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Title: Sometimes
Author: Kitchuu
Pairings: Tanakacest if you squint.
Warnings: None
Summary: Most of the time, they hated everyone and everything, because they would never be different.
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Sometimes, they hated themselves.
Sometimes they hated each other.
Most of the time, they hated everyone else.
They were identical to the core. Identical twins, identical beings.
They hated that.
They hated themselves for being identical. For looking alike, and for thinking alike. They hated getting the same grades, choosing the same friends, liking the same things. Kouhei often wondered why his brother could never do better than him. Youhei wondered why Kouhei could never do worse.
They dyed their hair different colors. Youhei kept his cropped short. Kouhei grew his out long. They tried to be different, but somehow, nobody could ever tell. Youhei hated Kouhei for never succeeding to be different. Kouhei hated Youhei simply because Youhei hated Kouhei.
It wasn't their fault. It was the fault of everyone else around them. Thus, they hated everyone else for it. Sometimes, they think that everyone does it on purpose. Then they realized that Oota honestly believes that red hair meant Kouhei, and blue meant otherwise. Sometimes, Kajimoto-buchou can tell them apart. Sometimes. They are elated when he does, but then he calls Youhei, Kouhei, and they hate him for it. Hanamura-sensei has long since given up, and resorts to calling them a Unit. Not even their parents can tell them apart. Although sometimes they can, and they no longer hate them until they make a mistake.
Sometimes, they hated hating things and they would stop hating anything for a moment, just long enough to appreciate each other.
Because Kouhei was the only one who called Youhei, Youhei.
And Youhei was the only one who called Kouhei, Kouhei.
Those times, are the times that they resign themselves to their fates, and realize they can never be different, and can never be apart.
"Hey Youhei, tell your twin that Kajimoto-buchou wants us at the field house like, right now."
"I'm Kouhei."
Nevertheless, those times don't last, and they eventually go back to hating.
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.:Owari:.