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Chapter 2 : Hikaru and me
We looked exactly the same in every detail, just like an identical twin. We both shared the same shade of green eyes, our bleached bangs and the same height. We even were in the same dress.
" Wow," he kept looking at me, so did I. Ididn't blink a single time since I had seen his face, " Where're you from?" he asked curiously.
" I…I don't know," I whispered.
" You don't know?" My answer surprised him.
" No, I don't," I repeated sadly, " And you?"
" I don't know either," Stopping circling, he hung his head down in shame.
" You don't know either?" It was my turn to be surprised, " Do you know where we are? What is this place? What are we doing here? How do we get out?" Maybe he knows the way out.I thought optimistically. He only gave me a sad smile and shook his head a little.
" You don't know either," It was hard to hide my bitter disappointment after losing all my hope, my legs got weak and I slowly knelt down on the floor.
He walked to me and patted my shoulder, " Don't worry," he smiled tenderly, " We'll get out of here together,"
" Really?" I doubted that. I couldn't see the possibility. There was only the two of us in the darkness. Still, there was a glimmer hope in his eyes.
" Of course, two heads one better than one, right?" he chuckled lightly. Somehow I was delighted to see him laugh, " As long as we're together, everything will be alright," he assured me.
" As long as we're together," For an unknown reason, I beamed with happiness.
" Shindou Hikaru," he pulled me up from a kneeling position, " My name is Shindou Hikaru," he addressed himself, " Who are you anyway? How come you look like me?"
" My name is…I'm …" I stammered. All of a sudden, I realized that I didn't even know my name, "…I don't know,"
" You don't know who you are?" he folded his eyebrows in disbelief.
I wrinkled my forehead as I thought back into my memory trying to remember who I was. But… " I…I don't know, I can't remember anything," my face turned pale with fear.
" Amnesia?" he uttered soundlessly. I shook my head in confusion, the idea of losing memory made my blood run cold.
" I..I mean, you don't know?" I stared at him hopefully.
" What?" He was taken aback by my question.
" I mean, Don't you know who I am? We're so alike, maybe we're brothers..twin brothers," I clarified.
"…Sorry but I'm the only child in the family," he stated with confidence.
" Oh,…me too, I remember that I don't have any brother or sister," I declared.
"…."
"..A..Are you my shadow?" I asked in doubt.
" Shadow doesn't talk," he noted, " It's more convincing when you said we were twins. But you know what, I think even twins don't look completely the same like us. We're like the same person," he laughed cheerfully.
The same person? I unhurriedly observed him closely. Then an unusual thought crossed my mind. I pinched myself.
" Ouch," I cried out.
" Ouch!" he jumped by the sudden pain, " What the…" he gazed at me in wonder. Then he did exactly what I wanted him to do. He pinched himself.
" Ouch!" I hurt too?
" Unbelievable..we're..you and I…we're…" he stuttered.
" The same person," I concluded.
" You," he pointed his finger at my chest, " are me," then he pointed at his chest.
" I'm you," I spoke firmly.
" And I'm you," he pointed at his chest first, then at mine.
" Yes, you're me," I confirmed.
" But how? We can't be the same person. There is only one Shindou Hikaru," this odd event was hard to believe.
" Then how do you gonna explain about what has just happened?" I queried him. It was undeniable and unquestionable that we were the same person.
" But…but…" he wanted to protest the idea but he couldn't find a right reason. I said nothing and let him think for a while. To be honest, I needed sometime to think about this situation too.
" Okay, Okay," It looked like he was trying to clam himself. " Let's go," he suggested wisely.
" Good idea," I agreed.
" Let me introduce myself again, Shindou Hikaru," he grinned widely as he reached out for my hand.
" Nice to meet you, Pal, I'm you," Smiling happily, I wondered why I felt so content when I saw his smile, " Shindou Hikaru,"
" Then how do I call you?" It was a good question. How did we call another " us" ?
"Umm, Hikaru?" I proposed uncertainly.
" But I wanna be Hikaru!" he raised his voice, " I'll call you Shindou," he decided that by himself without asking for my opinion.
" Don't you think it's weird to call another you ' Shindou' ?" I commented questioningly.
"…Ah, yeah, very weird," he nodded in agreement, " But we both can't be Hikaru, it's confusing!"
" You're right, how about one of us be Hikaru, the other get a new name?" I put forward another idea.
" That's brilliant! I'll be Hikaru!" he said it like a spoiled baby.
" I'm the one who come up with the idea!" I objected.
" But I'm the one who remember our name!" he retorted sharply.
He's correct, I don't even know who I am. " Fine, you can be Hikaru," I sighed in frustration of losing the name. He smiled from ear to ear as he gained the victory over our little dispute.
" So, how do I call you?" he asked me good-naturedly.
"…I don't know," Sadness appeared all over my face. I didn't know who I actually was, It was true that I was Shindou Hikaru. I was him and he was me but I had no memory. If Hikaru didn't tell me who we were, I couldn't possibly find out by myself. Now he got the name and I had to create the new one but I didn't know how to. I didn't even know how to call myself, I remembered nothing, I hadn't any inspiration.
" Sai," Hikaru spoke up.
A/N : Now you know how Sai got his name .
kathy : You get confused? Err..this is what happened when Hikaru fainted for the first time...this is happened in his mind. You know, when he created another personalities.
gravitation gig : No, this is not a continueation of finding seiji. This is a side story of Turn back time. The contiuneation of Finding Seiji will be come out after this fic is over.
