the two of them, "Hello." I looked at the girls as they held their faces in their hands.

"Oh my!" one of them exclaimed.

"You were right, Misaki," another said, "They do look good together."

"Eh?" I was even more confused now than ever, "Together?"

The one called Misaki looked at me with hearts in her eyes, "The three of you seem so close lately and it's just so sweet!"

"We seem close?" Hikaru questioned them, baffled.

"I guess we have become close," Kaoru mumbled, unsure as he looked passed me to his brother.

"Yukimura-san," I looked to another girl as she looked at me with a serious gaze, "Hikaru or Kaoru? Or both?" She cooed with her hands clasped together in front of her face as she said 'or both'.

"For what exactly? Like school subjects?" I asked them with a tilt of my head. Hikaru was better at the science subjects: chemistry, physics, and math. Kaoru was better at English and modern Japanese literature. I paid attention, especially when I needed help in class.

"So cute~. Yukimura-san is so innocent!" the girls gushed and squealed.

"Don't you get it?" Hikaru said as he had his arm stretched behind me.

"They are shipping us together," Kaoru filled me in. I stared at him, letting his words sink in.

Wait.

"Yukimaru-san to be with the Hitachiin twins…" one of the girls said with a dreamy look on her face.

"Hold on a second," I said to them as they all stopped and looked at them, "Not to ruin your dreams about that or anything but I'm sorry I wouldn't be able to fill them." They all looked at me as their faces fell. "You see…" I trailed off as I moved my gaze to the ground, "My heart is reserved for one special person. I couldn't love two people romantically like that. It would feel like I'm cheating. That's why a love triangle isn't for me." I lifted my head up to look at the girls. I was surprised to see them with hearts and tears in their eyes.

"That is so beautiful," one of them gushed.

"It's so romantic!" another said with excitement while the others agreed with her.

"Now we just have to figure out if it's Hikaru or Kaoru," Misaki said to them as they all nodded their head.

"Wait. What?" I asked with wide eyes.

"I think it should be Hikaru," one of them said, ignoring me.

"Well I think it should be Kaoru," another said.

I sighed, leaning back against the couch, "I guess I am doomed to be shipped to a guy."

Hikaru snorted beside me, leaning in my ear so only I could hear, "But aren't you into guys?" He moved to look at my reaction. I stuck out my tongue at him, which was uncharacteristic for me to do. He looked at me with shock before bursting with laughter.

"What happened?" Kaoru asked, most likely wondering why his brother was laughing all of a sudden.

I frowned as I looked at him, "Your brother was making fun of me, Kaoru. He is so mean."

Kaoru smiled at me, "Is that right?" He moved a hand up to my face, caressing my cheek, "Than maybe you should pick me." I knew that right then he was putting up an act and the girls seemed rather pleased.

"What the hell, Kaoru. If Adrian should pick anyone, it should be me," I was suddenly pulled by the waist to a hard chest. I was once again a victim to their twin games. All I could do was sigh at how ridiculous they were being.

"Yukimaru-san looks comfortable in Hikaru's arms. So sweet," one of the girls observed. Well, she wasn't wrong. The way Hikaru held me was rather comfortable.

"I still think he should be with Kaoru," one of the girls said.

Don't I get a say in this?

"Oh, my heart can't take it! They look so good together it doesn't matter which one of them he picks," a new girl from a different table said as she walked to our table. Some of them agreed with her.

"I will keep coming just to see which one he picks!"

You will be waiting a long time.

I turned my attention to Hikaru, "Um, I think you can let me go now."

His arms tightened around me and after a second he stuttered, "N-no way! And let my brother take you away?"

"I would treat him a lot better than you could, Hikaru," Kaoru added to the nonsense act. They were way too into this. Sadly enough, the girls were buying into it. 'Brotherly love' had become 'brotherly rivals' and the girls were eating it up.

I pulled myself away from Hikaru and shifted my head back between the two of them, "I'd hate to come between the two of you. I'm not about to ruin the love you have for each other by being in the way like this. So, please don't fight." They both looked at me as if loss for words. "I know how important a sibling is." I really did. I thought about my own brother.

The girls cried at my speech. "Yukimura-san is so considerate. I can't help but fall for him more and more." Every girl said something similar to that.

"I'm sorry, Hikaru," Kaoru said reaching in front of me to grasp his brother's hands, "Let's not fight over another man again."

"Oh, Kaoru," Hikaru returned as he lifted his brother's tear-stained face up as he leaned in, "No one could come between the love I have for you."

I was having trouble not to gag at their twincest act. All I could hear were the girls' squeals at the display of affection. I'm literally in between you. Please stop. I admired their closeness but this act was just not for me. This whole situation was so awkward to me. I hoped that tomorrow would be back to normal. Boy, was I wrong.

Did the reason for Adrian messing up make sense? That he is trying to revive the past and that was why he said blue instead of burgundy. Maybe I should write a POV of Adrian so everyone can understand his character a bit more. What do you think?