I do not own any of the characters in this story. Nuff said. Read on!

"Hey, Gen!"

A green haired head of a teenager poked out of his room to look at his little brother.

"What is it? I'm working on a new shrine!"

"Your third this week." The younger boy held a can in his hand, a straw protruding from it. His white hair looked like it needed a haircut and badly as it hung over his eyes.

"So? I like my shrines. What do you want?"

"What day is it?"

"Why do you….uh oh…is it…It's not…"

"It is." The white haired one took a sip of his drink.

"The twins' birthday…is…Mom giving them the Big one?"

"Yep. They get their big gifts today."

"I hope Mom is careful with which toys she gives which twin," the green haired teen sighed. "I remember when I got mine. Blasted Seiryuu kept trying to steal 'em! And he was barely a hundred!"

"I'm sure Suzaku's ready for his seishi toys, but I don't know about Seiryuu…"

"SUZAKU! SEIRYUU! GET DOWN HERE NOW!"

Taiitsukun (AKA Mom)'s voice shook the house. Two doors at opposite ends of the hallway burst open, and Byakko realized he stood right in front of the stairway. He closed his eyes and waited for the impact that would send him soaring through the air as two tiny bodies rammed into him from opposite sides. Instead Genbu grabbed his arm and pulled him into his room at the last moment. A blue and a red blur shot down the stairs, both bickering.

"I wanna be first!"

"No! I'm getting mine first!"

"Me!"
"Me!"

"ME-E-E-E!"

"QUIET!"

Genbu looked at his younger brother.

"So…wanna go watch?"

"Wouldn't miss this for the world."

Byakko hurried off downstairs while Genbu paused and looked at the glass case on his wall. Inside stood eight figurines, each one carefully designed down to the most insignificant detail. Hikitsu and Tomite (Hiccup and Tomato as Seiryuu had named them long ago) stood in front of a small necklace. Genbu knew that Suzaku and Seiryuu would be fighting for the small object. He only wanted to know when…so he could hide the figures and necklace from them.

"Genbu! C'mon!"

"Er, yeah!" Genbu dashed out of his room and downstairs. In the living room, Suzaku and Seiryuu sat patiently in front of their mother. Byakko had settled into the couch, lying full length on his stomach, so Genbu planted himself right on his younger brother's butt.

"Genbu…"

"Yeah?"

"Gerroff…"

"Gimme some room and I will."

"Move and I will!"

Once the two finally were settled, Taiitsukun took a deep breath.

"First of all, happy birthday you two. I know you've waiting a long time for this day, and as I have done with your brothers before you, you're going to get to choose your seishi and Miko. Remember, be careful with them. You're not getting another if they break. And Seiryuu I expect you to be nice to your brother."

Seiryuu sighed.

"Yes Mommy."

Suzaku beamed.

"Alright. Genbu, can you please get me…The Box?"

Suzaku's and Seiryuu's eyes opened in anticipation as their oldest, biggest brother went to the closet, reached up high and plucked down a large box. Genbu carefully place the box on the floor and spilled out it's contents. Sixteen dolls scattered onto the floor, two in outfits unlike the others. These Genbu pointed to.

"One of these will be your Miko. You can break the majority of your other toys, but never, ever, break the Miko." Byakko reached into his pocket and withdrew a coin.

"Call it Seiryuu!"

"Tails!"

Byakko flipped the coin. It hovered in the air for a moment, spinning, before it slowed to a stop and fell straight to the ground.

"Heads. Suzaku, pick your Miko."

"Then I'll get stuck with the other one!"

"They're equally good Seiryuu," Genbu patted his little brother on the head.

"I want…this one!" Suzaku picked up the brown haired one. Seiryuu reached out and took the blonde figurine from Genbu.

"Gonna name her?" Byakko asked impatiently.

"After they've picked their Seishi, they can name them and give them their abilities," Taiitsukun spoke up.

"Alright, alright. Sorry Mom."

"Seiryuu, you pick your first Seishi." Genbu said, since Suzaku had gone first last time. Seiryuu grinned and looked at his choices.

"I want this one!" Seiryuu snatched up a blond man.

"I get this one then!" Suzaku took a man with the bluish-green hair. So it went on, Seiryuu taking one of a set of twins, a man with short black hair (ß this part comes in later.), a woman with red hair, an odd little boy like thing, and a man with long hair and gold eyes and Suzaku taking a red haired man, a purple haired woman, a man in bright yellow, the second of the twins, and a man with extremely long hair. Finally, there were only two dolls left and it was Seiryuu's turn. The little blue haired boy looked between a wolf-like man and a blue haired man. Suzaku was biting his lip as Seiryuu reached out to take his pick. Suzaku let a sigh of relief pass his lips as his brother picked up the wolf-man while Byakko and Genbu stared. Suzaku quickly picked up the blue-haired man and added him to his group.

"Congratulations Suzaku, Seiryuu. You now have your Miko and Seishi. Go ahead and name them, and–"

"Playtime!" Byakko shouted. Suzaku and Seiryuu grabbed up their figurines and dashed upstairs to begin playing. Taiitsukun glared at her grinning son.

"You're getting blamed if something goes wrong…"

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"MOOOOOOMMMMY!!!!!"

Suzaku dashed down the stairs holding a few of his toys in hand. Genbu looked up from the paper.

"What's the matter kiddo?"

Suzaku sniffled and held out the figurines.

"L-look what S-Seiryuu did to C-Chichiri and Tasuki and Nuriko!"

Genbu looked at the toys in his hands. The blue haired one Suzaku had named Chichiri now bore a scar over one of his eyes, Tasuki's red headed smiling face had two fangs drawn on the teeth, and Nuriko…

"What's wrong with this one?" Genbu held up Nuriko.

"Look under the dress…" Suzaku sniffled. Curious, Genbu lifted the girl's skirt to find…

"Holy shit!" Genbu shouted, not bothering to censor his language in front of his little brother. "Seiryuu made Nuriko into a guy?!"

"Y-yes! I want Mommy!" Suzaku fell against his older brother sobbing. Genbu's eyes narrowed as he began plotting revenge for his little brother.

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"BYAKKO!!!"

Byakko spun his chair around to face his little brother. His back hid his computer screen.

"I know you're looking at Porn Byakko. I won't tell Mommy as long as you tell me who disfigured Tomo!" Seiryuu stuck the miniature figure into his big brother's face. The face that was once nothing but pure beauty with gold eyes was now disfigured alright, by opera makeup on the entire face.

"I don't know who did it. What do you want me to do?"

Seiryuu's eyes narrowed as he smiled evilly.

"I want you to hide Suzaku's seishi. Make it hard for him to find them, so I can summon myself before he can!"

"You're kidding, aren't you?" Byakko gave a light laugh. "I mean, I know Genbu and I are supposed to hide your dolls anyway, but only easily."

"So you hide his harder. I'm going to beat him this time! I will!"

"Look, Seiryuu, I can't–"

"MOMMY! BYAK–"

Byakko slammed a hand over his kid brother's mouth.

"Alright. Alright. I will. You just keep your big mouth shut."

Seiryuu grinned.

"Good brother. Now I gotta go see if I can get this paint off Tomo's face."

Seiryuu left the room cackling. Byakko watched him leave and sighed.

"I swear he's adopted."