(A/N: YEEEEE-AAA-YAHH! Chaptah three! -Sighs dramatically- Get's serious-BOOOO!-in the beginning, but gets back to the wacky in the middle and end! WOO-HOO! Sowwy 'bout the serious, but without it, you'd never understand why Ayane's as twisted as she is! Enjoy!)
"Yo bro! Wanna take a bath tagether?" Ayane asked draping herself over her twin's shoulders. "Ayaaa…" Ayato groaned tiredly. "Ah, c'mon, Yacchan! We always took baths tagether when we were kids! And its been such a long time!" "Besides, since it's you, know I've already lost the argument." Ayato said, faking an overly dramatic sigh. "Heh heh! Damn straight!" Ayane snickered, dragging him down the hall to the mixed bath. After stripping, the two got in, "Wow. You have to manage this all by yerself?" Ayato asked. "Yeah. As long as I do it every day, it's not to hard tho'." she replied, getting behind Ayato and stating to wash his back, "It's been awhile…since we've been able to relax like this, huh?" she said quietly. "Yeah…it's been…what, five years?" Ayato asked, switching places and scrubbing his sister's back. "But even before that, we couldn't relax…not with him around…" Ayane said softly. There was a silence and as Ayato continued to wash his elder twin's back he began to look over the thin, minuscule white scars on her back, nearly unnoticeable to the casual observer but to Ayato, they stood out like fifty foot billboards. He counted them again in his mind, 33 in all. "Stop it." Ayane said suddenly, turning around, the scars from the entry wounds much larger on her front, "It wasn't your fault." "I know but--" Ayato's response was cut off by Ayane clamping a hand over his mouth. "Now listen and you listen good: our stepfather was pedophile and no one, not you, not mom, could have stopped him from raping me all those times. I did what I had to do protect my brother and don't regret it for a second and if I had it ta do over I'd make the same choice. I've never regretted what I did that day Yacchan, locking you in that closet to save you from the misfortune I suffered since mom married that creep, so stop beating yerself up about it!" She smiled and whapped him teasingly on the head before climbing out of the onsen, "Doncha know why we elder siblings come first? It's ta protect the little ones that come after!"Shegrinned hugelyat him as she wrapped a towel around her torso,"Don't stay in fer too much longer, kay?" Feeling much lighter, he smiled, "Kay. Sleep well Ayakkun." "Night, bro!"
He still remembered those day vividly and found himself the victim of an unwanted flashback. Their real father had died when they were three so they had few memories of him. Two years after his death, their mother remarried, not knowing that the man was a pedophile. Ayato had noticed right off the bat the hungry way He looked at Ayane, like she was a piece of meat. Shortly there after, she had changed and he knew something was wrong. Whenever they were paying together and He entered the room, Ayane would send Ayato off to play with friends. It took a bout of the flu to bring to light what He was doing. Ayato was caring for her and He came into the room and went for him. Ayane had grabbed Ayato with all the strength her virus stricken body could muster, heaved him into the closet they shared and locked the door from the outside. "STAY THERE! DON'T COME OUT!" she had shrieked through the door. There were the sounds of a struggle from outside and then a long loud scream. There were a few shorter shrieks of agony, then all was silent. He had heard a dragging sound from outside the door, the click of a lock; Ayato opened the door and blanched at the sight before him. A sea of blood and his sister in the middle of it, barely clinging to life.
He shook his to clear it, "Aya's right. I've really gotta stop lingering on the past." He stood up in the cool night air and stretched, "Alrighty then! Tamorrow's another day! We've got five new victims on the line and me'n Ayakkun will think up ways tah make'm miserable in tha mornin'! HO-YEAH!" He walked out of the onsen and into his room where he promptly fell asleep.
"Okay! You sure you've got every thing?" Ayane asked, looking over her shoulder at Ayato. "Yup! It's all here! Hair dye, May West and Pregnant Nun costumes, do-it-yourself-dentistry kit, slip-'n-slide, etc." Ayato prattled off. The two were dressed in yukata's and were preparing to jump into the well (after Ayane unplugged the giant cork she stuffed down it). Ayane had her naginata strapped to her back and tanto to her thigh once more, Ayato had chosen a pair of tonfa and a wakizashi; the tonfa were at his back and wakizashi was at his left hip. After uncorking the well the two leapt into the vortex to greet the awaiting Shichinintai.
"Hi-cha boys! Sleep well?" Ayane grinned, looking over the disgruntled men. Renkotsu was still going on about conspiracies and the evils of the Serta sheep. "Sheesh! Haven't you guys tried ta detox him at all?" Ayane said, a disbelieving note in her voice as Ayato set down their 'Implements of Torture'. "Huh?" Jakotsu blinked. "Whaddya mean?" Bankotsu asked. "Well by the sound of it, he ended up in the clutches of the Weird People Alliance from my school, Ryokurin High (Greenwood High). And they make ME seem NORMAL! I should know! I hang with them from time ta time! So if ya want your devious, snake-in-the-grass-Renkotsu back, you'll get him some really dull literature and dump him in a quiet place." "Gesh!" Ginkotsu clanked agreeably, hefting up Renkotsu and rumbling off. "See ya later Ginny! Now then…" Ayane grinned wickedly, looking over the remaining three. "Where to begin…" Ayato asked no one in particular. He pulled a grape soda out of the giant backpack and after opening it, walked over to Jakotsu, who eyed him warily.
Ayato sat down next to the older man and gazed at the sky, "Nice day huh? Not a cloud in the sky!" Jakotsu decided to chance it and looked up. A perfect blue sky greeted his eyes, "Yeah. Not to hot, not to cold. It's great!" SPLSH! Ayato's hand slipped accidentally/on purpose and spilled purple soda all over the crossdresser's yukata. "AH!" Jakotsu cried sharply, grasping at the stain. "Oh NO! Clumsy me! You CAN'T stay in those filthy robes! Quickly, quickly! You have to change!" Ayato exclaimed, dragging Jakotsu behind a tree and stripping him down to his fondushi and tossing a pile of clothing at him. Ayato ran round to other side of the tree, tapping his foot impatiently, "Hurry up! Hhu, will you hurry?" Jakotsu came out from behind the tree and Bankotsu, Ayane and Suikotsu did their best not to laugh (and failed). Ayato, the evil lad, had handed Jakotsu the pregnant nun costume. Jakotsu didn't understand why everyone was laughing so hard….until he looked down that is. "AIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEE!" he screamed, "I'VE BECOME EVERYTHING I'VE EVER HATEEEEEEEEEED!" His rolled up in his head and he fainted.
Pulling a spare yukata out of the bag, Ayane redressed him quickly. She then pulled out the slip-'n-slide, a can of pink paint and a rainbow wig. "What are you doin?" Bankotsu asked nervously, tightening his grip on Banryuu and edging away fearfully. "Settin' up for when Renkotsu comes back!" she said, smiling hugely at him. Getting a huge case of the chills, Bankotsu and Suikotsu skootched several feet back, thinking, "Renkotsu, yer on yer own!"
Ginkotsu returned with a sane Renkotsu and set him down promptly. Renkotsu wondered why everyone was so scattered but didn't have long to think on it because Ayato tripped him, sending him sailing down the slippery shoot of pastel pink paint. Something thunked on his scalp then Ayane shot forward, brush in hand, and before he had a chance to recover from his "trip", he was struck by multiple brush strokes to the face and Ayane was sitting on the tree branch behind him, laughing her ass off. In the space of .00001 seconds, she had printed the words, "Idiot", "Moron", "Stupid", "World's Biggest Jackass" and "HO" on his face. The large rainbow wig on his skull made his head appear so small by comparison that it was no surprise when everyone, with the obvious exception of Renkotsu, fell over laughing. Jakotsu regain consciousness, took one look at the Pepto-Bismol pink Renkotsu, and fell back laughing, hitting his head on a rock, knocking him unconscious again.
(A/N: MUA-HAHAHAHA! ALL HAIL WEIRD PEOPLE!It's been said that there's an evil twin and a good twin, but in this case...hehehehe! I will be taking suggestions for ways to torture the Shichinintai! So do R&R! Flames areSTILL accepted!)